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When I was younger and just becoming politically aware, I recall stories of people confessing that they told their family they voted one way when in fact they voted another.

There are very few consequences for dissembling, lots of consequences for being transparent, and in fact the ability to lie about your vote is essentially built into our current voting mechanism as a right. I dabbled in electronic voting for a bit, and the open source folks were struggling with this quality. Being able to disavow an act is called 'repudiation', and many crypto systems have nonrepudiation as a feature. But you also need to prevent ballot box stuffing, so you need a way to assert that John Smith voted, but not who he voted for.

But keeping this feature means that anyone with an IQ above 80 can't be coerced or bribed into voting for a particular person. You give me $200, blackmail, extort, or otherwise encourage me very strongly to vote for Hitler, but I can just vote Ficus and tell you I voted Hitler.

Some rando walking up to you after voting, or worse, before, how do I know they're asking in earnest instead of with some agenda? I'll say anything I can think of to get away from them as fast as possible.
While I agree that Python is better than R for programming etiquette, I would argue that proper programming practices and techniques are better learned in languages with static typing and proper variable scoping.
Do yourself another favor and also look into C#, Swift or even Java.
This man/woman knows how to market.
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Zain does awesome demos, so you’ll want to check this one out—especially if bundlers confuse you as much as they do us.
I think that perspective is limited to an extreme percentile. Most preppers plan for realistically possible catastrophes.
The day before my tech company called WFH we had a happy hour, this was first week in march. I was already pissed about coming into work but this was a going away for someone and it was still pretty contained in SEA (maybe), but we were also outside.

We had one table of the younger devs and one of the mangers / olds. The older table was just all talking about essentially getting ready for being quarantined in your house for up to 3 months. Two folks from the younger table sauntered over. Mainly just talking about having the backpacking supplies version of prepping.

I remember mentioning that the idea of what defines a crazy prepper was probbably going to change in the next 6 months.
I am planning on a proper ‘Show HN’, but I’ve been working on something for quite a time that has prepper use-cases.

Most people have phones. Technically, they don’t need a third party to talk to each other. It seemed like there should be a communication option that took advantage of that.

Thus, Tin-Can: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tin-can/id1435356247

In short, TC is a one-to-many messaging app that has no central service. Proximate phones use BLE to sync.

My mom is headed to high ground in FL atm due to Eta.. I think it’d be useful if phones could all do this natively.

FWIW, I just got it on iOS, and updates like replies are forthcoming. But feedback is appreciated if you try it out. I’ll do a show HN once a few features are completed and bugs squashed.
Wow, interesting story. You would think that customer success would have the authority to grant credit to a customer quickly with no red tape.

It was only $360. Super inexpensive sponsorship spot.

Maybe you can team up with Chris from GoRails and do some cool stuff together. Dream team <3
The former, I’m pretty sure. I’ve never heard of a “hybrid” display on a digital scope. Interestingly, though, there are sometimes deliberate simulations of analog behaviors on the digital display.
Interesting stuff I will look into this more
> I'd have to explain to my commercial clients that there's another $50-100k upcharge due to the architecture change and licensing costs due to GPL restrictions.

Your complaint is kind of strange. You're blaming "GPL restrictions" but the cost is for a commercial license.
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Yes that's a valid follow up question. I came across this discussion earlier: https://www.reddit.com/r/IntellectualDarkWeb/comments/js7bk8...

There are some good answers there.
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY THAT A 5W PART LIKE THE A14 IS FASTER THAN A 100W PART LIKE THE i9-10900k!

An A14 is both faster and lower power than a 6502.

Also, why are you shouting? It's just computers. It's not important.
>MKL has faster routines and is completely free, but it won't work on ARM.

It will probably be ported though, if there's a demand...
You asked a loaded question, so both, really?
It's a good idea. However there are 2 challenges you'll need to figure out in tandem which adds an additional layer of challenge: (1) as mentioned - you'll need to build a network of people to attract people (i.e., chicken & egg problem), (2) you'll need to not only do (1) but also build the tooling for people to set goals, track, schedule, etc.
Personally I prefer just using multiple Yubikeys, one left permanently in each device, never carry one a loose key around, and if one is stolen, just deactivate that key from all services.

Having to carry a loose key around is a liability.
Also check if your city has a CERT (or in SF, NERT) organization! It's a citizen-trained response team initiative that usually falls under law enforcement. The idea is in an earthquake you can have a couple thousand purpose-trained citizens running around shutting off gas valves, checking on neighbors, assisting emergency services with communication (through HAM radio for example), and doing other basic tasks that let the fire department focus on cutting people out of collapsed buildings or putting out fires.

By the way, regarding "gun and bunker" preppers, this is a sharp divide in the prepper community. Practically every thread in /r/preppers and similar forums and subreddits eventually devolves into what essentially amounts to an ideological battle between communists and libertarians, or, "we believe people are inherently good" vs "we believe people are inherently evil" to take a non-political-compass take. FWIW, the "inherently good" people have more evidence on their side, based on how communities have responded to disaster in the pass. A great book on the subject is "A Paradise Built in Hell" by Rebecca Solnit[1]. She takes a look at primary sources from a set of disasters throughout history, and how people helped eachother with no expectation of reward. She also turns up some cases of totally selfless ultimate sacrifices for strangers. It's really interesting.

EDIT: A great fictional illustration of this rift in the prepper community is 'The Masque of the Red Death', a short story in the book "Radicalized" by Cory Doctorow. It follows the story of the ultimate prepper fantasy, a rich options trader who builds a "Fort Doom" in scrubland, equipped with a year or so of food, water, purification equipment, sanitation equipment, and of course a veritable armory. It compares this character against the general community of IIRC Portland, who are reacting to a government-ending pandemic through mutual aide instead. A really fun exploratory take.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6444492-a-paradise-built... S
My first though when I read about this was that it would be a mess for first responders. Fire depts across the country have had to retrain on how to handle electrical car fires. How are they suppose to use the jaws of life to cut someone out if the structural elements contain lithium batteries?
It is 100% legal to create a social networking service that doesn't appeal to the mainstream.

It's a risky business model for attracting investors though.
I understand that and not saying it is not great, just that it seems to be more difficult to master than I expected. It can be fun to tinker with and learn if you have the time. One problem I think is that the documentation is scattered there's not single Bible to read to learn all about it, is there?

In the world of programming languages there's a lot of books called "cookbooks" - recipes for how to do things that many programmers will need to do. Say "C# CookBook". Is there such a book or resource for Ableton? If not maybe there should be. It might be a best seller :-)
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There are people who think that Protonmail is a government front. I don't think so, but who am I? What's a little bothersome is the new administration is more likely to push for the impossible backdoor into encryption. Swiss companies are under an MLAT, so yes, they will cooperate with American government agencies if they request information. CTemplar looks promising, but in a way, all of these "secure" email hosting companies are really pushing security theater.
It's difficult to trust third parties with your data, even if you are not a dissident, journalist, or someone who actually needs to protect their life.

I'm not looking forward to this upcoming administration's tactics as regards big tech. I didn't like Trump's administration much (what there was of it). Biden is looking to put Eric Schmidt somewhere up high as relates tech. He's buried into the American military industrial complex already and just purchased Cypriot citizenship. Conflict of interest? I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at least more concerned over the Democrats and their view of encryption/back doors and company compliance. Why can't we have a transparent government like Finland?
I'm wondering if people know that Android phones already provide the FIDO2 / WebAuthn authentication. There is no need for additional hardware for mobile use.
> I really have know idea why we do the official registration bit. Presumably it makes life easier for the bureaucrates, which I don't particularly mind. If you had a mariage cerremony, and started calling yourselvs married without actually doing the paperwork, would anyone actually care?

The registration bit is the most important part, it’s not bureaucratic. For the same reason that you need to have documents drawn up to form a business partnership, it’s for when things go sideways. The registration is the proof that both parties entered into a contract, enforceable by the government.
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Prepping is a good idea imo and it doesn't mean crazy gun hoarding or racism it just means trying to be as self sufficient and robust as possible imo. And sharing info so others can do likewise
CuriousMarc's video on the TI watch chip inside the HP clock module is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeXYZKg5jdo
The chip itself is examined around 2:00.
I shot two big game animals in the past month and went to buy an upright freezer. The normal/large sizes, such as 13-21 cubic feet, are all sold out and backordered for several months. I have some chest freezers so it's not an issue, but I want the organization friendly upright style. It seems like americans are stocking up on meat as well as part of their prepping activities.
They're prepping for different disasters than you want them to prep for.

When there's a disaster and there's no police to call having guns and ammo you can trade off is likely far better than gold bars, solar panels, etc because everyone without guns and ammo is gonna be wanting enough to keep themselves safe.
A lot of opensource teams use Rust for communication
This uses Chrome DevTools Protocol in a pretty clever way. I used it to archive a highly interactive website and it worked like a charm.

The README states:
"It runs connected to a browser, and so is able to access the full-scope of resources (with, currently, the exception of video, audio and websockets, for now)"

I wonder what kind of limitations makes it hard to intercept those resources like the rest of the content.
Well, if the FOSS license used was e.g. MIT he wouldn't have to buy a commercial license, that's the parent's point. With GPL, he does, because else his clients have to make their own code/project conformant...
Pretty sure one of the local ISPs here in San Francisco (Money Brains) already uses lasers for their consumer network (as opposed to their business network, which is something else iirc)

The reason it will be hard in the US overall is that Comcast lobbied their monopoly into local law across the entire country, and the fight to revert it is fought one city at a time it seems. I don’t think Comcast will reign like this forever, but things are going to be shit for many more years.
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There's a few ways to infer whether or not a 1% response rate is truly representative, or if there's some selection bias with responders responding because they're different that non responders beyond that one simple binary behavior.

My job is basically data analyst/programmer, but I have a decent background in research of this sort (not politics, surveys and qualitative research) and occasionally have to conduct surveys. It often falls to me, or I insist on it, because practically no one knows how to write quality survey questions that aren't leading questions that bias the response.

For example, if you wanted an opinion on a new food product, someone that doesn't know how to ask a neutral question (or is purposely rigging the survey) could ask "How much do you like these french fries? 1) Fantastic 2) Very Good 3) Good 4) Okay 5) Awful. Those answers are front stacked with positive answers, only one negative answer, and no neutral answer. If someone doesn't believe they're awful, they have no choice but to answer "okay".

In any case, one common method I use to measure the presence of responder selection bias is a followup communication to non-responders 1-2 weeks later to nudge them to take the survey. The hypothesis is that people who did not response initially, but do respond when prodded again, will represent a middle point between initial responders & complete non-responders. If that middle point is not statistically significant in their responses that the original responders, I can infer that non-responders are less likely to be a group that would answer differently if had bothered to answer.

No, this is absolutely not a perfect method. More robust methods are needed to further reduce uncertainty: Ethnographic & other qualitative studies can help. Talk to responders to find out what they responded and consider the inverse. e.g., if they say "this is a really important election we have to get Trump out and I want to spread the word so it was important to share my opinion" that should make you question whether Trump supporters would feel the same way about responding.

To really get to non-responders, you need more time & more resources. Find them and pay them to talk to you. It's not uncommon to reward research participants who certainly wouldn't participate otherwise.

Again, none of these are perfect, they just inch you close to greater understanding a little bit at a time.
> The Democratic messaging sucks.

1000% agree. There was a serious of images of Fox News voter analysis polls that made the rounds in social media. The results are here: https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results/voter... .

The vast majority of these answers show broad support for Democratic priorities. I mean "Do you favor or oppose each of the following? Changing the health care system so that any American can buy into a government-run health care plan if they want to" got 70% "strong" or "somewhat" support. 71% support giving a pathway to apply for legal status to illegal immigrants, vs. 29% in favor of deportation. "Do you favor or oppose each of the following? Increasing federal government spending on green and renewable energy" got 68% in favor.

And this is a Fox News poll. In poll after poll when you ask what policies people want, they lean strongly toward Democratic priorities.
One of the funnier "Preppers" episodes I've seen was a rational prepper who was interviewed by the show.

It was along the lines of "We're Honey Farmers. Every few centuries, an earthquake shakes the East Coast and may destroy the highways. We have a plan to survive for 30 days isolated from the rest of the country".

They had a large stockpile of honey, water, etc. etc. They explained how their system would work without power. Their scenario was based on Hurricane Katrina (and how long it took for aid to arrive: over a month). Overall, a rational set of people.

They got low-scores from the show's hosts because they didn't have enough guns to survive, apparently. Now, some form of self-defense seems needed after a disaster, but we've never seen roaming gangs of bandits running across the countryside stealing food from those who have it (which is apparently the main thing those "Preppers" want to prepare for)
You can, there’s a bputil command for it I believe.
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You can turn most dynamic languages into a strict compile-time-like language with all the checks thrown in your face usually by turning on a simple setting (eg. in php: error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE | E_NOTICE); ruby has something similar.)

You cannot turn a compiled language into a language that offers the same flexibility as a dynamic language.
I can only speak for what it was like as a biologist, which does have such artificial barriers.
We've been hit by half a dozen hurricanes over the past two decades where we lost power for 5+ days. These were relatively minor storms compared to what could happen in a worst case scenario.

The focus of my preparations are around providing for my family if we had a severe hurricane hit. This involves making sure we have enough food, water, and fuel to be self sufficient for a few weeks. It involves being able to charge devices and have light without power. Sadly, it also involves having at least some ability to defend ourselves as that is the world we live in.

It is a fun hobby to have. While some people go overboard, I think we'd be better off if more people prepared for real scenarios like this as it takes some of the burden off the system and leaves capacity for those who couldn't or didn't prepare enough.
Years ago, I lived outside a metro area deep in the woods, and the metro response team told us we would be low-priority in the event of a natural disaster. Makes sense: why burn resources to help a few thousand people when a few hundred thousand are suffering. The metro response team told us to prepare for 30 days without support, especially electricity (we were ALL on well water) or accessible roads.

We formed a dozen smaller neighborhood teams that met regularly to identify elderly people who would need check-ins, medical needs, resources people were willing to share. This was in addition to family prep: water, first aid, food, batteries, etc. We even did an emergency rations taste-off (they all suck, btw) and bought a community cargo container that we filled with community supplies (I had left the hood by that point).

It was surprising that about 10% of the people in each area refused to participate. Most were pissed that we even had their names on a spreadsheet, even though they were older and might need assistance. They felt we were intruding on their privacy and they didn't need our help. However, we included them in the calculations for emergency resources in case they decided to come around after a disaster happened.

TL;DR: city recommended rural folks be prepared for a max 30 days on your own.
The seductive thing about authoritarianism is efficiency. The best government is a benevolent dictatorship.

But since continuity of benevolence cannot be guaranteed, we seek more stable alternatives for anything long-term.
I was trying to recall his name and did some googling. One of the first articles said that he had been approved for extradition. Sounds like they just got to him before the state department had to step in.
I'd argue that if the code is boilerplate and can be auto-generated then it shouldn't be necessary in the first place, the compiler should be able to infer it by itself.
I'm certain the mere-exposure effect plays a big part in this. I grew up listening to songs from the 60's, 70's, and 80's. I still like them, and you can always find them playing on the radio today. These songs are also very Lindy - they've stood the test of time.

But I find Modern Pop songs get played to death for a few months and then you rarely hear them again. Remember when "Closer" from the Chainsmokers was playing constantly in 2016? I never hear it on the radio today.
We have a small pack too, mainly focused on some calories for a few days and ways to clean water (lifestraw and a stove for boiling).
> Lastly this isn't even an Ars article

Gizmodo stylee
They know exactly what they're preparing for: race and class war in support of active insurrection against the federal government. We got a very brief taste of it in the Boogaloo bullshit that used BLM protests to see exactly what they could get away with.

They don't have those other things because they either intend to die "heroically" before they need them, or to take what they need from the people they intend to kill and institutions they'll upend. "Disaster prepper" is just a convenient paper-thin veil over that reasoning that makes it socially palatable to people who don't have to deal with them frequently enough to get to know them.

The only disaster they're prepping for is the one they intend to cause.

Signed, someone who grew up with rural Louisianians, Texans, and Arkansans, and has to deal with rural Oregonians, Washingtonians, and Idahoans daily.
(Apologies I’m not sure what your educational background is)

Basically, higher wattage makes chips create more heat in shorter time.

Heat in general is destructive, like with cooking or with camp fires or when a car “over heats” and stops working. Silicon chips are very detailed and any small change could make them stop working. So the heat applied needs to be below some threshold (i.e. don’t let it get too hot).

If the chip needs more wattage it creates more heat and that heat needs a “heat sink” and fan to protect the chip from degrading.

Heat sinks and fans require a lot of space, high surface area to volume ratios. Take a look at the PS5 tear down, 90% of the insides are a heat sink. Laptops and phones don’t have a lot of room for heat sinks or fans.

Therefore, if the chip can use less wattage then it will get less hot. Meaning it can work better in “fan-less” devices like the MacBook Air and the iPhone and iPad.
The union holds management to a set of policies and there is probably a step-by-step procedure laid out for calling off for sickness with what the employee's responsibilities are and the penalty for not following policy, and based on the description the manager probably was holding to policy so the union rep didn't want to fight against the policy.

The previous management may have been less strict or forgiving about specific policies (especially with sicknesses). But at the same time if you don't follow the policies evenly, people will start accusing you of favoritism and making up rules as you go along.
In the US at least, stockpiling antibiotics is a little tricky - kind of hard to find a doctor who will just write you a prescription for cipro "just in case."
How does the offline story look like? At a first glance, it seems things would not work if you're not connected to the internet or don't/can't have a connection to Config.ly
Homebrew is fine, and nothing about the CLI is crippled in Big Sur.
Yes, the disruption did not exhaust easy work-arounds, but that's because the disruption was completely trivial by disaster standards, not because the system was robust.
The father-daughter relationship is critical. It can affect how a woman will relate to men for the rest of her life. There are no perfect parents, but there are bad ones. Therapy can help.