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Sorry for the late response. I wasn't on HN yesterday.

Regarding:

> This isn't a neutral preference, it's obviously ideological, and targeted at one specific legislator in Seattle. Voters should reject this measure as a transparent attack on the most effective and sincere fighter for working people in the country.

This isn't ideological in any way, and it's not targeted at anyone. When I said it was non-partisan and candidate-neutral, it's really that simple. It's non-partisan and candidate-neutral.

Consistent with HN guidelines, I'd ask first for an assumption of good faith. Beyond that, I can give some practical comments:

1. Our group of volunteers includes a huge range of political beliefs. There is no "one" opinion that the group could try to target even if we wanted to. The shared belief is that leaders reflect public opinion as accurately as possible.

2. This doesn't help or harm anyone. Rather, think of the current system like a grocery store where, each time you walk in, the prices on every item have doubled or halved. No one wins today: one entity (sellers/candidates) has no idea what their real support is and the other entity (buyers/voters) has to cobble together ingredients for dinner.

That wouldn't be good for the dairy people and bad for the fish people, it's bad for all sellers/candidates and all buyers/voters. Our flawed system doesn't help anyone.

Imagine a system where every voter could express their whole opinion, without feeling like they were throwing away their vote. Every election becomes a simple measure of how many voters approve of each candidate.

3. Just practically, no one's job - politician or otherwise - is worth a year or two of my life. It violates the "The sun doesn't revolve around any of us" theorem :-) Heck, even if I got to personally pick every Seattle legislator, I wouldn't put in this much effort. I don't care anywhere near enough. The thing I care about, and the only thing that's worth this much effort, is a system that delivers whatever voters want.

PS: I would welcome your help making this happen! That's how much I mean it when I say this is candidate-neutral and we welcome everyone. As volunteers, our political preferences vary widely. Our commitment is to elect winners which best reflect voters' opinions (democracy), whether or not they match any of ours.
More willing to bet the proponents of this legislation have financial incentives, like backing by the companies who build these devices.
You can do almost everything with dependent types, but dependent type systems expressive enough to be practical are usually heavy, permit almost no (guaranteed) inference and tend to require a total language (unless you toss out soundness, like TypeScript does with its non-dependent types). The hope is usually that a weaker system might relieve some of these problems; besides, studying the weakest type systems that can express whatever it is you want is good mathematics in any case.

I’m absolutely hoping for a practical dependently typed language as well, but we still have a ways to go there.
That's "paying the interest". Lets say you rush a component of your software out. Every time you make a change it causes massive headaches and issues. Lets say this decreases developer productivity by 5%.

Then any new feature that touches that component increases this "interest". You're now losing 6%, 7%, etc. Only on interest.

The longer this goes on and the more debt you accrue the worse it gets. Getting debt to have something now that you fully intend to pay back is not a problem.

Constantly increasing your debt till you go bankrupt (total rewrite) is though. Problem is management is blind to tech debt. It doesn't show up in their calculations, it's just that thing the devs always complain about but somehow the product still gets delivered, just with more "irrelevant" complaints each time until half the team has quit.
Stop trying to get the government involved in everything. It’s not Apple’s fault someone is stalking you using their technology.
> Large impersonal institutions are much easier to hold accountable than local communities.

I think this is exactly backwards.

> but they are often hell for that one gay resident.

Contrarily, people are way more likely to accept a person once they know them personally as part of their community. Small towns don't operate like high school locker rooms.
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but all hashing is entropy reduction, "cryptographic" or not. surely thats negentropic currency?
At a guess, custody battles.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29275454
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> I've never understood why this is deemed such a big ask by so many people.

It's the “Script” bit of “JavaScript”. Once your scripting language needs compiling, it's jumped the shark. You need to go back to the drawing board and invent something else. “I don't want to compile JavaScript” is the face of it, yes, but at its core, this sentiment rails against the entire bloated, over-developed, under-engineered state of contemporary JavaScript.
The tag will eventually start beeping, but I agree it'd be ideal for the phone to get an alert too. Not sure how you'd do that though, maybe a 'tracking device standard'?
It was the worst of times. You needed at least 50 Mhz to play MP3-files. Only rich people could afford that. And couple of years later you wanted to play DIVX-files and you needed 300 Mhz.
> Apple needs to be held accountable for this

So you want to congratulate them for this I assume? As that would be the "consequence" of this event should we hold them "accountable" for the outcome.
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For the person facing up, their opponent is to their right, which is closed off. They would need to reach up and to the right, and that motion would be blocked by the newel post.

For the person facing down, their opponent is to their left, which is open. They would need to reach down and across their body to the left, unobstructed.
As a right-handed person, I find it is much easier to run down stairs if I can use the wall or railing for support. To me, it sounds as plausible as the sword fight theory.
I thought that some of the MOOC companies open-sourced their LMS. Have you looked at https://open.edx.org/ ?
Author here, this software is young, please don't use it for backups!

But also, in general, it might not work well for your use case, and our use case is niche. Please give it a try before making assumptions about any suitability for use.
I'd suggest reading OP's comment history before flinging such accusations.
Not sure when it's coming, but they announced an Android app when the AirTags were announced.
Think about Primary Key and Indexes before anything else
1000% agree. Blogging has some significant virtues:

* decentralized
* robust
* standards based (HTML, RSS)
* allows freedom to innovate
* some robust OSS options available with different tradeoffs
* built-in distribution mechanism (URL, sharing on social platforms, SEO)

On the flip side, it's missing some of the social features you might expect (though you can add them in) and doesn't have a straightforward monetization strategy (ads don't work, donations don't work, unsure about subscriptions nowadays).

But there are a lot of strengths.
There are non-Apple-branded tracking devices available, have been for many years.

Does each manufacturer of those also owe you an Android app?
A hurricane doesn't raise the average wind speed for the year at your house by much. Yet you can't ignore it.

If I were to press the business end of my soldering iron onto your hand it would only raise the average amount of thermal energy that your hand absorbs this year by a negligible amount. Yet I'm pretty sure you would very strongly object.

Hospitals in many areas are being overwhelmed to a far greater extent than they are in even bad flu years. When you are going to need a hospital for something in the future that you can be flexible with scheduling, then you just need a hospital that on average has enough capacity. When you need a hospital now with no flexibility in timing, all that matters is if demand now is above what the hospital can serve.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-lets-you-scan-for-evil-airtags-tha...

"The company also announced that it was working on an app for Android users that would send them alerts about unwanted tracking devices similar to those iPhone users receive. The Android app is set to launch later this year."

Apple may not hit the end of 2021, and they don't get full credit until they release the app, but they're aware of the issue and have stated they are working on a solution.
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Author here, I agree with xdfgh1112, please take care before using brand new software to store your backups!
I have mixed feelings about autoloading. I never use it for my own stuff, ever: explicit `require`s all the way. But I do appreciate not needing the boilerplate in Rails.

It would have been nice to be able to do something like: `MyActiveRecordImport = require('activerecord')` to take control of the constant name, but honestly it's not something I hugely miss.
Can Apple? Give a warrant, that is
I attempted to run that APL, and it didn't quite work as is on my system (Dyalog on macOS). As written, it seems to be an odd mixture of things that assume ⎕IO 0 and ⎕IO 1, in that with ⎕IO←1, the bymonth assignment only gets two columns instead of three, but with ⎕IO←0, it needs to be 0=22 and 1↓cal instead of 0=23 and 2↓cal.

Similarly, the lines assignment needed to be {⍵⊂⍨0=9|⍳≢⍵}⍤1⍉bymonth.

After those changes it worked OMM, but the month names were appended directly to the end of the first Saturday's date with no space (e.g. "1 2January"). So I changed ↑months to ↑(' ',¨months) in the last line to insert a space there (there's likely a better way to do that; I'm still pretty new at APL).

I added `-h` to make sure `cal` didn't highlight today's date, which can throw things off, and eliminated intermediate vars that were only used once; this was what I wound up with (works from a clean ws in Dyalog OMM):

⎕io ← 0
lines ← {⍵⊂⍨0=9|⍳≢⍵}⍤1⍉{⍵⊂⍨0=22|⍳≢⍵}⍤1↑1↓⎕sh 'cal -hy'
months ← ~∘' '¨,⍉⊃¨lines
days ← ∊⍤1⍉{⍵/⍨(' '∨.≠¨⍵)∨∧\' '∧.=¨⍵}⍤1⍉¯1↓(23⍴1 0 0)⊂⍤1↑⊃,/,⌿2↓¨lines
⎕←53↑(¯2↓⍤1⊢days) , ↑(' ',¨months)\⍨∨/' 1 '⍷days
Why is this not already exploding to the top of the blogosphere?

I have never heard of Wiring before. It is quite shocking to see how Wiring was already the core platform that Arduino has been built on.

The sketch API, the cross-platform toolchain, the bootloader-based serial upload, the core example programs - the entire premise of making embedded programming accessible. All of this was already provided by Wiring - why did the advising professor have to just grab all the credit and slap the name Arduino on top?

I only now learned about a whole Arduino vs. Arduino mess that seems to be getting some publicity. Now it looks like a crying over who are "the original Arduino folks" that deserve some manufacturing royalties. Hernando was never invited to the team and these idiots probably never gave a penny to Hernando or other essential contributors of the toolchain.
> we are seeing an increased reliance on technologies of surveillance. For example, front-door cameras now protect homes from burglars, and internet-connected videos inform absent residents when packages are delivered

I'd like to re-frame this positively. Putting minor surveillance powers in the hands of everyday folk is a net win. I don't know about you, but I like to see who is poking around my premises. Oldskool neighborhood watch initiatives don't cut it anymore. I can see there would be a problem if your IP camera got accidentally broadcasted to the public facing Internet and criminals could see your house was empty, but the onus is on the user to lock down their equipment. Not the manufacturers.
I was scratching my head at that too.
Are we all mentally retarded? Lets celebrate the future possibility of killing each other in carbon neutral way. The scale of collective idiocy is beyond comprehension if we are seriously about to start asking whether our bombers are properly CO2 offset. I denounced such world views and logic which rationalizes this kind of inquiry. The proper headline should read: "If we ever run out of oil, we may still power the war-machines with synthetic fuels, so do not worry loyal subjects".
Wut.

If you are an Android user, and I put an AirTag on you, your phone won't report the location on the tag.

But every apple product that gets close to you will report your location.
They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect
that no one will need to be good.
But the man that is will shadow
The man that pretends to be.
--TS Eliot
c22 is "speaking as someone who has been in jail and also involuntarily committed on multiple occasions". The bail and time served are regarding the jail time, not the mental treatment.
Andrej Bauer’s Eff[1] circa 2012 explored the connections with exception systems and delimited continuations pretty thoroughly, IIRC, though I’m not yet sure how the present language relates to it.

[1] https://www.eff-lang.org/
>social media enables the construction and enforcement of intellectual and political orthodoxy.

You hit on it, but this is the crux to me - what makes them think this wasn't possible before? Or, if they did think it possible before, how does voluntary sharing to a community compare with, say, church-driven enforcement of intellectual and political orthodoxy? I agree, there were no good old days on this topic.
That first one is stretching the definition of "customer" quite vigorously. Certainly beyond the bounds of the post I was replying to. A company's reputation does not hinge on whether the janitor's keycard works on the ladies' bathroom at 2am by a made-up date.

Long-term profit is not the number-one actual priority of American management methods. Not even close. As an example, look at Toyota versus the big 3 American car manufacturers. Toyota is much more profitable [1] and has been for decades. That's because for Toyota profit is an outcome, not a holy grail. The actual priority of American management methods is making executives look/feel smart, in control, and dominant so they can justify extracting lots of cash.

I do agree that they use management techniques likely to achieve those feelings. And that includes making up bullshit dates and then insisting everybody make them happen. But that's part of the problem.

[1] https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2015/02/22/...
Although it has become associated with maize it is still used as a generic term for any cereal crop. At least here in the UK.
I've tried to get into the following routine for my team:

1. A daily standup bot pings us with the tickets assigned to us. We respond with a gut-level "percent complete" number for each ticket.

2. The bot tracks these estimates and over time, each team member can see whether they tend to over or under estimate.

The point is that we don't try to cram accuracy into developers, we just let them guess and let them see over time how good they are at gut-level estimation. The hope is that they'll eventually improve their estimations, but we're not going to tie it to performance or anything.
I don't think ARCA's tea kettle is technically a rocket engine, since there's no combustion.
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Amazing job, hope it becomes the new Linux some day, who knows. What did you add that might be interesting from a security standpoint? Things like “hardened out of the box” or “buffer overflow protection” or “network anomaly detection” or ability to plug in things that will make endpoint / server security easier can make it very popular!
>Apple needs to be held accountable for this

How? There's tons of these tracker products out there. Are we going to make the entire category illegal?
Maybe potential burglars waiting for people to leave home for vacation / longer visits away from home.
Ads on the logon screen? Or the start menu?

I don't get those on my personal 'home' installs, 'pro' installs, or the enterprise laptop from my employer.

Did your machine get hacked?
Todoist insanely slow

My notepad fast and works a little

There is no magic to it tho

I hope to fix that when I release my own Todo app in January, Never.
You don’t get location updates without Apple devices nearby.
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MINTING SOON!!!!
... because people buy expensive stuff and then they get robbed when driving home.
https://osxdaily.com/2021/07/08/found-lost-airtag-find-owner...

> If you’re curious to find who’s the owner of the AirTag that you have in hand, you can use your iPhone to view this information. Don’t have an iPhone? You can still use your NFC-enabled smartphone to see contact details.
Decentralisation is not interoperability.

As far as I understand Web3 is mostly presented with descentralisation in mind.

> We badly need commonly accepted standards and decentralized protocols

In my opinion "standard" and "descentralization" does not work good to support the same argument.

Here is one among many possible ways the future might unfold: a totally descentralized internet might be completely controller by few corporations. The reason is simple in my opinion: The normal user does not care about this. The normal user cares to talk with their family and their family are all using the web3-chat from BigOrg. Because BigOrg can give it for free and it works on all devices. Now as everything is descentralized BigOrg is also pushing a new browser. But this browser is showing only content from BigOrg through BigOrg descentralized servers. They have their own Web3-Smart-Blockchain-Ready-NoNSdeletion-DNS that is used only by their own browser that displays only websites that are registered there.

Now try to switch that normal user to another provider. That will be hard thing to do.

I think users will be _more_ captive than they are now as switching between descentralized services is hard. No business yet has an incentive to make a descentralized service and in the same time use a standard.

Of course I am missing maybe some web3 tech and I am in no way an expert in what web3 is or it will be.
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I do not own an Apple phone. Does the app to track or report on AirTags automagically get installed?

If not, how did she detect it?

Asking because in the article "At the time, she did not even know what an Air Tag was until she received a notification that she was being tracked." this implies that she did not use, therefore did not need the Air Tag app, so then how did she detect it?
A current popular crime scheme is to scope people at affluent shopping areas, and then follow them home.

I suspect the lady had one of the nicer cars in the parking lot.

That being said, the story itself is fishy. Why would someone duct tape one of these in plain sight?
Understood, but in reality the PM is going to get kudos and your complaints that things that were delivered and paid for are "unfinished" are going to be ignored.

Devs are pretty honest, management simply does not listen.
Why would I want to congratulate them?

Apple are making it extremely easy for anyone to track you without your knowledge. If you're then the victim of a crime due to that as far as I'm concerned apple is complicit.

I can see this harming victims of domestic violence.
I can think of two possibilities: domestic abuse and murder rates tend to spike around the holidays for whatever reason, so tracking/stalking goes along with that. Or it's just that the tech to do the tracking is on sale.
This could be summarized: in the west, technology has empowered populism and in the east, technology has empowered totalitarianism; often to the same ends.
> Studios will have no choice but to support it because gamers will expect it.

Gamers can't stop pre-paying for games which launch with tons of bugs or paying for micro-transactions which incentivize abusive game design. I am highly skeptical that even 0.1% of buyers would not play a game they otherwise wanted because it didn't allow some way to recognize your items from another game.
Here's an example of my crappy charging experience.

I live in a large town, population about 60K, and the ChargePoint app shows these options near me right now. This includes ALL charging networks, but only J1772 plugs that fit my car:

16 "public" ports are in the area:

- 4 are actually inside an apartment complex

- 2 are at Whole Foods, but I know 1 has been broken for years.

- 2 are BEHIND car dealerships. That's not really public.

- 3 are at someone's house?

- 2 are at the gym, but 1 has been broken for years.

- 2 are at a high school. I don't spend time there.

- 1 is at the library, and it's always occupied or broken.

If I expand the search to other places I shop:

- 2 ports are at the mall, but 1 of them is broken, and because they're close to the entrance, they're often ICEd.

Thankfully, I drive a PHEV so I can charge at home overnight, and burn gas for long distances. To date, 75% of this car's miles were electric.
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While the protocol may not expose it, the device itself could have a serial number that might be associated with a specific user? EDIT: that seems to be exactly the case, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29277376
> Another thing that really helped me was finding a job I didn't care much about, spending more time doing nothing.

I am not sure if I will be able to not care about my job. After all, my family’s well being depends on my ability to hold a job. I wish I could stop caring or at least to not care as much.
This is the first time I've heard of this and I don't quite buy it either. Having your left side on the wall side also means that you can stabilize yourself against a handrail with your left hand.
Your sample size is 2. Their sample size is 369,000.
>Small town may seem idyllic but they are often hell for that one gay resident.

Precisely. And that enforcement of the orthodoxy often takes far more severe forms than online criticism.