dave_aiello

I just saw GitHub Projects for the first time as a result of this link. It looks like it has several of the key features of Asana, which is the project management tool that my very small web publishing consulting firm uses.

I noticed that Project Boards (https://docs.github.com/en/issues/organizing-your-work-with-...) visually look a lot like the Board view in Asana when I'm working in a project based on the IT Project Plan template.

In terms of whether companies that are inclined to use web-based project management tools would drop what they are using and adopt GitHub Projects, I think the most likely candidates to do that would be companies where a great deal of the creative work already flows through GitHub and a huge percentage of the staff is in GitHub for some reason every day.

I don't think we would adopt this for work with clients. To the extent that our clients have GitHub as part of their toolset, the only people using it are software developers and engineers on the system administration - devops continuum. Our use of Asana is for things like project communications and high level time management, i.e. when will we hit a milestone.

HOV lanes, special toll lanes, driverless vehicles, new alternative means of transportation that never quite materialize, etc., don’t cut it and never did.

Yes, I agree, given the proximity to that news.

The late Zig Ziglar, a great motivational speaker and life coach before that was a thing, often said, "You cannot be a wandering generality in life. You must become a meaningful specific."

Giovanni Rose is more than halfway to where Zig Ziglar would want him to be. Now he needs some luck, which may have come to him in this opinion piece by Aditya Chakrabortty.

For those of us who have made it to a level where momentum takes us to more good things rather than further along a path of obscurity, maybe we should read this story and consider if we've done everything we can to help people we've met who have the potential to be like Giovanni Rose, but have not yet articulated what makes them meaningful.

My reaction to this article is that I believe the Alexa platform represents one of the few where Amazon.com has an ecosystem with the depth that Apple typically when their respective products reach maturity.

That was my first thought when I saw the CT scans of the AirPods: where is the canonical URL for this, and where is the archive of previous analyses?

Lower Mainland Secessionists-- this is your moment!

Right now homedepot.com and the APIs that drive their mobile app are down too.

With all due respect, this is not the cited article. I'm sure you mean that when you said "alternative". Thanks for sharing that BTW.

Apple News has the complete article at https://apple.news/ANRRWdjsrPEW3QIouD9dSnw. (I subscribe to Apple News+ through Apple One. Not certain if it's free for everyone or just for subscribers like me.)

I want to use Apple Pay wherever possible, because I find using Apple Pay on my Apple Watch at retail point of sale to be incredibly convenient.

I use Apple Pay all the time at Wawa, Wegmans, Target, and Apple stores, as well as some fast food and quick serve restaurants. I generally can't use Apple Pay at Home Depot or Walmart.

One use case for this is places like Pennsylvania where you typically need to produce a government-issued ID to purchase alcohol.

In 100%-proof-of-ID stores, cashiers often don't look at the photo on the ID, they scan the bar code on the back of the Driver's License that's presented.

Why not use the Digital ID in an Apple Wallet in those situations?

Lots of people in mid-career who are technologists are experts in use of systems that are declining in importance. The question is, can those people learn skills and become experts in systems that are in greater demand?

But what does "reluctance among workers to learn new skills" mean for people whose jobs are not as technology-related?

Are they referring to auto and truck mechanics whose skills are with maintaining and repairing combustion engines being reluctant to learn the skills for EV vehicles?

I'm not a professional photographer. I was a digital photography enthusiast from nearly the beginning.

I kept taking photos on an SLR for a while in parallel with digital photography, then I gradually switched over to all digital. Then I stopped taking photos with a purpose built digital camera and started focusing on the photos I can take with my iPhone.

I worked really hard to drive all the digital images I have into iCloud, whether they originated on an iOS device or not. I have a decent collection of photos that came from Kodak PhotoCDs. I could have a lot more photos available in my iClod collection if I invested in a negative scanner.

My biggest use cases for face recognition are for life milestone events for other people. Weddings, graduations, funerals. People who know me often ask me to look for photos of loved ones if we've been at events together.

I could do more than I am doing with the technology. But what I can do without too much effort sometimes surprises me.

This is capability is actually really important if you take iPhone photos to commemorate family or group activities.

I've got well over 50,000 photos, and I couldn't possibly identify every person in the photos I've taken without face recognition.

Having the software and the processing power available to analyze an large collection of photos on device rather than in the cloud is a game changer.

Perhaps reports like this one were one impetus for the law passed by California that restricts power consumption by computing devices? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27954946

I found this document published by Intel which has all sorts of technical information about "CEC Friendly Motherboards" that appears to describe the regulatory framework that rules out sale of certain computers to customers in those six states, https://processormatch.intel.com/Resources/Program%20for%20C....

My wife is a primary care doctor in the United States. Saying that disqualifies me in some people's minds from having an opinion about the quality and cost of health care in this country. But I am willing to give an opinion regardless.

There are plenty of medical practices and institutions that function well and deliver good value to the patient. But there are many that do not.

As someone who doesn't have friends inside the health care industry, it can be extremely difficult to figure out what to do in an emergency. Quite often your options are limited especially if you are caring for a loved one rather than yourself.

The best advice I can give is to find good doctors before you need them, and when conversations come up about someone else's medical care, be willing to ask, who is your doctor and how good are they? Or, which hospital did you go to, and do you feel you had a good experience?

Often there is little out-of-pocket difference between the cost of excellent medical care and lower quality care, if you have good insurance.

If you don't have good insurance and you are looking at a potentially significant medical procedure, ask to speak to someone about financial assistance. Good practices and good hospital systems are not looking to bankrupt their patients.

Both pilots were rescued, the FAA said.

I'm surprised that the article isn't dated April 1.

I don't know. I felt that Python 3 was an attempt to route around problems in Python 2 that couldn't be easily fixed.

I don't have much invested in Python at the moment. I would be more aware of and concerned about Python issues if I had larger scripts written in it that I need to maintain.

I have used Perl 5 long enough to know that it is a mature language. I'm concerned about the integrity of CPAN and individual modules' abilities to interoperate with the versions of Linux that I deploy in production.

I have a few critical system integration scripts written in Perl.

I've felt for a while that silent failure is a serious possibility when Linux distributions change bundled Perl versions with little or no discussion.

The medium-term answer for me is probably to learn Python well enough to port my code to it.

I concur with that.

I had a problem that appeared to be a corner case with Apple Pay. I wrote a paper letter to Tim Cook about it, and within a week got contacted by a staff person in his office. He worked exclusively with me to identify issues I had not considered, and followed up on all of the direct effects and side effects until they were resolved.

I think this article, and the discussion about it, are outstanding.

I've been a casual Homebrew user for several years. It helps me set up an environment where it's relatively easy to access and work on my projects that involve lightweight software development, as opposed to lightweight ops, which is probably my strength.

Working solo, I don't have the bandwidth to understand the details of everything I touch. I truly appreciate that there are people in the community who like to examine deeper technical issues with package management and also have the communications skills to explain it so people like me can understand.

Couldn't it be said that the first edition of the Dragon Book is an indication of how far ahead of their time Aho and Ullman were at that point?

Maybe it's because I'm a sports official in my spare time, but I want the rules to be the same for everybody. It doesn't matter if they are written or not.

I just want there to be a clear standard in most cases and rule enforcement to be reasonably consistent, in all aspects of life.

I don't understand the lines that Patrick Collison, the CEO of Stripe, is trying to draw in this interview with Stratechery, https://stratechery.com/2021/interviews-with-patrick-colliso....

I believe Collison's argument is that certain organizations affiliated with ex-President Trump should have been and were suspended from direct use of the Stripe API for "incitement to violence" in the time surrounding the certification of Electors by the U.S. Congress, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_St.... But other organizations that were allied in some way with Trump were still able to use the API. So in effect, the Trump-related organizations could use the API indirectly.

With that reasoning, shouldn't there also be organizations on the left in the United States, which is defined as the progressive / liberal / socialist part of the political spectrum, that should have received the same treatment during the period of the George Floyd Protests, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests?

I think part of the reason they evolved this way is because iOS has a shared calendar database which is surfaced by the API called EventKit, https://developer.apple.com/documentation/eventkit.

This also exists on macOS and WatchOS, but I think it existed in iOS first.

I'm going to repeat that Fantastical does 95% of what Superpowered claims to do. And Fantastical has features that Superpowered clearly does not have, such as a really good natural language mechanism for event and task creation.

And subscription costs are less.

https://flexibits.com/fantastical

After reading this article and the comments here on HN, I wonder if anyone else has thought about the presence of Smarthome devices that are compatible with [HomeKit Secure Video], how the police agencies would have pursued video from those cameras, and if they would have made the additional effort to request that video in the first place?

[HomeKit Secure Video]: https://www.the-ambient.com/guides/apple-homekit-secure-vide...