skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done a lot of research on tick-borne, as well as interviewing others, and my own personal experience.

My protocol for being in tick areas is now as follows:

* No sugar, including "stray" sugar from processed food, like "cane syrup", "apple juice", etc.

* No processed food that digests fast and floods my body with nutrients, e.g. bread, cereal, etc.

* Light diet, intermittent fasting.

* No coffee.

* Lots of fresh garlic.

* Frequent tick checks.

* If I get bitten, no sweets of any kind, including fruit, for a few days.

* If bitten by the smaller species, and it's on long enough to leave a red mark, 2 days of antibiotics right away.
What does technical expert at large mean to you? I have some idea from my experience, but it seems like it's usually a nebulous role that nobody asked for.
> cultural barrier to overcome

What??

> in China the penalty seems to be that you lose your crappy sweatshop job

What??

Have you been to China lately?
This is exactly what he said. I've read Barr's speech, and if anything I think the TC article went to easy on him.
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I think it is pretty obvious that these companies have built pretty sophisticated scrappers for social media sites as well to bypass any API or ToS restrictions. Twitter bots for politics aren't even hidden. Reddit has a huge problem with social media manipulation as well.
Yes, external battery box / tuner. I'm not sure if the tuner to display interface is actually video, or is basically a proprietary LCD driver at that point. This one is NIB, so I'd probably get another to experiment with first...
Imagine being a college student who needs their computer for accessing their online courses. It's not like your professor is going to say "Oh it's fine, turn in your stuff late." Nope, you get in trouble...
> Try wearing a kilt or a lederhose and watch the world around you change.

> If you look at today's fashion its like everyone is heading to a funeral. Like they got tired of carrying their soul around then forget where they left it.

The fun thing I noticed once I moved away from purely function to wearing fun things, is the number of people who somewhat secretely wished they could also wear fun things but have felt that they would miss out on required societal approval. And yet the reality is the opposite, based on the feedback I've gotten.
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> It is fair to assume that the general public knows very little about how many dreadful criminal activities they were able to avoid because they could tap into some conversations early on

Sure, because we're never told. And you know what? Maybe there's good reasons. But "we can't tell you why, but trust us, it's super effective!" isn't enough of an argument.
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The absence of a vaccine is a tragedy: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/health/lyme-disease-vacci....

There is some progress: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/20/lyme-disease..., but: "The current leader is Vienna-based biotech Valneva, which is developing a vaccine that can protect against all six most common strains of Lyme disease in the northern hemisphere, and is currently in an ongoing Phase II clinical trial. If everything goes according to plan, this vaccine could be licensed commercially in five years."
>> And let's not pretend we haven't been talking about a supposed epidemic of white cops shooting innocent black people for no reason for years and years now

Double negatives and sarcastoc political signaling of a POV that ignores statistics in the same statement?

A successful broadcast of talking points and your agenda, but not really participation in a discussion.
Sure. A bigot too.

But "white supremacist", when you consider the people in his circle (including his family) is an odd description, like when people call Ben Shapiro a Nazi.
Amazon Alexa, Google Home on Collision Course with Regulation
It's possible until you assign values to X, Y and Z
News Wrap: Amazon Privacy and Telegram DDoS Attack
> 2 days of antibiotics right away.

I wonder if this is actually wise, given antibiotic overuse/resistance. Although, I suppose the downside would be for society, not you.
I have preferred this method myself when dealing with simple calls (calls that need no further external information). jumping through 7 files just to find the API request that gets shipped is slightly insane.

but how do you put the result back in the store? how about displaying a default failure screen?
I really like my quartz countertops. They so far have been similarly durable and easy to clean to tile, while also tolerating fairly hot pans (I haven't tried anything hotter than 400F).
correction: I took a closer look at liburing and it also supports straight fsync[0], not just sync_file_range, this makes it even simpler.

[0] http://git.kernel.dk/cgit/liburing/tree/src/io_uring.h?id=90...
Do you remember the early samsung galaxy phones? They were blatant ripoffs of all the original design apple was doing in the phone space. From the basic form factor down to small interactions. You can argue that slide-to-unlock should not be patentable (I agree) but if it is, using it to deter your largest competitor from cloning your product is actually what patents are supposed to be for... i.e. come up with your own solution don’t copy mine.
An L2 charger costs about $750 to install at home. I paid an electrician $300 to run a line from my fuse box to garage and install the outlet. Then the actual charger, a Siemens VersiCharge, is $450. I still need to do a bit of drywall repair from where the electrician had to cut to run the line, but that's trivial.
Didn't we already do this 10 months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17990859
Funny how he only mentions that his blood work was positive for Lyme disease after the first round of antibiotics, and then fails to mention the status after the second treatment.

I'm guessing it was negative after that, so his entire tirade is about asking doctors for antibiotics when there's nothing to indicate that they have Lyme disease other than the patient's own opinion.
The Airforce wanted the stealth of the B2 with the speed of the B1 so Northrop built the B21.
Std: Format in C++20
At some point the saturation for (entry-level) programmers with degrees will be enough that (entry-level) programmers who are self-taught will be in zero demand.
That's really interesting! Want to do an interview?
Something about this smells fishy. Informing that [Chronic Lyme as a concept is dubious at best](https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/fake-diagnoses-not-fake-dis...), this sounds a lot like people worried about "whole-body Candida infections" or Wi-Fi poisoning or whatnot. Even if the symptoms are real, they could be a result from the nocebo effect or some other untreated illness.

All of this on top of medium blogs being able to be made by anybody sets off my pseudo-science alarms.
Well, at least you have a fairly specific threat model. But opsec for avoiding discovery by the police seems pretty hard?
What about clothing? If you're covered head to toe, can they still get you?
There is actually a difference between being self-taught as you describe it, and being an autodidact.

The latter is able to identify holes in his own knowledge, and find appropriate material to educate himself on. That ability is what defines an autodidact in the first place.

This is also the very same thing you get taught in basically all sciences: How to aquire knowledge about a subject matter you yet know nothing about.

So, an autodidactic Programmer without a degree will most certainly have similar knowledge as a CS graduate, simple because that is how such people "tick".

It's just that not every self-taught programmer is an autodidact. And in that case I agree with your argument.
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> The temptations for the workers would be the same (big payoffs are a universal temptation)

Big payoffs are a universal temptation, but the definition of “big” depends on your salary. The article says workers “can earn an amount equivalent to a year’s salary for stealing iPhone enclosures”; that would require more money in the U.S. or Europe.
How about "knodes"?
That's heavily dependent on where you are in government. It's not true any of the places I've worked.
I agree with you, but that's ultimately what this survey is about - how you weigh salary against professional growth, autonomy etc.
Explains why they always make electronic voting blackboxes instead of an open source blockchain.
If Quebec were only using their policy to attract immigrants to Quebec, I don't think any other provinces would have an issue with it.
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Mr. Barr,

Unfortunately such a mechanism requires that we trust the government. That trust was broken with the Revelations from Snowden.

For now, the average citizen fears the government more than criminals and this is the easy calculation folks are making and will continue to make at the ballot box.

-An American
There's a specific case in France, where most developpers I know don't have a proper "CS degree" but have a more generalist "engineering diploma".

I can even speak for myself. I didn't learn to code at school much , did some bash and C here and there but that was not the point of my study. We mostly had math, physics and electronic-oriented courses and more precisely in my case a lot of telecommunication courses.

Still, for a first programming job, engineers (as in those with an engineering school diploma) are often preferred to people with a CS degree, which did a lot more programming that we did.

I would guess that it mostly has to do with the reputation of both the schools and the students from there. When it comes to STEM, engineering school is seen as much more prestigious than studying in a university. Young people with higher grades wishing to make a career in programming more often than not tend to choose the former over the latter - even if it means less focused courses.

And yet having said all that, I wouldn't say that french developpers are worse in any way than developpers from other places. Even if most of us learn to truly program at our first job.

I'm not at all saying that a CS degree has no point, but as long as you have the minimum knowledge about the field when starting, it's very efficient to learn on the job the specificities.
Government-mandated backdoors seem more likely to enable terrorist attacks than prevent them, honestly.
https://www.fast.ai/2018/07/02/adam-weight-decay/
Before you chuck your chequebook away triple-check that super-handy digital coin
Your article is a fluff PR piece for your business.
It's 2019 and you can still pwn an iPhone with a website
Most people can sit through a movie. It's no longer the case, but I've had jobs in which that sort of toilet activity would have been sharply criticized. I guess I was visualizing the sort of plane in which one can't stand up straight, although as observed elsewhere ITT those planes wouldn't have three seats together. Perhaps it would also be an improvement to stagger a two-seat row?
Everybody should be shaking their trees...
> I wonder how many of these extraordinary leak prevention measures would be necessary if Apple manufactured their devices in the US or Europe?

One of the huge economic benefits of standardized, lockable, shipping containers is that rates of products "walking away" on the dock dropped dramatically.

Shipping companies used to just expect a certain % loss from outright theft from dockworkers. Indeed it was considered to be "one of the perks of the job."

> Also I'm fully willing to believe that US authorities would prosecute the crap out of someone stealing from Apple, whereas in China the penalty seems to be that you lose your crappy sweatshop job and have to walk across the street to get a new one.

Assuming the person gets caught, or that they are worth prosecuting. Individual factory line workers, not so much. Throwing a minimum wage worker[1] in jail is a minimal deterrent giving to the potential financial upside. People higher up can just get industry black listed, the community of people making high end consumer electronics is rather very small. (The number of people working on CE is in the tens of thousands+, but the key senior engineers who "make things happen" are fewer in number, and tend to move around a lot between the big players.)

It can be even worse when a partner company leaks. If there are only two suppliers who can provide a part (not uncommon) then you cannot blacklist a supplier who leaked for very long, you'll have to come back around and do business with them again sooner or later, or just accept paying whatever price the other supplier wants to charge.

[1] A lot of electronics factory jobs are not crappy sweat shop jobs, many of the workers are trained technicians who work hand in hand with American engineers to build products. If you ever do manufacturing in China you'll run into the problem of after Chinese New Year the workers will want to bargain to come back to work, or they'll take their skills to another factory that will pay better. The idea that Chinese workers are unskilled trained drones needs to go away.
>Fascism is on the rise in America

How would one even go about quantifying this?
Oh man, I read the article, and I really identify with what you also say: I'm now in a position where I'm pretty good at my job, and my employer is keen to give me a permanent position.

And yet, whilst it's fun to be able to answer questions on the spot, regarding my area of expertise, I'm looking forward to learning more.

Now, I learnt a lot on this job, and it's very challenging on a daily basis, but it's becoming repetitive, and having talk to management, they could not tell me how they see me/my position evolving in the next 6 months/1 year/2 years.
And that makes me longing for another job...
Companies’ emails are a security nightmare
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Having been in the military, any civilian company is going to have a vastly different experience than the military. In the military, hierarchies are regimented (unsurprisingly, as regiment is a unit in the military). Corporate hierarchies are not as clear or as easy to navigate.
Note that you provided reasons as to why having debit/credit card information stolen isn't such a big deal, if you get protection from fraudulent transactions, but haven't provided any reasons as to why Google targeting ads based on some profile they built on you is worse than that.
Indeed.

Part of the issue is that 'humanity' is divided by borders, and countries do not generally share information and capabilities freely. So the fact that the US has achieved something means very little to other countries beyond 'this is possible to do'. Doing it themselves may still be a significant milestone in their own industrial development.

I wish it were otherwise, but I have a horrible feeling that the only workable alternative is a single global government, which I'm not convinced is a better option in the long run...
Note if it wasn't for the alt-health fear of vaccinations, we would have a safe and effective vaccine for Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/

So now you get people sick from Lyme going to alt-health practitioners who prevented them from preventing themselves from getting the disease.
It's two bits, DAZ and FTZ. (seems like "denormals are zero" and "flush to zero")

Bfloat16 obviously can handle denormals. The encoding is possible. There would be no need to handle the issue if the encoding did not exist.

As hex, these would be denormal: 0x0001 to 0x0080, and 0x8001 to 0x8080. It's the same as plain old 32-bit IEEE, with half the bits lopped off.

ML is all about difficulties with reproducibility. I don't see a reason to get upset about denormals when a 3D-printed turtle can be confused with a rifle.
UK cops blasted over 'disproportionate' slurp of years of data
Sounds like someone needs a Conid with the sealed ink reservoir ;)
There are two conjectures here. The first is that 73 is the only number that matches these criteria. The second (as stated by Sheldon) is that meeting the criteria make a number "the best number". The second conjecture... let's just call that "unproven".
I made this comment in a previous thread, but I think it applies here as well:

If you ask the government to do something impossible, such as provide COMPLETE safety and security, they will try to do that. I think the news media bears some responsibility in this regard, as they always blame or call out whatever agency that fails to maintain safety and security, thus leading to severe measures to try to mitigate the previous failure.
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We could try, but I doubt it would have much effect—humans are always going to react to names. Also, we're leery of making too long a list of disallowed things, since making it longer dilutes it. Better to argue from first principles.

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20508860.)
Depends on what you're covered in. A hazmat suit--probably not, but otherwise yes. One trick is tuck your pants into your socks and coat your clothes in pyrethrin.
> Of course, nothing stops you, a hacker, from using non-backdoored encryption, but government is fine with that, as long as Google, Apple, Facebook etc. are forced to use backdoors.

Which just goes to show that this isn't actually about catching hardened criminals (who will just use non-backdoored encryption, either alone or layered on top of the compromised channels) but rather about enabling pervasive surveillance of ordinary citizens.
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They couldn't hoard a quarter trillion dollars while doing it. It would be a nightmare if they only had a hundred and fifty billion to tide them over until their next big thing.
It has not been very long since CS degrees were taught entirely in C89 or C++98, and there are a lot of us who won't touch Python or Java unless forced to.
That headline seems inaccurate -- I was surprised when it seemed to point to "sonic attacks" being the definitive cause of the brain abnormality, but it's not:

“The study supports the validity of the patients report of symptoms, but doesn’t answer the question of whether they have had a brain injury or not or whether the exposure they report is relevant."

So something happened, but no one knows what caused it.
Everything was made from scratch, and it was literally only 20% more than a similar off the shelf shirt at Macy's. I paid $85 at Macy's for a Michael Kors dress shirt which fit me pretty okay. My tailor charges me $110 for a shirt, and it's bespoke. $125 if I want contrast stitching on the top buttonhole and my initials monogrammed on the cuff.
A new copyright proposal would protect designers online – but at what cost?
depth of object is impressive - coul make an interesting documentary
If you want growth as a programmer, you need to learn how to see the business model of the company you are applying to and how your work integrates into it.

It wouldn't be very wise to expect growth if your job is to keep a legacy system running on the minimum possible budget. Or to maintain a "leave us your email" website where the business is all about sales talking to the prospects and all they need from the devs is to make certain a database entry gets created when a user clicks "submit".

You could expect growth if your job is about finding efficient ways to solve a business pain. Or creating a model that makes it easier to understand and navigate domain-specific data. Or anything else where the decisions you make affect how much the paying customers will appreciate the product.

Unfortunately, most developers don't want to go into that domain, and so most of the developer jobs focus on pretty much CRUD where "growth" could at best mean learning a new framework that will get obsoleted in a few years anyway.
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Where can I learn more about the rename() trick not being safe?

I was also (incorrectly) assuming that renaming a file after having fsynced the contents is a valid mechanism to perform "atomic" file writes where the write either appears completely at the destination path, creates a zero byte file or does not happen at all. But it should never produce an "incorrect" non-zero byte file - even in the face of crashes.

It is definitely something that is used in the wild so it was surprising to me that it is not correct. I even found a recent LWN article suggesting otherwise, so there seems to be a lot of confusion on this topic.

Would love to learn more if anybody has detailed infos or a link to the relevant mailing list thread or similar.

EDIT: Glibc documentation also implies that the "rename trick" is indeed safe:

From https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Renaming-...

> One useful feature of rename is that the meaning of newname changes “atomically” from any previously existing file by that name to its new meaning (i.e., the file that was called oldname). There is no instant at which newname is non-existent “in between” the old meaning and the new meaning. If there is a system crash during the operation, it is possible for both names to still exist; but newname will always be intact if it exists at all.

Another relevant source that suggests the trick is safe is https://lwn.net/Articles/327601/. Keep in mind that Ted Tso is the ext4 maintainer.

> For the longer term, Ted asked: should the above-described fixes become a part of the filesystem policy for Linux? In other words, should application developers be assured that they'll be able to write a file, rename it on top of another file, omit fsync(), and not encounter zero-length files after a crash? The answer turns out to be "yes," but first Ted presented his other long-term ideas.
In my experience they prefer to get under clothing, especially in tight spaces like between you and the waistband of your underwear, or a hatband, etc. They’re small and light enough that it’s hard to perceive the difference between a tick and your clothing rubbing against your body when they’re moving.
1 gallon of gas in my state is currently between $3.50 and $4. 40 miles each way is 80 miles total. The guy from the article will save money by driving his truck instead of using a VPN, but only if he goes shopping once a month, and his truck gets over 80mpg (miles per gallon). This way, he spends exactly that one gallon over the whole trip, which will conveniently make the gas expenses equal to the monthly price of a VPN (not even counting the wear and tear on the car, but that’s another story).

To demonstrate how implausible this is:

* Toyota Prius (hybrid) - 50/53mpg

* Honda Accord (entry level sedan) - 30/38mpg

* Ford F150 (small pickup truck) - 20/26mpg

And that’s only for the latest year models. If his truck is 10+ years old or larger than F150, expect mpg to be way more disastrous.
A OTP is extremely easy to use for a terror network (just distribute several GB of pad on a thumb drive, have a shared secret for pad generation, etc) and completely unbreakable in the perfect use case, and feasibly unbreakable before an attack in the lazy-use case.

Just because they opted to go with low-hanging fruit doesn't mean the fruit needs to be low-hanging for them to make use of it.
Like Kristallnacht?
Judge allows suit against AT&T after $24M cryptocurrency theft
> It is fair to assume that the general public knows very little about how many dreadful criminal activities they were able to avoid because they could tap into some conversations early on

Aren't the ones we hear of are the ones where the FBI set the whole scenario up?
I'm not a Sublime expert but: great Git integration, database management, Xdebug handling, all those extensions (the Symfony extension is basically magic, and that is just scratching the surface), I could go on.