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In a trivial way, logical gates (AND, OR, etc) are conditionals. So, we need these gates to build any logical expressions. And many problems can be reduced to satisfiability, etc.
Thats what physical buttons are for
It's odd how people on the spectrum supposedly struggle to pick up on unspoken rules to fit in & empathize, meanwhile people not on the spectrum show just as much inability to recognize these context free logical processes in order to empathize with people on the spectrum

Put someone not on a spectrum in a society of people on the spectrum, & you'd be labelling the person not on the spectrum as having a mental disorder. Who the hell asks questions they don't want the answers to?
> Git will let you blow away a month's work if you mistype a command.

No, it won't. It's much harder to lose work in Git than you think. But really, if your remote repository is setup correctly with protected branches, this should never happen.
If anything, the prevalence of Lyme should promote gun-related activities to hunt the huge deer populations in Lyme-heavy areas! OP is way off base I think...
True, I just amended my initial comment to reflect the fact that GitHub is not as bad as I made it look like, but the second class citizen point still stands, even if some workaround like "throw away the TOTP" is applied.
I'm absolutely never bitten by mosquitoes, but all the time by ticks :(
These are descendants from a chaste (or chastes) specially dedicated to carry messages across long distances in the mezo-american empires, namely the Inca.
Correct. And all research points towards the earlier she gets support the better. Early meaning by 18 months or so.
Sounds like you had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, I had the same symptoms and my doctor immediately put me on antibiotics. A few weeks later my blood tests came back with traces amounts of RMSF. It was the worst I've ever felt.
My girlfriend was recently possibly diagnosed with MS. I say possibly because the doctor isn't confident - he put it at about 75% likely it's MS - but has no other answers to her symptoms which include numbness that started in her feet and eventually went up to her thighs that lasted for ~2 weeks, as well Barber's Chair Syndrome, and Retinal Vasculitis.

All 3 symptoms have since faded away, and the MRI's weren't conclusive enough to say it was MS, so the doctor is at a loss and working to get her set up with more tests.

What's interesting is she found a tick on her about a year ago, but the Lyme results came back negative. It may be MS but the doctor seems to have enough doubt that I've often wondered if it might be Lyme or something else.
Happened to me. What I did was go into the office and constantly talk to the vp's and ceo. Not about anything important really boring weather/how are you doing? The more removed the person from my department the more
I would go out of my way to talk to them. Start asking difficult questions at the all staff forums. Always threw in doubts in meetings with non-tech people.

I asked for a special chair for my back. Started challenging our processes.

Funny thing happened. People started to see me as an important person.. an expert. I started to work from home again slowly.. then never came back. A year later others were encouraged to wfh because of office space concerns.

Get in there and make sure they regret pulling you back. Show your face everywhere. Make your voice heard. Take on all issues and then drop them.
Updates: the total js file is around 66KB now https://github.com/timqian/chart.xkcd/pull/7
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I'd rather do that than use a buggy filesystem!
I agree it's serious (I've had Lyme disease and so have family members), and there are problems with positively identifying symptoms, but I don't get what this article is asking for?

The author herself quotes:

> For ticks, “proven and scalable control measures do not exist,” wrote three officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2018.

She ends with "Prevention efforts have failed. Do the work on ticks."

But do what work? She just admitted measures don't exist.

Is she asking for an order of magnitude more funding? New research approaches? Are there even any promising solutions we haven't tried? Or is she just asking for magic?

For someone demanding change, it feels disingenuous to not even give a cursory description of what the current obstacles are or potential avenues for addressing them.
The problem, as I understand it, was filenames were read and written as bytes. That's fine if everybody is on the same platform but it doesn't always work when moving between, for example, Linux (UTF-8) and Windows (UTF-16).

I don't know if that's still an issue.
Yes, (basic DEET spray, and 'Muskoil')but this was before I learned about Permethrin.
I now use that religiously.
>It's also not really accurate to say it's rendered twice

Not sure if we're on same boat here :). By rendered twice I mean:

Let's imagine we use React and some store management like redux.

1. Visit some SSR rendered site. Browser receives html (which represents some initial state of an app - rendered by the server)

2. Browser fetches some json representing initial state (hydration). It's the same state that server used for rendering html.

3. State atom was null in step 1. and changed to some initial state in step 2, which basically means full rerender (second) of an app.
Easy to write it on HN until you're in the situation.
I've been WFH for about 6 years.

I enjoy the trust I am given to get work done that I promise to get done. I'm in a different TZ, so I enjoy the quiet time I get when the others on the team aren't working. However, as hard as we try, I still miss conversations that happen away from a computer or phone. Also, I do sometimes miss working in person with the people I work with. Finally, I do miss having a proper lab. I look around at the RF equipment laying around my home office and get a bit depressed.

Remote work works. Anyone who says it doesn't has an agenda. Like non-remote work, you just have to hire the right people.
True agile teams never need to do backlog grooming. If a team has a backlog which is so big that it needs grooming, then they are not agile. An agile team build something, releases it to its users, and afterwards react to the immediate feedback/next important request.

Teams which constantly re-prioritise items which some fake product manager came up with a few months ago is not agile.
>Surely you're not arguing that these ultra-marathons aren't niche compared

The speed advantage men have, and I never said they didn't, is lost/leveled over distance, so to dismiss these longer races where women can and will filter to the top is odd when making a point about men's superiority. Do less people run them, sure, does that make them niche? No, thousands of people still run Ultra's, its not like we are talking about 1 trained woman and a bunch of untrained men.

>It seems like a bad-faith argument to assume the person you first responded to is belittling the races just because women can and do win them, rather than because they get MUCH less publicity/interest.

"And that only happens in niche races (niche being every race longer than a marathon..."

I don't think it is bad-faith to interpret the post as saying, men are better than women, but acknowledge women do sometimes beat men (statistically more likely in longer races), but then broad brush stroke those wins as "only in" niche races. But I'm not going to get stuck in debating what is niche, especially when it has now devolved into "more niche than marathons."

Nothing wrong with remaining objective that men do
have a clear speed advantage over women, but that advantage diminishes over long distance, but maybe I am wrong, maybe we should disregard women's wins automatically as niche races.

>No reasonable person is going to suggest a 50K marathon isn't physically way harder than a standard marathon.

People in this thread have.
Large releases of atmospheric sulfuric particulates tend to be highly correlated with mega-droughts in the southern hemisphere and disruption of the African and Indian Monsoons, leading to famine and mass displacement.

Of course, It's very difficult to establish causality, but there's some information about it.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221209471...

climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/GeoengineeringJGR9inPress.pdf

https://archive.org/details/travelsthroughsy02voln/page/n6
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Sir, I wish you long life and godspeed, but my threat model includes acquihire and lost interest ;)

However, I keep talking how we need to avoid monocultures, so I guess it is about time I assume some minor risk.
I explain that I'm working on X, which was conveyed as high priority. And how shall I prioritize this new one?

Many times, it's mentioned so you know about it; not to switch tasks to it.

It's a delicate balance... And it sucks esp if 'everything' is high priority.
It works perfectly fine in my Firefox (68.0.2, currently latest stable). Perhaps GP is running ESR or some other old version.
Yubico's OTP requires you to register your secret on their server and adds a mandatory third party to the authentication process, so it's literally the second worst authentication method a Yubikey supports right after a static password.
What are some "heavy duty" things that are missing in today's tools?
Doom and gloom porn.

You can be certain the people on that sub throw plastic forks into their recycling for someone else to “sort”, drive so inefficiently their foot might as well always be on the brakes, order things from Amazon Prime they could get locally, spray pesticides and fertilizers on their lawn so they’ll have greener grass than their neighbors, make posts supporting climate change summits where everyone shows up in private jets....

Basically I’ve found extremely few people who make climate change their primary issue - walk the walk. They’ll be the first to tell you it’s tankers shipping all over the world of meat production that is the issue - while driving their aluminum and lithium Tesla (both shipped around the world for processing/production) to the store to get a New York steak for dinner and plugging in to their house which is powered by coal. There is no shortage of hypocrisy in this topic but I find it most ironic from the doom and gloomers of course.
Having solar panels, batteries, heat pumps and electric cars could make society quite a lot more resilient to these kind of things.
Is that what the actual spaces of a WeWork are like? I've never done co-location/co-working spaces, only offices. But if they really are open planned, that sounds like a nightmare. Open office plans are bad enough when it's just your team. Sharing one with people from all sorts of different teams? No thank you. So much research out there showing how bad open plans are for productivity and employee happiness.
Deer are not the primary vector for ticks; they are outnumbered by a factor of 10-100 by white-footed mice and other small mammals. Those animals make the tick's lifecycle, well, tick. This is obviously a simplification; for more details, read in full Richard Ostfeld's "Lyme Disease: The Ecology of a Complex System."

The loss of predators is undoubtedly connected, but it seems unlikely mainstream America will want foxes and wolves in their woods again.

https://aspenn.com/lyme-disease-ecology-complex-system-richa...
Ordinary Britons may not be in the 95th to 99th percentile wealth class, but they're in the 90th to 99th percentile. But I don't think that what you're talking about is a question of technology, much less of the internet — it's a matter of deregulation and political alignment, something that is coming to an end with Brexit. Aviation technology advanced in leaps and bounds from the 1890s to the 1960s and has only improved incrementally since 1970. (And of course we no longer have Concorde at any price.)
I think you're tripping on the details of what I said -- and I'll edit-- rather than the actual point.

The point is, these kinds of soft asks -- "Would you?" "Could you?" "Would you like to ...?" -- are understood as firm requests based on the structure of the working relationship between neurotypical people. If an autistic person takes them literally it seeds problems, especially since the request is made in a deferential way-- a rejection of a request in this firm seems more personal and uncooperative by virtue of the context of the manager having made it in a deferential fashion.
Free online sandbox services can expose companies’ confidential documents
Keep in mind that in 2003 China still hadn't figured out how to make small engines with good (enough for western consumers) quality control so everyone and their brother did not have a backup generator. These days things are very different. Many businesses (especially ones that depend on refrigeration) have backup generators now.
Intrinsic made a tool for this for npm: https://medium.com/intrinsic/introducing-package-diff-for-np...
We need a study to tell us that increasing average body mass drives obesity averages more than urbanization?

In related news, eating too much too often is more a cause of weight gain than how much screen time you get.
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Yes, big time, because their natural predators have been reduced along with reduced hunting. See [1] for more details about the deer issue in New York. The tick population in the Northeast is absolutely insane. I went camping in one of the "overabundance" areas in that link and killed no less than 10 ticks crawling on me and ripped another 5 or so out of my skin in about a 24-hour period. Compare this to a similar (well-hunted) forest in Texas where I've spent 5-10 days and seen approximately 3 ticks and been bitten once.

[1]https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/104911.html
Oh, we've certainly lost as a society, but we'll likely survive as a species for a few hundred or thousand years, albeit at vastly reduced population levels. We're scrappy as a species.

We kicked in a climate shift that's triggering an unstoppable mass-extinction event that'll wipe out 99.9% of all species. Historically, recovery from mass extinction events like these take 50 million years for a new ecosystem to develop. We might survive through that, but it's longer than we've even existed as a species so we'll be nothing like what we are now.

I was a Gen X'r. My 9-year-old has started saying that he's Generation Omega - something he picked up from youtube - He believes that he's a member of the last generation (and I think I concur... things will get bad enough that by 2030 or 2040, people won't want to have kids because the death of the ecosystem and civilization will be a lot more obvious and something that impacts their daily life)

In anticipation of this, I moved to a region of Upstate New York that prediction models indicate will handle the climate impacts a little more gracefully. The goal is to build a self-sufficient homestead with longevity and extremes in mind.

Humanity cannot survive as a species like that though. We really need to start thinking of how to build town-sized or city-sized "arcology" habitats while we still have the resources and energy to do so.

Arcologies should be viewed as a backup plan to trying to save the planet. A sort of civilization time-capsule. If we fail to save our ecosystem and climate, then arcologies could provide a shelter for a few million people for a few thousand years while we figure out what to do next (engineering our biology to handle the environmental changes? terraforming? going off planet? expanding underground? engineering a new ecosystem?).

Sadly, arcologies are too expensive and would take so long to build that they're politically untenable with governments that either don't believe in climate change, or change every 4 years. Norway could probably do it with 25% of their Sovereign Wealth Fund.

I know it's fatalistic, but I honestly only see our chance of survival at this point is if someone cracks inexpensive and easy fusion power. With that, we could power a lot of carbon sequestration concepts that are just currently impractical. That, or a benevolent AI that takes over and forces a lot of uncomfortable changes to our society "for our own good"
Regus (IWG) have been doing this for nearly 20 years. Apart from the slightly funkier interior decoration, what's the big difference?
As the article states, once automation hits a rural area, people there spend less energy than in cities.

Very much observable in the US, where rural and suburban population never WALKS. You need to supply artificial sources of movement (aka sports) to make up for the delta.

In cities, you walk more by default - your baseline energy expenditure is higher. Take the stairs to the subway, walk to work, get out for lunch ... all of that counts.

Driving around in your F150 and have everything as a drive through? You're the slob from the movie "Up".
A while back I could go from my apartment's front door to my desk in my office in under 4 minutes if I hustled. That was pretty great. Had to move for family reasons and my commute was almost reaching 2 hours one-way on bad days. Couldn't do it anymore.
This was well written. Sounds like he had less than 24 hours without power but turned the story into a doomsday journal entry.

His note about cell phone towers losing power was scary. Never really thought about that. I usually assume the phones will keep working as long as we can charge them, but I suppose the towers need some juice too.

In our small city, one power line blew down last week and 1/4 of the city was without power for about 6 hours.

I'm baffled at the lack of redundancy.

I have more redundancy behind my customers' blogs about their dogs than it appears our city has for keeping electricity flowing to 10K people.

Life without power will be hard to survive. And I fear my neighbors much more than my food spoiling.
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> these aren't taken into account by the IPCC either.

But they are. I know for sure that water vapour is a part of the models.
https://man.sr.ht/billing-faq.md

Sourcehut has accepted no external funding and once the alpha period ends, all accounts must be paid. Even with optional payment, it already turns a profit. I'm pretty confident in the sustainability of the service.

As for me losing interest, the good news is that I need software hosting no matter what I'm working on, so I'll always be working on it. And, since it's open source and patches are welcome, so could you add anything you need.
And they wet through YC :D
This is non-compliant to the USB specifications and potentially dangerous (as in, it could fry your hardware).

You might know what you are doing, but are you sure that's true for everybody who might find and use it in the future?

Please don't buy/produce these things.
It’s worth noting that TOTP secrets are more vulnerable than passwords on the service-provider side.

They have relatively tiny key space (generally 6 digits), so if the provider doesn’t protect against brute-force, it’s quick and easy to slam the whole key space until you win.

They also need the secret in a reversible format, since the service provider has to use the secret to calculate valid codes. So the most common password brute-forcing pathway (theft of a database full of password hashes) is rendered moot: you don’t have to brute-force the hashes because they aren’t hashes, they’re just secrets. At best, the TOTP seeds are encrypted at rest, but since whatever server validates tokens has to decrypt them to do so, most implementations in the wild either don’t encrypt or keep the decryption key right next to the data.
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If you find a reused password, how do you let the user know though? If I got a "your account is vulnerable" message I'd ignore it as junk like all the other ones I get pretty much daily. You could force a change next time the user logs to your interactive interface, but many users won't do that for some time.

The best approach is probably to disable the account completely until an interactive login is made and a password reset can be forced but some would be up in arms about the inconvenience caused: you can't just allow a simple reset as the login could be coming from an attacker not the original user, an extra channel will need to be used to verify the identity. You might just have to leave the account locked forever and expect the user to create a new one - but now you have the old account and its content which may be used as a dependency of many projects which now break, unnecessarily if there hasn't been a login by a nefarious type.
What’s a “real NFC”?

I know they already let certain apps to read pom’s passports. Just a matter setting a standard?
To me, "would you like to" is different than "would you". I would like to get paid to spend 24/7 on vacation, not do another work task, but if you're asking me if I would do something you need done, that's different.
Honest headline "People who choose to work remotely love working remotely."
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It seems like the use-case for streaming music is mostly mobile and almost always with headphones, most of which these days are ear-buds.

So it’s not surprising that most users aren’t interested in lossless or other high-fidelity options.

Meanwhile, I assume most audiophiles with traditional hifi setups would prefer downloads or physical media over streaming.
Interesting point - it's essentially a long lived secret.

Actually what would happen if [large_comapny] had their TOTP secret revealed? Would they be forced to invalidate everyones TOTP? They can't just disable it they would have to somehow authenticate you a third way....
We made the transition from just publishing anything that got submitted to doing much deeper editing. Maybe not the topic you care about but here's an example of what we were able to do with an editorial budget:
https://link.medium.com/uMM1k1cgjZ
There's still one huge disadvantage with hardware-based FIDO U2F tokens: There's no good way to migrate from one to another. I've got three(!) Yubikeys of different generations on my keyring because I'm not sure whether I have enrolled the two newer ones to all the services I'm using.
It works perfectly if you switch to reader-mode.
I really feel this comment. I thought I was the only person that felt this way.
It reads more like a couple of people on the spectrum and then people who decided they have to be on the spectrum.
Ask HN: If a trustworthy foundation had a login service, would you use it?
A big theoretical question here.

I like the convenience of login in with facebook or google, but I feel strongly that my online identity shouldn't be so tightly coupled with a for-profit company. I want to cancel my facebook but it's really hard to do now that I'm using it to log in to ~50-100 sites.

If some big non-profit, open source foundation released a free alternative and it actually was adopted by other services, would you start using it?

Also, another question, what foundations do you find trustworthy today?