skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Various species (specifically the brown dog tick) are all along the west coast from California to British Columbia.

In this study it mentioned the Lone Star tick specifically though ("In the United States, the condition most often begins when a Lone Star tick bites someone"), and apparently it's not present in either of those states or Canada as far as I or the internet appears to know.

I guess it comes down to your risk aversion - assuming it can come from any tick, there's no 'safe' place to hike in most of North America. Personally I've been outdoors a lot all of my 35 years and ticks haven't been an issue here on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The Pacific Northwest is probably safe enough.

As someone else mentioned, being outside and exercising is well worth the risk pretty much anywhere. Just be cognizant of the risk, check yourself and hiking partners if you're in a high risk area, etc.
I’m sorry compared to the US? SE Asia did multiple orders of magnitude better. The worst in South America were on par with the US
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A troll and trolling were already being misused back in the early 90s on Usenet and MUDs. That ship has sailed.
I would imagine this would have a weird effect on land values if enacted. People couldn't afford such a large tax, so prices would generally go down. Since the value of the structure won't go down (because that's based upon cost to build) loss of value would 100% go to the land, which would lower the LVT. But the price to rent wouldn't necessarily go down, since the total ownership cost wouldn't go down.

It obviously would hit an equilibrium at some point but I'm not sure where.
What's happening with Tesla's $7B German 'gigafactory'?
They left out google groups. I’m sorry, groups team, the local baseball teams and HOAs see you.
In regards to restrictions, Go just flights under the radar by being on GitHub.

Ask the developers on countries with blocked access due to US sanctions how they get to use Go without workarounds.

Go was written by two of UNIX people as better C, not as a cross platform tool. In fact there are still language features missing from Windows support.

Java always felt at home in Solaris thought.

Docker isn't that relevant on my Java projects, it is only used in projects where customers want to feel modern or already have it as part of their workflow regardless of the technology stack.

I am pretty much 99% of the time on VM + scripting world.
Linus took a couple of weeks... Just sayin' ;)
I replaced my laptop with HDD with SSD and Win10 is usable again. Did the same with my 2011 Desktop.
You do you. The rest of us don't like a healthcare system that REQUIRES me to have full time employment, routinely bankrupts, gets specialist appointments after months and causes intense mental stress.

I'll happily trade a lifetime of servitude for 2 months delay in vaccination.
I'm also interested. When learning to program I just found projects and learned how to write software for them. It didn't matter if it already existed, I just wrote my own implementation and became very good. Does something like this, with a guided tour starting from ~Calc 1 exist?
There's already third party tools (0) to disable those mitigations in windows. I suspect the small barrier to entry of needing to use a search engine is enough to keep the risk minimized to the general population. Hopefully only people who are knowledgeable of and willing to accept the risk use this.

0: https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm
I am pro-vaccines but let’s be honest, no physician has any clue how these things work or are put together, the manufacturing and QA processes involved, and so on. The lipid delivery mechanism alone is a trade secret based on cutting edge technology which has yet to be replicated outside the United States and Europe.

Asking your doctor specifics about this is like asking Geek Squad how to do kernel development. They operate in completely different knowledge domains.
The Sino-British declaration was, in historical terms, a way for the UK to save face more than anything else.

It doesn't actually turn for example the free press clause into a nullity, it just means there is a conflict and one supercedes the other. It's not uncommon in law. If Apple Daily and Jimmy Lai had no contact at all with foreign agents, it would have applied unambiguously.

So clearly it doesn't turn it into a nullity, it just limits it.

Beyond that, fundamentally, the law was negotiated by the UK from a position of massive weakness, as they militarily simply could not hold Hong Kong, and legally wouldn't be able to supply it either. It is expected that debilitating clauses are included.

One such clause is that China has total sovereignty in anything that concerns foreign affairs or defence.
I tried interviewing at a couple of FAANGs without the prescribed 'leetcoding' prep work. And failed each time. I see my career as being pretty successful despite those failures, I'm not bitter about the interviews. I believe that passing these tests sends a strong positive signal. Failing the tests send a mild negative signal. But if you're paying top dollar you can afford false negatives especially if you can preserve as many true positives as possible.

If there's a downside it's probably that they are stacking their deck with extreme outliers. Maybe this process ends up selecting undesirable qualities not tested in interviews.

All that said, this was an entertaining read.
People are steadily getting out of poverty [1], living longer [2], can afford more and more education [3]. Things like access to drinking water [4] and electricity [5] are also improving.

So, yes, world in theese important ways is better than ever before now. And imagining future is needed to continue making it better.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-populatio...
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?time=1946...
[3] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/mean-years-of-schooling-l...
[4] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-population-w...
[5] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-population-w...
China has approximately 300 nuclear warheads total. If they used 50 per carrier, they'ed still have half a dozen supercarriers to deal with, and now the American nuclear retaliation as well.

And 50 warheads might not even do it - naval ships are hardened structures, a carrier could likely survive a detonation within about 3 km for even the largest weapons in chinese inventories, and perhaps within hundreds of meters for a more realistic tactical weapon. 50 missiles each with 200 kt warheads would be able to clear an area roughly 30 km in radius, which a carrier could likely escape in about half an hour. Using 300 5Mt warheads, you'd need to know the position within 85 km, which it could travel in about 90 minutes, which is coincidentally about how long it takes for a spy satellite to complete an orbit.

Carriers are big, but oceans are really really big. Way too big for a brute force solution.
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I consistently see people citing SQLite as one of the "best source codes" out there. What makes it so great?
As always, the truth is at the bottom on HN.
HN is often awfully quiet when authoritarianism is practiced by non-superpower countries. If you think the big Asian economic powers are paternalistic, then I doubt you will find SE Asia to be to your liking. Do not mistake the rose tinted glamour of tourism and sunny beaches of nations in that region as sharing the same values as your typical western nation. Digital nomads and tax havens do not a manifest destiny make.
Sort of like MacOS, every update added more features and slowed it down.

The special effects slow it down, you can disable them:
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/easy-ways-to-speed-up-windows-10...
Just for future reference, this seems to be the best source of information on the RYB color model:

http://vis.computer.org/vis2004/DVD/infovis/papers/gossett.p...

They use fully saturated red and yellow, but blue is rgb(42,95,153)
DEET on skin and permethrin on clothing and shoes is more effective. With the right kind of clothing and thorough permethrin treatment, any ticks that get on you will be dead before they find their way past the clothing to bite your skin. Just don't use it on skin, and keep it away from your cats. DEET can also do nasty things to clothing made from synthetic fibers, which are generally some of the best clothing choices for hiking.
> Yeah, the ethics would be tough

What sort of ethical issues are you thinking? I would have thought higher grade meals than you'd find in a standard prison would entice all the volunteers you could want. There's probably other groups were some good quality meals would be just as enticing, like college students.

A bigger practical issue in prisons would be things like the high prevalence of hepatitis and drug use along with all the confounding factors (like poverty) that lead them to end up in prison.
Indeed, but it is far more complex than that. William Spanial (prof) has a full course on Nuclear Proliferation that's on-going on YT, I highly recommend academic and rigorious take on this topic than the random hoo haa on the internet: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKI1h_nAkaQqivWh2_XEt...
It is a kinda fancy / highfalutin way of saying that. Partly because the article is intended to be somewhat pithy. But splitting it into layers (say, substrate) helped me think about the parts involved, how they needed to build upon the layer below, and work together to have a chance of pulling it off.
Which service do you use for CalDAV / CardDAV? I've been trying to migrate from a gmail account to my own personal domain, but my current provider doesn't support those so I want to move on to someone else.

The thing that annoys me most is that (as far as I can tell) only the big name providers have integrated mail/caldav/carddav, if you use a bring-your-own-domain solution they need to be added as 3 separate accounts (at least on iOS/macOS).
"Finally" seems a bit myopic. The war against latency has been going on continuously since the beginning, even in gaming. Check out nearly any content John Carmack has ever written or spoken on the topic of gaming or VR, just as one example.
Spectre and meltdown aren’t often used because of the mitigations in modern operating systems. The attacks are complex and the chance of finding a vulnerable machine is low. But if instead windows users were all vulnerable, you bet all sorts of scammy websites would go after these vulnerabilities.

And the attacks are really bad - they can read arbitrary memory. What are the chances another browser tab has a bank website open with active auth cookies, or a valuable email account? Really really high.
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Isn't that kind of a ridiculous example? Most people in this forum would never have the desire to steal from poor old people. So if someone does, it's a really disturbing sign that goes beyond the crime itself. Of course you'd think twice about meeting that person for lunch.

But sexual relationships are scarce (in the economic sense of the word "scarce") even among the well-to-do. Especially young adults, who have the greatest desire. So there's a lot more temptation. Furthermore, it's much harder to draw clear boundaries because of the complexities of flirting. Add in alcohol and poor communication, and there is a real risk that otherwise good people do some things that look pretty bad after the fact.

Yes, people should behave. We should quickly put a stop to these transgressions before they escalate. And we should acknowledge that they may cause real harm to others and that some punishment may be warranted.

I'm just saying that the friend you have that is accused of some bad stuff -- it's OK to not take sides. You don't have to defend them or anything, but it's OK to treat them like a normal human being. Because they probably are.

But the software engineer that steals from poor old people is not a normal human, and it's totally reasonable to ghost them.
I agree with your ethos; too often poor science, regardless of kind, is being passed as "soft" or "applied" scientific research.

That said, I do think even noisy studies (noisy as in inaccurate measurements) like this at least show that there is no glaring big correlation between, say, low-carb diet and mortality. If low-carb diet people started to die decades younger than average, then even noisy studies would show. In this sense, studies like this have some value, albeit little.
For those worried about sea life, it looks like the Navy have SOPs in place for shock trials to prevent/minimize harm to marine mammals and sea turtles

https://www.whoi.edu/cms/files/Shock20Trials_46705.pdf
Some people prefer to go back to the office. Some other people prefer to keep working from home. That's fine, everyone has his preferences and his own situation (commute time, friends at work vs just coworkers, making your own food vs catered food, etc).

Luckily, we can switch jobs easily in this industry. Just go and join a company that suits your preference.

I'm already remote, but I'd definitely switch if my company forced me to go back. There's plenty of opportunities out there and life is too short.

If your company wants you to go back, fuck them. Go and look for something else.
If your company goes full remote and you miss your coworkers, fuck them, go and look for something else. Meet your ex-coworkers after work at a pub.
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I mostly embraced my misanthropy as time goes on. I’m seeing little evidence to the contrary. Trumpers, woke culture, influencers, ccp, etc. It’s fine, don’t fight it. People in groups are kind of disappointing, so I usually look for individuals that are worth a shit (but even there, certainly not bending over backwards).
I could come up with a dozen forward-leaning SF and technology narratives off the cuff, and I bet you can too. In fact, many authors have already done this and continue to publish great speculative fiction.

I think the problem -- and I speculate here -- is that the US media machine enjoys the downtrodden narrative. There's limited room at the top, and they're funding what they like. Not always necessarily what sells.

I don't think science fiction would fail to sell. I would certainly consume it. You would. Look at Star Wars and other popular science fiction. Dune. The problem is that nobody seems to want to film this stuff at volume. We're in a supply side drought.

I blame Hollywood for not funding their dreamers. They'd rather make depressing shit that tells people they can't reach the stars. Today's films are more gritty and human, but they're so stifling and boxed in.

(fwiw, I'm personally trying to change this, but it's a tough road ahead. I can't stand the lack of good fantasy and science fiction.)
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Of course not. They save a lot of time if you know how to use them properly. Load it up tightly but without blocking the water spouts on the bottom and top, then load up detergent on BOTH slits (one big hole, and a smaller one for pre-wash), then warm up the water by opening the tap for a bit, and then press start with appropriate settings. It saves hours and hours of washing for me.
I was waiting for the part that the story twists and tells us the positive things… it didn’t happen.

It’s a good point about how we’re currently paying for pension and welfare systems we’ll never get to participate in.
I'm immediately skeptical of anyone who describe their criticism of a study as a "takedown"
It’s aimless because we (I’m assuming American) have decided to drop the one thing public schools were actually designed for: creating citizens that share a common national identity based on having learned the same things and values. It’s a tool of nationalism, and when you forget or willfully expunge that half of public schools (the other half being the creation of a populace that is decently educated enough to engage in civic society), shit starts to look pointless.

Edit: As an example of this, most Americans can recite both the pledge of allegiance and a canon of children’s rhymes — yankee doodle, mary had a little lamb, etc. Knowledge of which act as an immediate shibboleth to others that you on some level grew up American.
What are suggested online courses to learn about multi variable time series forecasting? My skill level is - ok with university level Biometrics but that was 10+ years ago, and I am web/self-taught python for web apps and automating GIS tasks.
> Everybody read history knows current Switzerland is a very unique outlier.

Correct. But I cannot see how it supports this part that you started with:

> What? This is a totally nonsensical response.
The nice thing about prime real estate is that the supply is relatively limited compared to manufactured goods. Letting any noticeable concentration of ownership occur will be a pretty bad thing. Oligopoly will be just as bad as monopoly.
FARA in the US would allow for unlimited fines and a five year jail term. So yes, they could completely financially deprive the organization.

The US may have a robust legal system, but in the case of FARA this is completely undermined by the executive branch. What the US gains in judicial independence, it loses in sélective enforcement. The end result is that the US government can selectively shut down foreign agents and jail them, just like the Chinese government.

There's no need to compromise the judiciary when the law is there black on white, by doing what Jimmy Lai allegedly did in the US without disclosing it beforehand, you can go to jail for years. It's just that it's so selectively enforced that you could arrest a random BBC journalist for the exact same reasons.
> I almost purely saw the posts from the most active people I followed

I'm very careful to select people to follow who won't drown out my timeline. Sometimes I come across someone with interesting content, but they tweet several dozen times a day, so I just don't follow them.
I misspoke and used cliff as the length of the grant instead of when it started vesting. Short cliffs are good, some companies are starting to vest equity grants immediately. I haven't heard of a two year cliff.

Some companies are also doing one year grants instead of four year grants, like Stripe. That's costing employees a lot of money.
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Shallow 3D definitely has a lot of potential. Not everything needs to be ILM effects - even in the long term. Sometimes buttons & text are all you need.
I'm very happy with the Facebook web UI on mobile. It's pretty much broken for me, so I can't waste my time there.

For example, the main hamburger menu doesn't work at all on my iPhone 7.
Just a question of _whose_ ownership, eh?
This is wild - thanks for putting the video together, it’s very cool.
Blog post without new ideas or analysis. The closest thing it has to actual data is a (unlinked, plain-text) list of pop history books, dumped on the reader without summary or context. Overuses dramatic spacing every third paragraph. Lumps all higher education into a single category. Fails to interrogate the problems presented or to suggest solutions, beside "vote, educate ourselves and others, and stop spreading lies." Overall, disappointing and a waste of time.
Tools like Twitter have turned into an outrage sharing machine, perhaps unintentionally. Everything is a snippet, a short context and evidence free photo or video followed by lots of anonymous outrage.

There is also this virtual lynching on such platforms of often unlucky people without any due process, very primal. It's addictive but not healthy.
Yes it's very optimized so single person can handle operation, but I prefer to have at least two for backup and safety.
The author seems to have forgotten about YouTube Messages:

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/12446824/heads-up-...
FARA would allow the US government to arrest every single reporter, so yes it can force immediate closure without prior judiciary approval.

The US legal system in this case uses extreme selective enforcement. There is no need for it to be corrupted, the executive holds all of the power because it decides who to ignore and who to punish, and indeed it wields this power very selectively. So the end result is the same as if the judicial system was corrupt.
Why did I bother paying rent then? Feels like being fiscally responsible is just a fool’s game here.
I don’t know what you’re arguing against.

The parent comment made a verifiably false statement, I provided video evidence to the contrary.

It may not be carrying out battle manoeuvres in the canal, but it also isn’t immune to threat while it’s there.

I don’t see much reason why it couldn’t operate CWIS or launch missiles or aircraft while it’s there if necessary.

They could also serve at least some of their other, non-war, support functions while in shallow waters.
Err, I guess you'd be repulsed at what some society's did to make sure they had enough oil to light their lamps back in the day...
I agree. I’m never leaving my mom’s basement. Too scary out there.
Internet culture seemed to change pretty rapidly like 8ish years ago? Trolling took in its own new definition. So did meme, it bothers me a little that meme became an image with white text on it. Watching it evolve from a dog with a rainbow background to what it became today was interesting in a way
Looool. Zing. I’d absolutely trust pretty much any company more than google on that front.
You can also buy a bag and a tiny plastic sprouter and rotate your own - water, seeds, and a few trays live on my counter and I can have fresh sprouts every day (take about 5 days to grow and I have four containers so one day off.)
I feel they missed out massively in not centralising the communications standards.

Not sure if this was realistic or the new products were trying to create whole new tech that stopped this but when they saw different directions some core standards for interoperability would have helped. So if you had Hangouts and I had Allo we could still chat as least in the most standard was of voice/video/message. Proliferation would have mattered less and the product teams could have focused on UX/ new features/brand separately to their hearts content.

It would also help people try platforms cause I I could swap to the latest and greatest but still chat to my contacts Id be more willing to try vs trying to drag people across to a new platform.
I tested it too, and ended up generating an 1000 km route without a problem. It was giving me "Ending point too far from nearest road" - until I figured out that the problem was the missing maps. As long as you have at least the road map downloaded for the whole route, it does the job.
That’s wild. I remember when windows XP came out I was amazed it was so large. The OS was 300 megabytes or something - and it took up a significant portion of my computer’s hard drive. Despite all of Microsoft’s claims about “media enhancements” it seemed horribly bloated and ugly. It was the embarrassing stepchild of windows 2000 - which I still adore. How times have changed!
As alluded to in another reply, it is a bit of a BS term!

But it’s also not totally unfair. I think much of the metaverse & AR ecosystem doesn’t have great terminology.

I mean ‘slap some goggles on and touch floaty doo-hickeys that you see but they aren’t really there’ doesn’t quite have the same curb appeal…
How often was she eating beef before mid 2009? Thanks and sorry that you all went through this.
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I think that thread was about USA specifically. It compares past American production with current.
I just looked up "tongfang ryzen" in a generic search engine since I knew they had some affordable options. I think I learned about the laptops via Tuxedo Computers; someone on IRC later told me that those Tuxedo models were re-branded Tongfangs.