skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paper Title:

Loss rates of honey bee colonies during winter 2017/18 in 36 countries participating in the COLOSS survey, including effects of forage sources

Abstract:

This short article presents loss rates of honey bee colonies over winter 2017/18 from 36 countries, including 33 in Europe, from data collected using the standardized COLOSS questionnaire. The 25,363 beekeepers supplying data passing consistency checks in total wintered 544,879 colonies, and reported 26,379 (4.8%, 95% CI 4.7–5.0%) colonies with unsolvable queen problems, 54,525 (10.0%, 95% CI 9.8–10.2%) dead colonies after winter and another 8,220 colonies (1.5%, 95% CI 1.4–1.6%) lost through natural disaster. This gave an overall loss rate of 16.4% (95% CI 16.1–16.6%) of honey bee colonies during winter 2017/18, but this varied greatly from 2.0 to 32.8% between countries. The included map shows relative risks of winter loss at regional level. The analysis using the total data-set confirmed findings from earlier surveys that smaller beekeeping operations with at most 50 colonies suffer significantly higher losses than larger operations (p < .001). Beekeepers migrating their colonies had significantly lower losses than those not migrating (p < .001), a different finding from previous research. Evaluation of six different forage sources as potential risk factors for colony loss indicated that intensive foraging on any of five of these plant sources (Orchards, Oilseed Rape, Maize, Heather and Autumn Forage Crops) was associated with significantly higher winter losses. This finding requires further study and explanation. A table is included giving detailed results of loss rates and the impact of the tested forage sources for each country and overall.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00218839.2019.1...
Ditch the GPS. It’s ruining your brain
I would guess even operating the RCS system could launch some of those loose looking rocks to escape velocity. Imagine blowing on a rock that's been in place for thousands of years and watching it drift into space.
You would want to press criminal charges for a dick pic? I never really understood who that hurt, especially when it is adult to adult. I've had them sent to me before and it never really bothered me.
We need mandatory military service for people 16-20.
Perhaps this has more to do with goals and focus than cost/efficiency. In many tech companies the scarcest resource is man-hours for development/maintenance.

The order of complexity for public cloud/multi-tenant is much higher than for private/single-tenant, especially given the recent onslaught of CPU vulnerabilities.

Still a big loss. I imagine it must feel like a defeat, especially to Bryan, given the corporate culture at Joyent. Open sourcing triton is great, but it still needs hosting for people to use it. Amazon/Google/Microsoft could certainly cut costs if they leveraged bare metal so who knows.
Before this acquisition:
Looker > Tableau > QlikView > Superset (now preset.io)

After this acquisition:
Superset (now preset.io) > Looker > Tableau > QlikView

Now that Looker is owned by a corporation, the innovation is going to diminish. The creative forces will cash out and move on. I think Superset is going to fill the void that these BI corporations leave behind.
It is the cost of daycare and regular living stuff. At least for me with my 2 year old.

- Daycare is 18k per year.

- Extra seat on airplanes, depending on your travel habits could be 2k

- Food, diapers, increased medical premiums might all total around 1500

That's like a 30% pay cut for a lot of people.
When it started it wasn't annoying at all, and is even lower-friction for a blog than github pages. However, they don't have enough of a draw to justify the annoyances/pay wall, and larger blogs leaving will make their value proposition even worse. It isn't that hard/expensive to setup a blog with a static generator like Jekyll or Hugo, the hardest part is migrating off of medium. They do have good SEO, but with freecodecamp & hackernoon leaving I would imagine they will start dropping in rankings.

Edit: For folks who want WYSIWYG editing, even something like the tools namecheap provides or hosted WordPress are very viable options as well, since not everyone will be comfortable with a static site generator.
I think you answered your own question: because it isn't pretty. People like shiny stuff.
Hi Takuya,

Congratulations on the success! Your business is very inspirational to me. Thank you for all the great posts.
> if you've ever been to a middle school or a high school as a student, you know that these surveillance systems are probably already being used to crush innocent dissent.

This may sound hyperbolic to some people (my schools were fine), but it is very true that school administration has a tendency to attract petty authoritarians. Who is easier to rule with an iron fist than powerless children?

I sometimes see things like the laptop spying scandal [0] and realize that I was very lucky to avoid these sorts of people as a kid.

[0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2521075/pennsylvania-s...
'Surveillance capitalism' critic urges Toronto to abandon smart city project
my hp z210 came with 8gb ecc mem, I had I believe it's ddr3 24gb was kind of upset that the hp site said max 16gb (that's not the case) the 24gb ddr3 worked anyway. (hopefully the ram issue helps someone else) yes the mobo died a few months after so that's a downside of used equipment, but the replacement mobo was $30 + an extra $30 in case it happened again. I put a 1050 ti pci-e powered for budget gaming since I'm not made of money, works well and can multitask like crazy. I believe my e3-1270v1 3.4ghz is comparable to my old i5-2500k without the oc capability
> even a layman

Agreed. As far as I remember, the chemical batteries in phones circa 2005 behaved like this: you'd get gradually improving battery life over the first few cycles and then start to experience normal battery deterioration.

So long as nature is paid back its entropy in full it seems to be happy.
The highest utility of liberal democracy is not to maximise efficiency vs an imaginary optimum (see Hayek for why it's imaginary).

It's to lower the expected costs of power transfer from "catastrophic" to "routine".

Ballots, not bullets.
This isn't a single number in TFA that makes sense. $100K was merely "adequate" in 1970? The whole thing is suspect.
Vivendi Games bought them in the late 90s and started trading long-term quality for results. Blizzard North, Diablo creators, were laid off due to slow development of D3 in 2005. Insiders say that the culture shifted slowly towards business and away from caring about games per se. Blizzard's big thing was that they'd innovate and build without fear of costs, famously canceling numerous games (Titan, eg) with no ROI because they felt it just wasn't right.

In 2008, Activision bought Vivendi and took Blizzard along with them. For a while now we've just been seeing the long-term effects of those shorter-term profitability policies. It's sad, but it kind of happened a long time ago.
How could peak democracy be ww2? The only significant democracy in ww2 was the US. British Empire, Soviet Union, Germany, Japan, China, etc were not democracies.

There was the US and everyone else was a non-democratic empire or a colony of the empire.
Right, nothing surprising about having a break-in period.
I bike 6+ miles per day, and several thousand per year. I used to run 10+ miles per week, with periods on the order of 40 miles per week. I'm in pretty good shape.

It's going to be 100 Fahrenheit (40C) next week. It's 93 and rainy today. This will continue to happen regularly from now until September or October.

When I talk, I'm going to sweat, especially where there's no shade or if I walk beyond a slow saunter. Being in shape does nothing to prevent that.
Not really.

That is older adults, 22+.

Their userbase is getting older.
Prefer "was the world's biggest".
I have very little knowledge of astrophysics, but I thought it would be an interesting idea if the universe constantly recycled itself. That is, every so often it collapsed in on itself and produced another big bang. Theoretically some parts of the universe would have already achieved escape velocity, but the rest of it is gradually gravitating towards some center of mass. Is such a thing even feasible?
Merge sort is incredibly practical though, any time you have to sort a data set that doesn't all fit in memory at once. I've used it a couple of times. As you say, it's not that hard.
> You can have zero tolerance for bullying and harassment, without 100 surveillance

You absolutely, positively, cannot have that. Bullying is an all day every day thing with children. Especially boys. The only way you prevent it all the time is to never leave boys alone in a group with no monitoring or supervision.

Edit: If you are downvoting or disagreeing with this, you are part of the absurdly unreasonable expectations we have for our children. Especially boys. And are likely part of the reason 1 in 6 boys are diagnosed with ADHD for not meeting these insane ideals.
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As being a huge topic, federation is planned for Q3/Q4 2020.

I checked cryptpad, but I feel it's really lacking focus on user experience.

About e2e encryption, it's planned for Q4 2019, but collaborative encryption is really not an easy stuff. "Cryptography is a serious matter".
If you are single maybe.

I think of a middle class man being what my old man was. Single income, wife stayed home and he provided for everyone. 4 kids.

Good luck having 2 homes and some porsches with only 500k in the valley supporting a wife and kids
Airdrop is pretty much why I'll never get an android, and believe me those android phones are looking pretty sexy these days!

Still, its a serious social handicap. At least the emojis ALMOST translate to the same things on a lot of non-Apple devices now

Nobody:

Android users: BUT ACTUALLY there's this convoluted way to do it for a whole decade that never works, and look at all this control I have over my device
> When the government does something concrete to boost the infrastructure, I will be the first to applaud.

Yeah building roads and highways at record pace are not concrete enough to boost infrastructure right?

https://www.businesstoday.in/sectors/infra/modi-government-c...

"So far, the incumbent government has constructed a total of 28,531 km national highways since FY 2014-15, contrasting with 16,505 km by the previous government up to FY 2013-14, a clear gain of an astounding 12,026 kms, the Financial Express reported."
> Abundance of ads (or rather partners' offerings) on Google Flight is a fair point, however it's a bit ironic to see this shaming coming from ArsTechnica that itself relies heavily on ad revenue.

It's a news site that has an paid option for an ad-free and tracking-free subscription. I'm not sure how it could be less ironic unless it came from a public news service that has a blanket ban on advertisements. (Do any of those exist?)
London is particularly bad, and one reason is the insane increase for demand in commuting capacity.

I can't find the source, but in 2010 or so, there were about 250k people traveling to London daily for their work. (That figure was 350k in early 2013.) In 2019, there are something like 850k people doing the same.

Even if the numbers were only vaguely there, that still means >200% increase in required commuting capacity in a decade. Don't know if any transport infrastructure could support that kind of expansion.
Due to the mixture of children and adults and eldert, singles and households, it's impossible to correctly combine stats from multiple sources, or even properly understand a single metric.
> I'm going to hold myself back from writing a long post about Rupert Murdoch and Newscorp in Australia

A NewsCorp journalist was the first to be raided.
$15M net worth or $1.5M income. Seems reasonable.
UX Deliverables from a Silicon Valley Agency
Making money is an accomplishment for most people.
CBD Delivery Service LeafyQuick Now Accepts Crypto via CLIC Technology Program
Regarding public bus, many states are currently testing electric buses. I have seen 2-3 in my city, though recent reports indicate the state run transport company is not that happy with the buses since they don't make enough profit or due to charging issues.

This article has a list of all the states that are soing trial runs along with the bus manufacturer's name:

https://www.news18.com/news/auto/modi-governments-big-electr...

Centre seeks proposals for 5,000 electric buses: https://m.economictimes.com/industry/auto/auto-news/centre-s...

BMTC (Bengaluru) working on plan to buy 300 electric buses: https://m.economictimes.com/industry/transportation/roadways...

>After Goa and Delhi, Kerala government has joined the race to dip from Centre’s `4,500-crore FAME-2 ( Faster Adoption & Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles) subsidy pool. The state’s public transport entity KSRTC has floated tenders to lease 1,500 electric buses for 10 years.

https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/kerala-floats-e-bu...
It should be noted that the owner/author of this website (https://thelackthereof.org/ and not the posted PDF) wrote a Perl continuations based web library/framework called Continuity.

- https://thelackthereof.org/Continuity

- https://metacpan.org/pod/Continuity

Shame it is no longer under development. Found it very handy & enjoyable using it for projects in the past (by itself and sometimes with Squatting framework built on top of it). Hats off to Brock (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=awwaiid) for the great work creating Continuity.
To be fair I also think this article's author is far detached even from the HN community. I could be wrong.
I think there's an important distinction to be made between rich and wealthy.

Rich is defined by income level, and often by lifestyle. A high-spending star athlete can be rich AND broke. There's a reasonable argument to be made that a high-income, high-expense lifestyle in the Bay means that you are NOT "rich".

Wealthy is a measure of saved, investable assets. Wealth is not income-dependent, and ideally grows over time rather than diminishing. A person with wealth may also be rich depending on the income generated by that wealth and their local cost of living, however they may also be merely comfortable.

The key point is: if you are Rich, good for you! But use that income to build Wealth which will serve you better.
Not a customer, but their main differentiator was co-locality of data and compute resources, leading to better utilization/lower communication overhead. The use of Solaris, their port of kvm etc were implementation details. Sorry to see them go, one of the few "cloud" providers that actually seemed to to some creative thinking on the architecture side.
You seem to believe that these two points of view are mutually exclusive. I used the word "also" intentionally because I believe they are compatible.

I firmly believe we can and should build non-exclusive non-silo search engine options. Data salary for general search use is probably a bad thing overall. I'm excited to see a world where competitors to the major search engines that are more open exists.

But at the same time, we're not talking about individual consumers. Individual consumers don't have much market power and dust can't express much choice. The daily Mail is a massive corporation and a massive publication. They could have made other choices, and elected to use other business models. They didn't. And to be honest I don't have much sympathy for them in this. If a single source of revenue dominates everything else that you do you are not an effective news organization. You're probably not even effective corporation is a whole, as most people who run companies Tell you not to overconcentrate your income in one source.
500k/yr is definitely, at least, upper middle in the bay area.
These are interesting questions. If biopsy was totally benign you'd be right. But there are complications and rarely serious complications of breast biopsy.

"How bad / invasive is getting a biopsy?" perhaps you are willing to accept those risks, but you have to also accept the risk that you are getting treated for cancer you don't have. Pathology isn't perfect [0].

Should we invest more in getting better results? Yes, and we are. But, we also have to come up with a risk/benefits strategy for the technology we have now for the patients we have now.

Everything in medicine is risk/benefit because our data and our interpretation of that data isn't perfect.

0: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2203798
I'm not sure i follow, you mean that only FOSS devs dislike stuff like Oracle's?
Defend Crypto
If anyone's curious, some of that history was documented here: http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-tex...
That's true... but any Google product that focuses on being "good offline" is fighting against the momentum of every other part of Google.
> These people consider that kind of stuff perfectly acceptable because they have a world view in which living in totalitarian society is acceptable.

Except they don't. The moment the totalitarian society started to demand conformance to something they don't like, you can be sure they would object.
Yes, but the point is that the gap between rich and middle-class in a single nation, under a single political system, perhaps shouldn't be as wide as the gap between developed and developing nations.
Need to set up servers in remote locations?
Studies show that money can, in fact, buy happiness, but its effect starts to plateau at the point someone makes enough to not worry about whether they can pay their monthly bills.

IMO that's the real separator you're getting at here - which, of course, fluctuates based on location.
* Uber/Ola do not own cars, and the owners take out loans to get one. Electric cars can be expensive to be financed for that income group. Uber's endgame is to own self-driving cars and not a normal car, atleast that was the dream :).

* Indian car companies do not have electric cars (a real car can go for atleast 200kms a charge/refill).

* A car factory(even non-electric) would take atleast 5 years to start churning cars.

* Even in that case, it will have to import 40% of the cost ie batteries as India cannot make them. If it starts today, it can in 10 years.

* Import duties of fully assembled, SKD and CKD electric cars is very high makes them uncompetitive to petrol/diesel cars.

* Direct importing is not viable as it requires certification.

* 60% of India's electric supply is coal based.

And to top it;

* Upto 50% of pollution a car will cause is done during production of the car ie before even a kilometre has been driven. Replacing lots of good working cars from the street is not environment friendly.
But what about claps? You can clap at the article.
Where would upper atmosphere wind currents carry the ash and how far approx?
Shields up!
Awesome job releasing! That’s really difficult to do - and few people can say they have.
I'm not a C# developer, but this kind of thing seems to permeate almost all languages in one form or another.

Maybe it is just a style and readability thing; or maybe (as suggested elsewhere as well) it is meant to be reused elsewhere in the system, so it is cached in a variable for later use.

Or, it's possible that at one time - maybe early in the early days of .NET - doing it this way was more optimized, and the habit stuck with developers (perhaps they all read the same article in the knowledge base about it?). If that's the case, it's a bit of "premature optimization", but one that doesn't apparently harm anything.

What I do wonder is if certain other changes could change the speed?

At least it might be interesting to see in these trivial cases; I admit that in more complex loops it might not be advisable.

But - for instance, what if rather than iterating thru the array from the 0th element to the length of the array, you instead started from the last element and iterated backwards, until you hit zero? That way, you wouldn't be checking the length of the array, but rather for zero?

The code for such a test might look like:

public int WithoutVariable() {
int sum = 0;
for (int i = array.Length - 1; i > -1; i--) {
sum += array[i];
}
return sum;
}

I'm not sure that a "with variable" version would make much difference (or sense), but here it is for completeness sake:

public int WithVariable() {
int sum = 0;
int length = array.Length - 1;
for (int i = length; i > -1; i--) {
sum += array[i];
}
return sum;
}

Again - I'm not a C# developer - maybe my code is wrong above, but hopefully it gets the idea across.

Would this work better? Would it be faster? What would the JIT compiler create? Maybe it wouldn't be any faster or better than the ForEach examples?

I honestly don't know - but if anybody wants to give it a shot, I'd be curious as to the results...

EDIT: I noticed that I said "checking for zero" - but I modified my code to check for -1 as the boundary; I suppose the check in the loops could be modified to be "i == 0;" instead. I'm not sure if whether doing an "i >= 0;" vs "i == 0;" vs "i > -1;" which is faster - another thing to check, I suppose...
Was Boston’s north end bulldozed for cars due to race too?

I’m not contesting that poor areas and minority majority areas were affected and targeted for the building of highways, but I will say that even if it would have been a near homogeneous society (like Iran or China) neighborhoods will get bulldozed and freeways built despite race or absence of racial issues.
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I personally think health care costs are inflated by middlemen like insurance companies.
This is fine investment advice... but the post isn't asking for investment advice. It's asking for advice on fighting lifestyle creep. Besides, there are a variety of ways to invest one's money, why provide only one vehicle as advice for investing?
Not everyone is a fan of having to buy a new screen every time they get a new computer.
You just can't fit such a wide range into a small number of levels. And at higher wealth numbers, there is a huge difference in total wealth including past expenditures for the same current wealth.
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If the computer is simulating a spacetime, they're not the same.

You could - hypothetically - pause the computer, check its state, change a few variables, and the simulation would experience instant modifications.

A slow simulator could take many "real" time units to calculate each in-simulation time frame - and this would be invisible in-simulation.

And so on.

You have a fully causal system, but the simulation is ruled by its own independent emulation of causality.

Of course a computer implies a conscious user. But let's attempt some wild speculation and suggest that a "simulation" could also be a completely natural process - something that happens in a much bigger causal substrate: a kind of causal symmetry breaking, where a subset of possible relationships crystallises out of a bigger set of possibilities and then continues independently, losing some degrees of freedom.

A simple two level topology is the simplest possible model. But "causality physics" could allow all kinds of topologies - nested, circular, fractal, etc.
such a huge cost and logical nightmare, while i would happily do a year of service, i know it's not for everyone.
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