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How much does it benefit bees to go out of their way to these lawns? Or are they more likely to build a new hive nearby and increase the bee population and subsequently the health of the local environment?
It will prevent bringing a human being in the world to live briefly and then starve to death.
No, the blog post was just an example of yet another attempt to halt the crucial work towards managing the current climate crisis, not an honest attempt at advancing science.

So far similar efforts has managed to prevent meaningful mitigation actions against climate change for 30 years, so please don't add to the troubles with your disinformation.
To Enhance Flavor, Just Add Water (2010)
So...comfortable and practical?

People don't want to do laundry on their vacation. And unless you're rich and have porters lugging around massive luggage with carefully packed fashionable clothes, people are also space-constrained

So, they optimize for comfortable, quick-dry, wrinkle-free clothes so they can maximize exploration and energy.

That's......what you have to do when you are spending your limited vacation time to see the world.

Part of this is definitely a snobby european mindset. Europeans get 5-6 weeks of vacation a year, and burn 4 of those on August so they are used to LOONG consecutive getaways, and structure their lives accordingly.

The rest of the world (And I don't mean America, I mean the entire rest of the non-European world) doesn't have that luxury.
I'm not really a finance guy, but just off the top of my head, explicit credit requires trust, which mostly defeats the purpose of the blockchain, where you're trying to transact without needing trust.

I also assume that explicit credit is more expensive administratively than the kind of liquidity provided by a clearinghouse. I guess technically the NYSE (or whoever the clearinghouse for the NYSE is) is extending traders credit in the sense that it must believe they are good for the trades they make without requiring them to post full collateral for every trade, so in a way, it is explicit, it's just not bilateral between each pair of traders.

But also, I'm in way over my head here.
They rely on a single network infrastructure as opposed to many independent networks with independent edge nodes where isolating faults is rather trivial in comparison.
Rerast: A tool for transforming Rust code using rules
Kappture and Nano whitepaper – Accepting cryptocurrency at the point-of-sale [pdf]
That sounds like a solution in search of a problem tbh
Exactly. I'd say many companies are worse off w/ traditional middle man agencies. They don't save time and often cost the company more money (though there are some merits in the problems they prevent, like abuse, at scale).

We look at most of the top corporate travel portals and think "worse Google Flights". We want to help the employees save time, while they want to fill a checklist for the finance team. Obviously, this is trickier than it sounds since our ideal "stakeholder" is different than much of the market, but we think it's possible by targeting teams that waste the most time coordinating travel.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20336920, since the guidelines call for original sources.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: a user emailed to point out that this article is itself one of the original sources, because vice.com aka Motherboard was one of the investigating parties. That was my mistake! Sorry.
>just a scan and no data was harvested?

Then keeping privacy in mind, I should be able to scroll around my gallery and play a few sound files to convince the authorities. Another option would be to ask for the source code and an hour to compile it, then run the app, provided an audit has shown no malicious functionalities.
Yeah, but is the brain still a billionaire when detached from a body? Sounds dead to me....
Outline is wholly inferior to the Internet Archive [1]?

Outline is a private site run by unknown people with unknown motivations. Its privacy policy [2] (a) names no actual person or responsible entity, (b) permits business transfers (implying it's a for-profit entity) and (c) permits changes at Outline's sole discretion.

The Internet Archive, on the other hand, is a nonprofit run by known, reputable people.

[1] https://archive.org

[2] https://outline.com/privacy.html
This doesn't read as accurate at all. Nobody has copied Superhuman's features. I'm sure you can't name another app that has. It's substantially faster to use than other email apps.

I have strong doubts you're who you claim to be.
It is nice to see that whoever wrote that headline acknowledges that this is a story you see being discussed on a TV in the background of the first 10 minutes of a zombie movie as the protagonist prepares for their day.
Other than being a logical fallacy it's also a race to the bottom in terms of what we (as a society) deem appropriate. "Oh what I did was wrong? Well what about that guy over there? Why aren't you judging him first?" The argument is usually in bad faith as if one problem can't be solved until we've dealt with everything else that's worse.
Yes, it truly sounds horrific! Straight out of a nightmare movie!

However I would like to think that ethical concerns would not allow this and also this research doesn't actually have this course of action in mind.

When I mean head in a jar. I meant disconnected from any machinery and placed in fluids so that no more decomposition of the brain takes place. In effect, the person is still dead. No brain activity, nothing.

However, when a "new body" is ready. This process is then performed and the person is given a chance at life again.
For me, it sure beats dying!
Don't see why the decrease of population in Venice is seen as a "death". Population decline is good for our planet, long live population decline !
Sure I get that this is possible given that you know this is what the code does but the bigger questions are who knows that you can do this, and who actually uses this feature?

Is this the expected behavior when you collapse or show a thread? I would suggest that it is not, as most minor interactions on a page are only stored locally.

How many people actually use this feature? In order get a benefit from this feature you have to be logged into hacker news on multiple devices, collapse a thread on one device, come back to that thread later on the second device and then continue reading from where you left off. Alternatively you can just scroll past the stuff you've already read, which has a minimal cost to the user.

The benefits seem negligible for the amount of developer time that likely went into making this feature.
After over Three Decades, Rebel Economist Breaks Through to Washington
I think most reasonable people agree with the idea of pluralism, and benefit to diverse approaches to governance. However, I think your original take ignores the fact that China has stood on the shoulders of Western liberalism and the 20th century innovation it has produced. IP theft and mercantile trade policies can only work when existing alongside an innovative and free enterprise system which they can exploit for unilateral benefit.
When I see this unsorted list that takes multiple scrolls to see it all, I feel annoyed. My need for order isn't met. Could he order by his own ranking? I can't even Find his top suggested books (unless I fiddle in View Source).

> I flagged a few books that I thought were particularly great in green and those that I thought were substantially above average in light blue.
A wonderful classic.

Though I must point out -- and I've absolutely no qualms that you shared this, mind you! -- that Harlan Ellison used to be furious and very vocal about it when people shared his stuff online. I don't mind; I'd rather more people read these good old classics of the New Wave of scifi.
It's the slow erosion of values. I remember a time when people would "never do online banking", now pretty much everybody does it. Some years ago nobody would have thought it possible that the border agent may ask for social media accounts or decrypt your phone. Now they do it. It's a very slow progression that may take decades but it's happening everywhere.
> With Superhuman, it is not. If I send you an email using Superhuman (no matter what email client you use)

Dunno, I open mails with (neo)mutt, so none of this works.
Cloudflare should write a guide to doing post-event communication. Or perhaps they shouldn’t, as this seems to be a potential differentiator.

This is direct and doesn’t attempt to avoid blame. Well done.
Authors’ Edition of Elements of Programming
Man, I wish we had that here. I've slowly replaced about 30% of my lawn with native prairie beds, added clover to the rest, and never spray.
I wonder if your brain could deal with that... If you don't emulate any sensations or bodily "communications" would your brain just snap?
Argument from authority – argumentum ab auctoritate
The reason is active-x, somebody wrote a way to scan with active-x and now virtually every healthcare web app works that way.
> If you're talking about leaking client IPs in received headers, some providers (including gmail) have excluded this information for some time.

Sure, in the same way that some mail clients (like Thunderbird) don’t load tracking pixels by default. But if we’re going to talk about ethics and user expectations, I think that’s a reasonably fair comparison.
Hi HN,

This was originally a script running in my desktop and used only by me, but I made it into a site when I realized many of my friends wanted to keep an eye on the USCIS Visa bulletins every month as well. If you're one of us that keeps checking USCIS bulletins every month, then site is for you. You get an email as soon as the bulletin is released and you can see what changed this month instantly. No more refreshing the state department's site manually.

I'm very eager to see any feedback on what is / is not useful with the site.
Machine learning based classification of programming languages
Looks like these guys have a mix for you: https://www.americanmeadows.com/wildflower-seeds/wildflower-...

Also, most home centers have "wildlflower" mix. You'd have to check and see if what is has is native to your area.
> How long until the technology is perfected and some form of immortality is reached?

As long as the brain remains a black box... never. We only understand a tiny bit how the brain works; the biggest problems are still unsolved. Even with a completely prosthetic body, your brain will eventually build up plaques and die (again).
Edge isn't IE11. They are both installed, side-by-side, on Windows 10, and IE11 is the only one that ships on Windows 7.
Who is flying narrow bodies between Europe and China? Moscow (via Aeroflot or whatever) works better for trips to Europe given earth curvature. The only nonstops I can find are Moscow, St Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Baku, Astana, Tbilisi, which all makes sense, most of those are Central Asia or almost so, and then Russia. What am I missing?
We can both reduce individual footprints AND have companies reduce their footprints. No need for either/or thinking here.
Interesting legal question about the API then, I guess.
Why should only some of us sacrifice? Aren't we all in this together? We need regulation that will change the carbon output of every single company, government agency, and individual, not the small attempts of a few green-minded individuals in their personal lives. "Personal responsibility" is just a thinly veiled anti-regulation and anti-government position. The only way out of this is government, unless you believe in technological leprechauns and unicorns, which I do not.
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> We've twice spotted a frog, but we have no pond and there's no open water near us, so that's a been bit surprising.

We had a similar experience with salamanders showing up. I could not imagine what path they took to get to our garden in a pretty urban place where the nearest creek is a couple of miles away and generally concrete lined. The gardener however suggested that they come from the street drains (which in our area drain to the SF bay, they aren't sewers which take water to the water treatment plant). The nearest street drain is about 3 houses down, still quite a hike for a small beast that likes the wet but I suppose manageable.
There are a ton of extra cats regardless of demand.
So the company chooses to build email. EMAIL! Ok. What about their engineers or product concept was SOO different that building EMAIL would draw customers? Looking at their first page, the ONLY item that is unique here is "ENSURE YOUR EMAILS ARE READ". This almost seems like a parody sight - like it's not even real. Something is seriously fishy.
It really depends on the climate you're asking about but from what I understand, systems like the Nissan Leaf's hybrid heat pump, can use up to 6% of battery capacity per hour. I'm in the Southern United States and heating vs cooling uses roughly the same amount of power which is a 2-5 mile range penalty.

Unless you're pushing up against the maximum range of your vehicle routinely then it's probably a non-issue. I've had my Leaf for several years and I can count the number of times I've gone below 20 miles of range on one hand.
This reminded me a lot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiModem - Fun times
One of very few books I've read twice and intend to read again in the future.
The cat is a Flerken
Doesn't Amazon let you re-download your books on your kindle?

That's a little different than photos in that once the photo is gone, you don't have the opportunity to capture it again.
Well, if you are in some places in India for example we expect heatwaves that are simply not survivable for anyone within a few decades.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/02/climate-...
Not to take away anything from your experience. Obviously Sadhguru and his teachings worked for you.

To me Sadhguru comes across as a person who made a good living for himself by telling others what they want to hear. As a person of science, I can't tolerate his 'scientific' theories which are downright wrong. This is person who said he can figure out if a food is spoiled by looking at the direction of rotation of a rudhraksha necklace held above it!

You can find more examples here: https://scroll.in/article/927625/opinion-the-disturbing-irra...
Thx! I see. So I won't be financially responsible for the losses. But I'm more curious that if the tenants' loss will indirectly cause trouble to me (if they become broken and are not willing to move out?), will it be a better situation if tenants are willing to have renters insurance in place? If it is, how do landlords effectively persuade the tenants to do that?

I rented out my property and the current tenant from Europe bought the renters policy even before I brought up it. But I also encountered someone who never followed up on that.
This site has tips for plants that attract pollinators, organized by region/ecosystem type. Just have to punch in your US/Canadian zip
https://www.pollinator.org/guides
>All three execs that left this week seem to be significant losses for Tesla, but it might be for the best if Tesla’s fast-paced, startup-like business environment wasn’t for them.

But is a fast-paced, startup-like business environment the best environment for producing thousands of expensive, multi-ton, high speed vehicles that can seriously maim or kill their occupants or bystanders if something goes wrong?
Try cup plant around your water downspouts (or any local water). https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/cup-plant Bees and birds love them.
>Putting the current ethical concerns aside. I find this absolutely fascinating. How long until the technology is perfected and some form of immortality is reached?

No expert here, but first you are limited by cellular decay. If we can reverse engineer the aging gene and apply it to the brain, you might be right that we can stave off cell death by a lot.

Then there's alzheimers and other forms of dementia, which the aging thing probably won't fix. Even if you cure alzheimers, you still have memory loss.

So then we'd have to invent some type of memory therapy that defrags the brain and allows consciousness to continue to access a healthy memory bank. Not sure if you'd be able to maintain new memories, slowly lose old ones, or what. But then we could preserve consciousness.

So once you perfect either controlling human memory or at least defragging it so the brain doesn't go crazy or develop dementia, you now have an immortal brain. As long as it has access to the therapy it needs, maybe could live for forever.

Am I wrong here?
Yeah but what are the chances that someone from the hiring team will call an old reference and get told the story about how said developer's shiny thing chasing caused them a lot of pain? What are the chances that the developer gets a big raise from the new job because he has experience with a desirable shiny new technology?

The reason we have this phenomenon is that companies highly value (or even overvalue) experience with hot new technologies. So even if as a developer you know that maybe kubernetes, microservices, and NoSQL [or whatever it is] are not right for your organization, you know that having those on your resume will help you get a big raise and a promotion on the next job. The chances that your new tech chasing misadventures will haunt you in future jobs is very low.
Bees have a large range, sometimes over 3 miles, so it's going to be fine to have a few dozen beekeepers per metropolitan area. Each hive can cover 9*pi ~ 27 sq miles.
While I don’t know about the company traction, or sales tactics, I think it is fair to assume the feature set on email can be fairly easily replicated by the big players if they want to. Gmail added a lot of the Boomerang features as well as suggested autocomplete, etc. pretty quickly IMO.
Yep, that is a good point about the limitations. Point I was making is there is no wholesale property right, but you make an important note.
Yea but if American Airlines refuses to fly me to Santornini for vacation to save the planet, I'm going to fly United instead. So who is really responsible for that climate change? Me or the airline? I think it's pretty much me unless they are being wasteful.

And if you just say "shut them both down" then you are pretty much just forcing personal lifestyle changes.

Consumer demand must drive nearly all carbon use right?
https://www.pollinator.org/guides
Punch in your zip and get suggestions for your region/ecosystem.
They probably figure that with the amount of clicking on threads that people on reddit do that the site will capture almost everything except for that very last page you upvoted on before you closed the tab and went to bed. However, you're probably getting on reddit soon anyway and the votes will be counted then.
Java's fibers actually work like the previous poster described, which may explain the confusion:

> The current prototype implements the mount/dismount operations by copying stack frames from the continuation stack – stored on the Java heap as two Java arrays, an Object array for the references on the stack and a primitive array for primitive values and metadata. Copying a frame from the thread stack (which we also call the vertical stack, or the v-stack) to the continuation stack (also, the horizontal stack, or the h-stack) is called freezing it, while copying a frame from the h-stack to the v-stack is called thawing. The prototype also optionally thaws just a small portion of the h-stack when mounting using an approach called lazy copy; see the JVMLS 2018 talk as well as the section on performance for more detail.

Source: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/Main

The video presentation describes it better. I think in their expected usage scenarios the stacks of fibers aren't particularly deep so the copying isn't that expensive. Also, IIRC, doing it this way was less intrusive to the existing JVM architecture; it's possible in time they'll rearchitect things to use a more traditional technique.
I can imagine some really cyberpunk scenarios: "kill me... the... corporation... won't let me die... kill me...!"
The vinyl resurrection is mostly due to hipster cred, and a whole mythology that has sprung up around the (imagined) sound quality benefits. The format also has a lot of drawbacks. The records are large and fragile, turntables are relatively large and the whole setup is not very portable. Records are also very much read-only.

The compact cassette is small and rugged, tape players can be small enough that they are barely larger than a cassette tape, and most importantly it's trivially easy to record your own tapes, either as a mix tape from other sources, as a recording from radio or even with your friends in your small-time garage band. There is a damn good reason why the humble cassette tape stuck around in punk/DIY underground circles. For decades, recording to cassette tape and having them duplicated was the absolute cheapest way to get your music out to the world.

My own appreciation for cassette tape comes from growing up in the late 80s/early 90s. I didn't have a CD player of my own, but I had a cheap boombox with a tape deck, and a whole bunch of tapes from my parents. Classics like Deep Purple and the Beatles, but also a whole bunch of stuff they'd recorded from the radio, and various other random things, I had a whole bunch of children's books on tape, as well. My parents eventually gave me a tape deck with a built-in microphone and a bunch of blank tapes, and let my friends and me play around with it.

To me, the cassette tape (and the 3.5" floppy disk) was a cornerstone of my formative years, and I will always appreciate the versatility and possibilities the format has.

Vinyl is/was mostly a format for people with disposable income, it's the Big Serious format. In contrast, cassette tape was the format for the common people, you can play around with it and experiment.

As for the CD, it's just an obsolete physical format for digital audio, which is much easier to distribute online now, rather than stamping and shipping shiny plastic discs. There are quite a few distributers that offer CD-quality downloads.
Epiphany - https://epiphany.pub

Stage: Bootstrapped, Pre-revenue, Public Beta

A new blogging experience allowing interactive content in js or python. Think of it as a mixture of Medium.com + Jupyter notebook.

Team: myself

Needs: Users and feedback.
20 acres is not large? What's large for TX? Large for RI would be 2 acres.
This is the anthropic fallacy[0]: if and when society does collapse, you won't be here arguing about it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
Just a heads up: There are several figures in your docs where the entirety of the useful information on the page is in the image and they don't have alt tags or any accessible way to get the information (that I can find anyway). e.g. https://docs.vector.dev/use-cases/security-and-compliance
One problem with this is that most "local" honeys in the USA can be labeled as such even if they are 99%+ non-local honey. Just because it is sold in a farmer's market doesn't mean it is actually local :-(