skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the fragments of faux brickwork and wainscoting you can see on the back wall were interesting. It implies that the tradition of protecting walls with wainscoting was well enough established 2000 years ago that you could put up a fake one and people would know what it was.
This headline feels like an extreme exaggeration.

> They declared that bees are the most important living being on the planet, and for good reason.

Why not cyanobacteria? You can have bacteria without bees, but you can't have bees without oxygen.

> The Science Times reports that 70% of the world’s agriculture is dependent on pollination that happens exclusively by bees. Bees may do many different things but pollinating plants, allowing them to reproduce is by far their most important. Without pollination, those plants would disappear quickly.

Wheat, rice, maize, cassava, and potatoes don't depend on bees for reproduction. These plants account for a majority of humanity's caloric intake.

> Bees are the only living thing on earth that doesn’t carry any type of pathogen, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deformed_wing_virus
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I don't understand how this can be the top comment. This is just a string of generalizations without any references, not even anecdotes, or explanations. Someone venting steam, essentially.

Do away with most management? And then what? 30,000 employees all steer the ship in the right direction by sheer "individual accountability and focus on results"? Well that gave me a good laugh.

Culture is overrated? That's literally the only thing that prevents work from becoming a sterile factory.

What corporate BS?
I found the book "the honest truth about dishonesty" by Dan Ariely very illuminating as to how dishonesty works, how it survives and when it goes away.

I suspect this article has done a good job of shining a spotlight on a situation where accountability has disappeared.
Just don't get arrested if you move to japan:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-51129580

There was a piece on BBC radio 4 about this. Stuck in a cell and not allowed to lean on walls had to sit up right the whole time horrendous.

Usa has its problems, it also has a constitution and the first amendment. Sadly here in the UK we do not.
#1 only targets one person.

#2 possibly won’t even be seen by the target.

Opening an issue is seen by the whole team and becomes a place for the community to weigh in. Seems ideal until Github provides better.
> or rather it’s meaningless to argue if we have any or not, as it cannot be defined.

This sums up my view too. Can't argue about it if you can't define it.
Honestly, the OS didn't leak through much. I played a fair bit of Armada and Wild Metal back in the day and you never saw any indication that they were windows CE under the hood.
GitHub Discussions seems to be a great place for this sort of stuff going forward, instead of issues

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/discussions
From his comment history: he is homeless and living in a car.
My overwhelming impression from articles and discussions like this is that almost nobody really understands what's happening. It's mostly superficial correlations and gut reactions. This is not surprising because the economy and capital markets is a complex, chaotic, partially observed system. And revealing information and predictions about this system can affect it.
I thought the 5G conspiracy people thought it was causing COVID-19 and/or cancer. Not that it was used for spying.

In any case I’d assume an anti-5G extremist would attack 5G infra directly, if they were going to go there.
I wonder if Ted Kaczynski is 5G paranoid.
Data rots. What was true 10 years ago about me is not necessary the case now.
In setting out Dunning's & Kruger's own explanation of the data (incompetent people lack the skills they’d need in order to know they’re incompetent), the author asks, rhetorically, "If you don’t understand very many words in another language, how can you evaluate the size of your own vocabulary in relation to other people’s?" Well, as in my case, if you know many words in your native tongue that you cannot express in another language, surely that's a clue available to anyone in the same situation?
Maybe we should bring back the "guest books" of the early internet, where you're expected to leave positive feedback if you want to.

I'm not sure that general purpose reviews/forums are the right way to address this issue, because those can generate negative feedback as easily as positive and generate additional stress for the maintainer. I think a simple dedicated "you can leave a public thank you message to the maintainer here if you want" text box would do the trick.
Years ago when espresso shops were starting to be the big thing, I though a great name for a chain of them would be "BRB".
Reddit’s bias is aligned with the mainstream media’s, so they get a pass. The same is largely true for Twitter.
I think the cheapest iteration of solar will be when it's essentially in paint - decades or more away. There'll be some portion of the cost that remains fixed over longer term - say cost of inverters or other factors - and the marginal cost of the solar paint.
Im more vague when I mumble talk outloud and to me the advantage to writing things down is that I don’t have to slow down the thinking process but aid it and let it keep the momentum going. Sometimes I can utter a random name to point down a metaphor that is still too raw to describe by writing it down, other times I’d use talking outloud to gain a few more registers to store a few mental items. I sometimes reason better on paper and other times the more vague approach helps better.
Yeah I also don't blame them though, if I were a parent I would absolutely hate WFH.
Google hasn't returned the best results for years. They return the results someone paid to put there. Either through direct paid ads or through heavily SEM/SEO influenced results for everything except the most esoteric topics.

We actually ended up having to do defensive SEM/SEO on bing simply because of how cheap it is to game results there, just because they're not google (no one does it except scammers and people addressing scammers).
Postgres has a clever trick [1] you can use, though I wouldn't say it's something I would ever use.

[1] https://blog.jooq.org/2018/05/14/selecting-all-columns-excep...
While that might be it's irrelevant to the point that politicians have, in general, not helped.
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More people will stop paying rent.

Homeowners will not be able to evict them during / post Covid ( especially in the Bay Area ).

I think we’ll see squatting in a home until it becomes yours more common as well.
There are so many false claims in here

No, the bee population isn't down 90%
I was wondering how they scale the service up (this is the first one of these I’ve seen that’s survived a HN hug of death).

The lazy way seems to be to configure owncast to use an S3 compatible service. Some even support CDNs and provide unlimited egress bandwidth:

https://owncast.online/docs/s3/
What they said was "a few times a year". Rounding up, that would be 25 years. In a few years, there will be plenty of electric rental cars and charger stations, and the batteries will be much better.

Right now, the most expensive wear in a Tesla is battery cycles.
Actually, this isn’t true. In The Final Hours of Half-Life Alyx, Valve talked about how their 10 year dead period where no single player games were released was caused by their nonhierarchial structure. Half-Life 3 alone was started three times since HL2:E2 and people got bored and stopped touching it. They did work on several original titles and ended up cancelling them due to tech issues or boredom.

Alyx, once it gained steam, ended up turning into a hierarchical project and the largest in the company history, and was the only way Source 2 ever got finished (since they now had people waiting on it to get the game working). And it worked, as we finally now have proof that VR is a great way to tell stories. The book is excellent, and goes on sale often on Steam.

(A decent summary of the book is here: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/07/valve-secrets-spill-o...)
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It's one of about a dozen different theories that have come out over the past two days. Sounds like everyone is grasping at straws right now. In the early days of an investigation, that's understandable for investigators, but the press grabs each of these theories as they come out and runs with them. If it turns out that the 5G paranoid theory is incorrect, doubt there will be even a token retraction or clarification. Instead it will be move on to the next thing and pretend the previous one was never suggested.
Love it. The same for motels, roadside attractions etc. Once a sizable fraction of motorists require it, businesses will bend over backwards to provide it subsidized, to acquire customers for their main cash vector.

And electric is intrinsically democratic, if you have civilization you have electric power around. Some upgrades will be required but from a single business' point of view, the investment is much lower than building underground fuel storage tanks, obtaining the necessary environmental and zoning permits etc. Literally anyone can enter the charging market.
> money to be put to use and not to line the pockets ...

How about this example:

https://electricenergyonline.com/article/energy/category/ot-...

> $11 million in grant funding ... 740 unserved households

First project on the list:

https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M355/K...

> up to $7,603,656.30 ... 1,000 Megabits per second (Mbps) download and 1,000Mbps upload to 588 unserved households.

So, gigabit Ethernet, at a cost of only $12,931 per household.

>According to the California Interactive Broadband Map, the area only has access to dial-up service.

According to my search of that very same site
just now, three competing cellular providers serve data to Williams, with T-Mobile claiming minimums of 9/4 Mbps.

https://www.broadbandmap.ca.gov/

> residential and low-income broadband pricing plans ... for two years starting from the beginning date of service. ... 25 Downstream(Mbps)/25 Upstream(Mbps) - $25/month

Wondering how many of those 588 households are behind on their monthly bills just now? How many would, if given the choice, prefer to have the CPUC pre-pay for them a couple of years of cellular hotspot service, and simply refund the remainder of "their" $12,931 in cash, so they can all be assured of making their rent or mortgage payments for a while? About 588 households, I would guess.

My theory: It's a subsidy program for the broadband landline industry. Regulatory capture, as usual.
Catchy name, sounds of a Dr. Seuss creation.

I used to use byobu and rsync all the time thinking that byobu was a wrapper script around 'screen' for bring your own back-up. Later learned it's Japanese for those folding room divider screens.

Perhaps someone could draw a snebu for the project.
Oh, Flettner rotors again. Those keep coming around. Jacques Costeau used to have a rotor ship, the Alcyone.[1] It wasn't really worth the trouble. "In fact, we were motoring most of the time" - Alcyone's captain.

[1] https://sea-to-summit.net/the-flettner-rotor-makes-a-comebac...
> Proportionality doesn't dilute votes

It causes your vote to be mixed with a larger number of other votes, which is the definition of dilution. By giving the candidates more alternative constituents to win over in order to stay in office, your vote is less important to them and there are more ways they can screw you over and still stay in office.

> the more proportional a system is the more efficiently it allocated votes to give them maximum effect.

That isn't inherently true. Suppose you have a state with two districts. 60% of the state are religious conservatives, 30% are libertarians, 10% are socialists. With proportional representation the socialists get disenfranchised because they don't get their own candidate. Even the libertarians might get disenfranchised if the religious conservatives manage to get two representatives. But with range voting, you end up with a candidate who has to make all the interests in their district as happy as possible because anyone who comes along and can make them happier would defeat them in an election -- so nobody gets disenfranchised because every victor needs to make everybody happier than anybody else.

Proportional systems also fail in the same way but worse when forming governing coalitions. Suppose you have a White party and a Black party and the White party voters are 70% of the population. Then proportional representation gives them 70% of the representatives, they form the majority coalition and the Black party representatives lose every vote.

Compare this to range voting where if you so much as have a White party, they lose even in many majority-White districts against a moderate candidate who can earn the support of both White and Black constituents. It promotes the election of moderates with broad appeal over the election of extremists who fight to gain a majority coalition that can steamroll over anyone in the outgroup.
Kazakhstan is not a cheap country, at least not the cities of Almaty and Astana where foreigners are likely to live. They regularly appear on "Most expensive cities" lists.

Social Security and Medicare is paid by American workers regardless of their total income. That is, there is no poverty limit under which they do not have to send that money to the IRS.
Would like to see more about what's going on below the waterline. The challenge with any form of wind power is that the propulsion doesn't typically point forward - it's at an angle with a forward component. So on a sailboat you need a long keel (or centerboard/daggerboard) to translate the lateral propulsion into forward movement. That constricts the vessel from operating in shallow waters and causes the vessel to lean due to the opposing force under the waterline.
https://news.bitcoin.com/jpmorgan-600-billion-demand-bitcoin...
Agreed, this article is terrible, and simply repeats a lot of inaccurate tropes about bees environmentalist groups like to parot.
I've never been to Pompeii, and this is novel to me (and super cool to see the entire thermopolium, and such fine paintings so well preserved). According to TFA, this is of interest to archaeology because

“It’s the first time we are excavating an entire termopolium”
I had so much fun playing the Dreamcast, I could never figure out why it didn't do well.
Things that are meant by "time":

1) original programmer moves on, someone else maintains/fixes/owns the code

2) scope / features / scale expands over time generally, so bad decisions for extension / expansion / scaling become prominent

But really the article is about 1.
I'm a beekeeper and amatuer mycologist. It's very interesting how different hobbies can interconnect like this.
And take away their right to vote.

I’m an expat and I’m not allowed to vote and I don’t owe my home country any taxes (Canadian in the US)

That’s the way it should be. I shouldn't tell my home country how to live a life I have no stake in, and they should not charge me taxes for services they cannot render abroad.

End taxation and voting abroad!
Because then you lose some bargaining power if you change your mind down the road.
Yes. This list seems closer to "problems with c/c++"
> APIs are an increasingly important piece of how software is built.

API's were always how software has been built ..
Web API's, on the other hand ...
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For the curious:

The history between Sega and Microsoft actually goes back further. In 1994, they announced a partnership for an OS on the Sega Saturn, although it was never realized:

https://mdshock.com/2020/06/22/sega-and-microsoft-announce-p...

But the first contact between the two companies was reportedly during the development of the Game Gear. Bill Gates was in Japan at the time, and he requested a meeting with Sega, possibly about an idea he had for a handheld device. It's not clear what his idea was, since nothing ever came of it, but that meeting helped forge the ties that led to their later relationship. This info comes from a recent interview with Hideki Sato, a former president of Sega.
Thank you, I can definitely look up for some inspiration from Redgates. I see that it also costs some money
There is a relatively simple root cause of the financial crisis, it's called moral hazard:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspan_put

Now, how exactly to solve the problem is a complex question, so I suppose in that respect it's hard to think productively about it.
The DMCA provides some legal protections to content creators that aren’t available via self hosting.

Legal consulting to set up the correct corporate shell structure would probably also be a popular value add.
Then perhaps we should object based on the adjective sophisticated.
Well it kinda is if you bought a product that supposedly lets you do upgrades easily, from the vendor itself, and also have the support package from the vendor.
it scrubs fairly well that kind of topic, positive or negative.
> Traversing a medium depth DAG with a million nodes to find orphaned nodes takes less than a second on average hardware.

Unless you have an abnormally high edge count that sounds super slow to me. Even accounting for metadata overhead and disk page slop you're only reading and processing tens of megabytes, and every algorithm in sight is linear. I'd be surprised if you couldn't get a 2-5x speedup by reading the whole table to RAM in your favorite compiled/jitted language and just traversing it there.

> I have not yet found a situation where nosql databases like leveldb offer an orders of magnitude advantage over SQLite, and SQLite is so much more powerful and robust...

I have no skin in that game, but would some of the nosql solutions not perform significantly better under heavily concurrent insertions and the other workloads they were designed for?
Cringe? Please consult your dictionary.

My comment re: homeopathy/traditional meds was an attempt to contrast the wild wild west dumpster fire that is Big Pharma with traditional meds. Pill popping countries have an opioid crisis whilst less meat eating populations aren't heavily reliant on the pharmaceutical industry because they have far less diet related health issues. In hindsight, I could have phrased that better. Then again, you could have parsed what I was trying to get across.

The rest of this must be directed at OP because I too know and believe a plant based diet carries longer life expectancy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> If US banks had the same reporting requirements to EU countries regarding EU dual citizens accounts

US banks wouldn’t. The reason that the EU is wary of ending up on the USA’s bad side, is that European banks rely on large New York banks for clearing international transfers. They can’t not do business with the USA. American banks don’t have the same dependency on the EU.
Hi everybody,

I enjoy stumbling upon old HN topics. To further improve this kind of procrastination, I've made a simple web app which fetches 30 random good posts from the past.

Due to the limitations of the API, fetched stories are not evenly distributed across 14+ years of HN. Instead, you get stories from 3 random, non-overlapping 6-month periods.
Agreed, I've often read that wild bees, and wasps and most other insects in general are really important, more than honey bees. To support them, we simply need to stop cutting trees and plants. We should plant public fruit trees everywhere possible, instead of concrete ground. We should support permacultures instead of mono-cultures (they impoverish the ground, plowing or burnings are just earthworms massacres) and other kind of farming. Yet, the recent emergence of vertical vegetable farms seems interesting.

just as personal note: I kinda stopped eating honey, mostly because it's good but it's highly concentrated goodness, and as I tend to eat one thing at a time, I could end up eating too much. Eating fruits, leafy vegs is more natural for me, mostly raw, you hit satiety more naturally and get plenty fibers.
People often argue that remote working flexibility is the future, but I think it will be detrimental to both younger employees (losing out on mentorship) and those that do go into an office.

An office is at its most effective when everyone is there to collaborate; it loses most of its benefits when only some people are in person. Because of this I think there will be many companies advertising themselves as office-only as a benefit.
Bitcoin can ‘easily’ be ten percent of gold in 2021, says Novogratz
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It may be helpful to understand that the manner in which Germany and Japan capitulated at the end of the war differed quite a bit. While the USA had completely bombed all strategic targets by the end, the decision (rightly or wrongly) to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki was done to force Japan’s surrender. The USA had suffered significant casualties invading other islands on the way to Japan, and did not want to suffer more. Of course there were other options than murdering civilians to win that, and that makes the use of atomic weapons morally unjustifiable.

That aside, the USA never invaded Japan with ground forces. The occupation force was “allowed” entry after capitulation, where a number of allowances were made to Japan to make this more acceptable. Germany on the other hand did not capitulate until after Berlin had fallen to a ground assault, and really had no bargaining whatsoever for the shape of the occupation.

On top of that, it should not be overlooked that the USA gained an “ally” in Japan at that point, and racism allowed for the horrors to be overlooked in a way that Germany was not. Also, there’s probably some part of this that was effected by the fact that the USA and other European nations did not recognize the Chinese government after the war and therefor demands for repercussions against Japan on behalf of the Chinese were not necessarily something that was “heard”.
You don't even have to be a citizen for US to count your foreign income to be "US linked," if you ever received income in US.

Not so few people who did just some temp gigs, or worked in US on L visas.
I got one from the Costco in SoMa with no wait, that’s probably the best bet for immediate availability.
See my response to OP. Also, shut up!
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Besides being a global payment system that allows people to send micropayments across the world without having to disclose any financial data publicly, while fighting surveillance capitalism in the process, what have the Romans done for us?

The "hassle" of doing KYC at one of the exchanges and verifying your identity is only once. The benefit of being able to receive little cash for privacy-preserving ads and use it to contribute to a healthier digital economy can last for a long time.