skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honeybees are basically an invasive species that humans brought to the Americas in order to pollinate old-world crops (and also harvest honey). The thing is, we've replaced a lot of native new-world ecosystems and foods with old-world crops that depend on old-world bees.

There are a few separate problems that the media often mixes up:

One is that our old-world crops aren't getting enough old-world bees to meet their pollination needs.

Separately, new-world bees (what the article calls "wild bees") are also being replaced by old-world bees, losing out in competition, and not being cared for by professional beekeepers. They're more vulnerable, less protected, and less monitored.

To top it all off, many kinds of bees, old-world or new, are also suffering from the cumulative (and unfortunately complex) domino effects of habitat loss, pesticides, climate change, etc.

I think what's happening in the media is that journalists, knowingly or not, are using #2 and #3 to amplify the concern of #1 even though they're not always aligned (e.g., old-world bees are often one of the reasons contributing to the decline of native new-world bees).

It's relatively harder to get the public to care about an industrial economics problem (#1, where farmers have to resort to expensive human manual pollination instead of cheap bees), so trying to sell that as environmental crisis a la Silent Spring gets more eyeballs.
Where? I need you to spell out the line for me where I used the same symbol twice, because I don't see it. The post is well past the time limit for editing; so whatever it is you're talking about it's there forever.

I also likely have dozens of errors in my psuedocode.

If my arrogance pisses you off you should just take me down by proving my point completely and utterly wrong.

The problem is, you can't. So you resort to being rude and pointing out trivial errors in the code. I'm pretty sure you don't have any argument here.
As I type this I realize there is no way to name a fictitious parody crypto project which is more absurd than the average actual crypto project.
We raised after doing YC. Why would being a YC founder disqualify someone from giving advice on fundraising in a down market?
Yes, I'm familiar with Wickard v. Filburn.

This established that a farmer growing wheat on his own property for use on his property was subject to federal regulation of commerce... not that his own state could not also regulate things about wheat sold in the state.

There are powers reserved exclusively to the federal government; there are powers reserved exclusively to the states. And there are things in-between, where we have laws from both. States choose all kinds of goods that are sold in interstate commerce to be legal or not legal.

The big question here is, the Fed gov't has a large regulatory and oversight operation for drugs. Does it completely preempt state action? For e.g. securities, we have both Federal SEC and state "blue sky" laws. For drugs, we've not really had a great test case to find out.
Probably not, but there's certainly some situations involving coworkers where I'd hesitate to say that, depending on the audience.
Sometimes I read HN on a tablet before I get out of bed.
So glad to see I'm not the only one taking drastic action after falling into the phone/attention trap.

This won't work for everyone, but maybe 6 months ago I got a phone safe (this kind of thing: <https://shorturl.at/drzMT>, I refer to it as the "phone jail"), which I leave my phone in from bedtime every night to ~4pm the next day. And I leave the whole rig on my bedroom shelf while I go to work at the library/cafe/kitchen table.

There are obvious drawbacks to this that I don't think most people would accept (especially regarding being reachable or having a way to place emergency calls). But it's been invaluable for me to make the mental space I need to finish my manuscript. Plus you can still use the phone through the holes in the cover if you need to, it's just really annoying and not very portable.

In the long run, I'd like to become a fliphone guy like some other commenters here, but I genuinely do get a lot of value from having a smartphone. I just need to get away from it during working hours.
It's funny how the top-voted comment doesn't even answer the question.
Endemic zika virus is horrible if you're in a region that has it like me. As if we didn't have enough with dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and malaria... Any of these diseases feel like getting run over by a bus to get and only two of those have effective preventative vaccines (Yellow fever and now thankfully malaria), but if I get dengue again I could possibly die. The fact that herd immunity kicked in is definitely why you haven't heard as much about it but trust us, this isn't a fun thing to get used to and many, many lives are affected daily by neglected tropical diseases. Maybe you will notice when these diseases make it north of Florida.
I am sooooo happy that MATE exists. I'm sure there's plenty of things people dislike about it, but to me, it hits the sweet spot.

Maybe this is just because I've been using MATE and before that Gnome 2 for more than 15 years now, but over the years, I have come to believe this is a value in itself. It's why Windows 8 made me pretty mad - the good old desktop of Windows 95 - Windows 7 was not perfect, but I have spent enough time using it I no longer needed to think about how this thing or that thing worked, it was almost muscle-memory.

When I wake up in the middle of the night and need to visit the bathroom, I can navigate my apartment without turning the light on. I feel that desktop environments are similar - familiarity beats clever design hands down, so I prefer small, incremental changes to "re-inventing" things.
"dangit" is double entendre, for fuck's sake. And now it's a good mnemonic for remembering this reference sheet.
Nothing prevents rm from being made to “put in trash bin” in the year 2022. Your argument seems weak. rm removes. mv moves. If you want mv, use mv.
Boycott 7-Zip: “Limited” Open Source and Security Issues
It's more easy than the article makes it out to be:

You delete everything you don't instantly agree with.

Don't get emotional about it, just sit there like a robot and delete everything. It's okay to be amused when people enrage to levels they themselves didn't think possible when you delete their comments then delete what she wrote again. No need to ban anyone.

Each comment should be valuable to read and provide further insight into the mission. What does bigfoot eat? What is the best time to spot nessie? When was Dr Fritz channeled for last time? When will bitcoin finally die? etc etc No space for detailed explanations why the very essence of the platform is nonsense.

Ideally written things served to other people are written by yourself but comments can be as good and sometimes even better. Nearly all of it doesn't make the cut. However polite the compliment to the author of the article, it is wasting other peoples time. It needs to be a homogeneous mass of remote viewers, color forth programmers or vic 20 evangelists aimed like lasers at a goal. Simply buying a Tucker Torpedo doesn't make you worth listening to.

If the author just like you thinks the rapture is happening, then we have a keeper!
Who's invading who now? What are the soldiers "defending"?

Do you think that 'Department of Defense' is a misnomer? Howabout 'military aid'?

Are these the sorts of linguistic meanings we are meant to collaborate on? I'm no collaborator, you know..
This is IMHO akin to the false consciousness argument and probably wrong. I think when people say they want A but not if they personally have to pay a lot for A, then it seems like we should take them at their word.
This isn’t a value judgment or to say that single payer wouldn’t on the whole be for example for a 20% VAT, but Americans by very large margins say they don’t want that. I think it’s really important to be honest about these things when have discussions about public policy. Trying to mislead with survey data, telling white lies, and hiding costs ultimately undermines your position. People will find out, and it negatively influences their opinion of your position.
>To what end?

To get some long lost rights back.

>How far do you want to go? P90s? RPGs? Stinger missiles?

Silencers/supressors are currently banned in the US (requires a tax stamp and long waiting period) but legal in other highly restrictive countries like England/UK. They're basically mufflers for guns and not like in the movies. Short barreled rifles would be nice too; we have those now but it's a "technicality," where anyone who owns them for recreational shooting can, on a whim of a bureaucrat, become a felon sentenced to decades of prison. That's not how a free society based on laws should work. Pot falls under the same category. It's still not legal at the federal level and if the DEA decides it wants to start raiding people's homes looking for pot, it certainly can, and people can be prosecuted for it.

>What would the societal benefit be there?

We're a society of individuals, not a society of Borg. Freedoms of the individual are the greatest benefit a society can have.
The Biggest Uncertainty Is Us
It amazes me the amount of engineers who can use a tool every day yet remain not the least bit curious to its basic internal operation.
> Do I need to know how a gearbox works to drive stick shift?

No, but it helps. If I treat my car's powertrain as a black box then it won't be intuitive that:

* I shouldn't slip the clutch to hold my car on an incline.
* Blipping the throttle gives me smoother downshifts.
* Double clutching lets me shift from 2nd to 1st while rolling.
* I can use the engine to slow my descent on longer hills and avoid brake fade
* I should park the car in gear for safety
* etc.

Whether it's better for a given person to memorise that list of facts or to understand the concepts behind them would depend on how much they drive. As a developer I've found it helpful to gain an understanding of the tools I use daily beyond "here's the commands to copy/paste when you want to do xyz".
Many people in Europe, at least in the tech sector, seem to work less overall, whereas when I worked for an American company, our colleagues over there seemed to routinely work overtime, be on call without compensation etc.

I work 32h a week, I earn enough money for myself and I feel that my work-life-balance is pretty good. I think I prefer this to working really hard for 10-15 years, almost burning out and retire and do nothing.
Thanks, that makes me happy.

You might also like this phrase I adore, which expresses the same sentiment in a more general way:

"And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning."

Of course, Anthony Burgess is much more of a poet than I am.
I understand. That site is a valuable resource, though, and I’d hate it if people don’t open it because of the swear words. This is technical documentation and online tutorials, not stand-up comedy. (Although I’d love it if Jon LaJoie wrote a song on git.)
Interactive Unix – So Powerful It Can't Be a PC
arm chromebooks usually run coreboot too; the utility of edk2 there would be questionable, as on none of them ACPI tables can cover all the HW, so u-boot would be good enough.
The point was that even if you take the absurd position that fetuses have rights, a constitutional right to bodily autonomy would--among other things--make it obviously unconstitutional to force the mother to continue to serve as a host against her will.
I was going to say, FUDcoin already exists.
The idea that hyphenation is “better” is pure opinion. I hate hyphenation and much prefer ragged text or justified with big whitespaces.
Prior related HN comments:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdiataxis.fr%2F

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Four%20kinds%20of%20documentat...

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdocumentation.divio....
Declaring Curry and Samosas Enemy No. 1 to Whip the Police into Shape
I think too many of us believe that intelligence is valuable, in and of itself. Instead, I think we should value personal excellence. That is, making the most of the intelligence you’re given.

The arc of intelligence in Flowers of Algernon is the same arc that we’ll all experience over our lifetime. With old age, we, too, will lose our intelligence. If we value intelligence, in and of itself, we’ll eventually face a crisis of sorts. But, if we value making the most of our intelligence, we are resilient.

Applying this framework to Charlie, there’s much less to be sad about. He made the most of the intelligence he was gifted, and that’s what really matters.
svn has made many improvements lately too, especially in conflict resolution.

don't make the mistake of comparing "git now" vs "svn then".
FYI: There is a lively Discord where folks talk about Cloudflare things, mostly Workers here: https://discord.com/invite/cloudflaredev/

Could ask there as well :)
> I don't think Copilot is at any risk of causing unemployment yet, but Dalle could very likely replace a number of graphic design jobs in marketing right now.

Automation tools shift demand from the job automated to the jobs producing the automation tools.

That's why all other automation shifts demand to programming. Automation of programming, though, just shifts the demand within programming to a higher level of abstraction.
Friends smell like one another
It's like a scientific method except with an added minimal step of abstraction. It's like a rule for technical writing except the writing is a kind of proof. It's a clarifier, or a bullshit-filter. This kind of precise language-use really thrills me.
> I may have a few screws loose, but I'm not dumb enough to fuck with exposed wall power with metal tools in my hand

More people should taste the venom of 120VAC wall power. It's not going to kill you, its a nasty bite but you won't remember it in 5min.

"Respect" is fine and rational. This kind of attitude is unreasonable fear.
This "well regulated militia" stuff is so disgustingly ignorant. And people keep parroting it like it is some kind of "gotem".

First of all, what do you think a militia even is? It is a group of CITIZENS that form an ad-hoc fighting force.

Secondly, the amendment says "the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms".

It doesn't say "the right of the military". It doesn't say "the right of the militia". And it doesn't say "the right of peace officers."

When the Declaration of Independence was drafted, "We the People" did not mean "military".

Thirdly, the Bill of Rights explicitly grants rights to people, NOT the government and NOT the military. Yet somehow, conveniently, that is different for the 2A?

You might not like the 2A, but the meaning is clear and supported by history. This "well-regulated militia" nonsense is the climate-change-denial of the 2A.
My mental model of a git repo is basically a stack of backup tapes with sticky notes on them that say “this is tape #2983 and it's almost the same as tape #2429, except that I fixed a typo.” Things like `git log` and common workflows make you think “this is change #2983, where I fixed a typo”, and that's where the trouble starts.
For the interested, there is a PDF: https://users.speakeasy.net/~lion/nb/book.pdf

See also Hack 17 in Mindhacker: 60 Tips, Tricks, and Games to Take Your Mind to the Next Level (not the best link but you'll get close: https://books.google.no/books?id=kh8NbTzaalwC&printsec=front..., at the end of the section he recommends not following the 2003 book...)
Getting an actual honest-to-goodness landline isn't terribly expensive, and works as a phone for emergencies.

Most people wasting time on smartphones would put it down almost immediately if it had no internet access.
I have. I started with the novel, in a Polish translation, when I was maybe 13, and it had resonated with me so much that to this day I consider it _the_ most important book I’ve ever read. A formative read, indeed.

I read the short story a few years after that. I think it’s the essence; I perceive it as a distillation of the novel (rather than the novel a dilution of the story, though I’m aware the story was first.) I guess had I started with it, I’d be considering it _the_ most important short story I’ve ever read today.
This was announced when they announced GA a few days ago, no?
How does this compare to the experience of taking focus drugs for those that have problems focusing? Is the film “Limitless” a modern retelling of this in some aspects?
They’re officially related. Personally, prefer the link I used since it provides a table of contents and link to this YouTube presentation on the system:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t4vKPhjcMZg
The summaries are mediocre at best. If you are willing to have someone you don’t know summarize a book for you, then it’s good. There’s plenty of people posting book summaries online that are a bit more reputable. I personally think it’s filling the exact niche of people not spending more time being analog to find out for themselves by reading and redeveloping their attention.
But how else would you make the US greater than zero and all the other countries zero?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31875953
Also toying at the commit sequence layer is fun (rebase) and should be expanded.
In a sense, it's like asking a classical pianist to "complete this tune", and then start playing Für Elise. They'll almost certainly play the rest of the original tune - as they should!
I can also see it going in a myriad of other directions, though my biases are clear.

- People at art conventions walking up to artists and asking them what model and keywords they used, insinuating that no human talent was involved in the process.

- An unresolvable divide between "AI is just another tool" and "AI instills distrust" spreading to mainstream discourse.

- Comments on art posted online filled with requests for "keywords please," because that's what AI would train us to expect out of creators.

- Commercialization and legitimation of plagiarism through the "just another tool" argument.

- No longer being able to detach yourself from the AI debate every time you see a photo or illustration online. No longer being capable of knowing if there was a human behind a creation. Constantly having to worry if the person you're chatting with is the entire human, or if some parts were outsourced.

- Never being able to go back to now, before the sphere of illustration has been "polluted" from the proliferation of AI art, when we cannot uninvent the tools and anyone can spin up another private instance. Banning the use of a technology is impossible but perhaps nothing less would prevent such a hypothetical outcome in the face of perceived progress.
> I know some argue that UBI is the natural conclusion of AI replacing more jobs

UBI is not the natural consequence of automation increasing the value of automation and reducing the relative value of all other labor, sharply increasing inequality and with extraordinary concentrated wealth and increasingly broad poverty is.

UBI is a potential intervention to mitigate that natural consequence, though.
Then they need to negotiate a non-attributed contract with you before using your code to train (not sure abiut testing though).
Well, terrible recent developments notwithstanding, Russians revere the authors of their literary canon. Arguing that a successful athlete is more important than Tolstoj or Pushkin would generally be ridiculed.

Even here in Italy, despite an unhealthy national obsession with association football, if considering the whole body of society nobody is held in higher public regard than esteemed painters, poets, writers etc. (athletes are loved but not believed to be particularly bright).
I just think you don't like foreigners
> especially regarding being reachable or having a way to place emergency calls

I love being unreachable, it's one of the reasons I'll often turn my phone off during the work day or leave it at home. This means I won't have a phone to make emergency calls, but I'm not really bothered by that (it's how I lived over half my life).
> Oh so recycling actually works, but we need fake jobs for people who don't care about economic efficiency? I'm glad we got some clear eyed realists in to explain this all to us.

That's not what the op-ed is saying. The existence of benefits does not mean the benefits are bigger than the costs. In context, that sentence is part of an argument against the idea that landfills are filling up.

So how big are the benefits relative to the costs?

Well, it cites some data to say that recycling paper and metal does a good job, and that everything else combined is pretty useless. That doesn't strike me as wrong in any obvious way.

Combine that with "That money could buy far more valuable benefits, including more significant reductions in greenhouse emissions." and "He concludes that the social good would be optimized by subsidizing the recycling of some metals, and by imposing a $15 tax on each ton of trash that goes to the landfill." and this doesn't sound like an argument for fake jobs or ignoring economic efficiency to me.
Can we go back to the time when one is able to criticize something with civility?

Just my anecdotal experience with Gnome is that it is probably one of the most handy desktop OS out there right now, I prefer using it much more than OSX for example (gnome copied plenty things from OSX but sometimes made them better in the process - you can actually differentiate between different browsers’ windows for one. It is also much smoother). So unless you dismiss my opinion (shared by plenty of other people) as useless, the Gnome team managed to create a useful environment for several people, making them more then competent.

Cudos to the team from here as well. It must be really tiring seeing all the negativity for their free work.
The M2 MacBook Pro Overheats Benchmarks/Thermals Tested
"The war in Ukraine is also weighing on liveability. There is no score in 2022 for Kyiv because the eiu’s correspondent had to abandon the survey when fighting broke out"
Zzz. At scale, railroads (at least in the US) mostly move grain in covered hopper cars - https://www.up.com/customers/track-record/tr071321-what-is-a...

If you've got enough single-gauge RR infrastructure and equipment, but a problem with a gauge change along the route, then building a one-way grain transfer facility is d*mn easy. Full hopper cars, gauge "U", get pushed onto an elevated railroad track. Empty hopper cars, gauge "P", sit ready on another track, below the full cars. In between are a bunch of crude welded-sheet-metal chutes. You open the loading hatches on the lower rail cars, then open the dump gates on the upper rail cars, and gravity moves the grain.

(Yes, this requires some equipment and intelligence to do, and some time to build. It's late-1800's technology.)
Extreme microbes in salty Arctic water could aid search for life on Mars
I have a landline in my home, it's great. Can't get texts so people have to call, they can leave a message if it's urgent. I can leave my phone off as long as I want and still be contacted when I'm at home.
but they used all your code to train. that's pretty substantial..
Artificial modern chemicals increase yield, which reduces food price. Yes, we should use less of those chemicals. Yes, that will hit the poorest hardest.

Is this problem solvable? Maybe. But let’s not pretend it’s simple.