Hacker News: WorkerBee28474

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

WorkerBee28474 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:14:32 +0000

It's already solved (by humans) for Java, which can now be used for HFT. It seems like it's possible to do for C#.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

WorkerBee28474 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:03:13 +0000

Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program is a horrible program that has been flagrantly abused for years to the detriment of Canadians. There's record high youth unemployment yet every Tim Hortons is filled with Indians.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Why are cells small?"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:25:13 +0000

Another answer is: They're not - at least in some plants:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valonia_ventricosa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetabularia

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "No Babies? Blame Capitalism"

WorkerBee28474 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:19:30 +0000

Congratulations you just reinvented eugenics.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

WorkerBee28474 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:24:02 +0000

For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.

2 Timothy 4 (NLT), circa 65 Anno Domini

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

WorkerBee28474 — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:18:10 +0000

747s were in commercial production for 54 years (1970 to 2023).

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

WorkerBee28474 — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:23:56 +0000

Nobody has ever been killed by a Waymo. You're being dramatic.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:20:21 +0000

> What will happen is they will leave us to die.

Lots of people want to rule a nation, but no one wants to rule a nation of bones.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:50:32 +0000

The Montreux Convention only covers the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits. Not all straits in the world.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry (2017) [pdf]"

WorkerBee28474 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:27:09 +0000

As the Soviets knew, apparatus are expensive but pencils are cheap.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Iran hit more U.S. military targets than has been reported, satellite images"

WorkerBee28474 — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:48:21 +0000

This is normal. Confirming hits gives your enemy valuable information about their accuracy.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Artemis II fault tolerance"

WorkerBee28474 — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:40:32 +0000

> Orion utilizes two Vehicle Management Computers, each containing two Flight Control Modules, for a total of four FCMs. But the redundancy goes even deeper: each FCM consists of a self-checking pair of processors.

Who sits down and determines that 8 is the correct number? Why not 4? Or 2? Or 16 or 32?

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:35:49 +0000

No lol

https://youtu.be/DQgqEFOc894?t=267

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:31:31 +0000

Only in that it's in a private equity fund, not one-time spending.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:24:20 +0000

If this is run anything like the CPP, it will underperform both the market and their own benchmarks yet lead to executives awarding themselves huge bonuses.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Why Japan has such good railways"

WorkerBee28474 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:47:10 +0000

> The cost of passenger rail is high in America, because America doesn't build enough rail.

The cost of passenger rail is high in America because America has 11% of the population (read: customer) density of Japan.

(For cities, NYC has 25% lower population density than Tokyo.)

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

WorkerBee28474 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:45:50 +0000

The first link you posted says that 29% of the land is used for pasture and 15% is used for crops (which will include both human and animal).

So yes, most cows are eating grass like a wandering herd.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

WorkerBee28474 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:43:43 +0000

> To feed a growing population, it is essential that the global agri-food system be managed to efficiently convert crop production into calories for human consumption.

It's really not. Efficiency is the enemy of redundancy. Countries want food security, so they must therefore produce excess calories.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

WorkerBee28474 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:12:47 +0000

Well, the Moon, Sun, and Earth are all flatter than most surfaces in my house, and I call those surfaces flat, so yeah...

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support"

WorkerBee28474 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:27:27 +0000

1.8kg of common food is 5000 Calories-ish. I can only imagine that dried food is more calories per weight. So yeah, a lot.