skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever since watching the video on syntropic agriculture which I bumped into by reading a comment here in HN [1], I've been doing some research on the matter. The practice seems promising. It seems to work at both small and large scales, so it enables small farms, which are very hard to defend as a business in the US. It also has a component of improving the value of land, by making marginal (sandy) terrain into productive agricultural land. The other interesting fact is that the productivity per acre for the individual cultivars when planted together is higher than if they were the only thing being planted. I can see those things combining to drastically increase products.

The part of the video that was the most interesting was the farmer saying "this works. If I don't sell, I don't live, and I do sell" (not an exact quote).

Intriguing indeed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23631196 / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSPNRu4ZPvE
Don’t forget those pests to us are food to other organisms.
It doesn’t matter how often this happens, it matters that it can happen. It is much nicer to have a cover and not worry, then to always remember “did I remember to deactivate the camera?”
idk whenever and whomsoever's phone i look at it's always just pushing videos of scantily clad underage gals dancing to whatever song is popular att. you have to actively hide that stuff/follow creators and hit "only people i follow" to see any actually creative|interesting stuff.

surprised there hasn't been any controversy about that - tiktok is a predator's paradise.
ah now we have proof you are purely a troll and not worth our time.

By the way this type of discourse is absolutely not welcome here. maybe on gab.
And the horizontal axis means nothing.

They could've used some permutation of x, y and area to represent "cost of 1GB", "number of telecoms" and "average speed". But alas.
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Robin Hanson.
Wasnt there a recent supreme court ruling regarding the Native Americans of Oklahoma that said something to the effect of 'just because you keep doing an evil, doesnt make it right, and letting it be right is an injustice to those in the right'?
Seems pointless unless they start vetting every ad to ensure it's not political.

It's amazing they don't vet ads to begin with since it does sound like they have those armies of contractors checking every post... but the posts aren't paid...
> Longer term, we plan to sunset Stitch Lab’s products so the team can focus on building out Square tools

Looks like it was an acqui-hire
As a 18 years old with fresh finished mechanical apprenticeship. I started a online gaming, irc bouncer, radio streaming company with my first salary.

Why? because I found no good gameserver to play on it at this time and bought myself a physical Server to fix that.

6 months later I quit my full time job and pumped up my business. Best decision ever!
I never thought about my personal income. At that time I was still living at my Patents.

As of today, I founded multiple companies and sold them successful in the 8 digits euros.

Just do it, find something you like, focus on it and believe in your self.
Yay Canada...
The "silence is violence" stuff is particularly troubling because it eliminates indifference as a choice for people who simply don't have an opinion about whatever the issue is, and fosters a false with-us-or-against-us dichotomy.

I honestly don't care about most of the political dramas of the day, but by not caring, I'm now somehow guilty of supporting the status quo! This is bonkers.
They just do not agree with the Superior court's decision, so they keep giving those rulings knowing full well they will be reverted.

Labour Justice is its own court in Brazil. They have their own structure that only judges labour issues and they are usually very protective of employees. My guess is that this is just a form of protest by the first instance judges that do not agree with the ruling.

This, unfortunately, is very common in Labour cases in Brazil (at least it was when I stopped being a lawyer there about 3 years ago).
> Clearly this results in confusion, and can't stand

It seems pretty clear to me. Both Oklahoma and the federal government willfully ignored established law and usurped jurisdiction that didn't belong to them. That it's inconvenient to the status quo doesn't mean it can't stand.
> and investor financing to help add trees and tree crops to agricultural models.

Wow, sounds profitable I suppose.
You might like the language Crystal, it works this way.

https://crystal-lang.org/
I don't know. Maybe ask the state and federal DOJ's that have consistently fought against enforcement of treaties for more than a century. Or the many Americans who view the treaties as worth less than toilet paper.
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The three-field system has the problem of leaving the soil uncovered which leads to erosion, which aggravates the nutrient depletion problem.
I would start with a tour of C++, latest edition is C++18 Iirc and it mentions things from 2020.
They made some really funny TikToks, though
I think that something the article tries to not to be explicit is that the reel business model is:

Lots of company greenwash and pretend to "compensate" their CO2 emissions by paying farms like that to plant trees.

And that is very profitable as costs to plant a tree compared is a lot lower than the income received from a companies in compensation.

And now, vulture funds realized that they can make a lot of money on the back of the carbon reduction market!
The idea of actively looking out for things which are not being dealt with is a good one. I wish this piece had specific examples.
We can't allow algorithms, big data, and "AI" to be used to end-run the rule of law.

We (the USA) are supposed to be a "nation of laws and not of men." An algorithm is merely an artifact of human engineering, and so allowing algorithms to take the place of laws and due process is simply a roundabout way of putting the engineers of said algorithm into a position of arbitrary power. This is particularly true if the algorithm is a secret, can be modified without an audit trail (or can self-modify without auditability), or is inscrutable. Anything based on "deep learning" and the like is usually at least two of these three things.
Fundamentally, OpenOffice and then LibreOffice never became a serious business for any company with significant resources. It arguably circled nearby with Novell and IBM at various times but nothing ever really clicked. Now there are 40 developers. Mostly from a company that apparently isn't doing that great.

LibreOffice has always been understaffed relative to the competition. But it wouldn't shock me if there were more HR people associated with GSuite than there are LibreOffice developers.
Kanye does not need Facebook.
it says its unsupported. this leads me to believe this isn't anything official from them, just something of any experiment. i'm not going to "test" not trust an unsupported office suite that i need for everyday use.
Same. I've used calc to check my taxes and prepare invoices for close to twenty years. Never had an issue, even circa 2000.
...and it only tells you that if you are looking at it at the time.
Sure- but how is this different than kafka's caching?
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I tried out the math for key exchange, 2^y^x=B^x=R=A^y=2^x^y and have a few questions. If a 3rd person followed the same process and said a number out loud, say C, then wouldn't they be able to figure out both x and y? (Caveat I haven't finished the video, just got to slide 12 so far)

wouldn't 2^z^x=B^x=R=C^z=2^x^z and 2^y^z=C^z=R=A^y=2^z^y be true?
so...like every online community? this isn't rare or novel
Try this: https://obfuscator.albertnis.com
Seriously if they want to sell LO just stop offering free downloads. Yes, its free software, and alternative builds would percolate around for normal users but you have the brand and I cannot imagine most companies would be keen on either doing self managed builds or getting them from filehippo or something.

And yes, removing the free builds would severely stymie consumer adoption, but I don't even think there is much of that left to begin with. Your average kid uses Google Docs and has no reason to download anything.
Google Apps Scripts (equivalent to VBA in Office) can script most Google products; you could build a form on one tab of a Google Sheet, use Apps Scripts to store and query data against Cloud SQL, then use another tab of Sheets to output the data from Cloud SQL.

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/jdbc
I can see some people being rubbed the wrong way by the language in this post but it sounds like a reasonable criticism by someone who has gotten tired and annoyed, and seems to mostly represent accurately the discussion in that ticket.

Does anyone know a decent counterpoint to this? Or an argument why Gnome is being reasonable?
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The Secret Behind A Burger Cult (2002)
While people are free to Boycott for any reason they want

A person that has respect for the concept of Free Speech WOULD NOT boycott a business simply because the CEO of that business supports the current president of the US.

That is simply NOT a reasonable reaction to learning of said support.

So no it does not "sound a lot more reasonable", it sounds like a perfect example of society losing respect for free expression
A session token is "something you have" and paired with the password being "something you know" it's still 2fa.

Whether making that conversion or allowing disabling of 2fa without requiring the user to do a full authentication with both their password and a code is debatable. But 2fa is two of something you "know", "have", or "are" which password + session token meets.
Yea youre right - i still have a few unanswered questions about how to keep the application affordable with the way that it was built at a large scale. If those are your concerns it seems like you have more faith than I do that it could take off
But Crystal recently had to walk back from global type inference as they found it was not realistic in practice, didn't they?
Basically you can divide the economy amd businesses into

1. infrastructure and platforms (justice, roads, utilites, networks) - where privatisation results in disaster 99% of times

2. "typical businesses" - privatisation generally good idea

3. things inbetween (schools, healthcare) - neither fully privatized or centralized system works well. Usually a combination of both performs much better.

Eg. hybrid healthcare system deals with runaway costs by having a baseline health service provided by government and prevents soviet-style wasting, theft of material by employees, black markets and long lines forming by having a parallel market health system alongside.

Both can keep each other in check. One has to wonder why countries always deploy it in one of the pure forms.
Employer paid benefits always wind up coming out of the employee's pocket.

The advantage, though, to the employer paying them is they are paid out of the employee's pre-tax income.
Tree farming and automation: rm -rf /
I use it regularly just as a GUI for csv/tsv/etc files, because it can nicely deal with that, but I doubt anybody from financial sectors would ever even think about using it. Opportunity costs of not using Excel are just too high.
Lasso launched outside of india/china...the two biggest markets for tiktok right now and your app simply doesn't support them? doomed to mediocrity
Just so you know, switches in something as complicated as a laptop have a good chance at being connected to a processor , with firmware being the thing that determines what the switch does. So you still need trust, even with a physical switch.

Source: write firmware for a living, and write drivers for physical switches.
Exactly this. I use one for these reasons, in descending order of practical concern:

1. I don't want to broadcast myself during a meeting when I'm not prepared, or perhaps leave a meeting open by accident.

2. If a bad actor does access my camera, I won't necessarily notice the indicator light, especially if I'm not actively using the computer at that moment.

3. I don't trust the indicator light to be permanently unhackable.
Would it help with this case?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23777197
How does the disease impact your life, if I may ask?
I had a basic post-it like bookmark sticker on my macbook pro camera for years. Over time the black coating on the bezels started wearing off where the sticker was placed. Not much of an issue though, as this was purely a cosmetic issue.
those armies of contractors only check the posts that are reported
The claim isn't that bathrooms are in general safe spaces. That doesn't make sense. Bathrooms aren't magical.

The claim is that the risk of a trans woman being forced to use the mens restroom puts them at great risk in some places (and especially in the places that would enforce such a rule). The risk that cis women face from trans women using the bathroom is nil. And the risk that cis women face from cis men masquerading as trans women to get into a women's bathroom is not large (I'm aware of exactly one sort-of example, and it's not actually clear whether the person is a person masquerading as trans, or simply a predator who also happened to be trans).

As a result, excluding trans women from women's restrooms doesn't appear to make anyone safer.
Why the fines for the victims?

All I know is that Germany's way did not work out. Trafficking and forced prostitution are a huge problem and the police has to deal with controlling legal brothels and fighting against illegal forms of prostitution.
>Seriously Apple, just stop blaming your users.

C'mon you know you should not be holding cellphones in that way...
The godawful presentation doesn't bode well for the accuracy. I'm well aware that's a fallacy, but this is just so atrocious it's either deliberate sabotage or someone is trying too bloody hard to get some message through. This looks like a classic example of Tufte's "lie factor".
Do they stick the same q-tip up everyone’s nose?
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It's a single click. There's no double clicks in acme. Did you watch the youtube video? Acme is about 5% usable with a keyboard.
That's why I have placed a very thin sticker on the camera.

Apple can kiss my ass.
For very small businesses, I would generally not go beyond 2-3 years of multiple on revenue max. But there are many other factors. For example, how old is the business and what is the track record ? There is a big difference between doing 1K MRR for last 18 month vs even 3K MRR for last 2 months.

I personally want to see at least 3 years of hard work. Anything less is too risky since the business hasn't gone through the ups and downs enough and frankly it is not enough grinding for me. But thats my criteria. There may be some gems out there that are younger and still worth a look.

I have a lot of interest in the business buying/selling space and one day I will be doing this professionally :). For now, trying to grow my bootstrapped SAAS to 5 million in ARR.
> Human society was beyond brutal then.

Was it really? There is very little evidence of Paleolithic warfare (especially evidence that is direct evidence of war as opposed to perhaps being capital punishment or the like). It's not until you get sedentary populations that you find clear evidence of warfare, and even then, there's still a great many settlements in early periods whose layouts suggest that defense was not a concern.

Or, to put more bluntly, the evidence seems to indicate that it's rather late in the development of "civilization" [1] that warfare is invented.

[1] I'm framing this in the unilinear model of anthropology, which I don't believe in, because this is how popular anthropology treats it.
In Brazil's case, they don't need to do that.

The law establishes that to be considered an employee/employer relationship, there needs to be a level of control from the employee's journey/hours, etc.

That control simply does not exist between Uber and Uber drivers and that is why it is considered that they fail the legal employee definition.

Obviously there is disagreement, as with everything in Law, but in this case you really need to bend the definition to make it fit the requirement.

As I said before, I fully agree that Uber drivers and other gig workers need some protection, but I also fully agree with the ruling that they do not fit the current legal objective definition of a employee/employer relationship. It simply does not.

We need new laws for those cases, or to change the legal definition (which is unlikely). Judges giving those rulings is basically having judges creating laws, which is not how it is supposed to be (by the way, Brazil does not have Common Law, so other rulings do not have the same power as in US/UK and other Common Law states).
The question is whether this is a firmware implementation that's just waiting for a 0-day or if the +V for the CMOS sensor is literally wired to the LED. If the latter I'd like to see a picture of it.
Yes naming calling is very different from an organized effort to up end someone life.

Calling someone a "libtard" is not the same as 1,000 angry mob members calling a persons work place to get them fired
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> Check your privilege! You'll be very much criminally prosecuted for hate speech in most (I believe all, but don't know the specifics of each) European countries.

Very fair criticism. I don't think that Europe's restrictions are quite that broad, but there are a few countries with active hate speech laws on the books that are enforced.

That being said, Facebook doesn't really have control over European hate speech laws. This is worth keeping in mind, both Facebook and Twitter are American companies, and if they become utilities, they'll either become utilities under the American rules, or they'll get fractured and have different requirements for European users (see GDPR). I don't see how attacking Facebook/Twitter will change what the government can and can't do.

My (unrealistic) advice would be that if this is something Europe is really concerned about, then it should just adopt the more expansive American system of free speech. I realize that's unlikely to happen, but making a company public and giving the government control over what gets posted on it is a regression in free speech rights in most cases, no matter what country you're situated in.

You're worried about what happens if the government says that disagreement is hate speech. Have you considered the danger in the opposite direction?

What happens if the government says that criticizing a politician for openly bigoted remarks is cancel culture and not allowed, or that boycotting an awful company is illegal? What makes you think your government wouldn't abuse the power to force companies and individuals not to criticize, boycott, or filter objectionable content?

Even if you do live in a country with limited free speech protections, forcing platforms to carry content and forcing consumers not to boycott is counterproductive if you don't trust the government not to charge someone with a hate speech law. If you don't trust your government not to ban speech, you probably shouldn't trust it with compelled speech/association either.
Radio wavelength doesn't work like that.

Radio is (1) regional (thus "cell phone"), (2) directional (thus "beam antenna" to simplify the field greatly).

(1) and (2) mean the serviced space is divided into cells, and the cell shape and size are designed, eccording to physical and economic concerns. For example, long, thin cells are used along major roads. Where there is a higher population density, smaller cells are used.
I would wager money that precisely zero of the "tech people who think about and obsess about this type of 'risk'" have had their privacy compromised as a result of an Apple laptop misrepresenting the on/off state of the camera.

It's been twelve years since a vulnerability in this was reported, and by all reports the LED power state is now implemented in hardware. It's long since time to obsess over other sources of risk, instead of the dead ghosts of previous ones.
Every content creator who gets a major voice on the platform laments the absence of a competing platform to move to.

Youtube is successful coz of google infrastructure not google decisions/methodology.

Now Google is trying to move Youtube into becoming a hollywood-lite experience and providing major support to entrenched hollywood celebs like will smith/brie larson(they even bypassed monetization policies for larson - her first video launched with full monetisation in play)
I would describe having your name included in such a list and immediately recognizable by a huge percentage of the population as a seriously detrimental long term consequence.
I don't know about Azure, but AWS is also very transparent with their volume discounts. You know exactly what price you're going to get, without talking to sales. And they don't negotiate those discounts. (At least they don't up to the $50M / yr level, which is the highest I've directly observed.)
I just want to chime in and say that the author knows what he is talking about when it comes to Japanese and NLP.

Like many other commenters, I am also not sure why you’d want “katsu” transliterated to “cutlet”, but the author didn’t choose to have a tool to do this out of ignorance of the Japanese language.
Do you wake up in the morning thinking... Ahhh what a great nights sleep, better login to HN and defend my favorite genocidal, communist, surveillance state, anti-freedom, global super power:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23795989

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23758513

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23689255

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22854487
Correct solution to me is to just turn it all off and accept the tradeoff to not make your employees suffer all day.
I think this study needs more information to be really helpful. The bandwidth is really important to understand what you are paying for. 1GB of data is not worth much if it takes 5 minutes to load a webpage. In my experience this is a serious problem in some countries. A lot of modern web services have a ton of code bloat that renders them useless in environments where bandwidth is constrained, though they work fine in high infrastructure environments.
Hey Adam, I am Shawn. Are you guys open to bringing on affiliates? Would love to speak with you guys to promote this great app.
Which is also unsustainable in the current form because it is a ponzi scheme that works only when each next generation has more children than the previous one.
They really did seem to be firing on all cylinders early on. Prior to their IPO, I thought it was weird they were spending time to migrate off of AWS versus continuing to build around their core offering. As it stands now, they could still target consumers with a higher end offering (lots of caching, etc.) if order to at least offer a superior experience to Google Drive, Microsoft, etc.
I've been really enamored of bidirectional type systems [0] lately, which seem to really give the best of all worlds. They explicitly separate inference from type checking, with the type checker switching between both modes during checking/inference. It's also more syntax directed, which makes good error messages easy.

A pure HM type-system is pretty restrictive, so most ML family languages don't have global type inference anyway.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.05839.pdf
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