skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Few kilometres, amount of shade, amount of water in the soil, different type of soil, different history (e.g. used to be farmland or used to be forest) can all be reasons for different results. But yes definitely don't cut everything at once, that ruins the habitat. For the rest main problem is usually nitrogen deposition so key is cutting and removing cuttings to compensate for that i.e. remove nitrogen again. And the time at which mowing gets done is pretty crucial as well and requires some experience with the specific terrain as you point out. But there's way to much nuances to all explain here. By far the easiest way to gain knwoledge imo is finding a local nature organization which manages grasslands in your neighbourhood and see what they do/talk to them. I did that a couple of years and it's amazing what I learned from them (though in all honesty the people there are true specialists when it comes grassland and it's fauna specialists, it's also their daytime job, and there's like nothing they do not know - not everybody is that lucky)
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI mounts First Amendment defense
Great feedback, we're definitely planning on taking that advice :)
Ukrain had rather strong linguistic division into two camps, even before it became an open conflict. There is no similar deep sectarian division within Belarus.
OK, if that's true, then what's the problem with them stopping business in California? According to your logic, everyone wins.
The CTO of FB is an ex-Mozillian. There are quite a few ex-Mozillians here, including myself. Despite Mozilla's public posture that FB is enemy #1, the internal technical culture is more similar than different.
Evolving the Future of Headquarters Work (REI)
Thanks Steve. I'm going to have to do more research I see :)
Thank you Vlad for the kind words :-)
It's very weird that Mozilla is laying off 25% of its workforce while at the same time spending oodles of cash on its Fix The Internet incubator. I'm not a business major; maybe this is normal.
They did not really agree to the terms, or at least justly agreed to the terms. The vast majority of students at UCSC and other UC schools were opposed to the terms since the cost of living is absurd in places like Santa Cruz on a grad student stipend, but the terms were agreed upon anyway by the graduate students' representative in negotiations.
> The unemployment benefits go away faster than the jobs come back

Sure, but it looks like the Democratic House and even the President want them to continue at least till year end.

> I think it still very much remains to be seen which was the lesser evil — COVID or the response thereto.

As an epidemiologist said months back (paraphrasing): "success in dealing with a pandemic will always be seen as having been an over-reaction after the fact."
This actually looks like the ground work for cognitive behavioural therapy.

The idea (grossly simplified) is to take those observations of negative thoughts and build a rational response to those thoughts (cognitive part). Then you build a habit of noticing those thoughts and responding with the rational response. It’s far easier said than done, and perhaps best dispensed by a therapist. But these mental tools have been crucial to improving my own mental health.

Some great books on that go into more depth than I ever could include Feeling Good by Burns or Byrne, Overcoming Anxiety and Overcoming Depression.
What I believe you will see (and are seeing) is composition assistants. i.e: generate possible melodies, chords & preselected sounds that will 'likely' sound good together. As long as AI is based on historical datasets it will inherently be behind the every evolving subjective human 'taste'.
I don't really care if this product is successful or not, but I want to say that I'm glad to see hardware experiments from Microsoft. Not a lot of company are willing to experiment with different form factor at the scale of Microsoft, so it's nice to see some attempt to innovate!
A "dependent contractor" is literally what an employee is, except that in your scenario it would just be an employee without the decades of hard-fought labor protections like bathroom breaks.
It's not a civil war, it's Russian intervention.
I don't know.

Financials aside, I don't even know what this is supposed to look like from an organizational perspective. IMHO the biggest problem Lyft and Uber are facing is not an increase in cost, it's a reduction in flexibility.

You can't afford to pay extra people to sit there on the clock if there's no demand. (plenty of drivers turn the app on in their house and go about their regular day, maybe only getting 1-2 rides in between eight hours of playing video games) Do you forcibly clock people out?

You now have to be really careful about the 40 hours. You definitely can't afford to pay people overtime, and for all intents and purposes you can't allow people to work enough hours to constitute "full time" either. So if someone hits 35 hours or whatever, you have to clock them out.

How do you handle drivers who turn down lots of rides? You have to fire them I suppose?

This is not a problem you can just throw money at. I'm glad I'm not a product manager at Lyft/Uber right now. I'm not convinced it's possible to operate in California anymore.
You cannot implement Drop for a Copy type.
It did, as Swapnote on the 3ds. And originally you could send Swapnotes over the internet to your friends. But then it was common to exchange friend codes on message boards with lewds being traded (especially of the apps' mascot, Nikki) so Nintendo axed her and the ability to use anything but local note exchange in response.

Ugh.
You sound like the guy at my work who pushed a 'perfect' change on a Friday afternoon and backed up my queue of tickets for the next 2 weeks. I had to purge several days of automated processes, take a few days to manually process it all after fixing issues induced from the change, then took another week to catch up on what was on hold.

Good for you, but change management saves my time more often than not.
Capitalism 101.
It just adds uber drivers to the already ridiculous list of exempt jobs in this stupid law, like doctors, dentists, insurance agents, lawyers, accountants, real estate agents, hairstylists, architects, professional engineers, private investigators, psychologists, veterinarians, securities brokers and dealers, investment advisers, direct sales salespersons,
commercial fishermen,...
I'm surprised to see no mention of haptic feedback. I've always thought Apple's Force Touch was a gimmick on a phone, but in a car it could be very useful on a touch screen like what Teslas have. Imagine being able to run your finger over the screen to "feel" the climate control touch area then "hard press" it to activate.
Given Techdirt's philosophy I'm surprised they don't restrict themselves to only accepting individually curated, self-hosted ads.
"If you typically aren't facing injustice often then you aren't going to think you are a victim."

That's not necessarily true. Many people are really good at deceiving themselves and making themselves out to be the victim when they're not. Hypocrisy also plays a role.

Not naming any names here, but there's a certain well-known person in a tremendous position of power, who is constantly victimizing others, yet endlessly whining about being a victim.

The so-called Dolchstoßlegende (ie. "stab-in-the-back myth") was a critically important piece of propaganda in Nazi Germany, where the Nazis made up scapegoats to blame for Germany's loss of WW1.[1]

They also, of course, famously scapegoated Jews, and made themselves and Germany to be the victims of Jews, all the while actually victimizing and exterminating Jews in Germany and the rest of Europe.

Nazis were in all these cases the aggressors, not the victims, yet it was important for them to see themselves as the victims and for others to see them as such, so they could feel more justified in using violence against their enemies, and so they could acquire more power to "protect" themselves.

Much of this is paralleled in contemporary politics, and the powerful continue to create myths that they are the victims of the powerless, while in fact themselves committing violence against the latter.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
Gotta love the way that good environmental news is greeted with caution and skepticism, while bad news is greeted with immediate acceptance and acclamation.

This is good news! Let's hear it for the bugs! woohoo!
Tech Brain
A great place to start before diving into books would be Ben Eater's videos on YouTube.

https://eater.net/
It's a good charity and you should donate to it if it aligns to your views but it'd take 4 times the donation rate of Wikipedia to make them independent of this single deal which probably isn't where they want to cap themselves.
What Is a Rolling Fund?
The casino type shuffler have cameras to read the cards and remember the order of the cards after shuffling them. It also has a pseudorandom number generator it uses as a guide to shuffling randomly. You need to set the card type before loading too. Casinos order their own cards so you need to make sure the shuffler can read them.

At casinos there's so many proprietary devices for example a small plastic block like a prism the size of a quarter. It sits on the table in the area where the dealer sets his cards. Blackjack dealers use it to view their cards when face down only they can see the image. Just that little stupid plastic block is patented and costs something like $10 per device per day for every casino that leases them.
I didn't realize that. But there was at least the Nokia X, launched by MS in 2014 with a modified Android 4.1.2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_X
Creating a secure static website with AWS S3 using Terraform
At this point, are the ISPs adding a significant amount of value? How much work does it really take to set up peering agreements?

I am absolutely ready to be convinced otherwise, but my gut reaction to this strategy is that it sounds like a needless carve out for private industry. If 98% of a project is taxpayer funded, private companies shouldn't be able to charge whatever they like for the final 2%. Maybe competition would stop that from happening, but why take that risk? What is the benefit?
No problem at all, if you prefer self-hosting then we encourage that.

(And as you can see, we are continuing to invest in our self-hosted community [0])

[0] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/multi-node-petabyte-scale-ti...

Btw - always happy to chat directly if you'd like. Feel free to reach out! ajay (at) timescale.com
Changed now. Submitted title was "Call Me Maybe: Ea­Ves­Drop­Ping En­Cryp­Ted LTE Calls with Re­VoL­TE".
A job is a job.
Somewhere an instance of headless chrome is crashing and the thing trying to analyze your page on it is seeing every element located at (0,0).
If you are on the house hunt then you may want to check out a tool I made to help you narrow down places by internet speed:

https://gigahood.com

Hope that helps somebody. It sure did help me!
Good on these scientists to post a "No change" result, even if it is surprising.
This all gets really complicated really fast. Which is not to say we shouldn't discuss it or even take preliminary actions, but it does mean the answers will evolve.

One of the profound moments for me reading 1491 is the assertion that the collapse of buffalo and passenger pigeon populations was at once tragic and overblown - the absence of anthropomorphic pressure on the environment caused these populations to explode, draw more attention, and ultimately collapse through predation.

Meanwhile, many of the chemicals we banned post-Silent Spring affected insects and birds. Insect numbers are affected by many ecological stressors, from range, to pollution, to predation by birds.

If you kill or drive away all of the barn swallows and purple martins, you get more mosquitoes. If the barn swallows come back, you get fewer mosquitoes. If you set up martin houses, fewer mosquitoes. Fewer mosquitoes? Fewer dragonflies. All along the food chain things shift.
I don't know the details, but the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation have different budgets and legally have to spend the money on different things (since the Foundation is a non-profit). They can't just move money around like a normal company can.
The issue isn't how Google achieved its search engine dominance - it's what it is doing with that dominance. No one denies Google became the search platform of choice because it is genuinely better. That doesn't change the fact that Google is now using that position of near total dominance to stifle competition in other areas, such as e-commerce. That's the (sound) basis for the anti-trust charge.
UPDATE: https://github.com/dstackai/dstack-react is outdated and was fully merged some time ago into the main repository https://github.com/dstackai/dstack. So we will delete https://github.com/dstackai/dstack-react within a week.
Privacy paranoia? Under what pretense should Canadians presume Google a good faith actor? Their business model has been to incrementally make the web their walled-garden fiefdom.

Why shouldn't we think that their Toronto project was anything less but an attempt to expand their iron grip into the physical world?

Ceding that much power, to a foreign entity no less, is a question of sovereignty.
https://www.integrated-payroll.com/difference-w2-employee-10...

The setting your own working hours part. You're just a bit wrong there.
Google/Alphabet: a bunch of morons with PhDs.
Though it's often misattributed to Bill Gates, Sumner Redstone popularised the phrase "content is king" which was used in a 1974 book, and pre-dates even that.

https://lgkmarketingcc.com/content-king-said-better/

The book seems to be J. W. Click, Russell N. Baird, Magazine Editing and Production. W. C. Brown Company, 1974, 274 pages

https://www.worldcat.org/title/magazine-editing-and-producti...

https://books.google.com/books?id=lMpHwLnvsvAC&q="content+is...

Earlier appearances in the 1960s refer to educational films:

https://www.worldcat.org/title/toward-improved-learning-a-co...

https://books.google.com/books?id=LiQgAQAAMAAJ&q="content+is...

Aguments over provenance notwithstanding, my view is that the aphorism is a convenient bit of stage distraction attractive to media monopolists themselves aware of the real truth: network control is emperor.
Do I need to remind you all the names Drumpf called others? Call it satire calling him by his ancestral name.
Isn't the whole idea of Schelling points that they arise when the parties can't communicate with each other? Surely there's plenty of communication and coordination possibilities in investment rounds?
I wrote this little speculative story about honey bees out competing native ones (with an analogy to goat herding) in a HN comment back in Feb, 2019 [1]. Interesting to see some research supporting it.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19207657
fyi for the people involved in this: use of a mozilla trademark in a domain name is subject to the mozilla (tm) trademark policy:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/

I hope your project doesn't run afoul of this :)
Not that you're necessarily wrong, but you can 'fire' those 'customers' too.

The answer is not to not release as open-source.

I find it a tad hypocritical that 99% of people who post on HN consume tons and tons of open-source every day and yes, they also want the edge cases to work and yet, not only are they not actively participating to make the body of free (as in freedom) software larger, they're actively discouraging people from contributing.

From my perspective, it seems to have been a great choice to go open as far as increasing adoption/buy in for GitLab, why not this?
Content Is King – Who Said It Better?
I can't believe that in 2020 there are still people defending a regime that murdered over 50 million people and ultimately collapsed due to an inherently flawed economic philosophy. And the argument is that the USSR was "too capitalist", and that's why it failed.

I get trying to move the Overton window, but this is too much. I'm hoping this is sarcasm on overdrive and I just missed it.
Everyone just want to be horny on main and I think the internet needs to get over / accept this so we can focus and making that profitable and safe.
I'm guessing stats where the basic question doesn't reflect reality. "If a chicken and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will three chickens lay in thirty days".
Thanks, super interesting. So it's really high throughput for simple stuff (and probably people don't mind that it's too slow).
Just as another data point, same here in the UK and i buy quite a lot of things from there
I tried EpocCam but it wasn’t great and the free version has limited resolution.

Now using Iriun webcam which looks a bit dodgy but actually works well over wifi. Completely free.

There’s also an app called Camo which probably is the best technically, but I dislike the recurring yearly price. One-off price seems reasonable but why do I have to keep paying assuming I’m happy with the app and require no upgrades? There’s no hosting...

I got a ~17eur stand on amazon called Lamocall or something and it’s really great! (Sorry for lack of links but I’m on mobile atm). Overall I’m happy to make use of my wife’s old iPhone 6 and get a better web cam quality.

The main nuisance though is that you cannot stop and start the app from the computer like a normal webcam. So it’s always on or I have to reach out. Since I’m using the better-quality back camera of the phone, the screen is facing away so it’s very awkward...
And here I was thinking that they were shutting down due to covid19 to protect people's health.

Silly me.
The US is not a democracy by definition, and even if you want to substitute in “republic” here, the description of how the law-making sausage factory works here is idealistic at best.
When I first looked at this article I thought maybe I had slipped and time and it was April 1st, but no, its a real product.

I'd love to know the chain of thought to this thing being created--what problems was it supposed to solve, and for what kind of customer?
The book by C.S. Forester that the movie is based on is even more realistic, though the movie is pretty good.

To really dig into it, Samuel Eliot Morison's magisterial History of Naval Operations in World War II does a good job talking through the development of both the technology and organization of naval operations.

Not all communication was by morse code. We did use ship to ship voice radio, but it was a tradeoff. RDF allowed the enemy to triangular the position of the broadcasting ship, and (often) the enemy could overhear messages and infer some tactical details.

Sensor systems changed wildly throughout the war. Sonar improved markedly, and radar went from non-existent to able to identify altitude and distance to individual planes. The weight of the additional sensor systems and controls systems made some ships unstable, so we removed weapon systems from them.

Being a captain (or, heaven forbid) and admiral, was very demanding. Sleep was hard to come by, and the fog of war was intense. We had meaningful problems with friendly fire in night engagements even with radar and radio communications.
As someone who's been involved in setting up a corporate incubator, this is a pretty common dilemma.

The way that we viewed it at my previous company was basically it's two different businesses, two different P&L's and two different sets of metrics and KPIs. You could see them as two different business units that can succeed or fail independently.

If one Business Unit is struggling, you can't just fill the holes by taking funds from another BU to fill the gap. You need to solve the inherent profitability problems in the struggling Business Unit in some other way, typically by selling more, increasing the price/mix or reducing the cost.

Don't know if this is how Mozilla reasons, but this was definitely the way we reasoned in the last two large corporations I worked for.
But why would an investor agree to that? It's more risk with less upside:

- if the company does well enough that its share price rises, it's only normal to buy back your share (why wouldn't it? they just raised better-valued round! Not buying you out is just leaving money on the table)

- if the company doesn't do well, there's no reason for it to pay the markup, they'll simply continue to burn the money.

So you risk the entire sum, but stand to gain significantly only from the non-repurchasable portion of it. I could _maybe_ see it working for a time-based interest rate (if the rate was high enough), but not for the fixed markup. Unless we're talking about a really hot startup that the investors are dying to buy into and would accept pretty much any terms.
I'm also considering the Samsung Note 20 Ultra for this very reason, but I really loathe Samsung Software so I'm hesitant.
As someone who chose to raise only 40% of what was available at the same terms, the decision seems even better in hindsight.

VC funding comes with expectations for how new capital will be deployed until the next round, and if you raise a lot in the A but don't have enough progress to show for it before the B, you're going to be in a tough spot.

So it's not just about dilution; you're reducing your risk for the next round if you raise less because it's much harder to deploy large amounts of capital without lowering returns (in this case revenue, customers, and hiring).
I remember reading another comment on HN somewhere that broke down how project costs are different from employee costs. Something to do with employees being recurring expenses vs projects being somewhat fixed....I'm not going to do it justice. If I find the comment I'll link to it.
Rebuilding Twitter’s Public API
Does anyone know how the 3d effect in the header was achieved?
This law sounds like it's putting the cart before the horse.

The real problem is the cost of healthcare and how everyone should be (but aren't) aligned with lowering the overall costs without compromising on individual care or the treatment of caregivers.
Goal of the government isn't to make marketplaces efficient. Regulations focuses more on making them "fair", "safe" and "non-discriminator". Note - definition of those is very political and open to huge interpretations.

Gig-working enjoyed unregulated market, which is great for efficiency. But law is catching up now.

Note - I'm not arguing that laws passed by government are correct. But they're in line with what government thinks it should be doing, and how they act in other business areas.
They'll probably work with the same customers too, except instead of helping them fight Facebook tracking they will help Facebook track them better.
This is good effort.

SideQuestion: Given that most of MDN were laid off, Would MDN continue? It was good imo.
Article author here. Thanks for mentioning it, I have updated the article to clarify that I'm a QEMU maintainer. The article was intended for the QEMU community but now that it's being discussed more widely it helps to be explicit about my involvement in QEMU.
As a single person your options are to join with others, or buy an army. Not everyone can afford the latter.
Given the choice between this and the Surface Go 2, I'd take the latter--it runs an OS that can run things I use. It's either have something less convenient that's useful, or something that's more convenient but still requires me to keep another device to use for some other things.

Maybe some day MS will make the Surface Duo run Android apps on a full OS, or make enough changes to Android to make it a usable as a primary not consumption-oriented device.
How can you expect to raise money on good terms when you have your back to a wall and 4 months of runway left? Is the implication that you should fail at this point rather than try to fix the business? In my experience VCs know exactly how to leverage the fact that they are patient people and will patiently wait for you to run out of money before raising on your terms if your back is to a wall.