skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Best ways to increase biodiversity and productivity of land?
Have a little over a half acre at our house we want to maximize use of with no chemical fertilizers/unsustainable external input.

Do any of you have any personal, or professional, experience in this area?

We're running on a very small budget (most of you probably spend more on eating out/on coffee than we have for this) so I'm trying to go at this in a smart way as to maximize the effectiveness of money we input.

- On a well so obviously rain catchment is a priority, given we have an asphalt roof I'm hesitant to catch the water from the roof and will pmaking a small structure to act as a roof to collect rain which will ultimately also shelter compost pile. Not in budget this year as, without a truck, getting rain barrels shipped is cost prohibitive on its own not to mention getting the lumber to actually build a structure.

- Signed up for a chip drop but we're fairly rural so I doubt we ever get one, eventually I'd like to add a significant amount of wood chips to the property to further encourage water retention and add biomass to the soil.

- We will make raised beds where we grow most of our food - several year project as finances allow

- Vermicompost will probably be our first source of soil amendment this year as we really don't have a lot of fruit/vegetable waste so it'll be the quickest way for us to start getting yields, composting will take us quite a while to reach critical mass for compost.

- Fall I'll try to get my neighborsleaves, to continue to add more carbon/biomass and to also attempt to use it for heating a hoop house that hopefully I can manage to get built this fall

- Introducing native wild flowers this spring & working slowly on converting the lawn we aren't actively using to a clover/fescue/ryegrass/yarrow mix.

What else should I look at?

How would I go about improving beneficial fungal activity in the soi?

Best use for fallen branches/limbs?

Do I bother messing with biochar ammendment?
It's still hypocritical to peddle this bill as "protecting freedom of speech" when it is in fact about "who defines what speech deserves freedom".

Unsurprisingly the "who" above is the proponents of the bill and, as the OP notes, they don't exactly have a track record of protecting free speech which makes it even more hypocritical.
But Amazon is hardly offering Lucene as a SaaS offering, don't they?
> The author is 100% correct on everything. Programming is massively over-complicated for no useful reason.

I don't know of any developer that likes complexity for complexity sake for productive systems.

I know there are some esoteric programming languages or obfuscation techniques that make simple things more complex, but they a either meant as a challenge for fun or efforts to protect IP.

Do you have some examples where you have observed such design decisions?
Everything happens for some reason if we want to be pedantic.

I think the point was that some things do not justify their complexity. Especially if you discount inertia.

Trivial example: the creat function could have been named create. That's one more thing folks just have to know and the reason for it isn't much better than "just because".
Yes, thus the „subwoofer crawl“. I think in reality most people have 1-2 fixed locations in a room where they usually listen to music.
Take a look at Jitsi[0] through jits-meet, jigasi, jitsi-videobridge[1]. They also have SDKs[2].

- [0]: https://jitsi.org/

- [1]: https://github.com/jitsi

- [2]: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/dev-guide/dev-guide-mo...
On the same page is cool! unfortunately I have Teams' Whiteboard so I don't need it
http://www.lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/
Due process is handled entirely differently in contract law than in criminal law. That's the damn point. Amazon cancelling the contract is entirely different from any situation in criminal law, where the state is already involved and the standard of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt before one can act.

Buying a cheeseburger is also a type of contract. Can you imagine McDonald's having to reserve a court date to kick someone out of their restaurant for disturbing the other customers?
Nurses and medics and mos professionals run out of the country when they can

The economy without the ECB aid could have already crashed like 2 o 3 times in the last ten years

Spain judicial system not following the constitutional rulebook when ordering new top judges

Biggest airport 4 days block cause the snow machine workers are not rehired
Fiat currency already means the supply side of capital is detached from anything in reality. Remember price is where supply and demand meet, and interest rate is the price of capital. Central planning of the currency market, just like DDR had central planning of the car market with the Trabant.

With central banking, the supply can be infinite, and that’s what we Swedes are seeing with NEGATIVE interest rates. Jyske Bank in DK borrows to consumers house loans where you are paid to borrow. It can not end well, please someone show me logically/from first principle how it ever can.
You mean St Mary's Battersea? You can't see that from Albert Bridge, but you can from Battersea Bridge. Also notable as the last resting place of Benedict Arnold.
"Sign in with Apple" kind of has something like this. It can give the application a randomly generated email address that acts as a forwarding address. The application never receives my real email address.
Sadly no one realizes such things that do not have an immediate effect, especially if it does not harm status quo.

The only thing that can unseat chrome is competition from another well funded corporation, not some fringe activist MBAs who cannot keep engineering talent.
I've recently switched from Firefox to Vivaldi, for one reason: Firefox extensions must use javascript injection to capture keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures. This basically kills all shortcuts+gestures that quickly change tabs, which is how I navigate 95% of the time.

I was a big fan of Opera, so I decided to try Vivaldi, which has built-in features for this.

After a few months I'm probably switching back again due to two problems:

- Vivaldi runs a lot of stuff on the main UI thread, leading to unresponsive interfaces (try the History Panel with a large history, it takes several seconds to type each character in the search bar, and just having the panel open slows down every other tab).

- The Android browser doesn't support extensions, and the ad-blocking is not as good as Firefox Mobile + uBlock Origin.

If not for those two problems, I would keep it. It's a great browser and I admire its passion for its own power users.
“Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” is fantastic, really. It was by far the most recommended book by guests on my favourite podcast and so I has high expectations, but it exceeded them.

I’d also recommend “Down and Out in Paris and London” by George Orwell. It’s a travel-log where Orwell actually becomes a “tramp” in order to best document the experience of homelessness and to meet people experiencing homelessness. Orwell recognised the basic truth about homelessness almost a century ago, and unfortunately nothing really has changed.
Spain is many things, but a failed state it's not.
I would much prefer to have a state run a bank. As they are very less likely to arbitrary cut of my access. And on other hand they can already order any operator in the area to hand over them the details of what I have done in past years...
Starting projects and then abandoning them.

1. Started a niche dating site in early 2000s. Got traction but too many rude assholes. Got tired of dealing with it and shutdown it.

2. Started better looking Craig's list in late 2000s. Got no traction but should have left it online.

3. Started a fitness gadget blog reviewing fitness gadgets. Got some traffic but not technical enough and kind of boring. So stopped. Now i see dcrainmaker and wish i didn't stop.

Countless more ideas that never left my localhost.
They're not even US specific. They're "a handful of cities with insane local economic conditions" specific.

Homelessness is not a rampant problem except on the west coast. Yes big cities have homeless populations but they mostly cycle into various shelters (often church run) where the ones that don't have serious mental issues get their lives back on track. It's not rampant like it is on the west coast.

Spend a few years riding the MTA, T or Metro and then compare to BART if you don't believe me.

California can kind of make the "hospitable climate" excuse but even rainy Seattle is just carped bombed with tents. Places like DC and Miami are not exactly known for exemplifying effective social services yet somehow they manage to have much less of a problem than the west coast.
I spend hours a day in FCP and Photoshop. The ONLY thing it's useful for is scrubbing, but even there, I have other tools that are more helpful and don't take away F keys I can use as macros.

Many times more useful are tactile programmable keys like what I get on an Elgato Stream Deck, or other dedicated hardware. The touch bar is useless since it's one solid strip. Creatives don't like staring at their keyboards either.
Wow, I didn't know it was this recent. My gf introduced me to aquafaba, but I just assumed it was ancient middle-eastern kitchen lore, because... well, chick-peas are used there a lot.

So it seems these are good times for vegans.
Well met. Just curious if one has approached this site from a usability perspective? For example, one formality in usability studies is that of personnas. The name "Hacker"suggests a preconcieved personna? Who is this hacker? My usability and marketing spidey senses tell me hacker embodies on one hand a elite group of programmers and on the other hand a lawless band of brigands? Have you ever conducted studies on how just the name Hacker alone gates this community? Who shies away from this place and who doesn't? I highly recommend courses by NNG for usability. The word hacker certainly has stigmas associated with it. The last study I read from NNG concluded that while many gains have been made in usabilty in the last decade, their findings were that IA, information architecture, lags significantly. IA is about word choices. If I saw an application menu with the word Hacker as a selection I would definitely flag that for review? Also I enjoy the site and Happy New Year!
Ryzen 5000 Mobile: U Series (not all Zen 3)

These things are so frustrating... 5700U probably performs worse than 5600U in real life scenarios. I liked that in the previous laptop generation I could just tell my girlfriend to look for a 4000x AMD CPU, and she got an amazing laptop deal at the end.
Thanks, got it now, I was confused by the differing notations. (I thought the parenthetical was a description, not a name.) Listening to my MIPS internet radio now FWIW (Pure brand).
This would be awesome if it works well and for every app
Open source has a funding problem
Eventually it gives them an incentive to embed such functionalities out of the box if they notice significant usage pattern. Why fight it when you can embrace it and profit from it?
The Economics of Decoupling (including: Chaos Monkey for supply chains?)
> Visual Studio Code is about changing individual bytes in tiny plain text files.

Only if you are being amazingly reductive. VSCode is about changing desirable sequences of bytes into more desirable sequences of bytes, where the definition of "desirable" is stupendously complex and depends on state that exists on many other computers around the world. If you just want to change bytes you can open notepad or nano and watch as they boot instantly. VSCode is much closer to Eclipse than nano in its capabilities.

> And the most baffling thing to me is that such things are so widely accepted.

To me I think about things like screen refresh rate or keyboard latency. Some people demand 120hz or incredibly low keyboard latency. But I'd wager that the percentage of people who care about such things are a rounding error. Even among hardcore gaming enthusiasts, optimal fps has only doubled over the past three decades. So there is way more real time to do stuff, and developers fill that time! They might fill it with features or they might fill it with lower development costs.
It's so dumb that there's a few zen2 SKUs under the 5000 name. They skipped 4000 on the desktop so that mobile and desktop could have the same name for the same generation only to immediately screw it up.
Ah, thank you very much. Yes, I meant a fizz rather than a flip. Thanks for clarifying.
Indeed, I have an installation of LanguageTool on my private server to avoid the privacy issues mentioned above. I have plugins for Thunderbird, Chromium and vim running. The browser plugin is by far the best.
It has a proper menu bar, that alone makes it a thousands times better than Chrome for me.
There are just two models with AMD and HiDPI displays:
Microsoft Surface Laptop 3,
Asus ROG Zephyrus G14. It seems that the laptop market simply ignores AMD's mobile CPUs for middle-, high- end laptops.
I just live with a NAS in my house, which syncs to S3.
The term is so often conflated because it seems as though what is wanted be a technical definition of a concept that is not technical, but social.

“Linux” the kernel is technical, but that other thing for which “Linux” is often used has no technical barriers to it, and is entirely a social thing — something is “Linux” when it declares itself part of the tribe, and is so accepted.

SteamOS as a marketing strategy always used the phrase “Linux and SteamOS” and was thus successful in moving itself outside of the tribe, for example.

There is no technical definition of “an operating system” and there are no technical reasons for what “operating systems" are and aren't “Linux”; it is purely based on social cohesion.
Touch screens are simply bad input devices for most use cases and smartphones already have casual usage covered.

I paint, so I do use them often (with a pen though), but as soon as the drawing is done, I gladly embrace the mouse again.

Windows 8 had a bad UI in my opinion, although the Windows 10 start menu isn't that much better. I have yet to meet a person that uses the alphabetically ordered list of apps, which you cannot edit in any way. Not long ago I was in front of an old computer with Win2000. No, the advantages weren't just habitual. You can control Windows without a start menu and this is what I basically do now.

So what would I do with a tablet? More painting. What else? Nothing. Apple is awesome for audio applications, but with MacOS please.

Not even browsing the web is fun because you cannot write angry comments anywhere without getting even angrier with your input device.

Some schools suggested getting touch devices for learning. I nearly ripped all my hairs out. Sure, you could attach a keyboard an all and a unified environment is easy to maintain. But you want your kids to learn something and be creative, write a text here and there. Never think your children to be as stupid as yourself.
I really hope there will be more high quality non gaming laptops with good availability. Especially in the upper tier it seems most manufacturers kept their Intel designs (not sure if due to availability, costs of adapting to the AMD platform, pressure by Intel or a combination of these).
good answer. cheers.
If the news sites honestly assert "that those links provide very little value to the news site and a heap of value to Google" then they can't really object if Google and Facebook stops providing these links. As they are objecting, then it seems that this assertion wasn't really true and that their bluff got called.
Me and my friends are currently working on a job board for Devs and IT people from Germany and those who want to move there:

https://germantechjobs.de/en/

The main differentiator between existing boards and our site is the transparency: each company has to provide details like: salary, tech stack, all dev methodologies that they use (are they doing CI/CD, writing integration tests, etc) and so on.

Presently we are polishing the code base, trying to get some attention from the local market, grinding through social media and talking with various companies.
If you have any thoughts, ideas, complaints and insights, feel free to drop some comments down below :)
It isn't a matter of server-side vs client-side (I have no clue what Discord does, but it does eat quite a bit of compute client-side), but of what we get out of the box.
I think its more they're in short supply. You look at Thinkpad AMD laptops and many are one month+ wait times.
If they did, should that mean Elasticsearch can't?
On windows, you can automate the installs of software that comes as `msi` files, by the way - kind of obscure, but its how you can easily do that.
I'm wondering at this point whether it's TSMC supply constraints. Intel still wins in sheer number of fabs producing their product. If you can't actually get enough AMD chips to ship your laptop...
This is an awesome idea.
> A magic folder that syncs across all your devices is going to be useful for the foreseeable future.

This is exactly why they must innovate. Their core tech is useful, but it is also replicable; so as soon as someone has magic folder PLUS more useful features bundled together (as some already do), Dropbox fails to be as worth having as a separate service for users that prefer the bundle. Which is why they have issues at present.
Thanks for the insights...frustrating times to be searching for one.
Country? Here (Spain) many places do take cards/contactless but it's usually 'broken' under E100 or they just simply refuse anything but cash. Eveyone has wads of cash etc.

And not only 'the south', Berlin (Germany) has it too; many places don't take cards; they insist on cash.
What would be an example of such a note?

Low E has a wavelength of a couple meters, no problems hearing that close up.
My thoughts exactly. Couldn't they have released those Zen2 parts as refreshed 4000 series, which they are?

This feels like they're trying to scam less knowledgeable consumers. WTF is going on at AMD?

Also, the Zen3 iGPU is still Vega not RDNA2. WTF AMD?! They could integrate RDNA2 in the console Zen2 APUs but the PC Zen3 chips are still running a GPU from 2017 which is based on an architecture from 2012! How is this possible, it just seems crazu to me.
Facebook AD can target user by email /phone number:

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/170456843145568?id=24...

Container is not work in this case. But I use it too, it is useful on prevent me being tracked on random website.
> you have to type everything

LoL they dont know tab completion exist.

Discoverability & Learning curve is a point in favor of GUIs. But having to press more keys (offset by not having to use mouse & fight with shitty new designs) is not.
> it’s a browser which treats me like an adult

this is how I feel about Vivaldi too, and coincidentally about KDE as well
> What makes it stand out particularly is the careful collection and articulation of concrete examples and historical references.

Unfortunately, it is a really shallow analysis of this topic. He'd do well to speak to experts in history of technology/science when drawing such huge conclusions about humanity. This is just enough history to get people into trouble.
Yes. It gives absolute control of money to one central entity, they can monitory and choose who has access to it and how are they using it.

As a digital currency is essentially programmable money so rules and conditions on how it's spent can be set like what's the interest rate (negative rates also are possible), if there's a time limit on spending or rules on how much you are allowed to hold.

Anonymity is also gone, from https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/Report_on_a_digital_...:

- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Erou2mQW4AA-ixa?format=png&name=...
- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eror-rYW4AAJBLz?format=png&name=...
The TL;DR: he registered one of the expired domains that manage the TLD namespace of Democratic Republic of Congo.
You clearly have not seen a failed state 1st hand.
I used to be able to touch type the speaker volume and mute F keys. With the slider or volume mute buttons, I often have a hard time hitting them correctly on the Touch Bar. This is after having it for years.
Completing Advent of Code 2020 Day 1 in x86-64 Assembly
Minimum wage in the US is $5.15/hour iirc. At 40 hours per week (which many jobs won’t reliably get), that’s ~$824/month BEFORE taxes, food, and so on. Even in the rural south where I used to live, where the cost of living is very low, many one person apartments would be $400–$500/month. That leaves maybe $400 for everything else BEFORE taxes on a GOOD month. Combine this with the fact that employers aren’t required to, and pretty much never do, provide medical benefits to this sort of employee.

Maybe you can squeak by if you’re lucky… but you have to be consistently lucky. One bad month and the whole thing can fall apart. It’s basically impossible to build wealth or savings in this situation (not to mention care for your own fucking health).
Is Chrome a RAM hog and therefore faster than FF?
I exclusively use FF and find it a bit sluggish, but am fine to give up some speed for the privacy gain.
It would be interesting to see a similar study on motorsport drivers. You would be able to measure athletic performance more accurately because you're measured against a stopwatch. There are also fewer external factors than basketball as drivers simply go around the track as fast as they can without external obstacles (in qualifying rather than racing stages). Unlike basketball, their athletic performance is less influenced by reacting to what the other team is doing.

There are a range of time zones changes and non-changes. From three consecutive races in UTC+2 (Belgium, Netherlands, Italy in F1 this year) to large changes (Australia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia). The sample size can go beyond the 20 F1 drivers by including junior leagues (F2/F3) as well as MotoGP and other tournaments.

Some F1 teams, like McLaren, are already doing some interesting work outside of car performance which could have benefits outside of motorsport.[1] See MindMaze for work in neuroscience.

Separately, it would also be interesting to test non-drivers like pit stop crew and race strategists. Like drivers, their performance (albeit less/not athletic) can be measured against a stopwatch.

[1] https://www.mclaren.com/racing/partners/mindmaze/
The crunch for space at TSMC must be much worse than we realize for AMD to still use Vega which is made at GlobalFoundries.

With that said, this is some impressive logistical and supply chain juggling on AMDs part.
Am I the only one infinitely annoyed by dropbox hiding the download button in a context menu?!
No, I do not think you have understood my argument.

There is only one word for someone, who approaches a topic they know little about, and suggests that its rubbish and he knows better.

That word is 'arrogant'.

And you are correct, I have no sympathy for arrogant people.
Anyone who thinks charging a user $99 with a single click and no explanation near the button should be sent to UX jail (where the only way to get food is to come up with a grep command the warden needs to find part of a street address).
Pulsar Timing Array
I'd say programming (at least modern programming) involves knowing one's environment and knowing how to get things done in relation to the actual code writing.

Also, using the search query "/usr/local/bin" in Google returns this[0] link first. This is my real issue. If a simple web search returns a good result first that gives you a good overview and gives you more background knowledge and more terms to search for and flesh out your knowledge, then there is little excuse to say learning is too hard. If you don't want to learn, that's fine, but complaining about learning being too hard here is unjust.

[0] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4186/what-is-usr-lo...
My dude I saw homeless people in towns with a population of 4000 in Mississippi. This is just false.