skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best option is to approach a blog in your niche and offer them guest post. This way you get your content published and they get fresh content. Both are benefitted.
For anyone interested the cutting edge in VR is the new HP Reverb G2, it's a significant leap in tech and is interestingly quite a bit cheaper than previous flagship models from HTC or Valve. It's getting very good reviews and is releasing this month. Also it's made in partnership with Valve so should get all their RnD benefits.

I also dropped Oculus immediately after seeing the FB integration, and now have a HP on the way.
If you read the thread there is a link to a tweet. He had an apartment fire and lost just about everything. That is one of the things that is motivating this.

It makes complete sense to make a case in a project where there are a lot of requests for work and many companies using it.
Finnish strawberries are clearly superior! ;)

Jokes aside, my personal experience is that strawberries grown in some grandmother's garden in a Nordic country, including Denmark, will beat the mass-produced stuff in the stores when it comes to taste. I can't imagine the same wouldn't apply to Canadian or Russian strawberries, grown under similar conditions, as well.
> Reason being is that they are picked when they are green and they "ripen" by the time they get to the store shelf.

I think the reason is that those tomatoes never saw anything resembling soil or sunlight; they are grown in some fertilized solution inside a greenhouse and propelled to a rapid growth.
> the main physical benefit from weightlifting (strength training in particular) is that you can lift heavier things

This is false and shortsighted. Here are some benefits of strength training:

- Muscle mass and bone density maintenance and acquisition, which translates to better overall health. Many physical ailments in old age are related to the degradation of lean body tissues and strength training mitigates that. There is a massive change in trends where even general fitness, health-oriented programs for older trainees now incorporate a substantial resistance-training component.

- Strength acquisition causes performance gains in pretty much every sport with an anaerobic component. Even sports where strength training has been historically ignored like soccer (which I follow closely) are seeing a change of trend, as it has become obvious that stronger is better, and that significant strength gains do not have to come at the expense of other athletic attributes such as agility or speed.

- Strength training fixes posture and mobility issues. For untrained individuals, squatting under a light load (or even bodyweight) will likely reveal a host of problems issuing from the modern sedentary life, such as a lack of strength and mobility in key parts of the body, such as the abs or the hip flexors. Training for strength requires addressing these imbalances and helps greatly in the process too.

> Any outdoorsy activity is vastly superior to it due to exposure to fresh air and sunlight

This is in fact ignorant advice, and false, for the following reasons:

- Few "outdoorsy" activities are close to providing the benefits listed above

- You can train for strength outdoors: with your bodyweight, resistance bands, kettlebells or even a barbell setup. This is a false dichotomy that's being put forward.

It is absolutely fine if you want the bulk of your physical activity to be long walks in nature, but do know that the weight of scientific and practical evidence is overwhelming: you won't be optimizing for general health unless you incorporate some degree of resistance training into your physical activity routine.
I'm the same as you. I am embarrassingly weak at squats. I have done 140kg for reps (I'm 78kg), but it just doesn't feel right. Eventually the mental load just became too much so I stopped squatting.

But deadlifts I seem naturally good at. I did a 200kg deadlift (2.5x bodyweight) which I'm proud of, but honestly I think I could go much heavier if I really wanted to train it. But I decided to leave it there as the risk of injury becomes too high after that. Nowadays I don't train it regularly but find I can still deadlift 160kg (2x bodyweight) at any time. It really helps my back and my shoulders.
Rule #1 -- Always be backing up.

Rule #2 -- Never download and execute binaries from the Internet if you can't track it to reputable source. Linux will not help if you execute it.

Rule #3 -- If you can't track it but need to run anyway, jail the heck out of it. Create a VM and run it inside, disabling also its ability to use network for anything else than reaching the Internet. Make sure it can't reach any other machine in your network or ports on your PC through loopback.
100% agreed. I venture that it's a side effect of our industry relying almost entirely on universities and self-learning to propagate knowledge, instead of trade schools. Academics don't want to teach "messy" real world skills like how to actually build a distributed computer with your own hands: there's a very narrow range of skills considered acceptable to teach in the academic world and sysadmin isn't one of them.

Meanwhile we've had 20 years of media and culture telling people that those who get rich are the software guys, never the infrastructure guys, and that the easiest way to get into the industry is by learning web design.

Also, I suspect the industry is exhausting the pool of talent that learned computing on UNIX workstations at university in the 80s and early-mid 90s. The people who lived and breathed servers and UNIX are retiring out of the workforce, and not really being replaced. AWS is stepping in the fill the breach by selling sysadmins-as-a-service, basically, with a thin veneer of GUI programming slapped on top, and some proper documentation writers. Selling pickaxes and shovels to the gold miners - classic.

Finally, I think a lot of firms have developed a "no contractors" policy. I've never worked at a company that allowed contractors and I'm about mid-way through my own career, a bit less. At some point it has become received CEO wisdom that they're building a committed team of true believers, so "mercenaries" aren't welcome. It leads to the kind of thinking you see in this thread where "I don't have the skills, therefore I must hire someone full time, and they must earn as much as me, therefore it's too expensive" ends up leading to "and therefore I must outsource to a firm that 'contracts' for an hourly rate billed via credit card".
Python Concurrency From the Ground Up (2015) [video]
There is a difference between one-off bounties and continuous sponsorhips.

- Stable income vs. unplannable amount of bounties

- Bounties generally don't cover general maintenance work for a project (e.g. updating dependencies)

- Bounties (as they are implemented today) generally only pay the contributor, and not the maintainers, which can also have significant cost in reviewing a feature

- Bounties traditionally have been so disproportionally small compared to the work required that they don't come close to provide a reasonable hourly rate for contributors

(I think you'll find enough articles that go into more details on the difference between the two.)

Bounty platforms have been around for ages, and I don't know a single project that is able to finance itself from that. Even for the OBS example you mentioned, it the bounty was a good way to get the ball rolling on a specific issue, but the overall maintenance is still financed by monthly sponsoships.

One-off donations might be a nice supplement, but they don't form a solid foundation.
Old accounts seems to be immune to this, and will not get banned even if you push the boundaries of spamming. Creating a new account, however, has become almost impossible.
i can't imagine myself writing this kidn of assembly code. is this generated code?
I think intermittent fasting might reduce one's need for some nutrients. Read up on autophagy. Really interesting stuff.
> tomatoes sold in supermarkets taste like plastic

Here in Norway you can get quite tasty tomatoes sold in supermarkets. Here's[1] a "blog" article from one of them. There are other brands and tomato variants.

Of course they cost slightly more than the ones we import from wherever but the taste more than make up for it.

That said, I've never tasted a "real" tomato so not sure how close they come.

[1]: https://coop.no/mega/kjokkenhagen/verdens-soteste-tomater-dy...
It's coming for you...
With more resistance to pesticides and herbicides, farmers can add more of these substances to plants, and that will incidentally kill other lifeforms in the soil ecosystem that affect the nutritional content of the soil.
I don't know how much could be placebo effect. I have been in Ukraine for a few months and I am currently in Turkey as well, and it is entirely possible to buy gross/unripe/tasteless produce here, and especially Ukraine. I think you might be experiencing the 'grass is always greener' effect because there is definitely good produce if you know where to find it all over the United States, which is a humongous nation.
> Unless your country has joined the EU since your last election then you know you know you are electing a government head. [...] Generally we don’t have a directly elected ministers in Europe, [...] they are selected by the head of government.

This is all mostly true. But also very indirect, yes? I remember the discussions about the EU constitution project and the treaty of Lisbon, and this system with national government representatives was sold to us as a necessary democratic counterweight to the "dominance" of the most populous states (especially Germany) in Parliament. I acknowledge the need for some kind of balancing between pure population majority one the one hand and the needs of smaller states on the other hand. A proper elected "upper house" similar to the US Senate, with a fixed number (more than two!) of members from each member state, would be vastly superior to the current system.

(Also, when the corrupt Austrian government collapsed last year, it was replaced for half a year with an "expert cabinet", with a chancellor and ministers who were all very capable and all, but not politicians, and never elected for any position. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bierlein_government They did refrain from big EU-level moves, but nothing would have stopped them.)
> package your AGPL product wholesale and sell it.

if anyone has a problem with that, then they have a problem with software being open source.

Or they are discriminatory and just don't want anyone they personally dont like to benefit.
> American produce SUCKS.

How come? What there is Monsanto for?
How our drinking water could help prevent suicide
We use teams for scheduled conference calls/meetings as it handles larger groups better than slack and outlook is setup to add team-meeting links into calendar events.

We use slack for team discussions and DM and sometimes for one-one calls.

I think this happened naturally and wasn't a planned path.
The large retail chains in Europe sell what I call porn-fruits and porn-vegetables. Especially places like EDEKA, REWE, Kaufland in Germany.

Strawberries, berries, raspberries, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, salads, apples, pears, eggplants, etc. - shiny (do they wax them?), large, unified size, saturated color. Barely any taste, all watery. Grown in perfectly artificial industrial greenhouses.

Not a trace of soil on them, not a trace of imperfections. This is not how fruits and vegetables bought directly from a farmer on a market look and taste like.
> a profound loss of motivation to continue working or developing a career after achieving a comfortable worry-free level of financial success.

So it sounds as though if you gave most of your $ to people who could really improve their lives hugely with a little $, everyone would be better off. Or at least be happier, which is a major form of being better off. Having done something towards helping others and making the world a better place would feel good too, I imagine.
Why? I think it is very plausible that a large part of this is automated. Combine that with a real name policy and false positives sound not that unlikely.

One potentially error-prone part of moderating any site with community content is handling users evading bans by creating new accounts. If you don't have any mechanism to prevent that, you have a much larger amount of offensive or troll posts, and react slower because you don't have the history of the user because you treat each account as a different person. But any mechanism trying to detect if a new user is potentially a sock puppet of a troublemaker is acting on rather few bits of information. So false positives are not that unlikely.
Ask HN: How would you envision the physical equivalent of the HN community?
Recently there was a post about Lloyd's Coffee House and other similar establishments in which people could discuss ideas ranging from the economy to philosophy - a kind of intellectual melting pot.

It seems to me that HN is a (somewhat) modern equivalent of that. However finding such a community day-to-day is more difficult.

I find some of the trademark qualities of this community to be innovation and intellect, but more importantly, level-headed discourse between differing perspectives. Am I alone in finding that these qualities embody a minority?

How would you bring to life such an environment in the real world? Exclusive bar? Intellectual cafe? Or am I simply seeking a phantom of the past?
Just a heads up: I tried leaving some feedback using the "Give Feedback!" link at the bottom of your site. Submitting the feedback resulted in a 500-error.
Protip:

On OS X you can set it so no icons appear on your Desktop.

For me at least, having that "new laptop" clean slate at all times helps me maintain focus :)
I'll have myself checked for psychic abilities...
It's actually been shown that strength training is more important than cardiovascular conditioning for older people. Being strong is incredibly beneficial. And you can lift heavier things. Why would that not be useful? I use my strength all the time. I also go for long walks in the countryside. You can do both things.
> I had to capitulate for google analytics.

Ask yourself how much you actually need analytics. I found I seldom looked at it. I myself replaced Google Analytics with self-hosted Matomo for a while, but then I just dropped it altogether because I simply don’t need it. Now I do have server logs that I can look at, and from time to time I do (and they reveal things like Atom feeds consume the substantial majority of the traffic and page loads, which client-side JS logging would never have revealed!), but it wouldn’t bother me to have no analytics at all.
I thought I didn't like tomatoes until I came here to Serbia. So much flavor. Though this only applies when they're in season (eg. in summer) - currently they're out of season so they're selling the plastic ones again I was exposed to in the U.S.
A lot of the anti-Apple arguments I see here seem to have an element of ideological fixation. IMO the practicalities of the real world are always more involved than an ideological black/white distinction, and just as you said here there are always tradeoffs on different fronts. Openness instead of a walled garden is nice, but how far can you go with it? If you think about it, every company is essentially a plutocratic organization or even somehow military-like, where most important decisions are made by the few elites at the top and passed down, and people are quite fine with it.

Of course the argument here seems to be that Apple is gradually becoming an almost "public good", while if you're unhappy with a company you're working at, you can switch. But then again if there are better alternatives to Apple, nothing theoretically prevents the users from switching. I have been using Android since forever but this year I'm switching to iPhone. The touted "freedom" simply is not evident in most scenarios during my daily phone usage, and I'm fed up with a lot of downsides of Android (ironically, it's hard to think that being tracked by countless potentially malicious apps offers you more "freedom" than living in Apple's ecosystem), also Google is not known to be exactly friendly to developers either and it can be even more Kafka-esque to appeal a ban, apparently.

To maintain the standards of a system, sometimes the maintainer has to get hard, and this would result in them occasionally cracking down on false positives. Still, it's similar to how a society cannot function without an actual enforcer of rules, which is the police. As long as there is a mechanism/will to redress the false positives, it's much better than a system where there's no control at all. Of course, if you say you're a hardcore libertarian and are fine with living in a society without any policing and would rather protect your own interests yourself, no problem and you can always go with the most liberal phone OS out there. But most societies can't realistically function that way nor do most people wish it that way. The app ecosystem is similar in this sense.
Numerology Goes to the Movies (2017)
lucky you.
I'm answering the rhetorical/philosophical question the original comment asked about SSH and local shell.
>and yet the government remains terrible at solving either problem

You don't kill the cash cow.
"I mean, this is a fairly trivial loophole to close if you have a lawyer who knows what they're doing."

In the same way that it's trivial to write a twitter clone in a weekend, yes.

Hundreds of goverments have tried for decades to do what you claim is trivial. Good luck.
I was in kyiv and lviv. To be fair, I stayed in the more affluent areas so I'm sure I got access to the higher quality stuff. still, even in the restaurants I noticed a marked increase in quality when it came to salads.
Samsung Galaxy S8/S9 (ideally the snapdragon ones) + Gear VR.
Yes. But the reason they give for not allowing local programming environments is the risk of breaking OUT of the sandbox with an exploit.
Pretty sure Japan's addressing system is also responsible for several kanji in Unicode where nobody is quite sure how they go there.
I suspect similar situations arise, on a smaller scale, all over the place. I live in a house (29 Acacia Road) divided into three flats, known as Flat 1 29 Acacia Road, Flat 2 29 Acacia Road, and Flat 3 29 Acacia Road to the council, but known as 29 Acacia Road, 29A Acacia Road, and 29B Acacia Road to the Royal Mail. And as FLAT GND FLR 29 ACACIA ROAD, FLAT 1ST FLR 29 ACACIA ROAD, FLAT 2ND FLR 29 ACACIA ROAD to the Valuation Office Agency. Until very recently, they were known as something else to the Land Registry!
How to run a fun marketing campaign (Speakers, Rubik's cubes, and viewfinders)
Out of curiosity, what decision do you anticipate taking for your personal site that would be informed by data from Google Analytics? In a commercial setting, it would be for things like adjusting marketing budgets (presumably not applicable), reviewing hosting infrastructure (you seem to have that taken care of), adjusting content strategy (not an issue if you're publishing on your own terms?) etc.
It's a weird problem with the language. Despite many attempts, with proposals like "xe" and "thon"[0], English never picked up a good gender-neutral singular third-person pronoun. [Yeesh, that's a mouthful of adjectives.]

As recently as 15 years ago, using "they" to refer to a single individual was derided by many as grammatically incorrect. It was common in colloquial speech, but frowned upon in writing, mostly because it increased ambiguity. The thinking was that if you accept "they" as a third person singular pronoun, then sentences like the following would become unclear: "Sally and her friends went to the mall, then they left".

Of course, this is correct: singular "they" is ambiguous, and often frustrating. But it's what we've ended up with. The recent acceptance comes down to two factors: linguistic descriptivism finally overshadowed linguistic prescriptivism, and non-binary gender identity (and concern about accidental misgendering) became more prominent.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_languages...

(^ Note the "Spivak pronoun". Courtesy of the same Michael Spivak who wrote Calculus on Manifolds.)
When did defending property rights become a democrat thing to do?
The article's date is "November 11, 2020". Is the author a time traveller? :)
But this is true for any app on the App Store.
It's the one thing I miss from moving from a home to a condo.

Especially after COVID restrictions went into effect.
Don't know if I'd extend it to _all_ American produce, but some of it does suck very bad indeed, especially tomatoes. I grew up in an area famous for its tomatoes, so my standards for what constitutes a good tomato are impossibly high. The only tomato that's not a complete abomination in northwestern US are those Kumato tomatoes that Trader Joe's has sometimes. On the other hand the United States quite possibly has by far the best apples in the world, if you're willing to pay like $2.50-3/lb - that's how much newer, patented varieties such as Sweetango cost. Bell peppers are about the same. US onions are great (and huge). US garlic is total inedible shit. US corn on the cob is great. Asparagus is great as well, when in season. Some varieties of strawberries are great, mysteriously, even if they aren't fully ripe.

TL;DR: there are things that are better, and there are things that are worse. As with any region, you need to know what the region excels at, and use that for best results.

Generally, I feel that US grocery stores make an overly heavy emphasis on shelf life. You can't have a tasty tomato that also has a long shelf life, but you can have a tasty bell pepper that does.

What you're seeing in Greece and Turkey aren't just ingredients. It's the culture: the understanding of what those dishes are _supposed_ to taste like. That just doesn't translate outside its natural habitat. Take the same ingredients, bring them to the US, have a US cook make you a salad, and you more likely than not you will get shit Greek salad. Same with trying to make Texas BBQ in Greece - you will get shit BBQ.

Outside produce, IMO the US has by far the best beer scene in the world, particularly on the coasts. Just 10 years ago there really wasn't much, and nowadays I see US beers in pubs in London. And by "beers" I don't mind piss water like Budweiser, but real, actual world class beers. It's well past the point where Europe is kinda disappointing, beer-wise.
I think this sounds like a fair proposal
That's kinda how monopolies work, and why trust-busting laws were first devised.
You seem to have no idea Fox and establishment GOP hate Trump and want him to lose.
Buy seasonal food that is actually grown seasonally (just because you bought a tomato in the summer doesn’t mean it was actually grown any differently). Buy heirloom varieties.

Organic isn’t a magic word that means better, and as it has become popular and more industrialized, it means less. There are plenty of questionably healthy practices which count as “organic”.

Something being grown nearby doesn’t make it automatically any better.

Finding local producers that can deliver seasonal heirloom varieties would be maximizing your chances. Growing your own getting your seed from somewhere like the seed savers exchange would have a bit better chances.

https://www.seedsavers.org/
They are boiling the frog slowly. The T2, app notorization and kext depreciation are steps towards locking the device down. Combined with the iPhone-ification of their hardware I see the Mac becoming more like the iPad than the iPad becoming a general purpose computer.