skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, why not pay a subscription for a knife? You're getting "extra value" from it every time you use it!

Just, no. By "extra" value I mean "extra extra" value - in case of software, new features & updates (which, of course, could also bring no extra value to you, but they do at least in theory).

Btw, I'm not objecting to choice. You want to avoid paying up-front cost for your knives, buy subscription instead? Be my guest! But if the company is forcing you to do this, then it's obviously a good (profitable) deal for them, and a bad deal (scam) for you.
The UK and Ireland impose passport controls on the EU (Common Travel Area) which won't change, with regards to customs checks we're engaging in a bit of legal theatre to claim that NI is remaining inside the UK customs area but de facto it will be in a customs union with the EU/the Republic of Ireland and the customs border will be between Great Britain and the island of Ireland as a whole.
Stripped of the hyperbole, the article merely points out that space mining will only be profitable if the exercise is largely self-sufficient. If every piece of equipment needs to be launched from Earth's surface, then it's going to be very tough to make it profitable. I don't think the space mining start-ups he's so dismissive of were in any doubt about that.

His fictional example of "Moon" is illustrative. That film was set in a Helium-3 mining facility. Helium-3 simply doesn't exist on Earth. If we get to the point where we need it to power our advanced fusion reactors, then we'll have no alternative but to create a space-based mining industry. Once the infrastructure is in place for that, then lots of other space-mining opportunities will start to look tempting too.
That's an argument I think is valid for a possible lack of consequences of importance.

Unlike thinking there won't be consequences of importance because of a belief that < 1% of humanity even thought of maybe possibly having
From the maintainer:

Hi there, Homebrew maintainer here.

I can clear up a few things:

brew cask commands were deprecated on 2020-12-01 with the release of Homebrew 2.6.0. Starting then, all brew cask commands succeeded but displayed a warning informing users that the command would soon be disabled. The message also provides the appropriate replacement.
brew cask commands were disabled on 2020-12-21 with the release of Homebrew 2.7.0. Starting then, all brew cask commands failed and displayed a warning informing users that the command is disabled. The message also provides the appropriate replacement.
With the release of Homebrew 2.8.0 (release date TBD), this disable message will be removed.
The alternative to brew cask <command> is to use brew <command>. In many cases, you can add the --cask flag to specify casks only. For example, brew cask install atom is now brew install atom or brew install --cask atom. There are some casks that share a name with formulae (e.g. wireshark) so adding --cask ensures that the cask is installed not the formula.

I'm not much of an ansible user but I'm happy to try and help out if needed. Feel free to point me in the right direction if anything is blocked and could use feedback from the Homebrew side of things.
Bitcoin is a really bad currency: it has pretty wild price fluctuations, and the transaction time for enough confirmations to be secure between two random parties takes a long time.
The Google Fitbit Deal: Hazardous to competition, privacy, and our health [pdf]
All I can remember from the last month is “Brexit was a bad idea —- without a trade deal the UK is ruined.”
You actually place this on your resume? I'm wondering the response from hiring managers. Thanks
Ask HN: Best Tutorials for Blender?
I want to learn 3D-modelling and Game Development, any tips regarding this and learning blender are much much appreciated ....
What Is Enlightenment?
"Space stuff is expensive because launching ships from the bottom of earth's gravity well is expensive."

So Don't Do That Then.

In fact, doing practically ANYTHING directly in space is cheaper and easier than trying to launch it out of earths gravity well.

Even just mining and refining fuel from the moon and using that to refuel ships in Low Earth Orbit (which is just about attainable with current technology) would be a big help.
Yes, mining fuel on the moon is comparatively cheaper than launching it from earth.

Here's the thing. Having to launch from earth is so ingrained that someone will likely answer: "but mining fuel on the moon is so expensive!" because they unconsciously add the cost of launching from earth. Don't launch from earth.

Sure, maybe you need to do a few launches from earth to get your moon-mining operation going. That's a pretty steep initial investment, I'll grant that too. But after that you are getting fuel from the moon, and that machinery will never need to go back to earth again. You can just keep going from the moon to LEO and back. This saves you from a lot of launches from earth already.

Maybe you're thinking that the fuel cost of flying all the way to the moon and back would still be very expensive. You'd be (relatively) wrong. Nothing is as expensive as launching from Earth's surface to LEO.

Don't launch from Earth's surface to LEO, and suddenly a lot of things become viable.
You should wait a few years and make the twitter poll again, but give three options: even/none/odd

I've seen with my own eyes people claiming that 0 is odd.

I can sort of understand why people is confused and say that 0 is not even, but I can't imagine why someone would say that 0 is odd.

(Also, the sample in your your twitter poll is probably biased and includes too many people that cares about math. A poll in the general population would get worse results.)
yeah no, imagine watergate without the address book, the tapes and the bank records.
UK and EU agree on post-Brexit trade deal
Do you get a technological society without air?

Cooking and metallurgy are both pretty important, and we got them incrementally, starting from fire being pretty easy to do.
> the JSZip Plugin with the ability to dynamically create Zip files, and thus to conveniently build multi-file static sites within the browser

How cool is dat!?
> Yes, the app does constantly reminding you to have the correct position,

That's not what I meant by position, I meant hand position, finger curving, etc. If you did it well at the start that's nice, some people don't (in fact there's a guy in this same thread saying that he has finger cramps when playing).

> so the app wasn't that bad and the stuff that I learnt was actually correct and usable.

That's great! I'm not saying it's useless, only that has limitations, the same thing that you noticed when you started with a teacher.

> I still think it's good enough for learning how to play.

As long as it's weighted it's decent, and 61 keys for starters is not too bad either. When the parent said 'cheapo midi keyboard' I was thinking of one of these small cheap keyboards that almost looks like a toy.

> One thing that you might be missing is the fact that most of the people wanting to learn the piano don't plan on becoming a professional, they just want to be able to learn and play a few songs or improvise a bit. In order to do this usually "good enough" is good enough

I know that. I'm talking precisely to that people, because I'm one of those people. I'm doing that with the clarinet right now in fact. If you really want to play a few songs by yourself and improvise a bit, you're taking it seriously enough to the point I do think it's worth it to go to a teacher.
The book “Longitude” by Dava Sobel is an excellent telling of this story. And there’s a movie adaptation too.
Space X and the Falcon 9
I'd like to nominate Apocalypse Now. Very particularly, Marlon Brando's performance. The whole movie is built up to this mythic man, a god among mortals, a figure that human psyche cannot understand, the end to an Odyssey. And Brando and Coppola have managed to surpass all the expectations.
It's also a children's book that evolved in a book for young adults. I always thought it was supposed to be whimsical and fun, not have serious complicated plots
I'm also in Ballard and tend to agree about it being isolated.
Also, there are a lot of Ballard drivers that hate cyclists — that first/last mile to access the Burke is by far the most dangerous. I get some anti-cyclist vitriol, honking, or aggressive passing almost every time I ride. And I am fast enough to keep up with the speed of traffic! Some drivers just see bikes and think "I should be in front."

I really don't mind the short jaunt to the Fremont bridge, but it does add some extra travel time. Never ride on the Ballard bridge; it just doesn't have anywhere for bikes to be. The sidewalks are too narrow and unprotected from traffic, and the primary traffic lanes are going 40+ mph. That whole thing needs to be replaced for the 21st century, although there may be some resistance as it's a nationally registered "historic place."
Wow this entire thread is just unreal to me. I’ve mostly interacted NetBSD and DragonflyBSD people who were mostly helpful and polite even of you asked what was considered a stupid question.
This looks like an amazing idea :)
I think you've made me realize why I don't enjoy Rust. Every function is colored.
I agree, it's still a niche investment, and after 10 years, I'm not very impressed with what blockchain technology, or the
philosophy behind it, has given us. And on the issue of btc price increase: how much of this price inflation is through manipulation?
That is a very high level observation, although I do not disagree entirely. You should not forget about countries like Norway, the Netherland and Switzerland where people really have valley-like salaries.
EV registration numbers are going thru the roof in Norway and the Netherlands.
Also, the most basic Cayenne costs 100k EUR, at least in Switzerland.
If you were able to do this. Fuck you for waiting for a public health crisis to do this.

Do you know how many families you've impacted because of citizenship?

I'm glad you're doing it now but I'm still pissed for the missed opportunity.
It’s really incredible the lack of technical detail there is in reporting of the EU and Brexit. As you say, it’s very difficult to pick out exactly what this means.

Some limitations which I do know of:

* British nationals can’t live and work freely on Europe, so an architect based in London can’t jump on a Eurostar and take a business meeting in Paris by default, they would have to get a visa specific to the country and activity. And their professional qualifications may not be recognised, so would have to operate through local professionals (not sure how that would work in practice).

* Products sold into the EU will have to be recertified for that market, no assumption of regulatory compliance or compatibility. So a lot more red tape and checks in moving products across borders, in particular that will impact food and products built as part of just in time supply chains.

* No ability for British firms to operate in other European countries with equivalent rights as a local company, will have to form subsidiaries instead in many cases.

Would be interested what else people can add.
The new front grill is atrocious. I saw their new electric model. An unispired SUV on steroids with a butt ugly grill.
This reminds me of the story in China and their social credit score. Apparently they will show your face on a billboard if you are deliquent (one example was if you weren't paying child support). And since they can track you using your phone, they only show the 'ad' when you are present in the space.
>Better for driving on snow

Until you have to go up a hill, or steer and drive in several inches of slush. I guess it's marginally more stupid proof if you floor it at a dumb time but that seems like needless optimization of the worst case while totally tanking the average case. With the weight distribution and electronic controls available in modern vehicles FWD has no meaningful benefit other than cost.
Considering that the median global age is 30, this seems like a safe bet.
HN is way too harsh on jokes, even when they’re really good - like this one.
> But if the company is forcing you to do this

I'm really not sure anyone is forced to drive a BMW, are they.

> But if the company is forcing you to do this, then it's obviously a good (profitable) deal for them, and a bad deal (scam) for you.

I think this is unnecessarily cynical.
> As strong believer in EU

Are you even from the EU ?

Do you even know how eu works ?

Most eu citizens voted NO [0] to their own referendum to enter European Union, but lobbies forced them in.

What was once a common agreement between nations is now a hub used by lobbies and foreign nations for corruptions and mass miss appropriation of funds.

To give just two examples, when entering EU France had to destroy 50 000 nurses, surgeons and healthcares jobs to find money for the EU Budget that would be given to poorer countries.

As a result , it has one of the highest death toll of Europe from Covid 19.

When transport leader Alstom decided to acquire Canadian transport bombardier , EU refused and forced Alstom to permanently shut down one it’s factory and terminate all workers to accept[1]

Welcome to EU.

This is why UK left.

[0]https://www.finalscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/forfai...

[1]https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2020/07/31/bruxelles...
This is a remarkably optimistic take on things that I see and agree with, but struggle not to feel deeply cynical about.

In my case, the problem is understanding proper street and transportation network design, and then having to live in the United States where the vast majority of the landscape is literally designed to create long driving trips with everyone stuck in traffic. The professionals upholding the anti-functional design sometimes understand this, but generally shrug as they get a few extra shrubs planted around an intersection feeling they’ve done the best they can. “It’s the whole system, what can I do?”

It’s deeply frustrating and discouraging to experience hundred-year mistakes freshly poured in concrete on a regular basis, which I believe are just as this author suggests, mostly attributable to the large majority of people not caring about how roads and streets (or anything else, for that matter) actually work. Combined with the strong tendency of humans to prefer the familiar and status quo over the novel and new... and once things become shitty they will tend to stay that way forever.
Yeah I had though about those cases, but even then there's a "gain" (even if it's a political/imaginary one) and they were of course extremely costly.

I agree, it's not a conversation for Christmas Eve, and thanks for actually explaining your point.
The initial application that powered CoverMyMeds was PHP, as it grew out of the consultancy I mentioned in my original post and we were a PHP shop then. AFAIK it still exists and is actively maintained.

Most other apps and services at CMM were written in Rails after we showed that we could ship better software faster with it, and it now accounts for the vast majority of code there.
There are winners and losers of any trade deal as mentioned in this thread. Some UK sectors will probably carry on with the EU business as usual, others will abandon the EU and search for better arrangements with other parties.

The question you posed assumes that the EU will continue to be involved with half of the UK's trading activity, which I don't buy.
You can’t find out how far back you can lean in your chair without tipping over until you’ve tipped over.
From the article:

> Diaconis himself has trained his thumb to flip a coin and make it come up heads 10 out of 10 times
You catch it at the right moment. You learn to feel the right timing by practice.
Flip it with the right amount of force, like a juggler with bowling pins.
The idea that Oracle (and News Corp) drove the choice of Google as the starting point for the new wave of government actions is not new, but I am puzzled that Oracle would want to brag about it.

Personally I think this reinforces the perception that these are the ways that Oracle competes.

Or maybe it's just me. I admit to being a fan of Google's old engineering first style - spending a minimum on advertising, lobbying, and maintaining an open and loose organization (which they've had to reverse this is last few years of course).

And so it follows that I dislike Oracle for how they compete and how they come off in this article. Maybe others react differently to it?
> So what is the upside to paying up front?

A ceiling on the price? Now granted this is a BMW, so I wouldn’t dare own it outside of the warranty period, but I usually keep a car 10-15 years. So the longer I keep the car, the more this feature with a low, fixed cost, costs? Screw that.
Perci is a fascinating and very accomplished guy. His book "Magical Mathematics" is really interesting. There's actually a long history of math and comp sci folks who were very good magicians. Alex Elmsley, Bob Hummer, Martin Gardner are a few other to check out if you're into that stuff. (says the guy who has spent the last few days alternating between hacking and vainly trying to master the perfect Faro shuffle... ).
> Isn't that the case of any country around the world?

And now bear in mind that complying with EU regulation was one of the main propaganda points of the pro-Brexit campaign.

It really makes no sense, but hey at least nacionalista demagogues got their way.
When I read 'fetish', my mind jumped to some exposure service. For a low fee, we'll monitor numberplates and expose your innermost desires when we think there's nobody else around!
I'm not sure why you postulate a magical propulsion system, pretty much 1960's technology can get you to an asteroid and back (with cargo).

In fact, it has been done already.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/5/22155825/jaxa-hayabusa2-m...

Now to make a commercially viable variant, you may not want to have your starting point be on Earth's surface. That much I'll grant.
I think you were excessively terse. Nobody wants to know what you had for breakfast, but given the nature of the bug, clearly staring and restating the state of LANG, TERM, any intercepting terminal emulators, and how you were running this (on a serial try), would've helped narrow down the bug.

Your initial report started with an incorrect premise - fish does not work on a vt220. The real bug ended up being that fish does not work on Linux serial ttys. That's fine - we all make these kinds of mistaken assumptions about bugs - but it's here where mentioning all the details helps.

For example, without info about how it's hooked up via serial to a getty, it's unlikely someone unfamiliar with these setups would think about the possible consequences of that. And without mentioning the state of TERM, the bug is ambiguous: does fish not work on a physical vt220 with some settings, or does fish not work with TERM=vt220? Those are two different problems.

Excessive verbosity is fluff, but excess brevity leads to information loss. Some redundancy is required to ensure the meaning gets across. This is human error correction.

You weren't rude or entitled, but everyone on that thread, yourself included, displayed less than ideal bug reporting and handling skills. Things could've gone much more smoothly.
I did. I was able to self learn the guitar and can play relatively well. I used Justin guitar for the basics a long time ago and then jumped right into learning songs. Using a metronome is the most important thing since it puts pressure on you. You have to do a “performance” every so often and that works for some reason. Initially it was my roommates but later in life it was my wife :) The interest to grasp theory for me came a lot later and I know a lot of it but don’t do much in the way of composing or using it too much so there’s that. But I’ve heard that the recommended way is to get a tutor from many many people.
Such racial hatred is only kosher against white native Europeans.
The ocean is their great filter. Ocean animals are very limited in their tool use - there's not much in the way of rocks or sticks to be had. Some shells and corals. And fire is off the table. I would expect it to be true that any technological civilization has to live on land at least part of the time.

No fire means no energy or metals which means no technology more advanced than the Stone age.
I've used Django, and while there's a base similarity the philosophical differences between it and Rails are definitely there.

Not gonna take a side on the Rails vs Django deal though. Like you said, if a team can effectively ship software with it that's the only measure that counts.
LeBron James.
Wouldn't it make more sense that the fragility, lack of armor (fur/thick skin) or claws etc. Came after tools made them redundant, like how our bowels are shorter than apes' because they atrophied after the invention of cooking- a digestive system capable of processing raw good being less efficient overall in that new environment?
No it doesn't. But check out Samsung Galaxy Watch series, they are a very decent competitor and they offer superior battery life.
Magical Mathematics is great! Dense actually, walks the "layperson" through proving how some complex card magic works with combinatorics. Really fun read, some mind bending stuff in there! The math is harder than one would expect the cover...
Shotgun guitar that plays and shoots
X Server and VNC on a Linode VM
In your case, I'm quite certain you could stop sending basic auth credentials just as easily as you could stop sending a particular cookie.

For the case of a less sophisticated setup, which is to say mainstream browsers with no extensions and users who want to achieve logout by using some link/button rendered inside the viewport, is there a way to convey the logout intent [to the server such that no more than one round trip later] or [to the browser without closing it such that] the browser is no longer including basic auth credentials?

If it's not possible, that's pretty silly.
There is one sustainable use case for pseudoanonymous distributed ledger currencies, and that's as the de facto currency for illegal online marketplaces! If you're goal is to subvert AML/KYC, you've found what you're looking for, until the authorities find you...
Snap Tips
Didn't find that funny but it reminded me to rewatch Font Conference which is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3k5oY9AHHM
Thanks!

> Be aware of variable frame rate footage, make me aware and have clear ways to deal with the issues. Adobe software lets you screw yourself with this, it’ll import fine, not warn you but then your exports will have seemingly random weirdness like flashes of green for single frames that’ll make you think your hardware is failing.

I do handle this pretty well. I have a "properties" pane, and for media, if you click the "media" icon, I will show info for each video, which includes the frame rate.

I will convert that frame rate into your project's frame rate, by a simple convert X FPS to Y FPS algorithm. You'll never see any flashes of green.

> Use as much power of my gpus as you can, if I have a high end nvidia gpu I want to see it acting like a hot knife through butter.

Agreed 200% - you'll see your GPU sweating, trust me ;)

> When I drag footage in a timeline update the display, Premier shockingly doesn’t do this.

I do this, and if I understand correctly what you mean, I give you a bonus feature: instant preview all the time, while you hover the mouse through the timeline (like Final Cut).

And as an extra bonus, something not even Final Cut has, I will give you specific preview, based on where you are in the timeline - if you're hovering a specific video track, I'll preview that only, otherwise, I'll preview all the video tracks + applied effects.

> Reload footage button, another thing Adobe Premier doesn’t have.

Not sure what you mean - when should this be applied?
In CPython, types implemented in C are part of the type tree