skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically, a leasehold is a very, very long fixed-term rental tenancy, with a single up-front payment. The tenancy is freely transferable, so there is a market for leaseholds that resembles the property market for freeholds. (A freehold is where the property is owned outright.)

In practice, leaseholds are mainly used to apportion "ownership" within buildings such as apartment blocks, where simple ownership of the land does not sufficiently capture the complexity of the situation.

Problems arise in a number of areas:

First and foremost, leaseholds resemble property ownership, and so many people naively treat them as such. But the value of a lease decreases as time goes by. When only a few years remain, the value drops very quickly. People who are unprepared for this can get a nasty shock, and feel hard done by.

Secondly, and more subtly, the leasehold creates a complex relationship between the landlord and the tenant - just like any rental agreement. The terms are set out in a contract which is specific to that particular leasehold - so they may vary greatly one from another. There are a myriad ways that they can contain unfair clauses, or unexpected terms.

One recent scam is for landlords to create leases that have a small, annual "service charge" (payable to the landlord) whose cost doubles every few years. After a while, the payments become extortionate!

In this case, the landlord is allowed to charge tenants for the cost of some kinds of works to the building. In the lease, that probably looks like a small item, but a clever landlord can specify the works in such a way that the tenants shoulder most, or all of the cost.
"To accompany the videos, coffee will be better than popcorn. "

Best warning ever. Gum is also an option!
They are guarantors of the Good Friday Agreement.

Yes, I know, my instinct is also to say it's none of their business. But in the case of the GFA, it is.
I aimed to sound funny not condescending and, obviously, I failed.

Groups wiped just because, would be the jews, the armenians and a long list actually (1). You could argue that some of them is because territorial fights, but is it not that also the reason of the "Three body problem" aliens?

About why alien civilizations could decide to engage in this kind of thing: if you are paranoiac enough you can frame it like a preventive attack, if you are reasoning that you will be fighting them for resources in the far future.

About how, there are many ways. The most obvious, though expensive, is just accelerate a lot of stuff (ideally antimatter), the closest to light speed as possible, in a interception vector with the undesirable solar system.

This is not the kind of thing I was planning to think about in Christmas eve.

(1) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_tol...
I haven’t used RnR but I assume its similar to Python/Django in taking people who know how to program in any language and turning them in to full stack web developers.

Its a funky learning curve where all team members are effective and few need to have extensive experience with the framework.
Same here, the audio in IMAX is not good.
I thought it was common knowledge that heads are heavier than tails. My head certainly is.
Air Fryers and Costco.
I think a good solution is to have a lowest common denominator machine, and rotate developers through using it for a day, maybe once a month.

Windows

Celeron

2-4gb ram

5400rpm hard drive

No administrative privileges

Shitty antivirus installed

1080p monitor
Although I totally agree, it also ushered in the virtual keyboard. 13 years of using them and I still absolutely hate them.
While I agree with your overall point, and these people are definitely the exception to the rule, yes actually.

Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, Flea from Red Hot Chili Pepers, Omar-Rodriguez Lopez of The Mars Volta / At The Drive-In / Antemasque

https://twitter.com/davemustaine/status/942528968779096065?l...

https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/flea-returns-to-scho...

https://web.archive.org/web/20080601005441/http://www.signon...
Ask HN: How do you buy back time?
Many are aware of the big one: investing sufficiently enough to live solely on returns thus not requiring a job.

What are some other obvious and not so obvious ways you buy time?
The Beatles. They were the definition of hype during their boy-band years in the early 60s, but pivoted mid-decade to a more experimental sound and more accomplished musicianship that remains unique, relevant, and impressive a half-century later.

I can't think of a modern equivalent. I guess it would be like if BTS somehow transformed into The Decemberists.
https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/iqg81v/what_fu...

This plus the first few Google search results tell me it's not going to work without an iPhone.

This is why I do not buy into the Apple ecosystem, even if individual elements are superior to competitors. I do not want to be completely constricted to one ecosystem. My world involves Microsoft, Google, Steam, Epic, Blizzard, Logitech, Fossil, Asus, HP, Lenovo, etc. and I will continue to swap in and out components as desired.

But I am sad that WearOS options are generally so terrible (at least in performance and features, though some of the physical designs are much better than anything else). And a little jealous of the happy M1-based Macbook users with their battery life!

Ah to dream of having your cake and eating it, too. But we each must choose our own collection of compromises!
BMW operate like a company that have given up on expanding their addressable market and now seek to extract as much value from it as possible. In a vacuum, this is common and makes sense, but not at the cusp of a revolution in that industry.

I spent a long time sceptical about that other car company. But I've realised I can never overestimate how much the traditional companies will screw up.
I use the npm package and run it as a local server. Works well.
I have 2 answers.

1. Coronavirus

The hype

I have a Chinese girlfriend, and when the coronavirus was breaking out in China, she was freaking out, buying masks and so forth. She was really hyping it as a big deal!

Needless to say, it's been a big deal.

2. Election fraud

The hype

Before the election, the President was massively hyping mail-in ballot fraud.

It didn't happen

For those living in the world at large there really was none (dozens of lawsuits were thrown out, the attorney general said there was no evidence.)

But for me it lived up to the hype

But for those living in the President's filter bubble (like me), this election definitely lived up to the hype, and keeps living up to the hype. Those of us in the filter bubble wrongly think we're seeing a massive conspiracy to hide a total of literally hundreds of thousands of fraud ballots across many states in a coordinated collusion. So for me personally (even though I am wrong and living in a filter bubble of proven lies) the voter fraud definitely lived up to the hype!

(I am a conspiracy theorist and everything I believe on this subject had been disproven.)

It is definitely living up to the hype though!
AWS. Sure, it's complicated and sometimes weirdly obfuscated (currently debugging a load balancer health check in a very locked down environment sucks) but it's really changed a lot of the IT ecosystem forever. (some may argue for the worse, others, for the better)

And from my sysadmin experience, the move to devops. Using a language like Puppet or Ansible allowed me to deploy complex software on limited hardware. Terraform lets me apply that knowledge to AWS/Azure/GCP and more.
I'll call out Silicon Valley as having a great finale too. I still watch the final documentary every now and then. one of the greatest satires I will probably ever see.
Nah. I watched this a few nights ago, and was largely confused. I didn’t hate it, but it wasn’t anywhere close to “great”.

Most people won’t like it because it gets more and more confusing, and at some point you’re like okay whatever and give up trying to understand. That’s the way it was for me.

They were trying to shove too many complex ideas into too short of a timeframe and it didn’t work. It felt very self- indulgent to me.
EU(SSR) was always the goal.
Is there a source about this from a non-UK media as well? The title and quotes seem cherry picked to reinforce media propaganda from one side.
Very true. I had high hopes for Google's "nearby share" which was initially announced as a cross-platform networkless way to share files, but these ambitions seem to have been scaled back to "Android to Android only, and it sometimes uses mobile data as a fallback"...
The Roland FP-30 has the best piano feel at the low end. The Kawai MP11SE is considered to be the best at any price range.
In addition to Python format strings: Javascript template strings:

`I am ${variable.foo} ${variable.bar}.` - Life changing!
Not my department, so to speak, but I will pass that along. Thank you.
Why is mediocre bread OK but mediocre piano isn't?

Why is people putting a little effort into making something aesthetic and fun such a crime?

Serious piano has no payoff unless you're better than all the professional recordings we already have.
Agreed, they are absolutely amazing.
The UK will obviously say that they won. The EU will obviously let them. This is politics and letting the UK sells the deal to its own.

The reality is that the UK has lost a lot compared to its previous position as EU member whatever the details of that deal.
As if you need to be conspiracy-minded to think the Chinese government will straight up assassinate you for pushing the wrong message.
Rogue 1 is my favorite star wars film overall.

Incredibly well executed and fantastic characters.

Disney dropped the ball on every single thing other than R1 and Mandalorian.
The lord of the rings trilogy - how long we’ve been waiting for a fantasy to actually make it onto the big screen? The return of the king sweeping the Oscars with a cherry on top. Final fantasy 7 remake delivering. the Mac to Intel transition.
Data breach hits 30k signed up to workplace pensions provider
The EU comprises roughly half of the UK's total trade activity [0], making this attitude of "plenty of other places to export stuff outside the EU" seem rather overconfident. Why would the UK consider compliance with the entity that generates half their trade "optional"?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...
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I have the reverse problem (win10 devices/iphone) and it has become enough of an issue to convince me to switch to android. Its ridiculous how Apple treats non apple devices as third-class citizens.
Have a look at PineTime, the open-source smart watch.
Nope. You need an iPhone...
I started learning the saxophone at about the same age than you. I agree that daily practice changes everything in terms of progress — one trick (suggested by my teacher) is to always have the instrument out of its box/carrying bag and ready to play. You will tend to pick it up (even randomly during the day) much more.

As for teaching, I found an amazingly kind, patient and talented sax teacher before the pandemic and went to her studio once a week. We’ve since transitioned to online teaching and although there are of course things that you need to adapt to (switching from facetime to skype to another device mid class because it’s echo cancelling the song you’re trying to play over), it’s really great.

Her academic / professionaly trained ear picks up all of the problems I’m not aware of. And her guidance and praise keeps me motivated. She comes up with new exercises knowing what will interest me (I’m learning almost exclusively by ear), suggests great new songs, etc.

I highly recommend reaching out to your teacher and asking if lessons are offered online.

And anyone looking for an amazing sax teacher, contact me. (No affiliation ha. Just lots of praise for this amazing person)
OP probably won't read it, so here:

> He was a primary architect of the 1996 Mitchell Principles and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, and was the main investigator in two "Mitchell Reports", one on the Arab–Israeli conflict (2001) and one on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball (2007).
I mean, the next step after this feels like ads on the infotainment system.
Yeah, I didn't like it because it felt like what I already do at work.
They can put pressure on the UK government and probably have.
It’s not, it’s because when flipped the number of flips the coin does in the air is not entirely random.
Rogue One is worth watching if you haven't already. Miles ahead of anything else SW related Disney has put out.
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Best example I've heard of the B'More accent is "dog" or as they say it - "dug."
Isn't that the case of any country around the world? Doesn't mean the whole world should join the EU.
Thanks!

> My biggest pain points are that all the good video editors are paid, and the free ones are total crap.

I do agree with that :)

> Here's what i need from a video editor : ability to cut/copy/move video across timeline; add/remove audio tracks and adjust their volume + mute certain parts; apply cool transitions here and there; add text overlay and text frames

While I do have all the above, I will offer a lot more, and the pricing will show that.

> I would pay 10-15$ for such editor per year. After all it's for casual use. anything more than that and it would make me wanna pirate it.

Yes, unfortunately that will not fit my pricing. Thanks again for the feedback!

I may have some special offer for casual use - I will need to think really thoroughly about that.
It’s actually no big deal for me. I charge mine 30min every morning and I’m done for the day.
I don't think anyone in the US cares that much. And have you seen our foreign policy over the last 20 years? You really don't want us getting involved.
Endgame stuck the landing, which was extremely hard to do, but wasn’t the best movie of the bunch. That goes to Infinity War which was near perfect.
im with you i hated it because instead of letting me enjoy the game it forces me to use my remaining brain cells
Certainly possible. & of course git is always improving. But still, I do think ability to do path-based partial checkouts and have something like git-lfs integrated natively remain compelling potential features.
As I said who is winning and losing on a macro level is of little importance, so sure if you want me to take the liberal view, all are winners.

But what is more important is winning and losing on the micro level and now I will disagree with you if you tell me there are no losers. There most certainly are losers. Some industries from both sides will be sacrificed as part of the deal and people involved in those industries will certainly lose a whole lot of money.
I think it's so good because it's a distillation of a true life that affects the modern world still in complex ways, made by an artist who understands it's subject matter deeply and intimately.

It both treats it's subject matter incredibly intelligently, yet never tries to show off with braininess and focuses on memorable stage characters and top notch songs.

It's so good on so many layers.
The Future of Dating
When Microsoft first released Xenix, DOS wasn't a thing and GUIs were only available in rich research labs. Not being compatible with PC-DOS was not really an issue.

As the IBM PC became Microsoft's passport to success, they ditched the Unixness of Xenix and embraced the CP/M-ness of PC-DOS. That's why people do dir in Windows instead of ls.
Air fryers are freaking awesome! We use it for 1/2 of our meals these days!
Prior discussion from a week ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25460544

I'm glad it's finally been done!

Looks like GitHub still has the old export as of 2020-12-24T15:30Z, but 5ef5f51d2 dated 2020-12-23T04:27:27Z marks the start of Git history for FreeBSD src!

https://wiki.freebsd.org/git
Ah yes, this brings to mind modern/fast pressure cookers! Really revolutionizing delicious, fast cooking!
TBH, I really enjoy playing Cyberpunk 2077, and I think of it as one of the best game ever. For me it lived up to the hype.
I was assuming they’d announce the deal with a few months of extra time before it’s actually enforced, surely this is not actually coming into force in a week?
Ah, this makes sense (not necessarily that this is public information, but why the scanning works)
Yet another Reason why BMW is losing ground dramatically to Tesla.

Jerk as a service rarely ends well.
congrats, Gabe -- amazing to see Owncast grow these past few months!!! great work by you and the team!
Sure, but the European economic zone is both the closest & richest foreign market. Replacing it is not that easy.
It’s the third best Star Wars movie, behind New Hope and Empire. It’s actually fantastic.
For what it is worth, the 2021 models finally seem to have CarPlay as a standard feature, along with a digital dash. Basically parity to what Audi has had for years.
This is fine to get started (it's pretty close to how I got started) but I recommend getting a good teacher and instrument asap, if you're really enjoying yourself. They will help immensely in progression and good habits. After about 5 months with a teacher, I was playing a Chopin piece I wouldn't have dreamed of playing previously.
Watch YouTube with dual captions, A-B repeat and more
Show HN: Videotouch.io – increase your conversion rate in less than 15 minutes
Hey there!

Recently we launched a new tool for increasing conversions on websites.

We believe this tool can dramatically increase small business sales if they are ready to open their faces and start to engage with their potential clients.

Few months ago I've been watching Instagram stories and noticed how often in the ads company owners are just talking on selfie camera about their products. They were seemingly proud of their business, ready to talk about it and wanted to actively engage with their audience.

As I've been noticing more and more such videos, I thought that this could work outside of Instagram too. I discussed it with my friend and we thought of giving people the opportunity to post videos on their website - introduce their business to site visitors, increase trust and stand out. And now we're introducing you beta version of our sales increasing service VideoTouch.io

It allows you to upload video on the website and show it over the webpage with an option to incentivise user to perform target action. It works both on desktop and mobile versions.

Whom this service will be useful for:

- Business owners and managers, who want to tell their story, company's mission, personally interact with site visitors

- Online services that only have few seconds to explain the visitors what their service is useful for and motivate them to perform target action (sign up, subscribe, book a call)

- Companies that focus on services where personal interaction plays the key role

- New businesses that don't have budget for fancy website design but want to get the most attention and build trusted relationships with their visitors

- Companies on the highly competitive markets, that are looking for the highly memorable unique content.

Any thoughts or feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
As far as overall impact you are probably right. But I'm back on cable again after having fiber and the difference is striking in my experience. Cable delivers such an inconsistent experience versus fiber being 100% rock solid. But that's just my experience, maybe I got (un)lucky.
Vision and Black Widow are entirely inconsequential.

None of the perceived trauma exists, except in the minds of avid fans.
Cannot agree more.

The convention over configuration was brilliant - the implicit mappings made so much more sense. I could look at any given url and imply so much about what route/controller/view code was going to execute. The standardized code organization. ActiveRecord using the column names as data attributes.

Was CoverMyMeds written in Rails?
That's actually really easy. Your target here is your venv site-packages, while requirements file is the prerequisite. The idea is that your site-packages folder has to be recreated/updated (pip install) when it is older than the requirements file. One thing you have to do is to simply update the directory timestamp each time you add a dependency, because adding a file into a folder does not change the folder timestamp. Having that it would be like

venv/site-packages: requirements.txt
pip install -r $<
touch $@
Learning anything is just muscle memory.

The muscle memory can only be developed by constantly doing the same thing over a long period of time, every day. Every time you sleep is when the skill learned during the day is actually "saved" and increased.

Trying to do everything perfect at once from the start is impossible. Only once something gets into your muscle memory you can focus on other things. At first you might not be able to find the correct key and have to constantly look at the keyboard, but once you are over that you can now focus on coordination, rhythm or other stuff.

Learning and getting better is just the process of constantly embedding something in your muscle memory so you can consciously focus on something else.
Yes, it is. Provisionally.

The UK plans to push this through Parliament this year, I think, but the EU side will need a few weeks.
If you aren't tied strictly to using pure TiddlyWiki you may be interested in NoteSelf(https://noteself.org/), which uses the browser's LocalStorage via PouchDB. Bonus, this can then be synchronized to any remote couchdb server.
>What good is it to live a trillion trillion years just to freeze to death while starving?

It's 10 billion trillion times better than living 100 years and then dying while hacking your lungs out delirious in a hosipital bed covered in bedsores. Potentially a lot more, if there's prospects to alter/expand ourselves into being capable of contemplating/experiencing more complicated ideas and scenarios beyond the scope of our current bodies.

It just seems like making the best of a bad situation. If I imagine two futures, one where people get old and decrepit, live in terrible pain, and die at 80, for such a stupid reason as that they're produced by a blind-idiot-god process that doesn't need them as more than a disposable fuck/murderbot. And this keeps happening till an asteroid hits and they all die.

And another where they never have to go away and can explore the furthest reaches of what they can be, until, eventually, after an incredible amount of time, we have a last mournful party and turn off the lights across the cosmos.

The second story's sad! But not as sad and ugly as the first, and it might make life coming into being have been worth it, on balance.

I heard someone say, once, that the growth of humanity could grant us purer, more complete, and more perfect death than nature alone would deign to give us.

I'd rather die with an eon of friends at my side, having lived a few millenia as a walrus, than practically stillborn here and now.
My biggest frustration with Harry Potter is that Harry never has to actually make tough decisions. All moral dilemmas are resolved by a deus ex. He never even has to murder the villain, just deflects his spell back at him. My eyes rolled straight to the back of my head.

The books deliver a fantastical, childish view of morality where the world will always save you from having to make difficult decisions.
On my resume I like to put everyone that plays piano isn't a Beethoven. There is a range between expert and those who don't even play. This is my excuse for being in IT but not well in programming.
What year did reaction happen? I spent my entire life taking it for granted, not realizing that it indeed is a little interpreted language in print statements.