skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The old Hobbit and LotR cartoons were released in 1977 and 1978 respectively.

So Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring came out in 2001, 23 years after the cartoon, and this version is a further 21 years (assuming a 2022 release) after Jackson’s version, a similar time span.

And damn, this makes me feel old.
Great, that seems more compelling then 2000 year old Palestinian fairy tales.
That's what Harry Potter is for

LotR is to teach you Christian God likes certain people better and makes them win and there really isn't free will

I really think those are loosly the overarching lessons of the two works. Hamfisted but enjoyable. And beneficial to society but still hamfisted.
It is nowhere even remotely near as secure as Bitcoin. Scrypt mining is massively insecure verification when compared to the SHA256 verification provided by Bitcoin. It's as secure as Litecoin, and Litecoin is many magnitudes less secure of a chain than Bitcoin.
If I was as passionate about it as the parent, I would. For me, there are other factors to where I live besides taxes.
Also, it's hard migrate to countries with high taxes, because they are deseriable places to live.
It's not hard to migrate to Somalia. It's also not deseriable to live there. That's the point.
Not just that. There is quite a bunch of thinks you simple can't do (in reasonable high quality) with canvas rendering without it undermining the users privacy.

E.g. you can do a lot to reduce the fingerprint-ability of canvas (Google doesn't care) but doing so will lead to potentially slightly slower rendering and in turn potentially less fluid animations.

You can't have links as in a website without getting access the the whole browser history.

You can't take advantage of the GPU in the same way the browsers can.

You always have quite a bit of size and (potentially) load time overhead (I mean just look a Pangolin UI for a good example for this).

And "everyone" potentially ships their own copy of a whole UI framework (not just some layers on top of it like it's common in the web). So if there is a rendering but normally it get's fixed by you browser but now it needs to be fixed by library authors and then the fix needs to be used by the website which had a problem.

I think a non document based base would be nice, but it needs to be browser native, standardized, not vendor specific and with first class accessibility. At least at the core. And let's be honest flutter is non of this. And given some decisions like making text non selecteable by default I don't see it ever coming to that point tbh.
i guess it's inspired by google's logo. but for reasons that i can't explain, the google logo screams less than this one.
I pay €7,25/month for 10 GB of space and unlimited traffic. It’s probably far from the best deal out there.
The question is analogous to "you have a tugboat. Working alone, how do you get the Ever Given unstuck from the Suez Canal?" $100B is small potatoes compared to the size of the world economy, and trying to do anything without first persuading people that it is the right thing will generate opposition.
Sure they will. Once FLoC is active across most Chrome browsers, so even a simple method should work during the critical transition period (need to stay on top of if, so as not to bother users with fake FLoC browsers).

If FLoC gets adopted, it provides information, so .. maybe it would be possible to guess which FLoCs are genuine with a good enough success rate?
If more money is spent making a show about Apollo than the actual Apollo missions - why not film them on location?
Yeah, because nobody will ever use it.
I don't think Flutter uses native UI primitives anywhere, but you're right that web APIs have been designed for HTML documents/apps and will need modification for non-HTML apps. We aren't there yet, but I'm convinced we'll get there at some point.
I’m not sure we can ascribe religious purpose to works that borrow from popular stories that happen to be religious. The books/movies are also profoundly pagan, and lay out their own religious system for eg the elves which is not especially Christian. As I understand it there is a whole pantheon of god-like figures in the LOTR universe.

If the author says it’s not an allegory, and it doesn’t work as an allegory, maybe their identifying as Christian isn’t enough to make it an allegory?
Or... How post jobs?
The UK “leveling off” is likely a result of vaccine availability, especially as the number of second doses are ramping up (they have decided to use a longer gap between the first and second dose). I believe 95% of over 50s are vaccinated and the program just opened up eligibility for non at-risk people aged 45-50 a few days ago.

Now with potential fear around blood clots, future uptake is yet to be seen, I think it’s too early to say that vaccinations are leveling off.
You should care because your vaccine doesn't necessarily prevent you from catching a mutated variant . Given a long enough timeline and enough hosts such a strain will evolve, it's only a matter of time.
this fetishization of contracting everything out to subcontractors has to do with the fact that most business schools teach one principle and one principle only. risk taking is a sin that will hurt your bottom line. subcontracting delegates that risk to someone else while leaving your company with little to no real staff that can do the innovation.

in the short term this does not matter, because the company stays profitable, but long term this is resulting in a system in which no one has complete ownership and responsibility of their systems, which makes doing changes and innovating nearly impossible.
From a quick glance it looked quite worrying, many red flags. I didn't look too carefully so some of this might be wrong or I missed where it's done.

* Results from the untrusted part inside container are returned using pickle. Which can be used to achieve arbitrary code execution outside container.

* no time limiting

* no memory limiting

* Untrusted code is run as root in the container which by default is same user as root outside container. From what I understand it isn't as bad as it was in earlier docker versions but still not great.

* untrusted code is run in the same process as semitrusted run_lang code, which means that the untrusted code with little bit of effort can manipulate reported execution time and memory usage

* for some languages correct_output is copied into the untrusted execution environment which means that solution could potentially just read the correct answers instead of calculating themselves

* none of the default capabilities are dropped which is probably more than what solution needs

* solution can freely create new files
He claims what "we" want is:

1) Currency w/o a government

2) Stable/reliable for contracts

3) Inflation indexed store of value -- basket of items representative for me.

4) Rapid transactions

Of these points, only (1) or (2) were ever a goals. And Bitcoin has succeeded spectacularly there. (4) is debatable. Read the white paper and the original discussions on Bitcoin Talk. Retrofitting goals on a project after the fact is just dishonest.

And who is this "we" anyway?
Substack OP here:

The goal is definitely to find and capture those moments of magic that happened a lot more often in early Internet. I think some of that is having this newsletter as my framing for exploring the fringes of the Internet today, and the rest is trying to find the magic in the tools we use everyday.

Anything interesting in particular you'd recommend diving into?
The official german contact tracing app [1] that has been developed by two major german corporations on behalf of the german government has received quite good feedback from tech-media as well as the CCC.

Similar to other governmentally supported apps this one has been made open-source beginning with the first drafts, is based on the provided framework by Apple and Google, does not store privacy relevant data on centralized servers and even follows the 10 baseline rules the CCC has published.

That actually makes it even more sad that the german government reaches out to the Luca app developers and buys their service for such a huge amount of money - although there is a product that is on par service wise and way better from a privacy perspective.

[1]: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/themen/corona-warn-ap...
That's what happens to cheap bikes, for sure.

I've seen it countless times in Italy, people don't even bother buying an expensive bike, they just buy some half broken bike (usually from the same dodgy guys in the streets who steal them) because they know they will get stolen.
The police doesn't even bother fighting it, they often talk to many of the immigrants and rarely do something. I know because, as a second generation immigrant from Africa, the police was always stopping me just to talk.

It's kind of like bike sharing, you pay 20 euros until the next time they steal it from you.

On the plus side, it's giving a livelihood to poor and desperate immigrants who can't find a job in the sad Italian economy.

If it wasn't for bike theft and drug dealing, things would probably escalate to worse crimes.
You would be surprised. At a previous job, we would receive guests from all around the world, and particularly from African, Asian, South American, and 2nd-tier European countries. The Africans and SEAs were by far the most consistently, fluently conversant. The (comparatively wealthier) Eastern Europeans and East Asians seemed to understand written English most proficiently, but seemed to loathe speaking it; the former broke the "English only" classroom rule most often.

Edit: I'm not surprised by the downvote, simply bemused.
It's not inside information, it's common knowledge if you work in telecom area.

How trustworthy ? It depends. Operators in developing countries those day might completely outsource buildout and management of their network to Huawei because they frankly have best end to end portfolio I think.

With operators in rest of the world, especially those that are "well established" reality is more complicated. Telecom networks having a lot of moving parts and require a lot of domain specific knowledge or proficiency with hundreds or thousands types of hardware and multitude of heavily customized per telecom needs software systems. For some of those things work might indeed be outsourced but in many cases outsourced work performed by people who function as company employees in day to day: i.e. they work in telecom office building, have employee badges, pass background checks, etc. Essentially this type of outsourcing is deeply embedded within telecom itself for a most part
No, bitcoin has transparency and every transaction is publicly visible. Privacy is a myth.
The social media services like us to think the users (people with the pictures of kittens) don't add any value individually. The let us believe that it's the network effect, plus their infrastructure, that is the value, and because those wouldn't exist without the service, that is what generates revenue. But of course individual users add value. Without people sharing their kitten pictures, there'd be no network, no content, worth selling ads around.

For ad-supported social media, we're all just unpaid labor and we're told that labor has no value anyway.

Of course, by selling that position, they've also convinced the end user that the service is not worth paying for. But when there's nothing the end user wants to pay for, and ad revenue drying up, social media services will have to pivot to make money elsewhere.

The end result, not surprisingly, will result in a mixed model of subscription and ad revenue supporting content that the service has, in some way, paid for. Sound familiar? Of course, the end user will still not be paid for the labor contributed, but then the less the ad revenue depends on the user-generated "free" content, the closer the value of that labor tends to zero.
So true. It is really a shame they are going down the sex and nudity route to make it more like Game of Thrones.
I don't have experience doing this, but I'd experiment with VMs and their performance settings. It would be a pretty ergonomic solution. Rpi or some x86 single board computer might make sense too. I guess what's viable depends on the stack and the software itself.
Use force to protect the Amazon.
Buybacks may be more effective than dividends. If you consider your bought stocks as a source of income, then you get more control and better taxes with buy-back stocks.

With dividends you can't really rely on a future amount, i.e. you can receive more (or less) than you actually need. Also it can come at a different date that you want. Plus creates a tax event event when you maybe don't want to have it. And so on.

So it become more convinient to just have stock which you sell when you want and you sell exact amount as you need to. Also the tax rate on dividends is usually higher, especially if you hold the stock long enough.
The one I hate, but that seems to be taking over anyway: the use of "up" rather than "raise."
Sounds like... SOCIALISM!
It’s not a remake, it’s a different story in the same universe. I believe it’ll be set in the Second Age, so it’ll be thousands of years before the events of LOTR.
I agree that LotR is not a straightforward allegory, but I'm also going off more than the author's religious identity. In Tolkien's words: "The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work, unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like "religion", to cults or practices, in the Imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism."
Hacking Smart Meters [video]
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> The budget for the first three movies in total was 281 million ... Why are costs going up here?

Well for a start just the rights for this TV show cost about as much as all three movies did. Back then the Lord of the Rings was not something at the front of people's cultural minds. Now it is.
Really cool. Browsing HN at night was painful on my Macbook. It's a shame we need an extension for this, a few CSS lines could fix this while keeping the website small.

By the way, I think some of your CSS rules need to be fixed. Contrasts between elements for example. When looking at comments, the username has a foreground of #828282 and the background is #161618. That's a 4.7:1 ratio. You pass the AA level but not the AAA level, which requires a 7:1 ratio for small texts: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=828282&...
I am a C++ developer. Most of the time I have developed OO applications. But recently while developing web backend using C++, it becomes very difficult to think in terms of OO. As one starts programming web app it soon becomes clear that the web is fundamentally functional in nature, the way it is designed. So it becomes difficult for me to map the C++ OO concepts to the functional nature of the web architecture.

Now, this type of realisation comes only after you have done enough programming in one of the programming paradigm(OO or FP), and have at least some understanding of the other.

If you are using Java for career progression, then stick with it. But if you want to be able to decide on whether OO or FP is useful for a project, then that comes from practice. So practice on paradigm and have some understanding of the other. That makes it easy for decision making.
> Many security experts believe Microsoft’s single sign-on model, emphasizing user convenience over security, is ripe for retooling to reflect a world where state-backed hackers now routinely run roughshod over U.S. networks.

I believe convenience is not coming at the cost of security. SSO certainly has a single-node-failure problem. If it’s down, it causes DoS. If it’s hacked, the hackers can get access to the data user is authorised to view across multiple systems. But given the widespread use of the same passwords across multiple systems, this argument against SSO is weak.

Besides that, the convenience of SSO is only for the user. It is for the organisation as well.
Sure, that too. My point is coal and similar resorces don't have many other uses so you can safely tax the resource, mined or umported rather than the act of burning.

And if you have some specific application that you might want to be not affected you might make special tax breaks for it.
How does no one in this thread know about power query and powerpivot?

I’ve been using excel with tens of millions of rows for years now.
Voting for your own and your family's interest is being racist. Okay, hnewslet. I guess I'm just one of those minorities that is in fact a racist white person in disguise.
Also moved everything to Obsidian. The free plugins from developer contributors are fantastic. Sync to mobile is free with some know-how, otherwise the paid option seems fairly priced.
Thanks for your concern but it's not quite that clear cut and you may have misunderstood my phrasing. Virulence refers to the ability to infect and multiply. Pathogenicity refers to the damage to the host.

Since the 501Y variants do not survive the environment any better than original sequence virus it is assumed their increased observed spread is due to their virulence. This makes sense given that the 501Y change is on the ACE2 contact residues of the spike and probably gives greater binding affinity.

[0]: https://covariants.org/variants/S.N501
[1]: https://www.biologyonline.com/dictionary/virulence

>The virulence of a pathogen is often correlated with the so-called virulence factors. A virulence factor is defined as the factor that enables an organism to invade a host and cause disease. It also determines the extent of damage to the host. These factors may be secretory, membrane-associated, or cytosolic in nature. An example of a virulence factor is the ability of microbes to multiply within their host cells.
FeedBurner moves to a new infrastructure but loses its email subscription
Tom Cruise is going to space for a reason
functionality? This is very confusing to me. What is more functional about a desktop app over a web one?
How to future-proof your software development career
>> In the past, each family or community in Inner Mongolia (the northeastern Chinese Province populated by the Mongolian people) would make cheeses from their own milk as part of their every day food preparation. Today, however, China has pushed to modernize much of region, encouraging people to abandon nomadic life and move to cities. As a result, an increasing portion of the cheese in Inner Mongolia is made in small factories. Some of these cheeses are based on the area’s traditional foods, but producers also use a base called nai doufu (“milk tofu”)—curds cooked in a wok until they form a pliant, sticky mass—to make a variety of shapes and snacks, including some flavored with dried fruits, such as jujubes.

Here's a video that shows home production of "milk tofu" (from what I can tell):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEuzI7-3riE

Too bad I don't know Chinese, and the article makes a very poor job of explaining how the various cheeses it lists are actually made. Harrumph.
"My CIA branded telephone was recording my calls? Preposterous."
Sadly, this puts in perspective where our priorities are.
"Sweden has a fairly free press"

That's so wrong it hurts! All our press are dependent on government "presstöd" aka handouts.
This is the closest thing to correct, more specifically USD is backed by some real-estate and mostly TBill which is the government's ability to pay it's debt.

There's some sketchiness there, but generally it works, and of course, there are externalities like petrodollar but generally it's a sound currency.

It's not a super store of value, but it's not meant to be, there are other assets for that.

BTC is about as financially relevant as a GameStop mob, so if we're going to understand it, its' for the populist psychology, not for anything else.

Here is the 'backing':

USD [1]

Canadian Dollar [2]

Euro [3]

Bitcoin -> nothing.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
[2] https://www.bankofcanada.ca/research/
[3] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/annual/balance/html/index.en.h...
Coronaviruses are extremely easy to inactivate them. From memory, they are inactivated by soap, bleach, ethanol, sunlight (maybe), various surfactant-like disinfectants, and probably many other things. Admittedly, injecting fatty acids into one’s blood doesn’t seem quite as unwise as injecting bleach, but it still doesn’t sound like a great idea.
Colonies will happen once mining and manufacturing happen because people will follow the money. Same as colonising on earth.
Probably Off Topic, but may be a chance if anyone within the industry might know.

What are the current / purposed patent licensing terms of NR-U; finalised and related with 3GPP Rel 16 are going to be? Specific to standalone NR-U ( As in MultiFire in 4G. ) which could compete with WiFi 6e.
Other than “webscale” I think the other terms still mean something. They don’t need to have a precise, agreed upon meaning to be useful words.

“Webscale” is just a buzzword, though.
"The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work, unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision."

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #142
Well, you had Chagall and Vedova and a few great architects, but indeed after the Eighties it hasn't been ideal.
The article is a summary of this government report (from March 2021):

Global Trends 2040 by the National Intelligence Council

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/GlobalT...
What are the awesome things for the rich?
> They claim that both buyers and sellers are their customers, unlike an actual store where only the buyers are the customers.

The garden department at your local department (Wal-Mart does this. So do most home repair places) store is operated by another company. So too is the salty snack aisle, soft drink aisle and many other departments where an outside vendor is basically renting shelf space, and paying the rent in margin at the register. In all of these cases, the store also has a house brand that is in the same aisle, competing with the big brands. So, what Amazon is doing is really the same, but in an ecommerce format. BTW, department and grocery stores were running their own logistics company long before Amazon even existed.
Yeah, mine got the same this morning too. Last night was terrible.
It makes sense to use up the old RS-25s but I'm sure SLS is not as efficient as it could be.
According to the BLS inflation calculator $100 in January 200 is worth the same as $156 in March 2021, so in inflation-adjusted terms both projects cost roughly the same amount.
Its not just about the vaccination. If the end product is developed unethically, what avenues do you have to protest against those methods? Choosing not to buy or support the product is the most fundamental economic freedom we've got.

Here's an example that used to be farther removed from today's social touchstones: Premarin. Premarin is manufactured by keeping mares continuously pregnant in stalls for the continuous collection of their urine. Should you be free to protest those methods by avoiding the product? Should a pharmacist be free to avoid stocking those products entirely if it conflicts with their ethics?

Before she passed away, my grandma boycotted premarin for those reasons. That was decades ago, before transitioning became more common. Now it's more of a hot button topic, since premarin is one of the commonly prescribed drugs for transitioning women in addition to post-menopausal women. Should a pharmacist still be allowed to avoid stocking those products?
Crypto is a grift that grew into a scam economy. That's why it's unpopular on this site.