skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huge LOTR/Tolkien fan ever since I was a kid, loved the Ralph Bakashi animated LOTR film from the 70's(great rotoscoping and creepy mood), absolutely loved the Peter Jackson trilogy, liked the hobbit animated films Rankin and Bass(good music!, weird animation?), even found enjoyment in the newer Hobbit trilogy(3 movies for 1 small book? Smaug was great though!).

After seeing this amazon trailer though I am beyond disappointed in what they are creating and with the budget they have it is really sad. I could be mistaken but I feel like this will be looked at as a gigantic flop for amazon. The story looks like its not even based on anything Tolkien written, which is beyond me given there are so many interesting tales Tolkien wrote that have not seen the screen(Beren and Luthien, the fall of Numenor, the silmarils and Elvish wars of the 1st age).

And like the parent above mentioned it is alarming that the actors are all unheard of and there are no connections to the successful franchises that Peter Jackson created, where is this roughly half a billion going? The CGI looks lackluster so its not there.
I personally can’t wait until we have even more moribund foundations shipping over-engineered corporate leftovers.
sicne neutrons are stable in a neucleous, is it possible that there is any atom-like structure that is stable that contains at least one 'abnormal' particle, like a bozon, or any 'large' particle made of quarks that is not a proton or neutron?
> they'll just eat worse food instead

This is very debatable. A majority of nitrogen emissions are from dairy farmers, and some 80% of milk produced in The Netherlands is meant for export (as powder, mainly baby formula). It's unlikely the Dutch food market will affected much, although it's possible our export markets will.

> and their economy takes a hit.

Sure, although the impact of this is also debatable. All Agriculture together forms around 1.4% of the Dutch GDP. Even if the entire sector were to collapse (which it obviously will not) it would be survivable in terms of economic impact.
I 99.99% agree.

One of the few molecular level effects that depends on the virtual particles that are important in the standard model is the Lamb shift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_shift

In this case the virtual particle is a virtual photon, not a virtual weird particle, so it's just scratching the standard model.

I'm not sure if the g-2 Anomalous magnetic dipole moment of electrons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalous_magnetic_dipole_mome... can be measured with a cheap equipment.
Oh, so I can neglect the things as I wish in the name of saving proverbial water, and be free of all consequences at the end?

That's great.

Maybe we should try that.
I can feel for the people who have been living there for a long time and now have to deal with the water situation. But I can't understand the attitudes of people who are choosing to move to such a place where access to water is such a risk.

I have no information about this, but I would expect that homeowner's insurance should get much more expensive for these locations as without access to water it's quite hard to have firefighting infrastructure. Without firefighters, homes and humans are at much higher risk. Maybe insurance economics will help to resolve this?
Linux I/O Principles and Zero-copy Technology
And Microsoft's garden had much, much lower walls.
I'm also not Asian. In late 30s and it guessed that I'm 7...
Or, there's the "crap, I left my tablet at home" customer.
"Enthusiast" just means someone excited about crypto. Whether we like it or not, they far outnumber the small group that still preaches the original philosophy of decentralization and trustless finance. The reason is because that original philosophy failed: crypto did not really invent anything new, so they have been recreating the same structures that have existed in the finance industry for decades.
I'm still pissed about what they did to the Dorne plot.
I'm super interested in this. I have a few interactive articles I'd like to make, but I'm not sure what tech to use for it to make it relatively quickly and without taxing the page too much.

Was thinking maybe the Phaser game framework, but that might be too heavy, especially if there needs to be 7 or 8 of them on the same page.
What difference does it make if 1 or 4 owners take the car to 200K miles? The cheaper-to-run car is likely to be worth more to the initial and subsequent resales.
and without the action of a casino
My 2014 WRX has had a myriad of reliability issues. Bone stock, always maintained, and just constantly going into the dealer for issues. Thankfully I have an extended warranty.

Issue #1: 19k miles - OEM turbo blows. Subaru FSE determines a bearing seized prematurely. Turbo replaced.

Issue #2: 23k miles - Replacement turbo starts making more sounds mimicking the same noises the OEM turbo made before it blew. Subaru replaces it again.

Issue #3: 28k miles - Third turbo goes bad yet again. I cause more of a ruckus at Subaru and they call in an another FSE. FSE determined that all of the turbos blowing caused metal shards to shoot into the engine and that's why the turbos keep blowing. They ended up replacing the long block as well.

Issue #4: 8/1/16 - Car goes back after I keep hearing a rasp. Subaru determined that it wasn't the exhaust shields as suspected and called in an yet another FSE. The FSE determined that the clutch that went bad prematurely. Other misc issues they addressed during this visit:

- Rear seat driver side window has some sort of regulator issue/noise
- Plastic bezel on the radio is peeling
- Creaky clutch and brake pedal

Issue #5: Burning odor from transmission. Subaru says its not an issue.

Issue #6: Yesterday, driving home from Burlington VT to NYC. Reverse gear fails. No reverse option. Third gear also pops out.

It's one of the most fun cars I have ever driven but Jesus it's a nightmare to go to Subaru non-stop. I am contemplating getting a 2022 WRX and attributing all the issues to it being a Lemon...
I don't hear the "whats the worst that can happen from calling a group of people a term they don't like or identify as" from the left very often.

> When I see an educated person argue against this, I see it as a mark on their morals.

You think the majority of minorities are either uneducated or morally flawed?
That's probably closer to the truth than most other ideas...

does this new Arri camera really cost 4 million a pop? hm... well could be... I'm just a Wellington tax officer...
These type of articles that do not breakdown the type of complaints are worthless.
The trend of increased complaints has been present for a few years now, but when broken down the increase comes vastly from infotainment and SW related issues.
And it is expected, SW complexity in the infotainment part has skyrocketed and automotive companies are in their core HW companies, not SW companies and are slow to adapt.
I wouldn't consider infotainment complaints to be a sign of drop in reliability.
The primal drive is only of sex. Most people throughout history wanted sex, not babies. But now with birth control people have the choice. It's the reason why the fertility rate is declining in most developed countries. I think if birth control existed in the time of Jesus, then also a large majority of people would have chosen to be childfree or have only 1-2 kids
Every state charges their own fee per mile to commercial trucks. Filing taxes as a long distance trucking company that operates in multiple states is pretty annoying.

There's also tax built in to every gallon of fuel.

There are also flat annual registration fees you have to pay as well.
I don’t think fucking around with EU regulators is something Apple should do here. They’ll probably revenge even with stronger further regulations later.
Internet life needs a Feeds Reboot – here’s how to do it
You can't, not in a perfectly verifiable way

At some point app A needs to know how to decrypt messages received on app B and/or vice-versa

Nicely designed apps will do so on your device, shady apps will do so on servers, as a consumer you'll have to decide which companies behave and design their apps in a way that is satisfactory to you

But you have to do that to use any app in the first place. If you're using a messaging app it means you trust its developers and how much data they collect and how they handle it. Adding a "how do they handle interoperation" checkbox does not significantly change that calculus imo

(as to how E2E can work with interoperability, with an open API app A will just ping app B's servers in addition to its own and will have its own E2E key as well as B's key. Groups could be more complicated but group encryption is a pretty hard problem anyway and you might just give up and warn your users that cross-platform groups won't be E2EE)
It is still quite confusing.

> built as a static binary without any dependencies

Static binaries are explicitly used for removing the need for specific dynamic runtime dependencies. It does not refer to build dependencies, which are not interesting here.

Based on the terms, I would except that libpam is included for the final binary.
When I open the link at the top on my desktop, I see "© Mapbox © OpenStreetMap Improve this map" in the lower-right corner.
What I wrote was not an analogy but an example meant literally. It's specious to say that "we all follow a regulation" as some kind of argument by solidarity if the regulation is burdensome to some people and not to others.
It's not true in the EU either, plenty of countries have truck and trailer specific tolls. The average truck on the German autobahn, for example, pays €0.15 per kilometre.
Surely there are also a lot in the middle. Otherwise where do all the new cars go, and where do the rust heaps come from?
if it was all just a scam to get NZ to pay for it, presumably they would have kept that going instead of moving production to the UK for subsequent seasons, where they get drastically less tax credits.
Not only that, it's possible that cloud vendors don't charge an extra penny but that the their software grows to consume the virtually limitless computing resources available to them costing them significantly more than expected.

It wouldn't take the most creative exec in the world to make a plausible looking case for changing in either direction even based on the same numbers. A bit of wishful thinking about which costs are included or excluded is probably more than enough.
The Mysterious Return of Imposter Syndrome
To be frank, that's a lot of words to say that, instead of fixing the bugs at their core, MS wrote an entire product to try to work around the bugs in the original product, and now wants me to use that layer instead. And, yeah, that's about how MS sees the world. But "yeah, no" is the serious answer there, and we're moving anything we can to Terraform first.

Most of the failures we see are with AAD, which, AIUI, ARM templates do nothing for.

Even within ARM, as I understand them, ARM templates cannot handle deletes or changes. (They are deployments of new resources.)

And even if one could use templates, that just abstracts the same problem: how long do you wait for the template, if it has finished? (we see changes in ARM take >30 minutes to effect, and even after completion, it can take more minutes for things to "settle", i.e., successive requests to reliably return the same result. It just bottles it all into one highly inconsistent box, maybe, and requires me to learn an entire language on the side.) if it hasn't?

> That works, because the GUID can be used even if the full object is not fully replicated around yet.

Interesting. I'll keep that in mind.
The fact that people are willing to conflate visits to those facilities with seeking abortion is itself a clear justification to discard all data about visits to those facilities!
Consider the number of revisions to each design, as well as the number of years experience in designing and manufacturing both.

Compared to ICE, EV designs and their manufacturing and supporting processes are new.

Plus some EV makes are playing games with requiring in house repairs, which incentivizes (in the near term) getting cars out the door and fixing them later
Subaru and the WRX is just notoriously unreliable, and that's always sort of been the case unfortunately.
I'm sure people find this offensive and offtopic, but As much as I'm a LOTR fan, I really can't wrap my head around why we spend so much money on creating a fiction series while millions of people are at risk of death from hunger, thirst, and climate change.

With 465$M, so many people could be saved. :(
Not really similar.

Sony, MS, and Nintendo already allow games to be purchased from other retailers, and always have. (See, for example, Game Stop, Best Buy, Target, etc.) Even digital downloads can be purchased from other retailers (i.e., Amazon).

Thus, their in-console storefronts are just one of several options that players can use to purchase games.

In contrast, the only way to get iPhone apps is through the App Store. No side-loading, third party stores, etc.
Four Decades of U.S. Inflation
There is a guy on Kia Niro forum who did like 200k miles on it in a year. He drove as a support vehicle with oversized loads iirc
Not to be pendantic, but I think you made a joke without realizing it.
This why the late 90's to early 2000s was objectively the greatest era for reliable good cars. You had everything that makes a modern car great; standard ABS, disc brakes, cruise control, power locks/windows, reliable traditional automatic transmissions, ECU/fuel injection, airbags, etc. without all of the unnecessary nonsense that has made cars insanely expensive over the last 20 years
My suspicion is that anyone can be considered a "private citizen" in a certain context. Trump certainly thought he could throw away his notes while in office. What do you want to bet that TX judges will recognize some county-registrar-who discovers-an-abortion's right to bring suit as an individual? At least when the state itself is officially bringing suit, there are a limited number of individuals who can decide to sue you. In reality, what will happen is that if the TX supreme court disallows an to state employee from participating in the suit, there will be a network of state employees who are able to inform others who are able to sue.
I disagree. For example, let us consider someone who has not considered getting a cat or thinks that there are no benefits to living with a cat. They asked people living with cats for advice, just like OP. A reasonable cat housemate would not say "people who genuinely want cats don't go through exercises like this; the fact you've made this post at all makes it abundantly clear that your decision has already been made". What would they say instead?

1. Spend some time with someone who lives with a cat and loves it. Watch them interacting with cats and have them teach you how to communicate with cats, play with them and understand them and be understood by them. Hopefully this will get rid of preconceived notions of what cats are like and teach you, vicariously, the joys of cat companionship.

2. Ask to look after a friend's cat that you are OK with for 2-3 weeks, while they go on holiday etc. Have the cat move in with you for that time period and try to make friends. You will probably have a decent idea then if living with a cat will make your life better or not.

Now, of course, they would also make you aware of the downsides. It is difficult to travel, especially during busy periods like Christmas, as you have to find someone to look after the cat. They make wake you up at night or scratch you at times. Looking after them and playing with them is an additional time commitment. Unfortunately, chances are you will outlive them. But they would also inform you of the benefits (that you would've experienced when living with a cat for 3 weeks) and let you decide if the benefits outweigh the costs for you: cats are funny, furry independent creatures; they warm the soul. Etc. etc.

So why does it not work the same way with children? "Look after a friends' children for 3 weeks while their parents go on holidays, and you will experience the joys and know if they outweigh the negatives" seems to never be mentioned.
I'm aware of one more upside - ordinary poor Sri Lankans are starting to realize how disastrous racism and nationalism have been, and are starting to reject these ideas.

I recently saw a video where an agitator came up to a mob of mostly Sinhalese people (Sinhalese being the majority ethnic group) and said "The Muslims are coming after me with swords!" only to be told by the mob to take his racism and nationalism elsewhere. The current administration came to power on a racist and nationalistic platform, and it seems that racist and nationalist thinking is falling from grace right along with the ruling clan.

I couldn't find the video I mentioned above, so I am not able to cite it, but I can cite the following examples of more un-racist and un-nationalist behavior in Sri Lankans at present:

1. In the following article, you can see posters of murdered Tamil journalists (Tamil being the second biggest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, which historically had a great deal of ethnic conflict with the Sinhalese) being displayed right alongside pictures of murdered Sinhalese journalists - https://groundviews.org/2022/05/13/challenging-impunity-for-... . To me, this is groundbreaking - for a very long time, Sinhalese Sri Lankans would dismiss any atrocities against the Tamils out of hand. As part of the current protests against the president of Sri Lanka, I've heard more and more stories of atrocities performed against Tamils being discussed and elevated by Sinhalese people, and that is a powerful sign of positive change.

2. Sri Lankans are also becoming more open to LGBTQ people - in the past, Sri Lanka has been incredibly conservative, and profoundly dismissive and marginalizing of everyone who is not straight and cis. However, there was more openness and acceptance of LGBTQ folks during the protests against the president, and Sri Lankans even celebrated pride: https://www.themorning.lk/pride-in-colombo-past-present-and-...

Having said this, Sri Lanka is in a very tough spot indeed - being more open-minded and progressive is cold comfort when you are eating just one meal a day, or sleeping in your car while in line for fuel.
Just buy the tubs of legos, and let the do what they want. Lego is just fine.
That's essentially correct.

You might be interested in the snapshots we make available in Azure, Amazon AWS and Google Cloud: https://www.gbif.org/occurrence-snapshots

Or the API: https://www.gbif.org/developer/summary
No, I was quite explicit, and seriously, is it really that hard to write something along the lines of

if (i<=1)
return i;
else
return factorial(i-1)*i;

It wasn't meant to be a trick or trap, it was the simplest recursive function I could think of and it’s not like I was asking him to implement a stack.
The near-field communication have a clear reason. Apple was only allowing access to their own banking app as a payment provider in shops. As I understand there was not even a way to get access with any kind of forms or such if you had a competing plastic card firm. That is pretty much the only reason that clause is the legislation.
Well, if you produce crops instead of livestock, you are not emitting any nitrogen compounds so would in theory be totally unaffected by regulation.
As a fan of post-modern movies, I would love if this was the case. However I’m afraid that you are misremembering history a bit here. Postmodern movies heydays have long passed. I’m afraid the reached their peak in the 90s with e.g. the Danish dogma movies (pun intended), independent American movies like Clerks, etc. In fact Pulp fiction was a counter punch to the scene by taking elements of postmodern movies, telling a pulp story and dressing it in a Hollywood film. Ironically it is a long running joke among postmodernists to over-analyze Pulp Fiction with a postmodern reading.

Postmodern films got a tiny resurgence around 2007, but never with the same popularity as the pomo scene of the 90s.

So Lord of the Rings is made between those two modes. The movie industry is living in the wake of the unexpected Titanic success, and the studios are trying to create the next big hit. Movies like Gladiator, Pearl Harbor, Cast Away, Meet the Parents, The Mummy, Moulin Rouge! or Chicken Run etc. is what most people are seeing. The themes of the post modern movies is indeed far away.
the legislature as an institution is not really designed or intended to pass 'offensive' bills, it is supposed to reflect the consensus of the states which should hopefully reflect the will of the public at least to some degree. it should also be considered the same gridlock barring federal abortion rights also prevents a federal abortion ban so those who blame all political failures on the filibuster should really keep that in mind. if the people of tennessee, mississippi arkansas etc decide that legal abortion is a defining issue then their representatives would in kind be expected to reflect those values on the floor. while that precludes short-term solutions (once again, as intended) i do not believe that it is a political impossibility as is so often claimed. however, for the first time in a long while, democrats will be required to actually 'do politics'
At least for the moment
It's not the ad industry that would suffer, but small businesses that buy ads. Targeted advertising is how new products and services can bootstrap themselves into existence. As scale increases, targeting accuracy declines, so larger companies don't benefit as much. But if you want to put your product in front of 1000 people who will be highly likely to try it, targeted advertising is superb. If that goes away, it's the startup ecosystem that will be hardest hit.
> Is there a middle ground?

Yes. Raise awareness with targeted, limited, protests and try to keep the awareness by remaining visible. You can remain visible with banners, brochures, interviews and in lots of ways. Increasing violence is not a good way to get people interested in your cause. The increase in violence also often doesn't seem to be caused by the people who feel strongly about a cause, but by other who hijack it for their enjoyment.

Also, the farmers aren't raising awareness for some coherent goal like ending racism. They are protesting drastic measures that are necessary to protect nature in the country and are supported by a majority of the people. These drastic measures include billions in payments to the affected farmers, it's not like the cost will be on them. So it will be really hard for the farmers to convince the public that their demands are reasonable. (We don't even really know their demands except "not this".)
> addiction to her favorite games clearly outweighed espoused concern of Roe vs Wade impact

I’m curious, how are the two related?
Yep! Containers are really great for this kind of thing, it's so trivial to run basically anything as long as the configuration docs are reasonable. I use a single node k3s cluster on my lenovo box (for learning) and just straight up docker-compose on my localhost and dedicated because it's just so easy.