skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"some people" are always irrational and unhappy. They are irrelevant.

The new criticism isn't them "pivoting", it is a completely new set of people who dislike the show for entirely different reasons.

You're making the common error of assuming everyone you disagree with is part of some homogenous club.
> I reckon there’s some selection bias here too, people who perceive themselves to be incompetent probably talk about it less.

The issue here is not what's the true skill level of anyone in the team. The problem is this recurrent theme of software developers demeaning everyone around them while portraying themselves as flawless saviours.

A key trait of software development is JIT onboarding and continuous development. If you develop your skills and today you're a better developer than you were yesterday, that means that yesterday you were a worse developer and quite possibly quite bad by your measuring stick from some point in the future.

Thus if JIT onboarding and continuous personal development is a basic aspect of software development jobs, why is not being ab absolute expert on everything the target of so much criticism and abuse?

I often look to the work I've done in the past and often times I come across less optimal choices that today I wouldn't make. I'm sure the only ones who don't experience the same are thise who learn nothing from anything. Therefore, why use that as a target for abuse?
Dwarves aren't real, historical people. Black slaves were. What the actual fuck are you talking about?
Also in the UK. Personally I'm sick of seeing our government cosy up to authoritarian regimes because they have something we happen to want. In the UK we're particularly unlucky in that the people currently in charge don't really care if the poor in our society freeze or starve as they've stated so astutely in the recent leadership contest.

The rest of the G7 at least seem prepared to shield their population as much as possible through planning and government intervention, which is probably why they seem much less concerned.

On top of that, the answer to the pain of the current sanctions isn't to go back to relying on Russian gas. It's to pump covid levels of investment into alternatives that don't require us to prop up quasi-dictatorships in order to keep the lights on.
That would have been an amazing project back in 2016 when WASM didn’t exist. Today a js implementation of Tor is pointless.
Did they delete the reviews that were left before the show aired?
The interesting thing is that the plot is almost entirely about noble elites. The casting is the only woke thing about it.
And a whole bunch of phoned under that s30

That you couldn't develop for at all.
There are some people for whom the name Tolkien means something, usually something very specific and beloved.

If those people aren't the core audience, why did they pay out of the nose to use that name in the first place? They could do a fantasy story written all in-house, and save themselves the money. If you're right, the audience should be almost as big, and they get to skip the part where they're accused of grave-robbing.
I would not call "forgotten" Scorched Earth. Even there is a remake in 3d.
This Galadriel is such a step down compared to the LoTR trilogy... Also, in one of the first scenes wind was blowing so strongly they barely moved ahead. Then one of the company members falls down, she turns back and walks there like there was no wind at all.
Nice, I also thought making a similar wordle game based on Wikipedia articles.
Matt Damon went into some detail about why movies are like this nowadays: https://youtu.be/gF6K2IxC9O8
I understand you. The bigger the team is, the harder it is to use a technology that isn't the latest and greatest, despite being potentially the right tool for the job. A good example is a VueJS or React frontend backed by a couple of API services when all you needed was a Django app with a view and a model. Or even a PHP page.
Such a shame, I really wanted one but couldn't justify it.

Eventually got a Sailfish Jolla.
I choose to ignore user reviews/ratings altogether. On IMDB right now 60% of the ratings (not reviews) are either 1 or 10 [1], and that's completely ridicolous.

I much prefer the critics' scores - and right now they're 84% on RT [2] and 71 on Metacritics [3]. Which are reasonable numbers.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7631058/ratings/?ref_=tt_ov_rt
[2] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lord_of_the_rings_the_...
[3] https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-ring...
Wonder if he enjoys this.
I don't think that is true. There is some complaining, but in general popular franchises are popular for reason. There likely were enough things that appealed already substantial audience. Just keep those in and adapt what has to be adapted for different medium.

I'm not saying make a product for only the fans. But stay honest to source or previous material.
Agree. And not only that, there is little appetite amongst a large proportion of English voters to join again anyway. Even among those who feel it went badly and they wish they voted otherwise in hindsight.

I highly recommend this speech given by Fintan O’Toole describing his hypothesis on what’s going on in the UK and specifically England and how it results in things like Brexit

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1SeadvWsn_k
I wonder if there are groups of people or societies that reject this achievement stuff and over accumulation of wealth, in favor of pure joy and happiness and health. Would be nice to visit such societies and be a part of them
A better comparison would be Black Panther or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - fictional stories and worlds loosely inspired by real places, just like Middle Earth.
Your comment sparked some interest in me and I found this article to be very detailed and nuanced:

https://www.madinamerica.com/2021/09/ending-silence-psychede...

If you know other sources on your comment, I would love to check them out as well!
The simplest explanation would be that IMDb (Amazon, basically) removed reviews posted before the episodes had even aired, but is this what actually happened?
And email verification has been around forever too! Even obscure forums have it. It's wild to think there's still companies out there allowing account creation without email verification.
> All of them have some form of sticking it to the man and doing what they want as their story line. True heroes are self-sacrificial and reluctant. Contrast Galadriel who acts like a self righteous dickhead

This seems to be a recurring problem in a lot of media these days. Protagonists who are just self-righteous jerks who both lecture others about how they need to act and pretend they're above any rules themselves. If this was the start of a character arc, fine, but a lot of the times these shows act as if these characters are right and that others should appreciate their toxic personalities.
Short circuit at substations in Flevoland causes power outage
>Another example is the new Disney's Pinocchio, were the Blue Fairy is portrait by a black woman. The problem is not that she is black of course. but that the original story is set in Italy, Tuscany, mid 1800, were no black woman was ever seen

It’s quite clear that that is YOUR problem. It’s funny when people like yourself claim “I’m not X” while then clear laying the case.

And for the récord, i hope you open up a geography book. There’s been black people in Italy for pretty much all it’s history. You may want to also read a few history books. (Black moors, Alessandro de' Medici, etc )

Also, can people just chill with this racist crap. It’s freaking art, up to interpretation. An actor can be of any race or gender. Get over it.
Well, it saved 1.8M ton of CO2. That is some kind of payment.
C-more use IMDb ratings in their streaming app. So it is possible for competitors to buy access to this data.

I also think that minute to minute music and actor info is not sourced from IMDb. And I’d be surprised if Netflix couldn’t at least to it for their own properties.

I think there is a fundamental difference in how the two services go about things. On Netflix it can be quite the challenge to even see cast and director and it is difficult to browse by such categories. Netflix sees themselves as the purveyor of advanced recommendations.
I've watched one episode of TRoP and don't mind it. I attempted long ago to read the silmarillon but got bored so I've no vested interest in the book/base material.

I dont care whether a white character in a book or comic is played by a black/brown person, or the other way round really.

But I am baffled by the reactions they get. You always get the same reaction, people with the same coloured skin as the fictional character complain while the people of the same coloured skin as the actor don't see a problem.

But it does only seem to be racist for white people to complain about white fictional characters not being played by white actors, and racist for white actors to play non-white fictional characters. (I'm not talking about stuff like blackface here)

Admittedly I have limited knowledge about why this is the case, and obviously risk being labelled a racist for stating these observations. But genuinely I'm confused by it all.
Ahh so he went to stay with his "girlfriend who lives in canada" ... sure thing bud.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=my%20girlfri...
> Unfortunately the mobile network was also down, which meant that the generator did not start up.
No, you have that wrong. The opposite of "fee-only" is "commissioned-based" - where you don't have transparency into the cost of the advice (which is free at the point it's offered) because it's kicked-back to the advisor by the funds etc. that are being offered.

A fee based on AUM is an entirely standard way of paying a fee-only adviser.

ref. https://www.napfa.org/financial-planning/what-is-fee-only-ad...
So the US can just declare the black hoods as external terretories and then the South could have continued as they were in the 60s. Amazing what you can achieve by some legal shananigens.

Fact is, Israel is in controll of those terretories, these people are suject to the Israeli state.
Windows Kernel Introspection
Pretty sure he's well aware that it's a separate state.
Ah, misunderstood that. Ok, so fairly useless in a place with many stations.
Here's the direct download: https://bauernordic-pods.sharp-stream.com/ie/2791/brendan_o_...

I hope it's not a temporary URL. It that doesn't work, you can also get it by going to the Network tab of your brower's dev tools and filtering for media.
> the governance process has always been entirely controlled by the Ethereum foundation in a centralized way.

The EF has little to no say in the protocol nowadays. One of the reasons that multiple protocol teams exist and all decisions are made in the open is so decision making can be transparent and criticized.
Needing to buy a certain make of a computer because they have a proprietary browser which doesn't run on any other machine.
Linkdink, things are a bit more cordial around here than you might be used to from other forums. Mine was just a friendly note to someone who seemed to have incurred the displeasure of the community, fair or not, suggesting why that might be so.
Ask HN: Stable Diffusion Course Topics?
Thinking about creating a Stable Diffusion course, since trying to learn more about it and figure easiest way is to just try teach other people wanting to use it.

Any questions, suggestions, links to existing guides, support communities, etc.?
Fooled by the Failure to Fail (2021)
That's the Second Age for you. None of the major characters is supposed to be likable, except maybe Elendil. This is not a story about heroism and self-sacrifice. It's a story where powerful people do stupid things out of pride, great empires fall, and almost everyone dies.
6 out of 10 Britons support sanctions against Russia.
Only because his publisher forced him to split it up
I don’t even know how the gauge the success of something like this - in prime subscriptions not canceled?
I have a friend that had one of these in 90's. He and few other friends swore it was fantastic, but I could never fully relax to 'see' the effects. It felt like on a neurological exam, but the latter one had more intense effect (unpleasant); You know the one with strobing light and EEG. If you've been on one of those, it's quite like that but with music, hah.
Perhaps I'm an outlier. But, I thought I'd post my thoughts in case others get dissuaded from trying the show based on all the negative feedback. Note, I've only watched the first episode.

I watched the show with two other people, of very different interests and ages. We all enjoyed it immensely.

- The sets, costumes, and cinematography are fantastic and at times breath-taking. The level of detail in the costumes is amazing, and I can't really imagine them being better.
- The acting is first-rate. IMO it's better overall than the acting in LoTR, or at least as good, and better than in most shows you'll watch. I did not see an actor that was not all-in for their role, and the many accents are beautifully done. This is the most important quality of any show for me.
- The language in the script is elevated, and there are some beautiful lines. Scenes are allowed to develop, without the need for the rapid cuts many shows feature/rely on.
- Plot is fine! I have not seen where it will go yet, but there are some big plot points, and subtle tensions developing. I had no problem here.

I love LoTR, but am not a dedicated Tolkien fan with rules about how things must be. I am fine with spin-offs, re-imaginings, alternate worlds, whatever! IMO the goal here is to entertain, to capture the imagination, and to do work that shows dedication to the craft and I think the show easily succeeds in all of those. I would probably watch a full season just for the production value alone.

Also, the whole race thing: What? To me it's a complete red herring and everyone in the show belongs there. This is not just gate-keeping, but racism plain and simple. If countering that racism is your only reason to watch the show, that's a good enough reason.
Encrypt-Then-Mac for Committing AEAD (CAEAD) Internet Draft
This draft aims to address three problems:

1. It explains how to construct an AEAD scheme by combining an unauthenticated cipher and collision-resistant, hash-based MAC. To my knowledge, this has not been written up before. It's important because it's more flexible than regular Encrypt-then-MAC without associated data and provides a standardised approach for implementation.

2. AEAD schemes like AES-GCM, ChaCha20-Poly1305, and AES-OCB aren't committing. A committing scheme is required in some scenarios (e.g. password-based encryption) and should really be the default to prevent attacks.

3. There still seems to be a lack of awareness that AEADs are not committing. This attempts to summarise what it means since the topic is confusing.

Any feedback would be much appreciated.
> It becomes clear that the black blue fairy was put there to check a box

The movie is in English, using exclusively non-Italian actors , which in itself is checking a box. What difference does it make if they cast another non-Italian actor to play a role?
Enduring Lessons from Remote and Hybrid Work
> she's a fairy, not a human .. what does her skin have to do with the time period or place in which she appeared?

I mean, why can't we have a viking Black Panther and put Wakanda near Iceland?

> The real problem is getting upset over the skin color of the actors and actresses playing fairies

No one is upset for that, I, as Italian, am upset that some writer thinks that Collodi's story needed to be changed in ways that add nothing to it and also betray what he clearly wrote with his own hands.

The pale white skin is a well known proxy for ethereal/angelic beings, they are not white people, they are otherworldly magical creatures, made like that.

There were a lot more places where they could have added diversity, they decided to go for the most obviously controversial one.
Yeah and the inflated price too, the difficulty in getting it, the fear all the time, the fear of winding up a stereotypical pathetic addict. And bosses insisting on hair samples to test for drug use in the previous six months (wear a crew cut say you like looking like soldiers), that's not justified in all cases, some people use marihuana for endless work trances, do great work, 1 in 15 or so.

You have to let people take vitamins. That's what vitamins are, they're drugs, we depend on them, we're addicted to Vitamin A, we're addicted to all the Vitamins B, we're addicted to Vitamin C, we're addicted to Vitamin D even. Vitamin E...a bit. Can't make it ourselves--that's the alternatives generally--so we gotta find it somewhere. And tell you what, sailors by all means crave fruit when they have scurvy. Big Pharma, in their highest-secrecy shit they think nobody not even the NSA can see (they tell themselves a story why it's airtight) discuss rationing Vitamin C in the future.

It's for our own good, being we're addicts and all.

Heroin junkies I consider totally respectable, not interested in heroin but they're really cool, Heath Ledger for one, Philip Seymour-Hoffman, Keith Richards, and of course the addicts in the Nazi experiments, who in fact were allowed to self-medicate freely all-you-can-eat, sit back and watch. They went up and up and up, all the way to a gram a day, and this was pure not the Stockholm syndrome increasingly-diluted crap the "chasing the dragon" shit the dosage gaslighting. So in the Nazi experiment, the junkies all caught the dragon. Makes sense they chased that dragon to begin with, and they all had been ripped with tragedies really subhumanized.
Fintan O'Toole – Borders and Belonging: British and Irish Identities (2019)
Fintan starts speaking around the 5:45 mark if you wish to skip the introduction.
Professors are not good software engineers
I then genuinely hope that the same 6 out of 10 are happy to pay their increased energy bill.
>alternatives that don't require us to prop up quasi-dictatorships in order to keep the lights on

But how? The entire economy of the city of London is based on being the word's money laundering capital, vacation playground and best buddy for Russian Oligarchs, Saudi Royals, CCP big shots and other wealthy dictators and warlords. It's Thacher's legacy.
Lukoil Chairman Ravil Maganov the 8th Russian energy executive to die suddenly
I agree, this isn’t yet big enough - or fake enough - to be labeled as a bubble.
Isn't the carrier concern US-only though? In many other countries carriers know nothing about phones. Carriers sell cell service, electronics stores sell unlocked phones.
Episodes are 1h long, tho.
I keep dreaming the day when every peripheral (Display, Speakers, Keyboards..) and component (RAM, SSD, HD, GPU, CPU) will come with a just single connector ( like RJ45 or Fiber optics) and they all will be connected to a switch (yes like a layer 2 switch or layer 3 switch). They will comunicate with each other through packets like regular TCP/IP connections.

You have computer A and B with a single display C. In the morning you use your computer A and in the evening you want to switch to computer B? Easy: go to web interface of display C and set the IP address of computer B. That's it. Same for every other peripheral and component. The GPU wants more RAM? Easy: just comunicate directly with the RAM through the switch.

I know, it will be security nightmare. I know, fiber optics (I guess this is the fastest network cable today?) cannot reach RAM speed. In the end we are just sending bits over the wire (or wireless) and we have a gazillions type/revisions of cables and sockets. There will come a time where Network speed will reach RAM speed (I guess this is, after CPU registers and caches, the fastest component?) or close to it.

I don't understand it. Maybe because I'm missing something at a fundamental electrical level.
Sweden invaded Norway in 1814 defeated it and force it to accept the king of Sweden as their king. While Norway had considerable independence compared to most other occupied countries it was nevertheless a junior partner in the union (initially it’s foreign policy was fully controlled by Sweden)
Isn't it the case that race is acceptably mutable if it isn't germain to the story and that making all audiences feel more accepted and therefore happier is a laudable goal. Nothing woke about greater non white representation. Plenty snowflake about not wanting this.
woah, thanks for the links!
Backing down means handing the victory to Russia, which is politically costly in the short term and probably not financially cheaper in the long term. Whether europe wants it or not, they are involved in a war, and you can't just back down in a war without consequences.

You could also argue that the current prices are just a teaser of what's coming anyway so more incentive to innovate now instead of later. Very harsh and not completely true, but I think there's a little bit of truth to it
Kerberos (Protocol)
As if LotR isn’t the biggest fairy tale of all.
> You are looking directly into the centre of the brain, a secret and mysterious place where all the most vital functions that keep us alive and conscious are to be found. Above you, like the great vault of a cathedral roof, are the deep veins of the brain – the Internal Cerebral Veins, and beyond them the basal veins of Rosenthal and then in the midline the Great Vein of Galen, dark blue and glittering in the light of the microscope

This felt like I was reading Tolkien mixed with a bit of William Gibson. Fantastic.
Not true. There’s AUM fee only, and flat fee only.
This is true. I should have said that it seems to be a slowly but sustainably growing market. When I think of bubble, I think of a rapid boon followed by a bust. I don’t think this industry will have either.
The signal is 10-bit, but it seems silly to make the receiving device 10-bit and suffer this problem when correcting for it is easy. OP says it wasn't always corrected for, even by people with the lesson of Y2K behind them, which is what surprises me.
With all this talk of tech and business, am I the only one who's wondering about safety measures on oil rigs? Can you climb up the legs to stay away from sharks? Do they have life rafts and emergency supplies on the bottom of the legs so you can wait for rescue?
> It’s quite clear that that is YOUR problem. It’s funny when people like yourself claim “I’m not X” while then clear laying the case.

if you don't see a problem in changing someone else's literature and culture (I am Italian and have read Pinocchio since I was a kid) than you probably don't know what respect for different cultures is.

I would never think of a movie were Kunta Kinte is Dutch and is portrait by Chris Hemsworth.

Would you?

Also: my favourite roman emperor is

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus

He was black.

But in the small village in Tuscany of 1800 depicted in Pinocchio there were no black people, I can assure you.
Palestinians are stateless. This doesn't make them less of foreigners.
Galadriel in the Lord of the Rings books shows none of that. You only learn about it if you read the Silmarillion (and the other History of Middle-Earth books).

It's not at all unreasonable for her portrayal in the movies based on the LotR books to be...based on her portrayal in the LotR books, and not attempting to incorporate largely irrelevant details of her backstory from Tolkien's other writings.
>> That you can't render a python script.py like php's script.php more likely has to do with language construction difference between the two.

You can, actually, and how close it is to the way php works is all to do with the fastcgi handler, and little to do with the language. Wsgi has configuration like WSGIScriptAlias, WSGIScriptAliasMatch, and WSGIScriptReloading that would make it almost exactly the same as default php behavior.

I suppose it may not run efficiently that way, but it would run. And you don't have the built-in html templating with php, where any html file is also a valid php file.