skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not about race, is about culture. You can have any black character in middle earth, --any--, as long as is Southern. Nobody would bat an eye. You can made this character as heroic and positive as you want.

Having a black elf is a miscast, because most races in LOTR depict real groups of people or real cultures in Europe. Elves are tall and blonde and represent the Germanic and Scandinavian traditions that Tolkien loved. They are strongly linked to Alpine mountains and European forests. Their language is based in how Nordic languages sound.

An Asian actor could fit in the role as long as is tall and thin but a credible African elf is much more complex to construct. Can easily feel out of place and as miscasted as would be seeing a black actor in the role of a german nazi soldier.

Harry Potter has black actors, but all of them are from UK (very smart move JK) and share a common culture. Their interactions feel much more realistic and cohesive by that.
metoo

I don't know why this fixation with the colour of the skin.

I was merely pointing out that they changed a character, one that was very distinctly described, that obviously would be at the center of flamed debates and cause uproar.

My understanding is that the more people talk about the movie, the less Disney need to spend in marketing it.

Of course best actor for the role, but the studio never put it that way, so they are to blame IMO.

Also, I mean, the blue fairy is called blue (it's actually turquoise in Italian) because she has long turquoise hair.

The new fairy is bald.

Kinda provocative, does it make for a more compelling story or is it for attention grab?

We'll see when the movie comes out.
Gotta love the “in part”. Let’s be clear, the “part” we’re talking about is negligible.
I don't disagree, but it's tough to tell who's really doing the "lumping" of legit criticism with political tribalism.

She-hulk got review-bombed before the first episode came out. After watching it and enjoying it, my frustration at the fact that it's tough to criticize it without feeling lumped together with sexists wasn't at the "woke" crowd, but rather at the people who'd buried it in negative reviews before it even aired simply because they hate anything with a wiff of liberal politics.
Please do not require AVX support for your software
For Lord of the rings, it's also wise generational timing (akin to Star Wars episodes 1 and 7).

The Fellowship of the Ring (film, 2001) is just over 20 years old, which creates, now, 25-45 year olds significant childhood nostalgia, just in time for them to be able to show their ~5-15 year old children (in their most formative years)
“Woke” or accused of being so?

There are plenty of movies out there that have been criticised for being too ”liberal leaning”. “Woke” is a rather recent term.

Django unchained and Black Panther are two relatively recent movies accused of being “woke”. Both were resounding successes.
Great article and amazing work by EFF reconstructing the interface.

I’m reasonably familiar with how mobile ad networks function. Am I correct in assuming that current iOS devices wouldn’t be subject to this because Apple has restricted access to a cross app identifier? Or is Fog/Ventel relying just on Waze data?

Also, if you use pi-hole at home, wouldn’t that make the analysis much more difficult?
Forgot to mention. Dammn that music of wingcommander
> yet they are not willing to negotiate

Negociate what?

Russia has stated multiple times that the only negotiation offer they accept is the complete surrender of Ukraine:

> Russia vowed on Tuesday its assault on Ukraine would continue until Kyiv surrenders

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220628-russia-demand...
I'm a software engineer and this is my first application. I created switch vpn. Redesigned and re-engineered encryption and dns handling to prevent leaks and get faster network results, it works great.
But I'm not A good salesperson. I don't know how to market and find users. I tried applying a 2 day no-pay trial and adjusting the subscription to $6 a month, but it didn't work.
what should I do.
> The fact of the matter is the histrionically the left has cheated

What are you trying to say?
Humans have plenty of allies, and we don't need your defense. It's not like we are going to be "criticized for wiping our 60% of all known species on the planet" into extinction.
I'm willing to believe that several thousand years of living will change a person
absolutely ! Im assuming 40year old me that can afford vr doesnt have the same stomach as 16 year old me :)
Of course they did.

But Disney is not making culture, they are making entertainment for making money.

Tolkien is culture, Amazon's rings of power is not.

EDIT: sorry, misread your comment, no, not only in European cultures, it's consistent across the cultures throughout history.

White is the light, first men loved light and hated dark, in darkness lure grave dangers.

For example in African mythologies fairies are white too, pearl white to be precise.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumboes
janes !! Damn that bring back memories
I guess it's only relevant to people that speak Italian, but just in case, I'll post the autotranslation for everyone else [1].

> Schadenfreude: An Investigation of Alteri and Tulips

> The calm canvas that envelops the life of Count Monterei and the members of his palace is tragically cut at first by the disappearance of his daughter, due to a boat accident, and then by the most disturbing discovery imaginable: the body without life of the countess right in front of the library where the count usually spends his evenings. The detectives Alteri and Tulips are called to investigate. Two completely opposite characters: the first cynical and cold on some occasions, empathetic to the point of exhaustion in others, gifted with an imagination capable of spitting out any skein; the second, on the other hand, infantile, neutral, devoid of professional ambitions but rich in personal ones: having a home and a family that love him correspond to the two fundamental needs. Accompanying them will be the charming Lady Hegel, with a criminal and mysterious past, and police consultant in the Observer's cases: the meanest of figures, the most devious of serial killers as she derives her satisfaction from not actively committing crimes, but in making them happen by means of apparently unrelated expedients and coincidences.

> But what will Alteri's suspicions be once Lady Hegel's story is known? And above all: does the Observer really exist?

[1] I don't speak Italian, but I can understand a little. [Hi from Argentina!] So I read something about cookies in browsers and I though your book was about that. Later I realized I hit the cookie-wall. IIUC your book is a crime fiction nobel.
Anything that uses and depends on time synchronization basically. Which is a huge list. from railways to game servers. But again, do they all use these devices or in particular 10-bit counters? I have no idea.
Loads fine for me
I used to be interested in this stuff until I realized how homogenous and bland it all was. There's very little personality in any of these setups.

It's r/battlestations without the gauche RGB light strips everywhere. I give it 6 months before this is either abandoned or becomes filled with affiliate links to office furniture products.
A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work
It depends on both sides to show genuine willingness of the rights of the peoples on both sides.

Absolutely, Israel still has more steps to take towards peace (eg, removing settlements).

Historically though, PA leadership has rarely demonstrated any honest desire for compromise or peace. Hamas, currently the government in Gaza, literally calls for the “obliteration” of the State of Israel as part of its charter.
I have had the same after trips. For a few days I just felt good which is usually rare for me. It was good to experience how feeling good feels. I had almost forgotten.
> I would interview kids nowadays who want $100k but have no idea what Agile is.

I've worked for companies and managers who don't know what Agile is. Not knowing one specific thing, even if it's an important thing, isn't worth writing off a candidate. If you can't teach someone the basics of agile in an afternoon, you're doing agile wrong.
Where in the constitution does it say a poll tax under a certain value is OK?

Where does it define a minimum value to be considered a tax?

Where does it say "some things requiring ID is an exception to poll taxes?"

The government requiring money to be paid in order to vote is in fact a poll tax.
Has anybody actually tried it? Anyone willing to share their experiences?

The tools looks extremely promising for smaller teams that just want to get the whole thing going with minimal config
Why does this read like it was written by an incel?
I thought they were referring to the post-ww2 'spoils of war' perspective, rather than 'we were here the longest' (for certain values of 'we' and 'longest'). But so many promises have been broken, so many borders changed, so many people swapped in and out, it's hard to call it sensible.

Why is this Abrahamic religion split accepted in the first place. Or is it racist? Long-running feuds?

It's sad to see so many families harmed in all this, their land taken away.
I don't have their cash account but I set up repeat bimonthly transfers of a set amount from my checking account easy enough.
Those that promote the idea of having Digital Selves are making a typo there. The right term is Digital Slaves.
I can believe that it'll be rough at first, but jetbrains is really good at iteratively improving their products.

that said, I'm not incredibly interested in it. Maybe if I were at a company that just got a series A or something, and was starting to hire quickly, and didn't already have an entrenched environment.

I'll probably make use of their remote environments at some point -- it solves a lot of cross-platform development problems. Still has some rough edges though, based on my 10 minute attempt to use it.

I'm at the point where the only thing I want from them is to be able to use a single ide for multiple languages in the same project. I've brought it up before on HN, and it seems like for at least some of their products you can still use as plugins to intellij. But clion really throws a wrench into that.
This is exactly why I think people who say that Elon Musk is doing this or that in order to increase his fortune are wrong. The constraints on his “action space” are fundamentally different from those of the people who say these things.
Yes. An Italian was talking about an Italian story. They're Europeans.

What did you intend this statement to contribute?
Its really stupid. Coincidentally thats how energy market in EU works right now - the better connected grid you have the worse prices your close by clients get because you can export to Germany and other "responsible" countries like Italy.
Blowing up in what way?
Racism certainly plays a big part in the frequency of such complaints, but it nonetheless raises some important questions.

Ultimately, nobody really, genuinely holds the opinion that an actor can be of any appearance for any role. There will always be exceptions that will break their immersion, because unlike with theatre there is the expectation that the movie is WYSIWYG.

To give an extreme example, would you be completely undisturbed if the main character in 12 years a Slave was portrayed by John Malkovich? Or if a Jewish camp inmate in Schindler's list was portrayed as a black person? I don't think either example would sit well with the vast majority of people, no matter how racist or not racist they might be.

That's why pointing out that black people did exist in Italy is correct but beaide the point. The real debate is around the acceptability of certain expectations, and what determines the criteria for this acceptability.
Actually kind of agree. Need to go through revision. Sentences feel unnecessarily long and drawn out.
I somehow missed the thread a few months back[1], but this article is woefully one-sided.

- As someone who worked in cancer bio and shared a campus with Sabatini, his sexual conduct was always a bit borderline and there were rumors floating about him well before Knouse came forward. It's strange to me that Weiss did not interview any of those people or anyone who could speak to those rumors. It's important to note that Knouse was only one of multiple accusers.

- Perhaps an even more glaring omission, however, is that the article repeatedly bragged about Sabatini's publication record without any mention of the series of controversies he had BEFORE the sexual harassment controversy. Several high-profile papers from the Sabatini lab were found to have fraudulent data and manipulated figures [2]. Some of these "mistakes" would have been career-ending to a student or postdoc in a smaller lab, but since it's the Sabatini lab, well, "it doesn't change the conclusions of the paper".

We can certainly speculate about whether or not Knouse had ulterior motives and whether or not Sabatini really got due process in the court of public opinion. There's definitely some perverted social and institutional processes at play here. However, omitting the two points above make me question this article's motivations.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31436202
2. https://forbetterscience.com/2020/01/29/david-sabatini-torme...
China increased US gas imports to record levels, after the war started. US is now the biggest exporter of LNG gas to China:

https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...
I get some of the points but the language used puzzles me. This presumably well meant blog post or rather blog rant seems only readable for a subset of readers which either frequent image boards or have urban dictionary open in a second browser tab.

The numbers quoted as in ‚95% of all personal sites are dead‘ do not seem sourced but more of personal estimation quoted with overconfidence just to get the author‘s point across.

To be honest: I stopped reading after the third section and only scrolled through the rest.

Concluding from the URL and the OP‘s user name I‘m assuming they posted it themselves so please take my comment as constructive criticism.
> At the peak of the eurozone crisis, when most of northern Europe wanted the Greek prime minister to be told his country had to leave the common currency, Merkel demurred

Implying Greece was not allowed to leave the Eurozone and default on their debt because of some European solidarity vision is naive at best.

Most of Greeks debt was issued by German banks who would have been holding empty bags if Greece was allowed to default on their own terms.
Yes it is.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apart...
> Come on France, 'do yer thang' (riots), we'll follow suit.

Somewhat unlikely for now. The government is shielding the population from the worst, as they should, by capping electricity prices and with grants/loans to those worst impacted. The average Brit is being hit much worse than the average French.
Except on modern architectures your intuition about what is actually faster is likely wrong if it’s based on just Big O operation counts.

Memory locality, prefetching and branch prediction are all likely more important to actual performance than Big O complexity and those things can change from architecture to architecture.

When I was learning big o notation numa architectures where just becoming commercially viable. You’d get dramatically different performance results in one lab to the other based on which machines were in it.
Driving without GPS – the desire to be free and in controls
Anyone made version for VR headsets?
> Impressive how much propaganda can achieve.

Alanis Morissette missed a lyric.
Just the market doing it's thing...
They would if they could!
Tolkien fans are very serious about lore. The negative reviews seem to be more about lore.

Personally, I get it. The LoTR trilogy is a timeless classic. Of course, nothing can compare.
Hey a doctor can be unemployed just like everybody else, collecting unemployment, no shame in that, just down on his luck.

People insist it be automatic you get your MD you're set for life, with no caveats. Nah, man, it's just a degree, just means you don't get persecuted with an absurd level of aggression for helping people. Anybody can get fired, anybody can quit, some people say you can't quit the word to quit doesn't start with a letter q. And then you don't have a job, but you saved up right? Not since the Reagan era? Or the mortgage, wait you sign whatever people put in front of you, get a mortgage which everybody says is slavery and the Bible shits on absolutely every single time, you fell for that? Like that doctor on TV the Brazilian plastic surgeon, Dr. Rey that's him, like it's TV but that means idiots actually do those things, idiot doctors, like too a bridge loan two mortgages, that expensive wife and expensive daughter, like the daughter knew "Gucci" age 2, they're lying about lying about that, they fucked up and told the truth.

Let me say all the algorithms in medicine are clever first approximations, only 2 of the 18 best were truly close to the mark. Bioinformatics is in its infancy still.

He can get a job again, hell he could keep buying pens and notebooks and keep being a cancer researcher with that unemployment benefit. The algorithm research is the cheapest thing to do, like you can talk a library into giving pen and paper to you for free.

Great ideas come on an empty stomach.
Apparently it's also used as a marketing strategy. I remember reading news when the 2016 Ghostbusters trailer dropped of Sony deleting negative comments on the video - but only the non-sexist ones that made legitimate criticisms of the humour or other non-controversial stuff. The theory was that they left the sexist, racist comments live so that they could characterize all their criticism as such. Clever plan, if true.
The missed opportunity seems to be too big to wrap my head around. It could have started something truly great, another Space Opera to rival Star wars and star trek duopoly.
An illegal Apartheid occupation, what do you expect.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apart...
Here's what I believe to be a superior presentation of this story, formatted as a Wikipedia article: https://dump.cy.md/4042875593f06aa0cbe7722295831c10/Screensh...
I had one. I know first hand.
Because G7 is afraid of Russia splintering into 10 nuclear republics. This is well covered by various analysts.

So G7 wants a soft "landing".
For me, I like the political intrigue. It's also a reminder that the quest for power is never ending, and even when one wins, it's never lasting.

But, to your point, it's not that dissimilar from other quest for power dramas. I told a friend the new GoT is a bit like Succession with dragons. The quest for power is part of the human condition, which is why I think so many enjoy the stories in whatever form they are told.
Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
There was a question a couple days ago about hourly rate, and a lot of the discussion revolved around raising compensation by specializing. Of course, generalists can still specialize, but it's a bit different. So, I'm curious what the answers will be like if we hear from only generalist developers.
I tend to be a somewhat slow learner but once I've learned something, I seem to remember it forever (I only lose a little bit of detail).

I remember most of the stuff from university 10 years ago including the brand and model of the microcontroller I programmed (ATMEL ATMEGA8-16PU) and the names of the I/O registers on that chip, the name of the program I used to program it with (AVR Studio). I also remember most stuff I learned in Discrete Mathematics, pretty much every ADT (Abstract Data Type) I learned about in my Algorithms and Data Structures class and I remember pretty much everything I learned in Machine Learning (decision trees with minimax algorithm, alpha-beta pruning, heuristic functions, Artificial Neural Networks, step functions, sigmoid functions, backpropagation algorithm)... Time and space complexity...

Except for time and space complexity and ADTs, I haven't really used the other stuff.
Really impressive, thanks for the links.

Has someone a good intro to stable diffusion for someone who doesn't know a lot about AI?
I think the motivation is not so much the living forever but being scared of dying. If you have children they can enjoy the future. That's how it works.

Dying involves"dust to dust, ashes to ashes". Everything we have pumped ourselves up to be is gone. That is the fear. Spend the money on teaching people death in old age is OK.
Psilocybin is still something that can be grown/synthesized outside of a lab. Sure, major pharmaceutical companies could synthesize pure psilocybin and sell that as a new treatment in some kind of ideal form but it seem that from a lot of anecdotes posted here as well as many other stories I’ve heard, “normal”, non-lab-produced psilocybe mushrooms can have a profiundly positive effect. This might be what big pharma is seeing as a potential opportunity loss and therefore funding studies that skew results in a less positive way.
In other words, ignore the writer's understanding of and intent for for the character because they didn't put it in the right book?
It's also worth remembering that Russian forces have committed an assassination [0] on UK soil using radioactive material, and attempted another one that was bungled and killed an innocent English police officer _in England_ [1].

The general feeling towards Russia in the UK is very hostile, and there are certainly a huge number of people happy to put the squeeze on Putin. There is little to no enthusiasm for appeasement here, and the pressure is on the government to ease the pressure on the vulnerable without bending over to Russian foreign policy.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yuli...
Not many write PHP code like this anymore, except for perhaps some small one off projects or legacy.

The reason is that it gets incredible hard to maintain, and almost impossible to test.
Surprisingly, the U.K. isn’t nearly as affected as mainland Europe by Russia’s antics. But sky-high crude prices, regulatory capture and lack of storage (government neglect, again) mean that, shockingly, U.K. is going to suffer worse than Germany.

Blaming this all of this on the UK’s stance wrt Russia is mostly a move by politicians who don’t want to admit how badly they’ve messed regular governing up.
Pika: Move the Web Forward
"And a whole lot of new risks to go with the potential"

As long as alcohol is legal and easily available we shouldn't worry about psychedelics. I know plenty of people who have taken all kinds of psychedelics and seem OK. Psychedelics just don't seem very addictive for most people. I also know quite a few people who have been hurt by alcohol. They either hurt themselves or they hurt others while drunk.
> No you don't, it just generated it and display it to the screen, it doesn't save it anywhere, you at no point posses it.

"It's not my pot, officer! I was just holding it for someone!"

If you accidentally generate something inappropriate once with a poorly chosen prompt or an algorithm glitch, and it lives for a few seconds in your RAM before you close it, sure.

If a jury sees your generation history with a bunch of clearly "gimme that CSAM" queries, I wouldn't anticipate an acquittal.
Ask HN: Open-source maintainers, how do you search for sponsors?
I'm an open-source maintainer of a moderately popular developer tool. While I got sponsors from time to time, I would like to find more to sustain myself and dedicate more time to the project.
I tried to contact companies sponsoring other open-source projects through Twitter or by email but got no response most of the time.
I don't expect instant success, and I know that I am pretty average when it comes to marketing/sales.
But still, I would be curious to hear from other open-source maintainers and their strategies, if any.