skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is it is not an adaptation in any way whatsoever. It is an original work by Amazon, which is where the frustration comes from.

My main frustration is how they did not have Durin as a reincarnated figure, but as part of just a lineage who happened to name themselves the same, like an English king. Thats pretty central to the dwarven situation in The Hobbit and LotR, and it feels incredibly dumb they left that out. I would love for an adaptation of the Children of Hurin, or the struggles of Fingolfin leading to his final battle with Morgoth, or something...but no, they decided to write their own lore in.

I have not watched it for the same reason that I avoided Shadow of Mordor. What I know is from the articles and reviews of the show surrounding its release. But the fact that they did not have the rights to the Silmarillion bewilders me why they would try to appeal to fans who have already read it. Tolkien and his son spent near a century working on the lore, and it feels wrong to have a corporation decide to throw it all out for a quick buck.

If they wanted a fantasy show to fight Game of Thrones, they should have had an original work. I mean, look at Invincible! Outside of the hardcore comic book scene, nobody has heard of that. Because it was such a good story, people spread the word like wildfire. They can create something original, and that original work can succeed. They are Amazon. They have the marketing to put it in the public's eye, and the money to make it good. Instead they rode the coattails of an author, and even claimed "it was the story he never wrote" as though any of that was based on his works.
I have no idea where to even begin if the digest does not leak something about the data
When I worked at Microsoft, one team created a big solution for an e-commerce customer using Kubernetes, Helm charts, etc. Beautiful.

Then I had to take it to run in mainland China.

Nope.
Not to mention, there are so many helpers built in and it's one of the few pieces of software that I don't have any major complaints about.
I've read the silmarillion and my father read me the trilogy and the hobbit to go to sleep at night. At university my professors mentioned the significance of Tolkien's work.

None of what is happening here is lost on us no matter how much you attack HN. We can see through it and that's why they hate us.
It will need to be accelerated. Maybe perovskites on rolls will enable that.

I imagine fenceposts with bifacial film stretched between, in fence-rows running north-south in pastures everywhere, high enough to walk under. Cheap enough, it would be OK if they last only five years. Replacing them would be much cheaper than the original installation.

Maybe they have foil along each edge, + one, - the other, and you staple or clamp the edges to aluminum bus bars. At one end, bars running between rows gather current from all the rows to a converter box. Voltage everywhere is low, for safety, maybe 24V.

Since they are in productive land, density is not necessary. They are far enough apart to avoid shading one another even when the sun is low.
Discussed here:

Steve Jobs emails himself (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32761060 - Sept 2022 (247 comments)
Supporting Firefox continues to be way easier than Safari for web developers. Chrome and Firefox are very compatible with each other. It's essentially almost no effort.

Mozilla seems to do fine keeping up. Wasm and Rust originated in Mozilla even and they are still very active on that front as well.

I seriously doubt Mozilla will kill their company by switching to Chrome. It would be suicidal for them. Users would revolt and fork the code base probably. Mozilla developers especially and without their developers Mozilla is nothing. Just look at what happened to Opera after they switched to Chrome. They technically still exist. But they are a footnote in web server statistics at this point. A rounding error basically. I've not seen anyone using it in many years now.

So, I doubt a move to Chrome would end well for Mozilla if they ever were to float such an idea. The history of Mozilla is that they bootstrapped out of AOL's Netscape division which was being mismanaged by AOL. Once the code base was OSS, people just left and created mozilla.org to cut loose from the failed corporate entity. AOL ended up with nothing. That can and will happen again if it needs to.

In short, users and developers would abandon a Chrome based Firefox in a hurry and it wouldn't take long for them to get organized with a new foundation. Wikimedia manages fine based on donations. Millions of Firefox users would be able to keep the project going pretty much indefinitely. Mozilla would lose control over most of its key people, users, and assets. Which is why they will never do this. It would be corporate suicide.
> People need external incentives to NOT commit crime, because most crimes already include inherent incentives.

That's a pretty cynical view of human nature that I don't share.

> But if I could just walk into a store, grab things and walk out with the knowledge that I was not going to be punished for it in any way, I absolutely would.

I absolutely wouldn't. I mean, zero-consequence thefts seem to be a true state of affairs for many places like pharmacies in SF, and yet I don't feel any desire to walk into a Walgreens and start walking out with stuff without paying. Sure, I'm pretty comfortable financially, and that's a factor. But I would have to be pretty hard-up financially, like "I'm going to be out on the streets if I don't steal" levels of hard-up, to consider stealing at all, let alone habitually (and I'd still feel guilty about it). And I frankly can't blame people in that position; in many cases society has failed them, so I can't fault them for ignoring society's rules.

> Why wouldn't I? Because it's "wrong"?

Yes! Laws only work because people agree that they're a good idea in general, even if we may not agree with every individual law. I agree with laws around theft because I think it's shitty to deprive someone else of something that's theirs. Maybe it's a little muddier in the "personalization" aspect when we're talking about goods for sale owned by a huge corporation, but massive, ongoing, consequence-free theft from a particular store means that store is eventually going to shut down, and deprive regular people from jobs and their livelihoods. I wouldn't want that on my conscience.

> I'm sorry but the world doesn't work that way. If I didn't, someone else would.

Ah, yes, the "if I'm not an asshole, someone else will be, so I might as well just be an asshole and reap undeserved rewards" anti-morality play. That's reprehensible; I strongly suggest you re-evaluate your approach to being a human.
Unfortunately in the current landscape, I think Firefox will unlikely gain the traction again even if we can bring those big techs to a fair playground. Browser development becomes an extremely complex, expensive project that requires at least hundreds of engineering headcounts and Mozilla cannot simply afford it. Worse, Servo was a kind of big bet to change the equation from the ground but Mozilla decided to abandon it. I don't see a plausible scenario to recover the market share in this situation?
Liability ultimately was always with contractors, just now when HMRC claims the assessment was wrong and the client gets fined, they pay, but they can claw the money back from the contractor. Usually it is in the contract terms. The PAYE that becomes due is contractor's personal tax and the client could likely use unjust enrichment - the contractor was paid in error if it wasn't defined in the contract.

These IR35 changes were really poorly written with only the happy path in mind.
The r/freefolk subreddit, which was mainly just memes about hating the ending of GoT, has completely changed tune is now almost exclusively memes about House of the Dragon. For weeks up to the launch there were memes about not watching it but now it seems they are all enjoying it (maybe in a Star Wars Prequels kind of way but not outright hate).
They are poorly written, filled with painful to watch cliches and lines. Can say this is definitely wrong since there have been subsequent starwars shows that don't suck like the movies did even for adult long-time fans. Don't need to be a kid to appreciate good fantasy/scifi with imagination and wonderment, just need to be a kid to be blind to bad writing.
Mildly off-topic, but...

One minor annoyance I have with one of the "open" Nitter hosting sites I use to follow Twitter accounts is that Nitter seems (at least on iOS) to save bookmarks with the original twitter URL instead of the Nitter one I'm currently viewing, and I then have to manually edit the bookmark URL to correct it...

Does anyone know if it's possible to control this (with an option?) if I were to host Nitter myself (open source I guess, but still)?
TypeScript is the 8th most popular language according to Redmonk. TIOBE has issues even in the top 10, and +/- 60% errors bars on their top 2 language!

It's not a problem of noisy data for the long tail languages. It's just wrong data. It's a poor unstable proxy (subject to proprietary query interpretation and anti-spam algorithms that vary over time, query terms don't reflect colloquial names, and name mentions aren't usage), and it's a misrepresentation of the data (searches include historical documents, which is not a reflection of current usage). It's all noise, no signal.
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> By pretending that the presented data is sufficient to say that Republicans tweet more misinformation...

Or, you'd also have to admit that the conclusion may yet be correct, even if it isn't justified by the data they've collected and the analysis. Even an unjustified true belief is still true (I'm not saying the article/study is correct, just based on your analysis we also don't know that it is actually a false conclusion).

But your point is an interesting one in that when dealing with "misinformation", you'd expect some case-by-case assessment rather marking a tweet misinformation because it linked to a domain that is "more likely than average to spread misinformation". I imagine this is really a proxy for whether the outlet depends primarily on official sources (e.g. access to government officials) or whether it contradicts them. In which case, you'd have to ask yourself why a politician would choose one outlet or another?
The show isn’t bad as such. But why is it so middle-of-the-road? Because the living beating heart of a good show, is a good story with good writing. Everything else - the actors, the scenery, the effects, the sound - is just there to support the telling. But here, the heart of the show is a brand. The story and dialogue was seemingly written to order in some mechanical, box-ticking fashion, like it was just the lights being rigged.

(Not to disparage the skill that goes into light rigging).
I'm like you, in my thirties and this topic resonates so I'll add something.

The word "loneliness" is quite loaded. I find I'm more lonely now that I have my own family then when I didn't. I know, weird, but that's life. Being alone and being lonely are truly very different things.

Another obvious thing is you are 30 and you don't mention having a partner so I assume you don't. Let's not beat around the bush. It's not hard to imagine you want a partner of some kind. Whether you can or not is unknown, but it's quite obviously a big issue for a lot of people so be open to do something about that.

Like some other poster here said, look into childhood emotional neglect. You can have the nicest parents that gave you everything, but they can still mess you up big time. No abuse necessary. I don't wish to go therapist on you, but I know this helped me figure out lingering feelings/problems in my life. It gives you a very distinct, empty, lonely feeling that is hard to describe. You may feel like something is wrong with you. Some sort of invisible "fatal flaw". You never quite connect with the world like other people seem to. This can happen if you learned - early stuff, this could start to happen at 1yo - to disconnect from your own feelings and needs in an attempt to survive an emotionally empty environment. This could explain the seemingly strange necessity you feel to create a "void" as you say - which basically ensures you never feel because that could be dangerous (infant-perspective). Could be, don't know. Worth looking into.

Also, it's important to know yourself. What charges you and what doesn't. For me, other people don't charge me. They deplete me and pretty fast too. Even the best and closest ones can only be neutral in that regard. They can never charge me. It just never happens. That charge comes from inside and no matter how "society" is signalling me that I should change I'm old enough now to accept it for what it is: introversion and a pretty hefty dose of it. Doesn't need fixing. Don't confuse introversion with social skills by the way. I'm not shy at all and can easily address strangers, audiences, whatever. I don't care. That has nothing to do with it. It's not binary either, you can be a bit of both and probably are.

If you're even slightly extraverted - big chance - you need to give yourself that "fix" now and then. Like at least every week or so. If that is part of the problem, just force it. Meet some friend, go to your family, whatever is available to you.

If you're a total introvert however, don't bother forcing it. It will do nothing.
IMO it feels like there were some ambitious directors/writers but they lacked the experience or talent. RoP and House of the Dragon are night and day in terms of the “art of storytelling”.
I don't necessarily disagree with using increasing efficiency as a vehicle for survival in this European apocalypse but you need to consider proportionality/scale of the problem.

In less than two years, the price of the usage of public grid electricity will have increased in the U.K. from ~£1,600 to £6,500. These useless household statistics only help to hide the fact that businesses, who do things with this electricity that don't include running a T.V. pointlessly for 8 hours a day, or heating an unoccupied room, are going to suffer more than anyone. It's easy to take the British consumer's word for it, and understand that a bill which served as a relatively small expense in a past life will now be 4x bigger than it was before, but the reality is that doing things is significantly less affordable. Manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare, public and private services etc. will all be smashed to bits, and their utilities bills aren't going up 300% but more like 500-1500%.

Is it remotely possible to push energy efficiency to the point that we are using half of the energy we were before? It's entirely possible, in my mind. With trillions of dollars of investment.

It's simply not worth it. It's better to take the money and run, if daddy warbucks is offering to give us 3.9% APR on a couple hundred billion dollar loans, than it is to pay in cash and pray for better times with improvements that come along with science and technology.

Loans on the scale that nations take add additional risk to the creditors - the risk of not paying them back is a final one.

If a million people don't pay their credit cards off in a year, it doesn't matter - the market is full of those that will. But if U.K. gilts don't pay out, then a lot more people are screwed, and there's a lot more incentive to keep that cash cow mooing.
To echo the other answers to your comment.

What the CEO's answer revealed exactly how much he values employees at Google.

Also I would recommend you remember his answer next time the executives' compensation is adjusted.
Cyclists and cars should not be on the same roads. It's silly to pretend that drawing some chevrons on the road or making a law that you need to do whatever around cyclists will make a difference. People who want cycling options should be advocating for separate paths dedicated to cycling, with proper signals when they need to cross car lanes so there is no ambiguity
last time I checked, two wrongs don't make a right. What you posted is standard russian propraganda.
I guess if you define "forced" as "completely 100% impossible to avoid or prevent" then yes. But I think it's reasonable to say that "forced" is acceptable shorthand for "coerced by dark patterns in such a way that 99% of actual users will end up doing what the vendor wants whether they want to or not".
This resonates with me a lot. I feel like I'm cutting people off and making poor choices in pursuit of "freedom" but in reality only becoming more lonely. I moved to Lisbon this year and recently started to see a therapist which I'm hoping will help. I would definitely recommend giving that a try. And if you're also in Portugal I'm looking for friends : )
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I wouldn't say so. For App Clips to be a Mini App system, they need to be fully featured applications, replacing the majority of App Store products. Also, Apple's ecosystem still has a high bar for creating an app, and making an App Clip is no less complicated. But Apple has an edge in having a lot of potential opportunities.

But now, App Clips feel like the now-dead 3D Touch. It is cool to have, but none of the apps on the market use it properly.
On the subject of "saudade", check out Amalia Rodrigues and the type of music called Fado, which kind of exemplifies the feeling. I learned about about this music when I lived in Portugal as a child. My favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFgctURyGp4
I feel the same. I've been entirely tuned out of LoTR/internet culture and so I went into the show with zero expectations. I was surprised by how much I liked the show.

When I read this review, the author's complaints are all trivial. The three examples of the show being terrible are: 1. Elron and Durin are really good friends, 2. Galadriel looks suspiciously strong, and 3. the Hobbits aren't reacting the right way to a broken ankle.

I'm sure this type of article plays well to a person with a disposition, or someone who has been steeped too deeply into certain internet subcultures.
Because there's so many variables and so many use cases that one size fits all would instantly spawn variations.

Because many people are contrarians.

Because path dependent evolution.
The Brain -- famously incapable of organic thought.
Really enjoyed this piece.

Now I better understand:

make clean && make

(Regarding the mtimes link in the first paragraph)
It would be true if Nintendo still had support of a beast like Rare. Alas, there are very few if any companies that are willing to work with these limitations and create games specifically for Switch.

And the main reason the games are colorful on Switch is that Nintendo still, to this day, has a reputation of kids-only console. And Switch also pushed it towards "casual one-off gaming" which invites bright colors (think Candy Crush).
Except people near you not doing covid theatre doesn't disprove the notion that some people treat covid as much worse than it is, while the continued masking requirements and other shit do disprove the notion that nobody is treating it as worse than it is.

You should also note that if restrictions remain in place when your area - the bay area - is free of them, that perhaps the bay area wasn't the place most caught up in the hysteria. If you are assuming the bay area is as bad as it got you need to recalibrate.
I don't how to relate to you 100%. I have lived alone for like 10 years and have not tired of it.

But I will say this. I do actually go out and interact with people on a regular basis. I might live alone but I do not bask in it for long periods of time.

To wit, I am weary of taking full advantage of WFH and prefer hybrid schedule.

So if you WFH and live on your own that could be a good place to start revising your life. And I say this because HN has a large programmer/IT demographic.

But yeah, not seeing any people on a regular basis can make you could go loopy.

So if you WFH, maybe reconsider. In short, you're not meant to be holed up 24/7.

I'm introverted and even I know that isn't good for me.
zealot? this is why i switched... so many times i need my computer just to work when turned on but with Microsoft you have to wait for a mandatory update and then have to jump through hoops like we are installing windows software that you have to remember to unchecked all the stupid extra crap they will install on your computer vs just having a single place for all your software and where it all gets updated from.

this person complained about it and switching to Linux would solve their problem
It's funny. I haven't been enjoying RoP and I read this with interest. But then he started listed problems, and I have to say I disagree. The point of the endurance test isn't honour, it's a power play - after feeling scorned the dwarf wants to put the elf in his place, and once the dwarf feels he has the upper hand his ego lets him engage, the elf knows this and plays along- master diplomat indeed. Galadriel is a bad ass. Yes, in LOTR you could kind of just gesture at it and say "Oh yeah she's 1000 years old and 800 years ago she kicked ass", that's fine when it's not her story, but this is her story. It wasn't executed well, but they did need to actually do it, and she can't act all calm and composed when she's meant to be relatively in her teenage years coping with the loss of her brother.

To me, yes there are execution problems. But the core problem is different. It is trying to be Game of Thrones. It's telling several different stories in parallel - the harfoots, the humans, Galadriel, the other humans, the elves. Clearly, one day, these will combine, but at the moment it's five under-served, boring stories. None of the characters are worth getting to know. This is because they're trying to do the complex plotlines of Game of Thrones. But they miss that GoT started as 1 plot. It was the starks of winterfell. Stark went to the capital. End of season 1 he dies and his kids are thrown to the wind and it's only then that the multple plot lines start to explode. By that point you've got a deep investment in the characters and it evolves from there. The exceptions to this - Dani etc. struggle through this, I remember watching the Dani scenes in game of thrones and thinking "For gods' sake when is this going to actually link up with the story" and entire plotlines fail when they don't keep the thread (Dorne).
Online/offline thing can be fixed with progressive web apps at least on Android. Figma has to implement it though.
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>You assume people need external incentives to commit crime, which is completely wrong. People need external incentives to NOT commit crime,

These are the same thing. There is one decision, either commit crime or don't. There are positive and negative incentives on each side.

>For example, stealing comes with the inherent reward of gaining whatever it is you stole. You don't need to be homeless and starving to want more money or physical goods.

Sure, but if you are homeless and starting your motivation to steal go up because that money represents a greater marginal improvement to your life. Would you disagree with that?

>But if I could just walk into a store, grab things and walk out with the knowledge that I was not going to be punished for it in any way, I absolutely would. Why wouldn't I? Because it's "wrong"? I'm sorry but the world doesn't work that way. If I didn't, someone else would.

It is always funny to me when someone admits they have no morals and think that means no one else has morals. There have been studies that show most people don't operate this way. For example, a majority of people will try to return a lost wallet and that percentage goes up when the amount of cash in the wallet increases[1]. How do you explain that?

[1] - https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734141432/what-dropping-17-00...