skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ampere has Graviton-like chips that you can actually buy, but neither Graviton or Ampere are really in the same market segment as Qualcomm and Apple.
> I think I had assumed that modern Italians don’t necessarily look like OG Romans

> Are you saying that OG Romans and modern Italians do look roughly the same?

Let me rephrase - the reason you see italian looking romanians is because some romanians are descendants of italics and hispanics.

Italians, better yet their ancestors, were brought in along with anatolian greeks, ilyrians, celts, syrians, thraco dacians, semites, north africans, etc as colonists during the first invasion of the province of dacia. The list of legions deployed into Dacia seem to indicate that they have also included some italics and hispanics.

The second invasion, during Constantine the Great covered the south of Romania and likely led to another batch of colonists.

The north west of Romania, around Maramures, had another batch of italian colonists, "the old romans" (christan romans) that fled persecution by langobards.

The final somewhat relevant batch of italians moved to romania around the start of the great italian migration.

Having said that, the south of Romania also has significant influence, and a different skin tone, due to the influence of the eastern roman empire, followed by the byzantine empire, and then the ottoman empire.

The central european part, transylvania, is lighter in tone due to the presence of dacians, celts, gepids, ostrogoth, visigoths, west slavs, huns, and maghiars. The celtic presence was so intense that celtic villages are somewhat frequently discovered in the region.

Fun fact is that a german ethnic was the first to mention the name of Romania, for the territory that modern Romanians inhabit - Martin Felmer, Prima Linae i believe, 1779.

Moldavia, including the Republic of Moldavia which was part of the Dacian Province, and Scythia, had a stronger slavic influence and is reflected in people's looks. It also has a strong turkish influence due to the ottoman empire, slavic due to the russian empire, jewish due to a significant jewish presence until the second world war.

Then of course, all regions have a Roma influence, as those people, as the article points out - albeit a bit off in regarding to whom enslaved them (Romania was not a country back then, the regions were either Austrian-Hungarian, Ottoman vassals, or in the Russian Empire) - were distributed as slaves throught.

Bottom line is that it is difficult to pin point a specific romanian look.

But those that look italian look so because of the above reasons.

Those that are not "citizens of Rome" even if they arrived hundreds of years ago, look, speak, and think, according to their own culture.
Return to Open (Office), silly. Imagine wanting privacy in 2024.
... use regular authenticated wifi?
It was Lua 5.1+5.2.

Then came out decent js versions, decent typescript ecos and Lua moved on to 5.3+.

Ended up using ts for everything. Feels absolutely down to earth, practical and useful, what I searched for all my life. All my non-bash home code is ts, except for ML chunks, where I have to suffer through the hideous abomination.
Dimensity 9400 looks good
Using an excavator will make you bad at shovelling.
thank you for posting this link, very interesting reading. If you have more of the similar materials, I would be very interested. Thank you !
What can be done about the unchecked power of governance?
Actually, she spoke about that recently in a video, she's still at a loss on that product, mentioned here https://youtu.be/iEAShZ8TJCs?t=269
I'm not convinced that it is a risk. You also clearly stated, "With many subscription services it is very difficult to cancel", yet even your lone example has been disputed.

In any case, which company you choose to pay is up to you. If you want to go with Apple, fine. I don't care either way. My dispute was with the OP's false insinuation, "Which is probably precisely why Disney and Hulu don't want you to go through Apple."
> Leaving aside the fact that an optical telescope isn't a microwave array...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuntian#Instruments <- Terahertz receiver

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_radiation

This band of electromagnetic radiation lies within the transition region between microwave and far infrared, and can be regarded as either. )

> Putting an instrument in orbit has all the costs of development of a ground based instrument, additional costs to space harden and test, additional costs to lift, limited ability to tune, tweak or extend when in orbit, hard constraints on size and weight, and other issues.

Who is to say they won't pull a Space-X, maybe even overtaking it, going fully reusable?
Which allegedly lowers the costs, giving more economically access to space and lessening the constraints on payloads, while giving all the advantages of being in space?
>desktop version

There is an official Linux client for the terminal.

It is likely that someone will eventually make a multi-platform GUI.
They would send you all their competitors products to review instead.
> For senior level technical people with unique skills, you've always had the leverage to set boundaries in even really poor labor markets, and even more so as you move up in corporate rank.

I'm stuck in that "early senior" phase, so the downturn hit me at the perfectly wrong time for leverage, sadly. My domain doesn't help much, either. No one's really safe here.
text magiceye generator in JS (and another in Elm)

magiceye depth estimator in JS

FRACTRAN emulator in perl

Sigmar's Garden solitaire game solver in perl

Baba is you demake in JS

Racecar board game in Shoes (and later in awk.. though that one's not finished)

Bare-bones map editor for 4D Miner in perl (map format has probably changed since then)

Several dozen copies of "Bad Apple" rendered in TV static such that if you pause the video anywhere there is nothing to see there but static.

Minesweeper player/solver in JS (this is backwards: the program hunts for mines and asks you to give it numbers where it digs :P)

D&D dice calculator in JS

Shared/distributed D&D dice roller between untrusted parties also in JS

And on and on like that. :)
Interesting that Python has actively said no to recent web-based modules in the stdlib. Because that stuff moves too fast, and putting in the stdlib would hold it back. The most famous is requests, but I've heard the argument elsewhere.

Not sure who to believe. :-D
And are you using React and Next.js these days?
And chance this is open source?

I’m building something similar and I can’t decide on the relationship struct tag syntax to use. Would be neat to see how others are thinking about it.
People want cigarettes and fast food too. It's not good for them either, and legislation and education improved the situation.

Social media is to the 2020s what cigarettes were to the 50s
Again, how would that be different if government had the power to control information? Its human nature to do things that benefit yourself. At least if its not centralized then you have competition which gives people a choice of where they want their information coming from.
Sounds like Scala Native: https://scala-native.org/en/stable
On the signup page, if you click off the modal, it'll render a blank white page with just the logo that doesn't go anywhere.
I wrote:

> Code Complete was pretty great at the time.

Unfortunately it seems that Steve McConnell has signed the IEEE's garbage fire of a document. Maybe if you decide to read Code Complete, stick with the first edition.
They're pretty good. Just can't beat qualcomm / Apple flagship. So around Intel level ;)
Try and use full stops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_clause_structure#Run-...
Diagram Sans Venn: How I Became a Fossil
Why not? The EU has some of the best consumer protection laws on the planet and they seem to be the only coalition that are actively legislating against big tech.

Why be so dismissive on the idea that the “tech utopia” that Google or Meta wants to sell us is just digital serfdom? Seems appropriate seeing how damaging to society these companies truly are.
>Reputation is the usual solution.

Since it's no longer political to mention Iraq: every major news organization lied about the war, they knew they lied about it and millions died. The only person to be held accountable for this was the one person to tell the truth: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/phil-donahue-iraq-war

We can't solve the issue of truth through our current institutions because those institutions are rotten to the core. The best we can do is keep them from destroying the channels from which we can hear how badly they are fucking up and allow us to organize.
Trying to sign up, if you click off the modal the whole page goes white except for the logo in the navbar, but it won't take you anywhere.
Sometimes it's exactly the needed mentality. You can't always assume that you have all the time in the world to get to where you need to be.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-just-proved-people-hate-chr...

The data supports your thesis, but in the same way a meth addict wants more meth imho. The algorithm is hitting a reward center (TikTok has put on a masterclass in this, for example).

I would be interested to see user preferences with regards to algorithm vs chronological feed when the cohort is on GLP-1 agonist of some sort (which inhibits malfunctioning reward center behavior, including alcohol, tobacco, and opioid addictions).
The author is an authoritarian lawmaker. This is a false flag to consolidate additional power over the last vestige of the free Internet.
Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on His Nobel Prize
I've been wondering the same and started exploring building a startup around this idea. My analysis led me to the conclusion that if AI gets even just 2 orders of magnitude better over the next two years, this will be "easy" and considered table stakes. Like connecting to the internet, syncing with cloud or using printer drivers

I don't think there will be a very big place for standalone next gen RPA pure plays. it makes sense that companies that are trying to deliver value would implement capabilities this. Over time, I expect some conventions/specs will emerge. Either Apple/Google or Anthropic/OpenAI are likely to come up with an implementation that everyone aligns on

In other words, I agree
Starting the page with the sign up button before telling me what the page is seems like a mistake. I almost closed the page at first (it’s not even obvious that you can scroll, it looks like a full page popup).

You should show example screenshots of actual useful lists people could share. The site is currently too focused on “what” you can do (features and capabilities), and not enough focused on “why” (practical real world use cases).
I've done this as well, and I keep meaning to re-create it.

The only thing stopping me is that every time I over-engineer the hell out of it, then get annoyed and stop.
I didn't say "western"!

Whether we like to acknowledge it or not, the world has been split in two:

Russia, China, Iran, North Korea... and everybody else.

I can deploy an Azure or AWS cloud server right now in any one of several dozen nations, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Chile, Qatar, Israel, and Mexico.

I can't deploy VMs in Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea.

Not just because of sanctions, but because they don't allow me to. It's illegal for me -- I don't even need to specify which country I am in, it doesn't matter -- to deploy pretty much anything in those nations, by their own laws. (Similarly, I can't buy property, start a business, buy shares directly, etc, etc...)

Have a look at the requirements to deploy something into China: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/china/overview-check... and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/china/overview-sover...

Nothing like this is needed for any other cloud region. I can just pick "the rest of the planet" from a drop-down list at will.

So why should we let "the other side" of the planet gain benefits from our collective works, if they slam the door in our face in response?
eventually, we'll be able to eliminate the intermediate "computer", and just let the ai render everything we need to interact with
Not really. When counting not just DoD spending but DoE nuclear weapons spending, NASA (now Space Force) and satellite spending, VA and veteran's benefits, interest on past military spending and so forth, military spending takes up a large chunk of the pie. It is only small if defined very, very narrowly (which is what they, and you, do).
I see no difference between these pictures
Wtf?! These accounts often link to shit like billionaires saying people need to use paper straws or set their AC hotter at the same time.
Is it slower by design or just because it’s implementations have not been aggressively optimized?
This is officially too much quibbling, even if we settled philosophical questions like "Is Android Linux?" Then "If not, would dropping C make RISC nonviable", there isn't actually an Android version that'll do RISC anywhere near on the horizon. Support _reversed_ for it, got pulled 5 months ago
>I can't pay my taxes, access healthcare or even sign-on to my job without using my phone any more.

Where is this? For instance the IRS still allows you to file by mail[1], and it's unclear why you'd need a phone to go to a hospital or walk in clinic. As for needing a phone to access your company networks, I don't how it's deserving of outrage anymore than needing a laptop to do a modern desk job.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/filing/where-to-file-paper-tax-returns-w...
The stuff is gathered from public flight records, it's just the easiest way to present the data. Just like it's getting pushed back from you now it would get pushed back from climate change deniers saying we don't know how you computed it if they computed instead of just presenting a distance and accepting that the number is going to be a huge amount of CO2
For US companies and its citizens, trading stock enough to send a message and make a difference is in the hand of the top X% of people. Those same people don’t have to worry about the same things we do. Their income tier makes them operate fundamentally differently. When you have a team of lawyers on call you can get a lot done quickly. For us companies depend on us deeming it not worth our time and money for a chance to right a wrong. On top of that companies are at times misusing or breaking the law for decades before they are taken to justice. And that justice is more and more just the cost of doing business.

I could go on and on, but I would rather face down one tyrant than an army of them. But the way things are going, we might be facing both soon.
Dollar Cost Averaging Calculator
Just a simple webapp I made to help with decisions some of us have to make every month.
I'm not really familiar with ARM Asm but do you think that's handwritten Asm that its author overlooked the effects of the carry and it just happened to work, or a clever "emulator trap" added by Nintendo's compiler?
> Why should we trust government over companies?

Democratic governments have some form of accountability to those elected, if none other than periodic elections. If you are fortunate enough to live in a country which has free and fair elections, then vote.

Companies do not have such constraints and operate strictly in self-interest.
>I'm adding an entry for this. In a few years, I'll evaluate whether we experience "a wave of disaster" due to overtaxed energy grids in 2026-2027.

We have been experiencing overtaxed grids for decades now. Rolling black and brown outs happen every summer on a hot, cloudy, still day. The issue isn't big-tech, the issue is that we're living in a fantasy where we can keep the grid running with renewables and no sign of terawatt hour batteries.
This is an interesting discussion, no doubt. But no one questions this is the case. Yes corporations grow in power and reach and are taking on responsibilities previously held by states.

I'm looking forward to the next step in the discussion. Should this not be the case? Where do these notions that imply that the state doing something is better than a company? I'm not a libertarian or an extremist, but I've had to reject some pretty simplistic views that businesses are evil. The word coporation comes from the word Corpus, in a sense the people congregate, each with their own function as an organ to serve as a body. So it seems as noble a concept as the state. I can point to corrupt states or corruption in golden standard states as easily as I can do the same for companies.

Is there a disparity between the goals and the results of these organizations (Companies for selfless reasons, the state for the common good)? If so, is it sufficient to judge the organizations based on their results, or should we demand organizations not only to benefit the common good, but to expressly pursue it?

Finally, not for profits enter the fray as a potential intermediate option. OpenAI's success is pretty unprecedented, although the reputation of the NFP is irreparably damaged. Even if courts decide that whatever fuckery they are doing is all good by the law, in the trial of public opinion we can all agree that OpenAI walks like a dog and barks like a dog.
Alaska recently starting experimenting with using drones to drop explosives on snowpacks, so that's another relatively cost-effective option.
I believe Graviton is competitive in the server market yes, but not in mobile or laptops.
There are probably Risc-V companies eagerly anticipating an opportunity in that space, but I don't know if any are in the performance ballpark right now.
>And how the police can demand the video off our Ring door bells. What's next, my dash cams?

They always could. It's called a search warrant. The idea that your security camera footage was inaccessible to governments was incorrect to begin with.
> there's absolutely nothing you can do about this to prevent this.

Fibre can be cut.

I know it's unpalatable, or somehow "an escalation", but when NATO started backing Ukraine and the US imposed sanctions on Russia, the logical move would have been to immediately sever all of their international network links. There's what, a few dozen fibre connections crossing their borders?

The alternative is this: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/13/media/right-wing-media-in...
I believe it is just lacking aggressive optimization. ARM is basically RISC as well, so it isn't an architectural limitation.
Don't know about cell phones but their Chromebooks are pretty good.
This doesn't obsolete motion capture? It doesn't seem to even be full body for one, seems to be for fixed camera and limited to head/face. Page title is more accurate: "Introducing Act-One - a new way to generate expressive character performances".
I understand your concern, but I think it's overly simplistic to frame this as a zero-sum tradeoff between convenience and security/freedom. Smartphones have undoubtedly made interacting with government services more accessible and efficient - especially for marginalized communities, rural populations, and individuals with disabilities.

That being said, I'm not convinced that access to government services has been "completely privatized" as you claim. Governments often partner with private companies to develop and provide these services, and there's usually some level of regulatory oversight in place. This collaboration has led to some really valuable innovations, like online portals for tax filing and telemedicine.

The Benjamin Franklin quote about trading freedom for security is still relevant, of course. But maybe we should also consider the flip side: by resisting technological change, we risk getting left behind. Finding a balance between convenience, security, and individual rights is the real challenge.

Rather than sounding the alarm about an "insidious takeover," perhaps we should focus on the practical steps we can take to ensure our rights are protected. Advocating for open standards, strengthening regulatory frameworks, and investing in digital literacy programs would be a good start. Let's try to have a nuanced discussion about this, rather than resorting to hyperbole.
Majority of ORMs really are nothing more than this.

But then it's nice to have something that generates optimised, database-specific SQL, can handle date/number conversion, supports many-many relationships, converting BLOB to binary streams etc.
> What can be done about the unchecked power of governance?

If you are fortunate enough to live in a country which has free and fair elections, then vote.
We Chose Nginx and HashiStack over Kubernetes for Our Service Discovery Needs
My ChatGPT use falls into two categories:

1. Having it perform mechanical refactorings where there's no creativity involved. I'm hacking on a program that was written in the early 2000s. It predates language support for formatted IO. I had ChatGPT replace many manual string concatenations with the equivalent of sprintf. It's easy enough to test the replacements at the REPL.

2. Questions that would be unreasonable or impossibly tedious to ask a person.

Describe in detail the changes from language version X to language version Y.

Which functions in this module can be replaced by library functions or made tail recursive? This definitely misses things, but it's a good starting point for refactoring.

Is there a standard library equivalent of this function? I regularly ask it this, and have replaced a number of utility functions.

Give examples for using function.
Now there are tons of devices running Linux, for which you may be able to see the source code, but are unable to modify it, for ostensibly "security" reasons.
Stallman's contributions may have issues, but man his views on Intellectual Property stands on its own legs.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
Respectfully disagree. The sparse mention of alleged 1A violations is just how the pleading stage of pretrial litigation works. This pleading (Defendant's Answer to Complaint) serves to (among other things) (1) explicitly respond to each of the allegations that the Plaintiff raises in their initially filed complaint (p. 1-10), and (2) preserve any defenses that they might raise in the subsequent proceedings here (p. 13). You shouldn't read any correlation between how much a certain defense is discussed in this doc and how strong they perceive that argument to be- at trial (or in the summary judgement motions that Amazon will inevitably file here), they could focus their entire argument alleging 1A violations, or dispose of this argument entirely. Point is, they preserved that choice with this single, albeit short paragraph.

Dropping it here for posterity:

> 3. The meeting referenced in Complaint ¶ 13 was voluntary, but in any event, any Board Decision and Order concluding that it is unlawful to conduct mandatory meetings about unionization or unions or any particular union or about the actual subjects of the meeting in question would violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Section 8(c) of the Act.
American's trust in media declined accordingly.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-re...

My point was about small communities though. For country scale organizations it's a much trickier problem indeed.
Next week, Qualcomm will likely announce a 64 core RISC-V RVA23.

ARM really shouldn't pursue an aggressive posture with lines outside iOS or Win11 ecosystems. The leverage won't hold a position already fractured off a legacy market. =3
This person? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marietje_Schaake … doesn’t seem so (authoritarian).
Your comment is provocative, can you back that up with evidence?