skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Schubarth brought parts of the largest sheep in the world, Marco Polo argali sheep (Ovis ammon polii), from Kyrgyzstan into the United States without declaring the importation

He didn’t import an invasive species, he imported PARTS.

I do not see any victims of his actions.

Also this is for a wild game ranch, for hunting. These ranches have extra high fences that surround the entire property to keep all the animals contained. Even if he did import the whole sheep, he has a strong economic incentive to contain them.

This exact thing is perfectly legal in Texas, happens all the time, and causes no problems.
The other problem with bureaucracy: "We must do something! This is something. Let's do it." Just because it's important to get something done, doesn't mean we should be satisfied with something that messes other stuff up.
IIRC elvis' hilighting works similarly, I remember that being pretty much the only synhi I've encountered in an editor that I didn't end up turning off with extreme prejudice.

(I find I can skim code more easily when I can think about the structure at different levels - block, function, statement, expression etc. - and I find that for me, syntax hilighting often makes that harder and slower ... but "for me" is definitely load bearing in that statement)
I cannot upvote this enough. We ruined today through decades of car centric planning, we have to give the future something better.
I wish they dug into how this monstrosity is powered. Assuming 1V and 24kW, that's 24kAmps.
> Introducing SIMA: the first generalist AI agent to follow natural-language instructions in a broad range of 3D virtual environments and video games.

If it can be done in 3D virtual environments and video games, it shouldn't be much of a leap to do it in the real world. After all we have cameras, voice recorders, sensors, etc that can map the real world into 3D virtual environments already. Have they tried linking this generalist AI to a robot to see how the robot does in the real world?
Most likely you'll be playing alongside or against AIs without ever knowing. Either AIs from the game developers to make their online game seem more popular or people who want their stats leveled up without any effort on their part.
The installer in the ISO that is the topic of the article installs official 2024 TeX Live. I tested it via installing it to confirm this prior to creating the torrent.

The torrent file at https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-iso.html at the time of this writing is still the 2023 TeX Live ISO, and so yes, _that_ installer will install 2023 TL.
Agreed, would be interested to hear why that was added in the first place.
Oh yes, Saudi is definitely the freest country. /s
It's almost certainly user flags as people see multiples of this story and flag some as dupes. Moderators would have merged these.
More to the point, this material is covered in school. This isn’t a new concept for anyone.
No one has created AGI. We're likely still decades from that, if it's even possible.
I think you'll find that essentially all US social media is already banned in China...
A fun experiment would be to spin up a unsecured wordpress comment section.

From my web-experience: any slightly popular <form> will be submitted.
> That's a bad argument because western platforms are free to compete fairly in PRC market, provided they follow PRC laws like EVERY OTHER PRC PLATFORM.

Dude, Chinese national living in China here. I have 3 different vpns from 3 different vendors, that is how I manage to get here and talk to you. Care to shed some light on why they restrict my free & open access to the Internet that I dedicated my entire life to build?

> after 2009 minority riots

I strongly support CCP's policies in Xinjiang, it is anti-terrorism for sure. That being said, I wouldn't call those angry & brainwashed Tibetans "terrorists".

> It's more accurate to say most major western platforms at the time was simply incapable of of moderating PRC content.

I used to visit a local forum hosted here in China quite often. They carefully moderate the content, all users have to register with their legal names, the forum even had the curfew every night as their moderators need to sleep and they couldn't afford the risk of such human moderator free hours. Guess what, they still got shutdown last year for "regulation reasons".

> There's a reason Bing still operates in PRC, see recent Bloomberg piece on Microsoft keeps Bing running in PRC by basically complying to mass censorship like domestic players.

Because Bill Gates has very good personal relationship with the very top leadership. That is the really scary part.
HN as an attack vector.

Definitely a good way to get reach.
Typo on my part. Fixed. Thank you. Take my upvote.
not sure why this is posted on deriveit.org rather than on a blog post

> This is why you usually assume infinite memory in most problems, and why I consider limited-memory problems like in-place sorting to not be very interesting. Time limits space, so time is more interesting.

Yeah, I'm not sure I agree with this statement. Citation needed.
We need to act on AI now. We need to limit it's ubiquity, we cannot allow it to take ANYONE's job. We are heading towards absolute doom if we allow this. Humanity will be doomed.
The science on this is not controversial. Masks work. Denying that only shows you have fallen for the soundbites and not read the actual studies. For one thing, most of the ones usually cited are testing, with loose controls, surgical style masks for the flu, which has both a different particle size and far lower infectivity than Covid.
I love glow from charm, it’d be cool to see a python wrapper around it
How about a shield against bugs? Maybe an electrostatic charge? Every homeowner would buy one.
How though. It’s probably just predefined actions that are triggered by the LLM output. At the same time it would be impressive if the LLM determined the right function to call in real time, was able to deal with the ambiguity in placement of the garbage and bonus points if it could do that in a scenario that wasn’t hardcoded to exactly standing behind that table in that spot.
Intuit? You do realize there's been a Fed income tax and an IRS for a lot longer than there's been Intuit.
I used to dislike syntax coloring while coding. It's fine for reading/reviewing. Now with great improvements in displays, fonts, and IDE themes, I quite like it. It's subtle enough to be visible if you care and not loud when you don't.

I still don't like color in my command-line terminals though. The only place I regularly use it is for `git log` with a custom formatter.

Maybe it's because I like my terminal font small (lots of reading logs) and colored text isn't as good very small. I also find differing vibrant colors to focus in different perceptual planes adding to eyestrain.
Mixed use. And also mixing all types of social, free-market rental and owner occupied. Quality for later two could be better, but it should still be next to each other using same services.
> The first amendment in the bill of rights in the US constitution prevents the US government from restricting the speech of US citizens.

It also applies to foreigners who are in the US legally.
Gosh, no politics in my relaxing doom-scrolling video app. Is it some nefarious plot to pacify the evil capitalists.. or wait... maybe they just know what consumers want?
> The rent-seeking of tax preparation businesses is a bigger problem than these privacy issues.

> But what the IRS is doing here is the correct prioritization

I read this as: "saving money, and keeping it out of unscrupulous hands, is more important than preserving our privacy and freedom". I don't agree with that, and you shouldn't assume that others agree with your take.
Worst case scenario change banks.
thanks! I've been making progress with React + NextJS + Tauri but sometimes it's so painful I debate if I should pick a different stack entirely
I feel like as devs there is an omerta on the real performances of AI apps.Cherry picked twitter screens get social media highlights and money flowing into the field, but we all know that in practice it delivers on 1% of the value promised.

Unsure how much of it relies on the models themselves, and how much on the fact that optimizing prompts for a propper signal is so f* hard

I hope more tools will make this easier. Will take a look at phospho, thanks man
> I appreciate having instant feedback if I've mistyped the number of closing quotes, brackets, or parenthesis.

This is a syntax error and ought to be highlighted with a red squiggly line or something.

The only essential syntax highlighting is syntax highlighting for (certain types of) comments because otherwise you might easily run into situations where they are impossible to distinguish from actual code.

That is what I am doing. Highlight comments. All else no highlighting. Looks extremely aesthetically pleasing to me
This is very tangential, but I just learned today that aristocratic ancient Romans used to dye sheep purple. To show off to other Romans, they used the then super-expensive purple dyes, the ones they used on woolen togas of high social rank, on whole sheep. Pliny wrote about it in Naturalis Historia.

- "I myself have seen the fleece upon the living animal dyed purple, scarlet, and violet,—a pound and a half of dye being used for each,—just as though they had been produced by Nature in this form, to meet the demands of luxury."

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60230/pg60230-images.ht...
True, though Federal sentences have much less opportunity for things like early release based on good behavior, etc. You tend to serve most of the sentenced time.
> Because no chance in hell is China selling this thing

Didn’t they agree to sell it to Oracle back when Trump threatened to ban it?
Every generation is scared of "what the kids spend their time doing". In the 80s it was the PMRC. Later on there were at least a few video game scares ("What if my son plays Mortal Kombat and tries to rip my head off?").

Today it's "evil Chinese apps". Embarrassing.
Manifesto for a More Intentional Consumerism
Also https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-house-vote-force-byted...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39692202, but we merged those comments hither)
Well, weird movements in games should be a thing of the past in the near future, as we can begin to extract motion capture data from videos of normal people acting normally.

I think it depends on the type of game you have, but I wouldn't underestimate this type of technology for say, open world games where it might make the game more immersive due to convincing realism.
Again, this guideline is not a hard and fast rule. Those moderation comments you link to are for the very common case of posters adding their own strong opinions to article titles. The title I chose had no opinion and was merely a factual description of the article content. I'm afraid I won't be able to find dang's explanation of why it's sometimes OK to use different titles because it's drowned in the sea of moderation comments for egregious clickbait and highly opinionated submission titles.
But to have an option to provide app installation from the web you have to get an entitlement from Apple and be at least two years in good standing yada yada. Is it still Untrusted Source at that point?
and cooling!

Imagine the heat sink on that thing. Would look like a cast-iron Dutch oven :)
> But you can't really do that as a private person (i.e.: if you're not a business), right?

It doesn't take much to be a business though, depending on your jurisdiction.

In washington state, it took me like 15 minutes and $55 to register a business earlier this year, which I did so I could register for a business internet account that I ended up not doing (T-Mobile 5G small business internet can give you a static IP for $3/month, but only if you setup your account with an EIN, but I had some big issues with connecting the equipment to my LAN on the 'sole proprietor' account, and then major service issues returning everything, so I'm kind of done with them for a while)
Back to LAN parties then!
Shoulda used Dirac notation :P
lol yeah that was my first thought. UI looks pretty similar
Should cell providers sell customer data/metadata to car insurance providers? It, after all, in the best interest of the insurers.
That and we have strong lobbying groups within the US representing Israel, a foreign nation.
I like Scott Galloway's take on this which is that ByteDance will simply be forced to divest/sell the US business to western interests because they won't take a $250B loss or whatever the valuation is. So we will keep our cocaine app and still secure the security interests. Sounds like a win win to me if this happens.
Vested interest skews your opinions more than if you don't care either way. Who knew?
Of possible interest is my Markdown editor, KeenWrite:

https://keenwrite.com/

It features math, interpolated variables, theme-driven PDF output, and is cross-platform. Have a peek at the screenshots and tutorials:

* https://keenwrite.com/screenshots.html

* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...

Document meta data and all variables are stored in an external YAML file. These variables can be edited directly within the editor. Variables can be used within the document and within text-based diagram descriptions (such as GraphViz and anything else supported by https://kroki.io/).

There's also a command-line interface for integrating into CI/CD pipelines or similar workflows.

https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/-/blob/main/docs/cmd...
They were on top for a while, but later fell behind because they didn't invest. There were heavy tarrifs in place to "protect" the monopoly from foreign competition.
I don't think so.

The examples of IBM and Xerox were truly dominant in their day.

I'm not going to get into the definition of "monopoly" here. But there's a reason for the "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" quote, and there's a reason that "Xerox" is/was basically synonymous with "photocopy". No one calls an Android device an "iPhone".

Apple captures basically 100% of the market excitement and profit, but not sales or penetration. Apple is not dominant anywhere near what IBM and Xerox were.

So, for me this fails the test of ~"sales and marketing running the company and not bringing forward great new products". Apple is still delivering.

Apple is not all things to all people -- but no one is without choice. I think Apple, and Apple customers, are happy with Apple.
If the definition of "released" is that it's on the official web page, then I agree with you. Karl can't update the web page until I give him the torrent file, and so there's a lag time between when I begin seeding it and when the official web page is updated. Initiating seeding at the same time (or close to the same time) that the web page is updated would be a level of coordination and precision across time zones and continents that is perhaps above and beyond what's needed.

That said, I'm sorry it's sowing confusion. I can see where you're coming from on that score.
Of course timber won't fix the housing shortage. The housing shortage is artificial. There are plenty of empty units across the country. It's a distribution issue of: owners holding vacant units, people wanting/needing to live in specific locations, and individual preferences for bigger, fancier, better school, sfh, etc attributes. With an almost stagnate population growth this isn't really a building issue even if it is a supply side issue.
Isn't it an education app in China?
There's also the Alabaster variants [1], which includes a dark theme.

I really like Alabaster BG, but sadly VS Code lacks support to implement it.

[1]: https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster
It's easy to botspam a competitor with terroristic and genocidal posts if you only need a fig leaf to remove the platform - not a great precedent to align with.

Also, didn't a spokesperson for Harvard recently say some calls for genocide were acceptable on their platform (campus) depending on context? Why aren't the anti-1st amendment types trying to ban Harvard?

Edit: Not a rhetorical question for the downvoters.
That ("open") seems reasonable for a bug in the current release or a previous release that is still in wide use.

Is there ever a situation where a bug exists so far back in the history of the project that it doesn't make sense to fix? I'm asking this as an honest question and not a challenge. I can expect that some users still use what I'd consider to be legacy S/W but I wonder how far that goes back. If the developer(s) designate a version as EOL does it make sense to keep the bug open?

And OTOH, it conveys information if the developer marks a bug as "won't fix" rather than leaving the expectation that it might be addressed, someday.
I've been using Bench for bookkeeping and taxes this year, but I wouldn't recommend them. I feel every time I speak to my team, it's a different person and they all ask the same questions. Their UX and notification system is also very frustrating; I find myself receiving notifications to "review transactions" when there are no transactions to review. I pay $500/mo, and I paid a few $k to "catch up" on my books when onboarding. I will likely go with a local CPA next year.
Socioeconomic status and the relationship between the SAT and GPA (2009) [pdf]
When you have to read a lot of software (staff engineer, architect, etc), code coloring helps immensely with getting a “feel” for a block of code quickly. It’s an indispensable time saver and if you don’t use it, you’ll be outcompeted.
https://archive.is/Ulpz2
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We need this spyware banned immediately. I’m glad that this bill has bipartisan support.
Correct, the pilots did not have any indication in the cockpit. ATC had to identify which plane the tire fell from, contact the plane, the plane had to talk to their company before deciding what to do.
If you pay the $99, the cert don’t expire for a year. It is only the free account that has the 7-day limitation.
A big advantage of AIs is instant reaction time. OpenAI programmed in an artificial reaction delay to most skills, but they were still generally much faster than any human would be. Overall strategy is where the AI was lacking, but its technical flawlessness makes up for it.
I didn't even know he was sick.
Twitter is pretty heavily moderated if you don't align with the hive mind. The hive mind just shifted from the left to the right.
This is post hoc nonsense. China blocked US tech companies so that they could copy what the US companies do without any threat of superior competition.
> Not everything can look at every aspect of everything.

If the question we are ultimately asking ourselves is if a drug that is used to block puberty in children is dangerous, the myopia of the cass review seems self-inflicted.

Precocious puberty is first and foremost a source of mental distress, just like gender dysphoria. The intended result of puberty blockers - blocking puberty - is the same in both cases.
Looks cool but I hate the copy (sorry, just giving honest feedback):

"Ship faster by organizing less
acreom is the actionable knowledge base for 10x developers."
or https://www.jetpack.io/devbox/ :ˆ)
Other countries do ban US apps. For example, Twitter/X is banned in China, Iran, Russia, North Korea, and a few other countries.
This whole chain is a series of ideas that will never happen.
If you want to align things to solar time you probably also want seasonal opening hours - less in the winter, more in the summer, or such. Changing the clocks by an hour doesn't get you there though, only partly mitigates it.
Does the US Constitution care about the rights of a foreign entity?
Quite a few people think that until they -do- try it and then find it has its advantages.

I know of a number of people who made the deal with themselves "I'll try it for a week/month and then see what I think" - I think over half went "well, that was interesting" and turned it back on, but a surprising (to me, a no-synhi preferring person who thought I was rarer than that) number switched to either "hilighting only for languages I'm unfamiliar with" or "no hilighting at all."

I don't recall anybody regretting trying the experiment.

(that's not to say you -should- try it, but I do think your certainty that you'd get nothing at all out of doing so may be misplaced)
You can do things with it that you can't do otherwise. For instance, you can create extremely large spans that weren't otherwise possible in wood framed construction. This creates really cool opportunities when designing the interior of a home.

Framing can be done with LVL as well and the benefit is that it's very stiff. This means a better frame when you have high ceilings and the ability to go 24" off center so you can have more insulation. Can do this with 2x6 as well.
just added a linux build download option on the website. Debian only for now
I don't know if posting to social media and making websites about the realities of a conflict make Paul a "violent warrior", but I guess that's what passes for OK commentary on HN now?
The government will never let Boeing go through Chapter 7. However, Chapter 11 is quite possible. For example, GM went through Chapter 11 in 2009.
They made AlphaStar already but this is more interesting.
Simulation to reality is a huge bottleneck in a lot of reinforcement learning work. Reality is just super messy and complicated.

Tesla has an alternative. If you can get your devices widespread and can be recording observations and actions, you can collect huge datasets in the real world.

The first embodied, vaguely general, multi-task, useful and economical robots might just really open up the virtuous cycle of experience, learning, feedback and improvement. If I had to guess where it would come from right now, I'd pick Amazon warehouses.
>My understanding is that they don't feel that way, generally speaking.

US tech companies currently getting slapped around with large fines in the EU for similar infringements of privacy etc.
Agreed. Was working on a parallel algo whose width could grow exponentially. It was clear that it made more sense to analyze from a space perspective.
Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say
Again. This is why this used to be illegal. Why should the new shareholders have the right to destroy something others spent decades building? A successful company constantly provides sustainable returns, then a group comes in and says "that's enough, let's milk this cow until it dies. Thanks for doing the hard work! Also, to the shareholders that got screwed as the company stock crashes finally - too bad, play again".