skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He "create[d] giant sheep hybrids to sell the species to hunting facilities", including "import[ing] parts of Marco Polo argali sheep, which is the largest sheep species in the world, from Kyrgyzstan into the U.S. without declaring the importation" and "forg[ing] veterinary inspection certificates, falsely claiming that the sheep were legally permitted species".

I think much of this would be just as illegal if he'd smuggled an entire male sheep from Kyrgyzstan and bred it, but it's harder to smuggle a live sheep than just its genetic material.
For a long time now I don't even come to the theater until after about 10 minutes from the official start time.
https://archive.ph/nDoJG
Those people are in the noise and nobody cares what they think once they realize they just criticize for the sake of it.

That doesn’t change that people seem to think the top upvoted comments being contradictory from day to day represents some kind of inconsistency in the views of the commenters on this site.
I'm curious how you handle the things that are between SVG specs 1.1 and 2. Because AFAICT both Chrome and Firefox decided not to implement SVG 2. Yet both have grabbed a common selection of changes from SVG 2 and implemented them.

E.g., myRect.style.x = '50px' will work in both Chrome and Firefox, even though SVG 1.1 doesn't allow for this because "x" isn't a presentation attribute (and only presentation attributes are supposed to have corresponding CSS properties).

Relevant to animations-- the fact that Chrome and Firefox allow most (all?) SVG attributes as css props lets the user do a nice end run around SVG animations. They can just treat the SVG objects as if they were HTML and use the web animations API to animate them.
A decade or two isn't a long time, politically.
intersection, not superset
> to reject the ones that don't serve our aims,

That is great so long as you have that choice.

Yes, we still can, but that is getting more and more difficult and
socially costly to do.

Being in control of technology used to be about knowledge. It was the
"geeks/nerds" who had an invisible advantage (until everyone else
caught up) Digital technology took over the world, so we say "were all
geeks now".

Today, being in control of technology is about courage and social
self-determination/autonomy - it is the "weirdos" who have the upper
hand in an enshitified surveillance society. Likewise, we're all going
to become weirdos eventually.

If they're the same thing then maybe being a geek/nerd was never about
technical capability in the first place, but about the ability to see
the future more clearly.
California's oil spill and challenges of regulating off-shore drilling (2021)
I was in a team where this just worked, and I've missed it ever since.

I had another team essentially bully me out (by withholding information and not inviting me to meetings with the justification that "I didn't want that") when I tried to bring some of that culture over (and that was in the same company). It was a security team without any feature pressure, so their idea of working together was sit in a meet and chit-chat for a considerable time of that. And anyone asking anything was always directed at everyone - worse than an office with headphones. It was not fun.

But even almost elsewhere else, so much communication goes on in direct messages or ad-hoc calls you're not invited to, it's not my idea of good remote culture.
Powers that be are betting that the Chinese won't be able to catch up.
These folks might be swallowing the "Chinese aren't creative" too long
I am convinced that any sort of free public service is fundamentally incomapatible with long term reproducible builds. It is simply unfair to expect free service to maintain archives forever and never clean them up, rename itself, or go out of business.

If you want reproducibility, the first step is to copy everything to a storage you control. Luckily, this is pretty cheap nowdays
There are tons of shady websites hiding behind cloudflare's services. Some used .tk domains too but just in general, many shady websites are hiding behind Cloudflare and at least I know from personal experience if you contact cloud flare about it, they pretend not to be home.

"We do not host the website" was always there response, while that is perhaps technically true, arguing if they shut down the reverse proxying for that website it would be at least offline, never worked.
"If I am available or not, please include your request in future messages so that I may fully respond in the event you're also not available"

Hi, bye, and thank you are implied. No need to say them in the course of business.
Can anyone with more hardware insight tell me if the brunt of this story is actually true, and how related to this chip AMD's actions were?

> How a Big U.S. Chip Maker Gave China the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’

> Advanced Micro Devices revived its fortunes through the deal, and sparked a national-security battle

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-tried-to-stop-china-acquiri...

https://archive.vn/V7cZq
The proposed ToC looks amazing, and I can't wait to get my hands in this book. One thing that seems omitted though, which can have significant impact in performance, is I/O. That would have been a nice add-on.
I've worked at many startups and companies where 80% of the revenue comes from 1 or 2 companies.

That's still "just" a B2B relation and not "that one company is funding is".

Now, I'm not arguing about how good this situation is (it's bad, for a startup it's actually worse) just that it's not "funding".
Libraries for the purpose of getting information simply don't make sense in the digital age. The internet is far bigger and more accessible than any library, and you can find information on nearly any topic in exclusively ad-free, public domain sites like Wikipedia, the Gutenburg project, and arXiv.

Libraries now exist more as a place for community: somewhere quiet anyone can freely hang out, access resources like 3D printers (or for the very poor, public fountains/restrooms and the internet), and attend workshops. Some libraries like the Boston Public Library are still nice and active even today (https://www.bpl.org/). But unfortunately as you mentioned, people today really don't fund community, and there are a lot of degrading and closing libraries.
> What happens when that fake-100px-but-actually-10em wide element is meant to coexist with something that is actually set in pixels? For instance, a 120px skyscraper ad? The things sized in fake-pixels-but-actually-ems will change proportionally with the user’s font size, but the things sized in real pixels will not. All of a sudden different elements on the page have different ideas about what scale they should be rendered at, and the layout falls apart.

This is technically also working as intended. When a user scales their preferred font size in their browser settings, their expectation is that the font sizes on pages will scale accordingly, not that every element will scale. The latter is what zoom accomplishes, but there's a reason why both zoom and preferred font sizes exist in browser settings.

In your example, the ad (or image, or whatever) should only be sized in rems/ems if it has text. For all other elements that aren't related to text, it makes more sense to size with pixels. If everything is sized in ems/rems, then scaling the preferred font size behaves identically to zoom. This is less than ideal because if I want to increase font sizes, and what you do in response is zoom the whole page, then there is less space for that same text to fit on the page because it competes with other scaled elements. So while I can read the text more easily because the glyphs are larger, I can read _less_ of the text within the same amount of space than if text were the only scaled element.

Also, at least in my experience, designers aren't the ones thinking in ems; they typically hand us Figma compositions that use pixels, and we translate to rems in our code base. Designers design for the base experience, and we are responsible for coding it in a way that scales proportionally/in a way that respects user preferences.
They would have needed controllers and actually cared enough to support steam on it.

There is zero chance Valve would release HL:Alyx without full steam support on the device.

That being said, I get what you're saying - that a killer game could have helped the value proposition. They clearly didn't design it for that though, even based on how much lower their refresh rate is for hand tracking.

It feels like a consumption device like the iPad, with some productivity mixed in.
Yeah I think a lot of it is having a strong imagination and going along with it for a bit.
And the consensus seems to be nix is not straight forward?
Oh yeah, I saw that one too! Don't remember what tech they were using.
Interesting to me because this is very likely to drive Linux support and usage in Mainland China!
Windows is unlikely to ever support LoongArch.
Had a very enlightening discussion with the authors as well, kudos to them for an amazing article!
Primary keys and foreign keys are rarely used in data science workloads. In our performance guide, we recommend users to avoid using primary keys unless they are absolutely necessary [1]. In workloads running in infrastructure components, keys and constraints are more important, and they are supported by DuckDB (but currently some of them can only be added when the table is created).

[1] https://duckdb.org/docs/guides/performance/schema#microbench...
I scoop about 2-3 grams
> Maybe he had two Ferraris because he was frugal with his business?

That's almost as wild as suggesting someone hosts their software on a Mac Mini because they're a penny-pincher. Nobody owns two Ferraris as a product of life-long frugality, let alone one.
This is literally how docker works as well.
The difference is docker doesn't bring a toolchain for those artifacts.
Torrents solve this
I don’t know if the default can be changed, but Firefox makes it easy to load a tab in a different account with containers.

You could by default load the documentation domain with an account set to English.
> Imagine never forgetting a name or a face, because every time you see even a distant acquaintance, your glasses can run facial recognition and make their name pop up by their face in real life.

This could work if they weren't wearing a VR helmet themselves.
Also proprietary.
This makes me wonder something. When I’m computing values in code I’ve written, the inputs and outputs are very quantifiable and the steps between them are too. There is a start and end to every part of the process.

In the universe, how are the inputs and outputs divided into discreet units and states in which computation can occur? I know the universe isn’t running on a chip (wait… No I don’t), but what I’m unsure of here is how, or even if, the state of things in the universe is ever determined in order to be “computed” such that it can transition to the next state in which it has been acted upon again by the inputs around it.

Perhaps it’s the wrong analogy. I don’t understand though how computations can work with a fluid rather than clearly sliceable and unitized parameters you find in current computing technologies. Or is the universe actually able to broken down into frames of time?

I suppose if you don’t think you need to compute in discreet steps then the question doesn’t make sense. It’s taking the analogy too literally. I struggle not to, though. What is computation if it can’t be proven or reversible at any stage?
It's not 'malicious', its relatively standard HN title practice. If you think the submitter got it wrong just email hn@ycombinator.com and they'll take a look at it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I've been making comments like this regularly. I say "by just repeating the phrase flat earth you are giving their hoax a platform. FE has been debunked repeatedly, and by monetizing this video you are effectively profiting from misinformation"
I might be missing some examples but the last breaking change i remember was the deprecation of the 32bit support: https://www.gsmarena.com/arm_will_drop_32bit_support_in_the_...

I think ARM are clearly more comfortable breaking compatibility than Intel.
Yep. The jones act is likely the only reason America has any shipbuilding capacity left
I suspect the reason Incident.io is now offering a pager service is selling an incident product is hard.

It is a process efficiency tool (a great one) but is ultimately a luxury.
All companies already have some sort of process in place even if it's terrible.
But as companies don't have an existing incident vendor they're already spending on, they're also having to educate customers about the business value of the product category at the same time.

However, if you tell me I can replace Pagerduty (which I'm already looking to replace as why am I paying $252/user/year for a PAGER APP!) for an incident tool + pager (even at a higher total) that's a much easier sell. The business value is in the incident response not the tool that sends me a push notification.

I suspect they'll have a lot of success with this.
A while back I made a (prototype) braille display with a similar concept but using linear sliders (per column) rather than a rotating wheel. Unfortunately I got side-tracked from the project and never figured out the best way to add actuators.

I was proud of the fact that my design could be laser cut from a single sheet and assembled with no glue or fasteners (well, minus whatever mechanism would be needed to actuate the sliders)

Image: https://retr0.id/media/38116918-4023-437b-9a48-d2ffb1d02dbf/...

Short demo video: https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1639261097252233220 (in the video caption I noted high friction, it was totally fine after sanding)
Thank you for educating me. Obviously your insightful comments don’t waste anyone’s time.
Any HN folks know of resources/guides for doing this “right”? I’ve had great luck restoring images and would like to try my hand at video. My dream is that there are tools which can take advantage of temporal changes to get better results.
Different company! Loongson runs their own MIPS based ISA which is self-developed.

IIRC that company is called Zhaoxin, which has had mild success getting ~Zen 2 performance domestically.

I'm not to sure why WSJ is citing that as a 'national security issue', everything related to China seems to be called that now.
Effect of infill pattern & build orientation on properties of FDM prints (2022)
It isn't russia/china fuckery OR usa autofuckery. It's russia/china fuckery AND usa autofuckery.

And to further fuzz the culprits, the usa/china/russia people invest in each other's "countries".
Sure. I was simply observing that this phrasing:

> but you certainly can't get a good fix without an external party.

is not true. You can get a great fix without a third party. You just have to be more patient for your TTFF.

* Unless you want RTK-level accuracy, in which case you're back to needing a third party.
> The people complaining that Cloudflare hosts these criminals would be the first ones complaining that Cloudflare has too much power when taking down websites it doesn’t like.

It'd be interesting if you could point to a single example of someone taking both sides. I strongly doubt these are the same people.
I keep saying “glasses” because eventually the technology is going to get miniaturized to that extent, and you can facial recognize people wearing glasses. But you could also have a handshake protocol for the devices themselves.
Yes. After Obama failed to renew the Smith-Mundt Act, now they can feed propaganda intended for a foreign audience, directly to your smartphone.
At this point, when you see a sufficiently large American business you should instantly assume they are deep in bed with American intelligence and probably the defense industry too. Just a friendly heads-up to anyone that was holding out for Yahoo and Hotmail to protect their whistleblower status or store their state secrets.
I've had the same issue with conan, and realizing only the. That is why our pipeline took so long, copying tens of GB to the runner. Cargo is mild by comparison.
The article doesn't discuss it but pervasive DRM is also reducing the chances of some media being preserved for the future. A key problem is that newer digital distribution formats make it trivial to enable DRM by default as part of the compression process. One example is the new ATSC 3.0 UHDTV broadcast format, where we're now seeing even smaller local broadcasters transmitting all their content with DRM active, even though the majority of their content has no contractual or practical reason to be DRMed. It's just easier to leave the "encrypt" switch on 24/7.

This is a problem because many smaller broadcasters do not archive their feeds for more than a few months, especially locally-produced live content. Today, a large portion of the 70s and 80s-era local TV content we have is thanks to a few obsessive home recordists who would record 6 and 8 hour blocks of certain local channels on VHS. Today's pervasive default DRM eliminates this avenue of preservation.
It seems Linux is going to win the desktop wars in China.

Windows is clearly never going to be ported to this oddball MIPS architecture so their stack will all be dependence on open source but sadly they will not return the favor by releasing their source or maybe my perception of China open source is biased.
Does that include checking against the intelligence community for touting false information? Askin' for a friend.
> The best we can all do as a society is to be aware of the influences of the technologies we select, to reject the ones that don't serve our aims, and to continuously make intentional choices.

I think this is the only practical and realistic approach on an individual level, but it will never be what most people do, and society as a whole will largely be formed by the constrains that technology, and it's owners and creators, dictate. Only governmental regulation can somewhat mitigate the worst consequence of the forces of technology.

But Elluls critique is broader than technology, he talks about technique itself. His observation is that technique and "mass society" as he calls it, is pushing us away from forming community and meaningful relations in the long run. This empty hole is easily filled by corporations selling us things that soothes our existential longings.
We're working based on SVG 2 and basically ignoring SVG 1.1.

I was unsure about the best approach here, so I asked Nikolas Zimmermann (original author of SVG support in WebKit) and his advice was to do exactly this. :)
I own a Vive and used to use it regularly.
They just use GCC and LLVM.
Interestingly, they've got binary translators for both ARM and x86 which were demoed in Geekerwan's video. Apparently, they're apparently donating a compilation farm for a Debian repository.
Definetly interesting to see how Lithography will develop independently in China, and if it will ever pass the EUV chokepoint.
I know I failed the technical interview because the interviewer made it clear during the interview that my approach was not the answer they were looking for.
Which government do you mean when you say "the government"? Any national government? Only the US government? Only governments in which the US is friendly and/or has agreements with?

Would you want authoritarian governments to be able to demand Cloudflare stop serving those they consider criminals that are outside their borders?

International law is messy.
Oh I personally don't even think the job of software developers is in particular danger from "AI" in the short/mid term. That's what I meant by not being on the hype train.

The industry maturing, easy VC/stock market money drying up, the economy not doing so great, those are the dangers I'd worry about.

But who can predict the future? I sure can't.
It looks like Skyhook Holdings was recently acquired by Qualcomm according to their website. I wonder if this was more for their IP and patents rather than product(s).

[1] https://www.skyhook.com/
Yeah, whenever we had this issue in a class, we just ended up focussing on doing WHATEVER IT TOOK wink wink to pass.
Lucid dreaming is fun and you should try it. It’s tough to get the hang of in the beginning but a very interesting experience. If you do it well it’s whatever you imagine: done poorly, you’ll get close… but your own expectations might hold you back. When you wake up you can reflect on those and plan how to do better with your more capable conscious mind.

I have not astral projected but I’ll look into it and if I remember I’ll message you after a few months
In France .fr.st was a popular free option
Gell-mann amnesia effect is a powerful drug.
On a Macro level, I've been exploring M-DISC as a solution to archiving my own media which is irreplaceable. (Documents, photos, videos, etc.)

It seems like M-DISCs are getting harder to buy for some reason.
Vector was ratified in 2021.
You can tell this is authentically the industry insiders' own stunted understanding of the problem by the fact that the words 'copyright' and 'intellectual property' never appear as aspects of the challenge.

Storage is cheaper than ever before. Accumulated shared wisdom about older format, & open tools for forward- and up- conversions, keep growing. Communities of enthusiasts can now find each other & coordinate effectively on arbitrarily niche and old media.

Hollywood's policy of monopolizing the right-to-copy works, enforced with aggressive legal prosecutions and fragile proprietary technical-complexities, puts cultural history at extra risk.
Attempting to fix the cracks in society itself (including the corruption and shocking lack of honesty from many western government officials) is likely to be more fruitful then attempting to stop adversaries from pointing the cracks out.

If people feel represented and informed and wisely governed and have a stake in the system, adversarial information wars will be much less effective.
So if you make that illegal, you just made basic website logins illegal.

Again, it's really hard to define what we all "mean" in legal terms.
The value of ebooks isn't the content, but that they have specific homework problems or codes which are required to access online assignments. Particularly the latter, giving each student a different code, because otherwise an entire class can share one ebook. Otherwise, most ebooks have pirated online PDFs, and even without those, all the information is readily available in many places online.
The PDP11-20 (the first PDP11) was not microcoded.

The PDP11 is the machine that unix was developed on.
Does cell/cell block/target/actions terminology come from Nix then? I assumed that was std's solution (since it is under the heading Solution, and I haven't heard of it) so found the 'explanation' of it baffling. But if it comes from Nix it can be read sort of like a style guide for how to do what you're already doing with Nix?

If the target audience is limited to those already highly experienced (and yet frustrated) with Nix then I guess it's fine.
>Its weird to me that we'll pay thousands of dollars for faster CPUs then write new software in python, electron or a docker container running in a VM.

Python has a REPL, Duck typing and hooks for many libraries including gui libraries.

Electron is basically a browser you can program via JavaScript with everything you'll ever need to make a gui application.

They both make a lot of sense when you consider the alternatives. However, I do wonder why there isn't yet an option to AOT compile python and electron projects into fast executables.