skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drone captures moose shedding antlers
PCI-DSS compliance auditing is not cheap. There’s the incentive right there.

Individual retailers have no need to store actual cardholder information. All the payment platforms provide ways to persist cardholder information, in a way that allows it to be reused but never read.
Wow I had no idea. Apparently they're the best anticoagulant:

https://youtu.be/owxXd9PJp2Y
The how-to is buried pretty deep for those like me who are unfamiliar with cyclic sighing (aka psychological sighing or double inhale)

> Participants were informed they should sit down in a chair or, if they prefer, to lie down, and to set a timer for 5 min. Then they were told to inhale slowly, and that once their lungs were expanded, to inhale again once more to maximally fill their lungs -- even if the second inhale was shorter in duration and smaller in volume than the first, and then to slowly and fully exhale all their breath. They were told to repeat this pattern of breathing for 5 min. They were also informed that ideally, both inhales would be performed via their nose and the exhale would be performed via their mouth, but that if they preferred, they were welcome to do the breathing entirely through their nose. They were also informed that it is normal for the second inhale to be briefer than the first.
This misses the main driver. Valuations are no longer based on growth. The entire market has shifted to profitability over growth.

Companies with a stronger balance sheet coming out of the recession will be better positioned for the long term.

Seems that companies that gained their valuations through growth weren't sustainable in the long run.

And at a macro level, economic policy has largely deferred recessions since the 2008 housing bubble pop. That's not sustainable either. At some point a correction is going to happen.

The "social contagion" is companies betting that a correction is coming. Some made that bet early, and some are just now hopping on the train.

It's about survival for many companies. I bet we'll see fire sales, and acquisitions ramping up for the financially stronger companies.
Nice I need to find some time to actually sit down with Mercurial for a nice summer afternoon
Ask HN: Where do breakthroughs in computer science come from?
I know that plenty of breakthroughs have come from academia and research organizations, some have come from lone researchers who had a eureka moment, some have come from collaboration in the open source community, and some have come out of the corporate world.

More simply there's people who think about pure research topics, and people who are in the "real world" solving problems.

A typical scenario would be like when INRIA researchers developed the CRDT data type, and then it was applied by people building collaborative document editors later.

But it doesn't always work like that. Leslie Lamport had an academic background, but has said that it was his entry into the corporate world that gave him lots of real world problems to solve, which led to all his breakthroughs for distributed systems.

Linus Torvalds was purely focused on "real world" problems in the open source world and yet revolutionized version control systems as a consequence of leading distributed open source teams that required such tooling.

In a field like language design, it feels like there's a divide between academics who stereotypically have a bias towards things like pure functional programming and dependent type systems because of the formal and mathematical perfection, and then the open source world who care more about memory safety and data races because of the real-world impact on security, performance, and stability.

Can incremental innovation eventually build up to a profound breakthrough, or does it more usually require a bolt of lightning striking in a research team?

Do incremental evolutions in practical programming languages and algorithms right now constitute authentic breakthroughs?

John von Neumann in his essay "The Mathematician" said that there has always been a constant infusion of inspiration from the sciences and the real world back into mathematics.

Is it that intersection of the two where the most fruitful results come?
I prefer Windows
> It's also strange that Protestants trust the Orthodox/Catholic church to decide what is scripture

They... don't: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Bible
As I understand your comment, simple is a key feature for Mac users
I don't think it's literally TCP, but you're right that it's very much TCP-like behavior. I kept having stuttering in PoE, and eventually realized that NetworkManager was doing wifi channel scans way more often than it should be! Genuinely useful as a tool for diagnosing network conditions.
Not all of it is "copycat". During the pandemic consumer spending moved online. People purchased hardware to work from home, ordered more from Amazon and other online stores as opposed to physical stores, used online services such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams more. Tech companies responded to the increased demand by increasing the pace of hiring. Were they wrong to do so? Possibly, because they should have expected that not all of the increased demand would stick around once the pandemic is over. As it happened, the demand ebbed when the pandemic was over, so they are stuck with excess manpower, which now has to be reduced. This doesn't explain all layoffs, however. Some of it is just opportunistic - now is a good time to do layoffs without looking weak.
IIRC the Netflix blur on the top/bottom of the frame is actually from using 1970s anamorphic lenses. It's super distracting to me because sometimes it blurs the foreground too
I understand you feel that way. And clearly, that's the dominant narrative about layoffs. What makes you value those feelings enough to reject out of hand a professor who has been studying it for decades?
No one counts freighters as a warship dude.

Chinese Navy has more Destroyers (by weight) than the US Navy has ships (by weight).

Also, because the Chinese strategy is a mass of smaller ships, they also outnumber us on a ship by ship basis. USA strategy is around capital ships like Carriers.

There hasn't been a large scale sea battle since WW2. No one really knows how these two contrasting strategies will end, or who has the advantage.

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I think the combined US Navy + Taiwan Navy still outnumbers China though (both by weight and by ships). It's still a difficult road for China, but they are making more ships than us and will outnumber the combined fleets over the next few years.
Most people aren't aware of the games market. You can get some brief overview here [1]. Console games make up < 30% of the market by revenue and users. Asia accounts for more revenue, and gamers, than the rest of the world combined. And that's disproportionately going to be China. So their trends dictate global trends.

Globally there are about 3 billion gamers. So it's largely just going to come down to a whole lot of people spending very little money. The average spend works out to $60/person, but that includes console gamers and mobile whales spending hundreds to thousands of dollars a year. The median spend is going to be much lower. I'd certainly take the under on $20.

And I think that's largely the answer. In terms of entertainment hours/$, there's no digital entertainment remotely close to games. So it has widespread appeal and affordability.

[1] - https://newzoo.com/insights/trend-reports/newzoo-global-game...
That would be fine if it only happened once.
> Productivity tanked further when they tried to grow rapidly during COVID

Anecdotally, the productivity went up during covid because the boundaries of WLB were shattered. But after 2 years, I think a lot of people are feeling burnt out. The companies may feel like they are just trimming the fat, but fat has an essential function in the body.

With less people, no doubt, the people who are left will initially work harder, but they will soon succumb to burn out and have a loss of productivity. Working harder after already working hard for two years can do that to you. The company’s best performers at low productivity will do more harm to the companies than having their low/average performers have low productivity.
Funnily enough DMCA 512 already works this way. If you manually curate a content feed you lose your copyright safe harbor. So you're actually incentivized to remain willfully blind to certain aspects of how your site is being used. The Copyright Office has been complaining about this and arguing that we should pull all recommendation systems outside of the copyright safe harbor.

I kind of disagree with this. It would make both safe harbors kind of nonsensical, because we're incentivizing platforms to keep their systems broken. We understand that free speech on the Internet requires a minimal amount of censorship: i.e. we have to delete spam in order for anyone else to have a say. But one of the ways you can deal with spam is to create a curated feed of known-good content and users.

Keep in mind too that "purely algorithmic feeds" is not a useful legal standard. Every algorithm has a bias. Even chronological timelines: they boost new posts and punish old news. And social media companies change the algorithm to get the result they want. YouTube went from watch time to engagement metrics and now uses neural networks that literally nobody understands beyond "it gives better numbers". And how exactly do you deal with an "algorithmic" feed with easter eggs like "boost any post liked by this group of people"?

The alternative would be to do what the Copyright Office wants, and take recommendation systems out of the defamation and copyright safe harbors entirely. However, if we did this, these laws would only protect bare web hosts. If you had a bad experience with a company and you made a blog post that trended on Facebook or Twitter, then the company could sue Facebook or Twitter for defamation. And they would absolutely fold and ban your post. Even Google Search would be legally risky to operate fairly. Under current law, the bad-faith actor in question at least have to make a plausible through-line between copyright law and your post to get a DMCA 512 notice to stick.
If you have a breeding reactor that has a mantle and you have a graphite core that you might want to replace then being able to easily remove material from the core might be a good thing.

People currently doing commercial have moved away from this and mostly just do fast reactors and mostly don't want to do breeding or do core replacements.
>Watch this moose shed its antlers with the shake of its head

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-moose-sheds-...
Personal private models that are not controlled by a company or governmental entity are a human right?
SSH Agent Hijacking
This article helped me (I’m not a math guy at all, just a quick learner)

https://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/44sp/

Read the top section then the first answer in the Q&A at the bottom.

Basically the problem is to find the least-cost (shortest) path across a graph of nodes from point a to point b, but the best algorithm we have (Djikstra’s) runs in exponential time in the worst case when there are some negative edge weights (see context below). This guy found an algorithm that runs must faster, in near-linear time.

Context that is helpful is to think of edge weights not as distances, but as time or cost (this allows negative weights). Imagine a process workflow or something.

Another helpful context that emerges from this is “negative cycle” which is an endless loop of negative weight edges (therefore asking an algorithm to find the “shortest” lowest weight path from one point to another that includes that cycle will fail). You can have negative weights without negative cycles though
Even when that line was true, I could get Linux working with a few hours of effort

No amount of effort is going to make windows usable when there’s a company actively working to make it user-hostile
This is why the scene in Mando that’s clearly just some random hill outside LA still looks so much better than anything else in the show. Andor has some great scenes that are shot on location in Scotland.
> and other related metadata features

Such as? Actually curious and doing a lot of sales myself, I'm interested!
But the games industry was already bigger than movie/TV/music industry before the rise of those gambling/pay-not-to-grind/pay-to-win schemes...
If 100k people are let go that’s 100k licenses lost across ~25 different vendors. Layoffs are happening because growth is flatlining or reversing. Tech is very insular as startups are created to solve problems in other tech companies, so if the flywheel of tech companies buying from each other stops, the entire thing can reverse quickly.

Also seed rounds were oversubscribed with no diligence, product, and money raised on little more than names and vague ideas. Series A was possible pre-revenue. Series B on 100 to 250x revenue. The whole thing was unsustainable.

Finally a huge number of tech employees were “barnacles” or those somehow making 6 figure salaries while providing little or negative value. Now that the music has stopped those people are being cut. I’m talking about agile / scrum people, DEI, ethicists, bloated HR, and all manner of not-revenue generating employees. Push has come to shove and they are jettisoned first.
Quanta article about the paper, discussion from 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34439701
One reason this change happened is the move from super35 to full frame sensors combined with moving to ever faster lenses. f/4 on super35 used to be common, now it's all f/1.4 on full frame, increasing the bokeh massively.
Stopping for 20 minutes every two hours is collossally ridiculously stupendously untennable overhead.

You have to think in terms of fillups per hour or per minute that a standard gas station can process. If every one of those 1, 2, 5 minute fillups now takes 30 minutes to several hours, that translates into gas stations having to be parking lots and parking garages that can hold hundreds of cars, and a doubling or tripling in travel expenses and travel time. A million trips now need whole extra days and associated hotel stays and meals and generate a million extra junk boredom purchases at rest stops just because what else are you going do while waiting around for the charger?

Anf this is all in the mythical world where high speed charging stations actually exist in all the places where gas stations currently exist, and all actually work at full speed, and your car is allowed to use any of them. That world is not even close to existing, and doesn't do the job even if it did.
I don't know, but whenever I plead with people in computational science to read Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics I'm usually met with an eye-roll.
I'm in that group, and could afford (and am interested) in owning one of these.

Many offset the downsides of the generator with solar, which is increasingly viable, but having it all in a EV especially considering fuel prices is a dream. Even then, using the generator only applies with boondocking. When i'm working full time on a project on the road, I just go to a campground or RV park with full hookups.
I want to pile on here; I switched to Mercurial for some projects and didn't think much of it (had to look up equivalents of some git commands here and there). However, after 2 years of that, coming back to git made me feel like a total newbie. I recently got myself into a detached HEAD state and felt like I was groping in the dark with "git reset". I never had this issue with mercurial, even with weird botched evolve/content-divergent states.
Don't remember what rules we changed, I suspect there were some to deal with undesired consequences. Eventually we stopped playing chess altogether as there are many other things for kids to do.
This looks much better than expected for 4-color CGA, but now I'd really love to see a 16-color EGA version!
AltspaceVR is shutting down as Microsoft’s mixed reality division shrinks
I've had VCS operation anxiety since the days of CVS. With Subversion it was largely a non-issue but Git made it return with a vengeance. This tool will presumably calm my frayed nerves.
Reddit mods, for the most part, don't need money. I imagine there's tons that would even pay money to "remain" as a mod if they could.

Many reddit mods are motivated by nothing more than some semblance of power over other people. Just look at the way one of the big subreddits operates:

https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/931803-reddit-art-subred...

I've personally been banned from a handful of subs all at once (due to the mod being a mod on all of them) because I argued with a moderator that humidity is worse than dry heat.

No, they don't get "zero" - they get their purpose. Otherwise, they would get a job. Coincidentally, you almost have to be job-less or have next to no other obligations to be a mod on reddit. I personally created and "mod" a community that's not very big at all but still requires cleaning up... but I could never see myself justifying more than 15 minutes a day to that "job."
How do you define productivity in this context? Musk style LOC? How many features you shipped? Let's pick one of the more sensible ones - features you shipped. Who defines those features - is top level management responsible for the product vision, overall strategy that then middle management turns into features?

For companies like MAANG that are already hugely successful and have hit a wall so to speak, they don't need low level productivity before they need top level strategy and vision. Apple is a good example of their management priorities being clear - they seem to know what works and where to go next quarter and their middle management also seems capable enough to turn that into products/features and make their Engineers' lives simpler so they can be productive delivering on it.

For every 10k+ layoff assuming that it's the lackey low level guys the aren't productive that needed to be laid off is not only inaccurate (lots of greatly productive Googlers have been let go for example) but also unfairly cuts a whole lot of slack for the greater financial burden on the company folks up top that are in charge of strategy and vision. After all they are also the same people that hired the people who are laid of - directly or indirectly.
This is a well-researched and fact-filled article, for example:

The debt... loaned by a consortium of banks led by Morgan Stanley, comprises: a $6.5bn senior secured term loan facility (a bank loan); a $3bn senior secured bridge loan facility... ; and a $3bn senior unsecured bridge loan facility. Twitter also has a $500m senior secured revolving facility...

The article points out that the line of credit could be used to make an interest payment. Technically correct, and I don't expect Twitter to hit the wall this month. But the article fails to mention what bridge loan terms might be. The fact that bridge loans are in the mix means negotiations on paying them back soon should be under way.
Progress could be slowing down in science and technology, finds study
It's more or less been that way since the colonial powers first encountered Japan. European powers found Japan to be something of an outlier to other East Asian territories. Many early European accounts of Japan found the social order fascinating and often regarded as comparable with their home countries. Early British visitors wrote something like "Japan is one of the civilized nations of the world". These same powers had starkly different opinions on nearby Korea and China.

Because of the Dutch port at Nagasaki, there was also a steady stream of Japanese goods into Europe and informed art, fashion, pottery, and other things. Europeans found analogs with their native stories of Kings and Knights, and the militarism of the colonial period was found and reflected by the Shogunate and Meiji governments.

As Japan opened up, Europe found a country that had long been absorbing Western ideas in technology and medicine, but with an entirely different philosophical worldview -- challenging European cultural centrism that Western culture was the secret to its relative global power.

By the mid 1800s Europe was so full of Japanese cultural influence that terms like "Japonism" were formed to reflect daily fashion trends that people wore on the street, and decorated their houses with. Van Gogh famously went through a period attempting to mimic Japanese art he found in news print and posters used to wrap pottery shipped from Japan.

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/stories/inspiration-from-jap...

At this point the West has a few hundred years of this kind of connection and reflection with Japan, and to be fully honest, Japan kind of finds the West as interesting as well.

On a similar note, this cross cultural infatuation bothers my Korean wife to no end. But I have to remind her that we've really been dealing with her people en masse for under a hundred years, while we've been trading, teaching, learning, and fighting the Japanese for almost half of a millenia. It doesn't make her any happier ;)
There's short street interviews(or rather attempts) of WEF participants, booming on Twitter from Rebel News. To be fair, questions asked by interviewers are often just provocative, still, arrogance in behavior of, specifically, CEOs is just overwhelming.
After having an opportunity to talk 1:1 with two of the most revered personalities/founders/ceos in tech, I’ve come to the conclusion that they are as much full of s** as the rest of us. Probably even more.

I know the sample size of 2 is not scientific, but it was enough for me to not have any illusions about the nature of things.
The `madvise` setting of THP was never problematic for anyone. The Redis people made a huge stink about it because 1) they don't know what they are talking about and 2) the architecture of their program is really bizarre. Consequently it is now a widespread myth that you must set THP to `never` or else it is hazardous. But being widespread does not make it any less of a myth.
All the Obnoxious Ways People Are Leaving Twitter
Hey cool idea! I'll definitely consider that and variations on it. This could work for Pull-direction operations like fetch/pull, but maybe not as well for push since the remote would still be affected in some way.

Will need to think about it more...
> instead of laying off 10% of their workforce, they had everybody take a 10% wage cut except for senior management, which took a larger cut. So instead of giving 100% of the pain to 10% of the people, they give 100% of the people 10% of the pain.

This doesn't seem like a good strategy for tech. Cutting everyone's salary will dislodge your top performers who can get a better position even in poor market conditions.
Photographer Makes Infrared Filter from a Floppy Disk
Nope. Not true. Old picture. Trees are gone (a matter of law in CA). Not shaded at all. Ever.
I'd prefer the place holder text to meaningless auto generated nonsense ad infinitum.
You seem to have created a little bit of a strawman in your first paragraph. You said that people are starting to argue that we could be the first in the galaxy, and then asked somebody to defend the claim that we are the first.

Honestly, I don't think we have nearly enough information to be able to put much confidence in our ability to calculate a meaningful probability of life currently. Drake's Equation is fine, but without any way to validate the coefficients, you can make it say anything you want.
Is there an intuitive explanation for how a log^8 ends up in the algorithm? Why not log^4 or 16?
Aren’t there a bunch of plugins for that kind of thing?
I remember that. There were so few people in that scene, it felt uncanny.
Personally, I prefer the Tomato Technique.
What do you think is bad about it, and why?
And who decided what the "New Testament" is? Hint, not the Protestants...