skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Make your own home page” is an old appeal. It is older than the mid 90’s. Not even 1994, but 1992. On the internet, one year is equal to ten astronomical years, there is a century between 1992 and 1994.

> So in 1992, the home page was a document that you saw when you opened your browser – which at that time was WWW on the NEXT computer.

> As the author of “The Whole Internet” noticed in 1992: “The home page provided by CERN is a good entry point into the web; it points you to a lot of resources fairly quickly. However, there are lots of reasons to want your own home page.”

> He meant that maybe the links provided by CERN are far from your interests and you’d prefer, for example, links to medicine rather than physics resources when you open your browser. So you could edit the CERN page, filling it with your links and notes and it would be your home page.

> So 50 years later :), in 1993, with the arrival of the Mosaic browser, the web left academia. Web users got ideas and tools to extend home pages, and turn them into websites. The term “home page” started to change its meaning. It became the first page of a website. Then as a sort of metonymy, it started to mean personal web pages. Making a home page soon meant not making the first document of your website, but making your personal website, your home page, YOUR HOME ON THE WEB.

Olia Lialina, net artist who does a lot of internet history stuff: https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/5118

Wrote about homepages recently. https://maya.land/monologues/2022/09/19/homepages.html I hope people have fun with this tool! Even without getting your hands dirty yourself with some HTML, it encourages an attitude of "I ought to be able to make this be how I want" towards technology
I assumed that Zuckerberg was looking at the future of Facebook, which would be slow or stagnant growth, and revenue that was worryingly reliant on rival company's platforms. He saw a risk. He said something like "My company will become irrelevant unless we do something really big. What moonshot, no matter how crazy sounding today, might possibly become as big in the 2020s as social media was in the 2000s?" and the thing that seemed possible at the time was VR. Probably a lot of people told him to pump the breaks, but it's his company, so he bet on his belief in himself as a visionary. I guess we'll see.
That's a hardware management question. The optimized binary used in my shell script still runs orders of magnitude faster and cheaper if you orchestrate 100 machines for it than any Hadoop, Spark, Beam, Snowflake, Redshift, Bigquery or what have you.

That's not to say I'd do everything in shell. Most stuff fits well into SQl, but when it comes to optimizing processing over TB or PB scale, you won't beat shell+massive hw orchestration.
First, I would recommend that we understand what we got wrong. We’ve known about the problem for half a century, and how to address it.

A million Americans didn’t need to die from Covid and climate change was mostly avoidable.

“Hey, let’s wait for the windmills, solar, and batteries… By 2030, …” was never a good plan.
> Who are you to tell others what they need?

I'm the guy who tells everyone about uBlock Origin. Seriously, they love the ad-free web.
> it is the demand for batteries that will make them cheap

This isn’t how supply and demand work. Demand can induce scale efficiencies in production, which lowers costs. That’s what’s happening in your link, which tracks through 2018.

In 2019, electric car sales shares rose globally and non-linearly [1]. We persist on that path. As a result, battery costs are spiking [2][3].

[1] https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/ad8fb04c-4f75-42fc-... page 15

[2] https://about.bnef.com/blog/battery-pack-prices-fall-to-an-a...
In a similar vein, Age of Empire 2 had a very interesting resource-balance that few other games have managed to replicate. With 5 resources (food, wood, gold, stone, population), and each of those resources being good for very different things (i.e. gold for stronger attack units, and stone for static defenses), and with the population being capped at 200, it presents the player with very interesting choices that have ripple-effects down the line. The sequels didn't quite manage to pull this balance off. And the dynamic is very different from other classics like Civ or Humankind, because those games about geographic control instead of worker-management.

Hoping someone undertakes a formal study of game-balance and economics in various strategy games (to help us make better games).
VR has been around for fifty years, that's a pretty long time to not produce any convincing results.

And all those inventions piggy backed off a very rapid pace of hardware getting faster, smaller, more power efficient and cheaper at the same time.

Moore's law meanwhile is dead, the rate at which CPUs/GPUs get faster is slowing down considerably, and VR needs a lot faster and cheaper and more power efficient hardware just to become affordable at reasonable quality.

That's not a good starting point, especially when you're a publicly traded company and your future depends on reaching that inflexion point soon™.

And then you still run into practicality problems:

• User input is still fairly clunky. Touchscreens just removed most of the friction of computer input devices, VR puts it back in. That won't make it particularly popular. Granted, future advances in hand/finger tracking might solve this, but this adds another set of sensors and hardware to make sense of them, when VR headsets are already struggling to reduce the bill of materials to become affordable.

• VR needs lots and lots of space. Digital cameras, MP3 players, smartphones, laptops, … for the most part reduced the amount of space a family needs to do things, compared to what came before, which made them a no-brainer for all demographics. No amount of technology improvement can really reduce VR's space demand without compromising on user experience. Not a problem for US tech bros, but ask an European or Asian family what they feel about doubling their rent so one family member gets enough space to use VR. Not gonna happen.
Show HN: A Productized Service in the new world of AI and Automation
Here's my attempt at the elevator pitch:

Growby is a complete startup product suite aimed to help businesses launch quickly.

For a quick launch, it provides a single platform to create brand identity, website, hosting, and email setup.

The platform requires human-touch and conversation and so it can provide personalized attention and high quality.

In addition to providing branding & technology, Growby also plans to provide a comprehensive set of documents for various business use-cases.

Here is the link - http://www.growby.net

Here is the rationale on why we wanted to have a human touch: https://www.growby.net/blog/how-growby-got-its-logo-in-60-hoursthe-secret-is-out/
Right - I'm only throwing the idea out there of a "modern PHP" layer that breaks some old conventions for more modern ones, but it would be opt-in and not too different, so that old code doesn't run into massive compatibility issues, and so that the "modern PHP" can be gracefully added (or not added) into any application where the developer has a different programming background, so as to allow a smoother transition.
Why Google Build Zanzibar
I don't think people's proglem with PHP are the semicolons and $ variable declarations.

It's mostly legacy stuff like built in function naming.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33356450
I'm sorry if that made me come across as an asshole. I never ever ever throw away things given by someone else so I don't like receiving books unless I had them (even the specific version on my wishlist) because I'm trying to control how large my collection grows. I've sold off so many books I bought in my younger days, to make space for others.
That’s not how it works. Meta (like many large employers) issues refresh stock grants yearly. So everyone’s current comp is down.
>2. If a state cannot leave, then how did the Southern States become military districts? Where in the Constitution does it give the federal government the right to strip states of statehood?

This was a key point that the 90s Republic of Texas movement keyed on, and they would tell anyone within earshot about why all Texas flags in courts are trimmed in gold fringe.
Go all in on everything. The investments required are a joke from what I can tell.

Make the state more efficient (probably by allowing more things to be handled by private entities), and voila, there's much more than what you need.

Germany's investments into e.g. wind energy topped out at €10bn/yr. The federal budget is €500bn/yr, add to that the state, county and community budgets and it's €830bn. Even if you paid for it by tax money only, it's not a budget issue. Neither would nuclear be.
MacBook Pro 15 as main work machine, Thinkpad T480 for linux, and purchasing a MacBook Air M2 for travel sometime soon because I hate lugging around the 15 inch.
This would only matter if your stock immediately shot up the moment it vested. All the growth during vesting is taxed as income at the time of vesting.

Capital gains only covers the value increase over the year you hold the stock after its vested.

If you work at META, and then immediately on vesting diversify and don't touch the stock for a year you'll reap the same capital gains benefits but with a diversified portfolio.

You also have a wide range of defensive strategies you can apply that you can't if you're locked into trading windows. Say a META employee was very bullish on FAANG in general and at vesting put all their money in GOOG. If they were nervous about this week's earnings they could have either closed their position to see what happens, or bought defensive puts to lock in a maximum loss. Had they instead chosen to hold META they would have neither of these options.

There are cases for recently IPO'd companies where you vest then have a potentially 6+ month lockout period for trading. In those cases it can make sense , provided you have seen substantial gains in that lockout period to keep holding for tax reasons.
Cardboard and Daydream. Daydream was like fifty bucks, included a useful controller. Had to chuck it in the trash.
Dystopian is such a harsh word. I mean, for billionaire tech bros, it's paradise.
I have a different hypothesis (I know it's a controversial one).

Ad based business models have a redistributive effect. Services like Facebook are paid for in proportion to spending power whilst usage has a completely different distribution. So wealthier users are effectively subsidising less wealthy users, which enables broad network effects and economies of scale.

People will always pay to influence other people. I think advertising while being annoying is one of the less malign forms of doing that. It also has privacy preserving characteristics as there is nothing more destructive for privacy than making a payment. That doesn't mean we shouldn't regulate to limit ad targeting. I think we should.
Capitalism discounts the present value of far-off catastrophes. This is for good reason: if WWIII breaks out tomorrow, climate change will be a far lesser concern for humanity (and indeed, WWIII may even solve the CO2 emission problem for us!) If we've learned anything since 2020, it pure hubris to claim we know what the future holds.

When beachfront condos in Miami start flooding, the practical, obvious, cost-effective solutions to the problem (i.e. geoengineering) will look a lot more appealing.
At some point we have to stop talking about the 1.5° number as if it were anything but a ludicrous pipedream by now. Even ten years ago it was an entirely hypothetical "if the entire global economic system magically turned around overnight then it might be possible". Now it's "if we had a literal time machine and could go back and magically turn around the global economy overnight".
To date I've enjoyed playful activities like swatting at glowing targets, boxing, or virtual light saber fighting.

Assuming you aren't serious about becoming a jedi and don't do it enough to give yourself RSI it should be OK. Maybe not as good as a personal trainer but I'd be shocked if it was worse than sitting on the couch, on balance.

Also, with the cameras on the headset as well as peripherals they can give you some idea of where your body is.
To me this runs counter to the Feynman quote “What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket”. I always took it to mean that if you don’t know what others have done you will be very limited by the bounds of your imagination.
"Metaverse" isn't a thing, it's a concept, powered by specialized hardware.
Checkout their headset sales to answer if anyone is using it.
Ask HN: How do you deal with procrastination?
when the deadline is far away
The Metaverse may very well be the future, but Meta has just gone far too aggressively in pursuit, far too early.

There were tons of web startups with potentially viable business models in the 90s too, but they weren't actually possible to run profitably until much later. When the web was faster, when storage was cheaper, when logistics could be outsourced etc

There's a clear hardware limitation in regards to pixel density, compute etc, that is going to leave VR as a niche for a long time. Semi-manufacturing process/compute performance is not a limitation that is going to be overcome anytime soon, regardless of how much Meta spends.

No investor wants to wait for 200B and 20yrs to possibly achieve something in the metaverse.
Well, from the historical point of view I think you're right.

But in an abstract sense, matrix is a presentation of a linear operator in a specific basis. If we choose to write it as a transposed matrix, for example, then the matrix product rule would be different (it should correspond to the composition of linear operators).
What ? He has no enemies. It is just "democracy in action". Of course "democracy in action" does not apply for current members of congress. /s
I did not know about them, thanks for sharing !

Do you know of any other small companies blog ?
He'll branch out when he gets a little older.
Fortunately it's all about the red tape, not actual construction time. Reduce it and you can build nuclear quickly.
I agree that "automatic tabulating machines were on the path to modern computers" were on the path to modern computers. But that does not in any way negate that there was an inflection point in the 1950s and leading into the 1960s that represents the birth of what we mean by the word computer (in English). The machines that I learned programming on in the 1960s were qualitatively different from those things "on the path" to them, but are recognizably the same species of machine as what we work on today - which is to say, they were Von Neumann architecture, Turing complete, off-the-shelf, generally available computers for which one wrote code - not calculators, tabulating machines, or hardware reconfigurable logic engines, and not laboratory experiments aiming toward that. The only thing missing from them that is inherent in our contemporary approach to information is the notion of ubiquitous networking of devices to create a broad and broadly accessible information and calculation landscape. That was still a laboratory project in 1970.

Does that matter? Depends on your point of view. What I meant by "how new it all seemed" then tells the tale here. Baruch could maybe see the future in 1945 because of his experience and vision. But by 1970 or thereabouts, almost anyone who touched it could see it, and millions were increasingly able to touch it, precisely because it was was commercially produced and generally available. Still not ubiquitous, as they are today, computers were nevertheless showing up in every corner of life.

So it's not that I think computers or information as a processing as a concept, or even as an occasional reality, were new around 1970. But computers as a phenomenon that would define the way interact with each other and the world, and computer programming as a skill that anyone could acquire, really were.
IOW: The first iteration has to be perfect?

Why that vs. Fred Brooks' "Plan to throw the first one away" idea?
Human Genome Project
Yes, it increases living standards immensely. Fission reactors do not help towards this goal.
It's not only 2D 360, there's full 3D photogrammetry. Click on the dollhouse button on the bottom left.
It wouldn't be the time humans have willingly created massive problems in order for an emerging technology that is necessary for economic growth to become successful.
Yup, just as long as none of the connection strings point to (and can reach) a prod database.
Dangerous Idiot Strategy: Do X, which sounds cool. (Where X may be "Disregard Others")

Genius Strategy: Do X, which happens to sound cool, in carefully constrained contexts and timeframes*, where X is low-risk & likely high-reward.

*Genius may be required to correctly set constraints.
Nobody's gonna believe 1.5 thousand, and plenty would read it that way. Nobody outside some science niches (technical or not) uses K for temperature.
A void? Is it another chamber? I have so many questions. Though from the images, it doesn't seem like a chamber.
https://www.livescience.com/scan-great-pyramid-of-giza
Thing is, even if he pulls it off, he'll still compete for the same e-commerce and ad revenue pie, except he'd have burn 10s of billions in the meantime.

I've got several hypothesis but have no idea on the actual probability. Mark could have lost his mind, or be considering FB now META his playground and wants to do whatever he wants. Or he actually believes it's a good business prospect and is willing to do whatever it takes to make it work.
I guess I struggle to understand how being surrounded by hundreds of cartoonish avatars would improve the experience. It would be immersive in a sense, but also pretty clear that I was still not really at a concert.
Free News API for your product
Many years ago I had the chance to visit the Pyramid of Giza but when it was time to go inside it, I've been instantly stopped by my visualization of how I would feel in this tight and claustrophobic space (almost crouching in some places, I've been told), especially if there are many people at the same time, and you cannot easily move.. So I'm very glad to be able to finally see it with such an amazing technology, thanks!
Show HN: Windows Context Switcher – App Launch Groups
Quickly open a Context (group of apps) with just one click. This makes context-switching, moving between multiple different projects, MUCH easier!
swimlanes.io and Mermaid (https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid-live-editor/edit) are other 'diagrams as code' options.
I dunno. Something like “programming circle jerk,” or something. I suspect there’s hundreds of these types of things out there.

I’d also suggest that participating in these fora could have … adverse … effects on one’s future career prospects. I can assure you that many HR background checking companies scrape social media, and are getting fairly good at “deanonymizing” posters.
> draw real time as you explain, which allows you to draw based on audience understanding and what you want to focus on

This is critical. While I took formal flow charting and diagramming in college, it can’t replace real time diagramming as you explain.

When I was in consulting, we would often project Visio diagrams on a whiteboard and then extend them using markers. As we moved through the explanation process. My Visio jockey would the transcribe the whiteboard notation to Visio diagrams once we all agreed on the approach. This allowed us to collaborate with the flexibility of a whiteboard while confirming and capturing the final documentation as we went.
Not a single company succeeded because up until now, advertising both produced greater returns and neither people nor regulators were interested in its privacy implications.

Now people (and most importantly regulators) are starting to pay closer attention, so the tide might be turning, up until the point where advertising becomes such a minefield that its costs will make alternative monetization models more profitable.
However, multirange GiST is implemented by merging all ranges into a single range (ignoring any gaps), which makes it less useful in many cases.

src: https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/f14aad5169baa5e2ac...
shellcheck *.sh FTW
> Fission reactors do not help towards this goal

Of course they do. Reactors produce electricity. You don’t like how they do it. But that they electrify borders on tautology.
It would be simpler to modify shellcheck to add flags to shellcheck that limit the kinds of warnings it produces, and then just run it on every invocation of the script. That keeps everything local and deterministic.
Imagine being extorted by Google into paying to avoid ads, being advertised to anyway by sponsored segments hardcoded into videos and being tracked and profiled on top of it all.

Paying just makes your attention even more valuable. If you have enough disposable income to pay for this, they can only imagine what you'll pay for if they manage to get ads in front of your eyeballs.
Books and video games were my way of being 'out of sight, out of mind' as a kid. Sadly, the less interaction I had with my parents, the more peaceful my life. I loved being left alone during the summer time.
What languages allow such a construct? It seems like it would be super confusing if these two code samples produced different values:

# One
a = d["a"]["b"]["c"]

# Two
a = d["a"]["b"]
b = a["c"]
I don't understand what's wrong with breaking changes. Do they not happen in php major versions anyway? Why not fix the parameter ordering and built in function names whilst you're at it? Seems odd to me.
Oh, wow, my bad. Got confused by the similarity.
Not to mention they have been using ai/ml in practice regularly and at massive scale since at least the late 1970s. And IOT before it was a buzzword.
Amazon doesn't rely on a single revenue stream.

But Advertising certainly is an important income stream. It gets its own chapter in the earning calls. ~$9 billion in 2021, which is more than subscriptions (Prime etc), at ~$8 billion[1]

[1] https://www.insiderintelligence.com/insights/amazon-revenue/ , https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/2022/q2/...
"Everybody using some extensions" is not a contradiction to "The standard is the baseline".

> It’s not very actively maintained, unfortunately

Because that's how standards works. If there is enough interest a new standard will be made, but right now, bash isn't it.
Sure. But if we have to re-start the industrial revolution, those tracks probably don't go to the right places anyway. And if we can re-start the industrial revolution, then we can make new rails.
Full-Band General Audio Synthesis with Score-Based Diffusion
Besides moral concerns, advertising might be a good investment at the beginning. I predict TikTok will make a killing as they ramp up advertising on their platform now that they've gained a huge audience. However, returns will diminish over time and eventually disappear.
>And a colleague of mine is a huge fan of the new "match" keyword - he's working on a sports management application, and of course he had a "Match" class, used everywhere, which he had to rename...

Namespace?
So, this challenge asks for rapid transformations of society.

The unfortunate thing is, we've shown that we can change behavior rapidly, but only if we think we think we're personally in danger, and we'll only willingly keep that transformation for a little while. Carbon emissions dropped in 2020, but it took people actually being scared into staying in their homes, and stopping whole sectors of the economy. What if the most effective climate plan is a long, deep, global depression? In addition to curbing emissions, high unemployment would reanimate the "green new deal" concept. The bad news is climate and geopolitical instability might just give us what we need.