skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So what you're saying is that we should tax carbon so that it correctly reflects the externalities and let the market sort it out from there?

I think carbon pricing is a great idea from what I've learned about it. Though, I disagree with you that the lack of carbon pricing is the fault of capitalism and I feel like you are kind of making that argument by saying that emissions don't cost anything so how would a market account for something with no price? I place that blame solely on governments for that.
> I'd bet anyone working near you detects the same and is not going to be open with you about their use of such things.

If you only knew how ridiculous that statement is you wouldn't have made it.

I don't understand why you keep insisting that everyone in the world must have the same habits as the people you know, or that there must somehow be something wrong with people ("no programmer friends", "judgemental attitude") if that's not the case.
That's because in the gaming industry, the player experience is king. In Facebook land, the user is the product. Meta just treats their users like garbage, which is basically the complete opposite of the gaming industry. A friend bought multiple headsets, and it turned out that it was impossible to use them as each unit had to be registered to a separate Facebook account. It's product decisions like this which signals to those customers that they really don't matter to the company, which makes perfect sense for a company that sells its users to the highest bidding information broker or advertiser and doesn't consider them to have any real value.
The problem for Meta is that there are use cases for VR - but they are niche (so far):

1. Practicing dangerous or expensive operations: I think Microsoft Flight Simulator is a good example of this but I'm sure there are industry applications that are similar. VR allows you to practice these without crashing the literal plane.

2. Replacing things that are currently impossible in the real world: I think Zwift is a good example of this. It allows you to ride your bike in a fun environment when there are snow drifts outside.

The problem for Meta is that none of these scenarios are in their wheelhouse or of high enough scale for them to be a business for them.
git has a built-in email command.
Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists
I'm another one who was introduced to tech through gaming (RuneScape) and to programming largely through RuneScape macros. There are literally dozens of us!
It's getting better every year, the hardware just wasn't there before. I think the sweet spot will be in new vr-native experiences and not awkward skeuomorphic-ish implementations of the offline world in VR(which is what horizon seems to be trying to do) or gaming. Turning a 2D experience into a VR one will continue to have worse graphics and odd mechanics for the foreseeable future, and gaming in VR is just not relaxing compared to sitting on the couch with a controller. Not everyone wants to flail about and gesticulate after a long day of work.

I personally like to sit back and watch random "experiences," virtual tours and stuff and when I introduce someone new to VR I show them these first rather than games. Complete immersion without having to think about what to do with your hands.

Another interesting experience is Liminal https://liminalvr.com/ It uses sounds/visual stimulation with the intent of affecting your "mood" and it's being developed by bona fide psychological researchers. It's truly something that can only exist in VR!
Don't give them ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript
Whenever I tried interacting with mailing lists in the last five years, I always needed to subscribe or wait for days for someone to moderate the spam queue.

Anti-spam measures are a large part of what made using MLs so annoying. From a moderation side, MLs are more work for that reason as well - Github and Gitlab at least get rid of spambots shilling shady cryptocurrencies, weenie enlargeners or questionable quality designer drugs. With MLs, all of this ends up in your moderation queue as well.
Most importantly, using a smartphone is a very low-friction experience. It takes two seconds to pull it out of your pocket and unlock it, and two seconds to put it back in your pocket. Same with a desktop - to use it, I sit down at my chair, maybe press the monitor power button, and I’m good to go. When I’m done, I get up from the chair.

VR headsets are far more bulky and intrusive. They don’t allow for easy context switching between cyberspace and the real world, and they’re not portable enough to be used on the go like a smartphone.
>> and whether Exxon was willing to raise pay to the level of major tech companies.

Why would oil companies need to hire the same kinds of engineers that a SV giant would need? If they can get that kind of salary, more power to them, but I don't see the challenges being similar enough except on a smaller scale with device drivers for industrial equipment, etc.
You know what would be a killer app kind of application for AR? A real life HUD you could just wear all the time. Anything that can be done with a smartphone these days but without the hassle of carrying a giant brick around that you need to fumble with.

But to get to that stage you need to at the very least integrate all that functionality into a set of glasses (more than 60% of all people already wear glasses daily anyway), and you also need direct brain interfacing control to make it practically usable at all.

Way beyond anything we can currently do these days unfortunately.
You're confusing government with citizens. The letter of the law changed but the culture lagged behind.
Meta's share price collapses after Elon confirms buying twitter.

We can all speculate on why their shares dropped. If you're lucky sometimes you can for sure know why a stock dropped but really everyone is guessing.

Must say that PE ratio makes facebook look marbled and juicy.
Rethinking Virtualization for Backends
Hey HN, since our pivot earlier this year we have been working with the alpha users of our product shuttle (YC S20) on creating the best backend development experience possible. Interacting with hundreds of developers, we have become convinced that the time has come to rethink the virtualization layer that we are all so used to - containers. Don’t get us wrong, containers have improved development in a lot of ways, but over time they have also created a lot of problems too.

For the way most people use them in deployments of web apps, containers are too heavy. The heavier your containers are, the more difficult everything else becomes. They take longer to build, they need more resources to run, they are more expensive to store, etc. This has significant repercussions for the developers that have to deal with containers, IOW most backend developers.

Our view is that by restricting the scope of virtualization to something more specific to web app backends, we can build a tool that is much better for the job than containers. With WASM and WASI becoming stable, this is more possible than ever.

We’re very excited to share our ideas with you and would love to get your thoughts on this!
Meta might be a good value buy at these prices if they launched a dividend. But their free cash flow dropped close to zero in this last quarter, so that won't be happening.
This is amazing! Incredible work! Thank you for doing this project.

FYI I found a typo - the word "cuts":

> It's 750 by 750 feet at the base and is made of over 2 million large, limestone blocks cuts from the surrounding area.

Also - from one of the angles shown, it looks like there's a golf course next to the pyramids? Not at all what I expected!
If that's the case for all Oculus devices, that would definitely be a massive improvement. I still see some people here complaining about the Facebook link, though.
This is great!

I noticed a few apostrophes missing in the captions in "King's Chamber" and "Queen's Chamber".
As long as you can attract attention, ads will work. Fb can still attract plenty also there is still no better way to attract attention than a mobile phone
Ask HN: What's Up with the Metaverse?
From the outside it looks like a joke -- nobody is using it as far as I can tell, it's costing Meta exorbitant amounts of money and not least: it looks like tech that would have been unimpressive 10 years ago.

I don't get it and I feel like there must be something I am missing. Mark Zuckerberg, in spite of what I might otherwise think of him, always appeared to be an extraordinary strategist. And if there is anything Meta does well, it's engineering! So are we just seeing the first clumsy iteration of something that will truly change the world? Or are they simply experiencing their Google Wave/Plus/... moment? I am genuinely curious!
> if you don't like websites with ads, don't use websites with ads

No need to abstain from anything, we have the technology to fix the websites instead. It's called uBlock Origin.

Here's the deal: websites are rendering and running on our computers, and we alone decide what code runs and what elements show up on screen. If you don't like it, then don't send out web pages for free to any user agent that requests one. All you have to do is return 402 Payment Required.

> you're breaking the agreement that the people hosting what you want to use have to make a living

I don't remember "agreeing" to anything.

> If you know there's a security camera at the bank branch and you don't want to be recorded, you don't go to the bank branch, no normal person would think to put a hood on their head to still go.

Yeah, just opt out of society. Every single bank everywhere has cameras so if you don't like to be tracked just don't go to banks at all.

You gotta be kidding me.
You've assumed it's the user making the decision as to whether they are in control (or that I've assumed that, which I haven't), which makes that whole argument moot.

It's a very strange assumption to make given we're discussing clinical diagnosis. Surely the most usual set of circumstances is that a user seeks help because they have (or perceive) a problem and a clinician diagnoses them. There certainly can be others that include self-diagnosis but you should really start from the usual, especially if you're going to avoid unintentionally building straw men.
They also received a very large amount of funding from some successful tech founders, Brian Acton and Pavel Durov
Even if strings.Compare is optimized, it is not always better than general comparison operators.

Both strings.Compare and comparison operators have their respective best use scenarios.
Just looked at two servers I'm sshed to - one redhat, one ubuntu. Neither has bash in /usr/bin/bash.
There are very few universal beliefs among humans, as such, any position of power is going to have a political aspect to it. It's unavoidable.

Suffice to say, both parties' presidents have nominated Supreme Court justices that never made it past confirmation. Despite the voting procedure, both parties need to find nominees that are at least palatable to some portion of both parties. Extremes in either direction are generally dropped pretty quickly.

And courts are swayed by public sentiment, but it generally takes a long time for such social sentiment to filter up to the courts. And that's a good thing. The last thing we need is a court that decides cases on the whim's and fancies of the average voter.
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ahh, of course. thanks
Hasn't Meta always said their VR project will take the better part of a decade to reach the mass market goal? Maybe I misunderstood them.
I got one. I never use it. I have an expensive tablet and I rarely use it either (a phone works better for most web browsing because the tablet is too clunky to carry around, but I do use it to watch udemy videos when I'm using my laptop to take notes or work through examples). You see, it turns out, I love keyboards and track pads and mice! I imagined that I'd find it far easier to do diagrams and mind maps in the Rm2. And it's true that it's much easier to draw on a device designed for drawing. But it also turns out, I rarely have to do that, and this thing is shit for basically everything else.

If I remember that I've got one of these sitting in a drawer, it's nearly always dead. And if I remembered to charge it and I can actually draw something, the drawing is hard to use. Like, I can't just pick up the rm2, do a sketch and have it quickly embedded in a document. It's clunky as fuck, even if you root the thing, get ssh and all sorts of other sync stuff set up. The rm2 let's you make pointless sketches and hand drawn notes that can't be used easily outside the device. It's good for nothing else. And I'm willing to bet that that's not enough for most people. If you want pencil and paper, save yourself a shitload of money and just buy a pencil and some paper.

Edit: one thing I was kinda interested in was using it as a terminal - there's an app for this but it's too much hassle to set up for the novelty of a paper-like terminal (with no colours!)
Maybe, they do have their own store for VR apps but they also allow you to connect the headset to a gaming PC and use Steam games. They also support OpenXR. So they don't seem to be building a walled garden, more like a garden with a fence you can step over. Maybe that'll change in the future but if it does they'll piss off a lot of their customers and force them to switch to other hardware.
BEVs aren't the eco-friendly option. Density, biking, walking, and mass transit are. Those still aren't "cool." Musk made a feel-good option profitable for himself. And don't even get me started on rocket fuel.
I'm still not over Wunderlist. How effing hard is it to make a shared to-do list that gets the basic UI features right? I'm looking at you, Apple.
Question, how do you guys avoid politics when looking for technology news and articles?
Yeah, there's probably no other economic headwinds the low earnings could be due to. Must just be the thing you said.
I was initially a skeptic of widespread adoption of VR. I'm not sure that it's going to be the next smartphone. However, if it gets more comfortable and the price point goes down, I could see it being a replacement for traditional desktop monitors. Instead of paying $1k for a 27-inch display you get as many large screens as you want. That seems probable to me.

I know that sounds awfully boring and mundane, but that probably comes way before other applications. After all the original iPhone was just an iPod you could make calls with.
Why everything must go through GitHub? This adblocking thing begs for a decentralized solution, like a torrent or something. We rely too much on all those tech behemoths anyway.
I developed this for my own needs: Goal Board
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goal-board-vision-...
It’s a cool formalization of an intuitively obvious process: the complexity of large-scale pseudo-anonymous interaction leads us to align based on co-created stereotypes and create sometimes violent divergences in online populations.

Author depends on “objective reality” to keep people in check, assuming they actually meant environmental interaction, what kind of runaway (or synchronization) happens when that is too different between participants, or functionally disappears?
You just keep adding types, it gets better by time. When you do add types, go with strict types (strict_types=1). Type errors pop early when there are many type enforcements.

When you find parts that you can't easily type (open file handlers for example), you can create wrappers that encapsulate the handlers.

Also, use phpstan/Phan or other static analyzers like others mentioned.
>What lie exactly? Scotland is producing enough to power Scotland twice itself on Wind alone.

No they aren't. This is at best misleading, at worst, a blatant lie.

What is happening is that on days with strong winds, they are overproducing wind energy but ONLY at certain times of the day. When they overproduce this energy, they cannot store it for later (because there is no battery technology today, or in the near-to-mid future that is able to store that amount of energy), and they cannot give it away, so they lose it.

This kind of headline is very very common. This is how the public is continually lied to and thinks that wind/solar is just around the corner. It isn't. It's never going to be.

>Nuclear is extremely dangerous with toxic waste needing special storage facilities. Destruction if the plant is to melt-down. (chernobyl)? You need an external power source to power a nuclear plant. Nuclear also requires uninterruptible power.

If you don't like nuclear ... fine, but there is nothing else. So now what?

>Thorium reactors are a dream away, nice but not feasible as of the moment.

Agreed. Also Fusion is a pipe-dream at this point in time. So now what?
They likely use some of the metrics to continue to get grant funding. You gave us $1m in grant money which we used to produce this webpage which has XXX millions of views. I'm sure other tools would suffice but given it's a project at Harvard, they may have institutional requirements.
That quote sounds like a religion to me.
Traditional ads might become less effective. But all social interaction is mediated by ads now.
Sounds like you believe Big Oil only exists to pull crude out of the ground which is limiting your imagination on why they need these kinds of engineers.
> you really see no moral quandary in stymying their income?

Nope. Find another business model or go bankrupt. If you send me ads, I'll delete them. No exceptions. I don't have to justify myself either, "I don't want to see ads" is more than a good enough reason.
The amount of whoosh in this thread near blew my hat off. I know we're not supposed to bitch about people not reading the article, but it's an interesting phenomenon in its own right that a spike of pseudo-pedants showed up who are (1) ignorant of the name connection and (2) blatantly dismissed the article without reading the first paragraph, which would have explained it.
Dang. Now I'm really wondering how inflation is affecting illicit markets. I mean, it's been decades since I worked in the music industry, so it's not like I have a vested interest. But I've always been fascinated by illicit markets and think they could provide an interesting picture into the "above-board" economy.
Pay cut is relative. If you started 5 years ago you still wouldn’t have a pay cut. But if you only count the fall from the peak, yes you have a “pay cut”.
As long as you build 5-10x redundancy for solar/wind I don't see it, solar and wind are all over the place between the peak and valley outputs. Unless we find a "battery" storage technology that can smooth it out over say a couple of weeks, I don't think countries are going to go for it as the only grid power source. We have nuclear now, and climate change is a huge deal to solve, possibly end of human civilization huge. Note I didn't say solar and wind wouldn't be part of the mix,but as the sole source, it's not going to happen with a 10X or better leap in battery technology (energy density)
Apple on iPhones, Chips, Privacy, Working from Home and More - WSJ Tech 2022
> Is there value in Facebook's products (whether current, or future VR-based ones)? Yes. Is there enough value to justify a overinflated stock price that only got there due to a combination of monopoly position as well as temporary gap in regulation against spyware? Doubt it, and so does the market.

The market also doubts the future VR-based ones. If you think there is value in those future VR-based products then I would say take a chance and buy the dip! Institutional investors are not as deeply involved with computing as we are on this forum.
> The advertising potential is insane.

I doubt it.

When you chat you are focused on the interaction. Ads are a major disturbance in the flow.

When you browse facebook you are actively looking for stuff to read - ads fit in much better.
This looks very nice, thanks for sharing it. I really like the way the settings pane works, being able to see the change right away instead of the browser.

Since many people have shared theirs, I have also built a new-tab extension for a few years ago, it displays Hacker News, Product Hunt, GitHub Trending and a few more platforms on the grid, I have ~2k people using it: https://github.com/karakanb/devo

I will experiment with this settings design to incorporate sth similar in Devo, thanks for the inspiration!
> Nuclear is extremely dangerous with toxic waste needing special storage facilities.

I don't think this is true. Nuclear power plants generate relatively little waste and we know how to store it safely.
POSIX shell is the standard, not bash.
The mass of air that moves past the existing fleet of wind turbines in a year is roughly a fifth of the mass of the atmosphere.

It is a civilisation sized project that will take a lifetime, but it is achievable.
I've had a different experience with the reMarkable. I love this thing. It's a notepad of course, but I read a lot of books on it. Battery life has worked fine for me.

I use it daily.
Right, which is why the headline says "no credible pathway"
If I may ask, why do you only have sh in production?
> We are well into the phase of VR where improvements are incremental each generation.

If that's the end of it, VR is doomed to remain a curious niche. It struggles to deliver compelling results for thousands of dollars (headset plus powerful enough PC), and if all we ever get from now on are tiny incremental updates, we'll never reach a steady state where perceived quality, relative to contemporary 2D offerings, can keep up.
I guess it all depends on your constraints. If you can use a message bus or high-level abstractions, like kafka, go for it. But for extremely low latency or very constrained environments, if you need to switch billions packets per second, it's hard to beat the simplicity and efficiency of arp+ip ...
> But on the other side of that coin its alot easier in python to do a complex regular expression

I am not sure I would agree. Sed fills this role quite nicely.

cat README.md | grep # | tr '[:lower:] [:upper:]' | sed 's/something/something_else/'
It may work for a year or two. That's still a year or two more of insane revenue than nothing.
I'm sorry, but have we ever left "those days"? There are dozens of examples of sin taxes on things like Cigarettes, Gambling, Alcohol, Carbon Emissions, etc.
That might be a relevant comparison if President Trump had done anything of the sort in his presidential capacity, as opposed to scripted and produced television show.
The US should treat the satellites just as if they were US flagged merchant ships. Anything less emboldens Russia.
The global advertising revenue is projected to grow for the next 5 years [1]:

There is too much extrapolation in this thread from the results of 1 company in 1 quarter.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/236943/global-advertisin...
This was a really cool experience. Thanks for putting this together.
You can do that using Multi Party Computation. There are a bunch of MPC protocols for generating Eliptic Curve private keys and doing DSA where the whole private key is never assembled. It uses Shamir Sharings as part of the magic, it's quite neat :)
Apple made it particularly hard to track conversions. Also, what did they do on macOS to make it difficult?
I imagine the dollar amount will get lowered over time as the stock price falls though.

Otherwise the company is creating a lot of dilution for shareholders. e.g. to reach the same dollar amount requires more shares. And Meta is already crashing explicitly because their operating costs are out of control and outpacing their earnings growth

But that would just be pragmatic, they may not actually be doing that.

Good management in this situation would be refreshing grants only for the top half of performers and letting the others choose to leave, IMO
To avoid litigation???