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I submit this article as this public may be interested in the proposed «brainteaser[s]»,

and as of course Italo Calvino's Le città invisibili (in the list) we consider pretty much mandated for proper intellectual development -

but I got intrigued, especially relevant to this public, by the summary of Elizabeth Tan's Rubik:

> One night, Elena Rubik ... gets hit by a car and dies. Even in death, Elena’s presence is felt via her social-media profiles, her fan fiction, and the other detritus of her online life - and her existence reverberates across Rubik’s interconnected stories. These all take place within the same universe, which is basically ours except that the behemoths of Apple, Google, and Amazon are all replaced by Seed, a tech corporation with brilliant guerrilla-marketing schemes and questionable motives. Seed features heavily within the plot; so do characters that reappear, sometimes changing drastically, as well as pop-culture elements and fandoms unique to the Rubik world. The sections seem disconnected and random at first, but as you begin to put together the pieces, you’ll find a dark aura rippling through the book
Can't it be enabled via an extension? Similar to how media players support third party codec.
It's like three 80" monitors in your tiny home.
That’s how every other OS does it so it doesn’t seem like such a wild idea to me. Where else should it go?
Tons of minimally invasive procedures are performed through the Davinci surgical robot where the surgeon is literally hunched over with his head buried ina computer screen. As long as there is some medical benefit, I don’t see this sort of technology interaction as being something new.
GM CEO says Tesla has the lead, doesn't see profitable EVs until end of decade
I think people assume CoPilot is built to be your pair-programming coworker. Maybe that's Microsoft's fault for allowing that hype to go unchecked.

Honestly, the correct way to understand this is, it's just Microsoft's IntelliSense v2.0 rebranded with an extra machine learning system

Instead of autocompleting lines of code from an index, it's autocompleting entire complete working functions based on what it learned from GitHub.

IF you learn how to use it, it can save you hours of writing repeatable code. It should almost never be used to generate completely new code out of thin air. That code is quite dangerous because it looks logically right, and at quick glance looks exactly like what you need. However, it's completely wrong and could cause catastrophic system failures if left untouched. Then you waste the time you previously saved trying to figure out what the CoPilot spit out.
All the experts said, that usually in such an election the ballots are sorted by candidate, put on stacks of 10s, then combined to stacks of 100s. If they followed this best practice, they would’ve had around 10 stacks, and the result would‘ve been obvious to everyone.

(Not so) funny twist: after the election the ballots were put into unsealed bags and were stored in an office where many people had access. So all recounts that are done now, are completely worthless.
> What about slapping an Apple logo on it and pricing it even further out of reach changes that in your mind?

Probably the fact that Apple has an excellent track record of entering nascent consumer electronics markets late (e.g. iPod, iPhone, Apple Watch) at high price points, nailing the execution, and eventually dominating said markets with arguably superior products.

It's the same story again and again. If you've already decided Apple is charging $3000 for "slapping an Apple logo on it" and nothing else, you may as well have been one of the people back in ~2001 who swore up and down that the iPod was just an overpriced late entry in a market full of mature, attractive offerings like the Archos Jukebox line. In retrospect, to be clear, you would have looked quite silly.

I'm not saying this thing is absolutely going to be a success, but the problem with previous attempts at virtual displays has been that the execution is always shit, and Apple's greatest strength is nailing the execution. I don't think betting against them here is a good bet.
Sounds like a zombie plane (AFIAK all jet zombies have been oxygen/pressurization failures) but why the extreme descent at the end rather than simply gliding in once the engines ran out of fuel?
I think with GitHub Copilot I save 10-20 minutes a day and those moments it feels Like a superpower. For me personally I know what I'm doing and if the AI gets me sometimes faster there thats a personal benefit I appreciate.
Oh no, I'm not really disagreeing with you, I'm just offering an expanded theory.
Not only they don't realize it already exists, they don't realize how bad it is.

There's never enough resolution (even with 8K headsets), eye strain from trying to focus on virtual objects is real, and camera passthrough always look fake (and may even cause mild nausea). Not to mention that most folks don't really train their neck muscles to support significant extra weight on their heads on front-back axis (we typically tilt our heads much less than lean forward or backward, so headphones are not comparable).

I don't believe Apple have made some giant leap and included an autorefractor in there and made external cameras moveable and able to match you pupillary distance (and convergence!), then added some fancy magnetostrictive micro-mirror system to dynamically boost resolution at the areas you're focusing at. Not in this form factor, and if they would somehow magically make it they'd be boasting about it non-stop.

If they showcase it in Apple Stores I would definitely take a peek, and I would like to be wrong - but I'm pretty sure it's a pricey gimmick that won't be anywhere comfortable for any prolonged use.
Ask HN: What are your fav Podcast Shows?
how is this possible, when all of the devices the "kids these days" are using are entirely geared toward content consumption, with the only "content" "creation" they permit is that of the most vapid and useless pointing-a-camera-at-my-face variety? The Youth do not know how to use computers to create new good things, they only know how to consume what is already out there. the only creation they aspire to do is that of insipid Content, built atop the foundations of others' platforms, for others to mindlessly consume.

in decades past, one would be forgiven for supposing that, once devices that could ostensibly be considered to be Personal Computers became pocket-sized and nearly universally ubiquitous, complete with access to a global network of information, that we would've reached the culmination of the technological empowerment that the personal computer revolution promised—but instead, we got TikTok, and kids who aspire to be Famous On TikTok. that's what all of this marvelous technology has wrought: brain-numbing slop piped right into your retinas, in exquisitely high definition, practically from birth, judging by the age at which I've seen kids on tablets in public alone!
/r/formula1 is the We here
All my laptops including recent ones have upgradeable RAM and SSDs. I usually buy laptop with smallest amount of RAM and SSD and then upgrade those myself. Way cheaper.
Right - that is what I was getting at. The reason you can't easily replace the battery in your Samsung Galaxy S22 is completely unrelated to the extent to which you own it, as a matter of law, and more related to the fact that the phone back cover is attached with glue; you need to remove all kinds of fiddly cables to get to the battery; and then the battery itself is glued in place.
That discrepancy is his point.
On one hand I know that the facts don't matter and Gateway Pundit only needs to focus on the conclusion, not the evidence. On the other hand, I'm still befuddled by "stories" like this, which are obviously and immediately false to anyone who's voted in a federal election before.
Same with all Google software, complete disregard for efficiency.
I sometimes feel the same. Then I have to deal with Homebrew, Docker or macOS equivalents of coreutils, and I'm happy to go back to my Linux-powered Thinkpad, thankyouverymuch.
Regarding looking at family photos alone, this is typically only done in a film, when you, a character, have experienced some terrible tragedy.
How do I represent an Option<Int> in a CSV file?
> VR is an awful, desperate, not fit for purpose replacement for even a single 1080p monitor.

But for how much longer?
I can really see the benefit of having "more space" when working on a computer.

We're peeking through needle holes, small screens mostly covered by bars and menues.
If we're lucky the context we need for our task fits on two large screens.

I believe this strains our working memory more than we understand. Making us do thing slower, worse and with more effort.

VR has the potential to unlock much more "space" that we can navigate in a way that is much more natural to us.

Not sure if the tech is up to the task today or if it will be in 10 years. But the value proposition is clear.
Shadow IT systems
One additional data point that I didn't see mentioned elsewhere yet:

Earlier today it took ~10 minutes for a Cloudflare worker of mine to be updated after a deployment was made. This usually happens instantly.

Very likely unrelated to a hypothetical wider outage, but thought I'd share anyway.
It would be amazing if the downward-facing cameras could be used for 'typing' on a phantom keyboard. It would be weird to do so without tactile feedback, but it would make it possible to be productive anywhere, without having to bring a keyboard along. I'm sure that someone will come up with some sort of alternate text input method, given that Siri is not great at speech-to-text, and speaking out loud is terrible for privacy.
>There's a ton of hidden bias in this assessment. Have you considered that you either live in a wealthy area or are surrounded by people who are more prone to seeing having iDevices as a status symbol?

Obviously those people are going to be the ones buying this product, like all Apple products.
I don't know how you call preventing DPRK and Russia from getting money "redistribution of consequences." That's what makes us different.
You're listening too much to the biased Apple marketing, BSing you with comparisons to years old Intel CPUs locked into poorly cooled chassises on their laptops (they compared it for Intel MacBook Air ffs).

The new AMD and Intel CPUs are fine. There's a reason Apple never dares to mention them in their marketing shows - they always ignore things that are competitive.

Your FOMO reaction is exactly the emotional reaction their ads are meant to trigger - they're dialed in to manipulate you into this feeling to feel bad about not owning their products.
I think they mentioned 12ms (~ 83fps?), but don't quote me on that.
There's a huge difference between the lifetime of a pair of headphones and a VR/AR headset (or at least there should be). Bluetooth will be around for a while. This the second generation Vision Pro is going to absolutely kill the first generation... so why even bother getting the first if it's at such a high price?
This is an over confident audience very sure that their experiences and perspective is representative of the mainstream. See the rsync vs. Dropbox meme.

The execution is all that matters here not any speculative flaws. If it’s a delightful, polished, responsive experience for the stock applications, other use cases will come. I don’t want to bet against Apple achieving that bar. They’ve done it over and over again before.
> how else could you implement a string class

I'm not claiming that it's good C++ code (or good code by any measure) but I imagine those "C with classes" devs would do something like:

my_string* s = new my_string();
s->initialize("hello world");
// ...
s->destroy();
delete s;
Who espoused that opinion?
Maybe you ought to adjust the approach. Rather than have a complete and finished reference now, post what you have so far to show what you have been trying. Someone may reach out with additional insight. Though whether or not you get any feedback at this stage, it can lead up to a post that covers everything that you want once it's ready

You can always edit old posts or just create follow-ups and link them together. Or just keep it as an open topic that you periodically post smaller updates on
I stand (partially) corrected: https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libavif/pull/640
Not sure I'm understanding you correctly. Can you share an example of what you mean?
I guess you could classify myself as "not a programmer" since I don't do it daily, and I mostly make scripts and small web APIs in python for tinkering around with IoT stuff.

ChatGPT has made it incredibly easy for me to program quick solutions to problems.

"Write a simple Sanic framework app that has a POST request with route '/logtemp' that accepts two parameters - a datetime and a value between from -40 to +40. - the route will then call a function that inserts these values into a Sqlite database with method signature logTemperature(datetime, temperature)."

I have to do some additional coaxing obviously (and prompt it for edge case recovery, etc. etc.), but it takes the mundane-ness out of learning the framework for something I'm not planning on selling or scaling up - not considering any other problems that can go wrong blindly inserting data into a database, etc. etc.

Maybe for full-time programmers who need to maintain complex codebases with many different source files, etc. - I could see that AI might not be able to help with that, but given enough time I'm sure we'll see AI software that will absorb your code, run/scrutinize it, and come up with recommendations, etc. you can make to it to make it better. (maybe automatically!)
Please read the book, it’s mind blowing. I was such a techno-optimist, dreaming of software and hardware solutions to the problems of today day and night, scribbling projects often. Thinking “Only if this was done that problem will be gone.”

I was shocked for an entire week for the lie I realized I was told. The lie that technology has benefitted humanity, that we live better than our ancestors. I didn’t want to believe it at all, who wants to accept Rust or Neovim is fundamentally immoral? They were the best things in the world, from my bubble of aspiring coder & Linux enthusiast.

I am not going to counter your criticisms here because I don’t have time and the book does it far better than me: https://ia600300.us.archive.org/21/items/tk-Technological-Sl...
I'm bootstrapping an extension that serves as a complete shopping companion. I don't think there has been enough innovation in the shopping extension space recently. Online shopping is an inefficient marketplace where 25% of spend is overpayment, and 65% of shoppers spend 15+ minutes comparing prices. It's high value to have one tool that:

1. Has chat UX: "Men's Jordans, size 10, secondhand and arrives by xmas"

2. Finds lowest prices ACROSS local, secondhand, FB marketplace, AND online

3. Suggests equivalent products of comparable quality

4. Offers affordable but decent alternatives, as well as straight-up dupes

5. And does everything else w/ cashback, coupons, etc.

PMF is not quite there, but is getting there. The real challenge is distribution. It's only grown through W.O.M. and Reddit so far! By the way, most of the above is not built yet. But it's still at 4k users and is saving people money. Feel free to try it (pasting direct link):

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/score-app-shop-sim...
What's the risk of commingling? As long as the balances are recorded you can undo the commingling.
Every time a UI update is pushed for the calling and messaging interface, there is a group of seniors that no longer know how to call or message family and friends.
They probably have very good data on how their machines are used, and are optimizing for the fat part of the market.

This may not be a great machine for training models, which is what I happen care about (I couldn't care less about video). I wonder how big the model generation market actually is though.
I personally love those headphones even despite their price.
Presumably the exclusion zone shrinks a bit each year as previously unsafe areas become safe to live again?
That all looks very decentralized.
They only argue that they are different for face-saving reasons ("we're not milking you, honest!"). There's no legal reason they need to be different.
Let me play devils advocate here.

Although there are examples in this article of clearly scam patents being thrown out, please remember that there are likely examples of the opposite where clearly valid patents get thrown out without a court case, and more where it was unclear which way the patent office should go.

Overall, this alternative system to challenge patents weakens patents as it is indented to. Especially in software patents this is may be a good thing to many, but it is clear to see that this system has probably resulted in some valid patents not being filed as their inventors lack faith that a patent will prevent uncompensated ip theft, and it gets hidden instead.
All states have sales taxes on something, whether it be alcohol, tobacco products, cannabis, hotel room nights, car rentals, or general retail purchases. And every state requires residents to pay use tax if they procure an item without paying at least an equivalent sales tax had it been purchased within the state, and bring that item home with you for use.

5 states do not have sales tax on most retail purchases:

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/states-without-a-sales-tax-3...

>You COULD live in a state without an Amazon presence, then you won't get charged sales tax.

This has not been true since Jun 2018:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair%2C_Inc.
There's a class of programming problems that are "keyboard-hard", in that they're a pain to type out but fairly easy to verify correctness. For this set of problems I've found coding AI assistants are sooo useful.
> AR/VR will revolutionize general computing

People keep thinking that stereoscopic 3D will revolutionize things, but they've been consistently wrong about that for more than 170 years.

It starts with the Brewster Stereoscope [1] which was shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851. [2] It was a huge success, and in following years hundreds of thousands of viewers were sold, with lots of content following. Eventually the fad blew over, ending up as antique-shop fodder.

Next up was the ViewMaster; the US Department of Defense bought 100,000 units because it was going to revolutionize military training. Then came the 1950s wave of anaglyph 3D movies, the 1990s VR boom and bust, the Avatar-driven resurrection of 3D movies in 2009, which was quickly followed by a wave of enthusiasm for 3D TV. Then, most recently we have the resurrection of VR, this time with the Metaverse attached.

I think 3D worlds have revolutionized a chunk of gaming, from Quake to Minecraft and onward. But the available evidence suggests that stereoscopic 3D interfaces are an idea much more popular in theory than in practice. As best I can tell, the most representative 3D technology is not facehugger VR, but those Magic Eye stereograms [3] that go in and out of popularity. They are a fun novelty, but they never transform everything. There's a big hype cycle and everybody gets excited, but after a bit of use they quickly go back to 2D and most are just fine with it.

[1] https://stereosite.com/collecting/the-brewster-stereoscope-i...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Exhibition

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Eye
It's interesting you say this. I spent the weekend playing with ChatGPT to try and get it to build a Swift app for iOS and macOS (I have zero previous experience with Swift). Thankfully I had a compiler to back me up and tell me if things actually worked. I found the whole experience a little jarring. ChatGPT was pretty good at generating some code, but it felt a lot like a job interview where I'm working hard to coach a candidate into the right answer. Or, now that you mention it, some previous experiences I've had trying to work with outsourced providers where we're trying to overcome a language barrier.

The problems are often that I got exactly what I asked for. Not a thing more, no context that I thought would be assumed (e.g., don't remove the functionality I asked you to implement in the previous step), just a very literal interpretation of the asks.

I definitely found myself quickly adapting to try and be clearer and potentially over expressive in my prompts.
I typically fly one airline so it could just be their planes, but I don't remember the last plane I was on that didn't have outlets[1]. And certainly the folks that can drop $3,500 on this are more likely to either be in business class or flying "nicer" airlines, so plug access feels like a non-issue to me.

[1] That being said, the number of times a plug has been able to support a charging brick directly is...miniscule. They're usually so worn out that they can't support the weight, so I have to carry the extension just for that reason.
It was the same thing in the 80s with camcorders. There was a stereotype of the crazy neighbor who followed his kids around with his camcorder recording every second of their lives. Then it was smart phones. Now it's this. People want to take photos and videos of stuff and it's more important to them than looking dorky for a few minutes. I don't like it very much, either, but I understand it, and it's pretty much human nature.
By the time anybody knew what this was, Usenet was already fucked.
I can't get over how badly MacOS works with external monitors; I have a fiddly 5ish minute Mac boot cycle process somedays because there it just refuses to output anything.
> "Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly"

i hope they can decay so their spirits can finally be laid to rest. the last thing ukraine needs right now is to be flanked by some restless undead radioactive ents
Fawning magazine profiles are a strong contrarian indicator. Time Man of the Year is basically like making a guy king for a day before putting him inside the wicker man and lighting it on fire.
The pace of renewal / refurbishment for work related and personal may not have the same frequency for most folks.
Work laptops updated every 3 years approximately (at least in tech). Personal use may be 5-12 years. I bought a Macbook Pro in 2012 for myself. The next personal purchase I made was 2022 when I bought the mac mini. For everything else I used the computer which was given to me at work.
Two extra batteries will likely be trivial cost in the context of a $3500 device, not sure why this isn't clear to everyone critiquing the battery life?
Having an app store != locked down. AFAIK, you can run any software you want on a Steam deck without any hacking needed. Can you say the same for any non macOS apple product?
The markup is because Apple can command it based on a long history of quality and building a tech luxury brand. It's solely about keeping margins high and the brand status high.

Even if they could make the same money by lowering prices (and increasing volume), it'd be a terrible idea based on how consumer behavior and status seeking actually works. If the quality were the same and the product were far cheaper, consumers wouldn't want it as much. The absolute worst place to be in any market tends to be the middle, you go to the middle to die. High margins provide a margin for error in business, it's invaluable.
There is nothing on the market that gets close to what Apple is releasing here. The total resolution is nearly three times 4k. They don't mention FOV, but the description implies something approaching 180 degrees, and this being Apple, plus foveated rendering as a feature, you can assume smooth rendering somewhere between 120-240hz.
Exactly this - The language is big and getting bigger, and so is the standard library.

But this is true of almost any popular language! By the metric people are applying to C++ here, there is no one on earth who "knows Java", which is patently ridiculous.

A better metric would be "Can write code in that language for some domain".