skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s illegal to do this in a brokerage account, and FTX is an example of why. There is no legitimate reason to do it.
I'm not going to make predictions that I'll later regret, but I have the following concerns:

Comfort: This needs to sit on your face for 8 hours or more. Unlike with the Quest Pro, your face always touches the shield. If you wear AirPods Max with this, the majority of your head is covered, sweating and unable to breathe. Apple supposedly paid lots of attention to making the material breathable, but their rubber products also deteriorate notoriously fast, so we'll have to wait and see.

Resolution: The displays have an impressive resolution, but I'm not sure it will be enough. So far, none of the VR headsets I've tried have come even close to matching the resolution that I would want for coding and desk work. But image quality at the same resolution can vary heavily based on the lens quality and the headset, so we'll have to wait and see.

Input: I hated Hand Tracking on the HoloLenses and disliked it on the Quest. The pinching gesture becomes uncomfortable really quickly, as it requires more and more monotonous movement than tapping a key or clicking a mouse. However, they seem to heavily involve eye-tracking as an input method, which none of the other headsets have tried, so we'll have to wait and see.

Price: Well, I have a year to justify this in my head.
Other major mapping apps have had this feature for a decade
I believe the core apps have so much tech debt / tentacles throughout the OS that sadly they will never get to having say Messages update from the App Store. For example, the new Messages can pop up Photos overlay to generate a sticker. This would need to be an API to see if you have the latest Photos app with the sticker capability.
IIRC, the lack of maintenance predated the murder; the development was focused on reiser4, basically abandoning reiser3, and for that reason there was a higher resistance against merging reiser4, since the kernel maintainers didn't want to risk it being merged and soon abandoned in favor of something else. It didn't help that, IIRC, reiser3 had some unusual locking, being one of the last parts of the kernel which depended on the unusual properties of the Big Kernel Lock.
As opposed to the mouse-maze that is corporate finance?

BTW, private companies have also been doing science for decades. Ever hear of Bell Labs? Xerox PARC? Battelle Labs? SpaceX? Tesla?

What we've learned is what kinds of research is best conducted by what kind of entity - commercial or private. We don't need the fallacy of this false dichotomy.
Currently I'm revisiting some proteomics work I did as part of a DARPA project a while ago, as well as experiments with cinema ready geo-located media workflows.

It helps with my day job too, indirectly.
I work in construction. $3500 is a paltry, pocket change amount of money compared to project budgets.

Standard single-building commercial / institutional new builds can be tens of millions to low hundred million, "big" projects are often north of a quarter billion dollars, and well over a billion is not unusual for so-called "mega projects". Risk (from defects / mistakes) is often roughly proportional to budget. The placement of seemingly minor and easy to miss elements at the initial critical stages of a concrete pour in a high rise, for example, is pretty high stakes with rework costing hundreds of thousands to potentially millions. We have processes for mitigating that of course, but none that approach it in such a direct and observable way as AR, and none are incompatible with being done alongside AR. Paying $3500 + software for something that helps mitigate that risk in a totally new and complementary way is very very interesting to many companies.

edit: To be clear, I'm not convinced that this particular device is revolutionary compared to those that already exist, which have their own challenges. I'm just objecting to the idea that there isn't a market for it at that price even WITH challenges.
Apple also provides a credit card with no interest on Apple products. They could "hide" the price as cellphone providers hide the price, by rolling it into a monthly payment.
The idea of hybrid AR/VR - adjusted by a dial (crown) - is very clever. As is a high-resolution display.

But the form factor is a problem.

If it had all of the capabilities announced but combined with the Google Glass form factor of ultra thin & light - then it would be a device more revolutionary than the iPhone.

But the form factor makes it much more niche.

And the tech just doesn't exist in the year 2023 to make a device with that sweet-spot combination of high capability and tiny form factor.

(My two cents, which I am hoping ages better than the infamous HN Dropbox comment.)
Some cryptocurrencies are commodities and some are securities. Binance was trading both kinds so they get spanked twice.
> Smart watches have been anything but a groundbreaking technological revolution.

I think Apple has made a tactical error here. The days of the shrinking iPhone are long gone, but not forgotten. It was the iPhone 3G that was a turning point for people who hadn't bought an iPhone yet. It was smaller with better battery life.

If the Apple Watch 3 had followed a similar pattern, they would have had to skip adding the next additional sensor to the device, but I think in the long term that would have just delayed us one design cycle but still given us a thinner and lighter watch, which we would have needed for a deeper impact.
AirPods are not a status product for most, the quality and the way it works is why it’s selling like hot cakes. It does show people you know about quality stuff by wearing one. The AirPod Max I would agree it is in the show off territory
File buffering RAM and/or arrays was invented long before Adobe. The tricky part is probably optimizing the image processing algorithms to fit the filing method(s). For example, if images are split into "tile files", and a given algorithm requires referencing too many files/tiles at a time, creating too much file I/O, then it probably needs to be reworked into a tile-friendly algorithm.
I imagine the tone of the comments would be a lot different if this thing were $500
1977 Apple ][ Introductory price US$1,298 (equivalent to $6,270 in 2022)

I think folks are missing the point that this is the first Pro version. Likely targeted at developers and early adopters. I’m sure there will be an Air/Lite/etc version that cost reduces overtime.
Your phone number is really similar to mine
Not happening. Where is my new iPhone like the AR units used in "The Expanse?"

Oh yea, the great SciFy series about the future of outer space is on Amazon Prime.

Tim Cook: Stop by and I will show what you should have released.
#justSayin
The trick with a phone is recording while holding at chest level and keeping it still pointing at the subject while you still enjoy the moment.
I trust they would have mentioned that if they had it. "4K TV resolution" is the best they could say, so in turn you can expect the minimum you could possibly squeeze out of that statement.
The 13 inch Macbook Air M2 price has gone down EUR200 in Europe, making it much more attractive.
It's in the works: https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64

Starting with 32bit had some performance advantages because 64bit runtimes can use virtual memory shenanigans to implement bounds checking with zero overhead. In wasm64 they'll have to do explicit bounds checking instead.
It’s everything that’s best from the VR world put in one package by Apple. The only downside to this device for VR might be if it isn’t supported by SteamVR or OpenXR. If this is a walled garden, it will be more of a niche product for professionals. If you can plug this into any PC to do VR, it’s actually quite awesome as a headset, but pretty expensive due to all the extra chips.
lmfao if you want to compare Zuckerberg's cartoons to a console level animation then sure.

Oscar Wilde - A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Apple says kids younger than 13 shouldn't use the product. Another excuse for you :)
> Write a program which accepts a letter and display it in uppercase

That task is a lot harder than it sounds, given that casing is locale-specific. In a Turkish locale for example, I would expect a lowercase "i" to be converted to U+0130 "İ" instead of "I" like in en-US.

And then there's the whole ambiguity around the word "letter". Is a letter a single code point, or a grapheme cluster? What if someone passes in an emoji? With multiple zero-width joiners? Better make sure your dependencies are up to date so you know what's a single letter and what's too many...
You may be right. Remember when they used someone with extra large hands for presenting the first iPhone in order to make it look small? Now you can get the iPhone 14 is large and very large. We may get used to this if the product is sufficiently useful.
When you watch live TV, you watch what one person decides you should be watching.

With eye and head tracking in the headset, you can watch what you want to watch during live events and eventually in interactive motion pictures/motion environments.
That was the main thing I was looking for as well. They could have either owned it or what seems more likely, they will flip a flag for EU users in a few months.
I think the lust for ML performance has made people a lot more likely to arbitrage these costs by building their own machines so the usual like for like comparison doesn't necessarily hold the same way it does for Apple Silicon laptops.
Every team in my company got the new meta headset for free. I used it for like 30 seconds and i've never seen anyone else using it.
those are both admissions, with (a) being an admission against interest. they could try and say that it was untrue or temporary (the latter being an admission of guilt, so not a smart move) but that'd be for a jury to determine, most likely.

you can't just go to court and disavow all statements you've made as being ironic or untrue, facially, as a means of end-running the claims against you. you have to litigate your defense.
I'm in the camp that sees the whole thing as a novelty. I didn't see any use cases that made me go "Ooh, I need this in my life." I already have multiple screens around me. If I'm watching TV and want to look something up, I can open up my laptop or look at my phone.

The nice thing about those are I can physically close the laptop or turn off the phone. With a virtual screen, I have to use some UI to do it. I know it doesn't seem like much of a difference, but to me, there's enough lag and lack of real feel of control that I'd prefer a real object than a virtual one.

Interacting with app windows in 3D space also doesn't feel any faster than just using a flat window on a flat screen. I'm already super productive using keyboard + mouse and a flat display, so I don't see how using my voice and turning my head to look at things in a virtual space is any better.
The press release mentions a bunch of use cases for the slots, but does anyone actually sell Apple Silicon-compatible cards yet? It's a brand new processor architecture after all. I checked the store page and it doesn't show any. (The old page would let you configure a Pro with more GPUs or afterburner cards)
I’ve read a lot of comments but yours is by far the winner. I bet you’re a blast at Thanksgiving dinners and family gatherings.
Hot desking will be much easier when people will be wearing their computer AND monitors.

You can further reduce furniture and physical office costs

Apple also isn’t the only one with an XR headset. Meta’s is considerably weaker, but it’s $999
It’s not theory. Every VR headset produced, since the 90’s, and every microscope, shortly after their invention, has had optics that make viewing comfortable, by having a distant focal distance, for the eyes to settle on. This is, quite literally, Physics 101 material!
The enemies didn’t learn though, so it definitely wasn’t machine learning.
What's the memory representation of an Option<> then? Do you want to add 4 bytes to each value to hold the tag? Even if you do that, a lazy author might still provide raw access to the ints.
It's being worked on, it's currently available for development testing in builds of Chrome and Firefox.
If I want to try developing an app for this, should I just wait for the thing to be generally available and try to buy one? Would Apple ever offer some kind of developer preview device?
On my traditional watches? Almost never, because it's a pain.

On my Apple watches? Often! I wear a nicer strap in dressier situations, but always change to one of the rubber straps for exercise or swimming, and I do those things a LOT.

The Apple innovation here is pretty slick.
Now I see why they never made a tv! Why make a tv if you can replace it!
spanning several decades too, i have a version of your observation: i think the class of geeks is reminiscing, because "back in the day" common lisp was (like everything now) a world in which there were libraries for all the hip (at the time) buzzwords.
It's neither a phone nor a laptop. It can provide some of their functionality in limited situations, but it's considerably less flexible or portable than either.
I was unable to log in for quite some time, but finally got in. Commenting is still rather sluggish.

And I had some trouble with Google Chat not long ago, which makes me wonder if this [0] could be related.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36202624
23M for both eyes doesn't seem that far off from Meta Quest 2 Pro at 9.3M (2,160 x 2,160 x 2).

And Meta Quest 2 Pro is one year old at $999.
$3500 is insanity
Nobody will remember/care about this as soon as the news sites stop talking about it (in a few days), enjoy your iPhone moment prediction.
Safari Introduces Profiles
Seems like this is similar to the container functionality in Firefox.
Yes - there are definitely questions around how good the ML model will look.

To me it wasn’t amazing.
Man, I for one sure hope this isn’t the future.

But maybe it is. Just another step away from one another, further into isolation.
I will never buy something like this and put it on my head. Sorry, Apple is way too late into this gimmick!
Good point. Remember, they demonstrate that they put these devices as a module, so I'm not sure it is possible to make it a portable device. You can easily get rid of part of the panel part and put it into a very small bag, and the rest of things can just like a rope, something similar to those things, you can easily fold them into small spaces. I'm actually thinking the same thing as you. The real revolution is going to be directly connecting our brains, so we don't bother using our eyes to kind of sensor our physical world, that's kind of like the matrix. I'm not sure that's going to be in the near future or in the life we have, but I'm really looking forward to that kind of scenario.
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Usually they announce camera updates at the September event when they announce new iPhones and other products. Today was about software and operating systems and developer platforms. Some hardware, but the bulk of hardware announcements come in a few months.
By the same logic, the Nvidia H100 is just a phone and should cost a few hundred dollars (H100 is priced at $40,000 per unit and has fewer transistors than M2 Ultra)
What’s the hidden bias? It’s a premium/borderline luxury brand and GP is saying “yes people do pay for premium/luxury goods.”

Another great proof point is their annual revenue approaching $400B, selling devices that apparently no one can afford.
Has anyone pitching these products actually worked with a computer all day? I can't imagine the state my eyes would be in after staring through this thing on a workday.
This is rumoured to be possible with iOS 17 [1]. They just didn't announce it explicitly.

[1] if you are in the EU :^)
I guess (although, I don’t actually know, low level stuff is confusing) this is an OS thing, right? Rather than hardware. Of course since it is Apple, the concept is bundled together anyway. But I wonder if Asahi Linux could bring support?
I have an NReal Air. It offers similar capabilities to everything you mentioned (though much worse resolution).

If I have the preference, I still choose a screen. Screens are easy, screens a casual, screens exist in the real world. I can share them, I can walk away from them, I can position them where _they will never, ever move_. Screens have (and will always have) higher resolution. Screens don't require me to mess with some cord and pull a headset off to find my snack or walk to the bathroom.

I prefer my Nreals in two situations:

* When I'm traveling/on-the-go and want more screen real estate.

* When my wife is using the main TV and I don't feel like hauling the Playstation downstairs.
Generative AI Data Privacy
Network effects are far more powerful than IP. Witness the fact that >50% of Twitter's users hate it and think everyone should leave but they are still using it because they are still using it.

Without IP the owners of the core hubs of network effects could take all intellectual products, monopolize them, and rent them back to us. We would be unable to resist because network effects are more powerful than we are as individuals.
This is removal not traditional credits.

Removals often have a LCA that takes into account any emissions produced during the process and sells active CO₂ removal.
Another way to look at it is that it's the lowest common denominator. It's 'news' in the same way that McDonalds is technically a restaurant.
I was thinking the same thing. I know the price points are way different between what Apple's putting forward and what Meta was shipping, but Apple's vision and tech here blows Meta's out of the water. Meta seemed to be approaching the problem with an iterative approach, where the payoff in vision was down the road, and wanted consumers to share the journey to get there - whereas Apple jumped all the way to the end.
Easy to fix - make sure all movie villains are drawn from fantasy - dark lords (black robes, sinister metallic masks), eldritch abominations (lots of eyestalks & tentacles, no sign of bones nor clothing), fire-breathing dragons, ...
> But here's the value proposition: It's just not wrong to challenge a government subsidy or monopoly. Period. Especially on computer software and hardware, because they're often wrongly granted.

I see where you're coming from, but I would suggest that this is pretty much an extremist point of view on intellectual property protections. It's easy to say that the online shopping cart is a dumb patent (because it is, and the Supreme Court generally agrees with you), but I think you would be hard pressed to argue against the societal value of patents on integrated circuit technologies, which can take $billions to develop, provide tremendous societal value, and have strategic implications.

Still, that does clarify the viewpoint of the piece to some degree - it suggests that you and the EFF are in favor of "patent accelerationism": make the system so shitty for participants that they abandon it entirely. The system is definitely shitty now, but I don't really see anyone abandoning it.

By the way, VLSI is the remains of a real technology company that went out of business... because its IP was blatantly copied. They had no choice but to sell out to a patent troll.
> Does someone really sit on their couch, put on a massive headset, and scroll through their vacation photos?

Right now they pull open a (what was once massive) laptop and scroll through vacation photos.

> If the kids are having a fun moment would I want to run inside, grab my headset, strap it on and record a video, or just go join them

Same as running inside to grab the camcorder, no?

>Would I rather work on this all day instead of a laptop?

If I got multiple monitors from a laptop on any desk then I would find that pretty compelling.
I know (of/first hand) a bunch of musicians who buy the top of the line one every generation because they "need" it. For video work you do need as much raw power as possible but for just about anything else you can honestly get by with a Macbook air these days (especially given that a lot of the top of the line customers are probably using external inputs rather than software synths!)
Who doesn’t like macos? Like it is objectively better than windows, and is able to actually work decently without set up pain (like linux)

Who doesn’t like the hardware? Now that the butterfly keyboard and dongles are gone, what is there to hate?

What is unrepairable about macbooks? It’s not an iphone, i ve replaced hard drives, fans and other components on a macbook countless times.

Who really wants an upgradable laptop? I’d give you desktop perhaps, but with laptops i struggle to see the usecase

The things you don’t actually mention, that certain software doesn’t run on mac (ironically used by mechies and industrial designers).
Gaming could be much be better on a VR/AR device, and a reason to put on a "ugly sweat box" initially. Apple did not go deep into that, only a brief segment about the Unity collab. Maybe gaming is not their forte right now.

Apple Vision v3 will not be a sweat box. And even right now, Occulus interface has to evolve to match this. Controller has to be optional. It has to be AR.
Wouldn’t this be addressed automagically by using the same "anchors" when using the appropriate tech stack (i.e. ARKit)?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/aranchor
While the content sounds good, the context is off. Here's the top domains of the first page of Google results when you Google this officer's name:

debrief.org, nysun.com, dailystar.co.uk, dailymail.co.uk, the-sun.com, brobible.com, ar15.com, dailywire.com, m4carbine.net

These are the same sites I would expect to see blurry pictures of Big Foot. Unless we're assuming that the Department of Defense is capable of suppressing every major news outlet?
Have you tried Chromecast 4k, though? I’ve bought one, as my LG TV’s webOS became so sluggish that it became pretty much unusable.

I have an Apple TV 4k in the living room and it’s great, but I find myself drawn to the Chromecast experience way more. Apple TV is more refined, but Chromecast’s remote is far better than ATV’s (1st gen, at least) and Google’s voice assistant is obviously far smarter (especially if you’re multilingual).
You live in a wealthy area, I rarely see Airpods Max in San Francisco.
> "starting at $3,499"

I wonder what the model that you actually want to buy will cost and what average sales price will be.

From the looks of it, I wouldn't be surprised if they sell a "pro" headband like Meta does for the Quest that has a battery pack that does better than the 2 hours of charge with the brick.