skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abolishing patents is likely to substantially hinder innovation. Maybe if it is accompanied by reasonable changes to other processes. But without patent protection there is a zero reason to spend $2 billion to $3 billion to get a drug through FDA trials when a competitor can make a generic afterwards for roughly $5 million and undercut you dramatically in the market as a result. People complain about patents endlessly without offering a realistic solve for this problem and think that innovation in fields where innovation is expensive won't be hampered at all despite this clearly not being the case.
You're certain you would wear a headset for 10 days based on a 10-second experience? That doesn't make any sense.
Useful guide, thanks. Comments are quite good too.
> Grace™ Hopper™

Can anyone with more legal knowledge share how they trademarked the name of Grace Hopper?
It's Lit: A GitHub template to automate greening your Git commit graph
The sheer variety of weird and wonderful ways things could be incompatible is really tamed by modern standards. I remember spending days as a kid working out obscure IRQ conflicts blindly flipping plastic jumpers, or editing config files.

I don't miss it!
That’s right. This doesn’t stop your crypto hobbyist from starting the next ETH project. But it does stop scammers and unregistered securities.
Startup is zapping seawater to tackle climate change
When was the last time they branded something with a little i?
> The worse [sic] thing you can do to a person self-driven, motivated person, who, additionally, was hired because of that, is to reject their initiatives.

I think a lot of hiring managers don't understand how this can be a bait-and-switch. If you say the job requires programming, they expect to get programming experience. If you say the programming job requires C++, they expect to get C++ experience. If you say the job requires initiative, they expect to get initiative experience. Fail to deliver on those, and it's not the same job anymore. Not just a bad version of the job. A completely different job.
Musk has become a knob (or maybe he always was) but a legitimate reason is whether Starlink's employees agree to the military use of the product they make (obviously it's up to higher ups, but often individuals have personal beliefs that should be taken into account by a good company).

Personally I have no problem with it if it helps Ukraine show the world that war is ridiculous in these modern times and that one sovereign state invading another is an archaic concept that should be buried; let the Ukrainians bury war and the warmongers!
Happy 5th Birthday Amazon EKS
For an article in the Nature scientific journal, sure. For an op-ed on Nature.com? Nah.
> Cloudflare doesn't cache pages by default as that would create issues (logins, comments, admin sections, etc). They cache static files (images, css, js, etc), but that's it. You need to set it up yourself and have ways to bypass and purge the cache.

Or they could just rely on Cache-Crontrol headers (and friends) instead of requiring CF-specific configuration.
Discord really should invest in making their "posts" feature web-searchable if the server opts in.
It implies a possible cheaper non-Pro version in the future (like iPhone Pro and Macbook Pro) without promising it might exist.

Or simply to distinguish from their existing Vision software that has nothing to do with the headset: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision
They did, actually it's a simplified floating keyboard and so a separate hardware keyboard is suggested for non alpha numeric input. Via Bluetooth.
Isn't apple like one of if not the largest videogame retailers because of the App Store? A quick search suggests they made more money on videogames than Activision Blizzard, Sony, and Microsoft combined in 2019. It's still a big piece of money pie. And with this headset they control both the hardware and software platform so they get to double dip on profits.
0185 clickbait with absolut common advices. This could be written by ChatGPT.
When do people anticipate the Vision Pro will be available in an Apple Store to be tried? And is there another way to try one sooner.
No argument about that, but Coinbase has been begging for a clear set of rules to follow for ages. Now SEC is suing Coinbase for not registering with SEC as a broker/exchange, but the SEC itself wouldn't let them register because they(the SEC) couldn't decide if crypto is a currency or security. The whole thing is a political fallout of the FTX crisis.
Take the money you were going to spend on this first-generation technology and use it to pay for your parents to go on a holiday
Does this mean Apple is making it easier to run models on Macs? I have a fairly powerful Mac studio, but I've found it very hard to run any model on it.
This would happen if the person is squatting on somebody else's property (i.e. received or bought illegally while the Crimea is occupied) or is a collaborator.

Good riddance if this will actually happen.
Fenrir.
I pay for a Reddit subscription. But I pay to support Reddit, for the greater community. (99% of the people I talk to on Reddit, don't subscribe). If they slap pricetags on their APIs and kill third-party apps (which is identical to killing all apps and all mobile support -- literally no one uses Reddit's app/website), the community engagement will drop, so there will be no reason for me to keep paying them a subscription.

I pay Reddit so that others don't have to, to keep the forums open for the community. Reddit does not seem to understand this, instead spending subscription money on like, avatars, or fake currency, or minting freaking NFTs, or whatever other junk they're spending all their budget on.

> The good old internet that we all love and adore was built on VC money.

Nah, the good old internet was built on reasonable product goals and simple ad revenue. (See every major forum that existed in every little niche, most of which went away when Reddit got popular). In fact, that is what built the original Reddit too. They didn't need any more VC money, they didn't need any of their last round. Reddit literally has a $350+ million yearly revenue. Reddit won, they have a perfectly fine medium-sized business, and one of the few stable/mostly-functional social media experiences still left on the internet. They should be riding off into the sunset.

Instead, they're chasing a stupid IPO. Taking VC money is going to be the thing that kills Reddit.

> I really really hope that we can leave this behind and have good quality paid platforms as standard.

If my experience is anything to go by, this will never work. Everything I pay for a subscribtion to, eventually takes VC money anyway, and eventually kills their product trying to chase impossible infinite returns. "Just pay for service" only works if the founders/owners can resist the temptation to gamble with VC's, and so far, none of them seem to.
As people below have pointed out, arguable it was crappy. Sure, lacked 3G, lacked apps, but the utter ease of connecting to wifi and flicking through Safari…

…anyways, arguable. What’s inarguable is that the iPhone 4, which came along only 3 years later, was a damned miracle. Beautiful design, Retina screen, something approaching a “real” camera—just remarkable progress in that time.

I’m unsure if Apple is going to be able to pull off that hyperspeed progression this time. The Vision Pro seems to have truly wild capabilities, but for a lot of money and with very little battery life. Are we going to have a big leap in price/performance soon? I dunno.
Several banned/quarantined communities retreated to semi-private Discord servers.
Reddit Founders Made Hundreds of Fake Profiles So Site Looked Popular
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...
Believe it or not, there’s an order of magnitude more transparency in SPACs than in crypto.
I worked for a digital creative agency that partnered with a few AR/VR companies including the big ones creating demos and POCs for conferences or events. We spent so much time brainstorming and testing with some really bright people and never really came up with more than diverting bits of motion art. We made one pretty decent mini game. Nothing substantive.

And think about the mainstream industry. It's been years and the peak of AR is still Pokemon Go and VR is Beat Saber. Apple Vision looks to be twice as good as the Meta Quest for 10x the price.
I imagine when it launches, the 2024 or 2025 "Vision" will be equivalent to the Vision Pro announced yesterday, and the new Vision Pro will probably have 8K displays or something ridiculous.
Texas’ New EV Tax Should Fix the Bridges, Not ‘Own the Libs’
This is the worst (or best) version of Prisoners Dilemma

All it takes is one G20 country to allow this to happen.
And because of the potential upside of having a homegrown AI industry, it's almost guaranteed that someone will choose to betray.
In other words, an anomaly?
Me neither, they just banned me for posting on subs they didn't like
Fair enough, this was a stupid oversight. Thanks for pointing this out!
The signal to noise in fitness apps is high. The mainstream ones don’t do this, or if they do the implementation is so bad it’s not worth using, and discovery of anything else is fraught with shitware that wants a subscription to “unlock” it’s unknown potential.
I suspect the capture technology will eventually find its way to iPhone/iPad, with the best replay experience reserved for the Vision product line.

This removes the awkwardness of the capture experience, and creates demand for the Vision device.
Crypto companies think they don't trade securities which is clearly wrong and contradicted by their own advertising. People buy crypto without a real use for crypto because they think they can sell it for more later. Everyone under the sun knows this. It's obviously a security and failing to register should be met by SEC cases like this one.
I agree, one has to follow the law.

But on the other hand, I'm extremely glad I don't live in the USA.

I don't believe the SEC's definition of a security or the rules they put in place are a net good. I would not like to live under the SEC and other US financial regulator's restrictions — not just relating to crypto, but equity crowdfunding, retail derivatives platforms, and more, too. And I would not value the so-called "protections" that target the easiest to apply rules to over the worst offenders, and that have done little or nothing to provide clarity and end regulatory ambiguity. I am not protected from killing myself skiing, or losing all my money gambling, so I should not be "protected" from accessing certain financial assets/products — especially not to the extent and in the way that this happens in the US.

I think many (perhaps almost all) other nations have better definitions around securities, and better, more proportionate, and clearer rules for them (of course probably none are perfect, but that is true of nearly all rules). Some of those countries have even accepted that many of their citizens would like to experiment with these new technologies, and might like to see a different model for their regulation, to allow this experimentation, and tried to create rules to allow this, realising that stability and stasis should not be the goal above all else.

It is a shame to see this direction of travel.
I looked into Lemmy, but sadly it has a worse interface than even new Reddit, because at least new has a compact view.
Thanks for sharing this list! (parent comment)
It's one of the top python posts on S/O, every python developer finds their way to this discovery https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1132941/least-astonishme...
That's slowing down; Mexico City and the Philippines are becoming more popular.

PI because of long standing ties to the US and Canada, and eligbility for things like TFW workers in Canada. Mexico City for timezones and NAFTA TN visas.
Tldr, React is overcomplicating things like Angular did
No. I think they’re literally just going after unregistered securities and actually doing their job.
That's not how I read OP at all. Everything they said is in the first person. It's very clear that they're saying they see no purpose for themselves, and people are upvoting because they also see no purpose for themselves.

If Apple finds a market, more power to them, but HN commenters was never going to be that market.
> The Vision Pro as Novelty Device

Lord. Watch any of the D#'s and hear Walt, Steve and Kara talk about things. Steve's Apple is just matter of fact simple, no heady logic - just bare sense. Listen to how many times he says "you want to do this, how we want to do that" - everything at Apple was perfecting what we innately wanted to do but just didn't know how to. If you hear anything other than: 'We make the best things for the things we want to do everyday' - please reply it here.

There was also a moment where he spoke directly to not making a PDA because the phone is what we already had, already understand to use, and implicitly know what would be amazing if we saw it.

The PDA is VR/AR, glasses are the phone*

*one could argue glasses are not even the goal and to that I'm not sold
"Brigaded" usually means (in an online context) a coordinated attack from an outside source. I don't think there's any evidence of that - just sounds like a bunch of independent commenters who like the Apple or VR (both groups are common on HN) and want to say good things.
The partners aren't team players after all, eh?
They had this!! It was called PowerUps.

Then they killed it.
Experiences of digital forensics analysts who work with child abuse material
The full title, which is way too long for the HN title box, is "An exploration of the personal experiences of digital forensics analysts who work with child sexual abuse material on a daily basis: “you cannot unsee the darker side of life”". There are bound to be better edits to get an 80 character title than I've done here.

I'm submitting this for a few reasons:

1) Moderation teams will also sometimes see this material, and they're often not given adequate support.

2) Tech has a role to play here. Sometimes law enforcement will release censored images and ask "Where does this Tee-shirt come from?", "Do you recognise this hotel room?" There have been apps designed for people who travel a lot who can take photos from standard locations of their hotel rooms. These are then used by law enforcement to identify locations. One example is TraffickCam. http://traffickcam.com/about But all of these feel a bit clunky.
When people say 'code is data' they obviously don't mean that source code is stored in a text file which consists of bytes...

(def add (x y) (+ x a))

(def sub (x y) (- x y))

(add 1 2) # 3

(sub 1 2) # -1

(first '(add 1 2)) # 'add

(rest '(add 1 2)) # (list 1 2)

(apply 'sub (rest '(add 1 2))) # -1

(reverse '(add 1 2) # '(2 1 add)

Excuse my pseudo lisp quote syntax, it's been a while.
It's worth looking at Rebol [1], a language that is also homoiconic which was influenced by Lisp, Forth, Self & Logo and had a big influence on JSON too!

user: [name: "John Doe" birth-date: 1970-01-01 account-balance: $1000.01]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebol
Can’t such recordings already be done with a special camera and be viewed with a VR headset? Yet afaik there is no such market.
They did, but not for long. There's also a clip, not in the keynote but on Youtube, of someone using an external keyboard.
Except that you don’t have nearly as good an input method for it than a smartphone is. Also, can you honestly imagine people walking around with something like this on their head?
Meanwhile, their valuation has gotten worse. In 2021 Fidelity invested $28.2M in Reddit and now values that investment at $16.6M - a 41% drop [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/fidelity-reddit-valuation/
Right. Hydrogen only makes sense for leveling over very long periods, and then only when the capital cost of the hydrogen storage tank is low enough (for example, storing it underground like natural gas is stored) so this can overwhelm the "cost of inefficiency".
Are there any examples of the SEC allowing anyone to register a crypto security?

Saying you haven’t done it and not letting you do it is a bit of a catch 22.

And none of this addresses the defi ecosystem either. As an end user, can I access a defi app deployed by a non-US entity?
Porn and games are often what drive new tech forward.

So it does seem like a VR/AR device fully focused on those use cases could be good for pushing the tech forward. Won't be Apple that does that, though.

Side note, it's so interesting that GPUs were pulled forward by gaming, and then GPUs ended up becoming a key enabler in AI.
I sort of wish they had this on Reddit - one of my big annoyances is that their "best" view (the one that the homepage defaults to) will deprioritize anything you've already clicked on, so if you click on an article, read it and then go back to Reddit it's completely gone from the view if you want to upvote it or comment on it.
POLL: Do you have a desire to tell your life story?
What are some examples of smaller things that are more relevant in India than in the US/Europe?
I doubt this tech will be the size and weight of regular eyeglasses anytime soon. Probably 2050 at the earliest. It would require sub-nanometer lithography.

In regular I disagree with your assertion. As long as these end up being cheaper than a couple 4K monitors, which I imagine will happen by the end of the decade, it would be worth it for that alone. And that is to speak nothing of the onboard compute.
A number of people have written blog posts about doing their work in VR with other headsets, including development. Unless Apple's walled garden gets in the way, then it'll definitely be possible in the Vision too.
> Are the cameras adjusting focus based on where you are looking?

Yes. Marques Brownlee describes this in his latest video.
I'm also doing everything except dataloader. I can't shake that there's something I don't like about it.

Maybe it's actually a great library, but it feels like I'm giving up control of my queries and letting it run with them.

I prefer to use the batch function and manually resolve the query on my own. It's a little more work but it's pretty easy in the end. And fully controlled.
People (pro and anti Web3) can't even decide what's part of it and what isn't.

Probably a good idea if we just let the term die.
Yes, quiz.txt was the start of a C# program with a main method and a function that was called to do the work asked.

The common string based solution was to use a for loop, convert the counter to a string, parse the digits converting each one to a an integer and performing the calculation.

The exercise was given in C# so candidates just use string interpolation to output the result
Easy to find in the context of child rearing. Beating children was common, started being socially stigmatized and finally became considered child abuse.

A more recent example: the ban on plastic straws. Lots of restaurants were shunning them before they became illegal in several jurisdictions
There is a US government mandate to kill violations of securities law. If "crypto" can't exist without crime, that's hardly the SEC's fault.

The SEC can, and should, go after ICO scammers, but there would be zero ICO scammers without the help of Binance, Coinbase, and friends allowing their illegal trade.
One really easy trick that the author missed that tends to work in my experience: adding some examples before/after the prompt. Eg:

# Compute the difference between each element in an array.
# compute_difference([1, 2, 5, 10]) == [1, 3, 5])

Overall you shouldn't expect Copilot to read your mind. If your description is vague, you're going to get unreliable results. If you have a lot of context, clear descriptions, unit tests, existing code, etc, it has a better chance of guessing your intent.
ahh yes, you're quite right
> Airpods Max are 100% everywhere.

Yea, no. I've never seen a pair. I have little doubt someone around here has a pair. They just are not as common as some seem to believe.
It's an editorial from one of their technology editors. I have read a ton of useful editorials from Nature throughout my academic career -- not sure if it's beyond their scope, but I would be sad to see it go.
What really sucks about these sites is that they become great open hubs of information and then they start erecting barriers.
How do you know the resolution is too low, and what do you think is needed? I find the Oculus Quest 2 (1920x1832 per eye) to be passable for working on virtual monitors. Not great, but feels 60% of the way there. I would expect 4K per eye to be a huge difference.
Maybe it a step back for you but look around. The phone won. Tablets, laptops, etc will never make a comeback to be nearly as important or popular as the smart phone. The only question is when a new thing will replace it. IMO it is not going to happen for a really long time
By the time laptop form factor became somewhat common, yes, it was spreadsheets, word processing, and a communication suite (mail, file transfer, etc).

Those were the critical features that fueled laptops for several years, taking money from people who found a reason to work on the go. It was a considerable jump up from super tiny (but still used!) computers like Epson HX-20 or super heavy (luggables). The people using them for spreadsheets and word processing joined the field engineering and military applications.

Hell, laptops stopped being synonymous with "business executive" in popular vernacular only after 2000s.
Families Sue Social Media: Kids' Mental Health Crisis?
We’re working on building an IDE of sorts [1] (but specifically for tasks/notes) trying to combine the benefits of plain text but with rich elements and structure (tree/graph). The illusion of a real editor breaks down pretty quickly when you can’t easily copy-paste or select rich elements as if it was plain text, so that’s why we’re trying to build the whole thing from scratch.

[1] https://thymer.com
Shopping.

Walk into a physical store and stand in an aisle. How many products can you see in a 360 field of vision?

Visit any webstore. How many products can you see on your screen at once?

To me this is the completely obvious application for VR. But in order for it to be actually useful you would need an online shopping experience that worked with it. At the very least you would have to 3D model every product.
The only thing an app needs to do is replay videos. No adult designation required.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nzkq/stanford-professor-ga...

There, is a Stanford Professor good enough for you?

This is also referenced in the article:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237309319_On_Events...
I was not there and have read a few media outlets first hand 30 minutes demo summaries. None answered your questions about focus.

One did say, I think either from CNET or from creative solutions, which you can find on YouTube, that pass through cameras where the highest quality they had ever seen. And they are experts. It was CNET, now that I remember. And he talked about looking at his wrist watch and being able to make out the detail on his watch's text.

https://youtu.be/_USrtT3chs0
The killer app for smartphones is being a phone.
"Only because?" Strongly disagree. I think it's actually because there are human beings who work at FDA who, like all human beings, have had loved ones suffer, get sick, or die. Everyone (presumably) wants safer and more effective treatments for sources of suffering, and e.g. interpreting drug trial data is really fucking hard, even for the people who create the drugs.

Separately, yes, there are also instances of straight-up corruption. It's totally divorced from reality to suggest that collaboration is "only because" of corruption though.
Drone cops are coming for small-town America
I remember when three Silicon Valley companies were going to announce a new standard Unix. The announcement day came, all three announced their deviations from the standard to make their version best.