skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> TV viewing is often a social experience:

Sure but "for personal use" kinda excludes "social experience" here.

> it largely replaces the need for a TV, soundbar, or home cinema

In my previous flat, living along, a big TV just didn't fit anywhere. A sound system would also have annoyed the neighbours. Something like this would have been perfect for getting that 4K HDR viewing experience.
Yeah, I haven't bought/used any AR/VR devices before, but I'm excited about a device that will offer seamless interaction with the rest of my Apple devices.

> pursuing more concrete scenarios like viewing content in a more immersive environment

100%. I'm not into playing video games or watching TV, so their focus on real world things really appealed to me.

It's a huuuge price tag, but I'm psyched.
I'd say it's more, with the EU Digital Markets Act.
I prefer infix over prefix. And don't forget postfix

x 3 1 2 x * + - %

I definitely prefer white-space over commas and other syntactic obstacle courses.
Random thought: I'll be able to see what I look like in 3D... I'm both dreading it, and am also extremely curious. I'm guessing it will be hearing myself on tape. "I _look like that?" ...
US prepared to address ‘aggressiveness’ of Chinese military
https://archive.is/wip/7vcgd
Maybe because the drive was long (Vegas to Bakersfield) and covered multiple downloaded areas?
I'm not 100% confident that I could wear these all day, but I wear my Airpods Pro all day long and they're heavy. I can wear my ski googles most of the day. Building a VR headset that can be worn for a few hours straight and are all-day comfortable seems possible.
Yeah right, counting calories works for "99.7% of the population" but then everyone struggles with weight loss, somehow.

Cutting out that candy bar may work on paper, but the body will adapt to that reduced intake.

I'll cite the article I linked:

"One show contestant lost 239 pounds and achieved a weight of 191 pounds, yet six years later, after regaining 100 pounds of that lost weight, had to consume an 800-calorie-per-day diet to maintain his weight."

Now, you may argue that this person is an extreme outlier, and that's certainly true. However, it illustrates the principle. Differences as small as 10% can make a big impact over time.
It looked like an longer one and apple can't break physics. It has two 4k HDR displays build in and a M2 and a R2.

I'm really curious if they have overheating limitations.
Interesting. I was familiar with Missing and nothing in Julia but had never really thought about other options from a safety angle. It makes sense though.

I have run into issues where it would be nice to have some sort of missing type/class hierarchy though, in that the reason for missingness is coded somewhere and then how to represent that in those three categories gets complicated. At some level the different missing types get treated the same for many functions (such as your missing + 1 propagation example) but for other things not. Then you end up being tempted to use the third option which has its own issues. I suppose you could create another variable with type of missing information but then that also becomes complex quickly.
My mom's watching and soap is just not my kind of taste
That's crazy. I'd never use something like that to order anything but each their own I suppose...
Interesting that accessibility was not a theme (watched the online video, not the presentation). I'm interested to see what some low-sight folk might use this. Go shopping and have all the product labels magnified 20-30x?
BinDrake a 3D Bin Packer
I have build this with F# both front-end and back-end. Thanks
> Have you every worn literally anything for 2+ hours on your head. Even glasses get uncomfortable after a day

Some of us don't have the luxury of removing glasses after 2 hours, so... Yeah, I've worn something on my face for 16+ hours a day, so I can see.
Burden of Dreams (the making-of) makes Herzog seem even more monomaniacal than the protagonist.
as she gently strokes the air up and down.
If the children had headsets too they could render everybody as if they had no headsets.

Whether this is a good or a bad thing I do not know.
How is the old dropbox dismissal relevant for my comment..?

What I'm saying is that airpods are advertising themselves by people wearing them and influencing others to buy them. This headset will not have that effect.
how big is the overhead for this? and how much easier is working with virtual threads than Rust's async?
>Apple has produced plenty of devices that didn't pan out.

Have they? They've launched particular versions of existing products that didn't sell too well, but have they ever launched a device which was was fundamentally new and didn't eventually sell a ton of units?
If it's so good for WFH, why has Apple insisted everybody return to the office?

It's got a 2h battery life, so your dreams of using it on the beach are pretty funny versus just using a laptop.
It should look fine for video, text is another story.
You should try the remote, it’s blazingly fast and makes any other TV feel like junk. You just swipe no clicking needed. If you need to type there’s voice to text built in to the remote to either say or spell what you want.
> my old pc (GTX660Ti) could barely run at 10 or even 9 FPS

Bless them for keeping an old machine around, in order to spot this kind of stuff

This blog post reinforces my experience with DSP: it may be "early access" but they really do care about the player's experience
Or not.

It's not like past always predicts the future. Apple has a lot of stinkers too, just not recently. Apple TV (the HW device) is not all that successful either.

On the other hand, this is rather hype-free (no metaverse!!!!! no AI!) and has actual usecases presented. Also I thought Apple Watches were stupid, but now almost everyone has one. So, who knows.
For me, it's hard to make direct comparisons with the world of then. Today, everybody has so many devices and are so used to tech all around them every waking moment. An AR headset doesn't feel like a huge leap in additional day-to-day functionality compared with what a smartphone gave us at the time.
At the time early media players were relevant, and to the community they were relevant (people very into music tech), Sony was known as "that company that installs rootkits on your computer if you buy their CD"
> I guess the CEO’s were hired to be thrown under the bus when it is the time.

It's ironic that they are now the ones feeding SEC with inside information. It seems like the plan backfired?
Was there really an 'iPhone moment', though?

The success of the iPhone has been all about the 'incremental progress'.
A moral backlash against AI will probably slow down AGI development
In addition, pg himself holds an account for emergency intervention.
Without using <insert search engine of your choice> that this pertains to watering down milk?
I imagine they did the research and found that most people with HPC needs are just renting it, and those that aren’t renting aren’t filling a data center with fucking apples.
Combine it with an LLM and their trained voices and maybe his family isn't as dead as they really are.
FWIW Ampere Altra dev kit is $4k for 128 cores and supports 768GB of RAM. Bring your own memory, storage, PSU, GPU

https://www.ipi.wiki/products/com-hpc-ampere-altra?variant=4...
The mere circumstance of a person with his career going on record with such claims is a great deal and clearly indicative of something really unusual happening.
TypedArrays are also their own thing. But unless you are reading binary files/WASM, most JS devs don't use them.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...
This is great but I think they'll burn down the Amazonian forests to turn them into dipe ground for intensive agriculture. We are too dependant on grain. We should probably learn from the Koreans and Japanese, diversify and do more algae farming?
Honestly this article convinced me there is no chance for CNN. To fix it you would need to rebuild the entire organization from scratch, it seems increasingly clear to me that the tabloid elitism they call "journalism" at CNN, was just as much a bottom up issue as it was top down under Zucker.

> Licht argued that the media’s blind spots owe to a lack of diversity—and not the lack of diversity that he sees newsrooms obsessing over. He wants to recruit reporters who are deeply religious and reporters who grew up on food stamps and reporters who own guns. Licht recalled a recent dustup with his own diversity, equity, and inclusion staff after making some spicy remarks at a conference. “I said, ‘A Black person, a brown person, and an Asian woman that all graduated the same year from Harvard is not diversity,’” he told me.

I feel this really gets to the heart of the problem at CNN. Sadly, I have doubts over whether Licht actually has the skill to pull it off.
Those operators are no longer supported. You can use Verbatim mode, which is more like the old behavior.
Eager to see how it works with +6.00 glasses. That's been a problem with headsets for me.
Of course it will. This is basic physics.
It serves the purpose but h2h Apple TV is way better.
New hardware advancements often prompt us to anticipate corresponding strides in accessibility research.

> Navigate visionOS simply by looking at apps, buttons, and text fields. App icons and buttons subtly come to life when you look at them.

I will defer to experts for a more in-depth discussion on accessibility, but this feature does raise a concern for me.

I have a condition that causes my eyes to rapidly move back and forth. My visual processing compensates. I see like normal, but my eyes do not stay still for long even when looking in one spot.

Initially, I assumed that this condition would prove problematic for VR use, but I've found that I can see quite clearly inside current VR headsets, although I've never tried anything that has eye-tracking. The prism component of my prescription does reduce the area of optimal focus. In addition, certain degenerative and congenital conditions cause individuals to rely very heavily on peripheral vision if central vision is impaired.

If visionOS can tailor its visuals to the user's specific visual abilities, it could provide a profoundly useful tool for these users.
Seems obvious there will eventually be a Vision Air that cuts some of the premium fit & finish and drops the price. They wouldn't have launched it with the "Pro" moniker unless they were planning to drop it later.
i loved the HERE Maps when i had a Windows Phone. we navigated two countries in Europe without ever needing to turn on data roaming. this was back in 2013 i think? it was mind-blowingly good to navigate from one end of the country to the other end using just offline maps.
Now Apple needs to make a "Pro" version of the Razer facemask.
Vada, Jalpa, and Vitanda (ancient Indian categorization of debate styles)
I think as a VR headset alone it's worth $1.5k due to the features it has (4k+ OLED per eye, inside-out tracking, hand tracking, etc.), so I guess the other $2k is half due to this thing being a whole iPhone on your face (basically) and then some "Apple Product Premium" for the other half, since Apple makes nice products that work well for the most part. I see it as expensive, but well worth it, assuming you could use this with regular PCVR titles, like having SteamVR or OpenXR support. If it doesn't have support for PCVR, then it's a tough sell for me, personally.
How did this work out in the end? I imagine it was difficult to decide whether copying bugs was the correct choice.
I'm still somewhat confident it'll eventually be formally proven that you can't make a LLM (or the successor generative models) resistant to "prompt injections" without completely destroying its general capability of understanding and reasoning about their inputs.

SQL injections, like all proper injection attacks (I'm excluding "prompt injections" here), are caused by people treating code as unstructured plaintext, and doing in plaintext-space the operations that should happen in the abstract, parsed state - one governed by the grammar of the language in question. The solution to those is to respect the abstraction / concept boundaries (or, in practice, just learn and regurgitate a few case-by-case workarounds, like "prepared statements!").

"Prompt injections" are entirely unlike that. There is no aspect of doing insertion/concatenation at the wrong abstraction level, because there are no levels here. There is no well-defined LLMML (LLM Markup Language). LLMs (and their other generative cousins, like image generation models) are the first widely used computer systems that work directly on unstructured plaintext. They are free to interpret it however they wish, and we only have so much control over it (and little insight into). There are no rules - there's only training that's trying to make them respond the way humans would. And humans, likewise, are "vulnerable" to the same kind of "prompt injections" - seeing a piece of text that forces them to recontextualize the thing they've read so far.

I think mitigations are the only way forward, and at least up to the point we cross the human-level artificial general intelligence threshold, "prompt injection" and "social engineering" will quickly become two names for the same thing.
I'm not a native English speaker so I thought I missed a comma somewhere. But rereading my previous comment I'm rather certain I mean the small screen to be the one of the laptop. Even the 16" model gives only so much space to work with.
I can at least cash in a called shot for this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27583456

Fun to see the incredulity in replies two years ago for what seems like was inevitably leading to this.

Still really curious what it’ll be like to use in person.
Magnetically controlled pill cam can be ‘driven’ to where it's needed
I think that signal processing is really only 'FPGA territory' because most people who need to do custom signal processing don't also have access to large scale chip design and fabrication capacity. For Apple, it could just be a matter of "we built a custom chip because that's kind of what we do now - might as well tell people about it". I agree that I'd definitely love to hear more, though!
> I have had no problems with measuring NTP drift.

Yeah, their claim is just weird. RTP does not impose an accuracy requirement on its timestamps (despite the name "NTP timestamp" in the Sender Reports, they are not actually expected to be synchronized with an NTP source), but I am skeptical such requirements would be met in practice if they did exist. The author only talks about video, but audio is a much bigger problem: if you do not send the right number of samples to the sound card at the right rate, you are going to get annoying clicks and pops, and "dropping or duplicating" audio frames will only cause more problems. You do not need to send media for a day to have these issues. Oscillators are bad enough they show up in minutes, and WebRTC obviously has strategies for dealing with them.

> If you want all your tracks to be synced you need to mark them as one MediaStream.

More specifically, the underlying mechanism of giving tracks that need to be synchronized the same CNAME has existed in RTP since the original RFC 1889 from the year 1996. The timestamp wrapping does require some care to get right, but is basically a non-issue.

That said, a lot of WebRTC applications will not ask for synchronization because it necessarily introduces latency, and for interactive use cases you are often better served by sacrificing exact sync for lower latency (as long as latency is low enough, sync is never going to get too bad, anyway). But that is very different from saying the standards do not support it if you want it.
Sigaloid here (from the linked thread). 1. I can't believe I missed this thread! 2. this is amazing, I _just_ opened an issue looking into the GQL API, but you've done some great work here. I cannot thank you enough. This will help enormously! Hopefully we can prepare for the changes properly.
If someone can afford the Vision Pro, I don't think buying a TV is going to be a problem for them, and they almost certainly already have one.
What’s the leaked resolution?
I'm a fan of the space bar navigation. It's not a replacement, it's an additional way to move the cursor. Feel free to tap to the position you'd like, or long-press-and-drag the cursor directly.
I'll preface this by stating that I don't like Apple products and I love my Quest 2.

We absolutely need the 10x better in VR for "spatial computing". Right now the issue with the Quest 2 for work is that it's way too heavy/bulky, is not sharp enough, has jitters that make you dizzy and the integration with your computer is always a bit hit or miss (mine has trouble connecting through AirLink half the time).

The issue with the above is that they are experience breaking. I completely "buy" what Apple is selling here because the current solutions simply fall short. If I can't read code properly or my neck hurts after 1 hour it's a deal breaker and the headset goes unused. 4k per-eye and almost ski mask thickness with the battery in my pocket might actually bridge the gap.

I won't pay 3k+ for it, but we definitely need it to be 10x better because the 1x is still pretty far from a daily driver.
In the video you could see someone using it while there was a wire going into his pocket, presumably that's a battery extender.
NVMe wouldn't give you the best latency, but a 16x PCIe card loaded with DRAM and addressable as a scratch disk doesn't sound bananas. I wonder why Apple didn't market something like that as a first party solution.
> They only apply to patents that currently have ongoing litigation

No they don't. The allow the USPTO to prevent initiation of proceedings by denying petitions for IPR/PGR. The proposed discretionary denial criteria do not require that there is other ongoing litigation.

Contrived scenario:

- My company makes spoons, but I'm toying with the idea of pivoting into making keyboards.

- PatentTrollCo. is granted a patent on "a button that is connected electronically to a computing device."

- My company files for a petition for PGR on the grounds that this is not novel.

- The petition is denied: it meets all the criteria for discretionary denial listed in the comment above [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36198908
It's the front of a desktop tower, except it looks exactly like a cheese grater and triggers some peoples visual phobias. While it's claimed functional for quiet airflow, it's also possibly Apple's worst visual design, ever.
They spared couple minutes on specifically Unity compatibility. That's definitely a codeword for VRChat, Virtual Desktop for SteamVR compatibility, and accommodations for local development for VRChat contents.
> But I know the facial recognition database is a huge privacy liability, so it will never happen.

That's fairly easily overcome—you just need to have a local facial recognition database, specific to your contacts, rather than querying some centralized one.
Problem is not with smart home software, but hardware.

Ok, we now have "smart" lightbulbs. And even thermostats. Great stuff! I think, it is possible to have "smart" curtains.

But I have simple example: now I'm living in country, when price for electricity changes every hour. I can extract this price programmatically without problems.

Suppose, I want to wash my clothes when electricity is the cheapest, but no longer than 24 hours. No problem, algorithm is simple: calculate average price over, say, week (possible), look at state of washing machine, and if machine is prepared and ready (power-on, standby, program selected, door closed) and price is small enough (or there is a 23 hours passed from washing machine readiness), give machine command to start.

I can imagine (and implement) Very smart algorithm when to start washing.

But it needs washing machine, which can be polled for status and started remotely (but prepared locally, as software doesn't know did you want to wash color, white or black clothes, for example).

Is here any such machine on the market? Nope...

Same with microwaves, dishwashers, stoves, anything.
> 23M for both eyes doesn't seem that far off from [...] 9.3M

It's almost 2.5x the pixels [edit: was ~~resolution~~ which is incorrect]. How is that "not far off"? It's more pixels per eye than the MQ2P has for both!
GearVR was a precursor to the Oculus Go, which was quite successful. It showed that lots of people wanted a device to watch media and user retention was pretty good:

From Carmack's Oculus Connect 2018 talk:

> With Oculus Go, about 80 percent of usage time has been for viewing "media" and only 20 percent for gaming.

> Oculus Go and Rift are much "stickier," he says, with users that "come back... week to week and spend a lot of time in it."

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/09/carmack-oculus-quests...
Long ago in the Avatar (2009) movie there was a scene when a guy was walking with a tablet-like device displaying some info, then grabbed that info with some kind of hand gesture and threw that info on a wall-mounted screen.

This AR demo was the first thing I ever saw that did something comparable by taking the app off mac and opening it in VR. Now, I don't really want an AR glasses, but I absolutely want to grab things from my smartphone and display it on any nearby screen, and not in (clunky) Chromecast / Airplay way, but seamlessly.
I want an IMAX viewing experience with booming surround effects and I only have time to watch when the kids are all in bed. Compared with a house large enough to have a dedicated sound-proof theatre room, $3500 doesn’t sound too expensive.

Also not everyone lives in a house, I’m sure Manhattan condo owners can afford the price of the theatre gear, but cannot afford the space required for them to be used optimally. Wealthy people don’t all live in mansions.
I really wonder how much that "creepy eyes" tech adds to the cost. It would be great if they had a model without that, because for my use case its completely unnecessary and probably adds ~$500 to the price tag, plus additional weight and battery usage.
I think what's much more likely:

Parent 1: watching a drama
Parent 2: playing a video game
Kid 3: zoned out watching a movie/cartoon/playing videogames

See this already with kids that mindlessly consume television while parents just drone out doomscrolling on facebook on their devices.
That reminds me of that 200k reward for running Linux on the original XBox. https://www.theregister.com/2002/07/02/200k_prize_offered_fo...
They did specifically mention foveated rendering.

Also the 12ms mentioned, wasn't that from camera to screen (so the latency of both the camera sensor added to the latency of the screen) or did i misunderstand?

Now that i think about it, the eye tracking is also a camera. Hmm.
I dunno, stanning for Russian performance in this war at this stage feels a bit more like the contrarian holdout insisting that both Mac and Windows fans are wrong and GUIs will never catch on :)

Cute that you've gone from Ukraine's capitulation within weeks being inevitable to pretending to count bodies though.