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> The ipod, the iphone, the watch, the airpods... they've had a pretty good record and almost all these have had harsh criticism out the gate (while then going on to absolutely PRINT money for apple).

Looks like you and me have a completely different memory on this? iPod, iPhone were almost unanimously praised at the moment of announcement, thanks to Steve's magic. AirPod also received generally positive reactions. Apple Watch had a genuine issue on its product positioning and its success came after fixing that issue.
We ridiculed the first generation of bluetooth headsets, calling Jawbones "douchenozzles".

People will come around sooner or later on some generation of an apple VRset.
I have bumped up against its limitations from time to time, and sometimes after a while working on the same thing it just totally loses the plot, but by and large I get phenomenal results. That being said it may be good at some technologies but not others. I spend quite a bit of time working on JavaScript, specifically Google Apps Script and NodeJS (not frontend) and BigQuery SQL, but I have also used it for bash scripting, generic Linux type config/sysadmin stuff, PHP stuff, API development.

Maybe if you're writing something more eclectic then it struggles.
Well done! I would be crazy if I dived into this having never studied Rust! But it looks very interesting so I might do that! I have almost finished AK’s lecture. Have you made the matmul faster yet? That would seem a priority?
VR was invented by and for gamers? News to me.

I mean sure, if you say history started in 1995 and ignore all the VPL and CAVE stuff from the 80s, then sure... it was gamers all the way down.
Ownership is also a concept that humans understand, disconnected from whatever is written into law. In fact, the human understanding of what ownership is ultimately informs what goes into the law. Essentially by asking "who really owns this?" we're literally questioning why this is allowed to happen regarding stuff that we own.

All I can say is, you misunderstood what the comment you replied to was saying. You don't have to like it, but it's very evident to me that this is what happened.
Propagation time was never the problem. I ran a major European node in the 90s and our propagation times were in the seconds. We absolutely obsessed about it. Only dialup leaf nodes took longer, but that was and remains a feature, not a bug.

I've been using NNTP as a Gossip-type protocol for eventually-consistent pub/sub telemetry, monitoring, and notifications between partially-connected nodes in an unstable mesh ever since. Just not in public.

Let’s be careful to separate the message protocol from the system it supported. Usenet’s carcinogenic inability to self-regulate at scale arose from the absence of distributed authority and negative feedback loops in the control plane, something we’d aim to build in algebraically and cryptographically if designed today. Alas, VC backing directs most research in this subsector towards systems enabling consumer surveillance.
Given that macOS has memory compression, it already has two "classes" of memory pages in a storage-hierarchy relationship, with active promotion/eviction. Just mount the CXL "external memory" to a different part of the address space, and default to writing compressed/cold pages there.
Fail? According to Vernor Vinge, it's in use Galaxy-wide 20000+ years from now as the Net of a Million Lies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep
> Butterfly keyboard - thinnest ever?

Definitely thinnest. Still terrible. I don’t recall if they even attempted “best ever” with that keyboard. I suppose perhaps they would have said that about the laptops that included these keyboards …

My point is “thinnest” can be true without being “best ever.”
The fact Apple didn't announce that their product line was 'now fully ARMed' during today's WWDC keynote was a lost opportunity.
Agreed, the only thing I'm jealous about is battery life
and i was all excited thinking they would finally launch the powerbook g5...
Because I see the same comment on every single criticism of Apple product announcements, basically implying that Apple isn't capable of doing wrong and that any criticism will just be in vain.

The passive aggression is ugly, it's not a healthy environment for discussion and (as the kids say) simping for a massive company is just plain disgusting.
Do we know it's just for one person, and that Optic ID can't be used to authenticate multiple users?
Oh it's already working. People who aren't compatible with 3DCG stuff goes to those.
People are arguing about the contents, which is kind of shallow, it can be always managed in some way later. I’m more interested in the technicality, what’s the protocol, the architecture, how file are saved and served, encrypted? How about the minimum X to run the service, is it P2P as in all clients serve or only select few nodes? Who manages and operates these nodes? Is it a honeypot? Among others.

Regardless, It’s always good to see new concepts or alternatives sites, just like old days with forums.
Correct - logged out pages are cached and should serve much faster.
Hate to be that guy, but why opt for the new reddit look? This is already coming out of the gate on the wrong foot. The UI is slow and has so much unused white space.
> The best an eye can discern is roughly 20 microns

The size of an object doesn't matter. What matters is how it gets projected onto the back of your eyes.

There are 120 million rods (black and white) and 6 million cones (color) in a single eye. You would need at least as many pixels. But photoreceptors are not evenly distributed, so to account for moving your eyes across the screen, you would have to have even more pixels.
It's actually pleasant to interact with the flight attendants. They have nice things to share, like snacks, drinks, and food.
At this point I guess I buy old cars, to avoid giving the enemy money, and to avoid the spyware and other invasive technologies they are building into new vehicles.
i think most people dont realize that that building is apple headquarters . They alwyas see it empty, so they might think it's some CGI. They could make a normal presentation with some kind of audience etc. I do find their videos rather goofy with a bit of 90s tv series aesthetic
> I can see the argument against proof-of-stake, doesn't your quantity of tokens increase without doing anything?

It depends.

With Algorand for example where staking is "fully automated" and you don't actually even have to be online to stake or have delegated to an online party? Then yes.

With Ethereum where you run a node secured with your stake? No. You have to maintain a staking node and mitigate potential threats/failure modes which would lead to downtime. It's kinda like being paid out for an SLA. If you can't maintain uptime and correct functioning, you don't get paid and potentially you owe money. Now if you outsource the operation of a staking node, it's still the same situation but you are just outsourcing to "the cloud" or someone else.

With Cardano where you have stake pool operators and delegators? Also no. If you run a stake pool, you essentially are in the same situation as with Ethereum. You have an SLA target of practically 100% and get penalised for failing to meet it. However for delegates (people who assign their stake rather than run a pool themselves), it's still no just "money go up". You are being paid for picking reliable, functional pools and voting with your stake that they should be trusted. And that is a job that doesn't just stop once you pick a pool, you still need to monitor the pool to verify that they are performing. And it's lower risk but there is no assurance that your funds would continue to increase unless you do your job and pick pools that operate correctly and reliably.

Those cover the big variants of Proof of stake that I am aware of.
I haven't dug into the logs but I assume it's the Apple announcement.

Major perf improvements are coming (fingers crossed), but alas not yet. Sorry all!
IDK, I feel like people are making it so narrow that it basically cannot exist.
Maybe 3 hours a week or so depending on what else is going on. Fairly frequently I hop into VR for a game of contractors for 40 mins at the end of my day (instead if watching TV or whatever). I also exercise occasionally in VR, maybe once or twice a month using Thrill of the Fight boxing.
This is in parts to remove the baggage that comes with the word, but also to be more precise in what is described here: https://i.redd.it/sm2tecjyuqf91.png
The only people who care about that are a handful of nerds who are deluded enough to believe that people want to sysadmin their phones, and surveillance capitalism and gambling companies such as Facebook and Riot who are desperate to bypass privacy and security controls.
Most people don't like to wear glasses, even less like tight-fitted masks. One will always look like a dork wearing this, social ostracism will continue ("seen any fish yet?"...). Phones and watches, you can seamlessly integrate into a traditional-looking lifestyle. Something like this, you just can't.
> It’s also extremely expensive

I assume it's more of a prototype targeted mainly at developers and enthusiasts at this point. They're probably betting that by the time they can decrease the price significantly somebody would've figured out what can you actually do with this thing.
The headset looks like an amazing product on paper, buts it's pricing is way out of the normal apple range. Whe the iPod, iPhone, iPad, watch came out, they were expensive but affordable. Enough to build up market share and make app stores for them a viable proposition. With this headset at this price it's not going to get the same volumes, so who's going to write apps for it. It feels more like a Lisa than a Mac at this stage, and I'm sure a cheaper version is on the horizon.
You can plug it in for all-day life.
I have both and prefer the AirPods Pro. The Bose noise cancelling always felt a bit unnatural; there was a pressure difference that would make me feel slightly dizzy. For me, the AirPods Pro do not cause the same dizzyness issue and have comparable noise cancelling. Even if they had noticeably worse noise cancelling the charging and pairing experience are so much better than what Bose can achieve that I'd probably still use the AirPods.
Google PaLM Pricing matches gpt3.5 for chat
Google released PaLM pricing per character at $0.0005/1k (for chat, instruct is 0.001).
With OpenAI tokens at approx 4 chars per token, this matches $0.002/1k tokens for 3.5.
Let's hope OpenAI retaliate, cut prices to maintain market share and start a happy race to the bottom/affordable genAI for users.
Theoretically, automation takes over much of the manual labor.

Let's be real here. We absolutely have the technology to automate most farming jobs. We just need to build the machines to do it. But right now, it's cheaper to pay a bunch of illegal immigrant workers [0] cash under the table to pick crops than to hire a team of robotics and automation experts to develop a robot that does it.

The money they save in labor costs can be taxed to fund UBI.

Think long term here. Given enough time, most manual jobs can and will be automated. UBI will be a necessity as unemployment goes up as jobs are lost to automation. We're probably still 20+ years away from the tipping point, but it WILL happen.

[0] 41% of farmworkers are not authorized to work in the USA: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-labor/
That’s not true, and that’s the wrong position to take now: that’s just denying the evidence.

That’s okay to do, some people are going to do that for a while and need time. But if you stick to denying, just own it, don’t pretend it’s the truth or reality.

For the curious: There’s lots of evidence in photo and video form, and there are tiny fragments seemingly with advanced metallurgy. These are things that have already made it into the public. Check out the YouTube channel: Unidentified.

What’s missing is “official confirmation”, because the government/corporate aspect is afraid of what they don’t understand and can’t control, so they have to deny it. It challenges their authority.

If this insider becomes or helps beget official confirmation: that would be cool. It would mean we actually live in a powerful state that isn’t afraid of reality, however humbling that may be.
HN was slow today https://files.catbox.moe/13t78u.jpeg
There are a number of species whose seeds don't germinate without wildfire. Not all regional climates are equal.
That's a really difficult question. I thought about it for a while, but I don't think I have any answers that would qualify (given the requirement to be "realistic").

It is super important to keep in mind, though, when thinking about public education that public schools are expected to serve a multitude of functions that are related to education only in the sense that they involve the same children who are our students (nutrition, counseling, social work services, etc.). And that's fine, I guess, if schools are where the social safety net has to catch vulnerable children. But that needs to be acknowledged and factored into how we think about schools.
What blows my mind as a Kiwi is how news channels in the US are 2 minutes of a news item, 15 minutes of talking heads discussing how you should feel about that news.
Some quick thoughts:

- Focus is on entertainment, remote work, collaboration, and utility, but their partnership with Unity might mean that gaming is part of the long-term strategy. Gaming is a top use case for VR with Meta devices, so Apple is focusing on AR use cases first.

- Disney is aligned on Apple's AR vision with Disney, Marvel Studios, ESPN 3D content, and more available on launch. This will make more entertainment companies jump into AR/VR!

- Can create a digital persona ("avatar") and make a virtual version of you with face tracking. Interesting move that can affect companies focusing on avatar creation.

- No physical controller - you can use your eyes, hands, and voice. Really interesting approach, and leaves room for haptic companies to shine.

- Comes with an M2 chip and a new R1 chip. Not sure how the R1 (or M2+R1) compares to the leading XR chip, Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2.

- Spatial photos and videos are supported and can be created with the device. Can be competitive with Leia's Lume Pad 2.

- Your Mac screen expands automatically to the VisionPro, which can be competition for companies building "AR laptops" or remote collaboration apps.

- Price is $3499, definitely a "Pro" price, which probably means that a "non-Pro" version is in the works.

- visionOS is Apple's OS for spatial computing. Interesting move that can affect companies building an OS for XR.

- "Spatial Computing" is the notable messaging (vs. "Metaverse").

- Launching early next year. Let's go!
They have specific measurements to make sure you don't just re-create your own version of whatever it is they're doing in the ChatGPT UI, right?
I'm not, of course, but I appreciate the sentiment. :)
I did this for a while with my Quest 2. Floating in space on an asteroid while my main screen is bigger (virtually) than an IMAX screen and two other monitors float on either side plus tool windows I could grab and move around was awesome. Just the headset was heavy and sweaty after a while and there was no AR pass thru, so I couldn’t see my keyboard and mouse or find my coffee cup. This looks like a step forward in solving all those problems.
Well there was 3 interesting questions about the apple silicon mac pro going into the keynote:

- how will they provide more RAM than the Mac Studio?

- how will they provide more GPU than the Mac Studio?

- how will they provide more CPU than the Mac Studio?

And the answer is « let’s not! »

I’m disappointed there was no surprise on that front.

I’m sad they mentioned gaming and created a « gaming mode » and then the Mac Pro has no GPU story to speak of. So all the 3d artists will keep stacking green team or red team GPU in their intel or amd boxes. This is not a good sign for 3d authoring software.
> as an elected representative it's better to take that money and spend it, and claim the credit for the results of spending their money.

How's that working out for San Francisco?
> actually pleasant to interact with the flight attendants. They have nice things to share, like snacks, drinks, and food

I'm generally a book and chat flier. But most people aren't. And I'm not all the time. My limited rebuttal is to the claim that for some reason front cabin passengers won't want an escape.

Hell, I could see e.g. Delta having a VR stream that makes it look like you're super-manning when laying flat.
Hey! Yes please dive in :) It can be a starting point for learning Rust ;)
MatMul is fine, the bottleneck is LayerNorm + Softmax gradients right now. Haven't been able to optimize them well yet.
Is there a headless "client", so one can run a community on a raspberry pi or server?
All: there are over 2700 comments in this thread - to get to them all, you need to click More at the bottom of each page, or a link like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36201593&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36201593&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36201593&p=4

There are also a bunch of other threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Sorry that our server has been creaking today. Perf improvements are on the way (fingers crossed), but alas not today.
The filing date is often a year after the provisional was filed, and the invention was already marketed. That doesn't mean that the provisional wasn't novel.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/516523/ipad_first_impression...

No Second Coming: Apple’s iPad Just a Big iPod Touch

But at the end of the day, the show’s centerpiece – the iPad — is just a big iPod Touch. Lots of folks will want it, in a hypothetical sort of way. But it’s hard to imagine all that many of them will fork over the initial $499 for a crippled version, or as much as $829 (for the 64 GB/3G model you’d want).
> Now generations of kids will grow up staring at their parents' eyes through a VISION PRO

Not at this price point.
I was wondering why that would be a bad idea and how much radiation sterilization is used today.
Apparently about 40-50% of medical single use products are sterilized beforehand using radiation.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph241/goronzy2/
Your claim is that bioaccumulation is not a problem because a.) It has not reached a level dangerous to humans (through direct consumption) and b.) Life is thriving in Pripyat. a.) is orthogonal, and b.) is encouraging but doesn't establish that there _isn't_ a problem here.

Mostly what I take issue to is that you're saying people need to stop being concerned about something, but the reasons you gave didn't really support that conclusion. I dunno if there's a problem here or not really, but I don't think we should dismiss it in this manner. It's sort of like the inverse of fear mongering, though fear mongering is probably more dangerous, so I only mean that directionally and not proportionally (eg I don't take issue nearly as strongly as I would a fear mongering comment, I think your comment is largely fine, but that's what I find objectionable).
It's unfortunate that apparently Apple won't include any controllers for this. Just with imprecise gesture controls VR gaming is out of the question. Which is a bummer, as the headset itself appears to be amazing and massive step forward in the tech.

Instead they decided to use it for ... floating virtual screens. An iPhone & iPad replacement.
I disagree. Especially in places like Los Angeles where a good amount of parking spots are street parking.

Can't charge your car while it's 2 blocks away.
Thanks! That is the first description I've heard of a use for ChatGPT which actually sounds like it would make my work easier. Perhaps I'll give it a try.
Nitpick: the lack of the FM radio stems directly from the lack of headphone jack - the radio relied on wired earphones to work as they were used as an antenna.

So losing the FM radio is more a consequence of the decision to remove the headphone jack, rather than an active decision to remove it.

Still sucks, though. The FM radio was one of the most useful features of my previous phone. By the time I upgraded to a newer phone, its battery lasted for an hour at most during normal tasks, but I could get 12+ hours from the FM radio.

There are now very few phones that have my personal "wishlist" of removable battery + headphone jack + FM radio. And these are all budget phones so if you value a decent camera, you may be out of luck. Add 5G and I'm not sure there are any options.
> that looks like you took something sensible and turned it into gibberish

This is the main thing I use Lisp (well, Guile Scheme) for. I used to use bc for little scratch pad calculations, now I usually jump into Scheme and do calculations. I don't recall if I thought it looked like gibberish at first but it's intuitive to me now.
> design look amazing.

I'm no Apple hater or VR hater, but am I the only one who thinks that the design of this thing looks utterly ridiculous? It's a scuba mask.

At best, it's looks marginally less ridiculous than its competitors (which might be all that it needs to be), but I don't see anything about it that looks amazing.
I believe OP is talking about AirPods Max, not AirPods in general.
My (and I suspect many others') main use case for a TV+surround sound system is social consumption of media. A TV I can't watch with my partner is useless, a speaker I can't use to keep a party going is useless. To me the relevant comparison here is a PC, and by that measure this is a very expensive PC with an improved screen experience. Whether that screen improvement is worth the $1K-1.5K more than a Macbook will depend on how thoroughly they've actually delivered on the AR experience.
> Taxes on corporations don’t make sense. They pass it on to consumers.

Prices are marked up on costs. Goods and services are sold at what the market will bear. Low margin products would need to be priced higher, but typically they benefit from competition and low labor costs from overseas manufacturers (and anything that can be imported for cheap, already is, and won’t displace jobs from a country with a strong currency)
Most people don't share monitors either. And very very few office workers share laptops, which is what they're suggesting
Are you saying that GBD did not want to let people get infected with COVID?
That's why no real programmer or hacker owns an iphone - overpriced, non customizable phone...
Unless they have changed it since I learned about this, the loser pays at the PTAB.
I just re-read your post after initially replying having missed the important detail that the now-private parts are the plots originally granted to the railroads. My last reply here was made without grasping that. Are these "rail line" situations the only (or at least vast majority of) places where these public/private checkerboards exist? Or did the government actually sell other land in such a pattern at the request of the buyer?
Not a fan of their UI being absolutely covered in NFT/.eth links either.