skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is that a lot of people nowadays are not really ready to invest time in their kids.

Not setting up parental controls on their kids' devices is just a symptom of that.
“I’ve tried all of the experiences and stabs at making fetch happen when it comes to XR.”

This is the most apt analogy I’ve come across for the attempted XR products over the years.

Is kind of strange how attached Silicon Valley is to XR. They keep trying and trying, even when time and again the response is “stop trying to make it happen, it’s not going to happen”
it's pretty easy to use parental controls to block such apps.
OK, that's a terrible question? Do you want to know literally everything there is to know about it? Any one random thing?
If that’s a thing you wanna try to stay informed about, look no further than the recent conversation with the panelist:

https://www.youtube.com/live/Myq_Hc_39aI

spoiler: we haven’t done that yet, so far it’s really kinda like “ok well it’s not appearing to be unhealthy, there’s no noticeable tolerance, what’s next”.

Also the linked video is going to have parts way out there for some folks here. Some have much different beliefs, there’s a few mentions of Syncronicities

But this is a newer rabbit hole for me and one thing is certain: I want to know why DMT has our brain building an entirely different world model, almost repeatable, completely throwing ours away. What’s the evolutionary reason even? There’s some theories but none anyone feels great about.
So.. a whopping low 1000s devices will sold as per this business plan?
https://www.statista.com/outlook/dmo/digital-health/digital-...

Revenue in the Smartwatches segment is projected to reach US$44.91bn in 2023.

Revenue is expected to show an annual growth rate (CAGR 2023-2027) of 8.26%, resulting in a projected market volume of US$61.69bn by 2027.
In Denmark we are on the brink of banning smartphones in schools. Not because we want to but because all the science point toward them being dangerous. I’m personally not on the hardliner side, but I’ve yet to see a single argument as to why children need to have access to a smartphone during class except for cases of accessibility. All of the pro phones in school voices in the debate here are from the tech industry or are media science professors who haven’t done any research on the health impacts.

I think it’s wild to find HN debating whether this is similar to banning books, or how the smartphone is just the comic or the video. Especially because I assume that you weren’t allowed to read comic books during class.

I don’t think you should keep access to the devices from your children, but do they need to own their own internet connected smartphones that they can use without supervision? I don’t personally think so. This is anecdotal, but I’m in my early forties so I grew up with the internet being supervised until I had enough money to buy a PC of my own which coincidentally was around the time I was in the 8th or 9th (not sure if the age ranges are the same across US and DK grades, but I was 14ish) grade. Before that I had a Commodore 64 in my room, and I had a game boy, but if I wanted to use the internet I had to do it on the family PC. I don’t think this was intentional by my parents, I think it was because a PC was just really expensive in the early 90ies. But it worked out well. Sure my friends and I spent time at the local library, downloading images of Pamala Anderson in a swimsuit, scared the librarian would get there before it had completed loading. (If you’re young, you won’t know this fear, but images would load line by line and a big swimsuit image would take several minutes to load, often failing in the process.)

I plan on doing something similar with my children, and I really hope our legislators will help out by banning smartphones in schools. My children had access to supervised usage from 3-4ish, but we’re a bit picky about what they get to use. This is because playing things like digital puzzles don’t give children the same development as actually touchy the pieces, and because we both have an healthy hate for mindless F2P games. Not because they are inherently evil (they probably are) but because we want to play games with our children when they get older, and if they are too indoctrinated then all they’ll want to play is stuff we won’t. Which will likely happen anyway, but hey.
Whenever asked what period I (a proverbial young person, SWE) would go back to if I had a time machine, I always answer with roughly this period. To be alive during those days to see the development of the shoulders I now stand on would be such a treat, as I’m sure anecdotes like these only scratch the surface of all the stories to be told.

That said, if any of you oldheads have links to such things, do share - always curious to learn more about the beige age. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and I’m here for that secondhand.
Surgeons with DaVinci surgical robots?
This averages one hour of driving per day.
> Concerning Fukushima

Concerning Fukushima the problem would have been averted, if managers actually did what they were told by engineers:

>> All three of the generators added in the late 1990s were fully operational after the tsunami. If the switching stations had been moved to the interior of the reactor buildings or to other flood-proof locations, power would have been provided by these generators to the reactors' cooling systems and thus the catastrophe would have been averted.[59]
Same pattern over and over, futuristic hardware, closed source software. This looks boring to me. I don't expect anything ground breaking from it. It's gonna be an iphone sticked to your eyes. Those big tech companies remove all the fun and excitement we used to have with new hardware. We know how it's gonna behave and it's limitation before it's released to the public.
The problem is a lack of real use case and input methods. I see none of those solved by apple.
smart phones are computers. It is just a different form factor.
Ah, sure, and teachers will accept this and happily go back to the "stoneage" just because some parents-sekt has decided no smart phones anymore?

You can not outlaw technology on a social level. Many control freaks would love to, but that doesnt change reality at slightest.
>I turned out ok.

You sure? I was also a young child on the internet and I think it made me an antisocial shut in that wasn't able to relate to his peers.
The only reason I sit in a fancy ergonomic chair is to be able to view my monitor(s) properly.

If the monitors could be virtual using an AR headset, I could just sit in a la-z-boy with a cupholder and a massaging seat :D
Professional don’t buy new technology out of the goodness of their heart. They do it because there is a market to address generally business users. Yet Apple seems to be mostly positioning the Vision as an entertainment centred device targeting a large market. At this price point, it is quite surprising.

I think significant questions remain at this point about their actual go-to-market strategy (unsurprisingly considering they have only been given a short keynote presentation) which make people suspicious if not sceptical when you take into account the other notorious failures in this market.
Russia was in control of the dam, had mined it, and had in recent weeks let water levels go up to unprecedented levels. Something like 80 settlements will be completely inundated, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe loses its cooling reservoir and attacks over the river will be impossible for weeks.

I don't think Ukraine did it.

(getting information from the thread in /r/worldnews).
I think Microsoft should improve Excel in several ways. Especially, there should be version control and a possibility to review code.
Sometimes I see super complex Excel calculations. The code is barely readable because it’s in this tiny text area. These people are real programmers. But they are constrained by a tool.

That would also be the alternative if Microsoft doesn’t improve this. Switch over to version controlled and reviewed code in R, Python, …
Aren't you a bit of an outlier though?
Some day, yes, some one will make a VR headset that outclasses the laptop for many computing roles.

I'm one of those people who wants that day to arrive while I am still working, so I follow this space with interest and buy some of these devices.

So far, no headset has gotten close. The Quest Pro is probably the closest, but still very far from the goal.

This Apple device looks like it will get closer still, but it likely will fall short -- at least for a few product generations.

So I think the big question is will this product achieve enough traction to keep existing until the tech gets better and the price gets lower.

A VR headset that focuses on being really good at web apps (including complex ones like GitHub codespaces) would get a lot of the way there.
> Your reply comes right out of ECON 101

What a bizarre things to say. First of all, are you an economist who can comment on other people's sophistication? Second, who cares? The merits are what matters, and you agree it's "broady speaking, correct".
It's not going to get significantly cheaper though. Even at half the price it would still be quite expensive considering the roi.
> My 5-year old nephew has access to a smart phone along with social media accounts on the major platforms. Is it healthy? Probably not. Neither was my generation binging on TV and video games. But it also gives them access to an absurd wealth of information richer than any library I had growing up.

The things that made TV and video games "unhealthy" for you are not the same or even comparable to the threats that make social media unhealthy for kids today.

Also, children don't need access to social media to have "an absurd wealth of information richer than any library". That can be obtained elsewhere online. I don't think many people are suggesting that children should be cut off from the internet entirely, but rather that they shouldn't be given constant unsupervised access, or access to platforms run by companies who are devoted to exploiting those children.

When I was young, I didn't have the internet, but I was active on a number BBSs. I suppose that could have been considered the "social media" of the day, and I was not supervised while online, it was also an entirely different beast. It was not run by companies who were looking to exploit me, manipulate me, and collect every scrap of my personal data that could be extracted. They were mostly being run by other nerds. It was about community and not profit and exploitation.

Early exposure to the internet, to online communities, and to technology in general is important, but no child needs a device in their pocket which is designed primarily to collect/leak personal information and for media consumption to do those things. A cell phone and a facebook account are probably the worst way to achieve those ends anyway. We can do better for our children than to throw them to the wolves.
We don't have to guess. Netherlands has 500 people per km2. USA has 36.

Road that connects 3 biggest cities in Netherlands has 3 lanes in each direction: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1822053,4.5947627,3a,75y,47....

Your average road in Netherlands looks like this: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1968565,4.592548,3a,75y,58.8...

You cannot directly translate between countries with such difference in population density obviously, but if anything - the more people USA has - the bigger gains are there to be realized by switching to more efficient mode of transport.
Looks to be owned by the creator of Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov and was formed in 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tetris_Company
My blogging flow doesn’t have an edit button. I email a blog post which gets published for the world to see.

So, there is not always an edit button.
It's power, but it's not what people mean by "big tech". That is still a lower tier of power than Google, Meta, or Microsoft. It's just not close. Consider how many congressional lobbyists they command, for instance, if not their effects on speech.
"This time is different"

I do think modern apps, adtech, and addiction engineering are devastatingly effective and different from predecessors. We need to treat these with specific care. Similar to nukes vs. conventional bombs. Adtech and recommendation algos are the WMD of the marketing world.

I was recently interviewed for a job by a guy doing infra at an adtech company. He had a PhD in physics from UCLA. These are the big guns your 7 year old is up against. TV and video games did not have this intellectual firepower behind them. May the odds be in your child's favor.
How does this compare to Aether?
>Apple has a system of lenses on a gimbal inside this thing.

Do you have a source for this?
But the watch has a real use case and is in the price category that people can actually afford it.

But you are right, time will tell.
It's firstly a gigantic humanitarian disaster with likely many many dead, pure act of terrorism.
> Morale is, I think, it all depends on the kid - not on the tech - how they're gonna spend their time and where they'll head in their life.

This is what I tried to convey with not putting it on an age barrier.
Was He Apollo’s Son?: Review of Plato of Athens
Paraphrasing this guy: "The story is bigger than Snowden. It's just breaking and mainstream media have had a month lead on it, been approached, but refused. It should have people writing to their representatives to investigate Gursch's allegations. People should be outraged at the criminal activity that has gone on outside of oversight. Media is complicit so far."

https://youtu.be/rQjbFZT9_EM?t=1370
> So far he hasn't turned into a domestic terrorist, and neither is he selling heroin for crypto on the dark web. Also, he has specific times when he can use his devices аnd limits on how much time.

I think this sort of hyperbole is unhelpful. What people are worried about is more mundane: whether the hyperconnectedness will make their kids less happy in the short or long run. There is some evidence that the age of first smartphone negatively correlates with these outcomes. [1] For my daughters, I worry about social media use, body image issues, and the like.

> Just delaying their first contact to the age of 13/14 won't magically guarantee they will be able to navigate it responsibly. This is just magical thinking born out of laziness.

I don't think most parents think this would be a magic bullet. They just think that it is one (important) tool in the toolkit. We understand that parents (noun) are supposed to parent (verb). It's not lazy to say that we think our children would be better served if their brains were a bit more developed before they are confronted with the world of addictive apps and always-on social media.

I'm glad to hear that things have worked out well for your kid. There are of course a variety of outcomes for different kinds of kids. No one knows whether their kid would have been happier (or would have grown into a happier adult) had they done something differently. We are all just trying to figure out how to do our best, and for some people that means slowing down the rate of change from one generation to the next.

1: https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/sapien-smartphone-repor...
You can configure single clicking in Windows, or at least you once could.
Check out cronenberg's recent movie, crimes of the future, seems relevant haha
There's no significant drinking water source in Crimea. And this was the dam directing water to Crimean water channel. Not sure what other credible source you may want.
That couldn't even fit on a floppy disk. You know, that icon thing kids click on to save things.
The fact it's timed with the first day of the counter offensive and it's been long discussed as a very likely target for Russia that would be one hell of a coincidence.
The next revision of the MBPr didn't have such luck on the design/durability side (I owned both, and heartfully share your praise of the 2016 version)

iPad had similar ill fated designs. I went to replace the battery of an iPad Pro and was offered a new one for the price of the battery, as a standard procedure (it's glued to the motherboard under all the other components, so no in-store replacement)
at this point, for mac pros which have expansion slots, why would not apple do that. both for nvidia and amd cards?
You watch a TV from quite far ahead. Even a huge TV might not be much bigger than a normal laptop in your lap, let alone a single big monitor.
Again, I don't see you reprimanding lesuorac, who committed the initial violation:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

He deliberately reduced "decades" to 5 elections for the express purpose of weakening the argument and making it easier to criticize ("sample size of garbage").
But HoloLens has pretty much entirely abandoned the consumer market and is now targeting the lucrative segment of professional usage where there is obvious gain to me made using AR, a segment Apple has always been mostly uninterested in.
Pretty soon, we, responsible parents who actually set up parental controls correctly, pay attention to what our kids are doing and have actual, consistent, and transparent limits will be shamed for giving our kids access to tech by a bunch of neo-hippie Luddite Karens.
If everyone has ADHD, is it really a disorder anymore?

I say this because I have ADHD. Diagnosed very late, because it never bothered me… I just used it to my advantage all my life and I never understood how people can spend years in the same place with the same job. That, to me, sounds like the real sickness.

I learned more about it since and of course there’s a spectrum to it, but still.

ADHD is no doubt the #1 factor why I’m able to have the career I have, the life I have. And I’m very happy there.
Hey, nice work! Being able to continue the conversation and work iteratively looks useful. Bash scripts seem to be one of ChatGPT's sweet spots, where it just gets things right most of the time.

Not to shill, but I'm also doing a GUI version of this as a file manager (aerome.net), with a built in ChatGPT "shell" where you ask it to write scripts and then evaluate them. The goal's to make shell scripting accessible to non developers.
Too late to edit, but in response to earlier poster that deleted their reply, national day of commemoration is probably more accurate than holiday, agreed, thank you. There was some confusion on this point from sources deriving from: https://www.svoboda.org/a/29664681.html (translated headline indicates holiday). I don’t think it changes the thrust of the original point much, but I prefer precision as well.
A determined spammer wouldn't be above buying stolen cc numbers off the dark Web.
But how precise is it? Eye tracking may be good enough for foveated rendering, hand tracking good enough for pushing buttons, but how does it compare to handheld controllers for drawing something in Photoshop?
>That said, it does lack focused topic discussion for things like, your favorite band for instance.

That was always the greatest thing about Reddit IMO: there's some really unique and highly-focused subs there. However, the fact that you have to use a single account across all the subreddits (you can use different accounts, but it's a pain) makes you very vulnerable to some crazy mod in one sub banning you and then getting you banned from the entire site. Completely separate discussion forum sites, as were common 10-20 years ago, didn't have this problem.
It wouldn't be what it is if you could "socket it in" to a desktop. Having everything integrated is part of why it can perform so well.
It's because it has a M2 and can be used as a monitor for an ordinary MacBook
Let’s make more outliers instead of ignoring them and turning them into casualties.
AI needs an awful lot of processing power. Proof of work crypto-miners have an awful lot of processing power. A match made in heaven? Introducing bAItcoin, to the moon!

/s
> It’s also hard to make good predictions and assumptions about a technology that you’re not really using yourself

I'm not sure being a dedicated user makes forecasting any easier. E.g., the cryptocurrency skeptics were generally much more accurate than its ardent users. Having bought in often makes proponents of people. And people who use something but don't study how others use it may overgeneralize their personal experience.

Regardless, I try VR on occasion. I just don't weight my own experience very heavily, because there are plenty of successful things that aren't for me, and plenty of things I love that are terminally niche.
Apple will never own the type of old-school, enthusiast gaming that VR gaming has roots in (of course they do quite well in mobile gamin, but that’s something you do with a device you already own; you don’t buy a device for it). If the former type of gaming is the only application, they didn’t really have a shot to miss with. So, they are adding a bunch of extra functionality that isn’t directly related to gaming. Of course their device will not provide the best bang-for-the-buck in gaming.
Gonna leave my footprint on this one too. Here’s my take since my favorite app on my Meta Quest 2 is actually Immersed (for virtual desktop / multi monitor setups): I’m less interested in either Apple or Meta here because I think Apples Vision Pro ideas just reinforce what we’re being told repeatedly: the industry wants to move away from screens, and the future is not screens. We have two big things on the near horizon now: AR/VR and AI. The industry as a whole will push these technologies until they are the norm. Smartphones, PCs, tablets and laptops (maybe even TVs?) will become legacy technology, but they will of course live on in emulated forms (a “window”). Conversational and ubiquitous computing will be the future, like it or not.
Apple is notorious for retaliating against “news” companies giving them bad reviews especially for demo and preview. At this point, an article is worth approximately as much as a marketing copy straight from them.
Where is that money coming from right now? Ultimately it's still coming out of the average person's pocket.
100% agree. Whatever you decide, supervision and guidance is the best you can do to your kids. I guess it's easier to remove the plug and pretend kids are safe when disconnected.
Will the Internet Forget Russophobia?
Switch the app icon in post?
Quest 2? You re some kind of world champion, most people get tired
Have you been screened for autism et al? I used to believe this until I found out I was autistic, which went unnoticed as a kid due to being very wordy, and instead only had my ADHD diagnosed.
Which I find frankly ironic because I dread clicking on Twitter links for that same reason.

It takes 10 seconds to load a tweet, and I have to click through the "view in app" nag, to boot.

Using Mastodon servers have been a breath of fresh air in comparison.
I sincerely hope this works.

I am a full blown screen addict. Screens and devices have basically been my life since I was very young. It's too late for me but I hope interventions and support while people are young will give them the skills and abilities to manage computer and device usage effectively when they grow older.
So why are they not pursuing holographic projection? https://news.mit.edu/2021/3d-holograms-vr-0310
Ha ha ha! :) This is a video interview of the whistleblower covered in this Debrief story: https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-re...

Mainstream media has been asked to not cover the allegations of criminal activity in illegal black programs without congressional oversight: https://youtu.be/rQjbFZT9_EM?t=1370
The next question is how long would it take to repair if it does slow down / reroute the counter offensive?

There's lots of evidence it harms Russian troop build ups in the region but only if they plan on abandoning the southern Kherson region and don't have any plans beyond that.