skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think technology is the problem here. Rather, it is the evergreen gullibility of humans, showing their willingness to trust their communities and memories and volunteerism to corporations which then seize control of everything.

We had a P2P and open source Reddit alternative 40 years ago, called Usenet. But people fell for a centralized one run by a company once it came along, like they always do. May Reddit's fate end up looking something like Digg's and AOL's.
I liked your first drift but where I see the real hangups happening is with software control.

People put up with a lot of fussy uneven software they can't really tweak or adjust or make comfortable. Prescripted everything is endurable. But if we have to live inside the software, it seems like all the fixed feature way of doing not-so-soft not-so-personal computing today will be oppressive.

The metaverse idea is interesting most of all to me because it has to be a better computing space, for all kinds of experiences to be hosted & play together somewhat. Right now, it doesn't feel like there's many companies that have open possibility & rich multi-party ecosystems in their genes (especially after G+ turned Google's back on APIs and interoperability). Almost all the prevailing winds in software seem going the other direction, which leaves a lot of new ecosystem resistances for XR/spatial to grow well & flourish.
Hardware Startups in the Bay Area
I am interested in finding a good list of potential hardware startups in the Bay. The "best" fit would be one that has both non-Von Neumann compute elements and advanced sensing hardware... I know it is hard to find! that's why I am asking the experts!
Thanks!
Your use of the past-tense is premature, I see double-clicking all the time at work.
Same boat. $5k is massive. I'm considering buying a new ~$2k screen that would then be bound to either home or office, so there's budget to solve the visual side of work and be portable, but I wouldn't bet it on this before a lot of hands-on reviews.

And the reviews would have to be outrageous for me to not wait for a future, cheaper version.

One thing I don't like is the idea of being bound to their idea of what a spatial interface is. I use three screens and like more density, so my current situation is more useful than their demo. Give me that and good control over the environmental backdrop, and I'd start to be convinced. I like my work, but if I could do it while feeling like I'm in the desert permanently at golden hour, that'd be an upgrade.
So is the conclusions: use IPs? Or how can you protect your app against those outages?
New accounts require some kind of turing tests. Old accounts could be banned if found out, so owners could be made aware of a policy like that.
Or maybe, it really is a hard problem that would make such services more expensive to operate. In the end we the user would get fewer such free services. Paid services could somewhat tackle this problem as bots are much better kept in check financially that way.
Looks like Elon might meet his goal of reducing ad revenue from 90% to 50% of total revenue. Just not the way he had hoped.
Maybe we can just add some broad-spectrum antibiotics into the standard plastic mix.
There are hundreds of millions of recent iPhones with outstanding OLED displays out there.
Isn't this missing a multiplier for population amount?

What's the total number of voters difference at say, age 77
What's that thing they say about averages being misleading? I think it was that averages are misleading.
It doesn't, and that would be a bad thing, because warnings aren't magic and bug-free themselves. Nor is there any reason to comply with every single warning every person in the world has come up with.

clang has a -Weverything and it isn't supported.
Louis Rossman gives lots of examples on hist YouTube channel. For example, in one case Apple appears to have cut some corners when designing the power supply for the SSD, so that when it fails it dumps 13 volts into the 2.5 volt SSD which permanently damages it: https://youtu.be/7cNg_ifibCQ?t=309

In other videos he shows how Apple puts display data lines right next to high-voltage lines instead of separating them with a ground line, which means you’ll fry the board if you get a tiny bit of moisture in that area.

So you will notice these cut corners when your device breaks and the repair costs almost as much as the original device.
It's very comfortable until you've used a VR display (like an NReal Air). You can relax all of the muscles in your body and still get work done.
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if you live in any urban area us humans have already outdone them by far. and globally excluding islands with no predators it is likely humans are still the leading cause in one form or another (habitat, pesticides, herbicides)

us destroying birb habitat and their food sources are far more an issue then cats but hey lets just focus on cats instead of those.

not to mention in many ares outside urban centres cats are pretty low down on the food-chain and are as much prey as predator so the main reason to keep your cat inside is so it doesn't become somethings meal
My 2011 iMac is screaming fast with Debian Linux.
Nonsense.

I don't see any criticism of allowing suicide as a personal choice in the article. The criticism here is that it is state sanctioned, encouraged by the healthcare system, and becoming an option that will be deliberately offered for perfectly healthy people that might just be going through a hard time.

Everybody always knows suicide is on the table. Your doctor coming to you and asking if you've considered suicide just because you're having a rough time and offering you assistance is absolutely disgusting and people that want that to be the status quo should be ashamed of themselves.
Just wanted to piggyback on this. I was just commenting today to my coworker on the number of people I see walking around Manhattan/Brooklyn with AirPods Maxes on. I swear I see at least a pair or two every other minute while walking down the street.

Most of these people, like you said, we’re likely not blowing $500+ on headphones before Apple made that concept mainstream.
if you live in any urban area us humans have already outdone them by far. and globally excluding islands with no predators it is likely humans are still the leading cause in one form or another (habitat, pesticides, herbicides)

us destroying bird habitat and their food sources are far more an issue then cats but hey lets just focus on cats instead of those.

not to mention in many ares outside urban centres cats are pretty low down on the food-chain and are as much prey as predator so the main reason to keep your cat inside is so it doesn't become somethings meal
Heh yeah me too for software — fun thing we have all of our after hours chats powered by gpt 4 with our documentation.

Many people try to chat with it like a dumb bot using single words… few people have figured out you get very in-depth answers - so over all I’m very pleased with our results but still funny how people react to it…
No incentive for other countries to join a strike in the US. Odd to expect them to. And the solution for dealing with poor working conditions in the now is...what? Post-docs write their congressman to better pay postdocs at the NIH? Postdocs taking time out of work for social media campaigns or other such campaigns that do not have the same legal fiat as a union?
Summary:

00:00 Nuclear waste isn’t what I thought

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06:20 How do you get electricity?

06:50 What is uranium?

07:28 How does a nuclear reaction work?

08:05 Why is nuclear waste dangerous?

08:40 What do we do with nuclear waste?

09:35 How do you make electricity from nuclear waste?

11:21 Why doesn’t the US reuse nuclear fuel?

12:20 Is recycling waste feasible?

13:41 What is Huge If True?

TLDR: In support of nuclear energy and understanding waste is a complex but also manageable issue.
Seems like scraping and providing an alternative API would violate TOS and will receive a takedown notice in due time.
Are there species of bacteria that are substantially unchanged in a billion years?
If you ignore the “vision”, you can just call them A(pple) Hole Pros.

You can pretty easily make fun of apple products. We just don’t do that because their products are good.

The moment a bad iPhone comes out someone will start calling it an iSore.
There are circular magnetically attached lens inserts. Kind of hard to get started but looks like it could have really good optical performance, much more so than the glasses-capable devices we have today.

It will be very interesting to see how Apple Stores manage to demo these things. A case full of inserts?
So New York Times, where Ralph worked for 45 years, was not interested in this story? They also mention the Washington Post did not run it, claiming they "needed to publish quickly" without explaining why they couldn't wait for WaPo to authenticate it.
Watch was criticized for its poor battery life and lack of usage other than health/training management. Now battery life is improved a bit and more health features added, but I think the OG criticize point is still valid. Why is it sold well is that it seems that many people care about health device than we expected.
And you simply refuse to believe that online index updates exist?
Startling conclusion: The 30 people who received a substantial amount of free money liked getting free money.

Follow up conclusion: Therefore we should give everyone cash.
FWIW, the Quest Pro can do both eye and face tracking on avatars right now, although whatever app you're using needs to support it and it's not yet photorealistic. (Meta's been working on photorealistic avatars but my understanding is they're currently too computationally expensive)

I couldn't find a really good demo, but this should give a decent idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt0O4_56_qE

Meta also announced plans to use face tracked avatars for video calling in What's App and Messenger, although I'm not sure the status of that.
There was a lot of fear mongering about the dangerous Chinese Pyrex a few years back.

The Wirecutter did a detailed review and concluded that the differences only matter if you misuse your glass.
The last bullet point in GC's comment was related to weight.
Are you paying taxes on every conversion? Because if no that would classify as illegal.
This appears to be a German effort.

Compare the California Academy of Science effort: https://www.inaturalist.org/sites/network and https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/terms and https://www.gbif.org/dataset/50c9509d-22c7-4a22-a47d-8c48425... and https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export
Additionally I imagine 90% of reddit traffic is in the top subreddits which already have corporate-controlled moderators who don't care about any of this
Even further, there are two downward facing cameras. I bet they restrict these (for privacy), but I wouldn't be surprised if they come out with something to help you see your keyboard via those cameras
It's not very efficient?!? I am shocked!
do you happen to know any?
> There's a famous macrumors forum post of people raging against the iPod,

Back in the day, it was the Slashdot take: "No wifi. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
as i said in my experience with the hue ecosystem it ran for years, 5 years, with no issues. it literally was set and forget and just worked. until it died and i moved to HA i hadn't added or changed anything for at least 2 years to the point i had to install the app to my phone when the bridge died lol
Curious - why do you suggest fedora? I'm familiar with ubuntu/debian and arch, but have never delved into why fedora/redhat/centos/rocky.
Flights are my most compelling use case for my Nreal Airs.

Nothing worse than being 1" too deep and having to work at a terrible, awkward angle.
I not denying that or saying everything is going to change in an instant. I am saying we are past the point, where Google and the Attention Economy they raised, keeps running the way it did in the last 20 years. We are going to see flat revenues, more layoffs, less data centers getting built, less "free services", multiple large countries bringing out legislation on how personal data, algos can be used, more huge fines etc There is even a UN report released this year talking about how the Attention Economy should really work covering issues on the social, political, ethical and cal and economic front. On top of it the Telcos worldwide are all in huge debt. they have been trapped in a cycle building/upgrading the pipes on the belief that all the data flowing is oil. But if its all sewage then how long does the cycle run? Its going to break down.
I wish they'd make a handheld console
I had not much success with Seek when it comes to plants. However, its variant iNaturalist is not bad for identifying insects if you take good photos and spend some time sifting through the results suggested by the app.

Flora Incognita is more like the PictureThis app with focus on the plants growing naturally in local ecosystems.
No, that dose needs to happen in a short amount of time to apply.
it sounds like HA is far more polished now so i'm hoping it goes well. but hue over the last half decade has been 100% solid and reliable for me till the bridge died
That's a clojure norm, it may exist in other lisps.
They could be posting it on 30 different accounts vpned into different geographical locations. Or 300, or 1000. Eventually the pipeline gets clogged somewhere

The quiestion is by inspecting text can one determine if it’s written by a human or llm? Not sure how accurate that would be and we’re back to square spam, now incredibly to eye out as spam but waste good time on broken incorrect information..
I would think cigarette smoking is a big variable in the effect too.

People living in poverty, uninsured, didn't graduate high school are all variables we know correlate with a higher % of cigarette smoking.
The "traditional" Excel solution is Array Formulas.
I've ordered something now to at least get in the queue for the next time. Hopefully by then, some Zero 2 boards will be available.
I'm introverted so it's actually a nightmare when people want to have conversations with me the whole flight. I do intercontinental flights (10-15 hour) every 2-3 weeks. I'm either sleep, have my headphones on, or both.

I don't think it would feel too much worse than waking someone on the aisle up.
I don't really find Mastodon that slow.

I do think it's got a lot, lot of sharp edges that need smoothing out before it's really viable. But speed isn't a problem, and it's decentralised.
jeez why not just use one of the million services.. php... npm... do you also start your own fire, like with a tinder box, to cook some food?
Being unapproachable on flights is a decidedly good thing IMO. Also, so many people already use noise cancelling headphones and/or sleep masks, how is this any different?
This is the terrible explanation they gave for dropping support:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...

"Thank you everyone for your comments and feedback regarding JPEG XL. We will be removing the JPEG XL code and flag from Chromium for the following reasons:

- Experimental flags and code should not remain indefinitely

- There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL

- The new image format does not bring sufficient incremental benefits over existing formats to warrant enabling it by default

- By removing the flag and the code in M110, it reduces the maintenance burden and allows us to focus on improving existing formats in Chrome"

The issue on the Chromium tracker is now one of the most-starred and most-commented-on of all time because people from all over came to tell Google that they're insane, from Intel to Adobe to Facebook to Krita to Cloudinary to Shopify to Serif/Affinity to the VESA DisplayHDR Chairman.

It may also be worth noting that the author of commit to remove support from Chromium appears to be a WebP co-author, having given talks about WebP and being the primary contributor to libwebp.

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/40...

https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp/+log
Those who have had experience in crypto for a while know why all popular projects turn out to be scams... Whoever has been funding and controlling the industry is literally only allowing scams to succeed. Crypto as we know it is probably a very expensive, elaborate psyop. There was an obvious shift around early 2018 where project founders just stopped caring for no apparent reason. I have this perspective because I was an employee of a major project at the time. I've mostly withdrawn from crypto for now because it has the same kind of 'horse with a carrot dangling from a stick' kind of vibe as the mainstream economy.

I joined crypto because I felt that the existing economy was working against me so you bet I noticed the sudden shift when the crypto economy also started working against me.
Apple isn’t the only one with an XR device. Devs can still hone their ideas now that they have UX direction. The Apple AR SDK has been out for years now too.

The first iPhone also only had 1.4 million in sales. I’m not even sure the App Store was even out until the 2nd Gen.
That's because google isn't a search engine. It's a content aggregator now.
39 here, but I really cannot imagine ever leaving my triple-screen [tie-fighter](https://i.imgur.com/DkqkER7.jpeg)-style setup, unless it was for an unlimited number of unlimited-resolution screens.

If I could have one screen per application and surround myself in a galaxy of windows, I definitely would.

Would I look at them all on a regular basis? Of course not. 80% of them I would only look at once every hour or so.
It is also worth noting that they have recently greatly improved their AI: https://floraincognita.com/blog/2023/04/18/press-release-new...
I've been coding from a couch for 6 years or so, this can be done.

If anything, this headset could use cameras to superimpose your fingers on keyboard if you can't memory type.
How many pcie developers are there anyway?

Apple had a renaissance with the old pre-2013 mac pro, and mostly people used pcie to add graphics cards to their system. the 2013 mac pro sort of offhand killed that with its mediocrity.

But nowadays it seems like graphics cards would need non-trivial OS support, so who would put together pcie cards for macos?
Being fluent in another language than English, I’ve always wanted to take my blog multilingual.

It’s been years now. And Ghost’s internationalisation support is still a joke.
Weird way to say it. Airs are underclocked to avoid reaching fan temps.
Apple's "Pro" naming is somewhat a random. Here's my ranking of Pro-ness.

Mac Pro >= Pro Display XDR >= ProRes >= Logic Pro > FinalCut Pro > Vision Pro >= MacBook Pro >= iPad Pro > iPhone Pro >>> AirPods Pro
I agree with your main point: tech isn't the problem here.

But a minor quibble: USENET wasn't exactly peer-to-peer. I mostly got to USENET through my university or ISP's NNTP servers. If I wanted to start a new group and get you involved, I would've had to set up my own NNTP server for you to connect to, using either your NNTP client or your own NNTP server.
> Want access to prod? Sure give me a ticket. I don’t trust any place that doesn’t want things written down.

Being a sysadmin is very different than being part of the executive team that develops strategy.
Or maybe AI will be used for the proper niches and will be everywhere in your lives but as a tool to our use just like electricity
Does this support versioning?
Super underrated feature add: Link related notes in Apple Notes

"Quickly add links from one note to another. It’s a powerful way to connect research notes, reference a recipe, or even create wikis for your team." [0]

[0] https://www.apple.com/macos/sonoma-preview

Despite being a heavy user of Obsidian, Apple Notes always remained my Inbox app of choice for initial notes. This is mainly due to how fast it is and how bulletproof its sync is. Adding bi-directional notes support may make me rethink my setup. Hoping there's hidden improvements to the notes export.
I tried it out around the yard and it correctly identified a variety of native flowering plants (in and past their prime), a couple trees (one native to the region, one about 400 miles from its native range), and a few ferns. The only one I'm pretty certain it got wrong was misidentifying a ghost fern as a Japanese painted fern (I have both, they are rather easily distinguished). When I tried to suggest that the misidentified fern was a ghost fern, it was unknown to the app so I couldn't suggest it.
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https://nicolas.brodu.net/en/programmation/streflop/index.ht... is apparently pretty reliable, but yeah, it's a big problem. Spring and 0AD both struggled with it too.
It doesn't matter what games it has if it doesn't have _my_ games.

That's really what sets casual gaming devices (Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, etc) apart from actual gaming devices.
You're making it way too complicated on yourself somehow. You just go to Home Depot or Lowes or whatever, buy a device, plug it in, create an account in the whatever and connect it to your Siri/Alexa/Google. There's no Lua or Python in sight. No Raspberry pi home servers either. If you want to make it hard on yourself you can, but why would you?

Home Assistant is fine, and means a less technical customer doesn't deal with and of that nonsense you're talking about. I'm sure there's things you can't do with it and for that you would need to be a programmer but if you just want to say"hey Google I'm taking a shower", and have it set the lights in your bathroom, and turn on the heater, or have it switch the lights to warm at sunset, or an hour before, that's totally possible.
I actually went and booted up my Quest 1 today to check if it had the hand tracking. It did! I logged into HN with it and browsed around for a while. It all felt startlingly futuristic after watching WWDC hype it up so much, I'll admit that much. The experience without controllers is good enough that I question the diminishing returns at $1,500 for the Quest Pro, let alone $3,500 for the Vision Pro.

> Palmer Lucky came out and said this thing is "so good" last week

While we're talking bigwigs, Mark Gurman had some stuff to say about the Quest 3 too:

> I came away impressed with the mixed-reality focus of the Quest 3, the much-improved video pass-through capabilities, the faster performance and the large content library. Assuming the device costs about $500, it would be about a fifth as much as the Apple headset — while being more than a fifth as compelling.

Make of that what you will. I'm going to go watch Avatar in bed.
Apple seems to have a good track record for considering this kind of stuff. On the "Learn more about visionOS" section of the site they state this:

> Like every Apple product, Vision Pro was designed with accessibility in mind. The flexible input system lets you use your eyes, hands, and voice individually or in any combination with features like Dwell, Voice, and Pointer Control.