skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether it's true or not, there are some predictable consequences to a mainstream "proof of aliens" scenario:

- for national governments, the choice to accept revealing the existence of aliens now would be an implied endorsement of the current world order. e.g. everything has changed, we need to suspend new changes until we know more. Looks bad for elections.

- it is a reason to dispense with rules and limits on sovereign powers that were created without this key ontological knowledge. Aliens are the ultimate existential emergency, states will do what they want "for humanity." Your privileges are a from a world that no longer exists, etc.

- even if it's a hoax, elevating aliens to official news seizes back lost official narrative control, which twitter had made untenable this weekend.

- Worst case scenario, it would imply a mandate from "above" to do whatever the coordinating body behind this revelation might have planned.

Whether this alien thing is true or not, any mainstream acceptance of an alien visitation can be interpreted a signal for co-ordination around a narrative that would very likely be in service to these objectives, imo.
I get what the author is saying here, but I have to respectfully disagree.

> I would love to have an assistant who keeps me in check, alerting me to pitfalls and correcting me when I err. A effective pair-programmer. But that is not what I get. Instead, I have the equivalent of a cocky graduate student, smart and widely read, also polite and quick to apologize, but thoroughly, invariably, sloppy and unreliable. I have little use for such supposed help.

> Fascinating as they are, AI assistants are not works of logic; they are works of words.

> They have become incredibly good at producing text that looks right. For many applications that is enough. Not for programming.

Meyer may be right in that currently LLMs are illogical therefore unsuited to programming complex software, but programmers can still find use from LLMs by delegating to it simple programming tasks like glue scripts.

People should use it for small automations, especially those which aren't mission critical so it's okay for it to make a mistake.
The kind of would you would delegate to that hypothetical cocky grad student.

Meanwhile we have famous programmers like Simon Willison, co-creator Django saying this[0]:

> If you're just starting to learn software engineering right now but you're considering dropping it because you think the field might be made obsolete by AI, I have an alternative approach to suggest for you:

> Start learning now, and use AI tools to learn FASTER

> I wrote about my experiences using ChatGPT and Copilot to help learn Rust back in December

> I've since started to get more ambitious - I'm using it for all sorts of other languages, like AppleScript and zsh and jq

[0]: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1639692312585572352
The people that can afford this aren’t impacted by the economy. It’s a professional tool and the expense can be justified. It’s not a product for ordinary consumers yet. On top of that it’s not out until next year - who knows what the economy will be like then.
The authors of the article are Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, the people who broke off the news about the secret US program to study UFOs on the New York Times back in 2017 and 2018.

The other journalist that has interviewed the whistleblower is Ross Coulthart, the award-winning investigative journalist who published interviews with Nat Kobitz, former US Navy Science and Tech Director, who claimed to have knowledge of a program to reverse-engineer crashed UFOs.

The people who are breaking these news can't be dismissed easily.
I'll admit to being quite skeptical of the iPad and was wrong about that.

That said, despite owning a Quest 2 and eagerly awaiting the Quest 3 release, nothing in this headset particularly appeals to me. (Am mainly into rhythm games and am guessing those wouldn't be nearly as fun without the haptics in into other headsets' controllers which this seems to lack).
A canvas element is not as performant as an image element.
Wearing a personal sensor-net without it being also a VR headset might be nice - to control fixed screens around the room.
TBF, I was kind of a dick in the one that blew up but not insanely. It was mostly a really political/social topic. So I did the cardinal sin of responding to that sort of topic :)

But.. yeah. Live and learn I guess. It still bothers me that they moderate it like that.
You win the internet today.

Not much of a prize, today, maybe you can get a rain check.
A lot of these are no-gos anyway from a backwards compatibility perspective (many of which being entirely syntactical), and they're already in Kotlin, so I'm not sure why you wouldn't just use that. A couple I could potentially see making their way into Java though.
The best an eye can discern is roughly 20 microns, but generally far higher at 100 microns. They said 7.5 microns per pixel (X3 for RGB is 22.5 so roughly there without space).

Assuming they're square. Roughly calculating (23 million pixels between the two with no space between 7.5 microns,) that's 25.432mm^2. they've said they're the size of postage stamps. This ties in.

I think it's near safe to assume there's no real gap between pixels and thus indiscernible. The lag might be a thing and focus, but this might actually not be a problem.
> Their justification was more that adding it would be committing a lot of hardware

Which is completely nonsensical. Hardware support is meaningless for web images.
If a programmer can get no value from AI then they aren't trying hard enough, or they are dramatically overvaluing their capabilities.

I wouldn't hire a programmer who said they don't use AI because it doesn't help them.
I've played BeatSaber for the first time just last night, and had a similar experience: party atmosphere, everyone who joined in loved it, even people who don't game. It felt natural and fun.

And 30 minutes later, we were all bored, put the headset to rest, and forgot it even exists.

Everything I've seen from VR so far is on the ultra casual side, arcade games or slightly more. Nothing as complex as Minecraft, not to mention some AAA RPG or Action game, seems even slightly plausible at the moment. Even HL: Alyx is ultimately a visually stunning version of those old on-rails shooters more than a sequel to HL2's extraordinary gameplay.
If the M2 Ultra can double the performance of an M2 Max it will be on par with the 4070ti in compute, or slightly ahead of a 3090. But we'll have to wait for benchmarks to see.
Finally I got a clue to how the next Ted Lasso season is going to look like: He's going to coach remotely having everyone happily wearing a VP.

Joke aside: It's mind-boggling how Apple uses product placement to hammer pictures in our heads and get us to consider not looking like a jerk anymore when wearing AirPods just because some "icons" are wearing them.
I think it's all a matter of how you want to draw the line: do you want to expose the underlying runtime to the consumer, or do you want to make green threads look like real threads? I'm more sympathetic to the latter, because real threads with kernel scheduling don't have function coloring and are even less predictable in when they yield, so why can't my language runtime (e.g. in Python) just pretend they're kernel threads?

I give a pass to Rust for this one though, since it would need a more heavyweight runtime with green threads to deal with this.
Apple also released https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton

Which was a great idea and a very innovative product literally ahead of it’s time by 15 years.
Sure there is, but that's not the part we were discussing. I was replying to a comment about a specific line of the essay.
> I'm still surprised when I see coworkers say things in slack

I was recently talking with a friend who recently left government. They mentioned that they has a special slack emoji, "JK FOIA", so they could clearly mark things as "just kidding" to future FOIA readers.
It's not just that defaults matter, the problem here is why have footgun as the default?

In a runtime example I can run it with tests and it would behave fine if both values are same or first arg is bigger, in Rust's case it would behave valid for ANY combination of arguments.
Might as well have called the article "AI Considered Harmful", heh...
Totally fair, I've mostly lived in one part of the south so it's likely regional.
> Nobody is paying business or first class prices and wearing a VR headset. Certainly not devoting carry on baggage space for it.

Why not? The screens aren’t that great. And I may want to watch my own content.
We humans have crashed plenty of advanced craft on Mars. Does it mean it is not possible for us to travel long distances?
I fly business class all the time and would absolutely use this.

I get to watch my own content on a significantly larger and better quality screen.
I think they want better compression. JXL has excellent lossless compression.
I think you would be surprised at what portion of global commodities trade, and perhaps trade in general, transacts via WhatsApp.
AI should be licensed like medicines or nuclear power, UK Labour suggests
Who else noticed that none of the presenters were actually wearing the device they were unveiling?

Best case scenario is they didn’t want to monkey around awkwardly with fit and adjustment. But even in that case, wasn’t the whole thing pre-recorded anyways?

My hunch (combined with the 2024 release date) is that this thing isn’t fully baked yet.
I've never heard such breathless praise of nonsense before. every vr headset has had spatial audio. mirroring a desktop to vr has been doable on vive or oculus for years and years. faceid literally has nothing to do with this vr headset. etc etc.
The fact that you cant walk around in the games really is a dealbreaker. It would be a nobrainer for all consoles if it werent for that unfortunate detail
Where can you buy that miniPC?
You likely get a lot more infrared in your eyes by going outside, and also a much higher amount of UV which is what actually causes damage.

As long as it's just a gentle/diffuse flood there is no cause for concern. When they start introducing scanning lasers then it's time to sit up in the seat.
There is really no comparison between the Apple device and what Meta announced, the devices are quite different.

Even when Apple showed games, it was less full AR games or like VR experiences in AR, it was about putting a screen up and playing a standard game like this.

The Apple experience is full VR and using every space as a screen to access the things you already do. Meta is insisting on building the 'metaverse' it's a completely different concept that people making this argument seem to have completely missed.

And I say that as someone that uses a Q1 everyday for Fitness and will be purchasing a Q3, you saw Apple announce nothing like this, also I think the name is a give away 'vision pro' it's about visuals and virtual screens, not about creating another reality, which is likely why they moved away from the reality pro name that was rumoured.
I love the "spatial" term, it was in the air..

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/s-arcade-first-spatial-au...

My bet, or wishful thinking, is that lower-fi spatial augmented experiences can be more fun and engaging when "shared" with our senses. Maybe also cheaper :D
It's been surprisingly easy for the
last two decades. Just use about third most popular Linux.
Hi would you guys be open to interns?
The simple answer:

MPEG-TS still exists because it’s still the best media container/transport system in existence.

It was designed and has evolved over a long time based on solid foundations by very smart people in the industry, across multiple institutions and professions.

As opposed to the “format du jour” that was quickly thrown together by some eastern block script kiddie who saw the basic outline of an AVI file and figured they could do better…

Case in point: MPEG-TS has scaled from DVD across BluRay (and DVD-HD) is the backbone of both satellite and terrestrial digital broadcasting.
For all the accolades about the Apple cpus, market share remains within historical ranges (5-10% per my recollection going back to the late 80s).

For Q1 per IDC: The top five PC manufacturers by market share were Lenovo (23.9%), HP (21.5%), Dell (16.0%), Apple (7.5%), and Acer (6.4%).
I feel collaboration is the 'killer app' for this tech - though it won't achieve that.

Now, how big is that market?? I don't think it's all that big. yet.

Generative AI is making an impact on that world too - perhaps there will be a change in generative AI's presence in creation / media creation, which will require AR / VR.

I think THIS product will be sold as a PC / Monitor replacement, and in 5 years the collaboration killer app will be the "novel" usage.
Ask HN: Why is dependency management hard?
I've been battling lately with a js/ts project and have seen issues with python too. Ruby on the other hand, I haven't had a single issue with bundler in +12 years.
How would you emulate monkeypatching with anonymous subclasses?
The hidden error scenario is real -- on the other hand, I've also seen Copilot output code that successfully accounts for edge cases I hadn't yet thought of.
> * I think you are capable of not thinking in absolutes, I just wanted to be mean on the internet

While I disagree with your post, that last frank comment made me smile.
> If it’s a delightful, polished, responsive experience for the stock applications

IMHO this is a perfect description for the Apple TV.
ah, fun times. i remember interviewing the guy behind the project, a very nice person.

also i remember there was a modified boot loader (chromwell, iirc?) and some person had managed to solder an additional 64mb chip to bring the total memory to a whopping 128MB.
> use this to do more work outside

Can’t wait for the Apple Vision Pro suntan.
Fair comparison, I felt the same about the AirPods. What these three devices have in common? They are not pro devices and their physicality is portable and easily accessible. Is the same true for the Vision Pro? I am purposefully excluding price.
What on earth.. is this captcha some kind of joke?

https://ibb.co/3yW9mjj

I'm a human but it's not clear what the "challenge" even is that needs to be completed.

And after you get it wrong, it doesn't kick you out, it just flashes a toast message like "User failed captcha".

Twilight zone material.
> Only since 2020, all of a sudden results take multiple days and the electorate is supposed to just understand "this is how it is now" and not question anything, despite witnessing major swings in individual states or districts occurring overnight.

The main reason the counting took much longer was three-fold: many more votes were cast by mail than was typical, several states were quite close in their vote count (three states within 1%), and a few states were prohibited from taking any preparatory steps to counting mail ballots prior to election day. And this was known--and heavily reported on!--well before the election.

Counting mail-in ballots is intrinsically harder than in-person ballots. Indeed, very rarely is it ever actually completed on election night (not least of which is that in many states, the votes need not be received by election day to be counted). However, usually mail-in ballots aren't enough to decide the results of an election. But when 2/3 of the ballots are via mail, and especially when there was an expected partisan difference between in-person and mail-in ballots, it takes a lot longer to develop a good consensus as to when one of the candidates is highly likely to have won.
I have read a similar proposal that you can just drop biomass into deep oceanic trenches. The cold, pressure, etc mean that decomposition is significantly slower than would happen on the surface.
Not really an open market when one company has as large a share of sales as steam. Valve may have a different ethos from Apple, but both agree on principle of extracting monopoly rents.
This is one of the reasons I make notes off websites that piqued my interest in something. It’s just too hard to re-search from scratch.
Ask HN: What niche technical scene or topics are you fond/part of?
My coworkers and I loved the responses to a previous post and thought I would bring it back every so often for folks who missed it.

Original submission:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33696216

Right now I'm diving into accessibility in video games and what I can learn for building web apps that are more customizable. Game Maker's Toolkit has some great overviews of how this has played out in the game's industry for folks interested.

2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IhQl1CBj9U&pp=ygUhZ2FtZSBtYWtlcnMgdG9vbGtpdCBhY2Nlc3NpYmlsaXR5

2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWQcuBigOj0&pp=ygUhZ2FtZSBtYWtlcnMgdG9vbGtpdCBhY2Nlc3NpYmlsaXR5

2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi98rAn4uXE&pp=ygUhZ2FtZSBtYWtlcnMgdG9vbGtpdCBhY2Nlc3NpYmlsaXR5

Colorblindness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrqdU4cZaLw&pp=ygUhZ2FtZSBtYWtlcnMgdG9vbGtpdCBhY2Nlc3NpYmlsaXR5

Cognitive Disabilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObhvacfIOg0&pp=ygUhZ2FtZSBtYWtlcnMgdG9vbGtpdCBhY2Nlc3NpYmlsaXR5
> Gaming on Mac is completely dead

"Dead" is an unnecessary exaggeration. I'm a Mac gamer and my Steam library has more Mac games in it than I can possibly play all the way through. No Man's Sky was just released for Mac, and I'm looking forward to playing that too. I just played through Subnautica at the same time as my friend who was playing it on his Switch and he was blown away at how much better and smoother it was on my M1 MacBook. Also Parallels and Crossover open up the ability to play a lot of Windows games on a Mac. I'm still impressed with just how well that works for some games. I'm not a bleeding-edge everything-in-my-life-is-about-gaming gamer, sure, but I still think I'm a gamer. Yes, compared to the Windows gaming market, the Mac gaming market is small, but it's not dead.
Show HN: GPU Watch – Get notified once cloud GPUs have available capacity
Hi HN!

GPU Watch continuously monitors a list of Cloud GPUs you'd like to use (in the background of the tab), and notifies you once there is available capacity for the Cloud GPUs you've chosen.

Try it at: https://gpu-watch.vercel.app/

How does it work?

1. Select the Cloud GPUs you'd like to use

2. Click the "Start Watching" button & leave the tab open in the background

3. Once any of your selected Cloud GPUs have available capacity, you'll get a desktop notification

Currently, it only supports Lambda Labs, but I will add support for other cloud providers if there's interest.

I built this to help with scheduling my own ML training jobs, and thought it would be nice to ship this, in case others find it useful! :)
> massive

> sweaty

> strapped

> instead of [...] their family/friends

> generated avatars

> kids [...] grab my headset, strap it on [...] or just go join them?

> cutting myself off from the outside world

> half-assed substitute for consuming the same content

> Show me the actual future

It seems like you're trying very hard to convince yourself this will be a bad product that is unpleasant to use and carries unavoidable antisocial externalities. It could very well be all of that and more, but I don't really understand why you would bother with this level of self-assured negativity before there are even any unbiased hands-on impressions out there. Apple is historically very good at execution.

> Would I rather work on this all day instead of a laptop?

You know, I very well might!
I totally agree with everything you've written, but I'd just put forth that I think what Apple did with Apple Watch could be instructive here.

Apple Watch was basically originally marketed as a high-end app/notification device (remember the original 10k gold Apple Watch?) Over time they realized the real target market and use case was as a fitness/health tracker, and they doubled down on features and design for that.

With these AR/VR headsets, I agree that gaming is the one use case I've actually seen these headsets be great at, but all these companies keep trying to extend it to our daily lives that nobody seems to really want. But I could believe Apple would eventually come around to seeing one or two really good target markets (gaming and watching movies maybe?) and then just really hone in on that. Folks say games will be a tough sell because Apple isn't really known as a gaming platform, but I don't think this is really true if you take iOS games into account. I can easily see game developers wanting to build for this given the hardware capabilities.
So... this is a company that sells a service that lets you run an app on 127.0.0.1?
I’ve had problems in the UK with Netflix and PlayStation network.
Yeah, I get tired of telling liberals, what you really want is Second Amendment repeal. So say that instead of burbling about "assault weapons" (which is politician for tacticool-looking rifles generally of smaller caliber than many hunting rifles), "common sense gun law reform", etc. Because you're not getting much done and you're putting conservatives on high alert, and you'll get punished for it come election time.

Get the support. Repeal the amendment. Go full Lincoln: start implementing strict gun measures through statutes and EOs. Don't give a shit this time if conservatives get mad; if they threaten war, round them up and make examples out of them. And while the constitutionality battle winds its way through the courts, drag repeal toward the center of the Overton window until, like gay marriage, it becomes an obvious policy winner with overwhelming bipartisan support. Just in case, pack the court with liberal justices who will opine the RKBA back to a collective right which it was generally agreed to be until the far right took utter control of the NRA and the Republican Party.

Oh yeah, and sue, sue, sue. Sue gun manufacturers, ammo manufacturers, gun rights organizations, and politicians who voted and advocated against gun laws. The First Amendment only protects you from jail for your heinous speech; as we've seen with Alex Jones, it doesn't protect you from billion-dollar judgements if you choose to spread lies about the dangers of widespread gun availability, gun culture, and the violence these enable.
Does anyone know what is the privacy status of XReal? I would like to buy one, but I'm quite concerned about privacy.
Can one install a regular AMD gpu in this?
The parent is a troll and posted this thread "Is Hacker News slow for you guys too? I think it's the Apple announcements" just 20 minutes earlier.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36203460
China Unicom

https://www.chinaunicom.com.hk/en/global/home.php
No - may I still reply to your question?

I think MORE efficient indoor-tech, that allows you to get your stuff done MORE QUICKLY so you can go outside, is a goal we all should seek, as technologists.

Not forcing users outside in order to get their work done . . (not that is what you were saying).
Then again, the Afgan Army was never a model of competence
Hard disagree- the appearance of wrongdoing can be nearly as harmful for the accused and cause as much trouble as actual wrongdoing. Both should be avoided.
On the other hand , others shove their fingers into their eyes chasing around a loose contact behind their eyeball because the prospect of glasses is in their mind even worse of an experience.
a) Meta Quest is heavier, bulkier with significantly poorer quality displays.

b) You can use any earphones you like. There are videos of people using the AirPods Pro which are the best noise cancelling IEMs on the market today.
Tutorial: Teaching and Learning Compilers Incrementally
>it is not difficult to find places to spend either of those currencies

There are literally no services I use or products I buy that take bitcoin.

From weekly groceries to my car insurance or, well, anything... none take bitcoin. The overlap between businesses that accept bitcoin and the things 99.9999% of people need to live their lives on a daily basis would not be distinguishable to the human eye on a venn diagram.