skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A better metric would be "Can write code in that language for some domain".

Can you though? C++ chooses to sidestep Rice's Theorem with IFNDR (Ill-formed No Diagnostic Required). IFNDR is sprinkled on lots of the ISO Document and what it basically does is, everywhere the language needs semantic constraints for soundness Rice's Theorem would otherwise make it theoretically impossible to write a C++ compiler so they just say well, if you break this semantic constraint you haven't written a C++ program. The compiler won't know, and neither will you, but it's not our fault if your program doesn't work, it was actually never a C++ program anyway.

This is a great rhetorical device - if the goal was to win a debate championship this sort of sidestep is very clever. But obviously it's going to produce a vast amount of nonsense, it's terrible engineering practice, and yet for decades people acted like this was OK.
Somehow iMessage scams have been getting popular lately. Every once in a while I get a few phishing messages a day through iMessages. Then after a week it stops (they got caught, exploit closed, I don’t know).
It generates an avatar for her. They show it in the demo, it looks really good.
This is no different to how many people behave on long haul flights anyway. Face mask on, eye mask on, ear plugs in. Isolated from everybody else as much as they can be, trying to sleep, and they manage it in isle seats.

Also, I remember TotalBiscuit talking about using an Oculus headset to watch films on a plane and it being a better experience than the screen in front for him (I don't quite remember why). So it's not a new concept and this device just makes it less cumbersome, I guess.
It is an unwritten(?) convention that all depiction of time should be 10:10. Don't know why that is but I learnt about this convention when a political party[0] in India launched its symbol, an analog clock.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist_Congress_Party
Crash Bandicoot was Lisp, but the greatest PSX game (Metal Gear Solid) was written in C, so I’ll use that to justify my programming opinions to others.
You mean like how crowds of people at live music events ALL have their stupid smartphones up recording the same damn recording which they should be paying attention to and absorbing the experience and living in the moment?

Forget what people should do, look at what people actually do.
> 1080p detail? Are you aware this detail is spread all over your field of vision?

I'm aware that the field of view on the Quest 2 is fairly narrow, so expanding the virtual screen to close to the full width of the field of view winds up to actual 1080p yes. And it's a great comfortable size for a virtual screen. You're free to confirm the math yourself, but you're not losing detail.

>> The vast majority of content out there is only 1080p

> What???

That's factual. Even most new TV shows aren't in 4K yet, nor is most of the movie catalog. Fortunately it's slowly growing.

> You probably haven't owned many speakers, then.

Right, I've dropped a few hundred on speakers. I'm much happier dropping a couple hundred on AirPods than many thousands on a set of surround-sound speakers to get comparable quality... that I can't even use at the same volume because it would bother people.
Sorry, I thought you would actually read it, forgot where I was for a second - Section 230 protection doesn't require a platform to act as a "common carrier" or to only moderate strictly illegal content, so it would not "come into play" under the circumstances you described.
I love mine and would rebuy them without blinking.
Honestly probably better than being in a room full of people with their camera off. It is painful to pay attention in meetings like that
No one is preventing him from voicing his concerns. I do object to "ensure that every time we someone with that ugly Apple ski mask strapped to their faces we let them know how ridiculous it is" - that bit sounds like he wants to harass anyone who doesn't share HIS concerns.
I'm not even trying to argue that it's necessarily true, I'm just saying that arguing about semantics would simply be showing ignorance to what a brand tax is. One can argue if the prices are actually justified by some tangible value or not, it's neither here nor there.

That said, the evidence that Apple has difficult to justify prices is definitely present in their product line. Love it or hate it, it's extremely difficult to justify a $1,000 monitor stand; even if it's actually not a result of high margins, it's really hard to see how they can add so much value into the concept of a reticulating monitor stand that it would be worth such a price tag. Or perhaps the $700 caster kit for the Mac Pro (a price that hasn't changed: I looked!) They may be the nicest casters ever made, but if it's an option you happen to want, the price from Apple is $700. They don't offer a cheaper option, so that's what you get with Apple. You may want it anyways, because well, it's just so nice and you don't care. That's fine, but that's definitely what most people call the "Apple Tax".
Technically this project is very impressive...

But the user experience is terrible.

I think to have any success, you need to let the p2p features take a backseat, and build a lot of centralised content moderation tooling. You can plug the p2p bit into the centralized bit with a config URL for "List of allowed moderators" and have it default to a bunch of trusted people, who effectively have whitelist/blacklist/supervote abilities.

Then you need to populate it with a bunch of good content to start off with.
Congrats - seems pretty functional from a technical perspective
This is a really excellent app, I use it all the time in my garden. I planted native plants, and as they sprout every year it's very hard to tell them apart from weeds at first. But Flora Incognito does a great job of identifying most plants correctly even as they're just sprouting for the season.
As someone else said, they mentioned that swearing is finally coming to autocorrect during the keynote. But if you want a fix faster than that (janky as this fix is), go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement.

Write down each swear you want and then write the same word for what it should be replaced with. So write “fucking” and “fucking” in the two boxes, and then iOS will know that “fucking” is a word it should look out for and it’ll recognize it for both autocorrect and swipe typing.

Very stupid fix but a stupid fix is still a fix.
this represent a persistent and common misunderstanding of how VR optics works. VR is good for your eyes because the focal point is actually quite far away. Hence why you still need corrective lenses to use it if you are short sighted. It's a lot better than staring at a close up screen.
I hope it shows up in Safari and that this sign of interest from others gets it a second shot in Chrome.

Just the JPEG recompression is arguably worth the price of entry; it's less savings than AVIF, of course, but it's easier to adopt now, where re-encoding everything as AVIF is a much larger hump to get over. Its other modes provide some real benefits for users for very-high-quality and lossless images as well as any situation where progressive display helps. For folks producing images, is much easier to fit in than AVIF for anyone who needs to encode a lot on the CPU.
Oh that sounds like hell to me if I'm being honest. It would be okay for stnadard routines "write a for loop that increments variable foobar" (LLMs help here) but be a fucking nightmare for debugging or fine grained work.
The Cassandra CQL parsing service
A microservice that parses Cassandra CQL commands and returns information about those commands.
I don't how/why/where these myths have been perpetuated from that Apple Silicon Macs magically needs less RAM or magically Apple Silicon Macs are better at memory management.

Software didn't start needing less RAM. All that changed is that RAM and SSD speeds became much faster which allowed for faster swap which reduced the perceived impact of low RAM. If you watch the Activity Monitor, Memory would run into yellow all the time with 8GB machines.

So, you still need RAM based on the use case, Intel or Apple Silicon, and if you pair low RAM with small SSD, you'll just wear out the SSD sooner.
I switched from Spotify just for spatial audio
AFAIK it hasn’t been accurate enough until recently. I’ve heard OpenAI’s whisper is great text to speech and I think I read today iOS 17 is updating their speech-to-text as well.

Also, I’m not an office worker but I would imagine working with speech to text around everyone else using speech to text would be a hellish and annoying scenario. Work from home alleviates that.

It reads that a lot of the control of visionOS is speech based as well and Apple should be smart enough to know if it doesn’t work well the entire product will flop and Tim Apple’s entire legacy will likely be over.
A fissile isotope can readily undergo fission reaction, and a fertile isotope can be converted into a fertile isotope via neutron capture (this is how plutonium is made for nuclear bombs). Neutron capture is not part of the main waste reprocessing method [1], the neutron capture already happened in the reactor. Reprocessing separates the plutonium and other byproducts from the remaining uranium 235 fuel before the latter is re-used, no fertile material is being converted to fissile material.

So now I ask you: what relevance, at all, does the distinction between fissile and fertile material have with respect to magic_hamster's claims about the feasibility of waste reprocessing? That commenter claimed reprocessing was not feasible, I responded with dozens of examples of reprocessing being carried out. What does fertile vs. fissile have to do with this?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUREX
The original Apple TV remote was awful. It was the achilles heel of the product. The newer silver Apple TV remote with the round click/touch surface is what it should have been; it's worth trying if that's your primary pain point.
I think any games released for that system will be crippled by the controls, like smartphone games. Gestures and eye tracking are probably just as imprecise as touchscreens.
> Forget what people should do, look at what people actually do

I'm going to borrow that one mate.
Or, just like smartphones, we're going to have to put up with people around us using them inappropriately in public.
Well, theyve been working on it for 2 years, you expect them to be normies?
So why are people still writing “Apple’s entry into this new product category is doomed because it does not meet my personal expectations for the category” articles without discussing the outcomes of previous doomsayings?

Perhaps the headset deserves ridicule and will fail. Given Apple’s track record, perhaps it would make sense to acknowledge their many successes with products people dismissed, and explain why this one is more similar to their failures that people dismissed (Ping, anyone?)
I was neutral on it until I was told that I could “remember” a special moment by detaching from reality.

Total bullshit. We’re at total tech: a point where tech is so pervasive we think making it the point of things (rather than an enabler) is perfectly fine. Witness the scores of people grasping at likes, awkwardly binging social media in public, putting giant screens in cars, etc etc.
I just think you are thinking of the monitors in an overly literal way.

Imagine a calendar on the wall, but with your meetings and everything dynamic instead of just a static calendar. And it adjusts to show your next meeting extra large as it approaches. No you see useful information in your periphery.

Or perhaps you have application monitoring dashboards on another wall. You don't look at them all the time, but a dedicated space wouldn't be a bad thing.

I see a lot of potential here in the future.
I see these people in the gym with all the time with them. I think your “no one’s buying them” might be rooted in a personal bias.
Credential sharing is a huge QoL improvement in an ordinary-folks kind of way, and very pleasing.

Now if only the Contacts team would do the same.
Thanks! The fitness use case seems to be one thing that creates long-term users. It's surprising to me that's not a bigger part of VR marketing.

Although interestingly, I suspect this is less about facehugger 3D and more about motion-sensitive controllers. For example, consider this person who has been playing Fitness Boxing on the Switch for 3 years straight: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/t3sk6j/a_lo...
Have they actually cleared Bitcoin in writing?
3d photos should have been an iPhone feature for sure, it felt really out of place on Vision. Generally using this in a physical social context doesn't make a lot of sense except in a workplace with others wearing them and working on specific tasks together.

However, this is probably the best device ever made for remote work and I think can make it far less lonely, with an immersive shared environment, 3d avatars that have real facial expressions and visibility of hands, etc. I'd so so much rather use this than sit at a monitor on Zoom.
Who pays for your time? Or is this 3 years of free work?
I kept picturing someone, having turned the "immersiveness" crown to the max and put on noise-cancellation, sitting in a window seat, smiling and calmly watching Ted Lasso all the way down while everyone around them braces for impact and grabs their life preservers!
The API allows you to specify a specific version of the model. It's in the docs.
I totally think that’s fair… And again we don’t know what happened in this particular situation.

I just think that there is this foolish and ultimately costly view of employees that they are interchangeable parts, when in fact there are more effective ways to improve financial performance.
What you want is to either use a supercot Lora, or to use a finetuned model from HF with SuperCOT in its dataset: https://huggingface.co/kaiokendev/SuperCOT-LoRA

https://huggingface.co/search/full-text?q=Supercot&type=mode...

As an aside, I would suggest using a llama.cpp Q5_1 model now. Its more accurate, and with CUDA acceleration, its basically as fast as gptq. You also have the option of running models that dont quite fit into vram, with a very small performance hit.
Resolution information is conspicuously absent from this page.
Microsoft's Outlook.com is down again on mobile, web
I think Excel Tables make a ton of sense, especially if you're using PowerQuery or other built-in data connections to populate the sheet.

But for Google sheets, I've yet to find something as flexible and maintainable as map/lambda -- especially when I'm doing things that are pretty... egregiously hacky, but better suited to gsheets than excel (I still prefer Google's realtime collaboration to Microsoft's).
Is the Apple Watch a success?
But who is the target market for this? I like to think I am usually pretty good at saying this isn’t for me but it is for demo Y. It isn’t clear here, but if I take the marketing video and the price point and put two and two together the target audience is people with a trust fund. Not upper class, but multi-millionaire inherited wealth types. The kind that travel a lot and so something like this makes a lot of sense when on a plane or in a hotel room.

For everyone else though? It is too much money and too little utility. I am sure it will come down in price, but I still don’t see it unless they let you plug it into a PC and use it like a normal VR headset for games, because those are the only people that will shell out over a grand for a headset.
Please don't snarkily dismiss someone's work. If you want to contribute constructively, there are plenty of other ways to bring this point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, they pass it on to consumers, or they pay their staff more, or, if those two are competitive enough, they pass it on to the pension funds etc that invested in them as dividends.

But 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. Having had at least a bit of a think, I can't figure out a way to have a decent political system that doesn't trend to infinite spending.
I wouldn't call it "subtle". The only time I watched an Apple event I was shocked to find how accurate all the jokes were and how Apple really didn't miss any opportunity to boast about how many millimeters and percent something was thinner than before.

> I have seen too many examples, where the "latest" product is inferior to previous-gen.

You mean like when they removed the headphone jack? Or the magsafe laptop charging port, before adding it again years later? Yes, Apple made many improvements but they still mess up a lot and their software has just as many bugs (I use Mac OS for less than a year and already discovered three easily reproducible bugs/crashes in preinstalled applications).
> I'm saying the "Apple goggles" can so easily fall victim this perception because those qualities are so front-and-center with it.

And I'm saying nobody will ultimately give a crap if the tech works as well as Apple wants it to. Our social spaces have been utterly transformed by screens and networked technology in the last few decades, and while there is always some pushback, progress marches on for better or worse.
Yes. Apple rarely makes the first $THING, but they often make the first $THING that doesn't suck.
4 devs full time! How’d you swing that?
Wait for consumer reviews?
I wear glasses (big plastic ones even) nearly every waking hour and don't consider them uncomfortable at all. They're fine.
>No one is going to force him to buy one.

Smartphones didn't exist 20 years ago, now you're forced to use one to participate in society.
Learning how to code fizzbuzz is hard for most people, it isn't for us.

Learning basic corporate politics is hard for most people, not for prospective CEOs.
> That's neat, the dead are welcome to their opinions. That doesn't change where or why it's used primarily by certain parties in their English facing media.

How does this justify removing an actual historic term from the vocabulary.

> But it clearly has a different meaning in English.

It doesnt:

> I'll admit error if you can find a source, that's not Russian

It amazes me how someone that claims any insight in the matters of law can ask for 'sources' for such a thing. It just feels crazy. Here you go:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24517581

Its not about the law, its not about the history, its the actual term used in an Anglosaxon source about how French saw the !rise of Anglosaxons! in 20th century.

This paper of the actual university of Cambridge is actually named "The Rise of the Anglo-Saxon: French Perceptions of the Anglo-American World in the Long Twentieth Century". It is the Anglosaxons using the actual scientific term to refer to the actual historic and political science concept.

> The problem is I'm having a hard time finding one on my own.

Thats amazing now. The above was the first google result for me, an avid student of history. You were unable to find anything maybe its because you dont have much interest in that direction. Or, more likely, you were totally inundated with the actual propaganda war that very Anglosaxon establishment is waging against the actual historic term just because its current enemy used it to describe, well, itself...
Sir, this is a developer conference.
IIRC, that's lignite coal?
"Founder to founder"

"Me, founder of a microscopic SaaS image company trying to capitalize on the hype of AI"

"You, founder of $960b company with 27,000 employees and generations of market leading advanced technology"

Clearly they both speak a special language that only "founders" can understand!

/s

I "found" my lunch yesterday, does that make me a founder?
Google always need a push from another tech giants to do something right like chatgpt did.
The most useful thing about software patents IMO is what you uncover during the patent writing process. When you’re sitting there writing the equivalent of a 10-20 page college essay on the problem background, operating environment, then all the present and future uses of something novel (the provisional stage), it forces you to think in a way that no typical product management process does. There are few (any?) other forcing mechanisms I’ve seen that produce the same results.
This is Apple. They sell $1500 laptops with 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. $3,500 is cheap in Apple $$s.
Laptops, at least, are increasingly all-soldered RAM from many brands. SSDs are mostly still m.2, I think, so at least those are upgradable. Mac Pros were upgradeable until this most recent iteration switching to their ARM chips. The other companies also use lower-spec components than you could buy for less yourself, same as Apple.

If anything, the rest of the industry has been moving in Apple’s direction with these kinds of limitations. They’re not more evil than their competition, they’re just ahead of the curve.

I agree Apple takes it further with the gouging than others. We should absolutely complain about it and criticize them for gouging! My criticism of the “Apple Tax” complaint is that 1. Nobody ever complains nearly as vociferously about other manufacturers doing similar stuff, and 2. The particular way people complain about Apple’s behavior is always phrased to kind of imply it’s unique and not just a more egregious form of a common behavior.
Too late for anyone to actually see this, but am I the only one who is terribly amused that Apple's silicon lineup now consists of A-series, R-series, and M-series chips, with the R-series handling realtime workloads?

I feel like I've seen that naming convention somewhere before.
Rating inflation isn't caused by customers "giving 5 stars like candy".

It's caused by platforms redefining 4 stars into a failing grade.
Super interesting discovery! I wonder if whatever algorithm Google is using has reached its scalability limit on today's Internet, and it takes some kind of an over-night batch job to do obscure searches usefully. Maybe all Google Search is doing is just a giant cache of slow search results.
I go on a road trip with my better half. Load car in the evening before. Walk up, make coffee, and leave.

Find out last gas station we can make it to.
Stop, I start to fill up. Better half goes to use the restroom.
She comes back, cleans the dead bugs of off the windshield while I go use the restroom.
I come back, she's behind the wheel ready to go.
Total time: ~7 minutes.

That's 350 miles of range we just put in.

Can your EV do that?
most spam callers use some VOIP hack to imitate other phone numbers, but this will surely require linking that phone number to an iCloud account. I don’t know how spammers would do it, but I’m guessing this will actually be used to hide their identities behind iPhone accounts.

it’d really be funny for spammers to suddenly start showing up as Karen from Des Moines instead.

Actually thinking this through, it could be used to Dox people too.
Maybe avoiding nausea from artificial locomotion is a reason Apple isn't focusing on games so much now.
Every product a company makes is a prediction that the product will succeed (if they didn't think it would succeed, they wouldn't make it).

This applies to Apple just as to every other company. It's not like Apple hasn't had product failures, after all.
4chan is indeed not the ideal but the current reddit isn't ideal either because it leans too much progressive. i would like to prune both extremes.
Mind that in this case the vote was not a large nation wide vote like a U.S. primary, but an election at a party delegate convention. Thus 400 or so voters. That should be doable in acceptable time.
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