skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> NLP has been considered AI for generations now

I'm arguing the term AI has become "inclusive to the point of meaninglessness." That doesn't mean it was always meaningless.
Yes let me just rip the keyboard I carry with me out of my back pocket.
Consumers don't have infinite money and prices are adjusted for the sweet spot for profitability.

This sweet spot may give a large gap for reducing the margins, while the consumer budget may not allow for raising the prices.

All in all, companies will work hard to find a way to stay profitable, and your tax will benefit from that.
Seriously - VR gaming was awesome years ago if you had the hardware and continues to be awesome.
Visually nice...

Content is terrible...

Speed is atrocious...

Alas, I don't think it's yet ready for primetime. Is it fixable in a week?
it seemed pretty obvious we do have both. It showed a "magic trackpad" being used. Seems like it supports pointing devices normally.
I imagine this will be tied to an Apple ID and you’ll lose your account pretty quickly if you abuse it. Or the customisation will be limited in some way. There’s no way Apple will let someone call thousands of random numbers showing porn for example. I imagine someone has thought about this.
Not sure how the "Freedom from consequences" bit enters the conversation here.

"Free Speech" that has consequences from the government isn't free speech. The "Freedom from consequences" has to do with private entities reacting to your speech. For example, asking you to leave the premises or getting banned.
I wonder if any studies have looked at potential positives. For example the Red Forest is applying a selection pressure towards radiation-hardened Fungi, insects, and even potentially wildlife. This seems pretty important given the ongoing risk of nuclear war.
>>That marketplace includes boycotts, callouts, and choices by private individuals to provide

Which means I am sure you support the ongoing boycotts happening to BudLight and Target? Or are boycotts only for one side?

> Freedom of the press has never implied that everyone gets a free press.

The problem here is when the government subsides the people that makes the press, regulates the people that makes the press, and limits the who and produce presses it ceases to be a free market, and becomes a regulated market

One can make the case, that since the internet was started by the government (dod) and regulated for decades by the government (Dept of Commerce Via ICANN), and tons of subsidies ISP;s have gotten and continue to get, locations where the internet is a government service, and tons of other factors that the idea that the internet is a purely free market is clearly a false narrative

One often used for convince when it meets peoples political goals, and then the second that freedom is not aligned with their goals anymore.

Further when it comes to consumer boycotts, you have to actually be a consumer, 99% of the people that have effective policy changes at CloudFlare and AWS have never spent a single dime at either of those services.

Today cancel culture is something more than just a boycott, it is something new not seen before in human civilization, and it is a huge threat to not only freedom of expression but freedom in general

I am unclear why people do not get that.
> Long standing in history, long standing in diplomacy, long standing in actual freaking Louis XIV administration communique, long standing in practically everything.

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.

> No offense but just because you people have a beef with Russia at the moment and they are using the term, the rest of the world is not going to change how they speak so that you dont get offended.

I never asked them to-- if that's the phrasing in their native language, then so be it. Same reason why we can call Germany the name "Germany".

But it clearly has a different meaning in English.

> Obviously you are not a student of history.

I'll admit error if you can find a source, that's not Russian, that uses it to refer to modern US law-- even if it's just a translation from another language.

The problem is I'm having a hard time finding one on my own.
Just a few hundred GBs of MySQL, which doesn't sound too big, but having tens of millions of rows can be tricky with some more complex query, to keep query time reasonable (within 1-2 seconds max).
But it should be sweat resistant, no? All the top VR games involve movement.

If Apple really is going to treat the headset’s gaming story as connect a PlayStation controller and play Apple Arcade games on a virtual screen I’ll be disappointed
It's a perfectly valid counter to all the people who posted today, on day zero and months from getting any hands-on time with the Vision Pro, that it must surely be destined to failure, and even worthy of ridicule.

I feel like the people at Apple (and similar companies) are pushing their imaginations and very obviously taking a huge risk, whereas all the nay-sayers are just sitting comfortably in the boundaries of the world as they understand it, and passing judgement accordingly.

I have no idea if Vision Pro will succeed, but as a technologist, I'll spend today thinking of ways it might surprise me for the better, rather than the ways in which it may fall short.
I've never spent more than $400 for a smartphone, always bought second hand Android phones. My income went up in the last couple of years and a few months ago my phone broke. I bought a $900 iPhone.

If it's good people will buy it. I will buy it. No doubt about that.
Decentralized does not mean there's no moderation.
4chan is centralized but the content can be...
We don't need big companies to help us do quality moderation. Quite the opposite.

P2P social media is a fantastic idea.
Yeah, I saw this one before I started the thread, but it was marked as dead and I couldnt reply.
https://towardsdatascience.com/concurrency-and-parallelism-w...

Besides IO Completion Ports for async IO has been the fastest way to do heavy IO on Windows, and it was introduced years before JavaScript even was a thing.

And that's just one example. So hardly think JavaScript was the main driver there.
So your programmers know every ffmpg command by heart, never forget regex syntax for any dialect, etc? Do they never make mistakes and never ask for help locating them? These sound like mighty fine programmers.
? That's a software problem, I'm sure this device will be able to serve that usecase fine.
nooo you have to heckin moderate!!!
I’ve always wondered if that was done to allow mixed video and DOCSIS channels, shared hardware on either end, or just to ensure that TVs and STBs can quickly and safely skip DOCSIS channels that they won’t be able to decode anyway.
Dynamicland: A Communal Computer (2017)
Something is wrong with your monitor or your mac port or hopefully the cable. My m1 pro and air work perfectly with lg 5k display
Yeah I’m curious about this as well. How well does it solve the VR problem? It’s already improving on Quest 2 but it’s a steep jump to get to it.
I think that’s exactly the problem, the “relatively” natural is still pretty darn awkward and freaky. With gaming VR, you’re not expected to be interacting with people who are co-present at the same time, it makes sense to spend an hour or two in this space having some fun.

With this, the intent is clearly to have you wear it all the time and let it be your entire interface to the world. And that, Apple trying to insert itself into regular human face-to-face interaction where technology is completely unnecessary, is what’s off putting about this.
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Most company ICOs are clearly securities. Everything else is most likely not.
Generate correctly rounded math libraries for new floating point variants
News Nation segment on the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSj7QsHRxHQ&t=3s
> But it's going to be a hit. HN is going to be swamped with "How I used Vision Pro to..." posts when it comes out.

I'm not going to predict whether or not this is going to be a hit, I just don't know.

However, remember when Google Glass came out there were tons of these "how I use" posts and I remember people even changing their LinkedIn profile pictures to be with Google Glass. And, we all know how that turned out.

So, early posts by self-styled influencers or wannabe's are in no way predictor of success, or failure, of a product.
Define them then, in a way that is consistent with every other law that makes use of those terms.

Do you not get taxed on your income if your paycheck is paid in bars of gold?

Would you not call purchasing something to enjoy a return from it's ownership as an investment? Whether it is a consumable, or it produces something that isn't cash?
Solidworks Forcing “Reinstallation Fees”
TLDR:
Solidworks intends to charge "reinstallation fees" for users that let Solidworks Subscription lapse... ie if you don't keep your subscription you will pay the full fees later when you renew. Here is the email from SW:

System Requirements for your SOLIDWORKS [without subscription]: Possibility when operating system is updated, past Solidworks version may not work properly.

Reinstallation Fees. Effective July 1st, 2023, any subscription renewal being submitted to Solidworks after subscription end date:
§ Solidworks requires full subscription costs from the time license expired until the current month, and:

For CAD Licenses – mandatory 2-year forward subscription with cloud services.
For Non-CAD licenses – mandatory 2-year forward subscription.
"Everyone" does not use 2 or 3 monitors. Certainly among the software engineers I interact with regularly (at top US tech companies), having multiple monitors is the minority, not the majority.

I agree with the parent that any setup that requires me to turn my head to see all of my screen space is a downgrade, not an upgrade. Even a monitor that's too big (above 30 inches or so at normal desk viewing distance) is bad.

If you like it, go for it, but don't act like it's the only or even most common way to work, even for developers.
Because it’s reshaping your current purely analog relationships to people by inserting a massive corporation between you and them.
$3,999.00 is the entry price for the M2 Ultra. The M1 Ultra is supported by Asahi Linux and I have to say the memory bandwidth makes things like running llama.cpp way faster than Intel CPUs. The rust GPU driver is also a joy to use.

Compared to the price of Two very good nvidia cards and the PC to host it I think the price is reasonable for running Linux on high end Apple Hardware.

Another thing is that the memory consumption is under 20W when idle and 100W when compiling the Linux Kernel. I think you make up the money just in electricity after a few years.
Wow, that's really interesting that we have such different experiences with it.

I really want to use passthru as my home space but the problem is that it actually makes me nauseous after a few minutes. I have zero nausea with the Quest 2 normally because everything aligns perfectly in terms of movement and depth, but the 3D in passthru is just off enough to make me feel sick.

Maybe just different people's sensitivities to things.
lol try using "modern" cpp without knowing all the little subtleties and you have undefined behaviors, leaky programs and unrecognizable monstrosity that you can't possibly debug because you'd have to stare at walls of texts. No, it is far, far too easy to slip into madness with C++. Which is why I would rather hire someone that admits they don't know C++, be humble about it, then someone who said they are pretty confident with their C++. Nah, I don't trust any C++ code. They are all broken and must be taken with extreme care AFAIC.

When you are writing "real" programs, not just "leetcode solutions" you will come across all the myriad ways that c++ is fucked up.
Sure! But I would enjoy most or all of those the same way I play Fitness Boxing: with a screen. I think what makes VR good for fitness is the motion controllers, not the facehugger stereoscopy.

Conversely, when I rented the Quest, the kids ended up playing Beat Saber by sitting on the couch and twitching their wrists. They liked it, but they didn't find the motion part compelling. So although I totally believe you and others get fitness value out of VR, I just think that's not an intrinsic to VR.
The original iPhone cost so much people mocked it. It costs twice as much now and people buy them for their 8 year olds. If the device provides enough utility (and I imagine down the line these will replace laptops, tablets and TV’s for a lot of people), the price won’t matter.
I've still never owned a phone without a headphone jack, and I never will. I do also use bluetooth in some situations, but wired earphones work much better, with greater reliability.
I got very similar thoughts... I think the most promising future of this tech are simulations of all kinds: let's virtually open a human body and study it, let's disassemble an engine to see how each part works, let's project how a city should be wise-designed to avoid transport issues, etc.

Even most of these things can be also appreciated using regular tech. Why should Apple succeed when most of other companies have not succeeded (Occulus, Hololens, HTC Vive)? Putting aside not so stunning technology, people actually didn't get engaged with the tech so much.

I had the opportunity to use a version of the Occulus some years ago and found them pretty impressive, but even though at the time I saw it like a cool gadget only to be enjoyed for a very limited amount of time.
The API is so that developers can launch their WoW.

But yeah, it's surprising they didn't have any demo like that today.
Your comment suggests perhaps you are not a programmer. This is what programmers do all day - ask questions like this, solve problems like this and implement functions like this.

As I said: "The point is not that a developer does not know how to do a given task, the point is that certain programming tasks are just hack work- it's a waste of time to be hand coding them - let the AI write a first pass for you and debug it and move on to the next thing."
You'd be surprised how popular they are. Certainly they're overpriced, but the noise cancellation/sound/build quality/etc is very good. They've also apparently become something of a celebrity "it" item: https://www.vogue.com/article/are-the-airpods-max-the-latest...
And yet it is possible that in the alternate history where apple had not done those things, tech might be better. Note that they all came out during the booming times of the 2010s with cheap money for consumption.

For example, the Samsung S10 had a headphone jack, an SpO2 meter (who knew we wwould need this in the pandemic!), an FM radio, great screen, lightweight. Their newer models have no jack (to sell more wireless earphnes), no spo2 (to sell more watches), no fm radio (unknown reason), and its heavier. The perceptible difference in performance is miniscule despite all these years. So , some changes do need to be ridiculed

That said, i dont see this headset in a similar league, this seems an experimental prototype because none of the use cases mentioned have been proved.
Are you implying that voicing concerns about the potential societal implications of technology is no longer valid or justifiable?
$5200 for an M2 Ultra Studio with 128GB RAM and 2TB SSD. Still costs $200 to upgrade a MBA with a 512GB SSD.
The facetime video (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/introducing-apple-vis...) shows the faces of the people she's online with, but they will not be able to see her face while she's wearing the "spacial computer", unless it generates a fake avatar for them.
Hardware is impressive as expected - engineering porno.

One use-case that i can imagine having this headset is as a replacement for external displays. But that would need to be conditioned on great pass through and ability to use physical keyboard and mouse.
> Furthermore, the Russians have S400 and S500 air defense, the very best AD system in the world, and they regularly are shooting down PGMs.

So good they regularly struggle against Ukrainian Soviet era migs and sukohis and fail to shoot down soviet era drones too.
I think it's commendable they tried but at the same time I'm going to be 100% annoyed conversing with someone who has one of these things on pointed at me while I'm trying to talk to them. Call me old fashioned but if these things ever catch on mainstream it's going to take me a while to adjust.
iSnorkel sold separately.
That reminds me of the days of FidoNet [0] and Barren Realms Elite [1] where the inter-BBS propagation delay made your BBS's attacks on another BBS even more tense and exciting, and well, it felt realistic that sending your forces to another "planet" took time to happen and for results to be reported.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

[1]: https://www.johndaileysoftware.com/products/bbsdoors/barrenr...
And yet somehow it's better to say transformer models and not AI?
> Because evidence suggests they do this for kicks sometimes. They have already slaughtered their say through Russian speaking towns why wouldn’t they continue to do this?.

You know you are saying this in bad faith. What should we be saying of the American war crimes in the middle east? You wouldn't come to the conclusion that the USA in general commits war crimes "for kicks" right? War crimes happen during war times. To stop the crimes, end wars.

> You cannot join NATO whilst having active territorial disputes and a ceasefire is exactly that.

Then call it peace instead of ceasefire.
I remember the Brown prof's demo video, which was about a paralyzed person drawing a circle on the screen. The way it was implemented was by capturing and learning the signals the brain sends (but unable to send to the spine of course) when the person is "thinking of" or "imagining" moving the cursor to the left and right, etc. And then translating those signals to cursor moves. This video explains a similar approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oka8hqsOzg
This was maybe my biggest complaint about the Quest 2. I would get a text message or notification on my phone. I could feel it vibrate in my pocket or on my wrist, but I couldn't actually see it unless I took the headset off.
AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization
some sort of spinning metal thing with platters and read heads and magnets and stuff?
To me the dystopian moment was when they revealed that an AI-generated rendition of one’s face will be presented during video conversations. We were worried already about the photographs taken with phones no longer being real, this brings the issue to a whole new level.
"But this is another moment where we need to recognize that isn’t true, and we do have the collective power to stop technologies that don’t serve us"

???

I'm not a fan boy, but if there's a market with unmet needs that can be solved by $3,500 helmet, so be it.

The market will decide.

I think Apple will have no problem with 500,000 in pre-order by the time this ships.

$3,500 is a lot of money, but many consumer electronics have cost far more adjusted for inflation. It's not an insurmountable cost.

The question is, is the product compelling enough? I personally think it is.
Ask HN: CLI Tools to Hard Word Wrap Comments?
I'm looking for command line tools to hard wrap comments.
Ideally something as featured as Rewrap[0], the VsCode extension.

The unix command fold is okay but it's lacking the smart handling of comments that Rewrap has.

Vim and emacs workarounds aren't workable for me because I use Helix.

What do you use to keep your comments hard wrapped?

[0]https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stkb.rewrap
Or just compare energy density, directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#/media/File:Ene...
Yes because Reddit gets its sophistication from being centralized and VC owned?

The quality of Reddit is created by the users. If they used a P2P platform the content would be of high quality.
People say this about smartphones, too, and yet adoption is practically universal. If the product is worth using, people will use it, and the social friction will fade. The reason products like Google Glass never moved beyond pariah status is that they weren't really worth using, so they were only ever used by "tech bros" who were already cultural pariahs, and who in so using outed themselves as such.

Besides which, nobody is looking into my home and calling my various screens "loneliness enablers". Not that I would give a shit if they were, though I might invest in some blinds or drapes.
The same thing will happen to Coinbase. Just look at the backgrounds of their CXOs. None are qualified to be leading such a large company IMO. I bet my life the same shit is going on over there.
I think tcmalloc will output protos too now which google pprof tool understands. If you’re using standard glibc malloc you’re probably leaving a lot of performance on the table
Yep, and the entirety of Usenet became associated in the minds of ISPs with piracy.
> Never mind the 200,000 people that had to be relocated...

This is definitely a traumatic event. I'm not going to downplay this or the harm done at Fukushima. But I also don't think it is helpful to exaggerate the damage. The context of the discussion here was about nature and wildlife, so that's what I talked about. If you want to bring people into the conversation then I think that's a different matter. The cost of disruption to people's lives is large, both economic, mentally, and physically. But we also need to be clear that these costs are not because of radiation. It is important because we have these same costs when it comes to matters like oil spills, ground water contamination, and other such events that are far more common but do not receive yearly articles on (despite these events happening yearly).

> What's one thing the engineers of Fukushima and Chernobyl had in common: They all thought the reactor would be safe.

This is not a good faith argument here and not actually accurate. If you would like to engage in good faith I'm more than happy to. But if you want to just vocalize your non-expertise opinions and berate anyone who doesn't agree, then that's not a conversation, that's a hostage situation and violates HN rules.
Do we have a different understanding of the word "rely"?

You didn't even use the word "BASED".

When you say:

> It does not rely on agreements, contracts, negotiations or precedents.

Why would they exist conceptually if they're not relied upon?

They're obviously relied upon when.. something related to contracts is in dispute.
> If I scream at you so loudly that it liquefies your organs

At that point, the "speech" is objectively harmful.

> Why should it be any different with harassment?

Free Speech absolutionists act as if words on their own are not harmful, such there's no such thing as verbal harassment.

Look at the sibling comment [0]. phpisthebest actually claims that being followed and told "You're a cunt" repeatedly would be amusing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36202392
I agree. I think the work they put into the eyes feature is evidence of their concern about this issue. I'm really curious to know what the "feeling" is like to be in a room with someone wearing one of these.
That people have been wrong before for other products in no way comments on or invalidates what they're saying now about this one.

All it says is predicting the future is incredibly hard and all predictions (the ones predicting success as well as failure) are without much weight.
Orin is overpriced and Altra is weak sauce compared to GPUs.
The DOJ probably already has a sealed indictment and is waiting for CZ to visit an extradition friendly country, but I doubt CZ will ever do it.