skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you so hopeful any of these will be fixed in anything like the near future? Phones have been working to reduce weight per FLOPS for more than a decade, and you can only do so much - and you need many more FLOPS for VR. Similarly, the need to keep these screens glued in place relative to your eyes, and to use complex electro-mechanical optics in addition to the screens, put quite a strict limit on how comfortable or small they can physically be. Batteries only add to this, and weight-to-power ratio for batteries is progressing at a snail's pace.

I'd bet that if Apple thought in any way that they might have a sunscreen form-factor device in anything close to 5 years from now they would have held off on releasing anything to the public.

All signs 100% point to bulky headsets being the state-of-the-art for the foreseeable future, and this is going to keep dooming this technology.

Not to mention, the fact that no one has really found a good way to allow you to move around in the VR "space" that they're creating with anything other than a controller (to an extremely disorienting effect even then) also puts a serious damper on our ability to suspend disbelief while enjoying such a device.
IMHO instead of ramming a square peg into a round hole one may think of switching from Excel to i.e. Jupyter notebook(s).
Keep the raw data separate from the calculations/visualizations and get a more trackable environment.

You may also pinch out bunch of functions as separate scripts in a git repo and share these between various notebooks/people.

Calculate md5 checksums of raw data files. If values in rows can be modified, get the hash sums (xxhash?) per row. That way even with the lowest common denominator (text CSVs) you know if the inputs changed and where.

For larger data consider storing it in parquet format and using duckdb.

Assuming that you must have Excel output calculate what's needed using raw data, notebooks/scripts then output Excel using openpyxl
Interestinigly he had a similar taste in books and consumed pulp crime fiction like they had an expiration date. You'd think this would indicate he was a lighthearted person outside of his work, but most accounts seem to have him down as an extremely intense personality. I think Wittgenstein is genuinely impossible to pin down both in terms of his work, and his life.
In modern programming: Someone a dozen dependency-of-dependency-of-dependency steps removed from you reads an RFC tome they found under the sofa, promptly changes the API to return EINVAL for a call that previously succeeded and breaks half the world. But at least it's modern, quirk-free and pure of thought.
If my company forced me to attend meetings in a glorified metaverse I'd probably resign.
The reputation you describe is non existant in my (non-English-speaking) country. I guess US and UK are just the easiest and richest targets for Indian hackers. Why should we expect something else ?
No, that would be the first point. The last point is retaining the status quo simply for the sake of it, which sometimes happens but quite often does not, or out of a misinformed idea of what historically has actually been the case, which happens sometimes too.

It's worth noting that being correct according to the SUS would have avoided the problem, since the SUS calls out the applications-code assumptions that cause the vulnerabilities in its rationale.
I am not seeing the pricing comparison with HoloLens 2 pricing [1]: $ 3,500, $ 4,950, $ 5,199.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/buy
You can but that means hovering over files for a second will select them (and clear your previous selection). Other systems (e.g. KDE) manage single click to open without that annoyance.
For now. I actually see them moving to this if it takes off both for battery life and computing. Them even labeling it as a spatial computer, shows there positioning this to be their future.
> static let cat: VNAnimalIdentifier

This feels funny to read, like from one of those inheritance tutorials on object oriented programming
I wonder if this can correct vision for cross eyed people.
Is it "general purpose", though? So far I've seen no mentions on how I or other developers can run our own stuff on it. Will it be a walled garden?
I already outsource some production module to cgpt. It help me made complex postgres CTE queries involving json data type. gen PHP code for that module. cgpt produce good result as long as you feed decent prompt (detail, context, output samples, etc).
I find it interesting that some of the hallucinations look like generated imagery from earlier layers of a neural network. There are recognizable patterns, but they look weird and unfinished - and the colors are all over the place.
There have been some really good experiments in room scale VR, both with actual basketball court sized play spaces and with smaller play spaces that used tricks like redirected walking. Honestly it’s mostly uncomfortable and tiring to walk around. They joystick works better once you get used to the motion.
For example, tutorial on how to fix/replace things, how do things work internally, playing chess, demo surgery etc.
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It has a virtual keyboard so it’s a replacement.
I have a friend that works on software and hardware for large industrial design and manufacturing. They apparently use and sell the HoloLens and it's quite useful. It's not really for showing off to clients. It can significantly reduce errors in repair.
Just in case you don't get it, I think this is a quote from the movie 'Total recall'
Actually, this makes sense. Existing VR porn is not well produced. The resolution is far from sufficient, and the scaling is downright bizarre. If Apple can solve these issues using their '3D camera' and provide the audience with a unified standard, then it is likely that we will see high-quality homemade VR porn being posted on platforms like OnlyFans and Pornhub.
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It could have a million screens, if there’s nothing good on the screens what’s the point?
Your comment infers that the great majority of citizens will just stop working altogether. But that's a wrong assumption. Multiple studies (and even logic) shows that the average person does not want to keep idle. You want to contribute to something.

So, why would they stop working if the pay's good? Or, what does it say about our current system if everybody stops working if you get bare subsistence for free?
This article conflates two things:

1. A real limitation of JS that prevents it from using results of async functions in sync functions.

2. What syntax author prefers for awaiting async calls (here: none)

This makes "colored/colorless" discisions confusing, because most languages have fixed #1 and don't have any serious deficiency there, but also most languages don't have hidden implicit await #2 — often on purpose, because await has performance implications, changes semantics of locks, and becomes a leaky abstraction around FFI.
Please stop spamming this thread.
I'll grant you that, it's not the medium that matters. But pen on paper wasn't my objection, it was the post-it note on the bezel of your monitor.
A lot of that complexity comes from them being living cells, optimized for and functioning in a different environment than our silicon-based machines. We don't need to model it all.

(Though we do need to pay attention to evolution cheating by overfitting relative to what we'd consider a clean design. Some of the complexity may be doing double duty.)
I think passkeys + 2FA is enough. Just enforce 2FA for any important service and it will be fine, if you don't force it then people who aren't as tech savvy will not do it or people may forget.

For anything non-important I actually use sign in with Google, so.
I don’t want to 3D FaceTime someone with $3,500 to blow on a 3D FaceTime machine.
If you are writing a C program, then you should consult the C standard, and possibly POSIX. The Linux kernel + C runtime + C compiler should form a conforming implementation of the C language.

Now if the Linux kernel doesn't promise to pass a non-NULL argv (and documents so), then it should be the responsibility of the C runtime to fix that once the program reaches "main". But as I wrote earlier, it's a whole other question.
Given the history of this subject, it’s not unreasonable to assume that a mundane explanation like “he’s lying” is more likely than the extraordinary explanation of a worldwide decades-long conspiracy theory.

I mean, I hope it’s true. Aliens would be cool. But we’ve been here before.
Interesting! I'm currently working on a system that writes time series data to raw binary files, but we're considering switching to a different file format for the same reasons. Have you considered any other formats, such as hdf5?
Have we all misunderstood the function of drug screening job applicants by the NSA?
> Why should Apple succeed when most of other companies have not succeeded (Occulus, Hololens, HTC Vive)?

Because it is Apple and has shown success (excellent execution) where others don't? How can Apple make chips that astonish incumbents such as Intel without having their own fab? How can they run a real OS in iPhone 1 where Linux existed for long?

Surely Apple can fail as other companies do but I they can estimate a market potential with real data.
Alternate review https://youtu.be/Eiutn-P7HVQ
My definition: Does it run x86 Windows, without a VM or emulator? Then it’s a “PC”
I have a Hue sphere bought like 10 years ago(?) and it was fun for a while - a year even - to prepare for sleep in slowly changing lights. Nowadays it just gathers dust in a corner while still looking cool, ain't nobody got time for that anymore.
you accidentally switched the sides bro
No, you’re still just displaying traditional apps on a headset. They just look better. You still have a big dumb headset on.
"you bet I would also be working with anyone I could to stop them"

I suggest you watch this BBC report[0] on torch march in Kiev on Jan 2 2014 when Crimea was still Ukrainian.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHhGEiwCHZE
You don't prevent becoming an "alt-right hive" without that hostility. Toxicity, degeneracy and hate need to be actively opposed by the culture and the system. Neutrality will allow it to simply take root.
What’s on the back of Dali’s head?
The "I'm dropping at $3,500" should take into consideration that Hololens 2 has a higher price tag [1] but nobody talks about their product, and price ;-) Microsoft seems invisible where Apple doesn't. I also assume with high estimation confidence that Apple has a deep market knowledge to launch this product.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/buy
Radar fraud rules. Like is already discussed in the Twitter thread. How hard is it to read?
My method for judging the quality of software: Read the latest release notes, negate every statement, and think to yourself: "They were fine with it being like this until now."

Passkeys have been advertised as a superior replacement to passwords, but really fundamental issues remain unaddressed.

I have one (1) Windows PC and one (1) iDevice. Can I get these to sync? Will both be able to log me in to a Google Account? Or do I need an Android phone for that? Can I use an iDevice to authenticate with an Azure AD app? Can I recover the passkeys on a lost iDevice without having to pay Apple for a new device to restore the backup? Etc...

I guarantee many more release notes that could be summarised as: "Now supports a common scenario!"
What company do you work for? I want to know so I can avoid companies that waste money.
I wonder how feasible it would be to train an ai model to correct scanned pages, to avoid having to debind the magazines.
Isn't Linux severely breaking the userspace with this change? What about programs that expect argc to be 0 or argv or argv[0] to be NULL?
From what they showed, it will be a reallistic-looking 3D avatar of yourself. It's quite into uncanny valley territory but it will likely improve over time. What they demoed looks a bit like a blurry deepfake.
All the people in this thread who decoded it used long exposure or faster playback. Using the latter, for me, it starts to become readable at 2.5x and is essentially a clear static image at 4x. (I had to download the video and play it back using VLC.)

Which for me, makes this claim a bit absurd:

> At a theoretical level, this confirmation is significant because it is the first clear demonstration of a real perceptual computational advantage of psychedelic states of consciousness.

LSD fans might hate this conclusion, but there's no "computational advantage" to having a 2.5x to 4x slower processing speed, which his the only thing actually being shown here.
Does it need one at launch? The Apple Watch wasn't specifically a health-tracker at launch, but that's what they've really leaned into now. When they launched the iPhone, one of the most vaunted features was "Visual Voicemail", which I'm not even sure still exists?

It's a platform. It'll get cheaper, it'll get better, and developers and the market will do the rest. There's a lot of time between now and "early next year" for 3rd party devs to come up with a lot of apps and ideas.

As someone else said, this is the first release of something that'll end up the size and weight as a pair of sunglasses; at that point, I think it will be as ubiquitous as iPhones are.
It's well worth reading the book by Stanislaw Lem that it's based on, The Futurological Congress!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Futurological_Congress

>The book opens at the eponymous congress. A riot breaks out, and the hero, Ijon Tichy, is hit by various psychoactive drugs that were put into the drinking water supply lines by the government to pacify the riots. Ijon and a few others escape to the safety of a sewer beneath the Hilton where the congress was being held, and in the sewer he goes through a series of hallucinations and false awakenings, which cause him to be confused about whether or not what's happening around him is real. Finally, he believes that he falls asleep and wakes up many years later. The main part of the book follows Ijon's adventures in the future world — a world where everyone takes hallucinogenic drugs, and hallucinations have replaced reality.

In the same way that the epic movie Blade Runner was based on Philip K Dick's classic book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, both movies are deeply inspired by but quite different than the books, so they both have unique important things to say and are worth reading and seeing.

Both pairs of movies and books are among my top favorites!

Many of Lem's books and stories are also excellent mind bending gems -- especially The Cyberiad!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem

>[...] The Cyberiad (Cyberiada) provide a commentary on humanity in the form of a series of grotesque, humorous, fairytale-like short stories about a mechanical universe inhabited by robots (who have occasional contact with biological "slimies" and human "palefaces").[11][35] Lem also underlines the uncertainties of evolution, including that it might not progress upwards in intelligence.[36]
Perhaps that's one reason but it's also a >1% reduction in display area which is not nothing.
How is it different than any other political initiative? There several ways to objectively/scientifically establish an amount that matches the poverty threshold.

That doesn't strike me as inevitable.
Since we are leaving comments for the future, let me leave my prediction.

In a couple of years, a new version will come out, with no screen on front, maybe just called Apple Vision, with no M2 on it, just the spatial chip, and no screen on the front. It will need to be tethered to your M2 Mac or iPad, but with no processor and no screen it will cost much less, it will look like a bargain ($999 or $1500) and it will be a huge success.

This way, the version with the eyes will differentiate Pro users from normal users, and in time it will be seen around less and less: by that time, people will be used to wearing a ski mask in public.
Extracting information from incoming emails using ChatGPT and EmailEngine
Using multiple accounts is one of the things that third-party apps made much easier, as it happens.
Most of what I do with computers is reading browser windows.

Merely being able to do that on a nice screen is enough for me. I don’t want to or need to get directions for assembling my furniture. Heck, in real life, I like many people will just fiddle with the furniture and read no directions at all…
There is a calibration step where it highlights UI elements and you have to look at it so I’m guessing yes
Image search "toilet seat ibook" if you'd like to see another.
What makes you think they aren't targeting gaming? They just didn't have anything to show yet, since none of the studios have one of these and Apple don't make games.

I would imagine gaming with this will be great, you get all the benefits of VR without having to use one of those stupid motion controllers.
Anyone who flies a lot will be able to use it as advertised now for entertainment and work.

And this is WWDC. They’re getting this in front of developers to build the first third-party apps. Years ago, we applied to get Apple TVs for $1 and then came up with an app to launch on it. If you’re early, you have limited competition and can rank in the charts relatively easily (obviously at the risk of fighting over a smaller market).
I see big potentials for this device with DIY contents among others. Imagine putting this on to fix your car? It can guide you through exploded views and help you pin point problems. That could be big in professional settings too.

HOWEVER, I still believe it will be very niche. It’s still putting on a sizable headset and placing two screens right up your eye balls. We don’t yet know the health effects from doing that for an extended period. I imagine it is not good at all.
Something like this? https://drewdevault.com/2022/06/23/Copilot-GPL-washing.html
Normally I'm a sucker for weird and wonderful hardware, but I'm trying to figure out what the target audience is, and I'm really coming up short. Anyone got any ideas?

Everything I can think of, there's a better alternative available.
Its such a fun game :)
If you don't think all sides use propaganda, you've clearly fallen for the propaganda of whatever side you think doesn't use it.
Are AI-Generated Images Biased?
There's a difference between diagnostic testing of individuals who have symptoms and population level screening.

Both involve statistics and probability, and the public (and a surprising number of health care professionals) really struggle with both.

To take your number: a disease exists. There's a test for that disease. The test is good, but not perfect. If you have the disease there is a 99% probability that the test will return "Positive". But if you do not have the disease there is a 10% chance that the test will also return "positive". 4 people in 100,000 people have the disease.

Hypothetical Bob takes the test. The test shows "positive". What is the probability that Bob actually has the disease?

Most of the public, and lots of healthcare providers, cannot even begin to answer this problem. They simply lack the math skill to start to work out what the answer is.

4 people out of 100,000 people have a disease. There is a test for the disease. If you have the disease the test will, 99 times out of 100, say "positive". If you do not have the disease the test will, 10 times out of 100, (100 out of 1,000, 1,000 out of 10,000 or 10,000 out of 100,000) say "negative". Bob has had the test. It said positive. What's the chances he has the disease?

Now people can see that only 4 people in 100,000 have the disease and most of those are going to get a positive result, but also 10,000 people who don't have the disease will also get a positive result.

We'd be overwhelming diagnostic services with people who do not have cancer because our test is terrible.

Of course, all of this changes if Bob has a mole that has changed shape, because the testing converts from a screening test to a diagnostic test.
> Not because they are great at computing,

Sounds like you agree with me. Smart phones are poor computers but they sell well because they're designed to be easy to use devices for media consumption and data collection. I've written programs on a cell phone (perhaps that's just a much less popular type of slot machine) but I wouldn't recommend it, or expect a kid to develop a love of coding by handing them a cell phone. A PC on the other hand could easily spark that interest in them.

I think kids naturally want to fiddle with things and learn something new. Maybe most grow out it eventually, but it's innate to them. We can't expect kids to know or care about the massive amounts of data collection in smart phones or the sophisticated types of manipulation they'll be subjected to on social media, but as adults we should know better and be very careful about giving kids access to either. Giving a kid an old computer or laptop instead of a cell phone seems like a much better option. Having one set up and available to them in a shared space like an office or living room makes it easy to keep an eye on them while they explore and monitor their usage.

I've never seen an iPhone that didn't have social media apps on it, but I've never seen one at factory defaults either, so I'll have to accept that you're right about pre-loaded garbage being an android specific problem.
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They haven't been portable to other operating systems, and have been wrong, for at least 18 years at this point. They will have hit EFAULT or EINVAL on other operating systems. You can see the commit where Matthew Dillon introduced EFAULT and an argv[0] bodge into DragonFly BSD in 2005, for example, on this very page.
> People and animals clearly learn to stop doing actions that have harmful consequences.

But that's not at all what learned helplessness is. On the contrary, learned helplessness is defined by the absence of proactive action that could remove a painful stimulus.
The patent brag isn’t a first for Apple though.

Steve Jobs himself during the first iPhone presentation bragged “oh boy we’ve patented it” about multitouch technology.
I don't think I've ever seen a FORTH programmer and a LISP programmer in the same room

I have! There was a knife fight and they both stabbed themselves, horrific.
My guess is that this actually is macOS or ios but with a new UI.
It's no more a laptop replacement than iPad is. Almost 4 years down the road after the release of iPadOS and it's still a failure as a laptop replacement save for a few well-selected niches.

And the new VisionOS (or whatever Apple will decide to call it) will have to be even more restricted than iPadOS was compared to MacOS just because of the tighter coupling to your body.
Here are the missing system calls that people filed issues requesting: https://github.com/jart/blink/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+... The place where they go is https://github.com/jart/blink/blob/master/blink/syscall.c Looking forward to any changes you send us!
Looking forward to trying this. Could be great!

But:

- Why are no of the other people in the meeting using a Vision? :P https://www.youtube.com/live/GYkq9Rgoj8E?feature=share&t=560...

- The see-through of your eyes from the outside looks super creepy.
I see Airpod Maxes in the wild every day in Vietnam. They don’t even have apple stores here!
Linux does break userspace; either when no one would notice (in which case it's arguably not really "breakage") or when there's a serious enough issue that really can't be resolved in any other way. "Don't break userspace" is a hard rule, except when it's not.

The question here is: will anyone notice the breakage? And is this a serious enough issue to risk it?