skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 5-year old nephew has access to a smart phone along with social media accounts on the major platforms. Is it healthy? Probably not. Neither was my generation binging on TV and video games. But it also gives them access to an absurd wealth of information richer than any library I had growing up. How can a kid's mind not be absolutely entranced by that sort of thing? Telling a kid that they can't have a phone when they see their parents addicted to their phones reeks of "do as I say, not as I do"--I dunno about you but I didn't like being told that as a kid.

Maybe early exposure will act as a sort of mental inoculation to addictive algorithms. Maybe it will screw up a generation of kids. Maybe it'll better prepare them for wild changes technology is going to have in their lifetimes. Only time will tell. The experiment has already started
>You should definitely understand his history before taking what he says at face value

Do you mean don't trust what he says about technology because of his political views?
Giving a child a smartphone is coming from a place of tremendous privilege. Phone plans aren’t cheap, phones aren’t cheap (at least phones that are usable aren’t). It’s baffling to me that you solved your problem by giving your child an incredibly addicting device that most child development experts compare to hard drugs.
And a Thomas Guide was about as thick as 8 or 9 J.C. Whitney catalogs.
The current generation of VR has been around for a decade now and the large studios have been very anemic towards it so far.

And with Apple, that difficulty is compounded. The company’s greatest success with games has been the casual mobile market, mostly with indie devs and indie studios. Apple and AAA don’t really gel.
> On the other side, I've also noticed it appears to be aggressively pruning its index in the past few years

In terms of breadth and depth, the quality of google search has declined noticeably. They don't have any real competitors in search so they can do whatever they want.

> now it's nearly impossible for anything but the most vapid of queries.

Rather than getting us want we want, they want to gives us what they want. A narrow band of approved results. Youtube is like this as well, but then again, youtube and google are both part of Alphabet. It's like google news was a test run and they slowly exported it to search, youtube, etc.
Apples to oranges imo. We’re talking about a journal (with photos and audio and whatnot) here.

Also, i think keeping it in a physical format is more vulnerable from others accidentally reading it than in a phone which is the most private to me as an individual.
Image compression for mammograms seems like a thing ideally suited to a straightforward ML task — a model trained to classify sections of an image which are outside of the area of relevance (i.e. not the breast) and classify details of high importance so that detail can be retained where it's needed.

Especially handy that it wouldn't require a new file format. It only requires the encoder to support variable compression. (I know Photoshop supported this for JPEG many decades ago.)
548 bananas per day
What sets the Apple Vision Pro apart from VR headsets is that you can interact with the flight attendants.
Video capture and Pro Tools dedicated cards.
100% agree.

No kid needs their own dedicated device. This doesn't mean don't use social media/communication/chat, it just means setting limits on device use and not having it available to them any time of the day for as long as they want.

IME, setting limits helps them make smarter choices on what they want do on the device (instead of mindless infinity scrolling).
Wait till you hear about the Apple Vision Pro! Can simulate a 100" display and it's smaller.

This is cool for those who may watch something as a group though. If the audio is solid.
Arnold Gessel wasn't Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood.

Here's what Planned Parenthood says about Margaret Sanger: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/8013/9611/6937/Oppos...

Sanger's views were not that of the mainstream eugenics movement. Eg, she writes "Eugenists imply or insist that a woman's first duty is to the state; we contend that her duty to herself is her first duty to the state."

Further, Planned Parenthood writes:

> Planned Parenthood Federation of America finds [the views Sanger shared with 'the "progressives" of her day'] objectionable and outmoded. Nevertheless, anti-family planning activists continue to attack Sanger, who has been dead for nearly 40 years, because she is an easier target than the unassailable reputation of PPFA and the contemporary family planning movement. However, attempts to discredit the family planning movement because its early 20th-century founder was not a perfect model of early 21st-century values is like disavowing the Declaration of Independence because its author, Thomas Jefferson, bought and sold slaves.

This is repudiation of those views of Sanger.

What's the equivalent for the Cato Institute and Charles Koch?
There are a trickle of games that are not first person. This will grow as the anemic VR AR market grows.

VR’s biggest problem isn’t 1st person interaction, which btw isn’t a gimick like the Wii. It’s that most adults are intimidated by the face bucket of isolation UX. People won’t even try it let alone buy it to use it enough. Until XR can get over this hurdle, I feel that we won’t really know what people like or dislike.

It’s also hard to make good predictions and assumptions about a technology that you’re not really using yourself
Yeah, first-mover advantage. Heard that before…
Interesting - at the Google office I work at, the vast majority of developers use at least 2 monitors, sometimes 2 monitors + a laptop screen.
It's just spreadsheets plus AI, apparently
A philosophical approach may help. Change is the only constant expectation that I have. All of my past work over 25+ years is now deprecated, obsolete, tech-debt, or irrelevant. It is the nature of software. Intangible work built upon ephemeral stacks, all to go away with time. My personal metric: how much I can keep pace with. Rate of change vs deep-rooted expertise.
Sorry you're right I did, had crypto in my head when I wrote that
Well, anyone who does will get a nice chat, just saying! :)

Personally, the best chats I have had were near the back of a partially full flight. The ones in first and or business rate right up there.

I like to talk with the crew when they want to. One learns all sorts of stuff and or just talks right through a long flight over before one knows it.
I regularly wear my Quest for 9-10 hours a day. It's plenty comfortable with the right equipment. I forget I'm wearing it after a while.
A lot of Comcast plans have overage charges after 1.2TB.

I believe they wave the charges the first month you go over.
I completely appreciate that. I was also attempting to tell regular excel users about the virtues of TDD! I had grander plans where I imagined creating centralised test suites that caught more generic issues and anybody in the bank could upload their spreadsheet for validation. It didn't quite get that far though.
I mean who would pay $600 for a cell phone?
How the gold Nobel Prize medals were hidden from the Nazis
It’s quite obvious that this will effectively duplicate 1440p monitors since the much lower resolution Quest Pro is (mostly) able to do so with 1080p. Hopefully it can do even better than 1440p, but honestly that might be “good enough” when comboed with multiple virtual displays. Multiple effectively-1080p virtual displays don’t really cut it on the QP, but it’s annoyingly close.

My bigger concern is comfort. Ski mask style HMDs went the way of the dinosaur for a good reason: they’re nightmarishly awful to use for extended periods of time. I did see an image of an attachable side-to-side head strap, which implies Apple is aware of the problem but prioritized aesthetics.

Also for anyone interested in FoV: this guy on Twitter mentioned that it’s similar to the Quest Pro [1]. Lower than I’d like for that price, especially with an enclosed face gasket.

1. https://twitter.com/benz145/status/1665894522658910213?s=20
It's really not. Growing up, I had plenty of classmates who spent more than that on superficial car modifications while working a minimum wage job and whose family was on food stamps.
Phones are incredibly addictive to both adults and kids. They are very damaging to relationships and social development. It’s fascinating that you think the answer is “do better”. This is literally that. Why are you so in favor of giving children something they have no need for and something that causes enormous stress anxiety and harm?

Kids who are online have been shown to be much more anxious, more depressed and less socially adjusted vs kids who are in peer groups that are kept offline for as long as possible.
Info didn't age as fast then. The same products were being sold, and for about the same price, for MANY months. And there just weren't very many products. A full-page ad in a pretty large font could list every product that existed in the consumer space.
I think wearing that thing will be a sweaty experience. (Because I sweat) That rules it right out.

Will be interesting to see whether Apple has what it takes to get people on board.
> Of course you aren't going to release product which is going to be slower, right?

I mean, Apple did just this with the SSDs in the lowest tier MacBooks with the M2 launch. They were about 1/2 the speed of the prior generation.
Ask HN: What payment options would you prefer for a service or SaaS you use?
Think of any service or SaaS you regularly use throughout the year: Would you prefer to pay for it on a recurring basis, non-recurring basis or would you prefer to pay once?

.. a couple things to note:

1. By non-recurring, I mean you pay for a specific period e.g. 2 months, but your subscription is not automatically renewed at the end of that billing period.

2. By "pay once" I mean you access the service as-is but forfeit access any future updates and upgrades.
Don't forget that if you don't like Trudeau, you must want Canada to join the states because you're a truck driving gun-nut bigot who also wants to ban abortion and hates lgbt people.
I have both the Sony over the ear noise canceling headphones and AirPods Pro.

I haven’t brought the Sonys on a flight since I got the AirPods. The Sonys do a marginally better job, but they take up so much more space in your carryon that the small advantage isn’t worth it.

Comfort is more subjective. Over the ear headphones start to hurt my head after a couple hours. Earbuds don’t bother me much in comparison.

It’s something that gives me pause about these VR headsets for longer durations. If I don’t even like wearing the relatively light over the ear Sonys, hard for to imagine myself being all that comfortable wearing a whole screen on my face.
Okay... I totally agree with you. I'm a "shop from the sides of the store, not the middle" kind of person.
After the Apple demo on stage I had similar thoughts.

All in all the demos are less ambitious than demos we saw 5 years ago with Magic. It even seems less ambitious than HoloLens promotional videos.

But what it does, seems to be done at a quality level substantially above anything seen before (not just anything in the consumer market)

But I also felt that is what made the promises believable and the device desirable.

I left apples online presentation wanting to try experience it, maybe even own it, which is unlike any other headset so far.
Ask HN: Testing a Toy Programming Language
Hello, I implemented a toy programming language and I wonder if there is a "guide" or checklist on how to test all the features (including closures)
I'm aware of rosettacode.org, but that is not what I'm looking for (too many examples and it doesn't guarantee to test all features)
Thanks
Does anyone remember the Slashdot Spam Solutions Checklist?[1]

Here's my effort to try to build an LLM is Bad at <TASK> Checklist (:

---

This critique of LLMs for writing software is

(x) ill-informed ( ) outdated ( ) biased ( ) shortsighted

and fails to work because of the following reasons. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular critique, and it may have other flaws that are specific to different LLMs or development contexts.)

(x) Relies on ChatGPT rather than exploring alternative, better-suited LLMs
(x) Misrepresents LLM capabilities by using single-shot examples
(x) Neglects the benefits of prompt iteration and refinement
(x) Disregards the value of experimenting with diverse prompt styles
(x) Overlooks LLMs as code review or debugging assistants
(x) Ignores the potential of ReAct, chain of thought, or other prompt-enhancing techniques
(x) Omits crucial experiment details, hindering reproducibility
(x) Unfairly demands second-order explanations for first-order errors
(x) Fails to recognize that LLMs can benefit from standard software development practices (testing, specification, etc.)
(x) Underestimates LLMs' potential for generating pseudocode or high-level design outlines
(x) Dismisses LLMs as valuable documentation or tutorial creators
(x) Overlooks LLMs' potential in brainstorming, creative problem-solving, or idea generation
( ) Underappreciates the continuous improvement of LLMs with more training data and fine-tuning
(x) Ignores the value of LLMs for assisting novices or non-programmers in understanding code or creating simple scripts
(x) Obsesses over LLM-generated executable code, ignoring broader software development tasks where LLMs could shine

Additionally, your critique may face these philosophical objections:

(x) Similar critiques are easy to make, yet none have conclusively refuted the value of LLMs for software development
(x) Focusing on current limitations ignores the rapid advancements in LLM capabilities
(x) LLMs should be seen as complementary tools, not as replacements for human developers
(x) Collaboration between LLMs and humans can lead to innovative solutions and improved software quality
(x) LLMs can democratize access to programming knowledge and resources for a wider audience

Finally, this is what I think about your critique:

(x) Sorry, but your critique doesn't hold up against the potential benefits of LLMs in software development.
( ) This is a misguided critique, and you're missing the bigger picture.
( ) Nice try, but you're not going to derail the progress of LLMs in revolutionizing software development!

---

[1]: Example https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10377045&cid=54065831
The base model M2 SSD is 256GB. But it's 1/2 the speed of the M1 256GB SSD.
I definitely watched Netflix on the Oculus go which was a crappy screen and a overheating headset, and yet it was amazing. The only thing that prevented me from finishing was the battery. I also joined a cinema experience and there were other people sitting next to me in the room. Man you really have to try it to understand how dope it is
Almost like race is designed to deliberately stamp out nuanced ethnic and cultural differences in populations of people that are inherently complex.
IPhone didn't have a pen. It didn't run symbian as it's OS. This is what I remember people complaining about.
12ms was the passthrough latency. Screen refresh rate is likely faster.
> because it really is ridiculous to suggest this would be worn by a parent during a young child’s happy birthday singing and blowing out the candles.

I see people keep repeating this, but why is that? Most people take videos / photos on their phone, and because of that their eyes don't actually see the event happening, they are just looking at it through the screen. With this you'd actually be able to record while also not focusing on your screen but looking at them.
(Facepalm) I was totally thinking of jpeg2000 not jpeg xl. That makes so much more sense!
You mean like screens already cause issues to our eyes?
is that video actually what other peoples dmt breakthroughs are like?

Every time ive done dmt, i never thought I did enough. I read other peoples descriptions of their breakthroughs and it always sounds way more intense and wild then what i experience. those visuals are pretty close to what i have gone through though.

people make it seem like they're literally in other 3d worlds walking around and talking with creatures.

the one time I did do more, i actually didnt have fractal like visuals, my vision was over taken by a flat white light, a 2d flat owl floated by and there was a golden city floating in the background. After that I thought there might actually be more to the dmt experience then fractals and faces.
I just rented a Camry, and while it seemed alright, it felt absolutely massive.
Locking the away the eye data is a big miss for me. With the hololens we were able to get interesting visual confirmation that what you were looking at was indeed focused prior to selecting objects using an air tap. This also limits enterprise use cases quite substantially. I hope in the future they move to a permission system where users can opt-in to their eye data (literally just the pointer location) being available for specific apps.
The people who built this stuff don't let their own kids touch it. Doesn't that tell you everything you need to know?
I started using mpeg_ts when I discovered that it streams well, that is, it can start randomly in the middle without much trouble. A few other formats I tried choked under this use case.

I don't know what this property is called so I don't really know how to search how well a format can start mid stream. any hints?
'A Good Death'
Back in the 90s, my brother actually had a subscription to Computer Shopper (he had a side hustle building PCs for entertainment industry folks). I only ever bought it if I was planning on building something which was rare because computers were expensive back then. The last PC I built literally did not have two components from the same vendor. To be honest, I don’t miss those days. Say what you like about the “Apple tax,” it’s very nice to have one company who will take responsibility for things not working and my experience, at least, has been that they stand behind their products (at least as long as they’re under AppleCare).
Don't Reddit and Twitter email you when you get a reply -- or at least have the option to get an email? With Usenet you had to go check.
That’s the most pathetic thing I’ve heard all year.
From what they showed, you can’t break the windows out of the screen mirror rectangle.

You’re right though, if they allowed windows to freely float, it would also solve the issue.
What are you playing there?
Unspeakable horrors. No thanks, I’ll pass.
That is much, much older than 2017.

It has been hosted on Cory Doctorow's craphound.com for years and years.

https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt

archive.org has a capture from March, 2004.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040603060528/https://craphound...

Not sure where it originates or who is the author.
I don't know is 24GB Air qualify "entry level"
Every single person on HN, tapped into the to-link-compressed information feeds from every tech website currently live, literally is a gargoyle.
I assume they would be apps running on the device, rather than on a remote machine.
Same here. Embedded programmer, primary language being C. I sat here staring at that line for a solid 30 seconds trying to understand the intent - it’s nonsensical. I read your comment and see the intent you’re guessing at but… you would not generally write C like this. Pointer arithmetic is to be avoided, and this case is contrived. I don’t think a compiler warning would be thrown here though - maybe that is the point, that the language and compiler would not catch this issue and that typos or novice learners can make compilable mistakes too easily?
For a faster Docker equivalent on the Mac, look at Orbstack.
This view seems a bit rosy and willfully ignorant of the actual current state of the internet. I think it will spoil most of the batch but the lucky few will come out better for it.

Those kids that do have a desire for encyclopedic knowledge may be well served by a smart phone.

However, most kids do not have that desire to begin with, and even those that do face problems. Unlike a traditional library, the internet is an ocean full of some information of so-so quality and much of abysmally low quality. A local library will not typically house the latest unedited, unhinged screed of the resident neo-nazi, and if it did, a well-educated librarian could help put it in appropriate context and help reaffirm the community's values. Learning from the internet outside of maybe learning about tech itself (and even the info quality there is in rapid decline imo) is mostly like learning from an encyclopedia authored by conspiracy theorists and village idiots.
I saw that, too. They are missing a decimal point. 11.95 and 29.95.
Can you expound upon why Rust is having an identity crisis? Rust's current mission is: "empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software." It seems like it's hitting that goal to me (for .e.g., it empowered me, a person who's never written serious code in C/C++, to write wasm-based speech recognition reliably and efficiently).

Also, what is the identity crisis that JS is having?
> It’s quite obvious that this will effectively duplicate 1440p monitors since the much lower resolution Quest Pro is (mostly) able to do so with 1080p.

It doesn't sound like prior efforts work well for that use case at all.

> The resolution means that text is actually readable. Apple’s positioning of this as a full on computing device only makes sense if you can actually read text in it. All of the previous iterations of ‘virtual desktop’ setups have relied on panels and lenses that present too blurry a view to reliably read fine text at length. In many cases it literally hurt to do so. Not with the Apple Vision Pro – text is super crisp and legible at all sizes and at far ‘distances’ within your space.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/05/first-impressions-yes-appl...
I still don't see myself wearing this thing more than a few minutes on my head. However I am open to where it moves in the future. The realistic (and convenient) way would be to get to simple glasses concept, however technology is behind so far
I just wish this ran something more like macOS instead of iOS.

Like the iPad, it seems I wouldn’t be able to do anything productive on the Reality Pro due to the lack of any sort of meaningful coding tools.
Putting things in context, the 3-thread measured memory bandwidth measured there on the M1 Max is approximately equal to the maximum theoretical memory bandwidth available across all channels and chiplets of a current Ryzen Threadripper PRO. If the M1 Ultra doubles the achievable memory bandwidth by virtue of having twice as many CPU clusters, then an 8-thread test should still be able to match AMD's latest EPYC processors with 12-channel DDR5.

(I don't know how well AMD's current processors do with utilizing the socket's full DRAM bandwidth from a limited number of chiplets, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a more severe limitation than what M1 Max/Ultra show with their CPU clusters. It looks like only the 12-chiplet EPYC processors actually use all the links from the IO die to the CPU chiplets.)

So the inability to use all the DRAM bandwidth from the CPU cores, while perhaps disappointing, isn't exactly a weakness for Apple's processors compared to the competition.
> Developers have high incomes, but are quite frankly, extremely cheap.

That also comes down to many it being difficult for some organizations to purchase software on for their devs, either as a policy of the organization or the software not making this simple. Some companies make this a laborious approval process but then some vendors will make it nearly impossible to pay in bulk, or have easy delegated payment options. Developer tools oughta be as easy as possible to get your employer to pay for given how much of a force-multiplier a good dev tool can be for them.