skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? The more personal a device is and the closer it becomes to interfacing with who we are, the more it will need to do things like this to work, else it will just feel off.
Copilot is at its best (currently) when you teat it as autocomplete on steroids, it's very good at repetitive tasks, predicting the next line, has a brilliant short term memory, and great at prompting "wiring" type tasks.

ChatGPT is far better at this sort of "describe what you want and it will code for you" process from TFA. It looks like the next version of Copilot with the chat interface will bring the latter workflow into the system, I'm looking forward to that, a GPT-4 based copilot.

My main complaint about Copilot is that it doesn't seem to feed Intellisense prompts into the prediction, or validate predictions against them. That will make it so much more accurate when they fix that.
I will buy it for my entire team just for the video conferencing - assuming it is actually as good as promised, of course. Anything beyond that is gravy.
I use copilot to "next" for me. It's really good at that and it saves a lot of time.

By nexting, I think you know what I mean. What a reasonably intelligent junior would figure out you were doing, once you started doing it. Like if you have a bunch of cases in a match or if-tree, and you started doing the first one, he would know what you were up to and more or less get it right.

Anything more complex, I've occasionally been positively surprised, but mostly it's just plain wrong, though obviously wrong so it didn't throw me off.

I find that people have wildly different expectations about what LLMs will do for us, and this colours whether they are satisfied or not. For me, I'm very happy with copilot, it definitely saves me time, but I also wasn't expecting it to do much beyond guessing my next lines. I always thought I'd be the one to understand the grand structure and it would be the fast typing graduate, and that's how it turned out.
They created a GUI using Visual Basic to track the killer's IP
Anybody can play, but you need to get a bunch or rich folk to give you money. How you do that is your choice.
Depending on the task it may well already be faster than a human at equivalent performance.
The current version of Copilot is based on GPT 3, which is even dumber than 3.5, which isn’t even in the same league as GPT 4.

GPT 3 is “fancy tab-complete”.

GPT 4 will correct your mistakes, write the test case to prevent your fallible human brain from repeating it, and then explain this in a detailed doc-comment so other humans can read it and gawk at the history of your errors.
I suppose Project Looking Glass was more of a demo of Java. Maybe because Java on the desktop had a bad name? Such DEs and WMs already existed (3DWM, for example), and Compiz was also taking off back then.

However, Vision Pro is by Apple. The first iteration is probably as useless as the first iPhone and first Apple Watch. Its for early adopters, and it just has to be Good Enough (tm), with prospect to become better. Compared to say AirPower, the hurdles were purely technical, and couldn't be solved for the first iteration to be Good Enough (tm); so it was canned. Also, once its a commodity, Apple seems to shy away. See AirPort.
> Ordinary people don't want to put a VR headset on - they just don't.

Why not?
Because it's heavy, sweaty, smelly, expensive, uncomfortable for the eyes, or some other reason?

I doubt people have real ideological aversion towards headsets. If people don't want them it's probably because of one of the practical reasons above. And honestly most of those are likely to be alleviated in the near future.
The character of Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks is a nice personification of the “detective” aspect of the truth / knowledge seeking mechanism in our minds IMO.
If the current state of the world is what climate change looks like, it's no wonder climate doomsayers are a laughing stock. There are so many more significant issues in the world.
The goggle form is at the crux of everyone's criticisms and uncertainties. Its actual features and value propositions are, for the most part, welcomed.

If this product were instead in the form of contact lenses, I'm confident that this would be viewed much more favorably. The psychological friction of appearing disconnected from the world would suddenly dissipate. Capturing a video of your child blowing out the candles on their birthday cake would seem much less dystopian.

Given Apple's ecosystem, influence, and vast wealth, I would be surprised if their venture into this domain ended in failure.
This whole tweet had the same tone as when pop science crime investigation TV explains a criminal can be identified through its gait alone.

It's always magic, except when the predictive model doesn't work and there is no corrective action possible on the user side.

We're talking about physical reactions, so that means it's supposed to be the same through gender, age, race, health conditions from the algorithm's point of view...That's a lot of variables, and I wonder if Apple have analyzed this beyond the US population, assuming the device will be sold internationally at some point.

Apple seems really confident about this as they are foregoing controllers on the default interfaces, but that also reminds me on how they were rumored to make a car without a driving wheel...fingers crossed, I guess.
Theoretically yes, you can have large multiple screens on the quest 2

In reality, they are worthless, it's like looking at a CRT from 1995

At a certain point higher resolution changes how you can use it
Jax has auto-sharding: https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/Distributed_a...
For conversion tracking is generally why people add these.
> 1. Write TILs. The only justification needed to publish one is "did I just learn something that was new to me?" - having such a low bar makes it much easier to publish frequently.

Exactly this! I started publishing TILs (just very short articles, most of the time I use them as resources for myself) [0]

Sometimes I keep an one-liner and develop it into a full-length article. (e.g. This one [1] was like, today I learned not all tool extract same colors form the same image)

[0] https://kiru.io/til/
[1] https://kiru.io/blog/posts/2023/extracting-colors-from-image...
> I do feel like selling the "interesting" part of Hallucinogens as the visuals is hugely under selling the entire experience.

who's selling that? the article simply focuses on that aspect.
Google scholar?
This, still?

Do people like you think that people like me buy AirPods because influencers do?

Might it just be that they’re astonishingly good wireless headphones? I mean is that possible in your mind?
We have some dishes from the USAID with a three month contract. Who paid for them when the contract ended after three months
We don't even have it yet and already we are seeing people complaining that the proposed amounts are too low. It's pretty obvious to anyone who has paid attention to the current situation that this rate would immediately become a/the major political issue and would get ratcheted up preceding every election.
Who says that's the only way?
I am speculating the answer is that "Nvidia just works", where Apple may be more niche & hassle to get working with their preferred frameworks/stacks/tools.
> I don't really know how I feel about this...

But the headset of course does !

Otherwise, it could be interesting if as users we got access to all these measurements, for our personal use. That could open the door to many other applications that would be probably less creepy.
Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages.
The test was a success, Kovalchuk said, but the step remained a last resort. He held off.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/ukraine-offe...
Hahaha yes I'm sure that's what they meant.
I THINK SO TOO!

I'm 97% sure that just using static analysis to provide all the relevant type definitions and function signatures as context for code completion in LLMs alone will be a massive value-add. I'm literally doing that by hand right now to GPT-4, and it works.

And I think there's more stuff that can be done where one sets up an automated cycle of (1) prompt LLM, (2) type-check completions, (3) construct prompt that incorporates type checking errors, ..etc.

I really think that this, combined with types written with the "make illegal states unrepresentable" philosophy, will be great.

I really wish I had time to work on this myself.
What issue? It's like a memoji (actually worse, because the mouth movements will not follow the real mouth).
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Yes release. Is running on Windows which might affect things.
That’s a different problem entirely. It used to be stores had to carefully source the products they sold to make sure they weren’t selling something that wasn’t allowed to be sold in the US, with the advent of Amazon that all went out the window, now the name of the game is defraud everyone you can and claim innocence on the backend when caught. “Our algorithm didn’t catch it, we stopped selling it as soon as we were made aware it was definitely illegal”.

The funniest hypocrisy of Silicon Valley/tech culture is that it’s full of people who think the rules and laws don’t apply to them but they vote every year for more and more regulations, that they then brazenly flout and act all indignant that the government has failed to do the things they voted for (and thus we need more government) but then refuse to actually follow.
Sure but that’s not how index funds work.
It's a very confusing naming scheme. For the layman it's unclear whether Ultra is better than Pro or vice versa, or Max is the fastest one.
It looks like this is mostly about patents. Apple has a history of doing lots of hardware and software research, not all of that gets to be part of an actual release.

Is anything indicating that solutions mentioned in the post would actually become part of Apple Vision?
That's a good point.

Those form factors were massive improvements in portability and accessibility, without necessarily having a killer app compared to its predecessor (laptop not doing anything a desktop didn't do, iphone didn't do much new at first but now has translator apps and GPS and stuff)

The headset, though, seems clunkier (awkward non-flat shape, has cables, no keyboard) and you trade that off for... a bigger, 3D screen that shows you mostly the same thing.

I could be wrong, but it feels like an expensive regression in portability.

If it has no killer app and isn't a revolutionary form factor in terms of portability and ease of access, can it win? Maybe it's easier to access than I'm imagining. Maybe I'm wrong. We'll have to wait and see, I guess.
"... which subjectively feel as if they convey the inner mechanics that compose all underlying neurological processes."
> But people still do shoot movies

There are at least 1,000 books written for every movie shot, even including material shot by amateurs with their phones.

Figures range from 500,000 to one million books published annually.

However, if you include self-published authors you’re looking at close to 4 million new book titles published each year.
> take your forward step and distribute the amount of layers on the available GPUs, automatically

This is part of the value proposition of Mojo, Chris Lattner’s latest project. The compiler infrastructure is still in its infancy, but looks promising: https://www.modular.com/mojo
as i understood, 23 million pixels is already for both screens/eyes, you need to divide that number to get the perceived resolution.
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So dropping bombs on neighboring civilians killing and mutilating kids is neither good nor bad according to you?
Any details on how passkeys sync using external providers?
Having to wear this for Zoom calls would be some kind of wagie humiliation ritual
Responsible AI Licenses (Rail)
CUDA.
Well I just learned functional programming, specifically Ramda using nodejs over the weekend, thanks to ChatGPT. Didn’t even know I needed it, or what it was, but I’m working on a series of data transformations that help me clean data and oh man, Ramda makes everything so much cleaner and understandable.

ChatGPT introduced me to it, then helped me debug and write a bunch of code as I had trouble wrapping my head around functional programming.

But sure, it’s all in my head and ChatGPT wasn’t helpful at all?

Compared to what or whom? Normal people don’t have brilliant mentors, and don’t understand complicated docs at a glance.

Authors like this miss the point because they’re already brilliant. ChatGPT is for stupid people like me, not for brilliant people like him.
good for you but that outcome is not guaranteed
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Dnieper dam blown up by Russians – archive, 1941
Fixies haven’t been hot out here in 10 years (or more) but I get your point. However I was providing anecdata as a corrective to the parent comment, in order to suggest that such observations aren’t sufficient to build an argument on.
That doesn't make sense.

You don't need the exact coordinates, just what region in the country you are in.
If your bank doesn't use something like OAuth they do store your login credentials. If your bank does use OAuth or similar Plaid still has to store the access token, which hopefully your bank has given a read-only scope.

They can definitely encrypt the credentials, they just also have to make it simple for their backend to decrypt it when they need access to your bank, which defeats a lot of the security there. (It's still better than just storing it in plaintext).

https://support-my.plaid.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410324401047...

> In other cases, when you link a financial institution to an app via Plaid, you provide your login credentials to us. We store those credentials and use them to collect the data to power the services you’ve chosen and, when requested, securely share it with the app you’re using and establish a secure connection that you control. We then help keep your data safe and private with best-in-class encryption protocols.
I've only done some rudimentary rate limiting checks and it doesn't seem like they do. Though I haven't pushed it far (~1000 rpm).

In any case, my plan is to deal with it if it becomes a problem.
I think a solution to bot accounts could be a referal system. Everyone who signs up needs to be referred by another person. If the new user has negative impact on the platform, all parent users on the referal chain lose some sort of trust.

Users can set a "trust" threshold and all content they see is filtered through that lens. It's like an automatic twitter block based on an algorithm.

Also people would ask the people they refer to the platform to please not do bad things so they can preserve their "trust" rating.
It will definitely not be indistinguishable from reality, but might be good enough to fool us after a short getting used to, similarly to how even 24fps is enough for continuous motion. Of course you will see 60fps as more “fluid”, but only in comparison. And afterwards the differences quickly plateau and not many people can see any difference between 120 and higher.

It is probably similar with this as well, the question is where apple stands on this scale.
Sure, the Big Boss will be extremely annoyed. Thanks to their innovative branding strategy they've grown New Brand from $0 to $150M revenue in just the first year of operation, a huge success. Did it cannibalise customers from Old Brand, which was $180M revenue and now is just $1M of residual revenue on its way to closing down? Sure, but don't do arithmetic, focus on the tremendous leadership.

If authentication systems, like customers, think New Brand is just pointlessly confusing because it's different from Old Brand for no good reason, that undermines Big Boss's amazing strategy and makes it look like something a toddler would try, and that's not OK.

However the nice thing when you have players like Google is that their technical people have got license from above to say "Fuck off" on technical issues without somebody who doesn't know the first thing about it overruling them because their golf buddy asked them to. So you're not going to see a way to override this behaviour and thus allow phishing even though I'm sure HBO execs would think that's fine.

In terms of practical effect, what that means is that when they use WebAuthn outfits like HBO end up needing to keep login.old-brand.example working, even though supposedly old-brand.example was a completely different product and is now dead, because that's how users actually log into new-brand.example as they are in reality the exact same product.
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Not so fast. These aren't game ready by a long shot. The topologies are crude and inefficient, and moreover they do not deform with classical animation tools.

There's clearly a lot of promise, but we're still a long way out from this working.
Yes but what's your point? The movie market is comparable to the book market, probably larger. The video game market is much larger than both combined.

Therefore the effort people put into making the complicated products (movies, games) pay off despite the initial expense.
Bizarre. Why is this on the front page. I am stumped.
you, or someone in a situation like yours, might at times find it valuable to have like a giant whiteboard in front of you, that you can walk around in front of, and on which you could spatially arrange a bunch of details
Not at the minute. I might open source it in the future, especially if I get a cease and desist. Though hopefully even if it comes to that someone like the EFF will help me fight it.
> Marxists (the KPOe) recently won two major city council elections, first in Graz, then in Salzburg

In the regional (state) elections in Salzburg in April 2023 the results look quite different:

ÖVP (centre right) 30.4%
FPÖ (further right) 25.7%
SPÖ (centre left) 17.9%
KPÖ (further left) 11.7%
Greens 8.2%
Neos 4.2%

and so they got a "centre-right plus further-right" coalition government.
> one has to wonder if the doctor or lab should be responsible for whatever an unstable person does upon receiving this news.

If the doctor/lab has been negligent with their work, then yes they should be held partly responsible. Obviously mistakes happen, but you expect that a serious diagnosis would be taken seriously and double checked.
Yep, very similar. My guess is that ~80% of API usage is read-only, so covering this should reduce API costs significantly for developers.
> Lightweight; fast; zero-configuration; rock-solid; feature-packed; can be wasm

Most of these features are better served by things like polars/parquet/arrow. Maybe not the feature packed side yet
orders of magnitude don't have to be base 10

It's 2.5 more base 2 orders of magnitude
> This is less a device to look at code

why though?
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True, though that will seriously hurt their SEO.
> Github Copilot is just great.

I find it's great as long as what you're doing is very straightforward and boilerplaty. I find I have to go and re-write a lot of what it outputs though, since it tends to be for a lack of a better word, noodly. You often have to invert conditions and move stuff around for Copilot's suggestions otherwise everything has 7 levels of indentations and redundant condition checks.

Often with this re-write, the Copilot solution isn't really saving any significant time, as you could have just written it correctly to begin with.

> ChatGPT for a project in an unknown domain.

I'd say this is true for problems that are well explored with plenty of tutorials. Ask for help doing something that's even the slightly off the beaten path and you'll get entirely hallucinatory APIs.

Let's say you wanted to write a Parquet file in Java, for example. It's not a particularly strange thing to want to do, except I've never managed to get ChatGPT or Phind to produce a meaningful answer to that inquiry. You get correct-looking answers, except they use code that doesn't exist.

> ChatGPT for debugging

This I do agree with. You can just give it a function and ask "where is the bug in this code?". If there is a bug it will say so. If there isn't a bug, it may sometimes also say there is a bug, but it's pretty easy to verify and dismiss the answer at that stage.
When productivity is low and not growing much, disproportionally high public spending can possibly lead into a death spiral. Case in point Britain in the 70s. Or Venezuela nowadays. There is no need to swing into extremes, though austerity policies during a global crisis is probably one the worst things you can do if there are other options available.
I don’t think F500 execs spend as much time looking at monitors and slides as you may think. Also people travel to see them, so face to face is unlikely to be a benefit to them.

Also, it’s a huge expensive gadget in a time of austerity. If your 100+ execs get one of these, it won’t look good to shareholders IMO.
Spoken like someone in a bubble. Most people don't care for any of that - they want their TikTok, YouTube, Facebook dopamine hits. They want to "Like" the latest picture Granny posts of their kids.

Not to fiddle with things and learn something new.

For the vast majority of people, computers are just very expensive entertainment devices. That's why Smartphones are so successful. Not because they are great at computing, but everyone has their own personal slot machine. It's always with them. It's always connected.

iPhones don't come with social media apps pre-loaded (unless you count Facetime/iMessage).
25 years ago we were in Windows 98 times.

UX and general day to day quality of life has been improved dramatically in the last 25 years for 'regular' consumer things. I would take everyday a 'shitty bloaty' modern operating system if the alternative is to run something from that era. Especially for mundane things like the ones you mentioned. I can open a spreadsheet on my computer and instantly have it in all my devices or shared with anyone in the world. I can have 4k video and max res pictures backed up everywhere. Maybe you don't remember how clunky were computers 25 years ago and how low resolution everything was.

For 'professional' things (Coding, Game Development, Video Editing, Design, Photoediting, Architectural work) today technology simply allow things that were not possible even 5 years ago, 25 years ago are ancient times. I don't know what you do with computers, but there are plenty of things that you couldn't do just a short time ago.
> As someone who travels for work, this is well worth 3500.

On trains you can plug it in, but how can it be used for air travel when the external battery lasts up to 2 hours?