skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the current system probably funds it about as well as we could do. We get a bunch of startups attempting to push one drug through--succeed and it's a big payoff for it's investors, fail and they lose their investment. It's actually a bad bet for investors so it moves money from overly optimistic investors to the public.

We do have problems elsewhere in the system, though:

1) Drug ads. They should be pretty much nuked from orbit. Drugs are a medical decision, any promotion activities should be directed at doctors, not patients. I would make an exception for drugs that radically improve treatment for something patients might have considered something they just have to live with and not told their doctors about. (I have Viagra in mind here--and that's the only one that comes to mind.) In such a case I would only permit "there is a new treatment for X, talk to your doctor", no names of either the drug or the company.

2) Dodgy approval decisions. The recent Alzheimer's drug comes to mind.

3) Drug companies should not be able to find out what doctors prescribe. That creates a conflict of interest.

4) I question whether drug makers should even be allowed to do the phase III testing at all. That puts the researchers in a position where a no decision could be bad for them down the road.

On the flip side, I think we could benefit from having an appears-to-work type of approval. It would require extensive real-world use data (either from foreign use or like what we have seen with marijuana being widely used for chemotherapy nausea) but not the usual approval process. Obviously, no patents, but all companies selling it would be required to put some specified percent of sales into a pool used to fund more research. (And I wouldn't mind doing something like that for all drugs, albeit at a lower percentage. Every drug has say a 5% tax that goes into a FDA account for that drug. When there's enough money in the account to fund useful research about it the FDA does so. Common off-label uses would be prime candidates for such studies.)
Is Hacker News slow for you guys too? I think it's the Apple announcements
Different fields use the same term to mean unrelated things. "AI" in gaming just means "non-player-controlled entity behavior" and has meant that all the way back to the first chess computer games (when they did think what they were doing was "AI").

"Theory" in law, versus in science is another example.
Correct. There IS a "patent term adjustment" if the PTO takes longer than it should.

The term you want is "prosecute" not "litigate."
Can we tell if it will be possible to develop with anything other than Swift?

For reference, Apple says that it will have "familiar tools and frameworks like Xcode, SwiftUI, RealityKit, and ARKit, as well as support for Unity and the new 3D-content preparation app Reality Composer Pro"

My guess is that since we can use other frameworks like react native on iOS that you could eventually do things with something like Python or JS, but someone will need to create some frameworks to interface with their APIs. Any thoughts?
> For personal/entertainment use it largely replaces the need for a TV, soundbar, or home cinema.

It remains to be seen if the experience is better than a large OLED TV.

In terms of sound I seriously doubt it. Maybe if it had large planar drivers but I doubt you can use large headphones with it. If it's meant to be used with crappy Airpods the sound is going to be nowhere comparable to a home theater.
Fair point! Anyone can do a quick math on the PPD with their announcement of "23 million pixel microOLED" with this calculator? https://qasimk.io/screen-ppd/
The same people who pay $3500 for a LV bag or $1500 for a GPU. rich people, aka Apple's primary customer. The secondary customer is poor people, so Apple will eventually release a $1799 VR headset in a couple of years, and it'll be available for $72/month via payment plan.

"People who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - people who said the original iphone will fail due to being super expensive for it's time.

and this is all coming from an apple hater who has never owned an apple product
pR00000n.

If the Apps are restricted in the samme manner other Appple devices
it will be a bit more difficult.
but this will create a whole new level of porn for the world.
Combined with the rather impressive advances made in teledildonics
one can get a lot closer to "being there".

Various mostly shitty "VR" enabled ways to watch porn have been
developed but have been disappointing in use.

This may kick off a whole new frenzy.
Some folks will make a lot of money.
Esp if they manage to combine it with the independent
"Content creators"

In fact, getting out early and opening in a studio making recordings
for people would be sustainable for a good while.
If you are in the right location.
I am not making any arguments at all. I am not sure what to make of this. I am just providing an answer to this question:

> When has there ever been a senior official with a significant reputation coming out like this?

A former Canadian Minister of Defense did.
I made the term up on the spot as I didn't want to invalidate what keeps people afloat in a relatively safe environment, and not all of it is sexual in its nature.

But yes, I would consider anybody providing sexually explicit or suggestive material as being a professional exhibitionist.
That's fair in principle.

I think if this needs to be captured and controlled, it's unfair and unreasonable for it to be a high margin business (since the margins would stem in substantial part from a government granted monopoly).

I'm certain low margin stewardship isn't what Altman has in mind.
Lurkers are the product. Moderators are unpaid employees, which is why they are being treated like dogshit, same as any other employee. Reddit staff forgets they don't have much to lose by walking away.
I also thought flights were a compelling use case until I saw that the battery life was “up to” a whopping 2 hours
I like Apple. I'm find this new release quite cool. But you fanboys are a bit much. Sigh.. guess I'm going to do this.

> Who doesn’t like macos? Like it is objectively better than windows, and is able to actually work decently without set up pain (like linux)

Not really objectively better any more, no. With WSL2 developing on Windows is actually pretty darn great. It's the best of both worlds: first party support of most applications and devices that I care about, and a really good OS for development.

> Who doesn’t like the hardware?

Overall Macbooks are almost unbeatable with e.g. the screens or sound for instance. But I still find the port selection to be baffling. It's been many, many years since the release of USB-C and I still need USB-A ports.

I also really do not like the sharp edges on the new Macbooks. They're visually appealing, sure. But if I'm on a train and they're cutting into my wrists it's not great.

> What is unrepairable about macbooks? It’s not an iphone, i ve replaced hard drives, fans and other components on a macbook countless times.

Aha, please try "replacing your hard drive" in your new Macbook.

Also the attitude and track record of Apples behavior towards repair shops is abysmal.

> Who really wants an upgradable laptop? I’d give you desktop perhaps, but with laptops i struggle to see the usecase

You just said you have "replaced hard drives, fans and other components on a macbook countless times" so I struggle a bit with this one.

In general it's a good idea to make devices last longer. Y'know, with the planet being almost being on fire since we're over-consuming? No?
It's scumbags all the way down.
> Russia may have more artillery tubes, but they have a shortage of precision guided ammunition and are having trouble manufacturing more.

This is incorrect, and the Russians have easier logistics than the Western Ukrainians, because the Russians are only fielding Russian arty systems, and the Western Ukrainians have a mishmash of polish, soviet, US, French, and others.

To quote someone from the US Defense establishment, Thomas A. Callaghan Jr., “Quantity has a Quality All Its Own". This is doubly true with area of effect weaponry like massed artillery fires.

> They're basically using it as fast as they can make it just to hold the current lines

They are currently winning a war of attrition. The Russian army is specifically designed for this type of warfare.

> and have been unable to build up the stockpiles that would be needed for another offensive.

If you are attriting an enemy at good odds, there is no need for an offensive. Key defensive points like Mariupol and Bakhmut have been taken.

Given the artillery supremacy, there is little chance the Western Ukrainians will be able to break out, and the Russian defensive lines are prepped just in case.

> Meanwhile PGM deliveries to Ukraine have been accelerating.

Precision guided munitions (HIMAR launched Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (all variants), Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) (80% GPS guided) , Storm Shadows, as well as Precision guided bombs like JDAMs) are inaccurate when they encounter the wide GPS jamming which is now happening across much of Ukraine. Given how much of the HIMAR launched missiles are GPS guided in a GPS jammed environment, they are not very accurate.

Furthermore, the Russians have S400 and S500 air defense, the very best AD system in the world, and they regularly are shooting down PGMs.

If we think strategically about this war

Surveillance: equal (assumes access to US Spy satellites assisting Western Ukrainians)

Intelligence: equal (assumes full access to Western capabilities)

Battle Management: favors Western Ukrainians due to full access to US systems & fusion capabilities

Logistics: favors Russians heavily due to simplified support/maintenance

Artillery: Between 6:1 and 10:1 favoring of Russians

Air Defense: favors Russians

Infantry: favors Russians due to massive reserves

Armor: favors Russians, latest MBTs employed on Russian side

Drones: favors Russians, DJI directly supporting Russians, latest & greatest in Russian stockpile, Iranian support

Aeronautics: favors Russians, regularly dropping FAB500 and greater PGMs

Missiles: favors Russians due to hypersonic missiles and greater missile supply

Electronic Warfare: favors Russians due to full access to Russian EW systems, GPS jammed environment
> Of course it will. This is basic physics.

But does everyone have the space/room dimensions to have a proper surround sound setup? Pesky physics restrict you here as well.
IMHO the biggest risk factor is that without a mass market version (running iPhone apps in a window doesn't count) the developers won't reach the critical mass you need to support a novel piece of hardware like this. $3500 is a shit ton to spend on a toy that lets you have a virtual Mickey Mouse standing next to a screen playing a Disney movie.

If nobody is buying the product then developers have no incentive to buy one either. The only software for it will be demos from Apple and extremely expensive bespoke professional applications for businesses, and that market is far too small for Apple to ever recoup their R&D costs, much less ongoing expenses.

The only way I see this working is if Apple themselves invent a killer application for the headset. Even then its going to struggle to find buyers at that price point. It doesn't matter how cool your hardware is if nobody can afford it. It's hard to see how they would even cut down the existing hardware to make a version for real people.
There’s a saying on HN: major outages often come from DNS. It was also DNS in the recent WhatsApp outage thread. I’m wondering what the source of the possible broader internet slowness is.
The elephant in the room is that by the time Apple came out with iPhone, everyone else had a mobile phone because there are clear benefits of ownining a mobile phone. Those phones as you say were not great, and iPhone was absolutely revolutionary in that case so we agree here.

But pretty much nobody has a VR headset right now (or at least IRL people that I know), so not sure if a normal person will see a benefit of owning this kind of device.
I know the FED says we're not poorer, but their adjustment for inflation is just a marketing stunt.

If you look at the historical ratio of income to the price of housing you'll see we're making less compared to the cost of things every year.

Pull up a chart of "FRED:ASPUS/FRED:MEHOINUSA646N" on https://www.tradingview.com

edit: took a screenshot to save the trouble https://imgur.com/a/U5ml4Iq
I'm seeing a list of payments by clicking the data tab and then choosing expenditures from the drop down box. Or did you mean something else?

Appears a Buying Time LLC was paid several million. Mildly interesting, but not nessecarily damning is that boston.com (OP article) is listed as having been paid $90,000 to run advertisements.
> these were amateurs who didnt know that in Anglosaxon common law, you have to avoid being honest about anything and even deny any wrongdoing even if you get caught the act of murdering someone

Ignoring the "Anglosaxon" buzzword here, none of this is unique conceptually to US law, or foreign conceptually to anyone who's told a lie when younger. It's instinctual for many when they know they've done something wrong. Trying to paint human nature as a unique problem that US law faces, or promotes, is itself dishonest.

> claim incompetence or mental incapacity

Neither of these get you "off the hook"; that's a misconception.

> That's how you end up with people who are total experts in their field testifying in courts that they "didnt know" that something they did would cause so much harm to something or somebody or the society.

It can be either dishonesty, or lack of omniscience by the expert in question. Unless you're a mind reader, you have no idea. This is why testimony is evaluated along with other aspects of a case, and not alone.

> There wont be any trail of their wrongdoing, and when there is, there will always be plausible deniability in that trail...

Plausible deniability does not shield you from all liability.
Or when the original iPod was released.
For now.

Think it's pretty reasonable to assume these things become integrated with childhood over time in the same way other screens have.
Oklahoma Approves First Religious Charter School in the U.S.
Guix is in a really good place right now and I'd have no reservations recommending it. Of course, there is the initial onboarding experience which can be tough if it's a completely new concept but overcoming that is 100% worth it IMO.

> the worse is linux images running on production VMs which are partially specified

I could absolutely see that being worse in a really big and scary way. Lisp is great because if you try to call a function which doesn't exist, it'll scream bloody murder at you, so we got lucky that it was immediately picked up. But that's lisp for you, incredibly nice and easy to use.
I was paying ~$20k in 2023 USD for development boxes in the early 90's. If it were to enable anything useful, that'd be cheap.
It looks like yes, but only one display for now. One of the reasons I'll wait till version 2 or 3 – my primary use case would be to have unlimited virtual displays for working in macOS.
> crypto's usability as a currency is practically 0.

I don't read any comments here from anyone who uses it as a currency, and yet I personally do. For me it works really well. I don't buy coffee with it, I swap it for cash for that purpose, but I've paid most larger bills with it for more than 2 years. I had a good initial experience being paid with it years ago.

I find it extremely convenient. I prefer it very much now. It is currently my preferred method of accepting payment. I guess I'll just keep using it until it all collapses or whatever.
The presentation says that yes you can. Incidentally, you can also do this with the cheaper Quest Pro headset (or any headset in the Quest line, so $300-$1000 price range). There are a few options, [VRDesktop](https://www.vrdesktop.net/) being one.
I've been trying to use the OpenAI API for the last two weeks or so (GPT-4 mostly). This article rubs me the wrong way. "GPT Best Practices" indeed.

Most of my calls end with a time out (on their side) after 10 minutes. I get 524 and 502 errors, sometimes 429, and sometimes a mildly amusing 404 Model not found. The only way I can get reasonable responses is to limit my requests to less than 1400 tokens, which is too little in my application.

And on top of that they actually charge me for every request. Yes, including those 524s, 502s and 429s, where I haven't seen a single byte of a response. That's fraudulent. I reported this to support twice, a week later I haven't even heard back.

Their status page happily states that everything is just fine.

From the forums it seems I'm not the only one experiencing these kinds of problems.

I'd argue "GPT Best Practices" should include having working APIs, support that responds, and not charging customers for responses that are never delivered.
Wrong, wrong and wrong again. This looks absolutely great I hope they make a kid size version so everyone can wear one. Anytime a grandpa complains that 'kids these days are fucked' they are demonstrated time and time again that they were wrong. Thousands of years ago people said the same things and they never came true. Have you not learned your lesson yet?

In a few years we will laugh at people not wearing these things just like today you are a weirdo if you do not have a smartphone in your pocket. Kids will be just fine. It's the grandpas screaming at the clouds who will not be fine and excluded even more.

The train is leaving the station. You either board it or remain in the darkness and cold. Forward, forward always forward. Anybody against progress will be trampled under our feet.
Flutter for me, I'm new to mobile development and that's what I chose. After struggling to figure out what web framework I should invest time in learning and wanting something that was closer to native.
That was my first thought when I saw the price. "Holy crap, that's a $14,000 Christmas morning."

Also, this explains why companies are doing so many layoffs. They need the money to buy Apple headsets for all their remaining employees.
not a startup, but maybe useful for startups:

i've been trying to reinvigorate hypermedia as a plausible technology for modern web applications

my main project is https://htmx.org - increases the expressiveness of HTML

i have a book I am working on here: https://hypermedia.systems

and a hypermedia-friendly scripting language here: https://hyperscript.org

might be of interest to early startups who want to focus on adding value on the back end, because it simplifies front end development and often allows developers to work full stack

for small startups especially, avoiding the front-end/back-end split can increase velocity quite a bit
Surely $3500 and "Pro" in the product name implies they think it'll mostly be used for work? I didn't quite understand why they branded it that way given the heavy consumer focus in the demos. It implies that they intended for it to be a consumer device for a long time and got cold feet at the end when they realized they couldn't reduce the price.
12ms is 1 frame of latency at 90 Hz.
They did a full motherboard and keyboard replacement of my 2016 MacBook last year for no cost even though it was wwaaaayyyy out of warranty because the fault was a known issue.
I addressed this here, eleven hours before your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36192957

It borders on obvious to anybody who frequents HN.
$3k: replaces a laptop, TV and computer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khMcq66_HeU
I was excited to share about my landscaping and fence projects...until I read the post.
I think so.

But I think something is up with the wider internet today too, I just started another thread on it.
Whistleblower: US Has Recovered Crafts of Non-Human Origin for Decades
In a complaint filed with the inspector general's office, Mr. Grusch alleges that the information in question has been illegally withheld from Congress for decades and he has been subjected to retaliation from some in the intelligence community for his attempt to disclose these truths.
All of HN works at startups that haven’t found product-market fit yet
Interestingly, the M2 Mac Mini has TB4 and supports two connected displays, because there isn't an internal one. Yes, it's still 2 total displays, but it's the only non-Pro Apple Silicon machine with TB4 instead of TB3. I'm not sure if the only real distinction is allowing a second monitor on the link, or if there is additional bandwidth as well.
Unless it's plugged in, in which case it can be used indefinitely. Many planes today allow you to plug in devices from your seat.
> Does someone watch an entire 2+ hour movie with a sweaty headset strapped to them (and plugged into a socket) instead of on a couch with their family/friends?

Some of us don't have local friends we want to sit down and watch a movie with; and some of us don't have local friends at all.

I know people who already watch whole movies, etc, in VRChat. This usecase already exists.
I mentioned this before... As a Linux user I am getting more and more afraid of being left behind.

In the end this spurring Intel to innovate, but will it be enough?

I realize there are some Linux' running on Apple H/W, but due to do the closed nature (H/W specs anyone?) it will already be inferior to MacOS.

I have a MacBook from work, and strongly dislike (hate?) MacOS.
AI is a pretty well defined field I feel like. It combines symbolists, connectionists, evolutionaries, bayesians, and analogizers. Just because those not in the field misuse the term does not make it less useful.
I don't know, my decade old triple display setup has ~170 degrees FOV, there are very few options in VR that has it.
But isn't this VR/AR kit going to contribute even more to the loneliness - contribute and feed itself on the trend?

Despite positive upbeat music it was kind of sad to watch people alone in their sparsely furnished environments without personal touch, viewing favorite pictures on helmet instead of printed on the wall, father with the face hidden behind this helmet during kid birthday party, etc
Any sane person who realizes that their job is to be thrown under the bus has two options: Either go along with it and be a conspirator, secure your means of getting away, or start talking to the law enforcement to cover your ass.

The people running Binance should have realized that the first option did not happen and they should have prepared for the second option. Although it is good that this didn’t happen, SEC now has an easier case because of this.
Have you tried a Quest Pro? I had the opportunity to use one for a bit and the latency of the passthrough was really good. Apple's implementation will undoubtedly be better but they're not even the first "mainstream" option for low latency video passthrough.
Oh! I was aware of Quest 3, but had no idea it supports AR too.
Another tracker with lots of outages in the US/EU: https://www.pingdom.com/outages/
See here's one of my problems with the pro-hard response side: they often seem to be a solution seeking a problem.

If you only look at the first year of the `sweden-vs-nordic-covid` link it looks pretty bad for Sweden, but if you extend it out, Finland and Norway traded early reduced mortality for later increased mortality.

This suggests Covid is highly transmissible, and restrictive policies just shift mortality out a little bit, not reduce it. Sure it's great to save lives, but at what cost to society? You need to balance mental health, the needs of children for social and educational development, and the economy.

You can't stop the world because people who are old or very sick are dying, that's nature, we're all subject to the same rules. You always need to balance the societal harm potential against the benefit, and with Covid our leaders seem to have forgotten that in many places.
Yep. I’m planning the same thing.