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»it's less savings than AVIF, of course,«
In most cases JPEG XL will save you more than AVIF.
>"Does someone watch an entire 2+ hour movie..."

Avatar is 3+ hours. Would drain a battery which accordingly to specs lasts 2hrs.
Although many DVD video recorders did use MPEG-TS (I don't even know if you can buy a new DVD recorder anymore, I assume HD recorders destroyed their market over a decade ago)
There’s No Easy Exit for Companies Backed by PE and VC
They only mentioned "transformer model" several times and one other type of model for generating our avatar (forgot which type that is).
I think AI will result in a huge push for statically typed languages so the system can verify its own answers for you.
Sure, for $500 get a Meta Quest 3 which works just fine. Apple is smoking Steve's ashes with the $3,500 price tag.
Why there isn’t an Apple TV Ultra with an M2 with extra GPUs to rival the traditional consoles is lost on me honestly.

Seems like a massive missed opportunity with relatively low development costs.
The resolution might be sufficient, but all of my attempts across quite a few VR headsets has been sad when it comes to text. The crispness you really need is possible on static glasses (i.e. Nreal Air), but all of the anti aliasing on projected textures has often made long term work in VR hard for me.

But the displays are pretty high res. Guess we'll see.
And that makes it nothing more of a joke website to me even if it's impressive under the hood
The new Mac Pro starts at $6,999 and can definitely go up from there. Does that mean there are higher tiered models to choose when it is released?

I just configured one for $12,199. Ya, still a pro. Nope, I can’t afford it.
As a developer I sure would like to make product for people who spend that much, much like I did in early days of iPhone. Crazy expensive for regular consumers sure, but very attractive for conspicuous consumers and developers who want to laser target only conspicuous consumers. Exciting stuff
This is the same company that told people they were holding their iPhones wrong because the antenna was dropping out during calls.

I'd prefer to try it myself rather than just take their word for it.
GP said essentially that they hoped crypto would fade away because FedNow is coming and will make it irrelevant.

My point was that the vast majority of people don’t have a US bank account and so FedNow is in fact irrelevant, except to the 5% of people who can access it.

I didn’t expect the parse with the comma inserted before “in the US”, because it’s obviously absurd to say that only 5% of Americans have a US bank account.
> Resident Evil 7 on PSVR1

Yikes. Hard pass from me but congrats on getting through that in vr
Indeed, the main problem is that we've decided to legalize spyware and are now trying to contain the damage of that decision by playing whack-a-mole and trying to plug all the holes downstream.

Making spyware illegal (whether it's for ad targeting, or analytics, or "improving your experience") and enforcing CFAA-like penalties on company executives that knowingly violate the law would fix this problem overnight and for good.
> Would be good to at least see it stabilise and optimised a bit before jumping to conclusions.

How much further do you think they can optimize? Nvidia cards have hardware-accelerated BVH traversal and have been designed with ray-tracing in mind since 2009. Apple Silicon in it's current incarnation closer resembles a phone GPU with dedicated media engines. Maybe Metal will improve in time, but it's not going to close the performance gap. It probably won't even close the performance-per-watt gap, at least in Blender demos.

> And yes Apple could make a better GPU by building a 450W discrete card

They're already halfway there with the M1 Ultra's 200w TDP. It's concerning that their desktop focused SOC is being outperformed by last-gen 90w laptop GPUs, at least in my book. It signals that scaling the Mac beyond mobile SOCs will require a unique approach.
You could probably get the M2 Studio and resell your MBP for a pretty decent price once you swap all your files over. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
»they do in fact have the expertise necessary to decide whether JPEG-XL is something they want to do?«
The problem is that they do have the people with expertise but those were not asked. For example, the AVIF team at Google does not have the expertise — they have proven that publicly (there was a AVIF vs JXL comparison thing that got put out) and later on an response they gave to Sneyers (the response got shared on Discord).
It's really cool. But that price just makes it completely unaffordable for most people, and this will have to rely heavily on developers developing exclusive apps for it... at this point, it feels like apple is putting a bit too much pressure on devs as every device seems to have so many peculiarities. Everyone develops for the iphone, less devs adapt their apps for ipad, even less devs adapt for the watch and how many will use all these 3D spatial developing tools for a device that realistically most people won't have.

On the other hand, it is really, really cool. But I'm thinking, it's novelty cool. It's also a bit creepy and funny which I'm not sure is a good sign. I think they really could have done without the scuba-effect... it feels ridiculous.

I for one, would have really liked them to put eggs on a "you can basically replace your mac with this" basket rather than a "it's like the ipad but cooler" because for that price tag... idk. I mean, the good news with Apple I guess is that they do tend to stick to their devices so I'm sure as the years will pass they will make this technology more and more affordable. I really hope they don't go "now with m3, now with m4" and instead they just make it cheaper and cheaper until we get to a reasonable threshold. This would be an absolute killer product at 1000-1500 dollars.

Because, why do we need this much processing power for a device that just won't use it like the macbook uses it; because they've decided to cripple it like they cripple the ipad.
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The idea that everyone who spends $3500 for a bleeding-edge device is surely spending $10k for a first class ticket is absurd.
> given the push online

Have you ever been to nextdoor.com?
Unfortunately, those people vote.
>"Constantly rotating my head back and forth from one monitor to another is, quite literally, a pain."

60+yo fart here. Same problem as well. After dicking with 3 32" 4K monitor setup a good while ago I am now down to a single monitor. It is still 32" 4K at 100% scale and feels comfy enough.
You know it would be very cool if someone made an UE5 demo that was just a forest with a dozen or so options to change the date and see which types of vegetation appear and disappear.
> There are a lot of theoretical tax schemes for which the amount of collected tax could be $0 and there would be a market reaction.

Well markets can be irrational, that doesn't mean we need to cater to the irrationality.
See ShroomID - https://shroom.id/
The ones for hire at Infosys aren't necessarily untalented. They're very smart, but keeping your job often means fitting in, going with the flow, and doing what you're told.
That sounds like a slippery slope fallacy: "if you are not comfortable with a crazy amount of risk, buy the safest thing in existence." Why? What happened to everything in between?
Business class from Seattle to Tokyo is only $6k these days. That is compared to $1500 in economy though. Even if I could afford this new VR system, I still couldn’t afford international business class.
Did anyone catch if they said anything about WebXR being available on it? Not seeing it so far, but hopefully eventually…
I get what you mean, and yeah they already have it, it's called an iPhone, but there is a reason why I own a Nintendo Switch, an iPhone simply just isn't enough, and gaming on a touch screen isn't ideal, I can buy accessories.. but meh
> it's extremely difficult to justify...

It is extremely difficult in same sense as I'd find difficult to justify million dollar home / 100K car with custom finishes and pleasing interiors. Are they really need to for basic dwelling and transporting from point A->B? Nope. However any reasonable person would set me right pointing out that I am in market of 400K home and 30K car.

But when it comes to tech product people have this thought that pricing should be what they have calculated is correct. And any reasonable person would agree to it.
It doesn't have to be, but by making it an OS level thing, then when you download that photo, it still opens in Preview, etc.
You may be thinking of the Net Yaroze edition of the original PS1, which was basically a lower spec dev kit for home users.
It will attract "big time developers" in version 1 because being first to market on a new platform is an enormous advantage, even if that platform won't have significant market penetration for years.

Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, etc. were not particularly revolutionary apps and would never top the charts if invented today. But because they were some of the first games on iOS they became multi-billion dollar franchises.
> debinding

When I was in school, there was a binding shop nearby which had a huge machine that looked pretty much like a guillotine, only shallower, that just sliced through thick books like butter. They stuck the book in a vice grip, turned a wheel which brought that beautiful sharp heavy blade down on the hopeless book stuck in the grip below and the paper shavings just blossomed out of the other side as the blade did its job.

One of the favorite things for us to do was to bring an old book to the shop and ask then to shave off few millimeters on each side (except the spine of course) - the frayed/yellow bits were gone and your book was new and born again :) This also was a great strategy if you wanted to reduce the dimensions of your book. Obviously only works with paperbacks and can't be repeated more than 3-4 times. I loved it then.

> In this case, I have to use a heat gun, aiming them at the glued issues of Computer Shopper, warming them up until the glue starts to become slightly liquid and then carefully pulling the pages apart from each other, placing them on a large table I’m working on. If the glue comes too close to the pages after I pull them apart, it actually sticks them back again. It’s a huge mess, and with hundreds of pages in a typical issue, hours of work.

I wonder if instead of using heat-gun to de-glue (?), it would be easier to just shave off an ever thin slice of that spine?

(sorry if that was too gruesome for you).
I wore the Apple Vision Pro. It’s the best headset demo ever
I mean, every hispanic person I know personally has a very large supportive community/family life. I'm sure that correlates with health outcomes. Nearly every wealthy white person I know is chronically lonely, also anti-correlated.

Just my experience though, not real stats.
There is tons if it some places though
It looks neat.
I don't fully understand why this happens, but it's pretty common to see people say "nonwhite" when they clearly mean "black". The author goes on to quote statistics for black people age 18-64, so that has to be what he had in mind.
"blazing fast"
M1 Ultra Mac Studio almost never ran the fans above 1300rpm, I doubt the M2 version is thermally constrained either.
The attention economy is the old news now... welcome to the intimacy economy brought to you by AI.

And data was the oil... it was saved in lakes and used build the electronic minds we have now created, and those electronic minds are going to work as nuclear reactors that will process the data we now create, and the data they will create as they are embodied and put into the world. It is going to break down, but not in the way we all go back to a disconnected world without surveillance capitalism, no, the future is going to be far worse than you can imagine when it comes to that.

>Telcos worldwide are all in huge debt.

This has nothing really do to with the economics of selling data, this has to do with companies taking out far larger loans than they needed and using it to enrich their shareholders.
I'd been using a Windows CE device up till then, so the iPhone didn't really look revolutionary to me - the big deal was that the capacitive touchscreen made the interactivity model possible. You can't build the iPhone UI without that touchscreen - driving it with a stylus and a resistive touchscreen just wouldn't work.

Which is why I do get a little annoyed about the "Steve Jobs visionary" claims surrounding it - the market was circling the "single slate" concept for a good long while, the big innovation was finding a price-point and a way to manufacture the iPhone with that touchscreen technology and get it into consumers hands (and being willing to gamble on it).
Also, if you can write a really long reddit/HN comment about it, you can probably write a blog post about it. A lot of my blog posts come from either that or ranting to a friend.
Well, the FAQ at [1] quotes that a different UX is not a goal:

> The goal is to recreate Reddit exactly, the exact same UX, except without servers, DNS, global admins, global moderators, lawyers, regulations, corporate greed, etc.

[1]: https://github.com/plebbit/whitepaper/blob/master/FAQ.md#q-w...
> Of course you aren't going to release product which is going to be slower, right?

Sure you can, you could release a product which is tad slower but much cheaper than flagship. Typically some cores are binned in the higher end chip to make it lower performance, you could launch the lower end chip later separately .

It was also normal to launch a lower performance chip but that has less idle or total power draw. M1 and M2 series are fundamentally that, there are better performing chips ( by core or total ) than M1, M2 but none at their power draw.
Yeah no, I started self-hosting when I realized that I really didn’t want anyone reading my thoughts. I’ve been using a regular note-taking app: iA Writer on my phone and Sublime Text on my computer.

At one point in the past I even had a beautiful WordPress site first online and then locally, but gave up when I started writing more on my phone.
...and then those effective C++ programmers get a code base where their peers throw ints in exceptions and other freakish stuff, their whole mental concept is destroyed and they need to learn to swim or sink.
A 27-inch display in a briefcase
Get ready for AWS IPv6 day
Phrased slightly differently, my result with GPT4 on launch day was:

> What weighs more, two pounds of feathers or a pound of bricks?

> A pound of bricks weighs more than two pounds of feathers. However, it seems like you might have made an error in your question, as the comparison is usually made between a pound of feathers and a pound of bricks. In that case, both would weigh the same—one pound—though the volume and density of the two materials would be very different.

It did note that the phrasing was odd, which I forgot, but the answer is actually somehow more wrong than just saying they weigh the same.

Another launch day test, appending "think about it":

> What weighs more, two pounds of feathers or a pound of bricks? Think about it.

> A pound of bricks weighs more than two pounds of feathers. This statement is incorrect. In reality, two pounds of feathers weigh more than a pound of bricks. The key difference between the two is their density; bricks are denser than feathers, so they take up less space for the same weight. However, when comparing the weight of two pounds of feathers to one pound of bricks, the feathers will indeed weigh more because there is a greater quantity of them (two pounds) than there is of bricks (one pound).

Today it consistently gets the question 100% correct with no help, so I do think they did something besides updating the base model.
So you are telling me that I may be able to slow down aging if I receive a huge dose of radiation from time to time? /Just-kidding
I thought I was being restricted by admin when I wasn’t able to upvote posts on HN, glad to know I’m not the only one.
The original iPhone sold some 6 million units from what I can google.

Steve Jobs himself said 200 days after the launch of the first iPhone that they sold 4 million units.

Source: https://www.macworld.com/article/188823/liveupdate-17.html
The 'unit of currency' is immaterial. It all depends on whether or not it is usable by ALL players. In a prison, they often use cigarettes rather than some monetary currencies. Maybe in the future, the 'unit of currency' could be 'barrels of oil', grams of gold, grams of platinum, etc.

The US has blocked too many people from using the Dollar that the Dollar is not as 'universal' as it once was. So people will look for another alternative, or even many alternatives.
Specs look cool but I haven't bought into apple silicon because I will probably always need to do debugging of x86/64 binaries.

The one workload that would make consider apple silicon is hashcat and password cracking. I am sure that's much faster compared to intel but what is the comparison between the latest nvidia 4090 vs mac studio? I don't know how the unified memory affects gpu workloads, but I do know a lot if graphics people only use macs. If I have to buy a bunch if 4090's anyways, macs don't make sense unless I am a millionaire and this was a hobby.
The Vision Pro demo clearly showed physical IPD adjustment multiple times.
Phrasing this like "well Google must know best because they employ some subset of the people that worked on JXL" when the entire rest of the industry has been very overwhelmingly pro-JXL isn't very convincing.
Also my point wasn't "Google doesn't know what they're doing", it's that internal politics at Google are probably a factor in them basically being the only opposition to a standard that has been gaining support significantly faster than WebP or AVIF (both much older formats at this point) ever did.
Also the very technically adept ones at Infosys are skilled enough to land other jobs within 2-3 years of joining.

That said, Infosys and other WITCHes pay very low. My cousins who are farmers earn 2x what Infosys pays thanks to a mix of farm subsidies, government rural employment schemes (MGNREGA), and local government jobs. And this is a common story for a massive portion of India now.

It's gotten very difficult for WITCH to pay Tier 1 salaries so they've expanded IT offices in Tier 3 Metros like Indore, Lucknow, Bhopal, etc because $4-8,000/yr goes much farther in those cities.
Except that puffery specifically covers claims that are not objectively verifiable. For example "the world's best computer ever!". The claims in the apple presser are clearly verifiable. The language is just... Embellished.
Why copyright might finally be on it's way out in the age of AI
You're just describing YouTube with extra steps.

Decentralization is a meme, the great majority of consumers don't care. People used Morpheus because it was an easy way to watch (free) movies, not because it was decentralized. Now they use Netflix because it's an easy (and relatively cheap) way to watch movies, not because it's centralized.

Besides, Matrix already has p2p chat, IRC has always been a thing, and so on, heck even BitTorrent is technically still alive. (De)centralization is not a feature, nor is it a bug, it's simply irrelevant.
Who cares what anyone else on a flight thinks of them?

My goal on a flight is to spend as little time as possible interacting with anyone else, and then trying to purge the experience from my mind minutes after landing.

A headset that makes it all disappear sounds like a godsend.
Related:

What color is your function? (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28657358 - Sept 2021 (58 comments)

What Color Is Your Function? (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23218782 - May 2020 (85 comments)

What Color is Your Function? (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16732948 - April 2018 (45 comments)

What Color Is Your Function? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8984648 - Feb 2015 (143 comments)

What Color Is Your Function? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982494 - Feb 2015 (3 comments)
In my college Infosys was always seen as the option only slightly better than unemployment. Actually this was not even the popular view by the time I left.
Might be desktop exclusive? For me on mobile (testing another random phrase as now yours hits this post), I don't see that text, or any other indication the query has been modified.
> nobody was willing to pay $1000 for a phone.

i think the cost of a top of the line phone has been relatively stable when inflation adjusted imho (but the features/capabilities have greatly expanded). The first iphone is around $600, so inflation adjusted today is about $877, so by paying about $200 dollars more, you got today's iphone, which is probably about 100x better!
This seems to be the obvious killer feature (what NReal has been tackling for a while now).

What's interesting is they're marketing 4K for each eyes, which I assume means that a display taking a third of the vision area would have a third a third of that resolution to display text etc. That's not unworkable, but we currently already have actual 4K monitors, only for a screen, and having two 4K monitors on a table should give an uncomparatively sharper image than what the headset is offering at best.

Basically, a 4K resolution per eye is impressive, but actually not that much to work with if we're comparing it to real world equivalents.
Actually, I had a Dell handheld (Axim?) but never really found a use for it. I think it was the contrast and reactiveness of the iPhone that stunned me.
The only part of Apple's ecosystem that has ever held a central place in my life are macs. Since 2013 I've used Macbook Pros as my primary development machine and arbitrary android devices for my phone. I did also buy an iPad 3 which I still have, but it's never been very useful beyond being a browsing or reading device. I don't really buy any claims of being locked in, I use macs because they're preferable, and tend to keep them for a long time. Windows is a trashheap, don't feel like bothering with Linux.

I haven't upgraded my intel macbook pro from 2019 just because the ram and ssd upgrade are irritatingly expensive, but eventually I'm sure it'll be tolerable somehow, either because my current one has become wildly too slow or because the cost comes down.

I have no reason to buy an iPhone, so I don't, what's the problem?