skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people buy products because they are usable, not useful. There is crazy amount of tech available today, and people strive to own most of them. The decision to purchase is usually based on wheter we can afford it and wether we will find some use for it.

The mere fact that goggles will enable users to communicate and consume media just as they can with devices they already own, will be the key argument to purchase this expensive headset.

But this incremental improvement we get after purchase of each-time-more-polished device finacnces future inventions and innovations, and then after some number iteration we get something that is truly useful. At least that's the trend I noticed regarding every tech breakthrough and hype in this century.
For Nvidia architectures it wasn't 'Kelvin', it was 'Kepler', as in Johannes Kepler the astronomer.
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A policeman's job isn't to distinguish definitely legal from questionably legal.

Their job is to find some portion of things that are definitely illegal. They don't need to have comprehensive knowledge of the law, just enough to know that the things they are enforcing against are definitely illegal.

If you're asking the police whether something you're doing is definitely legal, you're asking the wrong person.
A low bit rate normally does not cause dropped frames (unless it's so low that not even the required amount of I-frames can be encoded, but that would be a pretty extreme mismatch of resolution and bitrate).
Show me you've never used non tactile responses for interfaces, without telling me you've never used them.

I love the VR experience of Gran Turismo for driving. It is truly immersive in ways that is hard to communicate and makes me glad I have the VR. Even with that, the game is not nearly as fun without a force feedback steering wheel. Not even close. To the point that a moderate screen with the steering wheel is a better experience than the VR without.

To the point that the idea that I will do any elaborate hand/arm gestures to interact with something I can't feel, just doesn't seem like something that will fly.

Do I like that it has the ability to work without a controller? I mean, sure? But I also have no problem using controllers for gaming, and I don't see that going away anytime soon for a lot of games.
In the US, the police have no requirement, legally or otherwise, to hold your hand in avoiding a crime. Police can literally advise you how to commit a crime, and it is on you to not do so. The onus is on you to not be a criminal. Sometimes that means being extra careful. Sometimes that means hiring an expert lawyer and getting them to come up with a regime, and in fact that's like their whole job other than litigation. But your expert lawyer can be wrong.

Coinbase hired expensive lawyers who told them "we think if you do it this way it's not a crime", the SEC disagrees, and it's up to the courts who is correct.

Arguably the SEC doesn't actually make the rules, and is only tasked with enforcing them, and thus they can't actually give advice on the law because their interpretation of the law might not be correct!
Decentralised systems solve this problem with a BDFL, which many have used successfully. Look at Linux, for example.
How does JPEG XL compare to e.g. WebP?
The Quest 2 does it even worse.

That said it seemed to be a major upgrade point on the announced Quest 3, so we’ll see how it compares.
I'm the thread OP – can confirm we're using Stripe Checkout and all CC processing happens in a fully-managed Stripe Checkout page.

We're not using any other API from Stripe other than that required to launch the hosted Checkout page.
What you've written is reflected pretty well under the title "ego death" on the site in question...

https://effectindex.com/effects/ego-death
I promise i am not an apple fangirl. I am trying to be objective here.

I’m not claiming that windows is somehow “unusable”. Obvs not. But I can’t think of any beef anyone can have with mac os except that some software doesn’t run on it. But I don’t think this falls under the umbrella of “don’t like the os”.

Re: hardware. Again objectively apple has the nicest hardware. That doesn’t mean “perfect” for every user scenario, but I just can’t imagine someone who objectively prefers a chromebook to a macboo because of hardware. I could imagine that during the butterfly keyboard era though.

Re: repairability. You got me there i have not replaced shit in my new laptop. But i have replaced the hard drive and the screen housing on my 2015 macbook it was no more difficult than any ikea assembly.

My 2015 macbook still works totally fine with almost daily use. I recently donated my 2009 imac and it’s probably at the point when it’s unacceptable for any kind of professional use. But in all seriousness how long do you expect a computer to last? I don’t know the answer to that tbh, but I do think that macs are better in terms of longevity than other hardware
I really like the LG Gram series.

I had one of the first generation Gram 17, and this Jan got the 16 (same 16:10 resolution as the 17).

My wife has been using Gram 14, and she really likes it.

All 3 laptops have been exclusively on Fedora. Zero issues.

I really like the screen, the weight, and the excellent battery. On the older model, sleep was not very good in terms of using low power, but with the two latest (last year) models, sleep is ultra low power. Of course the massive battery helps a lot.

Trackpad is great, keyboard is great. It's awesome to have dual NVMe slots, although not so great to have non-upgradable RAM.

I can do a full work day on battery charged to 80%, including multiple long Zoom calls.
> when the clocks go forward

I had a moment trying to figure out when the clocks moved backwards before I remembered DST is a thing.
Quasicrystalline Medieval Islamic Architectural Tilings [video]
Bitcoin itself might not be. Even many other currencies might not. But what other "products" they are running? Those could and probably would fall under various classifications.
https://collider.com/max-4k-streaming-collection/

Headline and subhead:

Max Adds Over 200 Movies and TV Shows in 4K Ahead of Official Launch

'Dune,' 'Succession,' 'The Conjuring,' and regular and extended editions of 'The Lord of The Rings' franchise are among the added titles.
> There's no obvious alternative to reddit.

Less time on the internet. Social media seems to be dying and changing isnt it?
A lot of people think GPT4 got worse with a semi-recent change. Worse as measured by intelligence or accuracy on complex inputs. Most notably i think the change was around the time they significantly increased the speed of GPT4.

I don't have much opinion on this though, i just know i see that description of GPT4 a lot. I use GPT4 daily, but i think i don't really challenge it most days, as i've never trusted it enough to do so hah.
Firefox has an open item regarding support, also available in Nightly editions behind a flag:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539075
It's not immutable, but it is very sticky, especially once it gets stuck in a feedback loop with process.
Hell just wear for an hour, then take a break for a while, as one is usually advised with regards to PC usage.

At least this way, I could actually do stretches and exercises while watching some video.

Even prolonged usage of a smartphone is painful. So is prolonged usage of any computing device.
I don't see any drone mounted guns.
Norton Commander and all of its clones and successors (Midnight Commander, Total Commander, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander#Norton_Comman...) are the closest that I am aware of.

A similar line of shell-like TUIs would be X-Tree Gold (http://vtda.org/docs/computing/XTree/XTreeGold20UsersGuide.p...) and any of its clones.

Vim has Netrw:
https://vonheikemen.github.io/devlog/tools/using-netrw-vim-b...

Emacs has Dired mode: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredMode
"Scientists".
You are committing a worse version of that scumbaggery right now. I told you my argument and you reply as if I said something different.

I am not talking about the fact that my sister converted to Hinduism and now, instead of Kristelle, she likes to be called Gauri. We call her Gauri to her face. But her siblings, when discussing events with her in our past, still refer to her as Kristelle amongst each other. That was her identity then. Doing this is not being a jerk.
You go to court and hope your lawyers are more convincing than the governments.

The CFTC and SEC don't actually have to agree about something for you to be found guilty of a crime.
plebbit doesn't require you to sync an entire ledger, it uses content addressing (IPFS), which lets you only download and seed the content you use, not the entire network. A plebbit "full node" is just an IPFS node (similar to a bittorrent client), it takes no space and has no sync time.
I think more like many tens of thousands.
For what it's worth, I don't think some of your examples are fully on point.

In many countries, gambling is heavily regulated. Not everybody can gamble, not everybody can offer gambling services, and there are rules and disclaimers on tickets/entries/whatever.

Similarly, yes you can ski anywhere, but some companies included waivers and disclaimers if e.g. you want to use their lifts or slopes or services.

Point is, even the best examples you came up with aren't actually a clear-cut case of "you can do whatever you want, it's on you, with no regulations or warning or protections".

At their best, regulations are a collective "We tried this, it sucked/harmed people, ouchie, let's not do it again". They ARE a "Let's learn the hard way" but on a societal scale. It is, to me, insane to take an unpragmatic, extreme, libertarian way of "everybody should learn from their own mistakes only".

(at their worst, of course, regulations are oppressive, ridiculous, overly complicated, serve limited or counter purpose, ambiguous, overbearing, and growing ad infinitum:)
Have third-party apps like Apollo, etc. been using Reddit's API for free for all of these years? They've been building businesses and making money on the back of Reddit for free?
(1) Different guy, different story

(2) By my reading, the stuff he's talking about doesn't constitute (or even suggest) dispositive evidence of alien craft. Nor this guy even claiming that they are. All he's saying basically, is "Here's some fragments / MRI scans we don't understand, let's explore further".

(3) Even so, this stuff is many orders of magnitude weaker than the claims in the original article (literally "intact craft of alien origin"). So there's not even an analogy to be made here.
I started to reply "why the hell does a social network need an App Store?" -- then I remembered FarmVille and a few of my friends becoming zombies...

What a time that was...

It's an interesting way of looking at things. I think, like the article mentions, Meta has been more focused on creating Facebook VR than on pushing things the tech forward. "Oculus" became a recognizable name even to those of us who weren't following the space.

The Oculus hardware seems well-built (my kid has a Rift S) but it's clunky. I can't count the number of times we've had to reset the boundaries/floor level. It's immersive enough when it's working, but (and I understand it's years-old, mid-level tech) I'd never expect to work with it.

Microsoft, on the third hard, has taken a hard pivot towards industry with HoloLens -- which is at the same price point at Vision Pro, but has almost 7 years experience gained in the space at this point.
The specification was frozen "only" in December 2020. It is enough time for a lot of software to add support to it (Gimp, ImageMagick, Krita, FFMpeg, Adobe Camera Raw).
But it will take a long time before camera start using it. And since a lot of popular graphic software cannot export to JXL yet (photoshop, clip studio, lightroom, ...) most professional just can't use JXL (short of saving a lossless image and then converting it to JXL in another software).
And in general, since the format is pretty new, most people don't know about it.
That is why being able to use it for the biggest browser would have been huge for speeding its adoption.
Thankfully it does pair with a Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad for the scenarios where you want to use it to do “work”.
I was responding to your comment and the parent comment both asserted that people would be using this device to record live concerts or their kid’s birthday party (which we, apparently, agree is silly).
> The only way to trust perception is to go through repeatable experiment and see that results conforms to prediction, eg. science.

Is this claim not self-referential? Did you apply its ~~recommended~~ necessary methodology to itself?

> Science is the only and sole way to determine our shared reality, anything else is literally lucky heuristics, including the behavior of scientists.

This too...plus, who will be performing these experiments if scientists are not trustworthy?

Maybe this is brand new territory and we need new theories (&/or revisit old ones) and techniques.
That difference is important, because it's the first group that actually makes content.

Without those users, there is no platform.
I wouldn't know, but doesn't the point still hold if I can sell (let's say) 1000 tickets at movie ticket prices, which I wouldn't otherwise have been able to sell? Call it $15 * 1000 people ... ?

I think the made up hypothetical figures distracted from the main idea, I was questioning the position that NBA would lose value when it seems like technology like this would open up a new audience of consumers who might now be willing to spend some money that they wouldn't otherwise have spent.
I would really like to start converting some of my personal media and websites to use JPEG XL, but the momentum doesn't seem there yet - despite clear technical and practical benefits.
To be fair, Oculus was a $2 billion acquisition by Facebook in 2014. That should have brought them the talent needed to make hardware devices, despite being a software company at heart.
Whatever it is it goes beyond curiosity - it doesnt just come up with the laziest answer it often invents it.
If criticizing a regulatory body causes them to go after you, then that regulatory body is corrupt and should be dismantled and replaced with something else.
I'm wondering if communities like Lemmy will be any more open to other ways of thinking than reddit is. My politics align fairly well with the reddit political stances, but when it doesn't line up exactly it's like I'm a far-right actual nazi or something. I'm hoping other communities will be more open to people actually thinking somewhat differently from themselves. I'm not holding my breath, though.

I'm going to give Lemmy a shot and keep my head down and see how it works out. Realistically, I won't be leaving reddit until old.reddit.com goes away or my ad-blocker stops working.
Just like windows phone vs iphone?
>Should I create one database per user, for example?

You can't. D1 won't let you create databases at runtime. At least that was the case last time I tried it, and it's what killed it for me.
I'm guessing that's for a model with 8G memory?

In my experience the experience for those is quite bad, as you're sharing that 8G across both the CPU and GPU...

Judging from the OP's post of 2.3k€, they're probably considering a maxed out version, which has a completely different experience since you can fully take advantage of the high memory bandwidth for hybrid tasks unlike the low-memory models where you're sharing the limited capacity.
See, this is exactly what a blog post could explain. It's relevant because people who need a tool that hasn't been abandoned are looking for an alternative. The reducers in fx could be a replacement for jq in many use cases, and their feature sets overlap quite a lot.
Hyperband [1] has been my go-to hyperparam optimization method over the past few years. Handily beats Bayesian search wherever I applied it, also implemented in most frameworks.

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06560
I really worry that if AR/VR like Apple Vision takes off, we are going to find ourselves even more alone, isolated, and depressed than ever, separated from the physical humanity we all evolved to live in. Putting a screen between everything is the theme of so many dystopian movies I don't even know where to start.

I mean, I get it. I really, really do. But, man, is this healthy, really?
The dongle era macbooks are trash. I give you that.
It made me really allergic for the word kindly combine with Sir

Sir , kindly xxxxxx = Indian scammer
I don’t run Asahi on anything currently, but I do have two desktop Linux machines, an M1 Macbook, and have previously run Linux on an Intel Mac… I can see the argument for laptops based on battery life/heat/build quality, but for a desktop machine I’d need a lot of convincing to justify the price premium and risk of compatibility issues in choosing a Mac Mini over a SFF/USFF/Tiny desktop with fully supported hardware.
FYI, that is 100% something a cop can do in the US. They have no obligation to warn you not to commit a crime, and are legally allowed to even encourage you to do a crime. They can provide all the means and motivation to do a crime, and if a jury can be convinced that you would have crimed anyway if you had those resources through other means, it's not entrapment.
Of course the actual accounts are normally not in Excel, but in a proper double entry system
I would never let a kid touch a modern google or apple smartphone ecosystem. They can have one if they must when they are an independent adult capable of paying their own bills under a roof of their own.

I would however encourage laptops and desktops which require them to be offline periodically when they venture into the real world.
Yes, it clearly needs more science. Can we get some test-tubes and white lab-coats in here?

Because first-hand observation just isn't good enough.
Does anyone have a quick summary what this is all about?
Posting obnoxious, demanding messages on the Chromium bug tracker is not the way to win friends & influence people. It's just an image file format for Pete's sake.
I'd say getting a macbook or a macbook air would be worth it, but rather than spending that much on a mac mini I'd probably get one of those new ryzen mini-PCs like from Beelink or Minisforum. You could get something with a 7735HS 8-core chip, terabytes of diskspace and a shitload of LPDDR5 RAM for 500€ and it's as small as the mac mini.
Has anyone ever thought of Facebook as a pioneer in anything? They've made some smart purchases and stole a few ideas. I feel like their entire existence is based on right place, right time.
I think that's definitely true. To get to that point, Apple's multifaceted problem seems to be knocking a huge amount off the price of the thing while convincing a significant number of users to buy and actually use it (instead of putting it on a shelf after a few uses as so many Oculus users have done over the years), and also to convince a few excellent software developers to create worthwhile stuff for it.

They can throw a ton of money at that problem, but I wonder how effective that can possibly be.
The actual complaint:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.59...
Maybe they are a descendant of William Rankine. Maybe there is an epic 150-year Scottish Baron family feud still going.
> And the amount spent is a pittance to western governments

I don't consider well north of $100billion and climbing to be a pittance.

> We could, and imo we should, give Ukraine to means to win.

And yet we haven't. The Ukrainians are still rationing artillery fire, appear to have lost most of their air defence cover and long ago lost air cover.

If we were serious about winning the US government would have switched to a planned economy (as we did in WW2), taken control of munitions production and gotten a handle on our out of control military contract padding.

> But I would say there is a calculation going on the US about stringing out the war longer

That's certainly one way to spin trying to lose more slowly.

> Also what outcome do you want? We surely don't want Russia to win this and think its great and start more wars and repress more people. I think we should care at least.

a negotiated peace. Tricky given all of the times the US has betrayed Russian trust over the last ten years. The only plausible route feels like a massive neutral DMZ (probably everything east of the Dnipro) administered by a BRICS led UN peace keeping force.

Hugely embarrassing for the West and NATO, but would end the killing and devastation and allow us to concentrate on the real threat of climate change.
> Why does this matter?

Because the parent said "that many Americans lost money over". Plus the SEC is "protecting investors". So I'm asking, what if there are more people who've made money over those who lost? Does that mean life's good? Coinbase has been pretty transparent about their operations. Not only transparent, they've publicly mentioned several times how frustrated they are dealing with SEC, the organization that is slow to come up with various legal requirements for the cryptocurrency industry. In a way, Coinbase helps the SEC to raise their own bar.