skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need the battery pack only if you want more than the 2 hours of battery life the device itself gets.

ADDED. Since I am getting downvoted, here is a cite:

https://www.laptopmag.com/news/apple-vision-pro-is-here-and-...

>Up to 2 hours of battery life without the battery pack. (Yes, there's a battery back that can be attached to Vision Pro.)

Also: put yourself in the design team's shoes: why wouldn't you put a small battery in it? A small battery doesn't weigh that much; a small battery isn't much of a safety hazard; compared to all the other engineering effort put into the product, the engineering to put in a battery is a drop in the bucket (particularly since the organization has so much experience putting batteries in products).
Indeed, you should actually listen to what this whistleblower is saying rather than relying solely on credentials.

I don't know though, whether Colin Powell risked his career in any way, it doesn't look like it.

You are weirdly not providing any reasoned arguments whatsoever, only illogical slander. Why is that?
It happened just as I was connecting my new phone to Whatsapp. Made for a few worrying moments where I was wondering if I had made a mistake somewhere and got myself locked out of my account...
I mean it sounds like the individuals involved in the money exchange were consenting.
When I am serious about images it is all about high performance: upgrading to better data compression (1) speeds up the network and server and reduces (2) network and (3) storage costs. (4) Decompression of the image is another bottleneck and a soft decoder is itself something to download and compile locally.

If you use a high-powered device you might not appreciate that performance of a low-end Android device hasn't really improved since 2017. I test with an Android Go device that does pretty well if you feed it scaled images but would struggle with the soft decoder.

The native implementation of the decompressor can be much better than one in WebAssembly in that it can use SIMD units on the CPU and many other tricks, including special purpose hardware. That's why Apple is so keen to say that an image format is now supported in the OS, because they codesign the hardware, the OS and the file formats to take advantage of all that.
If they work better now (maybe limitations in the past like transfer speeds), what’s the problem?
To chime in on the last part, I imagine that it could be beneficial for Apple’s offices alone; every employee is able to create their preferred workspace while using less physical space; only really needing a desk, keyboard, mouse, power & internet source and a seat
Thanks. And how much actual time is that? In, say, hours per week?
Agriculture > Manufacturing -> Service -> Content based economy, turns out youth have the head start, as always.
> Also, at the time, people had freaked out about wearing cameras in public. (I wonder if I need to purchase some popcorn to watch how it'll go for this one, or if it's gonna be different.)

My prediction is that it's going to be A Thing to wear this at all times, even if your battery is dead, similar to the way The Kids These Days have their airpods in 24/7. Pressure your mom until she finally gets you a pair ("free" with 10 year Verizon contract)
But they do have a huge head start in apps, movies, tv, games, sports rights compared to the makers of any other device. They are well positioned or make this work by integrating tightly to their own eco-system
Took about 15 seconds to download the app and display the first few posts. Come back in another 2 years.
For sure! I think I learn best by trying to build something rather than following a tutorial. ChatGPT just makes that so much faster to jump straight into that.
Existing headsets are predominately VR.

This is the first true mixed reality headset as it allows you to gradually transition between VR to AR. That's going to make the headset a lot more usable outside or in collaborative environments.
voice replaces typing
It's an SoC; what do you think you're paying for besides the CPU? The whole rest of the computer (for a Mac Mini, at least) is worth maybe $50.
>Or you were referring to Rainbow's End in which case I'm embarrassed about my comment.

Sorry, Gumby, it's the Play-Doh press for you.

I feel you. RE is probably going to end up being wrong about a lot of things, too; in particular, Vinge even kind of hinted at how the lack of haptics would cause the "mirror world" and virtual object schemas to break down, at least as far as immersion and utility go. Ultimately, I don't think we get to the world he described without the tech that was just nascent within it. That's analogous to the inapplicability of real-world translation metaphors to the pop-into-existence data stream that is the web, as you said. I realized this the moment that I reached out to touch the 3D model of a character I'd created and nothing was there.

Gaming short-circuits perception and gives leeway in a lot of ways that are conducive to a haptic-less experience, though. Good movement and animation can make up for a lack of embodiment that would kill a more serious experience (Second Life as a virtual office or retail branch...), and while animation is much less reliable of a tool for VR, I'm sure that other affordances can be found if devs are allowed to just... play around with it (pun intended).

The presentation kind of disappointed me because I didn't see an understanding of the situation that they face.
Nvidia gpus haven't been supported by Macs for a long time. Apple and Nvidia relations are not good for some reason.
HN having server issues when a single post gets 1200 comments in two hours is pretty normal. I don't think any issues with the wider internet are implied
> I understand your perspective, but it's important to clarify this is the nature of news reporting.

Laundering content (from Humanloop in this case) through LLMs isn't "reporting". It's just content theft.
> So you are saying the waiting times in the Swedish hospital system have no effect whatsoever?

I wasn’t saying anything even remotely similar to that.

> Nordics love to pick on US when their own healthcare have up to a decade of waiting times for inportant procedures.

It’s not a competition. There are serious problems within Swedish (and probably Nordic overall) healthcare, in particular non-urgent procedures like hip replacement surgery. We should criticize them both.

However, I’ve been living in both systems. In the US the total cost (both taxes and private) is >2x, and the outcome is significantly worse, in aggregate. Getting what’s considered “excellent” health insurance can still land you in a hell hole of legal disputes and unimaginable medical debt. I absolutely don’t blame you for your disappointment, but the US system is much, much more broken, in aggregate, and not just for “the poor”, but for everyone except perhaps multi-millionaires.

> Its neither free nor is it working.

It’s never free. However “working” is not a boolean, it’s floating point. It can get much, much worse.

> I also pay private health insurance as do half of the population here.

Out of curiosity, where? I’m not saying you’re wrong, but it’s news to me. I thought it was way less common.

> Nordics celebrating nordic superiority is[..]

Beyond stupid, indeed. The mindset “at least we’re better than X” leads to complacency and is a huge flaw in many people’s thinking. Everywhere. I don’t endorse any of that.
I mean, it’s not entirely implausible that housing is a better index of cost of living than computers.
developer.apple.com for account management has also been down most of the day.
Magic Leap 2 has a segmented dimmer that works fairly well. It's a small probably-LCD panel that sits in front of your eye. It lets the headset black out part of your view, leaving a kinda blurry shadow around objects.
Apple makes money by not targeting products to people without money. I’d say it’s worked out pretty well for them.
Apple's Vision Pro headset deserves to be ridiculed
They need a better story for the lenses for that to become a reality. Anyone who needs corrective lenses will need to bring their own and my guess is they are going to cost around $500. I’ll eat my shoe if they are less than half of that cost.
Two years ago they were better than the best in-ear noise cancelling earphones Bose had. I've not kept up to date or tried Bose since then so maybe they've got even better (they weren't bad, just not as good as Airpods Pro, IMO).
We're talking about watching movies, not playing rhythm games.

Is it going to be worth $3500 to have a better movie experience on an airplane? Absolutely not. Is it going to be awesome? Probably.
>3D animation

Disagree. All the good GPU-based rendering engines need CUDA, and none of them are optimized for Apple silicon. Octane (the one in the demo) is trash, only good for fancy titles and that sort of thing.
It won't look too different from this:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ski+goggle+tan&iar=images&iax=imag...
Did people really say that the original Airpods were overpriced?[1] IIRC back in 2016 BT earbuds (that weren't connected by a band) were mostly pretty shitty, which I think was the root of most people's skepticism, not the price?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12446094
The Simula One (https://simulavr.com) has been targeting similar productivity use cases for a while. I've been following it from a distance; I have to wear reading glasses for computer work now, and I would love to be able to focus on a virtual screen 2 meters or so away for coding etc. Whether I could stand wearing the headset all day is another question.

The Simula folks think that there's a lower limit of about 30 pixels per degree for something to be useful as a low-eye-fatigue virtual desktop. Their device meets that threshold but really nothing else currently on the market does. I haven't seen PPD info for the Apple device yet but I am interested to see where it falls.

The Simula is at a pretty similar price point ($2700 for the preorder, but it's not shipping yet and has a way to go before it's a reality).
https://plebbit-test.netlify.app/#/p/politically-incorrect.e...

Oh no....
One the one hand I like 64bits from a technical perspective but, on the other hand, I am not so sure I want to live in a world where a single web app needs to access more than 4 GB of address space.
I think they meant the keynote resulted in massive traffic to HN resulting in HN giving itself the hug of death.

Totally plausible provided the overlap in communities.
What is the final character? It looks like a backwards 7 or Cyrillic G.
> Been playing with the thought of having something like an adblock-list style system where domain shitlists can be collaborated on and shared without being authoritative for the entire search engine.

Even just personal shitlists would be golden and make just about everyone happy.
Lower Manhattan’s Internet Is Down
I’m going to be using that one. Thank you.
6.7948900e-9 which has only the first 5 digits correct (if you assume it would have to have been 6.79490 to get 6 digits correct since that is what the correct value rounds to)
It depends on how often you fly. I can see a frequent flyer benefiting from this, or maybe airlines will just had them out to their biz class flyers.
Aren't you a case in point then?

> the sweet spot is a single curved monitor right in front of me

So you can have that. Exactly the right monitor size, curvature, location - in every room of the house, on the train, at work, in the cafe etc. People with ergonomic challenges are, I would have thought, a perfect market for this.
> Certainly the web and its abortive competitors (like apple eWorld, and many others) made it clear for those not paying attention: nobody wanted to "walk" from Gap to Williams Sonoma in some virtual mall: they just wanted to click over and get satisfaction. Nobody likes long boring travel in an open video game; a little is OK to avoid breaking the spell, but soon something has to happen or you need a convenient elevator. The same applies to movies.

What's funny is that I think (having not experienced it) that I would like to basically set various files and applications around a virtual space, because I'm eternally frustrated with all window managers and other 2d application management tools. I just don't want to wander through someone else's "carefully curated" hall of t-shirt JPEGs.
Keming strikes again
Had trouble with Google Chat messages getting queued. They automatically retried and were delivered only after restarting the device (Android). This was approximately 2.5 hours ago.
Since the space/weight for batteries is limited, I bet it will be more like iphone, so only WebKit and tight control to optimize battery usage.
My ex-boyfriend had a 128gb Mac he would regularly max out with nothing more than Spotify and Firefox tabs. I still don't understand it.
I don't know much about it honestly, but this article that talks about PBMs is very interesting:

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/eli-lilly-lowers-insulin-p...

> “Even though they're dropping their list price by 70% and capping their cost to patients at $35, it’s important for us to make this very, very clear—the company is still making a profit,”

...

> During a 2019 congressional hearing, insulin makers admitted that there’s pressure to keep list prices high so that PBMs can also profit.

> PBMs favor the drugs that will yield them higher profits. By lowering prices, Lilly runs the risk of being excluded from formularies, meaning the insurance companies will no longer cover the product for their patients.
Sometimes new and soon to be very popular things have a seriously negative response here in HN initially.

Think of Snapchat. I'm sure everyone in tech would have said 'nah, there is no market for a messaging app where all messages disappear after 15 seconds'.

And yet only a year or so later it was sending more photos than any other platform.

Apples product might be the same.
AirPods ate some of the most highly rated wireless earphones at the moment. Compared to full size Bose, I would say they are 90% comparable.
Here’s a thought experiment: take a look at the Tillitis Key: https://tillitis.se
It’s a security dongle that can execute arbitrary programs. It’s hardware is actually a RISC-V core implemented on top of an FPGA, with some firmware on top to load the user programs.

Now the firmware is a kind of software, so patent should not apply, right? Heck one could even argue that the configuration of the FPGA should not count either, only the FPGA itself may count. There’s a problem though: the keys are locked.

They kinda have to be to deliver their security promises, and prevent the secret key in the device from leaking, either by accident or by adversarial extraction. But then what do I have? A hardened piece of… hardware actually. And all the patents that didn’t apply "because software", now do.

Or maybe they do not, I’m not a lawyer. I just wanted to highlight how fuzzy the frontier could be.
They've said there's a "crown" (like on their watches) on the headset you can turn to adjust seeing your surroundings or not. And there's a video demonstrating that on the page this thread links to. So no, you're not stuck seeing your surroundings if you don't want to see them.
Jonathan Blow has a fascinating talk on puzzle elements in Calvino's work (especially Invisible Cities iirc) and how they relate to puzzles in video games such as his The Witness, at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpPRPThlbL8
Sounds like Rock Band. But everyone could participate at the same time.
I don't disagree.

And this is the most depressing thought I've had in weeks.
Hum, AFAIK VR started off as aimless experimental tech, was repurposed for data visualization first, and only after a reasonable amount of success there it was pushed for gamers.

And then gamers unanimously rejected it, but it found a quite cozy niche in CAD.

That's just to say that it has probably a lot of other serious uses. But yeah, as soon as it's actually good, games will probably be most popular one. Anyway, I agree, the serious uses will almost certainly not include pretending you are in a circle with your coworkers' avatars.
The lens can be directional focusing your vision onto a certain point, also your peripheral vision cannot discern as much detail.
They've stated it is on a chip the size of a postage stamp. So we'll have to see how the lens directs it, when it's released.

Edit:sort of a Magic Leap type thing. The further out you look from the centre of the lense, the more the lense curves back to the focus your eye on the centre. With the eye tracking changing the image to compensate for your eye movement.
The MBA line has 256GB standard now.
The same rules apply for smaller pipelines. It's highly likely that it is cheaper to build hydrogen stations fed by pipelines than high-power cables for DC fast charging. Trucks can work as last-mile distribution too. This is not nearly as big as a problem as critics think, since those trucks only move short distances.
Agreed, for me it's on multiple occasions fixed some of those errors that are syntactically correct but can't be seen by the IDE or the interpreter/compiler, like forgetting to change some variable when copy pasting a section or calling the wrong function of the correct type. Stuff that can only be spotted when thinking about code semantically.

GPT 4 is also a serious CSS master, so that cuts so much time from trial and error there.

Current drawbacks though:

- the 2021 cutoff is very apparent, it's terrible at newer stuff since it can't pull from many examples (browsing mode helps, but it usually fails at finding the info it needs)

- it really can't help with the typical workflow of editing some small thing in a huge codebase because there's no way you can give it enough context for an answer that isn't based on heavy speculation

- when doing too much back and forth it eventually starts to cut tokens and no longer knows what the original question was; sometimes it's not an issue but other times it just goes off topic
I’ve seen this on Reddit and every other online community over the past few years. Zero tolerance for any sort of nuance or thought. It is concerning. HN is the last hold out.
The problem with writing that your company is knowingly committing a crime in an instant message to colleagues has little do with "negotiation" and everything to do with evidence, which funnily enough is taken into account in most legal systems influenced by Napoleonic codes...

It may surprised you to learn that criminals also commit crimes and lie about them in countries whose legal system is not based on common law.
If your cheese sprays like liquid, then you're using the wrong cheese, or probably something that shouldn't even qualify as such.
That’s shifting the goal posts, OP claimed there were no “pro” use cases shown in the keynote and I replied there were.
I'm sure people said the same things when cameras were invented. "The kids are playing, better grab my camera! -- what a dystopic thing to say!"

This thing is no bulkier or harder to use than the film cameras I grew up with. They covered the photographer's face too.
I sometimes get multiple captchas in a row that I fill correctly but they keep on showing more..I then just do the audio one which works.
> Who doesn’t like macos?

It’s buggy AF and Apple is dumbing down the UX/UI every year and customization options are almost non existent.

Also compared to Windows multi-display support is thrash, no window snapping (?!) and Windows seems to be generally more stable.
Have you used any of the newer models?
I see the pattern is that C is complained by most of people. And there is another type of programming that is that, which people never talk about. So just by talking about, regardless it's positive or negative, there is a tension in there and it's expectation, it's our will to kind of devices or this technology came into being. So eventually it will become part of our life and I hope that day comes sooner and this company will not disappoint us.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35381968 Cosine Implementation in C

Much better approximation with only 7 terms
I was asking myself the same, but I am assuming there is no way. The specs list only 300W of extra power budget (with only 150W on the single 8-pin PCI-E connector) and the x16 slots are shown as single height on the images.
Also I don't think there are any drivers for Apple Silicon afaik and using AMD GPUs purely as accelerator cards seems pointless when you have M2 Max.
Much better than their previous marketing 15 years ago measuring hard drive capacities in "songs".
I don’t remember it that way at all. The screen resolution. Touchscreen keyboard. Pinch and zoom, safari web browsing etc was all so much better than Nokia and BB offerings and many people immediately wanted the first iPhone. The earliest adopters would be hounded to show off their phone to family and friends.
I find it interesting that we haven't seen rise of a bipartisan fact-based news media that presents both sides in a deliberate Maner.

I could follow a simple format of topic, position one, position two. And obviously could be a debate platform but it could also just be a simple summary of facts
I really, honestly am!

I think without shared reality in place, the public verdict on this device will be that it's a loneliness enabler, or has you wear your loneliness on your face. Or rather, on a screen strapped to your face. It's going to be undesirable, the most damning quality of any consumer item. Nobody will envy their peers for having one.
I think everyone's seen this video of the inflatable "tanks":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmKeaHM8ck

I wouldn't be surprised if tricks like this were still being used in Ukraine, given that drone photography is a big thing.
Is there any settings to not make it look like new reddit? If I was building a new site I wouldn't copy the godawful empty space design they forced on everyone
I don't know why but this somehow taxes my CPU more than the official Reddit site, which is kind of impressive in a way.

The theme itself is a good Reddit replica, but I don't think IPFS has the necessary performance to run apps like these. Maybe it can live become a Lemmy frontend for the FOSS/fediverse crowd?
But is it advanced enough?
What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified? (Mac OS X)
Bolt 11 Standards and Bolt 12 – Lightning Network
An overview of the standards that make up a lightning network implementation.
I think network effects are already so far in favour of software companies that the patents are not really needed. Look at how AWS resells free software via it’s services for example. And anyone can copy them! And they are. But they are still the biggest by a long shot.
Building an eventplannergpt that will plan weddings and events under 5 mins
we are building an eventplanner gpt that allows people to plan any type of event (from weddings to happy hours) all under 5 minutes. just launched our new site (beta* be gentle)
It’s just 7. How is it backwards?
Everyone has to make their bed somewhere…
Hug of death? On ios (firefox focus) I’m getting:

> FetchEvent.respondWith received an error: no-response: no-response :: [{"url":"https://plebbit-test.netlify.app/"}]
I think it’ll be 5 generations before it’s a real product. I’d note the first iPhone was kinda garbage as was the first iPod. For the iPhone the App Store was empty and the apps that existed for years were pretty rudimentary. It couldn’t hold a phone call open. It was clunky and comparatively terrible hardware. Apple has the ability to invest and innovate on an idea for decades incorporating advances, fostering investment, and building an ecosystem.

The jaded take to my ears sounds a lot like the LLM / generative AI take - looking at the first real generation and claiming it’s an evolutionary dead end of hype monsterism. I feel sad that people that likely got into this field as a dreamer of what can be are stuck seeing what simply is.

Will this usher in rainbows end within the next 20 years? Maybe. Maybe not. But I’m always happy to see there are still nerds that can dream of what can be, even if they’re often drowned out by the chorus of what today isn’t.