skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think you're ignoring a huge part of the problem though, and that's software support. Because reality OS is iOS-based, we're likely going to end up with the same limitations, and many professional industries (software engineering, for one) just won't be able to take advantage of the device fully.

Of course there's workarounds (I used GitHub Codespaces for a while on my iPad and went without a Mac, and you could use the desktop streaming available on the headset), but they are no match for the same convenience you get by staying fully within Apple's walled garden.
Police unions are not valid unions and there’s plenty written why.
It seems to be disabled by default in the latest version of Android. A shame, because it had potential.

If Google Nearby Share wasn't so... Googled up, it would be a great replacement. Instead, we get a local sharing mechanism that's connected to your Google account for some god-forsaken reason.

What I really miss is the weird, short period where WiFi Direct file sharing Just Worked between different brands. WiFi Direct still exists on modern Android but there's no cross-device file sharing platform anymore. It was just Bluetooth file transfers but faster, which is all it really needed to be. I'm sure Google Nearby Share works in a similar way except for the weird Google stuff.
is this what they call dog whistle
Yes. Run a low 7 figure saas on php and laravel. Solid.
Most universities I knew were still teaching Java well into python's rise to popularity a decade ago. Python got where it is by focusing on being simple, easy, and nice to use. Seriously take a look at PEP-20 sometime:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/

Things like "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." just was such a breath of fresh air in language design.
In a non-MAD employment scenario, you would build them for area denial. e.g. I don't really know how far the fallout would go from some cesium nukes, but maybe if russia wants a moat that lasts a long time but they can't take over ukraine with conventional forces, then they could launch some at ukraine and build their moat that way.

In a MAD scenario, I would view them as a bigger scarier stick to threaten people with.
I'm trying to understand the motivation here. There's a few new image formats as potential candidates: jpeg xl, webp v2, avif, heic. Apple already had heic in the os, but still not Safari AFAIK. Avif has the benefit of hardware encoders/decoders (with limited chroma options though).

I see the HDR mentioned in other comments which is interesting.

Are there any (potential conspiracy) reasons they would choose not to go for another format?

I'm trying to understand how they arrived at this answer given it was available for years and ignored in popular software.
The rest of the conference, sure. But the keynote has always been designed for a mainstream audience.
This snorkeling mask is how a well off hipster would escape reality. This ideal hipster needs to have thousands of spare cash and hours of free time every day, yet his day to day life must be nasty enough that he wants to escape it.
You can plug it in directly too. It’s not just battery packs.
I often use telnet for this sort of thing. It's perfect for it.
Doubt. It might provide an (expensive) escape from the misery that is economy class, but if you are travel in first class or on private jets then you're already living in a very pleasant version of the world.
> Well fire the marketing departments of all those other companies

Yes. Meta has been awful at it.

> You can be salty if you want

Unfortunate that you turn to that type of sentiment here. It sours otherwise interesting discussion.

> Palmer Lucky came out and said this thing is "so good" last week

You should definitely understand his history before taking what he says at face value. But nobody is saying this isn't good. It's really good. In fact it's great. But it's not surprising. It's just putting together the best quality of things we've already seen across multiple other products at a very high price.
> difference in having no incentive to keep costs down and having an incentive to keep costs up.

Sure, but the only interested parties here presently are:

- students

- publishers

- professors (a few of which "author" or "customize" textbooks and stand to profit)

Students have zero power, publishers have every incentive to increase prices, and most professors don't get involved because like you said, it's not really relevant to them personally.

I agree that if a significant contingent of professors and lecturers essentially started boycotting the "textbook" industry, by using and contributing to "open source" books, or at least authoring or collaborating to author content that they give to their students at no cost, that would amount to applying pressure to the exploitatative business model.
Why would the authors say otherwise?

Additionally, why is it framed in a way that makes it seem like white people having more of an impact is a bad thing?

10 years ago if you'd told me articles like this were coming I'd have laughed. How did misconstruing the truth to further the "white people bad" notion become not just acceptable but popular? And it doesn't even stop there - the article implies that more diversity (i.e less white people) is an ontological good. How does this stuff even get published?
I’m pretty sure that Mac sales have been doing just fine since the release of the M1.
I am not sure I understand. Do you think this suit is baseless?
Added in https://crrev.com/c/2749318
that's how tyranny works. if a large enough (like 15%) people are stupid enough to give up a basic right for a perceived safety, tyranny flourishes.

"would you oppose the government installing surveillance cameras in every househould?"
me: Yes
"but what if it were to reduce domestic violence?"
me: STILL YES
"but what if..."
me: There is no BUTS, I oppose it for all reasons and forever.

as long as >1% of people are stupid enough to be willing to sell their basic freedoms for such a thing, the safety of my freedom is at risk.
I doubt that this is true on the basis of how absurd it is. Who knows though, it would fit with and continue the theme of civilization being in-part the process of mankind domesticating itself.
I think OP means the reddit API pricing changes. I'm not sure if that affects your use (either type of request or amount of requests) or not though.
I bet if they asked the same (contextually biased) question in Germany it'd be under 1%. Some lessons have to be re-learned by every other generation.
It's seriously time to start thinking about shutting down CNN. What's the point of a third infotainment channel? If anything, A 24/7 news channel itself is an outdated concept and needs to die.
Don't underestimate Apples ability to make a successful product where many others have tried and failed before. This could be the spark that is needed to spur on AR/VR in a big way. At $3500 it's definitely out there.
In my experience it's not as good as even GPT-3.5 at following instructions (for example formatting a text blob into structured json) which leads it have too much variability in output to be useful.
Every time I see social media recreated in a decentralised fashion I realise why the successful ones are centralised. The loading times of this are dreadful and I don't see how you'll be able to solve that problem when you're relying on P2P.

In any case, it sounds like we'll be getting many new Reddit clones so I may as well plug what I've built recently: a Reddit alternative API that is free. Check it out if you're a dev that is being caught out by the Reddit pricing changes[1].

1 - https://api.reddiw.com
14 years in finance is tiny. The first modern corporations were formed in the 11th century. It took 500+ years to go from there to the British East India Company. It took a further 200 years to get the London and New York Stock Exchanges, another 100 years to get the American Exchange (formerly the "curb market", broker/dealers who had been kicked out of the NYSE), and then another 70 to get NASDAQ.

I don't think we'll see widespread adoption of crypto this generation. It may be very important by the time my kids are retired, though. There are going to be many, many speculative bubbles and panics in the meantime. It took 200 years to go from the British East India Company to the London Stock Exchange, but there were 3 financial panics (Kipper Und Wipper, Tulip Mania, and the General Crisis of 1640) in just the 22 years between 1618 and 1640.
Does blocking I/O or not is very much a property of the function itself, as is "may finish up running on a different thread from the one it started on" (or, if you prefer, "needs to be run under a runtime that provides that capability").

Sending a letter and getting a reply is an inherently async action; you can stare at the mailbox all day but you probably don't want to. Waiting in line at the bank is inherently sync; if you try to do something else and then come back they'll make you start over again.
I'm cautiously optimistic here. I have a very specific idea that the Vision Pro might make real. There's a great urban park nearby and I so want to just...walk while I work. Not on a treadmill and not 'to get away from my work'. Just: walk on a safe road / trail and do my computer work at the same time.

I've been exploring the consumer AR space --- I have a Viture One and have been eyeing the Xreal Air, but neither seems to solve the problem of "keep the virtual screen stable while I walk through real space".

If the Vision Pro can do that for several hours at a time, my interest in getting one will skyrocket.

(The whole 'how do you type while walking' issue is a separate problem, but one I feel is far more solvable than the virtual screen stability issue).
Dang. That's good to know, thank you.
What I'd love to see (and nobody makes, but I could make one myself with a bunch of switches I guess) is to have various plain bulbs of different colors, and control them with the switch.

I wish the Hue bulbs worked with a actual smart switch (I have some of the snap on cover ones and they are "ok" but unsatisfying long-term.

https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us/p/hue-tap-dial-switch/0466... is silly, it's battery powered. The old one (Hue Tap) was great, because it used the force of the button press to send the signal needed: https://hueblog.com/2020/07/27/hue-tap-disappears-from-the-m...

So of course it's dead and gone :(
I suppose they can, but it wouldn't be a very convincing scam without a good voice replicator. Grabbing pictures is easy but isolating and replicating voices is still quite difficult, especially with the heavy accent many scammers seem to have.

The time of video call scams will come, but I don't think we're there just yet outside very targeted attacks on people in power or with huge amounts of wealth at their disposal.
Unless somethings dramatically changed with the M2, Apples chips can't leverage their full memory bandwidth in CPU-only workloads so comparing their numbers to those of a discrete CPU isn't especially meaningful. When Anandtech tested the "400GB/sec" M1 Max the most throughput they could coax out of it via the CPU was 224GB/sec.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...

The huge bandwidth numbers on the M-series are mainly for the benefit of the GPU, less so the CPU.
well it may actually be appealing for winter sports, snowboarders and skiers can appreciate it. but at this pricetag, maybe 5 years later. lets hope we would not have to project the snow bythen...
You wouldn’t watch movies or shows with this thing? I’m pretty sure this will make watching videos in tiny rectangles from our phones and TVs seem so outdated.
The number of third party domains this site needs to hit to even load any posts on the front page is insane. I'm looking at a list of domains like "etherscan", ipfs gateways, pokt... all kinds of shady sounding bullshit and it isn't at all clear to me what I would need to whitelist to get this site to work: http://0x0.st/Hbkj.jpg

Yes I know this is "my fault" for being a weirdo who doesn't blindly let his browser hit any server a website pleases. But I use this to judge the quality of a website, the care and professionalism that was put into it. This plebbit site is awful by this metric even compared to new reddit; with new reddit merely whitelisting *.reddit.com is sufficient to view a list of posts, and whitelisting 3 more domains (all clearly reddit-affiliated: redd.it, redditmedia.com and redditstatic.com) is enough to make the site behave as it should.
> maybe I can make that flashlight app

I wonder if you could make a literal flashlight/headlamp, either by using the front-facing display as a light, or just leveraging the infrared/lidar sensor to make night-vision goggles
"I can't avoid feeling that the new direction taken by Next.js is not designed to help developers, but to help Vercel sell React. You can't really sell a service around SPAs: once compiled, a SPA is a single JS file that can be hosted for free anywhere. But a server-side rendered app needs a server to run. And a server is a product that can be sold."

I agree with this 100% - a lot of the JS ecosystem is really marketing by tech influencers who want to sell stuff. That's there is always a new shiny tool around the corner. The VCs need to recoup their investment.
There's already the camera in the laptop, the camera in the phone, the camera in the TV, the camera in the doorbell, the camera in the vacuum cleaner...
Apple doesn't sign Nvidia drivers anymore. It's unlikely they'll be compatible with Nvidia cards specifically until they reverse that particular policy.
Even at 4k per eye, if you imagine a screen at a typical viewing distance, the "dot pitch" of the display is going to just be massively less than a good quality high end monitor sitting on your desk.

We've been waiting like 10 years for that to change since Oculus Dev kit days, and its still not solved today. Advances in pixel density in this space have been incredibly slow.

I think it could be a very long time before a headset can simulate a really great display well enough for me, but other's mileage may vary.

Even with "foveated rendering" the peak dotpitch (the highest pixel density it can acomplish) simply isn't going to be good enough for me - it can't be any sharper than the dot pitch of the panel in front of the eye.

A 5k iMac has 14.7 million pixels - the pixel density needed to do this as well as a "real" display in VR could be pretty massive.
>And sure, desktop mirroring is in every headset but sidecar isn't "plug a cable in and mirror your screen" it's project your screen to another device you own without any cables. That's more attractive for someone with a few apple devices.

Miracast, 2012
Meta Quest Pro has much of what the Apple device offers while providing controllers for a significantly better gaming experience for $2500 cheaper. Considering the strongest consistent use case of VR thus far has been gaming, Apple has a huge miss IMO.
You would have loved the old ATI/AMD demodulator evaluation board that I have. Does both ATSC 1.0 and QAM. TS output is DVB-ASI (which requires a pretty expensive DVB-ASI to USB converter).

https://www.w6rz.net/DCP_1205.JPG
Democrats (and liberals in general) are overwhelmingly urban (red/blue county maps are basically population density maps), especially living in major cities.

But it is also true that democratic party affiliation is higher than republican party affiliation amongst the poorest[0]. I wonder which is the larger contributor there: is it income or geography that most drives the poor towards liberalism?

I don't really want to engage with your claim re: abandoning the working class, as I fully endorse the mindset that breaking the rail worker strike was anti-worker. But concurrently, the change of regulation that eventually led to the rail worker strike was a Republican/conservative policy. I will say that very few on the Democrat/liberal side talk openly about e.g. falling birth rates as an economic problem for the adoption industry, so I'm inclined to say that the condescending liberal elites are still better at pretending the poors are actual people who can hear what's said about them.

0. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/09/26/161841771/how-...
That seems like such a narrow subset.
> NO!

> Great just what the world needs, another freaking MP3 player. Go Steve! Where's the Newton?!
Apple is successful no doubt, but the point is, that its OS doesn't appeal to everyone. I also can't stand it and get used to it. The weird docking behaviour, mouse acceleration, annoying jumping animations, weird window management etc.
Can't find anything with spotlight. Spotlight results jump when I'm about to pick something. Glitchy window resizing animations. With multi display, windows keep disappearing from me when moving from one display to the other etc.
I don’t know if you’ve used any existing VR glasses, but that’s a pretty accurate characterisation.
Python took a clear turn for the worse when it stopped following the BDFL model.
When someone posts 30 long, substantive answers in 20 minutes, you can be sure they're AI-generated.
> The less interesting version is that you do always have to option to just block. You can call a task runner on that future, and synchronously block until that specific future completes itself. This isn’t the greatest approach, because we probably don’t want to block, but it is an option.

My first thought, coming from a JS perspective, was “no, you actually can’t do that”, because blocking the event loop will prevent resolution of the Promise. My next thought was that this is particular to a single threaded, cooperative concurrency model, so of course “can’t” is situational.

But on further thought, it’s much closer to my first thought: you can do that if you can interleave asynchronous ticks with synchronous ones, but only if you can determine there are no data races (or accept them if there are). This is something I suspect Haskell (or Rust?) is probably well suited for, but for JS it’s a complete non-starter.

Another comment made the point that the async keyword (the explicit “color”) is at issue, and I nearly made this comment there because it raised the same concerns for me from a different angle: if you can “await” from an otherwise synchronous function, you’re either accepting data races, blocking permanently, or implicitly “coloring” all functions as async with the same implication that you can statically eliminate races.

At which point, writing this, I realized this would all be so much simpler if everything was a statically analyzable DAG with transactional semantics.
Absolutely. I’d rather have companies making these type of high quality products even if I can’t afford them to not having products like this in the market at all.
I wouldn't take a survey from the Cato Institute seriously. They're the propaganda arm of Charles Koch. Interesting fact, Charles Koch's father Fred Koch started the John Birch Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_C._Koch#Political_views
Yes, my new startup Sever offers a service that permanently cuts your spinal coord so you can work all day at a virtual desk using an Apple Vision Pro, while your body works out all day in the gym- completely undetectable to you.

Of course you will need to now pay hourly API access fees to use your new FitBody(tm) and sign over the rights to let us rent your physical body to 3rd party virtual users for any hours you don’t pay for. As the initial “donor” you will get priority access when booking time on “your” body.
FYI, “Hispanic/latino” includes a large number people who identify as white. As defined by the Census, these are not mutually exclusive categories.
We’re still really early in the AR/VR space. Hardware is bulky and expensive but that’ll change over time. Eventually we’ll have lightweight, high-fidelity, reasonably-priced hardware and AR/VR usage will be common
Who cares how much the Apple battery pack costs? Does literally anybody buy Apple's own MagSafe accessories instead of getting cheap third-party ones?

I feel like this is similar to the Mac Pro coaster wheels: a case of consumers getting upset about something that was never meant to be sold "ala carte" to individuals in the first place; but rather only exists to be purchased in bulk on the Apple Business Store by institutional buyers who wants every component to be under warranty and able to be returned for depreciation, and who don't even look at the cost breakdown before clicking "Buy."
It'll depend on how well Apple handles abuse reports. If they become too aggressive, killing someone's Apple account (including their precious memories on iCloud) could be a real risk for mass fake reports. If they become too lenient, scammers will strike.

For just $15 per account [1] you can buy your way into someone else's iCloud, no manual phishing or credential stuffing needed. You'll need to ban quite a few per day to get rid of all of them, and even then innocent people may lose their accounts.

[1]: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3261128/criminals-pay-...
The big feature JPEG XL offers that HEIC and AVIF do not is lossless filesize reduction for JPEG images (such as those produced by basically every non-iphone camera).

Also AVIF and HEIC as specified don't support >8k images.
I really wish the aliens would hurry up and give us fusion power already, and maybe the cure to all diseases, a theory of everything and quantum computing while they're at it. I didn't need compact discs that badly.
> But when the way an election is administered is radically different than all prior instances

Again, that is simply not the case. At all. State governments[1] run several elections every year, and they use the same processes and laws for all of them. Surely you've voted many times since 2020, right? And probably before, right? And... you didn't notice that it's the same process?

[1] This was not, and has never been, "an election" that is "administered" in a central way. Every state has its own laws. Every state runs its own election. The only federal "election" involved is the ceremonial one involving the meeting of the state electors.
> Usenet was - by the standards of the early 00's, which is when it began to decline - slow, and asynchronous. Posts could take hours to days to propagate, which meant conversation threads would go off in multiple directions at once.

Maybe that was your particular experience but generally that wasn't the case unless we're talking about a server connected via UUCP to the rest of the world, possibly with a dialup link between the servers and transferring news articles every few hours or once a day.

NNTP employs a flooding algorithm whereby every server offers all messages received to every peer except the ones showing up in the Path Header of the message. Peers were first offered the unique Message-Id each message has and could then decline or accept the transfer. Programs like innfeed implemented this conversation as a bidirectional streaming protocol (RFC4644). We're talking seconds for a text posting to be propagated to every half decently connected news server on the planet.
Corporate/algorithmic moderation is almost entirely about removing "bad" content. You're talking about community moderation, which works exactly the same in decentralized systems.
This makes me want to try my hand again at using Nix to build a full Linux disk image for the OG Xbox. I had a whole strategy planned until realizing that the OG Xbox needs an older rev of x86 than we support in nixpkgs...
Almost all international bogeymen are real in some capacity. The point is that they're used to invoke fear towards concession of one's right to do what they wish with their acquired capital. The US justice system is designed to protect the innocent minority, not hunt the guilty majority.
Yeah, getting a more flexible work environment seems like the only non-gimmicky selling point here. But there are much cheaper and lighter devices for that. Like NReal Air. (Haven't tried it but reviewers seem fairly happy)