skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of the problems I saw using Simula VR as a daily driver. Being able to spawn windows in midair at any angle is cool, but because of the odd angles it's not comfortable for viewing text. I'm a text-heavy person. The 4k screens per-eye might change this. Wasn't expecting micro-oled either, and I love OLED.

I don't want to spend time arranging windows around me at ideal viewing angles. I wanted the device or windowing system to align windows (at least vertically), perpendicular to my view. Straight up and down. I wanted to walk around them like phantom objects in this space, with silly stuff like the memory/resource usage and metadata about the window on the back of it.

What I really wanted to see here was a virtual workspace augmented by the physical space around you. I want to snap or 'throw' a window to a wall or a ceiling or tile them across my floor and walk around like I'm touring miniature golf. I'm sure the gestures and virtual anchors or snaps to do this will appear over time. 1st-generation woes I suppose.

As an alternative I wanted to create a series of nesting-doll-like orbs around myself, where windows fix themselves with equal gaps at optimum viewing angles around this orb and I'm only moving them around inside this sphere-layer, and up/down layers to inner/outer spheres. "Move to back" / "Move to front", etc.

Apple's probably further than any OS on preserving application state. Not just window geometry/placement, but application state. I want to put on these goggles and see 10+ windows "surface" from beneath the physical world around my room. I love the idea of my house/office being like the movie "Her" where it looks minimal and devoid of technology and putting on these goggles brings the virtual world out. Even just having dynamic art persist on the walls when virtual.

Further thought: I want to see 2+ of these goggles in action viewing the same content and applications and allowing for simultaneous/group/mesh controlling. Can I get 2 of these and have my boyfriend and I watch the same movie? Play the same game? I really hope it's something like wifi-direct or mesh networking for local AR stuff.

I think this is the start of something really pivotal and done with enough polish to launch the industry - finally. I just want more sooner, and I'm puzzled why they announced it so early if it's marketed next year.

Asahi Linux for Vision Pro soon? In at least 1 of the Apple videos I saw a window fixed to a wall. Linux needs devs that can build this AR/gesture/interface/compositor stuff.

I actually love the oddly buggy/bubbly design of the goggles. I like how they hid the cameras, and try to reproduce the face of the person, and the fade-in effect to show someone outside the goggles interacting with you. I'm really hoping the downward-facing cameras + sensors allow for speedy typing on a table surface with a virtual keyboard. I was so shocked I could type 80wpm on an iPad virtual keyboard when those were new. I love keyboards, but I want the movie Her with minimal/no tech visible.

They've got my purchase if I can play some reasonable percentage of Steam games on this thing. Vampire Survivors <3
It is both decentralized and distributed. It's not P2P though, it's a hub-and-spokes architecture with several interconnected (federated) hubs.

Hubs can have decent uptime and thick internet connections. Hubs are relatively few so they replicate state quickly between themselves, and then more locally between spokes when they come online.

Most natural structures are more tree-form, like that.
Check out as well Merlin Bird ID: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
I think this happened recently on macos: the libc string parsing functions started complying with the C spec and broke some code (so you now need to check errno and the return value if you want to know the result was valid or not)

I don't think it was deliberate, I suspect they may have switched libc or something.
I agree with your general sentiment, except with one small caveat. I don't think it' s a laptop replacement per se. It's more like an immersive glue that will allow your laptop, if you have one in the future, to remain as a standalone device, but through handoff/side-care/R1 it'll stitch everything together into a virtual environment.

When you take it off, your laptop, phone, whatever will still work great as normal.

It's a caveat because for a lot of people, I don't think laptops will be necessary in the future. My mom doesn't have one but is obsessed with her phone. Probably one day laptops will mostly be for pros.

But yeah, in general I agree with everything you said.
This may be a naive question, in "crypto" we saw a shift from GPUs to ASICs as it was more efficient to design and run chips specifically for hashing. Will we see the same in ML, will there be a shift to ASICs for training and inference of models?

Apple already have the "neural" cores, is that more or less what they are?

Could there be a theoretical LLM chip for inference that is significantly cheaper to run?
Being able to see that which our perception actively suppresses because it is hyper-focused on a certain cadence is indeed a gift.

If you believe that our perceptive filters, evolved over millennia of survival requirements, is the only or even best way to perceive our reality, I would invite you to consider that hummingbirds will never enjoy Mozart, and you will never be as relaxed as a sloth.
Two possible use cases for me would be integration with drones, RC vehicles and other upcoming robotics and live sports and entertainment.
There's always a head start when you overclock, but we all know the rest.
It's called Beat Saber. :-)
Yes to the first two. Assassinations and bombings don’t fall under “consenting individuals”.

But if you are logically consistent, then if you support encrypted messaging you believe it should be legal to plan assassinations.
Kevin Rose: We migrated from LAMP to Cassandra because LAMP doesn't scale and Cassandra does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQNBcIPSROs
Nah, this has been very well known since decades and is very easy to spot.
> Also, I wouldn't cut my parents off for disagreeing with me about morality or ethics

You must mean something different than what I mean: What about someone who was molested by their parents? Should they keep contact with them? You think those people who would rape a kid should have friends and a social group that accepts them for who they are? Is there something here you think is okay?

Listen, I would judge you if I found out you defended your parents diddling some kids, and if you think your kids wouldn't judge you for it I think you really must have messed them up bad.

I really hope you mean something else.

> You are assuming that the kids somehow magically know what would make them happy.

Nothing magical about knowing if you're unhappy or not. Everyone knows when they are unhappy. You sound really unhappy. What can I do that would make you happier?
> I think it still differed in that the disagreement was about counting the votes, not about the integrity of the election itself.

How could one question the vote-count without questioning the integrety of the election?
> Plaid also relies on entering bank passwords on neobank sites and is widely used.

This is an anti-pattern, and is not worth supporting in new tech that's supposed to be "secure first".

We already have tech for delegating authorization.
I agree! What they should do is launch this at a developer event and provide some information and tooling, then get out of the way so that developers can release games through a proven distribution method with free/freemium/paid/subscription options...
These are “GPUs” in a pretty stretched sense. They have a lot of custom logic specifically for doing tensor operations.
It's the same with corruption.
The Greece people know about their corruption, Germans mostly ignore it therefore the position in the corruption index. For instance they completely ignored who bribed the greece companies and politicians.
> Apple Vision Pro can transform any space into a personal movie theater with a screen that feels 100 feet wide ... Users can watch movies and TV shows

> Apple Vision Pro is designed to sustain high-performance workloads and is capable of running for two hours on a single charge.

So... you can watch a movie on a virtual 100 ft screen, but only when plugged in else you have to take a break to recharge it partway through
> who the heck would carry a USB key with them??

Why not? I do this. It's no different from any other physical key like a door key, and I keep it on the same keychain too...

> The passkey is usable anywhere (signed up on my desktop, hopped over to my laptop and signed in there with the same passkey).

I don't see how this conflicts with physical tokens like Yubikeys? The tokens help you "remember" the key like how a physical door key helps you "remember" the bitting (which is the real authentication info).*

Just like passkeys, U2F can also be done using a virtual U2F device if you so choose (https://github.com/bulwarkid/virtual-fido). And presumably you could create an off-device portable token to store passkeys...

The real problem at the end of the day is just consistent adoption. There's still a ton of 2FA services that don't accept U2F and only use SMS or email codes...

*: This is a simplified take on things but at a high level that's what's happening.
Introduction to the ZX-Calculus
Not really, I'm not looking for a new medium of exchange.
Quote is from Russia representative to UN. Not interesting.
What's wrong with being customer-centric? New gambling games with cool conditions are constantly appearing on the market now, so there is no problem finding something new and interesting. Have you heard of Big Bamboo? Check this site https://bigbambooonline.com/ so there is a large article describing this game and conditions. Btw there is a demo version to test the game without placing a bet.
Given Siri’s reaction when it fucks up for the 5th time in a row and you tell it to fuck off…

I would not bet on it.
I think this is already a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit
Look at the date and the content.
What do you mean by "processing speed"? I think you are interpreting this experiment as if our brains worked like digital computers doing signal processing in some buffer in the visual cortex :p
Still... did no one with even moderate Python experience even glance at this very important endpoint at any stage during those 4 weeks? Like I say, this is the kind of thing that jumps out of the screen for an experienced developer.
As a person who had difficulties relating with other kids back in school (and that also had his first phone later than many other guys) I think that in my case having a smartphone and unrestricted internet access already in elementary school could have made things worse for me, as I would have been even less incentivized in learning how to relate with other kids. Sure, I could have been happier in the short term, but I think my social skills would have been worse long term. Of course this is just my opinion and in my specific case, but I generally agree that waiting until middle school is a good idea. And of course this doesn't mean that parents don't still have to do their job at informing their kids about potential issues of social media and the Internet on general, but I think that an older kid is better equipped to deal with those. At such an age, even 2/3 years make a big difference in maturity.
you mean ex-employees?
Can download an Xcode project and view documentation here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/detecting_a...
HN offers no long-term benefits for having old accounts - the only signs of distinction an existing account can get is being throttled or shadow banned.

So practically it is better for you to warn me and hope that I compel, than ban me and have me getting a new all-good account promptly with no prior convictions.

I can see how I could worded both of these better, though.
You know, according to people who have done buckets of psychedelics, there's an awful lot more to the psychedelic experience than 2.5-4x slower processing speed. I recall reading of numerous people who found they could collectively slow down a wall clock to the point were it didn't move any longer, and people who have experienced what they refer to as "eternity", "multiple life times", "thousands of years", etc.

Also what is being done here isn't simply slower processing speed. It's more like the information from old states persists into new ones. My understanding is that this would be considered low dose territory.

There's more to the story here, and I don't think this test, is even scratching the surface. It is neat though.
ChatGPT is also good for giving its opinion on your design. Even if it doesn't give you the final answer, it can often make you think.
That shift won't happen until research slows down. Nobody wants to invest significant amounts of money in hardware that will be obsolete in a year.
You only can afford to not think in black and white until you're confronted with, as you write, evil and good, yourself.
As per one of Ekaterina Schulmann's recent talks (I think the one at Science Po) "Q: Do you know which concentration camp they are bringing us to? A: I don't know, I don't bother about politics!"
How to Grow a Three Sisters Garden (2016)
Good thing that this only affects English speaking countries.
There's the good ol' bait-and-switch of tech industry you have to consider. New tech is promoted by emphasizing (and sometimes overstating) the humane aspects, the hypothetical applications for the benefit of the user and the society at large. In reality, these capabilities turn out to be mediocre, and those humane applications never manifest - there is no business in them. We always end up with a shitty version that's mostly useful for the most motivated players: the ones with money, that will use those tools to make even more money off the users.

It's true with all new tech these days, and I'd be doubly worried when it comes to things like emotion detection. There are no good uses with strong business cases, but plenty of nefarious ones.
Google == Internet will continue as long as Google remains the default search engine on the most popular browsers.
386 is the smallest core you can have that runs modern OS with virtual memory. If you're looking for performance, by today's standards, you might as well ask for a Pentium Pro class CPU, it's not gonna make a significant difference vs a 486 in price and it will be much faster.
I dont recognise that it is so easy to apply these limits, even though I work in tech.
When trying to block through Windows, I get lost in a dark patterns maze of microsoft online family accounts, where I ended up with corrupt windows user accounts - I could no longer log into my own admin account with my written down paasword, and had to reinstall windows.
When I try google/android instead, I end up with account/app limits that my child can easily circumvent just by watching videos through the browser instead.
What I currently have resorted to doing, is dns blacklisting youtube through the router, and then using alternate DNS where youtube should work.

and this is not even to block my kid from youtube, it is just to keep her usage under/at 1 hour per day.
meanwhile I have to fight with her misguided mother, who considers giving her a smartphone (she is 8, sigh).
I am strongly against giving them to kids, given that not even adults can handle them responsibly.
Panic so that the invalid value doesn't get stored into the database or somewhere else. The developer then would notice the problem and fix it.

Silently using invalid value is the worst choice.
These are not false positives. Read the article it was an email bug.
> And with support for Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad,
I like how they don't even mention the Magic mouse
Uhh, to get the training set you would need a large collection of debound pages
The cuda cores and m2 cores aren't comparable.

A more appropriate comparison is the fp16 performance.

It seems to be 27 tflops for the 38 core M2, and 330 for the 4090.

The more useful for training fp16 with fp32 accumulate is 165 for the 4090, I don't know about the apple one.
> We had so little capacity that we had decided to reimage all our existing servers and then reprovision them in the new software stack.

That's terrifying!
LiquidPiston – The combustion engine reimagined
Perhaps rubber hose resistance:
"I'm sorry Seydor, it appears you're being coerced to unlock this data."
South Africa loses F1 bid over ties to Russia
You're not wrong that the RTX 4090 will be much more powerful than an M2 Ultra, but you don't have any idea what you're talking about when you're comparing specs.

You might be able to compare the number of CUDA cores to the ALU count of the Apple GPUs. I don't know what that is for M2 Ultra yet, but for the 64 core M1 Ultra each core had 16 execution units and each of those had 8 ALUs, for a total of 8,192 ALUs. The M1 Ultra's FP32 performance was in the ballpark of 21tflops - assuming a ~30% improvement in the M2 Ultra that takes us to ~27tflops. Google suggests that for the RTX 4090 it's 83tflops.
Not sure how you can say they are not competing. Anecdata but I considered a garmin vs apple watch. Biggest driver was cellular to call either my wife or 911 when kitesurfing alone (yeah I know I just shouldn’t do it) so chose the apple watch 3 when it came out. Now have an ultra and that’s really starting to catch up with some of the other features I wanted. Seen several people in the kiting community pick apple vs garmin and vice versa for a myriad of reasons.
Once the Kerch bridge is cut and the southern offensive gets through to the Azov sea, they won't have any other choice but to scamper from Crimea.
I didn’t get one until the 3G came out, but I have a very clear memory of the “wow!” feeling: right after buying the phone, I went down the street to a coffee shop and started browsing the web while waiting in line. I was instantly cured of my prior skepticism that it could actually be a major improvement over my flip phone + iPod.
Diablo IV Horse Armor
In 2010? You'd be surprised before widespread adoption of git at how many places the process was individual developers committing changes unsupervised. I'm not sure we even disagree that's the problem - you feel a second person should have looked at it, I feel the process should require that. A code review might be something that they'd sit down with a selected piece of code that they felt was risky on a biweekly basis or something.
It is great. Native flawless game feel on iOS! Just would be cool for a full screen option.
My only experience with very bad class loading performance was debugging the Eclipse Collections. Single handling, it was the worst I ever saw. Everything else is manageable. Does anyone know why that particular JAR is so bad?
IIRC that was only half-true since multitouch existed before the iPhone. Don't know the details though.
Having done this same mistake myself, it's just such an easy mistake to make. Most likely you're writing two or three programming languages in the same project, and the others work differently from Python. So it's very easy to miss an errant `foo={}` in a function definition when reviewing a commit of several hundred lines. Especially as the only indicator of something being wrong is the lowest priority warning PyCharm has, meaning the background colour `{}` is only slightly different.

These days I'd set up a linter that enforces these things do not happen, but it's easy to be smart after the fact. You say "once you've been trained by bitter experience it's very easy to spot", which I feel is true. You just need that bitter experience first, and for me it came in the form of a production issue.
the bit about windows is that the feature is exploited by ms to get you onto online accounts, but not really to help YOU.

recently, we couldnt launch mineceaft, because windows was missing a windows update.. wtf..
like when pokemongo wont run jntil you apply an android update, sigh
This has absolutely nothing to do with DNA. The galleri test analyzes blood samples for certain forms of protein.
This has happened to me nearing the end of LSD trips watching movies or TV a couple times. Glad to finally hear someone else has experienced it too.
Hasn’t Facebook moved away from LAMP because of… scale?

Given how many users they have I suppose they know a thing or two about scale.
First iphone had this WOW effect, before there were clunky crappy Microsoft-OS powered boxes with pens and crappy slow imprecise displays. I recall, I had one, it was a massive shift and basically a new type of device.

This... judging by extremely careful wording of a web which needs to play very very nice with vendors to get these early access peeks, seems to not have it. More like nicely polished hammer looking for nails everywhere. Yes, many aspects fine tuned above competition, but competition is not asleep and the gap is not that big. In some aspects, it will be objectively worse (constant powerbank cable which lasts barely 2 hours, realistically a bit above 1 hour breaks immersion very effectively compared to ie Quest, plus you want to have 4 powerbanks and furiously swapping over one longer evening? Not even going into sharing ultra expensive device with rest of household).

Phones are absolute must in modern world, they were already 90% there when first iphone arrived. VR/AR goggles are still considered idiotic by majority of population, maybe Apple can change that but it will take few years at least.
this was me too
Show HN: How to measure developer happiness and state of Flow?
The same reason that only 10% are some 'Chinese hacker from Shenzhen'. Indians & Chinese are invested in their local ecosystem, so you are unlikely to see their efforts reflected in the type of western-repositories that we're looking at.

Secondly, India is still a poor country. So open source is produced as a by-product of the commercial work you do, but it does not have the maturity of a made-for-open-source product that ends up having dubious commercial viability.

The main point of open source in under-developed economies is to put out a positive signal for hiring. So the second you've done just enough, you are looking to escape the hell that is 'unpaid open source work' and move to corporate code that might also be open-sourced. Also, the best candidates (IITians, flagship university kids, Bangalore undergrads) are hired through on-campus hiring procedures. So efforts go into improving their signaling towards those avenues, rather than publicizing your work to the entire world.
I've seen the suggestion "why not let Reddit Premium subscribers access Reddit through third party apps" which seems like a fair compromise - Reddit gets cash in exchange for not being able to serve ads at that particular user.
Oh so now the hot new thing is a computing device that actively tries to guess its user’s emotional state (using various methods, including introducing new stimuli) and then then CHANGES ITS BEHAVIOR based on the results!

The Free Software people were right - a device this intimate needs to have publicly available, verifiable source code.
Not the person you are asking a response from, but any 'new hotness' tends to attract people whose motivations create drama.

I don't have any specific gripe with Rust, but I am totally keeping an eye on it from a safe distance and letting time work it all out.

In the meantime, there are nice, predictable tools to build with that don't seem so high stakes.
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36171631

In summary: It is illegal in spirit to block access to federal public lands.
If you swap the battery does the device shut down?
Which isn't very informative when it isn't clear how close they are to TPUs, which are ASICs.