skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is partially true, but insist there is more to it than that.

Careful, clear writing is hard even for native speakers, and good writing serves as a proof-of-work: answers that have had more work put into them are a signal that more work has been done, i.e higher quality answers.

We're quickly losing that signal.
The Newton would be the quintessential example.
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Are you talking about the stated intent of the Western Ukrainians to kill off the Eastern Muscovite Ukrainians, or the Eastern Ukrainians with the assistance of Russia killing off the Western Ukrainians?
They say that the battery on that is ~2 hours (?) So probably not for work yet.
Ta, edited my post to correct it to pixels instead of resolution.
I've read deeply into the problem. And I've come to the conclusion the problem is cheap reddit users who don't want to pay for software.

There are complaints that the offical app isn't accessible. Ok, pay for accessible software or complain enough to Reddit to fix their app. There are laws I believe to force them to have an accessible app.

Mods use tools to moderate. Ok. You want to have a little hobby of moderating a community. Fair enough, pay for your hobby. If not. Let Reddit fix the spam problem when it becomes a problem, because it will become a problem and Reddit will be forced to fix it because the users will hate it and it'll harm growth. If not, pay for the software to do your little hobby.

Just because someone has a different opinion doesn't mean they haven't read into it. It's that they have a different opinion than you.

I think software should cost money. Because I write software for a living and I think people should value what I do to the point they pay money for it. I know a lot of techies like to make our work worthless but I don't.
On the other hand, Meta are very very good at acquiring key companies for their ambitions. My Quest 2 is a Beat Saber machine and everything else that comes with it is icing on the cake.
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Perhaps, but my sense is you can hot swap the battery while using the device, instantly getting back to 100% charge. Inelegant, but solves the battery problem.
Roughly double the amount of pixels = "slightly higher resolution"?
This isn't a null problem, but a precision problem. (And it's a lot more than just that one place, the same problem exists at many levels.)

All location fixes inherently have a precision component and that routinely gets ignored. There's one tower that can reach the phone, the phone must be somewhere within the footprint of the tower. If the phone didn't supply more detailed info that's the only thing you can determine. The true area is the footprint but it gets reduced to a location and a precision--which maps it to a dot and a circle. A one-tower location fix will give a circle of uncertainty that extends off the visible map in most cases and humans ignore it. (The center of the US problem is a bit different but it's the same basic concept.)

What I think they need to do is prohibit any system from showing the central dot (or any equivalent to that) when the precision is too low. Only render the zone of uncertainty and only at a map scale where you see the whole zone, attempting to zoom beyond that gets you a message that the location can't be determined more accurately, do not try to find the center of the zone.
HN is working without issue for me if I log out of my account. I was worried that my account was suspended for some unknown reason until I saw this post.
The high price tag is interesting from a strategy perspective. It feels like they wanted to start super high to really test the market and give themselves an out if it doesn't succeed for a long time.

Each year that they keep the price high, it can be used as an excuse for the lack of uptake, should it not succeed. If they ever exit the space, they can always announce that it was too difficult to make it work at lower price points, instead of "people just weren't interested in an AR headset".
Note that this approach has been reinvented with great industry success (definitions may differ) at least twice - once in XML and another time with the god-forsaken abomination of YAML, both times without the lisp engine running in the background which actually makes working with ASTs a reasonable proposition. And I’m not what you could call a lisp fan.
I am on a similar path, I am super fascinated with type theory and I want to test / implement stuff.
AVIF does not support progressive encoding.
maybe their alien technology can help fix up the internet i dont know why its so slow today
Right, that's exactly how I feel. I'd already have 3-4 Studio Displays if it weren't so costly. To be able to have unlimited virtual displays would be so great.
People paid $550 for a pair of headphones. They'll buy this if it's good
Why would it obviate the need for a mouse? I can focus on something and expect my cursor elsewhere. Especially in games
I'm not sure I agree with the thesis of this post. It seems to me asking if something is right vs when compiling to test, and iterated to work, does seem like it helps programmers.
iSight was the name they used for their webcam a decade ago, and when was the last time they used the ‘iDevice’ naming convention? Seems they’ve been getting away from that for a long time.
a government that accepts tax payments in BTC would be abandoning its financial authority to the bitcoin network, over which it has no influence whatsoever

this is suicidal for any nation with even a nominal amount of financial autonomy

maybe it's something that failed states like venezuela or somolia would consider, but it's a complete non-starter for anyone else

the idea that "the people" can force countries to accept tax receipts in BTC is absolute unhinged nonsense, read a fucking book
My family is all-Google so we have 5 Google TV devices. We're not dissatisfied enough to get rid of them, but it's pretty shocking to me how poorly it integrates with other Google services. I just keep finding ways in which it's clear that Google TV was developed in a silo relative to other Google services. Plus, Google's "Family Link" parental controls are so poorly designed it makes me wonder if anyone at Google actually has kids.

Granted, I am not an Apple user at all, so it's possible there would be similar frustrations on that side, but anecdotally I hear that Apple is way better about these sorts of things.
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Tim, if this is your alt account you're legally obligated to say so.
Same use case for me.

Laptops have terrible ergonomics it’s near impossible to get proper posture while traveling.

- Laptop stands help but introduce a new set of problems around the distance of the screen and keyboard height

- Hard to find adjustable office chairs anywhere

- If you’re in a city where you’re walking for hours a day, carrying a larger laptop gets tiring
They've sold rack-mount Mac Pros since 2019.
https://archive.is/2zaB2
When llamaCPP came out, I was running 13B at 100ms/token on a base model MacBook Pro 14".

Edit: apparently llama.cpp supports running on GPU, so I imagine it's gonna be a bit faster. Maybe a fun evening project for me to get going.
HN and Reddit have been tanking for hours for me.
I think wearing such a massive thing on your head is a dead end. It may become a niche product for professionals (as the price and "Pro" in the name suggest), but it's not practical for everyday casual use.

Is it still out of the reach from the current state of art in technology for a thin client, not much heaver than sunglasses - just the visual component and some simple circuit to receive the signal from an iPhone?
That's really cool! But a lot happened on Reddit between 2012 and 2023. I think the idea of using old content to bootstrap a new community site won't be feasible unless more recent content can be included.

(I also imagine something like >95% of all Reddit content was produced in-between 2012 and 2023.)
ProBably TOTP and a comment entry field (that I use for recovery codes).
I can. Just wait 6 months between sittings.
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If the virtual screens feel as good as my 4K external monitors, then I'm in 100%.

Theres a good chance they won't though.
> Overall I don't think it's horrendously priced as some of the previous Mac workstation components could get, but at the same time, unless you have a very specific use case or specifically need macOS, it's not exactly compelling. It is "good enough" to finally round out the lineup though.

It's such a specific use case that I'm not entirely sure what the use case even is. Capturing off an SDI camera? Great! Why do we need so many pcie cards and so little memory? These things aren't even setup to hold that much storage. It appears to not work with PCIE GPUs, so that's out. You probably don't need additional thunderbolt ports since it already has those. Maybe additional USB, but probably not that many cards worth? Most audio equipment is external?

I get it. Apple is saying "This machine is for a very specific type of video editor" lol.
Maybe they will sell you an iGlove )in the future) to go along with this so that you can type / click on your virtual keyboard & mouse
>> I have tried to understand how I could use ChatGPT for programming and, unlike Welsh, found almost nothing.

Errr..... how can this guy say all this in the face of thousands of developers talking about how AI helps them, about AI copilots being built that demonstrably assist programming.

My personal experience being that AI has turned programming into a completely different process.

What does this say about the author, that they can argue a point so obviously wrong?
according to that website it's something called 'china unicorn backbone' that went down
Just because you can and do doesn't mean you should.
I have serious routing/peering issues all day long from germany (vodafone).

Dyndns is struggling also for me the entire day.
Had internet outage from the cable ISP.
Ok, that's embarrassing, but good on the for still having real votes, I guess?

Here in Germany it's far too common for political parties to decide such things ahead of elections behind closed doors, and then the election is only there to show the party's support for the new leader.

Which annoys me to no end, because it defeats the whole purpose of the democratic process.
Doesn't even come with a controller, which I assume will eventually come out and will cost 100$+
Bertrand Meyer is always worth reading.

The real question:

> What use do I have for a sloppy assistant? I can be sloppy just by myself, thanks, and an assistant who is even more sloppy than I is not welcome. The basic quality that I would expect from a supposedly intelligent assistant—any other is insignificant in comparison —is to be right.

> It is also the only quality that the ChatGPT class of automated assistants cannot promise.
Lemmy is openly politically hostile: https://0x0.st/HbDc.jpg

Also there are some people who detest it based on the fact that it is written in Rust.
I missed that it was part of the Disney presentation. In that case it may be just vaporware. Truthfully it would require a lot of infrastructure at the arena/stadium before it could even be realized. I’m not sure the sports team owners would be willing to pay for this expenditure without knowing the potential revenue it could generate. It’d also cannibalise some ticket sales, so it’s not necessarily a profitable move for pro sports.
> 3/4ths of the market is not securities in 2018

But that means even back in 2018 1/4 of the market was securities.
> First, a corporation can’t do anything that an individual can’t do.

The problem is not that a corporation can do something that an individual can't. It's that you can't punish a corporation the same way you can an individual. Corporations cannot sit in a jail cell.

> Second, incorporation does not protect the business

Your Third point kinda disproves this. You have to "pierce the corporate veil" in order to hold individuals of the LLC liable and this is generally w.r.t. an LLC commingling its funds with the owners funds. Not to do with an Owner doing an undesirable/illegal act (say fraud).

> Third, ... happens all the time in lawsuits against small businesses.

I'm not really sure any of these points counter-act anything I wrote. I explicitly called out Wells Fargo and you responded that small business routinely get attacked. Wells Fargo is not a small business.
It seems like the people who use it successfully are either in on the scheme and waiting for it to start to fall, or they're using it as a very distributed version of Western Union to transfer money to other people across national borders.
How so? The Watch was launched as a FitBit killer at the 1.0 keynote. There was a small segment from Jony Ives touting a ridiculously priced gold variant which was a complete mis-read of the market. I could see how Apple was nervous that their core audience was fashion conscious and smart watches were the domain of the biggest nerds out there.

However, point still stands, they knew they wanted an iPod shuffle with health and personal safety device at launch. They even went all out with a Nike partnership to help promote it.
> It is a viable first entry as an AR computer. Does it need to be anything more than that?

It needs to do what HoloLens and Google Glass didn't.

Sell well enough to attract developers and improve manufacturing economies of scale.

For what it's worth, I think Apple has a chance here - there were smartphones before the iphone, but apple made the first one good enough to take off. Perhaps this will be the same?
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Oof. Thanks for the reply. Yeah, good luck, Apple.
Stripe definitely isn't the only service experiencing this. A legacy system we're in the process of migrating has been hit with a large amount of these in the last month. In particular, they're trying to find the expiration date for the cards - they firehose a hosted payments page with as many card numbers as possible but the same expiration month and year in hopes of hitting the lottery.

We found them to be coming from the same email address. Even when we removed the customer from our system, they'd create a new profile with the same email. To solve the problem in the short term, because they insisted on using the same email every time and were being absolutely relentless - whenever they logged in to a profile with that email, I redirected them to a dummy checkout page. That bought me enough time to write some rules that if someone makes more than X simultaneous connections, it blocks their IP and presents a "please call us" message.

They've tried about a dozen times in the last couple weeks, and they keep shutting themselves down by trying to scale up to a ridiculous number of connections.

The behavior seems strange. They insist on using the same email address and they do nothing to change their approach.
Obligatory pedantry: True Names was a novella, not a full novel. And the better for it.

Or you were referring to Rainbow's End in which case I'm embarrassed about my comment.

More seriously: I was really excited by True Names when it was published (and a bunch of us at MIT talked about it a lot) but by the time Snow Crash came out it seemed pretty obvious that real world metaphors weren't really desirable in virtual environments. 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.

BTW you're 100% right about gaming being the killer app. Once people are used to that perhaps they'll want to do other things. But without a reason to develop the right metaphors, affordances, and experiences, there's "no there there".
The keys on the magic keyboard (and therefore hand positions) are no closer together than on other keyboards. It just doesn't have the numeric keypad part.

If you want an ergonomic keyboard with a gap in the middle, any bluetooth keyboard will work with a Mac, iPhone or iPad, so I imagine it would with this too.
US e-fuel production with 2 GW of renewables
Pre-programmed.
It is useful when you use it like those knowledgeable of the field. Marketing departments are not using it that way.
The one unintended effect is that the apps may charge extra for supporting this! For example, Disney+ or the NBA may charge extra $$ for supporting this device!

Also, everyone is assuming that it's powerful enough to run the development environment. We need to wait until Apple releases the specs.
There's a lot of nations that either directly accept tax payments in foreign currency: for example, Montenegro uses Euro. Salvador, Zimbabwe, etc use US Dollar. In other forms, Danish Krone and Bulgarian Lev is pegged to Euro.
May I ask which headsets you've tried? I was stunned by the visual clarity of even a Pico 4, and I expect the vision pro to be far clearer.
My feeling is that since we sometimes looked away from the phone, they are now sticking it directly to our faces.
This is probably going to be even less successful than the Apple watch in terms of adoption. $3.5k for a personal device -- perhaps it will capture a niche. Genre defining like the iPod or iPhone, this isn't going to be.
> Some of us don't have the luxury of removing glasses after 2 hours, so... Yeah

Exactly! You're making my point, people do not want that unless they're forced to
I agree 4k in each eye sounds insane. But eye strain that's going to be the big determinant. I initially thought it was transparent OLED at the start but to my disappointment it's just screens. Perhaps they've got the focal adjustment thing Magic Leap was trying to do right.
Ironically this is what many people thought when they saw Colin Powell go in front of the UN and do his song and dance about Iraq's WMD program. Which surely must have been a clear and present danger to the world at large, for this guy to go on record and stake his whole reputation and legacy on it.

And yet, when you actually listened to what the guy was saying ...
> You’re able to place multiple apps in the real world space and can type with either voice or a virtual keyboard, but you can also use Bluetooth keyboards and trackpads, and with a glance at your Mac, you can use it on a large virtual display.

https://www.macworld.com/article/1940428/apple-vision-pro-de...
> Apple is taking a huge risk releasing a very premium product like this without supporting the largest established VR market (gamers).

This reads like "Apple is taking a huge risk releasing a new smartphone without supporting the largest established market (BlackBerry device users).

The VR gaming market is microscopic compared to what Apple is likely aiming for here. They do not give a single flying fuck about this "established market", nor have they for any other market they've entered. The entire Apple ethos is to completely change the narrative for whatever product category they enter. They did this for phones, for bluetooth audio, for watches, and—whether or not they're ultimately successful—you can bet your ass this is their intent for wearable headsets.

What's the eventual end goal for these devices? I'm not sure yet, but I'm certain it will become clearer in the coming years. My expectation is they anticipate this will come to replace fixed displays for a huge number of office workers. Maybe not with this first revision, but by gen 3 that's my bet for the market of this device. If you assume it get lighter and comfortable, higher res, and better battery life over the next few iterations it's clearly something that could just be your work machine with a paired bluetooth keyboard.
Aside from the in-seat power, I think another likely solution will be third parties like Belkin making a less "apple-esque" but longer lasting battery that's compatible with the magnetic connector. The OEM solution looks quite small as is. [1]

1 https://www.apple.com/v/apple-vision-pro/a/images/overview/d...
As someone who lives alone in a tiny apartment I have watched a movie on my Quest 2, quite a few. It's better than watching a movie on my PC monitor that pulls double duty as a TV. Would I pay $3500 for that though? Absolutely not.

I'm curious how well gaming will work too. They didn't show off any sort of VR controller a la Quest or PS VR2.
To me the "fediverse" is an ideological answer.

I think a more practical approach is starting software companies that aim smaller, and don't take on VC funding. Imagine a version of Reddit that doesn't need to IPO. That only has a staff of 50-100 employees. Same with Uber, or whatever.

I think ultimately, decentralized services will always fail over centralized ones because they're less controllable. If you look at a lot of the scandals that Reddit has had over the years - it was external forces putting pressure on the company to change what they allow on their service.

When there's no organization backing something, bad actors will be involved, muddy the waters and then all of a sudden the "fediverse" or whatever is associated with things you don't want to be associated with, so you either don't try it (because of what you've heard) or you don't promote it's use (because you're worried about what people will think of you) - additionally, any time it's open source and self hosted, the technical barrier will be too high for a large group of people.

If we can change software companies, stop thinking of them as "startups" and treat them more like normal companies instead of these potential multi billion dollar companies, I think that's a path to something more sustainable.
Pro Display XDR is also in a market segment where it's the last step before getting a calibrated display that's 10x the price. When looking at the specs it's actually a great display at a good price point.

> Of course, Vision "Pro" suggests maybe they have a non-pro plan for that in the works already, in which case it would help the ecosystem sustain even more.

Like every other platform products, the V1's audience is... developers. Once there are a few killer apps, Apple will commoditize and unleash a much cheaper version.
We were doing that, with the software (scanner drivers and image processing -BIG files) my team wrote, decades ago.

It's very similar to VM. We paged and indexed everything.
Adaptive resolution rendering doesn't add more pixels to the display -- if you want high resolution for the spot the user is currently looking at, you need that resolution across the entire display.
And not having freedom of speech would magically do the opposite ?
That's a very good point. VR Chat is the magical quirky "META" experience, which is already there. Straight from either Gibsons novels or Ghost in the Shell. Apple seems to be more in line with more gated, streamlined and polished experiences, than what's in VR Chat. Its a similar story with the Sony VR HeadSet.
I really want to see how that fares against Nvidia for ML development, because it's hard to compete with that kind of flexibility and price.
I have. Those kids will grow up just fine. It's all in your head. Those kids will grow up to invent/innovate on levels you can't even imagine today. Like it has always been. Might as well just stop complaining about the "weird new generation" just because that "back in my day" it was better. It wasn't. It's just rose tinted glasses.
Because any time you're doing fine-grained work with your cursor, you're looking at it. I'm not talking about games.
Yup, over the years I've had some pretty impressive gains from precalculating maps of various data items that are fundamentally bits and tend to be blocky in nature.
a lot of things started with games :)
Are you saying that Rust will refuse to compile code that does not explicitly check option return result for empty?