skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not an artificial distinction at all, but it is subtle.

2, 4, even 256 sockets exchanging data can be worked with concurrently on a single thread and gain performance vs blocking and waiting for the first socket to finish. There's no parallelism, since they're never actively reading/writing at the same time, but they're concurrent because they exist and operate in overlapping timeframes.

Running two independent algorithms could mimic this - run part of algo A, then part of B, then A, etc. It's not useful for performance, though. To be useful you require parallelism - you have to have the algorithms executing at the same time, using multiple threads.

On async itself - it's not perfect, but honestly, there are contexts where it makes a lot of sense. I work on a lot of non-blocking C code - the entire programs are basically epoll and timer driven. As a result, the high level coordination is just callback hell. Async is very nice in comparison.

Yes, you can spin up threads to do everything with blocking, but non-blocking I/O came around specifically because the threads add overhead and kind of suck. It's worth noting that having threads can also infect the codebase. You either have to carefully manage mutexes, or you only communicate with channels and have to worry about keeping things updated and in sync. Sometimes this works great with minimal communication between threads. However, if you have one socket per thread and the sockets are all triggering actions that mess with the same data... it's not so great.
It's rather difficult to find enough non-cheap users that pay $5 a month (and remits $2.50 to Reddit) to support a viable third-party client for Reddit and compete against the first-party client that is free and has more content.
I’ve come to love powerline adapters when expanding Wi-Fi coverage just in case you haven’t looked into them. Speeds of the latest adapters are up to 2.4Gbps!
Like you want to put those 4-bit numbers into a vector search and keep them 4-bit numbers?
> The shareholders aren't the ones manufacturing the PFAS.

True. They're just bankrolling it. I think it's totally fair to hold them responsible as well. Perhaps it would make investors pay more attention to what they're really supporting with their investment money.
Hey, it’ll work! Just not a product for me.
I don’t get this HomePod hate. I have the big (old gen) and small one, and they rock.
We’re in allocated housing at the moment for my fiancées work and they have a shitty tv. I wouldn’t be able to hear the thing if it wasn’t playing through my HomePod. And that’s before the benefits of it as a speaker
Rocket is going to need that dudes prosthetic leg.
I just don't think the watch market is really there. I feel like its shrinking steadily among younger people as the need for a time teller is replaced by the modern cell phone. I believe people have convinced themselves into convincing companies that they actually want a high tech wrist watch when, in reality, the market isn't that big and it is shrinking.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8291898

To me these seem pretty stupid. Major features (to me) of ear-buds with wires and 3.5" jack are: 1) being attached with wires means I don't easily lose them when they slip out of my ear/hand/pocket. 2) the 3.5" jack actually keeps them pretty solidly attached to my phone (again, less risk of losing them). Walking around with two loose tiny objects seems less than ideal - at least to me; I'd lose them within days.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13169937

$350 and not out until "early 2015" Dead in the water. That's insanely expensive and too late in the smartwatch market in my mind.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8291889
Each community owner must run a node 24/7 to seed his own community's content via IPFS. Similar to how you need to seed a torrent you client.

There's a GUI client so it's very easy, you just double click and leave it open.

It's also possible for centralized services to run communities for people, so it's technically possible to run a community without having to have any device run 24/7 yourself.
And they may create another catastrophe in order to try to halt the current Ukrainian offensive.
Is it an issue that you cannot see your hands on the wheel and the buttons that the wheel has for more complex cars like F1 with a ton of settings?
Same thing for TV show credits.
I don't know the grammar terminology (ESL, and all), but AIUI, in your examples, the one-word antecedent would be, in order, "president" and "singer".

What I do understand though is the wider point: ambiguous sentences are a pain for AI and humans alike; if you use a pronoun, make sure there is exactly one candidate it could refer to.
Permalink to the comment for those interested: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/141kfmi/wwdc_2023_ev...
Also gun laws and drug laws. Trivial to get around. So what's the point of having them?
I think this is long game material. And we won’t see a “consumer” version for at least two more years. Maybe Christmas 2025, but I feel like that’s super optimistic.
My biggest concern with this is how easy it would be to steal. If I'm sitting in a train, someone could just yank it off my head and run away. That's $3,500 bucks down the drain. When using a phone for example, I don't really have to worry about it as long as I'm careful. I wear a shirt long enough to cover my pockets making it hard for a thief to lift up the shirt without me noticing and grab the phone in my pocket. When I use the phone, I keep it close to my body. If I were using the Vision Pro, I'd have a giant screen in front of my face. I wouldn't even see the thief coming. Maybe they could make a strap that you attach around your chin like a helmet and charge $1,000 bucks for it. Or perhaps screws to drill it into your skull.
Actually, I run it on my MacBook. Two things that might discourage most people:

- CPU idle (they are trying to hack it into the their forked kernel but it will be a long way for proper support by Linux)

- Sleep (not even Apple’s deep sleep)

Not involved with the project. I read about this a couple of weeks ago. Could be outdated already.
Not compatible with the fediverse? I’ll stay on Lemmy.
I have auto updates turned off. I realize I can go into the update area and pick apps to update, but if I'm looking to update a specific one, it's usually faster to search and update that way.
I lived there in the late 90s and it was soulless and closed at 9 then too (except for In-n-out)
Amazing day for Apple. What an incredible company and what incredible products. So excited to buy one of these next year. Thanks Apple!!!
> because society has determined that they are valuable even if they can reach toxic levels if not disposed of properly

Society never decided this one way or another. Rich and powerful corporations did.
I think immersive experiences is the way to go. Imagine being able to experience a bunch of (idealized) historical events—celebrating Allied victory in WWII, walking through a market in Ancient Rome up to the Colosseum to watch a match, walking around your city before people settled it, etc.

The tech isn’t quite there yet, but we may not be that far off of some aspects of it with generative AI. Those experiences would certainly be boosted if you could walk up to anyone and they’d have a unique personality and would be able to have a full conversation with you.
The other restriction in the USA is that you cannot turn on the motor at-will.

EU engines can enable something like 'hold state of charge' which allows for the ICE to maintain the 75% charge.

That way you don't end up at 10% where the engine just can't maintain the charge at all.
this is heavy handed moderation. I actually wanted to know what he's talking about, as in, to what approval process is GP referring? And when faced with what appeared to be actual vaccine misinformation, you decide to come down on my post instead? do you just not like my vernacular? Have a problem with my username?
> The reality is you would likely support both, as you clear abhor actual free speech

Broadly speaking, I'm a fan of the marketplace of ideas. That marketplace includes boycotts, callouts, and choices by private individuals to provide or revoke a platform for someone else to speak in their space. Freedom of the press has never implied that everyone gets a free press.

> which seemly is anyone that happened to vote for Trump, or holds conservative political positions.

Hacker News isn't really a great venue for that kind of discussion. But there's a reason the pushback on him and his supporters has been so strong relative to previous politicians. He and his supporters actually do represent something fundamentally caustic to the American body politic. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/are-trump-republicans-fasci...
Can it be straining the eyes, head, ears, and jaws?
Also, what are the negative mental effects of being lost in that world for 2+ hours? Staring at my phone, I still know what's beside me.. I can fall asleep with stuff still playing on my phone... but I can't imagine what sort of an experience it is to fall asleep with the headset still wrapped around your skull...lol
I own a Varjo Aero. A comparably priced PC VR headset (after including graphic cards costs) that runs only under windows. I bought this setup for productivity – not gaming.

I want to give a quick reaction to apple vision pro from that perspective.
On the Aero, under windows I quickly came to learn that while the screens were clear and legible… The primary drawback was lack of software. Specifically there was no true 3d window manager.

I couldn’t arrange 10 different programs spatially around me, like some cliché virtual hacker’s den. I couldn’t layout a pillar of source code that expanded hundereds of pages above and below my current focus…

I was locked into looking at my 2d windows desktop, projected onto a plane, in a 3d virtual space. I wasn’t in 3d at all. I was still trapped in 2d.

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The window manager in apple vision is already far better than that!
So, here’s my prediction.

Just like when microsoft sat out the race to mobile (iphone v. android), they are decidedly on the sidelines here too. VR productivity seems to be almost exclusively apple’s for the taking. (yes, I’m aware that FB has some offerings in this space, but no way in hell do they get telemetry on my literal eyeballs).

Just as products like the ipad haven’t exactly challenged microsoft windows, they have diminished it’s roll in people’s lives, apple vision seems to be a product with that kind of potential.

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Last but not least, in the old days, I owned an ipad pro, which I supposedly bought for productivity. It had some weird limitation where I couldn’t run apps side by side in the way that I wanted. Eventually I gave the ipad away. Sooo… this time around apple doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt. I’ll pretty much have to demo one and personally confirm my top use cases before I’d consider buying.
Nowhere in my comment it says that criminals in other countries do not lie. Or the admission of guild is not considered evidence. It clearly outlines the differences in the legal systems and how the competent criminals navigate the former. If Binance people had any experience, they would be talking by using well rounded and vague words even among each other like how any exec in the US does, and they would avoid providing any such evidence. Moreover, they would easily be able to claim ignorance and deny any wrongdoing.

I recommend you read my comment again.
>> Host of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast and author of “Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation”

So…man who hates tech hates new tech. Shocker.
I puzzled how you can be surprised by all this. There's nothing here that wasn't well understood, expected. 95% of it is just showing things other devices have done for years.

> I can’t believe they’ve managed to do away with controllers

Meta has been shipping it for several years on the Quest line. It's now extremely good. I'm keen to hear if Apple have shipped something better and they may have, but it's hardly "can't believe" territory.

> I can’t believe they’ve managed to cram more pixels than a 4k TV on to the size of a postage stamp

You're repeating Apple marketing lines verbatim. That's just what a micro OLED display is - the tech has been around for a while. They aren't made by Apple, half a dozen other VR/AR headsets are shipping these.
This looks fantastic. Now do it in a “contact lenses” format and it will change the world like the iPhone did.
You will get in the pod, you will eat the bugs
Hell, even Python can map JSON to a strongly typed object. I am a firm fan of Pydantic and its competitors when dealing with JSON blobs. No-one deserves a KeyError in prod code.
Do you seriously think that cryptocurrency becomes a billion dollar industry because...people use it to do what? exactly? Pretty much 99% of the people that put money in crypto expected the price to go up and sell. I have not seen any mention of economical use except in third world countries. In which case, crypto is just a roundabout way of charity I guess?

Crypto people _say_ their technology have this and that use but all they _do_ is trade them.
Given the Optic ID demo, I assume it's locked to authorized users only and not valuable outside of being a source of parts if stolen.
Got to be the tanuki!!
English majors specialize in analysis of English literature and are graded on their analytic abilities as well as their ability to communicate it effectively and with precise nuance. They’re not majoring in essay writing, which is what most people get exposure to from the English degree. But just like introduction to programming isn’t computer science, despite being the only course most people take in computer science, the semantic and syntactical accuracy bit is the intro class and the later course work - especially doctorate level - is not at all “writing a clear essay on a topic of your choice.”
Firefox came to the conclusion they didn't really care too so it's not just Google that is iffy about it. With Apple pushing it now... maybe that will change things in the long run?
Lol what if they had to change their name again. Maybe something about having to come to terms with their revenue and expenses... face their books... Facebook?
What I can’t wait for is unbiased hands on reviews, hopefully from MKBHD or someone big enough they can just shell out the money for it and tell us how it actually is to operate.
Agreed. However, I think the author fears that, just like smartphones, some will become socially pressured into getting one and it will cause them harm. So they're issuing a kind of public warning.
> * Use delimiters to clearly indicate distinct parts of the input

> * Specify the desired length of the output

You should do this if you ask a human to write something too, given no other context. Splitting things up with delimiters helps humans understand text. The desired length of the output is also very clearly useful information.

> * Ask the model to adopt a persona

This is maybe a bit more of a stretch but if you hired a writer to write for you, you would tell them who you are so they can have some context right? That’s basically what this is.
Google results have become so bad that I use "site:" for a majority of my searches these days. I have a bunch of Chrome search engine keywords set up so that I can go straight to results on Wikipedia, Economist, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Cppreference, etc.

It's concerning that they're even nerfing site search, which seems like a core feature for a search engine. You could argue that Google isn't really a search engine any more, but rather a general knowledge engine and advertising platform. I hope somebody can build an alternative to Google that does what a search engine is supposed to do, i.e. index the web without all the extra garbage. But maybe SEO has killed that dream at this point.
Possibly it's the confidence that there is "something" behind it. I. E. Apple software...

To get all nostalgic again... "And one more thing... the iPhone runs OSX * rapturous applause *". It's that same kind of thing.

When I think of Meta, I think Facebook and it's absolutely over. I see Zuck avatar, I see cringe. Same with other manufacturers. Not many have the depth to deliver short and long term. Especially if dropping serious money on it.

You have to hand it to Apple, the presentation is cliché, but they know how to sell.

I won't be getting one, but I can imagine these selling decently. Not iPhone scale, obviously, but enough to cement the market
Did you ever use the power glove? I had one and it was the worst piece of tech I’ve ever had from a major company.
I’ve seen this reposted a bunch. Is it really adding anything to the conversation being repeated verbatim?

Yes. People have been wrong in the past.
Why would it hurt smaller organisms more?
It was quite odd that they branded it Pro but then demonstrated 90% consumer applications for it. Very mixed messaging about who the target market is.
Given that the Mac Pro = Mac Studio + Expansion Slots

It seems clear that Apple never wanted to launch the Intel Mac Pro (cheese grater), but they saw a timing gap between the trash-can Mac Pro and the Mac Studio that needed to be filled.
How do you fake your remote location?
I'd like to have a different IP address, how do you do this from a work computer? I'm using tools like git, ssh - and beyond running a VPN are there other considerations?
> I find it pretty hilarious that VR started off as a product for gamers, designed by gamers, and funded by gamers. By far the most compelling things you can do in VR are games.

Going to have to disagree with you there. The most compelling use case for VR is porn. The most compelling cover story for buying a device for porn will be games.

AFAICT the most prolific and reliably deployed cardboard (previous gen VR) experiences ended up being porn.
Images are opened and used in a lot of places that aren't browsers.
Then why do they seem to lobby in favor of slave labor? [0]
At least for me it's difficult to come up with a reason why Apple might do this aside from knowingly profiting from it.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-u...
In the pre Apple Silicon days the highest performance was always exclusive to the Mac Pro.

It’s disappointing that Apple wasn’t able to make something better than an Ultra chip and the RAM limit for the new Mac Pro has decreased and is no different to the studio.
Yeah, I'm definitely going to try it out in an Apple store but I don't have high hopes for anything text related. I'm also skeptical to the 12ms (83fps) refresh rate.
> Any corp I've worked for strictly prohibited use of messaging tech that's not self-hosted.

I'm sure the business profited greatly from that...
> There's a class of programming problems that are "keyboard-hard", in that they're a pain to type out but fairly easy to verify correctness.

Shouldn't the existence of such problems rather be considered to be a "bug" (or less pejoratively: "important missing feature") in the programming language that you use? Or perhaps you use a programming language that is a bad match for the problem that you want to solve?

Related concept: Language Smell; https://wiki.c2.com/?LanguageSmell
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Not sure if this would cause larger regional harm, but anecdotally there were issues connecting to our US east VPN at work.
I was more thinking of a) the ring-fencing of native code and b) his conduct in discussions about such things. Guido was never that abrasive.
Stack Overflow Moderators Striking to Stop Garbage AI Content from Flooding Site
Not having visible gaps between pixels is a necessary but woefully insufficient condition for high visual fidelity.
Whether or not they're successful is irrelevant to the question of what their intent is. But I find it telling that your initial reaction is to reach for a device that failed thirty years ago as if it has any relationship to modern Apple.

They didn't "just" streamline the smartphone. They destroyed virtually overnight the existing dominant players in the smartphone market and within a few years essentially ended the existence of non-smartphones as a market category entirely. They didn't "just" streamline the watch. Again, within five years of entering the market they overtook (in units) shipments of the entire traditional watch industry. Both of these examples are significantly larger and more entrenched than the existing VR gaming market.

Of course not every product of theirs is successful in doing this. But without question, this is their aim a majority of the time.
They always take down apple.com during a WWDC
They called this out specifically in the keynote as something they've fixed.
Taxes on corporations don’t make sense. They pass it on to consumers. Or they pocket the difference when repealed. Make a law that drops taxes and requires companies to reduce prices of goods and services.
> a decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan

PTSD or COINTELPRO induced halucinations seems more likely to me...
I don't know if that misread is intentional or not, so I'm going to assume the best:

U in UBI is universal. Everyone gets it, not just those who need. You get $X/mo! That homeless guy on the corner gets $X/mo! Jeff Bezos gets $X!

That $X gives you the ability to tell your boss to shove it, and avoid a burnout. The same $X helps that homeless guy to stop being homeless and get a new chance for life of happiness.

But Jeff Bezos doesn't give a shit about $X. He wants superyachts, hypercars and phallic rockets and $X ain't gonna do it. So he makes gazillion $, pays a smaller number of gazillion $ in taxes, and funds $X for you, the homeless guys and a million other less driven, talented or fortunate souls.

That's the idea. Yes you can poke holes in it (and people do), but if you think that's communism, you haven't seen communism.
This is a proof of concept. It's going to take many more years to get it into a practical form factor for widespread adoption. In the meantime, early adopters including developers will define it. It's basically the same as the Macintosh. That essentially failed to gain mainstream adoption for 15 years. People called it an expensive toy. Same same but different.
Ditto. I can’t see this being used portably so do wonder if the 2 hour battery life is a clue on how fatiguing the experience might be.

2 hours I guess covers a commute, but it’s hardly handheld form factor - how much bigger would it need to be to get “all day wear” battery life? It doesn’t feel like a real spatial constraint, so can only presume >2hrs is not required in actual use.
In your opinion, why did the other attempts fail?

My impression is that even 2D screens are still rather lacking (they're big, heavy, very bright, need a big power source, rather expensive, sometimes difficult to interact with). In many situations a book or some papers are still superior to "virtual 2D reality".

Not sure if this indicates VR is conceptually flawed or if it means we're just still early in the development of the technology.
Yes image codecs are a user space thing, but a Mac or iOS app probably loads images using the Swift Image or UIImage class and passes it a filename, and then these same objects get passed to the display widgets to render. If the UI toolkit that ships with the OS supports a format, it will just work with most all of the apps that use the system UI toolkit.
Software can quantize with a margin of error to imitate humans. And you can configure the “swing” effect. In the end it sounds just as human would. With perfect quantization it definitely sounds dry and a tell tale sign of a noob beat maker :)