skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> movies, tv, sports rights

2D content in 3D is a gimmick; it's nice to have, but it's not going to sell consoles. And even beyond that it's not a "head start"; almost all of that content is already available on other platforms, even other VR platforms. Just owning the content doesn't get Apple much if anything here.

>apps, games

...I don't know how you can possibly spin it as them having a head start here. Meta has a multi-year lead on them, and PC is even further, in games. Apps will need a lot of work as well - just throwing a 2D app in 3D space doesn't provide a compelling use case. You may as well just use a tablet.

Despite spending a lot of time pushing for AR apps on iPhone, Apple is still way behind on the VR/AR race. They need to get developers working on novel applications that utilize the full possibilities of a headset like this, and they need it yesterday if they don't want Meta to own the space.

Which brings us to the real reason that they released this $3.5k device: it's not actually for consumers, it's ultimately just a fancy, overly-polished dev kit.
Right now I take a “trust but verify” approach with using StackOverflow. I assume that users are not malicious/incompetent, but verify when it matters.

With AI generated answers one must take a “don’t trust but verify” approach. And at that point, why use StackOverflow at all?
You know as a parent (feels weird to write that) this highlights an entirely weird product oversight for me: is anyone doing shareable low-latency wireless headphones? Because in terms of putting things on your head, that's exactly what me and my wife need - a way to watch things at night without constantly riding the volume control, with shared audio (and microphone pick ups or something so we can talk to each other).
that's an operational issue not a policy issue
Not equal "thinking" and "deal in" are
Why wouldn't you use gestures to move the right monitor to be directly in front if you, maintaining some concept on what's on adjacent ones from UI hints?

Really the whole concept of "monitors" feels skeumorphic here. Shouldn't it just be a sphere where you're looking at a concave part with your current app, and can rotate as needed to pull other apps into view?
My windows phone could already do everything an iPhone could do at launch, and in 3g no-less. But there is something to be said about putting it all together well and having it all just work seamlessly.
$250 is the same amount of money regardless of what the laptop cost or what you're doing with it.
So there's an M2 Ultra, M2 Max, and M2 Pro. I hate this naming scheme. It is totally unclear how you're supposed to order those in terms of performance.
When showcasing macOS widgets (46:18) Craig mentioned he could now add his favorite iOS widgets to the macOS desktop, including "Apollo for Reddit"...
`x`, the value of the Vector access, only exists within the context of the first block. It does not exist in any other scope. This makes it impossible to access when the result is not valid.

> If Rust compiler would choke when "else" clause in your example is not present

The compiler won't choke, but it will stop you from accessing the value.

It doesn't matter if you omit the `else` clause or not, the type system ensures that you can't access invalid values.

Here's a bit of an example based off of @Ygg2's code: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
soon we will add the ability for the community owners to let users bypass challenges if they have X amount of karma or account age.
Weren't any of you made fun of as a kid for wearing glasses? This is 10x worse.
by their own study it's 29% and the question was "Would you favor or oppose the government installing surveillance cameras in every household to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity?"
Yup -- I was a bit disappointed that it can only simulate a single monitor, but I guess since it's working wirelessly there's bandwidth limitations.

Ideally I'd love it if I could simulate a 3 monitor workstation. Maybe for the next iteration.
This is nice advice. I ended up with choice paralysis even deciding how to set up and publish blog posts. Static site generators with deployment pipelines? Something more traditional like Wordpress? Other?
Al Jazeera (international) itself doesn't have any incentive to be biased, bias may obviously occur via journalist's opinions etc that creep in.

But as I understand, Al Jazeera is run as an means to show Qatar's importance/relevance.
This could easily be fixed by giving poor people ~80 years of votes and allowing them to designate a proxy voter before death.
I have worked with C++ codebase that is very conservative. They are basically C with a sprinkle of templates but a fuckton of OOP. C++ actually makes it harder to reason about the program, not easier. I have worked with C code that is much easier to reason about. There's way too many moving parts in C++ that sometimes things just gets fucked and no one knows why.

This actually happened where I was trying to fix 1 thing but another entirely different thing broke and no one knows why. So I just leave the PR to rot. I was only 1 or 2 years into C++ at this point and I already know at that point that I don't think this shit is viable at all. I mean half of C++ talks/discussions is fixing itself, not actual real world problem.

I think you are underestimating what you know and overestimating what the average people know. I have seen interviews where there is a very large gap of knowledge but they don't seem to know that its there. It seems to me that the general population's idea of C++ is very different than those that talk and use it a lot.
given that it's a pro-sumer product the price isn't even that absurd (I mean look at the cost of Threadripper PRO workstations)

the main issue I would have with buying such system is repair-ability

For one the questionable anti-repair, e.g. what they did with hard drives on their last desktop systems. I mean wtf. do you mean I can't just easily replace a worn hard drive that is a _must have basic essential feature
for commercial usage in larger scale.

for the other that fact that RAM can not be replaced at all, which is most times not an issue for desktop systems on normal consumer use, but is an issue for a workstation system which might run 24/7 for most days on high utilization
it was a very very short period of time. But there was a time where people were made fun of for talking to themselves with little white stubs sticking out of their ear. It's an interesting read through the initial airpod announcement thread on reddit.

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/51mxn5/the_new_airpo...

Some of my favorite comments. Pretty crazy that people didn't really understand wireless earbuds while today they're taken for granted.

"Cigarettes in my ears"

"They forgot that people are less likely to adopt new technologies that make them look stupid."

"Yeah, they should at least be able to strap to each other."

"My feeling on these headphones is entirely contingent on sound quality. As it is, I could get a pair of bluetooth headphones from Audio Technica for under 100$."

"The only user interface is by tapping the AirPods to talk to Siri, even to adjust the volume. No thanks."

"I don't see any consumer base other than die hard apple fans that can use these pair of head phones, earphones or whatever they are called.

Runners would definitely not buy these as there is a high risk of them falling out of the ears.

Even for a regular person there a huge risk of running into one another making the earphones fall and stepping on them.

Interesting scenario would be when 2 airpods users run into one another and damage their devices and then sit over a coffee just to discuss how foolish decision they made buying this piece of shit."

And then Nostradamus showed up in the comments

"It looks like the kind of thing people will mock before they use it and then when they use it they'll realize that it's actually pretty good overall and everyone will just kind of simmer down about the whole thing."
Natural selection are now slower than artificial ones except on the microbial levels.

So maybe extinctions after extinctions for animals that are visible to us, and then bunch of new superbugs.
"The Transport Stream is a stream definition which is tailored for communicating or storing one or more programs of coded data according to ITU-T Rec. H.262 | ISO/IEC 13818-2 and ISO/IEC 13818-3 and other data in environments in which significant errors may occur. Such errors may be manifested as bit value errors or loss of packets."

"The Program Stream is designed for use in relatively error-free environments and is suitable for applications which may involve software processing of system information such as interactive multi-media applications. Program Stream packets
may be of variable and relatively great length."
yeah, the friction is key. This is a step forward, I'm sure it'll be amazing that you can just literally put it on and look at your laptop and it pops up as a big screen in front of you. But I think the strap is a barrier. Like you say, glasses form factor is so much better than "strapping" it onto your face. It's rumored Apple has that in its sights for a future model.
Former ByteDance Exec Claims CCP Accessed TikTok’s Hong Kong User Data
Waiting til the end for "One More Thing" has always been used for the big new product reveal.
https://archive.ph/5ovNe
Selling a nonfunctional product is disrespectful of the customer's name.

Feedback is a gift.
> just please put the same camera technology into the phones so the kids don’t have a childhood of staring up at goggle eyed parents until this tech become sufficiently miniaturised

This section of the video was just weird. The dad playing with the kids with a headset on points more to a sort of dystopian future than a groundbreaking innovation.
AI as a term is poorly-defined, and conjures associations that range from sorta-accurate to totally fictional. ML is a specific set of concrete technologies, so it's a better and more precise term in most contexts
Great. You can have virtual flight attendants interrupt your day every 10 minutes if you like.
No worse than using a laptop in your lap would be.
So in the implementation of `cos_table__LERP`, you did technically 2 step range reduction:

1. Reduce x = x mod 2pi

2. Reduce index = 10^n * (x / 10^-n), and i - index = 10^n * (x mod 10^-n)

With limited input range and required precision as in the tests, you can combine these 2 range reduction steps:

1. Choose the reduced range as power of 2 instead of power of 10 for cheaper modulus operation, let say `2^-N = 2^-7`.

2. Avoid the division in `modd(x, CONST_2PI)` by multiplying by `2^N / pi`.

3. Avoid the round trip `double -> int -> double` by using the `floor` function / instruction.

Here is the updated version of `cos_table__LERP` which should have higher throughput and lower latency:

```
double cos_table_128_LERP(double x) {
x = fabs(x);
double prod = x TWO_TO_SEVEN_OVER_PI;

}

```
> Never seen a workspace in the last decade that didn't either have a laptop and external monitor or multiple monitors.

I've never seen anyone using "a laptop and an external monitor" who actually uses the laptop screen. (Where by "use" I mean "looks at it." They might have it on, but it's usually just idle at the desktop.)

Personally, I plug my laptop into a monitor and then put it, closed, onto a little stand for ventilation. (One of these things: https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/HP9X2ZM/A/twelve-south...).
What the 1984?!
don't forget 3d reverse engineering too

being able to spatially interact with disasm code inside IDA pro is going to be a game changer for those who like to take a more topological approach to the art
> The frequent (incredibly petty) fights I've seen over publication authorship order demonstrate otherwise.

Likewise, and this is one of the many reasons I left academia.

I feel like everyone who criticized your original comment is forgetting (or just ignorant) that biomedical science is an international field. What incentive do EU or Chinese or Japanese science have to honor the strike of US scientists? There's no way China's government would even allow such a union, and they're certainly not going to slow down just because NIH grant recipients feel they're being unfairly treated.
Or the 10,000 battery bricks that have existed for 10 years.
https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2021/reed-biolog...
/ˈpredʒədɪs/

Not that it's morally wrong in this case, I just don't see the upside of deciding what it's like now rather than waiting for data.
Can confirm. I ran a small node for a reasonably sized university in the early 90s. Replication times were in the tens of seconds. Could be in the minutes if a perfect storm of congestion and server overloading occurred. But my memory was more than 99% of the time latency was pretty low (seconds to tens of seconds.) Not bad for a single VMS cluster that serviced 20k+ clients.
And then the legal team runs it through the legalese obfuscator 9000 to make sure no one else will have any idea what it's even about.

Seriously, Google needed insider information at Sonos to infringe on their multi-room audio patent. Go read it and see if you could implement a working system from it https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/07/ef/fb/ac27ac8...
"Dear Tim Cook, I sell t-shirts out of my car, therefore I'm a CEO just like you! My iPhone isn't working, you better help me!!!!"
Thank you! I saw one of these yesterday and I couldn't work out why it was such a large machine given that the only thing it seemed to be doing was moving ballast slightly away from the tracks.
> I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny!
Yeah this is a very weird headline.
Is there really no GPU passthrough? This seems insane.
You're totally in luck if you're in the Apple ecosystem. With AirPods, you can do that easily from iOS or on your Apple TV. It's zero-latency in the sense that it automatically delays the video to match the Bluetooth latency, so the image always syncs with sound:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210421

https://support.apple.com/guide/airpods/share-audio-on-apple...
As a CLer, I have never understood the draw of hygienic macros. They solve what looks like a non-problem, straining mightily to achieve little of actual value.
If you scroll past the code examples, there are a few more details, though for more you'll need to look at the documentation (specifically https://docs.inko-lang.org/manual/main/getting-started/memor...).

> Is `&T` a type?

Inko's syntax for references is `ref T` for immutable references/borrows, and `mut T` for mutable ones. Unlike Rust, you can't implement methods/traits _only_ for references, instead you can only implement them for the underlying "base" type. So `impl ToString for String { ... }` is valid, but `impl ToString for ref String { ... }` isn't.

> Can you store it in a structure, or return it?

Yes.

> Can you have a reference to a reference?

No, `ref ref T` is "collapsed" into just `ref T`, and the language has no notion of pointers and pointer-pointers.

> If you can have a function `f(&T, &T) -> &T`, how do you distinguish whether the reference it returns lives as long as the first or second argument

Inko doesn't have a borrow checker, so it doesn't. Instead it relies on runtime reference counting to prevent dropping of values that still have references to them. Over time I hope to implement more compile-time analysis to reduce this cost as much as possible, but borrow checking/lifetime analysis like Rust isn't something Inko will have.

Or to put it differently, I want the compiler to catch say 80-90% of the obvious "this ref outlives its pointee" errors without complicated borrow checkers. For the remaining 10-20% the runtime check should suffice.
Yes I use Immersed regularly, commonly for a couple of hours each day with a Quest Pro. It's pretty good and quite usable. Definitely resolution is one area where improvement would be huge. It's ok currently but I need the monitors very large which creates its own issues (you get to the point where you need to turn your head to read across the screen and realise it's an ergonomic nightmare).

I enjoy it for an hour or two as a nice change, but I couldn't work there all day.
For nation-state actors looking to spread disinformation, paid accounts are effectively free.
>... 64bit runtimes can use...

Did you mean 32bit?
Not a single AR functionality was demoed; all that was shown was a 2D overlay on top of real-world view. No 3D computer vision segmenting objects on the screen, no placing 3D objects on real objects etc. It felt less capable than Hololens a few years back.
I pay rent, computer hardware, airfare, electrical bill and similar. I don't have a mortgage or own a car currently, but if I did I'd settle those expenses with crypto easily. The recipient has no idea, they receive bank transfers and see no different than any random person. Crypto also funds the credit cards I use to pay services such as AWS. (And day to day Uber, grocery delivery and that sort of thing too)

I pay as much as possible with cash as in paper bank notes, but those are also almost entirely crypto funded.

I do not use regular CEX (centralized exchanges) at all as on or off ramps or submit to any KYC for any of this.. that said I'm definitely wouldn't be able to remain anonymous if I were to do anything grossly illegal with my funds.
No one else in the FaceTime calls was wearing one! How does that work?
Don't they use Google for their results? I'd imagine they'd run into the same issues the article is pointing out.
Headsets focus your eyes much further away than desktop monitors.

Standing and walking, though, they're still going to be important.
> depending on idiosyncratic private definitions of concepts such as "sentience" and "imagination".

What other definitions are there?
> the rest of the industry has been moving in Apple’s direction with these kinds of limitations

That's the "evil". Your next sentence doesn't justify the former. Apple is the one pushing the bounds. Others see Apple can get away with it, so they follow. There's good reason to believe that if Apple didn't push this then we wouldn't be in this state (right to repair is another piece of evidence related to Apple too).
If moderators could simply know whether something is correct or not on a reading, stack overflow wouldn't need to exist.
Any 'should this product be launched' critique should come armed with an understanding of what the product's trajectory is and what it could be capable of, which the author failed to demonstrate. That's not particularly surprising, most people aren't very imaginative, so it read like something most people would write: a hot take with a few old talking points.

Re:HoloLens, it failed because Microsoft is not an organization that can build category-defining consumer products. Vision is worlds apart technically from the HoloLens' tech demo level quality. Whether or not it succeeds in the market, Apple was not fucking around or half-assing the tech. This was spare no expense, leave no nuance unpolished, culmination of a decade of deep technical investment and the merging of 30 different workstreams stuff. I can hardly imagine the complexity of the product roadmap that led to it.

Re:mundane understanding, I'm not so sure. Taken as-is with the gen1 hardware we saw, I think Vision should have been targeted a bit more at workplace than consumer given the form factor. But more broadly, the whole product is really just a prelude for what experience we can expect within an AR glasses form factor in the coming decade(s), and products like this need to put a stake in the ground on what they're going to be about.

To give you some sense of why HoloLens never made it: it was timed wrong for the tech (way too early), it was incubated in a company that has never defined a consumer product category and lacks the talent / organizational structure / gravitas to do so, Microsoft lacked the courage to invest in it, it failed to define valuable broad market use cases, it couldn't leverage developers, it lacked multi-year investments in like 10 different key technologies, it had entirely the wrong form factor, etc etc. There wasn't a snowballs chance in hell HoloLens was going to be a consumer product without being fundamentally different.
Reminds me of the old joke:

A: "Did you hear why the Air Force's new stealth fighter crashed?"

B: "No, why?"

A: "It crashed into a stealth mountain."
This product feels like Tim Cook trying to a will a product into market to leave a lasting impact and legacy. My gut reaction is it will have the opposite effect. I have a lot of respect for Tim Cook for being the CEO after Steve and keeping the company moving forward and operating smoothly. This feels like hubris.
People here are conflating two separate issues. 1 what should the policy be and 2 how to deal with AI generated content flooding the system. in the absence of a foolproof "AI detector" the only sensible approach is to validate truthfulness (1) and deal with the flooding problem (2) separately if it becomes a real problem.
Demography is destiny
> I don’t know why this wouldn’t have been ridiculous, because it really is ridiculous to suggest this would be worn by a parent during a young child’s happy birthday singing and blowing out the candles.

Do you not remember the 1970s-1980s, when "filming home movies" meant resting a 50lbs camcorder on your shoulder and looking through the eyepiece in a way that blocks anyone from seeing 75% of your head?
Health industry responds to data privacy crackdown
Ask HN: IoT SIM Cards
So far in the last couple weeks Telnyx has increased the price of their IOT Data for their SIM cards by 8-10x their original price [2](used to be around 1c per MB, now its 10 depending on usage). Twilio sold their IOT network (Super Sim and the like) to Kore Wireless. If i am reading their site correctly, its gone from 10C per MB to now $1.08 per MB! Again, more than 10x increase... I have a small GPS tracker in my car and Im using a Twilio SIM (had an issue with Telnyx, a few months back and never tried swapping back). I use less than 10Mb a month and now my bill for Twilio will go from around $1 to more than $10, if the pricing here [1] is correct... Anyone know of a IOT SIM card that does not charge though the nose? Im based in Ireland, so most European or Global providers should work... Thanks.

[1] https://shop.korewireless.com/pages/iot-data-plans-and-pricing
[2] https://support.telnyx.com/en/articles/3296669-programmable-wireless-pricing
I'll be developing for this for sure!
it's the cato institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute
When people say "the Ukraine" it is taken to refer to Ukraine as a region rather than a country. I'm not 100% on why but the wording matters a lot.
> Only since 2020

Good grief. That's just simply not correct. What happened is that in 2016 and 2020 specifically, the presidential election turned on a handful of states that were (by definition, really) very close. Close results take longer, because if it's not close you can call an election without finishing the count. If the close states are not critical to the result, as is more common, no one cares.

> major swings in individual states or districts occurring overnight

Again, no. This is not a new effect, nor is the fact that different groups of ballots skew differently and are counted at different times.
A zero cost abstraction is just an abstraction you couldn’t write any better yourself, not one that is actually free. If you’re lookint for an item in a hashmap, you still have to pay the cost of looking up the key. The promise of zero-cost abstractions is that you’re paying the lowest possible cost to do that, with a nice interface that you didn’t have to write from scratch.