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The conversation doesn't have to be limited to only whether this device is perfect today, I'm not sure why you object to people discussing the concept and its future potential also.
Crypto catastrophe strikes some Atomic Wallet users, over $35M thought stolen
Another great example!

With the out-of-date SDK, I had a similar experience. ChatGPT got me started with ManifestV2 for the Chrome extension and I found out it's getting deprecated and I should really use ManifestV3. But you know what, I asked ChatGPT how to update from ManifestV2 to ManifestV3 and it gave me the steps and things to fix. I had to do a few iterations as new errors were coming up and some things needed a bit of a refactor, but it was all done quite fast.

The fear of juniors skipping out on key learnings, or even perhaps having a hard time finding jobs in a few years is definitely interesting and something I'm super curious to see how it will go...
To be precise, Rust will refuse to compile code that accesses the value without checking that it is not empty.

Rust does that with the combination of "sum types" (aka "enums with data") and pattern matching. An `Option<T>` is either `Some(T)` or `None`. Matching on an option with the pattern `Some(value)` creates a new syntactic scope where the value is accessible. This scope is only entered if the `Option` is actually non-empty.

All ways of getting the value from the option are ultimately shorthand for a match in that way. For example, option.unwrap() will either get the value if it there, or panic. Option.unwrap_or(x) will either get the value of it there, or use x instead.

In practice this is x100 less error prone than C++. Source: was burned by vector.front() on empty vectors more than once. In C++, UB. In rust, usually the "empty case" is considered when first writing the code, or at least caught during review (unwraps tend to be very visible in reviews)
Startpage does the same thing when I use sitebut with no captcha to bypass the hellban. Sometimes it just shows no results intentionally. Refreshing the page fixes that one
Presumably the current and next iPhone Pros can capture 3D video.

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.

This idea seemed like way too much of a stretch for this intro. They had to know this, so I am very curious what the reasoning was for why they included it.
That is remarkably accurate for a wild guess.

Lisp code tends to be built from the inside. Working in a REPL, modifying the system state as you go, storing code into a buffer then recompiling and loading it into the image with a keystroke. Recompiling functions as you modify them, without recompiling the rest of the file, updating the code behind some classes without taking the system down, and the interactivity you get from the tooling for debugging and error handling. It all adds up.
It has a battery life of 2 hours.
It's more than that. Historically (from 80's onward), "PC" meant "IBM PC or compatible." You could argue that x86 Macs are actually PCs.
Using AI to reduce cognitive load is both a gift and a curse.

We can use ChatGPT to write essays for us. But the reason why we write essays is because the act of writing exercises our critical thinking and communication skills. Offloading that work to AI defeats the purpose. It's like going to the gym and then using a robot to lift the weights for you.

The same argument applies to programming. I think the most important skill in programming is the ability to "think in code", i.e. to be able to write, understand, and debug code without any tools other than a plain text editor and a terminal. The only way you build this mental muscle is by doing the reps. The risk of having tools do the work for you is that they ultimately become a crutch.

Of course, there are cases where using tools to increase productivity is a net benefit. An expert essayist can potentially use ChatGPT to synthesize information without compromising their thinking process. An expert programmer can potentially use Copilot to automate certain rote programming tasks. I just think we should be careful not to use tools in a way that compromises our basic mastery and foundational knowledge in a given field.
Agreed, you would more likely find that an English major speaks with more semantic and syntactical accuracy, whereas stem majors would be able to break down a problem or a communiqué into far more quantifiably precise "units".
No one is going to buy a $3500 headset for their puzzle and idle games, so Apple's existing games market is not going to help them sell this device.

For Apple to break into the VR games space they'll have to woo both serious gamers and large game studios, both of which seem extremely unlikely given the huge cultural disconnect.
> to accurately produce the next token you must have an understanding of the world you're talking about.

I don't think this is true. It seems to me that you could do this through sheer statistics, and have no understanding of the world you're talking about at all.
Of people I see sitting at a computer, few are using them.

For everyone else, airpods far outnumber all other kinds of headphones combined. Whether it's the grocery store or an airport.

I can only speak to my experience. This is a subjective, bias-loaded anecdote. For example it could just be that they're newish, so I notice the novelty more. Or the design is easier to see. Etc etc.
It sounds like companies are trying to bring work to a playground and at the same time can't make compelling games that can beat Beat saber...
100% confident this will happen, would bet my life on it
> No one’s going to say, “Where’d you leave the vision pro’s?” It’ll be goggles or mask or something else. Not well named. Except they won’t be shareable (with lenses in), because they’ll be too personal, like a hat.

I could see Vision sticking as a name in colloquial use. Vision Pro is a signal there is room for a lower price headset in the future. No one ever called their iPad an "iPad Pro" in colloquial use. This name is least as good as Quest.
I wasn't around when the Newton happened so I'm curious - do you know if there were people at the time (outside Apple) believing it would be the next big thing?
> Spatial Audio - Is any one a huge fan of this?

Gigantic fan. Listening to music or movies/TV on headphones without it seems almost painful now -- I sound like I'm exaggerating but I'm not.

Once you get used to audio always sounding like it's coming from outside of your head, going back to non-spatial audio that seems like it's emanating from inside of your head is jarring and positively claustrophobic.

And nobody's as surprised as me to find myself typing something like that. I always imagined it would just be a gimmick, but at least on the AirPods it's anything but. And it wasn't until the "Spatialize Stereo" toggle appeared recently that it worked with everthing, like regular tracks on Spotify.
Yes to 2), the Max can run 3 8k60 displays and 6 6k60 displays.
Which are pretty crazy specs considering my Air can only push a single display of any resolution.
Paper maps have had this for centuries.
But if the need occurs, you'd rather be forced to download/install an app rather than use a web app? This seems short sighted, especially for occasional tasks that come up where I'd like to just bang it out once with a webapp than install something.
Right, but transport stream should only be used in broadcasting. It shouldn't be used on discs (ahem Blu-ray) or other storage and it shouldn't be used over the Internet. Program stream is usually a better choice.
I'm vaguely considering it because it does 8K video, and it'd be nice to replace three 4K monitors with an 8K screen.

But that's quite the price bump. The M1 Ultra studio handles my workload pretty well, so I'll maybe save up my pennies for the Vision Pro.
Yes, I feel a lot of people are too tied down to their biases and social bubbles. I'm working in the area and you see great use of these devices from medical, to architecture, and mechanical engineering.

I understand the skepticism, but sometimes our perception of the world is quite narrow. Given that most of us are developers, even more so.

I don't mean to be condescending, I just feel that way a lot with both myself and my colleagues when exposed to fields and constraints that we haven't seen before.
has this happened to anyone else? because if it's really about the protest, it shouldn't just be one mod targeted
That makes sense.

One of the interesting questions for me is whether VR will get other platforms to take this use case more seriously. I have a Switch and regularly play Fitness Boxing. It's great in that I'm much more likely to stick with the workout versus just doing calisthenics on my own. But the fitness catalog is limited. I'd love for the next generation of the Switch to include better motion control so that movement games can be richer.
> Apple is taking a huge risk

Let's contextualise this ... they have so much money in the bank there is literally no way to spend it. This could completely flunk and have zero impact on them. There's no risk here for Apple. Perhaps the question is why they aren't being more adventurous, or pushing this harder by subsidising the gen 1 device to get it off the ground.
And it cost an order of magnitude less than the vision pro
Might some of the trouble be related to the lower Manhattan internet outage today?
https://hellgatenyc.com/lower-manhattans-internet-is-down
Depending on your work, I imagine you'll still want a desk for typing.

I can't imagine writing code using only my voice.
This product will fail among Apple's traditional customer segment of high-income Westerners.

High-income Westerners do not like to engage in activities that make them appear like mindless consumer zombies.
In Denmark the highest income households have small cheap TVs they can hide away while low income households have big 4K TVs as the main attraction in their living room. The reason is that the former don't want to appear like passive mindless consumer zombies who watch TV.

It is a very superficial opinion but wearing a VR/AR headset is literally the most 1984 consumer zombie thing you could possibly do.
Was it hard to get Linux to run well on the trashcan? Mine is still my main machine, but there are no more MacOS upgrades for it.
I have 9000 hours in steamVR... on linux.
I can never go back to 2D tbh.

This headset looks like it finally brings the full experience and more out of the dev only space.
they actually added a setting to let tabs drop out of memory, but it's an opt-in
I have 2 4k screens in front of me right now. I can close one eye, and without moving my head make out the entirety of both screens. They cover most of the non-peripheral horizontal field of view, but you could easily fit in another 4k screen on top of each vertically. I can make out individual pixels (when there is a gradient, like with a small font) on the screens. Higher resolution screens of the same size at the same distance would let me read slightly smaller fonts.

That is, at a resolution in which pixels are still perceptible, I can make out more than 33,177,600 pixels (4 4k screens, equivalently 1 8k screen) per eye. This device has less than that. Less than half that per eye. It's not "at the maximum limits of detail an eye can see" even assuming they just have no wasted pixels in your peripheral vision.

7.5 microns means nothing without knowing what lenses it goes through.

That said, I think it might be enough pixels to be useful for reading text. Unlike the index I own, where that is just unpleasant.
Hell you don't even have to get out of bed! Just lay there all day with this thing on your face and atrophy like in Surrogates.
Careful, don't teach the bots. Just let them fail to recognize. There is literally a 7 in the image on the keyboard proving it's not backwards.
Work from home is great for preventing financial crimes because the criminals know not to write things down; the people who want you back in the office are the crooks: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eufm.12426

On edit: another example of the crypto world re-learning the rules of finance.
Lasted 2 hours in some places
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I am OP on the XDR Pro Display owner’s thread over in the Macrumors Forums.

Last week I asked XDR owners about their thoughts for possibly replacing their high end XDR monitor(s) with virtual displays in the Apple Vision Pro (I called it Apple Reality)

The question and replies cover some of the considerations around this replacement and there are ongoing replies now that some of the specs are known:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/pro-display-xdr-owners-...
I bought a used newton from the lead engineer on the newton. I loved the device and used it regularly until my then girlfriend stepped on it and broke the display. Needless to say that relationship wasn’t long after that ;-)

I later had a palm. It was garbage compared to the newton even if it was 1/8 the size. I’m glad to see the newton essentially return as the iPhone/iPad.
Chirping smoke detectors at students’ home disrupting virtual classes (2020)
Archived version: https://archive.is/QPRYd
Great idea, unfortunate name.
It's the newest product EVER released by the company!
I'm truly wondering what M. Zuckerburg and the rest of the Quest team are thinking/saying/feeling seeing Apple entering this field with such an impressive device. Will they welcome such a player to give more credibility to the metaverse concept and the VR/AR headset market or they would panic because they may feel unable to compete, who knows?! But surely, the next months would interesting to sit and watch.
Two words, flight simulator.
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Is that GitHub Pro or the organizational plans?
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I’ve seen cool demos and proof of concept of professional tools but don’t know of any that have traction and good retention. Do you have examples of tools with significant adoption?
Hardware accelerated handling was one of the arguments used to oppose a WASM based implementation that sites could use at will to prove that there's demand for JPEG-XL support (and that the Chrome team provides, by the way).
Yeah, 4K per eye stops being impressive when it's five inches from your retina and you're trying to read fine text. Pimax has had a 4K/eye device for years already: it's nice but still nowhere near good enough to do things like replace your computer monitor. They're planning to ship a 6K/eye device next year, which will probably still not be enough. The real world has a very high pixel density!
currently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36192497
What are the 'self assembled PC' equivalents in this space?
To be honest, I was looking to hate on this, but they sold it much better than the others...

I can see value in it where before it was a gimmick.

And come to think of it, isn't this where Apple does best? Taking the components of an idea that others have failed with, and using them to create a new market category.

That thing will have to be as light as a feather though...

What weirded me out most though, was the feeling that all the presenters had run their demonstrations through chatGPT "in the style of Steve Jobs". Maybe the SMT have rebooted Jobs via an LLM!

I enjoyed the memory of him though.
It's almost like there are people who are eager to force austerity whether or not it works!
Thanks for replying! I hadn't heard of half of the items on this list which I think kind of proves GP's point.
I’m super confused… you’re agreeing that having a radar is superior but you’re disagreeing that it’s going to be a sore spot? How is that possible. Regardless of how you name the configurations (HW4, HW4.5 whatever, the naming is irrelevant) the point is that there will be multiple configurations of sensing suites, some of which will be objectively better than others. That’s the sore spot.

The fact that HW4 and radar are separate configurations by name is not important. HW3 is also included in the mix (you can buy FSD on it) and it has totally different camera placement. So radar aside there’s still a difference in the sensor suite.

People who paid $10k and were promised “FSD” and future hardware upgrades have every right to be pissed off about this.
> but that doesn't prove they'll eventually succeed

Of course it doesn't prove anything. But there's certainly a difference between the "hardness" of designing sufficiently high quality 3D glasses using well known technology, and doing something that breaks a physical law.
I must be old-fashioned or even anti-social, but what exactly is the point of watching a movie together remotely? Does it become some kind of group debate that constantly interrupts the movie?
Yeah and when it is it would be for next generation hardware.
I'm curious what you think of https://moonrider.xyz ?

I just use it for virtual workouts, so I use the "punch" not the "saber" mode, but it works great for that.
iPhone 3G was released in summer 2008, right in the middle of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Arguably, this was the beginning of iPhone's rise in popularity. The original iPhone was released in 2007, and the cracks in the economy were beginning to show then...
That’s the usual refrain isn’t it? You can apply “remember how everyone said X wasn’t useful?” to almost anything.

Honestly I think this will be pretty middle of the road. Apple Watch started off with a general market, and pivoted to health/fitness.

I could totally see them readjusting as time goes on into whatever people start using it for. But it’ll be a niche. I think the “it’s for everyone” marketing from today is a way to gauge who really is their target market, not the market itself.
My house is full of woodworm and Chernobyl is welcome to take the timbers.
Not really.

AFAIK (correct me if I’m wrong!) first-party and third-party codecs in media players are kinda equal: you load a file, and the media player picks which codec to delegate that file to. You can’t do that in with a Chrome extension – the extensions can manipulate HTML and run custom JS, but that’s more or less it (plus some basic browser-level stuff like work with tabs and intercept network requests).

This doesn’t mean an extension isn’t possible at all – eg there’s https://github.com/zamfofex/jxl-crx/ that detects JXL images and decodes them with JS – but that’s slower.

Plus the bigger issue is adoption. You want all users to get your JPEG XL images, not just the 0.1% of users that installed the extension.
>By the way, VLSI is the remains of a real technology company that went out of business... because its IP was blatantly copied. They had no choice but to sell out to a patent troll.

Ding ding ding - people don't seem to understand how the business model actually works... real inventors have to sell out, because unless they sell their stake in a litigation to a financier, they outright cannot afford to litigate an infringement case against one of the big companies that infringed their products and then refused to license
> including some [wild boar] bagged as far away as Germany—continue to show abnormal and dangerous levels of radiation.

This really needs to stop. I remember doing the calculation a few years back due to another HN post (and the German obsession around boar) and you'd need to eat roughly 0.55lbs (0.25kg) of the most radioactive boar you could find every day or 3lbs (1.4kg) of the median. That is to just hit EU radiation limits, not to hit a level where you're at risk. This also doesn't include that you'll heal over that period. The problem here is that if you're eating this much pork every day you're going to be at far higher health risks for heart disease than radiation sickness. Recommended is not more than 50g/day or 0.05kg/0.11lbs. For reference, Germans eat about 55kg of meat a year, so you'd be eating 220x the average German if you had a craving for the most radioactive boar and ate it exclusively. Germans used to eat more meat, and especially pork, and these stories have just done wild damage to the population. Especially because farm pigs aren't affected. But a side benefit is that less Germans are dying of heart disease, so I guess that's nice.

As for the forest, you may notice if you google it you'll see this story limited to 2014 and maybe a BBC article from 2019 as a result of the HBO series. [0] You may be interested to know that wildlife flourishes in Chernobyl and this is almost an accidental nature preserve. Life is shorter, yes, but life is flourishing and wildlife populations are far higher now than they were prior to the disaster. Population levels are similar to uncontaminated regions. It is really a fascinating area to understand from a biological perspective (same with Fukushima, which has similar results). When you dig into these they really challenge your preconceived notions of radiation damage. There is danger, don't get me wrong, and I don't think people should go inhabit these places just yet. But neither are these places dying. They're more like the post-apocalyptic movie scenes where animals and plants take over. There's far more nuance and interesting things happening in these regions and I wish we'd discuss these from a more holistic perspective.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190701-why-plants-survi...
What value do you see here that others haven't already tried selling? I haven't watch the keynote yet, but the landing page looks like all the same concepts Meta's been trying and failing to get people excited about for years now.
I do see your point and it is true that every product is going to be more mature, more complete for the later publication. But things of a first generation product like this is going to be a huge risk for a lot of people. But the things I want to talk to myself is probably if I can pick up one thing or maybe one or two things that this device can solve that probably doesn't have a good solution in the market, then just go for it. And if it is affordable, then go definitely do it. The upside of doing this is you cannot change your workflow in the early stages. So if you consider the time you put into that product in this new workflow, the things or the productivity you gain from this early experiment is going to be more productive. But gain, it's a risk.
It's not lock-in; it's just a lack of standardization because there's literally nobody else who will sell you something with any device APIs that have anything to do with the ones this device supports.

One big tech company going first in a space, and getting the big third-party media companies to pay attention, is exactly how you get other big tech companies interested in developing devices that support similar APIs (in order to steal market-share from that first company.) Which leads to those media companies growing out tools and standards that export to these systems, so that they don't have to do everything twice; which in turn leads to these systems then being targetable by smaller teams.

(They already mentioned that you can run Unity apps on the thing. Presumably there'll be more of that.)

Also, mentioning that this thing can play "games from Apple Arcade" and nothing else, is pretty much just down to pre-launch secrecy. Apple Arcade games are simply the games Apple already have access to; so Apple can make those games work on their new devices, without telling the games' creators they're doing that. They couldn't really tip their hand and show this thing to outside game studios — it'd have leaked all over the place. Real game development for the platform begins ~now; in a year, there'll probably be tons more third-party games on the "Apple Vision App Store" [bleugh] than there ever were on the macOS App Store.
So does this mean each subreddit creates and hosts their own entire “Reddit clone”?