skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are plenty art projects which take human expression and mirror it, or transform it in a mechanical way. Are those also only contributing noise? Should those artists find another hobby?

Those people are not trying to deceive anyone. This guy was.
4K is roughly 8 million pixels. I wonder if they’re including the front display in their pixel count. Or there actually is significantly better than 4K per eye happening here.

At any rate, it’s a lot of pixels. Not sure what GP is complaining about.
I just canceled Copilot and I'm more productive now that I'm not hesitating and waiting to see if Copilot does something.

COPILOT PROS

- Good at boilerplate

- Good at unit tests

- Fairly good at pasting from Stack Overflow

CONS

- Most of the time it does nothing

- Large code blocks pop in and out while I'm typing, which is distracting

- Sometimes it correctly guesses what I want, but the code is completely wrong with non-existent variable and method names

- Visual Studio has 3 or 4 other "helpers" and they can seemingly all active at once, making hard to even see what I'm doing (Intellisense, Intellicode, CodeLens, ???)

EDIT: I include writing prompts and reviewing Copilot output as hesitating/breaking flow.
He would be wrong. My sample size is only n=1, but I've already used ChatGPT / Copilot for the following tasks in a professional work environment:

- writing docker container and docker compose scripts

- Generating cloud formation deployment for dynamo database, elastic search, and lambdas

- assisting in CI CD deployment scripts for GitHub actions/workflow

- Rubber ducking best approaches for doing vector type similarities, database search problems, image convolution, etc.

- mocking interfaces and typedef decorations in typescript

I'm starting to think that the ability to leverage AI tools in an effective manner is apparently a skill that some people inherently lack.
HN has been slow/failing for me today. I assumed it was the WWDC keynote, in particular the One More Thing...
The human eye has an approximate pixel resolution of 120 million pixels per eye. On top of that, our brain constantly processes and integrates the output of our eyes. This creates an even higher perceived pixel resolution of about 480 million pixels per eye. Some estimates are even higher.

I'm not saying Apple created a bad product...but I wouldn't expect a mere 23 million pixels to be indistinguishable from reality.
Wood floats, so that doesn't sound impossible.
If you define the veracity of such claims as facetious, consider the early experiments of Enrique Inglesias Fermi when he invented microwaves. No one disregards the book GWB was reading to that class on 9/11/21 and no one would because it was on camera. Please take care with your words as many here look up to you guys for explanations to the larger UCF topic. Thanks!
This is completely wrong. Learn about lenses.
Apple doesn't do enterprise or gaming.

VR headsets is a "flying car" tech category: always around the corner, but unlikely to ever reach widespread adoption.
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Exactly. You know it is worth it when corp pays for the gadgets ;)

I mean, how terribly over-priced is the Mac, and yet...
That and the fact that there is one version of iOS, and Android has traditionally been very fragmented. Without widespread availability from "day one", these things just don't catch on.

See also: the resurgence of QR codes post iOS 11...
I like how they have a preconfigured RSS list for new users
Agreed - we don't know what the actual PPD will be, but it will surely fall short of 60 given that the VR display covers more of your field of view than a 4K monitor in front of you.

That said, it'll still be higher than the current VR headsets and I expect many people will find it sufficient for their work.
I mean real estate and development is a whole 'nother thing. Demand is wholly outstripping supply for places you want to actually live in, so you get what you get and you get to be happy about it.
Write the alphanumerics connected by a green line, i.e. connect (connected) the dots. I dunno, I immediately recognised it .
The “true believers” need a greater fool to be their exit liquidity, it’s that simple.
Although neither title is in the hyperlinked-to pages, the title here is answered by the title at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36202624 .
it may serve in the same way the ipad / tablet adoption did - though this is more limited as it's single-user & ipads can be shared easily multi-user
Where is the killer app?
mad money and the SPAC shills on these financial networks is as BS as anything else.
> and don't want to pay the Apple hardware tax

Why do you believe that the "Apple hardware tax" here is being applied to some pieces of aluminium, rather than to their extremely-high-CapEx investment into a new SoC?

I would bet money that when the Mac Pro logic board becomes available as a component through the repair program, that a replacement of it will be 90-95% of the cost of replacing the full machine.
I suspect Binance is prepared and they will simply not comply. Nothing is physically in the US to be seized (except maybe the binance.us domain).
Quest Pro does the exact same thing for 1/3 the price. It has all sorts of enterprise features and Microsoft is on-board with it.
You can boot most games you buy on steam from the folder. It is extremely weak DRM.
Would you mind expanding a bit on your experiences with running linux on mac hardware? Especially the M1, what is your daily experience like? Any pain points or gotchas?

Reason for my question is that I used to run linux on the mac as well (10 years ago), and I love the hardware. I don't think there is anything that even comes close hardware-wise. But currently I am on mac os, well, because it works basically ;) But I would be curious to know if switching over again would make sense now, without too much hassle.
LLMs are the apex of NLP research to date, and NLP is obviously a branch of AI. You may have some sophisticated notion of AI, AGI, human-level or human-like AI or whatever, but NLP has been considered AI for generations now.
exactly - almost every cable and satellite system is using them
They showed AirPods working with the headset on a flight during the presentation at one point.
Wait, it failed? Since when...?
It's getting there iteratively. The headsets are getting lighter and more comfortable.

The nausea won't be going away though. There will always be a class of apps/games that cause nausea for many people, because it's caused by a decoupling of virtual movement from real movement, not from any technological shortcoming. Any game or app that does this will make some people want to upchuck
VR porn has been around for years. I do not own VR goggles so I can't comment on how enjoyable it is.
You get 8 if you think there's 100 milliseconds in a second.
Mac Pro and Mac Studio, spec'd to the same maximum possible Ultra cpu, 192GB ram, 1tb ssd, Mac Pro is $9600, while the Mac Studio is $6600. How many people really need the Mac Pro's PCI-E expandability (which probably no third party GPU's can use) to justify the $3000 premium, in an arguably worse form factor?
I use my Quest pro to play video games that trick me into cardio workouts. Due to my body tiring out and the battery life, I play a max of two hours a day.

It probably eats up less than half of my video game time. I find that I play less video games now since VR is a different experience from pupetting an avatar with a game controller. You tend to use your whole body, which is great if you cant find the motivation to workout.
Maybe, but you'd need to wear bulky Bose on top of the VR headset to get decent audio quality + noise cancelation.
Shoot, I would. I've been dreaming of a headset to replace my monitors for years now.
I watch tv shows often and movies occasionally on my Quest 2. Often the TV shows aren't in 4K anyway so I'm not losing any resolution. The main reason I do it is the perfect darkness you get with the headset on. Shows like Silo are too dark to watch during the day in my southern california apartment. I know I could get blackout curtains or whatever but the Quest is actually cheaper and easier.
The screens are totally different, as are the apps.
The Russian takeover of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has pushed it to the edge of another catastrophe.
I haven't the slightest idea. I assume people with such requirements know how to specify and buy machines. That said, these guys who specifically target the video production market sell machines with the latest Xeons and e.g. an RTX 4080 (which I suspect is the more relevant part). https://www.pugetsystems.com/workstations/xeon/w790-e/
Screen is a bit worse, only 2 usb ports, no HDMI
Hah. Only on HN does one mention a pseudorandom mathematician, then run into someone who was a student in their department 35-40 years ago lol....

You know how the joke goes, right? “The axiom of choice is obviously true, the well-ordering principle obviously false, and who can tell about Zorn’s lemma?” [0]

I'm honestly not sure I could have resisted the temptation to ask him "What's yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?"[1] one day.

Okay, nevermind. I would have resisted, but I'd be chuckling about it off and on the whole time when I was sure he wasn't around, while I was doing my degree.

In all seriousness, though, proving the equivalence of AC, ZL, and WO was probably my first venture into "real" abstract mathematics in undergrad. For essentially the first time, there was no picture I could draw that would have any semblance of accuracy or utility, and yet at the end, the result popped right out just the same.

Unfortunately, I didn't make it to the independence of the Continuum Hypothesis that year, and had to move on to other courses. :/

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[0]: AC, ZL, and WO are also equivalent to the Hausdorf maximal principle: in any poset (P, ≤), every totally ordered subset S is contained in some maximal totally ordered subset T. In some ways, HM is kind of the "dual" of ZL by swapping totally ordered subsets for elements, ⊆ for ≤, and push the whole thing up into the power set realm, I think you just get ZL trivially. Of course, I always found HMP much more intuitive than ZL... basically, AC > HM > ZL > WO in my mind, in descending order of intuitiveness.

[1]: Zorn's Lemon
They got duped into the Metaverse?
I'm not a troll I think both reasons are true.
I was just thinking of the last few decades but yeah fair enough I had forgotten about the HomePod.
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> 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.

Apple is also the company which released https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton back in the day… They turned out to be right at the end but still had to renter the market entirely from scratch after 10 years. So far Apple has been great in “perfecting” products that already exist by doing the right thing at the right time.

They weren’t the first or the second to release a smartphone, smart watch, tablet, BT earphones etc. all of those had established markets and somewhat clear use cases Apple “just” streamlined and turned them into something that normal people would actually want to use. It’s seems a bit to early to do that for VR yet. So in a certain way they are in somewhat uncharted territory.
This isn't really an experiment in the scientific sense.
In addition to their excel errors, their analysis required excluding the Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Once these countries were included in their analysis, their argument falls apart. To me, it's clear that this was a case of very selective researcher degrees of freedom to support austerity. Why anyone would take Reinhart or Rogoff seriously after this farce is beyond my comprehension.
You don't have a choice - in India it's as ubiquitous as paypal is here.
If you look at the historical ratio of income to the price of housing

This has a lot more to do with governments making it illegal to build housing than the overall strength of the economy.
How about what I did last night

"In typescript, Write me an express POST endpoint that takes in a JSON payload, assigns it a unique id of some sort, and uploads it to an s3 bucket"

"To continue on with the last request, in typescript, write me an express GET route that takes in an id of the JSON file that the POST request above uploaded, downloads it from s3 and sends it to the user."

For problems with well defined constraints, ChatGPT4 is amazing. Of course I had to rewrite all the error handling logic, and fill in some details, but it saved me a lot of time looking up APIs.

The flip side is, it originally tried writing against AWS SDK2, and I had to ask it to use SDK3. If I hadn't known about SDK3, I would've had less than optimal code.

Similar thing when I asked it to add ajv validation to an endpoint, I hadn't done that in a couple of years and I knew it'd take me awhile to remember exactly how, while ChatGPT pushed it out in a few seconds, but with non-optimal code (didn't use middleware). Because I already knew what it should do, I was able to ask for a correction.

I have a genuine fear for Junior developers using ChatGPT and never going through the struggles to learn the tools and technologies that makes a good Senior engineer.
Once this headset's form factor shrinks down to sunglass size it will be the next iPhone. Especially with innovators creating apps that enhanced current life experiences like...

- Play real life ping pong, tennis, card games, etc .. glasses keeps & displays score in your view

- Rewind ... how did this building look ten, twenty, 100 years ago

- Who am I talking to at a conference.. their name appears above them

- Lots more and better innovative ideas to come too
A 4K monitor has 8.3M pixels, so you could equivalently say that it's ~three 4K monitors.
Not wanting to turn your head 90 degrees to see your 13th monitor is not a "mobility issue".
Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36203204.
I swear I tried that.. guess I'm a bot ^^
That has nothing to do with the point that VR issues are being prescribed to an AR device..
Flights is one of the most compelling use cases for me personally. I’m tall and would love this. I also could use my ergonomic keyboard while looking up and ahead.
You have to turn down temperature and/or p when you want accuracy. Otherwise you don't know if the model's read is bad, or if you just happened to get a low-probability outlier.

With the playground's defaults of t=0.8, p=0.9, I got the right answer 7/10 times.

With t=0.1, p=0.1, it's always exactly "The name of the cat that wears a blue tie is Jackson."
The pixels may be 7.5 microns but you’re forgetting that they are viewed through a lens. The point stands: 4K pixels for the full field of view, which is a lower density than 4K for a small screen.
https://github.com/answerdev/answer#readme is Apache 2 licensed, the sibling comment pointed out that the existing S.O. data is open licensed, but your premise has the same problem every "I'm going to take my ball and go play in the other yard" does: the network effect is very, very real
> But it's going to be a hit.

Well, if nothing else, the influencer / celeb culture will make it so. Apple, unlike other tech companies, almost has a monopolistic grip over it.

I mean, they sold AirPods for the most ridiculous price and yet they beat sales numbers of just about everyone in the audio industry.
Also presumably the reason for making the first one a 'pro' version -- and beginning the presentation with a focus on work. Easier pitch that way, and once it can establish itself / there is an ecosystem, you can probably get more 'consumer' focussed versions with less compute power or that are plugin only etc
No it doesn't. The lowest score looks like one star filled, the highest is 5 stars filled, and the midpoint is 3 stars filled.

If the third star is only half-filled then that would be produced by a mix of half 2's and half 3's. Not all 3's. All 3's results in three stars filled.
Taking a positive sign because now the consumers expectations are high and if they not deliver what they promised here then they're gonna have a huge trouble so as a consumer it would be nice if the consumer can provide some our expectations to say how to show our interest and kind of motivate them to build a better product.
All this - software demo, hardware demo, and the price - feels like a developer preview.

That’s fine, it’s the wwdc after all.
You can use a Bluetooth keyboard pretty much anywhere you can sit with it on your lap or a table in front of you. One might legitimately worry about looking like a huge dork in public, but for a lot of people I imagine there is a lot of appeal to a device that can throw up a virtual array of multiple monitors anywhere they want to sit down and get some work done.
How do airpods compare with noise canceling Bose over the ear? (Genuine question, not rhetorical)
Yes it's very fascinating!
The language is so clear but the concepts are totally confused.

Does this mean real logical reasoning is very close, only some small improvements away, or does it mean we're just on the wrong track (to reach actual AGI)?
Infinite is my answer. I sit down all day at my desk job. I like to move in my free time. VR gets me up and moving, I love that. I don't play console or PC games at all.
I certainly can't speak to your specific uses or issues, but I mean we've really moved the goalposts from the prior claim that it didn't have tensor (e.g. matrix) functionality.

My daily work life includes a lot of model running on Apple hardware (Apple Silicon and A1# chips with the neural engine) using CoreML, often Pytorch models converted using coremltools. The performance of the Apple chips is spectacular if the intrinsics are supported (things obviously get dicier if there are currently unsupported ops). I mean, the memory bandwidth of the M2 Ultra is within spitting distance of the GDDR6X 4090.

People aren't going to be replacing H100 arrays with Apple Silicon and even as a fan I use nvidia hardware for training and convert the models to CoreML after the fact, but Apple clearly isn't just satisfied being some toy. They are continually climbing up that vine.
The human brain has 0 transistors!
> I’m not sure radicalising this debate helps anyone.

Oh but it does. That’s in part how we ended slavery and gave women full human rights and citizenship. If anything radical ideas shift the Overton window into making progress actually happen.

The second point is that the only correct position here is the radical one: as far as I can tell, the truth here is that (i) patents do far more harm than good, and (ii) they cannot be fixed into more good than harm. Therefore, they should be abolished, plain and simple.

Less radical positions may look reasonable, be more politically acceptable… but the only reality they’d be based on would be the flaws of our human minds and the existing power structures of our society. Because of those I indeed only have the faintest hope about patents being abolished in the foreseeable future. At best I’m hoping for some narrowing down: in scope, duration, or a strengthening of due process (mostly prior art).

But I have yet to be convinced that the best course of action isn’t the complete and utter abolition of the entire patent system. Now one could argue that that patents are a useful tool in our exploitation of the South, and losing it might weaken our position and ultimately make us a tad poorer as the South emancipates. That might even be true, see what happened for the COVID vaccines. But I don’t think this argument would win any votes around here.
So I guess yeah small talk is normally bad and uninteresting, but essentially putting a blind fold on? People are that selective about who they’ll even consider socializing with?

To be fair I’m not regularly on planes/trains so maybe I’m just not annoyed enough by it.
In some domains, the golden parachute softens that.

But it's unwise in finance. The SEC's whistleblower program is well known.
That's already making an assumption that this is a valid category that isn't doomed to failure like every other attempt since 1985.

Enter the story of the Nintendo Power Glove.
Stereoscopy is not the same as 6DOF. If I shut one eye in VR, it's still VR.
Would require the headset being plugged in.
I admire Graydon's humility on the subject--and sure enough, I disagree with some of his ideas in this post, and agree with other ones.

- Explicit lifetimes are what make rust what it is. It would have surely failed had they not been introduced.

- I disagree about having a first-class module system instead of traits. Coherence and implicit instance resolution are a core value of Rust. `Send / Sync` are key examples of that.

- Green threads probably wouldn't been viable for rust, given the kind of programs it's targeting.

- Pretty much everything else however, I agree with.
No, the actual sandboxing is not part of the package managers
Having made a serious attempt at a virtual workspace for development myself, I'll just say: it's ok, but there are a lot of challenges.

To develop, I need an actual fully-featured operating system with a terminal, a full suite of tools and libraries, and an application ecosystem.

To date, proxying all of that through a desktop/laptop to a virtual display or virtual remote desktop is clunky at best. Reading in VR is unpleasant. Typing in VR is unpleasant. Juggling controllers in VR is unpleasant. Wearing a headset for more than an hour or two is gross - you will really need to spend time and effort keeping the bits that touch your face clean. Cords are a hassle and the weird constant slight resistance starts to drive me nuts after awhile. For me there wasn't a hard deal-breaking issue, just a death by a thousand cuts.

Don't get me wrong - you can absolutely do it. For myself, it fell far short of the friction-free space for deep productivity I was after.

Also, again speaking personally, there is no way in hell I'm going to show up to work video meeting as a cartoon avatar (or turn my camera off). So meetings sort of break the whole thing.

Maybe this product will solve a lot of those friction points. I think that would be great, personally, but I'm skeptical.
That’s what I was referring to, the ecosystem pairing seems pretty tight so I could imagine that will be a common combo.
250$ maintenance cost on a 5k$ machine from 2016 is cheap. I work with this thing, and I make a crap ton of money with this thing.