skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This ad where she makes the real world disappear always struck me as dystopian. If I'm near a parade, I'd want to absorb that energy, not repel it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVW8-px4Ufw
my answer, while terse, was in fact a legitimate attempt at answering the parent question:

"Why should we classify them as Canadian artists? Don't think any of them even live in Canada anymore"

i think its a good question.

i attempted to point out, rather simply, how attempts to answer this question in terms of where an artist was born vs where the artist lives vs where the artist recorded their music, etc are arbitrary distinctions. in my view, there is no difference between these artists, qua artists or their art qua art, regardless of which lines they cross on a map, or when. i am struggling to see that distinction alone as a valid criterion to determine which forms of art are worthy of supporting and promoting, or, in the active, suppressing. and i am sensitive to the censorship of art in particular, so perhaps this is reason for my emotional "hot take".

but my hope was that my comment would evoke a thoughtful response, and not some sort of racist flame war, yes indeed.
Context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_December_2020_incident
Data plans existed before the iPhone. And Europe was much more hardcore with minutes than the states at that time (I remember that ATT standard plans were not unlimited talk at that point, something that was unheard of in Switzerland where I was living in 2007). In fact, I think the innovation was something like unlimited data?
My wife also watches content on phone and iPad. Usually in a room with a TV in it. Doubt she's intentionally watched something on a TV screen for weeks. I mostly watch on a second or third screen while working.

Our TVs are used by the kids, and even then they will happily take an iPad instead.
Many nouns are also adjectives. Layman is not one of them.
Ah the dream :P
It is certainly worsened by the period of zero interest rates, which fueled a massive viral outbreak of promotion-driven development cultures among most of the largest tech employers. Recent mass layoffs in tech really aren't an antibody--the marauding bands simply reconstitute and find other hosts to infect and value to destroy. It will take a decade for that boom to unwind with a lot of carnage along the way. /remindme 10 years
Spinning up the backends that are strong enough to support the load that the 3rd party apps put on it isn't a trivial undertaking.

Note also that many of the apps were designed to not have advertising or monthly subscription costs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...

> Apollo made 7 billion requests last month

What does it cost to stand up that server? Establish the core group needed to moderate the site to not have it turn into eternal spam or content that they'd rather not serve site? Pay the lawyers needed to make sure they've got NSFW and copyright take down requests handled?

It's not impossible... but the "bunch of people start up a new site" misses a lot of the technical and social aspects of barn raising ( http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/BarnRaising ).

The advantage of reddit for the backend is:

> BarnRaising is part of the difference between SlashDot and wiki. With SlashDot the barn is already raised - the OpeningStatement already written - before you start, and everyone just sits around bitchin' about it.
Uh, no, that’s the upcoming change.
Thank you. I was hoping for some testimonial on this use case, since the price and features are pretty attractive for the air.

I will now wait for a future revision.
How many bananas is that?
I hate that Apple has joined the vaporware trend. It started with the Mac Studio, which was announced before it could be purchased. Now we have another device announced… that will be available for purchase next year.
C is the best choice to learn systems programming.

C is the simplest of C, C++, or Rust and most other languages have C interop or foreign function interface.

First learn C and then you can learn Rust or C++ if needed. The concepts you learn in C programming will help you to better understand the more advanced concepts used in Rust or C++.

Recommended first book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
maybe if it doubled as an input device
Except in this case adding the other races as additional data points changes how you view the black-white comparison. For example, native Americans live almost as long as whites, but are as poor as blacks. And Hispanics are closer to blacks than whites in income, but live much longer than whites.
Now I am afraid of writing solutions to problems that are already solved for fun.
> It would very obviously be useful for work if you can actually get high res, effectively unlimited monitor space.

Very big "if".

I already notice visual artifacting in REPLs on 1080p displays at 60FPS. That's nothing compared to the aliasing issues facing stereoscopic virtual displays. I can't imagine wanting to do hours of focused work staring at objects in an aliased virtual world.

Could still be a useful for travel.
Vending machine for birds
Hongkonger here. Lot of people can spend USD$3500 for a watch, gadget, or computer, AND still live in 200-300sqft apartments in HK. Doesn't make them "wealthy".
good point
it's got a custom connector to the headset but hoping that it'll be possible to use a bigger battery pack or seat power outlets/usb will provide enough to keep it going longer than 2 hours
Blatant tech frauds run amok on the biggest online marketplaces
Grail wrongly told hundreds of people they might have cancer
I think it's great that there's corroborating witnesses. But, you know, shows us the evidence. Show us you got something. Show us you're not all just talk. What are you afraid of? Show us.
TSMC Is Sprinting to 2nm to Satisfy Demand from Nvidia, Apple
"High-frequency" crypto trading has to be off-chain, at least for most coins. Of course we now know that most of that was wash trading bots...
I make it a point to do all my work on a laptop like this. That way, I’m 100% productive anywhere like in a hotel for example. I never miss giant external monitors because I don’t have any.
I understand what was meant now, but my point is that the original comment wasn't clear.
4chan is a healthy community. No karma, no "flagged" posts and none of the bullshit you see here. HN is objetively inferior in every measurable way, and I've been using both for >10 years.
I think SQL is an unfair example because the grammar is so poorly constructed. Designers of the language seemingly cared little for ease of extensibility in favor of ridiculously specific constructs. Compare that to Java's much simpler grammar https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-18.htm.... I can't find a good reference, but I suspect even Kusto/KQL has a much simpler grammar than SQL despite functioning in a very similar problem space.

One of the first rules of making a new programming language should really be to do as little as possible in the parser. By making your parser extremely complicated, you also make it extremely difficult for anyone to write tools for your language. Instead, it's much better to push that out to the rest of the compiler and/or the type system.
Yes, but the key takeaway from what you quoted is that they are creating an equal space where all kids are equally offline. The argument very much is not that all tech is bad, just that you should probably not give unfettered access to the internet to someone who's brain isn't fully formed
For any moderately large scale book scanning effort: https://hackaday.com/2012/11/16/google-books-team-open-sourc...
But that isn't fair, since we know a vast majority of all-day computer users don't do this. The impact that a screen inches from your eyeballs has on you physically is simply higher, although both carry costs.
gotcha thanks, i didn't catch all of the presentation and only now getting around to reading the recaps

will be interesting to see what's possible in their os for it vs macos or ios
> Of course you aren't going to release product which is going to be slower, right?

But you can release stuff that is thicker[0] - which must have been hard to swallow for Apple, even if just 0.5mm thicker.

[0]: https://www.ifixit.com/News/36480/theres-something-new-in-th...
The number of people in this thread pretending they have more expertise about this, and spreading random conspiracy theories about WebP, is impressive.

Actually, Google employs 2 of the 3 main authors of the JPEG XL spec, and the main contributors to libjxl.

Also, it wasn't a few months, and others had explicitly said no.

You can argue it was a dumb decision, but like, can we at least get facts straight instead of making up random stories?

There people in this thread arguing they have no idea what they are doing and have no expertise, while they simultaneously employ the spec authors to work on it and are one of the two primary contributors to the reference library.

A bit silly and incongruous.

Just because someone does something you don't like doesn't make them stupid or wrong. You'd be much better off if you would gather facts first, listen to the perspectives of others, and then respond.
Real estate costs more than this head set. I am a VR skeptic. But if someone truly solves the problems, a virtual desktop has obvious advantages even for the rich. I could literally clear out one room and shrink the remaining desk to fit a closed laptop, keyboard and coffee mug. And now my entire workstation is portable and exactly the way I want it where ever I go.
iOS VM system doesn’t use the disk for paging, so it’s quite a different beast than a machine with TB of available space.
This has been there for a long long time. I remember Edward Snowden went to India to learn hacking.

India also has an amazing open source culture. Was quite shocked to see how high quality they were, since the ones you hire from the large outsourcing companies like Infosys etc are so so bad.
Apple's biggest mistake in years. This thing is DOA.
Audits only show that Coinbase isn't stealing. They don't look for unregistered securities trading.
BBC ‘accepts’ it paid lower taxes in India
Past thread on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34787782
It may not be realistic, but it's the most interesting idea in the thread.
What Are Embeddings
This... is fugging amazing.

No, seriously. It really is. Those of you who are too young to remember the heyday of Computer Shopper won't get it (probably) but that magazine was ... well, as the article says, practically a "bible" to some of us. There was NOTHING like finding the new issue on the news-stand, buying it, and rushing home to pore over the ads, looking for a sweet new motherboard, some RAM, maybe a Sound Blaster card, etc. for that sweet new PC you were planning to build. And the BBS listings... A new BBS appearing in there, IN YOUR LOCAL CALLING AREA was a huge deal.

I know the younger folks probably don't get the idea of "long distance" or probably even the idea of phone usage being metered and billed per unit, but back in the day calling a BBS that was long-distance was a good way to rack up a huge phone bill, and righteously piss off your parents (if you lived at home). Of course some people would pack a laptop (yes, they existed in the 1990's) in a car, drive out to a convenience store in the middle of nowhere at 2:00 in the morning, and "beige box" off a COCOT (customer owned coin operated telephone) to make those calls. I might have been guilty of doing something like that...

Anyway, Computer Shopper was a big deal to a lot of people for a long time, and I'm personally thrilled to see these issues being preserved so some of that legacy can live on. Browsing the old issues online will never give one quite the same experience, but it's good that they'll be around.
I've only used PlantNet in the past. Worked well for me the few times I've used it.

https://plantnet.org/en/
There's about 9 exemptions that can be used to exclude information from a FOIA request ( https://www.faa.gov/foia/media/exemptions.pdf ). Primarily things regarding law enforcement, national security and privacy although there is one for wells and geological info.
Why would MutationObserver be necessary to display a static image in a <canvas>?
I would love if Apple used something like COM-HPC or even the new daughtercard approach Intel and Nvidia are using in their high end server CPU+GPU chips.
People won't even own this device for a year. It's silly to ask these questions now, before we can even test the device.

If you don't see $3,499 of value in the feature set then don't buy one.

Detailed reviews and in-store demos will come next Winter.
Will it have the Terminal app so I can code like Minority Report?
The Googlers behind webp have more clout than the Googlers behind Jpeg XL.

JPEG XL has gained broader industry interest than any of the previous attempts to replace JPEG.

I think someone is very hurt that their web p pet project has earned more hate than love
I like the second-order effect here, of measuring how people TALK about the outage to measure the outage.

Have a read of:

“Is my Internet down?”: Sifting through User-Affecting Outages with Google Trends Ege Cem Kırcı, Martin Vahlensieck, and Laurent Vanbever IMC '22

which is also discussed on PING (podcast at APNIC) and on the APNIC blog (disclaimer: I helped publish this)

https://blog.apnic.net/2023/02/10/towards-a-systematic-user-...

https://blubrry.com/ping_podcast/93464445/is-my-internet-dow...
Is there any good search engine these days?
Ha, I had the same thought! Felt almost like Blade Runner, some futuristic reality where a sad guy watches 3D videos of how great his life used to be.
Conversely, I despise round pegs. On the other end of the hole is a machine that shreds your peg into sawdust, mixes in a liter of epoxy, and reconstitutes it into a Klein bottle, so I'm not sure why I should care about the shape of the hole.
My immediate thought was working on a flight. This guy is like he's got some big curved monitor on his flight. No he doesn't, he's hunched over a laptop screen.

If I could work on a flight on a big screen I'd be thrilled. I really don't like the ergonomics of hunching over a laptop screen.
Ultimately I think aside from individual entertainment, the whole idea suffers from the same pitfalls of the HoloLens from 8 years ago.

I don’t see the advancement needed to make interactions fluid. It’s still the same awkward flicking and snapping.

This tech is still _quite_ distinguishable from magic.

I think in order to truly achieve a magical experience it will take a technological leap similar in scale to the invention of the semiconductor.

It’s just not worth the hassle and until it materially improves reality, it will be a vanity.

I don’t think Steve Jobs would have settled for this product.
> - Price is $3499, definitely a "Pro" price, which probably means that a "non-Pro" version is in the works.

I would perhaps argue the opposite here. They list it on the official page as "starting" at $3499 which gives me the indication that there will be other, higher tiered models to choose from on release.
I agree completely. A few months ago, I purchased a Meta Quest Pro. Relative to the Quest 2, the Pro’s resolution blew me away. And it’s still not even close to usable for real work on virtual monitors.
> that's how tyranny works. if a large enough (like 15%) people are stupid enough to give up a basic right for a perceived safety, tyranny flourishes

Is that how tyranny works? Asking because I honestly don’t know. When the Americans rebelled against King James, was tyranny taking place because the majority of people were stupid and accepted safety by giving up some rights?

What about nazi germany? Did the German people support hitler because he provided them safety?

Or the original use of the word - did the Greeks accept tyrants as long as they provided safety?
Yes, he was showing people the iPod was a normal thing a normal person would wear and use and still seem... normal.
32" 4K feels like the sweet spot now, 32" 8K would be a good future upgrade, but we need DisplayPort and HDMI to catch up. 120hz is very nice for desktop usage, as is HDR. Now that my main rig is a 55" 4K 120hz HDR OLED, most other monitors look bad. 14" is still the best size MBP, as sitting closer with the high PPI screen works well to have text take up about the same amount of my FOV. 27" feels small, esp at 16:9. 16:10 was awesome and I'm glad that it and 4:3 are coming back. 16:9 was made for watching movies. 16:10 allows 16:19 content to fit with a menu bar + browser top bar + bottom bar, or just gives extra vertical space. Those ultrawide monitors, especially the curved ones, are just gimmicky. Just give me a gigantic 16:10 or 4:3 rectangle, tyvm.
I wonder if they think you either have to be the top dog (PC? PS5?) or you're better off getting the casual gamers (iOS) and not distracting the core business? It's a massive, successful company. I don't think they begrudgingly accept it, or extrapolate from the personal preference of a past boss. The past boss taught them that style and status sells and they've continued with that because it's successful, not just because it was his thing.
No, because the Mac Studio doesn't throttle to begin with. (Hilariously, LTT water-cooled one and it made no difference.)
I have refused to develop any software for Apple's OS or hardware for about 30 years now, because Apple has always routinely stomped on anyone who disagreed with their corporate ambitions - clone makers, reverse engineers who figured out how to use part of their libraries without permission, open source coders trying to write services compatible with Apple's stuff, and others.

Basically the company is hostile to anyone threatening their control, they're the champion of closed source and proprietary much more than IBM ever was.
They're on that stage to sell us the vision of AR improving all of our lives. If they can't even be f'ed to do it in front of the most captive and interested audience for the device... it is a major tell and the device is doomed.

Think about it, if even the presenters on stage have no use for it or don't want to be seen using it then why would you?
They are going to need a setting to disable hand gestures.
tons of people run redhat and derivatives in production for various reasons. it's also owned by IBM. you know how the old saying goes...
Company designung product hires people to develop product. Let's sing their praise!

Breathless praise of nothing
For comparison the original Macintosh was $2500 in 1984, equivalent to $7000 today.

If this is as good as the demo was showing for pro applications it's revolutionary as a computing interface.

Since you can use it to view your mac's screen it seems there are no app restriction per say, but the built in app I imagine will be like all other Apple walled garden apps only loaded via the app store.
What search engines would you recommend? I'm having difficulty using google, its just practically useless these days. ChatGPT is much much better but I'd like to know other tools
What hallucinogens will make you see
>VR Chat (a moddable

It has never allowed mods and on PC enforces it with an anticheat.
Have you considered this is a beta product for the cheaper mass market versions coming in 1-2 years?
Vision Pro: I just tried Apple’s first spatial computer, and here’s what I think
I thought it was related to the big UFO disclosure drop^0. Suppress! Ha ha ha :)

0: https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-re...
I'm a fan of two monitors, my main horizontal (though I got one with much more vertical resolution than most 4:3), and one in portrait somewhat to the side.

So many big wins. I can do a zoom screen share on my main window and have notes, private stuff on the side window, I can read documents that often are vertically formatted on the side window.

I do a fair bit of comparing type work where I need a reference index doc on the side, then I got through the individual docs for tieback on the main.

It's game changing to have multiple monitors and particularly have one portrait and one vertical.
Everytime I think of Ultra, I think of MK Ultra - very dangerous. Max, well, he is my nephew - nice kid, not so dangerous. Pro - I am a pro, pro must be amazing. So I say, Ultra > Pro > Max. There, I solved it.
soon I hope, she is savage
And how many people have Hololens? Vs How many people have a Meta Quest 2?

Again, the other things named above were just "Apple tax" expensive, i.e an extra 50% more. This is almost an order of magnitude more expensive. Doesn't Meta Quest go for around 400$, 350$ on sale? Literally a tenth of the price.

I'm not saying they're the same product, it's hard to convince something to pay 10x for a product.
Blocked by Japanese government? https://old.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/2s5p80/where_...
Give https://blogs.hyvor.com a try. It supports multi-languages by default. (I'm the founder)
There is still some of that alignment in the U.S., but it’s not the dominant one currently. Wealthier & business-oriented conservatives tend to be pro-immigration, e.g. the influential conservative think-tank Cato Institute is solidly pro-immigration [1,2]. But the more nativist Trump-style conservatives clearly have more power than them post-2016. On the left, the AFL-CIO labor federation has historically been skeptical of immigration (and free trade) for basically the same reasons the businesspeople support them (belief that it will push down wages). Though the labor movement is somewhat more supportive of immigration in recent years.

[1] https://store.cato.org/collections/frontpage/products/the-mo...

[2] https://www.cato.org/white-paper/fiscal-impact-immigration-u...
Does anyone track the apple criticism for the ipod, the iphone, the watch etc etc?

Apple takes some risks, not everyone is fan, it costs a lot, but they have the money to burn, I don't get why they aren't allowed to try this stuff out.
The challenge is believing the bullshit. The less knowledgeable people with the money (investors) can only do so much research into how right or wrong a potential investment is… fundamentally if they were more knowledgeable than the people doing the business then they would have seen the opportunity and already have a decision about it… which creates paradoxical decision making, “if it was so obvious it would have been done before” leads to “they must be so smart for working this out” which leads to decisions that amount to “I trust them $X that they are worth $Y”.

Once you have the money your kind of wedded to the idea… if it was weird or audacious you have a certain level of follow through necessary to “save face” and be believed next time you present an idea and promise it’s worth what you claim it might be, hence why a dumb idea like this pizza van, took years to finally die.

The follow through on the idea requires believing in it… or at least convincing everyone giving you money that you believe. Because if you don’t believe it’s really able to make money, then your basically lying to them.
I mean, I have looked at old pictures of a vacation, but it's usually a pretty idle thing, often in response to some notification from Google photos or a facebook memory or something like that, it's definitely not something where I'm going to dedicate time to it or pull out a separate device.
Cerebras's Wafer Scale Engine Two (WSE-2) has 2.6 trillion transistors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebras

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16626/cerebras-unveils-wafer-...
Accessibility: Feedback on Apple's beta operating systems, with Feedback ID's
Ahhh, one of my pet peeves in IT:

"best practices" ... what proof do they offer that these are the best? Is there a detailed deconstruction of why these are the best, and what practices they are superior to? A multifaceted analysis that may show other practices to be better under some circumstances?

Oh, you mean "recommended practices".
Discussed at the time (of the article):

Forests Around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying Properly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7404345 - March 2014 (121 comments)