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Hey, I went into HN search myself to pull these quotes! It was actually quite fun, I recommend scrolling the old threads.

In all seriousness, I think it is helpful context that people have ridiculed every Apple product launch since the iPhone.
>Dollar a tree https://onetreeplanted.org/products/plant-trees

This worked great! I was able to plant trees for $5 dollars absolutely seamlessly: https://imgur.com/a/kp7SB4U

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Excel marks inconsistent formulas, there is also a formula checker.
Just felt an overwhelming sense of isolation and loneliness in so many of their demos.
The ones of parents wearing the helmet while interacting with children just were straight up depressing to me as a parent.

I’m all for spatial cameras in the phone and having better ways to view them later but this “future” looks lonely.
yes, it's a very interesting reset on the marketing for AR/VR. Quite interested to see how it plays out - it looks very boring to VR enthusiasts (really, you're making a big deal that I can look at a photo?!), but Apple is so good at this - they may very well be laser focused on what they really know will sell.
Neither the phone nor the messaging interfaces have changed significantly. In fact the main day-to-day interactive elements are completely unchanged.
All new paradigms heavily crib from the original while finding their place. I fully expect this will fall away within 5 years if there’s a healthy adoption.
I'm pretty certain you can buy yourself a Linux workstation that just works. ThreadRipper, ECC, NVidia proprietary drivers. Put Fedora on it. The trouble is leaving it alone and not messing with it after you get it going.
This reads like X-File season 13. I hope some of it is true. Real life is too boring amd frustrating.
yep, all of that!
i just have stock Beat Saber and am interested in modding. what mods do you recommend?
I have a lap desk with a BT keyboard and trackpad. I assume I'd want to bring the keyboard to my imaginary hammock desk. The trackpad (and lap desk) might not be necessary, assuming that pointer manipulation can be done via gestures.

I agree that dictation would not be enough for most people. I don't code, but writing emails is not a fun experience with Apple's current speech-to-text offerings.
I'd personally be more supportive of a robust UBI system if it came with such house pricing regulations. But I'd argue we need such house pricing regulation now, and in fact enacting would have a greater positive impact than the UBI itself. Politcally, though, I'm skeptical that would happen. There's a right-wing propoent of UBI, but they see it as a way of gutting the rest of the meager welfare system the U.S.A has, and I couldn't stand for that.

If I were the benevolent king, I'd personally push through some sort of guaranteed housing program. The housing would be small, modest, and safe. Everyone would be entitled to such housing if they wanted it for minimal cost, and it would be provided at no cost for those at the very bottom rungs of the economic ladder.
>The best an eye can discern is roughly 20 microns

That's not how it works. You need an angular resolution.
Another MPEG-TS alternative used by some projects.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9828725

https://github.com/agilecontent/efp
Nvidia's NVIDIA DGX™ GH200 supercomputer links 256 Grace Hopper CPU+GPU chips with 576 GBs of unified memory each into a single 144 terabyte GPU address space.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-gh200/
Once again, the absolute size is irrelevant - postage stamp or otherwise. It's optically scaled to fit your field of view - essentially under a microscope. There are VR devices with 4k screens already, and it's still not enough to be indiscernible to the eye - especially for things like text.
They have been very clear. Everything except bitcoin. Crypto people just don't like the response.
Pripyat seems like an excellent place to look for genes and organisms that will help us grow food (and recycle air) on the moon / mars.
It really depends on the timescale, right? There are a couple of extremes.

One extreme: At some point far in the future, perhaps dollars aren't a thing anymore - the last people holding dollars are the greater fool. (Note I still hold dollars and ETFs and conventionally safe investments, that's not a knock on the dollar.) But over a long enough timespan, there's a greater fool. There are just a lot of people along the way who got a lot of value out of dollars.

Another extreme: There are things like beanie babies where there is a very short amount of time to find a buyer, and the last one to buy the beanie baby before the fad stops is the greater fool. This is over a much shorter timescale, and there are only a few people who get a lot of value out of beanie babies.

Crypto is somewhere in between. I think the black market use case means crypto is closer to the dollar side of the spectrum than the beanie baby side of the spectrum. I think there's a decent chance there is always a greater fool in decades, well long enough for me to get out while I've gotten value out of it.
"Make a law that drops taxes and requires companies to reduce prices of goods and services."

Gov't control of prices has worked so well in the past, so why not...?
The reason I think videophones is a bad comparison is that video conferencing systems were economically successful in the corporate space well before you started saying that about videophones. There was a demonstrated value proposition; it's just that costs had to come way down for consumers to find it worth it. (Which I suspect demonstrates that that don't care very much about it, in that they pay $0 for video calls in both up-front and per-minute terms.)

But even if you were right, some social stuff changing isn't proof that other social things will change soon. It's just as plausible to me that the cost, in terms of money and inconvenience, will have to drop just as far for VR as it did for video calls. Meaning that it would have to be included in every phone or every pair of glasses for free and with approximately no additional effort to use. Which is something that we are surely decades away from.
I love the cheese grater but I don't care for the chrome handles and feet either. They remind me of bed frames and office chairs.

I think the G5 case was peak design for a tower that's hard to top but Apple's surprised me before.
Yeah, it's called "Apple speak". I'm not even joking. For whatever reason, it's been Apple's thing for probably at least a decade and a half. Yes they say it at every release.

Don't ask me why, but it's Apple's thing, and I'm not aware of any other major company that does it in quite the same way. You can find plenty of parodies of it on YouTube if you want.
There was also what I believe to be an SDR card (the one with all the antenna-inputs) — which is pretty interesting in its implications, but perhaps not the brightest one in this context. Aren't RF antennas also lightning rods? :)

There was also something there that had DB9 and DB25 connectors, but both female. (I would think this was a weird SuperIO card, but the computer side of a serial port is usually male.) There was also a lot of stuff on that card. Anyone know what that one was?
> Once this headset's form factor shrinks down to sunglass size it will be the next iPhone.

So true. The company that is able to do so will have such an advantage over the competitors it won't even be fair. I sure as hell will be developing apps for such device. Potential is unlimited
A good 20 years ago there was a bit of software called SphereXP that arranged windows in a 3D sphere around you, I really liked it and I’m glad the tech is coming back!
> Except those people who have "mediocre soundbars" can't afford buying a $3.5K VR headset.

There are many many people for whom money is not the limiting factor. It's because they don't have the space, the technical wherewithal to set it up, the motivation to make it happen, or some combination of all three.
I get that lack of competition explains the price, but I don't think that means it's justified.
It’s just “Ukraine” now btw. No “the”.
> I feel like its shrinking steadily among younger people as the need for a time teller is replaced by the modern cell phone.

https://www.apple.com/healthcare/apple-watch/

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207934
Plenty of countries around the world have all of that _and_ instant payments.

But that takes cooperation, which is incompatible with The American Way of “Winner takes all and the more people you can downtread on the way to the top, the better”
The fediverse is federated (it's in the name). This is distributed (P2P). They're fundamentally different concepts in the underlying protocol so compatibility is a bit odd to think about here.

There are certainly overlaps in the two concepts and certain parts of them can be compatible to a small extent: a bunch of people have compared Bluesky Social's AT protocol to SSB despite the former being federated & the latter being p2p. But similarities aside they can't really be compatible at protocol level.
Interesting, usually this sort of thing turns up on the NANOG mailing list, but it's been pretty quiet over there.
So you are suggesting that Apple can do no wrong and therefore we shouldn't criticize any of their products? And you believe you are positively contributing to this thread?
Its AR
I'm sure an hour after it's released, a YouTube video will appear of someone demonstrating how to hack it.
Current iPhone Pros? How would they? Their cameras are super close together and different focal lengths (or whatever the correct term is for "they're 1x, 3x and 0.5x").

I share your immediate skepticism that wearing one of these during any moments you'd like to relive later seems preposterous. May as well just be DVRing the "moments" with your goggles and be watching a movie on the inside, because that's how present you would seem. Unless the entire family all had their goggles on ("Apple Vision Pro Family, starting at $9,999!") and you are all actually experiencing a remote moment virtually!
Stop buying from Amazon. I haven’t bought anything from them in years. There is nothing that Amazon offers for sale that you can’t find somewhere else, aside from maybe entertainment content that they produce.

Don’t reward bad behavior or they’ll keep doing it.
Don’t seem entirely comparable in that both watches and iem were legitimate markets to which Apple brought an innovative products while AR and VR headsets are a notoriously difficult market where plenty of products have already tried and failed to make money.

If this succeed, to me it will be more akin to what the iPad did than to what the watch did.

It’s also extremely expensive. I’m curious to see how Apple will market it. We will see.
I own a Quest 2 and it's far from glorious. The resolution makes everything a blurry mess, and the lenses make anything off-center even more blurry.

It DOES get sweaty, hot, and it leaves pressure marks on your face.

My 65" 4k OLED TV and shelf speakers absolutely destroy the Quest 2. I have also owned an HTC Vive and a Valve Index.

I would rather do nothing than use any of them for media consumption.
I am suuuper ignorant on the subject, but is this something that could replace DICOM?
I think designers are doing a good job. They just don't have great material to work with.
Their entire statement of

> civil law system ... does not rely on agreements, contracts, negotiations or precedents. It cannot be 'interpreted'

betrays that they've never examined legal proceedings in either system.

Contracts apparently don't exist in civil law, and when asked to explain the differences between "Jurisprudence Constante" and "Stare Decisis", I guess "Jurisprudence Constante" means precedent doesn't exist!

I think they're confused on the differing weight and roles of case law in rendering decisions between the two systems, and over corrected.
But the point is that what fixing something well means depends on the context. Total software re-writes are rarely a good idea for large production systems, and software isn't special in that regard.
And before that was the 68k -> PPC transition, which was even smoother: 68k and PPC code could co-exist and call each other in the same address space.

(Well there was no memory protection in those days, so everything was in one address space. Still, impressive!)
I've heard this expressed a few times but I find it perfectly usable for what I need it for. It is a free feature reusing the existing IR cameras for pass through. My home space is always the pass through home because it's so useful to see your surroundings.

It's definitely not AR but for reaching out and grabbing something (as I was replying to) or walking around it's perfectly acceptable. The 3D effect is perfect so you can actually reach out and grab whatever you want.
woah you must be really outgoing
You'll also notice that the logo makes the face from the "NPC" memes that would have still been popular among the 4chan "politically incorrect" crowd right around the time this project was allegedly started. Sadly, for enterprising edgelords, Elon has usurped them all by turning Twitter itself into the ultimate "alt-tech" app. Like, seriously, unless you want to share illegal pornography, why not just share your spicey maymays on Twitter where they'll get more reach? Impressive amount of follow through regardless.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/angry-npc-wojak
> Or do you envision that the training process included special guard rails outside of the raw training data?

I imagine they mean this, or that the training data included a lot of synthesized exchanges to that effect.

I personally can't imagine that, using real, human-written text corpora on the Internet and otherwise, the most likely continuation for "how do I do X?" is "X is dangerous, don't do it". Usually people don't mention a topic only to shut it down - they either cover it properly, or don't mention it at all.
Cardano Accelerator in Africa Funds BuuPass Mobility Digital Company
also crucially, safari
This post has big "No wireless, less space than a nomad, lame" energy. Right off the bat, the whole "don't sit too close to the TV or your eyes will fall out" concerns seem a bit ignorant. AFAIK every VR headset uses lenses so that your eye focuses as if it were looking at something much further away (Oculus headsets are 1.3-2 meters). Unless there's evidence that Apple screwed this up, seems like a moot point.

Full disclosure- based on the typos and unnecessary FUD in the first section of the article, I didn't bother to read the whole thing.
The Red Forest is highly contaminated, such that surface level microroentgens per hour are at least 10X than what's considered maximum safe level for humans, and likely a good deal higher in the soil.

There are other tests that could have been done, such as measuring the ability of soil suspensions taken from the Red Forest to breakdown cellulose in a test tube (studies that would probably require a lot of care in a radiation-safe lab), but the kind of study described in the article (leaving bags of leaves around to see what happens to them) seems to be enough to prove the point; fungal/insect breakdown of plant matter is inhibited in the most severely contaminated areas of the exclusion zone.

Looking around, here's a study on the contamination of fish in surrounding lakes (still an issue). Some fish are more genetically sensitive to it than others, but you probably wouldn't want to eat any of them:

"Impact of Environmental Radiation on the Health and Reproductive Status of Fish from Chernobyl" (2018)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.8b02378
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Have worked with gov in a few countries and seen lots of Teams usage.
However Apple has been hostile to that particular content so I wouldn't expect it to be marketed with that in mind...
I find it amusing that the first headset with a very thoughtful approach to trying to maintain connection to other people is faced with even more forceful condemnation of its isolating effects.

Apple developed and invested significantly in a system to make interaction possible and (relatively) natural between users of the headset and others in their environment. I applaud that first step towards an AR future that doesn't isolate us from others.
Poor people often don’t survive to become seniors who vote
MS is a partner w OpenAI.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopen...
Have you done any research about it already?

My intuition wonders about firmware flashing and guesses there's likely an open source project that's several years old about opening these up. But I'd have to google it.
I’m wondering if the battery pack is hot swappable. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t.
The actor pattern exists for this reason - it's not like AI is a singular thing checking itself - you could easily have 1000 instances with supervisors automatically rotating out unhealthy instances so that the system is self-repairing even if instances can fail.
The instruct model is trained on the Baize dataset, which is generated from ChatGPT. So it is no surprise that Falcon censors the topics that ChatGPT censors.

If you have an uncensored instruct dataset, you can use that to fine tune your own uncensored version from the base Falcon.
> Assuming you meant "de"coding

Is there something wrong with the other phrasing? You need to have a progressively encoded image before you can decode it progressively.
OK... and what is "AI-generated"? Who will define it? At what point does a CUDA-powered Photoshop plugin become an AI tool?
I would have called it innovation.

Computing does tend to be about looking at screens.

And companies do tend to be about profit.
I guess Apple doesn’t want to be Intel. It is like the old Kelloggs adverts “we don’t make cereal for anyone else”. Alluding to those brands that use the same cereal at a marked up price and resell it to a supermarket brand to sell at a lower price in a plain box.
(FWIW, DVDs use MPEG-2 program streams, not transport streams. Both MPEG-2 part 1 systems streams, just different kinds.)
>Feels pushy

if you want to get anything done in the world you need to be a little bit pushy. If your company is at the risk of failing because of some critical bug sending someone an email isn't a big deal. Worst case he ignores it, it's not like you called the guy out of bed at 3 in the morning.

The biggest mistake people make is simply not asking for help as directly as possible. Especially if they're too intimidated by someone's status.
Can it even shrink that much?

Optics killed HoloLens.
it was also only ever hidden behind a flag
Are there popular tax avoidance schemes using the Netherlands?

Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich seems to be deprecated.

Great that the Dutch cabinet is stepping up their fight against tax avoidance.
A dinner is a classic example of consumer spending...

The only way this could be considered an investment is if you bought a crate of wine bottles at a bulk discount and sold the left over wine bottles to third parties and used the proceeds to pay for the dinner.
> you'd need to wear bulky Bose on top of the VR headset to get decent audio quality + noise cancelation

I have a Bose and AirPods Pros, and I can't say one is a class above the other.
I'm not sure it would be that easy to sell. The overwhelming majority of Excel users don't realize that they need tests.
> What's funny about this is it's a fine metaphor for what ails crypto as a whole. The technology is cryptographically secure, but not at all robust to much simpler betrayals, hacks, etc. If you trust overmuch in the tech and don't focus on less technically interesting but more fundamental threats, you're apt to get rekt.

That applies to all things within technology, OPSEC/INFOSEC is the very study of how to mitigate those very leaky channels, which are impossible tasks to accomplish entirely because of Human nature. I recall a post here some time ago that says that most non-leak related hacks are mainly due to social engineering, as that is the most viable way to take down an asset/target.

Honestly, CZ will likely brush this off; the US is being incredibly hostile to all things that threaten the USD; it make sense, and those that thought the USD and BTC could co-exist in the US were disillusion because of things like this.

Even that scrub Armstrong is starting to see why his pursuits to cozy up to the VC crowds and US regulators only prolonged the inevitable wherein this will return to a regulatory nightmare that favours other nations; mainland China under the CCP will continue to ban it (for nth time) in order to stifle the immense amount of capital flight out of China but it will remain legal in Hong Kong with favourable and relaxed regulations. Once again favouring the afflurent and political;ly connected who can incorporate in an absurdly HCL safe-haven like HK
and excluding the poors from utilizing financial services that could help them from the exposure to the collapsing banking sector.

And thus proving again that unless its a situation like El Salvador where it becomes a national currency there is nothing to indicate that politicians have the will or ability to actually put clear regulation in place for Capital and innovation to progress in Fintech.

Which would be obvious if you have any semblance of why Cypherpunks and renowned economist like Hayek considered a free-floating, non-state issued currency the most critical thing for a free Society.

National Fiat currencies have a limited life-span, typically 35-40 years, and this always leads to economic turmoil and inevitably war; which always favours nations who can impose their neo-bondage via entities like the IMF and World Bank when the dust settles and then gain access to cheap resources, and Human capital.

Anyhow, I'm not surprised this happened, but it's a nothing-burger that will be good for those DCA there way back into this market (myself included).

[0]: https://cointelegraph.com/news/china-gains-from-strict-us-cr...
Reddit is a pretty terrible product and it's not cheap of people to decide that it only makes sense to use if free.

Ideally we all would have realized Twitter and Reddit aren't worth our time, but if it's facing that they're not worth our money that gets us to break our habit of settling for them as time wasters, that's cool too.
There are ways to deal with this: array formulas, using formula inspector, Excel marks inconsistent formulas too. You can use data validation for selectors, you can lock cells. You van use pivot tables for summaries.. named cells, perhaps tables (type of data collection).

You can also build your sheets properly, so formulas are secured from changes, or "draggable" - so even if someome breaks them you correct them.

The people who answer to you dont know much about Excel. What makes me wonder how much they know about programming.

Excel is a program that "gives power to the people" so there are tons of crappy sheets, that often mix data with calculations and so on. But you can make good sheets if you try. And know how to.

Other comments are amateur hour.

There are lots of bad programs too, but programming is not so democratic.

Also it is very convenient to blame a mistake on Excel.
> Now why do you assume Russia will simply exterminate any living being in the territories it just taken?

Because evidence suggests they do this for kicks sometimes. They have already slaughtered their say through Russian speaking towns why wouldn’t they continue to do this?.

> Why do you assume Ukraine has to sit waiting without doing anything in the meantime? Ukraine can build up forces as much as Russia can. Ukraine could join NATO as well. There are countless solutions to your problem that don't require any lives to be sacrificed for it.

You cannot join NATO whilst having active territorial disputes and a ceasefire is exactly that.