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Seeing the interview with Chris Lattner on Lex Fridman podcast on developing Mojo, and how he's learnt from developing Swift, or LLVM is very interesting, and how the path they've taken with Mojo is different from Python. It also seems like a lot of languages especially the new ones are converging with the best features from past languages which also makes sense.

This is super ambitious, but a great project to work on to better your understanding. And I applaud you, especially as an undergrad student( I assume as you stated final exams in the post). I wish I'd done more projects like this back when I was starting out. You are way ahead of where I was lol, I barely did any projects outside classes. And you got some attention on HN. Good stuff!
> Creepy Eyes fake transparency (a work around for the fact that you look dumb wearing ski goggles on your face) - The realistic 3d facetime avatar (a work around for the fact that you look dumb wearing ski goggles on your face, creepy eyes isn't a good enough work around for facetime, and you need an external camera to do facetime).

And transparency mode on modern headphones is a waste of time since you can just take them off. I agree both the demoed features suck and I don't want them in my conference calls, but stuff like that is a necessary bridge for a new product category. Hard to call that wasted effort.
Brings me back to my point. You don’t believe American investors should be able to do what they want with their own money.

A factory pollutes those that didn’t consent to it, what effect does my trading on binance have on you?
This was the actual product page- not the press release. Not sure why that's considered a duplicate.
Except no one bought those headphones.
Vaping should be about as efficient if not more than smoking? Probably not something we should encourage but still way safer than inhaling smoke.
Regarding the photo library, I can speak for my wife. We have a kindergartener and one of my wife's favorite activities is to watch pictures / videos of our kid in bed. She can do this for hours on end to entertain herself.

She also likes to watch movies on an iphone instead of a big screen cause she can use it while performing other tasks (cooking, cleaning etc). She has always said no to a larger form factor like a iPad but I think this might be a good use case for her.
Assuming that test is crisp and usable, and it's more of a Mac than an iPad, this looks very promising. If pass through works well, I could see this replacing a laptop for a bunch of use cases.
Alternate headline: Some guy asserts (without evidence) that he heard other people talking about retrieving vehicles of non-human origin. The only thing impressive about this is how much marketing hype someone managed to put behind this story.
Banning NSFW content has nothing to do with "reddit users being too cheap". It also doesn't cost reddit anything since content moderation is mostly done by moderators for free.
>Having infinite floating windows in VR is actually pretty useless. Either they are all tiny and unreadable because you need INSANE resolution to get 1080p quality at normal viewing distance, or you have one giant screen pressed against your face and your eyes find that very uncomfortable. VR is tiring on your eyes, worse than looking at a screen all day.

Apple seem to think they have solved these issues. We'll see.
This seems like incredible hardware from apple, but I'm really hoping for root access to be more prevalent in the mixed-reality space. I really don't want to see another ios and android walled garden with so much creative potential on these devices, especially considering Meta seems to be taking the android position in the space.
They’ll just slap two cameras spaced an eye distance apart on the back of the next iPhone Pro and bam, you can record your kids with your socially acceptable handheld device. Still won’t need to play with them though.
Loneliness Accelerating Device is what i would call that thing. Hope i will be proven wrong.
You thought about leaving a comment for people 10 years from now, and decided to open with "this will be big for furries"?
Yes, and it's shameful when people descibe a wrong or bogus answer as "hallucination". They are just stimulating unknowledgeable people's fears and/or fanboiism.
I setup a few ping monitors and have been trouble routing to Google all day. Intermittent packet loss. The other three I setup (Cloudflare, L3, and ATT) are all good. Funny enough I have Google Fiber, so I really have no clue what's going on.
23Mp is a freaking lot, tho
> You're lying and you're not even very good at it

educate us: how can he become better at lying?
I have a vive pro 2. Text is unreadable. Absolutely terrible lenses.
What part of “consenting individuals” is so hard for you to understand?
No controllers mean that people will get bored of this very quick. It's already tiring using a headset even if you can just let your arms flop. Also very out of date strap design that has the device resting on your face instead of using a builders hat type of harness system. Massively disappointing
Six Books That Feel Like Puzzles
I presume you haven't seen any news lately. /s
They're positioning this as a productivity product. You'll probably be able to just use a keyboard. Get ready to learn to type without looking at the keys I guess, but I think most people already can with only a few issues.

Imo most useful case for this is watching youtube in bed, I'd just keep a bluetooth keyboard/mouse on my nightstand.
It’s for bringing employees back into the office who are never coming back into the office!

In our Titanium tier, you can even eye-track how often your employees glance at their phones!

…

What happened here is that VR/AR have always been nerd dreams. But it’s always been expensive, or uncomfortable to use. Nerds funded rounds 1-3.

Now we’re at the point where it’s board meetings and people making presentations about workplace reintegration. Aka employee monitoring and nudging.
And for me spending more than 2 hours per day with laptop on the sofa is a recipe for neck pain and migraines. The angle is just not right.

If the headset is more ergonomic for this situation, it will find its target audience for sure. The battery is designed for 2 hours sessions, but the device can run indefinitely while on charger
CBDC won't have to do anything with "blockchain" and will be a regular relational database.
I'm sorry, are you calling the Apple Watch, a $70 billion annual revenue sector of their business a failure?

It's hard to tell at this point if this will be a success - even with their financing options, $3500 is a big price, especially a first gen product.

They have definitely taken an existing market (Oculus - that has sold as much as modern consoles) and ramped up the quality of it, while polishing the UI/UX.

I am very excited to see where this goes in 3 years.

e: I guess eventual success isn't quite failure - but I dont think I would frame it the way you did, even with the slight stumbles.
The people from Asahi Linux are doing an exceptional job.
They’re moving pretty fast. So you won’t have to wait too long.

I'm using Asahi Linux on my M1 because I dislike MacOS.

I would already recommend it for a Mac Mini but not for a MacBook.
I feel bad for the whistleblower …

unless he smuggled a piece out of the UFO or takes a guided tour of UFOs with our brightest scientists taking measurements, no one is going to take him seriously . Further may risk pushing the topic into more incredulity
Yeah. Lol. So I’m going to be talking my code? Will be super popular in the office.

“Hey Siri! Put that statement in an if-clause. …no, not that one. The other one. Argh!!!”

throws the $3499 vision across the room
I’m not familiar with it. What’s bad about it?
It isn't as much as who can afford, but who is compelled to? What kind of experiences does the Vision Pro headset enable that other headsets (or completely different products) don't?
Is the implication that the victims of hits and slavery are consenting?
When I first read Graydon talking about his plans for Rust, I pictured it as StandardML (or OCaml) without a garbage collector, and I was sold. This list doesn't look fully like that, but is closer than current Rust is.

My interest back then was in a higher level language with type inference and a modern ML-like type system but that could be used for systems programming, especially in database, virtual machine, and even operating system dev.

These days I work pretty much full-time in Rust, and I think Rust as it is today delivers on some of that promise, but not all. I feel like the language's borrowing and ownership checking are pretty brilliant but really begin to become a pain when dealing with nested and interrelated trees of objects and iterators (like if building a compiler or query evaluator, etc.), and resorting to Arc/Rc/RefCell, etc. feels awkward.

I'm not sure if the language Graydon talks about here would have been better for that or not.

But I'm also happy we have Rust, because it's an improvement over what else is out there, and I hope the community gets through its growing pains.
Could this be just an unintentional DDoS from the big WWDC announcement about the Apple Vision Pro or is this part of something bigger going on?
I see what you mean. Interesting topic! Some startups will just want to move fast and use their funding to have someone else solve it. I work somewhere where we use Azure search and honestly I don’t think anyone has event talked about it for years. Just sits there doing it’s thing! And not having to maintain that and getting feature enhancements automatically (double edge sword yes) is good. You made that same point though, we are an existing search customer. But I am sure if we were building again we wouldn’t roll out own. The problem Algolia will have is the immense competition. Why leave your fuzzy favourite cloud for search?
Companies like Meta are trying to push what they want this to be about, and it's not games. Its ads, completely immersive ads and the addictive infinite feed model perfected by TikTok applied to VR and AR to push those ads. The ad market is significantly larger than the game market.

We'll see what Apple does with this. It's a chance for them to redeem themselves in the gaming market a bit if they make it good for games, which as you say is what everyone actually wants from this technology.
Then why did crypto exchanges come into existence, if they don't address any need?
I won't but people forkout lots of cash for apple products already so $3500 is not out of the realm. Specialty if they can make a business case for its use. Video editing comes to mind. It's not a mass market product now but once they bring down the price, which they will, people are going to eat it up.
I am probably the minimal target market for the mac pro m2 ultra. I am an artist and I do a lot of 3D rendering. I think it's a great price and I would love to own one, but I wouldn't even consider it unless it had support for Nvidia GPUs. Good GPU-based 3D rendering engines need CUDA. Even with the ones that don't, GPU rendering on a 4090 is 4x-5x times more performant than on an M2 Max, and building my own PC allows me to have multiple of them. Also Octane, the rendering engine in their demo, is trash. Specifically, it's fine for fancy titles and cartoons but terrible for realistic renderings.

Also, I still have a chip on my shoulder about Apple failing to update Mac Pros for about a decade and then rubbing salt in the wound with their pathetic trash can. It would take A LOT to get me back after that BS. Moving to Windows was a horrible experience and they gave me no choice.

Lastly, VFX software is heartily embracing Linux these days and I'm loving it, but I did have to invest in a KVM switch system and 10Gbe network so I can comfortably run Photoshop and Substance on a separate Windows machine.
I mean, it's better than going unnoticed
If anything that sort of thing backfired with the plummeting demand for the mac line after the the ungodly expensive mac pro caster wheels and such.
"You're not the target market"

sigh.

this seems to be the way the world is going.

The market for what the tech world seems to be producing is people who can be easily swayed from their own vision to the company vision, and have little expectations of (actual) privacy, of actual utility, and just adapt to what they get.

It's hard to push back against this sort of thing.

Mindful people don't want to be limited by the scenarios the manufacturer has allowed. They don't want to ask permission, to be locked-in, to have subscriptions, to have surveillance, and advertisements.
btw as far as anyone insisting "ROCm is good now"... see a practical example in action.

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198#issuec...
Facebook bought it up because they saw the opportunity for that sweet behavioral surplus and just couldn't pass it up.
There was a lot of negativity online about the iPad and iWatch. I knew they'd all be successful the first time I boarded a flight after their intro.

Everyone in first class had one. As first class goes, so goes at least America.
It can be plugged in for all-day use.
Sqrt(2) = 1.4 so there are 40% more pixels per inch. It’s not a different order of magnitude.
Their justification was more that adding it would be committing a lot of hardware and software vendors to support it which would be very expensive for not enough gain.
Yes, and that's really obnoxious. But the ability to use it as a display for your Mac (and presumably PC via VNC or similar) should mitigate that to some extent.
Sadly the current most popular hypothesis in the scientific community is the collision of a smaller version of the Earth with another planet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Moon
This is to the point I made on the patriot act. You support the redistribution of consequences and I don’t, that’s what makes us different.
Where did you get the idea that Meta is "winding down its reality investments"?
I realize that they have had many failures in their long history but it seems like they have been on a roll since the iPod release 22 years ago. Do you know of any product flop from Apple in the last two decades? I'm genuinely curious.
Discussion of his previous thoughts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34473783
I mean, the article explicitly states that as federal employees they may not strike. So I presume there are other things they will plan, such as public demonstrations.
That's fair. My monitor is a constrained space. If this headset is light and comfortable and can give me unlimited real estate without compromising on text clarity and resolution, I'd happily wear it all day at my desk.
Hallucination is a far better word than the recent verbiage I've seen around LLM's lying to you.
To be fair you are supposed to get up, walk around, and refocus your eyes on something far away every 20 mins or so no matter what computer you are using.
Did they intend to make their 50+ demographic nostalgic for "Apple-Vision", the BASIC demo program that shipped with the Apple II? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqPe7pE_5uQ, https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Apple-Vision). Boy, that takes me back.
Each pixel is 7.5 microns. Assuming RGB, that's 22.5 microns. Thats at the maximum limits of detail an eye can see.
Not true, I bought them and really dislike them.
Upon seeing the absolute state of ROCm he has decided he will not be using AMD hardware after all.

He is now saying that his users would probably want the installer to work and the demo apps to not crash the IOMMU on a supported OS/kernel/hardware configuration? Who knew.

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198#issuec...
The current price of this first-gen product will make it a niche, early-adopter kind of thing — just like the original iPhone — but the Vision Pro is going to absolutely slay over the next five years. Which isn't to say that this won't sell out.

It's going to get a lot smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and more capable (with better battery life) and be years ahead of the next best competitor.

They're also setting this up as the "Pro" version, which means a lower-priced model is already planned, maybe in two years.

In ten years, these'll be regular ole glasses, maybe even a contact lens.

Amazing launch.
> The App Store has always had far less of a malware problem than Google Play

On the contrary, it has always been worse, not doing any dynamic analysis of its published apps and possibly not doing any static analysis either. Everything else is the same as Play Store. Xcodeghost infected a significant fraction of all iOS devices via Angry Birds 2, WeChat, and Didi Chuxing back in 2015, and Apple relied on outside security analysts to report the infected apps. There is no evidence that the App Store has improved since.
Because their gaming market would be tiny. Gaming on Mac is completely dead, and mobile gaming will take at least a lot of time to adapt to the hardware.
Then you get to use it for 2 hours. Most domestic flights only have two hours or so of time when you're allowed to use your laptop.
I think 12-bit colour stops it being adopted for ‘master’ images intended for editing. The current top comment says that 16-bit depth is a requirement for radiology. Also, I've read that its lossless encoding is often very poor — larger than PNG.

(I didn't downvote, BTW; it's a reasonable question.)
$3.5k is the consumer price not the development kit.
How do you sell this without the cameras and sensors?
To be fair, that one seems like a weird one for Reddit to hold their ground on. Maybe there are legal reasons. Or maybe they're being weird.
It should be legal for anyone to do what they want with their own money. If they want to throw it off a cliff that’s fine too. What someone else chooses to risk is none of your business.
That's not enough information. It's behind a lens that spreads it across your entire field of view.
But but but. Tim said that “Today marks the beginning of a new era for computing,”
You can buy two or three and swap them out. Chicken scratch for a company when engineers cost so much these days anyhow.
I don't see lots of AR/VR techs in the intro: there is no interaction with real world, there is no 3D object other than virtual screen and virtual controls. It seems to be just a traditional portable computer with bigger screens. I can see the potential of it. But at the current stage, it's hard to justify the price.
-- Method for node ranking in a linked database (PageRank)

An application of Bayes' Theorem (1763) and heavily related to Markov chains (1906). Build a Markov chain of simulated users clicking around the internet and build its weights with Bayes' Theorem and you basically have PageRank. It's clever, but no more clever than what thousands of software engineers invent every day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem

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

-- RSA

A pretty strong example, but largely based on Diffie-Hellman key exchange published a year before and known since 1969. At least this one was granted to its actual inventors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie–Hellman_key_exchange#Cr...

-- Support vector machine

"The original SVM algorithm was invented by Vladimir N. Vapnik and Alexey Ya. Chervonenkis in 1964. In 1992, Bernhard Boser, Isabelle Guyon and Vladimir Vapnik suggested a way to create nonlinear classifiers by applying the kernel trick to maximum-margin hyperplanes. The "soft margin" incarnation, as is commonly used in software packages, was proposed by Corinna Cortes and Vapnik in 1993 and published in 1995."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_vector_machine#History

Patent issued in 2004 to none of the above people. Fail. Patent has FORTY YEARS of prior art. Should never have been issued. I personally remember SVMs being considered "old school" AI in my college AI class in 2005.
Curious if you can feed all those Ampere CPUs or if it is memory bandwidth constrained.

Disclaimer: this is not a "zomg apple grate; others must suck" comment. Apple claims that their integrated design balances things out to get the best performance. It will be interesting once there are some real benchmarks to see how well that claim continues to stack up.

The M transition has been amazing, but not every iteration can be a winner.
I think the statement "I'd be much happier with a Studio" is a little hypothetical? Sorry if that's not true, but everywhere I've looked, it seems like these are not ML training chips, and people are just hoping they will handle LLMs well.

You can absolutely build (with real support from the PyTorch folks) a 4x3090 deep learning workstation that has 96 GB of VRAM for roughly $7k. Or, more likely, you'll rent a A100 from AWS for ~$0.15/hr.
All forests in the planet follow basically the same rule. The more time left undisturbed, the more water will fix in the area. Top ecosystems in the chain have typically plenty of water. Lower forms have less and less water and are more unstable.

"There are huge wildfires because no water in the area".

This is a lie that we tell ourselves. There is not water in the area because wildfires. Many of this fires were deliberated crimes and would have burn with or without water. The lack of water is a scar of a previous attack.

Somebody should build a forest Matrioska with a tiny cow cranium in the inner figure. Maybe this way the people would finally understand the obvious rule. After a few thousand years untouched, all forests became "rainforests".
Using piping for arithmetic is reminscent of grade school arithmetic dictations.

"Start with 10; add 5; divide by 3; ..."

:)
My M2 air works great on flights no matter the seat configuration and I'm not small person. Costs a lot less than the ar as well.
Indeed, CNN could talk non-stop about icebergs of plastic trash everywhere in the world and Coca-Cola factories that produce this plastic 24/7, but guess who buys ads banners on CNN.
>It is ironic that Apple Health is launching an eye-health initiative which reminds kids to keep their device far enough from their face to prevent eye damage, and then is releasing another device that is covering your entire field of vision at like 2 centimeters away from your eyeballs.

That's not how this works though. VR goggles have the focal point at least 20 feet from your eyes, it's way better for you than having a phone in front of your face.
You're not going to like WeChat then either
> The other option, which I wanted, was for these to be compiler builtins open-coded at the sites of use, rather than library-provided. No "user code" at all (not even stdlib). This is how they were originally in Rust: vec and str operations were all emitted by special-case code in the compiler.

One of the things I like about Delphi is that it has some powerful types as compiler intrinsics. Sets, strings (the compiler-generated code does call into RTL methods for things like finding substrings, but the string type itself), and so forth are all compiler-generated.

I would like to see more, in fact: I think a map type would be a great inbuilt addition. (What I'd really like is compiler stubs so you could link in your own implementation. Whatever is linked in, it's then heavily optimised by the linker to be inlined etc as appropriate.)