skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I taught myself dvorak for fun in high school have used it everyday for close to a decade now. It certainly never made me a faster typer, but what I don't hear a lot of people point out is that it is simply a more pleasant experience. Whenever I switch back to qwerty (I can still touch type in both), I become instantly contingent that my hands are having to move more erratically over the surface of my keyboard to type any given word or sentence. Also a couple small things about the layout that really like are that the underscore key is much easier to reach and the period and comma keys are on the top row which makes writing long numbers with decimals and commas nicer.
Not sure that's on reviewers. Lenovo is using anti consumer tactics to improve sales (the elevated MSRP with a constant "sale"), should they be praised?
> So if not for awkwardly embodying legless avatars, what—and who—is Vision Pro for?

I'm not going to buy gen 1 or even gen 2 of this headset due to cost. But by gen 3 I could see it being a strong device for working from home. I picture having multiple windows of safari open around me full of documentation as I code in VScode via the connection to my mac.

The price is going to be too much for most people right now. Apple knows that. Comparing this to a quest is like comparing an iPhone to an Android. But in this case the specs far exceed the other headsets out there. There's a freaking wrap-around display on the outside of the device!

The vision pro version 1 is big, heavy, and kinda clunky. But imagining what Vision Pro 5 will be gets me really excited.
Not a Dvorak user, but I type on different language keypads a lot, both physically and on software keyboards. Your fingers get used to it within a few weeks and after a few years your brain doesn't even register the difference.
> So those conspiracy theories claiming Jewish world domination are all rather quaint when you consider that Israel was just a backwater

You realize Phoenicia and Israel are neighbors and two very small countries? The distance from Tel Aviv to Beirut is only 200Km. They are practically the same people except at some point in history they diverged in religion and became hostile to one another. Maybe if they kept sacrificing their children then... okay, I'll see myself out.
Your observation is certainly true, but it is also based on the premise that Apple never makes a wrong move, which seems statistically unlikely.

I think this could be considered the first major post-Jobs product launch. We are coming up on 13 years since Jobs' death, and what truly major things have Apple released in that time? Mostly we have seen new phones, tablets, computers, and some smaller things like Airpods. The Apple Watch is maybe the best example of an all-new product, but in a category (watches and wearables) that was already kind of a "thing".

As of right now, I'm on the side of VR/AR glasses being more like 3D TVs than smart watches. I think it doesn't solve enough problems (and creates new ones in terms of an uncomfortable wearable thing people aren't generally used to).

Time will certainly tell, but this thing is going to need a TON of ecosystem support to break through into a major product line for Apple IMO.
If Vice hates it, then it's a strong buy signal.
2nd grade we learned the scientific method. I don't remember peer reviewed being a thing.

Replication was critical.

Also, I've seen peer reviewed papers with atrocious stuff in them, unless I know the peer, it doesn't mean much to me. Give me 100 independent groups coming to the same conclusions. That has far more weight than a few of your friends/professors reading your paper.
I'm pretty sure it was 10 years since Snowden's reveal both for El Reg and for the Guardian. El Reg did not steal the time period from the Guardian.
Just off the top of my head... Assyria.
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A subtle irony that a company filing for bankruptcy is nay-saying the business logic of probably one of the most successful businesses.

Not that Vice can’t be right here, they might be. But the writing of the article isn’t very substantive of any real argument, let alone from anyone who’s tried the product.
Slightly off-topic.

"Arroyo" is a Spanish word meaning creek, or stream
I think Simon Wilson who has a big blog posted often mentioned this is impossible
> Yes, Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme famously ran for decades, with everyone invested calling doubters idiots and pessimists.

As an aside, I can think of exactly one person who benefitted from Madoff's scheme: former New York Met Bobby Bonilla, who is set to receive about USD$1.2MM from the team every July 1 through 2035. Bonilla's contract was bought out by the Mets in 2000, and instead of paying him the USD$5.9MM he was owed, the team offered a deferred payment scheme (with payments starting in 2011), as they were looking at double-digit returns from their Madoff investments in the deferred decade.
Glad to see a pro-SVG piece. There's a steady trickle of folks switching to Canvas, and frameworks using Canvas (Flutter). But there's so many pro user pro internetworking advantages to using a higher level DOM instead of code to drive your media. I'd love if SVG folks could figure out how to better share & show off what they did too.

Right now Figma & Google Docs (for the doc itself, the chrome is almost all html) are the two posterchild apps everyone knows where canvas seems like an acceptable tradeoff. I think there's some valid uses, but it feels like a niche tool with huge downsides that I think most folks should avoid: keep your gui declarative, keep it legible in html, if you can.

Discussion on Felt switching to Canvas yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36217098
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Microtransaction ridden mobile gacha games where Apple takes 30% aren't exactly the target when you translate D3D12 to Metal for your desktop platform where Apple takes nothing. In practice, it is doomed to be a solution that plays the games you bought on steam 5 years ago, or run games like cyberpunk on medium 900p on your multiple-thousand dollar machine.

Apple gaming will not take off until game devs target Apple's devices, and Apple burned those bridges a long time ago.
Mainly because Windows adopted UCS-2 and the hacky extension UTF-16 around when the superior and ASCII-compatible UTF-8 was invented

And Java and JavaScript followed Windows, and Python is constrained by it

The surrogate pairs of UTF-16 even infected JSON and thus implementations in all languages, but funny enough encoded JSON is specified to be UTF-8, which is better but a bit confusing

Newer, sane languages like Go and Rust are more Unix-like and use UTF-8 natively

It’s basically a Windows vs Unix problem
The Man Is A Legend.
No surprise here. This business has crazy high costs and the marginal value is just not there. Subscription businesses in consumer are brutal.
I agree but he wasn't talking about predicting financial markets, he was talking about global implications in industries like law and finance. And LLMs as a knowledge retrieval mechanism can already be pretty useful in those areas.
I guess if you say everything is bad (or everything is good), you'll be right at least sometimes.
I don't read Vice but a while ago I noticed every article that's been pushed my way from them has been a lazy take on tech, specifically AI.

I had to ban the publisher from one of my news readers because every single day was a new Vice article with a low quality article on AI being the end of the world. I'm fine with that opinion but not a daily new article with no substance.
Author has not tried the product, and their main points seem to be:

1. Meta makes VR headsets and failed.
2. Vision has a lot of fancy tech, but I don't understand how that helps Apple.
3. People who are excited about Vision also liked Google Glass, a failed product.
4. Big televisions are cheaper.
5. Apple didn't mention motion sickness, so maybe that's a problem.

Hope this saves at least someone from a very clickbaity article.
In contrast, What’s the flow for training or fine tuning your own model
Probably the best thing about Dvorak (and similar layouts) is that if you want to do proper touch typing, it is quite possibly easier to learn Dvorak than to learn how to touch type QWERTY.

Touch typing QWERTY is a constant uphill battle of using your willpower to force yourself to type correctly, despite the rest of your brain claiming it isn't the optimal way to type on that layout. I don't know that your brain is right, but I don't know that it is wrong either.

When you learn Dvorak or any other similar thing, you don't have to "learn" how to touch type. You just do it, because it's optimal already. You have to learn the layout, obviously, but once having done that you couldn't hardly fail to learn touch typing and "proper" typing technique if you tried. The same uphill gradient you're fighting when trying to learn "proper" typing technique with QWERTY is now a downhill gradient.

I'd actually recommend learning Dvorak over trying to force yourself to touch-type QWERTY properly. Of course, if you don't care about that, no big deal. I'm not sure how valuable that is as a goal on its own, and it's plainly obvious many people function as highly effective office workers of all sorts, programmers and otherwise, without learning to touch type.
The article can be summed up as:

It's expensive.

This is a bullshit device nobody will use because nobody wants VR/AR.

It's technically extremely impressive.

It's expensive.

Nobody will use this except super rich bored people and tech bros.

It's expensive.
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We've been using nagios and munin for years, this stack is rock solid. We added recently ELK. This feels overkill, heavyweight and fragile.
Get good enough touch typing dvorak you don't need to seethe keys so typing on a qwerty keyboard isn't an issue. These days it's not the letters I ever have to personally look at the keys for but the random symbols I don't use often enough to have memorized. Sadly some of those move around too.
I think it's really too early too tell. If this article turns out to be wrong, we'll deride it and put it in the same bin as Steve Ballmer's iPhone bashing moment (or 'less storage than a Nomad'), if fails we'll laud it for cutting through the hype.

Apple has the integration and hardware expertise to have a good shot at this. But only time can tell if people want it if it is good enough, or whether it turns out to be silly. Which depends not only on technological factors, but also social (eg. will it get the same 'glasshole' perception that killed the Google Glasses), do people actually want to sit with goggles at home/work, etc.

If it does succeed, it also has large implications. Like, can open alternatives get a good chunk out of the market this time, or will we have another duopoly like smartphones.
Examine.com does something similar for health related studies, and I've found it valuable in the past.
This guy added nothing but bitterness to the CrossOver's blog post.
Were those people saying crypto would not take off as an alternative currency, or did they claim the value of crypto as a speculator asset would not increase?
It's considered cool and edgy to hate on Apple, so of course this is going to get clicks which is all Vice cares about. I don't even need to click on this to know it's not a real review and that it's just about clickbaiting people.
Yes, but backtesting does not need an LLM...backtesting has been a thing for many, many years.

Also, if you listen to any of his other speeches, or read the article, he does mention that they are using LLMs to port code from one language to another...so, he is not entirely dismissing LLMs.
I'm not trying to be obtuse at all, this is grade school level sentence structure break down.

The details are contained in the patents. The tweet explains some of the high level concepts (but not the details - after all, it's a tweet). Neither - honestly - are written to leak anything (like trade secrets).

The tweet goes on, saying if you want more information to hire them. It's a pitch for their consultation services, since they believe this tech will mature in the coming decade and, don't ya wanna get on the base floor?

Seems pretty cut and dry.
Repeat after me - detectors are snakeoil. They sell you the idea you can avoid the disruption you cannot. Not only is it trivial to bypass detection, including more sophisticated not yet implemented watermarks, the technology also biases against non native speakers.
"Guarantee" is a strong word, but I'm leaning towards a "yes".
Yeah, I'm having a big "I told you so" moment right about now.

Ukraine had just about nothing to lose and everything to gain from shutting off the EU from buying gas from their enemy.
Most articles I've seen have echoed this sentiment, often conflating VR and AR as they go off about Meta and such. I guess with regards to the average consumer they are right about it being overpriced for what it does, but that feels shortsighted.

My view is that this Vision Pro is aimed at exactly that - pros who are going to find and develop creative uses for it. Those people will spend the money just to experience next-gen technology. I know I will. If that produces a big ecosystem of new apps and products then Apple can continue developing the cheaper Vision Air or whatever and sell that to consumers.

It seems to me Apple has made a nice step forwards in making this technology something I'd want to use. That might put me in the minority, but I don't think a lot of people got the Mac right away either.
Autonomous flying seems like a much easier and more cost effective problem to solve, given there are orders of magnitude fewer contexts and obstacles.

The smarter problem would be changing the controls/UX for cars to be more like a hoverboard or balance/attention and gesture based than twisting a wheel around, abstracting that to remote telemetry, and then work on using ML to replacing that remote driver.

Autonomous vehicle companies have picked the unsolvable moonshot problem instead of improving the controls UX of driving to where it provides greater leverage to human ability. Make the driving experience more like a motorcycle, which is an extension of your body, instead of a mediated service where driving is reduced to a transaction. Self driving cars is the perfect example of sprawling corporate groupthink, where someone has a poorly formed idea and everyone aligns around managing a response to it instead of asking whether it's the right problem to solve. For example, I think the Apple version of a car wouldn't be self driving, it would be one that feels like it's controlled by thought.

Maybe that's Musk's Neuralink play, and self driving was a distraction to set all auto industry competitors on a goose chase. If he's not that strategic, it could at least provide an out, where a gesture controlled Tesla would outperform.
I'm almost certain that nearly everyone uses accelerometers, gyroscopes and wheel odometry data from the base vehicle. These sensors are dirt cheap and kinda hidden inside the vehicles so people don't write articles about them. That doesn't mean that engineers forgot about them, they are just not what makes a journalist's heart pump faster.
I wanted to give this a whirl by creating an event triggered workflow, but I got stuck pretty quickly.

I had imagined creating a workflow that would be triggered by the occurrence of some external event, such as a row being added to a Google Sheet. But after struggling with the UX and documentation for a bit, I think I finally worked out that this is not consistent with Fastgen's concept of an event triggered workflow, and that these workflows can actually only be triggered within an API call or workflow that occurs within my Fastgen environment.

Is that correct? If so, I don't believe it's clear or obvious, so perhaps it makes sense to spell this all out more clearly in the UX and documentation. Also, the sort of event trigger I had in mind is an essential aspect of many similar low code tools (i.e. make.com, bubble.io), so it may be worth considering adding this functionality unless you want Fastgen to be all about inbound API calls.
This is the one and only legit Ublock Origin. Yes, the link name might appear misleading, but a look at the author (gorhill) and the about (Ublock Origin) will remove any doubt about the authenticity.
This times a big number.

And because of the increased saturation of the MSM with "former" three letter agency staff, we also see today's liberals as staunch defenders of the same agencies they used to harshly question. That's a huge shift and I think it's attributable mostly to needing to do damage control post-Snowden.
My poor pearls are surely groaning from the strain of my clutching.
Battle field applications would be like sensor fusion (overhead drone cameras, thermal, radar, lidar) combined with the gamer experience of hacked graphics drivers and aimbot kits.

I'm sure there will be lots of similar applications but for the civilian space, where the price of a Vision Pro is just peanuts.

Previously such applications would have to create their own custom kit or modify existing. Now they have a trusted partner which can (hopefully) be trusted to iterate over and improve their product.
Evidently it is not.
The irony of VICE publishing a piece about a “ticket to nowhere” is very hard to ignore.
Have they been able to figure out how to continue being effective with the new chrome manifest junk?
I'm so happy to see the majority of responses here being in support of this argument.

Parent's get upset when you point this out, because admitting to yourself that you damaged your child is the most painful thing in the world. To those parents; it doesn't make you a bad person; the sooner you take it on the chin, the sooner you can do the (really hard work) of healing your child.
There's a very-limited-scale open-source dataset available that would allow some degree of independent assessment:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/22/scale-ai-releases-free-lid...

I imagine 99% of the collected data is proprietary and hidden from public view, so it becomes a question of taking corporate claims at face value, which has never been that great of an idea.

Case in point: it's hard to imagine that electric semis hauling goods hundreds of miles can do so safely without human operators involved at some stages on the route. Hence, even with decent autonomous systems having a (paid!) driver in the truck at all times is the rationale thing to do - and yes, that means labor costs in that sector won't be changed much by self-driving AI technology. It will likely increase safety, as the trucks can drive themselves autonomously on the open freeway more safely than a (tired) human driver can.
> Nobody will use this except super rich bored people and tech bros. It's expensive.

Funny how we are so used to groundbreaking tech being so "cheap" now. Remember when the Apple II launched at about $6,200 for the base model after inflation? Heck, the Atari 2600 cost almost $1,000 today after inflation.

Also, if you want to know how scary the inflation is, here's why your Nintendo Switch still costs $299 new: $299 in 2017 is about $369 today. You had a $70 price cut you didn't even notice.
What makes something useless?

Innovation always need’s early adopters before technology is fully baked.

Remember the original iphone had no app store, and ran on the slower (at the time) Edge network.
Sorry, I did not mean to be trying to get in OP's business, who I assume you are. I was just curious to learn more about comparison between your choice and non-"scanner" suspended camera type rigs which I don't believe your interesting piece covered, so was interested in working that through with other commenters.

It's a great project, thanks!
Is the flight use case real? Are people going to feel comfortable playing sound from an un-enclosed speaker with people sitting an inch away? The battery life is only 2 hours, so any flight longer than New York to Charlotte is going to require you to have multiple batteries or some other entertainment device. 2 hours isn't even long enough to watch movies.
What we knew already, if you were aware of conversations amongst datacenter employees et al, just got official names like Prism

It's akin to how we seem to be getting more and more info about UFOs lately. When it's finally confirmed, we can't just act like we knew nothing about UFOs existing, we had a clue for a long while - just no official confirmations.
> Perhaps if companies stopped releasing useless crap set to become obsolete within months we wouldn't see such articles over and over again, no?

Is that what happened all previous times Apple released a new product category in the past decade, and such articles about it came out?

For how much inevitable near-future death people forecasted on Apple's new product categories, they all seemed to have avoided the "useless crap that will become obsolete in a month" trap (iphone, ipad, airpods, apple watch come to mind). Am I missing something?

The "become obsolete within months" part is especially inane, given iPhone 5s received a security update earlier this January, and it is a phone from 2013.
I think is because the Coinbase lawsuit is centered around staking-as-a-service that is a new service launched this year, so not very critical for company business, and Coinbase does not looks bad https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbases-staking-services-are...
If we as a society have changed nothing in response to new knowledge, have we really learned anything?

I'd agree with the parent that no, we haven't.
Rome declared war on Carthage when it tried to expand West (Modern day Algeria). Carthage was warned about this but decided to try its' hand. Let's just say that the Roman at the time were not Chamberlain.
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> If you rely on systems that involve implicit custodial trust (i.e. not crypto) to coordinate with your homies

But there are myriad ways of coordinating without relying on a systems that involve implicit custodial trust. More so now than ever.

But I get the sense we're talking about different things here. I was talking about coordinating activities with groups of people. You seems to be talking about payment systems.

> If the leader of a movement gets apprehended or incapacitated and they don't check in after a certain number of blocks, then a contract moves the leadership token to their successor.

You could use blockchain for this, but equally you can use any of several other methods to achieve the same effect.

> For me it comes down to whether you think dissent is more important than preventing all of the shady business that goes on in secret online.

For me, this doesn't enter into is. I do think dissent is critically important. I don't see how blockchain is essential to doing that. Why bring in something as tainted as cryptocurrency when there are other options?
To be fair, I don't think anyone anticipated the scale (and thus scrutiny) Binance would achieve circa 2018. Still Incredibly Stupid.