skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Compared to the price of Two very good nvidia cards and the PC to host it I think the price is reasonable

Apple’s marketing about how they compare to nVidia GPUs has been exaggerated, to put it lightly.

A pair of high end nVidia GPUs will be substantially faster than an M2 Ultra. They don’t really compare.

> I think you make up the money just in electricity after a few years.

You might want to check those numbers. At least where I live, I’d have to burn almost a thousand watts constantly at idle 24/7 for several years to start marking up the electricity premium.

The power savings is great, but it’s not going to justify spending thousands of dollars more. I love the quietness of my M1/M2 machines, but I’m under no illusions that I’m saving money by using them.
Clojure's lists are effectively cons cells. Clojure's vectors and maps are immutable hash array map tries.

=> (class (read-string "(some list)"))
clojure.lang.PersistentList

They are written in Java, and implement a bunch of interfaces, so the implementation looks complicated, but they are basically just classes with _first and _rest fields.

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju...
> lack of notification method

The way usenet clients worked was when new message headers were downloaded, the client would highlight unread messages. It's pretty similar to email where when you receive new messages, you can tell that they haven't been read before you read them. Websites like Hacker News, Reddit, Facebook, etc lack this feature.

Facebook, for instance, does have a notification system, but makes it very difficult to find the specific reply to your post or comment because it frequently filters out comments from being displayed unless "all comments" is selected from the drop down. Once that selection is made, you have to expand every thread to find the reply to your comment.

> Usenet is a tried-to-be globally governed forum service

Globally governed by whom? The only real governance was the creation of new groups in the Big 8 hierarchy. And, unless the group was moderated, anyone could post or reply to a comment.

> Some server don't allow large attachments, some don't allow HTML message

Text groups had conventions disallowing HTML or attachments, so very few people used them (unless their client wasn't configured properly).

> The protocol don't really help it too. NNTP for example, is neither a high efficient nor resilient protocol. If your mail got too large, or your link is unstable, you'll have some nightmares trying to send it out.

Message size isn't an issue for plain text messages and all major usenet services have no issues handling articles up to 750 Kb in size (for binary groups).

> NNTP is also not a well-designed protocol

What specifically is not well designed?

> NNTP clients (Thunderbird and Outlook)

Outlook never supported NNTP

> will just let the user handle every error encountered

What errors are you specifically referring to?

> So for me, Usenet is just simply outdated. That's all there is to it.

Based on what you've posted, it doesn't seem like you have much if any first hand experience using a NNTP client or have read any of the related RFC documents documenting the NNTP application level protocol.
What if the mapping between your neck angle and screen angle wasn’t 1-1?
Not really. A context-less function can call a contextual one by passing in a context.Background(), and a contextual function can call a context-less one by leaving out the context. This is unlike the split between sync/async.
Very interesting turn of events here. Will we be able to develop Unreal games and software at all?

Since it supports third party game controllers, will it support VR controllers?

Will it be open enough to fill the void left by HoloLens for industrial and research use?
Alternatively, you're 50% productive everywhere.
In the video they show luxurious, spacious interiors. To my mind, the virtual space makes much more sense when your pysical space is cramped (plane, train, car, cubicle) but you need a large display, preferably in 3D.

3D footage and movies, which can be relatively easily downcast to 2D for flat screen consumption, may be another hit. Especially the footage you shoot yourself, pretty exclusive and likely more future-proof. Imagine an upcoming iPhone with a stereo camera (in landscape mode).

Also there are obvious traditional applications of AR / VR that become more useful with a retina-class display, such as medical, mechanical / repairs work, and, of course, military. I suspect the medical market can be pretty large, because serious medicine, like heart surgery, won't be strained by the price.
Perhaps, but I argue that they didn't raise emotions much because people were awesomely calm in the comments on HN.
The adventures of writing a CHIP8 emulator
Simulating Quantum Circuits in Feynman-Style Using Higher-Order Functions
I feel that, we’re already on the closest one IMO.

I already spend way more browsing time here than Reddit these days. That said, it does lack focused topic discussion for things like, your favorite band for instance.

I guess we will all just use a million fragmented discords most likely
Is Apple TV+ below average? I've liked all the original content I've watched on it, which is something I can't say for... literally any other streaming service.
Learn enough C to encounter the pain points C++ & Rust are trying to solve. C is simple, but not easy.

Then learn enough Rust to be productive.

Then learn enough C++ to interact with the enormous amounts of existing C++ code.

Once you know a bit of all 3, decide where to focus based on the work you're trying to do. Rust is the easiest, but least widely supported. C is necessary either way, unless you're working for Microsoft where C++ fills that role.
NB, someone was commenting a week ago that HN was observed as faster when logged in, not out:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36117794>
I use 4 monitors arranged on arms to form a shape roughly like a curved 15360x 4320 display.

I also don't see how VR will come close to replicating the productivity I have in my home office, on any foreseeable timeline.

But when I go somewhere and just use my laptop screen, it's almost laughable how inefficient and annoying it is. The screen is tiny, I am constantly switching apps / virtual desktops, and there is no way to even see my debugger, documentation, and my app running at the same time.

To me, that's what I want VR to fix. The portable workspace. For us spoiled rich engineers sitting in our spacious home offices, the constraints that make VR (theoretically) appealing just don't exist.

(I'm skeptical there are enough people who want this badly enough to pay $3500 for it to fund an entire product category, though... I expected them to come out talking about fitness and health.)
The golden era of CNN was in 1991 for their coverage of the gulf war. Watching live night-vision green tinted footage of the skies over Iraq lit up like a xmas tree with all the flak and tracer fire. It was just new and never seen before. CNN did an amazing job bringing that coverage. It's just been a slow decline with CNN since then.
There's also a product reason – now you have to explain two different UIs to people, support them, etc.
You might as well ask why the Army needs officers and not just privates.
Aaand its down
Well, first step is to run it. I am getting a step every 3 seconds. Is that typical?

i7-13700H, 2400 Mhz, 14 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s). It is using 12 CPUs which is good. And 160Mb memory.
I don't know any world where spending that much in gadgets isn't for the wealthy. Yes, there are richer people out there. That is still a lot of money.
I have Sony over ears and airpods pro and I never wear airpods on flights. Far too uncomfortable for long ones and noise cancelling is far better on over ears, by design. Of course airpods are more versatile if that's what you after tho.
Do you think that comparing HTC to Apple might be a little bit of apples to oranges?
You don’t need facial routine for your digital avatar
Does the unified memory model affect how you see this at all? Those 160GB of ram would be available to your GPU, which would not be true on a PC. For some people, that might make a big difference.
Hard to say if that was M1 effect or remote worker pandemic buying effect. In either case mac sales since last year are down 40%.
>Unironically posting ancient aliens.
First video, guy finds small piece of metal with a metal detector. He's a geology professor, but doesn't go into the geology at all, just

"I've never seen anything like this in all my years" ∴ alien metallurgy
maybe.

Second video:
Are there desirable properties to an alloy of bismuth and magnesium? The 'expert metallurgist from New Jersey' didn't say, just that they didn't know of any way to make it. All that really proves is the limits of the knowledge of one metallurgist from New Jersey. There are any numbers of ways that metal might condensate in layers over time, all unlikely to naturally occur, but any far more likely than ancient aliens.

Third video:
Guy literally admits that this is all pure speculation and that no definitive conclusions can be drawn from these random pieces of metal and that none of them are rule out all possibilities besides the existence of visitors with manufacturing technology beyond our comprehension.
I assume this question is about which language to learn, rather than which language to use for a particular project assuming you're at least somewhat familiar with all three.

C++ is not a bad place to start, as any decent course in it will, after the basic concepts of variables, loops, arrays, functions, pointers and memory, algorithms & data structures, introduce you to both classes and inheritance and encapsulation (the typical object-oriented paradigm) as well as how to write functions with nested lambdas (the basic functional paradigm). From there you can pick up almost any 'higher-level' language like Java, Python, etc. that utilizes some kind of virtual machine/interpreter to run the code, the various pure functional languages and so on.

Learning C and/or Rust is then a lot more accessible I think. You'll have some grasp of why 'memory-safe' Rust became fairly popular, and of why C's more low-level and simpler approach (no classes, inheritance, etc.) relying on structs, function pointers, etc. instead is still attractive, flaws and all.

The underlying theme though is that these languages all compile directly without any Python-like 'bytecode' intermediate, so probably at some point diving into the assembly output for specific platforms (x86-64, ARM, RISC-V) will be worthwhile, for which godbolt.org is the place to go.
> 23 million is comfortably more than 4K resolution per eye, putting this at one of if not the highest resolution of any headset

But still at a density (pixels/degree) lower than my $70 4K display at normal viewing distance.

VR companies are always so damn excited about their innovations that allow a headset to display text at a fraction of the fidelity of a display that costs almost two orders of magnitude less.

I get that the innovation is mostly in the rest of the headset, but companies really need to stop skimping on the display resolution.

> I get the feeling this headset will have [...] sharpness across the whole image

One can hope.
> This Getaway Pad home kit by PLUS 1 Homes includes ONLY the steel structure and the necessary components to assemble them. The Home Depot offers most finishings you'll need to complete your personal space such as doors, windows, electrical, plumbing and finishes.

It’s a steel box. Yay?
They also can't know if it was AI generated on a reading.
The cheapest android sells for $50, vs iPhone that starts at $900, yet it takes weeks to get an iPhone on launch. What's the point here.
The thing has its own more than capable chip, knowing Apple has seamless integrations and will absolutely start a new trend. Can't wait for Google's and Samsung's substandard implementation soon, like what they did with the watch.
That's fine, but this is not a MacBook Pro.
I don't disagree with personalized advertising, but this would be the way to do it. You have to attack the incentive, otherwise people will just come up with more nuanced and complicated ways to collect profitable data. Chipping away at collection routes for a trillion dollar industry simply won't work
How hot dogs became Norway’s national snack
Once it's socially expected to wear these in certain settings, they will start putting ads in them.
The key to any of embedded, system, or low-level programming is as much about learning how the computer actually works to a reasonable degree. You are not programming to an abstract computation model. You are moving bits and bytes around and generating assembly code and talking to the machine at quite a low-level.

So while Rust and C++ are higher-level languages with all kinds of nice features to be safer, concise, structured, etc. they are not good at all for learning how to work at this low-level. Wielding either of them well for systems code is quite advanced.

C and assembly are where you really need to start.
T-Mobile Suddenly Lays Off over Two-Thirds of Their T-Force Support Staff
I feel this is an overly negative take on what they shipped. It's a platform. The platform seems to solve a lot of the problems of AR/VR (feeling of isolation, control of leaking outside world, better integration with your digital life, truly enhanced media - media that's more mainstream).

For those of us who have no use/space for a TV in their home, this is a SMASHING replacement. Imagine if you watch TV nightly but do so alone, this could bring a whole new meaning to "watch parties".

For those who don't have a desk and want to be able to stand and work on a kitchen bar, this is a great substitute for an office. I would love to have an office but some times you just can't. The idea that I could use my mac side by side with iOS features that matter to me is huge. I'm slightly disappointed that it's limited to one display, but still pretty nice.

I feel like the argument here is the same as the iPhone when it came out - it replaces a lot of low cost items with not 100% coverage but enough to be a compelling buy such that you can rid yourself of those other things.

If they make one that can stream 2 screens from my laptop and can be a standalone device for certain useful situations, it's a good buy for me.

Ultimately you have to try it to buy it because unlike an iPad, it sits on your face.
> the "big event". (When ISP's everywhere killed Usenet servers, for what is pretty surely assumed as anti-piracy.)

I thought this was due to the deal[1] that Andrew Cuomo (New York's attorney general at the time) made with major ISPs to restrict access to child pornography. Many major ISPs discontinued their usenet service in that time period.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/n-y-attorney-general...
Since this is not mentioned in the open letter about the strike, I have to conclude that what you are talking about is not the reason for the strike.
This is an underrated advantage of Rust. And, I can expect code to compile (or compile + flash for embedded) by running `cargo run` on Linux or Windows, vice expecting a dependency mess with the C toolchains I've encountered.
I am probably an edge case as I use a tiling WM on linux, there is little UI to be scaled. The only metric I am worried about is max text at my personally readable size. I could change the font sizes on a 4k monitor, but websites are the only non-text UI I interact with and they don't care about your OS settings. Zooming is hit or miss on if it breaks the layout or not. I don't doubt MacOS would be better in general, but for me a QHD 32" is plug and play, most websites work well and no settings faff or zooming.
It sucks that these folks are getting laid off. In all my past interactions with them, they've been quick and helpful and never felt like they were just following a script.

I submitted this because this might potentially affect users dealing with the Samsung + T-Mobile SIM unlocking shenanigans. For folks unaware, when you purchase a T-Mobile branded Samsung phone from samsung.com (or any retail store), the devices are still SIM-locked, even if you pay in full. However, unlike the same exact phone purchased from T-Mobile directly, T-Mobile isn't aware of the IMEI, so the built in "Device unlock" feature won't ever work. This has been an issue since at least 2018 and is still present with the Galaxy S23 series. Samsung refuses to help since the OS requires the unlock authorization to come from T-Mobile (which I've confirmed in the past by reverse engineering the binaries responsible for it). T-Mobile's phone support won't help because they're not able to add new IMEIs to their whitelist. Contacting T-Force via Twitter/Facebook is the only way to get these devices SIM unlocked.
>We're going to need those moderators to prevent the Apollo social network from becoming the next 4chan (because, hopefully you understand, that's a bad thing)

TBH, 4chan these days are nowhere near the days when it was known as the boogieman of the internet. Still stuck with language that wouldn't last 10 seconds on Twitter or even Reddit, but we're not talking about a doxxing/harassment hub anymore. Or at least, no more a hub for that than Twitter/Reddit.
>never any chance that Mozilla was going to waste their very limited resources

Mozilla is many things, but "limited resources" Mozilla is not.

That is if they would stop paying their CEO their entire coffer, anyway.

>be the early adopters of an image codec when nobody is going to use it on the web until the browser engine with de facto control over the market starts supporting it.

The exact opposite mentality was how Firefox and then Chrome usurped the throne from Internet Explorer. Firefox is never going to usurp anything again so long as Mozilla is content to play second and third fiddle.
Yes, but that's a corner case. What if someone just posts one? And wouldn't you want those substantive answers even if they were AI generated, of course, as long as they were correct!
It may be paranoia, but it matches my experience with the PS5 vr. Amazing experience and I love playing it. You have absolutely no connection to folks in the room with you.
thanks for the link dang, it is helpful. point taken.
That's a well-regulated market not a free market. I completely agree that regulation is needed, and better by the people than by the biggest bully in the market.
Ask HN: Does your ISP throttle your Internet after downloading big LLM models?
Using Xfinity Comcast. After downloading almost 1TB and uploading around 800GB of data, I feel like the internet has gotten slower than before, with hiccups every now and then.

Have you experienced the same thing?
> AlphaGo

What about AlphaGo? The Reinforcement Learning methods? The Monte Carlo tree search? The Deep Learning?

DeepMind didn't invent any of these things but applied them in a novel way. If everything was software patented, AlphaGo may not have existed.
One of my curiosities is "how will they design the buying experience?"

It's something that goes on your face and over your eyes. You breathe into it and may get all your dead skin and oils all over it.

I don't want to try the floor model. That or I'll come in first thing so I can at least ensure it's aired out for a full night :P
Steve wanted Jony Ive to have final say, and Jony Ive wanted the product to be fully mobile. I don't think that the wire will be present in version 4+ of the product
> publish photos on the web that look like they came out of a mirrorless camera I want JPEG XL

Any comparision photos out there?
Fair enough, it's not a trivial undertaking and I suspect reddit knows that as part of their shakedown strategy.

I still feel like the various protests going on indicate the space is absolutely ripe for an alternative and being a bad alternative might just be good enough.
Microsoft doesn't make GPUs.
> Client-side filtering requires awareness of client-side filtering. How many Reddit users want that ? Facebook users ?

Facebook[1] and Reddit[2] both have a block user feature. It's a very rudimentary version of the killfile that usenet clients have. If users didn't want features like that, then they wouldn't be available on either platform.

> client-side filtering fails against organized harassment.

Usenet killfiles were advanced enough that you could easily filter out messages even from organized campaigns. For example, filtering it based on a number of conditions such as group header, from header, a unique header, certain keywords in the body, etc.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/help/168009843260943

[2] https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/214548323-H...
People complain about the largest and biggest company as they usually define how the industry follows. I think more worrying is your and other people fanboying/ defending with whataboutism instead of just accepting Apple is doing bad shit and so are others but this thread is about an apple product so of course we will complain about Apple here. Do you know of any other company or brand whose new product is talked about so much on hacker news that it self shows Apples clout.
Discord started in 2013. Campfire from 37Signals started in 2006 or so. Web chats with immediate message availability started to spring up immediately after `document.write()` became a thing in browsers, around 1994; by 1996 I personally participated in several, all with different software stacks.

This is not to mention instant messengers like ICQ / AOL / MSN, which largely replaced private IRC chats.
> There's no reason a private/paid service addon to a client can't work for filtering.

There should be no reason why a service can't provide that feature natively.
They did share that it can be used as a display for your mac. It sounded like you're limited to 1 screen (i'm guessing because of bandwidth limitations; also guessing that upgraded macbooks may have the necessary hardware to stream more pixels)
As history has shown, you can only do so much to stop this. If you perfectly mimic the GoogleBot and use google IP ranges by hosting on google cloud, they either take an SEO hit or let you bot them at the end of the day. GoogleBot looks like a DDoS attack a lot of the time too

You can also go the route of looking like a pool of users, then it's just a game of cat and mouse and one providers don't really have time to play
What’s the use case for placing 3D objects on real objects?
Some of the best actual hackers (not just pentesters and ctf winners) are in india.

About the infosys stuff, it's cultural, as in infosys' culuture or rather the culture that comes about when you have misaligned incentives between a 3rd party outsourcer and a cheapskate western company. They don't get paid for quality.

If you want to see talent there, look at the folks working for local companies, on their own or for multinationals.

But you know, even in US companies that don't outsource I have seen that "infosys" culture of doing things low and slow and with maximum complexity and LoC and support cost, box checking "requirements",etc... Hire accenture or whoevee in the US and your experience would be similar.
Falcon on Huggingface.co
> Each eye is 1920 pixels wide

This is like five times worse than my desktop display, which fills around a third of my visual field with a 4K desktop. It sounds absolutely miserable (and is, based on my experience with an HP Reverb G2, which is 2160x2160 per eye).
Oddly enough, that article doesn't mention the name 'Theia' or even link to the larger page on the collision theory that searching for 'Theia' brings...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theia_(planet)
> Fortune 500 executive

> they'll be able to immerse themselves while jetting around the world

> a truly effective war room that interleaves live video conversations, presentations, dashboards/visualizations, and their physical travel companions

This is the world we make, and it's for them!