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There's nothing impressive about Apple's chips in a desktop environment.

If you've got a high end current generation Intel or AMD workstation processor plus an RTX 4090, you've got a more powerful and probably cheaper system than Apple's desktops that have the M2 Ultra (which start at $4000).

Performance per watt is where Apple Silicon shines, so the only thing a Windows/Linux user should have envy over is the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. I would personally stay away from Apple's desktops even though I like macOS well enough.
Why? It lived up to its nickname.
Except it's not the name that makes him important, but the fact that he's at the helm of a big company like nVidia.
I think that was deliberate. I am kinda amused at how they keep on narrowing the scope of what the mac pro is intended to be used for lol.
I am a huge fan of VR gaming: some of my best gaming experiences ever have been in VR (notably Resident Evil 7 on PSVR1 and RE8 on PSVR2).

Even still, I acknowledge putting on a VR headset comes with some notable downsides: those sacrifices are 100% worth it for some games because it enables an incredible experience you can't otherwise have. Sure, you can play a modded version of Half-Life: Alyx without VR, but you're going to have a much worse experience and a lot less fun. Same for RecRoom and plenty of other titles.

But for work? I'm 100% willing to put up with a little discomfort for an hour or two if I'm having a great time; I'm less willing to do that for 8 hours a day when my job can be completed in a far more comfortable manner.

Comfort no doubt could be improved upon, but even still, I like to see the world with my own eyes. VR is a nice brief escape, and it doesn't have to be a solo activity: playing RecRoom or Zenith with friends is a lot of fun! I even bring my Quest 2 over to my friends' house IRL and play Zenith in the same room with him. But it's not much of an escape if that's what you spend your whole day in.

There are many activities that are a ton of fun for short periods of time, but if done all day, are miserable. I enjoy gaming quite a bit, but I dread the idea of being a pro-gamer who Streams on Twitch 10-12 hours a day playing one title to get good: that'd suck all the fun out of the activity for me and I'd much rather just work a more regular job like web development. I see the same being true for VR: I enjoy it a lot for an hour or two a day at most, but being in it all day could cause me to hate it.
Binance, Coinbase, et al: "We'd like new rules from the SEC/CFTC to let us crime."

SEC: "No."

Binance et al: "You're stopping innovation!"

SEC: "You're going to jail."
> If I don't need external monitors, I don't need my large desk, and I don't need my home office, which adds like 100k to the price of any home I'd consider.

First thing my SO mentioned on seeing this was "wow, we can try more kinds of places to stay when we travel". Lots of VRBO / AirBnB can't work for remote work.

This expands the inventory of WR options for less than the price difference of a week's stay.
It’s sad that they had to partner with Unity instead of EPIC… So no Unreal engine for this because of the store dispute, great loss for both parties
If players position is already tracked adding avatars to it in real time onto a 3d visualization doesn´t seem that far fetched.

Some stadiums have cameras that fly over all the stadium but no idea if it was BS or not
FWIW, that's a 4 year old video. MKBHD's video of the quest pro:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jUIE2l_9ig8
I half regret going for a fully specced Macbook Pro M1 instead of a Studio. Today I could get an m2 double the ram and ssd spec studio, and just trade off the portability (which really only applies to the screen). I don't use the keyboard, trackpad, webcam, anything really. I pretty much paid a premium for a screen.

Dumb dumb me, but that's ok.
The idea is that you'll use voice recognition instead of typing
Now I'm wondering if this is how I got "Server Error" while trying to initiate a POTS call. First time I've ever gotten that.

HN also feels sluggish today.
The tech is amazing, but also ridiculous. Think about how much time and cost went into developing these features:
- 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).

None of the use cases seemed to compellingly improve productivity or well being, they just close the gap between the digital and physical w/ no benefit. I'd have been more convinced if it was depicted helping a mechanic assemble an engine with AI annotations and advice, but instead almost all of the demos seemed dystopian.

The eye tracking technology involves shining infrared light at your eyes at all times - not an expert but I can't help but wonder if that is going to have long term effects. https://ehs.lbl.gov/resource/documents/radiation-protection/.... 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 (Edit: this last part is a non issue because the focal point is not so close due to the lenses).
Anytime its on your face, you could be working.

Front and center, your work. anytime, anywhere. depending on how its implemented you can't get away. Hope they include a power button.

But 2 hours of battery life is a good amount of work, though it seems short somehow. Nice to know there is a limit on it taking over your time.
You obviously haven't watched the keynote.
... released by Steam, a company with a lock down model for selling software. The gaming world has long embraced the App Store model. In fact, I'd argue the macOS and iOS App Stores were probably inspired by Steam.
It correctly answered `The name of the cat that wears a blue tie is Jackson.` for me
The mistake that too many people have, is thinking that your blog has to appeal to the masses. Unless it goes 'viral' and attracts millions of views they think it is a failure.

Instead, focus on topics that might only be 'not boring' to a small subset of the population. HN tends to attract people with very particular interests. I often browse through a hundred or more posts before finding one that truly interests me.

My own blog is dedicated to those who are passionate about data management. This is a small group indeed, but who cares if less than 1000 people read my posts. All it takes is a few to learn something meaningful from it to make it worthwhile.
They make no money off me because those ads are blocked on my web browser just like they would be on a mobile app. It just seems like the same sort of thing to me when you boil down what the things are, but I can see why reddit wants to be punitive and capture most of the market. It sure sucks to see the site slide that way though.
Just deforest the land and dump the logs onto the North/South Pole, reforest, and repeat. No radiation necessary.
The markup is because I can go to apple.com, pick the RAM and storage I want, and not really have to figure out anything about flavors or distros, knowing that it comes with the best chip on the market. This is leaving out that it just works with my phone and tablet.
It doesn't produce correct code, we all know that, but ChatGPT4 gave me incorrect answers that showed me where I should look and that unstucked me several times working with LLVM 15. It provided me much more value than the 20$ I paid for.
^This. Before the iPhone, nobody was willing to pay $1000 for a phone. Heck, back in the 90s and early 2000s most of us expected the carrier to give us a phone for “free” with our plans.

This is also the “Pro” model. It’s a way to get the technology out there so devs can get some killer apps released before the more affordable consumer oriented version comes out in a couple years.
I should have been more specific: no amount of assault is acceptable. Although the other follow up that brings up the fungibility of carbon emissions versus the fungibility of assault is better I think.
If they want something easy, they should stick to Google Nest/Apple Home.

HA is for DIYers, they should know a tiny bit of how systems work. Docker is really simple.
XReal(Nreal) glasses are much cheaper and lighter and with good reputations for that use case.
As we all know, documentation always matches behavior 1:1.
Thank you for this! While yes, it is expensive and I do think a bit wild I would pay serious, serious money to migrate away from my home office.

Ever since I began remote work I have been cooking up ways to code outside but the glare alone puts me off from it. I am a solo kind of person who enjoys media a ton and am already a huge fan of Apple’s displays.

I guess with all the naysayers here it makes me happy to see someone who understands the potential. This is awesome, and the first VR set I have wanted to purchase. The price is steep and I may even wait a generation. But if I had to bet, this will end up absurdly successful similar to all of their other recent home runs.
DJB might be more of an privacy/infosec/Unix thing, so if you're a different type of programmer then fair enough.

He is famous in crypto (as in cryptography) circles for:

- Ed25519 for fast + safe asymmetric crypto

- chacha/poly for fast symmetric crypto

He is also famous in Unix circles for:

- qmail

- djbdns

- his init system daemontools

and a bunch of other bits.

He also fought the US government for your right to use encryption when encryption was considered a munition.

More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein or https://cr.yp.to

Jensen is NVIDIA. Left MSI, took on the #1 competitor in the space (3DFX) and dominated them, responsible for things like CUDA and DLSS, now supplies the hardware for most of high end gaming and ML, has a two year advantage over AMD, appeared in his kitchen for an announcement once then a few months later told everyone that the entire scene was done with high quality physics based rendering and nobody knew.
while I share the same sentiment, it is hard if not impossible, if gamers became permanently attached to VR/AR tech and then try to bring everyone else onboard.
that's why apple went in with high prices first, got to make it look sexy/cool/elusive while the tech matures, then only release to general public at affordable prices when it's 99% there; like macbook air.
It’s not the answer you’re looking for, I suspect, but it’s the price that it is because Apple’s marketing team has run a bunch of market research and this is the price they judge will maximise their overall profit.
Dumb question, but why is OS or browser support necessary? Couldn't an HTML canvas element and some JS that can parse the file format display any kind of image that you might want?
Hopefully focal adjustment tracking too. I've got a feeling it's just for the selection UI.
I used my Quest 3 like twice and forgot to sell / gift it. It's a pretty big problem, but I'm unsure the distribution.
Better productivity workflow: a sweaty device you need to carry on your head, with a cable with a battery pack, for the spectacular 2 hours battery life, reproducing low-resolution virtual displays around you, which you are supposed to very productively operate by clumsily making finger gestures around the display (instead of on them).

Yeah, I'll keep my monitors, mouse and keyboard, and my smartphone, thanks.
That's going to depend pretty heavily on what you're doing with that computer on your face.

Ergo problems typically come up when you're assuming the same posture for long periods. If there are no other constraints to lock you in (e.g. desk and monitor), then I expect there will be much more moving around (perhaps even explicitly encouraged by the OS).

Whether this offsets the weight-on-head thing... time will tell. Whatever the problems will be, they'll be different problems.
I already did. DPRK and Russia aren't imaginary.

https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2022-crypto-crime-repor...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/30/business/north-korea-cryp...
OpenAI is not a subsidiary of Microsoft. GitHub is.

Unless you can meaningfully show that Microsoft is actively applying a subsidiary relationship (that is, where it directs OpenAI’s product direction), I have to disagree with your base notion.

At this point, I reiterate that your original claim is 100% FUD and disinformation.

I’m not asking you to trust GitHub or Microsoft, but legal terms have meaning and the terms do not support your assertions.
Why and how to write things on the internet
Isn't 8GB too little these days?
Programming inactive RNA-binding small molecules into bioactive degraders
This is spectacular. What a great achievement. I have a few questions.

1. Will the battery pack be an additional charge?

2. What will be the defining factor for higher priced models (memory, larger battery, cellular etc)?

3. What effect on the body will this have for long term daily use?

4. Will content creators be able to price their content differently for this device?

5. How will Apple display the demo in store?

6. Is there a feature that allows multiple users?

7. Will this function as a real computer like a Mac or more like an iPad?

8. Is there a feature to prevent social awkwardness?
I think there is a possibility that this device actually looks the way it does in the promo.

Every VR device that's come to market so far show a promo that's completely disconnected from the actual experience. They show these crisp, high resolution images. But when you get the headset on you've got this really soft image, with damn near abysmal edge sharpness, and a display riddled with fun new unique artifacts like mura and screen door.
What’s the Apple hardware tax? I’ve never seen it applied, but maybe that’s because I live in Oregon, no sales tax.
They mentioned using generative transoformer technology for the new autocorrect. I hope that means very soon we will be able to have much more natural conversations with Siri
In many cultures, children are viewed as not being owed the same privacy that adults or even older children may be.
Beyond the code itself: How programmers look at pull requests (2019)
That didn't sound too right for me (but my biology knowledge is dated at this point) so I read the relevant section from that page. It concludes wiht:

"""The delayed fungal evolution hypothesis is controversial, however, and has been challenged by other researchers, who conclude that a combination of vast depositional systems present on the continents during the formation of Pangaea and widespread humid, tropical conditions were responsible for the high rate of coal formation."""

It's interesting to think just how much went on before trees with lignin showed up. Flowers are also relatively recent - 150mya.
Many also do not. Maybe even most?
They focus on AR experiences, so doesn't fit into flights. Why would I need to see my sweaty passenger?
>Immediate payment account in Argentina exists since the late 90s and we are not talking precisely about a country with a good economy and financial system.

It actually helps that the country does not have a good economy and financial systems. It's called Leapfrogging.

The same concept applies to internet access and speed in Romania. They never had widespread copper telecom system, so they went straight into fiber.
I agree that it's undoubtedly a very impressive device.

I think the next generation of computing devices is going to be centered around the device understanding the environment around you, what you are looking at and doing. E.g. you are shopping, cooking, fixing something at home, running, playing basketball and the device understands what you are doing and gives you info and help about the activity. Democratizing access to a personal universal coaching for everyone, like the Internet did with access to information.
This device is kind of like a mac on your head, I think it doesn't differentiate itself enough from what is currently available. That's with the exception for entertainment: gaming and movies where I expect it will provide a much more immersive experience to what you can have at home with a traditional setup, like the other similar device do.

I do like the eye display on the front, I think Apple is making a correct bet that these devices can't cut you off from the outside world. In the long run they will be small enough not to cover the face at all.
I think it's probably another 5-10 years before the next big thing, but with the Apple silicon advancements and few year of lessons from this device Apple is the best position to dominate that space then.
> this is not required for a lot of use cases, like smart pointers.

Nobody claimed otherwise. The question was what things Rust can't do, not what it can do.
For point number one, you just tap in the empty space at the end of a line, so I'm not really sure what you mean. You can also hold your finger down and get the "magnifying glass" experience with the cursor just like you've always been able to.
>Early next year

Wow - It's 8 months till you can even buy one of these!
As someone who's lived in a communist country, no, that had nothing to do with UBI.

The related communist motto is "From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs"[0]. Basically, you have to work to the best of your ability, and what you'll get is whatever someone on top decides you need. You don't need to go further than that to realize that idea is bonkers.

The idea of UBI is universal basic income with no strings attached. It does not preclude having other income, nor does it require any work to be performed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_abi...
Yes! PHP + Laravel combo is an amazing recipe for building web projects quickly.
You can do the same with EMQX or Mosquitto. I have both my broker and HA being started at boot by systemd.
If there are no substitutes, a high price is extremely justified.
If you look at the historical ratio of income to the price of computers we're literally orders of magnitude wealthier. You can't just pick one data point and blast off.
> What if I don't want to put any Google-related stuff on my site?

Then you're choosing to make it harder to be platformed by Google.

Regardless, a GSC account and submitting a sitemap do not require you to serve any Google-related "stuff".
Identity fraud is a solved problem (in most developed countries anyway) a bigger issue is false claims and general inefficiency of government welfare programs.

You can just give everyone an equal amount of cash instead but then disabled and other people who are unable to work would starve to death unless there is massive increase in taxes/redistribution.
As in, something spoke the words "Server Error" to you when you tried to dial out?
This is such a great quote that the SEC made it up as a slide to accompany the announcement of the charges on Twitter. Many crypto enthusiasts considered the SEC's communication style most inappropriate XD

https://twitter.com/SECGov/status/1665779371108335618
A device with these capabilities is pretty much impossible to do at an appreciably cheaper price.
> First, most of them are math related,

Nope. At least not for any reasonably sane definition that would not apply to all software.

> Those were discovered in like 1964 according to Wikipedia. And then it was patented in 199x?

Maybe before whining about how Vapnik got an unfair patent for something someone else did in 1964, try learning something about SVMs and their history. It's quite insulting.
If I'm just going to use this sitting at my desk, I'll stick with my monitor instead.
Assuming you meant "de"coding: it does, albeit I like JPEG XL's more. To me, that point seems an argument for things being the other way around anyways (i.e. general-purpose but not a good delivery format).
Yeah, I loathe it. I use Linux (of all stripes), Windows, android etc. So it's not brand loyalty. The UX is trash.
iPhone XS or later… I guess the iPhone 8 and the X are losing support now or did I interpret this wrong?
phone calls, zoom, hosted email servers, private islands, etc usual stuff.
What kind of work are you going to do on this without a keyboard, mouse, and a laptop nearby for tethering? And if all those are still a requirement then you're back to being stuck on your desk.
I mean, depending on the work using it as a thin client would make the most sense imo, compiling still takes a toll on the battery life even with m2 magic
I think resolution will be important the smaller (or further away) the movie you’re watching is. And for things like text in apps.

If you’re watching an IMAX-size screen in AR, the resolution of the content will be the main factor, I think, rather than the density of the goggle displays.
> AML, BSA, KYC, Anti-Fraud. These are a few of the things that slow down the transfers and add to the cost. A lot of people think they're a feature, not a bug.

This is why you have to harden system at the fringes, not in the middle as old clearing systems did.
Scripted enemies are "non-player-controlled entity behavior", yet they are not AI. For NPC behaviours to be considered game AI, there needs to be some calculation depending on the current state of the game and objectives of the character. What makes a game behaviour "AI" is its feedback with the player actions and/or events evolving in the game.

Super Mario mushrooms and turtles are not AI controlled; Pac-Man ghosts are. (Possibly the earliest and simplest form of game AI, but quite effective for its purpose).
I think a big limitation with VR headsets in general, is that if you have a morning facial routine (moisturiser, sunscreen etc.), it smears all of the headset. In fact, it's probably the primary reason why I stopped using my Quest 2.

It's like, I used to use it religiously, and then the moment I started a facial routine I stopped using it immediately.
to be fair, $550 for a pair of headphones is a lot, but it's not even close to top of the range
This worry you have is only a worry if we assume that the M2 Ultra is unmatched by AMD and Intel. In reality, Apple doesn't make the fastest desktop chips money can buy.

Unbiased benchmarks need to be compared. Apple's press release doesn't compare performance to x86 with quantitative benchmarks and that is intentional. Don't just believe Apple when they tell us that this is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

For one thing, both Nvidia and AMD kick the pants out of Apple's graphics solution. Nothing comes close to touching the RTX 4090.

High memory workloads are completely off the table with Apple systems now. The previous Intel Mac Pro could handle more memory (1.5TB compared to 192GB), and it was modular.

Apple Silicon only really shines in performance per watt, but once you need a higher level of performance you reach a point where Apple has no product to compete. In a desktop environment, the advantages of Apple Silicon get whittled away.
> but I've paid most larger bills with it for more than 2 years.

Do you have examples?

Have you paid rent, your mortgage, your car, for a laptop, etc, with cryptocurrency?
And when that huge pile of trees finally started to burn, we got our first case of rapid global warming from burned carbon. The second one is done by humans right now.
Sure, for now perhaps. Do you really think Apple will not add those features?
You could do that in Excel, but Data Tables are the better way.
Because it'd be super simple for a mod to say "oh, no problem, you can say thank you." Instead, it's like "NO WAY CAN YOU SAY THANK YOU DO YOU REALLY WANT TO WASTE PEOPLE'S TIME WITH... pleasantries? ::ban hammer noises::"