skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m pretty sure this comment is describing a totally plausible but wrong ranking as a means of pointing out how ridiculous the names are.

I think it is hard to justify a ranking that puts anything above “max” unless you are designing for Spinal Tap.
At that point, offer it to TSMC, and reserve capacity to make a chip to build one computer and call it PineApple.
But there are virtually no games on Mac.

They recommed on their very website to play "Apple Arcade" games. Seriously?
If that's as far as you can get with it, I understand. But what if the "psyop" was you being conditioned to interpret it like that? Ha ha ha :)
How much do you know about VR? I can assure you, as someone who uses a VR headset every day, most of these generalizations are false.
There’s no aliens. At least not here on earth anyway. There’s really not. If you think there’s aliens then you don’t fully grasp the distance between the stars.

If there’s UFO wreckage it’s made locally.
The iPhone wowed everyone but its price was heavily criticized. Apple later got into the exclusive AT&T deal which "subsidized" the price. People just ended up paying more over time.
You may not care, but social pressure is effects -most- people. If you think you look like a moron to everyone around you, you're much less likely to take part in something. If a "headset that makes it all disappear" is a Godsend...why haven't you already bought the various headsets currently available that could already do that and worn it on a flight? I imagine there are two reasons, it looks silly and because it has no brand value associated with it (like Apple), it looks -really- silly.
I definitely mean "beige box." Red boxes were (mainly?) for telephone company phones that would recognize the coin tones. Those phones had a different line "class of service" at the switch end and the critical point is that red-boxing was the only way (post blue-box era anyway) to get free calls off of them. Well, at least that I knew of. But a COCOT had all the "pay phone magic" embedded in the phone itself - the line was a normal line, so if you clipped in at the demarc box, "upstream" of the actual phone, you were on a plain old phone line (with long-distance service) that you could use to your heart's content. And by the time frame I'm talking about, there weren't a lot of the red-box'able telephone company payphones around in our area.

If some COCOT's were also susceptible to red-boxing, that's something we never discovered. To be fair though, it never even occurred to me to check. I just had it burned into my brain at some point that red-boxing was for telco phones and not COCOT's.[1] In hindsight, that was quite possibly folklore that was wrong.

You could ofcourse use it on a COCOT, but you could also use it on any telephone line.

Yep. It just worked out that a convenience store in the middle of nowhere with a COCOT out in the parking lot was a good scenario for doing this kind of thing without getting caught. Or so I'm told... :-)

[1]: https://www.tech-faq.com/red-box.html
Read the novel Warcross by Marie Lu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcross?wprov=sfti1

Imagine a world where visual, immersive tech is the default.

Look around your home. Realize how much money you have spent on cosmetics. Pictures, photographs, throw pillows, plants, paint, lighting, etc.

What if all of that could be replaced at the snap of a command? What if you could hang Christmas lights virtually in less than 10 seconds? What if a poor family who could not afford Christmas lights and decorations could now snap them into place in a second, for free?

Sure these goggles are not that mainstream yet. The battery life is too short. They are bulky and sweaty. But the tech will improve. What if wearing immersive goggles was no more difficult than wearing glasses? It might take a few decades but the tech will get there.
Not sure why. They could just guarantee the allocator never hands out invalid addresses no? If you’re trying to access outside the valid range that’s an out of bounds access because the memory range isn’t mapped. I’m sure I’m missing some nuance though.
IBM Security's Cost of a Data Breach Report'22: 60% raise prices after a breach
Or maybe you've just been conditioned to think it's a distraction, as part of the disinfo campaign in order to dismiss it? A way to protect from the very leaks that may be happening now! Ha ha ha :)
Yeah, with VR headsets you generally only get to count the pixels for each eye since parallax vision means that you only have that many degrees of freedom to produce a color.
Here's what I know: Apple's wearable business (Airpods, Apple Watch, Airtags) is $41 billion annually, most of which is Airpods.

I see Airpods Max everywhere: on the street, in the office, on zoom calls, and on airplanes. they're recognizable and common. I see other headphones also, and white airpods/airpods pros the most.
If I were you, I would move to Azure OpenAI. I’ve seen benchmarks where Azure OpenAI is 3x faster than just OpenAI.

Although, there’s a waitlist for GPT-4, so I’m not sure if you’ll access immediately.
If you can afford hundreds thousands of dollars worth of static analysis tools, pick C.

Otherwise go back in time and use Cyclone.

Or use Ada or Rust.
How is the situation with M2 machine though?
Dude, college lectures. Having a notepad running to take notes in, have the recording going, be able to look back at the recording and the notes. That would be sick.
I can’t take an article like this seriously if they don’t mention Erowid or the Shulgin Scale. Josie Kin’s research is wonderful, but this article does neither her nor the pre-existing research and resources justice. Kinda surprising for a Nautilus article IMO. Barely any content and what is there is arbitrarily cherry-picked from Josie’s website, borderline irrelevant images.
Reuters:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nova-kakhovka-dam-khers...

Simulation of worst-case scenarios:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tRYWbVD5AE

The Russian State News agency claims that the dam "collapsed due to damage"

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/166592960325106892...

Ukraine says it was destroyed by the Russian military.

Google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kakhovka+Hydroelectric+Pow...

Update - high quality video of the breach: https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1665935477671690240/med...
More and more I think "software" and "developer" are over-broad terms. "Move fast and break things" can be fine for projects where errors don't cause significant harm. But it seems dangerous to me to think that job's the same as one where it becomes "move fast and break people".
whats UB?
Visual exposure to inner mechanics of consciousness is what I experienced on one of my ketamine sessions.

I tell people I went into the substrate of all existence / consciousness.

https://effectindex.com/effects/visual-exposure-to-inner-mec...
As a newcomer to systems programming, I hopped on the Rust hype train and enjoyed the ride for quite a while.

But in recent months, I've been more drawn to Zig. Simplicity, vision and governance of the language (among many other things) are very much to my liking.

As a bonus, I can use Zig to interact with C (even compile C, Zig is also a toolchain), so I feel I'm bound to learn more about C on this journey, too.

In your position, I'd also check out Zig, just to see if it's more your cup of tea or not. Here's a good intro talk: https://youtu.be/YXrb-DqsBNU
But for many people training or running inference on large models is important and the apple approach actually makes that feasible in a desktop solution which is pretty awesome.
With the per eye resolution for your entire field of view being only slightly more than the resolution of the MacBook's main screen, replacing 4 additional screens seems lofty. I mean yeah, there is plenty of visual space to place all of the screens... but that's a heck of a DPI downgrade before we even get to unused visual space, stretching/warp of placing flat-rendered screens in positions across a perspective render, and the optics. There is also the whole matter of streaming that much low-latency screen over Wi-Fi from the MacBook, which is why I think it's limited to 1x 4k screen right now (per the video).

Virtual screens is probably #1 on my VR/AR productivity list but, having tried so many prior solutions, I just couldn't believe them no matter how many times they repeated "crisp text" when talking about it. I'd love to see it and be so wrong... but the specs don't have me holding my breath. Maybe if it had double the resolution per eye it'd start to be something worth considering.
Try opening finder and going to your home directory. Where is it? Heck if I know.

It's ridiculous that I couldn't right-click, click a folder hierarchy, search, or anything! No visible indicators, no hints, no way at all to just get to your dang home directory. I had to Google it and apparently the magic incantation is Cmd+Up. I quickly pinned it to my favorites so I don't lose my home directory again. Ridiculous.

For all of windows pain points, of which there are many, at least I can click "My Computer" and actually see the contents of my computer. Even Linux (Ubuntu) doesn't hide it from you.
Anyone working on a large iOS or MacOS codebase needs a serious machine due to compile times. Apple/Xcode tooling isn’t really set up to let you run the compiler and IDE brains on another machine.

Any companies with these mega-monolithic apps (Facebook, Uber, AirBnB) with 16 companies worth of functionality inside one app used to buy Mac Pros for those developers. Now I imagine they’ve mostly switched to Mac Studios.
Recent Product Launches and Their Discontents
My ex tried that with my daughter. She was mortified by the dumb phone and would not take it with her or keep it charged. I cannot say that I blame her, it was just there so her mom could reach out to her whenever she liked. No benefit to the kid.

I got her a smart phone at age 12, going into 6th grade. She has to take the bus to school from my place. Sometimes she misses the bus and walks 2 miles home - sometimes with a friend, sometimes solo. The phone is a huge safety factor in all of this, I don’t know what I’d do without it. There are no pay phones. Waiting till the 8th grade feels like it’s coming from a place of tremendous privilege to me. That’s great if you can swing it!
Yea 100% accurate. Sorry English not my first language.
I've tried $100 phones from the Walmarts, and I've tried the top of the line Pixel phone a few years ago. Nothing comes close to a iOS or iPhones.

I just wish they made a printer. I'd buy an Apply printer in a heartbeat, I don't care what it costs.
If you jump over to the actual site, https://effectindex.com, you'll see a much better description of each of these effects.

The site overall is quite nice to navigate - for the slightly lazy, https://effectindex.com/effects is an index of the various effects.
the tldr is that video formats are relationship mediocre for images because the tradeoffs you make to compress an image that will be seen for 1/60th of a second are different than those for a static image.
That would be a valid use case, but it's hard to imagine that this headset is miles ahead of all existing ones in resolution and clarity. In all present-day headset even simple tasks involving text are a challenge. They just can't legibly render more than ~10 lines of text in your field of view. To compete with monitors for day-to-day tasks, the perceived resolution has to improve by an order of magnitude.
We're talking about a product and you present a story.
I agree, the tech is amazing but it’s definitely not something I want to see becoming the norm :(.

In 10-15 years it’s going to get so advanced it will all be integrated into a pair of glasses. Then into a pair of contact lenses. Neuralink will probably try to leapfrog and have AR/VR surgically implanted.

The one thing I really want and like VR for is Thrill of the Fight boxing simulator. VR games in general are really fun.
Again, neural networks are just functions. You give it some input and it returns a probability matrix. That’s it. We introduce some stochasticity at the very end so that it varies its responses, but other than that it’s an entirely deterministic — the network’s every response is set in stone from the moment it’s done training.

How is this analogous to creativity? How are they capable of skills similar to humans? You keep saying these things are “obvious”, but you haven’t managed to explain them once.
Did you read the article? It doesn't seem like they did anything wrong beyond giving too much power to a 3rd party vendor.
I do feel like selling the "interesting" part of Hallucinogens as the visuals is hugely under selling the entire experience. Feel like that's the LEAST interesting part. It's the ability to step into a different experience of reality / head space that's simultaneously engaging and terrifying.

Strong synesthesia between sounds, words, taste, colors, textures: e.g. distinctly "feeling" the word "blueberry" as a taste and color. (Psilocybin)

Spatial reality distortion that's stable over a trip (Psilocybin). Linked with time distortion "literally feels like we've been walking for an eternity where on the previous day it only took 5 minutes"

Coming "closer" to reality and seeing it at a higher "frame rate" (LSD).

Complete disassociation from your normal reality and being projected into a complete different spatial relationship to existence (Ketamine).
I would highly recommend watching - State of GPT video by Karpathy at Microsoft Build to get an idea of how LLM’s work. There are some really good prompting ideas. It changed the way I use GPT-4.

Video: https://youtu.be/bZQun8Y4L2A
Almost certainly. Of course the only way you'll find out is when you upgrade GCC and it suddenly leaks the contents of your memory to the whole world.
I'm sure it's good enough with that resolution and other high tech stuff. But can you work in it for extended periods of time?

I never wear wristwatches or smart watches unless I have to (hiking, running etc) because I dislike any trinkets that touch the skin 24/7, regardless of the material. This thing is almost like a diving mask, just not airtight. How about wearing it several hours straight?
Scientists routinely request more grant money for research whose difficulty exceeds initial estimates. You're already doing an incredible thing; it is okay to ask for more assistance.
It's a troll. They're performing a hyperbolic caricature to make the targets of their ire look ridiculous. Just ignore them.
I've said it before, The IA is a crown jewel of the internet. But now I'll add "and God Bless Jason Scott".

This might be one of the most important historical pricing repositories that track tech trends ever produced when it's done. Imagine tracking the weekly per-MB prices of hard drives or even more volatile DRAM from 1979 to 2009. And then there's tracking the emergence and transition between technologies, correlation against production yield information, corporate histories...this could be a backbone all other North American computer history could be hung off of.

It's a time long gone, but 2009 wasn't that long ago, and reaching from the beginning of personal computing to then is an amazing thing.

edit: wow, and I mean wow the results look great https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-february-1986/C...

edit2: WHAT, THEY'RE ALSO OCR'd???!?!?! Holy Fuck

edit3: if you don't, you should listen to Jason's podcast, it really helps get into the mind of an amazing human https://www.youtube.com/@jasonscott526
Generally because they’re terrible experiences with low quality screens that make me sick.

You’re acting like there’s a high quality experience in this space to be had and the only missing thing is an Apple logo. That is not the case.
> But the outcome is actually important in politics" one might say. Yeah, and those dummies are letting themselves get conned on the surface level so the politicians don't even have to try and con them on the policy level.

What are you talking about? What con was there when conservative judges and politicians were elected to enable the banning certain parts of women’s healthcare in certain places? Or defeat paid parental and sick leave at the federal level? Or increase the federal exempt minimum salary? Or environmental standards?

There is tons of real work happening.
In the announcement video they mentioned you'll be able to get prescription lens inserts via some partnership with a lens company. That said, even though they are physically very close, optically most VR headsets are somewhere around 6 feet focal distance, so if you don't need reading glasses for that it might not matter.
Yeah, it does seem like it'd be really circumstantial. Everyone's situations are different. That's kind of one of the big underlying problems with tech, it spreads virally and then becomes the baseline, even when that baseline harbors a bunch of potentially negative effects. I'm not surprised at all to hear that no kid today would want to be the weirdo with the dumb phone.
The Apple Watch has truly succeeded in the smartwatch space, but is the smartwatch space even worth a damn yet? Or is it perpetually waiting for the opportunity to monetize users’ health data and other tracked biometrics, for it to really be profitable.
One single part of the site pumps meme stocks like nobody's business, and most every stock is a meme stock to some degree. If owners/management wanted the biggest payday, they should have worked with users to pump the value. Things like selling microshares that give you sitewide flair, etc. Instead they chose the boring old method of juicing the balance sheet by arbitraging mindshare? Sounds like an unforced error.
And smart phones are the tools for that. That kind of chatting happens in group texts, iMessage, Snap, and IG.

Someone who is using their phone to talk to their IRL friends is doing better than sitting on their laptop, playing video games, or watching tv.

Phones are evil is how millennials become "back in my day" people apparently. Fascinating to watch it in real time.
Yeah, that is all odd to me; Google cited lack of "interest from the entire ecosystem" (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...). Mozilla also had an experimental JXL implemenation out there. I'd hope, like you said, that the browser vendors had enough of a backchannel to keep a good thing from fizzling because each is uncertain if the others will implement it.

But if the Chrome folks did know they had all three major browser engines were ready to go, along with the positive noises from Facebook, Adobe, other parts of Google, and a few other notable folks, that seems like a solid base of support, unless you're really expecting the world to go all-in on a format before a browser supports it without a flag. So I guess I wonder if it's that the Chrome team had set the bar high, that they hadn't expected Apple to support JXL at the time they made the call, or something else.
This is exactly how I use it too. OpenAI had a prompt guide and this was mentioned in it.
I know HN is generally people that make decent money in tech, but $3500 for most people is a lot of money, especially for a first-generation unproven product. You are much more likely to find a person in business class that is buying this than a person in coach. That's just a fact. Meanwhile, there is no reason to wear the headset in first or business class because you aren't trying to escape the grim realities of the airplane.
That’s a Russian invented lie. The conflict is not a civil war.
I can no longer edit my comment, but this was unnecessarily sarcastic.
There are literally game pads that attach to iPhone like a switch
There is Aether since forever for that. https://getaether.net
GNOME has been trying (unsuccessfully) to copy the Mac look and feel for several years.
HeadSculpt: Crafting 3D Head Avatars with Text
For those that don't know, a phone book was often about twice as thick as a Thomas Guide.

That should help.
IMHO it’s AGI when can do everything humans can and at least do it just as well.

It’s a pretty high standard but I feel it’s a “irrefutable” one - if you can find an information processing task that humans can do but the AI can’t or does poorly compared to a human, then it has failed the AGI test.

It’s also a useful one in that no one will have a problem with AGI taking over a task if its capabilities matches and exceeds any human’s.

Else where should the goalpost be then? Your claim that LLMs have reached AGI is about as valid as someone claiming ELIZA is AGI - in both cases standards are completely arbitrary.
I don't think you should be downvoted for suggesting this. I have wondered if it makes sense to adjust the amount of 'research hours' to how long it would take a competitor to produce the same result, and protect a patent for that length of time. To me 5 year seems arbitrary, and the rate at which people are innovating seems to get faster and faster. 5 years used to sound reasonable, but may be exceedingly unfair at today's technological pace.

So then you look at things like, 'well has this patent protected the innovation to get it to market during its lifetime?' Maybe it should be re-evaluated every year to determine if the patent is serving its purpose, or simply protecting no marketable product.

Maybe we should look at the value of the product being created and once that product has earned x-wealth the patent is ended?

I will admit I'm in the camp of "patents are bad -> period", but I was surprised to see your submission at the bottom here. I don't think you're far off.
Does temperature 0 guarantee reproducible results?
Sure but.. there’s just the fundamental “not real” element of digital “stuff”. It goes away when the $3500 headset comes off. And I’m not even a pure luddite about this shit, I enjoy getting a new sword in Diablo IV, but the notion that the average guy will buy VR Christmas deco for their AR home (which they don’t own) is hilarious/deluded in a special way
How many times did Microsoft iterate on and improve the hardware before laying off the Hololens team and giving up? Once. The answer is once.

Apple is a company that releases a new platform and keeps iterating on it for year after year.

This version of Apple's hardware isn't intended to be the cheaper mass market consumer version of the tech. That will come later in what has been referred to as Apple Glass.
No, they use real USD.
How cities are trying to stop their land from sinking
Mastodon is not P2P/decentralized, it's federated.
I'd be interested to hear if anyone has learned Rust without first understanding memory addressing and pointers.

Although I think Rust is a better way to write safe code and the industry is right to adopt it, it seems like a heavy lift to learn about heaps, stacks and pointers whilst also learning about ownership and lifetimes.

I don't really think that C++ is worth learning unless you have to work on an existing C++ codebase.
At USD$3500, who is it for?

And who will develop software for something with such a small user base?
The Quest 2 which cost $400 or so has a high-quality screen. I don't know the last time you've put on a headset, but the screens aren't the problem anymore. The problem are the other various fundamental flaws with the concept. In terms of having one in public, I have yet to see one, even this new Apple one, that doesn't look completely absurd. Tim Cook didn't even take a picture with the product on, because it looks ridiculous and is memeable. That is incredibly important, like it or not.
Probabilistic Adaptation of Text-to-Video Models
Undefined Behavior, apologies for using jargon.
The OP I replied to was asking about use cases for an augmented reality product, I listed a few.
Diffusion Models for Optical Flow and Monocular Depth Estimation