skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious about the recording functionality of this product.

This tech demo from a few years ago [1](https://store.steampowered.com/app/771310/Welcome_to_Light_F...) and a more recent one[2] were one of the most jaw-dropping experience I had in VR. It's basically VR photo and VR video; you can actually move you head as if you were here.

[1] : https://store.steampowered.com/app/771310/Welcome_to_Light_F...

[2] : https://augmentedperception.github.io/deepviewvideo/

If they can manage to compute similar light field with their camera and depth sensor (and perhaps a sprinkle of NeRF ? [3]) within a reasonable time, they could have an effortless killer app.

[3] : https://www.matthewtancik.com/nerf
https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-w...

Nvidia had a knack for putting Apple into difficult situations.
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> Yes it's for turbo nerds, but it's also for ultra casuals.

If the $600 version isn't a smashing success for ultra casuals - then the $3500 version certainly will not be as well.

VR was a dream - and it's failed in spectacular fashion.

I have a Vive... and have used it maybe a handful of times. Once the novelty runs out, it's just a subpar experience that requires re-arranging your space/desk/room and becomes a huge PITA for normal things.
I'm gonna just be honest and say that I'm sure it'll be a hit - whether now or in a few years when they get the price down - but I just... don't care?

I'm not entirely sure I want a world where people are wearing things on their head like this, it just feels dystopian and ripe for abuse.
> What's stopping a determined spammer paying for accounts?

Paid accounts adds a significant overhead to the spamming.

Spammers just don't spam for the sake of it, they want to sell people something, legal or not.

It's one thing to buy millions of spam accounts for $100 on the dark web. It's another to have to spend $5 bucks a month per account on millions of accounts...
Wait, so do your same opinions about copyright for AI also apply to copyright for corporations? How is employing 1000 people to generate derivative works any different from using AI?
Thanks, tried it and it's better than fold, since it joins lines shorter than the specified width too.

This is what I was looking for.
When no one knows C++, everyone does.
Calling people “rich phonies” and also “if you have a virtual background I assume you’re ashamed of where you are”

Now that is an insufferable combo if I’ve ever seen one.
Look I'm no fanboi but the AppleTV is really the best streaming device. I've owned them all. Roku, multiple Nvidia Shields, etc.

The only big flaw is really the lack of HDMI audio passthrough which will not be an issue for most users.
> How many recessions / depressions need to happen before you claim that fiat money doesn't work?

This category of claim baffles me. Is the hypothesis there weren't wars or recessions when the world was on the gold standard?
Thanks, I appreciate the clarification.
As somebody with severe airphobia, this is reason enough to buy this thing
Can you easily pay for accounts anonymously?
The R community is fantastic and very helpful for getting started. There is so much peace of mind to be gained by doing everything in R and then using R’s write.xlsx to output the excel sheet for your users.

Python+pandas is an ok alternative. The ergonomics are weird, but if you’re familiar with Python, it works enough.
In my experience the main factors that killed Usenet were 1) the World Wide Web and 2) spam.

1) Usenet was at one point a huge portion of internet traffic. But as the rest of the web ballooned in popularity, what was originally the big fish in a small pond became a small fish in a huge ocean. Eventually newer internet users skipped the Usenet experience entirely. And the zeitgeist went with them. People who spent time putting new information online stopped making newsgroups their first choice and started doing it on their own weblogs or on siloed websites.

2) As newsgroups hollowed out, the S/N ratio went way down. I think once they were about 30% spam, people just started giving up en masse.

There's also the contributing factor of the old ISP services dying or morphing into media providers. Usenet was dialup friendly and the old 300/600/1200/2400/4800/9600/14400/19200/38400/57600 Kbps modem-serving ISPs would advertise their Usenet feed as a perk. It was 80 character, monochrome screen friendly. Once dialup became superseded by broadband, and computers turned into media and 3d gaming devices, and Napster/Limewire/eD2k made binary distribution so much more convenient for the masses, Usenet lost its raison d'être.
Apple is an interesting company.

They didn't invent computers, mobile phones, mp3 players or tablets.
Instead they tend to take products where the whole industry is essentially still in alpha, polish it to a mirror finish and then show the world how those products will make their personal lives better.

Computers don't just have to be for big companies running accounting software; they can unlock the creative potential of writers and artists.
Mobile phone aren't just for drug dealers and business executives; they let people share their lives with their friends.

There were a few misses too. The Magic Mouse looked sleek but was mostly annoying and didn't really do anything that other mice didn't already do better.

I'm afraid this headset falls in the same category. This seems to have marginal improvements over the HTC Vive I bought 6 years ago. The resolution is better, it looks lighter and less bulky. It also gives you pass through mode for an AR experience vs just a VR experience. It looks like a good headset.

That's just not enough. Not only does it fail to meet the high innovation standards that we've come to expect from Apple, it fails to meet the standards that we already expect from AR.

Unlike with all the previous hardware innovations, we already know what we want from AR. Everyone who has played modern video games is already used to various forms of HUDs and we've seen many iterations of what works well and what doesn't.

When I put on an AR headset I want all the things I've seen in video games. I want name indicators. I want automatic highlighting of relevant objects. I want to replace my map with floating directional indicators. I want to see my health stats floating off to the side. I want to be able to make all my friends wear silly hats. I want a virtual cat following me around.
Nvidia wasn't founded as a $960b company with 27,000 employees; it was once "microscopic", and if you saw some of Jensen's early emails, you'd probably mock them too. I think Suhail was appealing to Jensen's sense of urgency and responsibility as someone that understands what it's like to grow a small company. The tweet says "30 years after its founding, this guy still acts like a hardcore founder. Jensen is the best tech CEO in the game rn." I read that as Suhail praising Jensen for being so responsive and helpful, not flexing or equating their work.

Suhail is also the founder of another "small" company called Mixpanel.

No, finding your lunch doesn't make you a founder. Building something and launching it makes you a founder. Ridiculing others who are trying makes you a...?
Also, WAZE and Google maps have had user reported speed traps for some time. So 1 Tesla driving by information the network of the police car and others do not need to observe it to know it's there
Income does not corollate exactly to relations of production, but it is a decent enough independent variable.

CNN 2020 exit poll - income over or under $100,000. The majority above voted Trump, majority below voted Biden.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/natio...

With regards to liberals abandoning the working class - this did not happen because liberals were never for the working class. Nor were conservatives.
Some things do need PhDs but some smarts and a bit of vision can get you an extremely long way.
> in 2019-2020 Hillary was still saying the election was stolen from her.

Not all has-been losers are treated equally. The so-called leftist media has not taken up her claim; the democrat base has not taken up her claim; I've heard of no serious democratic candidates running on her claim. So when you say it isn't just one side, you're comparing a mountain to a molehill.
I really hate the overall form factor of these things. The future is more and more powerful devices in smaller and smaller tech. Sleek and subtle, not clunky and ostentatious. I can't believe this is the same society that 10 years ago saw the google glass as a conceptual failure. At most with the google glass you looked a bit like a dork, but with the vision pros you look like a gormless twat.

Wearing a VR headset in public is like wearing a big kick me sign telling to the world "I am suggestible and easy to part with my money, please mug me". A VR headset in private is useless because I already have a desktop at home that can o what it does 10x better (and doesn't cost $3500).
From the study:

> We analyze this mechanism applying propensity scores matching and multivariate regressions on data from MIDUS I (Midlife in the United States: A National Study of Health and Well-being) and its 10-year mortality follow-up. Results show that health differences between 10-year survivors and non-survivors explain 56% of their differences in socio-political participation.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02779...
This is a distinction without a difference.

The business sells a product for $100, and receives $97 for it...
Actually, if you memorize that book and then type it in to your own computer, you're fine. So maybe a bit of a rework on that line of argument.
> They’re not more evil than their competition, they’re just ahead of the curve.

"They don't want us to live in Hell, they just pave shiny roads that can only lead us there".
This story is bigger than Watergate by orders of magnitude, if it's true.

There have been "Retired intelligence officer says he has evidence of aliens" stories floating in fringe media for decades, and all of them have turned out to be cranks. Bob Lazar has been working this beat since 1989; where's the evidence?

Maybe eventually one of these times it'll all be true, but skepticism -- extreme skepticism -- should absolutely be the default position here.
Not usually. This Prius was practically in my armpit.
The irony to call Asians white when most Asians that have migrated recently come from predominately South Asia and are dark/darker skinned.
Synopsis: Person who doesn't use Apple products is outraged by something they wouldn't buy anyway.
Yea... there were quite a few moments that felt rather cringe, dystopian, and weird at the same time. Honestly the entirety of the screen with your eyes for your viewers is a very interesting choice on Apple's part.

I do indeed want one of these and will likely buy it but I would definitely have opted for not having this outward screen functionality. I do not plan on wearing these ski goggles around my wife, kids, coworkers, etc. The fact they are trying to make it interactive for the folks around the person wearing it seems a little comical. That's like putting a screen on the backside of your phone so your kids can see your face while you are scrolling instagram. Wearing the goggles is an individual experience, why try to force everyone in the room into that experience like its going to be an accessory you will wear out and about?

Some day we will get to the point where we want the AR users to blend in a little more but we aren't at that point yet. You have a giant pair of goggles with cords hanging from it strapped to your face. Are people really going to be regularly interacting with Apple Vision users while they are in the matrix?

I guess if you are on a plane and the flight attendant asks you for your drink, they can see your eyes when you demand your coke... but come on, can't you just take it off to interact with people on the rare occasions?

I think it's just every time that you are using this feature, you should probably not be using this feature
Follow the money and second and third order consequences rather than simply trusting the claims. Where does the money come from? What happens when the source of that money disappears?

There's a well known saying in economics: tax what you want less of, subsidise what you want more of. I think that saying has merit and one doesn't need to look very hard to find evidence to support it. Suppose we apply it to UBI? Could it not be said that we'd be taxing wealth/success/innovation and subsidising idleness? If the saying does indeed have merit, what do you suppose the downstream consequences would be?

So far, you seem to be focusing on the "gimme free stuff" aspect of UBI, not who pays for it. Millionaires and billionaires only have a limited amount of money we can steal. Once it's gone - it's gone. Then where does the funding for the next year come from? The next Bezos won't fail to notice this and might (understandably) decide the juice ain't worth the squeeze. Or more cynically, none of this will affect the billionaire class as they will structure and/or relocate their assets to mitigate the losses.

UBI only works by taking $3000 from you and giving $1000 back to you, and $1000 each to your two unemployed neighbors until you decide to quit and just rely on UBI from the guy across the street, until he quits...
Marketed to the general public but will be used by pros.

The goal is excitement and investment in the app ecosystem so, when they figure out the form factor, the cheaper/lighter/more useful future device is a bigger hit.
To my horror, the Irish government also uses WhatsApp quite extensively.
this is what happens when you let the patients manage the hospital. similar to what's happening in politics. the left and right extremists dictate the narratives. i can only dream when moderates gain some balls and put each extremes into their place. the moderates should be cultivating the culture.
That's ironic, given that it's a Chrome blog post. Because recently someone here said that Google / the Chrome team used their market power to kill JPEG XL (a proposed jpeg successor) in favor of AVIF, which has weird size restrictions.
Interestingly the second form is just infix notation where every operator has the same precedence and thus is evaluated left to right. That says to me that it's not infix notation that's inherently weird but instead it's the operator precedence rules of mathemetical infixes that are weird.
> we just finished conditioning everyone to cover the bottom half of their face

Nobody is conditioned to do this, it was just a necessary thing for a period of time. We've already moved on.
Maybe but every single photo is a person, alone, in a room.

While this is the case for a period of life, its certainly not the case for most of it or an end goal.
> You know you are saying this in bad faith. What should we be saying of the American war crimes in the middle east? You wouldn't come to the conclusion that the USA in general commits war crimes "for kicks" right? War crimes happen during war times. To stop the crimes, end wars.

Nice whataboutism but I have already stated on here multiple times what I think of Americas wars.

Now can you state that Russia should leave Ukraine and stop raping and torturing its civilians?.

> Then call it peace instead of ceasefire.

Why not peace with hitler?. You and all the other Russia supporters on here have the same energy and would have instantly capitulated the Sudetenland to hitler but I’m sure he will stop!.

The answer for why not peace?, Ukraine wants peace, a peace without the army that raped and tortured its way through its population in flagrant violation of the Budapest memorandum inside its border.

Would you give up part of your house to the person who raped your children or would you fight back?.
I remember owning a computer when most people didn't have one.

I remember owning one of the earliest smartphones and sitting on the bus every day being the only person playing on my phone.

I remember being the only person with a smartwatch (the Pebble).
> How does this justify removing an actual historic term from the vocabulary.

Language mutates.

> It amazes me how someone that claims any insight in the matters of law can ask for 'sources' for such a thing. It just feels crazy. Here you go:

> https://www.jstor.org/stable/24517581

An entire article describing the: absence of its usage in scholarly contexts outside of specific cultural domains, and also simultaneously points out its usage as a ideological label.

I'll admit my error in being unable to find this, but it's not legal analysis specific, and the paper probably isn't what you were hoping for.

You probably should have picked something else.
Seriously - they do not even talk about GPU in the PCIe slot - then again they do not expressly rule it out either.
Hardware or including software?
"AI" is a technically meaningless term. In contrast, a transformer model is a very specific technical thing.
Sure, $3,500 is too steep for this to be a mass market hit with v1. But I think it's a fairly reasonable price to get the ball rolling, and they will see a fair number of early adopter consumers (much more than Google Glass or Magic Leap, less than Oculus).

I remember admiring flat screen TVs in the early 2000s when they cost like $10k: https://www.applianceretailer.com.au/eeqycmzusg/

I also used to have this SGI 1600SW monitor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_1600SW. 1600 x 1024 17", $2,500 (equivalent to $4,490 in 2022)...
I wasn't being really close attention the whole time, but I didn't see any demos that were full on VR. Everything was AR.
> Don’t send your kids to a run of the mill public school — which is infested with children of asshats, jackasses, and assholes.

This is so obvious to me(from reading, observation and my own experience in public school) that I don't understand why smart, educated people don't realize this.

No way I'm going to send my kids to the cesspool that is public school if I can help it. People can call me and my family privileged all they want. What should I do, downgrade my child's education and life because it's not fair I have the resources others don't?
Yeah I was thinking this, too. Apple doesn’t do social networking in the modern sense, but they do have a connected and committed network. They could build some kind of publishing/feed app that leverages your contacts, group threads etc.

Actually, “group threads have a feed view / content publishing tools” is simple enough to work. Hm.
Complicated for the single-pass PDP-11 compiler.

Everything else that can fit AST in RAM can do it relatively easily. Modern C compilers have millions of lines and hundreds of person-years of work in them, so two passes and a lookup table is not a big deal.

It's just not done because the C standard doesn't say it should. Perhaps there is some preprocessor crime that this isn't compatible with, or they just don't want to break that PDP-11 compatibility.
> People who like living in cities don't like cars

Some people who like living in some cities don't like cars. Try that schtick in Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, or New Orleans and see how far that gets you.
They said .json is part of their API and is impacted:

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/12qwagm/_/jgrsf2q/?...
I don't live in NY or NJ, but from some reading in the past, a card like this will get you out of a minor violation - speeding < 15 mph over the limit, or a rolling stop at a sign. It might get you out of a bigger one, but the officer on the scene can and will confiscate the card and take it up with the issuing officer directly.

It's still dirty, but the system is not completely without checks and balances.
I don't know what, if anything, will be the killer app that makes this thing take off. I know that it needs a killer app, and I highly doubt it will be a two-day port of a regular mac app.
Oh I am definitely not saying they came up with any of that. I'm just saying they were laying the groundwork for their own ecosystem.

And sure, desktop mirroring is in every headset but sidecar isn't "plug a cable in and mirror your screen" it's project your screen to another device you own without any cables. That's more attractive for someone with a few apple devices.

Also not saying others haven't done that, but it's an ecosystem and having the talent for a thing.
Keep in mind that the display processor utilizes a foveated rendering pipeline, which appears to concentrate the highest resolution rendering where your eyes are focusing.

That doesn't speak to the overall resolution of the per-eye screens, however.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only that has used iOS for 10 years now but don't actually use it. As in, less than 1% of it. I read about new features all the time but none sticks.
>Privacy

>Your data is yours. We do not share your data with anyone outside of partners we need to provide this service.

So, no privacy. No thanks.
It's much easier to generate this content than to check whether it's correct. They are apparently worried it floods the system.
I love the inclusion of "actually, that sounds kind of nice" elements within the stream of absurdity: defining restricted string types via regular expressions caught my eye...
Can AI not moderate posts? asking for a friend.
besides the whole Apple 'premium' which has been debated to death, $3500 is on the low side for a new tech especially for devs and researches looking to implement it. it's not exactly aimed at the mass consumer market yet (and likely there's no production capability for that either).
I’m sorry but isn’t this exactly how async/await works from the perspective of the caller? If you want to wait until the donut is eaten you `.await`. If you don’t, you do other stuff and then join the future later. The fact that the executor can get other stuff done while you’re awaiting the donut consumption is largely invisible from the caller’s perspective.
Agreed. I get that these would probably be great for me at work, but I have a 5-year-old who has limited screen time. There’s no way I would use this at home in front of the kid. They would just want to use it and if they did use it, I could
see them getting hopelessly addicted. I see uses in industry for this (AR for fixing complex machines, VR for editing 3D data), but hope these never catch on for day-to-day use. I just can’t get over how isolating and sad these things look when demoed. I think part of Apple feels this way too. It’s interesting that all of the Apple promos for this that I’ve seen show a person by themself using this. In the past I recall seeing Meta and others showing more than one person in the same room using VR devices and it always looked horrifying to me.
Did Apple just lowkey launch a v1 brain-machine-interface into the Vision Pro?
“One of the coolest results involved predicting a user was going to click on something before they actually did. That was a ton of work and something I’m proud of. Your pupil reacts before you click in part because you expect something will happen after you click. So you can create biofeedback with a user's brain by monitoring their eye behavior, and redesigning the UI in real time to create more of this anticipatory pupil response. It’s a crude brain computer interface via the eyes, but very cool”
Absolutely, I was in the wrong. But if you're entering somebody's bubble, an "on your left" is also courteous.
But an Apple Watch is still a watch. Even though though first watch kind of sucked it still did what every other watch did and 90 percent of the time you just wore it and ignored it.

You can’t ignore this thing. If it isn’t offering utility 100 percent of the time you are using it you are going to take it off and set it aside.
Let reddit die.
Seems like a sensible policy to me. instead of trying to work out if content is AI generated (which isn't possible in general) just check if it's true. not sure why this is a problem. truth is the only thing that matters in this case
Actually this company was run by bozos from the start, it never looked like it was going to work imo