skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am also not too optimistic about vision pro’s success, but regarding your glasses question: you would order specific lenses for it. They may even do that inside app stores from what I’ve seen in the video? Hopefully it won’t add an extra charge as lenses are expensive.
Right, the few times I see some Airpods Max in the street I can safely assume it's a Chinese fake.
> Currently, I'm using the company blog and distributing content through other channels, but it's not working out.

It could be for different reasons. One alternative would be to submit your blog post ideas to existing publications. Then cross-post them to your own domain. Always own your content.

Also, I'd recommend dev.to and/or Hashnode instead of Medium -- both platforms have a more developer-friendly reading experience (i.e. dark mode support).
Startup not even one year old, nothing done yet but still bragging. Big promise to get naive investors money.
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I received a notification that someone accessed my account some hours ago. My passwords have not leaked and the web interface refuses to connect, but I still have access to it through the application.

Does somebody else experience the same thing?
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That comparison comes with the form factor though -- it's a headset. It's not something you can wear and mostly forget about. It needs a purpose to make me want to wear it, otherwise it's just an iPad without the nice tactile association.
imho the frequency of battery fires is much lower than of handling gasoline.

i mean, yes batteries can catch fire if mistreated. gasoline constantly evaporates toxic substances and will catch fire if you look at it too hard.
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I remain unconvinced that a lot of people will want to spend most of the time they are awake with VR/AR goggles strapped to their face.
> aren't we largely back to passwords?

A password is a shared secret. Even if it's hashed on the server side, one could brute force it if a weak algorithm is used, or MiTM the service to get the plaintext when the user logs in.

Passkeys / webauthn utilizes public key cryptography. I'm only ever giving them a (by the spec, unique to the combo of me and the site in question) public key to which I hold the private key pair.

Authentication doesn't involve transmission of these, it's challenge based where you prove you have access to the corresponding private key.
I live on 40 m2, more than enough for myself. Only downside is that you don't have a seperate office/hobby room.
Yeah, but given that the central focus display is 70 PPD on the Varjo, it's probably higher PPD compared to the Vision Pro in that part of the screen. So, I'm curious if that 70 PPD area truly matches up to the clarity of a real monitor.
But that's silly, it can do all that and also have a killer app.

I can already do all that traditional stuff on a macbook or ipad, and "have a screen anywhere", and those things are more portable because I can just sit it on the table instead of having to untangle A CABLE from my clothing and then find somewhere to place a headset that doesnt sit flat like an ipad or macbook.

Then there's the fact that ipads and macbooks have keyboards.

With no killer app, this is a boondoggle, I think.
I understood "networked database" to mean a client-server DB architecture. So that Postgres for example is running locally, but communicating with a local server.
You are so naive (and wrong) lol

Also, it is mentioned in the thread they are using Stripe Checkout (we are too)
And then there is cork
Now use nitter and create your account, login, and tweet something. If you can't, you didn't compare.
Wayland implements the exact same supersampling based scaling that macOS has, Wayland scaling is even better performing than macOS'
De facto, austerity tends to be used to argue for cuts to social programs and reduced investment in common goods or to argue for privatization of common goods.

This tends to benefit the top 0.1%: The living situation of the the majority is worsened and their bargaining position for employment is weakened. Privatization leads to private profits that overwhelmingly go to the top 0.1%, and of course there's a direct power aspect to it as well. If you literally own the regional electricity provider, for example, that gives you direct political power that goes beyond the mere profit you can make from this ownership.

Technically, it doesn't have to be that way. For example, austerity could theoretically be used to argue for much higher top-end marginal income taxes and capital gains taxes as well as wealth taxes. But political constellations being what they are, that's usually not how it plays out.
Nit: replace went with gone.
I’d rather reduce the weight on my face by combining the computer with the external battery.
Holding a gadget is slightly different than having a HMD mounted on your face. It is different for the operator, and it is different for thoe standing around and participating.
Getting used to the HMD might be possible but would be harder and also sad when it does happen.

Also to capture a 3D photo you could also use just a hand held device with stereo cameras. We dont necessarily need a HMD for it unless we are going for that precise framing where a 2D preview doesnt cut it. I wish such a device was perfected for the mass market. It could be as simple as a pair of regular cameras mounted on the back of a smartphone -- separated by the inter-ocular distance.
The letter didn't said "You have cancer, tell bye to your loved ones" with big bold letters. It said something like you should come to the hospital for further checks. Which in the internal procedure is done only for those that the test detected with cancer. (Source I'm in the pilot)
Power query solves these issues
"Obviously, if argc == 0, you should not dereference anything in argv."

I'd say that's not obvious. Normally argv is null-terminated so you can read argv[argc], and it's zero. There's no need to read argv[argc] if you've already looked at argc but sometimes it's more convenient to rely on the sentinel value.
I was unsatisfied with testing static service architectures in PHP and finally came up with something that would allow me to test and/or refactor it very gradually.

This is my first tech blog. As far as I know this is a new technique. Please be nice and if you have any comments I'm looking forward to reading them.
If one has to write a program to check if a user did not screw up cut and paste from one sheet/column/whatever it would be IMHO easier to just skip Excel, user and just write a script automating error prone C&P in Excel.

If some user wants to view it, then the script can create a valid Excel file.
> This property is more a function of the encoding parameters of the video stream

Not really. Formats like mp4 can't be parsed without reading the container header, that may be at the start or end of the file. Thus you can't read an mp4 by starting in the middle without reading the header and then seek to the middle of the file. This is the case regardless of encoding parameters. With mpeg-ts on the other hand, you can seek to a random place in the middle, and recover the stream on the next Iframe. Not many other file formats allow this.
1920 * 1920 ≈ 3.6 million pixels per eye, what's your calculation for the 12 million per eye?
That's great to see! I just tried out 1Password's beta browser extension which has passkeys support, and the UX is super seamless. Played around with it on https://www.passkeys.io/

I'm really hopeful about this, a lot more than any of the previous iterations of the FIDO stuff. I worked at a company that was an early adopter/implementer of the original FIDO U2F spec, and it had major UX problems, enough that I couldn't see it ever being used by the general public (who the heck would carry a USB key with them?? and this only works with desktops/laptops, sure Bluetooth support, but ehhh), but with this, synced to your password manager of choice, that's A LOT better.

The passkey is usable anywhere (signed up on my desktop, hopped over to my laptop and signed in there with the same passkey). I can't use it from my Android phone yet, but that will come soon I'm sure when 1Password adds support to the mobile apps + Google does the same as Apple here with adding proper Android integration.

On Android I can still only use a USB/NFC/Bluetooth security key, or "my lock screen" (i.e. on-device security key, not passkeys) so far. If I click on "Sign in with a passkey" it says I have no passkeys via an Android system dialog, but if I sign in with my email it lets me use my "security key" (i.e. biometric lock screen prompt).
Weird. Anecdotal I think. Maybe something with your instance. Mastodon UI is quick and snappy for me. I migrated away from mastodon.social when the influx from Twitter made that server very slow (it has since scaled up significantly).
Having a patent moat is also a message to the consumer. Apple has had promised features pulled because it ran into somebody else’s patent minefield and it can affect device price considerably. Having a software update pull features for legal reasons is also a terrible experience.
Depends on the machine. If you pair a RTX 4090 with a potato CPU then sure, if you go for something more reasonable, not at all. At least you need to consider the CPU, motherboard, and RAM.
Oh ok I read somewhere they wanted to restart it soon. In that case it's also a bad outcome of this dam bust indeed :(
While I get the sentiment behind the post, ZFS won't save you in the case of actual data loss without redundancy, there's so much wrong with it that it's not much better than the posts it critiques.

A big part that's missing is that errors might not come from the actual disks but from the connectors, cables or IO interface chips (HBA card for example). ZFS will detect this, and replacing the broken hardware and a scrub and you're back in business. At worst you might lose a few files if the data was written with the bad hardware. I've experienced this several times in my 10 years of using ZFS, and I've lost two files total (due to intentional lack of redundancy), the rest was just fine.

There's also no mention of the copies parameter, which while not perfect, does allow for some level of redundancy even on a single drive. ZFS uses 3 copies for internal data structures regardless.
Thangka's are always filled with symbols.

And the Tibetans have a strong culture of visions in dreams and real life.

For instance they often meditate long times without food & water, and they speak about how to protect against "demons" persuading you to jump of cliffs.

Although most or much more positives, projections of buddha forms appearing next to teachers etc.

There are also some shamanistic leftovers from the Bon Tradtion before buddhism took over. And some claim substances where used in certain traditions.

So I wouldn't be surprised if certain painters could see things like this, since it was so vivid while on truffles I think someone knew what they were doing, but who knows.
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>if the eye no longer has to focus on [different distances]

The same problem exists with monitors. The recommendation is take breaks to focus at different distances.
The Macintosh was $7000 in 2022 dollars.
on macOS there is SwitchResX and BetterDisplay where you can choose custom scaling options.
The relevance is that fertile material is not "partially spent fuel" in any extant fuel cycle.

First it does nothing to the fission products (which are the bulk of the radioactive waste by mass). Second turning U238, Pu240, Am241, and transuranics other than Pu239 into usable fuel has never happened without being a minor side-product of neutrons from a fissile source, and using the dregs of Pu239 that is <1% of the spemt fuel and <20% ofntue waste does not reduce the radioactivity of the waste, rather it makes it more dangerous because Pu239 is significantly less harmful than the result of putting MOX in a nuclear reactor, as is regular spent uranium fuel.

Pretending otherwise is knowingly disonhest.
I read somewhere they wanted to restart it soon.

In that case it's also a very bad outcome of this dam bust indeed :(

However the amount of cooling needed in shutdown is much lower, at least it should be doable to rig up an alternative source.
The “there’s an app for that” world where small to medium sized teams can build a very iOS native app that takes advantage of the latest and greatest of the device is long gone.

It’s kinda weird how Apple doesn’t realize this and continues to build for that world. Maybe if they were willing to shift on their % for devs that do build that way but unless they did there just isn’t the audience buying apps outright and the only ways to profit are tricking people into abusive subscriptions or building on ads and their personal data.

Until then no idea why any dev would build just for the Apple ecosystem and not something agnostic.

It’s telling to me that the biggest tech apps of the last 2 years all ran web/desktop first.
When you're talking about computer systems, it's pretty normal for a bit to represent an order of magnitude.

Even the Wikipedia page makes reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude

"Similarly, if the reference value is one of some powers of 2, since computers store data in a binary format, the magnitude can be understood in terms of the amount of computer memory needed to store that value. "

int(log2(n)) is a perfectly acceptable order of magnitude, especially when considering computers, at least to me.
The "right" answer, as with everything, is probably a balance between full AI generation, AI copilot, and full human coding. One has to just be humble and try and adapt and do new things to reach that balance.
It’s a computing device like a phone or a laptop, anyone can make any game they want available for it. in the key note they mentioned gaming specifically and had time on a partnership with unreal.

What makes you think this is not for gaming?
You could pay more than $50000 for a max spec Intel Mac Pro just a few days ago (at the risk of being outperformed by a Mac Mini). Marques Brownlee called it the most overpriced tech product currently on the market.
I always thought they were scammers, never have I heard them to refer to as hackers except in this thread.
If this is a company I just bought a product from, I wouldn't got to the phishing explanation first.

I would think the company is running a scam and sending random replies, astrology style, and that I got through a crack in their system.
> I would argue that the idea that windows are ephemeral doesn't work for all windows in all situations - I'm almost always going to want a window with BBEdit, another with Terminal cd'd to the current project (whatever I might be doing, and there likely will be a fair number of these, more than 1 at least), plus a web browser with email/documentation.

I thought so, too. However, turns out I work better when I see either an editor window, a terminal window, or a web browser, but not all at the same time. Meaning even if I had them all on screen, every moment in time I really focus only on one, and I do it for minutes at a time—all others meanwhile are visual junk. So SM does just that: focus one window at a time by default, and because command-tab is so readily available switching between full focus on one window to full focus on another window is very fast.

In my case, I could create a multi-window set where I have all of those windows very large and exactly same size (e.g., with Rectangle’s “almost full-screen” feature), and then I would get a bonus way of switching just between those windows (through command-`). I might try it some time.

There are few cases so far where I create multi-window sets arranged so that I see windows simultaneously, for example: 1) when I need to drag things between them repeatedly, such as when organizing files (e.g., moving photography between my SD card, SSD and HDD), or 2) when I’m observing multiple long-running processes in terminal but didn’t bother to run Tmux in the beginning so now I am stuck multiple Terminal windows and I want to see progress in them all. Turns out such cases are pretty rare.

That said, I don’t use multiple displays, I work on laptop and that probably informs my use case.
It's a risk mostly to small children as far as I understand. There's been a few case of semi-permanent eye issue I think in pretty young kids (6 or so ?), and temporary issues in older kids (10-13?), but I can't find the papers back.

Since these studies, it has become harder to experiment on small kids as it would be unethical, but on the other hand there's no specific report on kids older than 13 if I remember well.

Then a decent number of adults have been using the headsets for prolonged periods without anything critical reported at this point. It should still be used with awareness of potential risks, but I don't think there's any strong evidence of long term effects.
Lonely adults.
> later phases in the compiler and runtime have to do more sanity checking

But they always have to do all the sanity checking they need, because earlier compiler stages might introduce errors and propagate errors they neglect to check.

> program validation is woven throughout the entire system

Also normal and unavoidable.

As far as processing has logical phases and layers, validation aligns with those layers (the compiler driver ensures that input files can be read and have the proper text encoding, the more language-specific lexer detects mismatched delimiters and unrecognized keywords, and so on); combining phases, e.g. building a symbol table on the go to detect unidentified identifiers before parsing is complete, is a deliberate choice to improve performance but increase complication.
async keyword in C# is due to backward compatibility reasons iirc.
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For FaaS and the like, I'd expect pricing schemes similar to cloudflare's https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2023/05/Screensho...

This means you'd be paying per writes, reads and storage.
Have you not paid attention to Chinese economic growth over the past two decades? China has grown a substantial middle class and an economy that outpaces the USA on some measures. They already had the violent workers revolution, in 1949.

The European and American labor movements from the 19th and 20th centuries got met with violence under regimes less explicitly authoritarian than China's current regime. As Marx observed a long time ago, the owners of capital don't like workers organizing and demanding fairness, regardless of the political window dressing.

I'm not saying that China doesn't have problems, but the Chinese economy already has cost of labor rising to the point that Apple and other companies now look to less-developed and poorer countries. And oppression of workers can and has happened everywhere, along with terrible working conditions, surveillance, and suppression of wages. Compare to an Amazon warehouse with union-busting executives, for example. A Starbucks with a busy drive-thru looks just like a sweatshop to me, except in Thailand the workers can sit down.
They can already replace stock image sites. Why pay getty/shutterstock an obscene amount of money for a photo if you can simply generate something similar with a prompt for free?

I checked how much some images cost on getty images - and their prices are ridiculous - 100-1000eur or more. No wonder they are trying to sue stability.ai now.
damn you really created a new account just to roast the whole of HN. Not bad.
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> I always felt like Wittgenstein deeply hated philosophy and all his work was aimed at showing its meaninglessness

Well, Wittgenstein was an Engineer - he started (then) leaning towards Aeronautics, which brought him to Mathematics, which brought him to Foundational Formal Logic, which brought him to Bertrand Russell (after Gottlob Frege), which brought him to Philosophy.

It is kind of normal for foundationalists and engineers to be "discriminating" towards "solidity".

But is effort was positive towards obtaining "discriminating logical engines".
>Do you mean on a hardware level? Because otherwise, hell no.

I mean in the context of async await. The smallest primitive that is properly async is an IO function.
Did you not watch the keynote where they highlighted that Unity is a development partner?
Of all the recent publications with regards to passkeys, FIDO2, WebAuthn, etc., finally there's one with a simple and concise summary of the benefits:

> Strong credentials. Every passkey is strong. They’re never guessable, reused, or weak.

> Safe from server leaks. Because servers only keep public keys, servers are less valuable targets for hackers.

> Safe from phishing. Passkeys are intrinsically linked with the app or website they were created for, so people can never be tricked into using their passkey to sign in to a fraudulent app or website.
What the hell phones have you been buying?

The only ones I’ve seen preloaded with social apps are ones where cell carriers have preloaded them with trash.
Not for sale anymore, though.

I'd pay a small sum of money for a clamshell computer with full keyboard and gaming controls[1] (thumbstick, d-pad) as long as I could run Linux with Wine on it.

[1] Do they still make the Pandora? I seem to recall it being overpriced and under-produced.
This is a short and simple guide to how to deploy a new version of your application to the Google Cloud Compute Engine, just from GitHub issue.
The reality distortion field schtik is getting pretty old - Mac’s, iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and AirPods are clearly class leading products that people buy a lot of. HomePods are not and people do not buy a lot of them.

If this is good people will buy it if not they won’t.
Your two sentences contradict each other.
Imagine you realise that you haven't taken off your vision for a few months. You lift them up and you're just all alone with sores on your face, in your piss-soaked chair in your isolated flat in your decaying suburb of your polluted city. think I'll just put them back on...
Well, the post "about the edge" also links to some announcement post there they "tried" to talk about the edge in more edgy details. Yet, it's like paragraph 67 on that 3rd post they were mention something about "the edge".
And Futurism itself looks like a site written and managed by an AI Model...
The 3D FaceTime with eye contact could end up being the killer app.
I very much appreciate this article as it explains how science advances.

I read the book by Seligman and highly recommend it also to people outside the field.

On the other hand it seems like the author needs to justify that science can be wrong and needs refinements.

It’s very tedious. I remember during my PhD that I had to put these disclaimers on top too. I would expect that this is implicitly clear especially in an academic context.
> Every new platform needs a killer app.

Maybe not. This is a popular argument but I think it's too simplistic. There must be different killer apps for different people. For the AR, there are meaningful applications especially for the Industry use. It's also meaningful for entertainment and games. It's an extension to existing platforms with a new interface. I think there will be multiple use cases for this platform.
True, I've added blog writing to my learning process. I'll sit down to write about a topic and find out that I don't really understand it.

It helps me to put stuff in a structured manner for myself and other to review later.

Often I'll ask questions to myself that I didn't during the learning process. Like "Do you really understand what a controller manager is? What is the difference between a controller manager and custom controller in Operators?"
Putting at 2x speed made it easy to read for me too, only the 3rd one was hard to read and I feel like that's because the lettering there is strange.