skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a mirrorless photographer who wants to publish photos on the web that look like they came out of a mirrorless camera I want JPEG XL. In trials I've done, AVIF works well for a throwaway splash image for a blog but compression results are not so impressive compared to JPEG or WEBP if you want the image to hold up under close inspection.

On the other hand there is something that seems almost infantile about image support in the "operating system" being pivotal. If you read a review of a new MacOS in ArsTechnica you might get the idea that 99% of an OS is about what the buttons look like but in terms of the computer science definition, image codecs are definitely a userspace thing and as a Windows or Linux user I never wait for my OS to support an image format, I just install the codec and code away.
Thanks, seeing CDE and HP VUE evoke many fond memories again.

And although I never used it, I have to say NextStep 1.0 aged rather well in comparison with many others GUIs in the list.
Incremental because it's not new.

It was totally clear that a device for 3.4k can have the values apples headset has.
Kiss to prove you trust the other person['s personal higene]
We have a two month old high-end Sony TV with Google TV and a second gen 4k Apple TV. They are not really comparable. The Apple TV is super smooth and has great apps. The Google TV, in comparison, is clunky, the apps are meh, and you have to wait ages for major OS updates (while investing TVs, I looked at historical OS updates). Heck even a new TV is on a two year old OS with months old security updates.

But the Apple TV really shines with the integration in the Apple ecosystem. AirPlay, SharePlay, AirPods, HomePod, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, etc. the integration is fantastic.
No, because water in all dead material will dry out and then lightening strikes will start a fire and turn it all into CO2 again.

If you want to make a difference make sure that you start a forest and grassland fire every single year - the regular fires ensure the resulting fires are small and leave a lot of carbon behind some of which will get incorporated into the forest floor and forever stored away. Plus forests depend on those fires to clean up all the under brush.

Note, the above applies to most forests in North America, but you need to check with a local expert in forests to understand the details and where it doesn't apply. Every location/climate has different forests with different needs. There is no blanket statement that is right for everything.
Meant to delete this post in favor of the correct one which is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36202804
>Isn't this just mostly an issue with mock testing in C#

Yes. You have two choices: Interface implemented once, or virtual on all your public members.

I personally think Interface is the sane choice.

Would be nice if the .NET devs let us mock POCO's though...
While I don't purport to know how it works, there's no indication this is any more automatic than the ALREADY EXISTING shared contact photos in Messages.
good catch about needing 4 of them for a family... will they implement multiuser in vision OS or you will have to buy one for each member as you are supposed to do with the ipads?
Yes, I listed categories where the linkage to unwilling victims was clear to make my point.

Cryptocurrency has unwilling victims as well, but the linkage between cryptocurrency buyers and ransomware sellers is much less direct

If you want a closer analogy, gambling is also something that happens between willing participants and is almost universally either regulated or outlawed.

There are some good arguments that we need clearer, better regulations
for cryptocurrency exchanges and a lower barrier of entry for low income/asset investors into securities.

However, some level of regulation of cryptocurrency is clearly required and is not out of step how we handle other parts of the economy.
> So if you support moderation on open protocol then you support most likely systemic, or worse government censorship.

Feel free to stop telling me what I support. You're lousy at it.

If a protocol is open, that doesn't mean that my servers are. I'm moderating my servers, not the protocol or the traffic carried using the protocol. (In the same way, you don't control who drives by your house, but you control who's allowed in the door.)

I don't want systemic censorship of speech (including by ISPs). I don't want government censorship of speech. But I support the right of servers to say "I'm not carrying that". And I support the right of a community to have a space that is public to that community, and yet to keep stuff that they don't want out of it. And I support the right of those who don't agree to go form their own community, and to decide for themselves what the rules are for their community. And all of this can happen on open protocols without systemic or government censorship.

Specifically on usenet, you could have, say, alt.hobby.gardening, and have it get overrun by spam, and have alt.hobby.gardening_moderated start up with moderation to keep the spam out. And if you don't like it, and want to post your conspiracy rants, go post them on alt.hobby.gardening with all the spam that nobody reads. Knock yourself out. Or go start alt.hobby.gardening_conspiracy, or whatever. But let the gardening nuts have their space without your rants.
You're essentially describing homoiconicity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
M2 Ultra on a Mac Studio with 192gb is $5599 (60 core gpu), or $6599 (76 core gpu).
> You're making a bold assumption, that someone wants to wear this headset when relaxing.

I've seen people pass out in VRChat with their headsets on. Some people on VRC are on there for 12+ hours a day. It's a fascinating sub culture I was totally shocked to learn about. People drink and do drugs while listening to music at a virtual rave. Multiple rooms full every Friday, Saturday 80-120 people in the room hanging out. I found myself up till 6 am lost in the music.
Kiss to prove you trust the other person('s personal higene)
The Hololens was way ahead of this as far as AR goes, the only issue that device had was FOV, but I won't use any passthrough after trying both
You do recall that when the iPhone came out we already had Blackberry, HTC, Windows Mobile, Nokia already making smart phones with touch screens and apps right?

Sure the experience was terrible, but that's the same play here. Apple generally takes a technology space which is a little early and poorly done by others, and ships a great experience across hardware, software, and ecosystem to capture a market.
This attitude is unshrewd business. They certainly sell USB c hubs, probably Belkin branded with almost-Apple quality finishing, at a 50% markup over a similar generic option. They make money off the products sold in their store, by creating a market that wouldn’t have existed if all the ports were in the laptop
Hmm, is it a post-factum rationalization or it's the original logic behind async/await? Let's mark "heavy" functions with a label, so user has to call them differently not to overload the system?

Even if this is an original logic, why language is deciding for me what is considered heavy or not? What if I'm fully aware that I'm doing heavy processing and I want it to be happening in the background. What if I'm writing HFT software and every call is heavy for me. Language is not a right level of abstraction of marking "heaviness" of the code.

It really just doesn't make sense. Why stop there and not start marking functions with how many times per second they can be called? Like you can call "light" function 100 trillion times per second and OOM the system, so let's mark it "func light() async 2_times_per_second {}". It only can be called from functions that have lower per second label.

Plus, if Python cares so much about not OOM-ing the system I would start by not requiring 32-bit int to occupy 28 bytes in the first place.
I googled “intel mac pro electricity usage” and this was the top hit: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201796

The first (and highest) entry at 302W at idle would consume ~50% our household’s monthly usage. It’s at least the right order of magnitude.
This is not the same experience https://youtu.be/74KInxQ8suI?t=208

The low res, jerkiness, having to use controllers, etc. wether or not the apple experience is worth it is up to the person.

I don't see these as "metaverse" glasses or VR/AR as much as a $3500 display.
> The difference is the AR, which will eventually make it wearable in everyday life

In Apple's 10 minute video about this device the "AR" part came up exactly twice:

1) When the lady was interrupted by a friend to talk about sushi or something. This is literally Occulus' passthrough mode. It was a temporary "see around me" mode switch in practical usage.

2) The dad filming his kids. This was just depressing.

All the other examples had the room around them, so the "AR" part, as a glorifed skybox. The person was isolated & alone.

Like maybe Apple will figure out something that Microsoft's Hololens didn't. That's certainly possible. But they also didn't showcase any such examples, either.
This is true, but I also don’t see why it matters. In practice most users who want the highest performance level will choose the Mac Studio form factor, which is far more convenient.

The Pro chassis is an alternative enclosure for use cases that require PCI expansion cards for niche applications.
You reminded me of another iOS UI/UX fail: the long press (and Force Touch).

Apple famously for many years avoided adding a second mouse button. Steve Jobs was against it. Why? Because it lacked discoverability and consistency. He ultimately lost this because the context menu on Windows became pretty consistent and universal.

But his ultimatel point applies to long presses (and similar): where is the discoverability? Most people don't realize this can do something different. If they do, there's no consistency to it.

Even in your example, why would I expect to move the cursor around by long pressing the space bar? They added a non-intuitive gesture to make up for the failure they created by messing with the original copy and paste that worked just fine.

Both apple and Google created a similar problem with the address bar on browsers. Notice how hard it is to delect part of a URL? Why would you want to do this? Example: removing the stupid text fragment on Google search results so you can copy and paste the URL.

Click (or press) once and you select the whole URL. Click (or press) again and it brings up a menu with options like cut, copy and translate. To get rid of the selection you have to click outside the selection area. Now you can click the text like the search term but it snaps to word endings. What if I want to just correct spelling without re-typing the whole word?

All I want is to finely select in the URL and they've added so many extra steps and barriers to make this as difficult as possible in the name of "usability".
No. In games AI is a jargon term for the behavior of an NPC. It has a long history in this use. When people talk about a game’s AI it is often clear what is being discussed regardless of the specific technology used. It is therefore useful for communicating an idea and that’s usually all that really matters.

There’s even a distinct Wikipedia article on this use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_in_vid...
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That's an interesting idea. But do you actually need to go all the way to making the extra memory appear as a contiguous part of the system memory? I am thinking about CUDA unified memory and perhaps some parallels to your idea.

The number of applications that are likely to use the extra memory is probably pretty small. So if you have some sort of framework that those developers can integrate into their software, you've probably done everything you need to do.
> let alone $3500. They might as well have made it $9999

I’ll buy it at $3,500, but not at $9,999
Eloquent that, thanks.
Alan Perlis - Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
It takes very little for Bob Iger to say he will make Disney+ available on the Vision Pro. It takes very little to deliver a streaming platform to a new device in general, but even less for one that uses the same frameworks as one of your primary existing devices. Most of what they showed was just showing you Disney+ content on a floating screen. I highly doubt they have invested that much into any sort of experience that is only possible on the Vision Pro (hence limiting anything that came close to that as a generic vaporware "What if?" trailer at the end).

With respect to the CEO of that company, I mean, sure. But you kind of take that as a given. It's not like he's only been right, and certainly his leadership so far has been business oriented, vs. "wave of the future" oriented. A good example is how the AirPods ended up being an arguably bigger success than the Watch (and how that hasn't really been fully capitalized on). The good news is that the world's biggest company is precisely the kind of place that can afford to iterate on something like this in the public. So if the theory is that the "dream" of AR is only possible by getting stuff out there to iterate on, then they certainly now have a good shot.
I guess you missed the Quest 3 announcement last week. It's all about AR and it's $500.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAhce2OgZu4
Zuckerberg was right then.
> it's insanely hard to replace the simplicity of text buffers and a keyboard

Totally agree. I just want to use this to replace my big bulky monitor that I can't take with me wherever I go and that makes my small place look a little more junky.
And after years of neglect, they brought the one feature I really wanted in the Apple TV — ability to do FaceTime calls on the big screen.
>Apple's product, on the other hand, is extremely wonky. Who is this thing actually for? Based on the demos, it just looks like a second screen for my phone. It's also outrageously expensive. So Apple is asking me to seriously buy into the ecosystem and have confidence that this will be an important device in my collection.

that's actually the playbook for new product launches for Apple. That was the same issue with Apple watch - they had no idea who it was for when they launched the first generation. It was just a watch with a screen that told time and gave you notifications. Then, they realized people loved using it for tracking health, and each generation they keep coming up with more and more ways to use it as an all-around health tracker. Now, Apple watch is as ubiquitous on people's wrists as iPhones are in people's hands
Daniel Ellsberg reflects on the need for others to follow in his footsteps
It's the equivalent of people going around and taking photos with an iPad.
Let me just put it this way. You can’t congratulate yourself for changing the world yet at the same time claim something has always been this way.
Ask HN: Any AI Search Engine for Osint?
What are some AI-powered search engines that can be used for OSINT (Open-source intelligence) gathering?
No, they really aren’t.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
Like I said, "you could build a home theater with better sound." But most people haven't and won't. It requires time, technical expertise, and a lot of space. And with that you only get a home theater. And you can't travel with it (I love the idea of using one on a plane).

But I'm sympathetic to the social-watching issue. I don't love the idea of watching movies in a headset while my wife sits next to me on the sofa doing something else (or even watching the same movie on a screen). But I also don't love the idea of buying two. (And that's without even thinking about larger families.)

I think home theater will be a big part of the appeal, but it won't succeed if replacing a home theater is the only thing it does well.
Aren't all the frozen pizzas in the supermarket made by machines already?
> I'm not a lisper but it seems what's special about lisp is it defines its programs in a generic data format.

One of the things that still makes Lisp special. It makes metaprogramming "easy" in contrast to metaprogramming in almost every other language out there.

The other big thing is its high degree of interactivity and dynamic capabilities.
> that doesn't mean crypto companies should have free reign to do whatever they want for the sake of "innovation."

As a company, you're allowed to do anything that is not illegal. Law is not a whitelist of what you're allowed to do, it's a blacklist of what you're not allowed to do. And while it makes sense to create laws that protect consumers, it doesn't make sense to create laws that blanket ban experimentation with a new system until someone "explains and demonstrates why it will be better" to the satisfaction of some authority figure.

> Its the responsibility of people advocating for a replacement system to explain and demonstrate why it will be better.

No, it's society's responsibility to not create and to repeal laws that drive innovation offshore. Because ultimately it's a country's citizens, not the innovators, who lose out if a valuable piece of technology moves offshore. If Steve Jobs had to "explain and demonstrate" why the iPhone would be better than flip phones and blackberries to the satisfaction of Congress before being allowed to experiment with its design, Apple probably would have just moved their HQ to China, and Americans would be the ones missing out.

So just because Binance is committing fraud and breaking the law doesn't mean that in general we should be blocking the ability of companies from experimenting with new technology, whether or not you personally believe a particular technology will amount to anything.
It's not that different. Did you watch the Quest 3 announcement last week?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAhce2OgZu4
I don't think riffic suggested they know whether the impact will be significant or not. It was just a reminder to check our hubris.
Noted. I will eat 2 bowls of Wheaties
Home movies are dystopian to you?
> might have been called that in major media outlets -- but within the tech community it had been widely acknowledged...

There is a huge UAP community of believers. I don't see why a community belief makes it more legitimate. It's speculation until you have hard evidence, for the NSA thing that evidence was a whistleblower, what's the difference here??
It'll probably work well until you start making the "boob honking" gesture with your hands. Then we'll be able to tell.
Why didn’t they release GPUs for those PCIe slots? I just don’t get why they couldn’t do a simple thing instead of AR/VR.
I can 100% see myself preferring working on this thing over a Mac, as long as I don’t need a Mac to host my dev environment.
Not to detract from the point too much, but RSA was independently discovered in 1973.
>The burden is on SEC to prove these allegations. If they took YOU to court, calling YOU a thief, you would expect the burden to be on them, right?

WELL, the former CEOs of Binance.US who quit after realizing CZ was the real CEO against what was supposed to be the real setup seem to have testified to the SEC...along with hints the SEC has a big pile of private messages.
face-detection is fundamentally important to interpersonal interaction in the baseline human experience (are you aware of the phenomenon of pareidolia?)—fuck with it at your own peril, both for children learning how to read expressions by observing adults, but also, for adults interacting with virtual "AI" simulacra, instead of real human faces! ignoring these basic observations is naïve as hell, regardless of Thanksgiving dinner conversation palatability (always a high watermark for intellectual discourse)!

thankfully, I don't see any reason to believe this will take off "iPhone-style".
First, a corporation can’t do anything that an individual can’t do.

Second, incorporation does not protect the business, it protects investors. Without it, investors would be general partners and would be personally liable for anything the business does, including all debts and torts, even if they had no active role in running the business.

Third, where owners of a corporation or LLC do participate in running a business, they often can be held personally liable for the debts and torts of the business. This is called “piercing the corporate veil” and happens all the time in lawsuits against small businesses.
"A new era of facial computing."
> "a position that ignores the fact that Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish"

Bwahah. By that logic there are only old white males in the US, because Biden is old white male. Oh and there is no racism there too, because Biden is not a racist, right?

> So far, the imagery has not eroded international support for the war. It has, however, left diplomats, Western journalists and advocacy groups in a difficult position: Calling attention to the iconography risks playing into Russian propaganda

So the Ukrainians wearing Nazi symbols are not the problem, the problem is what it can be used by Russian propaganda. By claiming there are Nazis in the Ukraine.

> A second press officer present said other journalists had asked soldiers to remove the patch before taking photographs.

'if I see no evil, hear no evil, speak no^WW then there is no evil'

> Symbols like the flag associated with the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Galizien patch have become emblems of anti-Russian resistance and national pride

National pride in wearing the patch of the unit which 'took part in a massacre of hundreds of Polish civilians in 1944'.

But hey, Zelensky is Jewish, so... no Nazis? Especially in SBU: https://youtu.be/QA5yZnxS2zc?t=82
The keynote says you will set your own design which other people will see you when you call them. So it’s not based on the contact photo you have saved in your phone for someone, it’s based on the information they set to be shared with you. It was not explicitly mentioned whether or not this will apply to everyone or only people you have already had contact with. I can imagine it being like airdrop where it only shows you all of that if you’re in each other’s contact list rather than just for every single inbound phone call from some random person. The video demonstration also showed there were some settings that could be tweaked, so possibly you might be able to set an override for someone in your own contact list and display what you want rather than what they provide. But none of that was clarified in the video. So unless this gizmodo article has access to more details, they’re probably just describing their interpretation of it, and I will take those details with a grain of salt, until we have a developer beta for more detailed documentation to clarify.
I wouldn't be surprised if this year's iPhones include 3D photo / video capture hardware, now that they can talk publicly about the headset. I doubt many people will ever wear one of these to a birthday party, but I could see people flipping a toggle on their phone to capture in 3D. It would take up a bit more storage space, but you could go through and convert to 2D after the fact if you're low on space.
It's a 2 hour battery with a dedicated cable and looks easily swappable in seconds.
What do you think? Why?

I think I stated my reasoning here throughout. Two major themes, platform control & shared computing/social spaces, seem evident to me, we're such strong & rich themes.

Doesn't seem to be working for anyone else though, woe. Getting hammered on three fronts: Apple fan boys that hate my platform dominion messages, Apple haters that hate to hear how well Apple is executing, and people who accuse me of being a chatgtp. I assure you I have the bonafieds to prove this is me at my regular. I wish people didn't have such nasty trigger fingers.
Ask HN: At $3500 entry point who can afford Apple’s new Vision Pro headset?
Even once this is released, it's going to take a while for the OS and applications to find their groove. So rich people will essentially be paying to beta test this.

Probably going to be unequivocally awesome 3 years from now though.