skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. There is no royal we here. Just people who will either buy this thing or won't. And then people like this who are telling other people what to do and think. Which is never a good look.

I'm not actually an Apple fan boy. I have a Pixel 6 and a Manjaro computer at home. I do use a mac book pro for work but without having bought into the I everything ecosystem. But, I can see the attraction of this device. I don't have that kind of cash rolling around in my bank account so I won't be able to get one any time soon. Also, I'm not in the US so I wouldn't be able to anyway at the launch.

But I think the price point isn't that steep and very reasonable actually. People spend much more on sports cars, plasma TVs, and other things they don't need but that are a hell of a lot of fun. And this looks like it should be fun to use. And arguably this could end up delivering a bit of a premium experience over e.g. the best plasma TV money can buy. It certainly looks like the ultimate in personal entertainment. For anyone with the cash on hand, this kind of looks like a very desirable thing to own.

People make the mistake of focusing on just the hardware. Which looks awesome. But what really caught my attention here is the fact that they lined up a lot of compelling content and applications and are effectively leveling up the content ecosystem they already have. That is the smart move because they were already leading here. So, they are technically extending their lead combining scarce and premium content with a superior premium experience that you can't currently get from anyone. It's basically premium squared.

Having the disney CEO on stage is a bit of a stake in the ground. Avatar, Star Wars, etc. all in glorious 3D. And some of the apps aren't that bad either. And they cleverly sneaked in some announcement about making it easier for game publishers to port their games over to mac. Unrelated at face value, but duh, which game publisher would not want a piece of this action?!.

And basically infinite screen real estate to project your applications in your field of view alone is quite a step up from having just a laptop screen with some shitty external screen to extend that. Looks like that should work with just about any 2D application too. You could spend many thousands on expensive monitors and still have less real estate. I could see myself using that professionally just coding.

They will sell as many as they manage to produce, which probably will be around a million or so. This could be a multi billion business in its first year. It will be some time before they have real competition so they can ask whatever they want for this. Apple has got a new money printing machine here. And it's not like their old ones were struggling.
You're talking about Operation Infatuate when the Allies flooded Westerscheld? Flooding size could be bigger but affected population was way smaller.
Interesting follow-up by the same poster here, quoting WaPo tweeting some Maxar photos, showing that the dam seems to have suffered some damage in the past week - adding credence to the possibility that it did, in fact, "collapsed due to damage", without either side specifically pulling the trigger today.

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1665937030222692352

But that brings up the question, what was happening there in the week prior? Was there any active fighting in the area?
Amount of acid consumed today amongst HN readers must be higher today.
I'm sure Apple Vision made Meta feel more validated in their efforts in Occulus.
This is specifically for children under seven, and presumably (I have not yet read the actual study) only when a certain percentage of time is spent immersed in VR. I would be very surprised if this was solved, this looks more like a "just don't do this". That's eminently reasonable for the first seven years.
I happen to own a Lenovo Thinkcentre. The PSU is perhaps 1/3 the volume of the computer itself, which I think is crazy for a computer with a mobile chip inside.

I know that some Intel NUCs have monstrous PSUs [0], which I think should constitute false advertising regarding the actual size of the computers.

[0] https://www.servethehome.com/intel-nuc-11-pro-review-tiger-c...
If it's "set up correctly", then they'll only do a test like that if they have a reasonable follow-up test. In which case they will probably send a good and valid email and "this" is not what will happen.
Imagine subtly encrypting a message on all the users of ski goggles such that only people using psychedelics could see it.
Crisp text is also Apple's bread-and-butter. They've been typography nerds since the 80s, I've long assumed that their headset is this late to the game because they needed display technology to catch up to text rendering in VR
It never made sense back then and neither does now. The new iPhone is what, the best part of 1300 Euros here in Spain. A full monthly salary...
You would just have to try out the AirPods Max to find out :)

Personally, I cannot say as I have never owned nor used any of the other AirPods. If you are looking for mobile usage, the Max aren't the best choice. They are large and heavy and there is nothing discreet about them. Also, I wouldn't even consider running with them.

I use them at work or at home where all of this is no issue and I just want to enjoy the best music experience.
> It’s borderline impossible to compare it against networked database management systems like MySQL or Postgres, because SQLite is a library that operates on a local file — it bypasses all the costs incurred by the network, layers of serialization and deserialization, authentication, authorization, and more.

Postgres can run locally, communicating via a Unix socket. You should try benchmarking this before stating that it's so much slower than SQLite.
This article has ten upvotes, but from the abstract I couldn't surmise what was exciting about it.

When should I be applying this?
> The demos were verryyy minimal.

Certainly not as dramatic as Steve Jobs using an actual device on stage and prank-calling Starbucks.
ChatGPT v3.5 does have this problem where it constantly apologizes, when you as a question about the answer it provided.

It feels like it made an error by not having answered the question as expected, and then apologizes for it. This is a back-and-forth, constantly issuing apologies:

---

user -- Why does the new device need an IP in the VLAN's subnet?

ChatGPT -- I apologize for the confusion in my previous response. If the new device is only acting as a bridge or switch between the two computers on the different VLANs [...]

user -- These 3 steps you mention are required for the new device to act as a bridge?

ChatGPT -- Apologies for any confusion caused. You are correct, the three steps I mentioned earlier are not specifically required for the new device to act as a bridge. [...]

user -- Now you are confusing me. Let's start anew, but keep the history in mind. [...]

ChatGPT -- Apologies for any confusion caused earlier. In the scenario you described, where computer A and B are on different subnets

---

Luckily GPT-4 doesn't do that, but in 3.5 this also occurs when asking certain programming questions.
I'm terribly sorry. Even the frickin' lightweight gadgets like Google Glass totally bombed a few years back. Like, why the heck did we have to learn the hard way? - RIP steve jobs. RIP Jony Ive.
It just needs an addictive chat app people spend 10 hours a day in.
It has already caused loud cry from EU politicans, before we even know the reason.

President of the European Council: "The destruction of civilian infrastructure clearly qualifies as a war crime - and we will hold Russia and its proxies accountable."

https://twitter.com/CharlesMichel/status/1665971118354710529
Really? A comment on the page I linked said:

> The presenter mentions that about 40% of books scanned have some kind of problem, either a folded or a torn page, but they’ve done some work on preventing problems.

Even if every page in 40% of books were damaged, that would only be 40% of pages, not all of them. Although your numbers may be incredibly wrong, your steel-manned assumed thesis is valid: with historical artifacts you can only accept a lower % of damaged pages than human-powered scanning would cause.
Basically the difference between connecting to datacenter-residing apps that internally share data between each other and connecting to 10 random guy's basement PCs.

Everyone who played any P2P multiplayer shooter in their life knows P2P sucks... on the other hand, dedicated server based shooters and MMOs (generally) work great. You don't have to be an IT professional to know this. Similar concepts (speed of light and multiplicative effects of multiple slow connections) apply here.

P2P is only great for uses where latency doesn't matter. See: Torrents.
2bn monthly active users is rather a bit more than "Europeans".
> Namely, 5,000 patents filed over the past few years and an enormous base of talent and capital to work with.

It was mentionned in the keynote as well...should Apple really brag about their patent minefield in a field that is in need of more players and more efforts to push it forward ?

> In many cases it literally hurt to do so. Not with the Apple Vision Pro – text is super crisp and legible at all sizes and at far “distances” within your space.

That's the part I was most intrigued with, and on one size given the 4K resolution per eye, text being readable was expected, but I can't wait to have more details on how "crisp and legible at all sizes" it is. I have no idea of what's M.Panzerino's threshold is for "crisp", hope it's better than just Full HD level.
So quick question - is there any "parental control" software that allows restricting youtube by channel name / id? That and a crowd source list of channels would be a default help.

I completely agree with the top post (basically this is about parenting not about hoping they will
play in the woods till age 12) - but the tools currently around are ... better than nothing - but I want better tools
There are LTE standards specifically designed for use with low bandwidth IoT applications in mind and they allow your devices to be extremely power efficient. There are both NB-IoT and LTE-M, but require extra SIM cards for access that are billed differently that’s your regular data plan.
>There's gonna be Android for Eyeballs eventually

Google glass?
Good point imo. In the Serious Gamer contingent, you’re perceived as being basically wheelchair-bound if you try to play any major title PC game on a Mac, regardless of its basic capability of running said game.

It’s similar to how many coders will scoff at someone running Windows, pointing out Mac’s higher quality ergonomics, nix OS, and overall friendliness to common dev tools. In recent years the gulf has closed a lot with Microsoft making solid gestures toward dev-ex, but the perception remains.

That said, Apple’s resistance to reaching out into the Serious Gamer market has always confused me, but as a Not Serious Gamer it’s very likely that I don’t really understand the engineering difficulties that they’d face in making those inroads (other than the fact that Mac products are seemingly modification-immune, and the Serious Gamer contingent avoids that mindset like cholera).
Vladimir Vladimirovich is going to be remembered as the next Adolf Stalin and for a good reason. Post-1945 world is not magically immune to the emergence of such people in power. Grey morality, especially with regards to genocidal dictators, is a myth that the West fell into because Germany had to be quickly whitewashed into being a NATO ally. Hence the "clean Wehrmacht" myth, the Rommel myth, and more. Now this cognitive distortion plays out with regards to Russia and their crimes, "oh they can't be completely evil, nobody can be completely evil anymore", when that is just a myth. Sometimes we can see the same distortion with regards to China, too.
Yes, AMD is definitely worse than Intel, but that's true everywhere. It's more about AMD than Lenovo. I have a rembrandt hp elitebook, and even that has issues.
Stack Overflow Moderators Protest Lax AI-Generated Content Guidelines
No matter what, PostgreSQL can't (trivially) run in-memory only, and even Unix sockets has a performance cost compared to a library running in the same address space.
>This also leaves the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in danger of having no cooling left, the same Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant that

It does not work like that, the plant is in cold shutdown and has all the water it needs. Also, the water is taken from the bottom of the reservoir/river.

>had been shelled by Ukrainians in the lest six to eight months with not even a slap on the wrist from the Westerners.

You forgot to add that it was shelled with magical shells that flip always flip when hitting the ground, making it look like russians did it! The same with donetsk buildings getting hit from southeastern side! Satanic technology.
If I recall correctly, TIFF has the ability to tile an image.
And there is already nazi shit on the frontpage. No thanks!
I just had an exchange with a local hunter who claims that 60% of the shot boars are discarded and deposited for being over the radiation limits for food. If you feel happy eating them, please contact some Bavarian hunters to get some cheap meat.
That’s not a viable excuse to make
Yeah that comment is desperately out of touch with reality. I presume the person never actually met/dealt with these folks, for them it would be humiliating to wear it and to be seen wearing it, Apple badge or not doesn't matter. For those levels, carrying >100k watches and having plastic ski goggles on your head? Forget it, anywhere where others can see them. Maybe this mindset changes in decade or two, but not earlier.

Generally on the topic, its rather underwhelming release of device that is searching for its market (while usual Apple echo chamber here on HN sees it as second coming of Jesus). No wonder they scrapped the release few times in the past, it must have been properly underwhelming when compared to competition. And pathetic 2h battery life at best? That makes it useless for any longer flight (I am sure you can plug powerbank and continue but it will look pretty bad and annoying as hell).

I am sure Apple will tune software to perfection, but I can't see it being enough, market is tiny considering the investment, well saturated and from what I heard rather shrinking. But I hope they will push the market in some good direction long term with their creative approach, so we all can benefit eventually.
I noticed that Apple's demo footage all took place in the living room. Apple probably doesn't expect people to take the Apple Vision outside.
There are so many nuances to function execution’s resource usages that I don’t see a point in putting boxes on that. The important part and the more intuitive human model for execution is from the POV of a single, calling thread. Whether it semantically makes sense to wait for the result of this call, or it doesn’t. If you need the result there is no going around that, you have to wait on that — it’s this function’s caller that has to decide what to do now.

Other possible semantics would be to start multiple tasks and wait for them all — this is where structured concurrency comes in, giving a good analogue with gotos.

Async-await is fundamentally an optimization, not about semantics only. Languages without runtimes simply can’t reason about it without language support, but managed ones could do so as every IO call goes through it — scheduling multiple tasks to a single core is now possible.
I mean, watchOS has a killer app already: Health and Fitness.
Been thinking since 2015 how to explore information as a 3D structure: plurid. The stable library is for now only for React.
Immigrant Paradox in the United States
I mean it is a constraining factor for live on-the fly real time multi 8k-track video editing and similar ;=)

It's just that most people don't do that on a daily usage basis.

Maybe not a I need 800GiB/s constraining factor but definitely a I don't want just 200GiB/s constraining factor AFIK.
I cannot overstress just how much attention one has to pay to verification of any results produced using Excel. Don't get me wrong, I think it is a fantastic tool and have been using it for decades. However, I have the scars to prove just how badly it can hurt you.

One of the best (worst?) cases was a bug that caused a custom high speed board based on Xilinx FPGA's to have intermittent failures that were very difficult to track down.

It was six months of almost 12 hours a day fully engulfed in debugging this FPGA code. I must have re-written it from the bottom up three times during this period. You get to the point where you start to doubt spaces within statements...even when you know damn well they are irrelevant.

And then, one day, at two in the morning, while looking at the code that generated coefficients for a set of polyphase FIR filers, and a micro-coded state machine that drove that module, I saw the problem.

I made a mistake in the calculations and used ROUND() instead of ROUNDUP(). This caused all kinds of crazy issues, like FIFO's being short by one element and jumps occurring at the wrong time. It was truly maddening.

The Verilog code this spreadsheet generated was copied and pasted right into a couple of Verilog modules and compiled into the chip without even looking at it. It worked very well, it just didn't do what we wanted it to do.

We still use Excel a lot to help generate code. However, lessons learned over the years made us far less trusting, which is good.
clearly an anti phishing filter
Google Chrome Begins Rollout of New “Maglev” Mid-Tier Compiler
Terrorism always has a cold, tactical calculation behind it, to achieve some goal.
For everyone wondering why Vision Pro will succeed where the others have failed, I think this is your answer. Apple will provide a nice set of UI primitives that make building apps easy enough, but more importantly will give a consistent user experience and ease people into this brave new world.
I would use this at work in the hospital, especially ultrasound guided procedures.
TV itself was and is devastatingly effective (at spreading ideology and culture), but the primary targets of influence are not children but adults.
Oh that bridge Ukraine has previously blown up?

To be honest, I see the resolution more to do with securing better grain deal security.
Lol there's no apostrophe in OCaml - it's not an Irish name like, say, O'Brian.
> it doesn't seem like you have much if any first hand

Well, I didn't really setup any newsgroup server (other than the one in IIS for fun), if that's what you mean by "first hand". But I do donated to one out a week worth of my lunch money when I was 13 years old because I frequented there and they needs some funding for their broken RAID card + drives.

> Outlook never supported NNTP

If you know a bit more, you should know that Outlook Express does, then Windows Live Mail etc. The reason why I'm using Thunderbird as email client is probably because it got a (even through buggy but) functional NNTP support. I also know Thunderbird has a bug which prevents it from using the correct charset defined by the user, because I guess I've spent too much time on these news groups.

Also, reading your reply, I realized that you are putting a lots if not all of your own experience on "plain text messages", and you're thinking "this is fine"? Then wake up. On today's Internet, if your forum service cannot host memes and other types of rich multimedia, it's already out of public view. So,

> "have no issues handling articles up to 750 Kb in size"

Dude, really? Just 750 Kb? :)

> the client would highlight unread messages

It require some setup that most people don't know they can do. "Filter" in Outlook Express if I remembered it correctly gives you a different color when a matching mail is received. But guess what, it's not the default at least during the time I'm using it. If you don't do that, you'll only get "notification" (actually, just count refreshing) every time when new mails are downloaded, even if none of those mails are meant for you.

Your overall reply gives me a feeling that you're deep inside your own good-old-time memories, which let you to give out these apologetic words. It's reasonable if you are an user, after all, it's indeed a good time for many of us. But one should not be blind by nostalgia, because if they did, they running into the risk of degenerate their own creativity for something far better. Seeing flaws don't prevent you from loving something, you know?
An open standard that is very capable (but cannot find if it can do streaming over http) is https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF

It still misses some important things in the area of shading and animation for full transfer of all qualities you find in a modern 3d creation app like Blender.
If you look more closely at the keynote such AR apps are demoed; a factory process visualisation, and a human heart, if I recall correctly.
>Conservatives: Ukraine, formerly part of the USSR, is trying to align itself more with the Western way of doing things and Russia is violently trying to stop them

The biggest meme amongst conservatives now is how west all sucks. Amazing how quickly that spread. Reagan would be disgusted with traitors that calls themselves Republicans nowadays.
To me, it wasn't that I could use Safari that was killer app, but the fact I can use it as a monitor that impresses me. I don't think most VR setups allow you to read text as easily as on a monitor and that is what Apple is claiming. (First impressions seem to support). The second part is not requiring a controller. If I can control this with my eyes, hand and voice. That means I can use a keyboard with it. I assume they'll have some virtual version too. With those two things, a whole lot more use cases open up around it. I don't plan on getting one right away or anything, but an actual usable computer is far more interesting than something that plays games, moves some models around in space and does video conferencing with avatars.
One of the companies I interned was using Whatsapp but then migrated to Teams/Slack.

Employees did not like it and after a few months everyone migrated to Whatsapp.
Dam wasn't shelled, roadway was on the side pretty far from dam.
They are not (yet), but target group doesn't care about raw stats, or price/performance ratios. But I love them, because they will push Garmin making even better watches, so everybody wins.
Nim punts too many things to random GitHub libraries. Tagged unions with exhaustiveness checks for something like pattern matching on them is the responsibility of some random person in the Nim community, for example, which is a step too far, IMO.

I think what it comes down to is that the creator/BDFL of Nim has an eclectic set of things that he simply doesn't care about and will never add to the language even though they are basically table stakes nowadays.
According to bundestag.de, here's how Die Linke/PDS did in the last few decades' elections in Germany:

Year Die Linke/PDS
2021 4.9%
2017 9.2%
2013 8.6%
2009 11.9%
2005 8.7%
2002 4.0%
1998 5.1%
1994 4.4%
1990 2.4%

I'm not sure what to make of that other than that this party has a fairly limited appeal, and has lost a lot of ground since 2009.
> Russia will never give up crimea. In fact it 'always' practically belonged to Russia. Their most important naval base is there for decades.

Maybe they shouldn’t have built their most important naval base in a foreign country then proceeded to invade that country lol.
I couldn't agree more - the profit motive brings a whole bundle of perverse incentives.

Well-managed centralization does allow for governance, where things like moderation and technology decisions are difficult to leave up users. It's sad what happened to the public square of Twitter. There really isn't a viable alternative at the moment which has the reputation of a neutral ground where people can exchange discourse with relatively even chance of being heard, for all its problems.