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There’s nothing of substance here for why it should be ridiculed, other than the authors fear Apple has the ability to bring VR to the mainstream. But hasn’t Oculus/Meta Quest sold something like 20 million units?

> Stop this future of computing
> Tim Cook and his fellow Apple executives clearly asked themselves whether they could create a headset as their latest hardware product, but don’t seem to have spent as much time considering whether they should.

Has the author considered why people are currently buying these headsets? And why a company with a long history in mobile computing would get in on it?

> … The risk with Apple entering this market is that it does have a unique ability to legitimize products.

The article is probably not worth your time, it wasn’t worth mine.
There's not much Google can do to stop sites from loading libjxl.wasm.
>… double-power-to-camera, which is arguably better than a swipe

Fully count me in as part of this camp. Wanting to quickly snap a photo and being able to launch the camera without looking at the screen is much more convenient.
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Aliexpress is the worst for this...

"keyboard non mechanical like cherry switch membrane touch rgb light clicky gaming blogging ergonomic xiaomi redmi arduino android ios windows laptop desktop computer tablet phone", and if you sort by price, the first one is $0.99.

Then you have 5 different colors of plasticky $15 keyboards and a usb card reader for $0.99 to choose.
there's a CLI client yes https://github.com/plebbit/plebbit-cli/releases/latest
Yes in many aspects, and I guess they are leveraging the heavy lifting of Debian package maintenance
What was the callout exactly? Was it a presentation where they showed the logo or interface - or did they directly call it out by name?

Either way its awesome
it may lack understanding the technicalities around marking and product launches...

but instead it has a mundane understanding of what most people actually consider important in life

fortunately his critique is not around the specifics of how this product was made (and 'launched') but about whether this product should be made in the first place

technologically it looks about the same as a hololens, which seems like the same 'product idea' as already launched by microsoft whenever ago; but where is that now?
What I don't get is why there is no counterweight. This headset doesn't look balanced (just a mesh in the back) and the presentation screamed "that neck is gonna hurt" in those scenes where an actors were sitting in front of a laptop or desk, hands on a keyboard and/or touchpad, head tilted slightly forward.

Unless the plan is to sell it for extra $299.
AI boom inside Silicon Valley startup accelerators
“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” -- E. M. Forster
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Ukraine war: 'Offensive actions' under way in east, Kyiv says
Knowing Apple I would only be slightly surprised if there was some DRM chip which would lock a specific battery pack to the headset (and the other way around).
Are poor people likely to be liberals? There had always been a trope about poor conservatives that probably has some truth to it. And now that liberals have abandoned the working class and become the party of the establishment elite, I'm not sure why anyone would think that the poor would lean liberal. While I imagine that there are lots of rich old people who are Democrats that perpetuate and exacerbate inequality. The article is a bit Orwellian.
I think the problem is that the headset still seems too inconvenient to use in all of those locations.

I think this stuff will make more sense when these are the same form factor as a normal pair of glasses.
People are downvoting this, but it's true. Unfortunately they often were lacking major continents.
The ops folks at a company I used to work for tried a VR workspace to put all of their graphs and terminals in a big sphere around you. With 2k screens, the text got too pixelated to read very quickly. 4k should improve that somewhat, but I'm not sure it will be enough for a great text-based workflow.
I was _shocked_ when I moved from finance to tech and chat retentions (if they weren’t infinite) were set in months.

I was used to low single digit days retention. I still think that’s a good policy even without compliance issues. Keeping chat from becoming a de facto document management system.
If the URL (or search term) exceeds the address bar box size, this is either impossible or very difficult. You'll hit the clear button instead and delete the URL.

But even if this works (which it doesn't consistently), how is that intuitive?
It has 8 x DDR4 3200, so about 204GB/s of memory bandwidth, 1/4th of the M2 Ultra.
I keep wondering about this - the people who say that AI assistance makes their work easier generally talk about all the repetitive boilerplate they have it generate, and I just think: why are you doing that in the first place? If your code is full of repetitive fluff, aren't you missing a layer of abstraction somewhere, and isn't it going to be a nuisance to maintain? Isn't this a problem your language should be solving?
But clearly there are a great many people for whom this way of working seems normal.
At first when I read this I didn't understand that they were examples of people predicting the failure of newly launched apple products. I was nodding along agreeing with each point. I have used "smart watches" and "ear buds" (admittedly not apple) and got bored with the watch after I learnt nothing that suprisingly or actionable, and continually lose ear buds, or have them go through the wash.

But perhaps I am turning I to an old man?
I left a comment on the announcement thread a couple of hours ago basically saying how I wasn't sure what to think. But, the more I've thought about it since the more I've changed my mind. In fact, I think I actually quite dislike the product...

The idea that I might now decide to talk to my girlfriend while wearing my VR headset because it has my eyes on the front is absolutely absurd. I really struggle to understand the rational of Apple doing that unless they want people to walk around wearing these things 24/7.

And the way this was branded as being a great device for conversations with other human beings or taking photos of special moments with children is just kinda gross.

While Meta has said similar things about the communication applications of VR headsets, I think I prefer that they've made it more of a virtual experience than an attempt at directly replacing real experiences. In Meta VR you're a cartoon when you interact with people and this makes it feel more video game than something that is trying to replace real world interaction.

And unlike the Quest the fact Apple's headset doesn't have a controller probably means it's going to suck for gaming. So it seems Apple doesn't think VR gaming is the killer app, but instead believes interacting with your kids is.

Not to mention the price point here is just absurd when compared to the Quest 3. I still think Apple's headset could be a good product for productivity if they've actually managed to get text to look sharp and have significantly reduced eye strain, but I think for now I'd rather just see how good the Quest 3 is to be honest. I know I might have to take my headset off when talking to my girlfriend and kids, but I'm not sure that's as much of a problem as Apple thinks it is.
> And I'm saying nobody will ultimately give a crap if the tech works as well as Apple wants it to.

This clashes with my model of how humans work and socialize. We'll see!
This is, of course, sarcasm:

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Remember that not all 3rd party clients are/were developed for-profit, there are plenty which are open-source, have no monetization or ads, and are gonna be hit by this change too.

>This isn't about Reddit being greedy.

This is Reddit being greedy. They are asking $2.50 a user per month, while the revenue they make from someone using the first party reddit app on average is just $0.12 per month. [0]
Add this the restriction on NSFW content served from the API, and it's clear reddit is just straight up trying to kill 3rd party apps.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...
If I call you and get an avatar, I will assume you're an absolute phoney. A rich phoney, but still a phoney.

It's like calling and getting a "virtual background" - to me it says you're ashamed of where you are.
Approximately nobody gets a PhD. It's like saying: men are taller than women.
tbh the real question is not the output (whether this succeeds or fails), it's whether Apple followed the same inputs that made prior products category-defining like Apple II, Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Watch, and Airpods. All of those took niche computing ideas and made them mainstream, creating a new market and new way of life, and did so by following a playbook of timing the tech right, scoping narrowly, and understanding which use cases were worth targeting.

I wrote about some of these input factors in my post on category defining products a few years back: https://nickpunt.com/blog/category-defining-products/

Personally, I feel Vision is a bit too broadly scoped for a v1. 3d photos really didn't need to be in there. The consumer use cases that Apple loves really aren't where Vision is providing next level value add, whereas the remote workplace ones are. But I understand those alone are not enough to drive adoption so I can see why they wanted to make it more consumer oriented.

My hunch is they pivot slightly toward workplace in subsequent versions, much like they did with Apple Watch pivoting toward health and away from luxury.
So do you get a captcha every time you vote? that's quite annoying.
The TLDR of TFA is there are people who think they "know C++" but actually don't, and there's a simple test to tell them apart from the ones that do actually "know C++".
Ask HN: Why do some users want color blind support given iOS already has it?
Why don't users just use the built-in support in iOS? Why do they want apps/games to provide color blind modes?
This is true, but on the other hand the previous VR/AR headsets confine their usage themselves, especially in social situations because they are not accepted by other people. Blurring that boundary might cause less isolation compared to other headsets - but might cause more isolation in the long run as an indirect effect due to more widespread usage.
I imagine the government can:

> In November, 2018, Microsoft announced that it is readying HoloLens for combat. The company won a $480 million military contract with the U.S. government to bring AR headset tech into the weapons repertoire of American soldiers.
You might check out what Steve Randy Waldman is doing with his "drafts" blog. He has found it freeing: https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9807.html
Technically no, the PalmPilot didn't use NFC and required fussy button presses and pointing so it's a much better implementation.
astroturfing maybe?
Presumably flowers proliferated due to insect pollinators?
20/20 vision is defined as 1MOA, or 1/60th degrees of angular resolution. Necessary resolution at typical FOV of 100 degrees is therefore 6k x 6k pixels. 4k x 4k per eye is not quite the "Retina" equivalent but actually not as off as earlier attempts at VR.
They seemingly avoid calling it ARM whenever they can do it. The only place where I myself saw Apple spell out that Apple Silicon is ARM was somewhere deep in developer docs.
It's working out for the elected representative.
That's why my post prefaced the weapons bit with "ostensibly". The labs themselves definitely existed.

In any case, this is a tangent. The fact that Russia added some extra phony justifications for invading doesn't automatically mean that their primary reason for invading was to commit genocide.
Yeah, maybe for other non-VR. But at $3500,the Vision Pro is DOA for the most consumers. At $3500, it's going to take several iteration before they can price one that your average consumer that's normally willing to spends $500-1500 for a ipad/iphone/MBP would be willing to buy. I wonder what they'll leave out to get to that price.
Can someone explain for those of us who don't know? The comment links to this image right now https://imgur.com/6liBpal and I see Disney+ and then some streaming media phone app.
Isn't he already in Canada?
> Because it's insanely hard to replace the simplicity of text buffers and a keyboard.

And why would you think this would seek to replace that, rather than complementing it? Fill up your entire vision with forty text buffers. Use a keyboard on a twelve-inch-deep shelf on one side of your bedroom with no monitor taking up space behind it.
It's not just not liked by crypto people, but other very popular industries could be selling securities, if you actually apply the test. Tell me the flaw in the following, and if there is no flaw, why did the SEC never go after them to make an example:

All shows like Yu Gi Oh, Pokemon, etc. have been running, technically speaking, unregistered securities offerings throughout the world and United States, yet the SEC does nothing. They are textbook cases of the Howey Test:

1) People (kids, in fact!) buy Yu Gi Oh trading cards

2) There is an investment of money (either they nag their parents, or they actually spend a non-trivial proportion of their own life savings)

3) With an expectation of profit. Witness how many of them don't actually use the cards, but keep them in mint condition (and as we have seen SEC successfully argue in the recent case SEC vs LBRY, if even a few people buy with expectation of profit, then ALL those sales are securities).

4) From the efforts of others -- namely the producers of the show, and their promotion of Yu Gi Oh trading cards. Trading! Perhaps even selling!

5) There is definitely a common enterprise, that isn't even decentralized. The Yu Gi Oh show is produced in Japan and shown in the USA, and drives the sales of the cards. Cancel the show, and the cards fall in price. Yu Gi Oh Abridged series even lampooned this, to great comedic effect.

Oh those foreign-owned Japanese companies, preying on our kids selling them investment contracts! Do they really think the kids are sophisticated investors who think things through when they keep their mint-condition cards! Who will buy the top and be holding the bag after the show is canceled?

So being a textbook definition of Howey, why did the SEC never go after Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh and any of the other "merchandising" companies? How about Marvel with their mint-condition comics? Isn't that a "common enterprise" since some people buy comics for their investment value?
> Autofill verification codes received in Mail

> Download maps to use offline

> Turn your iPhone on its side while charging to make it even more useful when you set it down.

> Share AirTag or Find My network accessories with up to five other people.

I've seen a lot of people complaining about this release, but honestly, it seems like they took the time to address a lot of the little things that were wrong with previous (larger) releases. No complaints here, other than the fact that there's still no spotify-like control for apple music :/
>Whats the anti-spam plan?

the community owner must configure some challenge exchange between his node and the users publishing to his node. the challenge is completely arbitrary, it can be a whitelist, a password, a super complex interactive game, sending a picture of your passport, account age, minimum karma, a combination of all these things, etc. Since it is arbitrary, it will evolve with time. Any method (already invented or invented in the future) that centralized platforms use to filter AI spam can also be used, but over P2P.
Man, if this was available today I would be preordering right now.

Just the the big monitor use case is enough for me. I live in a tiny apartment and don't have the space for multiple / large monitors or TV.

If I could use this to play on my ps5 and work on my MacBook, it would be perfect.
How do you know it’s 3x faster? At what?
I find all new cars to be unacceptable anyway. I'm sticking to old ones.
Please change the logo. no offense, but people could agree that it deserves better logo. It maybe more apparent when you look at the favicon.
Is there a market for a $3,500 Apple headset?
Poorer whites (and Latinos, and East Asians to a lesser extent) have moved to the right. Other demographics lean heavily left at all income levels
My three tips for blogging more:

1. Write TILs. The only justification needed to publish one is "did I just learn something that was new to me?" - having such a low bar makes it much easier to publish frequently.

2. Write about projects you have shipped, no matter how small. I like to think of this as the price I pay for distracting myself with yet another little side-project.

3. Learn to hit "publish" when you still aren't completely happy with what you have written. The alternative is never publishing anything at all!
Bisq.

Any centralized crypto exchange will ultimately end up being a scam because there is no reason for centralized exchanges to exist at all. There is no reason for anyone to hold your funds for more than what it necessary to complete a transaction. Because of this, there is really no money to be made.
thanks so much, this looks extremely well put together
I press <enter> when commenting
The live video encode use-case seems like one that makes sense, and likely requires more bandwidth than TB4 can support.
Doesn't seem like a very important issue. They simply said that moderators shouldn't take down posts or whatever ONLY because they're AI-generated. They can still do so if they are incorrect, just like with a human poster.
I'm pretty sure there is a heck of a lot more to the success of discord over IRC than that.
no system is perfect but twitter is much better now. i'd rather support "not progressives" than progressives.
Before you start down this path, which will take longer than you imagine, you need to understand your underlying reasons for doing so.

What is your problem domain?
What don't you like about the currently available languages?
Why do you want to kill yourself doing so?
Can you afford to do so?
Is this something you consider fun?

Understand yourself first and be willing to spend the time learning and sure go ahead, knock yourself out.

Just keep in mind that there are a small number of language classifications and yours will fit into one of these:

COBOL style languages: COBOL, Common Lisp, C, C++, C# and Java are examples here.

Fortran style languages: Fortran and all its variations.

ALGOL style languages: ALGOL 60, ALGOl 68, Simula, Scheme, Pascal and others,

Functional style languages: ML, Haskell, Clean, OCAML, etc.

Forth style languages: FORTH, Postscript, Factor, etc

SNOBOL oriented languages: SNOBOL 4, Icon, Unicon, etc

and a couple of other more minor kinds.
The critiques that I find unhelpful (and, disappointing for anyone who would claim to love technology) are the simple "This is just a useless device for watching Netflix and that's stupid."

This is obviously a very challenging value-proposition. No one is confused about how risky this is. It was undoubtedly on the Apple chopping block many many times.

But I find it infinitely more useful when people see a challenging problem and push themselves to think how it might possibly be useful, over what seems to be just quick and obvious dismissals.
I think this entire product line is a terrible idea but ... A wire to a pocket battery does seem like a good compromise.
True, but I think that hurts them here. Corporate politics is about fitting into a status hierarchy and working your way up it. You exchange your own identity and concerns for that of the organization, and are rewarded with status and money.

A fake CEO like Zhao appeared to want here would be doing exactly the same thing he's been doing on the way up: rolling over for whatever the more powerful person wants. It's just that the stakes have quietly changed, with a sudden downside of "5-10 in a federal prison". As people like Caroline Ellison have recently realized.
Yeah! Because the amount of food you eat is only limited by how much money you have, right?
Nice going! How can I get in touch with you?
A digital calendar on the wall and a dedicated screen for monitoring are both possible with tech from 10 years ago.

The problem isn’t “we couldn’t do this before AR and now we can”, it’s “my computer already does calendars and monitoring well enough”.
> I'm not arrogant enough to do a couple hours of work and charge $20 per download for it,

How do you know it took whoever "a couple of hours of work"? How much time and effort do they have to put in to maintaining the software? And how much training and work did it take to get them to the point of being able to make the program in the first place?

> Ever heard the story of Picasso and the napkin? Legend has it that Picasso was at a Paris market when an admirer approached and asked if he could do a quick sketch on a paper napkin for her. Picasso politely agreed, promptly created a drawing, and handed back the napkin — but not before asking for a million Francs.

> The lady was shocked: “How can you ask for so much? It took you five minutes to draw this!” “No”, Picasso replied, “It took me 40 years to draw this in five minutes.”

It's not about maximising profit, it's about people getting paid for their time and work.
Really curious about what communities these are if you're up for sharing.
It was trivially simple - boot the Mac from a USB thumb drive that has Ubuntu 20 or later installation media. No need to search for any drivers afterwards either.
Yeah the Pro feels like a miss. I figured it would have same specs as the Studio for its SoC but would come with a bunch of options for co processor cards akin to the Afterburner card. So a studio you can kit out for additional specialized performance.

Maybe those cards will trickle out over time, but not having them ready at launch makes the Pro feel like an afterthought right now.
I wonder if there will be an answer for this.

I've spent the last 35 odd years of my working life peering at screens, from teensy phosphor numbers to decent wide screens. I've had issues with OOS but never with my eyes.

I have never heeded any of the warnings about taking a break, refocusing every 20 minutes etc. My eyes are just fine, well as good as most other people my age.

My pick is there will be some recommendations with this, but they'll be hand wavey and you won't know if ignoring them will fry your eyes or have no effect whatsoever.
> Would I rather work on this all day instead of a laptop?

Generally right there with you, but this is the one that I think ... maybe? I don't see laptops as an unbeatable experience, and I see work as probably the only thing in my life that might benefit from an "infinite digital canvas".
When I wrote to Planet complaining that my keys so frequently rotated in their sockets that they would often entirely fail to depress, their response was that I should wiggle them a bit.

I'm glad you like yours. I don't. Disappointment from delayed beginning to ignominious end.
The GPU situation is getting really dire, and showing the obvious limitations of putting everything on one die at-scale. The Blender benchmarks tell the entire story now that Metal is supported: https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query

The M2 Max renders on-par with a 90 watt, 12nm RTX 2070 laptop card. From 2018.
Already vandalized through shitty trollish posts. Sadly, in this Internet and era you can't build a healthy community without some form of moderation.
By this definition no taxes make sense, almost all of them make it more expensive for companies to do stuff for people. This is by design so people don't simply recompense the company but also society as a whole to ensure an infrastructure with money and companies exists.
Drones.

EDIT: Big-boy drones.