skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your claim was

> There is not a single sample of material.

There are multiple. Maybe look here for starters:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nzkq/stanford-professor-ga...
HERE Maps by Nokia had offline maps, including search & navigation, over a decade ago. At the time Google had only offline maps with tiles and some POIs, no navigation or similar things.
Regarding #2 and #3, Apple has been working on this for years. ARKit for instance, is hugely gimmicky if not silly on iPhones, and LIDAR on the same had incredibly limited real world utility for that device. Yet for years they've been deploying millions of equipped devices, building it out, expanding the SDKs, doing developer outreach, and so on. They've even built shared AR spaces when the viewport is just a phone, again despite it being pretty goofy and of limited value.

They've been building towards this for years.

I suspect for most apps supporting the Vision Pro will be supporting variable resolutions (for resizable windows) and clicking a checkbox on the targets.
> Is there anything specific to the Vision Pro in that feature? Couldn’t they just offer that as something that you could choose to watch on TV?

A TV wouldn’t be apt at creating a 3D-ish AR viewing experience. It also doesn’t have the controls to navigate such a scene easily. What I’m looking for is like a holographic 3D display of the game on my table top.
I agree.

I spent a ton of money configuring my home office. Many displays, giant motorized desk, articulating arms, cable management, etc. Easily over $3500, and I still don't feel like it's ergonomically great. It certainly can't be brought anywhere. It occupies a whole room.

Now I am thinking I might not need that bulky stuff at all, and if I don't need the displays and big desk then maybe I don't need the office. If I don't need the home office then maybe I should be shopping a home that's around 75-100k cheaper with one less room.

I've often wanted to work outside from my deck but then I don't have my screen real estate and I get tons of glare. This could solve that.

We've long complained about the degradation of the in-office experience. These days it's all open-floor plans with a fixed monitor set and no privacy. If I could put these on and have a huge display with a beach in the background, I wouldn't as much mind sitting 2 feet away from coworkers.

The benefits of something like this on flights and in airports seems obvious. Its not really weird, considering savvy travelers swaddle themselves in AirPods Max and bizarre neck-sling-pillow apparatuses already.
Personally I feel bad for all those folks that moderates/contributes in Reddit and at Stack Overflow.

Imagine pour hundreds of hours for the sake of enjoyment, sharing or nurturing a community and due to some market circumstances not having a saying in any decision.

To be honest, seeing those movements from those companies makes me feel that the future of open communities (but some how walled) it’s bleak.
Meta just isn't very good at building software that users want. They've been optimizing for advertisers and stockholders instead for the past decade.

Really a shame that Oculus got acquired by them.
Btw, the lone guy on a couch is not going to be looking at vacation photos, but they can’t show that at wwdc
Who pays the taxes that fund UBI? What happens to that economic activity under UBI? Who grows the food? Who maintains civilization if a not-insignificant percentage of it decide they can't be bothered.
International Obfuscated Python Code Competition
Directly inspired by the classic C coding competition the IOCCC, the IOPCC is now accepting submissions. This is my first time running a competition, so there will likely be some issues in this first year. Tentative plan for submissions ending is outlined on https://pyobfusc.com/#submit
I'm still curious, how they will enable developers to start developing for the device, before it gets released. A simulator will not be as effective as in the iPhone case.

Maybe by something like the M1 Mac mini developer kit, that you had to return.
> Same reason we (SW engineers) think X field is easy and can be self-taught: the fundamentals are easy to learn, but figuring out where and how to deal with edge cases when they pop up is something that can only be learned with experience.

Ironic post from the person who thinks Reddit would be trivial to recreate. Your whole account reads like a parody.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36147180
Yes, I have tried using the M1 with 8GB RAM. I frequently bumped into RAM issues while using Chrome whenever I accumulated more than ~15 open tabs.

At this moment I am on a 16GB M2 Air and using 14.6GB of RAM. The only substantial app I have open is Chrome.
> 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.

Apple had to comply with a ton of regulations and laws when making the iPhone. Off the top of my head, they had to comply with various product safety laws, FCC frequency allocations, and consumer protection rules.

The US (and most other countries) have a lot of regulations for managing money and investments. These apply regardless of the underlying technology being used. Legally, the only thing cryptocurrencies brought is that they didn't obviously fit into any existing legal framework. This was mostly due to a lack of judicial precedence, not because cryptocurrencies were fundamentally different.

This isn't writing laws to stifle innovation. This is using laws that already exist to actually regulate companies that have managed to avoid it before now.
I could see this reinventing the living room.

Imagine in 5-10 years when this tech is perfected. It's a Saturday night. You, your spouse, and 3 kids each have one of these strapped to their face.

Why watch a movie on the couch facing a wall with a traditional flat TV format?

Certainly Disney or whoever will invent 3D interactive plays/games with stadium type immersive entertainment.

Living rooms will become circles like when people playing a board game.
Hanging a computer on on face seems like an ergo negative.
Destroy the company how? They have tens or hundreds of billions in cash. Couldn't they just discontinue the product and move on if it flops?
Battery life is quoted at two hours when using the external battery brick.
WWDC is software, and sometimes new platforms (headset) or Macs.

New iPhone models and their changes, like the camera, will be held until the iPhone event that is traditionally in September.

That event often contains more iOS 17 features that they didn’t want to mention today for strategic reasons (might give away hardware changes).
How many of these crashes are there? Did these aliens fly halfway across a galaxy just to crash in our neck of the woods? Are they flying around in cheap junk? Or are they just terrible pilots? All those special vehicle morphologies and unique atomic arrangements just to crash land. Odd.
If shareholders don't get a cut then where does the capital come from? If the worker co-op needs to buy some expensive equipment then someone has to pay for it. Outside investors will not put in significant capital unless they also have a level of control, and a reasonable expectation of turning a profit. Banks generally aren't willing to lend to such organizations unless they're structured as partnerships and the owning workers agree to personally co-sign on the loan.

Worker co-ops can be fine for businesses that take essentially no capital, like small consulting firms. But if you want to build real stuff or scale up beyond the level of a hobby/lifestyle business then you must address the capitalization issue.
I, too, would like to pay Ford prices for a Rivian.
The goalpost keeps moving on what is sufficiently "general" to meet a hypothetical AGI definition. At one point the distinction was more meaningful: AIs were always highly domain-specific (eg, playing chess). Now the same transformer model can write a string-parsing JS function, concoct a recipe that uses six arbitrary ingredients, pass a biology exam, sort unstructured data, and give tax advice, but somehow that still isn't general enough to qualify.
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Towards the late 2000s, alt.binaries was irrelevant to consumer ISPs etc, as it was not available. It was trivial for any systems engineer to exclude alt.binaries.* from their news server, and most did.
Can't wait to see these at high school graduations
What really killed it was alt.binaries.*. Vastly bloated bandwidth/storage requirements, so ISPs either killed NNTP altogther, or stopped giving a crap and you'd start, like, randomly dropping 10% of messages, which amounts to the same thing.
The demo I saw showed a guy at a standing desk, using a Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad. I remember I grimaced thinking what his shoulders must feel like typing with his hands so close together on that tiny, shitty little keyboard. It made me think of little T-Rex arms.
It has a battery pack that will last for 2 hrs.
You're still apart. You're not gathered physically around the TV, able to make eye contact, jump around with joy, etc. It's just you and your friends in the walled garden.
> I will happily go on the record as saying that this will be as revolutionary as the iPhone, perhaps even more so.

> Look how quickly the iPhone and Apple Watch evolved between generations 1 to 3

I would not compare the iPhone to the Apple Watch. They were on completely different orders of magnitude of evolution.

I could see the Apple Vision Pro being half as popular as the Apple Watch (primarily due to the price tag) and I think there's a good chance it finds its market, but I think comparing it to the iPhone is way off base.
How about pre-iphone cell phones? It's been a while, but I remember them having specularly bad UI and cheering Apple's entry on that point alone.
How can you say that before trying? Have you ever tried VR? You can see the pixels, it's not at all immersive. I find it hard to believe that Apple have somehow invented revolutionary display technology before Meta/Oculus who have had about decade to do R&D. Not to mention that "inside-out" tracking is nowhere as good as shown as show at the WWDC keynote.
Ok, I had the impression that those things are translucent, because the eyes were visible. I did not fully watch it, but I just found out that Apple is using a lentricular and OLED screen on the outside to display a 3D image of your face to make it look like the mask is transparent. This is some dystopian stuff.
Help with Hidden Markov Model for Topical Text Segmentation
I'm attempting to write a function that splits a long document into shorter segments of text, splitting the text into the topics discussed as a step in a data processing pipeline prior to embedding the shorter segments of text for vector search.

I'm attempting to use v1.0 of the pomegranate python library as I get the impression it will be more performant than some of the other common options I looked at. Below is my code. I'm a self-taught developer just trying to solve a niche problem that's of interest to me so I've not used any of these libraries before or attempted to build a hidden markov model before so be gentle and many thanks for the help.

You can see my current attempt and the error I'm getting at the link I provided. As well as here on stack overflow if you want some internet karma for your kindness: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76409619/hidden-markov-m...
I will probably wait for version 2 in about 2 years, but I am fairly certain I will buy one.

I get a huge amount of value from my Quest 2, so spending money on a new toy is not unreasonable.

I worked in the field of VR about 25 years ago (SAIC, Angel Studios, Disney project). VR and AR as consumer tech will eventually be AWESOME, but I am not holding my breath - it will be a long wait.
> much more usable than similar amounts of ram

People keep repeating this but how does higher bandwidth (probably not 8x higher though) compensate for a lower amount of RAM?

It's not quite as silly as the people saying that 8GB in the base config 'feels' much faster than 8GB on a PC cause the drive/swap are "so fast" but still..
Because it’s a highly impactful product (any of them) that impacts the lives of millions, and the showmanship (however plastified these days) is legendary and attracts people.

I wouldn’t call it a SuperBowl-level event, it’s actually bigger-we used to band together in the office to watch them (at the end of the day here in Europe) in every tech company I worked in.
People always drag out this line but how much time in VR do you actually have?

I have hundreds of hours in VR, doing fiddly simulator things, and it's not an enjoyable experience, but rather something you put up with to get to experience something you wouldn't otherwise get to experience, like flying a real as it gets plane.

A couple really nice monitors are $500. A laptop with a really nice built in screen is $2000, even if you want the apple logo on it.

Having infinite floating windows in VR is actually pretty useless. Either they are all tiny and unreadable because you need INSANE resolution to get 1080p quality at normal viewing distance, or you have one giant screen pressed against your face and your eyes find that very uncomfortable. VR is tiring on your eyes, worse than looking at a screen all day.

I wish rich kids would stop trying to attain a minority report style dream of computation and focus on making actual, usable, good UIs that are enjoyable, easy, and productive to work with. This is none of those.
Why would it be a turning point if the product fails? Couldn't they just amputate and operate the business as usual?
As the amount of money is limited it is important to set priorities.

If you have extra money to give away then it is better to give them to parents to promote creating families, to pay for education for children from poor families, to improve free medicine, to create new jobs etc. It doesn't make sense to give money to people who are just lazy and got used to spending their parents' money instead of working. They will just spend money on alcohol, cigarettes or online games.
Today’s announcements complete the Intel to Apple Silicon transition so seems pretty appropriate.
In person conversation doesn't work because Zhao doesn't want to enter the US.
Is the small screen you're referring to your laptop, or the tiny screens in the headset?
heres some facts for you: life expectancy dropped worldwide starting in 2020. to what do you attribute that if not covid?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy
Not sure about the details of that, you can definitely buy Hammer/Felder table saw products in the USA (not that I want to, given their shitty attitude about using this feature as a market segmentation tactic).

It's frustrating because I'd much rather have a proper European sliding table saw like the Robland CZ-300 II, but I don't want to give up the safety of a Sawstop system.
And "even" HN commenters ressort to stupid rhetoric tricks when out of arguments.

The existence of outlandish sounding but unsubtantiated claims remotely similar to the one on topic here is not indicative of anything.
The ignorance of history continues. The Luddites were not naive, but less successful in labor organizing than, say, their French counterparts, who quite successfully resisted downward pressure on wages and working conditions, allowing a more gradual transition to the new technologies. As a result, they likewise did not suffer much of the injury, cruelty, and dispossession that was inflicted on their counterparts in their English working class. The Luddite movement is more popularly know for precisely this reason: it was crushed and humiliated by the ruling class, and thus became useful for those interests to cite as an example of what happens when you oppose them vs. those who practiced solidarity, overcame them, and preserved more of their dignity and quality of life.

Letting the wealthy and powerful inflict whatever they want on you is not realism. It’s cowardice.
Doesn't seem that way to me. I'm generally not opposed to jumping on the latest and greatest toy from Cupertino the second it comes out. And I'm a big fan of VR: I own two headsets now, but I was waiting for this announcement before deciding whether or not to buy a Quest 3.

I've decided to buy a Quest 3.

I could elaborate on why, but to each their own. I just don't see this thing fitting any use case for me. I know people who like to watch videos in VR. I hate it. I'm aware that accessing your computer screen through "virtual desktops" is a moderately popular application. Can't stand it. I have never used FaceTime, and certainly wouldn't have anybody with another one of these to call.

We live in a world where forum comments have to be either "this is stupid and anyone who likes it is stupid" or "this is the greatest thing ever and anyone who doesn't like it is stupid". I'm not saying either of those things. I'm saying this is not for me, and furthermore, now that I know that, it has unlocked the purchase of a competing product.

I'm sure there are people who do see their use cases in this product, and also can afford it or its non-pro successor. But my take on it is that the real market will continue to be in games, not putting on a helmet so you can virtually type on a computer.
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You seem to be conflating exfiltrating data from cloud services that the phone syncs with (which many state actors probably do en masse), with exfiltrating data held only on the device itself (which is something that you'd only expect from people who actively care about your data, e.g. police looking for evidence after you've been arrested, criminal gangs who want your crypto-wallet keys, etc.)

Modern phones are pretty good at stopping the latter class of attack; this is self-evident from the fact that this type of attacker is looking for specific things in order to use them in a timely manner (use the evidence against you at trial; drain your crypto wallet to spend the funds themselves before you can move the funds elsewhere), and yet we rarely see people reporting that someone made use of their exfiltrated data in this way.

PCs are much more vulnerable to this type of attack. There are tons of computer viruses that steal your crypto wallet.
It's not possible because software cannot change the direction of light.
It is funny that pharma is always brought up as an example for industries where patents "obviously" make sense. Pharma is in fact a pretty good example why patents don't make sense and hinder innovation.

Historically, before the homogenization of IP law, pharmaceuticals had different patent protection in different countries, ranging from very strong (the US), to weak (most of Europe) to excluded (Switzerland). The most successful and innovative pharma companies who were outspending everyone else on R&D were from Switzerland. Patentability of pharmaceuticals suddenly gave US companies a big boost and was really a lobbying success, so they managed to gain strong market positions without much innovation.
Investing in "deflationary assets" is exactly the greater fool theory.
there is no universe in which a (edit: financially sound) nation will accept tax payments in a denomination over which it has no influence or control

(edit: nations that peg their currency to the euro or the dollar are clearly exceptions to what i'm describing here)

this is literally money 101 type stuff, wars have been fought over this stuff, and it's insane that crypto folks don't seem to understand any of it
> I think the house and the yard aren't the nightmare, but the miles of cookie cutter housing developments attached to arterials studded with strip malls is.

Those aren't nightmares either. Or rather, they're only nightmares if your idea of a nightmare is "alternatives to urban living exist."

Also the selective use of "cookie cutter" as a pejorative is interesting. Everything is cookie cutter, especially dense urban development (e.g. all the rail-adjacent apartment complexes I've seen built in the last decade or two). But of course it's only a problem when we're talking about the trendy-to-hate suburbs.

Almost all those other requirements you complain about follow directly from a desire to live in a quiet neighborhood, and the rest are almost certainly a function of traditional American excessive cost-cutting (e.g. the sidewalks on one side, which are not universal). If people didn't actually want to live in quiet neighborhoods, they'd have stayed in the cities.

> Suburbs don't happen without planning, and don't pretend it's only city-dwellers that have a vision for what society should look like.

You missed my point: suburbs are desirable, but your urban advocate central planners lie and claim they aren't (e.g. they're "nightmares," people only moved there because of "marketing", etc. that have been repeated in this thread).
It seems they waited for the Metaverse to tank before unveiling this?
The Apple price is a large part of the allure, for some people.
Interesting, I had forgotten about Guix and now is just the right time for me to try it out, thanks for reminding me.

> Me. It was me. I didn't commit the function

Haha. Yeah, modifying "live" systems without a strict mindsets tends to cause that, the worse is linux images running on production VMs which are partially specified by e.g. Ansible but there are little modifications here and there that are done by one person or the other and when that machine needs to be created you get a nice surprise.
Are you talking about Google TV? I haven't used that one, but I've used Chromecast 4k and was not impressed. It doesn't have a remote - or really a TV UI at all - which was my biggest gripe.
I implemented a message queue in MySQL too and it worked pretty well. Incoming messages would be written to the table and the workers would poll the database each cron period and process whatever rows were in the queue. To avoid race conditions, the workers would lock the records they were working on and then delete them as soon as the work was complete. It was simple but it worked just fine for my purposes
There's overpriced and then there's the next level above that of simply being unimaginably unaffordable.

With the former well, its something for enthusiasts and something for regular people to save up for.

With the latter it's dismissed as something for another class of people and out of sight and mind.

Apple may have ventured into the latter category here.

Not a great space to be if you want to build a platform and lure developers to build on it. Developers want to have a big market.
Regarding Tensor cores, it does have them as part of the 32 core Neural Engine. Apple considers AI/ML a consumer feature, all the way down to the iPhone hardware. At the same time, this isn't a data-center supercluster. It's still just a mid sized workstation.
Also allowing users to upgrade RAM themselves would lower Apples margin and their computers would remain usable for much longer which would result in even less profits... Now Apple can release a 512 GB version in a year or two then a 1TB one etc.

The technical issues are totally insignificant compared to this.

Edit: having said this extra memory for Mac Pro seems cheap as f** by Apple standards. Just $800 for 64 -> 128GB. 8 -> 24GB for Mac mini/Air is $400 and you only get 48GB for $800 in a MBP.
That ad is so dinky. They make Apple marketing look so good.