skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's still a couple of years out, but what about a little thought experiment: Let's say you had a pair of normal looking glasses that do everything that Vision Pro is doing now [1] and cost, say, 1500 USD. This would IMO be a no-brainer, as you can then augment any space and activity you want with having views into the digital world - for work, for hobbies, you name it. That would IMO be a mass market device on the level of today's smartphones.

Now, the question is, how much worse can it be and still sell well? How good is good enough? How soon will we see the plastic iPhone 3G equivalent at half the price, 70% the weight and 150% the battery life? After listening to the first hand experiences I do think Apple is onto something here, and this could be the beginning of the next step, finally going beyond what Douglas Engelbart has already envisioned in terms of digital augmentation of our lifes (on which we're IMO only now getting to a full realisation, almost 60 years later).

[1] listen to yesterday's Cortex podcast, they go over all the details after first hand experience, and it's quite interesting to say the least.
The door itself and the plastic bit are a minor part of the weight savings, I think most of it would come from what's just on the other side of the connector: With NACS you can throw everything onto the 2 aluminum bus bars in the vid, whereas CCS has a whole octopus of copper (relatively heavy and expensive) cables coming out of it
The paragraph they are referring to is the press release further up the page.

They are basically saying none of the major manufacturers had done anything serious in the realm of smart watches.

The reason it’s a “dangerous game” is because the watch industry was disrupted once before by the quartz crisis (cheap quartz watches flooding the market) and many manufacturers went out of business or had to merge with others to form larger groups to survive. So the danger is that smart watches will do the same.

Watches had a rough time for a while after quartz became a thing in the 80’s.

Now they are seen a jewellery more because every has a smart phone for time telling. But watch collecting as a hobby is making a comeback in the 2010’s to now with the internet and hype generating content like YouTube, instagram, Hodinkee, and consumers are keeping a multi billion dollar market afloat with products from million dollar Patek phillipe to 5 dollar casios.
RTO is a manager v labour issue.
'If you want to go fast, go it alone. If you want to go far, go it together.' some African originated principle called Ubuntu.

I generally agree with your assessment but I think socializing the effort, being the change more collectively is how actual shifts start. The legion of the willing won't get far if only rolling their own.
Indeed, that's one of the main possibilities I guessed you were thinking of; for triggering algal blooms, one of the things suggested was iron. (And given it was immediately going into salt water, ore would presumably have been fine… if the hypothesis was correct).
It’s less a job title (I’m a “software engineer” like everyone else) but the scope of the problem your role is aiming to solve. Look for places that 1. have an unsolved hard problem with 2. no real direction on where to go with it and 3. buy-in from someone to get it solved.
Aviation Stack Exchange is lovely too! :)
Their statement sounds and looks good at first, but the actions amount to: you should keep buying our products, you should buy a new washing machine, you should buy a filter and we will keep thinking about it.

Patagonia do make high performance plastic products for activities where performance matters and in a better way than most, but have not been a performance focused company for decades. The original breakthrough of using plastic fleece in the wilderness due to it's non water absorbing properties doesn't really justify the size of their production with those materials today. They make most of their money selling plastic fleeces for people to wear to coffee shops. This segment of the market didn't realy exist before brands like Patagonia so they while they may offer a better alternative today, they are helped to create this particular problem.

And if you've ever seen their clearance lists, they're as bad as other fashion companies for overproduction - new colours every season which need to make way the following season.

Replacing plastics in their casual ranges and extending the lifecycles of the colours alone would make a bigger difference than a couple of research grants, but is risky for sales and less sexy. So take those statements with a pinch of salt.
I had a similar issue in the past querying about 'nice' rate limits towards DNS authorities (mainly registries and registrars) - and was told the question was somehow wrong/irrelevant. It was a simple check to see if domains have nameservers and resolve. It's not really a question there's a manual and page for, simple etiquette. I was told the question should have been X where X was definitely not the question.

The tone of the remarks were laughable too, militant/unempathetic. Last time I bothered to ask anything there, about 7-8 years ago.
Agree, but in that case oral supplementation won't help
GitHub code search started requiring logins
Until recently, I was able to search code on GitHub without logging in as long as it was constrained to a single repository. Starting this week, I noticed that all searches now require logging in, both at home and at work. Has anyone else noticed this apparent change? Also, if this restriction applies to everyone, has there been any announcements?

Here's an example link:

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/search?q=OCSP_REQ_CTX_add1_header&type=code
There being an XKCD about it has zero value, it's like saying there's a Simpsons episode about it. While on the other hand, social media has a demonstrable impact on today's youth mental health, while bicycles... well.
they do, thats why I said fire code.

Here they show up, say fix this shit. and come back and check a week or 2 later.

They came by and we moved around the same time.... the inspections are generally scheduled.

It was only that crazy for about 3 weeks. longer and they would have probbably had a different fix.
Not a moderator but have ~8k rep on SO and have spent some time on mod queues in the distant past.

Most questions on SO these days (that are not "do my homework for me please") are garbage like this. Signal to noise ratio is horrendous. Gin, Next.js, whatever are pure noise, the actual problem is glossed over in a vague sentence: "my browser is getting the setcookie header correctly, it doesn't say it's blocked at all but my browser isn't setting the cookie". You could try to talk the submitter into providing the complete HTTP request, which could take a very long back and forth, but after a thousand questions like this, you probably decide it's not worth the effort to salvage the question; or like me, you decide it's not worth participating in the site at all.
Study talks about how stress can lead to weight gain
This feels like a technology that will be ‘ready’ in ten (twenty?) years, but to dismiss it now a) feels unimaginative and b) precludes that from ever happening.

Do I want to wear big goggles? No. Do I, one day, want a device that can magically project anything I want on to my field of vision, and for it to be as realistic as my actual vision?

Hell yeah I do! And we can’t get there unless we go through the ski goggles phase. So, here we are.

I feel the same way about people complaining that the headphone jack was removed. ‘The phone is thin enough!’, they say. No it isn’t! My god where’s your imagination. The phone is good enough when it’s wafer thin and I can have it protein-printed on my arm or whatever.
DeviceScript – TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices
There is no bot. This is entirely about human moderators acting on posts they consider AI-generated.
Why would NVIDIA spend silicon on 4060's to sell at a price gamers would buy when they have insatiable demands for
giga-margin H100's or GH200's?
For subs you are a member of sure.
No device is built for abuse like this. You could flip a switch manually multiple times and cause failure

Do you even know how much regulation exists behind meters and electrical equipment?

What's next, complaining that the meter can't handle a sledgehammer?

You call weakness I call vandalism

Same as the brats who go and do a "tiktok challenge" of robbing an easily accessible car than finding out they're not immune to handcuffs and jail cells

Edit: and while a self-protection/rate limiting would be good, this could as well as easily be turned into a denial-of-service attack by causing the switch to be off. Better than failure, sure, but still an issue.
Because their scales of what are important things are so often entirely unintelligible to the rest of the planet.
That doesn't appear to be happening to chat GPT, the moderation endpoints seem to do a pretty good job even if they're unfortunately overzealous. Moderation combines summarization and sentiment analysis - two things that large language models excel at.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation

You're naïve if you don't think that the job of moderation is going to be replaced with AI by large social communities.
> moderating a deluge of chatGPT garbage is impossible

Why do you think that?

I see quite a lot of garbage produced by the more meaty intelligences on the internet.
And I don't understand why it'd be intrinsically more difficult to moderate ChatGPT content than any other.
I share similar thoughts.

If we go back in time to the mobile phone era, just before the iphone was released, the mobile market was actually flourishing and very solid: companies like nokia, motorola and blackberry managed to make mobile phones something as common as a TV, almost everyone had one.

At the time Apple introduced the iphone with its touchscreen and virtual keyboard, forever game changers to the whole mobile industry. The rest is history.

VR has been in the market for some time now and despite the fact that competitors haven't reached the level of technology that Apple has unveiled, those cheaper alternatives are by no means something that are either underdeveloped or half-way unusable products. I've tried a pair of Occulus few years ago and found them pretty impressive (putting aside all their flaws).

I must assume that since then these got better and prices actually dropped a bit, and if they haven't they are still way way cheaper than what Apple will be selling next year and I'm sure you can have a ton of fun with budget ones as well.

But yet... Why VR goggles can't be found in homes the same way that TVs, mobile phones and other popular electronic products despite that they are already affordable? Why hasn't this technology became mainstream? Is it maybe due to the fact that the VR experience can't be shared the same way that when we turn on a TV, play with friends with a gaming console on the couch or sit down on a desk
with a PC and we share its use? Is it because it lacks that mythical killer VR app that could be a gamer changer? Is it because the industry hasn't released as much software for VR as for other more common devices like consoles, PCs, mobile phones?

It feels as if there's still something inherently missing in VR that won't make you go and buy a pair of goggles no matter how technologically advanced they become. And people spend a lot of money on expensive phones, gadgets and the alike...

Maybe I'm wrong and shortsighted and the answer is actually trivial.
I recently accepted a job offer and am preparing to move to another country. I need to write and respond to dozens of emails involving a lot of HR people, which I’m not used to at all, and ChatGPT helps me keep my writing polite and to the point. I think it’s perfect for producing boilerplate texts such as formal emails.
Yea, or sell them and try to reimburse the people… there are ways to make this somewhat right.
he meant 0.001 kg
They still haven't reached the same capacity as France, even after 20 years of rapid development. Also in the same country wind overtook nuclear in terms of GWh delivered around a decade ago, and the gap only widened with time.

Of course there are bold plans to accelerate nuclear even further, but at this rate it's doubtful it'll ever be a significant part of the electricity mix.
Twenty years ago, I would have found problematic and ironic that the darling of the GOP would openly call for an autocratic government, in order to constitute a neoconservative order and eliminate anything that goes against what conservatives would call "christian traditions".

Nowadays it's just another Tuesday.
One of the downfalls of Linux Desktop, besides the fragmentation, was Apple and Microsoft figuring out that a large majority wants a POSIX like experience, and aren't that deep onto GNU/Linux anyway.

There is a certain irony when the Linux Desktop is on minority when looking around laptops at FOSDEM.
I have had all my interests collected in one place since at least the late 90's; its called a web browser.....
The reason Churchill talked about “Russia” is because he was alluding to the historical Tsarist Russia, which from his perspective wasn’t very different. That’s not the same thing as people in general just calling the Soviet Union “Russia”, this was a time of great political upheaval and most people regardless of education in Europe were aware of the Russian revolution and their change in leadership, just as they were aware of the changes in Germany.

I also find it fascinating that I’m downvoted for making a point that I myself concede, and that the rest is simply ignored. My real question was: what “months” are being referred to here?
That’s because people just leave.
Agreed. I visit stack overflow every day. It's usually helpful, concise and correct.
On the flip side, Xooglers are expected to do that. That's mostly the reason they are hired for. If they ever suggested just hosting a static page with 0.01 QPS on an existing API server, they'd be deemed as failed Googlers.

Everyone expects them to be building Kubernetes, Terraform, and other useless bullshit that a startup with a total critical traffic of 10QPS absolutely doesn't need.

We've also had ex-Facebookers back in the day who would throw out perfectly fine coding processes and get everyone to use Phabricator. Bloated software that took many engineering hours to design processes around, and came with features that no one with Atlassian would ever downgrade to use. It was like coding with PHPBB.
> feign being oblivious to all the CSAM, depraved porn and revenge porn hosted on reddit

And that is the point where you out yourself as a troll.
Never, ever, depend on other people's API for your own survival.
Because NVIDIA doesn't have their own fabs, and the fabs they contract with have a good bit of capacity right now in their production lines as output decreases.
Fascinating but not unexpected.
Humans are subject to all kinds of input hallucinations like optical illusions where we can't parse the input either.
It's not clear to me what happened after the meter started to smoke. Perhaps it started turning on and off by itself after that point?
The narrative of passwords being deprecated makes me skeptical as well. Remote attestation to me is just a vehicle for corporations to demand certain hardware, overall making the net much less interoperable and free. I am thinking Netflix forbidding me to watch HD content here if I do not bring the correct browser.

Many services already do fingerprint my machine and I heavily dislike it since I often do use different machines and I am tired of these cookie banners bugging me. This is not part of my security model and it is forced upon me. I am aware of the potential benefits, but I am also aware of the often far more specific costs.
San Francisco has a lot of naturally amazing attractions for tech companies. It's a real city so smart, young people from Cal and Stanford want to live in it after graduating. Young adults don't want to move to the suburbs of Silicon Valley. They want something more fun so they want to live in the city. San Francisco also has some of the best weather in the country and is surrounded by nature.

All it takes for San Francisco to have an amazing economy is to not f up.
Why can't more immersive entertainment be an exciting goal and vision? That alone is amazing. To have an entire movie theater in any room in your house or in an airplane.

Or gaming.
That's why I still prefer laptop to mobile or tablet: there is a middle click.
I see it more like the Vision Pro is the bulky Apple II equivalent (in a very positive, optimistic way) of what spatial computing is going to be - and perhaps Dynamicland was another take at the same « target ».

It’s bulky because/in the sense, how much top technology and work has been designed into it to validate and refine even further the vision with more users and developers.

It’s also bulky in an other sense, because how massive it is to wear still; and how social etiquette around it barely exist (but is also taken into account/proposed/embedded in this first public iteration).

It definitely make sense because it opens a really opiniated conceptual door to a different way of interacting with computers.
The headphone analogy is a good one and maybe sheds some light on the different nature of these "visual" headphones.

Headphones are in a sense "additive": they take a channel (auditory) that for a prolonged period of time might be underused while we go on about our lives and utilize it in an unobtrusive way. You can listen to podcasts while doing other stuff. We can optionally upgrade the experience: If you want, you can close your eyes and lose yourself in music.

Goggles are necessarily subtractive. Whatever you do while immersed must justify the fact that you are obstructing your primary contact with the world. It may well be that there are worthwhile pursuits but its a bit odd that they don't advertise themselves.
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Learning by doing has been tried many times, and it's never resulted in a learning rate where one could expect more than a small decrease in costs, and it has conclusively proven that even a halving of costs is probably out of the question.

Look at France in their first build out; subsequent reactors of the same design cost more than the first. And France was considered a success by most. The few buildouts that have seen cost decrease have never produced learning like you get in manufactured products.

I wish I had access to my bibliography right now for the papers on this, sorry I'm making statements without the research to back them up. But those that have looked into which technologies develop learning curves find that the learning curve is found early, and it tends to be tech wheee lots of the same small thing is made, with minimal customization at install.

Nuclear is inherently a big tech, with some customization for site install. Combined cycle gas turbines found some efficiency of scale by being small enough that they could have standardized plant designs that don't require design changes for the site (though it does limit which sites can install the designs). SMRs might change this for nuclear, but what people are calling "SMR" today is still is as big as 300MW, and it's hard to see how that could be standardized and manufactured. Nuclear does not scale down very well, which is why all these places are trying to pass off really big reactors as part of the SMR hype wave.
Apple specifically has said they will not have controllers so yeah… that’s already how it has played out
Why is i this downvoted? it's a legitimate concern.

Big corporation suddenly decides to arbitrarily change links. Everyone happy? Unbelievable
How can she not afford to live in SF on ~$300k a year?
Did Red Bull sponsor this research paper?
The exciting thing about CXL is we can start to find out if peripheral or hopefully close-networked computing fabrics can be useful & interesting, beyond the small circumstances Nvidia will offer. Having an ecosystem that everyone can participate in will let us explore. Money can't buy that. Talent can't buy that. You need to socialize to really find out the possible values.

'The street finds it's own uses for things' is the well known Gibson adage, I and typically it's a comment aimed low. But our entire era of amazing computing began with the Gang of Nine enabling lowness in a degree such that it quickly became the highest tech, the best. Sure you can still buy a mainframe & they have amazing feats but it's not where the value is, but and the value is where it is because possibility was unchained, I unleashed from corporate dominion, and spread wide. I think we can find amazing new futures with CXL & mad bandwidth connectivity.
NSFW! Don't open the (expired?) domain.
The meter shouldn’t react to the flipper’s orders at all in the first place.
Don't know why this gets downvoted. It is simply true. In most cases, ChatGPT4 gets it right. You have to check anyway.
I’d refer you to the rest of what I wrote. If you have a single stack owned by a single team that has no meaningful use of the providers stateful services, yes. Otherwise, my points apply.
I tried that in Bard too. First time it replied 7 letters and no code. Second time it said 8 with code snippet,

d a v i d j l

3rd time, it said 8 again with code snippet,

davidjl

and it counted out the letters e.g. "d = 1 letter"

I asked it "Are you sure?" after the 3rd one, it corrected itself to say 7 letters + counting out.

It's not using Python. Code generation seem accidental and just part of its output.
> So far at least, this is a tech that is being pushed onto people rather than being pulled.

I think it's very hard to tell the difference between these things ex ante. Everything that succeeds looks like it was pulled. But many things were pushed before they were pulled. Buying things on the internet, for instance. This was laughed at for quite a while, while a few people and companies were committed to the idea that it was the future. They were right of course, so right that it feels like it was effortless and demanded by the public, but it wasn't. Not at first.

That isn't to say that that will happen with VR either. Just to say that there is a long history of things being pushed hard and finally breaking through and becoming a near universal norm, and there is a long history of things being pushed hard and dying and being completely forgotten.

The promise of VR is to unlock a world free of the constraints of physics. Where physical distance prevents certain styles of communication and interaction - where physical real estate is finite and therefore rivalrous, etc. There are many things that VR, in principle, could solve. Whether or not the tech can deliver those things in a way that partially (or totally?) replaces actual physical reality remains to be seen. It is clear though that if you want to weave tech into the fabric of people's lives in the deepest possible way, something like VR is probably your best bet.
If any sequence of (radio) button presses can lead to the violent destruction of your product, you are at fault.

To rate limit switching would be a no brainer here.
You could try updating your backers and see if they will pay the postage for the devices they already paid for! Honestly, the mentality of some kickstarter creators is beyond belief.

If you have the devices, that you acknowledge that people paid for, then at least attempt to provide your backers with something.

You didn't go into receivership as you still have the assets - at the moment you just sound like a fraudster.
Realistically, how does the review conversation go if your Impact and areas of Competency are high? I can’t see a ‘yeah but your attendance was low’ holding any water from a credible manager.