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I use the Quest Pro right now, because my interest in spatial computing (I like Apple's new term so trying to use it, haha) is greater than my misgivings about Meta (even though those are significant).

I will buy the Apple thing, too.

There are a lot of interesting differences between them (obviously, the biggest one being the price, and deriving from that) but the one I find interesting is Apple's decision not to have controllers.

This is just like the infamous "if you see a stylus, they blew it" approach with the iPhone. Double down on the simplest possible input mechanism and pretend it is enough. Today, of course, Apple ships an excellent stylus that they are happy to sell you for $129.

(UPDATE: I think here I wasn't clear, based on several replies. I'm not saying this decision was wrong -- it was right, clearly. I just mean they may very well ignore the existence of controllers... right up until they release an awesome high tech controller for us to buy (as an option).)

The controllers on the Quest Pro are fantastic, and although Meta also seems to be pushing as hard as they can to improve hand tracking and gesture recognition, too, there are and will always be immense benefits to having a hardware controller compared to just waving your hands and pinching your fingers. Precision, haptics, joysticks and buttons, additional positional audio, and more.

I have no doubt that if Vision OS succeeds, it will also eventually get spatially tracked controllers as well. But it is going to start without them.

That to me seems like the main competitive advantage Meta's Quest lineup has, other than the price. It's obviously superior in terms of delivering a deeper and more varied lineup of games; Apple seems to understand that and are hardly mentioning games (although, that makes sense due to the price as well).

It will be interesting to see how Meta tries to leverage this advantage. OTOH maybe some enterprising developer will just figure out how to connect Meta's controllers (or other similar ones) to the Apple Vision Pro.
VHS was better, by a long shot.

It won because the Betamax cassette was too small, severely limiting payback length.

Feature films on Betamax used slower tape speeds compared to VHS; which meant that VHS typically had better picture quality.

The mythical "better" Betamax was limited to about an hour of playback per tape. Technically Betamax could have a better picture, but in practice it didn't. (Again, because the smaller cassette meant that it used slower tape speeds compared to VHS.)
> Meta doesn't exactly have a history of producing either

Meta manufactured the Quest line after their oculus acquisition. While it runs Android, it’s heavily modified for VR AR. Overall, it’s a solid headset especially when you look at the price point and ease of use (compared to PCVR).

I tend to favor Apple, but I’m not going to overlook what other products have achieved
Because the price more than doubled to $30B.
Can you explain what seems arrogant?
"Popular notions aside, cats rarely attack rats..."

I stopped reading at that point. I have, on numerous occasions, witnessed cats kill rats (sometimes taking a while doing it, mind you, but always finishing the job). I am not usually outside, and I'm sure there's a lot more going on than I see.

I live in a neighborhood that has had feral dogs, then when they went away (because more houses were built, I'm guessing, and there wasn't as much space for them to roam), feral cats moved in. The drop in rat problems was precipitous. When (due to coyotes or cars or whatever) the cat population drops, we get rat problems, and then when we get new feral cats in the neighborhood, they go away.

Now, perhaps Texas rats are smaller than New York City rats, or else Texas cats are bigger than NYC cats, or something, but the idea that "cats rarely attack rats" is laughably incorrect.
Interesting I thought there was a huge increase in sales thanks to the crypto miners? That doesn't seem to be reflected in that chart.
Supercharger v4 contains both CCS and NACS connectors, and longer cables to adapt to different charge port locations on vehicles
58% of Americans live in the state where they were born, and the median American lives 18 miles from their mom. Statehood absolutely is a thing.

It’s absolutely hilarious that we’re watching Supra-national unions disintegrate (how much longer will Scotland be part of the UK?) but some Americans think a unitary majority-rules government in a country of 330 million people is a good idea. Madness.
Sure - but none of that happened, and the possibility of that happening is exactly the same whether Huffman had trolled the dredge at TheDonald or not. Not everything in life is a slippery slope, it's often just best to weigh things on their own merits.
I'll just add to this, the reason there was no installer for around a decade was that nobody involved with Arch wanted to maintain an installer as their hobby. It was never an elitist thing, to me it's quite reasonable to not want to spend your free time on something you don't enjoy working on nor do you use.

Eventually someone joined the community who did want to maintain an installer, so now they have archinstall.
This is incredible... hats off to the maker. That being said I really wish that the Chinese ETA 2824-2 clone that is the PT5000 would see more action in place of Seiko movements. It's more accurate, runs at 4Hz, and isn't too far off in terms of cost (last I checked - I could be wrong as regards bulk orders). Then again I don't know whether it can be modded to be "open heart" a la the NH38 so it might not have been appropriate for this project in particular.
The hard part is the low end - and Meta has 20 million devices sold there. If the hardware is an obstacle to reaching market fit, I'm pretty confident Meta could get there. It's mostly a matter of scaling up what they already have.
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> The Quest 3 will outsell Vision Pro by 10x because of this.

Which is perfectly fine and why Apple will eventually win - they don't need to sell a ton of units right now.

Apple is going about it the right way, the same way that Tesla did with their electric cars. Eventually there will be a model 3 of the vision pro - and all that R&D they put into making it the best will pay dividends down the line. Meta simply won't have that experience because they just did the cheap thing targeted a small market.

Betting against a veteran hardware company like Apple and in favor of Meta seems ludicrous to me.
I'm guessing that the Vision Pro will actually help Quest sales in the short term, since many people will want the Vision Pro but will settle for the Quest 3, since it'll be 7 times cheaper.
Uh, I guess this got combined with the thread on https://twitter.com/DimitrisPapail/status/166684395282416846.... The original result is legit, this GPT tweet has a number of issues
The intended replacement for animated GIFs was MNG, but it never took off.
Others have pointed out the J1772 adapter, but EVGo already has DC fast chargers with a Tesla plug on it natively: https://www.evgo.com/tesla/
They didn't invent the mouse either, they just popularized it. Personally I like this term much better, so I hope we all start using it.

VR, AR, XR, mixed reality... these are too specific and fussy. "Spatial computing" encompasses them all in a fuzzy way that to me has the right granularity for most conversations about this stuff.
Because unfortunately, your problem as you get older is baggage - the worst thief of sleep of all time. Sorry, no cure unless you're a zen stoic psychopath. Would love to achieve that designation myself.
Years ago as YouTube’s ads really started ramping up, I realized paying the measly $12 a month or whatever for Red, now Premium, was an obvious good decision for me. I get no ads besides actual sponsorships that are part of the video, which are the kind of ads people who hate modern advertising say they want — not “targeted at me” but rather “alongside content that is related to the ad.”

If you just aren’t into “short form” video (or what used to pass for short until TikTok came around, lol) I can see how it would be unappealing to pay for a site you don’t use much, but YouTube premium is my ideal way for media to work.
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> ... at end of the day they're simply consolidating all tracking power to themselves.

1. I'm still learning about 'private click measurement'. Does it reveal extra information to Apple? I would hope it is designed as a truthworthy protocol where cheating, even by Apple, is hard.

2. Welcome to another arms race: detecting and removing identifiers versus hiding them or using alternative mechanisms.

If Apple is taking on this challenge, do they have theoretical reasons to be optimistic? Practically, how well are they doing?

Update: this thread has a lot of comments on the "cat and mouse" game: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36244899
> Fly the sales team over to where he lives, wine and dine him, etc. This is what sales people do all day long for deals that are like $250k+. For deals that are $20 million a year you'll have all parts of the company bending over backwards trying to win that.

I pay Apple more than a million a month and I don’t even have a contact email.

Just saying, a Christmas card would be nice.
Did it - feel a lot better that that history of mine is gone gone gone. I also keep my Twitter history < 6 months. I don't need these long trails of comments haunting me in 5, 10 years.
having worked for a fully remote company that was successfully acquired for a decent sum by a much larger respectable company, remote depends on the top levels of management communicating the vision regularly and being transparent about direction, changes in direction, and reasons for changes. add in someone skilled whose responsibility is for facilitating remote culture and you have a recipe for success.

the problem is there is a ton of terrible leadership out there who want to rule by fiat, ignore their employees, and don't trust their employees (who they either directly or indirectly hired) to so their jobs.
Can anyone comment on how the limits on GPT-X’s token space translate to limits on its vocabulary (with corresponding limits on understanding input and generating output)?

For example, is GPT-4’s list of ~100k tokens sufficient to understand and generate every non-obsolete word in the English language (per, say, a standard dictionary)? Or even every word in the training data?

If not, do we have examples of ordinary words that it is impossible for GPT-4 ever to understand or generate? What happens when it encounters those words and is unable to tokenize them; are they simply ignored (eg omitted from the input vector, or set to 0 or some sort of null token)?
> giant bloated spy machine ad-serving trash app

That was an epic description. Like a Stephen Gaghan take on most (commercial) social media mobile clients.
They said the same things about the original airpod and it used to not be cool to be into video games and comic books.

Times change. If it fails it won't be because of this reason - people won't be walking around outside with these on.
If you have the time, will, and ability, audit the latest release and turn off auto update. That’s counter productive when the extension has its own attack surface of course.

I also haven’t read anything concerning about Mozilla’s Recommended review system yet.
Two root partions with one stable debian and another bleeding edge is an option. And a common big home partition for accomodating flatpaks which can be shared by both.
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Quote from where it was posted:

> The goal of making the code for this repo available is to show that despite statements otherwise by Reddit administrators, Apollo does not scrape anything and users purely authenticated Reddit API requests, and does a great deal of work to ensure the Reddit API rate limits are respected.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter about this.
Absolutely. Also Meta would be foolish not to copy the innovative/popular things introduced by Vision OS.

The iPhone massively benefited almost every phone user in the world -- even those who never used an iPhone. Same dynamic will apply here (albeit with a vastly smaller total number of users, at least for the first decade...)
People are beginning to realise that any comms in public (even on this hallowed forum) will be used against you if not now but in 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 years time, and likely has already been used to train an LLM. Even Twitter actually deletes all your tweets when your account deletion is actioned, Reddit just replaces your name with [user deleted], hence the need for tools like this.

Discord is on the rise with Gen Z as a result. As long as they don't blow it with whatever pivot they are trying to accomplish with the username changes, semi private walled gardens will be the future of the internet.
I just started using this service: https://controld.com/

$20 a year and acts as an ad-blocker too. NextDNS is another one. It's nice you don't need to install anything (other than configuring DNS). Using DNS for ad-blocking also avoids the "we noticed you're using an ad-blocker" popups.
I believe OP is referring to how most Android phone vendors make no profits.
Comparable solar plant output (with storage for consistent delivery) seems to cost in the neighborhood of $1 billion per gigawatt. Vogtle's two 1GW reactors appear to be coming in at a total cost of $30 billion (and that's not counting long-term costs of hot 'spent' fuel rod management and uranium fuel sourcing), so $15 billion per gigawatt if I'm reading correctly.

https://commercialsolarguy.com/americas-first-gigawatt-solar...

Incidentally, the US federal government also provided $12 billion in loan guarantees to Vogtle, which counts as a pretty big subsidy.
> If that happens to every career, I guess I’ll become one of the managers making those decisions.

Because there are as many people who need to manage programmers as there are currently hired programmers? The number of jobs would certainly go down, or there would be no point.

> Stay on top of change, don’t be victimized by it.

Sometimes you can ride change, sometimes you cannot. You focus on being one of the 100(?) US programmers who becomes a manager. Good luck. I'll just continue advocating return to office before that happens. Since the C-suites seem to want to return to office, I'll just enjoy that for now.
Ironically Reddit also gives users way more control over their data than this place.
I ran arch for a little while and really did not like it. Of the ~10 distros I’ve used over the years, Arch was by far the least stable. Turns out I don’t want to be the alpha tester for every piece of software on my machine.

A distro like Manjaro that delays package updates for a few weeks seems preferable for me.
The project itself is popular, but HN allows people to talk about the fairly compelling circumstantial evidence that Asahi Lina is marcan's alter ego. Per previous discussion, they have /home/marcan and /home/lina on the same box [0], have the same hostname [1], and have similar accents and speaking patterns [2]. Marcan is free to do this, but it's completely bizarre behavior acted out in public which is now impacting the actual Asahi project. Doing v-tubing under a pseudonym is one thing, but maintaining a sockpuppet contributor on a major open source project and pretending to interact with it is a giant red flag.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35242010

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601
Let's pick one "vouch" at random and look at it:

Sean Allen: https://twitter.com/paulsanderson/status/1666158302483595264... : "I hope David Grusch stays safe."

None of these people are vouching for his story about aliens.

Grusch himself only claims to have heard these stories from others - he hasn't seen anything himself or presented any evidence.

The media loves it though.
Right now they're convinced I have to show up in the office. I'm happy not to convince them they are wrong.
The people who oppose nuclear power always point to the construction cost and long delays.

BUT.

The reason for the long and expensive construction has a lot to do with the people opposing the construction! We could build these reactors so much more cheaply and quickly (and more safely!) if we decided to!

This in an argument from unclean hands. Nuclear skeptics, like the ones given so much airtime in the linked article, have been very successful in driving up costs and adding delay. But these costs and delays are not intrinsic to the technology. It's not fair if I delay a thing for me to claim the thing has failed because it was late. No, it failed because I delayed it.

I wish the nuclear skeptics would apply their delay tactics to coal power plants, which spew staggering amounts of radionuclides over huge swaths of the world, not to mention their carbon emissions.
Many of us would prefer dang only removed spam, or moved off topic post to bantz
conflating Puerto Rico and DC statehood is frustrating to me.

Puerto Rico should choose independence or statehood, and the Congress should approve either way. Continuance of the colonialist/protectionist status is shocking.

But D.C. was originally not supposed to have any citizens. Only federal government offices, foreign embassies, and monuments/parks/museums. Perhaps Maryland can reclaim part of the district, as Virginia did.
Yea 20 million cheap VR headsets that haven't taken off into the expected market at all. Any hardware company could do that tomorrow. It's easy. Just source the parts.

Apple is practically completely vertically integrated. They design their own chips. They have decades of experience in consumer hardware.

To make AR/VR into what Zuck wants, his hardware is NOWHERE near what it needs to be. And they don't have the chops to get it there. If it's possible, I believe Apple can do it.
Love metabase - we use it as our internal BI to.
My current understanding is that the lack of a token for a specific word does nothing to prevent that word from being "understood" or produced in output - GPT-4 is very capable of consuming and producing text in languages such as Spanish despite most Spanish words not corresponding to a single token.
You do know that Reddit doesn’t pay for moderation but uses an army of volunteers?
I don’t think in-person is better if you don’t know what you need to build. I’ve experienced teams where people were totally without direction despite being in-person. I think in-person just makes it easier to look like you are busy when you have no direction, and remote lays the fact bare.
Are you saying that a company of that size has no high paying jobs. Don't you think it's far-fetched
Ask HN: How has ChatGPT affected your day to day work?
Would love to hear practical examples of how ChatGPT improved or otherwise affected your day to day and what do you think that means for the future of ChatGPT and your role.
Not really. Trade with rich nations could certainly speed up the process but the bitter truth is we have no one but ourselves to blame for the rampant poverty and corruption. It's precisely this corrupt mentality and dependence that stops poor countries from becoming rich. There's a literal communist in the presidency of my country, a leftist party who's enjoyed power for decades by essentially keeping people poor so they'll be thankful for the handouts.
I've been really pleased by the touchpads on Valve's Steam Controller, but they don't sell the Steam Controller anymore. :(
Didn't read the study, but would it be good if they had 120 clones of you and gave 60 taurine and 60 a placebo, and the taurine ones showed better longevity?
Continuum is awesome. It has a level editor built in?
If you're old, Eat more protein.

Anyone doing any degree of attempt to recover (lost) muscle tone as an older person is told 'eat more protein' to help "feed" muscle mass rebuilding after the exercise induced stresses which are heading to "bigger muscles"

So if you eat more protein, you're going to get Taurine.

Drinking a can of "monster" is not the answer.

Does this mean "exercise extends life" is actually .. the protein you eat building muscle is supplying the taurine you need to extend life?

(no: more muscle is a net good all of its own. it helps with diabetes/insulin issues, it helps with core stability == less accidents. it helps with preventing bone loss. it helps with cardio. but ... )
Costs for nuclear don't really benefit that much from economies of scale, each installation has to be heavily reinforced and the required equipment is very expensive (you really don't want primary coolent pumps to ever fail, so they're over-engineered to essentially eliminate accidental failure - although exceptional situations e.g. Fukushima are still always a possibility). Also, the global uranium fuel pipeline is limited (US imports most of its uranium fuel doesn't it?).

Building 500 1 gigawatt solar/storage plants would be much cheaper - by at least a factor of ten - and could be done much faster.
Well. I feel grifted too because being a developer, yet not into the state of the art in algorithms (at that level,) i was inclined to buy their BS
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That's why I just middle click to open everything on a new tab nowadays. Back button still works 90% of the times, but when it's hijacked it's incredibly annoying, and I have plenty of monitor width for the tabs.
If Vision Pro wins, its likely because of the higher-res (so virtual monitors become usable) and the ecosystem (any iOS apps + projecting Apple devices).
Fixing blurry text is simply a matter of throwing hardware at the problem though. The $3k+ Varjo headsets had solved it already with OLED screens and resolution close to the Apple Vision Pro. (You need a beefy PC to drive those headsets, so they are not self-contained.)

It’s not a long-term competitive advantage. The same thing happened with high-DPI displays. Apple had a momentary advantage with what they call “Retina” display on iPhone 4, but soon every Android vendor was also shipping high-DPI and a few years later it was in the low-end handsets. Today it would be weird to say: “I got an iPhone because the text looks so sharp!”

Similarly nothing stops Meta from using a high-DPI screen in Quest as soon as the OLEDs and computing power becomes cheap enough (or if they are masochists and want to try a $3k version of Quest Pro, I guess).
I’m also looking to migrate off reddit because of this. I have a couple sites for my hobbies I’ve already started to visit, but the big loss for me is the ability to find reliable information on niche topics — ie, what rain pants to buy for fishing, where in a city to get the best perogies, looking at how user opinions change over time on political topics etc. Also great are any of the discussions on movies or TV shows. I really see no alternative but reddit for these things. Does anyone have recommendations? Or do I still need to go to reddit for this.
Seattle definitely has problems, but there are narrow areas where the homeless and tourist populations overlap, and if you’re lucky you won’t see the worst of it.

Except for Pioneer Square, you may be closer to these areas at your hotel than going to the sights.
Add Airforms since it has an automatic database diagram display: https://airforms.com
Why compare a tradesman to a software entrepreneur? The tradesman sells his skill and labor in exchange for money. A more direct comparison would be a SWE selling his skill and labor in exchange for money. Or, a manufacturing entrepreneur creating a product and selling it. In both apples-to-apples cases they either make money on day one, or it takes a long time to make money.