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I am not sure how it works, but what PlayStation calls "rumble". In the light saber game, you can feel it when your light saber hits your opponent, or your light sabers clash, and it absolutely adds to the experience immensely. I think almost all players of those types of game would prefer to have that feedback, barring some kind of disability or something.

I don't think you need the haptic vibration function for interacting with floating menus and the OS, although again it helps for button presses, which is why all smartphones now feature haptic feedback.

But the other reason to use a controller in general-purpose OS use scenarios is precision. If you can directly touch something, then by all means that is the best. But if the menu to be interacted with is too far away, say 8 meters away, all current systems I have seen make you shout a beam out of your hand to the button or object, then do some gesture to click.

A controller is way more accurate for this, kind of how a mouse is more precise for most people than a trackpad. But even more so.

So on all of Meta's systems so far, the controller can more precisely highlight and click things at distance. And I think this holds true for all other currently-available systems as well.

What Apple Vision Pro is bringing that is new, though, is the eye-tracking. Supposedly, it is as good as, or perhaps even better, at selecting an object at distance. If so, then yeah, controllers wouldn't really provide a significant advantage for most non-game activity.
Sorry for the late reply!

What you see on these dies can also be recreated manually with transistors, diodes, resistors, and maybe the odd capacitor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7400-series_integrated_circuit... shows further down the on die circuit. There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_gate to give you further examples, plus there are links to TTL logic in general and all sorts of other gates. It should be easy to find pages that show how to recreate this stuff with actual transistors and resistors (or youtube videos for that matter).

The startup is pretty much just powering these chips and maybe having the input lines defaulting to for example "low" with resistors for a defined input and then output state (if the chips don't offer that themselves already -> chip manual). However, all that doesn't happen in zero time, same as signal propagation which needs time, but this is also part of such chip manuals to tell you about the timings, max frequencies etc. they can be operated at.
Flowbite and shadcn-ui are ones to look at. I also like rsuite but it's super bloated which is my main complaint, but it has the best check-tree-picker component I've found.
Ford has already announced they will support plug and charge on Tesla chargers also

The whole paying on a terminal/using an app thing is the wrong approach I think. Ultimately to charge there is a handshake protocol between two computers, just sort out payment then (and thats the standard NAC supports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15118)

Adding a payment terminal is just adding another handshake and computer into the mix, a computer that needs to be (mostly) connected to the internet, exposed to the elements, and vulnerable to skimming devices.
Single page apps don't require a frontend router and the same can be achieved by unconditionally sending a redirect from the server side for any request as long as you also hook into the "beforeunload" event in the browser.
500-1000 square feet per employee sounds way too high.
Have you considered that maybe your priors are just wrong?

I don't know a single person who prefers in-office work who thinks that remote is more effective, but I know many who have the opposite opinion but prefer the flexibility.

Maybe there isn't a realistic way to make remote as productive. I'm honest enough to say that the social pressure that people bemoan makes me significantly more productive. I wish it didn't, but it absolutely does. The inability to tap on someone's shoulder reduces group productivity, regardless of what those who don't want to be interrupted think.

Managers and leaders have acknowledged this and finally we're moving towards getting work done again.
It's more about not having to perform a ritual before using the headset, like making sure the controllers are charged, and picking them up.

When you are holding controllers, you can't interact with the environment and people around you naturally, like how Apple showed it in the videos, before "reversing" the ritual.

Apple also wants users to plug it in and use it all day. You can't do that with the limit of controller battery.
Supposedly the Bay View building is 1.1 million square feet and 4000 employees.
I have ADHD and though I love having a tidy home I struggle to make it happen. Still, I find chores to be a low stakes daily dojo to practice prioritization, executive function lol, "good enough" nonjudgemental thinking and all those values.

Two books helped me greatly and they both call out the exact distinction between perfection and efficiency you do. Consciously giving up on "efficiency" has helped me finish a lot of projects I otherwise would have put off for far too long!

The books are "How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind" by Dana White for ADHD folks, "How to Keep House While Drowning" by KC Davis for when life is f'ed. Heartily recommend both.
I may need to trailblaze development on a Linux VM at a new job because my rural DSL isn't up to the task of doing everything on my local MacBook like all the other devs. I have a lot of experience with Arch on desktops and laptops. I was leaning towards Ubuntu just due to a vague sense that "more of the important stuff will 'just work' " but do you think Arch might be a better call?
They are saying it is easier to teach yourself to not mind something rather than to try to convince other people not to do it.
> people can 'self-select' thus reducing headcount

Self-select usually mean the brightest and most capable select another job though.
actual hotdesking in some platform areas (for example, Google Cloud). I don't know how universal that is.
Why should they be in panic? They already iterated on 3 headsets, they definitely have the advantage (weren't people complaining that they spent too much $$ in VR? Now they should be terrified?)
Hope so! I would buy them immediately. :-D

(Not holding my breath, though...)

And yeah, the Oculus controllers wouldn't nail the butterfly on finger demo, but if they had controllers, the demo would be a hawk landing on your forearm. (And that would work, even though it doesn't quite make sense that your palm would vibrate when a bird lands on your forearm... but haptic feedback is weird.)
If we don't fix up issues caused by the tokenizers, than techniques which literally remove superfluous computation (i.e. through filters of the LLM probability distribution) are useful as a stop-gap.

Switching to bytes is the ultimate fix, but for the interim, if you want reliable rhyming with an LLM, you need filter-assisted decoding: https://paperswithcode.com/paper/most-language-models-can-be...
and replicas post about this work: https://replicate.com/blog/turn-your-llm-into-a-poet
No still you need to do a little bit of tweaking in it. It will not generate a ready to present deck for you.
If management had enough leverage to push them back in, they weren't going to escape
Yeah certainly! What kinds of roles would your friend be interested in?

Happy to chat on Twitter/email, both in bio :)
It was supported on PlayStation before Meta bought them, and they promised to continue supporting it on PlayStation. But that promise probably doesn’t include new platforms from other players.
There's nothing about hot-desking in the article. What's your source on that?

A long time ago when I worked there, I didn't like working in the office sometimes, but sitting out on the balcony with a laptop wasn't so bad. Can't do that on a sub :-)
I would like to suggest read the book The 100$ Startups book to look beyond the job and starting something on own with minimal investment.

https://www.d-pdf.com/book/3816/read
You’re welcome. FWIW, this is getting a lot more upvotes than I expected. Maybe it’s just that there is a lot of traffic on this thread. But it could be that a lot other people have had similar experiences and just don’t want to talk about it. I can certainly relate to that - there are some people in my life who I haven’t told simply because of what they might think. It’s easier to talk about with strangers or super close friends.
I've been reading all the comments on here in the several discussions that have made it to the front page, wondering if my use case is really so unique...

I'll buy it. No question. No hesitation.

The main reason is that I need a private workspace.

I work remotely and don't have a lot of physical space (I live in 80sq ft, at the moment. No, not a typo). I share it with my wife, who is a project manager and on calls all day.

This makes work quite challenging, it's easy to pull me from the "zone". Sometimes it's just because of an intense call she's on, sometimes it's because I'm so available.

She'll ask "are you in the middle of something? Can I ask you a quick question?" and just like that, I've lost 30-45 minutes of productivity.

The idea of having a virtual private workspace, surrounded by monitors, playing focus music, with the illusion of a vast space around me... This sounds like a dream.

I'd happily pay $3,500 for it.

In fact, we'll be buying two.
Android was ahead for a long time 3-4 generations only recently had Apple jumped ahead, basically after Google killed affordable nexus devices that was the turning point
Any technology can be used for work as well as other stuff.

AVR is basically a extension of our monitors on our faces. You can do any real world physical work with that thing on.

It is an excellent choice for remote control and monitoring of systems though.

I see it will be primarily used as a consumption device for movies and games.

VR gets tiring after a while, and the effects on eyesight degradation are not fully known.
Not quite - just because the founders have majority control doesn't mean that the BS financial duty "laws" don't apply to the company executives. They have a duty to all the shareholders, not just the controlling ones.
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What other choice do they have? they literally removed the headphone jack to force people to buy them
Maybe Apple doesn't actually want to sell a lot of a first generation product they know will quickly evolve?
Yeah - I’ve tried metas controllers and it felt clumsy and effortfull to use the UI. The descriptions of Apple’s eye tracking sound far superior.

Why wouldn’t makers of light saber toys just add a buzzer? That would be far better than a game controller, and super cheap to add.
The really good eye tracking seems like a big deal on the Apple device - that will feel like telepathy and I think will be significantly better than the controller nav that currently exists with meta devices.

Apple's focus on productivity is good too because it relies less on network effects for cool use cases. Part of why the Meta approach is hard is the social stuff requires everyone you know to have headsets, this (imo) is why Carmack was pushing for lighter, cheaper devices over the Meta Quest Pro - he saw growth and distribution as the core bottleneck for Meta's approach.

Since Apple's approach is around individual use and productivity, that frees them to build an expensive device that provides value to one user and then leverage that until lots of people have them, it's an easier way to bootstrap (and something they've done historically repeatedly). Of course it helps they already have a platform to extend too.

The big breakthrough IMO is commitment to pass-through for AR, this ultimately solves the "draw black" problem Michael Abrash wrote about at Valve in 2012 [0] before he joined Oculus. Ben Thompson of Stratechery makes an analogy to mirrorless cameras vs. DSLRs and I think it fits - people thought screens would never be good enough compared to natural light, but it turns out at some point they are. Palmer Luckey mentioned in 2021 that he thought this also should be the approach to it. The other major issue Abrash talks about in that blog post is latency, and Apple has solved this (though only just) because of their incredible custom silicon which was not easily visible back in 2012.

It's possible to imagine these devices getting smaller and lighter as they iterate, the AR and eye tracking means you may be able to do things like look at a light switch in your house and turn it out without anything else, UI for the real world becomes possible. Looking at little glass displays could become an anachronism of this time. Of course, it could also just be a common way to do desktop computing - hard to know.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120804140946/http://blogs.valv...

It's fun to look back on some old HN threads with predictions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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This is awesome at first glance. UI on here is really stellar, nice work. Also, if I’m going to browse the internet, I’d prefer to read higher quality posts that are more timeless like these. Overall, nice work.

Edit: request for a shuffle option. I don’t want to scroll so much each time past articles I’ve read.

Do you plan on growing this library?
> The Quest uses an Android based operating system and a lot of off the shelf components.

> We've seen this story before and it hasn't ended well for the folks in Mark's position.

market share of android vs iOS in 2023:

> Android 71.63

> iOS 27.71
The question asked was whether it’s a meta exclusive. The answer is unequivocally no.

Will it be released on Apple Vision? Maybe.

But that was not the question asked and incorrectly answered by multiple people, yourself included.

FWIW, I don’t think it will be, but not because of exclusivity. Haptics is indeed a big part of what makes it fun and Apple has made it clear that there won’t be controllers, at least at launch.
FB does not appear to be attracting young people. Apple appears to be a magnet for them. FWIW, Apple does PR and presentations a lot better ( I honestly can't remember FB VR rollout, but I was interested in Apple's toy ).

If FB is not worried, their CEO may not be doing his job.
I was in what amazon called double high density once. one guy had to duck under anoterh guys desk to get to his. so basically against fire code. the better way i've seen it there was where you will not quite bump into the person behind you if you push back. I was only in that once. usually I had an extra foot. I'm in low density right now it's good. Amazon never gave us smaller desks, they were always door desks. That would have gotten us more dense tho.

that's got nothing on what my animation co-workers dealt with in movies where they were just far enough not to bump elbows on the perimiter of a sound stage / mocap area. Worse they had a 2nd row of other coders above you on grating. They didn't let women on the upper deck due to look ups.
Exactly this, can you even trust this as a source of truth anymore?
He should host it on livestream
TBF it's "two people share a desk on alternate days", and as the other commenter said, only in limited areas for now. How anyone thought that was a good idea, I have no idea.
If you can get the high end to work well you can get the volume to make low end good enough. The 3k unit is probably the minimum viable product with todays tech but if it takes off in 2-3 generations we will get 1k headsets with equal or better features due to volume
> productivity was not impacted

This is a general statement about the economy that is plausibly true, but doesn't apply to all companies because different companies have access to different parts of the labor pool depending on pay, industry, and working conditions.

The kind of talent available to Facebook is very different from what's available to a mid-size insurance agency in Nebraska. I know for a fact that some of those companies in drawing from the low end of the talent pool saw their productivity fall into the dumpster during the mandated WFH period.
Thats what I am saying. They had 3 iterations, yet, are technologically behind Apple.

I mean, just pure technology wise, the screens, number of sensors, processing power itself is mind boggling.

I am sure that all their hadware decisions regarding oculus were constrained by the compute hardware. Apple has the moat of world class custom silicon that means, the constraints on its designers are far less.

And we are seeing just the first gen device.
It _is_ objectively true that WFH is better for the environment. But oh well, so far wildfires are contained to just wildfire season, so not a big deal :))))))
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Sounds like Blackberry talking about the first iPhone and we all know how that turned out. The $3500 for V1 will be $600 by V3.

This is worth the read.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/hands-on-with-apple-...

Here is the most important comment from the story.

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When you actually put on the headset, though, you'll often find that the promotional video was pure aspiration and reality still has some catching up to do. That was my experience with HoloLens, and it has been that way with consumer AR devices like Nreal, too. That was not my experience with Vision Pro. To be clear, it wasn’t perfect. But it’s the first time I’ve tried an AR demo and thought, “Yep, what they showed in the promo video was pretty much how it really works.”
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We all watched the demo and thought "wow, but this is the marketing video so lets see the reality."
Sounds like the age-old home gym equipment tale. I imagine there are more stationary bikes being used as clothes rack than as exercise equipment.
Totally agree. In fact, it was so good it allowed me to enjoy Reddit far more than I could have without it. And spend far more time on Reddit than I would have. Killing Apollo kills my desire to use Reddit.
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You have to include more answers to the anticipated five whys: "why why why why why" for your response to be useful.
Yes. I can see people in coffee shops wearing the apple ski goggles , but not Quest. In particular because it's very expensive and signals wealth. Like how many people buy a Tesla, even though VR goggles are less useful overall
Last month I needed to work in C/C++ which I usually don't, so ChatGPT helped me quite a bit, mainly to save time for researching, trial and error, etc. For example:

- I received a bunch of C files (~100) in a non-trivial folder structure from a code generator, however without a Makefile or something similar. GPT generated a Makefile based on the folder structure.

- I needed to add a couple of functions regarding reading and parsing a certain binary file structure. GPT was a good help here, too.

Additionally I was reading about some topics in linear algebra. I asked GPT to produce a intuitive explanation of the topics. This then helped me to work through the abstract description.
Yeah but unit sold doesn’t matter much when apples units sell for 700 and android ones for 150
I’m sometimes cynical about publicly-traded companies, but Google seemed more forward-thinking in its pre-Alphabet era, and Apple seemed to be very forward thinking from 1997-2011 when Steve Jobs was running the company. Being a publicly-traded company doesn’t automatically mean resorting to bean counting and other bad forms of management.
I played Catan in VR, AMA
Not affected, but It helps me to improve my writing skill.
The $3500 price tag and closed ecosystem is self-sabotaging, so MZ doesn't need to be worried at all. Carmack's vision was a cheap device that could hit mass market, and that's where the real game still is. Also, games.
That's decent for single games, but overall those are low figures.

These companies are aiming to have installed bases in the hundreds of millions if not billions.

Active gaming will be a nice use case, but will not be the reason 40-50m people buy a headset every year.
That's the thing. I don't trust facebook at all. After many years, I switched to Apple (Mac) and I don't fight as much as before. Heck, I'm now learning Swift/SwiftUI just because that by the time we get version 3, We could program something similar to what Tony Stark has at home (fingers crossed).

Now, fb is still "sharing" with the community (React, Pytorch, Prophet, etc...), so at least on that front they're winning.
I thought this problem was already solved in all current-gen VR headsets? Basically eye tracking.
Honestly depending on the time scales you look at, this could be seen as "growing office space less quickly". They just built a massive campus in ATL and have two more coming up in MTV and CHI.
> research skills are difficult to test in an exam setting

I understand you're not saying it's impossible, but is it really that much of a pain for a real human to just read the paper?
> It seems these laws are passed in the knowledge that they'd be ruled unconstitutional, but that fighting them would be too expensive for most companies

Sadly, this has become common practice from all sides of the political spectrum. The state has tax dollars to pay its lawyers, which is a nearly endless well to draw from. They can simply outspend their opponents.
Apple wants users to charge their earbuds, their watch, every day in order to listen to music and track their oxygen. These could all be integrated into the phone, but they chose not to, in order to sell more products. Everyone does this thing nowadays
Google management has always been incompetent. It's just that now that economic conditions have forced them to make more drastic decisions that their incompetence is even more obvious.
"I'm doing my part"
Oh God, the dimples. Or the textured trackpads that felt nothing short of sandpaper.
Hybrid usually means office is required every week. It’s terrible
Delete the app

For browser you can use a domain blocker. Firefox mobile has an extension LeechBlock that can do that.
> Financially, RL is the worst business on earth. No other business has lost this much money in such a short period of time.

This is like saying, the US is the worst country on earth because of it's debt. The reality is, if you have money and you don't invest it, it loses value.
Their business revolves around ads. I don’t know where that’s going, but I’m not betting the house on it.

Their AI strategy has been a joke as far as I can tell. That’s not helping.

Their “regular” services are ok, but nothing I would pay for.

They are downsizing and dropping staff left and right. This might be a good signal: they are being realistic and riding this one out, but I’m not getting good vibes.
I’m surprised we don’t have that yet. Your iPhone would make an excellent Citrix client just dock and wait for your text to show up as you type.
“Thanks to its high average selling price and its healthy profit margins, Apple captured 50 percent of global smartphone revenues and more than 80 percent of the industry's profits in the first three months of 2023”

https://www.statista.com/chart/29925/apples-share-of-the-glo...

Apple is amazing at business. Hands down they are a phenomenal business. Destroying all other smartphone makers hands down.
CA is being abandoned. I'm thinking I should leave and not be left behind.
> 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.

The thing is, it is enough for general use. The Apple Pencil (or whatever they call it) is a specialised tool for people who need the extra precision.

The difference between modern no-stylus-needed touch screens and old stylus-required touch screens is exactly that, with the old screens they aren’t functional at all without the stylus.
So I can drink my coffee, use my keyboard, or eat my popcorn.
There is no duty to maximize profits though, that is a myth.