skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I'd definitely take the opportunity to test it prior to buying, if possible. OTOH though I am kind of an avid hobbyist in this area, so I buy one or two of these machines each year (and sell the ones I don't have continued use for). So I'll probably end up buying it regardless, unless it is somehow awful when it actually comes out.

The resolution isn't the problem with Quest Pro (although I always want more) but the passthrough of the real environment around you is terrible. It's very distorted, as if the cameras are far lower resolution than the screen is.

I've heard that this aspect of the experience is better on the Apple Vision Pro, although I don't know for sure since I haven't yet tried it myself.

This actually doesn't matter that much, because the resolution is still good enough to walk to the fridge and grab a drink (or whatever) without taking it off.

The other super interesting thing to me is the external display of your eyes on the surface of the headset.

This sounded so stupid to me when it leaked before they announcement, that now I am embarrassed, because the problem is one we have all the time in my own house. I've realized it is a fundamental problem with these devices, and one I even had all the time, and yet I couldn't see how that would solve it. But it really does seem to.

The problem we always have is, our kids put on one of the headsets we have, but then we (their mom and I, and their siblings/friends) can't tell whether they can see us or not. This actually really matters a lot -- if the wearer cannot see, then we need to make sure no other kids get near them, otherwise there is a risk of collision and injury. This is partially solved by casting the view from the headset to the TV or whatever, but this is glitchy and sometimes even disabled.

The other scenario where this is really useful is at the office, or even a coffee shop. When a coworker walks up to you, they have a visual indicator of whether you can see them or not. Actually a very important social cue.

Or when the waitress comes up to bring you your coffee. You can look at her and accept the coffee, and it is obvious to her that you can see the cup she's handing you. Sure, she'll still probably be a little weirded out the first time, but she'll get used to it. :-D
Huh? What does one mean by using the verb "self-destruct" transitively?
How the Steam Engine Was Invented
The author of the original video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF6o9Ec4k_o) likely called it that because they're showing off what their new toy can do.

The SDR-related blog is also unlikely to have an agenda that includes getting certain types of SDRs banned.
If you look up a galaxy eating another galaxy, they're a lot more comparable to a Lorenz Attractor. There are a quite a few differences between them and black holes, even visually.

https://mashable.com/article/nasa-esa-hubble-galaxy-stretchi...

Scroll some of these images: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1185556/milky-way-gal...

A visually clear point is that the inner part of one feeds the outer part of the other (and vice versa) in a Lorenz Attractor, and it is a continuous cycle.

Black holes don't do that at all. The surrounding light gets bent around them in a straight-forward way. There is no cycle or periodicity.

Colliding galaxies get about half way to a Lorenz Attractor, being without the "vice versa" part - one is inevitably eating the other, so it isn't fully cyclical. But visually the connection is notable.
I have a shredder that cuts out when it overheats too. It's a PTC thermistor controlling a relay, the thermistor is glued to the motor housing and the relay coil contact is wired through it. When it heats up too much, the resistance increases to the point that the relay is no longer receiving enough current, and it de-energizes and opens its contacts, breaking the motor's power supply.
As an introvert with Asperger and an adamant pro-office guy I can't relate, what you describe sounds more like social anxiety or sociophobia, and require proper treatment (also facing (semi)professional conversations is a good treatment of its own since you know the topic and the people)
That makes no logical sense at all. Why go for $10m if there is no need to because you have already adjusted your own pricing upwards.

Also, what things are priced at is not what they cost …
Augmented Reality (AR, or I guess "spatial computing" now) has always been what I thought would push the whole thing over the edge, and not VR. The "killer app" for VR is immersive experiences - while there's a niche for them, and I think we'll see more and better iterations, I don't think it has the growth potential that AR does.

The killer app for AR is the pair of glasses that pops up information as an overlay on the rest of the world. Directions? You get an arrow and line telling you where to go. Meet someone for lunch? Facial recognition tells you information about them - either recent social media posts if you're already connected or something like a public profile if you don't. Testing out a new recipe? It shows you step by step directions and floating video of the task you need to do right them. Watching a movie? Built in subtitles and tells you who the actors (or voice actors) are. Looking to buy a car? The AR headset gives you pricing information and stats for any car that you look at.

I could keep going. Think combination of Ready Player One, any gadget spy movie, and a video game isekai. Menus that allow you to make notes for when you go to the store, calendar reminders popping up visually

The potential for abuse of privacy is high, but the convenience factor and instant gratification probably mean that people will still adopt it in droves. Add in some kind of AI assistant that does a halfway decent job at anticipating the user's needs and it's a done deal.

The main things holding back that kind of thing are battery tech and miniaturization. 2 hours isn't gonna cut it, and it needs to shrink to a more innocuous level before we get there, but that's the direction I see it going. That's probably also why these companies are working so hard at iterating, to get that first-mover advantage.

If we do get there I pity anyone with photosensitivity issues or epilepsy. They're gonna have a rough time.
> I am still somewhat surprised that they have (in relative terms) flopped.

I am not - Apple's "Post-PC" vision was clearly not viable to me, despite initially out-selling the entire desktop industry initially. The "What is a computer" ads were cringe.
Oh no, it definitely can and should. There’s absolutely no excuse for not adding a sensor or even a dumb counter to implement a simple action limiter and constrain operation with a safe envelope. It’s basic engineering
Not an entirely honest appraisal of the dismantling of US manufacturing in the 80s.

Big corporations didn’t reluctantly close down factories, hat in hand, because people weren’t buying their products. They moved the manufacturing offshores and people kept buying the products they always have.
Sundials emphasize our reliance on the sun as a source of light and energy. They remind us of the fundamental role the sun plays in sustaining life on Earth and providing us with light and warmth. This dependency gives sundials a sense of harmony with the natural world and instills a sense of wonder and appreciation for the celestial bodies.

Mechanical watches are diamonds for men.
I want to take computer-generated math animation, and transform it to look as if I hand drew every frame. This must be within the reach of consumer AI by now? I'll be happy to hand draw a large training set. Otherwise I don't know where to start.

There are have long been musicians in the digital realm who develop their own tools. Visual arts should be ripe to similarly explode, with interactive content for VR headsets an emerging genre.

We could accelerate this evolution, by teaching artists the tools that are ready now.
no one is saying that it should be legal to go destroy other people's stuff. if that's the message you're hearing, go back and re-read.
A self-driving ferry makes more sense than most (if not all) of the FSD cars on the roads out there.
I love the way Apple fans take the marketing speak which is designed to create an artificial new market category at face value as if their marketing team was directly implanted in their brains already.
Yes, some of the issues woke screeches about are perfectly valid issues. That’s why perfectly reasonable people believe in it. But woke as this ‘the only right ideology, cancel everyone with a different opinion, no one is allowed to go to a conference that doesn’t agree, everyone that disagrees is crazy’ is a fad and obviously unsustainable.

Woke does not have all the answers but it does try to make it impossible to discuss things, so it makes it impossible to find the answers. The adherents of woke are very loud and talking loudly can drown out other voices. But it doesn’t make them right.
I'm not saying it's possible in a few years. My argument was: Such a device would definitely be mass market. So how much worse can it be and still be mass market. And I could see a consumer version of Vision Pro in a couple of years reaching that state, where they just make it a bit cheaper, lighter and smaller.
I have a similar experience as dvt.

Not all, but some of my questions also got downvoted or closed. You might not be able to see them when your reputation score is too low (also somewhat stupid).

The reasons of closes or downvotes vary:

- Being off-topic for the site. Which is often very arbitrary. And I don't fully agree with what they want to have as on-topic. E.g. they don't want to ask for library or software recommendations. I understand the reasoning (might be opinionated and can easily get outdated) but there are some cases where there are canonical answers even to those, and in most cases, it's still useful.

- Or quality not good enough yet. I don't think it's a good reason to close a question or downvote it. If it is unclear, people should just comment and ask for further clarifications.

- Duplicate. Sometimes it's true, but sometimes also not, as the question ask for a somewhat different thing.

Here are some examples, linked in this post: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/127617/how-much-res...

Here are some more:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69721352/pycharm-style-d...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65492932/ficlone-vs-ficl...
Unexpected CLS issues caused by ‘ch’ unit
It self destructs in the sense that no external force was applied to it.
There are a lot of amino acids which the human body can produce that nonetheless show clinical effects when additional amounts are ingested.

I don’t understand the logic either but I’ve decided the human body has a billion things yet unknown to science so I take macro effects at face value even if I can’t learn an underlying mechanism for them.

As a side note, a lot of weightlifters believe taurine reduces muscle cramps.
Well, yeah, but now it starts being totally ridiculous.

For small projects the cloud is not needed, and a lot of effort that won't pay off. The only case where it'll pay off is if you "go viral" and rapidly need to increase capacity.

This is not free. While the cloud helps with scaling, your application still needs to support it. So there's a development cost to it, even when starting.

Then, if you scale, the cost makes it almost a necessity to rapidly get back off of the cloud ...
Probably a thermocouple and an op-amp.
Let's say it was faster, simpler, safer, cheaper. I find the idea of making your energy systems entirely dependent on weather to be an odd choice when we are expecting global climate change now and in the future.

At the very least, it will make forecasting supply more difficult. At worst, what if there are major wind pattern shifts or catastrophic weather events that damage your dispersed energy harvesting machines? A nuclear plant is designed to survive a direct impact from an airliner but a hail storm can ruin a region's rooftop solar panels.
Site is down, archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230609052235/https://www.rtl-s...

The article centers around this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF6o9Ec4k_o
That said, it’s also important to demand device makers build better protections into their software (like rate limiting) in the same way they do for the hardware. Otherwise it leaves the door open for legislature trying to ban screwdrivers (tools)
Might need some place to see which big subreddits are NOT participating
Pissing off the people doing thankless free labor to keep your subreddits moderated and site functional seems like a poor choice. This is going to be quite an event when it kicks off Monday.
It's not a miracle. It's just that they are pretty much immediately reported and captured by the likes of the RSCPA or local councils.
I wrote a lisp, a while back, and then later added an LSP for it.

Since lisp is so simple in terms of syntax what I really did was tab-completion, and info-on-hover, for the built-in functions like "car", "cdr", and the primitives I added as part of a more complex standard-library.

In my case I was writing in go and I found an LSP-server package which was trivial to use. So getting the integration with emacs, vim, etc, was really trivial:

https://github.com/tliron/glsp
Ask HN: What factors influence your decision to experiment with a new tool?
I am talking specifically dev tool. Here are some options, but please feel free to add and comment. I put symbols you can use to cast a vote. Of course, I acknowledge that it is possible that multiple options might apply to you.

(+) It needs to be recommended by a fellow dev
(*) It needs to look and feel cool (website + product)
(#) I need reassurances about security (is it safe to add it to my API, for example)
($) It has to have a free trial with no credit card submissions
(?) I hate free trials, it needs to have a free-forever option
(&) I need reassurance that it REALLY is easy to integrate
(!) It needs to have perfectly written and easy-to-understand developer docs
(=) With my busy schedule, you need to find the right time to get me to try a new tool.

... Feel free to comment with something else.

Personal Comment:
I am pretty open to trying new stuff. It just sometimes depends on the timing a lot. I might actually like a tool and try it like 6 months later xD

It also depends on the urgency. If the tool looks like just something that is nice-to-have, I probably won't try it immediately or at all.
How was this banned? By name? By intent?
> You are right that I'm not French, I'm Swiss and we have 5 years longer until pension. I would love to have solutions which can keep it as low as in France, but I must wonder, how come no other country in the world (except Greece, which defaulted) was able to apply them already?

You can check the government report on which everything in this pension reform is based on

https://www.lexpress.fr/economie/retraites-ce-qu-il-faut-ret...

Article fails to mention covid killing off a bunch of old people but the timing of that helped too.

We don't do capitalized pensions aka "putting money aside" and we don't want to. We pay for the currently retired with the dues of those currently working in real time

Some of the same people would show up in the streets for reduced pensions or increased dues if it came down to a deficit (which isn't the case right now), but nothing like May
Evanw/Polywasm: A Polyfill to Run WASM in JavaScript Environments
who is "you" in your post. your first sentence makes it sound like you think the owner of the device is at fault, but the second sentence makes it sound like the maker of the device should be held responsible. maybe unintentionally ambiguous?
Because ChatGPT:

- multiplies the rate at which people are able to produce content by many orders of magnitude, and

- uses sophisticated sounding language with a lot of correct statements, sprinkled with a few hallucinations that can be anywhere from slightly off-base to dangerously wrong, and

- doesn’t even need a human much in the loop on the producing side. Certainly there are karma farming bots posting answers written by ChatGPT right as we speak

So content produced by ChatGPT takes more time to review for the people looking into factual correctness of the answer while at the same time is able to be submitted at a much higher frequency than before.
Changing their pronouns would have had no material impact on comprehension, even if you kept the dead name.

Using their name and linking to their video would have similarly been clear.

You chose to do neither.
Weather: A CLI tool to get the current weather anywhere in the world
> Seasonal, daily, and weekend dips in demand mean you just don’t want that much [nuclear] base load power

One problem is that the US regulatory agency doesn’t like load-following - apparently only one nuclear reactor in the states does it.

It is common in France to do load following i.e. using Nuclear not only for base load but varying load too:

This means that RTE can depend on flexible load following from the nuclear fleet to contribute to regulation in these three respects:
* Primary power regulation for system stability (when frequency varies, power must be automatically adjusted by the turbine).
* Secondary power regulation related to trading contracts.
* Adjusting power in response to demand (decrease from 100% during the day, down to 50% or less during the night, and respond to changes in renewable inputs to the grid, etc.).

PWR plants are very flexible at the beginning of their cycle, with fresh fuel and high reserve reactivity. An EdF reactor can reduce its power from 100% to 30% in 30 minutes. But when the fuel cycle is around 65% through these reactors are less flexible, and they take a rapidly diminishing part in the third, load-following, aspect above. When they are 90% through the fuel cycle, they only take part in frequency regulation, and essentially no power variation is allowed (unless necessary for safety). So at the very end of the cycle, they are run at steady power output and do not regulate or load-follow until the next refueling outage.

From https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr... and click on “Load-following with PWR nuclear plants” in the right-hand menu.

NuScale is supposed to be able to vary output too “plant incorporates unique features that enhance its ability to load follow” https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Example-of-NuScale-modul... and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295114246_Integrati...
How on earth is the US Navy managing its fleet of >64 nuclear powered submarines ?
What's your point here? No one is saying reddit is not allowed to make this decision, people are arguing that it was a stupid decision. Its absolutely a company right to shit on their bed and hurt their customers, just as much as it is for said consumers to respond and criticise.
DeSantis campaign shares apparent AI-generated images of Trump
And that's not enough. Think of the swap sequence t=a,a=b,b=t: all three moves are necessary.

While removing moves is a common optimization, it can't be done willy nilly.

As mentioned in the comment you replied to, the algorithm is wrong without the extra precondition B<C that is not included in the prompt, as should be clear from the fact that the largest value is computed as max(A,C) rather than max(A,B,C). This is the same precondition that allows to remove the move, effectively computing the smallest value as min(A,B) instead of min(A,B,C).

So the only correct answer to the prompt is to find a counterexample which does not sort correctly, for example 3 7 5. Not to remove an instruction randomly.
And peak VR gaming circa 2023 seems to be Gorilla Tag and Beat Saber. Not saying those are bad games, but…
>Not joking. Checkout VR porn. Then it hits you. Holy shit this is the future of media and entertainment. Something about perspective in VR gives a human touch of interactivity not possible with other media forms.

One of the most pathetic things I've ever heard. Gushing about immersive cuckoldry.
1.4B doesn't even offset the 2B they paid to the NRC to certify their technology. This is boring old PWR reactors too. It's ancient tech.

Fast construction is basically the point of SMRs so we will see if that pans out. Not that I expect them to nail it on the first try.
> If we go further back in time, mobile phones were bricks used only by business people [...]

But they were widely used by business people, and I’m assuming that was an important aspect of permeating into the other demographics.

To me, what happened with cellphones is similar to what happened with personal computers. It first entered households of people that needed them for work, and as the tech evolved, so did their recreational capabilities making them more appealing to the mass market.

AR/VR devices are attempting this the other way around: their current use cases seem to be mostly recreational, and we are hoping they will eventually come up with some productivity use cases. Someone in this thread talked about how they are surprised that tablets have sort of flopped, and I feel it’s because of similar reasons. Sure there are now more and more ways to be productive on a tablet, but it’s still more of a consume-centric experience and I believe that’s the reason they haven’t replaced laptops. Time will tell.
The rats dont just pop out fully grown, the young rats are an easy prey.
Almost all of this articles are based in wild extrapolation from the same unique source. This is bad science and time will prove that is a false solution (In my arrogant opinion). Models in biology are not always linear.
Awesome Lemmy Instances
I need to get better at doing that. The cycle to the office (55 mins / 23kms each way) is really good on the days I go in, but I just can't motivate myself to do the same on the days when I'm not going in!
> Serious adverse effects have not been reported with taurine supplementation.[24] The highest dose used in a human trial was 10 grams per day for 6 months, and the longest human trial was 12 months and used a dose of 0.5–1.5 grams per day. Based on the available evidence, it’s suggested that 3 grams per day can be consumed indefinitely without risk of side effects.[24]

https://examine.com/supplements/taurine/
Writing from a Arch system I installed on 2017-12-04 and use as my daily driver, I've been moving the hard drive from laptop to laptop over time and the system from drive to drive when upgrading. Prior to that, I had been using Gentoo for years which is also great.
It's sad: Google has (had?) all the ingredients needed to make an absolutely amazing tech company, but instead they've been consistently shooting themselves in the foot for at least a half-decade. They've had oodles of money, brilliant developers, majority stock ownership by the founders (to avoid being completely beholden to shareholders and their short-term interests), lots of goodwill and a great image at the beginning, and they're just squandering it all with terrible leadership.
Websites can use a single lengthy encrypted parameter to encode everything (query params and tracking data). And then what.. will they break all website links by removing the parameter?
They didn't really live up to the hype, though. It was said that they would replace laptops. While they have their space in the market, sales are in a declining trend, and considerably behind laptops.

(I was like you and still am, by the way... I don't find tablets comfortable. I only bought one once, and I think the number of times I actually used it can be counted with both hands).
> The initial reaction of Apple-using friends/family is: I'd probably buy this as a replacement for a MacBook + external screen

Then I believe they misunderstood the presentation, since this device is not a replacement for a MacBook, since it just can't run the same software. And even if it could, it would be much, much slower at it, since it has to spend huge compute resources on constant refresh of two 4k+ screens plus advanced vision algorithms to process the camera input and overlay the 3D graphics onto it in the expected locations.