skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MKBHD reveiw of the AVP says Apple WILL NOT make controllers for the AVP.

That struck me as odd. (Obviously anyone can connect a bluetooth controller and give users some extra control, assuming this device supports open bluetooth for audio etc.)

It is one thing for Apple to claim that their latest gadget does not NEED any controllers for basic navigation and selection. Because they invested so much in perfecting a gensture based system. So far so good.

It is far more presumptious if they say they will NOT allow controllers.

When claiming credit for launching a new space called "spatial computing" -- it is very short-sighted / arrogant to state that a one click finger gesture is all you will ever need for all your comupting needs.

There are games obviously where multiple simultaneous actions need to be triggered. There are 3D modelling applications -- actually a great use case for a AR/VR HMD. And I am sure there are tons of other applications that can benefit from innovative and ergonomic approaches to interactions. Why would Apple go out of their way to say there will be no controllers.

Apple should ideally have an open SDK to allow third party wireless controllers. Knowing apple though ... they will probably sell $499 bluetooth earbuds and call them Apple Ear Pro or something.
I think there are a few reasons for this:

The Apple Pencil is only available for the iPad devices:

iPad navigation relies significantly on gestures that require multiple fingers, which is frustrating when holding the pencil.

The iPads are much larger in size then phones and it's often awkward to use the pencil as a primary input.

The pencil is kinda annoying to keep with the iPad, it magnetically sticks and is prone to falling off. My previous pencil fell and hit the nib, immediately breaking the tiny sensor that sits behind it.

They onscreen keyboard is too big to use with the pencil, and although you can use (a multi-fingered) gesture to make it smaller, it still isn't great.

For reference, I loved using the stylus as my primary input device for my Samsung Note. There were a bunch of quality of life features built around the stylus and you could stick it back in the phone to keep it safe.
My first Mac was a Performa 5200CD that I bought in 1996 with my paper route earnings. My second was a B&W G3! Loved both of those computers!

I still use Macs today but I really miss those days. I miss Mac OS 9 the most. But I also really miss all the high quality desktop software for it.

You don’t see that anymore! Everything is a service, a rental. Even though most of the SaaS products out today are just plain inferior to the perpetual licensed desktop software of old.
That just gets you out of paying triple damages.
Reddit claiming the Apollo dev tried to blackmail them is bizarre
I think you're using different phrasing to describe the same effect. Autonomy and the org knowing what it wants to do/needs to do go hand in hand. In your long-term speculative research oriented work, you had autonomy because you knew what you were working on - not what it was in terms of tickets per se, but it sounds like you knew your scope and your objectives.

At 10+ person org sizes, most people can't have long-term scope and autonomy if the management don't know what it wants/needs, since they're just going to change their mind in a week or two. Once those decisions are made you can start delegating responsibility for execution.

The easy thing to do is to blame this all on poor management, but I think that's too pat. I think figuring out the best way to use a team of 20, 100, 1000 engineers to accomplish business goals is just an incredibly hard problem... and one that's often an ongoing, Sisyphean task, where high-bandwidth, low-latency communications are incredibly useful.
Totally agree. Like a stylus (or physical keyboard) it is only an advantage in some subset of usage scenarios.
> We've seen this story before and it hasn't ended well for the folks in Mark's position

I think Zuckerberg would be elated if it plays out like iPhone vs Android.
I don't disagree, if anything I think the whole thing was pretty funny when it happened. The outrage was pretty over the top too.

I'm just saying that it could be a dangerous thing to do, if only because it creates doubt and deniability.
I hope quest pro 2 has the eye tracking, click hand gestures and better resolution for no blurry text.
That's fine with him, he doesn't want to make profits from the hardware.
AirPods Max hurts my head so much I have to wear a hat/beanie. Not a great track record
It's ducking time they stopped doing that :)
It's not a negotiation tactic. It is a joke because the numbers they are talking about are a joke. He's saying that if they think Apollo is can make Reddit 20 million a year then just pay him 10 million and they can keep the change. The truth is both sides know these numbers are b*llsh*t.
Mastodon petered out and Lemmy never gained traction in the first place
I have data files from Family Tree Maker 1.0 that I would love to open up. But v2 doesn’t open them (v1.5 changed file types). I have v1 files and the install CD for v2. Out of luck! :/
Reminds me of the API that WordPress used for the Blogger-to-WordPress importer way back in the day: replace your Blogger template with a given format that the import script could parse. One of my earliest contributions to open source was an improvement to the format and importer that extended the functionality to bring Blogger comments into WP. Fond memory of the friends I made in the comments of my Blogger site, and the software career that followed.
Again, this isn’t intrinsic to the technology, we could be nuclear reactors on time and on budget if we decided to.
Does Meta sell info from their headset ecosystem yet? It isn’t a fair criticism unless we know how much we’re paying via privacy violations.
'BAA' = Business Associate Agreement [under HIPAA]

'CE' = Covered Entity

see https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-reg...
Android shipped their first public beta in 2007. Its development overlapped the iPhone, and similarly the development of the standalone Quest systems has overlapped the Vision Pro.

There are most likely enough patents on both sides to render these portfolio boasts moot, once again.
I guess my point would be that Apple's approach towards inputs with the iPad and, much more importantly, the iPhone were vindicated probably as thoroughly as anything in the history of the computer industry?

Jobs made the stylus wisecrack in 2010. In 2023, that statement remains dead on the money. Lots of things Jobs said didn't age that well. This one did.
I think you misread my point. My point regarding NAFTA was that US did not actually lose a portion of its economic output when the manufacturing declined. The old factory workers switched to a more profitable job, thus the income increase. In fact, the country was then joined by migrant workers from Mexico because of NAFTA taking away their farming jobs in Mexico. Thus US's economy thrived in 90s.

But when China lose most of the foreign manufacturing jobs, it lost a significant portion of its economic output. Because now these workers just went back home to countryside to farm.
The Bum's Rush.
Noone wants to use vr with a 2D game controller (a la xbox)- that completely destroys the point. You want spatially tracked controllers that fit each hand and are meant for vr. Even if there are third party controllers that get around the tracking problems, developers won’t have a controller standard to work against
I loved Mantra II, which was ported to OS X a couple of years ago.
Reddit's app is "good enough" for those who use reddit casually it that they don't look for/at alternatives.

The problem with that, if it's true, is that those people are less likely to be the content creators and more likely to be people who come to read what the 'serious' Reddit users post. Losing the hardcore group of creators will kill Reddit because then there'll be nothing for the casual readers to read.

Ultimately, Reddit's main work is to serve a small core group of people who post new content, and that content is what draws the rest of the users. They'll need those users to be happy in the first party app. That might be the case already. If it isn't, Reddit are taking a huge risk.
De facto standards can still win because of early entrance into the market, tesla in this case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto_standard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format_war

I also think about other standards that went the proprietary way, like DirectX over OpenGL.

that said, tesla has done a really GOOD job. Their superchargers are everywhere, they have a many stalls at each location and they charge quickly.
If you take into account load factor, you will need closer to 2,000 such solar plants. And you need far more land too. Also, you’ll end up being most of them in deserts, far away from any human habitations. So you will then build a vast network of power distribution.

Now, to be fair, we could do that. It will just need trillions of dollars, and will have its own set of huge complications. It’s mostly just a fantasy that this will be all that much more cheaper.
Can we get them to go after the pigeons and rats (aka flightless pigeons)? I’d rather have feral cats, like Rome, than large populations of those two pests.
When its an excuse for bad behavior. If someone is being told, "You are being disruptive to this forum" and the response is, "I'm just asking questions". Then you know its a red flag.
Yes. That's the point.

It shows that the previous comment is cherry picking by providing a contrasting example, and it shows how cherry picking can say anything.
None of the major problems with the other charging networks are related to the connector standard.

It’s all bad software, poor maintenance, and bullshit silicon valley social networking stuff.

For instance, EA’s and evgo’s tap to pay terminals will fail to work regardless of whether you’re trying to charge with a tesla cord or a ccs cord.
From the linked article:

> Network operators already have plans in motion to incorporate NACS at their chargers, so Tesla owners can look forward to charging at other networks without adapters.
You can observe (what I assume is) the same tokenization phenomenon in people who are struggling to speak (for example because they’re distracted by something or not native speakers): stock fragments will come out all at once, and less common words will get split, usually on affixes or at the join point of compound words.
Product Market Fit and Not Gonna Make It. The former is established startup product terminology, the latter is slang.
Can't even keep the ones already built open, like the one in Zion, IL.
No, only a small selection of games do hand tracking and it's usually only good if it's been made primarily for handtracking. Even with true hand tracking games, the amount of controls you can do is limited.
It hasn’t much other than scrolling past the posts. Great tool with the usual hype, as we tend to do.
ChatGPT is already trained though, the previous 17 years are already in the datasets. Horse left barn a long time ago.

Ending the API doesn't even do anything. Chrome and Edge can simply index every page users visit. OSS models can simply use scraping bots. You can't have a public webpage and also prevent it from being copied. That's now how information science works.
MLIR – Multi-Level IR Compiler Framework
They do. The Quest Pro I have has been getting better and better at bare-hand control with each release. But AFAIK they all come with controllers, and it is the default (and generally is still easier and more precise to use, despite the continually-improving hand tracking).
Elected politicians
Apple is fixing its 'ducking' autocorrect problem
Yes, sorry. By filters I meant air purifiers with HEPA filters in them. The more cycles, the better.
Do you have any evidence whatsoever that your claims are true? It looks like you have an agenda to push but no sources to support it. Is there any scientific backing to these ideas? (not to climate change, but ideas like "Climate change is but one symptom of the anthropocene")

...not to mention the extremely emotional language meant to manipulate instead of argue with evidence.
As others have mentioned, I’m sure that this will support controllers such as a PlayStation controller like the other iOS devices. I also just personally view this as more of a computer worn on your head than a VR headset. I personally purchased the first Vive that released and sold it shortly after. I’ve also tried a few other headsets afterwards. I have yet to experience a time that VR headsets have seemed to be more than a gimmick for a variety of reasons. From what was showed I think the Vision Pro could be the thing that changes my opinion. I don’t even know that I would personally get one but I do think that if it delivers on the hype that they’ve built, it will the headset landscape.
Although these devices will be compared to each other ceaselessly, I think they're targeting two distinct markets. Apple believes that Vision Pro is the future of personal computing. Meta keeps marketing the Quest as social-connected VR gaming device. The former market is far larger and anything that displaces the PC will be transcendental.

Although Meta will sell more units in the short-term due to Apple's pricing, I do think they will have a tough time catching Apple on the hardware. The eye-tracking, <12ms image processing and display, and the M2 are things that Meta is well behind on.

Zuck mentioned that activity and "doing things" are Meta advantages, but people don't want to exercise while gaming or consuming entertainment.
Can someone help me understand where tools like this fit?

Are they Tableau dashboard replacements?

Are the better than a standard bootstrap admin theme?
Well, when someone says you are being disruptive and not productive to the discussion, and your retort is, "I'm just asking questions". Then you have stepped over a line.
The 'trust' factor may play into it too. For years, we've seen Meta and Apple bicker about privacy. I don't think this was just for fun; I think this was for the upcoming headset war we're going to witness.

Do you trust Meta or Apple with eye tracking data?
The Clippy one is cute/surreal.
> But it’s bad from a negotiation perspective to let that out

It’s pretty clear that there’s no negotiating left, so I’m not sure what relevance this has anymore. A few days ago? Yeah maybe.

If the CEO is maliciously accusing you of threatening them, then there’s nothing left to negotiate. The relationship is beyond broken.

> Also bad from a business perspective. It likely would cost way less than 10m to build a competitor, functionality wise.

He has already made it clear he’s not interested in building a competitor (the quote is literally right there in the comment you replied to), so, once again, what’s your point?

It’s plainly evident that Christian is done, and I don’t blame him.

The RIF and Sync devs are too, and I’m sure all the other apps will soon announce shutdowns at the end of the month too.
They missed the best video ever.

https://twitter.com/rordonb/status/1653977289049399296/media...
Also Looker Data Studio is amazing. Built an entire startup product embedding it on a web app.
> Most people's favourite app is going to die

Why is this not an issue for user's protesting? I use Relay for Reddit on Android and I think it's absolutely the best way to view Reddit on mobile if you're a fan of old.reddit.com.

That app is going to die and I say screw them. I owe reddit nothing. If they want to turn the site into something that I don't want to use because it makes them more money that way. Good luck with that but I won't be around to see it.

I'd gladly pay for Reddit Premium (which has no ads) to continue to use 3rd party apps that I like. But it's not about the money or the ads -- it's about control.
I think the reason Apple pitched a device for solo use is that at the price point they needed, you can't bank on your friends having one, or multiple headsets in the house, or everyone at the office.

I bet they figured the display quality is the crux, and other decisions flowed from there: needed more power, necessitating the power brick; expensive; early adopters likely to be richer people using it for content consumption.
Nothing looks dumber than wearing airPod earbuds, but almost everyone seems to have them
This would’ve been around 2010-ish. I could maybe buy that it was a stealthy military drone, although I kind of doubt any drone is that big or stealthy. But then, why would a military drone be interested in some random young adults hanging out in the park? I considered that it might’ve been testing the limits of its stealthiness. But then why did it hang around after we started talking about it, pointing at it, and trying to record it? No, it felt a lot more like we were being studied. Especially in the way it followed us. Slowly, smoothly, and with a little distance.
Their superbowl commercial was a depressed old dog that put on a headset and became happy, wasn't it? Or was that black mirror...
Which is why when designing pricing "per use" pricing models, prefer something like $0.0001 per search, or $15/month, whichever is less in a month
Same name here, re "sole proprietorship" :) I imagine it's from our shared common law background.

I don't know anything about New Zealand law, but incorporating is also not a complex process in the U.S. Hopefully our handbook didn't make it sound like it was! It's more that there are various decisions to make in doing it, and different types of businesses might make different decisions. Perhaps in other countries, there is less variability around that though.
Yep. I record every call I have with anything resembling sales or tech support. I’ll hold companies to promises they make if they can hold me to mine.
"Contradict" does not mean "disprove".

"there's absolutely nothing wrong with consuming sucralose" contradicts the linked studies and the opposing statements that were made by myself and others here.

This is a simple fact by the definition of the word "contradiction".

Whether the FDA is correct about sucralose or not is actually irrelevant to this point.

Someone can believe the Earth is flat. Another can believe the Earth is a cube. Their beliefs contradict each other but do not prove or disprove anything.
Well there are grants, sales maybe if you deliver on the request..

https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/topic/current

Pick science or health instead of defense from the list on the left.. but you would be missing out on "MDA23-T002: AI-Informed Algorithms Combined with Differential Game Theory to Support Swarm-on-Swarm Engagements".. Basically to help them build Skynet.

An eye opener is the list of top contractors to the US government:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_Contractors_of_the_U.S...

Caltech, MIT, Stanford... SpaceX is 53.

The coolest one is Atlantic Diving Supply (No. 24): it started as a small dive shop that just happened to be located in Virginia Beach.. some Navy Seals kept ordering things from them.. then 9/11 happened..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Diving_Supply
Quest 3 will up the resolution and still be 1/7th the price. The question I think is whether it's enough, but recent head sets (Quest Pro) with pancake lenses are pretty close and Quest 3 will be more. It may be enough for most people.
Well, I mean, I don’t love thinking about suppositories tbh
I haven't heard that they won't allow them. Just that they won't make them. I suspect it would support Xbox and Playstation and Nintendo controllers at launch, even, since their other platforms do.

However, VR controllers are different in that they need to be tracked as they move through space much more precisely than those console controllers support. But maybe third-party VR controllers can also be supported. I think nobody knows that yet.
It's certainly improved over the past few years to a point where they're comparable to Macbooks. Windows Precision drivers and large glass trackpads are slowly becoming common in mid to high tier Windows laptops.
What does that mean? They actually produce specific Quest glasses?
Idea Factories: How can we create new and better knowledge
Understood. Thank you for the reply.
That would be similar to the 3DS, right?
Advanced Computer Architecture (Book)
With all the action in the "AI accelerator chip" domain, Computer/Processor architectures are becoming exciting again and hence i was looking for a modern book which would cover everything (Multi-Processor, GPU, Caches, NoC, AI/ML accelerators etc.) without wasting time on basics.

This book is written by a professor from IIT Delhi, India and seems to cover all (as of 2020/2021) that i was looking for. Sharing in the hope it will be beneficial to others too.

Online course: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc23_cs07/preview
I have worked on CodeIgniter for 5+ years & Yii2 for 2+ years. Know Laravel basics.
There are people who get really peeved if conversations don't start with the "how are you doing?" social dance, even though it is not a serious inquiry and the person is not expressing any real concern for your well being.

The dance is just that. All parties admit it is just that. Yet they demand it anyway.

I imagine those overlap.
It's great for people who want to do crime, and for people who want to bully their colleagues into doing crime or help cover it up: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eufm.12426
Musk didn’t prove anything. All he showed so far is that if you turn off the airplane engine mid-flight, it will glide for a time on momentum.
I 100% am a believer that Apple's most pernicious & deepest rooted & most malignant form of control is iMessages and I still think this is overplaying & overhyping the hand. It's not all to ruin Android.
It's great to hear of a possible explanation for folks suffering from long COVID. I hope understanding this third possible outcome can lead towards new treatments.
Google cuts office space in Bay Area by more than a million square feet
By the way: A 16 oz can of Monster contains 2 grams of taurine.

My first thought when I reading your post (before I finished): How many grams of taurine per kilogram of body weight were used in the trial?

I found:

Taurine supplementation increases the life span of mice

To determine whether the observed drop in taurine concentration contributes to aging, we orally administered control solution or taurine at 1000 mg per kg body weight (T1000), once daily at 10:00 am, to 14-month-old (middle-aged) C57Bl/6J WT female and male mice until the end of life.

Woah! That is a lot of taurine. Average adult me are about 60-80 kg. That would be 60-80 GRAMS of taurine per day! (Please correct me if I am wrong.)
Just as soon as the PKI gets sorted out...
The delays on this project have nothing at all to do with people opposing nuclear construction.

The site welcomed more reactors. The results were approved under a new proces that was explicitly requested by the industry in order to expedite everything.

Nuclear is a big construction project, and suffers from the same big construction project cost disease that every other big construction project suffers from in the US. In addition, it suffers from needing absolutely massive amounts of custom, high precision welding, and high precision concrete pours unlike any other construction project. In addition to being some of the most complex projects ever designed, it requires a large amount of highly skilled labor really only gets used for this one purpose in our economy.

I wish nuclear proponents would recognize the inherent challenges of the problem, the inherent labor and construction efficiencies that made nuclear a good fit for the mid-20th century, but a less good fit for the 21st century when labor is much more valuable, and perhaps we should put it to more valuable purposes when we have far cheaper alternatives. Building buildings for manufacturing results in much better utilization of labor. A manufacturing facilities that produce 4 GW of solar/year is an exponential improvement over a 1GW nuclear reactor.