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We need another thread about law.

We, speaking about the US, are a people who have decided to be governed by laws not by people. In order for that to work there must be a mechanism for citizens to enact the laws. And there must be a mechanism for people to use the law. In my opinion neither of these is true at this time. I see a vast number of laws enacted for the benefit of corporations compared to the benefit of people. We bail out banks. We add more work requirements to people who need food. We enact laws that are not the will of the people.

As to access to the law. Many people face evictions by landlords and corporations who can afford lawyers. If you cannot afford a lawyer you lose. So landlords can file a frivolous suit and you will almost certainly be evicted. There is no downside for the landlord. There are legal services to help, but they are overwhelmed by need.

If Apple for example, decides to cripple your phone battery, what is the real downside for them? At the worst they face a class action suit which will pay a law firm enough to make it worth the law firm's while and sell some batteries at cost to users. But the question is whether the punishment will stop them from the same kind of thing again. In my opinion "nope".

These are two examples but the problem is systematic.

This asymmetry in the ability to use the law denies common citizens access to the law. I have nothing against (most) lawyers, this is a problem with our system. We need to enact laws to change this. The real problem is that we are unable to do that. In my opinion.
Even if AR through a phone is a bit clunky you’d think people would use it if it was so great. I’ve never heard any real consumer talk about AR outside of the short obsession with Pokemon Go.

The whole meta verse thing seems like it was 100% hype building by people with money invested in it and none of the platforms had any users.
Yeah I can't speak for everyone, but it's not feeling like they're wasting their own time. It's more out of concern for wasting your time.

It is often very welcomed when you ask to speak Icelandic and are learning. People will take the time, slow down their speech and offer words of encouragement like "you are doing really well"
that's a good point, maybe I should try some of the mobile clients
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Is the urban legend that it started out of controlled burn at WTREX conference true? Couldn't verify, but there are also no outlets debunking it.
The risk though for PR disasters for companies like Ticketmaster is when they get the attention of regulators. Then it becomes an issue for them.
You are being surprisingly hard on his natural talent. I once saw a drawing he did and was blown away by it, only to discover he was something like 12 or 14 when he did it.
It was still far more usable than the enshittified ‘proper’ version of the mobile web that does nothing but nag you to use the even more aggressively enshittified app.
Only if you have more money for lawyers than Google
Because it "afford", not afford. Clearly it would be possible, but not for the QoL they prefer. For $300k/yr you're buying a SFH in many other parts of the greater bay area.
GeForce Now, Luna, Xbox Cloud Streaming, PS Cloud, Shadow, and a few others are still around. GeForce Now is especially awesome, being Nvidia's own offering with access to their latest GPUs at a very reasonable price point.

After thirty years of desktop gaming PCs, I sold mine and just use GFN now. It's completely silent (no fan), minor lag (only matters for competitive shooters), and much cheaper than maintaining a high end gaming rig.

Compared to consoles, it has much better graphics, can be played anywhere where you have good internet, supports mouse/keyboard, ultrawide, 120Hz, etc.

Compared to the Stream Deck, it has much better graphics, much longer battery life (it's just streaming video, not rendering on device), and no heat or fan noise. I also sold my Steam Deck because GFN plus a streaming portable (Logitech gCloud) was way more ergonomic.

Did cloud streaming really fail, or is it just a niche? It's come a long way since OnLive. Stadia was a royal fuckup but not because of its technology; Google just had no idea how PC gaming culture works. Their competitors are still around and doing fine, if not making billions.

It is still a very useful tech that I use daily.
Because people with "people skills" need people in the office to justify their existence. It is beyond ego for them, it is about their survival.
Companies don't need to pay for mod placement.

Mods are given to most active and helpful users, those who are paid to be on Reddit for a living have an advantage.

Additionally, mods are not needed for influencing the content of a subreddit. Active users are.

It's worth saying that commercial moderators are against mod guidelines or TOS.
Over a decade ago my wife was thru hiking and got caught in the smoke of a California wildfire. The ash scratched her corneas and her vision is still impacted to this day.

It's definitely not something to take lightly, even if you wear a mask.
All things can be described as “some percent better”

For what it’s worth, the fitness use case is 0 to 1 because a million people are saying “I didn’t exercise; now I do; Oculus is why”

No fitness > fitness is 0 to 1

In what way was the iPhone “fundamentally different,” by your definition? Its functionality all existed in a blackberry / mp3 player. It was just “some percent better” at everything - especially interaction - that unlocked all the apps we have today, no?
The entire station. They're vast and substantial.
Thank you! This version is much better than that Instagram edit.
You cannot sell a $3,500 toy with "Handoff". It really is that simple.
but if most of the interior is concentrated into an infinite mass, i.e. impossible, that kinda invalidates its validity
3 is a big one, I think. Using an interpreted language speeds up the development cycle to prototype, change, release, and iterate. And for some purposes it's fast and small enough, that the trade-off is worth it.
The most charitable reading of your comment still leads one to question what you would consider the right if Elon is far right. I am pretty sure he is a moderate leaning both ways on differing topics.
I think he would love the internet access, think the web was stupid, and that Apple Vision is alien technology he dreamed of. He more or less spent his productive years defining the world we currently live in. I take him as man of vision and principal. He would be astounded by the tech and hate the content.

I was greatly disturbed by the product demonstration. After 72 hours I realized that since I work alone there are no real drawbacks to having a hands free computer. (I have been working in a 60'x30' studio that I have equipped with 8MP cameras, shopping for 4k and 8k projectors. The idea is to have the cameras act as an interface and use the projectors to create an image on the floor as feedback. The Vision Pro seems like it might be easier and cheaper. Although not as analog and collaborative.)
This works only if they implement it via HTTP redirect. If the backend does the tracking and then just loads the content, then the client is none the wiser.
> These days, nothing individuals (or even groups of individuals) can acquire holds a candle to what governments (the US being a world leader in this regard) are equipped with, so there is no endgame for gun ownership as a means of defense against one's government.

Even back in colonial times, your single musket was no match for the hundreds of muskets and handful of cannon that the government was equipped with. If the government wants to kill you -specifically- then it's going to do that.

As a defense against tyranny, firearm ownership is effective in the same way that putting your valuables in a safe is effective. Neither are an absolute defense, but both raise the level of effort required from the attacker.

For example, regardless of whether you think there actions were reasonably justifiable, the conflict between the Bundys and the BLM would have gone _very_ differently had the Bundys not been armed. They would have absolutely been quietly steamrolled by the government: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff>

FedGov could have rolled in tanks, helicopters, or jets to eliminate the Bundys with zero friendly casualties, but that was a cost that they were entirely unwilling to pay.

Again. If the USian government really wants to get you or your people, specifically, you cannot (and have never been able to) stop them. They've more money and men and materiale than you could ever hope to accumulate. This has pretty much always been true.
One almost paranormal ability some seasoned spiritual teachers have is pointing at things that are happening in your experience, i.e. something is described and that phenomenon is experienced directly. I have experienced this so-called transmission not only in the Buddhist context, but also with qigong masters and with Hindu teachers.
It's worse than that. We don't have commercial reactors capable of powering the world. Thermal burner reactors like this one, if scaled up to provide the world's 18 TW of primary energy consumption, would exhaust economical uranium resources in less than a decade.
That’s nonsense - When I lived in a rural area I had a Bengal cat that would bring home much larger prey than Rats such as Rabbits and Squirrels.
FWIW, my wife takes our home office and I work from the main room or our screened in porch, but she often will work alongside me. It’s not really a problem.

I’m much more productive working from home; my only qualms are that team cohesion and sense of shared mission seems lower than it has at in-person jobs I’ve had. That may not even be causal.
The driver is not the limit. The grip + downforce is the limit: if they try to do the worse corner (e.g. Copse-Silverstone ~4G) any faster than they do, the problem won't be the driver fainting (like it could happen in extreme maneuvers at a fighter jet), but the car slidding out of the track.
That’s true. As I said, I was not referring only to google and there are other companies out there who are not treading as lightly as google is.
> They have automated take downs and have a completely broken appeal process

Before regulating AI, maybe we should consider regulating Artificial Stupidity.
Sounds like Formula SAE, I was a little bit involved in my schools team back in the day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_SAE
Everything about how Meta / Zuck is approaching this is showing how nervous and anxious he is about all of this. From the panic announcement of the Quest 3 before the Vision Pro unveiling to this statement, which, seems weirdly honest.

Calling out "it was a person sitting on a couch by themselves" when that's the ONLY way you can use your Quest 2, given how bad passthrough works. Given their vision of the future is a bunch of people in different parts of the world all using headsets "to be together" vs a future where you are present in the real world at all times, except you have productivity enhancements available.

Look, I'm in awe of both the Quest and Vision Pro for how technologically advanced all of this tech is, and I know Zuck needs to show "strength", but he knows he's in trouble and needs to rethink most of his product strategy going forward.
Hot take: A high school diploma is no longer enough to be considered "Educated" and should rather be considered a bare minimum to do the most basic things in life.

A year of high school history about how the south actually were totally the good guys with slavery and it wasn't that bad has turned out to not be the wonderful enlightenment we should strive for.
You're correct. This famously (within Google) came up in three scenarios: 1) people living in parts of Contra Costa County who were remote, and then paid 10% less than those living in the same place who commuted into a Google office in the bay area, 2) similar situation regarding NYC mapped employees living in Connecticut, and 3) NC-based employees being absolutely abused by being classified as "low cost" and given a 25% haircut in both base salary and equity refreshes.
Yea I mean the point is that all of those already existed in other (worse) forms or were added later

Fwiw, I’m a VR bear overall, but the idea that it’s somehow “not new” feels wild to me, like saying ChatGPT isn’t new because we’ve had chatbots for ages. Like, yea man but the preexisting stuff sucked lmao
The reality is that the phone is, and will be, the far more dangerous a vector for porn because of how ubiquitous and convenient it is. The wow factor of this device won't move the needle much here, particularly at this price.

Yes, some will use it for this. Porn use is never satisfied so the addicts that are always looking for bigger hits will find some here. But they are already in it's grasp. Very few to nobody will start it on this device, and that is where the primary battle is located.

Kids, on phones, far away from the supervision of their parents.
I'm inclined to believe it, but is there better documentation than the 'insider' family of websites?
The previous content used to be available via the API, and there were several "undelete-reddit" web sites (ceddit, unddit, among others). Changes to the API broke them more than a year ago. If you wanted your account gone and unrecoverable (prior to those API changes) you had to use one of the deletion utilities (several mentioned in this thread) that edited each comment and replaced it with "garbage".
I would just add a simple layer of device-id based password generation function which is hard to reverse engineer. The devices used by authorized people would auto-generate it and will be transparent to them, yet it'll prevent many people from getting in. Add a rate-limiter on top of it, and it's impractical to brute force it.

If Philips can secure its SoniCare brush heads this way to prevent tampering and counterfeiting, a utility company or meter producer which enables a much more important infrastructure can be a little more mindful about what they are doing.

Other than that I agree 100% to your viewpoint.
This looks incredibly useful. Is there a version for models outside of the US coming, perhaps UK? Or any recommendations for an equivalent service folks have used?
Regarding MKUltra - the only reason we know what we know about it, after the CIA director directed in 1973 that all documents on it be destroyed, is that some of the MKUltra documents were mislabeled and not destroyed. They were discovered in a 1977 FOIA request.
Probably true and Apple is smart enough to not talk about the easy stuff or even hype things. The amazing thing is the finger tracking in space.
I expected that from the title, but maybe that just means I'm getting cynical about journalism.
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I think the other thing that made forums a better place was the absence of a upvote/downvote system. It reduced the motivation of just chasing attention with little jokes and threads could stay on the front page so long as there was active conversation going on.
I tend to reproduce what my parent said, but usually the intent behind that is pretty different.

Example: "you must have good scores at school else you'll have no future" is repeated as "you should have good scores because learning broadens your horizons and helps you to grow"

It boils down to the same thing, but, hopefully, the pressure is weaker.
Thats a reference that Sam makes in interviews.
Windows has lost significant market share over the last 10 years. I wouldn't call that a smashing success. In the US iPhone market share has increased and outperformed android recently. Sure, global market and all - but let's be honest, android is cheap, and VR/AR is still a massive luxury - meaning most won't adopt in poorer regions, even if the the meta option is cheaper.

> They have the money to acquire companies specialised in VR and AR just like what Apple has done recently.

Apple builds its own chips, has been designing OSes for decades, building smashing success consumer hardware for decades. They're almost completely vertically integrated. Facebook was an adtech business. Acquiring fledgling startups won't help here.

> Both will succeed. Apple will have the ecosystem lock-in advantage for those who can afford the best experience and Meta will win in quantity and make it much more accessible. Zuck's 7 - 8 year bet on Oculus seemed to be the right move all against lots of naysayers and the exaggerations of Meta's stock collapse which recovered against the news.

It's already at quantity pricing and it hasn't succeeded now - what makes you think it will in the future? Meta's stock collapse didn't happen because its fundamental business is still strong - not because of their VR moonshot.
These are all tendentious talking points that have been well debunked. They can provide 24/7 power when paired with storage (like pumped hydro at $300/kWh of capacity), the land use is no serious problem, and the carbon footprint of nuclear is much higher when you include all the CO2 emitted by fossil plants while waiting 10 years for the nuclear plant to come online.
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> play tabletop games

I've played hundreds of hours of Tabletop Simulator (a game on Steam, if that's not clear) outside VR and it works great.

Tabletop Simulator also supports VR, I tried it a few times but it really didn't add anything. And honestly using a mouse and keyboard to click on board game pieces, select cards, and so on is far more precise and low effort than grabbing things with my hands.

I game regularly in VR and I believe in it, but not for board games or tabletop games.
Saw a quote I liked the other day:

"By creating a world in which anyone CAN own a gun, we've forced ourselves to live in a world in which everyone MUST carry a gun?"
Well, they couldn't exactly run realistic and viable computer models in the years of 1949-1969... so they took a harmless, commonly used model organism, and conducted tests.

Something science teachers do as a simple experiment now (with various substances), something Mark Rober even did on his own channel with 'Glo Germ' powder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5-dI74zxPg
The pitch was very common sense - you can make calls without being tethered to your home/office physical phone line. They were just too big, expensive and low coverage in the beginning for most people.
The Cybertruck is so far succeeding at its most important goal, giving people something to think about and talk about. In fact taking longer to get to market, with more stories about how hard it is to engineer, may actually help it better deliver against this goal.

It was always intended to be a halo product: high wow, low volume. As a brand investment, a halo product can generate returns long before it actually goes on sale. It’s like a classic “concept car” from older car manufacturers. Except the idea that it will actually be buyable makes it work even better for maintaining public interest.
It was definitely rare to see a couple of years ago but most dispensers I've seen installed in the last year or so around me seemed to have actual credit card terminals. I've used a few.
It has failed to remain good/worthwhile. But what I meant is that it's too big to go away and get replaced by something else completely. It has so many users staying there out of habit/inertia, it will take a decade for them to dwindle away.
Ask HN: Unfair pricing of MacBook M2 Pro 32GB/1TB in Europe
Does anyone know why Apple charges significantly more money for their products in Europe? Also why there is a such big difference between Poland and Germany/UK?

Let's take a look at MacBook Pro M2 Pro (12 CPU, 16 GPU cores) with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB storage, which I plan to buy in near future.

Poland: ~4202 USD (17399 zl), ~3442 USD without VAT

US: 2899 USD without tax

Germany: ~3724 USD (3459 EUR), ~3129 USD without VAT

UK: ~3896 USD (3099 GBP), ~3247 USD without VAT

It doesn't feel right...
Your bit about fertile soil resonated with me.

Have you taken psychedelics? Not to be that guy, but it’s good fertilizer for the mind.

I feel my brain has been permanently much more accepting of non-rational (note: not irrational) modes of thinking since having a psychedelic experience.
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national smoke map

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An interesting comment because it’s so contrary to my lived experience as a backer of Oculus DK1, among many other VR attempts going back to the VFX1 in 1995.

> for the pursuit of. . . What exactly?

Experience. Fun. Productivity. Emotion. All of the same things we look at screens for. I’m surprised that’s not clear.

People (homo sapiens) have sought these things in many mediums for as long as we’ve been sapiens. There is nothing categorically different about seeking these things in the kind of immersion that (so far) only headsets can give.

In the future we’ll have glasses and then BCI. I’m excited for both.

But if you’re seeing XR as pushed by waves hands with no consume pull or enthusiast hacking, I think you’re not looking with truly open eyes.
I'd like to move away from Reddit, but I don't see any viable place to go. The best thing about Reddit is how generally casual the user base is. It's not just a self-selected number of tech-affine users. It's people who love books, people who love running, or video games, or space, or literature, or knitting, or anything and everything else.

Reddit has centralized what would otherwise be hundreds (thousands?) of obscure, splintered and isolated communities and forums. What could possibly compete with that without having already reached critical mass and become an obvious competitor to Reddit?
Then who is leaving all the faeces on the streets of Paris?
All my friends, even the non-tech nerds, wanted to try the first gen iPhone when I got it. The appeal was clear from the get go.
What a completely lovely way to express what I expect many of us are thinking. Thank you.
People will be fine and no one is going to develop long term health issues from a couple days of smokey air. I feel bad for people with lung conditions as breathing was made more difficult for a bit but no one is dying from this.

And what recourse? Who?
And the internet is nothing more then a digital version of a book ;)
I don't always slack off, but I do often need time to rest and gather my thoughts. Sometimes my brain is just not ready or already fatigued and needs time. At home I'll chill out watching some mindless Youtube video or go for a walk. At the office I used to pretend to work by clicking around in some emails or something that was equally unproductive. I prefer not having to pretend to work.
Yes, I remember this video. At the time I commented on another forum that I was disappointed when they didn’t cross thread it into the block.
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