skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an industry (area) matures, each successive developmental innovation is usually successively smaller, more incremental, less game-changing. Since the iPhone, Apple has made a relative but smaller success of e.g. the iPad, AppleTV, AirPods, Watch, and AirTags. Several of these were not immediately successful (in Apple mega-corp terms, at least).

For the VR stuff, we have to expect they have a long term plan, incorporating compelling unique apps or content delivery, and later cheaper hardware models. I think we need to give them 3-5 years before we judge the success or failure of (let’s call it) their Vision franchise.
No-Root-Access Smartphone, Alpine Linux, QEMU, Termux: File System Ops and LUKS
I imagine they could charge a bit less but it seems like this is just cutting edge everything crammed into one device.

I love the approach of starting at the top instead of the bottom.
I am not fond of the author's substitute suggestion - "Scientists: Snake Oil Doesn’t Work". This turns scientists into a priesthood of experts, and that is not what science is about.

Science is a process, not an authority. We should not "trust the science". We should analyse and question it for ourselves.

I think the essential problem with the style of journalism from the article is that it reduces the substance of stories into an appeal-to-authority. It is not a trustworthy authority - there is plenty of history for people employed as scientists to make assertions that now look ridiculous.

Journalists should put more focus to the arguments and less to the conclusions.
Maybe a little. If the existing monitor could also use your entire visual field for workspace and easily be used anywhere.

I travel often and I’m looking forward to always having the ability to have a large high resolution display to work on. Also seems cool for entertainment. It’s returnable like anything else.
Even when you pre-order, you try it on at the store to get fitted for the appropriate mask, and on top of that you have 2 weeks to return it for a full refund (if it's the same as other apple products—no reason to believe it won't be).

Additionally, I've spent the months since the announcement reading reviews and stuff from people who __have__ gotten their hands on the headset and they all seem to address any concerns I personally have.

Certainly not pushing anybody else to be impulsive for FOMO, but as an enthusiast, I'm pretty excited and am very fortunate to be able to afford something like this.
This should have big warnings on it. Some of these are not web standards; they are features implemented unilaterally by Google in Blink that have been explicitly rejected by both Mozilla and Apple on privacy and security grounds.

Take Web Bluetooth, for example:

Mozilla:

> This model is unsustainable and presents a significant risk to users and their devices.

— https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#web-bluetooth

Apple:

> Here are some examples of features we have decided to not yet implement due to fingerprinting, security, and other concerns, and where we do not yet see a path to resolving those concerns

— https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/

This is Microsoft’s Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish bullshit applied to the web platform by Google. Google keeps implementing these things despite all other major rendering engines rejecting them, convinces people that they are part of the web, resulting in sites like this, then people start asking why Firefox and Safari are “missing functionality”. These are not part of the web platform, they are Google APIs that have been explicitly rejected.
Nice read, thanks for sharing. And thanks for the book recommendation, never heard about it before.
Well, you cant raise a human without 'copyrighted' (or at least already existing) material in the form of parental norms, ethical codes, schoolbooks, pre existing humans like parents, grandparents, etc.
We dont spring like Athena from the forehead of Zeus.

Heinlein, in his book "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" made the interesting point that an AI needs love in order to become a full entity. Love needs to come from from somewhere.
FTA: “one revelation seemed to defy the laws of physics: one of the mobile phones that had been sucked out of the Boeing Co. 737 Max 9 jet’s cabin remained in functioning condition after a 16,000-foot tumble.”

I don’t know what the full paywalled article says, so they may say the same, but I don’t think that is very surprising.

The terminal velocity of a tumbling iPhone won’t be high (about 70km/hour, according to https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-terminal-velocity-of-a-falli...). It reaches that speed in a few seconds.

If, then, it drops on something that’s a bit forgiving, the deceleration won’t be excessive, and could easily be lower than that of dropping it on a hard concrete floor from a few meters high.
Quantifying the revenue increase of said illegal behavior is close to impossible. Also, you want to discourage this behavior, so take the easier to quanitify and higher number.
would love to see this.
Shameless plug: I've built a web app which allows you to stream PC games/software to Vision Pro using webRTC without any restriction. https://windowsvisionpro.com
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The article addresses this exact point, and I would even go so far as to say that your conclusion, "'No evidence' is a phrase that gets used in untruthful ways" is entirely the point of the article.

> Is there "no evidence" for alien abductions? There are hundreds of people who say they've been abducted by aliens! By legal standards, hundreds of eyewitnesses is great evidence! If a hundred people say that Bob stabbed them, Bob is a serial stabber - or, even if you thought all hundred witnesses were lying, you certainly wouldn't say the prosecution had “no evidence”! When we say "no evidence" here, we mean "no really strong evidence from scientists, worthy of a peer-reviewed journal article". But this is the opposite problem as with the parachutes - here we should stop accepting informal evidence, and demand more scientific rigor.
This looks fun! How do you get on with shipping outside the UK? Is there any trickiness with taxes, customs etc that you need to deal with?
Revenue + payment deadline based on cash flow makes sense to me too.

If we're really serious about materially-impactful fines, they need to impact more than one quarter. And conversely, companies need to be free to amortize payment in ways that hurt but don't cripple them.

F.ex. if Alphabet and Meta's entire 2024 would be down because of fines, the market would presumably apply more pressure on their leadership.
>Also, I think the whole question here is, who decides what qualifies as "compelling" evidence?

Qualified experts. Any other answer eventually turns into political gibbering and social media nonsense.
Because the resisitivity of the potentiometer (a non-linear volume iself) is in a non-linear dependency with the volume of the remaining fuel, its temperature, additives, sloshing and position of the vehicle to the horizon. But if you okay with 15% steps with +/-5% margin error, constantly showing a changing values - then sure.

I think what even if you never drive yourself you heard the stories how people managed to drive somewhere 'on a completely dry tank'. Tank wasn't dry it just not feasible to invest anything to show an accurate (<5%) reading.
Papers usually use publication date, and this is a preprint - it is to be published in NSDI'24, which will be in 3 months from now.

Usually the final paper PDF, from the conference proceedings, contains the publication information.
There should be rules on what can be called “Made in Oklahoma” just like the Maglite controversy over how “Made in Ontario California” could’t be used because of part sourcing not being 100% domestic.
You're looking for SOGo. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOGo
The HoloLens 2 starts at 3800€ (still) and the Vision Pro is a leap forward.
> No, the fungibility of money is law, established by legal precedent.

Laws ARE a kind of social convention. And to the degree that the fungibility of "money" is law, law also decides what counts as "money", and there's no reason why they (yes, they, not it - law is actually people) should let your crypto-token of choice count as money for legal fungibility purposes.
Apparently building more wind or solar, the cheapest source of energy in history, is too easy, or too normie for our author, he needs more methane for some reason.

> That energy needs to be generated in ways that don’t re-create the problems it’s solving, but that is entirely within our grasp. Modern nuclear reactors are different beasts than their more-than-50-year-old ancestors. And uranium is not the only energy source below our feet: Thanks to advances in drilling technology, geothermal energy has made massive leaps. Perhaps most heretically, not all fossil fuels are equally bad as short-term bridges to other energy sources. Natural gas is abundant and produces far less carbon and other pollutants per unit of energy than coal or oil. [1] Longer term, fusion power can enable us to build miniature suns and space-based solar can tap into more of the actual sun’s power than land-based installations.

Should I doubt his actual commitment to cheap energy? Or is he just really confused and ignorant, but with his heart in the right place?
Yes, of course, the intent was businesses that do not sell software , or perhaps non SV. Thanks.
What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks
Everything is not 2D. Most of the first-party apps they've showcased are, but both the launch event and subsequent videos + documentation have shown full 3D capabilities, both in VR and MR mode of operation for both first- and third-party apps (including full build support in the Unity engine, meaning a huge number of existing VR + MR apps will be deployable on to AVP relatively quickly if developers choose to invest in porting).

HoloLens was commercially released in 2016 and its successor, the HoloLens 2 in 2019, the latter of which is still available.

And the Google Glass (not 'glasses') would not have allowed 3D in any true sense as it lacked the capability to calculate the user's head pose in space, necessary for 3- or 6-DoF tracking. It was essentially a heads up display attached to your face.
Shout out to you, my boy
Some of the functionality listed on this site is not part of the web platform, but rather Blink-only APIs Google implemented unilaterally that have been explicitly rejected by Mozilla and Apple.
This won't be successful, the $3500 price tag alone assures it. It will hopefully lead to something that's actually meant for end users, though.
The argument that reality is misogynistic and thus information should not be uttered

this comment is stating that we can't talk about reality because reality is misogynistic (or, i'd like to add: racist) and so when we talk about that, certain people will complain.

consider a tech conference that only has male speakers. are they all male because no women applied, or did the organizers only pick male speakers because of their preference?

now i come along and say, it's ok that there are only male speakers.

am i saying that because i want to acknowledge the reality that there are so few women in the tech scene that sometimes there just aren't any female speakers? or am i saying it because i prefer it that way?

some people will be fine with my statement, and others will consider it misogynistic.

now suppose i make a joke about that. am i laughing at the ineffectiveness of the tech scene to attract women, or am i laughing at women not being fit for tech?

some people will see one interpretation, and some the other.

to resolve the problem, and avoid a misunderstanding, it is helpful, or even necessary to make that distinction and make clear in which way my statement or my joke are to be interpreted.
Do you have any evidence to support that assertion? I first learned of the issue from the scientific community tracking the data collected by the public health community.

Here’s an example of what that looked like in June 2021, covering developments in May, just 5 months after the first country in the world had approved the vaccine (UK, 2020-12):

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/myocarditis-coronavirus-va...

Similarly Israel’s public health agency’s report was covered in June 2021:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-sees-probab...
The iPhone was virtually the only capacitive touch screen phone in 2007. The commercial competition was non existent.

The Vision Pro isn't that, the specs are already matched by the Varjo on the higher end, and there's already competition forming to match the price target from all over the place.

Sure, "made by Apple" will be a seal of a quality that attracts followers of the brand, but it's probably more on par with the Pro Display XDR in terms of impact. And we'll wait for something akin to the Studio Display to see what Apple has really to offer against the competitikn at a reasonable price.
I didn’t disagree with the what you said, but I think some people may have misinterpreted it.
1.2% is over the lifetime. Don't know what the 0.0004% figure means, but in the active war phase coalition forces sustained 1-2%/year fatalities rate in Afghanistan https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/36/4/841/670068?login=f....
For the only kind of real estate I can afford, it's not that expensive.
An "eye sticker" is hardly a replacement for a display of your actual face.
> Putting author names but no date at the top seems to be some sort of standard template or convention that every single paper author or institution everywhere uses since forever, since I never see dates at tops of papers.

The year usually appears in the bottom left of the first page, and in the header or footer of subsequent pages.

The first linked PDF [1] says only "14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation" (without the year), but does have the year on an initial cover page. The second [2] says "HotOS ’23, June 22–24, 2023, Providence, RI, USA". The third [3] says "SOSP ’23, October 23–26, 2023, Koblenz, Germany" in the bottom-left of the first page.

However, this information may be missing from an author produced files/preprints, as it may be inserted along with page numbers when the conference proceedings or journal issue gets created. This seems to be the case for the fourth linked PDF [4].

[1]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi20-yang.pdf

[2]: https://jasony.me/publication/hotos23-qdlp.pdf

[3]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3600006.3613147

[4]: https://junchengyang.com/publication/nsdi24-SIEVE.pdf
Super interesting. Cant wait to try! Would be great if you could create an LLM inference example.
Elon showed with Twitter how you don't need hordes of engineers to run a company. He laid off 90% of the staff and still the website is doing alright (at least engineering wise). More engineers lead to more useless bullshit being created(like at Google). A lean mean team seems the way to go.
Maybe the biggest difference is that you can place virtual screens and windows arbitrarily as needed, rather than being restricted to parts of your desk where a stand or VESA mount can fit.

So one could for example have the benefits of multiple screens while lounging or in the middle of a flight. Even at a desk, window/screen placement would be more flexible than otherwise possible.
Unfortunately the lenses are not expensive, which likely means that they are mass produced. If you have an uncommon prescription, you probably can't get the right lenses.
The incentive is that you can take your headset off and have a real *sweaty* face-to-*sweaty*-face conversation with your coworkers

fixed.
The Steam Deck runs Linux, and I can get many games that shit the bed on Windows 7, 8, or 10 but run perfectly fine under 98 and XP to run under Proton.
Revenue can't really be hidden. Profit is an accounting decision. Like how companies sell their IP to an Irish subsidiary and then "license" it and pay "royalties".

Profit margins for Big Tech are pretty healthy too so even if it's 7 days of revenue, it's likely not many more days of "profit". Also, those fines are a taxable deduction so let's not forget that.
> I still use them for flashing USBs - a lot of installs are offline, especially when the networking is some new or non-standard driver. Honestly Ubuntu restricting itself like this is a good thing, Canonical need to be kicked off of their perch.

A source ISO is just the source code, right? How many people install ubuntu from source?
This occurred to me. I think I might actually just shell out for a nice monitor instead. The reviews are going to have to be pretty unbelievably positive for me to actually get a vision pro.
Does the battery mean there's a max "burn time?" If so, what is it?
I won’t buy it because I don’t have any use it for it. But $3500 for a gadget is not crazy.

I look back at what some of my computer set ups cost over the years in non inflation adjusted terms

- An Apple //e with a duo disk drive, a green screen monitor, and a dot matrix printer in 1986 was $3000

- A Mac LC II with 10 MB RAM, an 80MB hard drive, a laser printer a little 12 inch monitor, and a //e card with a separate drive - $4000 with an education discount.

- A PowerMac 6100/60 with 24 MB RAM, 250MB hard drive and a 486 DOS Compatibility Card and a $500 13 inch monitor - $3300 in 1996.

I won’t buy one because just like the 1st gen iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, it usually doesn’t last as long as the second generation and Apple usually makes rapid advances between the two.

But if Apple addresses all of your other (very valid) concerns, price wouldn’t hold me back from it if I could find a use for it.
It's also true that you have now 20+ years of experience. The higher you go, the harder it gets - you might want a different role, etc etc.

If on the other hand you're competing with senior sw devs with 5+ years of experience, there could also be other factors to keep in mind (age, ability in very specific tech stacks, etc).

I think companies are still hiring, but more focused, unlike in 2021-2022 when they over-hired "just in case".
> I think this is more of an enthusiast device than anything.

Of course it's a v1 enthusiast device. Not that it'll ever be as big as the Apple Watch or iPhone, but the v1s of those were also enthusiast devices.
Looks really promising! Well done. Would love to host an installation for our local learning community. Hopefully we’ll get multiple user accounts soon.
What a beautiful application of this technology. 10kw output on quick boil mode? Yes please. I paid for all 50 Amps, I'm going to use all 50 Amps!
My laptop disagrees with you. So is the curse of Desktop Linux.
This is definitely the main reason behind the battery. Being able to cook during a power outage is nice and all but it doesn't justify the very steep price all by itself. I have a cheap camp stove I can use for the rare times it happens.
You have misunderstood my comment. I wrote until they die/become unusable; so your sentiment "One should use the machine while it enables an efficient workflow. As soon as it doesn't, and there are those that do for a reasonable price, one should switch" is implicit here. The "workflow" varies from machine to machine.

For example;

1) Nexus 10 - battery replaced and being used a a ebook reader.

2) iPad (very old) - watch Youtube videos, surf and read iBooks.

3) Dell Inspiron laptop (2008) - Linux machine.

4) iPhone 4 - battery replaced, Stream music to a old Jawbone jambox bluetooth speaker. The sound is actually excellent, probably the iPhone4 DSP/DAC is very good.

5) Macbook Pro (2008) - Regularly used until a few years ago when it died. Needs to be repaired.

6) iMac 27-inch (mid-2010) - Was my main work machine until last year when it died. Needs to be repaired.

7) Surface Pro 1st gen (2012) - My only current usable machine.

8) Pixel 2 - My current phone.

As you can see any old device can be very well repurposed for some specific use. One should not get sucked into the "consumerist mindset" pushed by external forces but always think about needs/wants, financial burden and environmental effects.

This has always been my policy with everything be it cars/furniture/shoes/clothing/electronics/etc. i.e use everything to the fullest until they die/become unusable.
Yes, this is very cool! And impressive!

The only other compiler for 6502 I've ever used (and had to modify) is the old cc65. The original author stop developing it (10+ years ago):
https://cc65.github.io/

But there is some development ongoing:
https://cc65.github.io/

Would be interesting to see comparison with the new one.
I’d been dodging layoffs for 20 years until I got laid off for the first time, late last year. My personal situation isn’t bad at all. Meaning my wife has insurance through her job and we have plenty of cushion. I’m spending time on a hardware startup and practicing leetcode. The job market will come back, it always does. Maybe not as hot but we’ll see.

Edit; According to Vernor Vinge, real long term tech unemployment could be a signal of the singularity approaching; so we’ll have that going for us (if the job market doesn’t come back) at least.
macOS does follow the same model now, in case you haven’t been paying attention. You can’t run unsigned binaries downloaded from the internet anymore.
I'd say it's zero percent insane — that is: one hundred percent sane. This first iteration of the headset is going to have a very short battery life. You do not want to run your IDE right on the headset. Video streaming is probably the lower energy draw of those two possible approaches.
SOF usually doesn’t let a boot run a team of operators the way tech companies do though.
For the sake of your organization, get them to add a fill in the blank on that form. Picking a tech stack based on the options on an HR form is a sure way to end up using ancient tech. HR is failing you.
Biggest question for me is how it feels on my face. If it makes airplane travel more fun for cross country flights, that alone is worth the cost to me.
Sorry for the delayed response. No, no sarcasm. My current phone is an Oppo, 8+8GB RAM, 256GB storage, and "ok" CPU/GPU.

I've removed the bloatware, using NoRoot Firewall and keep most apps NOT running in background.

The main usage is Signal, Spotify, Netflix, Firefox. I don't need to upgrade it to a faster CPU/GPU/RAM any time soon, so why should I? I got a good case for it, so it survives the falls/drops.

I genuinely don't see a reason to upgrade. Plus, when I DO change a phone I need to spend 2-3-4 days to reinstall apps, copy songs/ringtones/PDFs, remove bloatware, change settings on apps/battery/etc. I don't just boot and run with it.
It is not fair to compare the Quest devices, given what we know about the Vision Pro so far.

The AR functionality on current-gen gaming headsets is terrible, and the screen door effect is glaringly obvious.

What Apple is advertising blows the Oculus devices away. Whether the difference is worth the extra $3000 is a question that has yet to be answered, but it’s a category error to compare them directly.
I get the entertainment aspect, but come on, don't fool yourself. You won't be more productive with this thing than with your MacBook or any other Laptop.
What's with the FUD. What else besides PWAs promise to free everyone from app store rent and anticompetitive policies?

PWAs would also open the doors to new mobile OSs beyond Google or apple control.
Thanks for putting it in context, the Bluetooth API has been a big source of frustration in my exploration of PWAs. So many simple setup apps wouldn't need to be native.
A cross platform Bluetooth API for the web would provide really easy PoC with MCUs.
Thank you. There was really no reason for the author to use revenue instead of net income other than to make the problem they were reporting seem just a little bit worse.