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Haha you’re not lying https://m.slashdot.org/story/133608

> Since the iPad's initial introduction back in January, many of us still wonder why we should drop hundreds of dollars for what is termed as a large iPod.
> Yea, everyone else has been laughing at you for this the whole time

Almost nobody really knew about the field not that long ago.

> Maybe you should consider communicating more directly and effectively.

I don't understand what you mean. People had seen the film AI and misremembered it having aliens in, and when I said my course was AI that's what they thought about.

> You should talk to more people. This is 100% a problem.

I don't believe you that people generally believe that cameras and the like have been sentient for years.
You can enter your prescription later.
fr this is literally the first thing I thought of and I'm probably one of these extreme libs people think they're fighting here. I literally didn't consider any reason for using this phrase other than that both parents don't usually have equal child raising responsibilities. that's a perfectly normal traditional nuclear family situation.
edit: I did some more investigation, and I missed something crucial: The distribution of requests over time becomes very wonky if the lower bound isn't 0. It stabilizes given enough time, but that time seems very long. Whereas lower-bound 0 quickly becomes uniform.

See the following figure, where I plot the # of requests over type: https://i.imgur.com/PNUFhjc.png

And that is why you should use 0.

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I am not an expert, but I got nerd-sniped.

I have made some simulations[1] and done some napkin math[2], and I would summarize as follows:

I don't think there is any globally optimal, I think it depends on your exact circumstances, and which of {excess waiting time, excess load} you want to optimize. Defaulting to 0 is a lot easier to implement, and is at most a factor 2 worse than the optimal lower bound w.r.t. waiting time vs. load. You may also consider [0.5 * maximum, maximum], which trades some excess waiting time for less load. Your suggestion is a similar heuristic one might use depending on their exact circumstances.

[1] https://gist.github.com/Dryvnt/1984d9389ae7386127f5e8998bf52...

[2] Consider a family of random bounded exponential back-off strategies with ultimate upper bound U as follows:

Strategy X(z): Random of [z * U, U], where z is constant, 0 <= z <= 1

There are other families of back-off algorithms with other characteristics, and I am not considering or comparing those, just this family. Note that strategy OP suggests is X(0). Consider that X(1) is non-random, which is undesirable.

Simple probability tells us

avg(X(z)) = (1 + z) * U / 2

Server load ~= frequency, frequency is inverse duration, so

load(X(z)) ~= 1 / avg(X(z)) = 2 / (1 + z) * U

The difference in load between any two X strategies is

load(X(z1)) / load(X(z2)) = (1 + z1) / (1 + z2)

Since z1 and z2 are constant, this relative load is constant. Due to the bounds on z, the largest possible relative load is

load(X(1)) / load(X(0)) = 2 / 1 = 2

Now consider your suggested strategy

Strategy Y: Random of [L, U], where L is the last choice

Note that

Y = X(y), where y = L / U.

In fact, Y approaches X(1) exponentially fast, since the difference between L and T is halved each step, on average. So your suggestion still falls within this at-most-factor-2 difference. Exactly where just depends on the outage length.
I remember people mocking it as the iPhone MaxiPad.
I appreciate your comment and anecdata, and I’m glad you commented here.

That being said, I’m not sure whether it is you or I who does not know what “quasi” means.
I was perhaps trying to be more precise than necessary. Thinking of my work colleagues, there's a case where A and B had a child together, so they're both parents, but they've also separated and B (who works at my place) does all the child-raising and so is the one to worry about daycare availability and pricing and such. A is still a parent, but not much involved in the child's life.

This term was not meant to be a commentary on the kind of language that comes out of HR departments, nor a statement on gender identity.
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I do think this is going to be similar to the iPhone launch in 10-20 years. The VR headsets that we have in 2035 will be useful, affordable, and revolutionary.

But this is not yet that.
The things that the iPhone was criticised for - no 3G was the biggest one - were easily fixed in the next iteration.

The problems with the vision pro seem more fundamental, primarily cost. Apple really needs to sell it with zero margin or as a loss leader to build marketshare because $3000 is absurd and will really damage its branding "weird face hugger for rich people"
They also ran iOS without really much adaptation for the form factor. Now it's called "iPadOS" and has functionality that differentiates it from an iPhone. You can even dual screen the thing if you're a weirdo.
Ask HN: How does science relate to global warming?
Is global warming really global?

Are ecosystems really collapsing, is this really a disaster?

What does this have to do with my life and my money?

Has it been proven that warming is anthropogenic?

Is CO2 the main factor?

If we cut emissions immediately, will the situation improve?
Even if I were to ever use an iPhone (which I won’t), it bulks up phones even more. I already find modern phones far too large. I was thinking more of something like the Nokia E71 [0] or for a bigger screen, a slide out like the HTC Desire Z / T-Mobile G2 [1], both phones I had before, and loved at the time.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E71

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z
I had an iPod touch before iPhone came around.

If memory serves right, after first few versions of iPod Touch was out everyone was wondering why Apple is not cramming in the phone functionality as well.

iPhone maybe was criticized by the likes of Ballmer and Nokia/Blackberry execs from business strategy perspective, but I'm not sure that sentiment was universally shared by consumers.

EDIT:

OK my memory has failed tragically. Will leave this comment here nevertheless.
Not specific to the Quest, but potentially of use to some:

I've done it with a Valve Index and an HTC Vive Pro. I configured a virtual room with huge screens on the walls.

It worked OK. I wished the DPI was higher, but huge screens farther away from my head worked well enough to use Visual Studio, etc.

The issue I had was eye strain and headaches. This was with snap-in vision correcting lenses for the Vive Pro.

I could do a full 8 hour day, but had a low-key headache and dry eyes the rest of the day.
> Google Maps can be used on any platform (Android, Windows).

Apple Maps is accessible through the web.

For instance, if you search for a place on DuckDuckGo and then click the Maps button, you get Apple Maps results.
I once used the hashlife algorithm to analyze the win/loss pattern of a game which I couldn't find any other way to analyze directly [1]. Of course, this is an application of cellular automata to a different sort of hobbyist mathematics, rather than a truly practical use...

[1] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/85314/can-anyone-analyze-...
> Heuristics are for when you need to make quick decisions.

Heuristics are also for when you have too much information to handle in one thought process.
I thought this was going to be about siloed products. Like AWS is a silo, because once you use AWS you are effectively locked in, whereas WinterCG and Unix standards make implementors non-siloed.

Oh well, this take would be a lot more spicy if so
I think this could be more useful to most people as a prompt/RAG testing service rather than an llm testing service. If I ran a test and found out the llm I was using is 60% accurate on some topic what would I do with this knowledge - build a more accurate llm? Switch to another? On the other hand if a service offered me suggestions to improve accuracy by providing a score for various prompt or RAG inputs, I think this would be very useful to many people. It could even uncover a general prompting strategy depending on the underlying Llm or inputs available which would be really useful
iPod Touch came out after iPhone.
>If Big Tech really are metaphorically comparable to the big dinosaurs, then I don't want to think about what it would take for them to go down.

Another Trump presidency.
> They literally just built a VR headset... do you seriously not think the Apple Vision Pro is a VR headset?

I think it's an AR headset, which is different. If it was VR it would need better immersive sound, but instead it has a million cameras.

But it also has the entire computer in it; "headset" kind of feels like it means a peripheral.
It was kinda that, though, wasn't it? I think Vision Pro might be a similar evolution. IMO this is a tool for professionals and media enthusiasts. After proving out some use cases they'll transition later generations like how the iPad Pro has grown into stuff like graphics editing.
That's the whole point, lots of people ARE parents but aren't child raisers. Even traditional fathers who are part of the family but do not raise their kids because they expect their wife to ARE parents but are not primary raisers of their kids.
Just four words capture the entire spectrum of human emotions in language
I thought it was crazy you're supposed to download an app to measure your head to get your band size when I have two soft tape measures laying around.
The iPad was arguably rather a pre-1.0 version when it came out.

And I must say I rarely use mine around the house. I'm admittedly not a kid that writes papers on an iPhone and doesn't even want a laptop but it's just much easier to use a laptop for searching/writing/etc.

Doing much less travel than pre-COVID, I'm not even sure I'll replace my iPad when it goes out of support. A MacBook Air and Kindle combo does most things as well or better and weighs only marginally more.
The article is so riddled with incorrect statements and conclusions, I'm too bored to even summarize them for you.

Just read the rest of the comments here if you did not notice anything wrong with the article.
Gotta love Apple's consistent $200 SSD jumps.
Mini-robots modeled on insects may be smallest, lightest, fastest ever developed
The first coworker who comes to mind for me is a guy I worked with whose sister and brother-in-law died in a car accident. As next of kin, he took the kids and eventually adopted them, but as far as I'm aware, at no point did he ever call himself their parent and I think that would have seemed oddly distasteful to do so. Uncle still works even when you're raising them.
> Crypto is exactly as real as cash. Both crypto and cash have value because people think they have value.

Except crypto doesn't have value at all as it's being manipulated and wash traded on exchanges, especially when Tether is printing constantly and pumping up the price of Bitcoin.

Crypto is essentially all based on a pyramid scheme at best and a ponzi scheme at worst.
Next-generation batteries could go organic, cobalt-free for long-lasting power
It does say in the small print:

* Apple Vision Pro only supports English (U.S.) for language and typing and English for Siri and Dictation.

* App Store requires an Apple ID with region set to the U.S.

* Purchases on Apple Music and TV app require an Apple ID with region set to the U.S.

* For customers with vision correction needs, ZEISS will only accept vision prescriptions written by U.S. eye care professionals, and will only ship to U.S. locations.

* Customers may not be able to access certain apps, features, or content due to licensing or other restrictions in those countries or regions.

* Apple Support is only available in the U.S.
DNA from the Ocean's 'Twilight Zone' Could Lead to New Lifesaving Drugs
You don’t need the prescription on hand, you upload it after the fact. Whole process took like 2 minutes in the Apple Store app ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What do you mean by "trained mathematician"? I ask this because I always think that mathematicians are simply people do research in mathematics, if not they aren't mathematician. So no need to add "trained", what is an "untrained mathematician" btw?

I saw some people claimed on their twitter/blog that they are "trained mathematician" but I cannot find any single published contribution of them in mathematics.

And everyone I know who do research in math seems to agree all that "math is hard".
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Especially when inch is now defined as being exactly 25.4 mm and you can manufacture to 0.01mm with commodity-level hardware.
Google used to be truly great. Their business was inherently evil, yet they were somehow not. They actually did good, and as a naive highschooler with a programming hobby, they inspired me to try to be the best I can at it.

But they crashed hard. Almost as soon as I started college, they began the quick descent into evilness (about the time Pichai became CEO).

They're irredeemable at this point, and the only solution left is a breakup or a massive amount of regulation. Still, I think Google is unique among the tech giants because they really were a force for good at one point. That's why I hate them the least, even though they're probably at #2 or #3 in the evil leaderboard.
Maybe for some people. A lot of people, esp. reporters and the like who loved their blackberries were heavily negative towards not having a physical keyboard..

It's kind of hard to imagine that this was the reality, given where we are today.
20 yrs ago, when living in N America, I owned a 1987 Subaru GL wagon (so car was 16 yrs old at the time). Had low-range 4wd which would go through anything. Did 32 mpg highway I seem to recall. Very reliable. Japanese import, probably better built than later US models. I believe those cars last for ever. Mechanic had one with 700k on the clock. Still a few on ebay probably. Think it had a tape deck not even a CD player, that's the only thing. ;)
You are correct, but you are also ignoring the fact that we are no longer living in ancient greek time.

I did not claim that Christianity invented good & evil. I claimed that it is a central concept in Christianity.

Your way of reasoning here is often referred to as a straw mans argument.
I've worked and developed on Linux, for Linux, for 10+ years, I've seen my fair share of panics, especially using the bleeding edge releases. Most (not all!) of them were my own making though. :>
RIP Christopher Evan Welch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxh2X6NjuhY
This thread is a great example of how, even with an explicit author's note, different people will always interpret things differently.

So I guess I'll add my interpretation.

This is neither a horror story nor a story about AI safety. It is a parable.

> Before I came along, this world was content with believing that human life was sacred, but all the while turning its back to all the ways it actually treated human life like trash

> imagine a society very different from our own in which the sacredness of human life is taken absolutely seriously

The lesson is to be honest about the implications of the belief that human life is scared, or perhaps more generally, to be honest about the implications of whatever values you hold most dear. For different people this will lead to different actions and different political beliefs (as the author said he is not endorsing any particular political belief and I won't either), but one thing we surely cannot escape is taking very, very seriously any position of power or influence over human life.

The image of a dystopia brought about by a poorly-aligned AI is a means to an end, not what the story is about.
That was also my understanding. There are countries (in EU) where filming your layoff might land you in jail (privacy, obstruction of property, trade secrets).
Those public institutions are being _made_ to fail right now. Purposefully. Not by unthinking forces of nature but by conscious effort.
This is exactly how I'm using Raindrop. Basically my bookmarking system is like a TODO list. These are highly valuable finds that are really, really relevant to me. How do you guys compare to Raindrop?
Why does a pressure washer on Amazon have reviews for bachelorette sashes?
Power over people does not come from making them happy, historically it comes from doing something close to the opposite, which is to convince them that they are missing "X" from their lifes, that there are greener pastures for those who purchase it ("x" being some soda, some new phone, et al) or the promise that they will get it if they do something they want (e.g. in religious context "x" can be heaven and they only get it by following some behaviors/commands)
That happened to me, but slightly different:

The 8th guy looked at my resume and, without talking to me, decided I'm under-qualified. He cancelled the call 1 hour before it was scheduled. Qualifying 7 rounds before that, and getting positive reviews from 7 of his peers wasn't enough to instill confidence over my resume.

Now I thank my lucky stars. Because that's a representation of the minuscule level of trust and team cohesion that these people have in their peers. Good riddance.
The iPhone was widely mocked for costing $500 with a 2-year contract with AT&T at release. It also didn't have native apps and only worked with AT&T. The big jump for Apple was the next release of the iPhone 3G that brought the price down toe $200 (with contract) and also opened up the platform for native apps.
I think the fundamental problem of the Apple Vision Pro as it stands is that you can't put it in your pocket like the iPhone. It's also a lot more awkward to put in a shoulder bag than the iPad is, and the iPad hasn't exactly revolutionised computing either.
The article doesn't address this at all. There's only a passing mention of external fire escapes but no argument at all about alternative means of escaping a building in the absence of a the primary one becoming unavailable.
They showed multiple apps, but only one Mac screen.
20 years ago was 2004. The Iraq and Afghan wars were well underway at that point. A decade prior there was Iraq again. In the late 80s there was Operation Praying Mantis vs Iran, the largest US naval engagement since WW2.

So anyone who would laugh at the thought would be out to lunch, then or now.
It is iOS in all but name, isn't it? Same version and basically same changelogs?
So true. The same is valid for many other (almost ridiculous) expensive items: watches, bags, shoes, cars, wines, perfumes… There are many rich people out there that need to differentiate themselves from us plebeians :-)
Game Helpin' Squad: A Pissed Off Tutorial For Google Wave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z4RKRLaSug
400 license plate cameras coming to San Francisco
> I stick around for those rare diamonds in the rough.

It used to be that most posts were worthwhile. Sad to see what it's devolved to.

I'm aghast at how many comments these days are against a startup/company doing well. It used to be Startup News, I think the branding change was the turning point.
Yes, this is one of a few reasons why I've begun the effort to shift away from Linux entirely. Sadly, the Linux ecosystem keeps evolving in a way that makes it less useful and desirable to me.
Curious how many Apple TV+ users are out there. Despite all the noises, I don't personally know anyone who used the service, or often, even heard of shows on that platform. They never release subscriber numbers (of course), and Apple likely doesn't care if it loses money during early stages. But everyone knows streaming is mostly a money losing business, and wonder how Apple is doing there
"anti-fascists" have many of the same characteristics as Nazis. Authoritarian in nature and willing to use violence to suppress the opinions of people they dislike. It's not surprising that the grandson of an actual Nazi has become one.

update: The truth hurts. You can't support violence and not get called out for it.
People were very skeptical about the lack of a keyboard on iPhone, and it was missing a few basic features like copy/paste, but it was incomprehensibly small in person and other phones couldn’t touch the capabilities.
Unfortunately that average person makes up about 99% of the computer using population. And that's me being generous - being less generous it's probably closer to 99.9%.

Computer literacy is at an all-time low because the overwhelming majority of it has been hidden away as much as possible by large tech giants in favor of their own corporate "clouds".

And no - the "next generation" isn't doing any better on that either because they were raised on these devices and often don't know, or worse, don't care about that sort of thing. It's really bad.
Not everyone can afford this. I wish someone was selling a holographic sticker that can be placed at the front side of cheap VR headsets to mimic the creepy eyes.
I think you could go further - the old Google culture was not great at teamwork, and most definitely not when teams crossed boundaries with third parties, where they would expect to be dictating reality and struggled when this wasn’t possible. (Credit where it is due - certain people in the Android group worked this out and changed their tune, and much money was made as a result).

There are limits to how much tiny teams can do and old Google was pushing those limits too often.

Part of the function of a Jobs type character is to be the defining asshole in the organization that no one has a chance of defeating alone.
The market, made up of a lot of people, seems to think the richest man in the world is pretty valuable.

A subset of people around here don't think that way. Why? I have my own opinion, not very flattering.
Yes, same goes for any "first gen" Apple product in a category: The Apple I, 128k Macintosh, iPod, Apple Watch.

The thing all these first-generation products have in common (including the Apple Vision Pro) is that they are eminently skippable and usually followed by more popular, better-spec'd lower-cost models within a year or two.
On a computer your are ok but not on an Android device.

To perform the oauth2 login, the app is forced to send the user to a specific Google webpage. There are only 2 ways to do that, load it inside a WebView within the app or send to an external url to be opened by the phone browser.

In both cases, Android (/Google) will capture that and use the "add account to Android" provider.

Now, let's suppose that you want to use your own custom WebView to avoid that, then the oauth2 page on Google server will perform a check against that and will refuse to load.
Officially "for security reason for the user".

:-(
I'm not sure if BlackBerries were really ever a thing in Europe. All the business-type people had Nokia Communicators here (the last of which was released in 2007).
I wonder how much of that is due to the specific nature of this type of product, and how it compares to those past launches.

With iPhone & iPad, you had products that people could very easily imagine using. The iPhone was the combination of three technologies people were already familiar with, the iPad was the iPhone, but bigger.

It is really difficult to imagine using a VR headset if you haven't used one before -- there simply isn't a frame of reference. And even if you have used an Oculus or a SteamVR headset, an interface built around eye & tracking is still completely novel.

I think a lack of mass-market appeal is something that is inherent to a product like this, which makes it a very different product from a marketing perspective than iPhone or iPad.

It makes sense to me that, rather than trying to copy-paste the iPhone or iPad launch, Apple would instead put out an exclusive halo product early, allow a few years for the public to build familiarity with it and settle on the core use-cases, all while they observe and iterate behind the scenes on a more accessible version for a wider audience.
It's not relevant since those religions are no longer practiced.

Christianity is, and is still influencing our world, like I wrote above.