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The first iPhone was pretty terrible

Before Steve stood on that stage in 2007 and demoed the first iPhone, most people had never even seen 'swipe to scroll'. The first iPhone absolutely kicked the arse of everything else. So what if it was 2G that was how most phones were back then. The only objection anyone could think off (e.g. Ballmer) was that it was expensive.
$80k in 1990 dollars is equivalent to $192k in 2023 dollars. I'm not sure salaries are all that inflated compared to the .com days.
in my world that was true 10 years ago, except it wasnt a cop out: nobody needed .coms but nobody knew it yet because of prevailing wisdom

over here .xyz is the new .io and nobody cares about the tld that much at all

if you’re relying on users to type in your domain name, or SEO, or some form of legitimacy with an equally as antiquated crowd, you’ve already failed and need to scrap the idea
>Lightweight: Proton is a single binary (<500MB)

Okay, uhm, does this mean the 500 MB is the memory consumption footprint?

No way someone is shipping a giant 500 MB binary hunk, and the selling point is that it's lightweight?

But 500MB of RAM for a DB also seems tiny. That can't be right..
If you think only untrustworthy instances are being blocked then I really don’t want to debate about Lemmy with you.
> you definitely don't want to mess with the Finanzamt.

*as a nonaffluent individual.
Figuring out where parks go is the kind of things urban planners should be doing, rather than obsessing over overspecific zoning rules and parking regulations.

Cities are best when they are allowed to gradually adapt, rather than trying to plan everything out 'just so' from the outset and being rigid about changes.

But parks are tougher to put in once the land has been used up.
When Google renamed to Alphabet, the pun was that it was an umbrella company covering those parts of the business that had exceptional financial return – mostly Ads – and the "long bets," some of which would provide future growth as the established business saturated, and some of which would fizzle – think X. The established businesses would saturate the risky investments, giving a long term growth strategy.

Market beating returns: Alpha. Long bets – Bet. Alphabet.
Nevermind cooking, TV, and timers, I'd consider this solely to serve as a portable monitor. With remote work, that could be very handy. When I travel I never take an external monitor, so all work gets done on a 16 or 14 inch screen. This could be a game changer, like adding a large display.

Could also be very handy when working on planes, and for working from outdoor locations like parks (which I love to do). I find I'm most productive working from planes, but if there's a seat in front (non exit row), looking down at a laptop for several hours at a sharp angle can cause some neck pain. This would allow me to look straight ahead.
... in america.

It has always confused me how simultaneously the US money system is operating in the most advanced interconnected economy imaginable which fosters innovation (bankruptcy laws in the US are designed to make it easy to try again, they encourage entrepreneurship) and yet.. the whole credit union, banking crash, over inflated economy has made them retain unbelievably archaic approaches to money on paper.

Checking for forgery, active forgery presumably underway, 3+ day clearing, "you're not from round here" risks, It's just insane.

Go to walmart, buy a stored value card, you can do dollar events with zero friction but present a cheque at the counter, and you're in the slow path.

It's positively ... Indian. It's like mainstream Indian bureaucracy levels of insane slowness. It's even had films with Whoopi Goldberg made about it (she is a cheque processor in some movie, doing it by hand at a 1970s vintage cheque processing machine. I think its "made in america" with Ted Danson)
I'm a bit blindsided by "got really popular lately" - these projects would be relevant to my work but they've completely slipped under my radar. Whereabouts are you hearing about those projects? Or (alternatively) where else are you talking about your project?
Everything is already compressed. Uncompressed 1080p is 3Gbit/s, which is already well beyond what's actually achievable with WiFi. Allowing an unbounded number of window surfaces to be streamed invites people to use it in a way that current technology simply cannot provide the kind of slick experience that Apple needs from this product.
Color me skeptical, but I've never gotten in a car without having decided my destination first. I don't go to "any supermarket", I go to Supermarket X because they have the goods I need at a price I accept or the best promos that week or whatever.

If letting your rideshare company decide your destination was really a thing, why wouldn't Uber be doing it already be doing it with human drivers?
Traffic will suck in a city that isn't designed to discourage people from driving. It doesn't matter if there is an elevated highway running through it or not; traffic is going to suck.

Invest in transit and make it easier for people to get around without cars; that's the only way to solve traffic. Building more roads (and widening existing roads) just induces more demand.
Also recommend "The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives" by Lisa Servon on the topic.

https://www.npr.org/2017/01/10/509126878/what-is-driving-the...

https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781328745705
Hey, buddy (yes, I am intentionally being condescendingly familiar) these cults/movements are self-serving and cannot be reasoned with via rationality under the assumption they’re good faith actors.

This is akin to falling for TikTok/etc. ragebait and trying to have a discourse in the comment’s section.

The subcultures allow for the exchange of material and non-material goods — primarily money and “woo.” Everything else is just a tool to that end.
> River sand is preferable to coastal sand, partly because coastal sand has to be washed free of salt. But coastal sand does get used, especially when builders take shortcuts, leading to buildings that have shorter life spans and pose greater risks for inhabitants.

Wow, that's all the article said about this? It's the crux of the matter.

Corrupt chinese construction projects may use cheaper coastal sand, resulting in so-called "Tofu-Dreg" buildings (豆腐渣工程) where the salt in the sand has corroded the rebar and the building just falls down. As I understand it, it's a major concern in China. Google for it.
Cloth doesn't really absorb grease that well. It just kind of spreads it around.
No copy/paste & no apps were the main criticisms, given that Windows, Palm, & other "less-powerful" devices from that era had those features.
The main driver of motion sickness in VR is "moving without moving", where your virtual viewpoint moves independently of your actual head position and confuses your brain. That's a common issue in VR games where practical space limitations mean that some kind of artificial locomotion is usually required, but Apple seems to be purposely avoiding that kind of experience by keeping the viewpoint locked to your head at all times.

Third party immersive apps might break that rule, of course.
I wish Quickemu would make it easier to interface with libvirt, but apparently that's been marked as out of scope for the project.
> you can’t use Quest/Vision Pro in any moving vehicle

You aren’t unpredictably accelerating most of the time in a plane. It makes sense Facebook would have fucked this up. I’d be surprised if Apple has.
Whenever I-5 is blocked off, 99 will be a mess, so its not like I can just say "oh, not my problem because I can avoid using it." You have to think about the traffic between Vancouver BC and Portland Oregon, it has to go somewhere, and 405 is even worse than I5 most of the time.
less car means ebike and scooters which are a viable option these days
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say JetBrains are keeping ReSharper so slow in part to promote Rider (which is actually great!).
My job at the time gave me a brand new Series 2 and it was annoying to interact with... when it was new. Dropped frames, missed touches, etc. There was still a little bit of lingering hope there would be "killer apps" outside notifications and exercise.

But nope, nothing more interesting came, and OS updates ruined performance so badly that I happily returned it to my employer 2 years later and opted not to buy my own until 2021 (for exercise and notifications only).
That's not how development cycles work. Conversational AI being any good is a 1-2 year old thing, and VR development of this quality is 5+ years.
Right, your brain really does not give a crap about the very edge of your vision. Instead of spending thousands on way more screen and optics real estate that you will barely notice because you barely notice ANYTHING outside of your focal point, we'd probably be just fine with a couple RGB LEDs shining just colors at your periphery.
I was thinking about this too. I've never lived in Boston, but have visited often enough over the past 20-25 years. While the Big Dig was an awful, wasteful, corrupt project, the results -- IMO -- make it all worth it. Moving all those highways underground made quite a few areas much more livable than before.
It's a far cry. This thing is a little more that 4k for the entire field of view.
Resolution required to render two 4k monitors at comfy distance is more than an order of magnitude away.
they won't cancel many orders. Airbus has a huge backlog
So, there is a flywheel coming up to speed: FedNow [1]. I beat this horse to death here [2], but only because it is so revolutionary (for US financial infra). It catches us up with 54 other nation states with instant payment systems. It removes credit risk from delayed settlement, checks (and the risk that goes along with paper instruments), the need for a deposit account to underwrite you (if they simply disable any ability to go below $0). It's run by the Fed as a cost recovery utility, not a for profit enterprise to squeeze as much profit from as possible.

There are already 400 participants who have signed on in less than a year of the network being live [3] (the list includes Chase Bank and the US Treasury), and the CFPB is already getting in front of financial institutions attempting to charge insufficient funds fees for instant payments when unnecessary [4]. There are substantial entrenched interests fighting it (The Clearinghouse and their competing private RTP network, credit card rails, etc) due to the revenue at stake (~3-5% of the economy running through this FinInfra), but as long as the infra uptake continues and it isn't sabotaged by policy and lobbying, it will deliver more efficient value transfer at scale. Also helps when merchants surcharge credit card rail payments when cheaper alternatives are enabled.

Tangentially, the unbanked stand at ~4.5% in the US per the Fed [5]. That should be driven to as close to 0% as possible, which instant payments contributes towards (getting funds to recipients faster with less float and necessitating less or no credit extension, depending on use case).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801491

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[3] https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/organi...

[4] https://www.pymnts.com/news/cfpb/2024/cfpb-proposes-banning-...

[5] https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/household-survey/index.html

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)

(humorously, you mention it's very "Indian" when UPI [India's instant payment system] is probably the gold standard success story [6] alongside Pix [7] in Brazil)
Software which makes a keyboard work how you would expect it to.

I agree that the wording is confusing. It's obviously targeting the custom keyboard hobbyists.
They won’t, but certain fungi will break them down.
The New Generation of Excel Alternatives
I think you've got it backwards: LessWrong was saying these author's words. Hutter has been publishing about this topic for almost 25 years.
Additionally printf statements have direct impact on application itself and can "fix" for example race condition bugs. So on debug it works. On production it crashes. Go figure.
Why would you do some "quick napkin math" with, of all things, a system notorious for its inability to do precise math?

You could have used a calculator. You could have literally written on a napkin. Why choose the worst possible tool for such a simple task?
The phrase "that you take a limited amount" implies that the amount taken is the primary determining factor. For example, that (at least approximately) taking four tiles is always safe, regardless of which four, and taking four hundred is always unsafe, even if each individual tile could have been one of the aformentioned four safe ones.

But (DF) candy doesn't work like that at all; each tile is either completely safe, or has a noticable (if not always large) chance of having a circus tent behind it, completely independantly of any safe tiles, and only dependant on other unsafe tiles in the minesweeper sense (ie, that you sometimes know there's a circus tent behind either tile A or tile B, but not which).
ICANN does not pick the abbreviations. ISO does.
I think it’s supposed to be an alternative to Flink SQL/Table API.

The important part of Apache Flink is the stateful streaming and fault tolerance characteristics of Flink. This is not an alternative to Flink as a distributed runtime for event driven applications.
> .cc (Cocos Island) was used most famously by Arduino.

IMO Arduino's use of the domain wasn't as famous as Creative Commons' use of the domain creativecommons.cc ... but Arduino is still at arduino.cc, while Creative Commons has moved to .org.
Speech-to-video synthesis: Real-time rendering of speech
Hi guys,

After some research and no luck finding anyone that seems to be working on this, I thought I'd try a Hail Mary and post on here.

I'm looking to speak to anyone who is working on speech-to-video (real-time speech rendering). We already have software which can take audio (speech) input and render a video which resembles a person or avatar speaking, but it takes a long time to render.

How long will it be before the video of the person/avatar speaking will be renderable in near real-time, with similar latency to existing speech-to-text models?

What would the prototype look like to reduce the latency? Is anyone working on anything like this?

For context, I run a language learning app where you can practice speaking orally with AI. It would be far more engaging if the user had an avatar/person to be able to speak to, rather than staring at the chat history whilst talking to the AI conversation partner.

Thanks,
Chris

For context, here's the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36973400
Stroads aren't inevitable when you get rid of elevated highways. They're just yet another result of poor urban planning.
Judge strikes down Elon Musk's multi-billion-dollar pay package
I remember what I was doing when I first saw it. Eating lunch with a work friend who bought it. I remember what I was eating.

It was incredible and obviously a game changer.
300B is like what, one NYC subway station?
Great story! Found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/cjz3hd/how_ja...
Portable monitors do not work as well. Monitors in general could also always be bigger speaking as a programmer.
He was talking about not letting C++ code into the Linux kernel.

As a C++ programmer, my cope for this is that back then's C++ was today's C#. It was the even-higher-level, comfier, shortcut language, loved by noobs and normies who aren't true hardcore nerds (identified by the masochism of choosing to write C) and write code that makes you cringe. (Although the situation is better today since C# excludes classes of errors C++ doesn't, so it actually IS friendlier than C while C++ merely gives you the illusion that it is. :p That it's often used as a beginner language blows my mind given how complicated it is once you get to learning it.)

Today, I think C++ has been bled off of those people (who have since fled to higher levels of abstraction while only hardcore nerds harbor the masochism to have stuck to C++), and modern C++ has made the language so much more powerful, that it would be worthy of being in the kernel. That said, we have Rust, which is an even better replacement for C.
Businesses have moats - not technologies. Sorry to unask your question, but framing this around AI is the wrong way to look at it.
> glibc marks freed pages with MADV_FREE, and on Linux, an MADV_FREE page won't be unmapped immediately. It's possible to read a value of an MADV_FREE'd page, have Linux swap the page out, and then read it again and now observe a zero-init'd page. If malloc returns a new allocation to a freed page, it isn't written to by the allocator (which would prevent the page from being subsequently zeroed if it hasn't already done so), so it doesn't guarantee that the contents won't be randomly zeroed.

Oh.

I feel like I should have more to say than that, but... oh.
Biggest issue with most Lisps is, IMHO, that you need emacs for a great developer experiences when it comes to tools.
And emacs is not for everyone.
> 1. It's safety profile is actually not that much better the what is commonly used for ADHD.

Modafinil is sold over the counter in many countries. Your claim does not reflect modern research findings. It's really not even close.

> 2. Its efficacy is significantly worse than what is commonly used, and thus, there is no point in using it.

efficacy for whom? ADHD isn't an infection that is treated with specific antibiotics. It's symptoms that arise in individuals with potentially drastically different root causes. For some people modafinil is effective for treating ADHD symptoms.

Speaking of other countries, Japan won't prescribe methylphenidate for ADHD - only issues prescriptions for sleep disorders. Most ADHD medications aren't even legal to bring into Japan, much less get prescriptions for them.

I think you'll find there isn't some global consensus on ADHD and medications and there's a good reason for that. ADHD treatment is barely science.
Marcus Hutter invented AIXI (Hutter 2000), the theoretically optimal AI system. It's not computable though, and the computable version is hilariously inefficient. Yes it uses Solomonoff induction.
You shouldn't need to write this kind of thing manually for every such type.
This is a direct result of engineering teams being let loose and becoming risk disconnected from the wider org. This leads to risk evaluations at a macro level which absolutely destroys efficiency.

Sit down with your risk or compliance officer for a couple of hours and thoroughly explain the ins and outs of your complex CI/CD pipeline to them. Your whole team will be up shit creek by end of the week.

But we don't have those discussions.
I bet you the markets keep T+2 and T+3 for a long, long time. Some habits die hard.

Catching up with 54 other nation states really sums it up. That flywheel has been revving up since 1871. Slow start.

And yes, it is unfair to compare US financials to Indian bureaucracy in the wide: Indian financials are innovative. They "got" money early on.
For 5 year-old me, the first Mac was pretty amazing.
> That was no small feat given how good Google Maps already was when Apple Maps started.

Gmaps also helped by enshittifying itself.
it really seems like the os should just take a core for itself
Twitter mostly! I am following a bunch of folks in indie hacker / building in public space. Also reddit
> and it can't phone home about what I'm watching or otherwise doing with the TV

Are you sure?

The old idea of giving TVs built-in cellular backup connection is probably still too risky/expensive - dealing with people extracting and repurposing the SIM card with a free (for them) data plan is a hassle. But what about eSIM?
Good point. I think my intuition about triangulation comes from GPS, where pulses are emitted simultaneously from many points at a known time. This problem is a little trickier.
Have you considered moving to an urban area?
Any such system changes can be gamed, it's inevitable, what's the point? Rather than adding more and more layers of technology that will be bypassed anyways, we should step back and ask: what exactly is the problem here?

The problem is that we've already made it illegal, but I don't see law enforcement doing as much enforcing as I'd like them to be doing. I didn't give them permission to throw their hands in the air and cross their arms in frustration and give up yet, and I don't think that any marginal effort would be wasted.

I don't think they're at their capacity either, so from my perspective, the difference is between 0 benefit and >0 benefit for the same annual expenditure on salary. If they needed more capacity after actually exhausting their existing capacity, they could reduce work in things we don't want them to work on.

They could convince folks otherwise, but it would require what I mentioned before: being receptive to non-LEO oversight and control. Then, we would have more accurate information for our judgement of whether they're doing as much as we'd like them to be doing, and what we'd like them to be doing.
The tires, rubber emissions account for a decent chunk of ocean pollution.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-dust-makes-up-the-majorit...

Still, if you solved those issues as well (and there is progress afaik?) it'd be fine.
Cars are handy, and a necessity if you live somewhere rural. just keep them out of cities as much as possible, except for larger transports and emergency vehicles.
It's mostly protons not neutrons.
I advise having at least two since they will make each other busy and get out of your hair sometimes. And these arguments are totally decoupled from birth rate problem.
Duckduckgo uses Apple Maps and it's completely unusable. Might be a Duckduckgo issue but last I tried a few weeks ago I couldn't even pan in Firefox without randomly snapping back to the pin. When I wanted context I'd work around it by just zooming out and be done with it. Still have to turn to the Devil if I want a decent map experience.

Ridiculous.
That opinion was so widespread that it was still common for people to dismiss the second iPhone version.
Until 2023 male blood donors in Germany were still asked "have you had sex with a man in the last 4 months?" As an exclusion criterium.

Donors who lived in Britain in the 90's are still banned due to the Lack of a Test which can identify 'Mad Cow Disease'.
There aren't any nice places without extradition treaties where you won't be murdered by the people in charge, police, criminal gangs, et al. Or otherwise de facto forced to turn over the money for protection, after which you'll be discarded if you're lucky (and disappeared for convenience if you're not).
This is Gruber at his best. Both critical at the shortcomings of the first generation but also looking beyond that to try to grasp the power of the concept. As well as the highlights of the first generation.

I definitely cannot await the time until it comes to Europa so I can schedule a test session. I see several great use cases - beyond entertainment I do quite a bit of photography, so it could be the ultimate image viewers. I think the spatial computing might be the most groundbreaking part and also the one part which takes longest to get you really productive. In any case, I want to try to hold out to the 2nd or third generation to get to its full potential as I assume it will stay expensive for quite a while. So thinking of the equivalent of the iPhone 3 or rather 4s. At which the platform had quite stabilized and the biggest change was in the growing of the iPhones 6 and later.
From the releases page it looks like the binaries are indeed around 500MB (some platforms actually exceeding that); granted, I am not that familiar with DBs, but calling a 500 MB binary “lightweight” is a little stretch…
Oregon state and Corvallis have a noise ordinances. The farm likely would have faced significant fines if he hadn’t solved the problem.