skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intriguing and possible I suppose; Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
However, I imagine the numbers would show it's unnecessary these days. My humble estimation is that most people, at least in the developed world, connect the TV to wifi for the convenience if available.
Sure, I use them myself as a consumer. Not frequently but I get refund checks etc. for various reasons. They take a minute to deposit with my banking app. Would I want to go back to doing bills every week with checks and mailing them? Of course not. But dealing with one now and then just isn't a problem.And for the generally small amounts involved, a few days of clearing generally just doesn't matter.
... No they don't.
My parents used to use these. I don’t recall if they worked, and I’ve not seen them in quite some time.

https://www.lightbulbs.com/blog/how-do-bug-lights-work
This product, and every similar headset to follow will never appeal to a mass market for daily hours-long usage.

It's uncomfortable, isolating, constraining, expensive, anti-social and its use cases are at best temporarily impressive but quickly grow old.

The entire product category simply sucks. I'm sure the incidental 3D movie experience is great, but most people don't watch movies every single day for hours on end whilst sitting alone on the couch.

It's slow to operate, can't easily be shared with others and having gigantic screens surrounding you is a useless novelty without utility. Watch people with big monitor setups. They watch the middle one whilst the other 2 are stale and only get the occasional peek. This super-multitasking idea is a myth and not how people work.

Consider how when people own both an iPhone and an iPad, they almost always use the iPhone, even for use cases in which the iPad is superior. It's quicker, more flexible, hassle-free, always ready.

Another issue is that the type of content/experience that would truly shine on such a headset, is impossibly hard/expensive to make. So that leaves out 99% of app developers.
it wasn't just safetyism.....it was city planners ....density with no parks and greenspace....terrible design to favour numbers over happiness.....that was far more damaging....
More likely than the other option, given the information. Getting an accurate grasp on the information is the whole point of the question.
> Things like sidecar for a quick virtual whiteboard are basically impossible.

Zoom has a good Airplay sharing feature that works well in this situation.

But I get what GP means -- I do have a corporate profile, and I made my own @corporation.com Apple ID, but what do I do to use sidecar? Either log out of my personal iCloud on the iPad (gross) or log in to my personal iCloud on my work computer (grosser)
I think if you find a good, objective history of the first iPhone, you'll find that it was groundbreaking in many meaningful ways.

It was a full unix OS, not some mobile-specific trash like the others (Symbian, Windows Mobile, Blackberry). Capacitive touch wasn't an invention, but a premium form of touchscreens (most were resistive).

Having nearly 60fps high quality 3d accelerated animations on a phone also contributed to a heavily premium feeling for the software. It enabled things like Inertial Scrolling, which among other things (like first class typography afforded by using OS X, and a fully standards compliant web browser), none of which were "innovations" in the sense of "we came up with this first", but more exceptionally good engineering in service of a great experience.

In almost every way (apart from the "traditional phone metrics" like 2G ironically), the iPhone was a huuuuuge leap forward from the status quo.

It might be true that anyone else could've done it. But nobody else did. It wasn't just luck that Apple did.
Freshql - a System for building systems, almost no code
A new project to build out a platform for building simple systems. Enabling building without writing code.
The only reasons Palworld is popular:

- Chinese developer with huge home audience

You get the evidence just by looking at what language people use in the reviews: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1623730/Palworld/#app_rev...

- The gimmick: Pokemon with Guns

- FOMO thanks to the press attention

The biggest reason:

- Base Building Survival game

At it's root it's a survival game, that genre is nothing new and is a hit maker, just look at the popularity of games like Ark and the upcoming Ark 2

And just recently: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1326470/Sons_Of_The_Fores...

People's hatred for Nintendo makes them loose sight, nobody will buy "Palworld" plushies or movies
The problem with academic papers is not that they are dense, it's that they are PDFs behind a paywall.
Thanks for that. That was a great read. It's really interesting to see a perspective from someone that understands that the current state of systems came from years and years of intentionally working within a paradigm and that changing regulations rarely, if ever, consider that paradigm. It really does fundamentally break the "brand promise" as he calls it.
I would point to the government report that the Swedish government did, or the study from Turell (2000) or Messinger (2001), or Kelley et al. (2012). I also recall hearing it from a professor.

There are many theories but one of the more reasonable one (in my view) is the simple one. Humans are humans and culture is usually a better explanation than biology. It also fits the challenge hypothesis of the relation between androgens and aggressiveness, which is that androgens function actually has nothing to do with aggressiveness but everything to do with social status and the amount of behavior towards defending against perceived social status threats. Only in a culture where social status is defended through the use of aggression is there a relation between androgens and aggression (An experiment using a setup where social status was defended through non-aggression showed a link with increased androgens and a reduction in aggression, which would indicate this theory to be true).

There are also multiple studies looking at self-reported amount of violence in relationships, which tend to show that while the rate of violence by women and men is fairly similar, what is different is how that violence get applied. This would also support the theory that the difference sits in how men apply violence against women, women applies violence against men, men against men and women against women. Same rate of violence, but not the exact same behavior when violence is being applied.
genuine curiosity, how often are you clicking something without looking at it at least for a moment?

or, how often do we believe other people are clicking something with out looking at it?

im examining this for myself...hard to feel organic while im actively focusing on it, but i at least glance at my mouse pointer target while traversing the pointer towards the target across my screens
This system is one of the reasons PayPal's stock has imploded massively over the past ~18 months. FedNow will all but directly kill their primary business.

PayPal was around $290 / share in August 2021. Now $63 / share. Their business got larger in that time, not smaller. The market is front-running the end of the necessity (or general usefulness) of services like PayPal in the US. The stock is back to where it was in 2017, when PayPal was a far smaller business, and it's now trading for 14 times operating income. They better find a new, large business, fast.
That seems to be an odd requirement/desire to have a head mounted display do?
Why is that the question? Why not "more likely than the last draw" ?
The official website is what was taken down
Judge Voids Musk's $56B Tesla Pay, Citing 'Deeply Flawed' Award Process
> FedNow will all but directly kill their primary business.

Good riddance. Come for Visa and Mastercard next. $57B in combined revenue in 2023.
The first iPhone was terribly limited compared to what came after it was not in any way terrible for the time. The demo Steve Jobs did was so good that a lot of people just refused to believe it was possible, only to be proven wrong when the thing went on sale.

You have to put it in context with what passed for a smart phone back then. No web browser (they sort of existed but were extremely cut down and not really usable), small screens with limited software, very limited connectivity that was very expensive.

A valid criticism was the lack of physical keyboard, which phone-jockies found a deal breaker, but in all other ways a phone with decent apps, a large screen, a real web browser designed around and provided with unlimited internet connectivity was always going to be a hit.

It wasn't even that expensive compared to other phones.
This was always going to happen. The human eye has a field of view and dynamic range no display technology can hope to match anytime soon. The future of AR is not reprojecting the outside world on a screen; it is screens which can become transparent.
Reusing short English words is a big problem in computer science.
Yeah, I get that. I think they were burned by having to do https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html and https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html.
.su still exists.

According to this article I found, Tuvaluans are trying to maintain their statehood and maritime rights once they no longer have land. It's uncharted territory for the UN but it strikes me as pretty likely (plus it's a bad look to not throw a bone to a country that the rest of the world played a part in destroying).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/11/tuvalu-seeks-t...

My prediction is the TLD stays and revenues go to the entity that is the Tuvaluan government (probably based in Australia at that point)
Securing a Rooted Android Phone
So yes, like the mafia.
Being backwards hunters is def a possibility. But hard to argue against wolves as the source since that is how the parasite works. The other effects like preventing overcrowding should be beneficial and especially help waterways as their vegetation on the banks is allowed to grow and mature .
I'm fine with using whatever electronic transaction mechanism but a fair number of service people are not set up that way and I'm fine with just handing them a check.
> Enterprise networks have built up better cyber defenses and have more data backups to help them recover quickly.
> More companies don't trust hackers to keep their promises and delete any stolen data.

So since the influx of ransomware over the years, companies have better defences and better backup systems. Seems like common sense to me.
From your misplaced sarcasm, it seems that you might not know what "guidance" means in this context. It's the company predicting what their financials will be in the future, such as "our revenue will be in the range $X-$Y in the next quarter". There's a lot of space for discussion between those kinds of predictions and the weather. For example, they could discuss what happened in the previous quarter. They could discuss future plans, without making any exact claims on the impact of those plans.

If you truly believe Google releases guidance, how about you just find a quote for what that supposed guidance was for Q4? You won't find it, because Google does not release guidance. The GP just made it up, just like they made up the numbers.
> Racter, short for Raconteur, holds its own in conversations by reaching randomly into banks of words and sentence patterns, guided by an internal logic that yields coherent, if odd, thoughts. Guided by the responses given by the human at the keyboard, or sometimes blithely at random, Racter then soars off on a psychedelic spiral of word association and synthesized prose. It chats, tells stories, laughs at its own bad jokes and even sneezes from time to time. Its always-changing sentences are grammatically correct, often funny and, for a computer, sometimes profound.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter
What is the address of the official website?
I had always assumed (perhaps cynically) that Bridgewater's elaborate system was part of its marketing to people who run endowments and pensions. It gives people a sense that they are working with the best and hardest working, even if in reality their returns are equal to other less notable firms.
There's foveated rendering, but there isn't foveated physical resolution.
With this cutting edge display resolution you can expect a 1-2 monitors QHD of comfortable angular size and that's it.
You could have more out of view but that's your virtual displays.
Then again, why exactly? Getting used to some heavy steamy gadget on your head at home/at work so you can also do that on a train? Get real.
VR goggles always were a gimmick and will be a gimmick on coming decades. I'd bet we'll have non-visual brain datalink before we have non-gimmick VR.
But only $140k by the turn of the century, which is when the dotcom bubble was happening. Again, I’m not saying it was terrible or anything, just that it wasn’t the equivalent of the FAANG engineers getting $400+k total compensation.
I’m sure since it would no longer be a country TLD, you could easily say it’s a media TLD. Crisis averted. However, registrar responsibilities would be elsewhere. Google perhaps. Or maybe someone else. I’m sure that .tv is so ubiquitous that it falls under several categories.
> operates on more than just something like the toy ARM Thumb instruction set

This is about the most common instruction set in common embedded use in the world. IMO not too toyish.

> Especially if it, both a hardware accommodating and software accommodating development environment,

I'm a bit confused as to your point-- you seem to be simultaneously arguing for "more capabilities" but "smaller computer".

If you're saying "more integrated development" -- and mean specifically self-hosting-- the $1.75 microcontroller running in there is capable of being an 80's era DOS computer with all of those tools, etc, self-hosted. Playing with this is on my todo list for the luls. If you just want open-source development, GNU-arm-embedded is built on eclipse and gcc.

If you're saying smaller computers: STM8, 8051, etc, are easy, too. But there's really not a whole lot of reason to design below the $5 point unless you're mass producing something. The developer's time is worth something, too. Having a big pile of RAM to not even think about putting things on stack, etc, is nice.

If you're saying "free as in freedom" (you were responding to someone making a cost argument with the word "free") -- you can go ICE40 and put any number of open source hardware computing designs on it, and control every bit. Indeed, I had a high school class just build microprocessors from scratch on this approach.
I bet either their comp was very high due to their tenure relative to their output, or they spent too much time at the same level and weren't showing upward trajectory. I know that you only need to be an L4 officially to get past the up or out stage, but that doesn't mean that they won't find people to lay off who have been an L5 for 12 years
Can you recommend any books on this subject specifically?
> the regime clearly has democratic legitimacy (highest approval ratings in the Western hemisphere!)

Approval ratings, however accurate, are not at all democratic legitimacy, and those and testimonials are right out of the dictator's playbook. Putin, Mussolini, Modi, etc. etc. can say all the same.

Democracy - in any meaningful sense - is more than mob rule (which is popular rule!), or rule by a (supposedly) enlightened dictator. It is rule of law, and protects the rights and self-determination of everyone, including the unpopular.
It's not like Chase the company is going to run away, or Chase the company will get away with destroying their data logs if the police asks for it later. Keeping the car serves no benefit.
> insane slowness

slowness is a feature, not a bug, in some social situations. Most modern Americans have not experienced that kind of situation. One of the elements missing here is control - who has control over the transaction, and what are the practical methods to resolve dispute.

Cash is not great at scale perhaps, but it is great for the individual in times when trust is gone, where there is unequal power relationship, and where there is real corruption inserted into ordinary transactions.

As an American with some knowledge of history, I support cash, paper checks, and electronic transfer. without a doubt.
You think that there is the equivalent of 3.8b dollars of inflowing to Bitcoin specifically every day?

The total amount individual traders put into stocks in the first week of the year is ~7b. Is Bitcoin actually > 3x higher than that?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-05/bofa-says...
I like how you conveniently left out greed. But I’m sure that’s someone else’s fault too.
Looks very similar to the Reflection API in Java.
Apple will invest in making future hardware generations of this product better (and to some extent deliver improvements to current hardware via software updates) but it seems they cheaped out on the chip. Why does it have an M2, when the 5nm M3 is already available?

As with most Apple products, just like the Apple Watch and the iPhone, I don't think this first gen product is a good buy. Wait for the 2nd gen unless you just want to play with the tech.
I live in an NJ suburb. If I see a car speeding around I’ll ring their doorbell and ask them to stop. If they don’t, first warning is air out the tires and second warning is losing your windshield. I’ve never had to ask three times.
Quest 3 has better FOV and a battery.

So some might argue it is better even.
Not responding is also an action. Just assuming it's safe to ignore a C&D without understanding possible risks would not be my first choice. For instance it would be helpful to know if you need to seek out additional legal counsel which is potentially time-consuming and expensive.
We beat expectations across the board a couple quarters ago except in cloud. Stock dipped the next day. I’m unconvinced this dip is a meaningful signal into the trajectory of Google or is based on any reasonable concern.
Reminds me of Lisa.
Waymo and Cruise are valid comparisons. GCP competitor to Splunk (Stackdriver) is a complete joke. I would be shocked if more than 500 people are working on that thing
That would be a possible solution but they would have to agree to change the rules for TLDs or make an exception, because right now the rules are very clear that only countries can have two letter TLDs.
Most of the issues listed by @zmmmmm are the same issues plaguing other VR headsets for a decade now: motion blur, pixelation, distortions, fake looking colors.

Apple didn’t fix any of them.
I generally find the quality of Apple Maps to be quite good here in Tokyo, although unfortunately Google does still seem to have them beat pretty consistently. The recently completed Azabudai Hills complex, for instance, is correctly rendered on GM, while AM still shows the pre-development layout.

However, one bug that is a showstopper in AM is the dreaded “can’t reach the server now”, which I get probably more than half the time I try to use it, and with apparently no solution other than wait.

As a result, I just removed it from my phone.
I think complexity is entirely the wrong question to ask regarding Turing completeness. It's about the kind of rules, not how many.

That said, maybe the cheekiest answer is an actual computer: fantastically complex, but technically TC requires infinite memory.
Political views of under-30s are predominantly gender based
Watch was cute but fussy and a little pointless when it first came out, and only gradually became really compelling.
This is a myth. They did a study last decade that showed Tuvalu is actually gaining landmass.

[0] https://phys.org/news/2018-02-pacific-nation-bigger.html
This is my new background.
> exactly the same

Nah. I've tried using the Quest 3 for various things, and at the OS level it just fundamentally sucks for anything but fully immersive games. Multitasking support is close to nonexistent, the hand tracking is crap, the UX is mediocre for even basic things like "sit on the couch and watch a movie", the system is end-to-end filled with small annoyances every time you use it, and there are no signs that Meta has even recognized these problems, let alone have any plans to improve on them.

The difference in functionality is night and day, even including the downsides noted by reviewers.
> The best thing about Emacs compared to vim/neovim is that it has first-class GUI support that's not simply a terminal emulator in a window.

Not true. There are lots of native front-ends for Neovim; Neovim was architected from the start to enable them [1]:

[1]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects#gui
This all feels like so much projection.

As far as I can tell Tim Cook has never pretended to be a product guy. He seems perfectly comfortable being what he is: a ruthless operations guru bent on efficiency. In every profile I’ve ever read he’s not really the one making hard product decisions, and seems content to leave that to others better suited for it.
The idea that a manager’s success should be measured in the number of people below them is truly idiotic. That is how you end up with companies like Google increasing their headcount by massive amounts during the pandemic only to have to turn around and do layoffs a year later.

Middle managers serve a role but honestly many of them can be replaced without really disrupting anything. At a certain point, you become too far removed from the actual work that is being done to really matter.

On the other hand, there are many low level managers with teams of fewer than 10 people who can be very valuable and hard to replace. People with deep expertise in the specific area they work on.

Measuring a manager by their headcount is just a lazy way to evaluate impact and calculate salary.
It's still cleaning... thoroughly.
This is what tech debt looks like when it’s middle aged and has kids of its own.
Mushroom References
To be fair, porting a 30+ year old code base to 64-bit would be a huge job. And essentially pointless since there is basically zero new development happening.
I think Apple was smart to focus on Fitness and Health monitoring because that's about the only thing I've found immensely useful with my watch.

Apart from that, yesterday I just played Pickleball with a guy who used his apple watch to keep score. It was a little odd at times but seemed like a cool use.
It's not always ass-backward.

People forget that one of the reasons why the malls became so popular and helped collapse the old downtowns was, you guessed it, lack of free parking.

With malls, you could come into a boundary and spend a significant amount of time in a walkable arena with lots of different stores. You knew there would always be parking except possibly at Christmas.

Downtown? Not so much. And you probably had to pay for parking. And carry quarters for the meter. And risk getting parking tickets. etc.

Malls were what all the anti-car people supposedly promise will happen when you remove cars. And yet, I know of no malls that ever gained residence areas within walking distance. Which seemingly, would have prevented the malls from collapsing.

The anti-car brigade has yet to demonstrate why that should be different today.
Yet when we beat expectations in ads but barely miss in cloud the stock tanks as well. There’s no reasonable explanation I’ve heard for our stock behavior after our earnings beat expectations.
I had phones before the iPhone that took pictures and played music (and a Nokia tablet with wifi internet browsing).

The iPhone was the first one that I actually used to take pictures and play music. It wasn’t the first to have those features (and the edge network was super slow), but that polished experience is what made it work. And made it clear to everyone how we would interact with phones for decades to come.

It was a technological inflection point. That’s why it is looked back on the was it is.
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