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> Does it live up to the stratospheric hype? Not so much.

Oh sorry, that's from CNET's review of the first iPhone in 2007: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/original-iphone-review/

It's way too early to tell if this product line will succeed in the long term. Will the first gen Vision Pro be a runaway success? Of course not! Will later generations look as obvious as the iPhone does now? I sure hope so!

For comparison, Apple sold 1.4 million iPhones in 2007. Supposedly Apple is expecting to sell around 500k Vision Pro units this year. Given the 3x price difference (in 2024 dollars), that effectively means the first gen Vision Pro is expected to bring the same revenue as the first gen iPhone.

We all have rosy retrospection about how great and obvious the first iPhone or first iPod was, but honestly nobody had any idea if Apple's crazy bet would pay off. We all agreed it was magical tech, but it was expensive, had tons of limitations, and nobody really needed it. Sound familiar?

All I know is betting against Apple has rarely paid off. They do have failures too though and this is clearly technologically more ambitious than any other launch, so who knows! And honestly that's what makes this launch most exciting.

It's been so long since I've had child-like wonder about some new technology that I'm just glad Apple took a chance on launching such a crazy device, even if I don't know what to do with it... yet.
It was sold with a subsidy in the uk in a weird way. Iirc you had to buy it from apple but o2 subsidised it as it they were the only ones with edge (so assumed they would also sell you a contract). Worked out £50-100 which was mad as o2 couldnt actually make you get a contract.. quite a few people i knew boight a bunch of them and gave them away as gifts.

Also it was a totally stand out appealing device accessible to everyone with immediate value to everyday people.
It is already a success. You're talking about it, I am talking about. I haven't owned an Apple device in 10 years and now I am watching a review of one. With phone tech bottoming out, Apple has got to do something to stay relevant. It also desensitizes us even more to expensive tech.
> Want it for entertainment? people want to enjoy photos, videos, movies with other people and it can't include them

This is a disingenuous argument. Your other points are much more valid than this one. You don’t have a VR headset to interact with other people in the same room. If you want to watch a movie with other people around you, there are many other (cheaper) ways to do that (and Apple can sell you a nice AppleTV to do it).
Sure, but when you double the acceptable transportation budget/distance, you square the coverage territory.

(Assuming an infinite number of routes and no change in cost per distance)
iPhone 1 launched without cut/copy/paste
The PM at the time took contention to the publication of that article, saying that there was no increase in actual habitable land.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190326140508/https://kmt.news/...
They dont want unilateral government seizure and dont want transactions whitelisted, and it accomplishes that

How that further manifests to some bitcoin enthusiasts probably cant cover all opinions

But its not a “government not allowed” system and its not important/useful for it to be
I would prefer they spin cloud off into its own bet and TK becomes the CEO of a real company (now he's "CEO at Google Cloud", which isn't its own business entity in alphabet, and he reports to "CEO at Alphabet").

I don't see any likely path by which Kurian would become CEO of Alphabet.
Love opinionated things, as obviously someone put some thought into it. Would be nice to have a small explainer backing the choices.
How does Github Actions get away with this? They certainly don't bill and provide the machine for 24 hours for each CI run.
I like “bullshit” . In honor of Penn Jillette and Tellers eponymous TV series . Where I could totally expect them to do an episode on AI . If they were still making this show .
Wait, does this mean I can use any spare tablet, laptop or smart TV as second monitor for, say M1 running Asahi? Wonder what's the performance for non-game usage?
Read "The Fund" - an entire book on the matter.
I once had a roommate who stopped playing video games a decade ago. We bought a PS5, and he kept trying to find games like 'Gears of War' and 'Lord of the Rings' with a multiplayer split-screen campaign in the same room. Aside from classic 1v1 fighting and sports games, the new games being released did not offer that. They were all built for high-quality solo gaming or optimized online gaming. Expecting a VisionOS experience with people in the same room reminds me of that. I'm not saying there won't be apps for it, but it would be niche.
Was referring to the top comment bordering on self-promotion, not the app.
> I'm not sure why they created and marketed so many dystopian features though.

Well they're not stupid and know/research their target customer. Apparently this is what people want?

I am confused why they didn't go with something like google glass.
* and the EU, and Antarctica (.aq)
No, I'm saying "Your interpretation of the sentence is obviously wrong". With that interpretation, parts of the question are nonsense. The more straightforward interpretation does not have that problem.
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For Hololens, the answer to all those questions is ‘yes’. The windows last forever — unless the room/space changes so much that the spatial mapping can no longer recognize it.

Microsoft calls this permanent layout feature ‘spatial anchors’, Google calls it ‘Geospatial anchors’, Apple calls it ‘Content Anchors’ aka ARAnchor.

Spatial mapping uses many sensors, it’s way beyond GPS. These APIs have existed since the beginning of WMR/ARCore/ARKit, 2016-2017.
> if they have no actual hand in it.

But they have an actual hand in it.

Discord is subletting rooms out to moderators and doesn't really have any hand in the content on any particular discord. Meta, however, is pushing their algorithm on everyone on the platform and their employees, in one way or another, handle what content is seen and what content is policed and taken down.
Yep. They've been great since v7 or so. My S0 watch was... something. Apps took forever to load. Battery life sucked. The UI was still clearly highly experimental. Now even complex apps like OmniFocus launch instantly, and I charge my Ultra every other day. In short, it's a mature product now and works like it's supposed to, without qualifications like "...eventually".
One Apple Vision review mentioned that there is no "hot swapping" of the battery. Which means the headset shuts down when you swap the battery pack (which lasts 2 to 3 hours). They said booting it up again takes 30 to 40 seconds, if I remember correctly.
And the touch bar, and the magic mouse, and ping, and mobile me, and hi-fi.

They're just a consumer goods company. Sometimes they make good things people don't appreciate at first. Sometimes they make bad things that people don't appreciate ever.

Their track record is better than the mean, but comparing every criticism of a first-gen Apple product to the iPod/iPhone launches is unserious. Of course some people panned any given new thing on Earth.

And this isn't even in response to someone predicting that AVP would fail, but just that the 1st-gen AVP is an immature product. The 1st-gen iPhone was an immature product! It's delusional (and discrediting to Apple!) to think the iPod, iPhone, OS X, Intel Macs, M1 Macs, etc. were as mature at launch as the later iterations we associate those technologies with now.
2013 called and wanted its argument back

that hasnt been true for a very very long time

and its simply the same standard used for all other asset classes. lets normalize talking about bitcoin using the same standards we use on other things, of course that would require even knowing how other assets are talked about
"Ham Radio and More" Radio Show Preserved (1991-1997)
That's arguing like a hostage taker or terrorist. "If we go down, we're going to make sure you go down with us". The people does not have to accept being taken hostage.

There's no talk about systemic effects when real estate is siphoning all wealth from the population and making having a home and a family near impossible for most young workers.

Edit: And anyone who has a bank account? Then where is the 500% return on the money that I've had in my bank account during the real estate boom, or do we only get to pay for real estate speculation losses without any benefit from real estate gains?
> iPhone 1 was the effectively the first mass market smartphone

... no?

Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Palm, Nokia, Symbian, Maemo?
As someone who made a million dollars on Tesla stock, I'm ready to backdate a new package with better language any time.
A lot.

I also started thinking about it reading the reviews, and the main cases to me are:

- checking something before commiting an action: for instance reread the product name before pushing the purchase button. The pointer is already on the button, I keep it there while checking the order, so I just need to click.

- focus switch: pushing another window to the forefront doesn't need a super accurate click. I assume most people eye ball it like me and will click on a emptyish part of the window from the corner of their eye. Same for moving the focus away.

- scroll and type like situation: mostly when using a document on the side while taking notes. My eyes and focus will be primarily on one side (with quick glances on the other), while the mouse/trackpad movement will be on another.

I think we'll discover a lot more instances of this.
Useful inhabitable landmass is the question I guess? If it's just the peaks of the island getting higher, then that land becomes increasingly hard to build on.
Spycraft and Statecraft
When Siri and Alexa first came out there was another chatbot gold rush but it obviously didn’t work out for a number of reasons.

LLMs and other recent (in the last year) advances have certainly improved the understanding and response for chat agents so the conversation aspect has gotten better (fewer dead ends or “I don’t understand”) - but these newer agents still can’t really “do” anything e.g. give a refund. There’s still the dead end when you need an actual human to do something or approve the chatbot’s recommended action.
Yup. The study suggests that it's just the peaks getting higher, which means that even the peaks will become harder to build on as they become steeper.
never let a news entertainment company tell you what is hard. even if they are telling the truth, it isn’t for your sake.
From the article:

“I’ve used it for hours at a time without any discomfort, but fatigue does set in, from the weight alone. You never forget that you’re wearing it.”

“In terms of resolution, Vision Pro is astonishing. I do not see pixels, ever. I see text as crisply as I do in real life. It’s very comfortable to read.”

I’ve been using AirPods Max for years now, which many people complain about being “heavy”, but I don’t mind them. I expect the weight will be fine, but it is obviously there, and like exercising any new muscle, it might take some time.
The contract was a requirement, but it wasn’t subsidized like you’re thinking. Other phones at the time were cheap and subsidized as part of the contract. The iPhone, by comparison, was freakishly expensive and I don’t think Cingular was subsidizing it. And I don’t remember there being any penalties with cancelling the contract. But I already had an AT&T/Cingular account, so I’m not sure about the contract info.

The contract issue had more to do with how the phone interacted with the network. IIRC, AT&T was an exclusive provider because of the backend requirements (visual voicemail notification maybe?). I assume the contract was in part because they wanted to recoup those expenses.

Here’s a news article from the time that says that AT&T didn’t actually start subsidizing the phone until the 3G arrived.

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/phones/2008-07...

Also, the subsidy might have been from Apple, if anyone… Apple got a kickback of $10/month per iPhone user. They might have used that to keep the price lower, but that wasn’t from ATT’s side of the account until the 3G followup.

https://www.wired.com/2008/01/ff-iphone/
This is anecdotal, but whenever I read details about layoffs at FAANG companies ("$foo people were fired from the $bar team"), I'm shocked by the headcounts.

I get it, developing and supporting some feature at a company like Google requires more people (both in engineering and elsewhere) than if you banged out a prototype of something similar at a startup. But I've read stories where hundreds or thousands of employees were laid off, and they were all working on some small service (or even an obscure feature of that service) that never had a chance of moving the needle for the company and offsetting their costs.

I'm sure most of those employees were hard-working, motivated, and tried to build the best product possible, but there are no other companies on earth that would pay that many people top-of-market salaries to work on anything that isn't existential to the company. Other companies would simply go out of business if they operated this way, but in big tech companies, this is lost in the noise when times are good. But when things slow down, big tech companies start to pay very close attention to this.
the new ETFs have had inflows that high over just the last week, so, yes? if bitcoins price has barely moved by ETFs that buy bitcoin based on how much people bought the ETFs then yes there is that much liquidity
That's definitely fair, and I assuming in a classroom setting you'd be very consistent and precise about what that means. But this is a twitter poll, and I doubt people are that consistent. Ultimately I'm just pushing back on the conclusion that this is because "Bayesian thinking is really foreign to people."

I think if the question had instead been "would you bet on the urn having started out with more red balls, green balls, or equal number of balls" the distribution would have been very different.
I. guaranteee you they were useless. It helps to have another person to mount it if not on the ground, but you can do it yourself. I've installed over 10+ myself.

At the same time, since people saying it's difficult and such - I should start selling this as a service :P
I hate to say it but I think “snag” means bad publicity vs remorse about the manslaughter deaths.
I highly disagree about that, especially for the Pros with ANC and spatial audio. EarPods were nice wired earphones. AirPods seem like way more of a leap than just EarPods-but-wireless.
As someone that doesn’t really understand the space and stuff that the article is talking about, I was surprised that “Apple Silicon” didn’t appear here since from my perspective having used both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, it’s a huge “wow” change. Was Apple leaving and Apple Silicon Macs being so incredibly better than Intel ones not actually a big deal for Intel?
If I were a CEO trying to build a successful company and found a willing competent worker, whose hiring would fail because of the hiring manager's ego and inability to adapt and do what's right, I would consider it a purposeful sabotage and would fire the drag-downer.
A Tiny Particle Simulator
No, the chance of it being red is much higher. If there's one green ball in the jar, than all previous draws would've needed to avoid the green one. The chances of that happening are way less than 50%.
This came from the NLRB's McLaren Macomb case.
“Fat is especially important for humans,” Lieberman wrote in an email. “Even thin humans have between 15-25% body fat, which is three to four times more than most mammals.”

Even so, “we never evolved to store a lot of belly fat, which can lead to health problems,” Lieberman pointed out. “So having a lot of fat around the middle is a sign to do something.”

If you have 25+% body fat as male where do you think it's mostly gonna be stored?
I'm at a low simmer of jaded yet annoyed with all of it.
I find the entire H-1B program somewhat ridiculously designed.

0. There should be no cap for people who have received higher education degrees in the US. What's the point of educating people and equipping them with everything they need to be successful in the US, advance the US (including creating lots of jobs) and then deporting them right after?

1. There should be no cap for people who are going into STEM, AI, or other jobs that are going to vastly develop the economy.

There is a cap-exempt H1B, but it's for nonprofits. It makes no sense.
Yeah... I'm not too happy with some of the choices made in C18 and C23. One of the reasons why I chose to standardize my C SAX-like parser on C18 for now was to avoid the Unicode complexity. There's also a widening feature gap between modern C and modern C++ that makes interop harder.
> [--------] didn't care that product quality was dropping off a cliff.

fill in the blanks! it's not management, it's the customer. if the customer doesn't care management doesn't care.

it's a tragedy, but it's what it is. citizens as users need to demand better. it's just politics. in the end revealed preferences show that users don't care that much. they learn the shitty system to do their thing, and then they go home to their family/dog/MMORPG/life.

and users don't care on the meta level either, to have better procurement processes.
> make other people wear the 3 day clearing delay

This is only applicable to the unbanked, for the most part. Regular banks make funds immediately available when a check is deposited. Unless you're already on their radar for kiting.
Oh, was it based on Pokemon? I thought it was based on Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna. Or Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei. Funnily enough both of them released in 1987 and feature monsters fighting for you, though the actual mechanics are different enough that it's clearly just a lucky coincidence.
This is interesting. Does anyone know what tactics they’re trying to stop? Sounds like something specific.
In which case the point is useless. It's a pie in the sky statement.

Fediverse instances being too trigger-happy in blocking other instances means the network as whole is less open in comparison to a centralized social network. So, why bother? You have little to no control over whom you can connect to.

Also, "switching" is an alien concept to normal social media users. You never have to "switch" and you never lose your content or followers, exceptions aside when you get yourself into serious trouble.
Specifically for visionOS, WorldAnchors: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/worldanchor

And their locations will be remembered (by ID) if an app wants to offer persistent experiences at multiple locations. Not so sure about windows on visionOS.
Constructing the Other Half of The Policeman's Beard (2021)
You misinterpreted their comment. They are talking about not agreeing with the actual laws around responsibility if something happens on the physical land you own.
Apparently was around back in 1997 (but via a browser plug-in): https://web.archive.org/web/19970707154444/http://www.opengr...
And because Elon isn’t going to be granted his bonus shares, even more of that will go to others shareholders instead of to Musk. And that’s the point. Let 10 be “no value to other shareholders, all value to Musk” and 0 be “all value to other shareholders, no value to Musk.” That Elon’s proposal amounted to 2.5 instead of 2.1 isn’t the point, it’s that the Board never even tried to negotiate for a number other than 2.5.
GP has said

> I plan to use it with a keyboard and mouse anyway

And judging from reviews this seems required for productivity.

I cannot imagine walking around the room with one hand holding a keyboard and another holding a mouse. Maybe they need to sell a contraption that straps a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to your body so much you can move around hands free?
They are constructing it right now the expansion between bellevue to renton.

https://wsdot.wa.gov/construction-planning/search-projects/i...

The bellevue to lynnwood section was already 'expanded' a decade ago though as one can tell, it still has traffic. They're opting to increase the tolls now.
Slack's approach of being a glorified webview everywhere is really paying off (a bit of sarcasm here, but I see it as net positive)

We're pretty close to "Write once, (rewrite a bit,) Run everywhere"
It seems like it would be so easy to fix the H1-B program but no one wants to and I feel like I must be missing something. The purpose of the H1-B is to allow companies to hire foreigners with special skills that can't be found amongst US citizens.

So why not just grant H1-Bs to the companies that are willing to pay their talent the most?

Let any company apply and list a salary which they have to agree to pay for at least two years, and then just issue them highest salary first until they hit the quota for the year. No country based quotas or any other kind. Just straight up salary. And make the visa transferrable if another company wants to take it over after say the first two years at the same or better salary.

If people are so skilled then they must be valuable, right? This would be good for both the employee and the country, bringing in the most highly paid people.

The only ones that would get hurt in this process are the companies that abuse the system to underpay people and then get them beholden to the company.
The problem with this is that it reinforces the notion that you "live" inside and only go outside when you need to get somewhere. How are you ever going to enjoy a nice street-side cup of coffee in peace? Or take a walk around your neighborhood? Or engage in any outdoor social activity?

If you allow the outside to be unpleasant, then people are increasingly going to stay inside which has negative societal ramifications.
"losing spiritual purpose". Ah, yes, right, the existencialist crisis again. Which year is it, 1830?

A geek/nerdy mind wont seek any meaning. It either discovers fun things, or creates something totally new and brilliant.

On the supposed "Catholic" Europe, Catholicism in Spain was utterly dead since we already suffered a Fascist regime straightly built from the Church, so we got fed of it really fast.

>High individualistic - France

>Less individualistic - Spain

Aaaaand another non-South European spreading bullshit. Europe it's a continuum, and lots of parts of Spain are highly individualistic, calm, non-partying and very close to France and the UK because, you know, commerce and trading goods by the sea has been since forever.

In Spain you can have huge gaps on behaviour, customs and traditions; even under small provinces themselves.

Even in the same family. My mother's education it's polarly opposite to the one of my aunt, the last one it's far less assertive and more prone to not gettings steamrolled by traditions and nonsense.

On Europe itself, you have a split on Belgium, a Bible Belt on The Netherlands and even differences on Prussians vs Bavarians.
Thanks for the feedback (I am part of the Timeplus team)

https://docs.timeplus.com/showcases lists a few real world use cases we solve with our customers. Proton is core engine of Timeplus Cloud, which adds extra UI, sources/sinks, multi-tenant etc.

https://docs.timeplus.com/proton-howto lists some of the common tasks for processing real-time data. Basically if you're in the data engineering space, Proton can do many things that Flink/Spark/ksqlDB can do, just faster and more lightweight.

Good point of "oh yeah, lets just use proton for this." Will add more docs and examples for such newly-open-sourced project (we have ran the cloud service for 1.5 years)
to anyone that has not used it, dart is an excellent language

* instant compilation

* amazing tooling

* null safety

* typed

I could go on.
> There should be no cap for people who have received higher education degrees in the US.

This has the effect of delegating decisions about who enters the country to an unelected and unaccountable group of admissions officers working at private institutions.