skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine a situation where a elementary school hires a teacher. They find out that the individual has been investigated several times for sexual assault etc. but the police were never able to bring charges, (which is extremely common). This sort of policy comes from decades of experience with the church, Scouts etc. having to deal with thousands of these types of scandals.
Some thoughts.

YouTube and Spotify not having an app at launch is really surprising to me, more surprising than Netflix. Could well be a case of "we'll wait and see before we sink money into a native app," and I don't think YouTube, Spotify, and Netflix are the killer apps that will sell the Vision, but a surprise nonetheless.

I think the vision of the Vision is what's going to sell the Vision. First to really wealthy people, and then, if and only if the price comes down _dramatically_, to those wealthy people's friends who see it and think it's cool/useful.

The part in the beginning of the article...

> If you live in Asia, like you live in Taiwan, people don’t have big homes, they don’t have 85-inch screen televisions. Plus, you have six, seven, eight people living in the same house, they don’t get screen time to watch things so they watch everything on their phone. I think you see that behavior and you see this is going to be the iPod.

...isn't very compelling to me, because, at this price point, someone who has to live in a house with 8 people isn't going to be able to afford the Vision. Maybe the Vision will prove the use case and create an industry of knockoff competitors, but I don't know. Personally, I'd rather watch a movie on my phone than have a headset on for 2 hours at a time, completely blocking out the outside world.

Later in the article...

> with a VR camera at every game it televises would, in my estimation, make the Vision Pro an essential purchase for every sports fan.

... That's a bold prediction. Are sports fans bullish enough on VR, or primed to be primed to become bullish on VR, to want to watch games on a headset? The 8 people in the house, with users already watching on their phones, situation doesn't seem to apply here, and "watching the game" is itself often a social experience, which would preclude shutting yourself away in a headset.

All of the discussion of streaming service buy-in is muddled somewhat by the state of flux the streaming industry is in right there. There's been a lot of consolidation in the last few years and the business models of streaming are changing. Building a device on the current landscape of streaming seems like a risky idea to me at the moment. They should really put a DVD player in the Vision just to be safe /s.

All of this kind of assumes what the primary use case for the Vision will be. We don't know yet exactly what consumer adoption and acceptance is going to look like, whether it be a media consumption platform, a productivity platform, a gaming platform, or a combination of the three and more.

I still have low expectations for the Vision, but if anyone can sell and normalize a new technology it's Apple. We'll see.
Are you a parent? It's not as easy as saying "no social media" to your kids. In this day and age, it's basically equivalent to saying "you can't have friends". Online is where kids meet, hang out, converse etc. I'd LOVE to go back to the days before phones and social media, where kids played with neighbours and ride their bikes to their friends house, but that's slowly slipping away.
Netflix is barely on the meta quest. They haven’t updated their app in years despite everyone begging them to do so. Netflix didn’t even develop their app on meta.

I’m not sure what Netflix is thinking when they are releasing a video game that no one wants instead fixing their meta client
Near misses are absolutely like gifts from the heavens. I was part of a post-investigation for a near miss that would've looked like this if things had gone a bit differently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA-19#Damage_during_manufact...
It's what Siri and Alexa should have been. I think we will see much more of this in the next years. If - and only if - it can run locally and not keep a permanent record then the issue of listening in the background would go away, too. This is really the biggest obstacle to a natural interaction. I want to first talk, perhaps to a friend and later ask the bot to chime in. And for that to work it really needs to listen for an extended period. This could be especially useful for home automation.
Sure. I would say that's fairly minor thing, although I admit that's subjective. But given the comment I grand-parent comment, I presume they were referring to more substantial problems / solutions.

[edit] Don't mind to downplay how useful that feature is to you, as it is also very useful to me. Just wanted to make it clear I was trying to find more substantial problems that the Watch/HomePod has solved.
At $3500 though you can easily put together a decent-to-great 75-80" home theater system with the latest gaming console(s) and have plenty of money left over for multiple rounds of pizza & beer with friends over. 77" OLED TVs from Samsung & LG are only around the $2000 mark these days, after all. Compromise even just a smidge to a full array local dimming mini-LED QLED TV and you're now down to under $1k for the TV. Surround-sound soundbars that sound fantastic are plentiful below the $1k mark as well and require next to zero setup.

It seems like you need to live alone and be rich enough to afford it such that you likely already have a great home theater anyway and still be interested in the Vision Pro. Or you actually don't want a TV at all for some reason but still want a home theater experience.

That seems like a quite small market?
Yeah I could see that. But he also introduced the iPod, which people listened to 95% of the time with headphones. Granted, you could still plug it into a speaker at a party or in somebody's car.

Maybe the flopped iPod HiFi was a reaction to Jobs' feelings about the iPod isolating people. Who knows?

I think he mostly cared about selling a lot of products.
Dr Strangelove himself seems to be the perfect prototype for a modern tech entrepreneur: The type of mad techno bro who relishes the opportunity to apply his hair-brained schemes to fix real world problems. The worse things get the more he bubbles with excitement and throws out outlandish solutions.
How many versions of Mickey Mouse are there that are individually protected?

Will we have new versions become public domain every couple years, corresponding to every individually released Movie or TV Cartoon/Short?
How realistic are the trucking sims? Do you actually get gas and unload? Highway stuff and regular driving sounds good but backing a trailer up to Walmart video game style sounds frightening.
Americans misestimate size of population subgroups
To expand on the other comment. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference in a single sine wave with phase set to either 0 or 180 degrees. But if you add in another sine wave at 0 degrees, the two 0's will add up and the 0 and 180 will completely cancel.

Phase makes a huuuuge difference in audio engineering. There isn't a single song that gets mixed without intense consideration of phase interactions between the different tracks. Getting it wrong can result in catastrophic damage to the audio signal that reaches your ears. If you have a speaker capable, try switching the leads that feed the signal on one of the speakers and see how it sounds! Everything that's exactly the same between the two speakers will sound hollow and tinny, the frequency balance will completely degrade
Sorry, my bad, so you are totally fine with sexbots as part of a 3 way.
Fully agree.

Just using it for consumption is also very unimaginative.

I look forward to seeing developers explore the potential of spacial interactions that are different than just strapping a 2d display on your head.
Probably the greatest satire put to film. It's hard not to rank this among Kubrick's best, although, honestly, that's due in part to the intense subject. Great retrospective in the OP - I've always loved that transformation in production, where Stanley realized that the thriller could only ever be filmed as perfect pitch-black comedy. Maybe a little telling on Kubrick's character, but what a fantastic decision.

Every war creates in its climax the perfect weapon for the fighting of that war just past. In World War II, the denouement of the western colonialist systems, exploitation was so perfected that victory became genocide. So, with brutal logic, the war created the perfect weapon for eliminating whole peoples, along with their land, their water, their pets[1], etc. In the 1960s, America had this perfected weapon of WW2, but had not experienced directly the circumstances of total war that had brought it about, and not gained the painful wisdom accumulated[2]. Strangelove is in part a story of medieval generals jousting with dynamite strapped to the tips of their lances. And, as it turns out, that's pretty funny.

[1] Hat tip to Oliver Reed's shambling Vulcan in Gilliam's Munchausen here.

[2] And had gained a cancerous homunculus in the form of Strangelove himself, the last vestige of colonialism's final form.
VW is a mass market brand in the same league as Toyota. Which si why I specifically restricted Porsche, and not the whole group of VW.
I know it's not likely, but I'll always pretend it's at WPI.
I think it's a fairly safe assumption that if you are alive to read the article, you are unlikely to have been in a plane crash (yes, I agree some plane crashes are survivable).

Next article: Why you've never been struck by lightning.
I'm sure your users appreciate that. How does your change you want to see ideology align with news outlets or other 'free' but funded by advertising services?
My solar investments sure havent done well. It doesn't seem to make sense neither. They ought to basically be amortized and pure profit.But they all seem to do so poorly.

renewables are not so renewable as advertised.
"That is precisely the idear, General. That is precisely the idear."
And if you were a big business, you'd hire lobbyists to petition the government for Ferrari subsidies and buy news articles talking about the Ferrari shortage, and tell all your friends that the only reason you don't drive a Ferrari is purely because of the shortage and has no relationship to your finances or priorities.
I mean, you can still have the TV to watch things with guests.

Or if you're both into the big screen VR experience, you can both wear headsets. Watching movies in a shared virtual movie theater is already a thing and works great. Even better is that you can be in your home and your romantic partner can be in their home (or traveling) and you can still watch together.
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Ya, that's true. Really beautiful.
A good piece of history writing with an important lesson about long cycles in a technology's development.
Another example is some Korean games requiring essentially a Korean ID to play. A few years ago there was a game my guild was hyped about and we played the Korean version a bit. You more or less bought the identity of some Korean guy via a service that was explicitly setup for this. Worked surprisingly well and was pretty streamlined.
It doesn't matter what phone you use if the person you send texts to has this enabled.
When I say equity over wage I don’t mean no profit sharing either, or no compensation for labor. Go learn about worker cooperative structures in practice. I’m not talking about joining startups on equity alone
> Except for the fact the iPhone users spend 7x more on apps than Android users[1]. And it would be safe to assume Vision Pro users are on the higher end of having extra money to spend.

Here's the crucial question, though: are Vision Pro owners actually going to spend extra money on third-party software, or are they just going to demand that their current iPhone/iPad apps be supported by the developers for free on Vision Pro?

Apple will see extra revenue from Vision Pro, but will third-party developers?

Neither iPad nor Watch (or Apple TV) have been big revenue generators for most developers.
Arithmetic under stress is a helluva drug.
> thanks to AI writing, that could perhaps generate the blanks to make any fictional world feel arbitrarily deep.

You may find "Chirper" interesting, some people making a twitter-like website where AI agents interact. I do find however that our clever clever human brains can atm anticipate quite easily how most things will turn out after a short amount of time, and people quickly become bored by it. Then again, a lot of history is very boring, its only interesting paired with a great storyteller who picks up the pieces. Right now AIs aren't really there yet (i've tried, with very deliberate prompting you can get somewhere but each story follows predictable tropes no matter how you prompt it, the tropes themselves change but its hard to get the AI to surprise you), but I can see it happening someday
"A guy could have a good time in ~~Dallas~~Vegas with all that stuff." (Had to be ADR'd to "Vegas" since the Kennedy assassination was too recent to stick with Kong's preferred "Dallas".)
Did anyone see any of the tv ads for this thing yet? I don’t think they make this thing look appealing. It comes off as dystopian and creepy.
As far as the "UI stuff" goes sadly the Python ecosystem is way better - Python has both PyQL and Pyside which are a very solid choice for doing thicker client apps. Ruby doesn't even have decent Qt bindings, at all. Or didn't the last decade I've been checking.
I agree the alternative would be nice, but for years I lived out of a different hotel room every week (for work). I didn't mind it. I assume it's similar in that you pack light, and only bring what fits in your luggage so you can pack up and move on quickly at the end of the week.
We're barreling towards an internet that requires an id before you can use it.

It's a bit upsetting but I don't harbor the early 2000s naiveté about the free internet where regulation doesn't exist, the data exchange happens over open formats and connecting people from across the world is viewed as an absolute positive.

Govt meddling on social media platforms, the filter bubble, platforms locking data in, teenage depression stats post Instagram, doom scrolling on tiktok have flipped me the other way.

Internet Anonymity is going to die - let's see if that makes this place any better.
Is Hacker News considered social media?
The whole "this version of willie is protected" is just silly. I give it a few years and the courts will stop putting up with Disney's bullshit.
> generational warfare

The first politician to pit retirees vs everyone else is going to cause the biggest voting block crack in history.

Especially as the country becomes more diverse. It's coming and I don't think boomers are ready for it.
I think this whole thing is fairly overwrought - after all, the iPhone launched with zero third party apps (maybe there were a few, but I don't recall that being the case).

Given the volume of VP sales, it feels more like a production-ready dev kit and tool for enthusiasts. It's really the version that people will use to build apps on, so that v2, v3, etc., which will be lighter/cheaper/whatever else is needed to make them more mass-market, won't have the same problem when they launch.

If you're Netflix et al, why support the VP now? Even if it's just checking a box, it still means you'll get some support load. You'll also have to make some design and implementation decisions that will be less-informed than if you wait a while and see what other apps are doing on there.

At the end of the day, is having Netflix on the VP going to generate any incremental revenue? Tough to imagine that everybody buying it doesn't already have a Netflix subscription.

Building for it right now is zero upside and some downside. We'll see a Netflix app eventually, though.
>Beef prices falling dramatically? What's your source?

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/beef

It's been on a steady decline since '22, with a big drop late last year. Anecdotally, I've been seeing choice ribeyes/strips locally for ~$6/lb in the last few months.
Also Dynamic Programming, and soon, I predict, Monte Carlo simulation.
Apparently the computer on ingenuity is tons more powerful than anything ever sent to space. Will they be able to utilize that processing power for any other purpose on mars? Just cause it is no longer airworthy, doesn’t mean it’s totally dead.
Jonathan Blow discusses simple approach to operator precedence [video]
> Another digital watch, simpler / cheaper would do just fine

You're conflating being unique vs solving a problem.

You don't have to be unique in what you solve.

There's lots of blue cars sold every year, why does Ford/GM/Toyota exist if they all do the same thing - which is sell blue cars? Then Tesla 10-years ago starting selling their version of the blue car and are doing exceedingly well.

It's because the fundamental problem being sold is actually, people wanting transportation.

What fundamental problem/need is the Apple Vision Pro solving?

Again, I'm not being a hater of the device. I'm genuinely curious to understand.
Scientists spin naturalistic silk from artificial spider gland
I like how Chat GPT 4 will stammer, stutter and pause. This would be even better with a little "uhm" right when the speaker finishes talking, or even a chat bot that interrupts you a little bit, predicting when you're finishing - even incorrectly.

like an engaged but not-most-polite person does
There should definitely be some introspection around what constitutes an aircraft type and what doesn't. Perhaps it would be better if manufacturers could have more leeway in terms of redesigning newer models of aircraft without requiring retraining. Say e.g. if Boeing would make a completely different undercarriage to a new 737 so it was as tall on its legs as a 320.

That would have meant the MAX engines could have sat more like on the legacy 737. Which perhaps would have been a lesser change to the system overall than the changes made on the MAX? (larger engines, different engine placement, systems to counter the behavior coming from the new engine placement and so on and so forth). I'm not sure what the solution would be here, but it seems like any time a set of regulations is rigid-yet-full-of-holes it's almost better if it isn't so rigid.
I have a hunch that you're right, but there are a few other things that coincided with the rise of social media, so it's hard to tell what has driven the change in kids' psyches. Among them is the explosion of pharmaceuticals that are routinely prescribed to kids.
Come back and say this, after you've gotten a CDL Class A
Technically, it means that there is some external mechanism that prevents price from rising. Typically that means government intervention. Healthcare often sees the government set a price ceiling on services to ensure that poor citizens are not priced out of receiving healthcare, so a shortage of medical doctors is quite possible. A shortage of truck drivers is unlikely.

Under colloquial usage, as it is being used here, the term is meaningless. Under that definition, everything is always in "shortage". It is simply used as an attention grabbing mechanism to express some kind of emotion towards the subject.
Comparing “up to” with median is setting off my bullshit alarm.
De-hydration being a fatal problem is probably not a consolation for someone who is drowning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
The weird part is the MQ3 does more.

I'd assume people with this kind of purchasing habits are just buying both and some more anyway.
Hitler was very much not an atheist.
archive.ph is your friend when reading Financial Times
> From the study of that single pebble you could see the laws of physics and all they imply. Thinking about those laws of physics, you can see that planets will form, and you can guess that the pebble came from such a planet. The internal crystals and molecular formations of the pebble developed under gravity, which tells you something about the planet’s mass; the mix of elements in the pebble tells you something about the planet’s formation.

> I am not a geologist, so I don’t know to which mysteries geologists are privy. But I find it very easy to imagine showing a geologist a pebble, and saying, “This pebble came from a beach at Half Moon Bay,” and the geologist immediately says, “I’m confused,” or even, “You liar.” Maybe it’s the wrong kind of rock, or the pebble isn’t worn enough to be from a beach—I don’t know pebbles well enough to guess the linkages and signatures by which I might be caught, which is the point.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wyyfFfaRar2jEdeQK/entangled-...
This is already the reality for alcohol and plenty of other things. Maybe not everywhere. Reality check: parents giving unrestricted access to these things are usually perceived as irresponsible.
> Care to elaborate?

Not op, but even if we accept the conclusions from the statistic analysis at face value, stating that guitarists work on their skills hoping to impress others is hardly ground breaking research.
You can just share the headset and each look into one eye.
absolubtely. You can't have an entirely alien narrative, because reading it will feel like a slog. Thats exactly why people say that reading lotr or especially the silmarillion is a heavy read - all the digressions about poetry or ancient history are difficult to get through. You have to swing between worldbuilding and the familliar (often characters with familliar motivations experiencing the world)
You’re forgetting just how much space that all takes up
Based on what?

The Q3 is a 100x better device for market entry than the avp.

It has also very good resolution.

For just watching movies etc it would be a game changer for a lot of people and still it's not a thing everyone just owns
First installment is mostly introductory but gets more interesting near the end, and the rest of the series sounds promising. I'm looking forward to it.

I also recommend the sqlite.org docs "overview of the optimizer" and "vbdb bytecode" which you could see as an IR.
Anyone who has a lot of meetings will tell you it's hard to remember what was said, what was promised etc. So people take notes but that's difficult. Transcripts are great.
I don't know that this is entirely true. Statistically, Apple users are far more likely to spend money on apps and in-app purchases than on any other application platform. Mainstream users may feel entitled to free apps but Apple users typically don't fit that mold. Also, you just kinda made the same case as the author in that shareware and other trial apps are probably what's needed here.
I'm somewhat of a VR enthusiast. But my headset is mostly gathering dust.

There's one use case that I do think I would actually use once it's good enough though. It's using glasses as replacement for computer monitors when doing work. But I'd prefer the Nreal/Xreal Air form factor and price point.

My inner VR enthusiast thinks the Apple Vision is cool but my inner realist wonders if anyone is really going to use anything beyond smart glasses.
If you go by that name alone, and select stuff best represented on Stack Overflow, you'll get the side effect of ignoring all the best documented projects.
also they have union that knows that.
Yep. Twitch automatically bans any chatter who says that they are under that age.
are your time really valuable? what makes you so sure?

what did you done with that extra time? did it matter much?