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I participated in a couple Vision Pro demos at Apple HQ prior to launch day. One with a security focus, one with a health applications focus. The security profile, btw, is super boring: on the network, it looks like an iPad.

Health applications: pretty cool for education, maybe other things, eventually.

What I think would be compelling, for me, is the ability to use it on travel. To be on a plane and not have to worry about breaking a laptop screen when the person in front of me tips their seat back, not have to worry about someone shoulder surfing me. In yet another boring hotel room? Let's escape!

Now, the problem is that, in many meetings, a laptop is barely acceptable as it is (in some cases, not at all acceptable). So, I still have to bring a laptop. So, my backback is now ... heavier? I'm already carrying multiple devices required by various security policies.

Is this juice worth the squeeze? I can't bring myself to spend my own money on this. And I helped develop an AR device. I'd be happy to use it if the company bought it. But you're in for almost $5k after applecare, accessories, etc.
I love this comment, I think you're completely right.

What I love most about this comment is how it caused me to reflect on what I use daily and get some amount of joy from.

When it comes to Apple products in particular I use an Apple Studio display at home, I use it for 10hours per day, every day, and honestly I have no complaints, it's probably one of the best bits of technology I use daily.

However, it's completely unsexy and has (at least on paper) extremely stiff competition. Not only that it was maligned by the tech media upon release.

Yet, it just subtlely benefits my life because the speakers are excellent, the webcam is servicable (the novelty of the fact it tracks you never truly wears off) and the size/pixel density is great.

It's weird that I'm waxing poetic like this about such a boring device, but that's kinda my point, your comment made me reflect about all the little tech around me that I use every day that just sort of shifted into the background. Quietly doing its job excellently.
I love Photon, it's generally my favorite of the bunch to work with. My only objection to Photon is that it's kind of tough to build an index for it, but I think if memory serves GraphHopper (?) publishes one so that's kind of moot unless you have special requirements. Airmail is not in a state where it's usable for anything other than a demo, so if I were building something new today I would use Photon for it, unless I needed OpenAddresses in which case I'd use Pelias.
Text in natively rendered apps is perspective corrected before rendering and incredibly sharp as a result. It’s been mentioned in a few interviews in passing.

Text in streamed displays from a Mac may suffer from pixel misalignment.
You don't get to decide what is and isn't an implementation detail.

And lets be real. There is no contract, and any one that is made will inevitably be broken.
That year, the company spent $17.8 billion on stock buybacks, dividends, and executive compensation, while the company spent just $14.6 billion on R&D, the report states. "In other words, the company spent $3.2 billion more enriching executives and stockholders than finding new cures," it concludes.

This is such a bizarre criticism. Note they include executive compensation, despite it being $26M out of the $14.6B (0.15%). And "spending" on dividends? You mean "returning money to shareholders".

How do they think businesses work?

And since I have a 401k invested in index funds, I'm a shareholder. So the criticism of "spending on shareholders" they actually mean "vast swaths of Americans whose retirement and pensions are invested in the stock market".
Now compare R&D and exec/shareholder pay to expenditure on "lobbying" (i.e. legalized bribery) and corporate capture of the "strong" and "independent" government regulatory agencies that were meant to keep these very same companies in line.
I was bullied, mainly when I was between 10 and 11. This was in the 80's. I recall being both verbally and physically attacked by large groups of other students. My teachers didn't believe me so I couldn't turn to them.

In one of the events 8 kids chased me several miles through neighborhoods and fields. Eventually they caught and surrounded me in a front yard. Luckily, an older woman opened her door and had me step inside her home. A few minutes later she drove me home. I'm sure she's passed by now but I will always be grateful to her.

To a degree, this abuse made me a mean person in later school years. I had my growth spurt between 11 and 12. When I started at a new school, in my new body, I was able to decide that I would no longer be a victim. At about the same time my Grandfather, a massive retired military dude, explained that nobody ever got in trouble for making the first strike in an inevitable conflict.

That advice became my strategy and I was engaged in half a dozen fights where my opponent approached and threatened me and I went all-in with my fists. That gave me a reputation that meant very few others ever bothered me. My fighting stopped shortly after I graduated and I haven't used my fists in 29 years.
Do we have anything better than meshes that is as generally useful though?
It can go either way, really. No one's opinions matter here unless its the majority. When that is determined, that is what they are. Not even the people in question can declare it for themselves.

I would argue you are more your lineage than your nationality. See how we track various groups migration across the world, thousands of miles, thousands of years, with no problem.

But at the same time, I don't consider myself very aligned with my own lineage, and I describe myself as 100% "American". But, given enough time, if my bones were to be put on display a few hundred years from now, with all written record of me being lost, I would probably be referred to as something a bit different than what I declare as myself.
Where do you work where laptops at meetings aren't acceptable? Not seeing laptops is an extremely reliable red flag for me.
basically yes - “When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.”
Building and owning your business has other non monetary value
If you're comfortable concluding your argument by saying Geoff Huston's take means "precisely nothing", I'm comfortable with you concluding there too.
Why don't the scientists actually doing the work of drug discovery just start a not-for-profit, since the executives and shareholders aren't actually adding any value to the customers here?
And we don't get to wine why?
Cryptography and coding theory.

Cryptography and coding theory and compression are three sides of the same (generalised) coin. Claude Shannon dabbled in all of them.

See eg https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk/Shan.pdf
Regarding window management, what it really needs is (ironically) an iPad feature called Stage Manager.

It feels so perfect for this use but it’s a shame it doesn’t exist
HTMLBook Specification (O'Reilly Media)
Anyone ever used this? Does any tooling for it exist outside of (presumably) O'Reilly?
How much is a baby worth? A $75,000 bonus, this South Korean firm says
Agile Is a Tainted Term
Do you mean the NSF and NIH? Certainly, fund them with what currently goes to pharma for executives, shareholders, lobbying, and marketing. Fund meaningful work, not gravy for corporate performance artists (Part D is funded by general revenues, beneficiary premiums, and state contributions).

Cut out the middleman.

"In 2021, Medicare Part D covered more than 3,500 prescription drug products, with total gross spending of $216 billion, not accounting for rebates paid by drug manufacturers to pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)."

https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/a-small-number-of-d...

From this post:

> Peter Maybarduk, the director of the Access to Medicines program at Public Citizen, a watchdog organization, who also testified at the hearing, hit back at the main pharmaceutical talking points along with Sanders. That included noting that the makers of the 10 drugs selected for the first round of Medicare price negotiation spent $10 billion more on self-enriching activities than R&D.

($200B/year buys a lot of manufacturing, distribution, admin, and whatever is left over for amortized and ongoing R&D)
Not true. The Soviet threat existed already before the WW2. It was actually the main reason why Nazi Germany was able to become that powerful - Britain and France hoped that Germany will balance that Soviet threat out. Eventually it did, but not without huge damages to Britain and France and without substantially aiding Russia. If your claim was true we should have seen huge increase in tensions between France and Germany after the collapse of Soviet Union, but rather the opposite is true.
I’m a Range request fan-boy, so thanks for sharing. Byte-indexing static objects is basically a brilliant point of light in the dark universe of code. I have fixed dozens of systems that read entire zip files over the network and into memory just to get the list of files inside (totally unnecessary if the host supports Range headers).
We have a case locally where a high school boy assaulted a female classmate then tried a second time and was expelled. The boys parents were prominent county employees and they waged a campaign to have him reinstated and were successful.

The female student had a personal protection order against the boy. The school apparently feels that this doesn't apply when he is in school and it was the girls responsibility to avoid the boy.

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/educati...
Just drop out. The old dream is still alive and the earlier you quit caring what SV hypecycle dorks and TikTok brainslop fiends think and/or do the earlier you get to live that dream. In absolute terms, there are probably more people that want what you do now than there has been at any point in the past. You're just butting up against how little the average person cares, but that's their cross to bear. Don't let it ruin what you have.
If I have to choose between driving next to the nitwit texting or the software that might get tripped up in really unusual situations, I’m going with the software.
It doesn’t matter what it’s for: it is spying on users.
Lander was a demo which evolved into the full game Zarch, known as Virus on other platforms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarch
Sometimes the quantitative measures cannot comprehend the life satisfaction.
100% agree in principle, but the unfortunate answer to your question is: because the people who already own everything won't allow that to happen. Or, at least, not without a huge fight.
It allows you to race against a replay of yourself. Turn on ghost then finish a map and select retry
Who said it was an unmoving object? Maybe I missed something in the story, but I got the sense that this happened in motion. The towed truck would have essentially been moving forward at an angle, hanging across the lane boundary.
Maybe if upper-management gave up some of their massive profit gains instead of raising prices, we wouldn't have such crazy inflation to begin with, and this whole point would be moot.
Love to see this! We’re the developers of Inspect Browser [0], the browser with dev tools you see in the screenshots. Our goal is to make tools to help web developers work on iPads, iPhones, and now Vision Pro- thrilled to see it in action!

Glad to answer any questions.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/inspect-browser/id1203594958
Apple Vision Pro's (AVP) Image Quality Issues – First Impressions
Please do provide some source
If a meeting is simplistic enough not to need planning and action items, you don't need a meeting. Make a conference call.

If action items are simplistic enough that you don't need to consider calendars for the future, don't need the ability to show the status of existing concerning items, and any reliable information is conveyed via paper, you've got multiple problems.

Mostly you have a culture problem, to put it simply.
Precendent rulings and legislations are separate things in civil law countries. Not separating them is how the U.S. got the Roe v. Wade fiasco.

No two court cases are completely identical. Precedents are an important reference but they themselves do not automatically decide the outcome in civil law jurisdictions
The gold rush scene is the most captivating to me. The film style looks like it's from the 70's/80's (reminds me of Little House on the Prairie), but the footage is from a drone standpoint. I find it magically immersive in a time when none of the technology to make the shot would have existed.
People have been spending high amounts of money to code for as long as computers have been a thing.

Tons of people buy high spec laptops, or high spec desktops with high spec monitors and high spec keyboards just to code.

Turns out people pay for an experience that suits them.
sure, they're small, but some of them are closer to your eye lense than your retina. The pixels per degree are lower than any Apple product in the past 10 years
I believe it's this talk on swisstables from cppcon 2019:

https://youtu.be/JZE3_0qvrMg?t=1426
"Spending billions on stockholders" is an odd way to frame giving profits to the owners (the shareholders). Does a small business owner spend money on herself when she makes a profit and moves money from the company account to her personal checking account?

Calling stockholders an expense misrepresents how businesses operate. "Spending" implies expense. Stock buybacks are a way of returning value to shareholders.
Do you often have enough frozens to feed a party of 10?

Pizza delivery is rarely done for one or two eaters. Only makes sense at >5
> The world is actively getting worse so it makes sense the news is actively getting pessimistic.

This is Hacker News. Not news-news. HN does not have to, and should not, look or feel like a news site.
The problem is its not their data, the aggregate everyone else's including their users. It's always bothered me how entitled they sounded about the API lockdown when it was very clearly not about protecting anyone's data.
It might be seen as a instrument of imbalance so powerful that it would get proactively destroyed along with the person carrying it (because of the implied associated knowledge). The consequences of it falling into the wrong hands would be to high. Don't do it. Or instead, to be safe, just bring a Ryzen box running Gentoo.
I’m curious, what’s the basis for that claim? I’m surprised to learn that the constellation, incidence rate, and intensity of bullying behaviors don’t vary along sociocultural lines. Do you mean that there are no examples of areas or situations that have been more successful than others at addressing these kinds of youth behaviors?
I feel like you are so focused on the fact that Godot 4 has web export limitations that you haven't realised that nobody is disputing that with you.

An export limitation that affects Safari by definition does not affect Chromium-based browsers. Repeating that Safari is unsupported when someone explicitly asks/talks about Chromium-based browsers just sounds like you aren't really listening to what you're being asked.

Also if you think developers knowingly releasing web apps (of any kind, not just games) that only work in one browser and/or straight up don't work on mobile at all is somehow remarkable, you might be very new to the web.
I will say, as someone who worked professionally in maps for several years, you are one of the rare people that has tried self hosting multiple geocoders at scale. This is such a valuable boots on the floor take that maybe only 10 people in the world can actually offer. Maybe 10 is too few but definitely less than 100
> If you're not interested in this subject, there are lots of other posts on this site you can go read about

This is just as unprofessional and condescending.
Yes, I'm well aware of that - but your average viewer isn't going to notice expanded resources, however they ARE going to notice things like time-to-first-byte and network transfer.

EDIT: Just to be clear since I can't edit the older comment - instead of bundle size it would have been better to say that the "network transfer size" is roughly comparable.
> is it fine to work on open source projects at Meta, or is it bad because Meta is bad?

I think OP would say its better to work on open source at Meta than closed source at Meta, and we should celebrate someone being paid to write open source. We can also condemn their specific employer while not denigrating their open source compensation.

re your second point, looking at this thread, "what is open source" is taking up a lot of the brainspace.
Yeah, but the includeIf solution has me typing my emails once each, rather than once each for something like 100+ repos.
You can run ad blockers for Web apps. You can't for "the app". I'm with this dude
Yes, socially undesirable qualities like being smaller than other children because they were pushed forward a year for being bright. Or because they wear a discount brand of clothing. Or because they were called a mocking name that rhymed and therefore stuck for years. Or because of jealously. Or because their father had to fire another child's father from their job.
The difficulty of mining bitcoins has been steadily rising since January 2023.
Mining difficulty is an integral part of Bitcoin’s proof-of-work consensus process.
The complexity of solving the mathematical equation connected with a block, which is a measure of Bitcoin’s mining difficulty, surpassed 80 trillion on Friday.

With the mining difficulty hitting 81.73 trillion, the network hash rate—which measures the total processing power allocated by miners—rose to 562.81 EH/s, a new all-time high, according to blockchain explorer BTC.com. The difficulty of mining bitcoins has been steadily rising since January 2023, and it is expected to reach 100 trillion in the near future.
Beyond recompiling, wouldn't porting 'i' to another architecture, say x86-64 or ARM64, would require the addition some sort of PowerPC AS tags active mode - instructions to set the "this is a valid pointer bits" ?
Total solidarity with this guy, for exactly his reasons. Advertising is all lies.
> Only high-growth, high-margin businesses can get 7x+ earnings

Not really, the S&P 500's P/E multiple has historically been at around 15x and now is somewhere around 30x [0]. And with that, we're talking about large, mature businesses that are not growing super fast -- more like 6-7% annualized, post-inflation [1].

[0] https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average...
> I find it quite disturbing

Typical emotional manipulation...

> that high taxation is seen as a negative aspect of Europe. I lived in Italy, France and Germany, and I enjoyed public healthcare and education of very high standard at very affordable prices, and free in the limit that one cannot afford to pay for them.

...coupled with an utterly illogical (and factually incorrect[1]) non-argument.

You can have these things without high taxation, if the system that implements them is efficient. It's not.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39402957
yes, but isn't part of what makes being outside nice is some measure of sunlight on your eyes?
If you live like a monk, why do you need a software engineering salary?
I was annoyed, and that was intended to be a little condescending yeah. I'm not going to let someone who goes by the name "CyberDildonics" tell me to be more professional online without being a little bit snarky in response. I hope that isn't against the rules.

edit: Looks like it is in fact against the rules, but I think I'm tentatively going to leave the comment up because I did provide a valuable answer to the parent commenter's question. Mods can do what they will of course. :)
I just had an idea.

I was somewhat intrigued by why people would recreate the same kind of setup in AR with monitor screens. Ok you get more of them, but at some point more screens is just distracting.

What if instead this was the occasion for a true AR experience. Like instead of popping up a monitor, you can open a textbook. As in a physical text book sitting on your desk, each page would be covered in qr codes or whatever uniquely identifying that page. Then the vision pro could fill in the page with a computer generated UI: buttons, text inputs and so on.

And then you could spread all these pages around your desk and actually touch them, and carry them around. Imagine your code being on a sheet of paper instead of in one window.

Imagine your trello board being actual postit notes stuck on your wall that you can unstick and edit.

Imagine your wall full of papers, each of them showing some monitoring aspect of your system.

Like all your browser tabs are displayed on the wall.

Jesus I am excited
With ADHD, it doesn't even take 3 months. Give me one day and I'll never touch something again. Hell, some of the things I buy, I don't even use a first time, because having stuff doesn't actually help with motivation
Any idea who invested this round? Microsoft cant aquire more than 49% because regulators are on their ass looking at their relationship, right?
> Maybe Congress needs the equivalent of UX and product types who actually care about what the people want...

Members of Congress have plenty of support devoted to both what people say they want and what they actually positively respond to. That’s...the entire political side of the operation.
Likely those fundraising talks and numbers were already agreed upon and closed a while before they showed off Sora.
What does lazy mean in this context?
Other vision issues can be relevant too. I have a very slight lazy eye - I can still see 3D video but my stereo vision is worse than average. I suspect it affects the eye tracking because for me it feels a little tedious and imperfect, but others don’t seem to feel that way.
They led with mentioning executives, which is spending on employee salaries and bonuses. At any rate, I think it’s the same point to say “makes billions more in profit than they spend on R&D”.
Find me a line where I disputed Chromium browsers on Macs can or cannot run Godot 4 based web games. I'm not sure why you are so hung up on this, the original point still stands. And that is Godot 4 is not currently web ready, and due to limitations upstream according to the Godot devs themselves, it is recommended to stick with Godot 3 until such a time.

Furthermore, juvenile personal attacks are not appreciated (such as insulting comments like "you are very new to the web") and go against the spirit of HN. I'm done with this conversation because I feel like you are deliberately being antagonistic and are acting in bad faith.
All hail our Lord and Saviour, the GLP-1 Agonist drug.

I’ve lost the weight I put on 20 years ago many, many times, and spent my every waking moment hungry. Now, I take a pill every morning, and eat like a regular human.
the problem is, virtual screens can float in the air. A physical piece of paper can't.
The problem with the vision pro is that you can't wear glasses to use them, and neither does Zeiss make all the prescriptions available.
In 1950s, a woman wouldn't even be able to get into universities like Yale.
Same here. Bose ear buds noise canceling and bass are incredible. No comparison to the air pods. But god are they big and ugly.
Who knows what will be the long term consequences of using these devices on the eye. Better to be wary
Because drug discovery needs patient trials, and the massive cost of those trails drives scientists into the arms of investors and the for-profit sector.
You may be able to help this with toric contacts. The inserts don't do prism correction so can't help with that specifically.
not relative to sales, relative to earnings