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It would be grammatically correct, with different semantics.
Dont forget the cost. An apple watch was an impluse purchase. iPad is a strech but still affordable. Vision pro is an active choice
Do you use Instagram much?

Stories and Live have become such integral parts of the platform, for some people that's all they use it for. No posts, no reels, just ephemeral content.

One sector of a company bringing in the lion's share of the revenue isn't necessarily a red flag, it's actually the case for a _lot_ of companies. G being the most obvious example.

"Meta can't innovate" is a take I've been reading online since 2014. If your analysis was correct, do you really think it'd be worth nearly 10x what it was 10 years ago?
I think there might be a level of hindsight being used here - I distinctly remember when the Watch came out that very few people actually thought it’d be useful, and other similar criticisms that are being used against the Vision Pro now.

(not that I stand one way or the other w.r.t the Vision Pro, just that the Apple Watch was definitely not seen as anything much when it first came out)
Your model assumes the CEO and all others on the path are full time people managers. In reality, the upper layers of management have many other roles, from customer engagements to political lobbying to CSR to strategy etc. They can manage nowhere near 22 direct reports.

Additionally, geographic distribution is important. You can't have one manager in the USA managing 7 direct reports from Germany, 7 from India, and 8 from China. So, you need 1 site leader for each of these, that the 6-7 middle managers report to. These all add up very quickly to take the theoretical 2-3 minimum required layers to 6-8 layers in practice, without requiring any of those along the way to be micromanagers.
That doesn't change anything? If you can sell something for 30x the price of a game while only selling 1/20th of the units, you still beat all big studios in terms of revenue. And the index was literally in the top 10 for, like, several years, with everything included at ~$1k.
Against whole body MRIs
One entity is the de facto organization that I, and many others trust to shepard this important definition for society.

Using precise language is useful for building software (and in general life).

I like that OSI exists and helps people understand a specific and desired definition for open source.

There’s a lot of thought on this topic by really smart and skilled people. The aspects of open source that I think are most important are captured in OSI.

For me, I don’t care if I can see the source, if it’s not free and usable. I can decompile code and patch for myself without a license. And I can pay for code in escrow.

But what’s important is that I can modify and redistribute. And that I can be part of a virtuous community creating things together.
Might have addressed the total addressable market already - how many people are going to pay $3K+ for a gaming device you have to wear?

Apple should have continued with the car product - Huawei, Xiaomi have proved that phone manufacturers can make cars - they both released new products in this sector in 2024 and together already sold 100,000's of them.

EV is a much bigger global market than VisionPro. Tim Cook following Zuckerberg down the AR / VR rabbit hole might be seen one day as a massive strategic error.
Isn't it already supported by REST?
CREATE: POST
READ: GET (or QUERY if body is needed)
UPDATE: PUT for full update, PATCH for partial update
DELETE: DELETE
It's a bit hard to imagine Apple of 10 or 20 years ago releasing a product like this without a clearer idea of how people would actually fit it into their daily lives. A lot of their successes have been about reducing friction, and while this is convenient relative to other VR products as far as I can tell, there still doesn't seem to be anything that VR is easier for than non-VR alternatives so far.
Looks like the ecosystem might benefit from them rather than the other way round: having a crate that fully supports XML serialization/deserialization, including all of XML's features (attributes, namespaces etc.) sounds like a win for Rust. Actually, I would have expected something like that to exist already - XML might not be the hottest data exchange format around anymore, but it's still pretty widespread...
I wish AVP had seamless language translation app. It could be worthwhile if two people who do not speak each other’s language could just put these on and communicate.
> the most forgettable revolutionary new product Apple has released.

Ironically, being in tech, I myself am not an early adopter. I only joined Facebook once everyone was already on it, switched to iPhone once the majority of people I knew had one, same with MacOS, same with the iPod, same with the iPad, same with the Apple Watch (actually got my first one as a gift, and returned it because I didn't think I'd use it, but bought it a year later and it hasn't left my wrist in 5+ years). And I'm still waiting to buy an EV until after I hear people stop complaining about issues owning them.

Were all of those Apple products an overnight success with hype continuing 6 months after release? Or did they take a while to catch on, thanks to people like me who wait until the product isn't in "early adopter" mode?
Interesting I feel like those uses are all not that revolutionary but they were wildly successful. Just different sized touch screens. You could argue the vision pro is just a different monitor, but even if that is all the pro is it could be wildly successful.
FWIW that comparison would’ve been identical in Python 2, where to get floating point division in Python would’ve been:

>>> 1//2
People always try to make this argument but it can't really be denied that it's a slightly different situation having a handheld utility you can pull out vs being 'strapped in' and disconnected from the world for hours at a time.

I'm sure there will be some valid usecases that come up, but the difference here is they've entered an established market which was already about as far as it was going to go. Using more premium screens, lenses, finishes and throwing more power at it doesn't change the overall concept of how it works, and why it's not been more widely adopted.

Augmented reality is more likely to be the one that takes off. If you lose that 'disconnect' feeling and package it in a pair of normal looking glasses and it'll become mainstream, the tech's just not there yet to do it in an affordable package.
This is just "loose coupling" expressed with different terminology.

It's not wrong but it's also nothing new - it's about as novel as object oriented programming or DRY.
> "somewhat intelligent" employees (i.e. what at least 95 % of employees are).

sweet summer child.
I will repeat my mantra comment here in HN: you should launch this kind of products with AAA content. That is the business playbook.

My oculus are sleeping (hibernating?) a long dream. The last time someone at home thought about them were when they downloaded a VR game in the PS5 to only discover that you need their Sony headset.
They do have websites, either personal blogs or the fund's, and are all on Twitter or here.
VR/AR needs to be collaborative to achieve a breakthrough. Being able to interact with digital objects in 3D space that other people can also interact with will change how we work together.

Just consider code review: You can literally walk through the code together, take a look at different parts of the system and discuss how to improve things.
> “…this just has to work for the customer…”

Obviously this story is about a technical problem, but this attitude (about money) has been alive and well in small businesses forever. It’s called, “take the money” and work out the details later. Haha.
todoman is a simple, standards-based, CLI todo (a.k.a.: task) manager
This seems more expected than surprising. At $3500 there is a very limited market willing to spend that and that market likely exhausted quickly. I wouldn't expect typical adoption curves for a product that expensive with limited value.

I think we're seeing similar adoption challenges with EVs currently. With current value props, a lot of consumers interested in current EVs have already purchased them and adoption rates are slowing. It's going to take a value leap (through better features and/or lower price) to jump start adoption again.

The same holds true for the Vision Pro, which I think most people knew -- it's too expensive and doesn't do enough. Assuming v2 does more for less money, it will jumpstart demand again.
I've built a workflow recorder with a screen history (MVP).

I concluded that in case this is a viable approach, Microsoft or Apple will built that into their OS natively as part of a copilot that remembers everything and comes to assist the user with the knowlede.

My screen history was not as advanced as the app mentioned here though. And I didn't use it myself.
I find the "fitness first" approach when talking about the Apple Watch a bit strange. Fitness seems like a cult for some. for me, it was the complete opposite: I love the Watch as a companion for my Phone, and as a speakerphone. But I had to turn all fitness notification stuff off the day I bought it. It was too obnoxious and had a feel of patrnoisation. I really dont want my gadgets telling me I am supposed to stand up, or whatever it thinks I should do. Fascinating to read that there are actually people that want that sort of noise.
It is not just a monitor though. The fact that it tracks your movements makes it fundamentally different, it’s an entirely different kind of viewing experience, which might yet found a killer app.
I like the quanta articles. But I'd really appreciate if'd throw in a link to the actual paper.
The only two log levels you need are INFO and ERROR
The Vision Pro isn't a gaming device especially without controllers.
I'm not entirely convinced Apple even wants it to succeed. It's a stepping stone to augmented reality and a true 'forget you are wearing it' type of glasses product that can just naturally complement your surroundings.

I don't think anyone truely thinks people are going to all go to work, strap on a headset and be disconnected from their surroundings all day, that's never going to be a thing. Popping on a pair of glasses however is a much more approachable and user friendy experience, we're just not there yet.
The problem with VR is gaming in VR is not popular enough to reduce the manufacturing of them to the degree they are affordable for their true killer application: 3D design and architecture. But that's too niche or too expense to the penny counters for that application use to bring the expense of the hardware down - so they are trying to exploit the game community, or the daily productivity community, or anyone but the actual professions that will use it for the most benefit: 3D design and architecture.
No, this is what a very small section of a service industry looks like. There are millions of people who can have a livable wage in a service industry.

The actual problem that I never see addressed is that should EVERY job be a "living wage" job.

To me that answer is and always has been no. There will always be a need for temp workers.
I never understood why Apple decided to follow the hype created by Meta on this one.
Pine shavings, not cedar. Cedar doesn't rot and provide the environment for life that the pine will.
Okay. Fair enough. But wouldn't a post be better simply explaining that a basic setting or group policy exists rather than complaining on an ad packed page for more paragraphs than you care to read?
> I think the OpenVMS's DCL interface has a libre implementation.

I know about https://github.com/rroart/freevms/tree/master/dcl/src but my impression was FreeVMS is too incomplete to use in anger.

> I've seen things like mpsh

You mean https://cca.org/mpsh/ ? I am wondering how close it is to DCL, in terms of the specific aspect of it I’m talking about here

> and the ITS debugger/shell (DDT) ported to Unix...

Do you have a link?

One aspect of ITS I find fascinating is a debugged program can execute debugger commands. I actually implemented that before using a GDB Python script - have a do-nothing function passed a memory buffer containing a GDB command go run, the Python script sets a breakpoint on the function, and when that breakpoint is hit, it runs the GDB command, it can even write the results back into the buffer, and then it continues execution
Simple game emulators like Delta don’t need JIT since a static interpreter works. Anything better needs JIT to run at a reasonable speed
Seems that even Apple is unable to make people get excited about VR helmets. These devices have been tried over and over again since late 60s and nobody except few highly specialised users wants them.
This is the best cope so far!
Show them the practically unlimited camera roll and say you can call people from anywhere and they'd think you were a wizard.
Bitcoin miners upgrade power centers and get into AI to brace for post halving
That would be 2005 when Google Reader launched. RSS for people who didn't know what RSS was.
Yeah, but all micro optimisations come with costs, from compiler time to maintenance overhead. Someone's still got to ask if it's worth it. And in this case, I just can't see many regular programs containing code likely to trip this, but benchmarks? All the time.
"1/2" - are these integers or reals?

Shouldn't the correct results be expected for the correct statement "1.0 / 2.0" instead?

This is a user flaw, not a language flaw. Nothing in the "1/2" statement implies real numbers .. ?
https://archive.ph/KYV3b
Have you read Elizabeth Kolbert before? Or anything in the New Yorker?
New York Stock Exchange tests views on round-the-clock trading
Maybe but you can just buy an usb c ips portable display get most of the way there. Much cheaper.
Well yeah, smartphones lose most of their functionality without the existence of the internet. Just like current AR headsets don't make much sense without a proper "metaverse" for them to link to. Like virtual persistent objects that everyone with the headset can see and interact with, like street signs, notes, etc.

I doubt this will ever exist unless some undiscovered tech makes it seamless though. You can convince the average person to carry a small brick around if it has enough functionality, but not to carry it on their face. Even regular glasses are so annoying to wear that lots of people opt for lenses.
Calendar, address book, calculator. Maybe slightly later dictionary. Access to something like BBS would not be stretch.

Actually smartphone really is 80s idea. Internet is actually only real new thing in it.
Fast search shows Vacom to be a proprietary platform on tablets. Not sure how easy it is it to port an app for it, but I might be able to put you on touch with the accessibility product manager of VSCode.

Do you have a preferred com channel?
> The state then has data access.

The state already has data access, if the data is in the US. If the data isn't in the US, then why don't we have data locality laws like the EU and India? If the data is already in another country then why do we let another state have access to the data of US citizens?

> How can people trust that we are an innovative hub if this is how we operate?

Because it puts them on the exact same situation as every US company. You can call it splitting hairs, but they already have a US entity that's already subject to US laws and orders. The US's ability to access their data doesn't change (unless they've been storing user data in mainland China, which is kind of damning for them). Forcing divestment doesn't give the US any legal leverage.

And if companies are worried they'll become worth billions of dollars and become popular with every American youth and have a bespoke act of Congress force one of their many owners to divest, frankly I think they've got their priorities in the wrong place.
The market is CEOs who casually leave it unused on display in their offices.
I'm in one of the oldest cities in the UK, i.e. quite a bit older than NY. The oldness of a city is not an impediment to decent internet provision.

[Edit] The university in this town runs its own private ISP, which allows you to download e.g. a Linux distribution in about 12 seconds. The university includes the oldest part of town, which is full of mediaeval buildings and archaeological sites.
I think the community would be interested in list and you'd get a lot of downloads if you offered it up.
I was a child in the 1970s and loved Disney animation. Even at the time I could tell there was a decline the level of sophistation of the new films, although I still enjoyed them

So many interesting angles to this story, that directly apply to software development:

* document your Processes

* investing in training.

* creating space for people to follow thier passion

.
That sounds like a fire hazard. Human safety is still more important than preventing theft.
Green search engine Ecosia launches a cross-platform browser
There’s a trade off - was the mistake here or there? The type checker cannot know. But for those few cases you can add an annotation. Then the situation is, in the worst case, as good as when types are mandatory.
Taiwan is a great place to live to be sure; very nice country. Ive consider Taichung or Tainan, but poor language skills means that would be a hard move for me.

>Southeast Asians are heading to Taiwan to train for semiconductor jobs, which is helping to fill a talent gap at the world’s top producer.

Those jobs need filling because of falling birthrates and declining interest? lol no that's a lie. Those jobs need filling because of the mass exodus of those workers.

China is probably only a few years from the inevitable invasion of Taiwan. My current estimate is by 2029.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/xi-warned-biden-summit-be...
My understanding was that panpsychism means that consciousness isn't emergent (for instance from scaling neuronal tissue), but a fundamental property of space (something astral or soul like).

I am 100% in alignment with you on a comatose person being able to be 100% conscious.
I thought the joke was that people wanted it so they could watch porn on a crowded airplane.

Which, I dunno, ewwww.
Wow that is super awesome and could be used for underwater weapons as well.

In combination with propellers for quick acceleration it should work too.
They didn't say it, but it is the natural conclusion to be drawn.
Daniel Dennett, 1942-2024; A remembrance from Doug Hofstadter
It's not revolutionary, but evolutionary. The whole thing started with the Sword of Damocles in late 1960s.

> The Vision Pro introduces no new usage of computing like its predecessor.

Precisely.
China is just adopting western ideas. Socialize the cost and privatize the profit. The western solution which is to make criminals of business people doesnt work well enough. Epa superfund sites go unfixed for decades. Governments should just print money and hire cleanup companies. Its like a massive jobs program for when AI takes normal jobs.
I believe there's a startup saying they'll deliver cars to you, so, cars with no people inside them driven remotely, once there's a human inside the human is driving. I don't recall the name.

Waymo itself is clear that it has no remote driving capability whatsoever. The Waymo driver is in your vehicle, so any technical issue (e.g. phone network drops out, satellite fails, whatever) won't affect the vehicle's self-driving. It may give up and pull over and let you out, but since it's local any situation where the driver is disabled would be similar impact to a human driver - if a block of concrete drops off an overbridge and smashes the Waymo driver, that could easily happen to your Uber driver the same.

Hence their choice to employ humans to attend in person and drive a Waymo which gets into trouble. In fact the humans sometimes have had to "chase" a Waymo car that, unless it has been specifically told to stop, assumes it should try to complete the journey once it can figure out how. Waymo's remote support can reach into the driver's model and tweak it e.g. to label a stray traffic cone as just trash, not actually off limits - but they aren't driving the car.
A cheap drug may slow down aging. A study will determine if it works
The downvoters are most likely the same marketers posting this trash on HN. If there's help in the comments, people won't click on the ad trap they've posted here.
I remember the watch being kind of unpopular, and most people didn't really know what is it for and how to use it. Now it is really popular.

Apple TV also really didn't find much of a success, really.

That being said... the watch was not as big of an investment, so they could iterate relatively quickly and make new versions. Apple Vision Pro is really expensive.
> Identity (in any meaningful sense) must always delegate trust to some kind of issuing authority. If for no other reason than because any humane system must always accommodate users who forget their passwords, lose their private keys, etc.

Web of trust protocols are a decades-long solved problem (albeit without a prevailing deployment yet). It seems like your comment is meant to be quietly denigrating toward them (or do I have that wrong?). May I ask why?

It seems like eventually a web of trust model is going to arise and win over a critical mass.
No, I mean: "Google" moment as in what Google originally was. Let me rephrase in edit my original comment to "Google Search" moment.

Basically, when Google came on the scene in 1997, it blew away Yahoo Directory. Do I have my dates right? Hahaha :)
Your blind coworker will love the sudden destruction of accessibility. Without the 3d code review, he might have been a constructive team member. With the new tech, you can send him home and let him think about the fact that he is now useless.
The CSS Shapes Collection
I think the VP is more of a don't get left behind thing than a real product intended to sell. Keep R&D slightly engaged, build a better mouse trap in the apple way, and if some AR/VR solution does catch on, at least they aren't far behind the market.
I also read that Capcom USA felt the name “Vega” was too “weak” for the dictator.
Chemodiversity Could Indicate Freshwater Ecosystem Health
proof that humans are just stochastic parrots as well
Experiment Prepares to Test a Possible Second Purpose for Stonehenge
Same theory would apply - charge the producers of these products a cost - no matter a plastic bottle, a plastic nappy or a plastic medical device.
It’s because companies are fat and happy and don’t have enough to do. There’s not alot of hunger for more comp or accomplishment because the org works and people are paid well.

Thats the same dynamic in civil service environments. Some people are motivated by dick measuring contests, and life will find a way to give those folks a metric. When I was a director at a large agency, one of my peers came into my office, proud as a peacock, to let me know that a re-org meant that he now had 113 employees. It smashed his soul when he realized I had more.

It’s all huff and puff.
The Science of Reducing Prejudice in Kids
We're living at the bottom of a gravity well, so we don't pay for air.

Once upon a time, even economists thought that automation could make food, shelter, and routine health care too cheap to meter; in such a world would we then be interacting with each other —as the XIX aristocracy did?— chiefly via shared interests and hobbies?

Lagniappe: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/downton-abbey-effect-british-...
The Same User Interface Mistakes over and over (2015)
It shouldn't take an incident like a panel detaching mid-flight to discover the missing bolts. The processes clearly aren't working very well at Boeing.
Skywriting
> There are millions of people who can have a livable wage in a service industry.

There are millions of illegal immigrants, living 5 to a bedroom proping up the resturant industry. The back of house doesn't do very well at all, its only the wait staff that makes a fair wage for the effort.
> claimed

That's the issue: hidden power structures. But holacracy is not automatically false.