skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lean towards Cullen Roche's take:

> 1) ESG investing is more active investing that will increase the probability of lower future returns. […] I won’t regurgitate Larry Swedroe and Cliff Asness’s excellent work on this subject so I’ll just a [leave link here] and [here in case] you want to see the financial cost of this investing strategy. The short version is, these strategies underperform in theory and in reality, as expected.

> 2) The secondary market is a bad place to enact change. The intelligent defense of ESG is “by reducing the demand for a stock we can increase its cost of capital and impact its operating performance.” This is true to some degree, but I think this is dramatically overstated. For instance, the firms in the S&P 500 are all large established firms that have more than enough capital to finance their operations. They aren’t using the secondary equity markets to fund their operations. In fact, most firms have so much capital that they’ve been net buyers of stock in the last 50 years. So, this puts the cart before the horse. The better way to think of public companies is to think of them like horse betting. We can bet on the horses, but secondary market purchases are just private exchanges, not cash issuance to firms. As a result, betting on the horses doesn’t change the outcome of the race. Similarly, our secondary market purchases and sales have a far smaller impact on the firm’s operations than we might think.¹

> 3) ESG investing puts more money in the hands of bad actors. […] This means that someone else is earning a higher return and potentially investing more of that money into the causes you don’t believe in. You are, in essence, choosing to earn a lower return thereby funding the very types of people you might disagree with.

> 4) No one knows what a “sin stock” really is. The only strict definition of a company that is “immoral” is something that is illegal. Aside from that, a company that operates a legal business is simply providing a service for someone who doesn’t view that business as morally contemptible. For instance, I have a very old truck that uses gas. I sometimes fill that truck up using XOM gasoline. Some people might find this morally contemptible. I do not.

* https://www.pragcap.com/my-view-on-esg-investing/

I find point (2) the most interesting from an 'enact change' point of view: voting with your wallet more directly encourages either certain types of products, or how they are made, whereas the (secondary) stock market does not as much unless you can get a voting block to enact company policies at shareholder meetings.

Ben Felix of PWL Capital has some videos as well (with links to the published research he cites):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4AMFicXXqg

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weVAN2HxXjk

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHxNpN-2lmw&t=1416s

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/273
This is interesting, hopefully it gets more HMD options out there, but even better get more developers making ar/vr games.

Was the OS a limiting factor in any of this, though? I've only used a Vive and my Oculus 2 and 3 so I'm not sure what other HMDs use, I assumed some Android distro that just connects to steamvr/openxr/whatever.

Are Asus, Lenovo and Xbox really trying to get into the vr/ar ecosystem? Are they going to be Oculus clones? Their own r&d? Is this all a pipedream?
France imports lots and lots of wine. You think their efforts to preserve a domestic wine industry are "failed"?
Not at all. The distinction is very real. Many copyright infringement lawsuits are not about the money, but are about the use of copyrighted material in a way, or by an entity, that the copyright holder doesn't approve of. They aren't upset that they weren't getting paid, they're upset at their work being used in a way they oppose.

It's also true that (outside of criminal copyright infringement) the only remedy that a court can offer is monetary. But that fact doesn't mean that money was the real issue at hand.
encoding decides how bytes are interpreted
The author correctly states that x86 has "lower bits at the beginning, bigger bits on the end", but, as you said, that's the definition of little-endian.
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Unless the subpanel was directly investigating TikTok's user experience, I'm not really sure if their study is relevant here. It would be overly broad to dismiss the EU's qualified claims because another study suggested that screens can't be addictive.
Ahh, indeed, thanks all. Apparently I managed to glance over it.
I'm guessing it's the opposite. Meta is trying to establish the same OS-level foothold/control that Microsoft, Apple and Google have.
I'm 58. It is hard not to be cynical when you've seen as many hype cycles as I have. Especially when you suspect the person hyping LLMs is the same person that was hyping blockchain and NFTs.
We have seen progress, but mostly price progress.
With this and Llama I'm starting to wonder if Meta is making a pivot toward openness similar to what Microsoft did under Nadella.

It's not altruism of course. It's a strategy. But it's a different strategy from the closed pure walled garden strategy they have executed previously.
I can't agree anymore.
After trying out udio.com my mind is completely blown at what I thought was possible.
You're not going to get HDMI (or at least not directly), but you can now get DisplayPort with many of the XR headsets. They're primarily using the alt-mode of USB-C as the cable is re-used for power as well.
Don’t they also have a web view wrapper for 2D tools?
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Using the name « horizon » without showing Horizon Worlds at all definitely hints at Horizon Worlds being a side social feature of the Horizon OS, versus this being an OS specifically FOR the horizon worlds metaverse.

Meta/Facebook really has trouble with focus, I hope they can pick 1 vision for VR.
I can't recall when I first heard the name "OS" used to mean just another linux distro, whereas my increasingly old-man brain expects the term OS to mean a unique kernel, not a repackaging of a different one. Certainly by the 2010s that usage was common.

I feel like these days some would even call something an "OS" if it's running in a docker container, without providing any kernel at all. Which is to say the meaning of the term is expanding.
I want to force kitchen staff to wear this and have it remind them to change gloves based on what they’ve touched either being a potential allergen or contaminant. Makes me cringe when I see people who work with food also working the register, for instance. Too easy to get lazy and not change the gloves.
Indeed - I do not think it is a coincidence that a lot of production experiments in effect systems are happening in Scala right now - the language is very flexible to conduct them. https://github.com/getkyo/kyo in particular looks interesting as it explores a different space where the monadic nature is less exposed to the end user.
> But the TurboGrafx flopped (in the west) and the SNES was a hit world-wide, so I guess they did something right.

Still have all my old consoles including the Turbo Graphics 16 and SNES. It was all about the software. Mind you this was during a time when games were $50 each which today is something like $100. If you wanted to sample a game you hoped a friend had it so you could borrow or the local video store had it to rent. If not it was a crap shoot and game review magazines were a staple.

TG16 had nothing to compete. I only remember the popular side-scrollers like Bonks Adventure or Splatter House. The rest were "weird" games no one was interested in. We had about 7 or 8 games before we gave up on it. I had I think one other friend who had one who also gave up on it with just a few titles.
Not really. There is no money in VR/AR headsets. All the money is in the services that back them. Even further, the less money is in making headsets, the more money is in the services.

To say nothing about your data, which is Facebook's primary revenue driver.
Didn't 404 recently announce that they had RSS feeds for paid readers that was in fact built into Ghost now?

https://www.404media.co/404-media-now-has-a-full-text-rss-fe...
Derail Valley is a good one on Steam. Obviously that isn't standalone but it works pretty well with SteamVR streamed to a headset.
It reads more like they're smartly stepping away from the hardware game they're not really optimized for and focusing on the software and connectivity features that they are.

I'm not keen on more headsets having a Meta data vacuum built-in, but this isn't the opposite of putting the metaverse stuff to pasture.

They're just shifting from an Apple strategy of full-control vertical integration to a Android/Windows strategy of platform ubiquity.
Probably. For a game selling at 60$ assuming Nintendo took half and publisher took other half in profit, its 1.6%. Still significant as the publisher has other costs.
Virtual welding training is already a thing:

https://www.lincolnelectric.com/en/education/training-progra...

https://www.fronius.com/en/welding-technology/our-expertise/...
"Open platform" my ass. I still have to jump through ridiculous hoops to mod BeatSaber (which is the only way to make it worth playing for more than a few minutes). Quest 3 makes modding even harder. This announcement is trying to frame App Lab as an open app distribution platform; it isn't. Those "basic technical and content requirements" apps have to meet are basically the same ones that Apple or Google or Meta themselves enforce for their app stores. Entire classes of applications, particularly those that undermine platform-owners' business models are not allowed.

Additionally, Horizon is generally a terrible operating system. Useless and intrusive "social" features out the wazoo, laden with tracking/spyware, and it isn't even good for anything beyond launching apps that take over the whole environment. Want to use your fancy headset to open up apps in 3d space and do some multitaking work? Well I sure hope you're happy with exactly 3 2d apps (all equally sized) lined up in a row in a fixed location, because that's all you're getting. If you want to do anything real you need to install an app that launches its own environment for multitasking, but of course then you can only pull in windows from a remote PC, so if you want to run any local applications it's back to basics for you. Oh, and of course you can't mix those remote PC windows with local apps. As poor as Apple's Vision OS is in the multitasking department Horizon falls far behind even it.
For what it's worth, we are many decades away from this being the new normal in daily life. It'll more likely start to chip away at iPad and computer sales though.

As for your examples, such as maps/encyclopedias, they still do even in the smartphone age.

>Or why make anything actually aesthetically pleasing if 98% of the people who are going to interact with it will see it through a digital lens, where you can change your designs on the fly and for so much less cost?

There's a great movie called Virtual Nightmare that is basically about this. But I don't think it's such a bad thing, to be honest. We'll have a world where art can be more easily exchanged and public spaces become more collaborative. And the flip side is that hopefully, "offline" will have less ads and there will be a renewed focus on more indie and subversive decoration.

Change isn't always bad, and it isn't always good.
It'd be neat to see Starship used for something sooner rather than latter, but like Angry Astronaut it feels to me pretty preposterous to make a mission that doesn't really incrementally help us towards the goal, that's just a one-off standalone thing.
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I used to play Derail Valley on Steam, which has optional VR support.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/588030/Derail_Valley/

But I agree with the sentiment. Sim games are the killer app of VR and I just want more sims. Where's my Das Boot simulator?
Yes a while ago, and Proton support sounded exactly like your comment "Hm that's strange" - do you use your own product?

If you navigate to the inbox - https://mail.proton.me/u/1/inbox - there's a splash screen with the Proton logo in the center and the text "Loading Proton Mail..." for several seconds on every single page load.

Try it out! Let me know.
Oh damn.. I played it out... got me invested in this guys soul.... and ready to hand over some $. Was engaging and fun. Super inspiring.
I fondly remember the times where Glassholes were rightfully mocked. Now it's cool to drive around in your Tesla wearing an Apple Vision. It really seems to have become very normalized.
All the Amazon Go stores that have been open near me for the past few years are still open. Went to one last Friday, in fact.
[dupe]

More discussion on the official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115554
1. Zuck always wanted to own a platform. He was a developer at heart and wants a product that developers can build on. He’s personally invested in this.

2. I’m pretty sure a lot of the cost quoted for their “Metaverse” stuff included their CapEx for a ton of GPUs which probably have a lot of other uses within the company.
Unfortunately human language remains ambiguous and imprecise. That's why we invented programming languages.
The page disqualifies combinations where a "propelling unit" can be driven separately from a "trailer". This seems to fall under that same classifications; this is multiple attached vehicles, not a single vehicle.
I dislike how some apple enthusiasts here are trying to rewrite history.

No, Apple did no bringt us the Smartphone. They also did not bring us the Smartwatch.

All of this existed prior to Apple. What Apple did is polish existing ideas up, doing incredibly good marketing, and making stuff that was not sexy but simply worked (think blackberry) into a status symbol.

Typically Apple did correctly identify which existing technologies would sell if polished up.

For the Vision Pro they completely misjudged. The first 3D hype started in 1922, and every 10 years or so VR and AR came up again, and EACH AND EVERY product failed and the hype died off again. It was always the same: "Wow, impressive technology" followed by "Hm, I actually prefer to be part of my environment" or "Actually I like 2D more". Every single time.

And it will by the same for this hype cycle.

It was simply bad judgment of Apple to notice that this technology did not fail due to it not being polished enough, but simply for people not wanting it.

Even those of you who aren't old and have not lived through four of those AR/VR hype cycles should remember Google Glass. Apple managers should have remembered, too.

A couple of years ago many of my developer friends used to be in the VR/AR business. With the exception of one, all have quit that sector, because whatever they created, in the end nobody wanted it. Not even the niches that would have been useful to humanity, like medical applications.

It's dead, Jim.
With this and Llama, looks like Zuck is trying to be the Linux of whatever the next big wave is
I do think they are right about AI corrupting infrastructure of the internet, Google is pretty much useless if you aren't trying to buy a product and is full of SEO'd to hell AI generated content that is just terrible or completely lacking information.

It has made job seeking a pain in the ass and is leading to tools of manipulation on every side, nothing is real, everything is a grift now seeking short term gains while playing scorched earth with everything long term.
No, you’re not the only one, or even in the minority (outside of the terminally online tech bubble). I feel the same way.

But I also see the value of AR/VR to a number of industries that need more visual interaction metaphors. CAD/CAM, architecture, and real estate come to mind. I could totally see buying a house across the country “sight unseen” based on a 3D scan (if regulatory guards are in place to prevent modifying the scan).

Having an open OS architecture for AR/VR apps is key to making this happen. Current offerings all fall short in various ways, so I’m curious to try this out.
Try telling it it's a project manager and get it to write a scope of work/spec document first that you agree with. Then send it to a "software architect" to define the frameworks and architecture, and then to a "developer" to write specific files or modules.
SBCL eval interprets until you hit a lambda form, at which point it will compile (last I checked). But you are much more correct than who you replied to :)
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It's only a natural extension of the things that we have in our pocket. I would rather be immersed in the whole virtual world rather than stare at a 7 inch screen for a large part of my day.

Lets face it, we spend considerable amounts of time in front of a screen. A bigger and more immersive screen will be a better experience for everyone.
In my personal experience, cynicism seems more like a fixed personality trait people have than one that is rationally borne out of experience.

If you had been holding a representative basket of tech stocks right before the dot-com bust (a classic "hype cycle"), you would be beating the S&P 500 today if you just held on to them, even after most of those companies went bankrupt. Even on crypto, it is too early to call.

The fact that you bridge so easily from crypto to LLM suggests to me you're not really considering these things on the merits and are over-focused on the who and cultural alignment of the people behind various inventions, rather than the creations themselves. /2c
I'm not involved in the process so not the best person to answer but I think it boils down to: team, team, team. Not that YC assesses every team perfectly, of course, but it's the principle.

Domain, product, and so on, are relevant, but mostly for what they reveal about a team. If there's already a product with users and/or revenue, it proves that these founders a.k.a. the team is able to build a product that gets users and/or revenue, which is the kind of team YC wants to fund. For example.
> We’re also developing a new spatial app framework that helps mobile developers create mixed reality experiences. Developers will be able to use the tools they’re already familiar with to bring their mobile apps to Meta Horizon OS or to create entirely new mixed reality apps.

Like porting my whole android app + spatial features or...?
> "Personalized" advertising is just plain dumb

Could you elaborate? Imo it is the most efficient way of advertising..
I am really interested in a LLM router that can track the usage and tokens used to measure the cost and put int rate limits. What this will do is help keep cost down even while using multiple LLMs.

I think this project will be a great starting point.
Sierra/Vivendi/Activision/Microsoft should revive the Space Quest brand and make something like this.

Edit: also have you considered doing a how I made / tutorial series on youtube ?
Ooof that's a bummer, I hope that doesn't translate to the typical "Android developer experience".
I played mostly with friends and it was fun.

When I first got into public lobbies - yeah, everybody was a kid and the first color shouted into the chat would get kicked.

The trick I found was to switch the search language to English as I was in European servers with my native language. That way, I would match with Europeans that manually changed their language to English as well... or just british kids.

Anyways, it got way better, no more "red is sus" and then kicking without proof.
But then everyone was too rude. People always got EXTREMELY angry when I found who the impostors were by either using the cameras or just remembering who was with who + kill spots + behaviour. Like, we win the game because I confirmed the users were impostors based on actual proof, then they cuss me and ban me from the lobby!

So, yeah, I kinda not played much in public lobbies for these reasons. But with friends it was fun!
i dont think LLMs in their current state are anything like the human mind. They need the ability to have multiple thoughts ongoing, background thoughts, planning... right now LLMs are a little like snap responses answering questions, the type you give without thinking, like intuition. Which can very easily fall outside the bounds of an acceptable answer
I disagree with a lot that this essay says, but I just want to hone in on one practical thing:

> Noticing that AI companies put the world at risk is not enough to support greater government involvement in the technology.

If government (which, let's not forget, is us) doesn't step in to protect the populace from abuse, then who will? We certainly can't trust the AI companies to do this. I don't accept the premise that we just have to remain defenseless.
IMO the issues Microsoft had weren't unexpected. If you look at the disaster that was their US military Hololens project it turns out a fairly significant portion of the population experiences motion sickness and other fundamental issues[0].

This is a hard problem to solve and from what I understand it is similar to issues that are screened for in specialties. For example - fighter pilots and astronauts are screened for all kinds of fundamental things:

- Vision

- Tolerance to motion sickness

- Tolerance to Gs

- Tolerance to claustrophobia (for flight suits, tight cockpits, etc)

If you don't have 20/20 vision (or better), puke all the time in sims, and freak out when put in a flight suit you're just not a fighter pilot, astronaut, etc. Once you make that cut then you train on improving what you fundamentally have and even then wash-out rates are high.

With the Hololens project the goal was to strap a Hololens on pretty much any random soldier. If some fairly large portion of the population just can't make it work the utility and value of the project drops to zero. Imagine standardizing on a gun sight or other key technology that just won't work for even 1/10 of your (already limited recruits), potentially even for otherwise elite soldiers.

I think they realized they will have similar fundamental issues in the enterprise - the utility of a Teams meeting with everyone in Hololens drops pretty significantly when a non-zero portion of employees get sick after a few minutes.

I'm not sure how these issues with the technology can be overcome. Sure, if some gamers can make it work that's cool but that doesn't provide the overall value to the technology MS was hoping for.

[0] - https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-hololens-fails-us-army-te...
> There was a bug in some versions of the Novell redirector shell (NET5.COM) that was a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program that ran under DOS. ... the very problem that triggered the error message had the unfortunate side effect of screwing up the ability of DOS to write to the screen. So only a part of the error message was actually written to the screen. What was that error message?

"There is a problem with the Memory Control Block for the shell"
^^^^^^^^
blem wit
> It reads more like they're smartly stepping away from the hardware game they're not really optimized for and focusing on the software and connectivity features that they are.

Which would be weird cause the hardware (Quest 3/Quest Pro) is top notch, while Metas software for it is garbage. Everything good is provided by 3rd party companies.
Super Mario World is great, but I stand by Donkey Kong Country 2 being the best game on the system. To me, it just nails every single aspect of platforming, with awesome music, tight controls, and appealing graphics.

Terranigma is right up there as well for me; Super Mario World is probably number 3 in my book.
> “Meta Horizon OS devices will also use the same mobile companion app that Meta Quest owners use today—we’ll rename this as the Meta Horizon app.”

Churning through so many VR brands. The app that used to be called Oculus and is now called Meta Quest will soon be called Meta Horizon.

If Meta really believes in the Metaverse, why do they need the Horizon brand? Why not just the Meta OS?