skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, most of the PDF work I do involves things I’m not uploading to a service - ever. I don’t care if they’re “deleted immediately after processing” - they left my control. This sort of software would be great if it were 100% offline.

This isn’t just a niche issue either: this is a very real consideration for any corporate user. More companies are taking data loss and security issues seriously, which often means restricting what cloud services they are willing to use.
Oh Okay. Thanks for the feedback. I will Implement your suggestions.
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1. I don’t see how this product is related at all. Sunglasses with a camera and headphones is just that: sunglasses with a camera and headphones.

2. It’s funny to describe the Vision Pro as a “Mixed bag of features” compared to a pair of sunglasses that randomly has a camera and headphones. If that isn’t a mixed bag I don’t know what is.

For the record I think the ray bans and Vision Pro both suck.
That's disappointing. I thought it was a proper stylesheet update for a second. I've been using this[1] user stylesheet for a while now. See the github repo[2] for the amount of insanity required to make this work (it breaks every now and then when wikipedia updates their html/css).

[1] https://userstyles.world/style/17/wikipedia-dark
[2] https://github.com/StylishThemes/Wikipedia-Dark/blob/master/...
> No porn.

This is in fact a huge oversight in my opinion. As usual Apple's prudishness is limiting them from allowing it but unlike the quest there isn't a side load option either. You're limited to web-based offerings only (and strangely enough WebXR support is not great on the AVP). The experience will be hamstrung by not being able to offer a native app.

And let's be honest, this tech is a game changer for porn. There's a platform called sexlikereal for quest that's doing videos and the immersion makes it way more realistic. You can even couple it with synchronised toys. And this is only video, real 3D content would be even more immersive as you could even move around inside the scene.

You can ignore it or not but SexTech is an emerging market especially in Europe where we have a more open minded stance towards such things. The swinger and poly community is ever growing.

It's a shame Apple is selling themselves short by avoiding a category where AR/VR tech has a huge added value.
Are there any other kinds of polyglots than self-directed learners picking things up?

Languages, their libraries, and specifically the variety of frameworks kind of require wandering to see what delivers on it's promises in the immediate and forseeable future/direction.
Biases - but if I may - I've been on both sides and as an ex-entrepreneur, I feel I'm really easy going especially when it comes to office stuff. Have a chair? Great now let's solve this business issue. I don't expect much really and I'd say less than most as we're used to do more with less - as long as it's decent pay for the work and the team rocks.

Now when it comes to office politics... I have to agree. I and most of us have no patience for incompetence and time burning in meetings and coffee talks...
It’s replaced gaming + random youtube :-)
pdfquips is fast, free, and offers tools that are not available on smallpdf like pdf-to-csv, pdf-to-pdf-a, translate-pdf, you can OfCourse use what you feel most comfortable with, but i guess you should give pdfequips a try :)
It is incredible that you can replace 90% of upwork/fiverr/juniors(and many seniors for that matter) with a $20/mo tool for doing the most common work like api integrations and frontend work (both of which I find the most boring work outside the non programming like devops and, worse, fighting tools and versions because of useless updates).

> It definitely hits a wall when I am working on something sufficiently esoteric.

So do humans. Hiring humans to do that work well is hard and expensive, so it’s not strange that is harder for LLMs as well.

I am not sure that finding things LLMs are shite at makes them less productive for most things programmers are doing during the day, which is quite boring stuff. In my reality, which, before mid last year, had 100s of people (across clients I work with, not my company) doing integrations and frontend work, now fired most of these and focused more on optimising the pipeline for copilot, chatgpt and opus.

My friend who runs an outsourcing operation in India almost went out of business mid last year when he saw his EU clients cancelling all his contracts because his people could be replaced by openai; he pivoted by having his people use ai, do ai projects and becoming more (everyone already was that but it was more heavy on the coding) business analyst heavy. He fired no one and is doing better than before now, but he doesn’t hire ‘programmers’ anymore.
The simpsons had “comic book guy” as their primary adult nerd character since ‘91
> No longer do I have to look at <event> through my phone.

To be honest, you’ve never had to enjoy <event> through the phone. Many people have enjoyed <event> without having a phone, especially prior to the arrival of mobile phones.

And perhaps for the better. To be more in the moment.
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I know what you mean, but Emoji isn't a fixed set. Unicode is regularly revised and more characters and emoji are added, based on decisions made by the Unicode Consortium: https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-15-1-and-em...
Migrating Apollo Codegen to GraphQL Code Generator (2023)
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Calling Tim Cook “minimally competent” really gives away the ludicrous nature of this opinion.
I’m wondering in what way that’s different than buying yourself a 65” OLED TV with an expensive surround sound system and then making yourself watch movies to justify the many dollars of investment.

It almost seems like an accident that the product is notable and gets use.
Wit, Creativity, and Detectability of LLMs Adapted to Reddit's Showerthoughts
You are what you read (2005)
Not true for SERV vs 6502.

SERV is smaller.
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> Gollum that's funny for five seconds and then just incredibly irritating.

This is the canonical Gollum of the original text. Only half-kidding.

Now that I think about it, the Beatles probably could have made all those songs and rhymes from the source material really sing.

Only a matter of time before someone uses voice cloning and video generation AI models to make this, and when they do, I’ll probably watch it, or at least watch a YouTube personality do a deep dive on it.
This is not true, but it is a major challenge. See https://www.pathai.com/
People try lots of things like learning to play the guitar, or marathon running, only to discover it’s harder than they thought and drop out.

You can tell when people are in it for the money because they keep doing it even when it makes them miserable.
I have a family, but I’m only user of the AVP.

The most delightful thing is watching 30 mins in bed before sleep. Just me in front of a gigantic cinema screen floating above me, with my airpods so it’s completely silent.
https://archive.is/YLSsK
A lot of that furniture is just sorta irrelevant. 21st century adults don’t need secretaries or China cabinets, and most don't want any formal living room or dining room furniture. We don't have ROOM for it. We aren't our parents or our grandparents. We don't own 3000 sq ft detached homes.
I remember seeing multiple kinds of options like this for MacOS over the years, including some attempts to port tools or create different environments within MacOS.

Like:
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac06

Or MachTen:
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/professional-machten-68k

Or Mac Minix:
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macminix-15

Really fun and wild stuff. Curious how MacRelix relates or differs.
I'm not seeing the connection between a hefty VR headset with AR passthrough, and a camera you wear on your face.

It also seems extremely unlikely to me that a camera you wear on your face will be the next smartphone. Technologies which change society to that degree are rare.

I do believe you when you say it's a great product. I like my Wayfarers and have been tempted to pick up a pair that is also a camera I can wear on my face. I've seen the Metas, they don't cut quite as sharp a profile but the effect is unobtrusive and stylish.

I don't get what it has to do with VR headsets though.
Yes that's often the discussion I have, many people take the raw resolution as something they can get on a virtual display. Or even add the pixels of the two screens together even though they mostly overlap, which is required for the stereo effect to work.

Still, the VP should comfortably be able to display a full HD monitor I think. Not been able to test it though as Apple doesn't bother releasing it in Europe.
They mix it to save on compute.
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Using my daily! Works amazing as a media consumption device, and pairs so well with my Macbook Pro. I love having a floating space with my freeform boards and notes as I see fit.

I went from having a big second monitor setup, to just putting the vision on with my mac.
The Hamburger Bug
This is myopic and a waste of analysis. You can also argue that Europe's colonialism and arbitrary political partitioning of Africa, South Asia and the Middle East created the corrupt regimes that the US has had to deal with since WW2. Greed is unfortunately not unique to any one group at any one point in time.
sd_notify is for additional (useful) functionality, it would work fine without it. You can tell because it works on arch.
Been a fan of Scott’s for awhile. Don’t agree about everything but I think this video calls out the most important systemic problems.
Thank you for your suggestion, I'm considering keeping the basic functions free and adding premium features, but still not changing any of the core features i.e the website is going to work as is.
There's four states. Randomness vs deterministic. And then within randomness the possibility to influence outcomes vs none.

A purely deterministic mind is a movie. You watch it. There's no way to influence the outcome or it wouldn't be deterministic. You're just a long for the ride.

A non deterministic mind could be nothing more than randomness with no ability to influence outcomes still which makes it little different to a movie. Again you're just a long for the ride even if the ride has random events.

But non deterministic and the ability to actually influence outcomes? That's the intuition I suspect most people have for free will right there.
Doesn't the basic path loss formula assume non-directional antennas?

Using a calculator [1] that takes gain into account, looks like a narrow beam antenna at 35 dBi could bring it down to a comfortable -75dBm - and I imagine you could have even higher gain with phased array antennas. The real problem is aiming the beams, and SpaceX has already proven this is possible.

[1] https://www.pasternack.com/t-calculator-friis.aspx
That original note about it using both 4 and 3.5 was from this comment on November 2nd: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-release/issues/6...

GPT-4 Turbo - the much cheaper version of 4 - was announced on November 6th. So there's a good change they've switched to that at some point in the last 6 months.
In think AI is going to help tons in terms of content generation. This is still super heavy and costly and the Achilles heel of AR/VR tech.
Open in new tab worked.
Because you can take the Vision Pro away from your living room and use it for more than just video.

Your exact same argument was made for the iPad and now it's a $28b/year business.
I'm using Arc, and wondering how you synced the toolbar's color to the background.
Very nice - I've recently launched something similar that tracks calories consumed (with macros coming soon). Would love to compare notes sometime if you're keen :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40316291
And for those who say that it doesn't speed up development, then maybe they're right, because the main benefit isn't at speed. It reduce the devs mental / cognitive load and pass it to the ai instead, we just need to check and review the result.

If it doesn't monumentally increase the speed, it helps devs to stay productive longer
Hard drives were the original case study for Disruptive Innovation, iirc.

https://claytonchristensen.com/key-concepts/

This reminds me of a prediction Christensen made - that small, short range EVs might disrupt the automotive market. They don't fit exactly the same role as highway legal vehicles do, but they do fill a job that needs to be done, for a much lower price than traditional vehicles.
You have me confused with someone else.
None of what you said is right though.

There are games and porn. You can use a keyboard and mouse. You can breakout your laptop's windows. OSX integration is not an afterthought.
Do you have a link to that thread/Docker image? I would be very interested using it
>You may find yourself having to learn to think in a new way literally.

Like that Alan Perlis quote about programming languages.
Totally on point. Sometimes you just have to roll with it.
Right. Speculation and general excitement about stuff that's been around for a while, in 2012 I couldn't get over Glass. Snapchat Spectacles. Graveyard is filled with vibes successes. And the Ray-Bans haven't gotten a fraction of the attention either of those got, or a fraction or a fraction of Spectacles mass appeal. I'm still waiting to hear about it outside tech.
I don’t think you’re a dimwit but I read your post[1] with an example and I am curious to whether you feel you’re losing something by telling the LLM it’s wrong and to try again, rather than going through the exploratory/iterative learning process yourself. For example, would you have known to ask about GeoJSON if you had not come across and learned about it pre-LLM? More succinctly: do you feel you’re learning more or less or an equal amount when using LLMs?

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/22/claude-and-chatgpt-cas...
He is right, but the young can change things. The sad fact is they do not vote, and if they vote at all it is only in presidential. Even in those elections well less then 50% vote.

They are a big voting block, if they all start voting, including in local elections, in about 10 years you will see change. But seems people these days want instant change.

2024 will be a big tell for the young, depending on who wins, things could get far worse for them.

Right now, the corporations determine who runs the US, the young, if that have patience, can change things by voting in all elections.
> positioning your project as an alternative implementation of something is a losing proposition

> don’t go trying to create a subset of Python

I agree - a project that's marketed as "Python but with more X" is always going to struggle to compete with the canonical implementation. (Especially if X is speed - ultimately, if you're using a dynamically-typed language you probably don't care about execution speed).

However, alternative implementations are not always doomed to failure. MicroPython seems to be somewhat successful, despite supporting little more than Python 3.4 (10 years old). It's designed to run on microcontrollers so it's not competing with CPython - it's competing with other microcontroller programming environments.

OTOH, I'm sure the MicroPython maintainers get a lot of feature requests for more recent Python features. I once considered building an alternative implementation of Python that's lightweight and focused on embedding in applications - again, it wouldn't be competing with CPython, but with Lua. The number one feature request seemed to be "will it support NumPy?"
> students have learned mindfulness techniques like breath awareness, thought observation, and emotional monitoring as part of their regular curriculum

Children are full of energy - they need to be let loose and run around. It’s like trying to teach peaceful and quite a 6 months old dog - you can’t. You need to let them burn all that energy.
In southern california we had a name for when it rained ~1" and then got really hot afterward - "Earthquake weather".

I've asked various times and even asked LLMs if there might be some truth in the idea, but everyone assures me, same as you, that no, water doesn't affect plate movement at all.

try googling/whatever the term to correct any misinformation i gave, here.

eta: I see negative points for defining a term i heard repeatedly over two full decades of cognition. Similar to trying to google the definition, the resounding result is "no."
Nah, it seems a lot of people are using them wrong? OP seems to also fall in that category. I sit next to many people in pair programming situations and it’s quite weird to see very smart programmers using gpt or copilot; they are the ones shouting ‘stochastic parrot’ on forums and yet expect some kind of mind reading magic when using these tools. When I show that you can put a comment for your function, like you should do anyway, and it writes the function, it usually clicks. Many still find it ‘faster and easier’ to write the function themselves and that’s fine, but, like OP, doing things like entering ???? and generally expecting a useful result will not be optimal.
> Tim Cook is looking for a legacy product

You mean like the Apple Watch or AirPods which launched years after he became CEO.

Or how about the Services business which is now 20% of their revenue.
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Yeah and how much do you actually look back? I don't really ever.
Disagree as to worst case.

We just don't know how the Yushchenko government (let alone whoever his successor may have been after 2010) would have handled the situation. And without sufficient time to integrate properly -- the accession would have been essentially a bluff, and interpreted by Putin (though his sockpuppet Medvedev, if the latter was still in place) accordingly.

Had he full-on invaded shortly thereafter -- Ukraine definitely would not have fared as well as it did in 2022 (due to the partial state of integration, and the fact that didn't have the 8 years of invaluable training in the field that it had by 2022). Even if it was a clusterfuck operation like the initial SMO. Recall how quickly the Crimea defense fell apart in 2014 (for the simple reason it was entirely unprepared). Tactical nuke risk would have been significantly higher if NATO units were involved, especially if they were blitzkrieging.

One can see many scenarios unfolding - many of them quite bad.
Looks like they have exactly the same production target now they had in July of last year: https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-forced-make-cuts-vi...

"The report said Chinese contract manufacturer Luxshare, Apple's only assembler of the device, was preparing to make fewer than 400,000 units of Vision Pro in 2024"
I’d love to know the specifics on the ppl hiring the consultants and the work output. In my experience you need someone with experience to chain together any genAI output, as well as validate that it’s even correct. It’s not like it magically does everything for you.
I used it for a few months and I think it made me less productive to be honest. I developed this strange "autocomplete disease" where I'd wait for autocomplete when I could've literally typed stuff out myself, it's like some weird tool dependent mental stutter.

And given that I've worked in the languages I write for a living, mostly C and Python for years it's not like it ever suggested anything I wouldn't have known how to write and especially in C it can produce some catastrophically shoddy code.

The one case where it's kind of nice is if you do a side project with a library that doesn't have good documentation and you don't know the API and it spits out some nice example, but honestly I don't consider that worth paying for.
I actually had a reason to not use my AVP for about six weeks (a shoulder injury) and noticed how excited I was to return to it (primarily for "productivity" reasons).

That said, I also used the Quest 2 for much longer than I expected, and it started gathering dust long before I switched the AVP.
Is there a reason you need lockdown mode enabled? I thought that was for politicians and public figures that had a high likelihood of targeted attacks.
Shout out to Codeium, it's a free and fast code completion extension, the business model is that it's supported by corporations who pay to selfhost it
So we’re not that much further than the neural networks urban legend from the early 90s.

https://gwern.net/tank
I have a 65” actually. The AVP is like having a 200”+ screen. And this isn’t about “hur dur everything bigger is better.” You actually do appreciate cinematography more at a large scale.

I’ve had to pause, e.g., some shots in Kill Bill and Gravity just to marvel at the stunning visual compositions. Never once did that on my TV.

Oh, here’s something that’s not obvious: the movie screen (and all images) looks matte inside the AVP. This works exceptionally well for films.
I'd hard disagree. I use the Metas all the time and they're incredibly useful, especially to ask quick questions re:plants or what not and then taking impromptu photos of kids and pets etc that are camera shy.
One of the biggest "welcome to tech" moments for me* was attending WWDC 2013 Vampire Weekend concert. Everyone front row is standing still holding their phones up.

Didn't hit me until your comment, but, maybe the other side of that coin is I'm never looking at photos and videos of the past.

* not-CS college dropout > waiter > ipad point of sale startup > sold > Google
It's not a lack of software per se. It's simply not a very useful form factor. There's a fundamental limitation to what AR can do. Things like occlusion and balancing the brightness of real and projected images is just not solvable. And if they were, what can't be achieved more easily with a pocket-sized touchscreen computer?

Remember a few years ago when Apple and Google were racing to add AR capabilities to phones? ARKit and ARCore. In the hands of millions of users and developers and we haven't seen a single killer app since Pokemon Go and that was 8 years ago. We have a Quest and the number one app is still Beat Saber. There just isn't a problem to solve.
It doesn’t really go into what all it can do
I think the nomenclature of calling generative AI an "AI" is just hype and that leads to disappointment. After all, it's much more exciting for investors than calling it the world's most expensive textual/audio/visual autocomplete. But that's really what this generatoon currently is.

And it can feel like magic, because we're pattern-seeking and pattern-matching creatures, so something that seems to intuit the pattern we're looking for (even if imperfectly) can feel quite a bit like reasoning with another human. To be a bit less generous to humans, it's often the same as talking with another human, because we spend much of our lives writing boilerplate or making small talk or otherwise just kind of on autopilot and answering patterns with expected responses without seriously engaging our complex reasoning. (Do you have to really think about how to map-filter-reduce a dataset anymore? Or think seriously about how you really are when someone says "how are you"? We don't usually expect other people to, and most of the time we're satisfied by exchanging recognizable / somewhat coherent language patterns which we can count on each other to fill in the gaps of. But this is not the intelligence in human intelligence).

The corporate hype machine works overtime to hype it as a solution, but that's just what they do. That's all spin. We see through it now, and we're getting to the point where people are asking the only important question about this tech, which is, how much will you pay for a nerfed autocomplete to do X?