skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For #4, I don’t think scaling should be a major issue as the tooling industry has been manufacturing at scale for decades now. The only real difference is the customer
Looking at the example I immediately thought of warehouse staff. AI knows what the thing is and where it is to go. Human is a machine to put it there. Humans as an extension of AI. Welcome to the future
Soon! We're working on it, and it's almost there.
Americans like suffering, stop trying to take this from them.
My parents had various timeshares and got good holidays from them and were generally happy, so I don’t think they are by default a scam.

We still go to one 30 years later, and the maintenance is about 1/3 of what you’d pay for an equivalent hotel room (€1,000 vs €3,000) so I think overall they are “up”.
Yes the causality is reversed in a lot of peoples minds but this is more in-line with some other "innovations" were enforced.

Big Boss reads Gartner. Gartners says do X. Big Boss mandates X, and gets the cost savings they want by firing or hiring freeze. The quality/quantity of the output was hard to measure compared to the concrete reduction on the spend side.

20 years ago it was offshoring. I recall a job where managers were all essentially given the offer at budget season - you can have 5 hires in Bangalore or 0 hires in US. Not a pot of money and managers deciding X vs Y, it was simply an ultimatum X or 0.

Certainly it worked, however it was first forced in many areas where it didn't work, top-down. AI efficiencies will happen similarly.
Hm, what's that Carl Sagan quote, "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." Brewster Kahle's vision for the Internet Archive as an electronic repository for human knowledge is the former. His belief that he can just blithely tussle with the entire copyright regime in such a half-cocked manner is the latter. You should not confuse folly for audacity. Especially when it might completely jeopardize the former.
Was not expecting Touhou music!
apparently they did something weird with the glasses to bend the light and increase your FOV, I'm not sure what that means but it looks intriguing.
$10 per hour in the 90s is significantly more than $15 per hour today: $18-22 depending when exactly in the 90s.
If they do it like their current Ray Ban glasses, there's an LED on the front that lights up when it's recording. People will no doubt disable it though.
some interesting bits from the Verge article:

> Micro LED projectors inside the frame that beam graphics in front of your eyes via waveguides in the lenses

> [requires] wireless compute puck that resembles a large battery pack for a phone

> [glasses weigh] 98 grams

> the battery only lasts about two hour

> Orion was supposed to be a product you could buy.

> $10,000 per unit [to build]
A $ is a $.
the wristband reminds me of the Myo armband, this thing you could wear to control a computer

did meta buy them out?
I was going to say that Snap's offering was probably cheaper or designed for mass marketing because their page looks like something you could actually buy.

But that isn't the case! Snap will only rent them to you at $1200/year [0], can't imagine what the BOM is like for either of these products.

[0] https://www.spectacles.com/lens-studio
The 60s-era designs don't look all that different from some of the fairly popular current Warby Parker designs.
The world has changed a lot in the decade since Google Glass, the stigma around public recording of video is pretty much gone.
Wanna see the first prototypes for mobile phones? And even then it's really good compared to a Quest, but def. not good enough if you're going to wear this on the daily
No sample chapter? how do we know this isn't just A.I. generated slop?
How is that not just ordinary fraud? That may be the best case scenario for getting out of the timeshare agreement, bring it up before the court and getting a judgement against the timeshare company.
The latency is brutal though, compared to content running on-device or a headset with regular display input. I'm particularly prone to motion sickness though - it might be an acceptable tradeoff if you're not.

(Image compression over wireless or even USB is noticeable as well, but I can overlook that for the price.)
Don't forget the internal data pipeline to the security state apparatus in the various FB operating jurisdictions.
The self-employed expert still have self interests. That kitchen builder generally get's discounts/kickbacks from Tom's appliance based on volume. So you are backed to 'commissioned sales staff' just in a way less opaque manner.
Glad to know I am not the only parent who feels this way.

On a personal note, I am one of those people who highlights sections of text books using different coloured markers and scribbled notes on the margins. During my final exam time, my revision of materials was very efficient. I am not sure how to teach my kids these skills.
Correct me if I'm wrong but is this (panspermia) the justification given in the Star Trek canon of why all the aliens have two arms, two legs, can speak, and speak English?

Regardless, it'd be extremely cool to have some distant cousins swimming around that far away. It'd also be extremely cool to find completely unrelated life.
"I think we still have some room to grow there in terms of aesthetic for the majority though."

So does Meta and it's the reason they aren't actually releasing this as a product. They just showed us where they're at and gave us an idea on where they want to go in the next few years.
> Imagine if Meta decided to run facial recognition on-device and upload the results to their advertising services

More like when they decide to do that. They want to capture and extrapolate any and all data possible from every possible source.
The Meta ones lack the obligatory sellotape over one side though.
It's not just like 2048 though, since you only move one piece at a time. In 2048 you move all the pieces in the same direction at the same time.
What was the first step?
I wear my Meta glasses all the time and use them to record all the time. It's fine, you're already surrounded by people who brandish their phones to record everything.
Discussion in previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650047
I know meta (ha) discussions are frowned upon on HN, but I never really understood why, so here it goes:

This link weights in 115MB. It loads a 30MB GIF for its hero image.
That's from a company that was born on and from the Web.
The people that brought you React.
Their messaging has been really tone deaf.

For instance, the media never seemed to get the point of Horizon Worlds in that if VR content is going to be like the web, there has to be authoring tools that make it possible for the ordinary Joe to make content. The persona I think of is the owner of a few Thai restaurants who is very savvy about SEO and SMO and developing relationships with DoorDash and such. That person has to see the value of having a VR or AR presence that is greater than the cost of developing.

Horizon Worlds fell down in many ways not least in making you create everything with computational solid geometry and not letting you import image, video and 3d assets. Sorry but McDonalds has to put the Coca-Cola logo on the side of the drink cups. One trouble is the size of those assets has to be managed so that you don’t overload the rendering engine or the comm link. Another is that people are going to make worlds stuffed with porno images or theaters where you can watch pirated movies. As it is their authoring tools aren’t that good, people who know how to author 3-d content can’t use the tools and processes that are good at, and your world can only be so big.

There are many good games that are developed with the expensive processes used to make 3d games and a huge number of Horizon Worlds competitors, I am sure Meta wants to see one succeed but it is not an easy problem.

I like my MQ3 but for entertainment it competes with other options (sure it was fun to watch the last Star Wars movie in 3D and I like VR games but normal video and video games is hard to beat) and for creative work it is the same: in theory I could publish my stereograms in VR with A-Frame but there are so many other projects to work on.
https://archive.is/R6x7s
Habitability around F-class Stars
This reminds me of the "Kansas" environment in the Self programming language. Here is a video about it from Sun in 1995:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox5P7QyL774

More interesting search features were added after this video was made.
> I mean, I do understand that it's easy to sit there and think 'I understand sending money the first time, but how do you still fall for it the 6th time they ask you to send more money?'.

Such an assumption would show a clear lack of empathy, no? Esp. on HN where nearly all are familiar with data-mining and relentless targeting of people based on data.

Time share companies are notoriously aggressive in their sales pitch. So "the set of people who bought time shares" already selects for people who have a much higher propensity to send money to these scammers, even multiple times. And upon being scammed, they probably also get their data sold to hundreds other scammers and get stuck in a recursive loop of scam attempts at a much higher rate than the average HN-er.
> Haystack takes care of the tedious confusing parts of coding

Tedious, yes, but confusing? Yikes!

My job as a coder is to resolve ambiguity favorably. Every day, I strive to leave the world less confusing than I found it. I would no more rely on an IDE to "take care" of confusion than I would outsource my firm's core competencies.

But the main conceit is cool, and I'm sure the dependency graph is helpful. I'm just picking nits with marketing copy. Can't wait to check it out! (Although my first instinct is to check for a canvas plugin for VScode).

Edit: I should say that I think this UI paradigm will fundamentally improve coder understanding by exploiting our visual cortex and "sixth sense" of proprioception, at least as far as I understand it via Supersizing the Mind (Andy Clark, 2008).
you can't disable it, and it doesn't really matter anyway because nobody seems to notice it. I have videos of all my friends the first time I run into them using the glasses, and none of them realize that I'm recording them unless I stare at them for long enough without moving.
The main reason I ask is because I use a competitor? of yours currently, and one of the big draws of it is "if we ever go out of business, or if you're dissatisfied with the product we offer, or ..., you can just take all your Terraform and keep using it. You aren't locked in to the platform."
I can't even load the announcement page because I have all netblocks and domains of FB, Instagram, Meta, WhatsApp, Oculus, et c all blocked at my router.

The very concept of an ad company trying to mediate all social interactions so they can sell communication and interaction with our friends and business associates back to us is such a toxic and antisocial one that I'm surprised that anyone let it happen in the first place.

Facebook delenda est.

Normalize banning anyone who wears such an ad company surveillance apparatus into your home or business.
don't know about spectacles but the verge's article about it quote someone saying it's about 10k to make this:

> As Meta’s executives retell it, the decision to shelve Orion mostly came down to the device’s astronomical cost to build, which is in the ballpark of $10,000 per unit. Most of that cost is due to how difficult and expensive it is to reliably manufacture the silicon carbide lenses. When it started designing Orion, Meta expected the material to become more commonly used across the industry and therefore cheaper, but that didn’t happen.
I think you are referring to clinical trial registration. Different idea and process (a QA-like step).

The NIH DMS mandates are about the data generated by an award.
Checked a little bit Disney. Picking a flexible option for a large family:

From $350 to $1,200 per month for a 10-year loan with a 10% down payment = $144,117

+ the annual fees.

Oh well...

"Ability to finance through our in house financing with no credit check" errrrm.

"A groundbreaking non-credit check model for financing DVC loans. No credit check, no debt-to-income ratios, simply financed based on the value of your purchase."

Though if you purchase from the secondary market ( = people reselling it), it gets cheap enough that it becomes interesting.
It must not be fun to see every new technological improvement as a horrific thing
It's not a bad summary, but it is a shallow one. :)

You should love it because it's a more intuitive and more powerful way to build this kind of infrastructure automation. What's happening under the hood isn't just infrastructure as code with a UI - it's a full reactive model of how things work. That's what makes the UI possible, but it's also what brings about so much power - the code that drives those models is also fully exposed and versioned.

So when you have something like a policy to write, you think about what resources you need, use them as inputs to the function, and then store the results. Check out what an early user had to say about it: https://matthewsanabria.dev/posts/take-the-system-initiative...

We'll find out if you love it or not. :)
Sometimes you can get lucky though – I know at least one forum that requires registration even just for viewing posts, but lets Googlebot through and only checks the user agent.
What kind of network setup were you using? The usual recommendation is that for best results you need a dedicated access point (not serving any other devices), in the same room as the headset, and with ethernet backhaul all the way to the PC server. Using a shared access point or multiple WiFi hops might work but YMMV.
This is cool from a technical standpoint, but ultimately just feels like another gimmick. This feels like it's doing stuff that I could do faster or better (and definitely, more safely) on a computer or phone.

I don't personally see the appeal of hands-free as a paradigm in most cases. Do we really want people talking on and looking at Zoom as they walk around the office? Or as they drive? Or as they are out shopping? I also see ESPN and YouTube, so yeah... this thing better detect when you're moving at speed and disable video apps.

I'm just struggling to see when you would be in a setting where you should use these, that you shouldn't be using a device you already have. It's like trying to sell me on using a smartwatch to take voice calls: sure, there is exactly 1 situation I can think of where that's useful, which is getting a call when I'm out running and don't want to "lug" a whole phone with me. But I sure don't want to be wearing glasses when I otherwise don't need to (and these aren't prescription, so you are), just in case someone tries to Zoom me unplanned.

Can you imagine how goofy you'd look sitting at a coffee shop and just sort of staring into the middle distance and talking, as you take a Zoom call?
Mark said they need to iterate to make it more cool, and that's why they won't release this just yet. It looks like it's going to be a dev kit
Winamp removed "No forking" restriction from license
Llama 3.2
Announcement post instead of general top-level domain: https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-3-2-connect-2024-vision-edge-...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41649763)
Light Table was getting lift and traction but didn't make it. There was a ton of conversation on it back in the day on HN, including great presentations by the creator (who had been a PM on Visual Studio as MSFT!). Definitely check it out.

There's definitely demand for this tool but it looks like it's hard to get it off the ground. Wishing you the best of luck!
Llama 3.2: Lightweight models for edge devices
Moons around gas giants can get considerable amounts of heating from tidal effects which could also help bring the temps up. (In the case of Io it gets way too hot)
It would be nice if there was a function to wait for tasks and to return the results at the same time, so that you could write something like:

auto [a, b] = co_await coros::wait_tasks(fib(n - 1), fib(n - 2));
return a + b;
> Using what version of python? How will you distribute the expected version to target machines?

Let's focus on solving this then. Because the number of times that I've had to do surgery on horrible bash files because they were written for some platform and didn't run on mine...
I still remember how privacy issues killed Google Glass, truly ahead of it's time. Sorry Sergey Brin.
Maybe? This isn't a product, it's a prototype. It costs $10k to build.

https://www.theverge.com/24253908/meta-orion-ar-glasses-demo...
My own personal experience is I hate reading any long form material on a computer or tablet screen. Something about the experience was both painful and didn’t seem to work with how I read. I bought a used e-reader on a lark at a flea market to try it out and picked up reading as a hobby again. Even with the newer backlit e-readers the experience is much different.

As a first guess I would say:

* “Paper like” looks, including slightly blurred text (since e-ink pixels aren’t square)

* Mostly reflective lighting and softer lighting when backlit

* Dedicated and simple UI

* Perhaps most importantly singly consumable, individual and discrete chunks of readable text

Are all factors in making this a better experience. E-pubs that can reflow their text and so that each “page” is rendered legibly and in full are great experiences. Reading fixed format PDFs is better than on a tablet but not as good as an epub
This was originally just JIS Roman [0], the Japanese ASCII variant from 1969. Shift-JIS is what much later then added double-byte character set support.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0201
I get it. System Initiative is 100% open source (https://github.com/systeminit/si) - if we go out of business, or you are dissatisfied with the product we offer, you can just take your workspace and keep using it.

We don't make a free distribution of System Initiative - but we expect that someone will eventually, and you could use that.
Your comment is GREAT. We were all really impressed with your interpretation, thank you very much!
Tell HN: Hetzner just launched object storage in beta
This is a game changer, since this keeps me form having to roll my own Minio. I was considering moving from S3 to R2, but if I can keep all traffic away from the internet until it needs to leave, that is ideal to me. Hopefully they add a CDN too. Beta is limited access and will run until November 1. Hopefully next are managed databases and cache.
So when can we order?
That story seems to be missing some pieces. Most people would just refuse to pay the invoices and wait for the timeshare company to sue. I suspect your friends might have had other financial problems beyond just the timeshare.
I can still run old python fine, as much as old bash scripts. I often have to edit bash scripts written by others to make it run on my mac.
Yeah, but people who brandish their phones know that they're performing the act of recording. Glasses that record are exactly not that.
The "horrific" end game you mention here doesn't even result in seeing more ads.
eg https://makerworld.com/models/179240

There's just something about the bas relief output that's satisfying in a way that a 2d printer doesn't hit.
I think the requirements at the semi level are quite different than what the tooling industry will be able to produce. The silicon carbide layer thickness probably needs to be controlled at least to the 10 nm level and the film quality will need to be quite high for optical applications. There is some use of silicon carbide in semi in high power electronics, but I don't know how well that transfers to optical quality either.
If your claim is that it'd not be worth it to pay two million dollars for a surface lander that successfully samples and conducts experiments on Europa's ice in situ, returns HD video, etc, then I can't really agree with you or even see how we would reach agreement. A Europa lander was at least considered as a viable billion dollar mission when I left JPL.

If that's not your claim then I don't understand your valuation and the rest of the comment doesn't track.

And not to engage at a base level but my use of immeasurable is correct in being interpreted as "large" unambiguously, at least by Merriam webster.
So it looks like it's basically the same as the Quest 3 except for the screen resolution and the use of different lenses (instead of the pancake lenses). Everything else seems similar or even better (and there's a new button to transition from AR to VR akin to the one on the Apple Vision Pro).

At half the price, the Q3S seems to be a nobrainer no?
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> I think the best play here would be to release them without any camera functionality at all, or the connotations will be that weird, sweaty guy that no one wants to sit next to on the subway (see: Google Glass).

Sergey Brin sitting sad in the corner after reading this
Hmm I think someone else has voiced a similar opinion on the wording here, and I actually do agree with you.

What was meant by this statement is really just taking care of plumbing and the visualization of how code relates to one another.

To give you a very basic/silly example of plumbing, if I add a parameter in a function used in 100s of places, doing the manual work to figure out what edits I need to make to those callers is pretty annoying and in most cases mechanical.

If you're lucky, you can do a grep + replace (or just use a default param), but in most cases I find it requires more manual intervention than that.
don't you want it to tell you that you're looking at a pineapple?
I Made an Autograd Engine
IMHO having no cables attached to your headset is a win, especially in applications where you move your body a fair amount.
Snap's design is really awful looking - to the point I can't see how it doesn't just damage the brand.

Plus Snap's core business is a mess I don't see how they could really compete with Meta on this they'll run out of money first.

It's cool to see Meta's continued work/focus in this space - a polished internal prototype is probably the right place for this hardware.