skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone was crapping on Zuck for his pivot from FB to Meta, and I was generally in the minority for supporting it. I even bought a quest 3, even though I refuse to use instagram. This turnaround for the company has been legendary. I think there’s something to say on “betting on people”. I didn’t believe in Meta or the technology, necessarily - for some reason, I believed in Zuck. He was willing to put his entire empire on this massive bet and stuck it out, despite the backlash and negative PR
In third video (conference call) I see black t-shirt atop of background. How is it physically possible?
Caution: Nature's headline is deceptive at best.

Zero human hearts were involved in the research - instead, it was tiny samples of derived-from-stem-cells cultured heart muscle cells. Plenty of concerning changes were observed in those cells, compared to the control samples (which stayed on Earth, instead of spending a month in space). But the researchers were honest about the limitations of their study - it's extremely early stage, useful only for getting some ideas about what things might be worth a closer look.
"Imagine if you took IaC, bolted a slick Native Objects style frontend onto it, made it collaboratively editable and integrated version control and - perhaps most importantly[1] - a high fidelity preview simulator so you could look at the total expected results of your configuration changes without having to wait for AWS/etc. to finish catching up."

[1] To me at least.
> While Orion won’t make its way into the hands of consumers

harumph. This tech is cool, but there's a worrying trend of important tech companies creating larger than life PR announcements without anything I can actually get my hands/eyes on
Glasses that offer you an AR experience / HUD?

Pretty cool

Glasses that let you record people without their awareness / consent?

Downright creepy

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).
A preference for 1950s Buddy Holly glasses would be a fashion choice, because such glasses are rare today. It loses all of that appeal and becomes a commodity when it's the only choice for a product category.
Seems like from what you described, the main challenge is reliance on entrenched businesses are gatekeeping the entry knowledge and training.

I wonder if trade schools would be a good way to bypass this bottle neck.

I suppose you would still have the problem of people selecting the low ROI degree instead of trade schools, but they would still have the option after they understand "they messed up".
I hate to knock the design when the tech is so cool but it seems like this would be exactly the occasion to go for a futuristic cyberpunk-visor look, as opposed to dork glasses.
> Uh, managing their reports and judging their performance is like the primary responsibility for most managers in big tech.

It may be the primary responsibility by plurality but it almost is never the MAJORITY of the time you spend, ESPECIALLY in big tech.

I'd say the most likely breakdown is:

* 40% managing reports and judging their performance
* 30% managing upwards
* 20% recruiting/hiring
* 10% team vision/strategy + cross-org initiatives
Well, this problem needs to be solved. Even if you get a tiny amount, that would inspire a lot of people. Having something in return helps a lot vs invisible hands patting on your shoulder. Most people are ungrateful and take this FOSS ecosystem granted.

My idea is to separate a 5 eur/usd from every EU/US citizen's monthly paycheck and allocate that money to the sites the user frequents, the foss tools used.
This is very interesting, but I wish the article did more to offer some common hypotheses on exactly why this happens.
What is most amazing is that there is an entire industry of getting people out of timeshares. It's not cheap either. People are willing to pay large sums and take big losses for millstone removal. Timeshare companies pay a lot for every single successful sign up, so they are not willing to let them go without a fight.
Laughably, horribly dystopian how much we spend on the military vs. programs like NASA.

I want my Star Trek timeline back :(
They only say "holographic." Based on other products/projects (Intel's Vaunt), I assume projectors/lasers are on the sides, and a holographic reflector is on the back surface of the lens.
On the second point, you're comparing MMMU-Pro (multimodal) to MMLU-Pro (text only). I don't think they published scores on MMLU-Pro for 3.2.

(Edit: parent comment was corrected, thanks!)
I am not that deep into react, but I always wondered, what exactly a vdom is and how the diffing works, the code is so easy to read and has a lot of comments which is really nice, thanks!
I think I now understand react (or at least I hope so) a bit better.
Decent hands on article from the verge with more info

https://www.theverge.com/24253908/meta-orion-ar-glasses-demo...

Wireless compute puck. 70 degree FOV. Resolution high enough to read text. Wrist band detects hand gestures and will be used in another product.
While I understand that this is a prototype, it's unfortunate that they've outlined no specs of any kind. How long is the battery life, how heavy are they, what's the resolution, field of view, etc? As is, it's impossible to really say if this is a dud or a truly remarkable piece of tech.
In the end, you can put whatever you want to external review, and similarly to how nobody gets fired for hiring a big consulting firm, nobody gets fired for flagging something for legal review...
I’m more excited about Llama stack, I can’t wait for local models to be able to use tools in a standard way.
Messaging Needs
You can't really compare items if they are separated out by brands and not all together in a common 'pans' area. Being able to compare is a huge part of going to an actual physical store to look at the items. They are removing one of the huge reasons to go to the physical location.
My friend's wife attended a timeshare presentation and, unfortunately, she ended up signing. She thought she got a great deal - "We can go to Hawaii twice-per-year, and pay far less than staying at a hotel!" Well, almost immediately, they started receiving invoices with outrageous charges, like "maintenance fees" and dubious property taxes. The original contract was for $200/month, but all the additional charges brought the cost to around $2000/month. They tried to get out of the contract. The timeshare company wouldn't return their calls. Finally, after a few months they talked to someone who told them there was no getting out of the contract - basically, "Sorry, you signed a contract."
My friend and his wife ended up declaring bankruptcy, just to get out of the timeshare contract. They never even went to the timeshare. Not once.
This article says 70 degrees:

https://www.theverge.com/24253908/meta-orion-ar-glasses-demo...
Would they be if FedNow had a planetary instant payment system with the same amount and value of transactions as Visa, including fraud protection?
Meta Ray-Ban's updated with real-time AI video, reminders, QR scanning
A large part of the organized activism against the death penalty is also run by christians, especially catholics and orthodox who are a lot more consistent on this.

It's not the christianity per se that makes them bloodthirsty. Contemporary american evangelical christianity is a novel social-political-religious movement and in some theologically significant ways has broken with near-universal christian tradition. Trying to understand it purely as a religion is too incomplete.
Microsoft also proposed to buy the complainants behind another antitrust complaint on OneDrive bundling, led by Nextcloud.

Let's file more of those complaints!
- Llama 3.2 introduces small vision LLMs (11B and 90B parameters) and lightweight text-only models (1B and 3B) for edge/mobile devices, with the smaller models supporting 128K token context.

- The 11B and 90B vision models are competitive with leading closed models like Claude 3 Haiku on image understanding tasks, while being open and customizable.

- Llama 3.2 comes with official Llama Stack distributions to simplify deployment across environments (cloud, on-prem, edge), including support for RAG and safety features.

- The lightweight 1B and 3B models are optimized for on-device use cases like summarization and instruction following.
How many more millions are these companies going to flush down the toilet before they get it through their heads that normal people do not like wearing technology on their face? 3D TVs failed. VR gaming failed. Even Apple isn't really pulling off AR. They test and develop these products on their techie early adopter employees and are shocked shocked shocked when normal people who care what they look like aren't willing to look like an idiot in front of their friends.
Reminds of the anime Dennou Coil. I hope someday AR becomes boring tech and we'll be able to buy devices from less-sinister companies that won't be monitoring our eye positions and iris dilation in order to manipulate our attention for profit. Better yet, an AR device that integrates with your PC rather than a cloud-based anything.
Such a long post and not one real world example of mis- and disinformation. I hear left and right about this issue but really never see any examples.

What do Fact-Checkers do? Here in Germany they come to light during the pandemic and the only thing which they do is check if the information you post online is equivalent with the information which the state published. It is not fact checking it is pure propaganda aligning. Fact-Checking is misinformation in the name.

YouTube and probably all the other social media publishing platforms except twitter seemingly straight out delete content that is marked against their TOS and their TOS is what the state says is true and that is what fact checkers look for.

They are just online content censors pretending they check facts.
Is it just me, or are the videos that look like they're shot through the glasses extremely jerky and at a low frame rate?

For me, buttery smooth animation and synchronization of the physical and projected world are table stakes.
Another comment on Meta advertising and marketing: I, and everyone else I know, do not want to live in world Meta advertises. It’s awkward, sterile, and not believable. Even the images in this article have the “Meta flavour” which I find very offputting. Their video marketing is even worse.

Contrast with Apple, who do this perfectly.

I’m convinced that this is impacting their sales. The Meta Portal was an excellent product for example, but the marketing was dreadful, so it flopped.
> Glasses that let you record people without their awareness / consent?

I think in this instance it's probably "let Meta record people and associate the data to their shadow profiles". Doubly creepy.
Me too! I’ve never seen a response so fast, let alone one where they fix the bug. Definitely impressive.
No, because they would rather you buy multiple iPads on top of the iPhones and Watches you might already own.
It's impressive hardware and some nifty demos, but I'm holding fast with AR just being a deadend. No matter how many pixels you can jam into these things, there just isn't a compelling case for using them. Nothing that isn't easier to do with a touchscreen or a keyboard. Those midair gestures just aren't ergonomic. And there's no way to balance the transmissivity of the lenses and the overlayed images without getting crummier visuals than a screen.

AR experiences on headsets and on phones have been bouncing around for years. There was a big push with new XR toolkits from Apple and Android a few years ago. Yet no one has ever produced anything more than a demo of something nifty. The one and only "killer app" remains Pokemon Go which is really just a clever gimmick. I think this is a classic solution in search of a problem.
Does anyone know if these charging stations have normal sockets so one can charge their electric bike on them?
Ah you're right I totally misread that!
In the army, they were BCGs - Birth Control Glasses.
On one hand - if the demos are representative, this looks like a very cool product right out of science fiction.

On the other hand, Meta is one of the very last companies that I would trust to operate a fleet of network connected always-on cameras attached to everyone's faces. The privacy implications are pretty horrifying. Imagine if Meta decided to run facial recognition on-device and upload the results to their advertising services. Your position could be easily tracked any time you walk into the field of view of someone wearing Meta glasses without your consent.

Not to mention for users that choose to use these things voluntarily, you are giving Meta an intimate look into every waking moment of your life. You think data brokers have too much on you now, just wait.

EDIT: Looks like most innocuous comments expressing privacy concerns on this post are getting flagged. That's not how HN is supposed to work, folks.
I agree with the business model of focusing on vertical integration with specific partners instead of DTC. There will be inevitable product quality trade-offs, but if you can select the partner context where those trade-offs work you can make progress and perhaps build in some price discrimination.
The article doesn't say much about it but I am sure there is significant work being done at the transmission substations as well to support the extra capacity.
Can I still do the cool visualization ?

I'll experiment with this over the weekend and I might share it with my game dev friends!
I love hitting folks with wall whenever we’re on a host at the same time. They’re always like: “what is this dark art??” ^_^
> I think you should compare synapse and weight counts if you want a measure of the network's state/capacity. If you want something closer to its compute power, compare neurons and hidden units.

Even this is far too simple.

1-Astrocytes have processes (extensions) with localized calcium wave signaling as well as global cell calcium wave signaling that is involved in computation of some types of sensory inputs

2-Astrocytes detect and produce neuro-transmitters as well as glial-transmitters (and generally control/influence the synapses between neurons)

3-Neurons have tunneling nanotubes that dynamically connect cells together (on short time scales) and can transfer proteins, calcium (action potentials), etc.

4-Some types of neurons have natural resonance properties which impacts their function and processing of inputs

5-Some types of neurons learn input patterns in isolation (purkinje cells), meaning one single neuron can learn a time series of input and respond appropriately when pattern detected

etc.

There is a long list of interesting and unknown capabilities, it's pretty difficult to compare neurons+cells to an ANN at this point, too much unknown.
Question: Was the book from the screenshots composed in Japanese, or composed in English and then translated into Japanese?

Since it's apparently from Fujitsu, I could see it being the former, but if so, I'm impressed with the quality of the English in the printf statements and code comments from non-native English speakers.
Walking on the Moon in Cologne: Europe's lunar life simulator
Assuming the video is real, it is conceivable the display is a combination of light screening and light emitting.
The older I get - and the older Facebook gets - the less I want these.
I'm blown away with just how open the Llama team at Meta is. It is nice to see that they are not only giving access to the models, but they at the same time are open about how they built them. I don't know how the future is going to go in the terms of models, but I sure am grateful that Meta has taken this position, and are pushing more openness.
Wow these look huge, I was expecting it from the comments but it still managed to surpass my expectations. I wonder if they managed to squeeze a battery in it and that's why it's so thick. Assuming it's light enough to not cause pain after some extended use it's a huge step up from the Quest series (and other VR headsets that cover your entire head pretty much!) and a completely different class of product compared to other AR Headsets like the Apple Vision Pro which require an external power brick.
Maybe not exactly the iPhone moment, but may be the AR PalmPre. A further slimmer, less goofy version of this may actually have potential.
I can see why you went full GUI to begin with now.

The example component code reminds me a lot of mobx-state-tree (you have no idea how much cog. diss. I get reading the docs for that thing given they acronym the name everywhere ;) though I find myself much preferring the API shape of mobx-keystone at this point.

(I've been experimenting a lot with reactive graphs of late though while it seemed an obvious thing to try at some point I haven't attempted to wire it up to systems automation yet; shall have to do my usual cover-to-cover documentation read on your site and then hopefully I'll be in touch with a baseline to actually chat about that part ;)
Not bad, HoloLens 2 was only a 52° diagonal FOV. Not quite VR headset level, but the frames probably help a lot.
Yup. My first thought was that they look like "BCGs".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GI_glasses
How have I lived for this long on the interwebs an never realised this was a thing?
I agree, founder mode in SV doesn't seem to be much more than creating something with good UX and proceeding to ruin it by attempting to turn it into a "platform".
While the tech looks cool to me as I do not understand AR that much, this will be another headache inducer.
the verge's hands on has more info: 2 hours, 98g, 70 degrees

https://www.theverge.com/24253908/meta-orion-ar-glasses-demo...
The author didn't provide information about when this book came out, nor is there any information to find on it. But I think at the book's release, Shift-JIS (the standard) didn't exist yet.

Rather JIS X 0201 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org.org/wiki/JIS_X_0201 ) was used, on which Shift-JIS is based.
Why doesn’t Meta do those Apple style releases. It would build so much more hype than a random press release like this.
I doubt it's still the case, but once upon a time Riak (written primarily in Erlang) was one of the preferred storage backends for Datomic.
>Communicating through sockpuppets like Medvedev is exactly how a gaslighter par excellence like Putin operates.

Quite the opposite, in fact. Putin's Munich speech in 2007 was as direct as it gets.

Anyway, your suggestion that Putin telegraphs his true intent (to occupy Poland and Baltics) through sockpuppet doesn't make any sense -- why would anyone do that? Medvedev playing bad cop routine -- that I can imagine, but what you are suggesting is quite strange, to put it politely.
I used this for several applications. Note that 2D convolution can be done efficiently using FFTs, and filtering can be combined with this very efficiently: if you see your high-pass filter as a convolution of its own, you can pre-calculate its FFT, and just multiply it almost for free in the frequency domain with the two images you want to convolve.
Dog water = dog shit. Also what url? I'm new to this site
Quality companies can't survive on making 'limited, rotating selection'. Costco's model only works when piggybacking off of a long term model capable of sustaining the suppliers between 'limited Costco' manufacturing runs by selling products continually.

The system is eating itself and we are at the point in this new cycle where it's showing.
I remember passing on them and thinking they were way to spendy at $100/month for a blog/CMS hosting when you can self host or use a service like Netlify for a fraction of the cost.

Reading this article and then the company not even mentioning it on their site or on any of their social channels is suspicious and just confirms I dodged a bullet.
In my experience in the PNW US the answer is no. They only have DC charging attachments.
That seems like a risky ploy. Guaranteeing that the existing AirBNBs get grandfathered in is far from certain. Then again, I've seen plenty of AirBNBs that just ignore the law so maybe it would be fine anyway. I once stayed in one that had explicit instructions on how to respond if someone asked you what you were doing at the house, which fake names to use and everything. Felt incredibly sketchy, but it was also about a third of the price of the cheapest hotel room in the area and didn't have cleaning fees or extensive checkout cleaning bullshit so that wasn't unexpected. Was a great location too.
How does this work then? Do you give Jamf then control over your Apple device?
Especially after the whole Occulus Facebook account fiasco. The technology looks great but I have zero interest in owning a Facebook product because they can't be trusted, full stop.
depends on where you see interest rates, housing prices and everything else going. If you think there's more correction to be had and interest rates will go down then don't buy but if you assume property prices keep appreciating and interest rates will go up then buying now is still better than later. In particular, in California, Prop 13 heavily favors buying now vs later.
You can also stream PCVR over USB instead of WiFi if you prefer, though the convenience of WiFi wins for most people.

They also recently added the ability to connect a USB HDMI capture device and view any 2D input on a virtual big screen.
That sentence reads to me as "the product has been described using marketing."

(I don't have a better one sentence tagline as such, mind, but honestly if I'd only read that I'd never have bothered to look - see my sibling comment for an attempt at an actual high level description ... especially since I probably got something wrong you'll need to correct ;)
Just with youtube, the surface area of these services is getting smaller and smaller and you get less and less. Too much optimization to the detriment of users. All the while search is still rooted in 90s concepts and only serves as a money making thing.
According to Zuck people actually do like wearing tech on their face if it has the right form factor, hence the Meta Raybans selling well.
well they're not going to be sold to consumers (apparently they cost like 10k-ish to make)...but i'm curious how they'd do motion tracking without cameras though...
Very nice work, congrats!

The combo UI just doesn't work for me. I didn't understand what was happening until reading the blog post, the game just felt broken since it was inconsistent whether a piece maintained focus or not. And even after knowing about it, I was constantly making misplays due to clickin on a unit I wanted to move, and instead having the pre-selected unit capture the clicked unit.

It might be worth trying out a model where the combo piece is highlighted graphically, but you still need to first click on that unit first if you want to move it.
It's just like the game 2048, except with chess pieces. There's a 'play' link at the top of the page.
Yep you're right, thanks for catching (sorry for the ninja edit!)
I don’t understand why smart TVs are not jailbroken yet.. or at least have alternative OS options which support most varieties.
Looking at all the reactions from first time users, it really made me want to try those. Quite large and apparently under 100g (to compare, the average weight for prescription glasses is 20-40g). That being said, nothing compared to a Quest. I would use this just for being able to see avatars when I talk to someone (I already take my calls walking using the Meta glasses).
Agree with your point. The actual title, "If the Universe Is a Hologram, This Long-Forgotten Math Could Decode It," has another issue: physicists may have "forgotten" operator algebras, but it's certainly been a very active part of mathematics.
Facebook get one step closer to blurring out real ads and overlaying them with FB ads.

It is incredibly clever, and you have to respect the technology, but the endgame here is horrific.