skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you get the opportunity to try the Meta glasses, you will quickly see that it's more than just a gimmick, and they don't even have any display
Think about it this way - how do you update the IaC from multiple places? How do you visualize drift? IaC grows like code grows - it gets factored differently, it gets abstracted, etc. It's easy enough to imagine how you would update a single declaration, but thinking about how to make the "code" reactive will break your brain.

So what we do instead is have a reactive data model, and shift the code part to a reactive graph of functions.
Is there a term for tech companies rushing toward the future? It seems like there's this cultural rushing toward a future that isn't quite here combined with a tendency toward gaslighting that it is.

Not for the sake of planting a flag and iterating toward it, but almost like there's a grasping at a sci-fi reality that current tech can't meet and what we're seeing are a series of commercial-grade Veruca Salt tantrums.
Yes, they did

https://www.roadtovr.com/facebook-acquires-ctrl-labs-develop...

I had the first myoband sdk and didn’t work for me. I imagine tech is much improved now
I can see why it isn't a consumer-ready product, but the tech is nevertheless amazing. AR/VR getting smaller and moving away from bulky headsets is clearly the future. Hopefully we'll see it in Ray-Ban form in the coming years.
I appreciate this, this helps explain it. I think I would identify Finder or iTerm as a native app with this description.
Heh, totally fair, I'm not a scientist, I'm just a more research-oriented software engineer, and generally I have to keep my tests smaller in scope.

No doubt that in the case of physics and chemistry and the like, testing can be a lot longer.
Wow this is amazing. This might be the first detection of a higher dimension.
Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
1. "The name Nazaré is the Portuguese version of Nazareth" ok y'all, I know you're working on edge tech, but lets cool the rhetoric down a little bit. Can't believe the PR-minded execs approved this choice.

2. "It was so challenging that we thought we had less than a 10% chance of pulling it off successfully." Definitely a targeted message to the activist investors urging FB to stick to social media haha. Love it, and believe them 100% on the specific claim! Supposedly Apple Vision came about when they finally gave up on traditional AR (for now).

3. "Zuckerberg imagines that people will want to use AR glasses like Orion for two primary purposes: communicating with each other through digital information overlaid on the real world — which he calls “holograms” — and interacting with AI." I hope to god "AI" as a term looses steam -- basically all he's saying is that this computer will be used for computing. Yes, indeed.

4. "To demonstrate how two people wearing Orion together could interact with the same holograms, I played a 3D take on Pong with Zuckerberg... Zuckerberg beat me, unfortunately." I find it somewhat hilarious how Zuckerberg, Bezos and Elon are simultaneously some of the most powerful people to ever live, and at the same time mascots for multinational conglomerates bigger than they could ever hope to truly understand or control. Zuckerberg is obviously the best mascot out of the bunch, and this is only further proof of that.

5. Wow, the Neural Wristband is insanely cool. Just... wow. I haven't seen anyone even hinting at that, but it seems incredibly obvious in hindsight. See this exploratory paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12652-020-01852-z Hilariously, it seems that the initial consumer usecase was a $200 powerpoint remote -- props to the free market! https://wearabletech.io/myo-bracelet .

6. I feel like calling EMG "neural" is a stretch, it seems to be monitoring muscle contraction events only... Is anyone else convinced that they're intentionally using the word to prepare consumers for upcoming non-invasive EEG BCI tech, now that LLM approaches like DeWave have unlocked it? They've certainly got an uphill battle ahead of them to separate it from a) scary scifi and b) scary invasive EEG BCI like Neuralink. But it's just the obvious next step; the glasses already touch your frontal cortex, even!
it's better with glasses actually as you have to stare at what you're recording (whereas hidden cameras and phones can record without you realizing that)
The "doesn't look too dorky" benchmark for me is the XReal Air line. They're a few years old now, and they aren't exactly AR glasses in the same way, but you'd expect the headline of this iteration of tech to be better looking. Not worse.

I wonder what's actually in the frames. You wouldn't put bulk there if you had any other choice.
It seems like the weights for Llama3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct are about 20GB. Will ollama run that on an M1 Mac with 32GB RAM? Will the ollama model library have quantized models?
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IMO, AR/VR remains mostly a software and UX problem, in that there's nothing particularly useful to do with it.

Yes, you can keep improving the hardware, but you'd think we would have figured out something that is better enough in VR or AR on current hardware. Even gamers, who are notoriously interested in buying silly peripherals, care almost zero about VR gaming. Even with huge games like Half-Life: Alyx that are universally praised and part of huge franchises from AAA developers.
White collar criminals with magnitude more body bags are not getting long periods of suffering that poorly resourced petty criminals are. I think society would work better if they, specifically got more relative to other groups, including some violent criminals.
they have two tiny insects inside the device that are attracted and trying to bite the pupil in your eyes, by measuring their orientation they can figure out where you're looking
does that mean recompile every time them HTML is changed? No thanks :)
>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.

People already do that using mobile phones. With glasses there is at least some visibility of things in front of you.
I mean, we didn't start there - we wound up there :)

But yeah, you're not wrong that it's got a lot of inspiration from things like mobx and rxjs.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/23/20881032/facebook-ctrl-la...

Context: I was part of this acquisition, but am no longer at Meta.
Oh, I am sure they'll try. The sales pitch is way too enticing for them to ignore. Imagine you're in a brick and mortar wireless store shopping for a new cell plan. A Meta user walks by, and you get caught in a frame. A facial recognition scan quickly links you to your shadow profile, and an image recognition model identifies that you are phone shopping. Meta knows who you are and pings your current carrier who quickly dispatches a phone call to you with a pre-emptive retention offer. It may sound outlandish, but all the pieces are there to do this today.

IMHO, we need strong regulation of facial recognition technology. The conversation too often focuses on law enforcement use - don't get me wrong, that is also important, but it completely ignores the risk posed by private databases.
What's weird to me with the call example is I can receive a video call but I can't respond with a video of me.

And I find being on a video call with someone just on audio very creepy.

If I'm not a weirdo for that, then it's distinctly worse than a hands free voice call, which we already have
The only way life changes anything on earth (a few crack pots worshiping this new life as god doesn't count even if they get following) is if the life is intelligent enough to change something.

Life on the level of bacteria is interesting, but as you say still uses our chemistry. We put something in a text book and move on. Maybe a few study it and science learns a lot but nothing that affects our life.

If the life is intelligent though they may have solved some problems we have. Maybe they have a quantum theory of gravity that we don't (my understanding of physics is we think this should exist but we don't have one - but I'm not a physicist).

Of course the life may be intelligent but at a level equivalent to us 3000 years ago - just learning the basics of geometry. There is now the moral issue of how much should we tell them that we know.
People usually use the word 'evil' to say something is not just bad, but to imply that there is a spiritual or supernatural significance to it. I understand that thinking in those terms can make it easier to deal with suffering, but you cannot know those things. I am not saying you should not keep searching for meaning (nor find strength in the belief in a kind and loving god if you do), but you should also remember that you cannot know god, nor know the mind of god, and believing that you do is fooling yourself- especially when it comes to discounting others pain in comparison to your own
Yeah it’s still weird how normalized digital pimps are.
Not my experience at all. Streaming over WiFi had no noticeable latency, but I did have to upgrade my WiFi AP to one that supported -AC and have it only a couple of meters from the VR headset.

I actually expected it to kinda suck and was very impressed when it worked as well as it does.

This is on a Quest 2, not a Quest 3 however. Experiences may vary.
In the old world where people knew each other, knew this was a lifelong sales relationship, and we saw each other at the grocery store, church, it worked pretty well. In the modern world where we are as anonymous to each other in person as online it doesn't really.

Back when I was a rich tech guy, the local Nordies would hold all the Ugg styles in my daughter's size and the next up for my daughter when the season started because the sales lady that worked with my daughter and wife had a relationship with them. It was an AMAZING shopping experience for my daughter. She was seen by the sales person. She felt special. And my daughter had some issues that made her feel less than special. But here was this beautiful sophisticated sales person not only seeing her, but helping her in areas she felt poor self worth in. And if you make my daughter feel special then I'm coming back to you year after year. But if I go in and am a random person to you, and you are to me, why pay Nordies prices?
Cmd-F battery

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or take over your server?
~CHF 65 more per connection is the cost difference that was calculated. For a de-facto future proof connection that should be considered insignificant.

Swisscom pissed away millions of tax payer money after the government ordered an injunction to stop building out on the P2MP network. All they did was continue but just not connect those lines hoping they would win the court cause.
Both ways. I have published several hundred peer-reviewed papers in biomedical research over 40 years. My experience is that almost all papers are written to maximize impact on the minds of readers—-ideally hewing to the data and limits of the design. But often the story telling aspects of a paper and the data snd design do not see eye-to-eye.
Orion is a see through device with screen. Something like Hololens.
They do the majority of the work, so they get to decide. That's how it works everywhere. If WP Engine wants to decide they should invest the same 4,000 hours/week.
Unfortunately not every country in Europe. Zero banks in Ireland have implemented SEPA Instant and transfers still take at least a day. Thankfully though they have a deadline to implement this that's coming up soon and will be forced to comply.
Not everyone considered the Metaverse a bad vision, I know a lot of people (including myself) who think it's brilliant.
My first thought was Bart Simpson becoming a nerd that one time

https://img.cohan.dev/qFlL7.jpeg
The parent comment said nothing about using deep learning. Convolution is not the same as using a CNN. I interpreted their comment as meaning they used a 2D convolution (presumably a 2D cross correlation, actually) to find regions of overlap
The engineers and the engineering culture at Meta is also incredible
Worth pointing out, possibly, that it hasn't actually paid off yet.
Being able to fire a scientist at the NWS because you disagree with their scientific findings shouldn't be allowed. Organizations like NASA, NOAA, et. al. were chartered to render findings of scientific fact and replacing people because you disagree with the scientific truth or their expertise is going to completely destroy those institutions.
reading this comment with my Meta glasses on
2 hours, according to the verge
Yes. Start at page 77: "NONTERRESTRIAL UTILIZATION OF MATERIALS: AUTOMATED
SPACE MANUFACTURING FACILITY".

"The team surmises that within the next 50 years robot
systems will be capable of handling a large fraction of the
needs of a general-purpose SMF."

44 years later, not even close.

Google DeepMind robotics today.[1] Can put a shirt on a hanger, but not button or unbutton it.

[1] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/advances-in-robot-dext...
Are users in the EU not allowed to use it, like they threatened to do so recently?
Yes and no. SS still has an energy signature, which you can recognize if you go looking for SS. And the transmitting antenna can be RDF’ed.
Although.. in defense of that mythical blue collar work ethic, I do know plumbers and machinists that have built their own planes and become aviators. Never met a test pilot or double-phd that become a plumber
Yes, we now all trust the random internet 'experts' whose profit motives we have zero knowledge or insight into.
Zero sum isn't quite true. I only work a 40 hour week and would like to cut back, but I could work more hours and I'd likely be more productive.
I encourage recent graduates to maximize time in the office
The Question No One Asks Shigeru Miyamoto
The paid search engine https://kagi.com/ has been giving me better than google results for some time now.
that's what I said, the Meta glasses don't even have a display and they're insanely useful (through the AI assistant, the speakers, the microphone, the camera). I can't imagine how game changer something that also has a display will be.
One minor detail that stands out to me is that the UI looks way smoother than what Snap recently showed off in their demos. The Snap glasses were jittery and icons jumped around a bit from the few videos I saw. This Orion demo video look very smooth in comparison. To me this highlights an attention to detail.
> It isn't worthless. It clearly gives a good enough picture on efficiency to draw conclusions.

They routinely draw wrong conclusions when comparing parts that are close, such as comparing between generations of Apple's chips when the maximum power has increased.
Point. Is ice sufficiently plastic to exert pressure with depth? I honestly don't know.

E.g. What would the pressure of a bubble of water under 1km of ice vs 15km of ice?
Context: I'm a former CTRL Labs & Meta employee.

"neural" was a somewhat contentious term to academics, but it's the easiest way to describe to consumers. Academics consider neural interfaces to be directly touching the neurons, whether an invasive BCI, or an invasive device touching part of the peripheral nervous system. Technically this is a "neuromotor" interface, motor meaning detecting muscle, rather than neuron, activity. This makes academics happy but confuses some people, so neural it is.
For a long time it nagged at me that I was sleeping on VR/AR/XR. Couldn't bring myself to spend hundreds of dollars on something I may not use consistently, though. A few months back my wife was restoring a mural and one of the artists brought their Quest headset with Kingspray Graffiti loaded up on it. My wife tried it and loved it so I finally had enough excuse to buy a headset. It's pretty great. The first experience is quite memorable. My "killer app" is Xbox Cloud Gaming. I love laying on the couch with a gigantic, very high-quality screen immersing me in Starfield. Although two nights ago I think I got serious motion sickness. Haven't found any killer/sticky apps beyond that. But it's mission accomplished in the sense that I have crossed the gateway into the world of XR/VR/AR.
In the biomedical sciences, we typically use a tool called BigStitcher [0], which is bundled with ImageJ [1]

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-019-0501-0
[1] https://imagej.net/plugins/bigstitcher/
I'll never buy another VR headset without pancake lenses.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41640953
What are Idiosyncrasy Credits and why should you collect them?
Oh, I totally agree that 'people' (which I guess refers to any potential user of a DBMS) often do need temporality (or even bitemporality), but they don't consider that the database should have this baked in, or they just don't consider it much at all.

I'm fully on board with XTDB and similar solutions for this reason. Most people still gravitate towards Postgres and similar databases without giving much thought to these temporal challenges, even though those options lack a robust solution for the temporal issues that so many systems demand.
Early computer scientists discovered many fundamental ideas. Since then, the field has become more specialized and technical.

My comment was not gatekeeping and more in line with "if you are a mechanical engineer, don't expect to get much value from papers in theoretical physics". "Proper" education or otherwise spending a few years focused on the topic may help, but it's far from foolproof.

The "if you start investigating where that idea came from" part came from my personal experiences. There have been times when I've categorized a paper, on a topic I'm supposed to be an expert, as interesting but practically irrelevant. Only to later find that it became a building block for a major practical result.

If you read a research paper and think you understood it well enough to judge it, you are probably wrong. Even if you are an expert on the topic.
So product managers in these companies really think these products will make money and would become sustainable produc lone?

Or it's just muscle flex and show off?
Thanks for the recommendation; I was mostly using USB (3.2 Gen 2x1), as I found it much better than wireless but still not quite good enough. The wireless setup I tried was a 6e router connected to the PC over 1Gb ethernet, but there were other devices on the network.

I've heard virtual desktop can be lower latency, haven't tried it. I should say that even native Quest games are borderline for me as far as latency/nausea so there isn't much margin.
Does red light therapy work? These are the benefits and drawbacks
A corollary rule is what makes a problem go away. I was pulled into a war room situation on a remote call (pre Zoom days) to debug a problem where after some digging it seemed some variable was being corrupted deep in the code. I suspected it might be a scope issue with two variables with the same name in different functions that the author thought were separate but which were actually one value. I descended the function tree from the top changing every variable "i" to something unique until luckily the problem went away. Made my boss happy.
I would like to see slow charging points in the parking lots for French low-cost chain hotels. Pay for it at the same time as the room.

The chain hotels are used during the week by tradespeople, we will want them to be using electric vans soon.
Link is gated behind a facebook/meta account.
Can someone tell me why quantmag’s coverage of these algebras is so different from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_algebra#Factors ?

Wikipedia calls them by a different name! As for history, Tomita is said to be the most important guy* behind the elucidation of Type III but gets no credit…

Feels like this is a classic case of blind men and elephant

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomita–Takesaki_theory

>These were further developed later by Takesaki, and the theory is called the Tomita–Takesaki theory. It has great influence in statistical mechanics too. That was the beginning part, but in Tomita’s papers, he didn’t write proofs.
I: Mathematicians usually like proofs. Is Tomita a mathematician?
A: [Minoru] Tomita is a pure mathematician. There are a lot of algebraists in Japan, including [Masamichi] Takesaki, but Tomita is a completely different kind of person, very “singular”.

http://www.asiapacific-mathnews.com/04/0402/0012_0018.pdf
I think it should run fine. Yes, there will be quantized versions.
This is a good writeup and a surprising bug!

For the average web app, it feels like JWT introduces some complexity (and footguns like this) for no real benefit. I mean, you can avoid a session lookup from redis or something, but that's hardly an expensive part of a request. You can always optimise hot, non-session requests (e.g. private image serving can use signed URLs)

Also, you can't revoke sessions ns unless you have a revocation list, in which case, why not just have a session list?!

Genuinely interested in real use cases for JWTs.
They can. It’ll pop up on their phone if they’re on the network or they can use the remote. I do it all the time myself because I set my phone aside.
Why do you need, er want, to see an avatar while talking to someone while walking?
Quest 3 is 515g, Orion is <100g, so pretty good! But 3-4x a normal pair of glasses
Yet another nice piece of hardware hampered by attempting to lock people into a proprietary ecosystem. (And an AI-centric one at that.)

I would love to have a set of AR glasses. I would love to have a wide variety of features that they could enable. I'd like them to be at least as open as an Android phone is, or as open as a 2D monitor is.

Standard ports / standard wireless interfaces. Install your own software, not from an app store. Ability to use with any ecosystem.
Aesthetically I prefer the visor look of the HoloLens.

However if you want to appeal to people outside a work environment something that looks like actual glasses is the way forwards. This looks like it still has a couple of years until it reaches that goal, but it seems like Zuckerberg's ambition towards XR will pay off eventually
> I will often hang an app with an embedded Jetty out on the internet

So you are using a proxy server, just an embedded one. Most prefer simply prefer not to bundle their application with one.
ok fair enough, thanks for explaining.
usually the older you get the more you need glasses :o)
Show HN: Fine-tune Mistral models on Apple devices with MLX
What do you mean with "cutthroat"?
You can't disable it in software.

You can put a piece of tape over it, fill it with black nail polish, let the smoke out of the LED, or otherwise keep the light from being visible.
The GI on the Wikipedia page looks straight out of some 2010s urban fashion lookbook with these glasses.
The challenge is that every fruit must have its seed. (Even seedless varieties are artificially created by labs which then themselves can be viewed as the seeds, but I digress..)
Nothing of value to others is truly created in a vacuum. It must have some system of re-uptake, of value being conferred back to the creator or else it will never repeat.
Ads are one potential way that can be accomplished, but as much as we hate ads we can't just expect them to go away and leave the "content" alone. We have to replace them with some other superior way of remunerating the creators.
I wish flattr would have took off as a service, that sort of low-friction idea seemed quite promising.