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by fouc 3y ago
The author of this article and quite a few people in this HN thread all seem to be mainly looking at Vision Pro through the lens of VR gaming. Why else would the author return his Vision Pro? What makes Vision Pro truly interesting to me i
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by fouc 3y ago
Yes, "stymied by commercial concerns" is a great way to put it. I get the feeling that many companies/managers don't have enough courage to make a different set of tradeoffs.
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by fouc 3y ago
How's that?
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by fouc 3y ago
Vision Pro is pretty fantastic. It never really made sense for Apple to get into automotive manufacturing, so it was good they shut that project down, and moved part of the team over to AI.
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by fouc 3y ago
US gets approximately 0.5% to 0.7% population growth from immigrants, Canada is gets around 1% to 1.2%. But US gets 2+ million illegal immigrants annually, which adds another 0.6%. So US and Canada both have very similar immigration rates a
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by fouc 3y ago
intuition is a form of pattern matching without reasoning, so kinda like LLM
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by fouc 3y ago
> This opens the door to cheap remote land. Lot of cottage land in northern Ontario goes for pennies and has acres. Where do you look for this? Those don't typically show up on MLS/realtor.ca I'm guessing. > you can jus
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by fouc 3y ago
OpenAI was formed in 2015, Altman was only president of YC for a year by that point.
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by fouc 3y ago
Random thought but what about calling it a subscription? For example, allow users to be able to subscribe to specific repos or specific topics or specific people etc
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by fouc 3y ago
Interesting, when I was a teen I read all of his pre-2000 fiction within a period of 6 months maybe? Neuromancer, Count Zero, Burning Chrome, Mona Lisa Overdrive, The Difference Engine. Virtual Light, Johnny Mnemonic, Idoru. After that I lo
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by fouc 3y ago
> This doesn't feel like a big deal but apparently it can be a major browser feature announcement so: We now support the Perplexity search engine in the browse panel. nice!
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by fouc 3y ago
Interesting, Hugo awards were held in Chengdu for 2023 and various writers were excluded > writers including Neil Gaiman, R.F. Kuang, Xiran Jay Zhao and Paul Weimer had been deemed ineligible as finalists despite earning enough votes I&#
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by fouc 3y ago
What I found most interesting about this model was the implication that humans are possibly one of the earliest sentient spacefaring species to have appeared so far. Which explains why we haven't seen any other signs of extraterrestri
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by fouc 3y ago
> This, says Karl, makes for a virtual Mac display with low enough PPD to see individual pixels—not quite the standard desktop display experience. I haven't seen any reviewers saying they can see pixels in AVP, in fact they usually
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by fouc 3y ago
I guess I was assuming that based on the AVP virtual desktop native resolution of 4096 x 2304 that it would be about 86PPD in practice
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by fouc 3y ago
an ion thruster that shoots ions out at the speed of light probably won't affect Earth
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by fouc 3y ago
Imagine walking or driving when your AR gets hijacked, you could be at risk of walking into traffic or crashing the vehicle.
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by fouc 3y ago
I don't want to see Toy Story representations of people. Memoji looks cartoonish. Cartoonish is unpalatable in professional contexts. There's a reason people don't like comic sans.
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by fouc 3y ago
Ah, gotcha. But what if you factor in the limited FOV of the display itself? this 11 million pixel calculation doesn't apply to the full FOV of the eye after all.
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by fouc 3y ago
Not when text is vastly sharper than Quest 3.
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by fouc 3y ago
from the paper, the definition of The Midas Touch problem is: > They expect to be able to look at an item without having the look cause an action to occur. So this doesn't seem to be a problem that Vision Pro has?
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by fouc 3y ago
a hotel room on a business trip is pretty much "nowhere", so absolutely yes.
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by fouc 3y ago
prices will come down, there'll be a non-Pro line, you think the market will be smaller but you forget it replaces displays, so people with laptops will migrate to using this, and then Apple will come out with headless laptops.
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by fouc 3y ago
for those who don't know: FPV = first person view. Used for drone racing and things like that.
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by fouc 3y ago
8/11 = 73% not 85%. so should be a lot more comfortable distance than 15cm/5.9 inches.
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by fouc 3y ago
I wonder what proportion of HNers have played minecraft. I've never gotten around to it.
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by fouc 3y ago
related (same news, different source) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39157888
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by fouc 3y ago
> but a key piece of the technology, a compiler stored on a floppy disk,[9] had disappeared and, despite months of searching, was never recovered.[10] spooky
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by fouc 3y ago
yeah but photos on your HDD aren't likely to be accessible online for years and years even with self-hosting.
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by fouc 3y ago
Paul Graham's "Why Nerds Are Unpopular"[0] article makes multiple references to the similarity between prison and school - especially how they both devolve into popularity contests. [0] https://www.paulgraham.com&#

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