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I agree w/ most of what you said about reducing latency.

Just wanted to let you know the new Dual Knit bands are weighted in the back, and improve the balance a bunch.

No glasses or prescription, sorry.

Have you tried w/ contact lenses? I've seen that work well for friends when they try them out.

I tried on the Xreal for 3 minutes when I met someone with them at a party. They were cool but noticeably a lot less bright.

Similarly I tried the original HoloLens, many many years ago (2016?), with the similar waveguide technology. It was outside, at night, so relatively easy to see, albeit with jarringly tight field of view.

Without a doubt I'm excited about lightweight AR glasses that I can wear in public. My non-expert opinion is we're still a few years away.

In the meantime, I love my Apple goggles. For home usage only, and not when guests come over. Going open face (no lightshield) makes them feel a lot more like magic AR glasses, with the ~95% accurate passthrough.

The sunsetting rumors are almost certainly untrue. See https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/on_the_future_of_apples_v... for example.

Just yesterday they announced a new OS with a number of interesting new features, like custom environments, improved click-with-your-eyes-controls (Dwell Control), a bunch more: https://www.apple.com/os/visionos/

I use it every day, approx ~95% of the days since it launched over 2 years ago. Many hours a day. Far and away my biggest use-case is connecting it to my laptop for gigantic (private) movie theater-sized screen.

Getting it comfortable was the most important step. The 6-months-old DualKnit band is really great for making it a lot more comfortable. An open face mod (eg $10 Macally on amazon) helps a lot with eye breathability, and restoring peripheral vision.

Also really great for being able to work well from anywhere.

Sad that so many people are sleeping on it, but what can you do? Check out r/VisionPro for tons of people that love theirs and use them constantly.

which part of it reflects their genuine opinion and intellect (which I'd be hesitant to criticize) and what is AI-fluff I can rip apart without stepping on their toes?

Are you able to ask them this directly? They might appreciate it.

This was a special situation because of a mid-term early retirement. The standard practice, responsible for 25% of the current state legislature, is a handful of party insiders deciding the appointed replacement. That process has little-to-no coercion-resistance, often not even secret voting, with a lot of egos and status games in play.

I hear you on wanting to limit mail voting. I agree there are many challenges there: not only coercion, but also voter authentication, ballot chain-of-custody, and delays. Many of the summer 2020 results were delayed by 2 weeks while all the mail-in ballots continued to be counted.

With that said, there's also considerations about accessibility. In this particular case, every last voter had the option to vote in-person, with 5 different polling locations staffed by volunteers over 3 days. Despite that, 50x as many people voted digitally as came in-person. For context, this district is also very rural, spread out over a huge area. If you limit voting to exclusively in-person, some people will take the time and effort to make it work, but certainly not all. People may start using phrases like "voter suppression". :'(

To be clear, I agree with all of the issues you bring up, and care about them too. Why we spent the last year working to develop strong coercion-resistance tools. I just want to highlight the tradeoffs in play.

Re voter coercion, in-person voting security is not exactly Fort Knox — it's almost all volunteers. If a coercer really wants to force a particular vote, they can demand a video recording, not just a photo, with the voter first marking the ballot then walking up to drop it into the ballot box. Sometimes it may be caught, but it's far from guaranteed. Becomes even easier as glasses-with-cameras become more widespread (I see some for $40 on Amazon).

Re vote-by-mail— the reality is, in the 2024 Presidential election at least, the vast majority of voters had it as an option. A quick search is showing me over 75% of Americans live in states with no-excuse mail voting. It's easy to say "oh yeah, that shouldn't be allowed". But now feels like goalpost moving, and not dealing with the situation as it is.

1) For context, that's already trivially true for all vote-by-mail voting: bring your blank ballot into the office, and give it to me signed-but-blank. Possible for in-person voting too, using the camera in your pocket.

2) Nonetheless, we have spent the last year developing advanced tools for coercion-resistance: https://siv.org/overrides. This allows voters-under-pressure to fake a vote the demanded way, then secretly get it nullified to cast their true choices — while still not allowing election admins or malware to cheat. Was available for all voters, but no one asked to use it.

The results are voter-verifiable.

Higher level of verifiability than paper voting: https://11chooses.siv.org/plan#results-announced---fri-dec-1...

- Every last voter can quickly see their vote was counted as intended in the final tally.

- The full list of anonymized votes can be re-tallied by anyone, to confirm the claimed totals.

- The Voter Roll can be efficiently statistically audited against fake voters, stolen credentials, & other fraud.

- Voters can test their own devices for cheating malware that could have tried to secretly change their vote

Just a guess— because it's easier for LibreTaxi to implement as a free open-source project, without needing to deal with IRS, banking, & other financial bureaucracy.

Some Microsoft stores have demos.

Super cool. Looking forward to trying this out for a future project

so.... how do you do it?

Very clever. I've used `echo 'foobar' | mail myname@gmail.com` before, but this sounds nice too. Are there particular advantages you'd highlight with this method over that?

thanks for the link, looking fwd to reading.

If you're looking at the training dataset, you'll see these 17 columns:

"f1" - "f14" are feature columns, represented as integers. They are inputs for you model.

"c1" is also a feature column, represented as a category. Feel free to ignore it if you're not sure how to best use it.

"validation" is a binary 0 or 1 that just says: 'if you want to validate your own model, so you can test your accuracy on your own machine, you may want to use the rows that have 1's here.'

"target" is the expected output. For this training data it is provided, for the tournament data you come up with it.

Does that help?

Data scientists will probably perform best, but it's open to all

Happy to answer any questions

This is awesome and makes so much sense, great work team.

Heh, yeah. That was actually an inside joke--- those are the real names of two of our colleagues that work near us, and they are real quotes from them. :-)

But yeah, you're right they create the wrong impression. Removing now...

Love your tagline!

A friend of mine used the Dropbox API to let his webapp's users store their own data, encrypted and decrypted with npm crypto. If I recall correctly, the user just had to OAuth with Dropbox on signup and sign in -- the rest was handled seamlessly.

I just wrote him to ask if he's blogged about this. Send me a message (in profile) if you'd like more info about this approach.

Great price! Way more affordable than Twilio: https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing

pure win

Ah, like you say, there are many different techniques. The type I'm describing in the OP is Vipassana[1], which is a systematic scan of physical sensations, part by part throughout the body. Not 'thinking of nothing', nor 'daydreaming'. Of course, some other people do use those sorts of techniques, so confusion abounds.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassanā

What sort of meditation are you experienced with? Just curious :-)

Ah sorry tabrischen! The idea was Hack Reactor tasked us with presenting a topic of our choosing, but we were only given 5 minutes to do so.

So I'll try to go into more details for you!

The Vipassana tradition I've been taught in includes three techniques:

* Concentration meditation, called Anapana, where you observe your breath. Just watching the rhythm in and out. Trying not to miss a single breath. It helps to focus on just a very small region, like the triangle from your nostrils to your lips.

* Insight meditation, called Vipassana, where you observe the physical sensations in each part of your body, in a systematic way, from top to bottom and bottom to top. This is pretty tricky, especially at first, and believe it or not took me over 80 hours of practice before it really "clicked". If you're trying to teach yourself, I'd recommend the ebook Meditation In Plain English, linked in the post.

* Loving-Kindness meditation, called Metta, where you generate good thoughts and compassion towards yourself and others. This one is even trickier to explain! Wish I could do it justice. But it's super powerful, and especially nice way to finish after practicing the other two techniques, which can leave you feeling a tad 'raw'. There are lots of different recommended ways of practicing Metta, but I'd recommend searching for "Metta meditation" for videos and other descriptions.

Hope this helps! Thanks for the question and I'm happy to do my best with any more.

Author here.

Very similar things happened to me when I first started. Likewise I didn't know who to talk with about it. Feel free to reach out to me (contact info on website), would be a pleasure to talk more with you.

Sorry you feel that way

Yeah would love to hear more about what you mean :-)