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I think the founders undermined this product with their launch strategy, first showcasing it on a TED talk briefly without fully exposing the hardware, then about a month later in a fashion show? Then now they make this half baked video that immediately goes into talking about the hardware yet the whole selling point of the device is the software Ai capabilities.

People have been eagerly waiting to hear what this secretive startup company has been working all these years, especially after the recent funding rounds. All of this to be disappointed with a half baked v1 and launch video.

All that aside, I think it's brave of them to enter a competitive market and introduce a unique product that could have potential but at this price point, I'll have to pass. Hope future iterations get better and continues to grow.

Congratulations to all the team at Humane who's been working on this over the years, especially those who took the risk of leaving Apple to join a startup.

Having the word "Ai" in the name of a product makes it feel cheap and not premium. People don't care about Ai but more so what it can do for them.

I think once they allow sideloading, folks in the open source community will eventually figure out ways to unlock it for other regions.

that's supposedly what Humane is developing atm and should announce sometime later this year.

I wonder why Meta didn't fork Second Life to use for their 3D world rather than re-invent the wheel and in the end build a bad product.

"Unfortunately that ecosystem doesn't exist yet so we're stuck with the duopoly of evil-doers..."

That is no longer the case. There are projects starting to come out which are open source and building on top of AOSP like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS and a few others but those two are solid options at the moment.

I am not sure why GrapheneOS doesn't get mentioned here on HN but it's seriously a wonderful project that includes privacy features not available even on iOS. They are this far ahead of the game when it comes to privacy and security. Highly recommend checking them out.

https://grapheneos.org

While manual transmission is fun and has a different feel for driving. From my experience, once your car starts outputting anything above 400hp, having a manual takes away from that power because no matter how good of a driver you might be, you won't beat a dual-clutch automatic shift. It literally happens in milliseconds. By the time you reach for the shifter, you've already wasted power and torque.

I used to think manual was the "only" way for driving fast sport cars until I test drove a Nissan GTR Nismo producing 850hp. The speed between shifts is faster than your eyes can blink (even at low speeds). It's something you can't do justice by describing. The only way to believe it is to try it.

With all that said, I don't quiet see EV manufactures going manual anytime soon since we're still in a transitional period with many challenges and problems to solve before serving a niche market. Plus, most drivers nowadays that are looking to drive a manual car, probably aren't shopping for an EV.

Surely, I can't be the only one who clicked on this thinking it's related to the Electron framework rather than scientific electrons

I'm surprised they're not porting the windows full fledged version over to Mac. I've used the VS for Mac edition and it's lacking too many useful features that come with vscode out of the box (ex. emmet)

This!!!! It's easy to get the wrong idea about these companies and that it must be a dream to be working there but stories like these prove exactly the opposite and realistic view.

Given there is a bunch of software that is still incompatible to run on the new chip, what are all the benchmarks actually testing? I'm not disregarding the fact that the chip is fast but I'm just curious

You think 20 seconds is a big deal? I urge you to try the NYC subway system once. That's all I'm going to say

That line pretty much sums up the experience a lot of devs feel towards Rust

From my experience, I see that usually hackathon events have more male attendees than female. I am sure there might be hackathons where that's not the case but I don't think it would be very inviting for any female to go to an event that's full of the opposite gender. Just imagine if you were one of 5 males in an event of 100 attendees and the rest were females. I think you would be a bit uncomfortable/out of place even though that's not the case.

If you are going to learn programming on your own and not planning to go through a computer science curriculum, then I would say you don't need much more than basic algebra and arithmetic. The majority of fields in demand (Web dev, mobile, etc.) don't involve much math if any.

If you are going to a CS curriculum then I would advise learning up to Calc 1 pretty well before hand in order to be ready because I had to take all of calculus (1, 2, 3), linear algebra, and a few CS classes that involved math like (Discrete Mathematics, Theoretical CS, etc.). It wasn't fun because I am not strong in math but I got through them.

Most importantly, if math is not your strongest subject, don't be discouraged to still learn programming because I was in the same situation and now after going through a CS degree and working at a few companies, I can confidently tell you that everyday work will very rarely involve any math beyond basic arithmetic.

Very interesting point of view. I like your thinking :)

Apartment listings making that much money? Wow!

I see your point of view and respect it. I think hackathons may not be everyone and my original thought was I felt companies using hackathons as a way to benchmark developers (as if we are machines) based on their output.

I could be wrong but that's just how I feel about it.

Lastly, if I were to organize a hackathon. I think the the first I would do would be making it at least a week long instead of 2-3 days. In addition, I would make it required to not allow participants to stay more than 8 hours each day. After all when I think of hackathons, I think it's a time to tinker with technology and come up with something cool. NOT staying up for 3 days straight to win some prize.

I totally see your point and understand that it's good to break away from work every now and then to work on a fun project idea. The problem I have with these hackathons though is that I feel companies get to promote the culture of working late hours and staying up to build an app. I know this is only 2-3 days most of the time but it often feels like companies treating developers as if we are machines and benchmarking us based on what we can produce and come up with in a short time. I know that not all hackathons are the same and it may be that I should try different ones first.

To be clear, I am not against the idea of collaborating with like-minded individuals to come up with a creative application idea however the side effects that come from these hackathon events is what I have a problem with.

Exactly! Very well said. I wish more people realized that and stopped encouraging such events because people who are entering the field tend to think this is the norm.