skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aww, young'uns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC

PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. PowerPC, as an evolving instruction set, has since 2006 been named Power ISA, while the old name lives on as a trademark for some implementations of Power Architecture-based processors.
> the 10/20/30/40 vesting schedule which companies like Snap have is so problematic.

What?! I've never heard of this, other companies follow this madness? Who are they so I can stay away?
What is so "obvious" about it?
Some devices does this, if you are on Linux and are using a Thinkpad, you can fetch tp-smapi-dkms or acpi-call-dkms, and run the following:

echo 40 | sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh
echo 80 | sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh

Then it will stop charging once it reached 80% and only start charging when it drops below 40%.
Without meaning to comment on whether it is likely or not, they could also easily buy AMD.

(Price tag would be in the ballpark of $15-20 billion, 3 months of income for Apple)
The "Stuff you should know" podcast discussed that on the stonewall uprising episode.

Blackmail probably existed but it was just a great opportunity to sell drugs and booze in illegal bars.
I actually think this is a pretty good use case, since it fits the decentralized trust aspect that many common blockchain use cases lack.

> some of that's already being explored by the "open source + blockchain" endeavors.

Any links?
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Modification and optimization are not the same thing as reinvention. The only good idea this article has is "Reinvent the wheel if you think it could be fun". Reinvention is a good learning tool. Beyond that, it is a waste of time. There is a reason the wheel is round. Modify it to suit your needs, but there is no reason to re-figure out the correct shape of a wheel. You'll just end up where you started and will have wasted the time you could have used for improving the wheel or making it a better fit for your cart.
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It does matter that the new processor is a lot more powerful and faster than the old processor. This wouldn't be the case this time.
There's no way an investigation will spook them.

The real crime was already approved by Congress when they let Live Nation merge with Ticket Master.

Now Ticket Master also owns all the the artists contracts that they are booking in these venues. You can choose to leave Ticket Master, and you can easily replace their ticketing services.

But if you leave, you lose access to all the artists who you would have liked to have in your venue. So you can have a beautiful arena with a fair priced in house ticketing system, but it means 'fuck-all' if you can't book Lady Gaga or any of the other profitable acts to come play in your venue.
> ...Microsoft has some magics for executing x86_64 binaries on aarch64 with good performance...

I was just listening to a Windows Weekly podcast about that, and its limited to 32-bit x86 binaries only, no 64-bit support. They also said its "unusable" for 32-bit apps (in particular Chrome), because you can watch the system drawing the windows of x86 apps on the screen.

Watching the video, they seem to be exaggerating a bit with "unusable", but Chrome does look sluggish, and the startup of "DrRacket" and its window redraw does look very slow too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfYcCSRMkVI&t=60m55s
I think they'll get between 5 and 10 percent of Intel by then, but that still means that an x86 emulator is punching light, even before you get into emulation overhead.

By comparison, the 68k emulator on PPC wasn't even a JIT. It just interpreted 68k machine code, and even then it was still 2x faster than a native 68k.

Moore's law really helped them.with their previous transitions, but Moore ain't cashing checks like he used to.
Mac OS 9 never ran on Intel. That was a separate migration path, where Mac OS X would run a Mac OS 9 VM, but this "Classic" experience never made it past PPC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_alliance
I'm a big fan of SpringBoot and have been using it since the beta version. For enterprise environments that often involve things like security, ActiveDirectory/LDAP integrations, SSO tokens, SOAP/XML, OWASP filters, CSRF tokens, custom logging, audit trails, etc, SpringBoot provides good plugins.

But if I'm doing a new greenfield project, I would rather prefer serverless architectures with light weight libraries and no frameworks (and perhaps golang). Yes, the serverless still lacks proper tooling and has few gotchas like no resource/connection pooling, cold starts, etc.. but the pros far out-weigh the cons. I'm still highly productive with springboot, but I am willing to discard my favorite tool and as I clearly see serverless stack as the next evolutionary step for application development.
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My guess is that affiliate revenues for automatic cat litter boxes are somewhat low. Judging by their behavior and response to these allegations, I'm inclined to think that, if the product was higher volume, they would go ahead and recommend it wholeheartedly.
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Agree this was obviously something that was going to happen. My prediction was 2019 tough. My thoughts was that they probably wanted to get more developers over to using bitcode first as well as ARM being almost at desired performance but not quite there yet.

In 2020 I doubt anyone will see any problems with ARM performance on a desktop or laptop.
The UK's NHS says "particularly if you've already tried other methods of quitting smoking without success, you might want to give e-cigarettes a go" and "according to current evidence on e-cigarettes, they carry a fraction of the risk of cigarettes."

https://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/smoking/Pages/e-cigarettes.aspx
Is Regulation the Next Step for Companies Like Google and Facebook?
I absolutely loathe the degree to which manufacturers will embed LiPo's into just about everything including wearables without disclosing the fact. If you're clever about this sort of stuff and see a certain form factor coupled with larger than expected operating times you can infer the presence of LiPo's with some accuracy but your average consumer doesn't stand a chance and has no idea what the difference between all these different battery chemistries is in the first place and what the implications are.
x86_64, but of their own manufacture. A fair number of people use MBPs to run Docker containers and other Linux/Windows VMs; to ask them to sacrifice this functionality would be to risk a fairly significant user population.
Can you give me an example of unbiased reporting on television?
I think we all agree on how stupid is to track all the little details (including positions, hiv status, etc...) for the only purpose of making money, but I would like to underline that there are only two reasons to not use https today. You’re stupid or you’re lazy.

Can’t tell the worst, but I can tell that users should completely delete their Grindr account, now.
RISC V possibly, but unlikely.
Hey, do you remember which title used a special baked in version of Flash?

Asking for friend ;)
Busy upgrading machines now, lots of nice new things.

Looking forward to checking out the new execpromises in pledge. I use pledge in all my C stuff and have added it to a few other apps. Thanks OpenBSD devs!
This is my second time encountering this piece, and based on my experience with other electroacoustic compositions, it seems to me that the venue and position of sound sources would make a huge difference in the perception, and reception, of this work.

For example, I could see this piece fitting right into a contemporary museum setting. It wouldn't be at all out of place as an exhibit in the annual "Garden of Memory" that takes place in Oakland every year. It seems to me to invite both casual and meditative experiences, neither of which an orchestra hall is ideally suited for.

What would it be like if I were hearing it in surround sound, with significant spatial separation between the speakers? Or a binaural recording on headphones? Would it come off as more of a kind of heterophony?

Even better: can you imagine a piece like this being pulled off at one of those great Baroque cathedrals in Europe where there are antiphonal organs positioned around the cathedral? I've been dreaming of the possibilities ever since I visited one...
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LCCs in Latin America
> Apple developing chips to improve their negotiating position with Intel

Not necessary. They only need to ship one model of Mac Mini or any small desktop lineup with Ryzen to improve their negotiating position while still being compatible with the existing x86_64 ecosystem.

So no, this is not merely a negotiation jibe. There are definite long-term prospects.

We're already moving to a mobile-first design and approach world. Having those mobile/tablet apps expand automatically to desktop is the next logical conclusion. As an app developer, there is nothing better than write-once-run-everywhere, and the cascading effects of that on the whole Apple ecosystem and future consumer audience is hard to understate. Keeping aside power, efficiency, device prices, opportunity costs and much more.

> significant work by third parties outside Apple who haven't even heard of the possibility of this happening until today.

Definitely not today. Its been speculated for many years now ever since the A4 chips, and its still not official news. Usual "people who don't want to be identified". If or when this becomes official news, most partners would be like about time, because everyone is in one way or another working on convergence and multi-device. Adobe and Microsoft are examples of pivoting many of their desktop businesses successfully to cloud and apps already.
Good point on 1) -- basically, Intel has produced enough problems for a high enough cost that there's reason enough to try alternatives.

On 2)... I hate web apps. Probably much more than your average layperson. Electron is miserable in my experience -- laggy, high memory/CPU user, non-native feel, but I think a web app in a browser is OK. There are really two different use cases I see here.
a) Take TurboTax, for instance. I don't want to download a TurboTax app for my computer. I'd only use it once or twice a year. But it works well in a browser. It's complex enough that a web app is justified.
b) Spotify. It needs to interact with local files, and I usually have it up in the background. A web app doesn't work well for this. Unfortunately Electron doesn't work well for this either.

I think if this is executed well it could be amazing -- what if layouts scale beautifully onto a laptop screen, so I can use an iOS app instead of an Electron app for Spotify/Slack/etc? If this happened, the benefits could trickle down into iOS, making it a more useful platform. On the other hand, layouts might not scale well for larger screens, and iOS apps on macOS could end up neutered and even less useless than a current webapp. Hopefully the former case happens, but lately Apple makes me feel like the latter is more likely.

3) I'm not really convinced that this will reduce bugs. In my experience, combining two pieces of software into one just makes the resulting monolith harder to reason about because it doubles complexity at high levels and increases complexity exponentially at low levels. But maybe that says something about my development skills :)
I thought this was a helpful video as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOe7CvVGqz4

It's a slow motion photogrammetry of the dashcam video of the collapse showing the bridge clearly failing first at the left side. At least one of the two is probably coincidence, but the point of failure on the lower deck seems to be at the same location that the transporter truck was modified to use, and on the upper canopy at the location where they were doing the tensioning.

It's a nice accompaniment for the eng-tips thread linked from the article: http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=437029
The concept of a "big-name artist" needs to die. Those expectations are crazy -- that you need to sell out every major venue in every major city to make money. It's an industry of rent-seekers and Ticketmaster is a symptom of the disease.

This is why you hear Taylor Swift complaining about Spotify royalties but not your favorite indie bands. We're seeing a shift towards the long-tail that's only going to accelerate as future generations are brought up on streaming instead of mass-marketed music.
Agreed, clearly not the only model. But it's the one that seems to be gathering the most momentum at the moment.
I wonder what impact this will have on the hackintosh community.
Obviously the rate increased, it's a fairly new device. Nintendo Switch must've went nuclear. Pokemon Go caused utter annihiliation.
> Are you signed into it though? I'm not and it nags me to sign in.

That's not an 'ad' - there is a ton of OS-level functionality that's tied to your iCloud ID and account, you can ignore it if you want, but it's not an 'ad' if they want you to use it...
To read things like this and everyone's comments, you would think that Microsoft isn't making a mega-ton of money every quarter, which they are. Everyone keeps talking about Azure and AWS like there isn't room for both and that Azure hasn't been growing like crazy.

Amateur tech punditry at its finest.
The only thing I'm really amazed by is how the European countries still allow them to operate, they should be fined until they exit the market and their operation made illegal. Probably they provide sufficiently useful information to the security services that governments don't do anything. In effect they are a privatised Stasi.
Ahh that is a bummer. I only read about the translation stuff when it was first announced, before there was much info on the details.

Edit: After watching the video, that didn't seem too bad. Perhaps it would work well enough on top of a beefier ARM processor? Of course the lack of x86_64 support is another issue that may not have a reasonable solution.
PS6 used the old Carbon Framework. This was developed as a stopgap to allow developers to transition off of MacOS to OSX in the early aughts. It goes to show how little respect Adobe back then had for Apple and Mac users that Apple ended up purchasing and developing Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro IP.

Microsoft Office was another drag on the Carbon library. They also chose to keep their applications in the old format even though they were told repeatedly from Apple that this thing was going away. Eventually they got their shit together and the Office suite for OSX is a best of show.
I used the Python 2 backport of concurrent.futures for a project recently (parallelizing calls to an external API) and it worked fantastically well. It's a really nice model for doing concurrent outbound I/O in a bunch of threads.
Flexiable SSL by Cloudflare should itself be considered a MiTM Attack and should be opposed by all security standards, organizations, and anyone that values privacy or security, this highlights the inherent problem with SSL in the first place.
I've been using 2560x1080 for almost a year now and will never go back. 21:9 is the way to go.
We've been dreaming about this kind of system since the rumors were flying about the Apple "Brick".

The "brick" turned out to be the all-aluminum MacBook, being carved from a single piece of metal.
Looks like you got lucky.
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More importantly, Apple has clearly demonstrated several times that they want to own a fully locked down platform where they approve any piece of code and collect percentage from every sale.
iOS devices are that - everything from DRM protected hardware to app store apps pays tax to Apple. Users of desktop platforms are resistant to that (Mac App store failed) it's easier to just introduce a larger iPad to push people over.
Ad-tech and fatigue
I may not have been clear on that. There are maybe 1/1000 people who knows the rules of the game. Everyone else is getting pokered to death. It's a fish-vs-shark game, and I'm rather confused that so few people don't see it.

I don't think there is any future for cryptocurrency.
The processor doesn't matter to Apple because they don't mind fucking over their customers and their third party developers.
I’m just so done with Facebook. I know this is said time and time again here on HN but Facebook (and google) provide a lot of stress to me for little value in return. The majority of the stress comes from always having to be “on” and watching for some ambiguously worded pop up, or constantly changing privacy settings, or tracking pixels around the net. I spend more energy trying to run away from fb and google then I so using their service. It’s constant and fatiguing.
Ever played a card or board game as an adult? Why would playing video games as an adult be any different?
Apple dealt with this last time with Universal Binaries https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary
The word around Twitter (some public, a lot more backchannel) is that this is a global change, an unannounced acceleration in the deprecation planned for later this year and next. Rate limits dropped from 5,000 to 200 per hour for everyone.