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iOS, tvOS, and watchOS share a great deal with macOS (past the surface, they’re almost identical). They’ve probably had an ARM build of macOS running internally for years now, much as they had an x86 version of macOS years before the PowerPC -> Intel transition.

The transition will be harder for third party devs, but there having been popular ARM Apple platforms for over a decade will speed things up considerably. Many Mac apps will have ARM versions available overnight.
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Oh interesting. So, how do you figure out where to send which data? Like say, I want to track an event on Google Analytics where I want to see if a new user is being redirected to my site from another site based on the Referer header(no idea if this is a valid use case for GA, its just something I have implemented for one of my projects), how would rudder figure out where to send that data? Does the User have to give a list of events that they want to be sent to GA? Or do I have to specify that I want an event to be sent to GA every time I call Rudder api?
Even regular cheap Lenovos have great keyboards compared to most laptops. Newer HPs are supricingly good, keys are too flat though and makes typing painful. Dells are atrocious, which sucks because 8-yrs ago they had among the best keyboards (together with Lenovo Thinkpads). Thinkpads are still ahead of the pack but they've been cutting travel lately in the thinner models.
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I Built A Covid19 Official Indian Dashboard
https://coronavirustrack.now.sh/India

Updated my website and added Indian Dashboard.
The data is official as it is taken from the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

Now you can also see a statewise breakup of Infected, Recovered and Deceased cases.

Also added a heatmap for states.
Gruber isn't really an essayist. He's a diarist. His oeuvre is pretty useless if you just read one piece out of context. But it begins to be useful when you read a bunch of his stuff (preferably in order, as one would if they were following him over the years), and start compare-and-contrasting his takes on e.g. generation N of a product vs. generation N-1 of the same product; or between two different products released to solve the same problem in different ways at different times. There's a lot of detail to be found there, that you won't find in most takes.
Any opinions on mba 2020 vs xps 13 2020?
Bezels = xps
Color = mba?
Ports = xps?
Webcam = both bad?
Keyboard = maybe mba?
I wonder what percentage of people have been saved by ventilators vs. merely had their death delayed.
I guess the operative detail is whether shelter-in-place will get us to a "23%" total infection rate vs 70%.

I wonder if that's accurate. I also wonder if this is recurring in the fall, and every year, and whether physical distancing will be mandatory every year?
The guy even got red carpet treatment and talked to the head of the record label. And still disappeared. Makes you wonder how many times that happens only to completely disappear.
South Korea stopped the infection without "full measures."
You can get a battery from Apple for $120.
Aren't virologists predicting that 60-70% are going to get it, no matter what? What is the "extended time" that you are talking about?

Close to half of COVID infections result not even in a cough. Going by the mostly elderly population on the Diamond Princess, mortality with proper treatment is going to be significantly lower than 1%. Flatten the curve? Sure, but we can't be locking down the entire country indefinitely.

The youth already begrudge the elderly, locking them down for months will make them wish they were dead. Remember how a year felt like an eternity when you were 16?

Also, most youth don't care about global warming either. They're just virtue signaling. It really isn't that important, if they understood what they would have to give up on to stop it, they would embrace it and look forward to spring break in North Dakota.
No. Because that vast majority of cases are mold or asymptomatic.
Funny how Gruber can always come up with a list of meaningful shortcomings of an Apple product... when he's reviewing the successor and painting it as a giant step forward.
For the kinds of people who wouldn’t be running Linux on the other laptops, maybe they just like macOS better than Windows? It’s not like Hackintoshing is trivial. It’s not necessarily a developer machine.
Does anyone know how the mba speakers and mike compare to the 13” pro?
yeah, I chose it to be more specific and try to stop "but an apple is not a fruit!" comments :)

can't win them all.
> That would be true if display:table worked, but it doesn't (or at least it didn't) and so it doesn't.

Can you describe the problem you are having?
Thank you!

I already have a CLI tool and a library, but I'd like to make it a bit less hairy before releasing. I also want to build an iOS / Android app. But I wanted to release a web app first because that has by far the lowest barrier to entry.
I wonder if the phrase "Cowcohol" was used in his dissertation.
And even if they did manage to pry it away, you can order a replacement keyboard and install it yourself without any special tools.
That has been the case for very long now. Only the very first Airs were the premium ultrathin ultralight laptop, and that was more than 10 years ago.
Pedantic: the bad ("butterfly") keyboards started with the 2016 models: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201300#:~:text=2016
I understand that current solutions to electronic voting are unsatisfactory, but I am fairly baffled by:

> It remains unclear if any electronic-only mobile or Internet voting system can practically overcome the stringent security requirements on election systems

Like, we can adequately secure banking software. With proper considerations and processes for the problem domain (i.e. user follow up / validation, alerts on suspicious vote changes) I don't see why securely implementing electronic voting is considered near-impossible, and has so few advocates.
Sorry, I am a fool, I have posted the wrong link :)
Is it? I don't think a cookie popup is the issue here. EU websites have those too. I think what's being done with the data they are collecting is the issue.
It really doesn't matter whether it's 4 or 30 million in 8 weeks, because by the time you reach a million people contaminated, you'll have overwhelmed California's ICU and ventilator capacity. People with all kinds of critical conditions, on top of critical COVID-19 cases, will die from lack of care.
I saw the same thing happening in Brazil, bars are paying their artists to stream live.

Here's one of the feeds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2M9IRp0zRg
My unskilled labor is at your service. I have a truck, gas money, a laptop, physical strength, a majority of tools you'd find in a well outfitted shop and a desire to help. If you have skilled work to do and unskilled work that needs doing please get in touch. (My email is in my profile). I can travel anywhere in New England and New York if need be.
It's hard to create an accountable system to identify "smooth-talkers". We already know that perceived charisma is highly dependent on attractiveness, ethnicity, and other innate factors.

What we could do is gauge students' communication ability in a way that is less subject to these factors. Which we already do, by examining students' writing.
> These were called "Achievement Tests" in the early 90s, and man, they were much harder than the SAT. If the current "Subject Tests" approximate their level of difficulty, then it's a clear mistake for MIT to disregard these datapoints

Difficulty as perceived by test takers is irrelevant. What MIT cares about is how well test performance predicts undergrad performance. As TFA notes, MIT is retaining the standard SAT because their data indicates that performance on that test is predictive.
I recently joined Mattermost, and am currently in the midst of getting us switched over from using Segment to RudderStack.

The RudderStack team has been super responsive and it's great to be able to support another open-source based business.

The biggest selling point for us is being able to maintain total control of our data with us having barely having to do more than change an endpoint. It also allows us to use one place to send all our analytics data across our various platforms and it just works.
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the API is literally a query language for the DB

No, SQL is literally a query language for the DB.

The API is the contract you define for how people with interact with your application. While some people may choose to model this after their underlying database, conceptually, they are very different.

On small applications, maybe you can get away with treating them as one and the same, but for longer-lived applications which need to integrate and co-exist with other systems/services, that choice can come back to bite you.

I'm not saying you shouldn't/can't treat them as the same thing, just be sure you know the trade-offs and long-term repercussions.
Why do you feel the need to name white people specifically?
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Yields are rising ? 10 year notes under 1%. They're talking about negative rates.
He is a big Apple fanboy, but he does call out bad products and privacy mis-steps. Sometimes with pretty drastic words.

Furthermore, despite your claim, he sometimes praises non-Apple hardware, even Microsoft's.

Honestly, you seem even more biased against Apple to me than Gruber is biased pro Apple.

I don't read his reviews to learn things I can learn from Anandtech or The Verge or any other "spec" review. I read his reviews because he captures nuances in feel that others don't, or if he doesn't, at least he links to others who have something interesting and non-obvious to say. Not here though, but generally.
It's get somewhat tricky when you want things like gpu support, text rendering etc.

You have to do things like stencil texture to speed things up etc etc.
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First paypal vulnerabilieties and now this they seem to be on drugs or something
Hopefully they will make the MBP “pro” again and focus on features and power instead of thinness.
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I suspect this goes for all input based on a touch screen. Touch screens are horrible interfaces, which caught on because they're generic and fully reconfigurable by each app. But this reconfigurability pushes them into your low-level OODA loop, using your attention in imperceptible spurts rather than taking advantage of muscle memory.

I'm certainly not condoning the practice, but texting and driving wasn't a public emergency until everyone moved away from T9. T9 was a deterministic input method, and while sure maybe you would look at the message before sending, each individual letter required little attention.

Holding the touch screen in your hand, and thus having more predictable positioning, is a setup up from using a touch screen mounted on the car's interior, to which you're moving relatively with road bumps etc. Even worse are OEM touchscreens that have poor response. I'd love for more studies to be done like this, but I also wonder how much it will be fought by car manufacturers that have gone all-in on touchscreens in the center console (which seems to be all of them).
Uh no. 8GB memory is not okay. 16GB is marginal but $200 more. Can you upgrade the memory?
Lots of Chromebooks are ARM, and many can run standalone Linux. Trouble is Linux-on-ARM is always more of a hassle than on Intel. Hence it's a chicken/egg problem: For Linux to support ARM better, there needs to be a great ARM laptop. And vice-versa.
Unrelated, but something about the font/color combo makes this quite difficult to read on ios.
I'm not suggesting immediately starting to dose millions of people with it. I'm suggesting massively ramping up production so that if it turns out to be useful, we can at that point immediately start dosing millions of people with it.

I think it likely that the cost of massively increasing hydroxychloroquine production would be a drop in the bucket compared to the total resources being spent on tackling the crisis. So even if the drug turns out to not be effective, the attempt to mass-produce it would still have been a rational gamble.
I started disagreeing in the first paragraph and it kept coming, but my tastes are different than your typical Apple buyer. To me the workhorse mac is the mbp.

I tolerate my work 2015 mbp, and while I could upgrade it, I'm still waiting for Apple to release a decent keyboard before I do. I tested the keyboard on the 2020 16" mbp, and it still felt worse than my lenovo yoga (non-thinkpad), which is not a high bar at all.
No. That last time I tried it was many years ago. Maybe it works now. I neither know nor care.
They want to keep the businesses going ready for when we come out of the other side of this.
Couldn't De Blasio have done the same for NYC? (an actual question, I assumed he would have the power). Because pushing the hard decision up the chain seems like a win win for De Blasio, can't be blamed either way.
Rene Ritchie is worse. I've seen Gruber call Apple to task a few times this past year, but Ritchie just continues to make excuses.
A lot of it might just be preparation. Not only "run-books" and hardware, but also wetware. I don't know for sure, but I'd guess those places have a lot more humans per case investigating-network-affects/supporting quarantine. US seems to just be working on getting hardware ramped up. I haven't heard anything about tracing case histories to quarantine contacts.

My impression is that like Taiwan didn't even shut down schools. They just locked down boarders and aggressively quarantined the infected.
What vanity projects?
MIT isn't eliminating the SAT. They're not considering SAT subject tests, which are analogous to AP tests (which latter MIT will continue to consider).
The MacBook Air has had a retina screen since the 2018 3rd gen update.
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Wow, interesting fact! Where did your insight come from?
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Coming from someone who took said expensive prep courses, I can tell you that just taking practice exam after practice exam is easily 90% of the benefit. The test taking strategy they teach is something anyone with serious prospects of getting into MIT would have learned years ago.
Burr's actions look bad.

Meanwhile Matt Levine rebuts It for Loeffler:

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Similarly Loeffler sold as much as $3.1 million worth of stock (the reports give only broad ranges for each asset), which sounds like a lot for a senator, until you remember that “the Atlanta businesswoman, whose husband is the chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, is worth an estimated $500 million.” So she learned devastating news about a global pandemic and rushed out to sell … stock worth 0.6% of her net worth? Really? At that level of wealth that’s just a minor portfolio tweak; if she was going to insider trade, surely she’d have gone bigger. Also frankly at that level of wealth—and having a stock exchange CEO in the family—it seems unlikely she’s making such tiny trading decisions at all. As, in fact, she said:

Loeffler responded on Twitter by calling criticism of her stock sales “a ridiculous and baseless attack.” The tweet said “I do not make investment decisions for my portfolio. Investment decisions are made by multiple third-party advisors without my or my husband’s knowledge or involvement.”

That is a much better response than “no I sold before the stocks went down”!

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-20/senato...
I think that Gov Newsom of CA has been doing a way better job than Cuomo:

- implements stricter measures faster and more decisively, while having a lower case count

- doesn't fight with his mayors or the President

- no false promises or statements that need to be taken back days later
My experience with High School was that it was a daycare center with a focus on forcing conformity. I learned nearly nothing in the actual school aside from maybe a bit of math I could have picked up through online classes. I think it was mostly a taste of what it would feel like to be in prison.

English was mostly trying to teach the illiterate kids how to read 10 years too late while everyone else tried not to die of boredom. History was about how we won WWII with maybe a little nationalism mixed in. PE was okay. Physics was barely recognizable as such. Math was mostly rote learning. Biology was similar.
SAT scores are used because they turn out to be good predictors of success at college. They aren't the only measure used, probably about a third.

For example, my SAT scores were average for an MIT admission, but I was rejected.
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Presumptive patients with mild symptoms have to be separated from the healthy population by moving them into quarantine hotels or yellow-zone makeshift hospitals. Or you will still see family transmissions.
> even if businesses are closed down temporarily, no assets are lost

Intangibles like customers, suppliers and know-how can be a lot more valuable than physical assets.

Maybe the restaurant building is still there, but if the visionary chef changed careers because she has to pay the rent, is it really still the same restaurant?

The tables, chairs and kitchen equipment are still there, but if former customers can no longer afford to dine there, is the restaurant still a viable business?
I think it’s more than fine as long as the intent is stated as “helping you or your business get through this difficult time”. I’ve seen some businesses where the messaging reads like they’re mocking the tragedy or cashing in on the opportunity which will turn people off real quickly.

Think of GameStop calling themselves an essential business in states on mandatory lockdown... not great PR.
Sorry, but I write tests and I have absolutely no idea how you propose to measure these things objectively and automatically, without producing exactly the kind of "convergent" test you said you didn't like. For example, take "decision capacity". I don't even know what you mean by that, and I don't know how this will be assessed automatically without fixing a pre-designed correct answer.

Incidentally, the GRE has a system for grading essay composition automatically. It also absolutely sucks. It has no idea what your arguments are actually saying, so points are allocated based on irrelevant features like average sentence length or the total number of paragraphs. Researchers have succeeded in getting perfect scores by just copy-pasting the same sentence 25 times. In my book, this is worse than multiple choice.
Not every bit helps. Sometimes trying to do something, badly, will cause more harm than not trying. I sympathize, it's frustrating, and it's difficult to sit on your hands sometimes feeling like you should be doing something.

In totality, however, furthering things like DIY ventilators (like DIY open-heart surgery) can cause more harm than good.

We've got governments, experts and professionals mobilizing to prepare for this, let's allow them to do their jobs. This is what they've trained for.
I made some remarks about ventilator alternatives here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22624959

To pull out some pertinent details:

Ventilators for covid19 seem to be mostly for inflammation and fluid in the lungs (aka pneumonia), not lung or chest paralysis.

If you need a ventilator due to inflammation or fluid build up, you can do other things to address those issues.

If you are doing home care for serious lung issues, a downside of mechanical intervention is that you probably don't know how to adequately sterilize your equipment. This means nasty stuff grows on the equipment and then this nasty stuff gets delivered directly into the lungs.

So I'm not thrilled to pieces to see the emphasis on "ooh, shiny!" homemade technical solutions in place of non-invasive home care.

You can do lung clearance without mechanical intervention. This can make a ventilator unnecessary.

You can do lung clearance easily on your own in the shower by standing with your feet shoulder-width apart or a bit wider, bending over as far as you can and coughing hard.

If you bring up a lot of fluid from the lungs, it looks and feels a whole lot like vomiting. My sons and I call it "puking up a lung."

Inflammation can be combated with commonly available non drug remedies, like caffeine, lettuce, avoiding pro inflammatory foods (avoid peanut oil like the devil himself made it for you, limit or avoid bacon as it is hard on the lungs).

Etc.

Please see my previous remarks about best sleeping positions, etc.

I am very concerned that homemade ventilators are going to become a source of secondary infection and this secondary infection will be worse than covid19 because it will be bacterial or fungal and it will be antibiotic resistant.

If I had any idea how on Earth to start a counter movement, I would be all over it. I have no idea how to do that, so I occasionally leave a comment on HN giving some of my thoughts, which isn't likely to exactly catch fire. This is today's comment in that vein.
Apple couldn't just go for ARM they'd have to adapt their OS for that and I assume by now there is a lot of code in there making use of x86 quirks not easily adaptable to ARM

I don't think the OS is the problem. First, macOS went through PowerPC -> x86 -> x86_64. Secondly, iOS and macOS share a lot of components, including the kernel.

More difficult would be moving the app ecosystem. Apple could do PowerPC emulation with Rosetta, because Intel CPUs had leapfrogged PowerPC by quite a wide margin at that point. It's probably a more difficult feat to put off with x86_64 -> ARM. Though, I think Windows ARM (at least) does x86 emulation.

That said, Apple has a lot of leverage with/over the ecosystem. Most macOS/iOS developers are already used to having to fix their applications for the next macOS/iOS iteration, so Apple probably won't have much trouble convincing developers to add ARM as a target.

However, if this happens, we'll probably have fat binaries for some years again. For backwards compatibility, but it's also likely that they are not at the point where they could replace the Mac Pro yet.

It would be smart for them to do the transition though. They would not be dependent on Intel's cycles and product decisions anymore.
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Fine. But just be aware you may pay it with two years of unemployment. Or rather someone less qualified and educated.
Re: the last point; MIT says they do not consider alumni relations in the admissions process (https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/just-to-be-clear-we-do...).
The only interesting part of this was the performance comparison chart showing that Apple's ARM chips from 2018 and 2019 are significantly faster than the 2020 Intel chip.

MacBook Air 2020 (4-core Core i5) 1,127 2,854

11″ iPad Pro 2018 (8-core A12X) 1,118 4,477

iPhone 11 Pro (6-core A13) 1,321 3,387
Just to play devil's advocate:

Selling stock takes 5 mins, even less than that if you just relayed the instruction to your spouse. A senator who comes out of a briefing convinced about the gravity of the situation, and then takes every possible action to do the right thing after, but also takes a few mins to sell their stock, is okay in my book.

Basically I care much more about what other actions they took, and how they fared at their actual job.
Exactly. And it's worth reviewing how the so-called holistic admission process came to be: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/10/getting-in. TL;DR: it's not pretty.

A process that lacks objectivity will enlarge inequality gap instead of reducing it. And in general, the more complex a process is, the less transparent it becomes, and the harder it is to be fair to everyone.