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> If Apple is ready to switch to ARM they must have some impressive CPU. Apples not usually one to dabble here and there, so if they switch it’s going to be a wholesale ordeal.

Apple has an ARM-based product on sale today that has a better screen, better battery life, and better performance, than the 2020 Macbook air for many workloads, including compiling and doing development work (it crushed the air in the benchmark sets that can be run there).

That product is the 2020 ipad pro, and that is why there are so many posts about people actually trying to turn them into development machines.

This product is one step away from being a real laptop: it is missing real MacOSX.

The performance of the Intel-based Macbook Air has increased by 1.8-1.9x from 2012 to 2020 (that's 8 years). Apple already has internal A13 prototypes, and A14 is probably going to the prototype phase right now.

I can't imagine the numbers working in favor of Intel. By 2021 Intel can probably deliver a 1.1-1.2x speed up tops for Macbook airs, while Apple can probably deliver a 2x speed up for 2021 with the A13 and another 2x one for 2023 with the A14. Being able to scale the same chip for iphones, ipads, and macbooks, reusing internal resources, and avoiding the "hassle" of having to deal with Intel.

The only thing that's IMO in the air is what is going to be the discrete graphics story for macbook pro's and Mac pros.

Its unclear whether it would make sense for AMD to deliver discrete gfx products that interface well with ARM, and the Apple-nvidia bridge burned long time ago. So I wonder whether Apple has openings for electrical engineers to work on discrete graphics verification & design, and driver developers. It would strongly hint that apple would design their own discrete gfx in house.
Previously discussed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553794

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523246

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523379
If I had my way, there'd be no scripts on the web.
With all of the security issues surrounding Intel CPUs in the last couple of years, not having an Intel processor will be a real advantage for Apple. And competition is a good thing.
The difference lies on the purpose of the videos. Sometimes you want to convey a message, sometimes you want to sell ads. Each type of video is optimized for its intended use case.
Gnod: An artificial intelligence experiment to discover art
Part of respecting and taking care of one another is honoring that everyone’s not perfect and is capable of faults. Let people have their “worts” acknowledging that people aren’t always at their best.
EOS Is Not Faster Than Ethereum
A large catalogue of pc rpgs with comments. Many of these were after my rpg-playing heyday.

I appreciate the high praise for Ultima IV Quest of the Avatar. I had it for SNES and remember the fighting being much too easy but otherwise interesting for the virtue ethics that are the heart of the game.

At the beginning (IIRC) a fortune teller asks you to make choices which turn out not to be wrong or right but reflect preference of certain virtues over others. I believe this to reflect the case in reality.
The book "The Race For A New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the XBox and the Playstation 3" by David Shippy has some commentary on Apple with their relationship with IBM and the Cell. It's an interesting book and gives some reasons for Apple to ditch PowerPC.
And in general, computing have been hidden under one or two more layers. In the early 90s, architecture/OS made a difference (strength, platforms, available software). Nowadays .. everything is so powerful and so similar, and so much is crossplatform.
Rel v0.5.0 Released – Golang SQL Database Layer for Layered Architecture
It’s even got a keyboard stand case that almost turns it into a miniature iMac-like device.
Hmm I would say TCP does have downsides. The choice between TCP and UDP is all-or-nothing. Quic does some nice modularization/layering so that you can effectively control reliability and ordering separately.

One way to think about it is negotiating a connection vs
what that connection actually is are pretty separate. Sadly even the literature and education materials on TCP is pretty poor at explaining this. With the QUIC spec this just feels much clearer.
Created a visualization of fees issued by the AAVE protocol
Any time there's competition, companies need to make things that users want more than their competition, and most choices towards that goal are beneficial to the consumer. Users want a faster cpu at a good price, and AMD and intel competing has lowered prices and increased performance.
https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/
The explanation is that “master” is a slavery term. It has other meanings, sure. But for some people who are a descendant of people who were enslaved it is an unwelcome reminder of slavery every time they merge.
I think we’re changing to calling it “dies by suicide” to acknowledge the mental health aspect of suicide. “Commits suicidal” makes it sound more like a crime that needs to be policed instead of disorder to be treated.
Just Mercy is $0 to rent on Amazon, iTunes, Google Play during the month of June
Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Just-Mercy-Michael-B-Jordan/dp/B082YJ8THX

iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/just-mercy/id1490719646

Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Just_Mercy?id=4ONIbgWYcT8.P&hl=en_US
DOCP for Asus, and one of the others has EOCP. I think it's a licensing thing where they don't want to pay for XMP.
Interesting! We've been looking for a replacement for our webinar platform which struggles with high load. How can I use Voctomix with guests who can join from their webcams via browser?

How do you get 100k+ people on a stream without having to have massive bandwidth? Where is the stream actually hosted?

sorry if I'm asking basic questions.
I agree, but I'll add that in my opinion a writing exercise such as OP describes is half-way meditation anyways.

different activities involve different degrees of mindfulness, and I believe making a sharp distinction, while sometimes useful, is usually harmful.

You can take a shit mindfully, way I see it. it might not be something you call 'meditation' most of the time, but I imagine it's even possible to do a proper meditative shit.
Sadly, the world doesn’t revolve around you. There has been 25 years of new music that had been created since you last bought a CD. You may pirate or purchase your mp3s, but even piracy has plummeted.

And people who used to download mp3s found that they no longer needed to maintain music anymore if they paid a small subscription fee.

Digital music sales are lower than physical CD sales, which is 5% of what it used to be back in 2000. The numbers speak for themselves.
Ada Palmer's essay is remarkably close to what I had in mind, and she's talked on that topic on a few recent podcasts, that could well be it.

Thank you.
There's actually a lot of scientific evidence that hyperpalatable food contributes significantly to obesity and that bland food does lead to an instantaneous drop in appetite.

It's not about any penance, you got it all wrong, this is about our brain going haywire for food high in calories.
Frankly the only problem I see in this grand situation is the part about reviewing.

But what I see as being the problem is something different: my problem is that it's rigged. I.e., do you know that when you submit to Nature, you can specify to whom your paper should and should not be sent to for review? This encourages back-hand deals. Invariably, one tends to suggest their old pals, and naturally those pals show the journal two glowing thumbs being up and tell them to send it straight to the presses, with a cute little remark that this or that figure should maybe be made more clear.

I remember talking to a colleague about this about 5 years ago, the reviewers should not be anonymous, for various reasons: a) they should be recognized for their diligent work of verifying things, b) there should be some motivation to play a straight game, some element of accountability: perhaps the knowledge that you stand as the person who okay'd something that might prove later to be suspect is good enough motivation to play it clean.

And as it happens, some big journals are beginning to try this policy out! I hope and think this takes over in most places.
How do you get Covid?
Easy solution: live in a gray box. Preferably underground so the rest of us don't have to look at it. I'm only half serious.
Phrase Highlighting for Speed Reading
> etting Apple manage the payments process means that the user becomes Apple’s customer rather than yours, which is actually a negative for them since they can no longer handle any problems customers have with billing.

As a buyer, it’s awesome to be able to use Apple manage the payment process. I am able to cancel recurring services far more easily (I don’t ever want to call someone or mail something), and I trust them to be more secure with my payment info.
Most sites don't allow rememberable long phrases, some services have a password length as small as 12 characters.
The reason for ClickHouse is simple: it's fast. And we need to have it function like a TiKV coprocessor which support filtering and aggregation mainly and ClickHouse is good at aggregation and filtering. Also it might take more time and dirtier to do seamless / compatible integration to TiDB if Impala or presto on top of MPP layer. But the price we paid is implementing MPP layer by ourselves now.

Almost all the data lake based products loss full control over storage system. It makes them very hard to build delta-main engine we need. To make HTAP storage transparent to query layer, TiFlash need a lot more control over storage engine than data lake can provide.
I have c.600 passwords in one manager. That's not even all of them - some I'm required not to write down, some I keep offline, some I choose to keep as memorable phrases. All those directly connected to ability to spend any money I keep offline (memory or paper).

I'll admit I'm probably an exceptional case but regular users must have 100 or more password after a couple of years online.
I like this idea. So I took a look at their policies and it seems the official Harvard thesis printer (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/student-handbook/dissertation-g...) is Acme, which has an individual-oriented website: https://www.thesisondemand.com/ Using their calculator, a single 181pg\* BW printed thesis is ~$45. That seems cheap enough for a joke for me! But it looks like one will need to add some additional metadata to follow the dissertation guidelines...

If anyone wants to discuss this further, email me.

\* The first copy of the thesis linked in OP is 179 pages but it's very dirty and would need to be printed in color; the second copy, https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20... , is in much better shape and can be printed in BW.
It's a sad state of affairs that while the fact that the shooter was working for the RCMP is a good explanation for the fact that the large number of red flags around his illegal weapon ownership and spousal abuse was ignored, its no better of an explanation than the fact that the police generally are terrible and don't care.
Unrelated to the article itself but that fossil behind him in his home is gorgeous and super cool.
Changed the Design Completely
why would the rcmp want a random gunman to kill 20 innocent civilians? methinks the author is too quick to jump to gov conspiracy
Easy solution: live in a gray box. Preferably underground so the rest of us don't have to look at it. I'm only half serious.

Personally, I like details, but I don't like clutter. If it's complexity I have to maintain myself, I don't want it.
"Is an industrial school system ready to take on that sort of thing?"

It's hard to not be cynical.

From the article:

"Kayleigh cuts in: ‘Sometimes other things help me more. But they don’t listen to us, they just tell us to do mindfulness.’"

Of course.

https://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/
Not just language, but brands can help a lot as well. Newspapers, obviously, but even a brand of soda can narrow things down.

I think a better approach on his second step would have been to search "<major city> skyline", preferably in order from largest population to smallest. South Africa isn't that big. I think it pays to be more methodical and work with the information you know, before speculating. Speculating is great if you're stuck, but I think he mostly just got lucky there.
It's a good question. I guess here's what I'd say.

Anywhere from 25 percent to 80 percent of people with COVID-19 have such mild cases that they are unaware they have the virus. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/50-percent-of-people-...

And here's a follow up study done on severe patients with actual lung damage that showed the damage healed within 2.5 months: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-27359/v1

Moreover, what we have to know is that organ damage is possible with any disease. People can get rheumatic heart fever from a simple strep infection. Millions of people get strep, yet millions of people don't get rheumatic fever. Organ damage is a possibility, but is a very rare complication. The simple flu you had last winter could have thrown you into the hospital and caused fibrosis, but it didn't. It's a risk with any disease.
Soundcloud actually does have RSS feeds. I'm not sure how they're exposed to users (I forgot how I got this URL) but they exist:

https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:16977412...
On iOS’ Safari, you can bypass the paywall if you activate reader mode before the paywall finishes loading
It also ran on SPARC and PA-RISC, I think even some Motorola 68000 at some point.
This is an amazing accomplishment, I could see the ideas here being applied to more data structures
Analysis – Three 'Eras' of Workplace Technology
> Within educational contexts, being well-behaved is seen as rational and ‘good’, while resistance to authority is seen as irrational or ‘bad’. Since mindfulness encourages young people to be calm, complacent and attentive, it can promote these moral hierarchies: of good or bad behaviour, and hence, well-behaved or naughty students.

This seems to me much more like a problem with typical "educational contexts" than with mindfulness. In my experience, you try and be more mindful of your emotions so you can make better (perhaps more efficient) decisions and changes in your life in response to those emotions. And that naturally conflicts with environments where the expectations are very rigid and more or less set in stone e.g. where there's a clear "authority" (like a teacher) in control and very precise boundaries about what kind of behavior is acceptable.

> As Kelly, 13, explained: I really hated it when I had to close my eyes … I felt really uncomfortable because there were people in the group that I didn’t trust … Some of the practices did help me but it would be better if you could choose to do it with people you like.

Again, I think this is much more a problem with the typical school environment than with mindfulness. What does it say that a child doesn't feel comfortable simply closing their eyes momentarily in some environment? Not good things if you ask me. Frankly, I've often thought it's cruel and unusual to place large numbers of children together for large periods of time as is done in a public school setting. Children can be ruthless when they bully each other and readily succumb to their worst instincts.
That's true and it'll likely prove to be a good business decision although not necessarily one that benefits the end user in the long run. I'm also not suggesting they use POWER for mobile applications neither did I suggest they use Intel x86 for that.
The key element in the CPU market space is volumen. Volume lowers the cost of manufacturing and allows you to spend much more money on R&D as it is amortised over more devices. While all the big RISC manufacturers had in principle better architectures than Intel, in the 90ies Intel would kill them one by one due to the insane volumes of the PC market. Only on the server PowerPC and Sparc would survive. This is what forced the PowerPC to Intel transition, Apple had litte choices. I always keep wondering what the outcome would have been, if one of the large RISC platforms would have been made available in more consumer level products, e.g. offering an ATX motherboard for running Linux. Volumes would have been much larger.

Another big factor for Intel was, that, financed by their huge cash flow, they had the most advanced fabs, so competitors often were 1-2 generations behind in the available processes.

But now a few things have changed. First of all, Intel got stuck with their 10nm process, so they are no longer the manufacturing lead. But most importantly, TSMC would pull ahead of Intel and offer their services to everyone in the market. For the first time, AMD had a manufacturing advantage vs. Intel.

And the iPhone happened. Given Apple an almost endless supply of money and a huge volume. Over many years, Apple built up a leading chip-design team. This already paid off big with the iPhone, having by far the most powerful CPUs in the mobile space. This also gave Apple a clear insight into the advantages of really owning the whole platform. Designing software and the cpus together.

Offering desktop-class CPUs is of course a large additional investment - so it is not a trivial step. But if Apple is willing to do it, it should be very interesting and would give hope that they have ambitious plans with the Mac, as it only makes sense if they really push the platform.
Maybe because there are no IDEs on servers
The benefit of illegality isbthat a majority of people dont think its ok and thus dont do it. With your argument you legalizr everything.
You said it's famous for its views, but I bet the view sucks when it's so foggy you can't see the trail.
I'm referring to the outliers among that group. The first level of outlier is being successful. The second level of outlier is being full of self doubt and successful
What’s the whispered about baggage? The CIA connections?
Jenkins X replaces Prow with Lighthouse for better source control compatibility
A lot of these security issues have lead to fixes that have had a negative impact on performance. There's no way that hasn't bothered Apple.
Late Ordovician mass extinction caused by volcanism, warming, and anoxia
Out of curiosity, why are CityLab articles so often on Hacker News homepage? I've never heard of CityLab elsewhere.

And a related question, is the popularity of paywalled articles here organic? I would expect that the vast majority of HN visitors don't have a subscription to Bloomberg etc., so paywalled articles should have a big handicap.
Workism is making Americans miserable
How to Do Multitenancy in Rails
Confetti popping everywhere,” says Brewster referring to the shower of colorful confetti Robinhood routinely deploys after customers make trades. “They try to gamify trading and couch it as investment.”

They are borrowing the freemium game strategies used to develop player addiction and normalise the spending habit.
"This is not socially sustainable though"

Maybe it isn't for some, like you, but for many/most forced WFH I believe the outcome will in fact be lasting and socially fruitful.

(Personally, I've WFH 10+ years so not the best example because it was always my preference and had no cares about missing out on potential social interactions or relationships with co-workers)

But plenty of people I know about have been recently forced to WFH are finding various new hobbies and thus discovering and developing new social circles (Online & IRL) even w/ CV19 circumstances. Not to mention just going outside to do things and meeting others is happening a lot - at least where I live.

Between observing this and thinking through it more...I'm not convinced that coworkers are really the best types of relationships anyways. Indeed they can provide us with some superficial temporary social stimuli and primitive reinforcement, though not sure relationships by default/proximity are not built to last regardless. And they often come with the consummate 'shop talk' and 'office politics' or 'gossip' trade-offs - all childish stuff to be concerned with in or outside of work.

My hunch is that we're all better off getting to know people outside our own little bubbles :)
Imagine a teeny tiny iMac, that'd be a fun look.

I wonder if the size vs. needs has changed in general as the adoption of large screens seems to have slowed down a bit in my environment (probably because everyone that wanted one now has one).
People on a snorkel tour are sports people.
> That was exploited back in the day by download managers which opened multiple connections to the save resource and managed to significantly increase download speed.

Even back then, that wasn't anything to do with multiple TCP connections being fundamentally faster somehow. The speed increase achieved by download managers comes down to:

1. DNS resolution round-robin-ing you to different CDN nodes, such that you're actually making requests to different hardware that each has its own NIC to separately saturate; where if the each server NIC can do 1Mbps, and your link can do 2Mbps, then you need two parallel chunk downloads from separate servers to saturate your link. (This is the same fundamental reason downloading e.g. an OS installer through a torrent is usually faster than downloading it through HTTP from the OS maker's CDN.)

2. Intentional per-connection download-rate throttling applied by many servers (especially those of "download sites" like CNet, which "back in the day" were one of the main places people would experience large downloads); where making multiple concurrent HTTP range-requests to the server at once was a way to bypass the server's throttling. You don't see this advantage any more, as these days the servers of "download sites" have enough smarts to dynamically aggregate downlink quota between nodes in a table keyed by peer IP, such that N concurrent downloads from the same site are always each throttled to 1/Nth the rate.
yes, thanks for the clarification :)
Ask HN: Anyone here making money writing on Substack?
Hey there!

I've been blogging on Medium for almost a year.

Some of my articles got quite high and I could make a few hundred bucks a month from it. But, Medium is behind a paywall, and many of the articles there is clickbait & low quality. I do not want to be a writer there.

I always wanted to start writing a newsletter. A few weeks ago I found out about substack. It looks pretty neat, plus, I could migrate all of my Medium posts.

So, my plan is to write a small daily recap of TIL & articles I was reading over the day for free subscribers. And, writing my long reads for paid subscribers.

My questions:
1. Anyone making money on Substack here?
2. How do you promote it?
3. Could you recommend any good example of a Substack on tech & entrepreneurship?

My substack: https://codarium.substack.com/about

Thx!
Honestly, it's great. There are a ton of high quality apps on the Google app store, and it's pretty easy to spot the bad ones and pass them by (the quality and polish of the app icon is a reliable indicator of the app's quality). And when I can't find what I need, I do an Internet search, and I might download someone's open source app on GitHub.
Apache Archiva 2.2.5 released fix CVE-2020-9495 (LDAP)
The latter - it lets you navigate the file structure of a torrent as well as read (stream) file content using any of your usual applications, without having to download the files first.
Go on, so what do you propose for baseline power - more gas fired power stations?
I'm not saying you should do this, but I bet if you put malware on your site it would be gone from Google overnight.

It would be a terrible thing to do (you'd never get your reputation back), but it would be interesting to see what happened.
This describes the Mindfullness meditation movement accurately. They are frauds with a mental toy that latches onto people with anxiety, for profit.