skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the FCC documentation is any indication (and it may not be), the developer kits may not shop until December. The reports made available today show a testing setup with what appears to be the DTK device, with internal and external photos not available until December 8, which follows the somewhat typical pattern of order devices of making such pictures confidential until shortly before the ship date.
I quit my job and found a new one because my company was forcing us to come into the office to "collaborate" -- even though for the most part only the team leads are in the US and the rest of the dev team is India. My team was in another state.

I was already halfway thinking about another job because of the open office that was a mix of developers, QA, customer service managers, and implementation folks that were always on the phone and it was loud. Now with Covid and me working from home for three months, I dreaded going back into the office.
I think it's the transparency that's looking a bit weird, especially if you disable this stuff yourself.
It amazes me how much abuse loyal Apple customers are willing to take. How much money are you willing to spend. It's almost like this is some large-scale ritual hazing which serves to make you, the hazee, come out even more loyal on the other side.
Catalina is the one and only macOS upgrade I regret doing. It has mostly been bug-free, but I was surprised how much software no longer works due to the 64-bit change.
I love the flavor of black coffee. TBH I enjoy the flavor and the ritual of coffee making much much more than the caffeine kick (which is nice too). I'd actually drink more than one coffee cup a day if it weren't for the side effects.

No, decaf is a sin.
Maybe I missed it, but did they say they're requiring Mac apps to start standardizing design?

If not, then I see no reason why the default OS apps that come pre-installed shouldn't look and feel the same.
At 01:15:47 - "You may have noticed we've also updated the menu bar! It's now translucent and elegantly takes on the color of your desktop picture!"

Didn't they already make this mistake in Leopard? They must have gradually rolled it back since then to mostly readable, I guess, if they're now doing it again?

I hope there's a working high-contrast mode for those with less than perfect vision. This translucent mess is like Mac OS X 10.0 and the pinstripes all over again.
It's more ironic that they apparently can't be trusted with data because they geoblock GDPR-countries which you would only do if you know ahead of time that you can't deliver your website without datamining your visitors.
Hmmm... Nah.
Re 1: I believe iCloud is hosted on Google Cloud, isn't it?
It advertises that it's faster, not that it's more reliable. A reasonable customer might extend their experience with other objects and conclude the faster mode is less reliable. A F1 car destroys its tires in hours, while wheels on a commuter car last for years, an overclocked processor is less stable than one at stock frequency, supersonic jet fighters kill their passengers at a rate thousands of times higher than subsonic commercial airflight, etc.

Understanding that ethernet is entirely different from wifi requires... domain expertise! The exact thing a Best Buy customer won't have.

>5000mb wired capacity

A suspicious man might note that switching capacity isn't stated on that page, is not mentioned at all in the manual, and is the exact thing a manufacturer would be tempted to cut corners on, since vanishingly few customers will attempt multiple simultaneous network transfers in a home LAN. A normal consumer would never notice a switch capacity higher than 1 gigabit.
Sadly the only major change there is the ability to use SwiftUI for complications.
You're correct that AMD’s offerings are impressive, but that‘s vs an uncooled A12 chip. Add active cooling and a few more watts there's no reason why they couldn't blow the doors off.
They're still important and it builds good will which helps them gain more loyalty from the viewers. E.g. Facebook spies on you while Twitch supports the creators I like.
I've also seen it reacted to very negatively when announced.
Yes—but the title-bar/toolbar combination used to look visually unified—a deeper gray distinct from the content for the window. That seems to be gone in Big Sur.
Yeah, I tried out a Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop replacement and pretty much everything is supported except for proprietary stuff like games.
Now mentioned at https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/shdhxntw519h
The enduser doesn't care about training. iOS devs just care about APIs that Apple has built for them.
Wow, that's awesome.

I was having intermittent xfiniti issues during the stream.
Next question: are they keeping it at 11.x now or are they just adopting the same numbering scheme that brought us Chrome 82 and Firefox 76?
I used to think this way, but learning how to take math lectures really changed my university experience. To my first semester me:

1. Go to the lectures, sit upfront (where you are definitely not going to use your phone or fall asleep)

2. Get the book or script that corresponds to your lecture. Almost all math lectures follow some sort of book. If unsure, ask your professor.

Just reading ahead for half an hour prior to the lecture will make _such_ a difference, as you won’t be lost and can focus more on contexts than on definitions.

3. Feel free to ask questions. If you know where you are (see 2.) it’s much easier to know what’s wrong. Professors are human and sometimes forget to give some theorem they are using. It’s really easy (and frankly surreal at first) to be that guy that points out errors to the professor (in a respectful way!).

If your shy or you have the feeling, that the problem is indeed on your end – take notes of things that are unclear and ask them after the lecture. Professors usually love to talk about their subject!

4. Last but not least: Keep calm and carry on. It’s completely normal to feel overwhelmed at first ;)
Good luck trying to cash out any meaningful amount. You would need to declare source of funds and you really do not want write "piracy" to your bank.
To be fair to Apple, the JIRA app is the single worst Mac app I've ever used, by quite a long shot. And their web app also has atrocious performance (so much so that it was the deciding factor in a recent decision to move away from JIRA at $DAYJOB).

The Mac App Store is probably a fairer comparison.
I guess it tends to be superseded by other forms of rot, people writing a bunch of tests that aren't against the critical path, money going down the drain... I agree, it _seems_ like what you say is true. I'm not a computer scientist, I'm just saying I've tried TS at a couple of shops, and as they team grows TS slows us down. Maybe it's just stochastic or random, but at the end of the day there's no academic "proof" types improve developer productivity. The only thing that sort of gets me is how everyone sort of assumes TS is 'best practice' but there's really no evidence besides gut feeling. My gut feeling is now telling me TS is not beneficial... I'd love to play devils advocate against my own position so feel free to tear me apart...
They did have a Mac Pro there as a prop, which was interesting and potentially confusing. There was a brief moment where you could see that it was connected to something in a Mac mini case.
The bans, as announced in Reddit's annual Transparency Report this past February, apply specifically to actions in quarantined subreddits:

Users who consistently upvote policy-breaking content within quarantined communities will receive automated warnings, followed by further consequences like a temporary or permanent suspension. We hope this will encourage healthier behavior across these communities.

https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/f8y9nx/sprin...

Quarantines offer greater flexibility in monitoring and management, with fair warning to members.
GitHub Outage - Incident Report
Electron already has support for ARM64, but no official releases yet. But it needs to be build from x86 machine. No native compilation on ARM64 yet. I think with apple moving to ARM, google will add native ARM64 compilation for chromium. This in turn will be picked by electron. Chromium has been running on ARM for a long time with Android and Chrome OS so it has all the optimizations.
> AMD is tiny compared to intel, the fact that they are besting them goes to show how they have been stuck for ~5 years.

I'm having trouble following the reasoning.

> AMD which didn't have the funds to run a dedicated design team for laptop/desktops.

They have plenty of funds for R&D. Problem is, processor manufacture goes much beyond the processors themselves. You have to design the entire manufacturing chain, and spend billions on new foundries which will get obsolete in a few years.
You are comparing default apps privacy and saying that is OS privacy. I specifically pointed out data collection in the OS (that you can't turn off) that make iOS far worse than Android for privacy.

Your paper also compares the amount of data sent to Google for an Android device using default apps vs. an iPhone using default apps and shows that the latter sends much more. That's not a very useful comparison. If you compare how much each device sends to Apple, the Android device would win by a landslide, though again, that is not a useful comparison.
Take a look at the State of the Union–it's in less than an hour. It's the developer-focused keynote.
Always Bet on HTML
Perhaps for developers, but I think most others will move back to Windows.
ARM is a much bigger platform than x86 nowadays.
If Trump is reelected, it's a certainty.
This sounds like an enforcement nightmare. It’s a nice idea, but how would it actually work?

So we would get some sort of commission from Instagram for every ad we view. And the government will need to track this for every Californian, then divvy up a couple dollars per person each year.

I know there are some Yang fans on HN and I don’t want to get too political here but his ideas are too oversimplified, from the $1k UBI thing to this they feel like the left’s version of “build a wall”. They’re simple ideas that are great for social media attention but ultimately oversimplify an inherently complex problem.

Again, I’m not trying to make a political argument either way here, just pointing out how social media seems to incentivize our leaders to oversimplify policy ideas.
> While I say all of this, I should also point out that the top500 benchmark pretty much is not representative of most real-life workloads, and is largely based on your ability to solve the largest dense linear solve you possibly can - something almost no real application does.

They also publish the HPCG benchmark with sparse matrixes. And unsurprisingly an order of magnitude lower flops across the board. The Fujitsu chip scales a whole lot better than the usual Nvidia GPUs though.
Side story: HPC ranking is relatively common topic in Japan because previous K computer was targeted to cut budget by government and well reported by news.
> The way Catalina sends the hash of every binary you run to Apple.

Wait, what?! What are you referring to here? I just updated to Catalina and I wasn't aware of this.
I'm not that guy, but it is a legitimate enquiry. This is currently about existing projects, old code, some of it even a bit "stale".

What about new projects, are they to avoid these words too, and what would you call that?

I wish the best to all blacks, queers, trans and minorities, as all voices are unique and important. But that doesn't mean we drop principles like liberty of speech and thought. If people are hurt, that needs to be addressed, and this (token gestures) just ain't enough.

TL;DR Going PC is not going to solve the root structural problem. Feeling good about short-term, shallow fixes are overrated.
Couldn't agree more. The point at which you start trying to tell people how to do their work and "oh well you logged on 5 minutes late here" and "oh well it shows here you always log off for an extra 10 minutes here" is the point you begin holding your workforce back rather than allowing them to perform at their best.
That would be a very interesting project indeed. The fun part would be to hand the judge the syntax document and ask them to please "interpret" the licence according to these rules.

Slightly related, I wonder whether complexity/length of licences plays a factor in adoption. If you have something that is very widely known, somewhat short and readable by lay-persons, you don't need to check it every time, you figure out once that you're okay with working with XYZ Licence or you're not. If you'd have to essentially parse complex expressions of licensing fragments, I expect less adoption because of higher risk of catastrophic issues being overlooked (much like I'd probably not buy a candy bar if the store asked me to read & sign 12 pages of fine print to do so).
The Touch Bar is honestly by least favorite aspect of anything Apple has done in recent memory.

My touch bar had dead pixels (twice), effectively wiping out half the function keys. And when it did work, it was hard to use.

I've been using my MBP as a desktop for the past 8+ months, and while it's slightly better experience, it still sucks that I'm stuck having to buy 3 USB adapters just to make it usable.
https://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2017/06/13.htm
Sure but Snow Leopard had serious bugs when it launched too. It was only in later dot releases that it got its reputation for stability.
AMD right now has a core 100% focused on low power devices with amazing performance, very likely ahead of Apple. So no, your premise is not accurate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAuR5bkIlQ
Of course they will not directly file a charge against you for forming a political party. But they will find other ways.

Actually they did filed cases against students for protesting against government.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2020/apr/21/de...
Yes, it's a positive ranking signal. They're definitely not penalizing sites for having certificates.
Catalina was the primary motivator to move back to Linux for myself, and I don't regret it. If you care about things like this, you can configure Plasma Desktop with macOS features and shortcuts and end up feeling right at home.
GDPR doesn't say you have to 'warn' for 'cookies' but that you have to ask consent for data processing before doing it and you can't deny people if they don't want that. If you happen to use a cookie to track a user for data processing then you may pop up a cookie-specific message.

In the end what needs to happen is exactly what GDPR is made for: don't grab people's data and track them unless they say it is OK to do so.
If you have an account, there's also a preference to make www.reddit.com use old reddit.
You would need to get the Install macOS [version name].app, and then convert the InstallESD.dmg inside that to an .iso to mount to your VM for the install. There are more steps involving bootloaders which I have included in the second link.

https://github.com/rmc-team/macos-downloader/

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/VirtualBox/Setting_up_a_Virtua...

https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
Video marketing is hitting new highs during the age of Covid
Genuine question: unless you run a datacenter with thousands of CPUs, does it really matter?

Apple has zero presence in data centers.

I read people here writing "double the battery life" without any source, but even if that was the case I own a laptop that does 2 hours on battery, I use it to run models on a discrete GPU so power efficiency goes out of the window anyway, it's really not achievable.

The other one can handle average workloads for 12 hours and weights a bit more then a kilo, if it was smaller or lighter it would be a much worse laptop than it is (if it's too light it has no stability and you fight constantly to keep it steady on your desk)

Who needs more?
The Weird and Worrying Drone War in the Caucasus
Mailspring is nice but they do require a login and probably scrape data. I use it for work only though so I don't care if they spy.
If your response to a set of data showing areas where arrests have occurred in the past is to police those areas more, there is no doubt that in the future there will be more arrests in those same areas.
I think they had fixed this in the latest iOS versions. It is good for AAA game engines and such as well.
Up until last month I would've said they would keep things around much longer - I mean, they supported old iPods and iPhones far longer than their competitors...

But the killing of openGL and 32-bit software is making me wonder about their previously-amazing commitment to supporting older things.
I first truly understood how different it was for women when a friend came home from an investor pitch and casually complained to another woman we lived with that it had been another investor more interested in a date than an investment. It was then that I found out it was common to have potential investors take female founders out for dinner, ostensibly to talk over the potential investment but in reality as an attempt to sleep with them. These women felt that they couldn't really tell anyone about it because they didn't want to poison the well of potential investment, so they just went on fundraising and being harassed.

I don't know if things have changed much - it's been six years since I was out there, but from reading this I think it's likely continuing on just the same as it was then.
When you say "..which leads to more crime" I'm going to presume you mean that it leads to catching a higher percentage of the existing crime, which leads to more police, which leads to catching a higher percentage yet again.... rather than the direct interpretation that police presence causes crime.
And what happens if China marches into Taiwan? This is a plausible consideration that must be one of Apple's worst nightmares.
> All of those tasks can be done with decent single-threaded performance, but lots of those tasks also benefit from multithreading

Most of those tasks benefit from multiple processors. Multithreading is less clear-cut because you're trading the win for under-optimized code against increased pressure on shared resources (which is one of the reasons why it's opened some windows for security attacks). It's not hard to find pro workloads which perform better without multithreading enabled and considering that Apple will own the entire stack up to some of the most demanding apps they're well positioned to have both solid data on the tradeoffs and architectural changes.
If I'm making a professional desktop app like Blender or whatever, then right now I only need to worry about x86 SIMD optimizations & behaviors. I don't care about iPhone/iPad/Raspberry Pi performance. I may care that it works, because why not? But I don't care about optimizing for it.

Now, though, suddenly I need to figure out how NEON works if I want to continue to support professional users on MacOS. I need to increase my hardware costs to ensure adequate test coverage. I need to use something other than Intel's glorious VTune for profiling & optimization. When I'm step-debugging my C++ or assembly tight-loops, I need to know double the amount of assembly than I do today. I need to learn ARM's memory model & cache behaviors.

If I'm just writing some silly native app that could have been a website as is trendy then yeah this is all no big deal, who cares? But if you're really pushing professional app boundaries, where time is money? That's a different story.
It is attributable. I don’t like to share too many personal details, but they work in a business that benefits from new demand driven by the pandemic.
Thank you. Having mentioned this, I wonder if there are similar-in-spirit lectures for Common Lisp? PG has written two books on CL, and I've heard of some Industrial Strength apps written in CL. So, if starting today, it seems like maybe CL is the Right Choice?
Where did they say that? The full feature list doesn't mention it:

https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur-preview/features/
She was Joesie Krebs - Double-neumonia patient, 63 years old.

https://www.kens5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/woman-...
Good, and their word can be treated exactly like we treat the word of any other agency full of non-experts that roll their own analyses with excel. No need to lend them the legitimacy of established mathematicians and other academics.
Depends what you’re doing. The majority of the site I work on for my day job is statically rendered and theoretically works without JS, but large parts (including any ecom functionality and profiles) fail. Would it be worth making them more reliable by falling back if JS fails? Possibly, but that’s difficult sometimes to argue for in today’s environment of features-first from product, and developer-experience-first from engineering. Still worth the effort.

By the way, we are talking about reliability-in-depth here rather than user choice. I wrote a blog post about this a few years ago: https://www.robinwhittleton.com/2016/09/19/why-we-use-progre...
Windows 10 only runs on x86 or Snapdragon ARM SoCs. Too early for Bootcamp.
While there is no life on the surface, when we get to the "colonize the moon", the fallout becomes a problem.

Consider the problem that the astronauts had when on the moon and the "prevent dust from getting in the lander". Not only do you have the worry of sharp, pointy dust now - but also radioactive dust.

While it isn't a science book... Seveneves has to deal with the problem of nuclear trust and dust and does so in a realistic way. Its a good book to read/listen to (if you acknowledge/expect the "Stephenson where did the ending go?!" problem)
Well Mac user's buy crappy expensive hardware with even more expensive wheel's and crappy keyboard's...so maybe he's right ;)
> Why bother supporting the Mac when you could just make an iPad app and get both markets at once.

Yea, this is what I'm afraid of. Instead of continued investing in their high quality Mac app, companies will just drop it on the ground and spend all their time working on their toy iPad/iPhone apps, expecting people to switch.
I'm not saying there's no castism - there's always some sort of discrimination in every society as human beings mostly behave as selfish and unkind due to their insecurities and prejudice. But voices against are also far easier to express and be heard these days.
However, if you fuel anger and hatred in you, you're only going to get bitter and restless. which will waste your energies which you could otherwise spend in more meaningful/productive activities that uplift people you care about.

Plus not everything is black and white, no matter how much we want to see it that way. For instance, many Brahmans are also in very bad condition in India. There's a prospective that if you read with an open mind, can be useful. Found that here: https://www.ifih.org/ThePlightofBrahmins.htm

In current time the opportunities are endless. By being positive and productive, we can grow India and the world into a beautiful place, fighting, denigrating and blaming each other will only delay that.
I think I heard them mention that kits would start shipping later this week.
Apple Silicon – Apple Developer Documentation
10up Open Source Best Practices
Yes, I know about the Google profile, it's transparent and I turned Google's app activity off. My Google profile is right now empty.

That's not Android.

Let me repeat the question — how does Android track you?
> It’s intuitive and true that poor homes and neighborhoods are going to house more crime.

I'm not sure it's a good idea to assume certain truths based upon intuition.