skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess China would be the first specific that came to mind while thinking of this. That they were one of Earth's first human civilizations, and still exist as a nation today, intrigues me if we could peer deeply inside their historical documents mentioning United States and its inception. Also Egypt.

It seems quite amazing to me to think about the massive trove of historical documents / knowledge their civilization had already acquired by that time, and that historical knowledge likely informed their perspective on the situation. What sort of perspective arose in their country at the time when they first heard about the United States, and how has that perspective evolved over the years.

I think there are many facets to this that could be explored, but I don't have any in particular in mind. More interested to get a better understanding of what's out there for a native English speaker to consume on this topic.
Could this lead to a large chip fab being built in the US? Or do they just hop to Japan / South Korea?
> Anonymous is probably the wrong term, but I'm not sure there's a better one.

There is one. It was used a couple comments up.

Pseudonymous. It's an actual word, not just made up.
> I understand why MIT decided to make the introductory CS classes more accessible -- they wanted to expand the CS department beyond just those who had already had programming experience by the time they got there...

Not sure that motivation really applies as back when 6.001 Was introduced most MIT freshman had not programmed a computer before arriving. Also the course was taught a few times to non course 6 faculty who wanted it — I remember helping a course 21 (history) prof with psets and he had previously never even used a computer.

Also making things “accessible”* isn’t really an MIT thing,mor wasn’t back when I was there anyway.

* in the sense used in your comment I mean
It changed from "OS X" to "macOS" in 2016.
apple sells users to apps and gets 30% cut.
While true, a reactor blown up over land would also be simpler to clean up; while a reactor scattered over the ocean bed would be easier to leave in place.
The obnoxious thing about this comment is that we often do ask users. Every company I've worked at does user testing and surveys, etc, and no one has ever complained about this stuff. Users do get excited for more interactivity and intuitive functionality, which is easiest to build in Javascript. You're assuming we haven't asked, when actually we have, and everyone else disagrees with you.
Not necessarily. I'm working on some hard-core Excel spreadsheets, so the simplest solution was to run Office on Windows 10 in Parallels.
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> Most interesting: This appears to be the end of "OS X" as version was listed as "11.0" in the keynote.

"Mac OS X" was dropped for macOS in 2016.

https://fortune.com/2016/06/13/apple-mac-os-sierra/
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Of course it isn't, but it's very, very valuable for them. Even if they make a custom chip that is the CPU minus the SOC portions.
Your Git commits suck and here is why
In France you do not have to write it, the law regulates this anyway. If you have a non compete, you have compensation.

The good thing with contracts on France (and when buying a house) is that everything is regulated and there is actually little space for any enforceable changes.
I try to understand Taleb better by reading what he reads. He is very active on Amazon reviewing books:

https://www.amazon.com/Nassim-Nicholas-Taleb/e/B000APVZ7W

https://www.thewaystowealth.com/nassim-taleb-reading-list/
I think you're either underestimating how much power an A12 consumes or overestimating what actively cooled CPUs consume per-core.

The A12 will pull around 4w on a single-core workload to come close to 9900K in performance. That's a good number, but it's not unheard of. The 4800HS is also a 4w per core CPU, and also comes close to the 9900K in performance.

The problem is increasing single-core performance becomes non-linear. It's not just a few more watts to bump from 3ghz to 4ghz. It's a lot of watts.

Simply having 4 big cores on an A12 would push it into 10w actively cooled territory as well, same as the i5 in a macbook air (a CPU that's also 10w). Add a few watts to bump the single core performance while you're at it and suddenly it's a 20w chip. Make it 8-cores to compete with the current macbook pro CPUs and suddenly it's a 40w chip.
This misses the point in my opinion. Android doesn't depend on Google for much of its functionality, unlike iOS with Apple. For example, I can install a command line-style launcher, animated wallpapers, alternative app stores, and other non-Google features without any rooting or other unapproved modifications because Android as a platform is far more flexible. With unapproved modifications, I can also bypass Google services entirely and depend on the open-source community.
> wide TDP range of designs

Keep in mind that this doesn't imply a different chip design. TDP is primarily a function of intended application and cooling capacity, not chip tech.

That said, they've already demonstrated ability to do this with A12/A12X/A12Z, which are the same chip at different CPU/GPU core counts. Clock rates are not impacted except where thermal limitations (TDP) impose a limit.
I got Windows Vista vibes from Big Sur's UI as I was scrolling through this terrible website.

Performance was horrible in Firefox on a MacBook Air (mid-2012), which has been dropped from support for this latest macOS.
I completely agree. Previous versions had newer Apple UI design elements (e.g. the App Store) and also the elements of older macOS versions (e.g. the Dock, comparing it to the one on the iPad). It was just a big jumble, and they're finally unifying it.
According to Wikipedia, TSMC's 9th largest fab is based in China. Their 1st - 8th largest fabs are based in Taiwan.
All their chips have a Secure Enclave, so yes. That doesn't mean Linux won't be able to run, it just means Linux won't be able to use any of the Secure Enclave's secrets.
Exactly. Biases in previous data will be amplified with predictive policing algorithms. See, for example, https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-...
"It is simply too easy to create a ‘scientific’ veneer for racism."

It seems, law enforcement was using data to create their own reality.
Apple is Now switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year
Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware. Calling it a “historic day for the Mac,”
Your asinine point was addressed in the article you're commenting. Evidently, you didn't read it.
Well, it's just as bad as native apps now. At least you can trivially block things in web browsers.
QR codes just map to a URL/string. They could make these an open platform, and let developers define what they map to on other OSes. Instead they have gone full lockin. I dont expect them to be that successful, past experience tells us things with one OS lockin rarely succeed.
> Personally, I would love to see a lot more female developers.

See there you betray a rather sinister idea. If you had said that you want to see any unfair barriers to entry removed, or that you want to ensure equal exposure and opportunity across all people and all fields then I could support it. But instead you made your desires quite clear: you just want female developers. That means the gender, physical appearance, and perhaps even sexual preferences, of developers actually matters to you. Do you have any idea why this is?
I recently wrote a blog engine as a way to learn some technologies I haven't used.

For static pages, I only use in-browser JavaScript to format dates to the reader's locale. If, for some reason, the JavaScript doesn't run, the date will just be formatted a little differently than I'd like.

Not too big of a deal.
"Widely documented" means that it's trivial for you to look up the data yourself.
Yes, this update basically reduced the value of Bronze significantly as there were no relevant new features coming to Bronze and those that we were paying for are now in the free tier.
How bout zero since they aren’t doing anything they haven’t done before three times over in the last twenty years? Didn’t you catch their use of Rosetta2 and UniversalBinary2 to differentiate them from previous versions written in prior decades?

They aren’t even running any Intel instructions.
It's probably an ARM64 version of Linux. I don't know if you've tried it but Ubuntu 20.04 for ARM64 runs really nicely on the Raspberry Pi 4.
Apple has introduced all of these APIs and SDKs in previous OS releases. Now their software is starting to take advantage of them all with user features. This includes their machine learning kit, metal, ..

The Xcode release is actually pretty big deal for developers. The tooling is updated for this brave new world of ARM cores.
Here's an analogy to help explain the skepticism: ants have amazing efficiency - they can lift multiples of their own body weight. So why can't an ant lift my car? Well, because it's too small. So let's just take the same ant design and scale it up? Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. A creature capable of lifting my car wouldn't be much like an ant.

There is no guarantee that a phone-scale CPU can just become 4x faster by 4x'ing the power/TDP/die area. If it were that easy, Intel would already have done it (and no, the x86 architecture isn't so terribly inefficient that they are leaving triple-digit percentage improvements on the table).

What I expect we'll see are ARM chips that are power and performance competitive with x86 chips only for specific curated use cases. Apple will extract an advantage by putting custom hardware acceleration into them, to cater for those specific tasks. They will not be able to achieve general purpose performance improvements wildly beyond what Intel can already do.

This is how the current iDevices achieve their excellent performance and battery life. Not through raw general-purpose CPU horsepower, but by a finely tuned synergy between hardware and software. Apple are taking their desktop down the same route. This will be the ultimate competitive advantage for their own software - they will be able to move key software components into hardware, and make it look like magic. But as a developer, you won't be able to participate in this unless you target Apple-blessed hardware instructions/APIs. Your Python script isn't going to start running 4x faster unless you can convince Apple to implement its inner loop in custom silicon.

I have no doubt that Apple will be leaning hard into ASIC territory as they build out their new CPUs. The endgame? Every software function you need, baked into perfectly optimised silicon by the monovendor.
What is not working for you? I did the analysis a while back and (I stopped doing kexts back when SIP hit) - I have like no 32bit apps worth keeping (I don't have to use legacy Photoshop).
> Apps that are not that much relevant (since people are too hooked in Firefox/Chrome, Fb/Ig, and Google Maps).

Anecdata: My family uses Safari, Messages, and Maps extensively (and Fb/Ig don't replace Messages, they're something else that gets used.) Don't confuse "tech people" with "real people", there's a world of difference.
> using a consistent design language across platforms

Which means that design conventions that happened to be well-optimized for the platform on which they arose are going to suffer.

But don't worry! All the lost productivity will surely be worth the sacrifice if it only provides the one thing that matters above everything when it comes to product and UX decisions: whether it can be used as a positive bullet point on resumes while they're managing up.
Apple isn’t using any instructions from their CPUs
No surprise, but Throwaway8675309 actually exists on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/user/Throwaway8675309

Also no surprise, the account was active for only ~5 days.
Sounds like your gender is not a problem, since you concede that an investment in your venture would likely be wasted
Would you also like a citation for the statement "racism exists"? There are some truths that are so plainly obvious and supported by mountains of data that it's absurd to demand a citation for them.
> Apple moving to their own ARM based arch on TSMC node next year

Nice timing.
They're usually not dumb enough to say that directly though.
Running Linux is already not very straight forward on modern x86 Apple hardware, it would be extremely surprised to see the ARM Apple running Linux anytime soon.

It'll happen, eventually, when the open source community will reverse engineer them and find how to "jailbreak" them.
> The thing people miss is there are a lot of people out there who haven't been exposed to such ideas.

Every single idea he has is conservative orthodoxy of one kind or another. Nobody living in the Western world has been spared exposure to the ideas he is so in love with. He is just good at failing to explaining them while being as un-concise as possible.
You can do some refinement right now already (from WWDC 2019).

But yes, most models are trained on NVIDIA GPUs that are deep learning. All of the other model types can already be trained on regular CPUs.

https://machinethink.net/blog/coreml-training-part1/
One of my favorite revelations about the network tracing tools (things like `traceroute` and `dig +trace`) that might not be obvious for people like me who work higher up in the stack, is that the data they provide isn't usually made available during "normal" usage. Packets don't just phone home and tell you where they've been. Something else is going on.

When you send a DNS query to a recursive server like your ISP's or something like 1.1.1.1, you make a single DNS query and get back a single response, because the recursive DNS server handles all the different queries that Julia outlines in the post. As the client, we have no idea what steps just happened in the background.

But when you run `dig +trace`, dig is actually pretending to be a recursive name server, and making all those queries itself instead of letting the real recursive name servers do their work. It's a fun hack but that means it's not always 100% accurate to what's going on in the real world [0]

[0] https://serverfault.com/questions/482913/is-dig-trace-always...
> By the same token, if you don't own an iPhone there's no way you'll find "Swipe over on the lock screen to quickly access the camera" because there's no visible indication that it exists

There is though: that side (right) of the lock screen has a tiny camera icon at the bottom on iOS. You can long press that icon directly and open the camera, but it also sort of teaches you that sliding is quicker. (Though it's not entirely consistent because the icon on the other side, for quick access to "flashlight", doesn't help teach you that sliding that side opens the "Today" widget screen.)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-happens-to-boot-camp-if-a...

Seems like it's still possible if Microsoft gets on board. They've already made investments in getting Windows 10 to run on Qualcomm's ARM-based Snapdragon processor.
The first Intel Macs were shipped in January 2006. Rosetta was dropped with the release of 10.7 in July 2011. Five years' support for a discontinued architecture seems rather generous.
Yeah, I've never owned an iOS product. I am aghast that this basic limitation has existed this entire time.
Ha! Police in the U.S. are hilariously bad at solving crimes. Even murders are solved at less than a 50% rate in many cities.
They mentioned running Linux in a VM at least twice in the keynote. I'm not sure why, unless it's an acknowledgement that OS X is no longer a usable development environment.

Linux, like any OS written in the past 30 years, is substantially architecture-independent. My day job involves coding for several devices with Linux kernels on ARM (32bit) and Aarch64 and I have no idea which is which, nor any need to.

[Dis]claimer: I have no long or short in AAPL. Anyone posting or voting in this thread should similarly disclose.
Looking at the arch slide of Apple's announcement about shifting Macs to ARM, they want to people to use them as dev platforms for better iPhone software. Think Siri on chip, Siri with eyes and short term context memory.

And as a byproduct perhaps they will work better for hip young consumers too. Or anyone else who is easily distracted by bright colours and simple pictures, which is nearly all of us.
I just read about this here:

https://talk.tidbits.com/t/psa-catalina-spotlight-is-broken-...

It's one of the most recent reasons I have yet to update to Catalina.
That's less true than it once was. Both that the console APIs abstract way more of the systems than they once did so that console manufacturers can do perf refreshes halfway through the cycle, and that the whole point of Vulkan, et al. is to bring console like programming techniques to full computers since the GPU's MMU means that all you'll do is crash your own process anyway. That all adds up to them needing pretty nice hardware to keep up.
No virtualization for the DTK, apparently.
TSMC doesn't have to hold a lead forever, they just have to win long enough to cripple Intel's R&D income.
In France there were similar issues with the police vs the yellow vests.

(Anti-Riot)Police see themselves as the entity that establishes order at the cusp of disorder.

When you have these kinds of confrontations (it could be internecine for all I care) you’re going to see that kind of human interaction. Neither person is a robot and thus the results are less than ideal.

What is worse is a power vacuum and the resulting gangs and warlordism (unless the community stands up its own local police force) but we’re back to policing.
List-based parser combinators in Haskell and Raku – Wim Vanderbauwhede
I worked for 10tacle some 13 years ago - the company mentioned as a warning flag. The whole operating mode of the company was to buy up companies with borrowed money and run for more investment. There was no will to launch products. Good riddance to them.
I'm on an early 2011 MBP. I've been stuck on High Sierra. There's a patch for Mojave (http://dosdude1.com/mojave/), but honestly I have no reason to really upgrade to it.

The only blocker I've run across so far is that I can't compile Flutter apps for iOS unless I downgrade Flutter. Since I mostly use it to learn and not really leverage, it's not really an issue yet.

I was planning on upgrading to a new MBP next month, but now I'll just wait and see what the ARM machines look like before pulling the trigger on anything.
> I am asking how does Android, Google's Android distribution not anything else, tracks users?

And I am saying it is a pointless thought experiment to separate Google from Android. Next you’ll say it’s the hardware that is android, not the software and ask how the hardware directly tracks users.

Edit: Read my original comment again, you are changing the subject. I haven’t said anything remotely conspiratorial, Google is open about their tracking in android. My point is that Google tracks you on android and if you turn it off your phone becomes crippled and in many cases for no reason except that google wants to make it as painful as possible to turn off data collection. Data collection is their business model after all.
By that logic, it is imperative to bring in all seven billion humans not currently inside the US. We don't know which of those seven billion might suddenly start a Fortune 500 company ex nihilo where we can't take advantage of it.

I volunteer your neighborhood to host the first 500,000; do you have a pull-out bed or a few spare cots we can use?
I'm recording here that I think Finder as shown in Big Sur is actually a Catalyst port of Files.app, and that the next release of macOS will rename Finder to Files.
>Eh? This is a flimsy claim.

Anandtech would like to disagree with your word choice.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...
> Just drop the 10. part.

It's cleaner.
The question is if those plugins are modules (shared objects/dynamic libraries), or if they are used via some sort of IPC to an external process. (or even an XPC service)
A lot of TB devices are reliant on PCIe over TB, so we will have to see if there is a way of exposing a PCI interface or equivalent.
An app the vender thought not worth updating to 64 bit isn’t worth saving.
this has happened to me. In leadership positions it should be either everyone is remote or no-one is remote. In a hybrid setup too many conversations and decisions get made face-to-face and leave out the remote people until way too late in the process. I would get on calls that went like "yesterday, after work we were at dinner and all decided to do X and so made some calls, just fyi".
In France they are enforceable as well, but this means paying someone a compensation.
And this is exactly where the "Defund the Police" movement comes from and seems like an extremely good movement to pursue - shift that budget balance back in favor of specialized agencies that can better support social needs rather than forcing it all onto the police force. I really just wish it had gotten a better name since that title for the idea really divides people before they even open their minds.
My lockscreen on Android also has a camera icon, and when I tap it it says "swipe icon for camera"
That’s a fair point but I was responding to you handwaving away a real problem by coming up with a completely impractical solution, while the article shows the issue has been solved with a solution that works and it really seems you didn’t read it.

I could have worded it a little less aggressive but how can I make that point without addressing you?
I think many of the mathematicians would agree with:

>This "racial bias" is composed of data collected from crime statistics.

They disagree that crime statistics are reflective of where crime occurs. They are more reflective of where police officers are and where crimes are most easily spotted. For example, the racial disparities in policing crack cocaine versus powder cocaine.

Predictive systems that read in biased data will produce biased data.
I have fond memories of Patagonia catalogs when I was a kid. Had a much older brother who could actually afford the stuff, and he'd give us the catalog.

One bummer about the company:

They used to make most of their products in the USA, where environmental regulations are enforced and could be monitored.

The bulk of their manufacturing was outsourced in the last 2 decades. With their price points, it's not like they can't make a profit if they chose to make it here. They just don't.

Pointing this out, because it's an area where companies that have strong brand loyalty and make consumers feel good about things have fallen off. They embrace consumer sentiments on political, racial, and environmental causes, but then pursue fundamental actions that, in practice, radically undermine their stated values.
You missed a step.

Police brutality and systemic racism caused a group to rise up and demand justice. The populace took notice, a movement was formed (BLM) and overall trust in law enforcement was lowered. Crime rose as a result.

It's not "so called" Black Lives Matter, it's "so called" equal and just law enforcement that caused the The "Ferguson Effect"
The pandemic is also used as a reason to stop consular services around the world, in effect stopping any new visa applications even for non-immigrant visas not mentioned in this article.