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A lot of comments here are missing the point of boycotting, it's an expression of power with the concrete goal, it's not individual decisions of whether the mathematicians feel the work is "ethical".

Yes, having more liberals working in policing is probably more inline with the goals of those liberals than not, but that's not the point of a boycott.

If the police can't get the help they need from mathematicians because of a large enough boycott then it gets them to the table and forces them to reform.

I'm not arguing whether or not this will work, or making a value judgement, I just see a lot of comments which don't seem to understand this point.
Thank You! I could not have said that better myself.
How strange. I mean, Xcode shows which architectures you build for. They even mention "armv6", "armv7", "arm64" etc in their own tech notes. https://developer.apple.com/support/required-device-capabili...
Probably. WebGL is only a small subset of OpenGL, so I think it wouldn't be that hard to create a Metal translation layer for it. MoltenGL was already doing this (https://moltengl.com/moltengl/)
Also cool is that you can bind mount the same sqlite backing db file into multiple containers.
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I'm making a guess it'll be it's own series of chip. I also predict that it'll be called the M-Series.
It's been known for a while that Safari/WebKit are integrating the same ANGLE abstraction layer that Chrome uses. That will bring WebGL 2.0 support also. But the progress on that getting anywhere near shipping has been extremely slow. Several years have passed.
It's also illegal to fire someone for a disability or not hire someone because they are a minority but plenty of companies do it anyway.
So if I want to push myself in pursuit of my dreams, I need to sandbag because working hard sets bad precedent for others?

Edit: why is this flagged? Is it not a valid point? If you claim that there is a problem in tech because men are stoic and work long hours even during times of personal hardship, you're effectively shaming these men for working too hard. This is something that needs to be discussed before you start setting policy.
I think the lack of title bars is an issue now. I've found it annoys me most on my web browser, when I have lots of tabs open there is one small section between the 3 dots to minimize/close and the first tab that I can use to move the window.

My guess is that they expect most people to use the application full screen and not to be moving it around. I've got a large monitor and I don't keep my windows full screened so this annoys me.
I am currently rewriting one of my companies site using Hugo, and good part of the reason is to be able to get rid of JS, it keep giving us more trouble than it is worth, constantly.

At first I was afraid my new site would be ugly and all... But I got pleasantly surprised by how good HTML 5 is right now, I am yet to find anything I want to make that I can't make with just HTML and CSS.
No, your assumption is wrong. They kept the money and are now free to go back to Twitch where the real money is. They are clearly the winners here.
They said the same with the Intel transition, and also projected a two year timeline. The transition was over much sooner than that and there weren't any new PPC products to speak of, as far as I remember. And of course, PPC Macs only got one more version of OS X before support for them was dropped.

They're just trying not to Osbourne themselves too badly. They want you to keep buying Intel Macs, but who's to say how long they'll keep support.
My concern is how FB Gaming will be installed/embedded into the Xbox dash. If it's like the current FB SDK, does that mean that FB will be siphoning data off xbox users that don't use FB?
The modern use of "gig" economy is mostly a tax dodge and avoiding classifying them as employees.

That's quite different to say a session musician getting the call can you by at Abby Road tomorrow at 9 "big name star" needs a guitar player.

Gig in the original sense originally a musicians term for a Job
My intention here isn't necessarily to tell you what to use or buy.

1. There is nothing legally binding here, as far as I can tell. Apple software is almost entirely closed source. Zoom told us they were encrypting our stuff, too. I know that Apple can't get away with too much because of their size, but I have a very strong distrust of big tech companies that I'll likely never shake because of the disgusting track record silicon valley has toward privacy and short-sighted profit-making. Take this text for example: "Apple can’t read your iMessages while they’re being sent between you and the person you’re texting." What does it mean that it can't see them while they're being sent? Can they see them once they're at rest? Is this just innocent vagueness of the English language, or sneaky shit? Similarly, they say they can't see your location in Maps. They make no promise with the browser. In fact, they don't promise they aren't snooping on 100% of the stuff in Safari- they only say they try to protect you from other companies tracking you.

2. I don't disagree with you. And I'm just kind of a Luddite because I just don't care if I can run SnapChat or whatever on my phone. I can browse the web with a solid, privacy-respecting, browser (Firefox) with all of the privacy addons I want. I can use that browser to access the things I care about. I do use a closed-source navigation app, unfortunately, but it isn't Google and doesn't require Play services. I lock down its permissions as best I can. I use Signal for most of my messaging needs, which works fine. The one thing I actually do miss is ride-sharing apps when I travel. That's a major inconvenience. But some shitty game or social media app whose entire purpose is to track you (whether you use/trust Apple/Google's OSes or not...)? No thanks, anyway. In fact, I think there's another point in here that most of these apps are tracking the hell out of you, regardless if you trust your phone's OS.
It's astonishing to me how far Intel has fallen in so short a time. I feel like it was only a couple years ago that Intel was understood universally to be the "heavyweight champion of the world" so to speak.

They completely missed the boat on mobile and AMD has leapfrogged them very recently on desktop. On top of that there were the Spectre vulnerabilities which shook confidence even further. This announcement is another huge blow given the extent to which the entire consumer electronics industry tends to follow Apple. I would be interested to hear an insider's perspective on such a rapid decline.
Yes, but probably a native ARM version of Ubuntu rather than an emulated x86 version.
My Apologies. A lesson learnt.
This is "letting the market decide".
What people can do and what the will do have very little in common.

Without the cooperation of my coworkers, bosses, and third party suppliers, very little of what I do will stick, and I have to be clever or at least subtle for that to happen. Any broad-stroke things like 'Just use HTML'? You've got to be kidding.
Thanks for the up to date knowledge!
The OMG JavaScript, parade of articles is tiresome / endless and IMO is trending towards the absurd, and it kinda irks me.

I could really go without ever hearing someone bemoan how they rewrote an internal react site in 10 seconds with two lines of JavaScript, or whatever old wives tale they've got going on. If it was that easy then maybe it also wasn't the end times?

Yeah there's a lot of pages that maybe could get away without JavaScript. But man it's not the 90s anymore, many site owners want lots of dynamic app like behaviors, and there's a real question there between "this reader doesn't want it" and "the person who is paying for the site wants some stuff".

Maybe someone has Homer Simpson's web page level absurdity with JavaScript, and maybe that's Homer's page and that's ok?

The browser now effectively runs apps, so it's not just going to read HTML, that's how it is, and that's a good thing the web does so much more now. Does it do everything we want / how we want/ no ... but I don't buy into the idea of a end user only web where we have to bow to the lowest common denominator as far as acceptable levels of interactivity or tech usage....
The only useful content on the page was not only static text, but static plain text.

If the modern frontend framework can't display that without JS, then I think it's fair to call it a shitty frontend framework.
I built a side project a couple of months ago[1] that’s a PWA-installable interactive experience, but also degrades down to styled information in the absence of JS, and back to raw HTML if CSS fails. It’s surprisingly fun to build in this way.

(On another note, choosing to avoid a framework and just use some vanilla JS led to an extremely fast loading site.)

[1] https://www.designcritiquecards.com/
Generally, your points are well taken. The only quibble I have on a factual basis is here:

> 3. "Censorship" is when a person is not allowed to express their views. That is not what is being proposed here. This is about refusing to hand a megaphone to bad actors.

Censorship, historically, was preventing objectionable books from being published. In many forms of censorship, there was nothing theoretically preventing an author of objectionable books from handwriting them and distributing them privately, so long as they didn't draw too much attention to themselves. The historical censors could have made an identical argument to yours: they were merely depriving the objectionable view of a "megaphone" (the publisher), not eliminating the view entirely.

But given what you have asserted above about the importance of breadth of reach for views, it would seem to me that preventing a view from being widely disseminated in any practical way to people who would otherwise freely choose to read or hear the view is the very essence of censorship.

But more broadly, my real problem with your viewpoint is perfectly exemplified here:

> I also have an IQ in the 90-99th percentile range...

> Relying upon the populace to suddenly become savvy is not realistic.

Firstly, with deep respect, this is incredibly arrogant. But nevertheless, you may be right about this, that only the enlightened and educated few can discern truth from falsity and make informed choices.

But if you are right, don't you see that this undermines the bedrock assumptions and principles of democracy? The masses must be led, and shown the "right" information and protected from the "wrong" information? By whom? And what is to prevent those elite and enlightened few from acting in their own interests rather than those of the ignorant mob?

I see within your argument, which may not be factually wrong, a powerful argument in favor of authoritarianism and oligarchy. Any argument that leads to such conclusions is worth a fair amount of scrutiny, no?

Even if it is a fiction that all voters are equally intelligent and informed, sometimes we have found that certain fictions are very important prerequisites for creating a desirable society. For example, the fiction that "all men are created equal". They aren't. But we use that fiction in very important ways to create a more just and equal society. Another is the fiction of free will. Free will does not exist. But still, we treat people as if they had free will, because the alternative is disempowering and decouples people from any responsibility for their actions.

So, I think "the demos makes more-or-less informed choices that are more-or-less in its own self-interest" is another of those necessary fictions, necessary to prevent us from regressing to feudalism or worse.
That's more work and more messy than just writing the whole thing as a SPA from the beginning IME. I'm talking about real interactive applications, not simple blogs.
> Profits and revenue are nice, but if Apple was interested in that they could dual source x86 from AMD and drive cost down.

If Apple could do that and play it to their advantage, they would have done so a long time ago.

Higher margins and profits are the drivers in the end. Strategic control or not is just a way they use to achieve that. It is a publicly traded company, after all.

> You don’t think companies like Oculus are envious of Apple’s flexibility from not having to rely on Qualcomm for their mobile SoCs?

I doubt Oculus cares given their goal. There are pros and cons of vertically integrating an entire company into one.
I'm still confused on what part of the documentation confused you. Like the fact that it keeps going when some users can stop?

Regardless "where did it go wrong?". Well, nowhere. If you think its wrong now, it was wrong always. There was never a point where stripe could magically write your backend integration with it. The 7 lines always referred to client side integration, enough code that a customer could give you money.

Shopify isn't in the same niche as stripe. I don't know if the deal changed, but Shopify payments was built on stripe. It uses stripe under the hood.

Shopify is not a payment handler, it handles making an online shop.
"censorship"

sorry, but it's business.
This is likely a larger reason for the move than the perf/efficiency. Apple likes to ship "premium" products, which forces them into the premium/high margin price tiers with intel/etc.

So they will gain a bit with a product laser focused on its market, but alongside that, they won't be paying the kings ransom intel wants for a couple additional cores, or a couple Mhz boost. So they can simplify the binning into best in class, and good yields for the volume product, and pocket the margins on the best in class product segment rather than giving it all to intel.
It's okay to copy a product. You just have to do it better. And Mixer wasn't even close. I actually liked Mixer's video quality more than Twitch, but that's not what makes Twitch fun for users...
My team did an implementation of alpha zero connect four a couple of years ago. Our findings are in a series of blog posts starting at https://medium.com/oracledevs/lessons-from-implementing-alph.... We didn't manage to get to perfection either on policy, but got pretty close. You can play against some versions of the network here: https://azfour.com
I searched this thread for Thunderbolt and USB and nothing.

The only way this can work if they implement USB 4. That's earlier than expected but not by much. USB 4 came out last September and everyone was guesstimating 18 months before the first systems ship with it. AMD shipping it with the Ryzen 4xxx laptop chips would've been a really big win but apparently it was too early. And now, as with Thunderbolt, it seems Apple will be the first.

As far as I understand these things, you can connect a TB3 device to a full featured USB 4 port (which Intel plans to market as TB4 just to increase confusion as if there isn't of that around USB C). Not necessarily the other way around: the USB 4 bus while compatible with the TB3 bus, can contain USB packets, TB3 only carried PCIe and DP packets.

Areca has an amazing SAN-in-a-box product: it's a 24 bay 4U RAID box which allows as many as nine TB3 hosts to connect to it at the same time and it's immensely popular with various movie / TV show production. It's less than 10K USD which is an absolute bargain for the capabilities. Consider the 2K price of just one 40gbps Ethernet to TB3 adapter which you'd need for a traditional SAN.

Devices like these make TB3 compatibility an absolute must for Macbooks.
I’m surprised at all the negative takes. I thought it was refreshing, they’re reintroducing colours and icons, cleaning up and using a consistent design language across platforms, and introducing new, well tested convenience features.
You can, but you will not get ad money (which requires Affiliate/partner).
Yeah VPN works perfectly but I'm not a big fan of it I have to use it all the time just to watch Twitch
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I imagine they may use a mass amount of SOCs. Keep in mind that their Laptop game plan may be to build CPUs to the Max limits of the TDP and then use their (rather incredible) power management system to reduce power far below Intel chips for normal use. This is the iPad Game-plan, the chip is rarely ever fully hammered. You may see a 12 core Macbook Air capable of (unsustained) desktop Ryzen-level performance but it will generally be ran as 6 low power cores and one or two high power cores, with bursts of insanity when needed. If you can pool a few of those together, it would be easy to beat Intel's server offerings.
Personally I’ve had zero issues upgrading to Catalina, it seems to perform better than Mojave for me, and more stable too.
This would be huge boon for American Workers
I'm sure many of us can empathize with your struggles, but starting a gender flamewar is not a valid way to express them on Hacker News, so please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's also their site... to make how they want.
TBH I only go to GH to access other people's projects.

If I have to use git, I use GitLab...
> They will lock down their PCs like the iPhone.

Did they say that in the keynote?
> What happens to GPU? Having their own GPU for iMac and Mac Pro as well? Dual GPU options where Apple GPU for power efficiency? This feels like additional complexity.

I think GPU scaling will be much harder than CPU, so whereas Apple can surpass Intel CPUs for all but the highest segments, putting together a standalone GPU will be hard and very interesting to see. For an entry-level GPU? No issues. But what about a midrange (AMD RX 5700XT or Nvidia 2070S)? And not to mention the top-tier Nvidia 2080ti.

The other unspoken risk is that while Apple may be vertically integrating its SOC, it still relies on a fab like TSMC. Intel's recent problem is rooted in their inability to move off legacy 14nm fabrication process. TSMC may have done great in 7nm and now to 5nm transition, but what happens if/when they stumble? Would Apple also want to acquire them or build its own fabs to mitigate this risk?
It was about time. The architecture has so much technical baggage. I don't even think it was intended to last that long.
How did they do the metacircular evaluator parts of the book in Python? That is one of the parts where the homoiconicity of Scheme really shines. Python just doesn't have that.
Not if the patrols they are sending have been taught to see all of the people in those places as targets. Police can literally make things worse. Even the victims of crime often don't want police there.

This has been known in those communities for decades. It's only the most obvious, well-documented brutality that has begun to make other people aware of it. It's the broad reaction to that brutality, where other police and their strongest supporters reflexively excuse the inexcusable, that have made people like these mathematicians realize that sending the police doesn't solve the problems that their models are pinpointing.

If the mathematicians want to help people, they'll model the broader causes of poverty, injustice, and inequality. Then we can try to solve the real problems, rather than "I heard there was a problem, let's send in people with guns until it gets better."
find it terrifying how few companies dare to take a stand on a topic. It's refreshing to see morals enter business.

In an abstract sense this is no different than a company deciding not to do business with a certain race. It just so happens this time that you agree with it. But next time you might not and by then the precedent has been set.
It gets hairy quickly. Do you own your DNA sequence? You could say it's essentially just data. Would you be opposed to a company patenting your DNA and profiting off it?
> So, I’m predicting an MBP 13 - 16 range with an extra three hours of battery life+f

I predict they'll have the same battery life. Any savings will be used to reduce the battery size.
They still make more money than ever. It's mostly DC driven and many companies are probably looking at alternatives.
The 'proactive' is just driving or walking around a neighborhood. It isn't (necessarily) doing things like stop and frisk or just going around accosting random people on the street.
If you're the kind of person who is really picky about how your desktop behaves, but you also can't be bothered to spend 5 minutes configuring it, Android is not for you.
I disagree that 6502 -> 68k was a "transition." The Apple II and Mac were two separate product lines. The three major early home computer companies (Apple, Atari, Commodore) all did this.
We are talking about wired performance here.

I worked on the CPE team for Google Fiber, and indeed, WiFi performance is something that we spent a lot of time on and never got perfect. The average ISP using off-the-shelf CPE doesn't stand a chance. I fear that the CPE is not the problem in my friend's case, and the ISP is just aggressively oversubscribing, and so nothing can be done. Switching to the business plan won't make a difference unless they drop all consumer traffic whenever the business subscriber needs to send and receive, and they are not charging enough money to lead me to believe they're doing that. I don't know anything about DOCSIS, though... I have worked at two ISPs and they both used GPON. The limitations of GPON, however, I understand well ;)
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No! You’re supposed to grumble about how bad everything is and how Apple is losing it’s touch. Don’t you know the WWDC spiel?
You mean like the numerous calls from many top GOP lawmakers to dox the Ukraine scandal whistleblower?

Probably dozens of tweets just from the president and not one was censored.
Certain caves were used as speakeasies in the 1920s, too. Mobsters who had an "agreement" with the Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul to not cause trouble in exchange for not being arrested/pursued up here could spend time drinking and gambling in peace.
Their UI has a lot of these annoying issues and they never seemed to get around to fixing them.

My other favourites:

1) UI is all muted and grey which is great because it allows you to focus on your code, issues etc. Well except for the Thumbs Up/Down buttons which are a bright yellow and the only thing to stand out. And it's a feature that serves no purpose in most cases.

2) Report Abuse button is next to the New Issue button. But it's given the same size and prominence. Is abuse really as common as creating new issues ?

3) Backgrounds. Some are light grey. Some are dark grey. Some buttons background is filled, others solid.
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I agree with you but I think we are going to see at least one A12Z consumer product (other than the iPad) probably going to be a rereleased MacBook with a better keyboard.
Is it just me or is this just the beginning of the ultimate walled garden?
That might explain why all but the top line version of the barely-refreshed 13+ MacBook Pro are missing Intel's 10th-gen processors.

Sandbag the upgrade for the 13" so it's not that desirable and you won't cannibalize your own demand for the release of the first Apple Silicon machine
> I urge you to read Minority Report, or watch the movie.

This is fiction.
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Yes, very much this time.

There's always a great cycle where they cherry pick the best from each other and Android adopted a bunch of things recently like gesture navigation but it's definitely seeming like it's a major catch up from Apple this time with things like on device voice dictation and the general layout / widgets. Less so for the simpler items but for various of these cutting edge items it's been a shame they've been so narrowly deployed on Android where they've mostly been for Pixel only.
You think these 2 years is also the number of macOS versions that will keep supporting Intel?
>Heat management of these systems will become the major contributor for environmental pollution

Here's an idea, maybe we should just turn the moon into a giant data center?
As they are a relatively new player, I wonder: how many patents of Intel/AMD/Nvidia will they infringe on?
then you can do it, and some streamers do.