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This is part of it, but I imagine there was a lot of sunk cost in there as well.

Imagine: you're in charge of Apple's new keyboard. You spend a bunch of time and money making the thing as thin as possible, because that's the overall design trajectory.

Of course, you test this thing internally, and it's okay. It takes a little while to get used to, but isn't awful to type on, and a few months of stress testing seem to indicate that this thing will work in the real world with an acceptable defect rate.

Besides, your management chain loves this thing, because It's Thinner(tm).

And then, you ship it, and discover that this thing breaks way more often in the real world.

But, because Apple, you're a company that never publicly admits to doing anything wrong (because lawsuits), which takes customer feedback with an overly-critical eye (philistines must be using it wrong), and which is more likely to spend it's entire capitalization on cat treats than it is to interrupt an ongoing hardware design cycle.

It's not just management -- it's the company culture.

On the one hand, this enables them to do bold things and endure incredible criticism before being proven right. The iPod, no optical disks, bundled GPUs, AirPods, etc.

On the other hand, this enables them to do bold things and endure incredible criticism before being shown horribly, horribly wrong. The snowflake keyboard, the touchbar, the iPhone antenna, etc.

I also suspect this is why Apple's hardware design is just so overall excellent. They identify perfection, and relentlessly pursue it. Sometimes Apple gets it wrong, and it shows, but when they get it right, they get it really right.
The alternative theory is that the installer is spending a very very long amount of time (on my computer i bet that would take at least ten minutes) scanning every file on my disk to look up the declared size and totaling it to check whether the size of the disk minus that number is enough disk space, which is so absolutely ridiculous of a premise that I don't even know how it is being taken seriously.
I was re-watching that old keynote and its great when things like this line up.

I like that this time they lined up design changes + hardware -- and that this time hardware was the reason to bump the version.

Like, we saw Intel transition in 10.3-ish, no more Rosetta in 10.7, entirely new design + Swift in 10.10, Catalyst and SwiftUI (brand new frameworks) in 10.15, but new design + ARM was the push for 11.

I like this trend of hardware being the "major" version bump but now I'm curious what kinda space-age paradigm macOS 12 will be breaking. "real" 3D touch? Brain-computer interfaces? I can dream, okay?!
Yeah, I already WFH in a team where half were in-office, and despite having great rapport and them clearly trying to include us fully, I still felt a clear improvement when everyone went WFH.
Oops. Must have been 2007 that I bought ARMH. I was working at Google at the time, and I had an iPhone, and Google had announced they were working on a smartphone. Some of my colleagues were internally beta-testing the G1 at the time, but it was before we all got G1s for end-of-year bonuses. I think December 2007 was the first year we got Andraid phones instead of (non-performance-based) cash for the holidays.

1) I thought the case for high-density/low-power ARM in the datacenter was pretty clear-cut, but it was an obvious enough market that within a few multi-year design cycles, Intel would close the gap with Atoms and close that window of opportunity forever, especially considering Intel's long-running fabrication process competitive advantage. In late 2012, one of my friends in the finance industry wanted to be "a fly on the wall" in an email conversation between me and a hedge fund manager he really respected who had posted on SeekingAlpha that his fund was massively short ARMH. A few email back-and-forths shook my confidence enough to convince me that the server market window had closed, and that it was possible (though unlikely) that Atom was about to take over the smartphone market. I reduced my position at that time by just enough to guarantee I'd break even if ARMH dropped to zero. In hindsight, I'm still not sure that was the wrong thing to do given what I knew at the time. I had two initial thesies: the smartphone thesis had played out and was more-or-less believed by everyone in the market, and the server thesis was reaching the end of that design window and I was worried that Intel was not far from releasing an ARM-killer Atom, backed up by the arguments of this hedge fund manager. I'm really glad the hedge fund manager didn't spook me enough to close out my position entirely.

2) I'm not a great stock picker. I've had some great calls and had about as many pretty bad calls. I'm now doing software development, but my degree is in Mechanical Engineering, and I took a CPU design course (MIT's 6.004) back in college. I think my edge over the market is realizing when the market is under-appreciating a really good piece of engineering, though I punch well below my weight in the actual business side analysis.

Jim Keller is a superstar engineer, who attracted other superstars, and I don't think the market ever really figured that out. Jim Keller retired now, so there goes about half my investment edge. Though, maybe I'm just deluding myself on the impact really good engineering really has on the business side.
Excuse me. That was not snark, but a 100% serious comment that comes from a core part of my worldview.

If you're actually trying to contribute to the discussion, it follows that you would try to convey the insights you've learned from Minority Report in a way that can help others to appreciate what you think is important.

You're right -- it could very well be that you have some deep insight you gained from Minority Report, but simply refuse to say it, even as you post on this forum, and even as you demand others take the time to watch it based on nothing but that demand. I was aware of this possibility, but ignored it, because that would speak very poorly of you, to take the time to post and yet share nothing of what you learned.

What's more likely is that you have nothing to share, because you simply had the feeling of insight, but without any of the substance that would allow you to share what you've learned. The fact that you so steadfastly refuse to share means you probably never gained the insight to begin with. That's why I made the comment: to distinguish between false and real insight, you need to do a check about whether you can actually share with others what you learned without them having to set aside the three hours that you did.

That's not snark, it's good epistemic hygiene and respect for others' time in a discussion. I do hope you take the advice seriously next time.
This is awesome, although part of the traffic problem is the horrible condition of the roads around Seattle, and a failure to enforce basic traffic laws - specifically - the left lane is for passing, and probably more importantly, do not stop in an intersection. Just because the light is yellow, doesn't mean we need to stack more cars into the middle of the road.

I walked to work (when I lived in Seattle recently) but the amount of traffic jams I saw caused by both regular people in their cars, and the mass transit bus drivers, driving right into an intersection as the light turned red is crazy. I don't know how you can plan traffic flow around it, because as green as the light might be, no one is moving with a bus sitting in the middle of the intersection.
I don't think I'm disagreeing here. Economic justice would go a long way. Still though, for the time being a black person is absolutely going to be profiled and have more police contact, and even if they have a lot of money. People don't stop doing that overnight. Its a cultural thing.
The internet issue is a security one. Imagine what would happen if someone could make lights green in 2 directions.

To the first point, the networked lights are already in this mode (it's the reason why they added it in the first place). I can't find the report right now but upgrading all of the signals on 2nd from Denny to Yesler cost something like 30 million bucks.

The upgrade in the Mercer project area isn't exactly a glowing success:

https://www.theurbanist.org/2018/09/06/eleven-ways-adaptive-...
One third of those died as newborns, and another third died before their first birthday. Once they hit their first birthday, the risk of a child dying before five is indeed about twice as high as in the highest income countries, and it's not "lack of supervision" that kills them - it's measles, malaria, diarrhoea and starvation. This is not evidence that western parenting is what keeps their kids alive.
Doing the math:

GTX 1080: 42.81 mm^2 per billion transistors. 41.53 mm^2 per TFLOP. 0.97 billion transistors per TFLOP.

RTX 3080: 15.55 mm^2 per billion transistors. 33.17 mm^2 per TFLOP. 2.13 billion transistors per TFLOP.

They scale well for transistors against die size, and TFLOP against die size, but terribly in transistors per TFLOP? That can't be right.

Checking https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3080-ti.c3... I now see it says "Based on speculation / placeholder", which makes me think it's all just totally made up, and not reliable evidence to declare the death of Moore just yet.
Ralph Abernathy and Walter Mondale supported Ceasar Chavez's marches to fight against illegal immigration. Ronald Reagan had no problems with using such strikebreakers
CPU’s do not mostly run idle, if my CPU usage indicator is accurate.
I’d say because it added support to their ARM chips.
Silicon Valley doesn’t really like people with family obligations. In interviews in my 30s, I found myself hiding the fact that I had children. Once a recruiter, trying to lure me away from a stable company for a startup, told me that I better take my risks while I still could, before I had children (I had 2).

I grew up in SF and I’m pushing 50. The population of children in SF has dropped to a little more that half of what it was when I was born. That’s an urban trend overall, but SF is an especially glaring example. What can I say? Kids are expensive and don’t pay rent, and parents have to compete for housing with people who Factor in income from renting out that “spare” bedroom on Airbnb.

Tech in the Bay Area would really rather you didn’t have kids.
They tried to jump too far with intel 10nm. The process node names no longer represent actual transistor size, they just indicate a new generation. With intel 10nm they took a risk and tried to shirk the die more then would normally happen in generation jump. If it worked it would put them a whole generation ahead of TSMC and secure process leadership. But physics bit them in the ass. It turned out that shirking that small was much harder then they thought, and the cells they were using were not robust enough to handle it.

Instead of putting them way ahead it cost them years of recovery and let AMD sneak up from behind.
The full length top-to-bottom sidebar is a big improvement on MacOS and IPadOS. The full with titlebar was never optimal for wide screens.
>The difference between McDonald's midrange line and, say, a burger at a restaurant for $18 is negligible in flavor.

Oh come on. I get that you're trying to make a point but this is ridiculous.
Measuring work output for most white collar workers has been problematic since forever.
If anyone happens to know of a particularly good article on this for non-javascript (but technical) people, please post.
Purely analog circuits, including those with digital functions as an ancillary feature, are never on the latest process node. Analog functions don’t scale down well, high drive currents or voltage support require minimum feature sizes. The notable increase per node in terms of frequency support would be wasted even on parts operating up to the gigahertz range. Even the most aggressive analog circuits, like current RF-CMOS designs, are only released when the node is a few generations old. The process control required to get them functional within usable tolerances for analog circuits like current mirrors and differential pairs is greater than what digital designs demand
some isps are even running their own streaming services!
That article you posted is just stupid. Yes, maybe now people won't be pressing buttons, but COVID won't be around forever. In a few months/years/whatever the pedestrian button will still be around, people will still press them, and they will still be a valid solution to traffic. The article also says:

> These buttons have long been decried and criticized by advocates for walking, anyway. The buttons’ purpose is less to keep people safe than to reinforce the primacy of cars on the street by forcing people who want to cross a street to “beg” for a walk signal.

This makes it sound like buttons are some kind of implement of the bourgeoise, used to "reinforce the primacy of cars" and keep the pedestrians powerless. In reality, whether pedestrians like it or not, cars are primary. The roads literally exist for cars. As a pedestrian, I would do the very difficult task of pressing a button, if it meant that as a driver I could have less traffic and hit less red lights.
This perspective is a tragedy, and is just not the case.

Guess what--It's hard to get a good job with a criminal record, and it's easy to have a criminal record when you are black/brown.

So you take a bad job. And with that job, you remain so poor that you cannot handle the slightest emergency. A huge bill or disaster in your life (medical; car; legal) can pretty much end you. If you don't have a strong network to support you, you become homeless.

How do you reconcile the fact that most homeless people have some sort of family structure that is not homeless? I've never seen any evidence that homelessness is an inherited condition.

You blame both will power and genetics. Why are you so anxious to believe that society has no role in creating or solving this problem? If you make access to education equitable; if you don't ruin people's ability to engage with the economy with drug offenses that statistically appear quite racist in their skew; if you treat mental problems with medical assistance rather than criminal justice systems; if you regulate housing markets to prioritize making housing affordable rather than prioritize generating passive income for upper classes-- you can have a meaningful reduction of homelessness.
We'll see ... personally I think the proof is in the pudding that despite having had these designs on the drawing board for 60+ years, there hasn't even been a single complete rocket that's ever materialized for any of them, let alone a successful mission. Contrast that with the thousands of successful missions using chemical rockets over that time period.

So it's not overstating it to say that there are some problems with nuclear thermal rockets, otherwise they would be commonplace by now.
IMHO, it's integration. znpy was correct, but incomplete: GitLab ships with CI/CD, secrets management via Vault, AWS ECS integration, Kubernetes integration, issue tracking, wiki, an artifact repository for 5 major package types, metrics, alerts, and even a full-blown Slack competitor (optional, of course)

You can absolutely integrate your favorite, and/or best of breed, tools with any git hosting software that you'd like -- but that takes non-zero time to do and upgrading them will also be non-zero time. GitLab ships like a machine every month, and it seems this feature announcement is representative of the caliber of every release
Sure, I'm not saying that the military would own their own fab, just that (like we see with TSMC opening a fab in Arizona) a properly motivated military would heavily subsidize the creation of fabs where they can be assured physical security more than they possibly could on foreign soil.
> I doubt anyone would willingly buy a car when they knew upfront that it was only able to drive to xyz.

Because there is competition. If there was one or two car manufacturers following similar practices you have no alternative.

Some people say "if don't like it build your own phone". Well, that's like asking a bar to be a car manufacturer to be able to sell food and drinks.
You can always do what companies like yours have already done to residents: Have the H1B visa holders train the residents, and leave the H1B visa holders out of a job.
Does that sound unpleasant to you? Trust me, anyone on the shorter end of any stick isn't going to like it.
My question is, why preference H1B holders over residents?
Maybe your area of interest is dominated by older programmer solving problems in languages they're most familiar with, which wouldn't be a recent(ish) one.

I get the vibe from this comment that you think people are doing entirely unimpressive work in Python, PHP, JS, and C#.
PHP seems to more or less be WordPress + extremely vulnerable packages if you don't update with great regularity, so I'll reluctantly agree. What about Python - machine learning, neural networks, and a common interface for scientists and more SWE types. C# - Unity games is an obvious example, but dotnet core looks very nice too.

I guess a better question would be, what _do_ you find impressive?
I really wish there were consistent title-bars. Windows 95 nailed this. It's really nice to immediately know where to click to move something out of your way.
Yeah, Taleb is a tough one. His books and ideas have done more to change my thinking than almost anything else I have read. I recently got through Skin in the Game (finally!) adn it was head exploding especially in the light of Covid-19. I would rank it above his other books though he ranks Anti-Fragile as his most important work.

Some reasons Taleb comes off as so intransigent and just obstinate in real-life is two fold -

1) He sees as profoundly evil the privatization of profits and socialization of risks (banks) and sees "no consequence" professions - economists, experts, bureaucrats, war mongers, politicians and intellectuals as deeply unethical and predatory.

2) He went through a phase which he talks about in Anti Fragile, after the publication of Black Swan that he actually had to get security and was broadly shunned by the financial and intellectual elite which went against them. He is also independently wealthy and has learnt to inoculate himself to the circular congratulatory world of honors, awards, citations etc.

Taleb has been right about a lot of things and obviously wrong about few. However that is a difficult yardstick to measure on when the events he is talking about unfold once every 100 years or longer. It takes immense courage to make a stand on things that might never happen in your lifetime. For example he has been talking about the risks of pandemics for years and wrote a very prescient piece on Covid-19 in Jan. Now, China could have very well stopped Covid-19 in its tracks like they did SARs and we would have been spared and he would have looked like a fear monger. However it was the right call for Taleb to make and that is true courage.

I began reading Taleb when Fooled by Randomness came out in the early 200s. Read The Black Swan and then stopped because I did not find his work prescriptive. Recently got through the rest of his books and wished I had read them much much earlier. Now I plan to re-read them every two years.

Most intellectuals, including the general population of HN, have an almost allergic reaction to Taleb. They find him pompous, insufferable, unscientific, unoriginal and the rest. To each his own but it would behoove anyone who generally cares about how the world works to give the Incerto a read with an open mind.

BTW he is hugely bullish on the value of startups to both individuals and society (Anti-Fragile and Skin In the Game).
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Could be that they are simply responding to different ways of pronouncing vowels? This is something most ESL speakers have problems with, for example. I.e. the "o" sound in "love" is somewhere between the Russian "o" and "a", and "a" sound in "land" is somewhere between the Russian "a" and "э". English speakers are attuned to such minute differences. Russian speakers are not, which is why if you ask them to pronounce the word "fax", they'll pronounce it as "fucks". :-)
Why do you quote magical as if someone said that.

Further, your point is that Apple chips are faster because of easily replicated reasons. Intel is charging hundreds of dollars for their chip -- you should charge them some consulting fees and tell them how easy this is to boost their performance! This isn't even considering that your whole analysis is flawed to begin with and you're comparing apples and oranges.
I’m finding the cohesive OS arguments a little ridiculous.

For one thing, it’s not like cohesion was achieved by bringing in the best parts of OSX and the best parts of iOS. Cohesion has been achieved by transforming the OSX UI into iOS’s to the extent possible. Apple has been clever to do it bit by bit but using OSX from 10 years ago to today, you can feel the alienation.

The other part is that until a few years ago Apple was the biggest proponent of the idea that a Mac, with its pixel perfect input mechanism, and a keyboard, and iOS whose input was fingers, should not have a similar UI. Their execs scoffed at Microsoft’s attempts to make a device which when in laptop mode ran traditional windows but in tablet mode ran a version of windows optimized for touch. Somehow those UI concerns have evaporated for no good reason.
Looks like I need to start learning julia
Tech IPOs usually find there way to the top of the page since that is viewed as a major milestone for any company, especially fast growth startups
It’s amazing how much people want coffee to be bad for you. That’s been a constant for at least hundreds of years.
Other comment about initiators is probably more useful for your use-case but there are also "Event Listener Breakpoints" in the sources tab in chrome dev tools. You can use mouse->click to figure out what most buttons are doing (you may have to step through a couple onclick handlers to get to the one you want).
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Tutorial: How to push data in a Google Sheet via “API”
Yup. Really hard to justify this risk in Florida right now just for a restaurant meal. I wouldn't do it.
Life Cycles of Tech Giants
> due precisely to this observed tendency to spot where the social and monetary rewards are (management, other social roles "above" developers) almost immediately and start aiming for that ASAP.

Women are not identifying the most socially/financially rewarding positions in tech and aiming for them ASAP. Women in tech are getting told "gosh you are so good at communicating and being literate have you considered being a PM or a manager or any other non-technical role?"
Right, but an integration of a dotnet like this is going to need to be maintained across versions, and 2021 is just 6 months from now. It is unlikely that a big version increment like this will be less than painful for such an integration, while standard code bases of C++ code probably will have relatively straight forward upgrade paths, though not necessarily trivial.

So if you want to use Unreal, consider just learning C++ as you go. That's my only point.
I believe the Rosetta technology was licenced from another company and the licence expired.
So how do you get a web server to take advantage of a hardware gzip accelerator? Is there like a custom nginx plugin that points to a custom driver? Seems very cool and I've never heard of something like this.
> It's a stupendously efficient and effective engine.

You have to add the weight of a pusher plate system, and account for blasts still happening quite a distance from it.

Your ISP will vary wildly depending how much "fuel" you will carry, and what yields.

To beat a nerva, it will definitely need to be patently gigantic
is it (a)you don't think more people would be robbed at gunpoint without a police force around, or (b) you don't think it's a big deal to get robbed at gunpoint