skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was where I saw the article, but I think the original one is gone. It was a while ago: https://m.slashdot.org/story/175407

Here's Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20121014135435/http://www.chipwo...

The money shot:

"So this is the first Apple core we’ve seen done with custom digital layout. In fact, with the exception of Intel CPUs, it’s one of the first custom laid out digital cores we’ve seen in years! This must have taken a large team of layout engineers quite a long time. The obvious question is, why? This is a more expensive and time-consuming method of layout. However it usually results in a faster maximum clock rate, and sometimes results in higher density. Certainly one possibility is that Apple could not meet timing on a automatically laid out block, and chose to go with a custom laid out block. Was this a decision at the architecture stage, or did timing fail late in the design cycle and a SWAT team of layout engineers brought in to save the day? We’ll probably never know, but it is fascinating, and also 2X faster (according to the below image)"

So layout; not design. My brother is the one that does this kind of thing; not me.
This is possible on Android today and has been possible since Android launched. I use Firefox as my default browser, and Gmail opens links in there. It is up to iOS to provide APIs that make this possible.
never leave slack in the foreground.
re: “red staters”, you would be quite surprised how bipartisan the fly fishing community is. And how into it Choiunard and thus Patagonia are.

i know this is a fighting word, but eco/conservation groups are a lot more intersectional and (in the US) bipartisan than you’d potentially expect.
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Sure, and how does this not describe out-of-field tech workers and PhD havers pontificating over a bunch of questions where their job and/or reputation isn't on the line? I see plenty of people on here doing it in my field, and a cursory look at my post history will easily show I do the same in others (and with a throwaway account at that). It's just a thing we do, it seems ;-) nothing wrong with that as long as we're aware it's more of a self-indulgence than any kind of intellectual posturing. In that Taleb is useful as he keeps us honest, even if he's an asshole about it.
Totally agree. But imagine how much the problem becomes exacerbated when you have some employees in the offices, and others not!
"In this day and age" we can distinguish between someone being racist and systemic racism.
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The latter could be accomplished by shipping a privacy-championing browser that enables those behavior by default (Brave? Apple?).

You're saying the low levels of adoption of such technologies are indicative of users' subpar technical skills, but maybe it's just general apathy and disinterest? E.g., how many public protests and calls to action have we seen after Snowden revelations?

FWIW, the former is already prevalent among younger generations, with Instagram for their "public" life and f-Insta for everything private.
The contrast changes seem varied. For some features they've increased contrast: "windows" are now white with black-ish icons. You can't get a higher contrast ratio. Other features have received the translucency treatment, and seem to have lower contrast.

I'm excited to try it all out, but also unsure how comfortable I'm gonna find it. The large white expanses seem glaringly over-bright to me, at first glance.
>Actively court American companies to set up shop in EU

They have already been doing that pretty actively for quite a while. Doesn't seem to help much, if at all. Have you seen how much those American companies are paying to their employees in the EU? It is a joke compared to how much they pay in the US, and even with that in mind, their pay is still well above local equivalent companies. And it isn't due to differences in cost of living, just take a look at how much FB London pays (yes, I am aware that UK is not a part of EU, but the point still stands; I just simply picked one of the biggest "hub" cities in the are with very high COL).

>The global market is filled with tech workers who would otherwise be sucked in by the US. Give them visas.

EU doesn't suffer from a lack of talented individuals who have a desire and skills to start their own tech company. There have been countless discussions on this topic on HN, and the hard truth is that the governments in EU are simply not providing a conductive environment for those tech startups to flourish into internationally known giants. And the whole EU fragmentation due to wildly different legislations and language/culture barriers on a per-country basis isn't helping the matter either.
Traceroute’s trick is amusing. It abuses the TTL field, sending out packets with too-low TTLs and waiting to see who complains about them. When layers reveal themselves they are doing it voluntarily, and those wise to the game can choose not to participate, or to troll it.

https://www.theregister.com/2013/02/15/star_wars_traceroute/
For a H4 visa, what's that travel document? My spouse has a visa but not sure what's this official travel document is.
Disclaimer: I'm speculating on the reason: There may not be a standardized URL scheme for mapping applications whereas both e-mail and browsers have it already (http(s): and mailto:).
It's possible though! Apple could define a standard and say "that's how you can open maps" but currently it's a moving target as mapping applications support varying features like directions with waypoints, POI searches, general searches, area selections, etc. They'd have to settle on some standard that Apple Maps support which almost is guaranteed to not support several Google Maps features.
Quite possibly the most stupid article I've ever read.
Intel currently doesn't have enough capacity to make their own chips and are rumored to be outsourcing to Global Foundries as a result ( https://wccftech.com/rumor-intel-moving-select-cpus-to-globa... - huge grain of salt on this one ofc, but the supply constraints on Intel's fabs are well known - they mentioned it even at their earnings call) - why would they stop making their own products to make Apple's instead? Apple'd have to pay an absurd amount for that to make sense.
And leaking memory is actually a valid tactic when you're writing software for financial systems that have scheduled times to turn off.

In various HFTFs GC is completely disabled since that valuable cpu time is useful for other things.
I think you mean Camden, NJ.
How do you reflect neutrons? I thought they could only be absorbed?
I'd love to believe the premise of this article, but this seems easily falsified by the real world. China has become rich, and is becoming more so, and it is controlled by a small elite.
Agreed - CPUs (at the end at least) were fine. Also they were probably looking for bigger margins than were available.

General point is that I think that Arm has a small architectural advantage due to lack of cruft but that other factors are usually more important - e.g. the resources and quality of team behind implementation.
I don't see it as a sign of "doom," but rather more regression. It took YEARS for Apple to admit that their keyboards were shit, and they still haven't admitted that the emoji bar on their so-called "pro" computers is an embarrassing and failed gimmick. In fact, they've doubled down on it and now don't offer ANY proper laptop keyboard.

But that's off-topic to some extent; I scanned through this page looking for some good news for developers. Topping my list is support for SVG assets. NOPE. WTF? Android has had this how long? Apple's "@2x", "@3X" bitmaps were amateur-hour to begin with, but a decade later? No vector support?

Come on.

And still no user-definable color schemes. Windows (and Unix GUIs, for that matter) had them for decades, while Apple forced its late-'80s inverse scheme on every user that whole time. The hard-coded "dark" theme is a half-baked, belated admission that staring into a glaring light bulb with black text on its surface all day may not be the best way to work.

This would also have been a great time to abandon the single menu bar, but nope; that poor decision continues to plague Mac users. Really, this should have been canned in the transition to OS X, but now there's even less of an excuse.

I'm sure there will be some good changes, but from this list I'm not encouraged. Getting rid of the distinction between toolbar and app content... WHY? The "flat UI" experiment was a failure. Let's continue to take tasteful steps back toward GUIs that communicate in universal visual terms whenever possible.
> Apple ported many Pro Apps to ARM , especially their Logic Pro, Photoshop and they were showcasing Maya on ARM. That is about as Pro as it gets for Mac.
> That reads to me Apple isn't going to have Intel for some high end Pro machine.

That conclusion seems a bit too far fetched from my point of view.
There are many users that use Logic on a MBP and with Photoshop it's even more common to use it on a Laptop.

Sooner or later a ARM MacPro is comming but if i'd had to guess i'd say that will take a while.
There were 6 years between trashcan and the current cheese grater. So maybe 2025 then ;)
40 years of austerity? Last I checked federal, state and local budgets are several-fold bigger than 40 years ago, even accounting for inflation.
Aside, I was terribly disappointed to not read "rocket scientist" in your profile :-)
It _is_ a plausible criticism of all data and why we want such large (and diverse) sets of them.

source: work with data and am not terrible at my job
No doubt, and at least anecdotally, that seems to be happening in real time.

As to the larger question, I'm having a very hard time seeing adding knowledge and science as a bad thing. Without those, any proposed improvement to policing (including abuse) is simply flailing guesswork.
There are a few things I find really strange about the US immigration system.

1. The focuses on family reunification visas instead of skills which differs from other countries such as Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand.

2. Visa applicants are tied to their employer and require their employer to sponsor their Green Cards.

3. Green Cards being issued based on country of birth. I think we can park the idea of "diversity" being a quality of an immigration system.
No. First of all, the efficiency is part of the binning process (some chips are just worse than others). But adding the logic to be able to scale to that many die (high speed SERDES, large caches with lots of cache coherency traffic flying around) takes up more power, and doing the engineering for a large interposer where one wasn't needed before, enlarging the package the interposer sits in, etc. is expensive. Gluing together a lot of defective die on an expensive interposer/package is a bad idea from just about every perspective.
> My point is that H-1B is far and beyond the default and most common visa for introducing foreign working talent, and others like O-1 and EB-1 are the rare, rare exceptions.

EB-1 is an immigrant visa and, aside from being smaller in number than H-1B, was already halted along with immigration generally on April 22, and this order extends the immigration halt through December as well as adding a few nobimmigrant visa categories to the halt.
I don't think they can ban emulators without just straight up banning competitors like AMD that make compatible chips. (which presumably they would have done if they could)
Exactly this. It really is glorified indentured servitude.
Thanks. With the way it’s phrased as ‘case by case‘ basis - I think even if it’s technically allowed, they may end up rejecting on broad terms.

Anyways I am already packing my bags and will be out of the country in a few days when I am able to find a flight.
This x100. I am looking forward for Vancouver to have a comparable concentration of tech jobs, that will motivate me to move to Canada
I always wonder how normal, presumably honest, people go from "I can't watch my shows with the subtitles that I like" to "I'll just steal it."
I agree. Noped out of staying in the US last year even after finally getting an H1B in my third attempt. All the dollars in the world aren't worth it if I have to leave at any random point just because a politician wanted to pander to his base, or I get laid off for any reason, or <insert any random twist of fate here>.

The only way this nonsense will change is when more people who do have other options take them. This is mainly an image issue; in the Obama years, even though it was probably as bad as this today (just not overt), the risk-reward ratio of surviving all this was viewed as better than going somewhere else. All this changed with Trump being this transparent. There is going to be a lot of hesitation now for anyone who wants to immigrate. Anywhere except the US, and only if necessary.
That is why Apple provides an accessibility panel in system settings.
iOS 14 to require “opt in” for IDFA tracking
I think the "you can run iOS apps on your Mac now" announcement basically guaranteed touchscreen Macs. It might be possible to use many iOS apps with a trackpad, but it's not going to be a pleasant experience.

Put together a touch-friendly new OS UI with the ability to run a zillion apps designed-for-touch in a context where all your competition has touch-enabled devices and it's hard to believe they'd hold out any longer.
iOS may not have a central browser setting yet, but apps can still invoke other apps directly. Gmail on iOS uses that to offer a choice between Chrome and Safari, and offers to save your choice.

It just tends to regularly forget that I told it to save my choice of Safari.
Heck, figure out how to let me use macOS keybindings on Windows and I'll give you a medal. The need to use (non-idiomatic, clumsy) Windows shortcuts on my MBP's keyboard is the reason I don't use Boot Camp.
Very very nice. This could be handy for 3d modelers, looking to make distinct character irises. Just generate away until you go 'oh! THERE'S my character's eye!' :)
Well, true or not, you did make some pretty serious accusations.
Ha! I see your crappy UI in PeopleSoft, with hard to automate edge cases, and I raise you multiple SharePoint instances!

Ante up at your peril in this game :/)
This paper runs contrary to your opinion. Simulation is not sufficient. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2782506
I'll second this; this was said in public to people that reported to her. What happened behind closed doors was likely much worse. Tracy's example of not using Mother's Rooms shows she was protective of that part of herself and not willing to even touch it when fundraising.
I don't care what they do with the UI (unless they fixed it somehow.[1]) The reason I'm always disappointed to see a new version is the breakage that every MacOS update brings, both to developer tools and apps. I have to choose between keeping my various environments functioning and getting the latest MacOS so I can run Jira Desktop.

1) Delete spotlight, Siri and 'look up,' make alt-tab handle multiple windows of the same app, fix searching within folders and also separately fix whole-filesystem search.
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If you have a visa, you don't need a separate travel document; the order exempts both people with current visas and people with current nonvisa travel documents.
Disparities in wealth in Latin America and Africa can be traced directly to their history of exploitation and colonization. That there are other countries that have had brutal occupations and have prospered more is irrelevant to this fact. Myriad historical factors, including the other ones that I cited in my comment (such as treatment in global trade, ongoing exploitation, allyships with dominant powers, etc), still distinguish these countries and their histories. There is no checklist approach to history, the details matter and when you look at the history of impoverished areas in Latin America and Africa, it is plain to see the connection to their present circumstances.
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> Single-thread performance it tied to clock frequency

In a very loose sense.

It's clock speed * instructions per clock. But even that is misleading, as the number of instructions per clock is not a fixed quantity and hasn't been for decades now. It's also impacted by the instructions that came before and the ones predicted to come next.

> this is exactly why ancient Core Duos, made in 2007 are still perfectly usable for office applications and even lightweight development

They are suitable because these applications are not very demanding. A Core2Duo at the same clock speed of a modern processor will be much slower.

> cannot go above 5Ghz

Can, and have. But the cost-benefit of increasing clock speeds further is not favorable.
This weekend I was using Google to search for info on John Bolton's book (coming tomorrow), but instead of Amazon or Indigo or whoever showing up first as I had expected, the first link was to an indexed directory containing a leaked PDF copy of the book. I have a hard time believing the leak wasn't part of ensuring its public release.

The site I had found is run by the folks mentioned in this article. Judging by the other file names in the directory, and the number of files and directories in general, this must be said megatrove.

I don't know what they do for SEO, but I was impressed that Google seemed to rank them higher than the usual legal places to get the book.
I have to admit I have a weakness for reading but not participating in these shit-hit-the-fan github threads. So many people arguing over something so trivial.
to be honest I don't know how hard people find to implement things using webgl, I'm getting my ass kicked a lot (but I kinda like it) learning this. Is not just the webgl, but all the math involved and shaders... I've been working on this for two weekends and this is all I got: a basic engine capable of basic things.

I'll tell you this though: creating your own engine makes you appreciate a lot more games and well established engines, with that ridiculous realistic graphics.
Love it. I've built a flight search tool in selenium too, and for isolating deals. (I've also used selenium for testing). The biggest problem is the speed and the unexpected (the spinner you experienced, intermittent page load times, asynchronous requests or when elements are stale as a result). But it is possible to do it.

Next you can thread the sucker, so you could have 2-4 PS windows open and enter at a faster speed ;)
Here are some interesting stats

The average gamer is 34 years old
70% of gamers are age 18 or older

Considering FB has between 2.5 and 3 billion users. FB has much more chances of success considering its size, its user base, its built in advertising platform, its global reach, etc. Streaming and gaming isn't just about 12-18 year old gamers. If you're thinking monetization, there's not a whole lot to gain there for the majority of steamers. Not a whole lot of 12 year olds can support streamers financially. So sure, maybe it won't be the platform of choice for the 16 year olds, but doesn't mean it can't be dwarfed in size by the rest of the demographics who are also into gaming.

Don't forget, gamers of yesterday who started with the earliest consoles or who got on board anywhere between atari, NES, SNES, Sega, PS1, PS2, or PC gamers, are still gamers today.
Just a quick search of GitLab issues for "to Starter" and I came across the following:

- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/10107

In general our "Why Starter" page has some great rationale for why we encourage small teams to utilize GitLab Starter/Bronze. https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/starter/
I do not have kids and do not love WFH during lockdown.

Simple things that would be a 30-second conversation in the office are now 30-minute Zoom meetings.

Slack noise -- already a distractor to begin with -- has gone up 10x.

If I have X hours at home or in the office I know exactly what limited amount of time I have to accomplish a task and can more easily allocate chunks of that time to specific needs.

In lockdown it's like living/working in a casino with no clocks and no sense of time or progress and it's harder to do time management (IMHO).

If I need something from someone in the office I can walk over and ask, virtually people have the ability to ignore you for days on end without consequence.

I have no doubt that some people's personalities prefer this style of interaction but I hate WFH like this (in lockdown) or this much (months on end vs once a week) despite having no kids.
I think that one of the main long term goals for Apple from this switch is to increase its marketshare to increase its revenues from services.
The marketshare can grow through three drivers :
- More affordable computers,
- More vertically integrated hardware/software
- A larger ecosystem

Think about the iPhone SE and how it is supposed to strengthen Apple bottom line on the long run, its more about the recurrent revenue from services than the one shot from hardware.
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I'm curious is aversion to durian is at least somewhat genetic, similar to cilantro and broccoli.

I spent 6 weeks traveling around Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam), including several days in Bangkok.

I ate a metric ton of durian, jackfruit (my favourite), mangostein, lychie, and so forth.

I never noted any negative durian odour, and I just assumed that "it must always be fresh in Southeast Asia", and any reports are based on stale or older fruit after it's travelled internationally...
Yay! Tbh I like what it looks like with Dark Reader better: the background is still to bright to my eyes. Any word on when the dark mode will be ready for HN? I saw there was a thread a month or two ago about this.
There was and still is a lot of speculation about why exactly he left.
> I will repost my quick immigration quiz

If it's an “immigration” quiz, why are all the scenarios about nonimmigrant status?
I would gladly pay $17 a year for a non-ad driven version of Facebook.

If this were the limit of the value per user, they would have offered a subscription service long ago. Something is missing from your model.
Bitten by the SMR Bug
After outcry, Apple will let devs challenge App Store guidelines (live chat)
The toolbar used to be grey and is now white like the content. And the contrast of text on the translucent items...
But overall the style is very consistent.

If it is bright in light mode, it might be nice and dark on dark mode. We’ll find out once people start running the preview
Because fabs are so expensive to build and run, yet each individual chip built is so cheap, it's always going to be more economical for a single fab to service lots of customers than to have a fab that only serves the military. The military will probably fund a lot of new fab construction, but they will not be the sole customer.

Like the Interstate Highway system, basically.
For reference it's approximately $143 per year for the US market, per user ($11.92 per month).

~220-230 million monthly active US users, $31.4 billion in sales (projected 2020 figure) for that market.

That's of course not adjusting for hours of use for a given user, data contribution, and so on.
Australia’s fires blew smoke similar to a predicted nuclear blast
Not for everything you can't.

I am using Gitlab Next and Kubernetes, Security & Compliance, Operations, Analytics, Members are not removable options.
Yeah, but that demo was running under emulation through rosetta 2...
If only Bitbucket wasn't a typical Atlassian disaster it might be more popular. I've never used an Atlassian product that wasn't one of the slowest websites I've ever seen with an over-complicated UX that can only be described as sadistic (have you seen the multiple settings pages?).

Gitlab and GitHub both blow Bitbucket out of the water, it's not even a competition.
You were in an enclosed area. Your risk of contracting Covid is astronomically higher indoors at a place where you remain for more than a few minutes.