skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with being on the outside of the industry (or not being a gamer) and looking into it is that most of the social media and news presence is around the big name multiplayer and blockbuster titles. That doesn't mean story-focused games don't come out, just that they don't garner attention outside of the gaming sphere.

A short list of ones to look into, just to name a few:

Disco Elysium - 2019 - A _very_ weird RPG where you play an alchoholic amnesiac detective and where your skills are more aspects of your personality than abilities. The writing is so incredibly strange and wonderful that I'm not sure quite how to describe it. Your own personality traits sometimes talk and may try to convince you to be a socialist.

Outer Wilds - 2018 - A game about exploring a small simulated solar system for the purpose of simply learning more about it. There's a lot to this game, but because the entire purpose of the game is exploration and learning about the world _everything_ is a spoiler so I won't say any more.

A Plague Tale: Innocence - 2019 - Stealth-focused fantasy/adventure game set in the 1300s in France.

Undertale - 2015 - Another game that's hard to describe, don't be put off by its look but it absolutely lives and dies by its story. Especially since there are some very important gameplay elements that blend into the story.

Mass Effect 1-3 - 2007-2012 - Even if ME3's ending is widely panned, the rest of the series is absolutely story-focused and I figure I should mention some true AAAs that are known for story.

NieR: Automata - 2017 - philosophical weirdness about androids and machines wrapped up in a pretty good action game.

Bioshock 1-2/Infinite - 2007-2013 - Hard not to mention these in a thread about writing and Deus Ex, seeing as this series also has roots going back to Looking Glass, Thief, and System Shock.
Seems to me to be very likely that Apple's graphic's silicon is much more performant and power efficient than Intel's integrated GPUs. CPUs idle most of the time seems to point to the advantage of a big.LITTLE style design which Apple have been using for iPad's etc for a while. So maybe not 30% but not negligible either.

They demoned lightroom and photoshop which are surely using meaningful CPU resources?

Agreed on the accelerators and the cost savings. All together probably a compelling case for switching.
I think the point is that it won’t be as fast in applications that Apple didn’t anticipate.
Yeah, I just switched back to iOS last year after being on Android for ~5 years. The notification coalescing and types of actions you can take right from the notification blow iOS out of the water.
I think it's because Big Sur is the first version that supports ARM.
Many science fiction writers would tell you, and have publicly stated in the past, that they don't predict the future and that's not their job.

Just by chance, you can go back and find stories from the past that seem prophetic now, but not going forward.
Canva Hits $6B Valuation in $60M Raise Amid Covid-19 Boom
Do you have a source that third-parties are able to see that data in Ad Exchange?
I believe it is what the poster you are replying to would call "a specific curated use case."

(Semi-seriously, I don't know anyone who uses a Unix(-like) system who uses 7zip, although I'm sure they're out there. For the record, I just unzipped a 120M archive on both my 2020 Core i7 MacBook Air and my 2018 (last-gen) iPad Pro and as near as I can tell the iPad was faster actually extracting the files, but had an extra second or so of overhead from the UI.)
No we have two pieces of anecdote on HN....
How did this end up on the front page, when there's much better sources already being discussed? Never heard of headlyy, which looks like a Reddit also-ran.
My first thought was how childish it looked. Reminds me of a sanitized children's book somehow.
That link didn't work for me. This one did though:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AHMHNR4MRTDL...
Only fixed trips coming from https://www.psrc.org/activity-based-travel-model-soundcast. Demand modelling is next -- changes you make to the map will influence existing trips to change mode. The biggest difficulty in simulating outlier events is making a clear UI for specifying that new load.
How to think under pressure
Do you really think anyone is going to base their console decision on a facebook partnership?
Do you even have to ask at this point? Wasn't even Microsoft's Visual Studio tracking devs by default now?

And let's not forget about the hot privacy mess that is Windows 10...
Perhaps it's worth pointing out some context. Given the remarkable predecessor, K Computer, this was only a matter of time. (I heard a great early talk on K, and I wish I knew the speaker for credit who was obviously working quite hard in English, but flawless, ending with basically we did it all ourselves largely de nuovo.) It seems that given the current circumstances, they haven't kept to schedule -- it was supposed to be operating next year.

There's a lot non-mainstream in this, like K, but partly influenced by K experience. Unusually, it's all apparently specifically designed for the job, from the processor to the operating system (only partly GNU/Linux). Notably, despite the innovation, it should still run anything that can reasonably be built for aarch64 straight off and use the whole node, even if it doesn't run particularly fast; contrast GPU-based systems. (With something like simde, you may even be able to run typical x86-specific code.) However, the amount of memory/core is surprising -- even less than Blue Gene Q -- and I wonder how that works out for large-scale materials science work for which it's obviously prepared. Also note Fujitsu's consideration of reliability, though the oft-quoted theory of failure rates in exascale-ish machines was obviously wrong, otherwise as the Livermore CTO said, he'd be out of a job.

The bad news for anyone potentially operating a similar system in a university, for instance, is that the typical nightmare proprietary software is apparently becoming available for it...
> I stick with Apple for the privacy.

The problema Is if you stick with Apple hardware there is no OS alternative

you're stuck with what the dictator (benevolent or not) decides
In recent years it has gotten a lot more obvious how massive the network effect is for undergrads. Anyone in stem knows to get research experience, and to bombard every professor's email in the department for a position, no matter what career they might end up with.

In fact, at my uni there is fear that going online will result in students deferring for a year, since undergraduate surveys are overwhelmingly in favor of in person class, to the point of not paying tuition for online offerings and extending their degree plan as a result.
Yeah, I dunno why it is, but that could well be. I suspect it has something to do with whatever's resulting in women attending and completing college at a higher rate than men, but that's just a hunch.

[EDIT] jesus it's so hard to write anything about this without walking on eggshells—to be clear I'm not complaining about any of this, including the college thing.
> Once you look closely at power profiles on modern machines you'll see that most energy is going into display and GPU. CPUs mostly run idle. Even if you had a theoretical CPU using zero energy, most people are not going to get 30% battery life gains

This doesn't really seem to match my experience; at least on a 2015 MBP, the CPU is always consuming at least 0.5-1W, even with nothing running. If I open a webpage (or leave a site with a bunch of ads open), the CPU alone can easily start consuming 6-7 watts for a single core.

Apple claims 10 hours of battery life with a 70-something WH battery, which would indicate they expect total average power consumption to be around 7W; even the idle number is a decent percentage of that.

(Also, has anyone been able to measure the actual power consumption of the A-series CPUs?)
Other than the fact that celebrities have more unique value (however superficial or subjective) to bring than a typical gig worker brings to say, Uber, what else do you think defines gig work?
No, you aren’t counting over $100B in debt.
I don’t know about 7zip specifically, but the iPad Pro seems to beat even some MacBook Pros on some benchmarks.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/12/ipad-pro-vs-macbook-air...
Big tech censorship reignites call for an Internet Bill of Rights
> in an OS most commonly used with a keyboard and mouse

In a business setting, sure, but I think you underestimate how much consumers are using touchscreens nowadays, even on their laptops.
Browser enforcement is a path to the dying web.
Are you saying that Amazon AWS's Graviton 2 EC 2 servers can't handle server level performance?
Apple wants members of their $500 Universal App Quick Start program to send back their Developer Transition Kit (DTK) units after the program automatically expires (!) after one year. [1]

Citing directly from this document:

> You agree to promptly return the Developer Transition Kit to the Apple address designated by Apple no later than thirty (30) days after the end of the Term, or as otherwise earlier requested by Apple (including via email or announcement by Apple on developer.apple.com).

> At the end of the Term, You agree to immediately cease all use of the Developer Transition Kit and the Universal App Quick Start Program.

> Failure to return the Developer Transition Kit may result in the suspension of Your Developer account or termination of Your Developer Agreement.

Admission to the program costs $500. What??? ...

Why did they not mention this anywhere but the terms of service?

[1] https://developer.apple.com/terms/universal-app-quick-start-...
On their what's new page it's completely barren aside from the header and footer lmao.

https://netsential.com/default.aspx?menuitemid=283&menugroup...
This is not a practical way for anyone to run a business.
The A12 draws 4W when all four big cores are maxed out. Not 4W per big core. That's 4x the performance per watt of your comparable Intel or AMD parts.
On one trip I had a memorable and absolutely glorious time stuffing my entire mouth with Gushers[0] and taking deliciously fruity flavored bong hits.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_Gushers
Personalization of consumption is the final frontier for consumerist capitalist culture.
Maybe the value is in ensuring the Gitlab team can continue working on the product, because they are paid to do so ?
Hi HN.
I made a dedicated homepage for the Cloud Resume Challenge [0], which has been making the rounds for the last few weeks.

Basically it's a project anyone can complete to level up their cloud skills - but I'm specifically looking for people between jobs or new to the industry whose resumes I can boost to help them get a job in the cloud.

So far we've had two graduates of the challenge get hired (yay!) and several more with interviews lined up.

Would love your thoughts!

[0] https://cloudirregular.substack.com/p/the-cloud-resume-chall...
> to power modern web experiences

This would seem an opportune moment to point out that modern does not always equal good.
> if I were a millionaire, I'd probably be fishing off the coast of Malta

Nice weather, but not much fish.
https://eu.oceana.org/en/press-center/press-releases/un-aler...
Yeah, last time they did that with Nvidia graphics cards just as Adobe released it’s new rendering engine everybody was really thrilled to learn they could also buy Apple video editing software that would not sht itself instead of using the Adobe tools because of that inherent Apple advantage...

E.g., a nice article from 2010:
https://nofilmschool.com/2010/07/apple-snubs-adobe-again-wit...
People on this site always comment negatively on literally anything related to UI except if it looks like it was made in the 90s. Absolutely zero sense of perspective or open-mindedness.
It's nowhere near thousands. It's usually like a hundred bucks. E.g. I've had friends do one from Chris Hansen as a joke for a large age-gap couple in our group, for the cost of $50.
Technically yes, but Rosetta 2 is supposed to allow most apps to continue working fine until their developers upgrade them.
Would be great to change the default calendar and contacts apps as well. There’s a large list of 3rd-party calendar apps, but the user often gets redirected back to the built-in apps, eg when interacting with invitation emails or notification center.
I have biweekly kernel panics on macOS... somewhere in the io sub system.
Luckily vscode etc store their state
I’m happy to see they didn’t have a huge slide of “1000s of new features”. I’d be happy with a better Catalina. I just switched after buying a new MacBook...
I agree battery life for casual workloads will probably stay the same. However, if CPU power consumption decreases relative to other components, battery life on heavy workloads should go up.
I think the massive protests over the last few years indicate that at least one large class of minorities (Black folks) are not “much more satisfied” with the police
Thanks for adding your thoughts, hopefully I can shed some light in a few places.

1) I’m assuming you’re referring to the emoji buttons. They are useful to determine upvotes and downvotes on issues and merge requests. These counts can be used when sorting for popularity. We leverage system emoji here and in most cases they are a bright yellow (https://emojipedia.org/thumbs-up/). It’d be possible to use our custom icon library (http://gitlab-org.gitlab.io/gitlab-svgs/?q=thumb-) for these buttons, but then they wouldn’t visually align with other award emoji that can be added inline. Here’s more info https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/award_emojis.html.

2) If you don’t have permission to close the issue (or merge request), you will only see the 'Report abuse' button (I’m guessing this is what you’re seeing), otherwise there would be a split button with 'Close issue' as the default option, and 'Report abuse' as the second. I agree that this needs some further consideration, so I opened an issue to start a discussion https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/223775. Feel free to contribute and add your thoughts there too.

3) A few things are at work here. We recently updated our neutral palette to normalize it with the rest of the color palette, and address some accessibility items. We’re working on updating the neutral variables and remap them throughout the product, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ui/-/issues/627 and https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/2964. If there’s anything you don’t think would be addressed by those changes, it’d be great if you could open a new issue (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/new) and cc the UX designers (@gitlab-com/gitlab-ux/designers). Regarding buttons, we are in the process of replacing deprecated buttons in the product with new ones from GitLab UI https://gitlab-org.gitlab.io/gitlab-ui/?path=/story/base-but.... Here are a few issues covering that effort https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues?scope=all&utf8.... Many other issues will be created to do the same in other parts of the product.

I hope this helps, thanks again for your comments!
I think you misunderstand.

Changes for changes sake are negative for users. The last thing you want to do is change something that was working for users without giving them anything for it.

However a lot of actively developed software today changes because they want it to be "fresh and exciting". Basically because of desire to use changes to market it. But changing anything for that reason hurts usability.

Any change means the user will have to adapt to that change. You want to minimize the user having to adapt to anything. When you do make them adapt you need to give them clear value for that adapting.
Nope. People on HN seem not to understand that a "consistent design language" is something more complex than "do exactly the same thing on every platform."

The reason Windows 8 was a disaster was because Microsoft suffered from the same misconception.
Google Cloud has a much superior interconnect, easily doing twice the bandwidth of AWS with lower latency.

Ethernet may not be approaching Infiniband in raw speed and latency, but I think it's doing pretty decently with 10 Gbps going to every node.

Ethernet networks are definitely much more competitive today than 10 years ago, when Infiniband already had cheap 20 Gbps network cards but 10 Gbps Ethernet card were expensive and the network switches were a rarity.
This seems like a plausible criticism, but it also seems like a plausible criticism of all data and derivates about human beings (and probably other things).
Nitpick: for the Amigas they used Motorola 68000 series CPUs.
Safari and Web
> Most distros are targeted at laptops, desktops or servers, and few of those have ARM processors.

I wouldn't bet my farm on that without a bunch of research and cross checking because embedded linux is really common. Consider manufacturers are producing very large numbers of embedded ARM micro's with external memory interfaces. I think the majority of those are running linux.
Total Noob Help Please
I'm doing my best to understand but this is all so new to me. I don't even know if I'm allowed to ask questions but I didn't see anything saying I can't. It seems so much needs to already be known but how do you get to that point. Everything is so advanced. Where is a good place to get started?
> my lock screen has a camera icon always visible. When you tap it, you get an isolated camera mode that only shows you photos taken in that session. That's the standard screen now, so I think Apple is doing okay on the discoverability front (for that specific use-case -- possibly the only case where something is discoverable in iOS).

Huge discoverability hiccup with that camera button on the lock screen: you have to tap and hold the camera button to get into the camera (not long, about 1 second). The first time I picked up my partner's iPhone to take a picture for her, I just about pulled my hair out trying to get that button to do anything. I tapped it about a thousand times before she got frustrated and showed me how to operate it.
That’s mostly because desktop systems are built with more background services and traditional multitasking in mind. iOS has a different set of principles.
I have a lot of anxiety with my current work (startup).

The anxiety mostly revolves around the feeling of not feeling valuable:

- It kills me whenever I see other people get invited to meetings where I have built a significant portion of the product and I don't.

- It kills me whenever our team is growing and we start interviewing new candidates, I volunteer to help recruit, but I am never considered.

- Recently the manager divided the software up into 'areas of ownership' and I got all the legacy tech debt low profile stuff. Even though I've worked on a significant portion of the software. It kills me.

I can't seem to pin point how to grow in my currently work and it is making me quite sad. I initially came in acting all humble and I think that hurt me. I don't think I'm any less skilled than the other software engs but they sure make me feel like that. It seems like every time we hire a some new person from a FAANG company, they instantly get praised where as a non-FAANG person (myself) just gets pushed down. I keep saying that it's me and I need to keep performing the best I can and ignore all this noise, but I can't. I have not quite figured out how to fix this situation I'm in.
This has been extremely disappointing news for our family. My sister's boyfriend is an Irish citizen and recently got a job at a large national lab in the same city as us, visa sponsorship and everything. They were supposed to be here in April, but covid delayed things. Now the won't be coming at all. I'm not sure what we're going to do. This was a huge opportunity for him, and it was going to reunite our family. I'm unbelievably sad right now.

It's especially bullshit, given part of the H1B criteria is proving there's no US citizens that can do the job. I have a hard time seeing any good coming from this, and it feels like Trump is just pushing his xenophobic agenda further.
Lyft’s Approach to Autonomous Vehicle Safety
Why do feel that Rust is behind on ARM? I can't comment on the performance, but everything that I used that was purely written in Rust compiled and ran perfectly on my PineBook Pro. (with the exception of alacritty, but that's because PBP doesn't support OpenGL 3.x)

Go does have the (platform) advantage (?) of preferring the "rewrite everything in Go" approach, so those just transition when the tooling supports a new architecture. Rust is intentionally going with a interop design, rather than telling people the only answer to to rewrite all their favorite libraries.
Trump will sign an order suspending work visas (including H-1B)
TSMC 7nm and Intel 7nm are completely different things. At this point it's unknown how Intel's 7nm process is going to better/worse than TSMC counter-part. For sure 10nm was a disaster, but the next one doesn't have to be.

Recently TSMC uses names like N7 and N5 for their processes, because they're no more related to actual nanometers on chips. Same for Intel, but they stick to their traditional naming.
since it's running so well on A12z, why can't they just let iPad Pro users choose whether they want to run MacOS or iPadOS on their iPad?
Forensic imaging of AWS EC2 instances
That doesn't mean reports are completely independent. Isn't it obvious that the perception of whether the police will do anything is going to affect the reporting?
> OS X was far more stable than Windows.

I'm not sure that was ever true but certainly hasn't been true for over a decade. Neither OS is fully stable (how ever you might define that) and neither OS is a terrible unstable mess either.
Things get complicated with the president. This whole thing happened: https://www.politifact.com/article/2017/sep/27/what-does-law...
Show me a major urban area with cops that don't look like military infantry when they're out and doing their job, particularly during crowd control
Wernher von Braun, the German engineer who defected to the United States after World War II

That's one hell of a sentence. He was a literal Nazi.
C&F Discover:Issue N8
Sure, but people don't normally think of "GPU" in this context as just runs all your x86_64 code.
Compared to the previous (-ly used) macOS release, obviously. That's the only OS that matters in this context.
Water is incredibly good at radiation shielding.

An awesome description of this is here:
https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
> A substantial % of the maximum number of immigrants ppl. want to let in can't afford the median rent in my area, unless they are staying at 2-3x the occupancy of a listed apartment.

The legal minimum H-1B salary is substantially higher than the median American salary, and of course, the average salary is in turn higher than the legal minimum. They are better equipped to afford the median rent than the average resident of your area.

> the cost of schools, utilities, social services etc

Are you under the impression that immigrants don't pay taxes or something? Skilled immigrants are higher income than average and pay far, far more into the system than they take out of it.
For what it's worth, Cray is also offering supercomputers with A64FX chips.
> That's a bit ironic given that Guy Steele (one of the creators of Scheme) helped write the original Java specification.

Note that "write the specification" in this context meant creating a text to describe a design that had been done by other people before he joined. Guy made it quite clear at OOPSLA 2003 (which had become essentially a Java conference) that the language would have been different if he had been able to have any input.
Sorry just to clarify, thirty million US dollars? Like...the currency used in America?
ARM-Based Apple Silicon Chip Changes Mac Forever