skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember back in university when I first read about the ARM business model, I naively thought it will always be the second fiddle to intel x86. At that time x86 had such a strong hold that for my young brain it was unimaginable that anyone else will capture the CPU market apart from embedded systems.

The year 2020 is the conclusion of a long push by ARM and now I am wondering can RISC-V will be taking a similar path.
The last of the patents preventing x86_64 binary translation expires Q3 this year, expect fun things to happen. (and no, MS isn't sleeping)
While it is one project it also is an umbrella to fund a large number of smaller projects. Whole institutes were funded and build in part to develop detector components for the LHC. A project like this gives everyone a common goal and pushes technology development in sectors that are critical to Europe's high tech economy. It also has consequences for the IT sector in Europe. Before cloud companies had to deal with PetaBytes of data, scientists at CERN and elsewhere developed techniques for filtering, storing and analysing this data with sophisticated statistical tools (and machine learning). You can easily scale your analysis run to thousands of machines all over the world and transparently get access to the huge experiment datastore.

There is no other scientific field in Europe that has developed a similar level of sophistication and scale. The initial idea behind the Human Brain Project was to build a similar infrastructure for Neuroscience research. But instead of the cooperation in Particle Physics it resulted in fierce opposition, out of fear that funding would be shifted away from national funding agencies and independent researchers and doubts over the ambitious goals of the project. If you think about it a project like CERN, that successfully contributed to understanding of the fundamental forces of nature is in some ways much more ambitious than a centralised program to understand the Human brain.

But the latter got badly derailed multiple times simply because the participants did not have the single minded will, focus and consensus that the Particle Physics community has been able to maintain for almost 70 years now.
Yeah look at how precisely and limited US Airforce handled Raqqa. The city doesn't look at all like Berlin after the war.
The Animal Kingdom Should Have Father’s Day Too
There's something about divide and conquer in there, i'm sure of it.
Canadians are throwing away farmland to build McMansions and freeways at a record pace, so I don't think there's anything sensible to the commenter's line about Canadians "wanting more farmland" (which makes no sense anyways).

Source: I live rural on farmland in greenbelt in Ontario.
I think Arm is actually starting to release design targeted for performance this year: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15813/arm-cortex-a78-cortex-x...
What is different about Rosetta 2 that is keeping Intel from doing this? Genuinely curious about this.
Those look fairly consistent to me, especially if you consider how window toolbars used to work pre-Big Sur.
I don't wish to be uncharitable, but this line indicates to me that there's likely bias involved in the media you described:

>Basically the only people who find the largest publications "bad" here are conspiracy nuts, fascists and politicians involved in uncovered corruption scandals.

Something that seems to be quite common in modern media is to paint anybody who disagrees as a conspiracy theorist or fascist. Are there truly no other groups who have grievances with the news? Communists? The opposition party? Another news outlet that is partisan? It seems unlikely to me that only the groups that modern (left-leaning) media likes to blame everything on would have a problem with it.

On another point, I wish to address this:

>Our newspapers don't force their views on their journalists. The bosses require quality and factfulness, but topics are up to the journalist.

You don't need to control what a journalist writes to create biased news. You simply need to control who you hire. Want a news organization that's biased towards right wingers? Hire a bunch of right wingers to be your staff. They will naturally gravitate towards stories that are biased.

>The financial incentive is to continue to hold their image, because they live from subscription fees paid by people who view them as essential for our society.

The same is true for a lot of biased news outlets elsewhere. It still doesn't change that people like reading news that affirms their view of the world.

I don't wish to be uncharitable, but I believe based on this that perhaps you don't notice much of the bias. I could be wrong, but it just seems very difficult to believe that Europe has such a gem hidden in it. The news in my European country aren't quite as bad as in the US, but they're certainly not unbiased and politics certainly involves the media.
This could be it, but current headsets are not that comfy after too much use, and if you don't have AC at home (tons of EU homes won't have them) they can be a nightmare in the summer...
As one person in Germany explained to me - there is no corruption at the low level - it is not worth it for the policeman to lose a nice salary and a pension for a few hundred euros bribe. So you will get a speeding ticket everytime and Germany is known for that sort of 'solidity'.
On the higher end, however, the stakes and balances are different - high pay is frowned upon and owners of Aldi supermarkets etc are known for their frugality and driving second hand cars.
So if one wants to make big money - it needs to be under the radar, possibly illegal and bribes for big infra projects are common.
And on that note, A64FX software stack also makes use of McKernel an an OS alternative.

https://github.com/RIKEN-SysSoft/mckernel

https://www.sys.r-ccs.riken.jp/ResearchTopics/os/mckernel/
most of the comments are about the cost-to-deliverable tradeoff, which is pretty high. But we have to consider that the new particle accellerator is not the only thing that will be created. An enormous amount of infrastructure will have to be developed and researched, including new hardware to handle all the events, new detector hardware, magnets, etc. All of these are pretty usable outside of a particle detector or even science environments, because many of the hard parts are engineering problems. I think the "useless" part of this 23B investment is far smaller than we think.

For evidence of that look at the past, two projects that immediately come to my mind as being pushed by CERN: HTTP and KiCad. But there are surely some more.
I am interested in cfengine as I used to enjoy the "Principles of Networks and Systems administration" book by Burgess, but my feeling is one should post something more technical to HN as this looks very close to a marketing document from my point of view.

Edit: seeing that this post has gotten multiple upvotes but at the same time two others have posted almost the same as me simultaneously I guess that means a lot of people here are interested in cfengine, but this article is more likely to turn people away.

Also, the username who posted it seems similar to the author of the post (nothing wrong with that) so if you are the same person: would you mind posting a more technical resource? I'm actually interested.
Eyes in the Sky
When I read the title I thought it was going to be yet another of the current wave of interminable virtue signalling corporate decisions. Something like "We decided the Riot name reinforced negative stereotypes of black people..." or somesuch.

Thank god for good ol' fashioned corporate brand consolidation and trademark issues!
Is there a way to have good async group video chat?

I haven't given this much thought but maybe this is an interesting direction to explore?
Ask HN: How to avoid over-engineering software design for future use cases?
I have worked at Microsoft and Google in multiple different teams.

One thing I realized that sometimes engineers go extreme in designing things/code for future cases which are not yet known. Many times these features don't even see any future use case and just keep making the system complex.

At what point we should stop designing for future use cases ? How far should we go in making things generic ? Are there good resources for this ?
It may be that by the time these things are ready for an actual release they can be USB4, which is USB-C + Thunderbolt technology, but no longer Intel exclusive.
I'm actually thinking of getting a 2019 MacBook Pro. I like the butterfly keyboard and mostly believe the outrage was fake news like a lot of things nowadays with outrage culture. Not to mention it's 3rd gen, failure probability would be lower.

I'm also aware that at most I'd have 4-5 years, BUT if you take Windows into consideration, then you can definitely double that time. There's just no premium laptop manufacturer like Apple, all competition just looks like an attempt to be like them. I'd get a great trackpad, design, screen (most important to me) and somewhat both of OS worlds. Doesn't seem like a bad buy.
The iPadification of the Mac is coming, no touchscreen required
Would it be too much to ask that, when a journalist writes on a topic they don't understand, they should ask an expert "hey can you sanity check this" before publishing?
Protontherapy alone is enough justification in my opinion. Add the many kinds of detector offshoots that find their way to industry. The web itself, if you wanna go back a bit further. Aren't those worth it you think?
> Many people need the social chitchat to feel OK. It is not a negative side of video conferencing, it is added value.

It is an added value for some, and it is a negative value for others.

Every minute that you're feeling great because of being "social" at work is a minute that someone else dreads, because they're feeling as if they were in a circus and would prefer to reserve being social for people they like spending time with, not the people they are forced to spend their time with.
Proposition: The NYTimes editorial board has long addressed the matter of revealing identity of anonymous bloggers on interent.

From a political point of view, anonymous (and more critcally, independent) bloggers are a threat to the (local/global) establishment's propaganda organs. This may in fact be editorial policy, as you suggest. It doesn't matter of the blogger is 'friendly' in terms of political views.
I, for a change, would pay money for MacOS _native_ Slack app.
Because a general purpose device is not good business sense for a company that sells devices. The more they can artificially specialize each thing, the more things you need to buy, and the more money they make. This is a much larger phenomenon than just Apple, or even computers.
It's definitely copy-pasta. Google shows the same text in some old Quora answer. You can search for "Linear Growth VS. Quantum Growth".
Wasn't Linus' email implying that if you were to run something like docker natively on ARM then the images you build would be ARM specific. You are not going to spend time and effort on running the build on a x86 machine to then deploy on another x86 machine. You will just deploy your docker images straight to an ARM server.
For the Top500 lists in particular, the list always comes out during the international supercomputing and supercomputing conferences in June and November respectively, so I’m sure there was no coordination. No idea about the TSMC thing, but I doubt it.
Depends what value you place on street view, traffic data and business listings.

If I want to ask "What exactly are the traffic restrictions for roads through Hyde Park" only street view has the data.

Agree Google Maps can't compete with OS if you want building outlines.
Are we getting to the point where we GPUs might be replaced by larabee style general purpose CPUs?
They only said the demos were running off Apple silicon, not that they were running off a Mac Mini DTK machine.
They probably have other systems more akin to Mac Pros that they use internally.
Great decision. Riot was clearly an insensitive name given the recent events, so this increases my confidence in the dev team.
Lessons from a 2020 Intern Assignment
a city prosecutes an officer, he will sue them right back

That's not how it works. First, you conflate criminal with civil law. Second, cities don't prosecute.
Tasks dev here - thanks! It is the app formerly known as Astrid To-Do List Clone
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-...

Here's an article from Canada's most respected business and finance paper breaking it down.

Don't forget that cost of real estate/rent in Toronto or Vancouver is not significantly cheaper than SF, salaries are lower, cost of living expenses (food, car insurance, clothes, electronics, cellphone plans, etc) are higher and you're still going to want to carry supplemental health insurance because OHIP does not cover everything.
> we have to consider that the new particle accellerator is not the only thing that will be created

The problem with this argument is it works for any spending.

The cost of $23bn on a new collider is potentially not spending $23bn on other, more fruitful, physics experiments.
Made this comment below but spending billions on another collider in an attempt to essentially validate SUSY is irresponsible. A few years ago, a bunch of physical philosophers tried to justify this turn of particle physics in general away from experiment, particularly suggesting the search of symmetries and mathematical beauty (I guess) was enough of a justification for the work even though it essentially is contrary to the basic scientific principles of relying on experiment and observation. Now, we're seeing real world consequences of that mistake, billions in resources and potentially decades of man-hours to be devoted to another super-collider.

Honestly, this money could be spent on myriad other projects, not to mention towards fusion research or alternative energies (solar, wind) in general especially in the face of climate change. Again, seeing the failure of the LHC and then deciding you're going to double down is just straight irresponsible. I honestly wonder what member states are thinking when they see CERN contemplate this especially after the LHC failed to find SUSY particles.

This is just another painful reminder of how narrow minded some scientists are and so focused on their own little niche. There are so many larger problems the world is facing today, it's upsetting but not surprising no one at the table even asked the most important questions when making these plans, "is this even necessary?"

Last tidbit, there are next generation acceleration schemes using lasers that could promise much cheaper acceleration of particles on a much smaller scale (centimeters) although the brightness and general beam quality isn't quite there yet. That could be a potential route forward and be much cheaper in the long run, it just would require a) some time and research but more importantly b) the current crop of experimental scientists at CERN might find it not their expertise and so might not get the grants. Again, reiterating the narrow mindedness of scientists these days.
Nit: you're not required to use "Apple languages" to develop for iOS.
I don't understand why traditional media still exists in modern days, when p2p communication between people is possible. In the best case, a journalist is a middleman who will misunderstand and garble information unintentionally, since they are working under deadline to get stuff published ASAP. Not only experts, but even enthusiasts spend much more time researching than journalists.
In the worst and most common case, they just push agenda or slander groups of people to attract hate clicks. I cringe every time when mainstream media article ends up on HN.
Was not investigative journalism. Ellsberg provided the content to the NYT. They did show some balls in rejecting the advice of external counsel (and in accepting that of internal counsel) but they were a conduit.

As was the Washington Post, which started publishing soon after the NYT (and managed to fight off the injuction NYT did not). It's possible that the Post only started publishing because the NYT had started, but the value of the NYT itself in the scheme was… limited.
Not everything can be fact checked in the first place and if it can, who fact checks the fact checkers? There are numerous examples of fact checking websites being factually wrong.
Everyone else's answers are excellent, but I would note that with this move, Apple is certainly getting themselves closer to that potential future.
> it also is an umbrella to fund a large number of smaller projects

Then justify the spending on those merits. Spending for the sake of spending isn’t a great argument.

Why is a new supercollider a better use of resources than, say, a new telescope? Or a suite of gravitational wave or neutrino detectors? A host of fusion research reactors?

The opportunity cost of spending shouldn’t be ignored just because it isn’t entirely useless.
Data?

From my experience, my colleagues in Seattle make about twice as much as I do in the UK. Raw numbers, not counting taxes, cost of living, etc. In general a new hire in US can make as much as a senior in EU.

Comparing income between countries is very difficult due to a lot of factors (different currency, cost of living, taxes, social benefits like health and education...) but I don't think is hard to argue that tech workers are paid much better in the US than they are in the EU, factoring everything in.
I don't understand. Can you explain the connection between desire of online convenience (this part is understandable) and Zoom?
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Maybe they will, maybe they won't. Right now they don't appear to be moving into that direction – what better opportunity to further lock down things than a big architecture change, when you have to rebuild lots and lots of things anyway, when you're transplanting a whole bunch of iOS features (and even whole iOS apps, it seems) to MacOS?

But instead they explicitly mentioned virtualization support for Linux. There seem to be no additional measures like Gatekeeper and Notarization. The security measures introduced in Catalina have carefully-placed gaps to not break terminal workflows, and unless I'm mistaken they can be disabled. Notarization is a bit of a mixed bag; I get the security benefits, but it does give them quite a lot of control.

I may be totally naive and utterly wrong, but the vibes I get from all of this isn't that Apple is currently pursuing a strategy of forcing MacOS into the iOS mold and turning it into a two-apps-side-by-side, fully locked down, anti-productivity, content consumption and light Excel, iPad-with-permanently-attached-keyboard device.

Rather, they seem so be trying to build a nice and coherent user experience across phone, tablet, laptop/desktop on the UX front that works for a wide audience with little customization, and to find a security compromise between hundreds of millions of (potential) users and organizations who need an ecosystem that keeps them as safe as possible vs. developers, researchers etc. who want their systems to be very open and unrestricted and safeguards to be very lax. I imagine it is kinda hard to build a product that serves both of these well while remaining coherent and fun to use.

With that in mind, I think they did a decent job at this with Catalina and the lastest iOS. Big Sur seems to be a continuation of that; it remains to be seen what it'll actually be like in the beta, but right now, I'm optimistic.
Telegram has short video-messages in chats and group chats. They have their use.
> My new 16“ MBP is good for 2-2.5h max when used for working on big projects in Xcode.

That's…pretty bad. Do you have anything else open?
June 22, 2020
Fugaku, world's fastest supercomputer, searches for coronavirus treatment
You can just write char drivers that operate a slab of kernel memory, and implement all the syscalls like open, read, write on that piece of memory.
And yet, people manage to buy houses and fly on vacations on that income.
None of them come close to the performance Apple achieves on their chips.
The site lacks ssl for the login.
Do you know my project https://github.com/dosyago/RemoteView ? Perhaps it can encourage you, because yours is clearly better.

I think an obvious link to the code or livedemo would definitely help your exposure :)
> I also don't really get your condensation, is there any further context to that quote?

Sorry, I wasn't clear, it's a long speech, google it. Well worth listening. Will edit my post.
Impacts of Corona in Tech Industry
Interesting how Italy almost went bust for the reason you mention, if the ECB wouldn't have stepped in (potentially illegally, which we might find out in the future), we would have had a eurozone crises.

But of course the guardian never misses a chance to make a conservative government look bad, despite any other government having done the same.
To be fair, I think it's somewhat different being a psychotherapist.

A lot of therapy relies on the patient not knowing much about the therapist, which would be very difficult if he was professionally linked to his blog.
Java also does optimizations at AOT, it is all a matter which toolchain one uses, plenty of choice since 2000.
COVID-19 doesn't suddenly become a "different situation" depending on the political orientation of the mass gathering.
I've been debating subscribing to Todoist so I can get notifications, but after seeing this it looks like I've found something better to subscribe to :)

Keep up the good work, this is really feature rich!
Lapis on OpenResty is blazing fast. It just misses websockets support.
Have you taken or even just looked at an IQ test? The kind of things they make you do just look like the type of tasks a programmer has to handle day in and out.
(a) I have former-Yugoslav colleagues who believe that "Information Wars" were already at work last century.

(b) in Maginot's defence, junior french planners may well have imagined a Blitzkrieg, and rightfully discarded it, assuming the germans wouldn't have an energy source. A coal-based army doesn't move quickly.

The french were to learn that a synfuel-based[1] army can blitz.
The germans, on the other hand, had to blitz: after failing[2] to reach Grozny and Baku to replenish energy stocks they were put on the defensive.

Crude Rules Everything Around Me

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergius_process

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer–Tropsch_process

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad#Prelude

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motherland_Calls#/media/Fi...

https://books.google.ch/books?id=6_h3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85&lpg=PA...
Chromebooks are doing well in education at the moment. If Apple launched a product in that space, they could easily claw half of that back overnight. The ability to run real software is huge, especially for subjects like graphic arts and engineering.
I don't want to repeat myself so I'll just link to my previous comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23612245
The weaker memory model also uncovers synchronization bugs that have been papered over by x86's stronger semantics ;)
Microwaves only need two dials
You investigate specific claims. For example, take the claim that Covid-19 is "no worse than the flu". You could report on people making this claim, and state that others disagree. That can be considered an example of unbiased reporting, but it's nevertheless problematic as it may leave a reader with the impression that all reported-on claims are equally valid.

Choice and presentation of opinions you report on is not a neutral acitvity.

edit: I was distracted when I wrote my answer, so I missed some context. Was your question about differences in tone pointed out in a sibling comment[1]? Without having read the articles in question, at first glace, I'd considere this an example of journalistic bias.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611963