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It's amazing how so many people/entities want to pretend that somehow the pandemic is less dangerous now than it was in March when we started all of the isolating/WFH. When in fact we have a lot more cases now, high levels of new cases and more than half the states have R0 > 1.0. https://rt.live/
I'm getting a Heroku error when hitting the demo URL
I've seen, so many times in my career, a system being built with blood, sweat, and tears over the course of 6 to 12 painstaking months -- and then the system being "given away" to someone over the course of a couple of beers at a happy hour. (that is, management re-org / re-assignment)

When I was co-founder/CTO I never acted this way, because frankly it didnt make sense. But it happens so often in real life, I wonder if this is more about human nature.
So the "About this Mac" screen says "Version 11.0" ... A silent farewell to OS X?
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And strange - Windows already runs on ARM doesn’t it?
How to handle Linux system integrity and secrets on physical product?
I'm working on a IOT physical product that runs Linux and will be sold to customers. This product has a server with a SSD and contains source code in addition to secrets used to communicate with a backend.

The product is early on in the development stages and we currently use LUKS. Our technicians enter in the decryption password to unlock these servers at the beginning of the day.

When this product makes it to production, providing our customers with the decryption key is definitely a no-go. We need to guarantee that our source code and secrets are protected in addition to ensuring that the system hasn't been tampered with.

What are some common ways to handle this in physical products? Any links or tips on this topic would be massively appreciated!
I bought mine a month ago, and I'm happy to keep it. It'll be supported for (guessing) 4-5 years, at least, and the new ARM-based ones won't be available until the end of the year (and you probably don't want to be an early adopter).
There's a difference between a small percentage needing something and a small percentage wanting something, though. If all wheelchair users could turn off their handicap at any time with no consequence, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a wheelchair ramp anywhere.
Haven't even upgraded to Catalina yet, because of the bugs...
I think that's the mid-2012 MBP? They were still selling them in 2015, I bought one of the last ones before it was pulled from sale. It remained in the lineup because it continued to be a best-seller.

Apple was already grumpy about servicing it by 2018 or so though, even with AppleCare. (I've switched to Windows now.)
Ah. I saw references to "dual architecture" online but looks like that means Apple will be releasing new Intel machines even as they are encouraging everyone to port their apps to ARM. The "dual" part just means two different lines of machines that will be sold contemporaneously for a little while, not two architectures inside one machine.

Oh well, I got excited for a minute there.
I feel like Apple is incentivized to move slowly on PWAs.

The pros for bringing more features to PWAs: a small subset of users care, and an even a smaller subset of them care enough that they might leave the platform.

The cons: a direct competitor to the app store (imagine Hey as a PWA), undercutting their 30%. For the independent developer, sure, the app store may be great distribution, but I can imagine paying for your own marketing beats the 30% you lose to Apple.
> What's the best non-Apple notebook these days?

That's pretty subjective depending on operating system and use case. If you want Linux, Dell makes some really good options (XPS Developer Edition), System76 and Purism make some nice hardware for libre software purists.

For Windows laptops there are tons of options and it all boils down to thermal performance and power versus weight and expense. No notebook will defy the laws of physics so there are trade-offs, especially when you start wanting to play games, which I have generally found just isn't worth the trouble on a laptop. Dell's XPS and Lenovo's Thinkpad lines are solid in terms of providing options that fit a lot of different use cases.

I've found that the new Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 environment is great for a lot of the command line Linuxy stuff I took for granted in MacOS. Apple's hardware used to be my default option for computing on the go while I would use native Linux on my desktop, because so much of my development stuff requires some flavor of Linux compatibility. Now, with WSL2, Windows works perfectly for what I need. Microsoft's Linux support is so good that I would not buy another Apple laptop if I were in the market now (it feels really weird typing that) - there is just nothing justifying Apple's premium price anymore, for the type of work I do (YMMV).

The thing that's different about buying non-Apple computing hardware is that you have many more options. Apple takes kind of a dictatorial role in giving you one option at any given screen size or price point. Want a GPU? Buy a 16" Macbook Pro. Want a desktop class CPU? Buy an iMac (or spend $10k+ on a reasonably spec'ed Mac Pro). People put up with this in large part because of Apple's marketing. MacOS Catalina was a disaster but at this point a lot of people have low grade Stockholm syndrome. The relationship is totally different on the PC side where you can practically find anything to match whatever particular use case you have; there are a lot more options, and you have a more active role in figuring that out and purchasing what works for you.
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Separate fuel tanks would demand the design to be more mission-specific. Ideally we want reusable spacecraft that can do multiple roles.
the best time to complain about apple was ten years ago. the second best time is now.
Salaries aren't based on cost of living, but on cost of labor. Those are related, but not tightly.
This comes at no surprise to the game streaming community.

A number of popular gaming stream helpers, namely Harris Heller from Alpha Gaming [0], have kept streamers away from Mixer to focus on Twitch and hosting VOD/highlights on YouTube in order to best grow a community.

Facebook is a large enough platform that this might cause some trouble for Twitch, but we'll see. I think the gaming community is deeply seated around Twitch/YT. Since Facebook has already lost tons of younger users, and rejects anonymity, and doesn't have dark mode, I don't think this will turn out very good for Facebook.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCATWC1JSlhzmYeDbjnS8WwA/sea...
Abysmal battery life in comparison to Safari, different font rendering than normal, lack of correct rubberband scrolling (a ~10 year old bug), and more.

Let me be clear: I like Firefox. I've committed patches to Firefox on iOS. I'd use Firefox on any other platform, but it is not a good citizen of macOS. I don't believe it'd be good on iOS given the room to use its own rendering engine.
In my opinion, that is not a fair comparison. Wheelchair ramp usage percentage may be small but they are built because of laws and helps people who actually need it. People are not disabled by choice.

Javascript disablers (and I have full sympathy as a dev. myself) are doing it by choice which is totally fine but it is still a choice, not a need.
So I see your point, but it's not purely relative.

There is an existential jump when going from starvation and oppression to having basic means. Going from basic means to 'advanced means' is much less of a jump.

Life was brutal 200 years ago for almost everyone, and it's simply not brutal now.

So yes, overall, I understand that in 100 years, people will find it hard to fathom 'how we lived' but really, I think that all future humans could handle living in our era without to much problem.
Massive NUMA .... nightmare happen!
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Is the beta of this coming out today?
New Safari has built-in translation
Do you have some evidence on how Android tracks you or is this just a guess?
Which was why I thought Apple might blow everyone away by doing it. But I was obviously wrong.
I feel based on your arguments, it is you who has more of a confirmation bias. In your opinion, the probability of my face matching a terrorist or that the airport staff has it out for me is higher than a simple "people can be racist". You are just convinced that people just cry racism for no reason.
Oh god that new Mail app looks disgusting. Reminds me of a shitty Electron app, that kind of design.
Still alot, I'd reason.

Especially – and funnily enough – in business contexts, where you need to run software which are each only available on either Mac or Windows, but not both.
Candidate for least professional one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORpBAIB9j64
I'm using Chrome with a JavaScript toggle button and have JavaScript toggled off for the Economist. This incidentally gets past the paywall.
It's not a product release - it's an announcement of direction for the Mac product line and the Mac OS platform. Once they have hardware with ARM processors for purchase they'll be speaking to the processor specs and how much better they are at power management.
I am citing this comment as an example
There was an article posted here on HN yesterday speculating that the first ARM Mac will be a new 13” MacBook Pro.
> Violence: You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people

Try again
> The biggest addition this move to ARM-powered chips brings is the ability for iOS and iPad apps to run natively in macOS in the future. “Most apps will just work,” says Apple, meaning you’ll be able to run native macOS apps alongside native iOS apps side-by-side for the first time.

I've been saying for years that this was Chrome OS's biggest advantage - that it was CPU-agnostic, therefore it could use ARM CPUS much more easily than Windows or macOS, and as such it could run Android apps on ARM chips natively.

But no, Google decided that it was better to go 99% Intel on all Chromebooks, including their own, because former Intel CEO Otellini was on their board and maybe they got a couple of sweet deals on the data center deals, too, like when they were first to get Skylake.
I stopped this because it was just slowing me down too much. Takes both the fun and pace out of reading. There are way to many interesting books out there for that
> there were no actual products announced.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they also didn't announce any actual hardware when they introduced Intel Macs.

Interestingly, for the PowerPC->Intel transition, they also had an Developer Transition Kit: https://www.macstories.net/stories/this-is-not-a-product-the...
Except that the Dock icons are significantly more 3D in their appearance than iPadOS/iOS 14 are.

This is actually an interesting change of priority. Last time there was a major redesign, iOS got it first and Mac OS X got it later. This time, MacOS gets it first and iOS gets it next year in 2021.
I could see the "final Intel Macs" having a value to folks; somewhat similar to the 2015 Macbook Pros which many considered the "last good Macbooks" before Apple fumbled things with the 2016-onward Macs and their gimpy keyboards.

In this case, I don't think the first ARM Macs will have undesirable hardware ala the first few years of Touchbar Macs, but there will be some straggler software whose ARM ports will be delayed or will never happen. For those who depend upon that software, the final Intel Macs will be invaluable.
It should be. I bet it will be based on the same Darwin (ie BSD Unix) kernel that the iPad Pro uses.
I'm not excited about this update. I don't want a "bold new experience".
I don't know that Apple ever really talks the fact that their chips are based on ARM during this kind of event.
The first guy in the "lab" scene (Johny maybe?) mentioned plenty of other "techy" terms. I think that they want to distance themselves from other ARM manufacturers and put the focus on Apple's advantages over Qualcomm and others.
A12Z isn't a consumer chip for macOS. That's why you aren't going to get benchmarks from Apple.

They are also being very very coy with what they have under their sleeves because of small of an upgrade A13 was over A12.

Same thing happened during the intel transition. The first consumer chips were dual cores, but the DTK was Pentium 4s
Random Trivia: High Pitch Eric, a guest on the Howard Stern show is making significant money on Cameo. They (the Howard Stern Show) have speculated that he's one of the top earners on the platform. I believe he's on pace to make over $100,000 this year.
Yes, it is. Just posted, but it got flagged. Eu-West is down.
How would you send out a morse-code like signal?

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I wonder what this will do to Electron. If the iOS apps are really 1:1 on macOS, then the need to maintain an electron app will probably diminish. As long as they both support the same OS APIs I can see devs that can learn a new language (Swift) ditch Electron.
I don't think there's a way to have a licensed Windows ARM copy right now on arbitrary hardware. I thought they only provided OEM versions on certified hardware.
We're comparing the order total which, including menu pricing, tipping, delivery fee etc. for anyone who wants to help the restaurant the most, the best solution is usually ordering directly because this removes a third party from the transaction as mentioned in the comment below. Currently, we're surfacing direct order links for restaurants who can handle delivery and we're working on making direct orders even more convenient.
Windows have both supported ARM for a while now

Windows has always been cross-platform, x86, MIPS, Alpha and PPC back in the day. There was even a SPARC build at one point.
I too don't see x86 disappearing soon but it feels like the world has changed and that change is not positive for Intel.

We've been used to x86 dominance on the desktop and servers for so long that I think a future where there are two architectures with critical mass and one of the architectures can be licensed by a number of firms is hard to imagine.

There will be some short term effort and pain but it must surely be a better competitive environment than we have now.

The historic / current Intel and AMD duopoly has surely not been healthy.
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IMHO Apple's design jumped the shark a long time ago. Even apart from the aesthetics of the "flat" look, which I like about as much as fingernails on a chalkboard, Apple has completely abandoned the principles that made the original Mac great: ease of use and discoverability. Once upon a time it was easy to tell where the affordances were, what you could click on, editable vs non-editable text. Nowadays everything looks the same. The only way to tell whether something is clickable is to try to click on it. The only way you can tell whether something is editable is to try to edit it. And the UI is lousy with hidden features that only show up when you hover over them, with absolutely no indication of where they are until you happen to get lucky and move the mouse over one of them. Easter eggs lose their charm when you have to find one in order to accomplish an actual task.
And you most likely will have to be an established developer, meaning you’ll have to have an app in the App Store. Apple’s not gonna give these to people that just want to play around with a new machine.
I know it's just the look-and-feel, but to me it appears dumbed down in every single way. The uniform app shape, top bar icons, Control Center??? This does not look like a serious OS at all.
Scrolling this site with a mouse is comically bad, this is clearly designed to be used only with a trackpad. I cant read most of the content without very carefully scrolling unnaturally. You also have to pause for the animations to play, but if you scroll one pixel too far they don't play, so its a guessing game of whether you're in the right place or whether you missed some content.
Bummer because this one has the price for the transition kit $500 (which is why I posted it)... but I get reducing the apple noise. Thanks for mentioning they were moved.
Does working remotely or from the office factor into that somehow?
It was pretty much the same with PowerPC to Intel...

Steve Jobs demoed OSX first. Then surprised everybody by saying, OSX had lived a double life in a secret building for many years (with photo), and that he had been running on an Intel Pentium 4 during the demo all morning. Nothing about performance.

There was also a developer system back then; an Intel Pentium 4 in a PowerMac case.

In a lot of ways, this is far more ambitious, and could mean a lot more for Apple long term, but...

... The one thing that hit me the most was, how impressed I was with Apple back then, and how excited I was that a company could do this. Steve Jobs presented it really well, but this time it felt quite flat.

... I really, wish they worked a bit on their showman-ship. They rushed through so many small things, and the presentation felt unnatural. Like they have all over-rehearsed it, but are still reading while presenting (you could even see eye-movements). It is just too smooth, too generic, and a bit too polished.

Please slow down, focus on only the most interesting bits, and give us time to digest it...
I usually end up turning off the motion and turning on increased contrast, reduced transparency etc. These things demo nicely but I didn't like windows with transparency effects when Windows Vista did it and I feel the same way today. I care about what's in the window not under it.

I do think the Safari updates look great, though. Webkit may have its governance issues and so forth, but Safari is really a wonderful app to use imo.
> IBM and Yahoo radically curtailed their WFH policies, and they made (what seemed to me to be) pretty credible arguments that the policies were being abused

While it is possible that they were correct, both companies, but especially Yahoo was already suffering from deep organizational and employee issues at the point these announcements were made. So I am somewhat skeptical about the cause and effect here. I would be more sold if this were coming out of a less disfunctional organization.

> there just isn't anything else to do (with the critical exceptions of housework and child, elder, and sick-person care)

There is also TV, Netflix and a variety of different ways to distract oneself at home. Though I do agree that working- from-home-during-a-pandemic may be different from just working-from-home permanently.
When I wrote that, they were talking about many non-improvements and slight adjustments to iOS. I'd say the bikeshedding peaked at the AirPods segment.

I don't think they should be focusing on anything in particular; they know their market better than I do, and it seems plausible that consumers prefer bikeshedding rather than major change. I'm just saying it bores me.

This is the first time in a long time where the Mac segment has been the most interesting thing, and I'd say that they should probably start doing what they're doing to the Mac to iOS. Even if it's not necessarily things I think that are positive, it's exciting.
Surprised INTC isn't crashing. It's up a bit.
Routine meetings are (mostly) a waste of time
> I'm going to assume that a dedicated GPU was being used for Tomb Raider—they would have said something otherwise.

They said exactly what SoC they were using, and it's not known to have spare PCIe lanes lying unused in existing products. Apple pretty much just demoed an x86 game running on an overclocked iPad Pro.
That's how they work on Android isn't it? It's how it worked when I saw it demoed at IO one year, anyway.
I was going to say something similar - I really wish they'd just slow.the.hell.down with the new releases, rather than continually changing things for what feels like the sake of it (and breaking more and more stuff along the way).
They will lock down their PCs like the iPhone. Good luck booting anything other than macos or getting you Mac fixed anywhere other than Apple.

No thanks, switching back to Linux. I'm done with this crap.
I just love the changes they did to the menubar. Adaptive background and extra padding on the menu items are both great changes

I don't like the new dock design. Maybe they'll change it back to the old dock if the feedback is vocal?
People in here are so excited but I think that Apple will take this as an opportunity to make installing of custom programs even harder. The App Store might eventually be the only way to reliably install software and Homebrew could become a thing of the past.
OS 11!
GitLab technical evangelist here.

I can't seem to reproduce this - maybe it's uBlock Origin? Are you sure it's the default configuration? What were the requests to - just to the main HTML page?
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Oh then you're not going to like what I'm going to say next:

- Somewhere between 2015 and 2025, multiple individual groups will have cracked the AGI problem independently. (but 2015 is in the past, which means there are likely groups out there that have cracked the problem and keeping it a secret).

- AGI-in-the-basement scenario is very doable and has been or will be done, many times over.
Hopefully MacOS support for x86 won't just be 3-5 years from whenever the new ARM models come out.

I have invested quite a bit into the Mac/Apple ecosystem. A big part of that reason was the longevity of the hardware, along with good resale values.

I hope they do right by their existing Mac customers. As of right now I don't have a strong reason to switch away.

I also hope that Apple does not blow this transition from a quality perspective. Their design choices and attention to detail have left a quite a few things to be desired in the past few generations of hardware.
They talked about virtualization but they only showed Parallels Desktop. Is just a virtualization layer for x86 on ARM or are they going to provide something like Hyper V on Windows?
I think I'm seeing it through the same lens as you. I'm really fascinated by the social phenomena of celebrity. Are you aware of any good papers or resources that explore the psychology of this?
My burning question...

Made in China or the USA?
And how is getting into Twitter spats any preferable to a self-made millionaire?
Datacenters are the highest-binned parts, and therefore the highest margins.

Whom is Amazon going to sell low-bin Gravitons to? It isn't cost effective to run them, just like it's not cost effective to use low-binned Intel or AMD chips in datacenters. It's intrinsic to the way all chips are manufactured.

Making your own low performance chips makes clear economic sense, as the producer and consumer of all output. But there have been decades of people trying to make their own high-performance chips as both consumer and producer, and they inevitably fail. And it's not super black and white, whose "subsidizing" whom, in the chip business - datacenter purchasers get cheaper chips because Intel can sell lower-binned parts to enthusiasts, while enthusiasts get cheaper parts because datacenters pay more. Same thing is observed for GPUs, product segmentation in chips is a real synergy and not zero sum.

Who knows if that will succeed, for the idiosyncratic reason of the foundry business being separate from the IP business. Did it really just take a corporate reorg? Maybe AMD was right.
I'm a pretty happy MBP user, but any time I have to use my partner's iPhone I'm blown away by how frustrating and opaque iOS is.
My comment was meant to be more general than Intel. I’m even including AMD here. x86 has no presence in mobile (that ship has sailed) and again I’m seeing quite a lot of innovation on ARM side wrt server-class processors. Not sure how traditional PCs will play out but Macs are going to split off from x86 within years.
and the black people killed by police are human, do you care more about humans or buildings?
For Mac Pro prices and TDP they certainly could put out 4-,8-,12-way boxes/mobos.