skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't just about hardware. It's about software, and an investment in making libraries that are fully optimized for the hardware. The problem here is the long tail of needs is very, very long.
Agreed - Antifragile wasn't as organized or edited well. I've read all of his Incerto series, and I prefer his older books Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.
I don't.

I used Parallels for a while, and it was great, but then we kind of standardized on VirtualBox at work. It was okay.

But then our dev environments got too big to run on laptops, so now they're all cloud-hosted VMs. We still run Docker (which uses a VM under the covers for Mac) but that uses Apple's Hypervisor framework and isn't really "user-facing" virtualization.
>LSD has been classified in the vast majority of countries as a Schedule 1 illegal drug for more than 50 years, ever since the adoption of the United Nations' Convention on Psychotropic Substances.

>That scheduling means regulators believe the drug has "no currently accepted medical use" — and according to scientists from Imperial College London's Centre for Psychedelic Research, it's had a hugely negative impact on LSD research.

The US fucked up a lot of research forcing other countries to sign that convention.
They said the first ARM macs are coming at the end of this year, so even if there's an NDA it won't be long until we'll see the real numbers.
TX2 is from a different company though (Cavium -> Marvell). I guess the "predecessor" of the A64FX would technically be some SPARC chip that Fujitsu used to build?
Often times the "junk" app is a third party app that the OS allows them to uninstall but they can't uninstall because they need to have it once a year for checking something.
It's $500. See the press release: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-announces-mac-t...
I highly recommend Path Finder as a replacement anyway
VSCodium works great on ARM64, I was testing it last week when I tried doing some dev work from a Raspberry Pi running the beta 64-bit OS: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
I'm sure there will be emulators. But I'm also fairly confident that they'll be relatively slow. Emulating across architectures is rarely performant, and if Apple had solved the problem they would be talking a lot about it right now. In the past they've gotten away with this because the architecture they're moving to was so much faster than the previous architecture that even with a 50% or 75% performance penalty the apps would run faster than they did on the old hardware. With this new hardware it is likely only going to be marginally faster than the old Intel chips since the focus is more on power efficiency, so emulated apps are probably going to feel sluggish.
If it uses the virtualization kit, it shouldn’t be a problem.
Unfortunately only veertu, xhive, and part of parallels do so
Well, it appeared to be a developer version of the chip and not the final customer copy.
A startup that takes no external funding is still a startup.
Yeah, with Covid, a ton of apps were offloaded for me, and once I started to safely venture out into the world again, a bunch of things were missing (Starbucks, Lyft/Uber, etc).
It's dead. Intel Macs gave birth to Hackintosh, and ARM Macs will be their death. It was a nice ride.
You can use a tracker blocklist, so you don't have to disable javascript: https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists
The chips in the supercomputer are not exactly ARM, they do have arm-8 instruction set but that's just for loading the proprietary vector extension unit.

Pretty much a GPU alike stuff with arm-8 set to be able to run its OS.
I had a look but found it doesn't at all work like streetview
Given Apple's track record of supporting older Mac hardware, I would expect Intel Mac hardware to be supported for many years and many OS versions after the last Intel Mac has been produced.

Also given Apple's recent MacBook track record, the first version of ARM Macs may not be as much of a slam dunk as people hope.
Not even considering it until I see Logic Pro X benchmarks.

PS
All those sleeping bugs from C code that was never tested on weaker memory models...
Obamacare was huge for pre-existing conditions and the marketplace, you actually had options now, instead of zero. Also Obamacare was watered down to appease Republican interests at the time. There was no interest in building bridges during it's building, Republicans were laying out the dynamite, and spent a hell of a lot of wasted effort after Trump took office trying to trigger that dynamite.

It is hard to meet in they middle when both sides are extremely far apart, and each side has factions that are even further apart than ever before.

Really we need more than two parties dictating the agenda. It is getting harder for the far left to even want deal with Democrats, much less Republicans. The same is happening with the far/alt right.
Wait, no Apple Glass?
Isn't that what VecLib is for? Also there are other math libraries to use on ARM. I think we use EigenBLAS in our products.
It's an ARM only Developer Kit.
It wasn't just lack of performance numbers, there were no actual products announced. They would have had to tip their hand on a lot of info that is not helpful to customers or their ability to keep selling Intel stuff.

One big question though will be how this devkit benchmarks against the current maxed Intel mac mini. I'm curious if GPU performance beats the current BlackMagic eGPU. (rx 580)
Apple has a strong story for x64, going forward, which I think will ease fears.

They aren’t rushing x64 out the door.
The A12Z is already faster than every tablet and phone in existence. Depending on the benchmark, it smokes about 80% of off the shelf PC hardware.

They really don't need to do that much.
numpy is backed by BLAS and LAPACK. It just happens that on your system on macOS those libraries are provided my MKL. There are other implementations of BLAS and LAPACK out there.
Mixer had potential as a streaming platform, they completely failed to create a culture anything like what Twitch has. Any streamer who wanted to move to Mixer would have to sacrifice being part of that Twitch community.
I'm not going to apologize. If you can't actually ask a question on a site that is all about asking questions, you get no respect from me. I actually LIKE answering questions, that's why I participate. It wasn't about formulating the question, I don't mind prodding people in the right direction for that. There simply wasn't a question, either in the title or the body of the text.
They explicitly said that it can perform both static and dynamic translation for JITs. I wouldn't be surprised if there is substantial hardware support too.
They claimed they would "complete this transition" in 2 years.
Yeah the couple’s video was about a minute long, and was quite a heartfelt message wishing them congrats and sending well wishes.
That's exactly right.

https://twitter.com/StevenLevy/status/1275138212516765697
I'm quite sure that's not the average QR experience. Sounds like your phone really sucks at doing QR and those websites they point at haven't been updated in 15 years.
I just want Ublock Origin.

The existing adblockers for iOS are OK but they aren't comparable, it's mostly OK since I use my iPad's at home and control the network but it's (one) of the reasons I won't be buying an iPhone SE even though it's price (~£400) makes it almost interesting to me.

The only option would be to VPN into my home network and filter that way but yeah that seems silly when I can just install Firefox on Android which I like well enough anyway.
I absolutely agree that JS is over-used, but for anything other than very static content I generally am not interested in kowtowing to the strict "no JS" folks. Javascript has become a fundamental part of the web, and for the same reason I won't put in extra work to make my sites work in IE, I also will not put in extra work to make my sites work for (a vanishingly small number of) people who pre-emptively block one of the most powerful tools in my belt.

On a side note, the first example the author uses for a menu alternative[0] is highly obnoxious. The "unobtrusive" example assumes that your page is written in PHP but doesn't declare this assumption up front, it leaves it until half way into the article. The example is not usable in a static website that won't properly handle a POST request. So the JS example is still vastly superior for many cases.

[0] https://css-tricks.com/unobtrusive-page-changer/
What's wrong with diversity?

I like having the option of a closed wall "curated" market, and an open install anything market.

I can do my banking on my iPhone and have the password saved on it, while having an Android running F-droid running whatever I want that will never touch my banking info.

What's wrong with having MORE choice. iPhone are no where near market monopoly.
goodbye hackintosh.. They were fun.

It will be interesting if one very big company can keep the whole stack going.. Even ps4/xbox went to the common architecture of x86. It could pay off big in price/performance but its risky..

after waiting for years for anyone to replace x86, with a better design, nobody could (Not even intel).
From what I understood the transition is of strategic nature. Less dependency on third party suppliers for vital components.

The performance and/or battery gains is almost incidental.
Did they say the Linux VMs in the demo were x86? They said "virtualization", which to me, implies ARM Linux.
Project Management as Code with Graphviz (2017)
this is a exciting news. i hope Apple/AMD can force Intel to step up its game.

Intel is losing to AMD's Zen and TSMC process nodes.
The major reason for the transition is higher margins, plain and simple.

For customers, both average users and developers it will be a pain with little to be gained.
Yes. It appears that Rosetta 2 beats Microsoft's x86 emulation by a long shot. I wonder how they're avoiding Intel patents.
>the ethical and monetary cost of a rodent suffering or dying due to unwanted effects of a drug candidate is judged to be lower than similar suffering in a human.

Thank you for the insightful comment, I'll cite the part that is relevant, since my (very serious) point was indeed that by this logic a more "advanced" being than us would have (by our own morals) the right to conduct medical experiments on us humans, because we are capable of feeling less pain.
It is like many triple A games in that it has a wide range of settings, all the way from full potato to RTX (it was ironically one of the first games to support that).
Ok. I’ll wait till then before buying my new Laptop.
I got the sense that it was an honest posting, not a troll. You certainly have more experience than I; my experience is that ignoring the trolls has its own failure modes - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Don%27t_feed_the_Troll . Lack of response to some arguments is taken as evidence that no counter-evidence exists, and simple flagging/killing interpreted as ideological suppression of the truth.

I am finding it difficult to understand what is and is not ideological flamewar. When the parent to my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23590129 suggests that the move for vocabulary changes is recent and by implication only due to white guilt, what I consider to be a mild and verifiable correction gets -2, but no downvotes in the parent. When someone asks how anyone could object to Grant, my relevant quote from the SJ Mercury News and a link to the Merc's source (and no personal commentary) gets a -1, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23586506 . In a topic touching on possible sexism in the legal system, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23504005 I provide links to and quotes from relevant scholarly literature, and get a -1. At https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23440254 , the parent comment was clearly intellectually dishonest, whose interpretation depended on people not reading the article - which you know is not uncommon - and on not having anyone point out the dishonesty. I got a 0. Downvotes of course can themselves be part of an ideological flamewar.

I don't request an explanation, only pointing out that I do believe these, at least, are sufficiently new, on-topic, good critical statements as requested by the guidelines.
I think we’ve got some time. I’m on the last leg of a 2012 too. Just like the sibling comment said, since we don’t know if the pro line will get a refresh there could possibly be a longer runway.
what about Apple then?
It doesn't seem weird at all, and the fact that they're sending out devices on the A12Z seems to be intentional sandbagging: they know that people are going to benchmark and the results will likely be simply comparable to current hardware (from a performance perspective...energy efficiency will clearly be much better). When they release the actual devices, where their power and thermal profile is dramatically higher than an iPad Pro, it will actually wow.
I don't think they even used the term "ARM" at any point. They're calling it "Apple's silicon," and they acknowledged it's the same as what iPhone and iPad use. But I thought it was interesting how they seemed to avoid the term. It's probably just a matter of avoiding getting too "techy" and marketing.
Finally someone who got the joke.
> […] not realizing they have a very limited lifespan.

It may depend on one's definition of "limited": the Rosetta was first released with Mac OS 10.4 in 2005, [1][2] and was last available in Mac OS 10.6, which first released in 2010, [3] but whose last update was in 2011.

Six years of transitional support is not unreasonable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard
And iOS development
Previously on Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15950325
Nobody gives a crap about the Qualcomm powered notebooks. They're a joke market segment. As long as Apple doesn't start selling A* chips to Samsung or other Android OEMs Qualcomm isn't going to worry.
This level of asymmetric processing is very difficult to achieve, at nearly every possible level, from part sourcing, through hardware design, firmware, software to user experience.
Which is hateful against... buildings?
For “The Mooch” it’s probably an addiction to attention that’s driving his Cameo participation.
> Just what percent of broken laws in the US do you think end up being enforced with guns drawn?

Why draw a gun and use force by threat? Imprisonment, fines, wage garnishment, loss of rights, etc. are all equally effective ways of enforcing laws.
Typing this on a 2010 MBP, bought a new MBP this weekend (was later canceled by the seller b/c of inventory issues) and thinking about waiting another year
Possibly. The developer kit is using an A12z chip. It’s possibly more for proof of concept than tech demo of what’s possible.
The difference is that the entire (64bit?) iOS App Store back catalogue would likely be available to run as unmodified binaries without developers having to lift a finger.
> It _is_ hard

Using modular licenses might mitigate the problem of managing a frankendocument, but I have to agree: making ethos licensing viable would require a ton of effort. The SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange) standard includes boolean expressions to combine licenses[0], like `MIT AND ISC`. It would be difficult but conceivable for a lawyer to write human-readable and enforceable licenses each forbidding one specific use. Bundling licenses with `AND` into cohesive super-licenses covering ethical standards would take more effort. Figuring out what ethical standards a large-enough ecosystem of engineers agrees upon is another herculean task.

Still, I think the efforts are worth it: I'd like to opt out of some subsidizing fields of endeavor but not others. IANAL, just a programmer, but I'd be interested in contributing to ethos-licensing-related projects.

[0]:
https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/appendix-IV-SPDX-license-ex...
Sounds good! My email is in my profile, if I'm wrong I'll pay up! :)

Keep in mind that you would have to differentiate bot's responses from those of an old truck driver, a snobby philosophy student, a conspiracy theorist, a stoner, a bimbo following latest Kardashians news, etc. Lots of different personalities of real humans who can throw curveballs at you during a chat session. I hope you don't expect to only chat with bay area devs? :)
I wonder:

- Can the apps downloaded from a website run.

- Can x64/x86 apps both work

- Can I run Excel 2013/Old windows games on Windows XP on Parallels

Apple has deliberately added 'notarization' to try and control the platform as a bout of a landgrap using the ARM transition as an opportunity.
Disabling JS protects you from cross site scripting, invasive tracking and cryptominers though. So there‘s definitely a plus.
I would like to know the percentage of sites that use JS for actually improving the user experience (e.g. voting not requiring a page reload on HN) vs. those where it‘s just a gimmick (e.g. „want to talk?“ popup). I expect the majority to fall in the second category. So I applaud every effort of websites getting rid of their JS.

Disclaimer: I have JS enabled.
What would you say they should be focusing on instead?
> I'm studying CS but haven't heard any concrete examples of why I should learn a lisp (scheme, Clojure). Every time I ask i get pseudo-intellectual answers of how it will expand my mind, make it easier to express complex human problems/domains into code or even make me re-evaluate things in life on a philosophical level. What?

Lisp is very close to the Tao, and the Tao that can be spoken of is not the true Tao. That's why no one can tell you in concrete terms the greatest benefits of Lisp's eldritch power, and they all end up in spirals of circumlocution about "lack of syntax" or "homoiconicity" or somesuch. You have to experience it for yourself before you "get it".

The fact that McCarthy devised (or discovered) a powerful, high-level language with an extensible, morphable syntax that's definable in terms of itself in seven functions (and those functions were themselves readily convertible by hand to machine code) should be a massive clue, though.

> but on the other hand, life's too short and I'm already spending so much time in front of a PC to get my degree, learn a couple of more languages, make side projects on github, personal blogs etc to make myself more employable.

That's part of your problem. You are too busy chasing good-boy points from the job market to really sit down and study this stuff. My suggestion is to focus on your collegiate studies for now. If you have time, study an additional language/CS topic or two, but only stuff you can get really interested or engrossed in. There's a good chance that eventually, Lisp will call to you. It's one of those ideas in CS that are so profoundly good that if you are interested in CS, you will be interested in Lisp, at least the history of Lisp and what it brought to the table.

If you are just looking for practical reasons to learn a language that translate directly to résumé padding and more zeros on your starting salary, then JavaScript is an acceptable Lisp and you may as well stick with something like that.
Is this the end of Linux as the host OS on Mac hardware? It's been really difficult for many years anyway, so for essentially hasn't been practical for a long time. I know there are plenty of working ARM builds of Linux so if the new Mac chips are ARM compliant then the ARM linux builds should work. I would think Apple has their own proprietary extensions or something tho, otherwise why make their own? Just very high manufacturing standards?
If they keep the desktop thermal budget I have no doubt they could scale up the A series to be just as powerful as any intel chip.
Do you know of these security privileges? I've never heard either google or mozilla complain about them.
*citation needed.

Recently switched to FF on a 6 year old mac, only complaints so far are small ui quirks
Have they ever given performance numbers that weren't like "up to 400% faster" in selected tasks?
maybe it's about profits not performance?
It's not a switch for libraries, it's a global project-wide switch. It enables or disables evented I/O for your whole application. Libraries can read that setting and specialize at compile-time appropriately.
I was waiting to upgrade my 2013 16gb/512. I really see no point
If the performance in the demo is accurate, and considering that the actual Mac chips will have a lot bigger power headroom, silicon die size and more thermal headrooms than the A12Z, Intel will be swatted out.
Agree. There's just nothing even remotely interesting or real being said on Reddit anymore. I'd honestly rather do anything else. I'd rather stare at a wall with my own thoughts than spend time on Reddit.

Here's an exercise - check out /r/unpopularopinion today. Full of perfectly boring normal opinions like "MTV should go back to showing music videos". All of the content just seems completely fake. There's not an unpopular opinion in sight.

Now go the Wayback Machine and take a look at that same sub from say, three to five years ago (which feels like a short time to me these days). Plenty of deeply unpopular, controversial, thought-provoking opinions. You don't have to like them, but they were real.
http://archive.is/
Already Apple is making it a headache to run non-signed apps on the Mac. I don't think they're going to slow down the "convergence" of iOS and MacOS at this point.
I'll also add that the excessive censorship and manipulation of opinion on massive sites such as reddit, facebook, youtube, etc. is somewhat disturbing. People tend to think that only governments can censor excessively, but the fact is most public discussion in the West now happens on a few massive private platforms, and these platforms have a lot of power over public opinion.
I would have been more impressed with them accessing an game service like Steam and launching random games from there.

Plus they insinuated they were running on the A12 but later demos including the game did not state exactly the hardware being used.

If they are limited to games support Metal then that is jettisoning a large number of games. Granted Catalina already did a of that work for them.

Are they going to support non Apple video cards? The skipped right over that but I suspect they don't think they need to

*edit on that last note it would be a good reason they never brought nvidia chips back as they would know they would not need them
I would also expect this hw to be nerfed compared to what actually goes out to customers. That way no matter what is achieved on this it is better for real users.
> Why not? Windows 10 for ARM can run x86 apps.

Nobody who has ever attempted to use it would claim this.
As a result, all of Apple hardware will now ship with a TPU. Neat.
How does pandering differ from finding product-market fit?
Post with official announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23604457
Here is a demonstrably false thing that Twitter doesn't censor: https://twitter.com/search?q=black%20egyptians&src=typed_que...

I have not seen them censor the Black Egyptian or Black Moor hypotheses in spite of being associated with Black Supremacy and being "demonstrably false" which is a category of things the #StopHateForProfit campaigns are targeting.

In fairness I don't know what content ends up being blocked, maybe there is a way to see it. But I have seen particular efforts, such as the doctored video Donald Trump recently posted, to tag content as misleading but I have not seen this for the above. As you pointed out, they did the same for coronavirus. Perhaps some of this debate is just about the 'reach' of content but afaict the Black Egyptian disinformation is prevalent. I might be wrong, I don't know all the ins and outs of Twitter blocking.
I believe Apple can make processors for laptop and normal desktop in A-series way but I'm curious how they make for Mac Pro. Adopting architecture like chiplet?