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Temporal – Workflow as Code
I'm a FF user on macOS, but it is a power hog. They have been working on it for some time:

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...
For those of us long around enough to remember, the switch to intel was really smooth with a good balance of quick adoption and solid emulation for legacy apps. I am not team Mac anymore but IMHO they did it as smoothly as auch a major change could be conducted. I have no idea where this will take the ecosystem. But apart from pissing off power users (developers mostly) and deprecating intel based hardware in the resale market I would not worry too much.
macOS Big Sur 11.0 – Updated index of need to know changes links
Always. My blog view is exactly the same without JS, Lightbox works as simple links and the burger is functional: https://www.rado.bg
Super weird, seeing some relatively famous people doing this. Sean Astin is on a bunch of current Netflix shows fro example.

Now some do it for charity, which I think if they had started as a nonprofit and took that angle it could end up huge. Think fo the kind of legacy it could become, though I guess they wouldn't become millionaires going that route...

One shout out to a Silicon Valley alum, whose proceeds go to charity: https://www.cameo.com/suzannecryer
The biggest question is will Apple/developers support x86 macs longer than Apple/developers supported PowerPC macs when that transition happened?
Some problems happen when you have more than one office. It is almost always us VS them. Management needs to deal with this problem. Now I'll grant that it is a little better if it is a remote office as one person being remembered can remind you of the rest of the office. However it requires effort from management.

Which is why I have approval to travel to other countries several times a year if I want to. If teleportation existed I'd probably work in a different office every day of the week, as a tech lead it would help the team.
Show HN: NavNav – Curated UI Examples
> Apple will release the first Mac with Apple silicon end of this year, and it expects the transition to take two years.

That's more than twice as long as the transition from PPC. Sounds like they've not yet figured out how to do high-end. Hopefully, they won't be as quick to drop support on the $6k 2019 Mac Pro as they were on the 2005 Power Mac G5 quad (<4 years from release to unsupported by OS X).
If I have a client requirement that calls for a high degree of accessibility this obviously changes my approach. I'm talking about things I make for myself, or for clients with less stringent requirements. Same argument goes for the IE crowd.
I think that is a slightly different use case, though. That demo was an x86 binary running on ARM MacOS via a translation layer. So if there is a MacOS x86 version of the app you want to run, that might be an option.

But I know a lot of people still run Windows because they want the Windows version of an app, either because it isn't available at all on Mac or just because the Windows version runs better (Excel was a classic example of this for a long time, might still be). In that case, I don't know if that same translation layer will have the same performance (if it can run at all outside of MacOS) when running an entirely different OS.
Good for you. You were lucky enough to be in a program that had a firehose of resources (mostly money, but probably also high quality professors). There's only so many flagship programs at any given university. The overwhelming majority of people who get a BA or BS in a given field will not be that lucky. How many students to the top schools in a field graduate? How many do the rest graduate?
I believe that Apple won't provide its own GPU drivers for Linux and it looks like hard to implement OSS driver (the GPU is for Metal not OpenGL). So Linux on Mac Hardware looks hard unless RADEON equipped Mac.
You can have your cake and eat it too. Use progressive enhancement/graceful degradation so that users with JS get immediate visual feedback, and just fall back to reloads without JS.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23603866.
The A12Z is already shipping in the latest iPad Pro, so it's not like its performance is some unknown quantity: benchmarks are aplenty... Although I guess this dev kit could run at a different frequency, and have more/less memory bandwidth. Performance should still roughly be that of the iPad Pro.

The A12Z is itself only a small update on the A12X from 2018, so it's basically two years behind whatever will ship in actual ARM Macs this fall...
Don’t expect performance. The Intel DTK was Prescott based (while AMD had great dual cores and Intel were lagging). Then they’ve released their Core series that started from mobile and had great performance.

I guess they did some homework before ditching Intel.
The big question Is if they have enough headroom for manufacturing reliable chips with sustained high power.
What about the call to dox the Covington kids by a verified account. Is there anything comparable to it on the right side? I do not think so. The rules for thee, but not for me.
https://twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/1086927762634399744?...
If anyone from GitLab is reading this, these pages are locked in a refresh loop. I can't read the content because it is scrolling/moving slightly with every refresh which is happening constantly.

Latest version of Chrome stable, uBlock Origin in default config, HTTPS Everywhere, React/Redux devtools are the extensions I have installed.

I let the page run for 30 seconds and:

* CPU usage on two cores was at 100%

* 2,943 requests were made for 319 MB of resources over 30.06 seconds

A staggering rate of 100 requests per second that persists indefinitely - I have no reason to believe the refresh loop is broken at any point.
> But now games like Fortnite, Minecraft, PUBG etc. that already exist on iOS can natively run on the Mac. So I think that's a pretty big thing

With touch controls on non-touchscreen devices.

It isn't big.

I think the fact they chose to show off a fairly poorly running version of Tomb Raider as their demo goes to show that they still fundamentally do not understand the gaming market.
Unfortunately Twitch is buffering for me all the time. 4K streaming on Mixer was flawless, I can't even do 720p 60fps most of the time on Twitch :/
Again, people need to dial back their expectations here. You aren't going to see cutting edge games running well through emulation. There is a reason Apple made such a huge emphasis on native apps, native is always going to run much faster.

They didn't demo gaming to suggest this is a great machine for gaming, they demoed it to show that it was possible at all. The previous version of Rosetta during the PowerPC->Intel transition was not known for performance.

If gaming is important to you and you want a Mac then you want an Intel Mac or whatever games are released for Mac ARM. Emulated games are not going to compete with native.
I enjoyed widgets when I used Android. Being able to keep a few key contacts 1 tap away, the weather and calendar always visible, and being able to single tap to create a new todo, another single tap to open my groceries note, etc. was pretty cool.

With the latest iphones being as fast as they are it's not a game changer to not have widgets, but I definitely found them extremely convenient.
> I prefer business to be transactional, because it's honest and straightforward

No corporation or politicians will ever be "transactional" because that just doesn't sell. You just can't make branding or marketing without posturing.

And for a fashion corporation (e.g.: Patagonia) posturing is even more essential. They don't sell clothes, they sell posturing.

Deal with it: everybody is always acting, even you.
Dang, sounds cool. Which university is this?

Edit: saw below you said Technical University of Munich
Yea, I wonder what the Mac Pro is going to look like in a couple of years. Then again, they could stuff it with 100 A19z processors and have a 1024 thread machine (or something equally outrageous).
I wrote about a generalized way to use React, Redux and SSR to make sites that work without JS a short while ago[0] and I’m currently employing that strategy for a side project I’m working on.

So far the biggest drawback is not being able to do a payment flow with Stripe Checkout without requiring JS on _my_ service, because Stripe.js is required to redirect a user to the checkout session.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23426951
I can assure you that performance will not come anywhere close to an RX580, much less to a more modern Radeon 5700.
I'm about as left wing as you can get, but Twitter is incredibly biased.

August Ames chose not to have sex with men who have sex with men. Because of this decision to do what she wants with her own body, she was harassed by people telling her to commit suicide for it.

She DID kill herself, and the people that told her to were not even banned.

https://www.spartareport.com/2017/12/leftists-bullied-august...
I wonder if you can’t just install the beta on an iPad.
VS is not built on top of dotNET.

VS Code was expected to run on anything, being nothing more than Javascript & HTML wrapped via Electron.
What happened to traditional definition of state channels?

It used to be just like payment channels, but with a bigger scope and more fancy state operations.

The trick with avoiding multiparties was called "virtual state channels" or something like that. When did it change?
It’s an ARM chip that can run x86 software using translation tools (Rosetta).
I found in the Press release the cost of the Transition Kit: $500. Not bad at all.
Part of the motivation for the transition is the hope that the progress will be much faster over the next 6. If that happens, those intel macs may age out sooner.
Yeah, there are a lot of complex dynamics going on and things will play out over quite a while in a way that doesn't lend itself to absolute statements. That said, I tend to think that, even if a handful of large West Coast employers (and NYC fintech firms) tend to continue paying top-of-market rates, you're probably going to see some equalizing of salaries across the US overall (and perhaps some but less equalizing of CoL).
Apple released new mac minis and powermacs when they announced the intel transition.
> Essentially that we just need to stop kidding ourselves that we can predict the tails, and to build greater buffers into all our assumptions from the beginning. He calls this "Radical Uncertainty" which I think is better as a practical foundation than attempts to model black swan events.

I haven't read The End of Alchemy, but Taleb also doesn't even think modelling black swan events is possible or even useful. Any attempts that claims can predict black swan events is assumed as harmful. And he would also propose the same to build greater buffers into assumptions or even assume that it will fail in time. Antifragile is the book that explores this more on how fragile are predictions and it's far more useful to know where is the risk exposure and compensate for that instead of calculating the risk and trying to avoid it.
Android gives one more freedom here and there, but tracks you more.
At the very end we are tied to Google or Apple, and that is bad.
I think it would be pretty interesting to scrape the site for celeb prices over time and analyze them. At the least it would be a hilarious stock ticker to put in a waiting area or restroom
The cost of the transition kit will be $500.
This is a very simplistic approach. Over 90% of people killed by police are men. Does it follow that police are heavily biased against men? Over 90% of pediatricians are women. Is pediatrics heavily biased in favor of women?
No, because even though men and women make up roughly 50% of the population each they make different choices. Men are much more likely to commit violent acts. Women are much more likely to go into pediatrics.
Unlikely - being able to have full control of your roadmap is a huge strategic advantage. Profits and revenue are nice, but if Apple was interested in that they could dual source x86 from AMD and drive cost down.

You don’t think companies like Oculus are envious of Apple’s flexibility from not having to rely on Qualcomm for their mobile SoCs? It’s not just about profit margin.
>how impressive x86 VMs looked

You mean that they opened and could run a command line app? I'm not actually sure they implied it was x86.
According to the most recent Streamlabs report:
YouTube Gaming Live accounted for 22.1% market share for 2019 in terms of hours watched while Twitch market share accounts for 75.1% and Mixer market share accounted for is 2.7%.

Youtube Gaming is also growing extremely fast since they have rolled out their new creative suite.

https://newzoo.com/insights/articles/streamlabs-newzoo-q4-ye....

Facebook Gaming hardly has any market share so I don't understand why you are saying their existence and networking abilities is enough to make alternativeS unviable. The streaming industry seems to be one of the most competitive markets out there.
Yeah, the fact that they didn't show off Windows, but instead Debian of all things, was very telling.
I doubt whether making big chip just for Mac Pro/iMac Pro profitable. Chiplet approach looks like benefitical.
TL;DR: Temporal allows one to write business logic that spans multiple services and hide temporary failures.
What? PPC transition took 4+ years until Snow Leopard was released.

You're gonna see macs across the line being moved over to Apple chips Q4 and Q1
"Why X ?" is a common shorthand for "What is the raison d'être of X ?"
Apple Developer Transition Kit Website, Application, and Cost
Only times I've used it was for occasionally needing to touch SQL Server.

That was a few years ago, there might be better ways of interacting with it now.
Preferring marriage within the same cast has to do more with having partner from the same cultural/family norms and practices. You see, Indian society is quite old (thousands of years); there are lot of customs re ways of worship, deities, dresses, eating/etc. that have evolved over this period and people (mostly parents) prefer a match in that regard. Because mostly marriages are arranged by parents (though in cities at least, love marriage has also become a common place thing.)
> Not divulging their hand may be a thing. But they could at least have

Let's say that the new numbers are mindblowingly good. So then what? Nobody buys anything from them until next year because they're all waiting? Yikes. This way fewer people will be mortified of the idea of buying something right now instead of waiting.
The Mac Pro (and possibly the iMac Pro) will still be Intel for a while. I expect the portable lineups to get the ARM treatment first (as they are the most similar with the iPhone/iPad in terms of power requirements), and then scale it up for actual high-power desktop CPUs.
I wonder if Big Sur on Apple Silicon is still Unix based, i.e. with all the Unix underpinnings and terminal access?
a quick way to check is to use elinks for instance
I wish things like this mattered. I've worked for more than one company where the bulk of development happens in India.

Even though we would have a 2-3 hour window in the morning US time where meetings happen, there is lack of business context, and language/skillset barriers, the cost savings is just too much to overcome.
Nope; the vast majority of consumers have no idea who makes the processor in their Macs.

This is a developer-only concern.
Its total transition to Arm in 2 years. Likely they will build different SoCs performance/power for desktop and notebook.
Isn't that already the case? You can't evict tenants in the middle of a lease if they have honored all the terms of the lease. It's a contract.
I think it will take extra factors like some manager who orders someone he knows has COVID into the office before we see a lawsuit that makes it very far.
The main reason is the partnership with nvidia. You get nvlink to the CPU, which you don't get on Intel/AMD (I believe). Other than that, I don't think there is a real competitive reason. The support and future timeline from IBM is lacking. I'm honestly surprised they are still big friends.
For software, I know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTCondor is used quite frequently in academia for distributed workloads.
My heart is racing and I'm sweaty just reading this. Caving is not a hobby I plan on exploring.
You can access Ars' comments without JS by using the forum.

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewforum.php?f=2
Mac Apps Are Dead
Well XHTML 2.0 was such a roaring success that I'm sure they'll be super stoked to take on another project to improve HTML as hypertext without the baggage of browser backing and buyin.
“Django Celery without pain” tips from my experience. Tutorial part coming soon
Yep it did. I think you could get an iMac for 1000-1500 dollars once they were released to the public.
There's also apps you just want for the integration they may provide (for example, a keyboard app) but don't want to install the entire app.

I have the Pocket app installed on my iPhone, because I want to be able to share stuff to Pocket, but I don't ever actually use the Pocket app to read stuff.

Then there are utility apps, such as the app that I used to setup my wifi, that I rarely open but still want to keep around in case something goes wrong.

There's all sorts of reasons to have apps installed but not showing in the most prime real estate in the world.
Rosetta 2 will take care of translation and JITing
There's no indication that the A12Z will be the chip that ships to consumers at the end of the year. So honestly it'd be a bit out of character to boast about the specific performance numbers of a pre-release dev kit chip - especially when that chip has already had Geekbench run on it for a while: https://browser.geekbench.com/ios_devices/ipad-pro-12-9-inch...
They may be sandbagging to give themselves some wiggle room. IIRC Jobs also said the Intel transition would take two years and it only ended up taking one.
It's amusing how much HN mocks the police for their stance that everything that enables privacy could enable child exploitation imagery while at the same time insisting that anything that resembles moderation will end in dystopian thought policing.

Sometimes slopes just aren't that slippery.
What type of 527 is that?
Probably a rental, based on the last transition.
This looks like a dns-based solution? Most people are not going to install pihole at home. Other dns-based solutions require per-device configuration, and when you have a family with a dozen or more devices, this does not scale.

That’s why ublock origin and friends are so popular.
They probably just recompiled for arm and optimized any pain points.
But many preexisting remote-focused US tech companies are not heavily outsourced. They've gone "through the initial pain of setting up remote work" and are subject to the same economic forces. If these companies haven't been tempted into heavy outsourcing, why should we imagine that new companies entering into their situation will?
> one which fails to acknowledge the concept that freedom of speech may be a broadly good thing.

How does Patagonia's stance do anything to freedom of speech? I don't follow your post after this assertion.

Is Patagonia not exercising its rights directly? Are you suggesting that a more-free-speech approach would be having the government force you to sell your products directly to people you don't want to?

I'm confused how you connected Patagonia's actions to free speech. They are standing up for free speech and free actions, if anything, and it sounds like you're suggesting that they are against free speech with this move.

But free speech is the very idea that supports and protects this move.
VS Code is not what anyone means by Visual Studio in that context. No one uses Windows for VS Code.

Of course VS Code works on ARM, it's an electron app.
And if you talk to Americans, many of their parents would not accept if they came out as gay. That doesn't mean human rights are not advancing in the US, it just means that the previous generations have a hard time letting go of their bigoted beliefs.
Apple ported many Pro Apps to ARM , especially their Logic Pro, Photoshop and they were showcasing Maya on ARM. That is about as Pro as it gets for Mac.

That reads to me Apple isn't going to have Intel for some high end Pro machine. They intended to go all in with ARM. i.e There will be a Mac Pro with High TDP ARM Chip. I wonder what are the owner of Mac Pro feeling now having just spend a $5K+ Mac Pro with Intel.

Question is,

1. They are going to design their own CPU for the whole range of Mac? up to 10W for MacBook, up to 45W for MacBook Pro. ~150W for iMac, ~ 250W for Mac Pro ? How is that financially feasible considering the volume of Mac Pro sold. Or do they intend to use those high TDP chip in their server farm / iCloud?

2. What happens to GPU? Having their own GPU for iMac and Mac Pro as well? Dual GPU options where Apple GPU for power efficiency? This feels like additional complexity.

3. Would it be like the PowerPC era where you will get a new iMac once you finish with the development kit?

Finally while I am excited for ARM Mac, at the same time I am also feeling a little sad. Good bye x86.
It's not that it's hateful. It's inciting and encouraging violence, which I'm pretty sure is against the ToS.
JavaScript poses a large security and privacy risk.

Think browser fingerprinting, XSS, JS-based analytics, poor or missing CSP + hijacked npm modules, etc.

I generally keep JS disabled as much as possible.
I still remember the Snow Leopard 'No New Features' launch. Mac OS has been as buggy as ever lately, I'd welcome another 'no new features' release with open arms.
The aarch64 ISA has left cruft and legacy than x64, with all unoptimal support for the complete history of SIMD evolution over several decades...

On one side, I think this switch is a good thing for the industry, as I always believed that ARM was a better choice and that we should get rid of the legacy at some point.

On the other hand, Apple is again tempted to play in their own garden, with a complete disregard of standards and interoperability. They're doing that with Metal, they will certainly do the same with their custom silicon.
> “Reddit will disappear one day, and it's up to them to be a good actor towards the archival group, providing data bandwidth during a time when”

Reddit’s content is already dumped and cloned in near-real-time.
https://pushshift.io/
What's odd is that they announce Microsoft office for Arm but Microsoft did not have that when launching the Surface X
Yawn... So what happened to the #DeleteFacebook campaign.

With the number of times Facebook has been cancelled, one is still shocked their is anything to boycott.

Haven't been a fan of Zucks but he has earned my respect for being the sane head in the Chaos.

Funny, they are also using Facebook to organize to boycott... That should say something to them
Note that this example he gives is not accessible: https://codepen.io/victorcopque/pen/OVxRbq

A keyboard user cannot access the hidden checkbox that controls showing/hiding the menu.
1. We don't really know what Apple is or isn't collecting from you.

2. You can run de-Googled Android and still do the important 80% of things that a smart-phone is good for.
Have you truly ever felt nothing in your life?