skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you consider this any more degrading than any other form of patronage? Why is paying a musician to wish someone happy birthday somehow more shameful than demanding they sing and dance for me when I show up to their concert? In both cases, the artist gets the funds to keep making their art and the audience gets to continue enjoying that art.
Coincidentally I posted this twitter challenge a week ago:

#I #wonder #how #many #of #my #haX0r #friends #can
#figure #out #how #I #made #all #these #hashtags
#unclickable.

None of the hashtags appear clickable as they normally should, except for the #unclickable one, which I left as normal as a bit of a joke.

Twitter doesn't highlight # followed by a space, among other characters it ignores unless they terminate in an alphabetic character. #10 won't get highlighted, but #10d will. When I realized that, I just added a zero-width space after the #.

EDIT: Interestingly pasting it to a HN converts it to a normal space character, so I had to edit and delete them. Didn't really expect that one.

Here's the original link if you care to see what it looks like in action: https://mobile.twitter.com/IntruderVS1400/status/12723814606...
The systemic racism black Americans face, explained in charts
I looked at the things you "cited" (i.e. name dropped without linking).

"Race, IQ, and the search for statistical signals associated with so-called “X”-factors":

A) no non-paywalled sources, so I'm suspicious if you even read it

B) written by a philosophy professor, not a scientist, with no scientific background

C) the argument of this paper, as far as I can tell from the abstract, is "the pure-environmental hypothesis is nonfalsifiable", i.e. completely useless

I would critique it more if I could actually read it.

"Reconciling IQ Gains and Heritability" - this isn't actually a paper, it's just a section in some article. Where did you even find this? It barely shows up on the internet - your comment is the third result. In any case, it A) doesn't seem to support your claim, and B) doesn't strike me as especially compelling research - they're just summarizing some thoughts about the Flynn effect.

This further increases my confidence that you are arguing in bad faith.

> the papers I cite give a highly coherent explanation for this, a phenomena called cultural filtering.

I can't find this term anywhere in these papers (or elsewhere).
Yes, but color is such a helpful distinguishing feature that contrast can never make up for it disappearing. I can squint until I can’t distinguish any of the symbols and still tell which is which when they are colored.
One idea that I bring up whenever I see arguments around what features should be added to HTML or what splits should happen is that the DOM is not primarily a layout language, it is a presentation layer.

The really clever, wonderful part of HTML/DOM that is worth keeping around is that it forces you to describe your current page/application state as pure text.

Imagine if every time you wanted to write a GUI app with GTK, you were first required to build a functioning terminal interface, and then (for the most part) only allowed to pull elements from that terminal interface into the main GUI of your app. That is how the web do.

So proposals around, "HTML needs to be its own static thing" kind of miss the point in my mind. Suppose we had an amp-like purely declarative format that replaced HTML and it had some basic controls around data-binding, and infinite scroll, and whatever. At that point, it would cease to be a semantic presentation layer, it would be a document layout tool.

Of course, no system is perfect, there are some exceptions in HTML that blur that line, largely because the web is very messy and its hard to correct mistakes once they're out in the wild. And yes, Google is pushing templates and shadow-DOM, both of which are bad ideas that make the web worse. We can't win everything. But I will still strongly assert that HTML is not here to make you happy as a developer -- HTML is for the user. The point of HTML is that it forces you to describe your interface as semantic data, not pixels.

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To extend off of that point, the other thing I'll go to my grave asserting is that once you start to think of HTML as a user-accessible presentation layer for what your state is right now, you start to realize that the distinction between web pages and applications is kind of garbage.

Most apps are just interactive documents, regardless of whether they're online or on native platforms. There are some exceptions (3D editing software, maps, etc...), but for the most part what I tell UX designers is that if they can't sit down and describe the current state of an application as an XML tree, they probably don't have a very good grasp of what that state is or how to organize it for the user.

I think I can count on one hand the number of apps I have installed on my desktop computer that couldn't be expressed in HTML. Even apps like Photoshop turn out to be XML documents with a few embedded canvases once you really think about them.
It's like SimCity for a real city!

I tried the Windows version and some of the UI controls don't respond to mouse clicks, e.g. home and gear button in bottom left, speed controls and dropdown. I noticed the target areas for them are about 90px below where the buttons are painted. So when I click the checkbox to show/hide Bus, it actually turns on and off the one for Car. I'm on v0.2.0b and the client area of my game window (excluding titlebar, edges) is about 2560x1520.

Some elements, like the dropdowns at the top (Sandbox map and traffic setting) work ok.

EDIT: Looks like schemescape beat me to reporting this. I'd love to know if this was just a dumb "programmer-oops" or if there's an opportunity for the language/libraries/framework to better funnel code toward correctness.
I think that's the real purpose of Apple introducing catalyst way before this announcement. To make it easier to enhance iPad apps to take full advantage of macOS.
You've already been voted down, so not sure how much I'd add to this, but...

Wanting to have an office outside the home doesn't mean you are trying to escape - it means you are trying to establish the conditions for maximizing your productivity. Where you can work uninterrupted for long stretches of time - and even when you are interrupted, it is likely less of a context switch than the various daily interactions, temptations, and chores that happen while at home.

On a tangential note - my major complaint about the currently popular "open office plan" setup is that it has flipped the productivity curve for me. I go into the office for all the team interactions. When I need to get work done, I work from home (and hope for a day of minimal interruptions).
Looks like WebAuthn is still missing, even though there seem to have been merge requests featuring it forever!

Anyone know which milestone it’ll be merged into?
Someone just got tired of writing "10." in the marketing team, also they'll be able to have a versioning more like iOS which macOS copies already much in 11.x
Sounds a little too much like side loading to me, which means everyone with an app store is probably not terribly motivated to implement it.
True.

Workaround: use Tweetbot
Sure, and browser is a javascript virtual machine to execute HTML/CSS/JS serialized images fetched from network. It just happens that some images can be converted to readable text.

I still don't get it, most of the web perfectly works without JS, so what is the problem? Most of the authors equally don't care about your and my case. Maybe text around article? It is easier with CSS support, thought it should be possible to replicate reader mode heuristics if it was not done already, fetch what to hide from UserScripts or create alternative.

Images may come in different resolutions (up to 8K).
Same problem as you on Chrome. I thought it was just me. I see requests happening to many different sites.
The linked Anandtech data shows it using 4-5W in a single thread test. That doesn't mean it will use 4-5W/core in a multithreaded test, but thats almost certainly only due to limitations in power delivery and thermals.
FWIW, escape is actually slower (both in movement speed and in actual invokation) than ^[.

lit: `CTRL+[`

I know habits die hard, and "you're holding it wrong" is not a valid excuse- and I know that I also dislike massively not having an escape key.

But for vim specifically; there is an escape sequence and the escape key is an alternative method for that. (similar to how the arrows "work" but hjkl is the "real" way of moving).
Yep, most of that old "cruft" is essentially unused and turned off. A log of critics of x86 don't really know what they're talking about. x86 is inefficient because they don't really have much incentive to end the status quo where performance is more important than power to most customers. People are happy with 3-4 hours out of their laptops so Intel and AMD aim for that and sacrifice power for performance, quit often that is the tradeoff in the design.
Does anyone know if Apple's processors have any anti-features resembling Intel's management engine coprocessor? If there isn't any, this may be a good route to a less backdoored PC for many users--not just Apple's existing customer base :)
Cities Skylines with the traffic manager mod is a great way to spend a whole lot of time if you are bored. It’s surprisingly fun to try to optimize traffic.
Partly because they are not interested and partly because there is so much propaganda about how bad it is for women in this industry that it cause the ones that are interested to be afraid of it even more. I had a chance to work in more "patriarchal" societies and in western countries and it seems like in those patriarchal places there are more women developers and much less hassle and friction.
Geometric means exponential so it's not the same as quadratic (which means squared).
The title is misleading as it implies everything new in macOS, when the linked page is limited to human interface guidelines. Perhaps this should be retitled something like "What's new in MacOS Big Sur (UX|HIG|Human Interace Guidelines)"?
Thus all your Apple Macs are relegated to legacy.
This is brilliant thanks.
Apple's version numbers are decided by marketing, not any technical API versioning reasons.
I mean I think they should look the same. If you look at iOS and macOS apps side they should look like they belong to the same family of products and use the same design language.

But they should behave different to take advantage of different devices strengths and limitations. Spotify does a pretty okay job at this.
Apple chips are fast mostly because they have a lot of cache to spare.

Take for example the A12Z. It has 8MB of L2 (not L3, it's L2!) cache. An Intel Core i7-1068NG7 present in the latest Macbook Pros (that performs akin to the A12Z according to Geekbench) has only 2MB of L2 cache.

No other ARM CPU has this level of L2 cache. Apple chips are not "magical", Apple just can afford packing up lots and lots of cache because they are not in the silicon "race to the bottom" like Qualcomm and Intel are, for example. L2 cache is very expensive and Apple is just hacking its way up by packing as much L2 cache as they can.

Don't take me wrong, it's not that Apple is "right" or "wrong" by doing it. They just can and did it. However, it's needless to say that their CPUs are not so different from other ARM ones, they just happen to have a budget and a business model that let's them ignore the price/performance ratio when designing chips in order to achieve the maximum performance.
https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/issues/65

Thanks for reporting! I'll try fixing this blind (no Windows machine handy) and send a new build; it'd be great if someone could confirm it.
Or a sqli in the client portal?
The App library feature looks more like, I will use "on-device" intelligence to show all the apps that I want you to use.
> In particular, one your ISPs/their ISP's DNS servers may be caching a record for longer than it's supposed to and will return incorrect and expired data.

It's disturbing how many clients we'll see hitting an old IP address for 30 days after a change.
> They even came up with the concept of quarantined subreddits. I honestly can't think of a single honest reason for them existing. Once you've deemed a community so harmful that you don't want people accidentally stumbling into it, why go out of your way to allow it to exist behind a curtain, instead of just outright banning it (unless you want to support it discreetly).

In what world, refusing to ban something from your online platform is equivalent to "supporting it" (discreetly)? Reddit is a business, the business of getting ad money for providing an open discussion forum. They are free to decide what they host and what they not but simply hosting something (which in their case means, doing business with people that post that content) doesn't mean they support it. Supporting something is not the opposite of not supporting it.

It's like saying that Amazon _supports_ pornography because AWS allows to host pornographic content.
They may be moving to a new CPU architecture, but given Apple's track record of trying to lock you into their ecosystem, I wouldn't be surprised if they made your life a living hell if you tried to install anything other than Mac OS.

Think about android smartphones for instance. I can't simply load up a new operating system by downloading the .iso file into my phone and boot into the boot selection menu just by holding down a correct button combination. No, you have to go through custom ROMs, shifty looking Russian/Chinese forums, sometimes you even have to send a kind email to your phone manufacturer to get a key so that you can load a custom ROM onto your phone.

I mean, it's bad enough already on Android. But don't you know how absolutely impossible it is on iOS? I literally buy a computer (an iPhone), and I cannot write my own programs and run them on my new computer. Is this the company we can trust with such a major transition into a new platform and architecture? How on earth can I trust Apple so that they don't require me to literally jailbreak a macbook so that I can install another operating system?

Christ, look at how annoying newer versions of Mac OS are! Locked down to oblivion, everything requiring to be signed, no i-know-what-im-doing option in the settings anywhere to just disable everything and get on with your day. It's a real effort to get control of your own computer back.

There's a reason some of us still run Linux. Got a binary? Run it. Just like that. No messing about. I can never trust Apple to make it as simple as this.
Default maps could also be added to that list
Not true. the bottleneck is going to be compression not disk access.
Do you have an example? I could not guess where this would help.
I have to be honest and go completely against the crowd here - but I think the UI updates are very good. They make the two OSes look cohesive but in a tasteful way. The extra padding in all of the UI is the only thing that I chafe at a little bit, it feels unnecessary. I really don't think they're going to put out touch screen Macs.

So I'm not sure what there is to get upset about. I don't see any big functional changes in the OS aside from reworking the notification center UI a little- and I like this new version more. It's already been confirmed that they aren't locking down apps to the app store or anything like that.

It seems like people think that because they're taking design cues from iOS they intend to lock it down like iOS and they're transferring that fear into dislike of the new UI itself.

Apple knows that a large percentage of the people who buy its computers are software engineers and if they ever do fully lock their computers down in that way they'd be ceding that marketshare entirely, along with catching quite a bit of heat for it in the press. Maybe eventually that calculus is worth it to them but I don't think that's what this is a step towards. I think they just want users who are fully plugged into their ecosystem to feel like it's a cohesive experience across platforms and this achieves that.
BTW, I generally dislike such discussions of "who is subsidizing whom" because they often miss the obvious point: both "sides" benefit from having a larger market to spread fixed costs over. There is no "subsidy" here. Just regular economies of scale that benefit (at least for first order effects) all the users.
Sorry meant A64 rather than aarch64 as pretty sure that Apple hasn't supported 32 bit for a while now (so no T32 or Thumb) so the instruction set was announced in 2010 and definitely cleaner than x86.

Agreed that CISC vs RISC is very questionable by now.
https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/blob/master/docs/new...

Biggest barrier is lack of trip demand data. If you come up with how many people leave from building1 to building2 at time T using some mode of transport, then this can work.
This is extremely good for Europe (as people will go there instead of to the US).

So they certainly won't
Thanks for following up on this. It’s good to have this clarity into the guidelines and that other apps implement this functionality in different ways.
Apple's recent aarch64 implementations don't support any of the 32 bit ARM instruction sets, and aarch64 is a significant departure from armv7
> Edit: Actually there is software I have used from Intel that I have really enjoyed, the BIOS for the NUC. So I stand corrected.

I am hugely appreciative of Intel's substantial contributions to the Linux kernel, which is obviously software.

Being able to run Linux natively on modern Intel laptops with full 3D hardware acceleration, modesetting, and working suspend/resume using mainline drivers has been a game changer for decades. Without their stepping up and setting an example here, I doubt we'd have amdgpu today, desktop Linux use in general would be far less possible.
Ancient yet Cosmopolitan
Going to check it, thanks for the recommendation!
Thanks for the kind words! The code is a bit too messy for my own tastes, this is why I wrote the post detailing the why behind the separate pieces.
Well, in all the initial presentations Ryan Dahl gave about Deno, he phrased it as solving the things he'd come to realise he hated about Node. So that's what I take as the raison d'être of Deno - taking the lessons he'd learned from some years mainly coding Go and thinking about what he'd learnt from Node, and fixing what he could. Here's the classic video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA
Crooks abuse Google Analytics to conceal theft of payment card data
> Why is it impressive, to a large proportion of the population, rather than just sad and wasteful (as it appears to me).

Don't underestimate the power of nostalgia on humans, which triggers the release of endorphins which targets the pleasure center of the brain.

There are so many dimensions a service like this can be used in powerful (and postive) ways.

My father turns 73 next week how great would it be for me to send him a personalized recording of song from a famous Tamil musician? That would be $50 better spent than the $50 wireless food thermometer I got him instead.

Or for my soon to be 5 year old son, have one of the voice actors from his favorite tv shows, record him a personalized birthday greeting? Better than $50 worth of toys that he will forget about in a years time.
Mixer did have comparatively low latency and interaction features, that was a unique point at least back then. Apparently not enough though.
Great, they can make the laptops even slimmer. They're going to make them so thin they won't be able to put a USB-C port and use wireless charging. You'll soon learn that you don't actually need to plug anything into your device. Apple knows best.
Singapore and Hong Kong are two examples where they have few natural resources, but have developed massive economies, mostly by just allowing trade to happen without much red tape. Their location as ports plays a major role in this, but it's no coincidence that these two countries are consistently at the top of the economic freedom index. Why do these ports stand out above say; Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh, Jakarta or Manila?
not sure, what they are measuring though - random Xeon from spec.org: https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2017q3/cpu2006-20170... ; at most 30% higher frequency, yet twice as fast. Well...
Currently contemplating the switch as well. Any recommendations about making the keyboard shortcuts as similar to macOS as possible? I'll be using my MBP, and after years of muscle memory, it'd be nice if I could continue using CMD as the primary modifier key for all things: clipboard, navigation, etc. I know you can configure everything, but maybe there's some easy patch or pre-configured plugin for KDE?
Correct. 7zip is a LZMA compressor. The common equivalent command line tool on Linux is xz.

Linux distributions have been using xz compression for all packages (replacing gzip). So to the question of how relevant is xz/lzma/7zip performance to day to day task, is it's a lot relevant.

The successor will probably be zstd in the coming years. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-3...
With android it varies. Samsung has a camera icon on the lock screen by default that you just use, so that is very easy to figure out.

By default, quickly doubletapping the power button also opens the camera, screen on or not.

Gesture navigation is also better on Android, but this is probably because iOS never had a back button.
Mostly it’s lack of investment in industrialization and at fist finding a niche and growing from there.

The US was heavily regulated and oppressed by the British and we endured wars against world powers and fought an internal civil war, yet we still came ahead. Russia could have, China could have (and now are catching up).

You can be an empire and colonize and extract and do all kinds of bad things to your enemies but it doesn’t guarantee success (Portugal, Spain). It’s a complicated thing. Some countries get it right and some countries always find excuses.
SPECint2006 is a single-threaded test: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/14892/specint2006-a13.png

That's either 4-5W per core or the uncore in an A13 is hugely power hungry. I'm rather positive it's not an extremely bad uncore, so the only other option here is a 4-5w per core power figure. Which also lines up with the voltage/frequency curve numbers: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/14892/a12-fvcurve.png

If you have data to support a different number I'm all ears, finding power draw figures in this space is rather difficult, but 4-5W per-core aligns with expectations here. A 1W consumption would be unheard of levels of good.
Humans have slowly tortured cats to death - far, far longer than the few minutes that a cat "plays" with a mouse: https://medium.com/@jasoncomely/the-terrible-truth-about-mod....

It's not even comparable.
My anecdote mirrors yours, plus an extra nod towards animated 'gif' wars.
The change is propagating through the network, but it’s not a push like most would assume based on the wording
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You'd think mathematicians of all people would be able to look at the numbers of 'killings' and see through the propaganda.
LWJGL does appear to support Metal via BGFX. I would be curious to see how to patch the library to use this.

The other question I would have is how this behaves with shaders, such as BSL?

Links:

- https://github.com/LWJGL/lwjgl3/blob/master/doc/notes/3.1.0.md
- https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
Another thing that calls out macOS 11? The WWDC event a few hours prior to your post announcing macOS 11.
The integration of tall title bars with toolbars is really reminding me of Gnome 3 here.