skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was about to go get myself new MacBook Pro 16" w/ few upgrades (~4k) and now I'm not even sure anymore... does it make sense to have latest Intel powered computer or wait for ARM based version?
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Catalina's Mail is terrible too. No more column view with clickable headers, plus data loss issues. I don't care much for Thunderbird but it seems like the only halfway-decent IMAP client for MacOS any more.
How is that last one bad? It looks like it's just a design change "with crisp new icons". We like icons, right?
This is false. Socio-economically disadvantaged areas genuinely have more crime than elsewhere. They require more policing as a result. Without more policing, the crime problems get worse not better. Your sort of thinking has been tried out with disastrous results in cities throughout the US. It is actively harming law abiding citizens living in poor communities.

Policing is not causing crime. People committing crime is causing crime.
I can't prove a negative. Show me something JBP has said that is challenging and novel.
I'm not sure I understand your question. From, say, France's perspective? Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy In America may be what you're looking for. More recently, I'm sure that there are tons of French perspectives on the US available.

Or do you mean from the perspective of ancient Rome or Greece? That would more likely be speculative historical fiction. Someone may have written such, but I don't know of any examples.
This is honestly why I love working at smaller companies in addition to feeling like you actually make a difference as an individual, but that's another comment..

I just said no, not comfortable with that. That was the end of it. The in-office was replaced with a call (that was later replaced with a chat on Slack as it turned out)
Same issue here as the original post and similar extensions. I followed the suggestion of clearing cookies for about.gitlab.com and it doesn't help.
Glad to see that antitrust and bringing them into court has finally pressured them into building a feature that should of been standard for a long time.
One thing they’ve really nailed in recent years is SF Mono. macOS system type is very good.
I still have my dual G5 PowerMac. Right now it runs Lubuntu.
there is no intel chip to pay for, so they can make it cheaper
How do you feel when people say "Brazilians are <something derogatory and true for 0.1% of your population>"?

Because this is how I feel when reading "Europeans LOVE to..."
Nim Days: Chapter 21 Parser Combinators and Nim
Lots of people consider feeling good to be valuable. Risk to health is part of the cost that people are willing to pay. Same for alcohol, cigarettes, sugar, skydiving.
200 billions may seem huge but at the same time the have 118 billions $ of debt as they use debt to pay dividend without moving money.
It’s a little too early to see the effects of Jony Ive’s departure. He left less than a year ago. He probably had a decent role in designing Big Sur. Plus all the remaining designers were probably hired by Jony. I doubt we’ll see big change until a few years out.
> So there are ancient versions of utilities due to GPL aversion and stuff.

They're not ancient, but are mostly ports of recent FreeBSD (or occasionally some other BSD) utilities. Some of these have a lineage dating back to AT&T/BSD Unix, but are still the (roughly) current versions of those tools found on those platforms, perhaps with some apple-specific tweaks.
So maybe address the biases?

People who live in areas that experience high incidence of criminal activity also want to have crime reduced. They want someone to establish order—when you have a vacuum, someone will fill it, usually someone with even less oversight, though occasionally you can luck out with a benevolent dictator of sorts.

So yes people in those areas want policing —though they may also want some reform as well. Few people want no police. They know that’s a recipe for a power vacuum and the domino effect that has.
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I don't want a touchscreen desktop. Touchscreen is fine for my phone/tablet but I want a keyboard and mouse for my desktop.
I’m pretty sure their point is that last time, the incentives/burden was more aligned between Apple and soptware producers, because it meant devs had one LESS architecture they had to care about. This time they will have one MORE, and it could very well be an architecture they have no familiarity with. And Apple isn’t exactly known for their technical documentation of new platforms.
And my response was a big thank you but some serious doubts. I'm asking for no JS when it is reasonable, and what you are trying to do is accommodate my unreasonable requirements. If I may repost past of what I said there:

"I should clarify, I'm only moaning about JS used where it need not be, in the display of text and pictures. Essentially, stativc web pages. There are guys on this thread who are trying to make apps work withou JS and I'm getting uneasy about that - that level of functionality should, and perhaps must, be done client-side or the excess bandwidth and server-side load will become unmanageable. I would still not enable JS to allow those, but I can see why others would."

Trying to allow for extremists like myself, well, you may be doing too much in this particular type of case. Just giving me sensible static websites is fine, I'm not asking for more.
Everything I don't use on my Mac, improved.
>sinus infections

I previously had sinus infections all the time. I also took allergy pills every day. Now I don't.

I discovered 'sinus rinsing', you get a sinus rinse bottle (such as name brand NeilMed), a cup of distilled water, an appropriate amount of sea-salt, and microwave for x seconds (30-40).

This solves mold induced migraines, stuffy sinus from tree and grass allergy, and headaches from breathing pollution.

If you rolled around in grass and had itchy skin - you would shower and wash. Contrasted with breathing tree pollen all day - then taking a pharmaceutical anti-histamine.
Yes, indeed.

But instead of docker, just deboostrap the amd64 release under a directory, copy qemu-amd64 to $DIR/usr/bin and chroot into that directory. Docker is a bit of a mess.

Before chrooting, bind-mount:

/dev to $DIR/dev

/proc to $DIR/proc

/dev/pts to $DIR/pts

/sys to $DIR/dev

/home to $DIR/home

copy /etc/resolv.conf to $DIR/etc/resolv.conf

Then chroot and login (su -l yourusername). That way you could try running a lot of software.
As bad as Electron? I think not.
> There was an experiment back in 1890 where someone wore glasses made with mirrors in them to flip their vision. After about 8 days, they could see just fine with them on.

Schience youtuber Kurtis Baute did this as well: his video "I Spent 7 Days Upside-Down" documents it... a very fun watch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HaXUCQKBjs
I have to wonder if Apple even needs to worry about TB on the Apple Silicon computers moving forward.

Now that they're going down the path towards controlling everything in their computer hardware, I can see Apple creating a new proprietary high performance interface to replace TB and use USB for everything else that requires interoperability.
One thing I read about a while ago (can't find the link at the moment) is that QUIC doesn't play well with firewalls that do QoS (at least, by default), because a node will send as much UDP data as it likes and the system has to deal with it as it comes in; with TCP, you can adjust the window size, etc. to slow the transmission rate, and so on, but current firewalls don't have any (practical?) way to manage this.

I solved this issue at my last company by just blocking 443/UDP at the firewall so that clients (i.e. Chrome) would fall back to HTTP/2.
they use "M" for Motion coprocessors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_motion_coprocessors
Assuming they build the new Macs around the SoC - does this effectively kill any hope of dual boot support for Linux/Windows etc. It's not just the ARM processor in there, those SoCs have a bunch of Apple proprietary stuff (inc. GPU) that I very much doubt will have open source drivers.

I know the 2016-2020 macs are pretty much terrible for Linux anyway due to hardware issues (audio, keyboard, wifi....) so it's no surprise there - but I fear this shift to "Apple Silicon" effectively kills it.
The last time it went very well, so following the same playbook seems a good idea.
Trump suspends H1B, H4 visas till year end
I'd think that they'd be able to reject a request that they aren't interested in or would have them go against their values.
They announced a clean audit before the auditors were anywhere near concluding? Wow that's bold even by fraudster standards
FAANG NDAs can be crazy. I've been in a position where, yes, everyone knew something, and the other company openly talked about it, but because of the way the NDA was written there'd be heavy financial penalties for us to talk about what everyone seemed to know anyway.
You can have thunderbolt controllers without an Intel processor, there’s nothing that precludes it from working.
A combination of:

- sources available freely online

- my own thought process and piecing of things together
Gizmodo is cited, and gives better info:

https://gizmodo.com/reddit-will-start-to-punish-users-for-up...
This sounds like _exactly_ the opposite of what needs to be done in fact.

I do support ethical decision making, academics should be conscious of first and second order consequences.
The web is more than static websites.
Do you have a source? Because when this type of thing happens, that’s usually a common fake rumor. People just want to shit on big corps so they relish on the idea that those corps lost large amounts of money.

If it’s true, then MSFT needs better lawyers to write their contracts.
That was with at least one or more tpu pods, iirc

https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/system-architecture
By the same token, if you don't own an iPhone there's no way you'll find "Swipe over on the lock screen to quickly access the camera" because there's no visible indication that it exists.

Nor would you know that swiping down from the battery meter might give you a camera shortcut, or that pulling down on the home screen icons gives you the search box.

So you'd probably be hunting through the home screen icons on a borrowed phone to find where they put the camera app.
Less throttling is probably the big one here.
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Really? Why?

Twitch is already over 70% of the streaming market. Let's say that both of them go to YouTube. Let's also say that Ninja and Shroud accounted for all of Mixer's market share..

That would give YouTube roughly 20% of the market, up from about 17%. Twitch is still 70% of the market.

Twitch should be looking for ways to make it easier for streamers to stream and get noticed. Find the next Ninja.
Unpaywall works like a charm https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unpaywall/
Nice try. None of the cases filed are for forming a political party or participating in democratic exercises. They range from criminal cases to defamation. The "newly formed" political party has been in power in Delhi since 2015 and has won the last two state elections. You are proving my point.
I agree with that but we're talking about things that are really measurements of your mind right? What kind of articles do you read, what kind of posts do you like, products you like to buy etc. The Tech giants use rough simulacra of your mind to try and target you as efficiently as possible with ads. This seems like some kind of Black Mirror episode to me.
Thank you Apple for bringing the Year of the Linux Desktop
Reddit SSC: How the hell is one supposed to choose a career?
> That's hard in this anti intellectual, bureaucratic world.

I have a funny, off-topic, story. For some reason, we had twice as many students as usual in my grade which meant we would need to have two sections: A and B. Initially, the plan was to divide the class into two right down the middle by grades: top half in section A and bottom half in section B. Apparently, when the parents found out, they stopped by to request the school to "promote" their kid to section A. The school "promoted" all the students in proposed section B to section A and "demoted" all students in the proposed section A to section B, effectively just renaming A <-> B which apparently made everyone happy.
so you want an office to "escape" your family and daily life?

It's sad but I would bet that's the case for a significant amount of parents and husbands.
I totally agree, I think it would be a good thing if x86 were to be replaced by something newer. Intel could even adapt and continue to play a leading role, that is another question.
Pretty sure that in the near future, macOS, iPadOS and iOS will be one and the same. They'll just call it...Apple OS. This is readily apparent by Catalyst, ability to have native iOS and iPadOS apps, ARM architecture, and the changing of macOS' UI to slowly be closer to iOS/iPadOS.
This Mac developer has a low opinion os his users if he thinks they will just buy anything and they're too dumb to pick a good native app.
> What's left for Intel?

Well I'd like to see them go all in on Desktop Linux.

But then I'm a dreamer.
Ego gratification, acquisition of narcissistic supply.
More so it's not configured to do that - which depends on the priority of the team working on it.
It depends on what your implicit model of policing is. I think the real issue is that most police departments in the US are commonly dual-tasked with providing violent crime prevention _and_ front line social services.

In this setting, it's less clear which "side of the force" is most impacted by the scientific input, but I think it might be reckless to simply cut them off without finding a better model for providing some of their more critical social services. In particular drug, mental health and domestic abuse interventions which sadly seems to be a very large portion of their workload.
Curious, how do you do fingerprinting without JS? User agent, header order, etc? How well does it work?
I urge you to try to learn something from the material you praise, to the point that you can articulate the insights in your own words.
Apple could just buy them all.
> SotTR actually did have an Xbox 360 port!

It did not, previous game in series (Rise of the Tomb Raider) did have but Shadow(...) was released only on current-gen consoles.
If you miss how Android shares links between apps, check out the app Opener on iOS, I couldn’t live without it
GitLab employee here:

The MVPs are not employees, but community contributors as outlined here: https://about.gitlab.com/community/mvp/

But yes, I agree: it is very nice to share the achievements of our OSS contributors with the world :)
Too bad the hardware is going to run macOS, well, and Mac software, both of which just keep infuriating me at every turn. I wish they'd put as much effort into their software as they do hardware.
That's going to be the golang compiler - you can cross compile static binaries from your PC that will run on ARM. The final binary size should be a few mb.
I think his biggest mis-read here was decentralization. If anything everything is becoming increasingly centralized to the point that we NEED to decentralize to keep things stable, but not to the level he is saying.

I just think the worst case here we're really going towards Dystopian Sci-Fi "one world government and super corporations" rather than city states.
Green500 #1 is MN-3 by PFN that's also from Japan and they also use original chip!
Agreed, I'm pretty bored by the influx of "No-Javascript" articles being pushed to the top of HN weekly.

There is almost never any new insight, and you could copy+paste comments from one to the next and not know the difference.

We get it, Javascript is the worst and everything should run perfectly without it - at least to the vocal minority of users who actually care (which is basically just HN's demographic).
I'd like to see simulation-based games as a supplement to traditional learning or apprenticeship.

There are a lot of XYZ Mechanic Simulator games which I think have potential to be effective learning tools. They won't teach you muscle memory, but a good one can distill a lot of experience into a shorter timeframe than normal. A mechanic simulator can teach you engine diagnosis and repair quickly because you can fast-forward the slow, mundane parts. You can also pace the 'lessons' for better retention, building incrementally on concepts.

We've already seen this be successful in aviation and racing.

On that vein, I've been wishing for a Zachtronics-style game that teaches electronics, starting with LEDs and resistors and moving on to more complex circuits.
The terms of receiving a transition device are now available [0]. As expected, receivers of the device essentially sign away all rights to show/benchmark the device.

> Section 2.2 No Other Permitted Uses

> ... You agree that neither You nor Your Authorized Developers will:

> ...

> (d) display, demonstrate, video, photograph, make any drawings or renderings of, or take any
images or measurements of or run any benchmark tests on the Developer Transition Kit (or allow
anyone else to do any of the foregoing), unless separately authorized in writing by Apple;

> (e) discuss, publicly write about, or post any reactions to or about the Developer Transition Kit (or
Your use of the Developer Transition Kit), whether online, in print, in person, or on social media,
unless separately authorized in writing by Apple;

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/terms/universal-app-quick-start-...
TIL parts of Anderson were bought...
Annoying that there probably won't be any more Hackintoshes, unless we get ARM desktops.
They’ll keep saying it all the way to November.
The X was dropped in 2016, with macOS Sierra. Maybe because they needed the X next year for the iPhone.
There is likewise no question that many individual scientists and mathematicians have engaged in rank psuedoscience to apply a seemingly rigorous veneer to state abuses. Crucially, this does not necessarily depend on the malfeasance of the scientist (although that helps). The root of the problem here is that American police cannot be trusted as good-faith collaborators in any academic research. Any academic research done with police has an unnacceptably high risk of being weaponized against innocent people.

> Using math to improve the effectiveness of the police is a good thing.

There isn't a mathematical definition for "police effectiveness" and any attempt at a quantitative metric for that sort of thing should be viewed with intense skepticism. If your "police effectiveness measure" is skewed towards making more arrests, then that metric clearly has problems and, if used by an actual US police force, would just result in excessive violence and lawless arrests against innocent black people. This is just an example but the risk is real. The fact that such a metric might be theoretically possible is not a good enough reason for engaging in research which will affect the lives of real people.

The only scientists who should be collaborating with police departments are sociologists and psychologists - and, as the hoary history of psychology demonstrates, even they should be treated suspiciously.
That seems dangerous? How can it be so? Surely multiple instances of SQLite shouldn't read the same backing file..
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> AMD which didn't have the funds to run a dedicated design team for laptop/desktops.

Given the extremely impressive performance of the 4800H notebook cpus, I'd assume that might be a thing of the past.

> AKA, things like hyperthreading are quite a win for servers, but at best are a wash for a desktop use case focused on extremely high single thread perf at the expense of throughput.

This might be true for devices like the MacBook Air which are designed for relatively light usage like Office, but I don't see that argument working with their "Pro" lineup, including the iMac Pro and the MacBook Pro. These are devices specifically targeted to a professional audience like graphics designers, 3d artists, software developers or video editors. All of those tasks can be done with decent single-threaded performance, but lots of those tasks also benefit from multithreading.
I haven't owned a single MacBook so far and I doubt that'll change anytime soon. Nevertheless, its exciting to see Apple do this move and it'll be interesting how good their CPUs can compare to mobile processors by Intel and AMD.
Counting people with a broken leg who could use crutches but would be risk of further injuries due to avoidable things like falling over? More than the zero percent of people with javascript disabled who don't need either security or privacy.
It's not just driving or walking around a neighbourhood, it's doing your best to find the maximum amount of crime. Otherwise, you wouldn't need mathematical models in order to optimize the "efficacity" of the operation.

The vast majority of crime where police should be involved are crimes where the victim can call the police later. For those that don't fit this criteria, either police patrols are already ineffective (targeted assassinations, for example), or the police isn't being called because the victim thinks it will make the situation worse. Which in many cases is true, and I think fixing that problem would be a good step to take.
There seems to be a difference between peak and useful. Be careful of marketing and hype.

(I am not an HPC guy, just IMO).
It wasn't a surprise to anyone paying attention; NeXTSTEP had run on 68K/x86/Sparc/PA-RISC. Removing architecture support would have been remarkable.

What's important, for those paying attention, is that Apple promoted PowerPC emulation with the first x86 Macs in OS X 10.4 and then removed it after 10.6. If you think Apple won't screw you again, well, go ahead, it's your money.

[Dis]claimer: I have no long or short in AAPL. Anyone posting or voting in this thread should similarly disclose.
The victim's desires for police involvement is usually not very relevant. The victim can not provide any information to the police, but that doesn't mean that the police can't or shouldn't do anything.

Respecting the victim's wishes is basically giving tacic approval of spousal abuse and honor killings.
Police patrols should be entirely proactive otherwise they are responses instead of patrols. The only point of police patrols is to have a moving and visible presence in the community.
Catalyst and SwiftUI are (were?) very immature technologies, not yet ideal for production software. I'd imagine that we're at least a year out from seeing real SwiftUI software in the wild.
Social Audio
Social audio has grown rapidly over the past few months:

I wrote about why it's growing so fast here:
https://subvert.substack.com/p/social-audio-connection-over-...

Checkout why Clubhouse is becoming a commodity, why @roadtrip_fm by is killing it, and where the next big opportunity lies.

Names such as have become household names in tech.

Others such as @roadtrip_fm have reinvented TurntableFM with their own spin to create a straight up vibe of an app.

Social audio is only going to grow from here on out.

Over the next 6-12 months we're going to see rapid adoption of an audio first strategy -- companies and consumers alike are going recognize the potency of audio, the ability to create valuable connection and it's advantage over traditional social & media.

One of the more interesting opportunities in this space will though is creating the solutions to power these new social audio networks.

Give companies the tools to drop in audio/audio social networks into their existing apps and good things will happen IMO.

Checkout out the memo linked above for more on this.
They usually release new versions of their apps, including Safari for older OS versions too.
What sources freely available online tell you that there are likely groups out there that have cracked AGI and are keeping it a secret?