skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's anything like the transition from PowerPC architecture to Intel, you'll be able to see this information by selecting the app package in the Finder, and invoking the "Get Info" window (cmd-I) or palette (option-cmd-I).
Government Imperative
.NET has millions of developers. They optimize for the greatest impact and async is necessary for performance. In fact high-performance is an explicit goal of the framework and it ranks at the top of the TechEmpower benchmarks.

Even if you don't need the performance, async code helps keep your app responsive and use less resources on your server. It's far better to have async and not need it then try to refactor your entire ap when it's necessary.
Did you expect they would launch every single configuration on day 1?

Apple said the transition is going to take 2 years. This is day 1. You can still buy Intel based Macs with 64GB RAM. When Apple phases those out and you still can't buy 64GB Macs, then you can complain.

What are the chances that happens?
Arm based Chromebook with a worse kernel, lack of 32gb is a no go. Trying to squeeze some sales right into the end of the year seems like.
It's supposedly developed internally, Imagination of course claims that they stole their IP. The reality is likely somewhere in the middle.
People are often perfectly willing to live with stigma. 70 million people did go and vote for Trump.
When I was an active software developer, I always had the biggest and beefiest machine possible, plus a MBP for when I was on the move.

Now, off in another career field, I'm really wondering why I would choose a MPB over an iPad Air or Pro. By the time you add a keyboard to the iPad, it kinda feels like the only real difference is whether you want to run Xcode. Other than that, is there really anything you can do on a MBP that you can't do on an iPad?
Ultraprocessed food and chronic noncommunicable diseases:A meta-analysis of K=43
No its not. The point of these reports is to get to the "primary causes" of the accident and include design decisions that contribute to an accident.

These are trained pilots who did not follow their training. They didn't follow procedures that were in place for these types of events. They did not follow cockpit management procedures. They didnt know how to properly deal with stall conditions, a fundamental piloting skill. They managed to crash a airplane that was flying perfectly fine.

I don't understand the fixation on the sidestick. Its not like they just tossed it in there. Thousands of engineer hours were spent creating the systems to manage control inputs. It may have been a contributing factor, but the sidestick isn't even mentioned in the proposed improvements section. This was pilot failure.
People generally want to run Windows because of its huge software catalogue. That's thrown out of the window if you use the arm64 version of Windows. Pun intended.
And then imagine the group of programmers arguing with them trying rule-lawyer "keep the polls civil and don't sport inflammatory clothing or accessories."

It's not a good look when the best you can make is something isn't technically forbidden. Like it doesn't make you clever trying to argue that your "cry more snowflake" shirt isn't political -- you're just an asshole.
I thought most postdocs in Germany were on TV-L 13? That should be at least around 2500€ net, right? If you're at 100%, of course, but I would think most postdocs are.
The thing is, in all aircraft (very much including this Airbus), there are procedures you're supposed to follow for certain failure conditions. They're generally in something called the Quick Reference Handbook, or QRH, but there are also simple flows that crews are supposed to be trained for. One thing that is key in this situation is to announce "my plane" if you are the one flying...which never happened. The Airbus also has a button to mark sidestick priority, removing the other pilot's inputs entirely. That also was not used. No, one part of this (holding the stick full back) could not happen on a Boeing, but the rest of it sure could.

The thing that personally scares me is not Airbus' take on how to fly planes, but rather Boeing's current take on the 737MAX where things are physical controls, kinda, somewhat, unless they aren't and become fly-by-wire. That's the issue with the MAX: if they'd been willing to train pilots for the new dynamics, rather than try to mask it with MCAS, it'd be fine. If it were fully fly-by-wire like an Airbus, it'd be fine. But the halfway house confused everybody on board.
Seems silly to do that compile/test on a laptop instead of a server.
I saw mention of a whole bunch of camera stuff including improved face detection.
The electorate isn't able to express meaningful opinions on the role and size of the military, thus support of the institution itself has become political.
You can turn off boot security.
> I've also been in situations where an ultimatum like E2E encryption is dictated by a marketing team and then expected to be created without adequate budgeting or time, essentially creating pressures on development teams, project/product managers, etc to lie.

Basically "Our customers have been asking for E2E encryption, so I'm adding that to our next sprint."
Every version of .NET Core has always installed side-by-side with previous versions. There's no way to avoid it.
How do they get the ram into the SoC? Is it like a massive die?
I’m really worried that we have finally reached the point in computing where you can buy a machine that is fast/efficient, or you can buy a machine that is private.

Apple sends the hash of every binary you execute to Apple in current (and presumably future) macOS, and the changes in macOS 11 mean that Little Snitch will continue to work for all processes, except OS/system processes.

This means that it may be impossible to disable the telemetry without external filtering hardware.

This situation is extremely troubling to me, because Stallman and Doctorow have been predicting just this for about twenty years.

Today, it’s here.

I really hope these things can boot OSes other than macOS, or that a way to do such can be worked out.
Either way he's definitely ended his entrepreneurial career. Nobody is going to put a dime into a guy who does that - the risk that he'd do something much grander when the stakes are much higher is obviously there.

He should have sold the company, honoured the terms of his agreement.
fake it until you make it
Yes, I read the paper. They controlled for these factors in assembling the cohorts.

Beyond this, it is ambiguous. They say the following:

"For analysis of psychiatric sequelae, propensity score matching was directly applied to each cohort pair. For analysis of psychiatric antecedents, given their much larger sample sizes (which exceeded the maximum number of 1·5 million patients possible per matched cohort), cohorts were first stratified by sex and age (18–30 years, 31–45 years, 46–60 years, 61–75 years, and ≥76 years) and propensity score matching (including for age) was achieved within each stratum separately."

First, I'm not sure exactly what this means: did they assemble the marginals as you would to calculate p(psych_symptom|illness), then perform propensity score matching on those? Or did they perform propensity score matching on the subsets of the data that are "people who had covid" vs. "people who had influenza"? It makes a big difference.

Second, propensity score matching is, essentially, regression followed by clustering. The details of the regression therefore matter: they are defining cluster cutoffs in terms of standard deviations, which tells you nothing without knowing the size of a standard deviation in the context of the split.

In short, I don't know if this method of matching will control for age properly in the analysis in question. You would need to see a plot of the age distributions of the data for the groups in question to be sure.

EDIT: Also, Figure 3 quite clearly shows that the relative risk for all psychological illnesses increases with age. This would seem to rebut the idea that they have controlled for this factor.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...

EDIT 2: The supplementary materials show tables for characteristics of Covid vs. X for all of the control illnesses, which makes me believe that they have applied cohort matching on the marginals. However, they do not show age in these tables, making me doubt that they properly controlled by age (see supp. table 1):

https://www.thelancet.com/cms/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30462-4/...

EDIT 3: Not directly relevant to the question, but it hints at it -- per supp. table 8, Cholelithiasis (gallstones) show the strongest association with psychiatric illness (i.e. the weakest Hazard Ratio relative to Covid). In other words: of all of the control diseases, having Covid-19 only makes you 1.58x more likely to have psychiatric illness than having gallstones.

Gallstones are strongly associated with age and gender.

EDIT 4: definitely not related, but supp. fig. 8-9 shows that if you require a confirmed Covid-19 test, the differences between Covid and the controls decreases dramatically. THEY DIDN'T CONTROL FOR ACTUALLY HAVING THE DISEASE!!

Just for example, Figure 2 from the text shows a gap of ~10% between covid and flu for all psychiatric illness. The corresponding plot in supp. fig. 9 shows a gap of less than 2% when you require a confirmed Covid test! This paper is falling apart.
16GB is fine for mobile and low end. I'm a developer and struggle to fill that amount of memory, even with VMs running.

I guess they made a cost trade-off for these machines, which will not be carried forward to the high-end. Perhaps a new "M2" chipset, with discreet RAM and graphics. Next year?

It would be amazing if they could bring ECC for a decent price as well, time will tell.
>VCs can do much worse.

It's, more or less, impossible for them to do worse than $0.

I get that there's some scenarios where they're not going to make money but the business can be viable as a lifestyle type business. But someone is buying this one for $4 million cash. So this isn't giving someone a company worth 0. This is handing out 800k+ in cash.
Perhaps you should wait until people get their hands on it before forming an opinion on it…
Gender and Race Preferences in Hiring in the Age of Diversity Goals
If that's an issue for you (like it was for me), get one of the Macbook Air models released this year. No touchbar, has a great keyboard, and pro enough for most uses.
> traditional targeting assets.

IIRC China is in the process of launching a large number of SAR smallsats. Making it very hard to hide a carrier battle group.
Ah that distinction was not made in the presentation. Thanks for this.
Ahh, yes, ModeRNA's vaccine is some very clever stuff.

The way that one works is a bit complex. Essentially, they still want your immune system to recognize that the virus is bad and then make antibodies against it.

Usually, you inject broken up bits of a dead virus into a person. The immune system sees the foreign objects, and makes antibodies against it.

Withe ModeRNA's vaccine, we go inside out. You have the body produce inactive parts of the virus itself. In this case, the 'spike' proteins of the viral capsid.

They do this by injecting mRNA into you. Through some complex bio-chem, the mRNA that codes for the spike protein gets into your cells and makes the ribosome complexes produce the spike protein. These then get out of the cells, again via some complex bio-chem, and the immune system sees these spike proteins. The immune system then builds antibodies to the spike proteins, just like with a regular vaccine.

Basically, you skip a few steps in the antibody creation process.

I want to stress the mRNA injection part. This method skips the DNA, meaning that you are not editing the genetic code of the cell.

The real magic here is the potential such a method has. With this method, you can have much better targeted cancer cures, much broader flu vaccines, and time limited protein production. Think time-limited genetic engineering, minus the actual gene editing. Want to glow green for a few days? No problem. Want to mitigate diseases caused by missing DNA? Just take this.
Nothing they launched now is for "professionals". The RAM is a joke.
Former Microsoft Employee Convicted of $10M Bitcoin Tax Fraud Scheme
It's not censorship if the post is still accessible. It's Twitter inc. expressing their opinion.
Our Love-Hate Relationship with Gimmicks
Async means non-blocking, not parallel. It helps keep the app responsive while using less resources and avoiding lockups and crashes.

.NET is used by millions of developers. Strong and scalable foundations matter, and performance is an explicit goal with asp.net being one of the fastest web frameworks. Async is a core part of this.

There's very little - if any - overhead that you need to worry about with async code from the language to Visual Studio.
Their claimed 3x faster is massive even if the baseline is low. And they also achieved that vs. the Mac Mini's 3.6GHz i3. So I don't think fastest singlethread performance is an outlandish claim.

Historically speaking, Apple doesn't underdelivier on their claimed numbers. I'm excited to see what they'll do with a full desktop power budget.
Yep.

You can't escape it. Covid panic stories are on EVERY channel. It's inescapable. And it's intentional.

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Got a Big Social Media Boost from Indian Troll Farms

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-kamala-harris-got-big-soc...
Apple's solution for upgradability for their corporate customers, is their leasing program. Rather than swapping parts in the Mac, you swap the Mac itself for a more-powerful model when needed — without having to buy/sell anything.
I'm not stupid dude, I know there are ways to avoid it.

Sometimes they're not worth it. Electron's existence itself is proof of "sometimes it's not worth it."
Depends on how you use it, if you use a lot of actions (basically macros) via keyboard shortcuts then you probably hate the touchbar, because they can only be bound to f-keys.
Containers on Mac still rely on virtualization, but Apple said at WWDC (and showed a demo) of Docker for Mac running on Apple Silicon, and of Parallels running a full Debian VM. Both were running ARM builds of Linux to run properly, and Apple added virtualization extensions to the new SoC so it doesn't have to resort to emulation (if the software running is ARM and not x86).

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor
I think they're using the same M1 processor, but the cooling solutions are different.

The Mac Mini and MacBook Pro will be able to sustain higher speeds for longer periods — this is already the case with the Intel versions of them.
How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One
If you have concrete suggestions about how to reduce the need for moderation, I'd love to hear them.
> In reality, it's extremely unlikely that you'll die flying

Ironically, hundreds and hundreds of people have died, and that's what caused a ban on 737MAX
Could you select a random group of individuals up front and then bid on their collective participation in a poll (say, beyond 95%, you all get $10)? You might have to pick a few groups and bid between them.
Show HN: How and when to use Twitter DMs as your database
This is almost certain to be temporary.

Keep in mind the rollout of the new CPUs is a 2 year process.
Not sure what industry you're in (professionally) but at least in creative industry it's either Windows or OSX. And if you need really powerful hardware, it's either Windows or Linux (with custom software), at least that's what I'm seeing in my circles.

Although OSX used to be popular with the indie-professional scene, it's disappearing quicker than it appeared years back.
It prevents censorship network wide, which means you can publish no matter what and people can see it. So it prevents echo chambers by making sure nobody controls the narrative on the network.

Another way it does this is that there's no financial incentive to share "engaging" content and there's no algorithm to rank content. So it is not conducive to the viral spread of inflammatory content.

Keep in mind, most things we call "networks" are just single web sites. Most of the problem I believe stems from this confusion. AP is an actual network. It is what we have wanted to have on the internet for a very long time.
Probably saturated market.
"What got them here, wont get them there".
They continuously need to show growth. As you said, the strategy of focusing on Pro users worked. It's now time to focus on not so Pro users... those who don't need matte displays, 32gigs, fancy keyboards and much rather use a colorful touch bar than another row of buttons.
Steve Jobs called things "insanely great". Stop mythologizing him.
Is this just opinion? Maybe they are designed ALSO for training. I wonder if this things can replace nVidia graphic cards on training? The neural core has a LARGE area on the chip design similar to the GPU area.
That's assuming that your SSD is doing nothing else at the time that it is pausing/resuming.

Often it is. And so whilst SSDs are fast they still aren't fast enough to not slow everything else doing under high load.
Yeah, I think you mean this repo:
https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux

I bought a 2017 MBP hoping the situation would eventually improve but it never did, so I never got around to installing Linux. I'm expecting it'll be even worse for these M1 systems.
I'm not a Mac user, but what does this mean for virtualization? Does it spell the end of Macs being used by developers who need to run x86 VMs in them?
The web server uses a threadpool anyway. You're not creating threads that don't already exist. You're simply able to use the threads you do have for other tasks while waiting for I/O.
My friends who have recently flown American have all complained how shitty American's COVID precautions are. Bringing the 737Max back isn't going to change bad service.
So, essentially their new Macbook line is a glorified iPhone/iPad but with a foldable display (on a hinge)?

Not too far-fetched when you see the direction MacOS is headed, UI-wise. And it sounds nice, but if it means that repairability suffers then we'll just end up with a whole wave of disposable laptops.
That's not obvious at all. The memory hierarchy is very different in an Apple SOC compared to a typical PC architecture. For example, I don't think there is the equivalent of a system level cache in a PC.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...
It's basically over now; since photographers don't have a cartel backing them like film or music, and photos are so easy to copy, everything is basically everywhere.

Newspapers will routinely rip off photos from social media, sometimes in the face of explicit non permission.
The intel Mac Mini is still available with the same 8GB in its base model, but configurable up to 16/32/64. RAM is definitely the biggest weakness of these new Macs.

On iOS they can get away with less RAM than the rest of the market by killing apps, relaunching them fast, and having severely restricted background processes. On Mac they won't have that luxury. At least they have fast SSDs to help with big pagefiles.

With the heterogeneous memory, your 8GB computer doesn't even have its whole 8GB of main system memory.

When the touchbar MBP launched in 2016 people were already complaining that it couldn't spec up to 32GB like the competition. Four years later, and it's still capped at 16GB.

Hopefully they can grow this for next year's models.
I realize it exists, and also realize that I'll never be a part of it. And that's ok, even if it makes me feel shitty.
Given airplane safety statistics, you actually probably are more likely to die flying than not flying as long as you're in a plane.
If they could outperform AMD/Intel today, they would've offered 16" MBPs / iMacs / Mac Pros. Today, they have power-efficient chips, so they converted their low-end machines, and Mini so that companies porting their software can start migrating their build farms.
The memory is on package, not way out somewhere on the logic board. This will increase speed quite a bit, but limit physical size of memory modules, and thus amount. I think they worked themselves into a corner here until the 16” which has a discreet GPU and reconfiguration of the package.
Tangent: Cheat Engine, an amazing piece of software, mentions on their website that they may be detected as malicious software because they do a lot of the same things malicious software does - hook into other processes and modify their behaviour, optionally with a kernel hook.

They don't mention that their installer ships with tons of malware that they install, and more that they try to trick you into installing but you can technically opt-out.
I was under the impression that Native display port would be able to drive 2 external monitors. I do not consider my self to be an authoritative source on this.
The displays always seem to be the challenge.

With my Mac Pro, as soon as I wake it, I can see the LED on my monitors are 'alive', but it still takes that same 10s or so to be displaying data.

Also on macOS, if you have an always-on VPN, that can absolutely cause wake time challenges.
So there was no AirTags introduced? There were rumors that they will release them during the November event
This is the best news I’ve heard all day, thank you!

I’m totally fine with a chromebook-style unsigned boot warning.
The thing is that even new Ryzen cores start shining at >20W, while ARM SOCs (especially with 5nm) can do very well at these low power envelopes.
What is value proposition of Air vs Pro? Touchbar? 18 vs 20 hours batter?
It could be that it can vary in multiple areas and depending as well on a lot of different stuff (kernel version, drivers/modules, settings, SW being used, ...).

Personally, I always had the feeling that video was slower on Linux (always used nVidia proprietary drivers in Linux), but when I used to play a bit of e-guitar the audio latency was definitely better in Linux (but as well just for audio there are a lot of settings that play some role - e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Professional_audio ).
Your situation won't be worse than what would exist had Apple not moved so far ahead of the others. In fact, Apple moving ahead only encourages others to up their game. So you're better off, due to Apple, even if you don't buy their machines.
For now, most developers use MacBooks and tools like vscode already have apple silicon build.
It sucks that the SSD is (presumably) not upgradeable anymore. Apple generally charges a ton for the larger SSD offerings, but it used to be that you could just buy a base model and replace the thing later.
That's fascinating. Do you know more about the patents? I don't have any example at hand, but often I saw when browsing patents in the space I am interested in, that the patented solutions are kind of obvious when you dig deeper into something and the engineers who patented them just got there first. This is very frustrating, because then you need to spend time on finding different way, sometimes more difficult to achieve the same goal. It's like someone learned about numbers and then found that 2x2=4 and patented it, and then you cannot use this equation but instead you have to do like 1+1+2=4 if that makes sense. So my point is - if there is similar situation with these patents, then that kind of explains why there is no real competition.
I'm imagining the mac pro with n M1 chips such that you get the memory you want. Not dissimilar to how Ryzen memory access works.
> A fundamental law that governments should have is that your employer cannot harm your health.

A small note: Germany does have a law like this. (I cannot find anything about it in English though.)

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
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On the plus side, you won't have to tolerate the bad service for a whole flight.