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I read Gruber frequently even though he annoys me (he's sort of like John Dvorak that way), and this piece is kind of emblematic of why he does. To be clear, the ARM Macs are way more exciting than I expected, and I'll probably buy one at some point. I also do not think Moorhead's Fortune article was perfect, but Gruber's righteous indignation is grating.

These statements are pitted against each other, even though they are both very much true:

> emulating or translating apps ... is necessarily going to be ... somewhat incompatible at best ... But Apple’s Rosetta 2 ... is a technical marvel.

He's upset about this quote from Moorhead's review:

> there were some very positive things about the new laptop. The new M1 processor is impressive, but far from perfect — it has many warts

Moorhead perhaps punctuated this poorly, but I think it's reasonable to assume that the warts refer to "the new laptop" in general, not just "the new M1 processor" in particular. Yes, his problems are generally software related (although he cited fan noise as a complaint), but that's a huge part of the product. Lots of people would love to use an M1 Mac without macOS, including one particular Finn.

Gruber can say, "There is no 'Well, here’s the downside' with regard to the state of Apple Silicon," but that remains to be seen. How much of the M1's advantage is due to a trillion dollar company buying up every last bit of TSMC's 5nm production capacity? Can they scale the unified memory architecture much beyond 16 GB? If they can, great; they've truly lapped the field.

> There is no balance, if by balance, you’re looking for a story that says any PC hardware, ARM or x86, is competitive in any way with the M1 Macs for low-energy computing.

This review wasn't about "low-energy computing." It was about using a new Mac as a replacement for an old Mac. This is a real, shipping product, not a beta. You can snicker at Moorhead's Microsoft-centric workflow and choice of apps., but that's his perspective.
GDPR was implemented in the EU and in the EEA, of which Norway is a member of.
More granular control, more compression options.
That's a lot more overhead. For one it requires you to spin up an entire JavaScript engine! I don't know if it was ever implemented but the beauty of doing this at the HTTP level is that (for example) it could be built into the networking layer of iOS or Android.
Scientists reverse age-related vision loss, eye damage from glaucoma in mice
The application link is requires a freshworks.com password I do not have and can not register for.
>Those machines are just standing around in their underwear now because the M1 stole all their pants.

Not sure what shitty machine hes talking about, but my threadripper's are not impressed with some 4 core M1.
The tracking is extremly intrusive. With GPS turned off, accuracy is diminished, but locating the device is still possible via WiFi SSIDs and cell towers the phone is logged into. Maybe Bluetooth also plays a role.

In the background, the phone uses its gyro sensors so it can tell what you are doing: walking, running, getting into a car/sitting down, getting out/up, ...

The unsettling part is that location logging continues to work with the phone off (saw an admittedtly obscure YouTube video on that which I can't seem to dig up again).

Like the Kindle, airplane mode also doesn't stop data from being transmitted to the overlords. It merely delays it from somewhat real-time to whenever you go online again.
> I want to believe.

If we can end up with superfast, supercool ARM-based Linux laptops, that'd be a huge deal :)
The comment you’re replying to doesn’t mention EU, so this nitpick doesn’t make much sense.
> Why does it need to be in a container that degrades in 300+ years?

Because there's no other cost-effective material we've invented that keeps the prosciutto airtight (so it doesn't dry out in hours), won't puncture/rip easily, holds up to shipping+stacking, and is transparent (to examine for fat percentage, slice thickness, etc. -- always essential for meats and veggies).

Can you provide a material that does all that but starts degrading after 60 days? If you can, you stand to make a lot of $$$.

Obviously, the main alternative is having someone slice it at the deli counter for you, but that means you could only ever buy prosciutto at places with a staffed deli counter, including the 15-minute wait for the deli counter if you're going grocery shopping at the end of a regular workday...
GP was comparing price of renewables, not fossil fuels.
Most likely a coincidence:
https://www.avg.com/en/signal/facebook-listening-private-con...

If it were true I feel confident that information would have leaked by now.
Most bio dairy products I can buy here come in plastic cans that have cardboard clued around of them. I guess it is done to make the look more organic but of course it makes it worse because it makes the recycling more difficult and introduces more waste of resources.
This is a great illustration of why the GDPR - and enforcement of it - is so important. The average user has absolutely no chance of navigating the digital advertising sewer without all of their data eventually being sold to the US military.
I haven't used it, but heard it's ... complex to get set up and run. (Again, I work for a competitor.)

Here's a reddit with a bunch of posts you could sift through: https://www.reddit.com/r/KeyCloak/
Noted A.I. Ethicist Timnit Gebru Let Go from Google After Tense Email Exchange
Ceph has strong consistency by design. S3 compatibility in Ceph comes via the Rados Gateway (RGW) which just sits atop normal Ceph. This means that the strong consistency is carried over to RGW. So, no change for Ceph.

OpenStack Swift has an eventually consistent design. If the Swift community desires to maintain strict compatibility with S3 regarding consistency model, it would be a challenge. Despite being a challenge, I would never bet against the Swift developers. If they want to do it, I'm quite sure that they can. Having said all of that, I doubt that the Swift community would consider this a burning issue that needs to be solved. They've existed for over 10 years with an eventually consistent model and their user base is well aware of it.
Review of a scathingly satirical Twilight Hunger Games Harry Potter mashup
Hey everyone! We put a lot of work over the last few months into performance benchmarking. We're very keen for people to run the benchmarks themselves and report your results: https://github.com/supabase/benchmarks
> Kacanova claims that my consent had been lawfully obtained according to GDPR, and that their partners were contractually obliged to only use my data for marketing purposes.

Does anyone actually believe these companies are segregating their data based on what they are legally allowed to do with it? And that those permissions somehow get propagated along with the data to third parties, who then also diligently segregate their data based on legal permissions?

It's difficult to hold these companies accountable and even if you could prove they were misusing the data as an individual, it's difficult to take legal action against them. And even if you do manage to beat them in court, the compensation will almost certainly be a pittance - especially if you're not covered under the GDPR.

Of course they're not doing managing users' personal data responsibly! Even with the GDPR, it's still more lucrative to just not bother.
It seems like this issue can be largely circumvented by the fact that at least on iOS, giving location data now requires much more interaction from the user? Every time a new app asks for your location, you can select whether you want to give it that information all the time, or only while using the app.

Another thing that I've started using recently is NextDNS[1], and it's amazing the amount of tracker garbage that's leaking out, and being blocked on a DNS level, out of almost any mobile application.

[1]: https://nextdns.io/
I think OP is saying he didn’t have any affairs or other secrets to divulge.
My grandma uses an iPhone and it leaks far more data than her PC. Yes, the handling is the issue and here iOS is as bad as Android.

That is the metric I use to determine that the app store security model is bad.
I enjoy trying to guess how cloud services like Amazon Timestream are internally built. I have already bet in the past that DocumentDB was built on top of (Aurora) PostgreSQL (this I also know was possible as I founded https://torodb.com).

My bet for Timestream is that is built on top of DynamoDB. There are many potential indicators (1KB writes, throttling) and some clear ones(pricing follows the exact proportion up to the 4th decimal if you compare across regions, for example), it supports "unlimited" scalability, batching, etc. That reads are eventually consistent may be because they are computed over a GSI. It would be interesting if true as it is cheaper for writes than DynamoDB (on demand, which is the model Timestream has).

Plus there is a reasonable amount of mindshare and possibly market opportunity into offering time series on a serverless database like DynamoDB.

If this were true, it would also mean that Timestream, as hinted in the post, is more performant when accessed more in parallel (as DynamoDB itself is by design a massively parallel multi-tenant infrastructure).
The cult started with the Limits to Growth report (1972) which has been wrong on all counts yet it has been the basis for the ideology of all modern green parties.
At UChicago, a Woke Inquisition–and a Warning
What is dangerous is if a country has radical groups in both directions , which demand allegiance from moderates. It is also interesting how class (laborer, burocrat,farmer,...) has been replaced by race or “privilege” (basically inconsequential for changes in wealth distribution) in radical-left circles. Which is why it is easy for big companies to be “woke” because it doesn’t threaten the established order, but caters to special interests. This navel gazing and self-absorption by a large fraction of young people that otherwise could protest economic inequality like the occupy-wallstreet movement did is pretty intentional I think.
$DXY below 91. 10y hitting 1%. And incoming econ team that could be most dovish in us history. All bullish indicators for crypto. Starting to feel like a tipping point for mass adoption ;)
Let's not forget the super long battery.

While I dislike apple and have never owned any of their devices I can't help but feel thankful to them because now that we know this is possible soon others will re-create their success and we will hopefully have the same perks on a more open platform
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Here you go:

- Community features: All features labeled with "community" on here: https://docs.timescale.com/latest/api. Only restriction is that you can't offer them as part of a Timescale-DBaaS.

- Open-source features: Everything else, licensed under Apache 2

- Enterprise features: No longer exist, we made all of them free/community earlier this year: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-busines...

Hope this helps.

Will pass along the feedback to the team :-)
The Art of Noises (1913)
Likewise, we already knew that "emulation" doesn't imply that performance will be unbearably slow.

Apple’s Rosetta 2 doesn't do emulation; it translates the x86 code into ARM code on the fly and runs it, which is why most apps run faster on M1 Macs than they do on Intel Macs--and comparably priced PCs.

Now that it has happened, we will likely see more from the PC industry.

Probably not. If Intel and AMD were capable of this kind of performance per watt, they’d already be doing it. Years ago.

Because the latest x86 chip has to be backwards compatible with 40 years of legacy code, there are certain limitations Intel and AMD just have to live with.

Apple will likely have a hard time keeping up unless they have more up their sleeve.

It's ironic that it's Apple that will have a hard time keeping up when they've already disrupted Intel and AMD. Remember, it's not just a processor; it's a system on a chip that contains an 8-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine for machine learning tasks and other components.

This has obviously been in the works for several years; Apple wouldn't have gone down this path if they didn't believe it would give them a sustainable competitive advantage for years to come.

Even with its ridiculous performance, the M1 is the entry-level consumer version of the M series suitable for (in Apple's lineup) entry-level consumer hardware. The M1-based MacBook Air doesn't have a fan and it's faster and more capable now than many (most?) PCs that cost more and run hotter.

One thing we know: the M2 will be faster and more capable than the M1 and won't be limited to 16 Gb. We'll probably see M2-based Macs by the summer of 2021.
I know this is a late response; but thank you for this comment it was very interesting.
It would be like if you could trade GOOG for AMZN without having to sell GOOG first, just an exchange. They tax that swap. Versus taxing you only when you convert GOOG or AMZN to dollars. It like if I have a printer that I don't want anymore and you have a leaf blower and we trade. That transaction is taxed in cryptocurrencies.
so can you in Android... well guess what, it doesn't add any feeling of security on my chinese phone (and for any non-US person, chinese or american are the same - foreign powers gathering all data possible, which may or may not be used against you in the future).
yep, i started it as a project to learn Svelte.
But I'm not talking about some imaginary hypothetical world, I'm talking about the world we live in, where the US healthcare system is what it is. Furthermore, it is pretty much universally acknowledged that financial difficulties can lead to physical health issues, no matter where you live. I live in the Netherlands, a strong social democracy where college is close to free (~$170/month), a healthcare system the American left can only dream of, etc etc. Despite this, my friends and I have been asked about our financial situation by doctors, because that plays a role in your health even here. Not just the huge effects of stress, but also what you eat, how much free time you have, possible risks from your job etc. are all determined by your financial situation.

I think masks are a fine example - even far after there seemed to be evidence for their efficacy, many governments said they were not necessary based on advice from local scientists, and as late as September, you would see as few as 1 in 50 people wearing a mask in much of Western Europe.

> I agree groupthink does exist and is bad, however in the true sciences it's very rare.

Hmm. Most scientists I know are convinced groupthink is a problem in the sciences. One excellent example is particle physics and supersymmetry, which was basically treated as a religion. Some of the brightest minds of the 21st century were behind a theory that wasn't even falsifiable! The hunt to prove supersymmetry has, at this point, easily cost into the multiple _billions_ of dollars. Now, I don't consider it a total waste, but it certainly is a good example of groupthink. There are countless examples out there, but suffice to say scientists are just as human as the rest of us, and prone to groupthink like anyone else.
This is not a completely fair comparison, your threadrippers surely use more energy and produce more heat than the M1 chip.
> Another factor is religion and religious objections against stuff like this happening or even acknowledging that this is possible.

> Some religious people might find this offensive but biologically cloning a human and a chihuahua is ballpark the same level of complexity. Never mind things like souls, nativity myths, etc.

The Catholic Church does indeed oppose genetic engineering human beings and the like for very well-developed ethical reasons. However, I'm not sure where you get the idea that "religious people" find it offensive _that_ human beings can be cloned. Which "religious people"? Certainly, many people find the act of human cloning, among others, offensive, but _that_ a human beings can be cloned? FWIW, the term "religious people" is rather meaningless. It's not a meaningful category in the way it is used here and just used as a vague insinuation that people of a certain stripe (typically Christians) are superstitious people with arbitrary hangups and irrational beliefs (your choice of words says as much: nativity "myths", souls). Religion is just what someone holds to be ultimate reality, the highest good, and aim of life. In that sense, everyone is religious, so it's not a question of _whether_ you're religious, but how, and whether your religion is correct (I know, an unpopular thing to say today, but that's just a feature of tacit modern liberal sentiments and not the product of reason).

> Mostly the technical issues that make stuff like this unethical have to do with short term technical challenges [...] Abortions are illegal in a lot of places that euthanize pets and cattle routinely.

Why do you think that is? Why do we think that euthanizing non-human animals is morally licit while doing that to a human being isn't? I leave that as an exercise.

> We're kind of ethically flexible.

Either actions are morally licit or they aren't. To say you're flexible is to say that either you're an immoral person to the degree that you depart from the licit, or that there's no ethical fact of the matter. If there's no ethical fact of the matter, then ethical concerns are pure fiction. You can't have it both ways. Either something is licit or it isn't. It may be determined by circumstance (killing in self-defense), or it may be an absolute (murdering an innocent person), but each concrete action is as such either licit, illicit, or there is no fact of the matter because it is a meaningless category.
Imagine spending this much effort to spread your own ignorance.
I've seen "UX first" gone terribly bad, because when designing the UX in a vacuum it's easy to glance over a lot of requirements imposed by the domain.

E.g.: it's common for UX designers to expect any action in the app to be synchronous, which is often an impossibility (not just technical but from a business domain perspective), leading to UIs that pretend things already happened and puzzling users when it turns out the action failed or took longer than expected; refusing to be transparent and writing sentences like "We've received your order and will notify when ready" in the UI and working w/ push notifications.

For "UX first" to work, you actually need everybody w/ domain and technical knowledge involved, but that rarely happens.

> This Does Not Mean “Waterfall”

If you're not going back to adapt the UX to all requirements, it is. Any project that is phased like that instead of considering all requirements together is waterfall.

I recommend this book as a framework to run projects holistically, gathering requirements and executing against them in a way that finds the best fit:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320553.Notes_on_the_Synt...
It never was normal to see a neighbor dropping dead from the black death. Pandemics never were a normal state of affairs.

Right now many/most vehicle fatalities were people fully aware of the danger of those vehicles and willing to use them. And most "gun violence" fatalities were suicides (people willing to die). In contrast nearly nobody "accepts" to be exposed to a potentially deadly virus.
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See also this list of vendors and open source projects (disclaimer, my employer is one):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25212694

What hosted appliances offerings have you taken a look at?
since you used prosciutto for an example, we ought to discuss how absurd it is to need a special container to keep slices of cured meat fresh in the first place. the block of prosciutto is already a container! perhaps the big block needs some sort of protection in transit to meet modern food safety requirements, but buying 80g at a time of prepackaged prosciutto creates a needless inefficiency. we ought to be able to go to the meat counter and buy a few days worth of prosciutto wrapped in paper.
> Today, finding out that 2 cell phones have been in proximity requires computationally expensive analytics on the server side.

No, you just have to use the right data structures. Quadtree is the obvious one if you have lat/long, or if you have cell history you can observe that e.g. the UK only has ~25,000 base stations, so you can just use them as buckets. It's probably too expensive to run on every ad load, but for targeted surveillance it's easy.

Contact tracing will go away middle of next year with the end of the pandemic. Although I wouldn't rule out its reactivation next time there's a SARS or bird flu breakout.
A vast understatement, IMO. I've gotten my iPad pro hot enough you couldn't hold it in your hands (well, I couldn't) while running graphics intensive hardware.
Because they’re wildly unstable autocracies?
It's one stage, and it's an important stage, but it's not the most important stage for speeding up discovery. Most of the wasted time is due to developing drugs for what look to be promising targets, taking them into the clinic, and finding that they don't actually do anything to the disease even if they're perfect at affecting the target in the desired way.

Protein folding will help develop candidates faster. That's good. But it won't seriously help find the right targets faster, so I don't expect a substantial speedup in overall drug development times.
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The article states as much. Most of the sales aren't from 4th gen ryzen, though the 5600x has had a fair amount of sales.
My biggest gripe with amd is that I need to think about gfx card when buying one. I’d love to have a simple vega 8 in all of their cpus.
What if you're required to take it to re-enter normal society, like going to restaurants and such?
Syng wants to take on Apple’s HomePod and revolutionize whole-home audio
Perhaps, but that won’t save KSA.

First, most plastics are now made from natural gas, something KSA doesn’t produce a huge amount of. They’ve got decent reserves, but their production lags. Qatar produced 70% more LNG last year than KSA. LNG is also kind of a pain to transit by sea, which advantages countries that can produce natural gas closer to the factories (e.g. The United States and Russia, among others).

And second, plastic production consumes a relatively small part of the world petroleum production. Here in the US it’s estimated that about 2.7% of our yearly petroleum consumption. World wide only 4% of world petroleum went into plastics (2012 figure).

So even if plastics continue to be made of oil, plastic consumption remains constant, and there is no major shift in who produces the feedstocks for plastic (all wildly optimistic assumptions), then KSA can expect to keep about 2.7-4% of their current oil export budgets. That is catastrophic for a country like KSA, who needs all the oil money they can get.