skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You might argue that 8 RISC instructions are not comparable with 8 CISC instructions, but even with say 4 CISC instructions it will still consume more energy

Alder Lake decodes six. And again, your intuition about power costs here is just simply wrong. Instruction decode is Simply Not a major part of the power budget of a modern x86 CPU. It's not.
I disagree. Nothing beats macOS's multiple desktops that you can swap between by swiping with three fingers. I know exactly where my windows are, exactly how to get to them from anywhere, and their order is never changed. Leagues better than alt+tab.
But Linux already supports FIDO2 without Firefox, I use fido2 with sudo, LUKS and ssh keys (gpg as well, but it uses a custom agent). But maybe those use their own custom implementation of the fido protocol?

Didn't really look this up tbh, it just works right now.
But this is an app to use when on foot, laptop or desktop is not that usable when you are walking - and doesn't have a GPS usually.

If you want to edit OSM at home you have many other options.
Again, you're making the same [deliberate?] error everyone else is making. He's threatening he'll RETALIATE accordingly if the West/NATO uses nuclear weapons against Russia. This is EXACTLY the same stated "No first Strike" policy as every single NATO member has.

So why are we not seeing reports that "USA threatens to use nuclear weapons against China"? Because I bet if you, if asked, the US would make EXACTLY the same 'threats'.
Let us not oversell Proton. While the compatibility story now is better than it ever has been, only about 26% of the top 100 games on Steam work without substantial tinkering or other problems. And most of that is going to be due to multiplayer games and developer/publisher anti-cheat obstinance.

Statistically speaking, the games the average person would most likely want to play likely still do not run, or do not run without problems or tinkering required.
Do you only care about things that directly affect you negatively and personally? There are a lot of things that don’t affect me directly personally that I still care about.

I don’t write open source public software with a restricted license, but I understand why some people do. I respect that, and I probably use a lot of the software without realizing it. I can understand why they’d be bothered by theft of their work, and I could see downstream effects such as them stopping their work that would eventually affect me.
The IOC (International Olive Counsel) https://www.internationaloliveoil.org/
I suspect the Venn diagram of people who use a MacBook and people who use Android has a very small overlap in the circles.
Very interesting article, but as these games are fiction, they do not necessarily need to be accurate, otherwise there are many more utter inaccuracies to be corrected, not to mention the fact that a young girl can freely hang around with her little brother in the 1300s while having her haircut always perfect. Let games be and enjoy the wonderful pictures.
Their current strategy is the opposite of what you stated: it is to ensure MS software and services run on every imaginable product, including those made by others, including competitors. Hence XBox pass, VS Code / Edge on Linux, Office 360 on iOS/Android, etc.
Because it's immortal?
Someone had a battery life test for phones. The iPhones beat the android phones in nearly every test by hours. And they only had 60-70% of the raw battery capacity.

And you know they have faster processors too.

It’s so weird to me. The A series is kind of “that doesn’t count” because the competition can’t get close. The M series wowed people and then we all went back to normal AMD/Intel stuff like nothing happened.

If I want a new PC laptop, it just won’t compare because no reasonable part is available for the heat/battery life I could have gotten.
So far none of the recent changes to macOS have been any kind of deal-breaker to me. But there has been a lot of changes that are just... odd.

Catalyst apps suck and don't feel right. For some reason Messages just loses typing focus at weird times. I'm sure it's nice for Apple to share codebases but for the end user it feels like a weird mobile app that had some desktop functionality tacked on at the last second.

And the little control center they added to the right of the menu bar is just weird cause it's doubled-up implementations of menu items I already have. Volume control is already there. Media controls are already there. Wifi toggle is already there. Bluetooth switcher is already there. Why does this thing exist? So it can have bigger controls that look designed for a touch screen even though Macs don't have touchscreens (which I'm personally fine with)

Thankfully they backtracked on the dumb Safari tab changes where they tried to make the web page and browser chrome bleed together which was just confusing.
One way to look at this is when process and policy is not followed.

In IT we see this when information is lost (no backup policy), or information is leaked (no security policy). Using technology with no policy/process is almost always a risk factor for business. If said posts team had created a policy and process it's very likely the incident would not have occurred in the first place.

With products control is very rarely tightly held. There is a supply chain from where it's mined out of the ground all the way to destruction of the product which may be decades or even centuries away. Trying to ensure that your customer use a product intelligently over that long of time frame is too risky for most businesses.
Ah that makes sense!

So it's a way to allow stuff to communicate with fido2 capable devices without having any dependency other than this and dbus, nice
Why is POSIX a strict requirement?

> Call me old, but I have no interest in dealing with the amount of configuration and tweaking necessary to be productive in a Linux environment.

Exactly why I prefer Windows development to macOS and Linux!
Super Mario 64 has parallel universes
I might agree with the summary if there was any examples given of what they're referring to. If there was even a small list of things that Apple broke every WWDC that anyone besides extreme power users cared about, the point might actually be made. As it stands, it's a lot of "feelings" and not enough substance.
> Those roots tend to be attached to green stuff that's above ground and very visible. Why should that be any less legible to tax collectors than wheat or rice?

It's a combination of factors. Cereals like wheat and rice tend to ripen seasonally and simultaneously. They do so visibly, and must be harvested soon after. So a state sends its tax collectors around when the grains are ready to be harvested, and the amount that was generated is immediately visible. They also keep well: tubers go bad relatively quickly (and can be kept underground until actually needed for consumption), while rice and wheat can be transported over long distances and times with an order of magnitude less loss.

Consider the case of the Incas. As a civilization, they relied on two crops for calories and nutrition: maize and potatoes. Despite that, efforts at taxation primarily focused on maize, because it was so much better suited for taxes and commerce (though they did eventually invent a way to freeze dry potatoes).
That's what "adulteration" means. From the study I referenced:

"Three of the 88 samples labeled as EVOO failed to meet purity criteria, indicating possible adulteration with commodity oil and/or solvent-extracted olive oil."
At least writing a SHA-256 implementation from scratch is theoretically possible. The point is, it is possible to keep Earth habitable, were just not doing that. But there is no plan B. In other words, we're fucked.
Michael Irwin from Docker here (and author of the blog post too). Happy to answer your questions, hear feedback, and more!
I had expected to see him moving the flashlight around the room by just moving his eye and not his head; it hadn't occurred to me before that glass eyes aren't connected to the muscles used to move the eye around. I wonder if doing such a thing is within the realm of possibility.
The first part should be (assuming ascii) the Warhammer 40K: Mechanicus opening speech
Yes, but unfortunately they require some digestion. This thesis isn't, for example, fleshed out in a single pop sci book or even dissertation or academic book afaict. It's more like: reading a lot about the history of philosophy, mathematics, and religion. (That said, I think most people in those three fields -- philosophy, history of mathematics, and religious studies at least as an academic field -- will agree in one way or another with the general sense that mathematical notions of infinity have definitely influenced and been influenced by religion and spirituality.)

The closest single source that comes to mind, at least for one region of the world, might be Russell's history of western philosophy, which commits more time to both theology and mathematical history that is typical for that type of text. But, it's a big tome and only here and there provides nuggets of insight on this topic.

Thinking about other sources, if you are interested in this thesis, I think you'd get a lot out of reading the works of people like Descarte, Leibniz, or even Godel. Also biographies about the same, because the writings by the men themselves are more like primary sources than summative/synthetic expositions. By which I mean, you have to study the text, its cultural context, and its impact on the history of mathematics (rather than just read and comprehend the words on the page). So reading the texts plus the biographies plus knowing enough about mathematics to understand how their ideas do and do not permeate the field will, I think, give you a decent sense for the thing I'm saying above.

Sorry I don't have a single easily digestible podcast/book/audio book :(
>> I think it's easier for the concept of farming to evolve as technology advances, than the production of food not being called farming anymore

Why are you so sure that your current speculations would have any sense 200 years from now when some agricultural breakthrough happens. The one we can't even dream about today.

And this is the pattern that has been happening all the time through humankind history.
I can confidently say that the space to uniquely describe a truly uniformly random number between googleplex and graham's number is so large, THE PROGRAM cannot be written down in this universe even with all the atoms in the universe at our disposal.

Graham's number is very very very large. It is finite, it is an integer, but it is absurdly huge. Graham can describe Graham's number, but arbitrarily / uniformly picking a number close to it at random is basically impossible.
That's definitely subjective.

For my usage/preferences, the Windows taskbar and alt-tab switcher scale extremely poorly. They drive me to keep no more than 3-4 windows open, because any additional windows beyond that make my desktop progressively more difficult to manage which feels utterly absurd on a tower with a 5950X and 32GB of RAM which I should feel empowered to heavily multitask with.
Isn't this the same old story since 2008? First they ruined iMovie, but they fixed it later. Then they made mistakes in Lion which were later fixed. What exactly are the permanent problems with macOS, other than maybe iTunes becoming gimped?
It's really stunning how Microsoft and Google have allowed this. 3rd party OEMs are significantly crippling the Windows & Android experience. Wouldn't surprise me if attitudes change here.
Their comments here and elsewhere make them look like a tipical Kickstarter scam.
My understanding is that's mostly an issue with imported "blends" that claim olive oil from multiple sources. Single origin stuff is usually safer, and domestically produced Californian olive oil is usually what it says it is. You can also look for harvest dates and seals from the various olive councils for purity.
Amazon reportedly freezing AWS hiring
CNBC reporting that Amazon made the announcement after market close. In the past they had announced freezes across Amazon except AWS.

So far I can't find an article or official announcement, but CNBC is reporting it and that seems to be why the stock price has been dropping post close.
Put simply, more powerful isolation than Docker (with explicit, granular managed effects), and a simpler operating model, i.e. no container orchestration. You can actually compile modules from disparate stacks that call into one another in a single runtime.
The update is cool but the update process was not.

-Update available, wanna install?
Sure
-OK don't mind me I'm gonna need a while
OK
-HA HA I LIED I"M READY TO TERMINATE EVERYTHING BYEEEE
WTF
5 reboots with just an Apple icon and a progress bar
The progress bar also moves backwards sometimes
I guess it's a metaphor for life, which is how long this seems to be taking
-OK hello I am back but I need 10 minutes of alone time
-Here is some unfamiliar wallpaper but you can log in I guess
-Oh it's you again, do you want to share analytics with us
-OK here is your familiar desktop, I am not telling you what has changed
Um preferences
-Oh hai I'm called Settings now and I reorganized everything
Yikes but OK this is sorta well laid out I guess
-Hello I am Stage Manager, I put a desktop on your desktop so you can work while you work
Sorta neat, can I configure some things differently though
-No

Funnily enough I had just started reading the Ars Technica review when the upgrade took place so that helped with navigating the changes but it was an oddly jarring transition. I get that Apple doesn't like burdening users with too much technical information (as in 'any') but given how significantly the Settings app has changed I'm surprised there was no Release notes or feature tour of any kind.
In addition to the other free apps people have mentioned, the indispensable Raycast does windows management too. https://www.raycast.com/
I see a lot of reflexive negativity here. It reminds me of the kind of negativity I received on my blog when I said that eventually, music streaming would overtake music sales—including in a comment from Steve Jobs himself while Apple was still selling music. It also reminds me of the negativity I received from most people when, in (probably) year 2000, I was talking about the possibility that ads would be distributed to web sites through what I called "hubs" and by targeted by means of activity tracking through cookies, including from a VC who had recently been on the cover of Business 2.0 Magazine and called there the "top-performing U.S. venture capitalist for 1995-1999", who told me, "I don't see much money in that."

Trust me, you should take a serious look at this. A lot of what may sound like gobbledegook to you, such as "zero-knowledge proofs", is definitely not gobbledegook and is likely to be very important as time moves on. If you don't have the background to understand what the authors are talking about, it will sound like GPT-3 nonsense. Get the knowledge if you are in the internet industry.

[Update: I see that even this is being voted down. Well, I guess the downvoters just have more of a track record and more experience in the industry than me, and more knowledge about blockchain, zero-knowledge proofs, etc., so I should forget all about this stuff. Not. I'm trying to help out here. Don't downvote what you don't understand. If it isn't what you expect to hear, that's when you have a chance to learn something. If you understand it more than Buterin and Weyl do, well, tell us all about it, I'm all ears.]
This used to be true but is not true anymore.
Etymologically, Deepavali is a Sanskrit word meaning row of lamps (Deepa means lamp). Diwali is a colloquial form used in Northern states of India, as the word in their language for a lamp is Diva/Diwa.

Ultimately, there’s no difference as every Indian state has its own language so it’s all nitpicking. Because I’m a bum, I like to point out that South Indian (where I’m from) and East Indian states use the etymologically correct name, Deepavali.
This is not worded like a normal scientific article, is it more like a blogpost?
Python 3.11.0 Released
The right-wing VIPs accidentally exposed in Parler’s Kanye West blast
In a strange way, part of Apple’s downfall with multi-tasking IMO is because they basically got it right the first time.

The early versions of Expose were brilliant. One version which displayed all windows that were open, and another version which displayed windows for the current app. You could trigger it via the Keyboard, Hot Corners, or trackpad or mouse gestures (I’m not sure about the mouse gestures though).

Further, the windows largely maintained their spatial configuration as well as their relative sizes.

This was pretty much perfect and I’ve not seen any other implementation that does this better (Gnome is actually getting there by doing a good job of recreating Expose but adding Workspaces to it).

The problem for Apple was that they need to keep changing prominent visual elements to indicate progress, even if the elements get functionally worse. This led to first losing the spatial configuration and relative sizing. Then it morphed into Mission Control which tried to overload a highly successful Mac OS X feature, Expose, to promote workspaces and then full screen apps. And once Mission Control got long in the tooth it had to change for marketing reasons, so we get Stage Manager.

I suspect if Stage Manager or Mission Control would have come first, Max OS X would likely have evolved towards something like the original Expose instead and everyone would have been happier for it.
Is that not the central controversy? That it’s being training on software that has a license that prohibits such use?
This was introduced in 6.x or even before that...
Flatpak – still a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020)
> being an ex-hindu doesn't immeditely mean anything to me

I suppose that depends on the age group. Among Indians, a person's religiosity isn't so easily discernible to me when they are in their 20s. That's the age when most people are generally just having a good time. But with anyone in their 30s or above, their religious values are easily seen. These values play a big role in whether they marry, whom they marry, how they raise kids, the historical figures they revere, the roles of men and women, the assumptions they hold as true, shared greivances, etc.

I have more in common with my Chinese and irrelegious European friends than I do with Indians of any religion. I have more in common with my ex-Muslim and ex-Christian Indian friends than I do with my Hindu family. I don't have much in common with the global left either, who seem to be god-less but not religion-less. One manifestation is the kind of topics I must nod along on, lest it provoke an argument or a fight.
I recently saw cultured oil as well and have been doing some in depth research on adjacent topics since I have a family history of CVD. How has his writing changed how you eat, and have you noticed any differences in health metrics?
Somebody should make a compendium of the thousands of blog posts from programmers threatening to leave Mac because of graphic design reasons over the past 20 years.
The Apple dev kit was about two thirds the speed of an Intel Mac Mini. Microsoft or Qualcomm hasn’t shown us what their production PC Arm chip will look like.
I don't think that article is the source of the table - there's a similar table, but a lot of the items are different and the numbers mostly don't match.

Also that article seems to be primarily concerned with the health benefits of linoleic acid and how to increase consumption of it.
I mostly agree with the author. Having been a Mac user for almost 40 years, the recent disaster in usability and aesthetics is disheartening.

The thing is, Windows is still a lot worse and not getting any better.

Linux… I’m actually afraid I’d devote my life to endless configuration and frustration while having to deal with a Windows VM with GPU passthrough and whatnot. Or constant dual boot. Or a KVM. Who knows.

So Mac it is for now. Please stop breaking our favorite OS, Apple.
>I'm okay with Microsoft failing at projects like this. We don't need another Apple-like presence on the market.

Personally I’m not ok with being locked out of potential computing power by platform so I can’t get excited as MS struggles to keep up.

It’s either MS keeps up or the future ahead is dark.
I know (and I even had one) but that's for users who actually bothered to use a referral, not for ones who saw so much adver^W mentions and just got an account.

I was being a bit sarcastic there, though. If anything, new clients => company receives money to stay afloat.
I'm a SWE, I've been a DBA and a sysadmin, and I've been using Linux on servers for a long time, but on the desktop I'm just a user who doesn't care to understand the inner workings of the stuff that's supposed to just work for me. This KDE, GNOME, XFCE, Cinnamon, X vs Wayland, Unity, MATE, Plasma, whatever GUI stuff is way too confusing and not worth my time. Just sticking to the default in Ubuntu doesn't help much when even that keeps changing a ton, which is unbelievable. Why do they get users accustomed to something only to swap it out?
MacOS is a great platform but I find all their apps terrible. Luckily there is a very active development community and I don't have to use any of them.

* Finder -> Path Finder
* Spotlight -> Alfred
* Stage Manager/Snapping -> Moom
* Safari -> Chrome/Firefox
* Mail/Calendar/Contacts -> Outlook
* Photos -> Google Photos
* Maps -> Google Maps
* Weather -> Weather Channel
* System Sound -> SoundSource
* System Screen Shots -> Clean Shot X
* System Menu Bar -> Bartender
* Terminal -> iTerm2
* Preview (I actually use this one)
Agreed. While I loathe the current system preferences app, look at what Microsoft started with Windows 8 with the Settings app. Almost a decade later and there is still stuff strewn between Settings and the original Control Panel. At least Apple ripped the band aid off and for better or worse there is only one for them to focus on, and no "legacy" piece loitering around giving them an excuse to not keep improving the new system preferences.

Also I was amused at his notch hostility - I shared the same view; until I used a new Mac with the notch and discovered that I don't notice it. At all. I thought I would hate it, and I can't remember a single time it surfaced other than it coming up as a topic and then I notice it.

I'm trying to think of any of the recent changes they made and none of them are fatal enough to prevent me from working with macOS as I have for decades now, and can think of none. He doesn't like stage manager? Big deal. Spaces is still there and window management still works the way it always has without it - that one was really telling. It's not like they forced it to be the only way to manage windows.
Clearly, those are just alternative facts.
I'm almost with you on this one.

Virtualization and containers are still very very finicky on wsl.

But it's 95% of the way there. And I don't mind using it.

On the flip side, all these electron apps make it so lots of stuff just works on Linux as well.
I have been an Apple user since 1990, and I think you are absolutely right. In my mind iPad OS and iOS are so bad I don't want my Mac taking any inspiration from them, but I bet the average user wants something familiar to those two platforms.
I think these fears are overblown, at least based on this 2015 study by the FDA:

"The authenticity of 88 market samples of EVOO was evaluated ... with purity criteria specified in the United States Standards for grades of olive oil and olive-pomace oil. Three of the 88 samples labeled as EVOO failed to meet purity criteria, indicating possible adulteration with commodity oil and/or solvent-extracted olive oil."

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286479191_Authentic...
> An article says Stage Manager can be turned off.

AFAIK it’s off by default and you have to explicitly enable it.