skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely a good way to branch out on their current user base and probably makes a lot more sense for people starting out to buy Logic than base Ableton. Ableton Suite just doesn't seem like a great value vs Logic unless you absolutely need something in Ableton.
Sometimes I wonder if I ever actually stop thinking at night; maybe I just don't remember it in the morning? Maybe every night is just laying concious for 8 hours, thinking weird dreamlike thoughts, but being unable to form memories.

I know brain measurements show that our brains operates differently during sleep, but we may still be concious, at least internally.

Have you ever had the same "sleep stage 1" experience I have?

If I start to fall asleep in the living room around people, their voices seem to become louder, I am aware of what they are saying, their sentences make sense. Yet, if I am suddenly awaken to full alertness, I will have no memory of what they were specifically talking about, although I do remember that I heard them talking. It's as though the ability to form memories went away before full conciousness went away. I believe this is a common experience, and I was fascinated when this pattern was first pointed out to me.
If you read Genesis most people mentioned there lived 100s of years. This most likely is an artifact of years corresponding to moon cycles (aka months) in the earlier parts of the Old Testament.
If there was a nice solution for it, I would have done it but there isn't. Also the action space for that would be enormous. Maybe I will be making a MuZero Bot drive in GTA, that would be fun !
What's the alternative you'd recommend?
Thinking about a Mac Pro market I came to the conclusion [1] it might be for the audio market. If this is true I can imagine that Logic is still important for Apple.

[1] Lack of Nvidia support means 3D/CAD and video/FX users will choose other brands.
Waking Up by Sam Harris

Sam is a neuroscientist and meditation devotee who offers a cunning and life-altering exposé on the mysteries around consciousness and the investigations and learnings therein. One mind-bender from the book: some people have undergone a procedure to separate the left and right sides of the brain as treatment for rare disease. Following this procedure, the left and right sides can independently answer questions (sometimes simultaneously) posed by researchers, frequently offering conflicting answers. Interestingly, the right brain alone cannot speak but can answer questions by drawing or choosing letters/cards. Thus, it would appear that following the procedure, each side of the brain is conscious, yet unaware of the consciousness inside the other side.
They aren't the only ones. We've always been supportive of people working from home anyway, but from here on out I'll be actively encouraging my team to work from home as much as possible. Apart from anything else coronavirus hasn't magically gone away just because we've passed the peak of infection.
It would be good if more tech companies embraced this. I bet if they need tools for themselves we’ll see a lot of progress in remote collaboration tools.

To make this work I wonder how executives will adapt. In my company the higher you go up the chain, the more they want face to face communication. I guess most top executives are people persons so not seeing things like body language or using body language takes away an important skill set of theirs.
Oh interesting! Do you have the print edition? The copy on Library Genesis does indeed seem to contain that license, but someone could have added that when they uploaded it to libgen: https://libgen.lc/ads.php?md5=968F60C358A99A61A2A0FD7502F476...
Clearly there is only one real answer to this question...

...The Necronomicon!
Open source is only free if your time has no value.
> I can't understand its strategic value to today's Apple

I've long had the same question about Claris. At least Logic fits in to Apple's brand thesis; FileMaker would make way more sense at Microsoft or Oracle.
More information about the project here https://github.com/victorqribeiro/montyhall
Twitter and other global companies have been managing the time zone factor and using online chat, video calls, etc. for some time now.
Don't forget about the commercial real estate bubble pop, and potentially a massive pump in prices of family homes as a result.

I think that investors are going to be moving their money out of commercial real estate, and into residential.

Edit: to be clear: I don't live in the Bay Area, and I think the housing prices there could go either way:

1) People spend more time in their homes and spend an even larger portion of their income on their home. Having a "good" home becomes even more important since you spend even more time there, and prices go up even more.

2) People just leave the bay area. Residential prices go down in the bay area.

But there is a whole world out there that doesn't include SF, and I think that just generally speaking you're going to see an increase in residential home values as investors look for safe places to place their money outside of commercial real estate.
For things that require stability, Microsoft has an advantage because they have needed to support things for a long time. You can still run a supported version of IE 11. Apple is mercurial and increasingly disruptive with updates.

As Windows 10 leads us to the subscription based computer that exists to apply updates as a primary function, that distinction may disappear.
I don't have any advice, I have never had to deal with cognitive issues, but I did want to comment to say that I am sorry for your struggles and I wish the best for you.
Comma.ai which is used in the demo is a for-profit company that makes a sellable product.
This one of those things that sounds silly but is actually very easy to test and see it can be a real issue.

Tom Scott did a great video on it a while back

https://youtu.be/1Nh_vxpycEA

Do yourself a favor and get an air quality monitor like an awair

https://getawair.com/

and monitor the levels.

Making sure they are good in whatever indoor areas you spend a good amount of time in is a night and day difference cognitively.
My bad. Thank you!
A wrong premise based on Aspiring Minds fraudulent studies.

Aspiring Minds is an Indian company that sells buggy web-based pre-interview filtering tests as a service. It is in Aspiring Minds interest to portray (Indian) college graduates as incompetent to make companies buy their pre-interview filtering services.
I'm not using VNC to Mac Mini enough for me to give meaningful feedback on typing lag. I'm currently mostly running it headless media server and local web server, so occasional remote. However with children requiring access to more devices for longer I'm looking at ways to solve shorter term need without having to go out and buy new hardware.
In this Rolling Stone video she and her brother walk through how they made "Bad Guy," I don't know audio software enough to know if this is Logic but I'm sure a Logic users would recognize it in some of the shots if so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpx2-EMfdbg

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correction! rolling stone not nytimes. edit
for things like loading state with ember we use a library called ember-concurrency that uses the generator approach. It's very nice!

Example you can create some "task" (promise-like), then in a template you have automatic access to it's state so e.g.

```
{{#if this.fetchStoriesTask.isRunning}}
loading...
{{else}}
<span>Loaded 10 Stories</span>
{{/if}}
```
https://github.com/machty/ember-concurrency
A Layperson's Security Framework
"Would almost certainly", yeah, in most cases. But, and this is something that didn't get talked about enough, what if registering the domain actually caused the malware to nuke the host system instead? Think of it as a kill-switch to deter malware researchers that only superficially reverse-engineered a sample before jumping to action. Viewed from that light, just registering the domain because you saw your sandbox talk to it looks more than reckless...
I dislike convention over configuration big time. It’s the reason I could never do RoR as much as I tried to learn it when moving from C/C++ dev to more web dev.

But it’s definitely not the worst idea. People who like that approach seem to be extremely productive with it.

It’s definitely not my cup of tea though.
No doubt the line is gray. But, your stereotypical web app developer (failing fast while chasing a unicorn) is not an engineer.

That could just as easily describe Google and it is full of “smart people” (tm)
There were plenty of violent revolutions that stopped early enough to make gains. (At around the French one, England had a few.)

But any revolution that lasts enough to make into the popular definition of the word will cost more than it gains.
The interesting question is, why now? I mean on the surface sure - because we have a pandemic and state ordered quarantine. But the more interesting question is - why is this finally provoking companies and why do we think they will continue the trend in the future post-quarantine? I've been a remote worker since 2006. It's been obvious to me for a long time that companies could go all remote or some version of remote, and it would have all the positive effects we all know about:

-- Reduction of commute, which is good for the environment and good for people's stress levels.

-- Reduction/elimination of the cost of office space

-- Ability to recruit across a wider geographic area

-- Greater employee satisfaction as people can live where they choose

And so on and so on. And yet in the face of this information, plus studies that show higher rates of productivity when employees / workers control their work environment (and schedule), companies have been resistant. I can speculate on the reasons for this (read: control, stuck in industrial era management practices, etc), but the question remains: why do we think companies will suddenly become enlightened and embrace this long-term?
My favorite is Jayson Street only because he does a great black hat with little to no programming. Which, of course, goes against the "well rounded" part of your question.
The bad: Zoom isn’t good for one-on-one calls, the Mac client glitches sometimes, and we don’t like that the app starts when you click on a meeting link in your browser when it would be more convenient just to have the call in the browser. The recent security issues are also a concern.
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we're working on workshopx.app for this, maybe fixed the bad ;D
The answer to the Aperture question is easy: Apple decided those are more popular features and largely rolled those features into Photos.app. Even Adobe generally agrees, Lightroom CC is more of a competitor for Photos.app (both are entirely cloud-based) than Lightroom Classic (which is focused on the offline features that professionals generally need).
I’m not sure why it took a pandemic to make this a real option for major tech companies. At my previous company, the bulk of my team was in NY and I would commute an hour plus each way to sit on endless video chats and conference calls with people in other time zones. But working from home was frowned upon...unless you were a contractor, in which case you had to work from home bc there weren’t enough desks.
If you want to get into serious physics/engineering, the abstract aspect of linear algebra is much more important than the boring computational mechanics. And quite a bit of those computational mechanics lead you astray when you go to infinite dimensions.
Interestingly, Hacker News used to be called Startup News in the early days.
That could be, although the difference between vacation time and remote work is that any loss in productivity/value with remote work is either nil or hard to calculate. Vacation time is different in that it's clearly time that the employer has to pay for work to not be done. So the optimist in me thinks that tech employers will have difficulty credibly taking employees that have performed well as remote workers and coercing them to come into the office, which doesn't really provide a clear benefit.
If the time zone difference is San Francisco to London, sure. But I've lived in Pacific while working for a company in Central, and live in Eastern while working for a company in Pacific, and it's not a big deal. You just adjust your daily cycle by a couple of hours.

Domestically, it only gets complicated when you have an entire office of people in a different zone. Then large meetings get hard to schedule around lunch and COB.
>that is even slightly more nuanced than the shrieking ideological standoff

The only place I've ever been where a decent in-person political discussion was hard to find was the norcal tech bubble (not to bag on the left, I've just never spent time in any stereotypical right-wing stronghold).

There trick is understanding that most people use politics as either: a way to provoke a reaction out of the person they're talking to, and/or use politics as a proxy reason to hate others when the real reason is one that they can't admit outloud or even to themselves (e.g. class, subculture, race, sex (there's more, but those are the big ones)).
I've come back to TabNine after a hiatus and do see the occasional lag or the process thrashing at 100% of a core. Depending on mood I'll kill it or let it recover. I find myself forgiving any sporadic lags thanks to the productivity gains.
Is ARM an option? I know in practice many ARM systems rely on blobs, but it's not clear to me that that's universal.
Finally, a good explanation for the state of the world!

On a realistic note, this is a cause for concern for astronauts on the ISS. They experience chronic, significantly elevated ppCO2 levels (4 torr, vs 0.3 torr at sea level), which cases headaches and fatigue, and possibly what's known as the "space stupids," where very high-key, detail oriented people start messing up checklist items and don't perform nearly as well as they should.
Besides the matter of whether the cut they take is unreasonable or not, there's the matter of user experience.

Ordering on the phone is very easy. I don't need to make an account, don't need to get out my credit card, don't need to fill out my name, email address, etc. All the restaurants I order from seem to have systems that remember the address associated with incoming phone numbers, so after the first call I don't even need to tell them my address. If I order from a restaurant frequently enough, I often don't even need to tell them what I want, because they remember that too. It frequently goes "Hey, Big Joe's Pies, same as usual?" Yep. "Paying cash?" Yep. "Okay it'll be about 20 minutes." How can fidgeting around with an app compete with that?
I'd gladly take a 15-20% paycut to leave the area but keep my job. Love the company, love the people I work with, hate this place.
Oh, that's the language! Was having trouble figuring it out. Zig looks great.
If Uber goes out of business, that is equivalent to laying off 100% of their employees.

I can't really fault a company in these circumstances for pivoting toward a model that will enable it to survive the downturn.
Do not forget that a collision is just an interaction of two objects through a force. Gravitational slingshot maneuvers are a way to bounce a spacecraft off of a planet using gravity as the force. Kind of like bouncing a ball off a fast moving car and seeing it fly off at high speed.

A theoretical black hole in our outer solar system would do something similar to low mass objects such as comets and asteroids as well as interstellar gasses.
Ask HN: Ever regreted to publish something under MIT license?
The license is pretty permissive, letting anyone able to build a business off it. I guess it can lead to bad surprises.
> for what amounts to pretty basic software

I mean... and also an entire international coordinated delivery network, apps that work on all devices, background checks, vehicle registration and checking sites, marketing, huge expensive legal departments, etc. The original algorithm behind Google search was also "pretty basic software" but there's a lot more that goes into building a successful product than writing some code.
I'm a fan of django but have been looking for an alternative to DRF. I'll give this a try - thank you for developing this. Looks interesting!
& the good as well.
It's Zig, if anyone was curious.
Personally, I find it pretty funny how this "work that can only be done well in person, in an office" can suddenly be done remotely no problem when the government mandates that everybody stays home.

You're spinning things toward your bias with your sentence. Who, exactly, is saying it can be done "no problem"? My experience is that any communication-intensive work is significantly harder and more time consuming. We just don't have a choice now, so we're doing it.
I work for a pretty well-known tech company, and my hypothesis is that we'll switch to a mostly at-home work week, where most people WFH 3 or 4 days a week with one day of the week being designated as a "meeting day" where everyone is in the office.

I don't think this will happen because of people are worried about virus transmission, but instead because most people like working from home and we've proven we can be just as productive when we're out of the office.

That said, I'm one of the few people who like going into an office. There are fewer distractions and better food options. :)
I tried this book and wanted to like it. I couldn't. There's something about that "lessons in disguise" type of style that doesn't click with me. I feel it tries too hard when those lessons and the analogies are things that could be explicitly said without so much ceremony. I also found the story itself rather boring.

I prefer a book like Siddartha by HH. The lessons are there, but the interpretation is open and the narrative is not compromised. You start reading it and you don't want to stop reading it because you're now part of Siddharta's journey. You’re no expecting the punch line that has the lesson, you simply live the story and therefore live the lesson.
Ask HN: How are you handling rent payments?
Hey everyone,

Hope you are all well and safe!
As you all know many tech companies from short to tall have been laying folks off since March.

Has your ability to pay rent been affected in March, April or May?
Here I was wondering how I never heard of the famed Forth collective of Wyoming... Still might visit them sometime just to see what cool things they might be doing. I wonder if they have a discussion venue there.
Uber is trying to buy Grubhub
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What does that have to do with having composable components?
What helped me get through it was consciously reminding myself "It's OK if I don't grok every single thing in this book this time through. I can always read it again. And again, etc." In other words, I didn't try to read it like a traditional textbook (which it really isn't) where everything is strictly factual, and laid out in a nice, linear, straightforward order. I found that I just had to accept that GEB is non-linear, byzantine, self-referential, and frankly confusing at times. Instead of being blocked when I felt confused, I just kept reading.

Did I get everything out of it that Hofstadter intended to put in? Almost certainly not, but I still got quite a bit of out it, IMO. And I can always go back and re-read it.
Paperclip hack is the resistor hack that others in the reply have linked to. My paperclip has been in situ for a few years so don't have the original source, but one of the resistor hack how to postings suggested that there was enough resistance in a paperclip and had a spare display adapter kicking around so tried it and it worked for me. Laggy performance on headless Mini ended.
I don't know about a good deal. That seems to be $200-300 higher than most similarly spec'd machines on the market. While the CPU base clock isn't great on the LG Gram (https://www.lg.com/us/laptops/lg-14z90n-u.aas7u1-ultra-slim-...), it's $200 cheaper, nearly a pound lighter, and gets a full work day more of battery. And it still has a full USB-A port, Thunderbolt, and full HDMI. I also imagine that the thermals are probably better too.

I really can't get over how important it is that Apple's entire line of laptops cannot readily plug into a standard monitor without some sort of adapter. USB-C adapters are terrible. Thunderbolt adapters are insanely expensive. There's still an argument to be made for "dumb" display protocols/connectors.

My girlfriend is on a 2018 15" MBP for work and we went through multiple USB-C adapters to try to get something to work with a 1440p 144hz display or a 32" 4k 60hz display. We ended up finding one that worked with the 4k display, but by default only ran at 30hz. We had to option-click the "scaled" setting in preferences to force it to display at 60hz. For a company built around the "it just works" model, the current state of trying to just get up and running on standard equipment is painful at best.
it's a story because in the EU it's rather unusual. there were a few high profile cases but to say this is the norm is not really right...
Collaboration tools are already pretty solid. What else do you really need other than a remote desktop + video conferencing?

I think the biggest use case will be helping recreate the virtual water cooler.
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Thanks for the suggestion, it's neat that pihole maintains a git repo like this. I didn't get a chance to try it out though, I just installed from scratch.
Use secure hash algorithms to generate the access keys. Input could be a username+timestamp+long_secure_random_bytes. Then run it through base64 encoding.

OpenSSL will provide you functions for generating secure random bytes as well as secure hashing functions.
> avoiding writing long documents.

Just to pick on this bit: You should still avoid writing "long documents". Spend the time to make your documentation as concise as possible. And make no mistake, making it shorter is much more effort and takes longer:

"I would have written a shorter letter, but I
did not have the time." -Blaise Pascal, 1656

Nobody reads big, long wall-of-text documents. Break things into smaller sections, and be sure each section has a clear audience in mind (developer implementing initially? support debugging a production problem? QA building test cases? tech writer making user-facing docs? PM?).

Good rule to retroactively build up your docs: When someone asks a question, answer it with a link to the docs. Sometimes this means writing new documentation.
The fact that some people are helped is not, by itself, a negative impact for the people that aren't being helped. The negatives (caused by the virus) are mitigated by the positive (of being able to work remotely) for some people. But that doesn't put the negatives at the feet of being able to work remotely.

To put forth a really bad analogy... the fact that there is a cure for some cancers doesn't mean the cure is negatively impacting people with cancers that cannot be cured. The incurable cancers are negatively impacting them. The cures (for the ones that can be cured) are purely a positive.
Your anecdote reminds me of the time a company I was interviewing at flew me half way across the country for their "onsite interview", and 75% of the sessions were me, seating in one of their offices, zooming/skyping with the interviewer.