skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$229 for Suite upgrade. I love Live, but it’s getting harder to keep justifying additional money into it as a hobbyist. I might give Logic another go (purchased years ago and still getting free updates), even though it has always felt less intuitive to me than Live for whatever reason.

Edit: I’ve seen other folks online posting a price of $183 for Suite upgrade, so I would just login and see what price they give you. I think I came from Suite 9, so maybe that accounts for the price difference.
Ah ok I've had to do a few more clicks.

So the 'latest' options on Apple's website are presented as iPhone 12 Pro (best camera) and iPhone 12 (not best camera) - 2 options.

Then each option has 2 sizes, that makes it a total of 4.

I guess they could've named things better - it's still same old 'best camera = more expensive' formula from years prior, with an addition of 'smaller size' to the mix.
I'm not 100% certain, but i believe he ranked pretty highly in IMO (maybe a gold medalist). A Lot of those caliber guys take grad level courses in sophomore year so I'm sure math 55 isn't as tough for them.
Examples of large, modern societies flourishing without the use of taxation?
... and you are likely unionized. And this state of affairs is likely the result of past decades of action by senior and junior academic staff, and without it - would likely be (and possibly is being) eroded.
The question is how much of the machinery in the linked page can you take away and still have a system that supports an evolutionary process. Once you're at the MVP for evolution, the next question is how did we get there from the initial conditions on Earth.
On arch, patches are usually done to either customize the build version (the kernel is 5.9.xy-arch1 for example, that's the only patch), or to make them build with the newer compiler and libs present on the system. Additionally any patches necessary to make them work at all, though in my experience rare.
Both, depending on who they contract with. If it is manufacturers that are trying to control their secondary market you have to provide proof that gear was scrapped (usually, for instance by extracting some critical component and returning those as proof of scrapping). When gear is at the end of its service life and is returned in bulk lots of various bits and pieces of equipment there is an assessment made whether all or part can still be sold on the secondary market (typically: ebay lots).
Not sure about your down vote reference. I didn't down vote you.
Wipe the data, resell anything they can find a market for, recycle the rest.
I don't think anyone's arguing about the wire fees, it's about the tens of thousands of dollars of lawyer time/fees required to hammer out a bespoke contract for what the $800k represents, the terms under which it is changing hands, etc etc.

It would be different if you were an angel and that represented more 1% of your total portfolio, but it's just not the case when it's these big VCs.
I don't usually comment on here but this article seems poorly written and highly opinionated. While I agree that discussion can be had on the relationship between the working class of dying industry and the new wave of highly skilled youths, I don't think this article hits the mark.
To add to parent’s point, AS is a one way trip to Big Sur, with no viable alternative (no downgrade, no dual boot anymore)

Then it’s not just big app companies that need to adapt, homebrew and CLI short lived utilities will also need ARM compatible versions or we’ll be wrapping each individual command in a Rosetta 2 launcher.

It might not be that bad, but I’d sure want to wait and see how it pans out, as it doesn’t look like a trivial transition.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25057985
I haven’t recorded for years, but when I first used Live I fell in love with it instantly. Two of these features (tempo following and velocity chance) are compelling enough I may get back behind a guitar. They were ideas I had years ago and considered trying to build myself but I had no idea where to begin. Good showing, Ableton!
They weren't the first. Sharp and Andy Rubin's Essential Phone had that terrible design first.

OEMs come up with something and the designs echo through the industry.
I wonder if the incentive actually is to "produce as good a product for their customers as possible," or if it's to find the optimal place on the "price to produce" vs. sale price*popularity curve.

I would also posit that in spite of the fact that, while perhaps "For profit operations produce most good things in this world" (for some very specific definition of "good"), news media is in fact a niche where not-for-profit organizations do have a history of being superior to for-profit counterparts (e.g. BBC, NPR, AP, etc)
Got it. Then it is a call to "concrete" action in some way. Thanks.
Once you get to execute arbitrary code there is little you can't do that the real program can, but unless everything is very bad a vulnerability won't allow you to directly execute arbitrary malicious code. A buffer overflow might only allow you to overwrite few bytes or do a single jump. Attacker then has to leverage this very limited execution and turn it into running bigger piece of code. Many mitigation techniques focus on making this part as difficult as possible. If locating or parsing information to disable security features requires running few hundred lines of code but vulnerability allows you to directly execute only 10 instructions which can't even be freely chosen, attack might be prevented.
Siro/Xtensity:

> Any simple stairway can be traveled in an infinite amount of different ways, yet the destination at the top is the same.

> Religious codes and beliefs only get in the way of spiritual and mental progression as they are a product of the Ego.

> The moment even a simple idea on what it takes to get to enlightenment is stated, the Ego is the source.

> Enlightenment as it is called comes from direct practice of mental and spiritual development.

> The best way to solve any of this is to simply find a practice that works for you and sends you in a progressive direction and practice it. Don't adopt any beliefs. Simply progress your spirit and the universe will expose itself to you.
This may be OT, or perhaps not, let's see where it takes us.

I hope you can educate me about Americans in a way that could help us to think of a different business model for journalism, and other services to improve the commons which require real funding.

I'd like to respond to the part of your comment where you say

> I don't understand the resistance to things like a healthcare service

I also wonder why many Americans seem to reject universal health care. Here in Australia anyone can walk in to a public hospital and get treated for free. Why do so many Americans think it is better to have to pay (the most expensive prices in the world) and be tethered to your employer for health care?

I put that question to a Trump voter who asked me, who pays for the health system in Australia? I told her taxpayers. Everyone pays a little bit, and that works because everybody benefits. She told me her answer straight away. She said it's not fair to have open access hospitals because then illegal immigrants will get free health care.

Is that why (some) Americans reject "socialised medicine"? Because they are afraid that outsiders will take advantage of a system they pay (expensive prices) for? It sounds like a version of Stockholm syndrome(?). If there are other reasons, please enlighten me. I'd really like to understand this.
Biden would be a fool to give the CCP even an inch. For too long they’ve taken advantage of western society without any repercussions.

The equivalent is when the world pushed for peace with hitler before ww2. Even after his many aggressions. Many historians ponder the what if scenario if the world pushed back on day 1, would we of still had ww2
It'll be interesting to see if the Biden admin has the same security concerns as the Trump admin r.e. TikTok. It's still not totally clear to me whether there was ever a real security concerns or if it was just a fig leaf for a political play. Of course, if Biden stops this process, that would not prove that the motivation was political. It could as easily be the case that declining to force the sale is a political move. Unfortunately, with the lack of transparency in the original decision making, it will be hard to ever know which is which.
You can replace "Natural" in "Natural Selection" with "Divine" to say "Divine Selection" and that's fine. No scientist can gainsay you.

However, jumping in a scientifically-grounded discussion with "But what about design?" is kinda silly and unlikely to be useful.

Frankly, I think you're right, I believe God exists and created the Universe such that it includes evolution of life, and that this redounds to His glory. Hallelujah!
The assumption that Apple wants to approve all apps is wrong.

Apple sees App Store apps, and web apps as having different advantages, and it is in their interest to have the best platform for both.

It’s not just me saying this, they keep saying it too, and proving it by investing in making web apps run better.
One difference between the PPC-> Intel switch is that there was a healthy anticipation of massive performance gains to cover emulation shortfalls.

That doesn't exist anymore. Emulation of an architecture for the Intel -> ARM switch can't rely on some big gains to cover for emulation.

I'd have been more excited if they had provisions for some hardware acceleration of Intel instructions. I'm guessing they can't do direction instruction --> microops translation in the ARM silicon, there's probably a thousand patents blocking that.
With 16MB of cache, that's nearly 1 billion transistors out of 16 billion -- and that's without including all the cache control circuitry.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but the 1.85x number does not apply to SRAM.

I've said for a long time that the x86 ISA has a bigger impact on chip design and performance (esp per watt) than Intel or AMD would like to admit. You'll not find an over-the-top fan here.

My point is that x86 can do more with less cache than aarch64. If you're interested, RISC-V with compact instructions enabled (100% of production implementations to my knowledge) is around 15% more dense than x86 and around 30-35% more dense than aarch64.

This cache usage matters because of all the downsides of needing larger cache and because cache density is scaling at a fraction of normal transistors.

Anandtech puts A14 between Intel and AMD for int performance and less than both in float performance. The fact that Intel and AMD fare so well while Apple has over 6x the cache means they're doing something very fancy and efficient to make up the difference (though I'd still hypothesize that if Apple did similar optimizations, it would still wind up being more efficient due to using a better ISA).
There are a lot of potential roles for citizen juries, but adding a third house is just a solution looking for a problem.

A good arrangement would be:

- Elect 50 Senators nationally by proportional representation (2% party vote = 1 senate seat)

- The Senate works with parliamentary style vote of no confidence system instead of fixed term lengths (fixed term lengths have repeatedly been a disaster for the US). Let's say the maximum is 6 years, in keeping with tradition

- The Senate appoints the President and cabinet directly, instead of using the Electoral College first and then approving the Cabinet. Since the Senate is now national, it's essentially national popular vote for President.

- The House remains on a 2 year limit, but add more Reps (1 per 100K people is good) and do things like Instant Runoff Voting and multimember constituencies.

- For the House districts, have the Federal Election Commission draw up plans and…

- Have the plans approved by citizen juries. It's crazy to just send one random person to congress and expect them to do well, but it's not crazy to ask random 100 people from across the country to come together to give oversight to bureaucrats. We have 12 random people give oversight to criminal trials already. Juries are good at oversight.

- We could also use citizen juries for some Supreme Court stuff, but that might be harder because the cases end up being very technical at that level.
> with the plant under new management, his union rep no longer had the relationship with plant management that he used to have so they couldn’t help Alex

What? The union depends on the company being nice? Is the union rep compensated?
Fair enough, but it also outlines a bit of truth that you shouldn't necessarily go against the grain of the programming culture of a workplace just due to personal preference.
> For the lowest end models right?

For the current M1 models. You can still get 32GB of RAM on the Intel models.

So they're "low end" only in the sense that you can't get more than 16GB of RAM on them.
I don't look when I type, either, except for the function keys, because I don't use them that often. So since I'm already looking down at the function keys, looking at the TouchBar makes zero difference.

One minor annoyance, however, is that the TouchBar isn't visible in direct sunlight, which is to be expected of any screen. Function keys don't have that problem.
Intro to the Scrypt Hash
I accept that the performance of Apple's chips have increased rapidly in the last few years, but the benchmarks that they are using to compare to various x86 CPUs makes me suspicious that they are cherry-picking benchmarks and aren't telling the whole story (either in the Stratechery article or the Anandtech they got the figures from).

Why am I suspicious? THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY THAT A 5W PART LIKE THE A14 IS FASTER THAN A 100W PART LIKE THE i9-10900k! I understand they are comparing single threaded speed. I'll accept that the A14 is more power efficient. I'll acknowledge that Intel has been struggling lately. But to imply that a low power mobile is straight up faster than a high power chip in any category makes me extremely suspicious that the benchmark isn't actually measuring speed (maybe it's normalizing by power draw), or that the ARM and x86 versions of the benchmark have different reference values (like a 1000 score for an ARM is not the same speed of calculation as a 1000 score on x86). It just can't be true that the tablet with a total price of $1k can hang with a $500 CPU that has practically unlimited size, weight and power compared to the tablet, and when the total price to make it comparable in features (motherboard, power supply, monitor, etc) makes the desktop system more expensive.

Regardless of whether it's an intentional trick or an oversight, I don't think that the benchmark showing the mobile chip is better than a desktop chip in RAW PERFORMANCE is true. And that means that a lot of the conclusions that they draw from the benchmark aren't true. There is no way that the A14 (nor the M1) is going to be faster in any raw performance category than a latest generation and top-spec desktop system.
I had a DEC PC (not the Rainbow, the actual compatible line with the S3, I think it was the 4XX line), and I had some other settings. I think it was because of the S3 to be honest. I do admit I liked the Turtle Beach stuff better.
Huh, so a lot of data that could be stored in a compact way but probably won't be for various reasons.

Still, an 8k by 6k layer with 16 bit floats (which are plenty), stored in full, is less than 400MB. You can fit at least eleven into 4GB of memory.

I'll easily believe that those huge amounts of RAM make things go more smoothly, but it's probably more of a "photoshop doesn't try very hard to optimize memory use" problem than something inherent to photo editing.
"worthy open-sourced competitor to Ableton" is a very tall order, but if we're just looking at open source DAWs, a friend pointed out this one to me recently. https://lmms.io/
It's works well for arranging, but doesn't have a scene/clip/looping workflow (yet).
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/anal... (U.S. Marriage Rates Hit New Recorded Low)

Between the above post, and this post, not good if you read why this is occurring (economic security).

"Meanwhile, America’s so-called “marriage divide” is only widening. College-educated and economically better off Americans are more likely to marry and stay married, but working-class and poor Americans face more family instability and higher levels of singleness. For Americans in the top third income bracket, 64% are in an intact marriage, meaning they have only married once and are still in their first marriage. In contrast, only 24% of Americans in the lower-third income bracket are in an intact marriage, according to my analysis of the 2018 Census data."
I wonder if the next step after that will be Apple dictating what new apps are desirable in the app store and then a bit further Apple making apps themselves and only outsourcing the support or signing franchise deals. Once the hardware could only be repaired by Apple, they could move completely into a subscription model where you could subscribe to e.g. Office or Streamer package that would include a laptop for two years and a predefined set of applications.
But Hitler is in the white house already
The Argument to Tax Work-from-Home Benefits
Fewer people are getting married, therefore fewer marriages are ending. Not surprising.
The page where the "reply" link takes you. I.e. where I'm typing at this very moment, and where you'll type if you reply to me. :)
I have been developing CQRS-like systems in smaller businesses for a while now. I've also been drawing on Domain Driven Design (DDD) principles. It took more a bit of experimentation to find how best to apply this to smaller scale software, but the results have been very pleasing.

I started by sketching out a plan on how I would rigorously apply DDD & CQRS to a problem, but in the full-knowledge that it would likely be overkill. I then dropped out components which I felt were unnecessary for my particular situation.

The result has been something fairly lightweight, without too much boilerplate, and very reliable. The clients concerned have certainly found it to be a rock solid part of the core business process.

The need for this did not come from any performance requirement, but because I felt there had a to be sensible way to architect SME business software. Especially in a startup environment where business needs and processes were often changing. I felt that DDD allowed me to actually model businesses processes in software, rather than requiring business needs to adapt to the software I was developing.

This may well be old news to enterprise-scale developers, but as a freelancer coming from the smaller-company end of the spectrum this was a big deal.

As part of this process I developed a Python library [1] to facilitate writing evented/RPCed systems (event sourced or otherwise), and wrote up some very rough architecture tips [2] as part of the documentation. They are pretty high level, but may be an interesting (somewhat opinionated) starting point.

[1]: https://lightbus.org

[2]: https://lightbus.org/dev/explanation/architecture-tips/

Edit: Link update
OK, that's probably fine for AI. But if we ever encounter a non-AI not from Earth intelligence, don't reuse that prayer for them. Come up with a different one, with better phrasing. Let's not ask for that classic Twilight Zone episode to come true.
It's not a question of mathematics, but a question of politics, and the article itself is a decent introduction to the topic.
By stating they are for-profit, they state what their incentives are. Does that mean they will be unfair or dishonest? Not necessarily. But it does mean that their incentive is not providing fair and honest coverage, but getting as many eyeballs on ads (or subscriptions) as possible. In the news "industry", this has repeatedly been shown to lead to:

* yellow journalism (what click-bait was called before there were clicks)

* content driven by their owners' and advertisers' best interests rather than the best interests of the public at large

* content geared toward the views of the majority at the expense of the rest of the public.
>The VC took an immaterial loss, by choosing for give up an immaterial gain, so that something material can happen for the founder and their team.

But that's not what happened. The business was sold for $4 million. The only difference the VCs actions made was that the founder walked away with 3.7 million instead of 2.9.
Take it a step further: In journalism, the single largest bias on display at any publication -- from the New York Times down to some hyperlocal startup -- isn't in the content; it's in what they choose not to cover.

Lack of coverage can form opinions just as strongly as coverage can.
Reaper is also worth checking out too - but it doesn't have clips/scenes, which Bitwig does. Bitwig is well thought through, though they have some improvements to be made around the ergonomics of integrating with hardware instruments.
Hi. Today, our clients fetch values on-demand (so, not necssarily on app startup - it's when you call configly.get(key)). The values are then cached on the clients according to a TTL you can set yourself.

Latency was around ~200ms (I believe ~40ms is on the server). Do you feel it's important to push this number down?

I think LaunchDarkly might do some background fetching. We were slightly concerned about additional bandwidth / battery usage on mobile for this pattern and aren't quite ready for a push pattern.
In the case of BEAM NIFs, I find Rust's compiler guarantees especially compelling.

That's because a crashing NIF can take down the whole Erlang VM. If fault-tolerance is what brought you to Erlang/Elixir and OTP to begin with, as it is for many, having the server crash could be a major issue.
VictoriaMetrics developer here. While Flux language looks great from computer science point of view, it has very low usability for ordinary users comparing to other specialized query languages for time series data such as PromQL [1] or MetricsQL [2]. For example, Flux requires to write long multi-line queries for simple cross-measurements math [3]. The same query written in PromQL is much shorter and is much easier to manage:

co2 * (((temp_c + 273.15) * 1013.25) / (pressure * 298.15))

[1] https://medium.com/@valyala/promql-tutorial-for-beginners-9a...

[2] https://victoriametrics.github.io/MetricsQL.html

[3] https://www.influxdata.com/blog/practical-uses-of-cross-meas...
Datadog is providing tracing at least at a function level, so it should be possible
I'd argue that by now The Bomb has saved way more people than it has killed (no WW3, etc).

And that's not even counting the other achievements of the Manhattan Project, such as the first artificial nuclear reactor.
A curious critique of Apple's product line given the strategy of the competition: https://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/samsung-phones

(I would argue it's very simple: "Get the iPhone 12 in the size and colour you like", the Pro models are an up-sale for the people who want different screen-size or slightly better cameras)
Write Code Top-Down
Yes, the union does depend on the company being nice. Not every union is powerful.
Following on from the link of the other poster, the Random Access part allows plugins like Melodyne to "see" all the audio data that's on the track all at once, without you having to transfer it inside the plugin manually. You just start working with it seamlessly in an edit window. It's a neat idea.