skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the Italians at University of Pisa seemed to want to understand the echo state property better. Gallicchio and Filippo Maria Bianchi (I assume his student) wrote a couple of interesting papers I haven't totally absorbed yet, probing the critical ridge in various ways.

That said, it's pretty marginal stuff. ESNs are weird. Cool weird anyway.

If I were looking at it in a serious way rather than reading the funny papers, I'd think about ways of applying topological ideas to ESNs. ESNs on the critical ridge probably have an interesting graph when projected onto a topological space.
Let's look not at all death rates over the past 10 years, but at deaths from COVID-19[1]:

Norway [locked down]: 6.17 deaths/100K people

Sweden [no lockdown]: 65.61 deaths/100K people

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality as of November 28, 2020 at 03:00 AM EST.
When This Virus Is Over – Teespring
Highly recommend to watch "Mr. Jones" (2019), shows well how USSR produced tons of lies to cover holodomor. Hall of the fake news fame, definitely.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6828390/
That's not entirely true. My Ryzen 4900hs laptop gets great battery life with integrated graphics. Not as good as the m1, but it's a zen 2 chip and we have yet to see what zen 3 mobile will do.

Apple clearly has a huge advantage here with a cutting edge process and for all practical purposes unlimited money to throw at this. Their cash on hand is more than AMD
s full market cap.
>>> And here’s the crux of the problem; plenty of people have done the research on this stuff. You just never bothered to read any of it

Exactly, thank you for proving my point. I, like 90% of Americans, do not care enough about the opioid epidemic to do any research. We care so little, that we don't even know Richard Sackler's name. I have a million things to care about in my personal life, and a million other pieces of news I could worry about instead.

It's not a personal attack, I'm not sure why you're getting so offended about it, it's simply human nature.

The other thing you seem not to grok is that if 90% of Americans said Richard Sackler needs to be prosecuted it would happen. However, maybe 10% of the population knows that name.

So, in conclusion, back to my original point -- If you ever want more than 10% of the population to know the name, you have to bring him up in your discussions, because 90% of us don't care enough.
Agreed. Anectodal ofc: I thought about creating something similar - an app that would take my headshot and randomly alter metrics like eye distance and other general ratios etc for use as profile images for various social networks, thinking it might improve recognizability for people I actually know / have met.

However, I quickly came to the realization that the metrics I'd try to alter would probably not be sufficient and reveal enough information that the whole thing would be rendered moot.

A nice first step to remediate trust (or at least shift trust relationship to other parties) would be for vendors to implement highly restricted sandbox models (i.e. not allowing _any_ network access and restrict/alter ways of in- and output, like adding noise and artefacts to image data that can leave the app e.g. via share/save to camera roll).
Spreading over many teeth is very interesting, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't happen in real life. You'd need elasticity to exceed imprecision and there's definitely no place anywhere in chain or sprocket were you'd not try to avoid as much elasticity as you can.
> They’re soon going to be used in top-tier UCI track races.

And that is where this monstrosity will stay, until they find a way to fit it into a 6 speed derailleur system to make it viable for $60 bikes sold in Walmart, and eventually an 11 speed derailleur system.
There is a tremendous amount of denial and revisionism that goes on with all 20th century socialism, because the modern socialists really don’t want you to know about any of it.
This is a such a dead horse. Exactly how is Go _tied_ to one company, Google?

Sure Go is near exclusively "incubated" by Google, they employ much of the core development team, but there is nothing preventing any organization from contributing to it. Go and Rust are both open languages - they can be used with no commercial licenses and the source is available.

The differences are in their major supporting companies, and the perspective which some choose to use as a deciding factor in the platforms they choose.

Neither is a product. They may be used to create products, but they do not directly generate revenue.
The belt is a closed loop and under high tension when installed. Your frame needs to be able to be opened to let the belt in, then your sprocket pack needs to be able to move backwards, so you can put tension on it.
> > Please (please.build)

> 'build' kind of indicates that

Not the GP, but as a developer reasonably conversant with build systems and their pain points, I still assumed this was going to be some form of lazyweb[0] related blog post or portal rather than a build system named 'Please'.

[0] https://ftrain.com/dear-lazyweb
I used to love customizing my system as well, but I've grown out of it.

A highly customized environment is a timesink of its own, a source of frustration whenever you have to work in a different environment, and 90% of the customizations are pretty meaningless anyway.

Give me reasonable defaults and I'm happy.
Kinesis probably runs well over 100k instances. Restarting it might not be so trivial that you can do it in 10 minutes.
Wouldn’t a vélocipède be 100% efficient (in transferring motion of legs into motion of the wheel)?
Another recent example was when the pandemic team of the National Security Council was disbanded, and the reason given was that the president doesn’t like to have people “just sitting around.”
It's possible (albeit much harder) for stateful services too.

It basically boils down to "We must be able to restore the minimum necessary parts of a full backup in under 10 minutes".

Take wikipedia as an example. I'd expect them to be able to restore a backup of the latest version of all pages in 10 minutes. It's 20GB of data, and I assume it's sharded at least 10 ways. That means each instance will have to grab 2GB from the backups. Very do-able.

As a service gets bigger, you typically scale horizontally, so the problem doesn't get harder.

Restoring all the old page versions and re enabling editing might take longer, but that's less critical functionality.
It’ll be awful just like that car dystopia where no one changes their oil, and the recycling is handled in an organized way.

Your way of thinking is the problem. You’re a minority of users and not entitled to mass production of goods that fit your intentions alone.

Reality moved on as physics obliges it to do.

Go buy a Dell and install Linux. Go buy an Rpi. When did MS or Apple ever cater to open source opinions on computing?

Did a golden age end or were you all distracted and simply forgot these companies were awful back then too?

Better juice those stocks gains though!
The work around would be microfluidic coolers, which aren't production ready yet, I believe.
It’s Only a Matter of Time Before China Detains U.S. Executives
Obama judged ruled Georgia election fraud matter of “when” not “if”
Well I think that's just it - if you want everything to be perfect it's going to be very high bar. It shouldn't come as a surprise you can't have the simplicity and control of an Amiga and the functionality of a modern computer without setting the bar very high. It's not necessarily a failure of anything in the same way it's not a failure of space rocketry to be vastly different than how you could use a bike even though they are both transport technologies we put together.
I said,

>Most americans still carry cell phones with them so they can't object that much.

And now you're telling me that it's infeasible that they would object. Yes, that's what I said.

But can they if they actually cared? Yes, easily. I just use a non-tracking dedicated car gps for directions. I use a camera instead of a camera phone, and so on. It's not infeasible.
Canada’s cannabis edibles market: ‘We’re just at the beginning’
> Linux is, considering what's going on with the major distributions, desktop environments and UI toolkits, seemingly heading the same way. Sure, pick your own window manager, see if we care - we've got client side decorations! Want to theme your GUI? Yeah, but not in our Snap packages you won't! Want to turn off cursor blinking? Mmmmyyeeaahhh, not too sure about that. Oh, you started a GUI file manager? Hey, enjoy the ten new folders we've littered your home directory with! They all start with capital letters: designed for typing convenience in a case sensitive file system.
"Largely adopted" also avid cyclist both in the city and in the countryside, and I don't recall seeing one of these ever
Because most windows/android users would love to jump to apple for their privacy friendly and user-unhostile approach to updates but resent the idea that they would have to give up their app freedom to do so.

So i can either install any app i want into my factory installed spyware ridden forced updating android phone and windows desktop machine, or give up the ability to control what software I can install my machine in order to gain privacy by switching to apple.

We want both damn it.

And in my case I'll begrudgingly take windows and android over apple, but I don't like it.
My wallet buys beef, goat cheese, and vegetables from my neighbors. I am blessed to live where this is possible.
They already aren't a stream of bytes. There's time and permission metadata, which tar, cp, rsync and friends may or may not handle in various ways based on option flags.

I guess it boils down to what is "application data" and what isn't.
> If I knew what I know now 5 years ago, I would have never believed something like this would be possible

The difference between now and then is that now you know it is possible, before you only believed. If you stopped working hard it isn't because you now no longer believe hard work pays off, but because you now no longer care enough to work hard for the rewards you'd get.
Sure, however backing up a bit and going a bit pseudoscience, let’s think about it evolutionarily.

If you’re a young confident fella who thinks he’s got a great lion fighting strategy but no experience you end up not existing. The lack of confidence is not a problem it’s a feature; it saves us in the long run against risks.

I have zero proof that high confidence people are more or less (or the same) able or capable than the general population.

But the point is deep down anyone “judging” you can eventually substantively evaluate your credentials/capability. It’s not a good long term strategy to be a high confidence shill / hype person. Probably better to work on being more technically competent. Now if you happen to have a personality issue / disorder that causes excess shyness, sure go fix that. But confidence in itself, imho, is an overhyped tactic in American life.
Oh I see. Yes it's a modular design. That's one of the most fascinating elements of the CPU. I wasn't familiar with the version terminology to denote features. Thanks. Also thank for the the feedback on the Weste book. I will try to find a used copy.
For something more modern (and referencing Solzhenitsyn himself) I recommend _Bloodlands_ by Timothy Snyder.
You Are Cyborg (1997)
I travel and move around a lot (not so much now, but I still move around my country and to the office), so portability is very important to me. Another advantage of the MacBook line is that I can carry one Anker USB-C & A charger and charge everything I have.

I was looking into buying the new MacBook Air. Anybody has any particular alternative to recommend? I am looking for a new laptop and haven't found anything similar to the MacBook Air (I hate the touchbar) for a similar price (the 16GB of RAM model, if expandable better). Anything similar is either a lot more expensive or the build quality is a lot worse.

Any recommendation is more than welcomed!
26.6% of developers in the StackOverflow Developer survey use Linux. (vs 45.8% Windows and 27.5% Mac).

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-de...
Is it really trivial to support both dark and light interfaces though? It may be for command line interfaces, but for anything with a GUI and custom colours it means creating every element twice. Things like shadow work on light interfaces, but not on dark.
Unlike a chain the belt is a closed loop, you can only use it with a frame that can be opened in the rear triangle.
PDF Drive, a search engine for PDF files
Cryogenic hardening is a established procedure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic_hardening
Human-AI partnerships will be the defining advancement of the 2020s
One thing that Factorio drilled into me was compression. It's easier (=cheaper) to transport compact processed goods than bulky raw materials. In the real world, shelf stability is also important, it allows cheap-but-slow modes of transportation.
They meant by pricing the externalities. An emissions trading scheme can mean that carbon-emitting activities just displace each other. A carbon tax can mean that carbon-emitting activities can result in net reductions in emissions. Road user charges, taxes on vehicles bought, you get the picture.
One must definitely beware of looking back with rose colored glasses. A couple years ago I came across the BASIC source code for Oregon Trail, and I thought, "Hmm, might be fun to convert it to C." Started poking at it, and... Blargh! It was pretty disgusting. I don't think the program, disgusting as it was, was really unusual or bad for the time, though, and I am certain I wrote similar code on my trusty TI99/4A and thought it was just fine at the time. But then I was just a little kid, and maybe it's just right for a kid, I don't know.
Similarly, it’s a joy to use the Jira app for macOS which uses Catalyst to port their iPad app to macOS. Compared to how long it takes to load and use Jira on the web, it’s just a bit snappier and nice. The dark mode support is also appreciated, though aesthetics could still improve to be a bit more mac-native... and because of Jira’s design, it’s possible the app will always lag in functionality compared to the website. But still— progress! :)
slides.com is an amazing domain name. How did you land upon it?
For Years Mac OS was "the promised land" with acceptable defaults and way for power user to customise almost everything (https://macgui.com/downloads/?cat_id=10). Even iPhone was designed with idea of web apps. After invention of Apple App Store things slowly started to rot. And now we are in moment where after one or two Mac OS iterations you will be totally closed in predictable UX patterns inside walled garden for Security reasons, etc.

I am a long time Apple user and I understand that this platform is not for me anymore. Apple undoubtedly will have expansion of user base, M2 will be monster of processor and will eliminate the idea of Mac Pro tower. But trade off will be: no user control over software and hardware. For general user base this is not a problem. They feel at home because this is nothing new for them. This is iPhone and iPad experience all over.

So what is the solution? The solution for me is to relearn computing. Actually things that I cannot live behind (yet) are Affinity Designer and Logic.

Linux is the way for power user. Arch, Gentoo, Debian, Fedora. Plenty of choices.

I discovered that learning Emacs is investment in future in which I will not depend on corporate idea of "user interface". As a long time designer I sketch and draw on paper with pencil and ink brush. In the past I successfully shipped designs with Inkscape (people were unaware of SVG) so in near future
my work (if is any left) will be done without new Apple.
No, they just impersonate the police and intimidate people in their own homes:

https://bgr.com/2011/09/02/apple-accused-of-impersonating-po...
Web Conversations with the Year 2000
> It's not a personal attack, I'm not sure why you're getting so offended about it, it's simply human nature.

You directly told people here that it was their fault they’d not done the effort to do some research and propose something, and that they didn’t really care about this issue. If you don’t understand why people will respond very poorly to that, then my genuine sympathies go out to you, because that was a personal attack.
Well, "non-fiction." I'm not sure about his other writings, but Archipelago has been found in recent decades to contain many exaggerations and half-truths.
> Everybody has the potential to be 'somebody', but we all need help getting there.

That's utter garbage. You fail to define the mesure to be "somebody" as well as the acceptable amount of "help" to invest into someone to reach that undefined goal.

FWIW, I'm perfectly fine, in the grand scheme of things, to be a nobody and certainly wouldn't want it any other way.
T.h.i.n.k. (+T) before you give feedback
For you, as for many, convenience trumps liberty. Don't try to force everyone else to act the same way.
I kept the weight and wrote a scraper that looks for cheap business class across continents(I can do last miles in economy)

https://github.com/sjurgis/puppeteer-flights
...which at ~€1100 costs more than many people will spend on a bike, weighs more than a full set of sprockets and a derailleur, is less efficient due to the staged planetary drive, can only be repaired by sending it back to the factory, can (like other planetary drives) not be shifted under load and as such is more of an interesting novelty than a real solution to the stated problem.
Statements like this make no sense. What can I _not_ do with Rust, Go, Java that I am allowed to with Nim, Python, or C/C++? What license or restrictions on distribution of my work product is prevented with any of them?

Too many people forget or are not aware that good C/C++ compilers used to be commercial and expensive, they were independent in idea only and evolved today to be independent of any commercial entity. If I wanted to develop performant executables I may have had to purchase an expensive compiler, and abide by its license. If anything, languages are far more independent today than they were.
You can either "invest" in your local hardware store or "invest" in paying unemployment for your neighbors. Choose wisely.
You can't/shouldn't shift under load with a derailleur either. Pinion gearbox has an option of 18 gears with a 600%+ ratio while something like SRAM Eagle 1x12 has 500% ratio. I don't know about the efficiency but i think something like this should be the future - https://www.pinkbike.com/news/allen-millyard-part-1-2008.htm... or maybe there is proper reason why nothing like this has come into the market - shifting without pedalling or under load, closed system (don't care about dirt/water) and no noise.
I would say having shit in lunar orbit might be a bigger problem since they will not burn on reentry.
Sure it’s not a problem now but by the time we can push junk into a lunar orbit the moon might be quite a bit more populated.
Ah, true -- I'd forgotten about that. Even in the absence of blinding weapons, warfare and wounds will change completely when an overhead drone can target and burn a combatant in milliseconds. A quick and precise galvanometer may allow precisely-targeted strikes on tens of people in seconds.

The combination of projectiles and directed-energy weapons will make defense and evasion much more difficult. David Drake tried to show us the depravity of wars of the past in his work, but it also highlighted the horror of wars to come.
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Identical Thinking in a Globalized World
Former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh Dies at 46 from Injuries Connected to House Fire
> Why do you feel the need to pick on Apple

I, a person with a modest net worth, am picking on trillion dollar Apple? That's so backwards it's funny.

This is a company that erodes computing freedom and ownership. They've co-opted the commons, and they built it all on the back of open source. And I'm picking on them?

Apple fans will say that Apple created billions of dollars of commerce opportunity. But it would have happened anyway without Apple.

We'd be in a better world if we had an open app standard that worked cross-device and consumers had choice in distribution channels.

We don't need to be "protected" by a company or big brother. Especially if such protection is just a cover story for controlling commerce.
Applied Science found that cryogenic treatment of steel drill bits made them last twice as long: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hAxi5YXTjEk
I actually wonder about that.

M1 has been out for a short time, and Apple Stores are not accepting walk-in customers. People aren't seeing their friends much due to the pandemic, so it's unlikely that those who bought the new machines are broadly showing them off.

Lots of forum praise about M1 seems like it's coming from people who have no hands-on experience with the new devices. I have no reason to believe that Apple pays people to stir up hype on the web, but I definitely sense that the vast majority of people hyping M1 haven't purchased an M1 device. My sense is that they just read some blogs, ogle some benchmarks, and regurgitate what they see.

That's not exactly a diversity of opinion. I can tell you I've been voted down a couple of times just for suggesting that there's too much hype and not enough information.
> The public seems to be relying more and more on science for guidance as our media and politicians keep failing us.

They used to rely on religion, for better or worse. Dogma is the only true constant, trading one God for the other, first an elusive supernatural being, then the State, then science. It will still result is the same failed outcome.

I really like polytheist religion. You are warmonger ? Pray to Mars. You like to party and have sex ? Pray to Hathor. You are more inclined to wisdom and justice ? Pray to Athena.
I owe Basic a lot. It got me into programming on our first family pc, a Compaq Presario around '94. QBasic was accessible on every windows installation from the command prompt. You could read the programming guide built into the editor and have your first running code shortly after. That was its true power.

One of my first programs was teaching me french words, asking me to translate them in a random order until I got them all right. It was truly magical.

I also made pixels move, trying to write games, but I quickly ran into limitations and problems organizing my code. If you like a small challenge, watch a few minutes of this video about a game called Noita, where in the beginning Q-Basic was used to create some simple physic simulations [1].

It was hacky yes, but I think if you're starting out, it's much more important to get something running quickly than learning how to do it the right way. When people speak of basic, they always seem to have the impression that you're spoiled for life after touching it, but I think that's wrong. You can always learn more and improve. It's breaking down barriers of entry, which is key. A simple editor, with an inbuilt help page and a run button is all you need.

[1] https://youtu.be/prXuyMCgbTc?t=102
There are many problems which are provably unsolvable in the general case but it is nevertheless of interest to see how well we can do in spite of that fact, because they are useful problems to solve even approximately.

A survey of internet properties and how they each solve this problem for their own domains seems reasonable to consider as "serious detail."