skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t it a bit silly that these Big Brother companies (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) are so afraid of global communication being taken over by small, yet persuasive groups, that they set about to take over global communication by their…small, yet persuasive company?
They have a huge database product (kdb). The company that owns Kx is a billion dollar company.

It really isn't clear to me why they do what they do (not just with regards to the language). They have a large consulting business (q/kdb consultants can make £1k/day easily) so it doesn't make a difference. I believe some parts of q/kdb are open-source but some parts are not. And I think this really does hurt them because there isn't a big eco-system around their products (for example, they have had to hire people internally to build ML libraries for q).

It is very weird: they are at the eye of the storm for data analytics, their product is fast, they are growing modestly doing lots of business with banks and in other industries that need streaming analytics particularly...but they are still niche, and growing a lot slower than you would expect (part of this is that management insists on being profitable...people rip on SV companies for not making money...well, Kx are the other side of this...they are modestly profitable, but not really growing).

EDIT: I should add, if you see the stuff that is open...a lot of the code is a total shitshow.
It seems to me there's a lot of overhead in this protocol. How much more performance could a new-from-scratch protocol achieve?
amazing how cloudflare has framed this anticompetitve move as a privacy thing.

it doesn't matter if your dns resolver leaks part of your ip address to archive.is's dns servers when you're about to connect to archive.is from your ip address anyway. the only thing dropping the edns client subnet does is prevent services you use from giving you a server that's closer to you when you do the dns lookup. this performance issue, of course, does not affect sites using cloudflare.
I go to the sauna regularly for over 30 years now. My parents have a Finish electric dry sauna at home in Germany. Also we did vacation in Finland regularly. And I lived in Finland for a year.

Sometime in the 90ties, saunas became quite common in Germany for some reason. Initially it was only some single saunas in addition to some fun pool. Later that expanded to more and more saunas, and then we got whole sauna areas with 10-20 different saunas, and they became very common. We have many of such places now in every bigger city. Those sauna areas have lots of events like putting water with different herbs on the hot stones every 30 minutes in different saunas, where you also get fresh fruits, drinks or other things. These 10-20 saunas cover all common styles like Finish, Russian, Turkish, and many others.

We also have a sauna at our university in Germany (probably also not really uncommon).

It's not just very relaxing. Which by itself is already very nice. Esp also after some extensive sport session.

But it's also a very nice social event. At the university, it's always nice to chat with lots of different people. When I lived in Finland (Erasmus), we also had a sauna at our student hostel, and basically every other place as well. It was always a regular event.

It's also interesting to see the cultural differences.

In Germany, everyone is naked, and the atmosphere varies a lot, depending where you go. Often it's quiet (more expensive public places), sometimes it's chatty (e.g. university), sometimes it can be annoying (cheap public places).

In Finland, you also have public saunas, but nothing like these big sauna areas like in Germany. It's usually 1-3 saunas, and you wear swimming trunks. The student hostel sauna was probably a bit special due to the Erasmus students. Sometimes we went with other Finish students to their private saunas. They usually put lots of water on the hot stones.

I also visited a friend once in Russia in Yekaterinburg. We also went to sauna a lot with other local friends of him, and also in our hotel. Russians put even much more water on the hot stones, and usually stay shorter in it (10 minutes or so), but make it hotter, and go more often.

That was just my experience.
Linked in Profile does not exit anymore. But

"Bachelor of Engineering Bachelor at the Humboldt University of Berlin."

This sounds fishy. I am not sure that you can get an Engineering degree at this University.
Pretty sure I have never seen this behavior in Signal or any of my group chats in Signal. At least the way me and my peer groups use Signal this simply isn’t possible as far as I can tell.
You're entirely missing what the parent is talking about. Your point that "none of the characters giving voice to anything are sympathetic" is irrelevant. On the other hand:

> They’re portrayed as tragically ridiculous players vying for power and positive public image who’ll drop their “principles” at the drop of a hat if it suits them

This is exactly what the parent pointed out.

To make this even more clear, I made excerpts from the quote by Jay (creator of Yes Minister):

> this was reflected by showing that in any [episode] in the programme, in Yes Minister, we showed that almost everything that the government has to decide is a conflict between two lots of private interest [...]

> And that's why public choice economics, which explains why all this was going on, was at the root of almost every episode of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.

So both series ("almost every episode") were clearly conceived and executed as propaganda, whether you like it or not.
> They're consuming, not interacting. It is not lazy nor is it dismissive to suggest smartphones are largely devices that inspire consumption.

This is also probably one of the reasons TikTok took off; it allows high quality content creation via smartphone that anyone can do.
What about the real id reqs?
Side story:

In the school district where I work all employees are now required to be vaccinated or take a weekly test.

Our district hired a nurse to do weekly testing in the district main office to any employees that were not vaccinated.

The day before we were to begin testing the state informed us we are not allowed to test on our own premises.

Employees must schedule their own covid test on their own time. It also must be the full long nasal test (not the outer swap or spit test).

So now we have lots of bus drivers, food service workers, and maintenance staff who will resign since they don’t have the time, money or transportation to get their own weekly tests.

Something is amiss in the world right now. It really seems like plans, expectations, regulations are constantly shifting ….almost like by design to cause systems/organizations to fail.

Sorry for long comment just frustrated on the shifting protocols and shifting narratives.
"Perhaps does not need the vaccine", even if debatable, is still less good than "is vaccinated".
This is not surprising as there is no such thing as 'free speech' on private platforms like Facebook.

I thought that the author of this post knew this given the mass de-platforming going on throughout the years.

This shows once again that it can happen to anyone. Facebook and the rest of them will never change.
U.S. Democrats Propose Expanded EV Tax Credits to Favor Big 3
My previous employer was a healthcare system. Despite my role as a software developer working in an office nowhere near patients, I was required to get the flu vaccine (which was fine with me). These sorts of mandates are nothing new for healthcare workers.
> Ordinary people don’t exchange email messages that any powerful adversary would bother to read

AFAIK Google (via GMail) reads emails from/to “normal people”. Is Google not a “powerful adversary”?
Also consider that caregivers in maternity departments are predominantly women, so there may be cause for reluctance if they would like to have children in future and the concerns over fertility side-effects hold any water. If you are family-oriented yourself, you would understand that the bar for jeopardizing this future is extremely high.
The people that run the Pirate Bay went to prison for operating that site, despite not hosting any illegal content there themselves. Archive.is faces similar impedance mismatch with what different people and courts believe about intellectual property.

When's the last time you went to prison for something you believe in?
Can you tool-in a water cooler? A walk to the cafeteria? A weird smell several people notice?

[ninja edit]: someone downvoted you, it wasn't me.
Given the combined cost of K licenses in banks and other large companies, I'd say they are really far from having messed up. The main goal of the company is not to promote K the language.
AutoML is RL? The entire exercise of publishing and peer review is an exercise in cybernetics?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_logic_network :

> The basic goal of PLN is to provide reasonably accurate probabilistic inference in a way that is compatible with both term logic and predicate logic, and scales up to operate in real time on large dynamic knowledge bases.

> The goal underlying the theoretical development of PLN has been the creation of practical software systems carrying out complex, useful inferences based on uncertain knowledge and drawing uncertain conclusions. PLN has been designed to allow basic probabilistic inference to interact with other kinds of inference such as intensional inference, fuzzy inference, and higher-order inference using quantifiers, variables, and combinators, and be a more convenient approach than Bayesian networks (or other conventional approaches) for the purpose of interfacing basic probabilistic inference with these other sorts of inference. In addition, the inference rules are formulated in such a way as to avoid the paradoxes of Dempster–Shafer theory.

Has anybody already taught / reinforced an OpenCog [PLN, MOSES] AtomSpace hypergraph agent to do Linked Data prep and also convex optimization with AutoML and better than grid search so gradients?

Perhaps teaching users to bias analyses with e.g. Yellowbrick and the sklearn APIs would be a good curriculum traversal?

opening/baselines
"Logging and vizualizing learning curves and other training metrics" https://github.com/openai/baselines#logging-and-vizualizing-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero

There's probably an awesome-automl by now? Again, the sklearn interfaces.

TIL that SymPy supports NumPy, PyTorch, and TensorFlow [Quantum; TFQ?]; and with a Computer Algebra System something for mutating the AST may not be necessary for symbolic expression trees without human-readable comments or symbol names? Lean mathlib: https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib , and then reasoning about concurrent / distributed systems (with side channels in actual physical component space) with e.g. TLA+.

There are new UUID formats that are timestamp-sortable; for when blockchain cryptographic hashes aren't enough entropy. "New UUID Formats – IETF Draft" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28088213

... You can host online ML algos through SingularityNet, which also does PayPal now for the RL.
This fits my experience pretty well. The available communication tools suck so much, people are for the most part not used to communicate effectively / frequently enough in remote setting.

I think it's solvable with better technology (something like Facebook's Horizon Workrooms), but at the same it seems very far.
That's another good point -- Mozilla was (maybe still is, I don't know -- I pretty much stopped listening to Mozillians) very condescending and dismissive of any opinion that they didn't already agree with. I'd rarely seen a company put so much effort into alienating their fan base.
Obscure, when the book was published three years earlier.

And based on Mesa, used at Xerox PARC.

Then again, ignoring systems languages outside Bell Labs seemed to have been a thing back in the day.
"Ostracism", meaning quarantine? Seems like a reasonable measure to take.
From the CDC:

"Yes, you should be vaccinated regardless of whether you already had COVID-19 because:

* Research has not yet shown how long you are protected from getting COVID-19 again after you recover from COVID-19.

* Vaccination helps protect you even if you’ve already had COVID-19.

Evidence is emerging that people get better protection by being fully vaccinated compared with having had COVID-19. One study showed that unvaccinated people who already had COVID-19 are more than 2 times as likely than fully vaccinated people to get COVID-19 again."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html
Cold only very rarely kills babies. If we're going to do analogies then let's go all the way.

Here on HN there was an article about how people who got through Covid were much more resistant to catching it again, compared to those who got a vaccine. It's almost as if their immune systems actually work!

I despair for the people who got surprised by this, as if our immune systems became a thing only during the last 2 years. And this forum is supposed to be full of educated people.

All this virtue signaling around having to take experimental vaccines is becoming very tiring.
Agreed, as I said, some people will not consider things like visibility, chit chat, camaraderie valuable. I don't really want to be friends with people I work with, or generally spend time with my coworkers when I'm in the office since I already spend 8+ hours daily looking at them. Even when remote, people I work with are not my friends, those are a separate bunch of people, I'm there to do my job, solve problems and I don't need camaraderie, chit chat or visibility for that. On the other hand, relying too much on office chit chat tends to make knowledge more word-of-mouth than written down if there are no documentation practices in place, while its practically a necessity to write things down when you're working remotely and that's a huge gain in my book. I think it's really really hard to to decisively say that one model is better than the other, but it does smell like distrust and micromanagement from the higher-ups to me when office work is considered mandatory.
> this headline seems to transform from "most plausible" into a causal link.

One of big alternative explanations why animals/humans get smaller closer to tropics is not because of lack of food, but because of too much of it

The quicker the species can grow to maturity, the more food calories can be spent for procreation.
Is september 11th some sort of special day?
Doesn't utm_campaign imply that Netlify has an active marketing campaign against Medium (nomedium) and this is contributing to that?
Pretty sure you could allocate a variable-length array in C without tripping on dialect issues, in or out of Unix. It may have had such issues, but they were much less fundamental than in Pascal.
You are right that there's a big distinction there. But at the same time, I was attempting to point out that it's not only certainty of outcome where the NAP applies. We all accept that the NAP can validly apply in some situations where an aggression is probabilistic rather than guaranteed.

Let me outline an alternative situation where an individual would have no freedom of choice, but where you might agree with the measures imposed. Suppose we identify the first case of Ebola in the US next year. Do you support forcibly quarantining that person? Such an action is eminently necessary in my opinion. But at the same time, such an action violates the two things you've laid out: (1) it doesn't allow the individual any freedom of choice, (2) it is not guaranteed that they'll spread it and is therefore restricting their freedoms merely on the probability of aggression.
Sure, why not? With our first kid, we were frequently confused and frustrated by the goofy baggage that various ob-gyns had. Covid vaccine hesitancy wouldn't make my top 10 concerns.
Thanks, interesting info on excess yeast too. That might be the reasoning for the 2nd packet, that it would produce a better crumb but I like a springier loaf anyways.

Thanks again for the info, I tried Googling but couldn't find that info.
Being 'stuck' in 2005 is exactly why I use Blogger for my blog posts. I don't post to get eyeballs, I don't have monetization turned on. I post (about mainly tech) for my future self, so that if I run into the same weird error or need to do the same thing again, I have it documented online; a place that I can access from any device with an internet connection. If others find my posts helpful, that's fantastic, but it's secondary.

I wanted a platform that I could log into, that was fast, non-intrusive, that I could link my own domain to, and that was 'stuck' in 2005. I don't need anything shiny and honestly, for most things people blog about, a site that exists in circa 2005 is more than enough.
Renewing Let’s Encrypt certificates using a systemd timer (2017)
Mmh… Someone told me in East Germany women were treated in a much fairer way than in West Germany (equal pay, equal oppertunity etc.) it didn’t really turn into a particularly rich country nor stable…
Current hypothesis is that they're just moving slowly, there are signs of life
The newer ones (Beyond, Impossible) are a lot closer nutritionally to beef than the older style of veggie burgers that were mostly bean-based in my experience. Those could still be pretty good for what they were, but not really comparable to beef.
Next paper from these guys will say: "the shift from an open office plan to private offices caused work to become more siloed. Previous research shows this may impede the flow of information through the network"

People need to stop fetishizing "breaking down silos" and "serendipitous hallway encounters" and all that nonsense and think about the big picture.

You're more likely to have something worth saying, and a work product worth talking about, if you aren't wasting time on your commute and shooting the shit in the office.
Thanks. Yes, as European this was my source as well. I believe I witnessed at least the collapse of the first tower live on BBC World.
> and you’re a bad person.

That remark is exhibit A in the repertoire of evidence for the collapse of civil society.

Just because someone does not agree with 'your' opinions does not make that person bad. This is also the core of the whole woke madness which is currently raging, the conviction that anyone who does not follow the current narrative is bad/*-ist/*-phobe or just 'deplorable'. That attitude belongs to religious zealots, not to political ideologies.
> standby generator-which is adorable

From Austin here. It’s about $16k for a natural gas, 22kW (hey gotta run that decent, Texas sized a/c, right?) generator. That’s all up, installed with all the permits for electric and gas and city included and it will take about 4 months to install.

PS: I’d rather live in San Diego any day
I copied the following from one of my other comments since it's a lot of text, but these are the reasons I moved off Firefox for Android (Fenix) to Brave. Also, Chromium-based browsers for Android have none of the following issues.

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- Scrolling up on Google search's results page and some other pages is not registered half the time, and sometimes triggers pull-to-refresh instead

- Scrolling up inside an input box while the page is at the top of the screen causes unintentional pull-to-refresh

- Bitwarden autofill is not registered unless you kill and restart the app after logging in

- You can't save images that require cookies to be passed to the request, such as under DDoS protected pages

- Links will sometimes redirect to about:blank unless you go back and click them again

- Most recently visited page is not restored when closing and reopening the app, even though it's saved to the history (closed as wontfix)

- Uses large amounts of memory, causing Android share actions to be silently killed due to OOM unless you quickly kill the app right after sending them

- Closing a tab and clicking "Undo" in the popup sends the tab all the way to the top of the list, instead of its original position (inconvenient if you have a large number of tabs open)

- Frequently loses open tabs in memory, even within ten seconds of navigating to another tab

- Startup time is noticably slower than Brave, taking at least a few seconds to show the UI and begin loading the page. It isn't much, but it impacts the user experience every time you start the app again.
Yeah, that is another one.
I was a quarter of a mile away, saw the buildings fall and I knew people who died.

I hate the reminders of 9/11 every anniversary. I know "never forget" is a slogan, but I really am trying to forget. It impacted me deeply. I left NYC and never came back.
> BUT, I think the parent's point is that such a feature would actually be quite complicated.

Sure, but so is making a cloud. Putting the onus of defining a feature like this on users, only after hearing their request ("I want to control my spend"), is IMO unfair.
MS-DOS was written in Assembly.
Can we not call literally everything "anticompetitive"? archive.is isn't a competitor of Cloudflare. Cloudflare doesn't treat them differently from any other site, they're not doing anything "to keep them down", their DNS product just has a focus that isn't compatible with archive.is' hunger for data.

That you might connect to archive.is directly isn't of any concern. You might also not do that, and they've decided that leaking data about the user isn't what they want to do.

It's not anticompetitive. It's not evil.
This site is interesting, but I was surprised to see some 9/11 conspiracy theory elements in the News Ticker.

Specifically, the "Janitor Hears Explosion from WTC Basement" in the news ticker includes claims that an explosion occurred in the basement 40 seconds before the first plane impact. Some quick Googling shows that this janitor and another associate went on to try to build a careers on top of these conspiracy theories. One of them even tried to sue President Bush and 155 others over 9/11 with a rambling lawsuit that alleges everything from controlled demolition of the towers to sex trafficking by the defendents.

Not a credible source, to say the least. I have no idea why this site thought to include his claims, but I suspect they're trying to seed doubt about the official timelines.

Cool site, but take some of the editorialized content with a huge grain of salt.
I was in my 3rd year of college, I woke up early for some reason and was watching CNN while eating some breakfast. I was watching when they went to the building after the first plane hit and everyone was scrambling to figure out what was going on. I can still remembering watching live as the 2nd plane came into the camera shot and slammed into it live. It was surreal. At the time I was taking Arabic and Middle Eastern studies classes. I remembering just being stunned. I was glued to the TV the rest of the day watching. I felt the same thing Jan 6th 2021, I sat there watching the capital videos with my mouth open along with my wife. I was watching the proceedings randomly and watched as the Senate started freaking out and calling for everyone to get out of the room. Those two events just left me stunned and trying to grapple with the new world we just entered.

If you want to imagine what it was like on 9/11 on CNN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iwlFFM3DDQ

Go to 13:25 to see the 2nd plane hit it live.