skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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This is another big point.

"Liberty" is a wonderful lag measure, but a terrible lead measure.

The only thing you can really do to immediately create more liberty is deregulating. But in a world without laws, the only law is that of the jungle.

In which case we have a might makes right tyranny.

But as a lag measure you can do things like legislate worker rights, minimum wages, term limits, etc. With the long-term effect of more "liberty and freedom"
Interestingly, there's a font designed (relatively recently) for air traffic control use, where misreading glyphs can be catastrophic. I tried it as a terminal font.

It is awful.
> The opposition party clearly had the permission of the parents to post the photo

Where does it say in the article you have linked?
> Fresh Guacamole can be easily bought due to pressure pasteurization

Where do I find this? I tried this spring and summer but couldn't find guacamole that doesn't spoil within a day or two, especially after being opened, which is too soon to be practical.
They’d have to make it legal to condone violence first then.
Unfortunately that might not be enough:

[0] > Trawling gear produces acute impacts on biota and the physical substratum of the seafloor by disrupting the sediment column structure, overturning boulders [...]

[1] > A bottom trawl consists of a large tapered net with a wide mouth and a small enclosed end. The mouth of a trawl net has two weighted doors that serve not only to keep the net open, but also to keep the net on the ocean floor. These doors can weigh several tons. In addition to the heavy doors, the bottom of the net is a thick metal cable (footrope) studded with heavy steel balls or rubber bobbins that effectively crush everything in their path [...]

Seems like the gear is designed to withstand a lot of punishment. I think the risk of hauling up something truly nasty probably works as a better disincentive, also doesn't actually need to be everywhere to be enough of a risk. e.g "this area is off limits, and btw we planted a bunch of depth sensitive bombs at undisclosed locations designed to be snagged by trawler nets."

It would probably be very effective, but i suspect also a bit too radical ... i mean lets call them what they are: fishing IDEs :P

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_trawling#Environmental_...

[1] https://usa.oceana.org/bottom-trawling
> trusting that you'll be OK so long as you've got nothing to hide.

I don't think people are that stupid, they know they have everything to hide from someone, and no idea who someone is. People think they can hide in the herd, the zebra defense. So long as my stripes are the same as everyone else's the lions won't get me. And they are not wrong, its a poor substitute for anonymity but it is a substitute. Problem is with our every move cataloged and indexed, and with searching bots and AI becoming more and more complex.. Its becoming not good enough to just look the same, we have to have the same political views, the same opinions, the same interests. There are other countries that have taken this to its natural conclusion and; having grown up in a democracy, its depressing seeing the level of subjugation humans will put up with.
What is he admitting to with a 17 year old and why does he work so hard to gaslight everyone, even saying... Everyone she knows won't believe that she was drunk.

For God's sake, if someone accuses you keep it short and simple...

"I didn't do it and if you have further questions talk to my lawyer"

Don't write a gaslighting novel about how it couldn't have possibly been you, all it does is make you look more guilty
KDE Gear 21.08 Released
A _Facebook survey_? Oh, come on. That's a ridiculous way to do pretty much anything.
The notion that victims of sexual assault are somehow themselves to blame is fairly widespread and not restricted to this specific topic. That has been suggested about rape victims for millennia and is even now specifically protested against (I just now saw a postcard in a coffee shop advertising an upcoming “slut walk” in Denver to address this issue). To me, the societal stays of the notion makes the aforementioned pedophile’s claim different than a criminal’s usual denials. For them to put that into the movie would serve to legitimize the notion that adolescents seduce grown men, which seems rather non-progressive.
Today, 1984 feels like an Utopia.
Is there anything preventing you from running the latest version from git? Is there something special about a "release" that you're looking for? (I can think of several reasons why someone might want a release and not the latest master branch, but I'm curious about your specific reasons)
Can you link me to some of these studies?
Laura Deming's post (https://ldeming.posthaven.com/aubrey) has some comments that paint this as a coordinated attack on De Grey for financial objectives.

Truth be told I find it hard to believe those allegations, but I'd lie if I said I didn't enjoy the soap opera aspect of it all while reading them. I think it's very impressive and indicative of how hard-ass Deming must be that she did not have those comments deleted. It definitely speaks in her favor that she's letting the debate be open fully, even on her own site.

(Note for context: I'm just a rando on the internet who read some blog posts. I did not know who these people were until this stuff made it to HN)
What? If someone published a blog post titled "ceejayoz is a <SERIOUS ACCUSATION>", you would be well within your rights to sue for libel if the claim was not true. There is nothing "bad" about that law, it's the best way to defend yourself against sensationalism and fake news.
They also launched today on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/nextretreat-bring-your-tea...
> will restate that regardless of the poor taste, it doesn't change the points validity.

Just wanted to point out a oft overlooked tidbit for the non-philodophers in the room.

Validity only conveys that an argument has proper form. There are many valid arguments that are nevertheless bull, because while they have valid structure, they do not follow from true premises. You should not be pursuing mere validity, but soundness. The state of having valid structure, and following from true premises. I also try to go for complete as well, meaning one has admitted all relevant evidence to the topic at hand, but that tends to be more of a rhetorical drawing of the line.

No one questions there are awful people out there. God only knows, I've had my share of of awful things found on computers I've been the steward for. At the end of the day though, I have to weigh my utility as a means of control and oppression against my normative moral compass and axiomatic underpinnings of how the world works. Mine tell me that there will never be a shortage of people willing to keep those people in check without handing to governments the foundations of population scale control mechanisms. The difficulty of mitigating a government in the process of abusing one of those is way higher than merely being a proactive when the situation warrants.

Solve problems at the level they are best solved. Centralization is almost never the answer except in questions enforcement of control, or applying leverage against someone else's will.

It might make me odd, but I can still look at something vile like CSAM scanning, and recognize it for what it is: violent non-consensual violation of what is expected to be private for the furthering of a small groups political aspirations.

I condemn this no less than I would dragnetting abolitionists, whistleblowers, revolutionaries, or other agents of change.

I assure you, there has been much sleep lost in contemplating whether my moral compass has gotten screwed over time. I don't take these issues lightly. I care about it so much that any doubt on my part is grounds for immediate high intensity scrutiny. Yet I keep coming to the same outcome. This. Is. Wrong. On so many levels, and in so many ways.
That doesn't answer the question, though.

You need to show papers to go grocery shopping: that's OK.
You need to show papers to vote: that's not OK.

Do you see the inconsistency?
It always feels a bit forced but I believe it's important to label accusations as accusations. Newspapers report these events as "so and so is accused of such and such." They do so out of an abundance of caution, to not be liable for slander and libel, and to prevent their organization from being used as a mouthpiece for malicious actors.

While it does not conform to existing policy here as I understand it I would advocate for modifying this title to reflect that this is an accusation.

Given the content of this accusation I also want to advocate that readers believe the victims. Even if you're disinclined to believe, I hope it can be recognized that the historical precedent was to disbelieve and that might be a personally addressable root cause for our failure to make more progress on these matters.
If it really bothers you, I could write a script that subtracts 1 from semver compatible version numbers on checkout, and increments on push.
But the word "master" means a lot in tech. This is like someone changing the word "save" to "store", after many years of use in tech, and everyone knowing the implied meaning, but some minority of users are complaining that "jesus saves, data is stored".
Banning an individual for their actions is vastly differently than banning an entire party for the actions of one of its members.
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Question: Let's say you took a bunch of indicators and said "I can prove China is a totalitarian state because it has a bad score on each of these indicators". Don't you believe that western "democratic" states probably have embarrassing scores on many of them?

My point is:

1 - "Totalitarian" is a tricky concept to deconstruct

2 - The direction western democratic countries are taking is worrying me
Wouldn't it suck if brains are just reservoirs used by the internet that can store roughly 3 memes at a time?
If you're referring to the version of Journey to the Center of the Earth featuring James Mason, that came out in 1959, five years after Secret of the Incas. Not sure if that scene was included in Verne's original 1864 novel.
Aubrey de Grey:
"I have, in the past few hours, been made aware of blog posts by Laura Deming and Celine Halioua that make extremely serious accusations against both me and SENS Research Foundation. Unsurprisingly, I deny these allegations. What may be more surprising to you is this: my belief is that both Laura and Celine have been deceived into the view that I have done many things that I have in fact not done. Nonetheless, since they have chosen to go public, I am left with no choice but to do the same.
In order to orient you, let me point you to what Celine and Laura do not write. They do not write that a single woman has come to them with a me-too story, and they also describe their own personal experiences in decidedly incomplete terms. Laura references an email I wrote - inadvisedly, for sure, and which I unreservedly regret - to her when she was 17, but she explicitly states that "I wrote it off as a mistake" and that she only resurfaced it in the past few months at the instigation of others. Celine references a dinner where she and I sat together, and accuses me of saying certain things that I utterly deny ever saying and that she implies I said when she was drunk. No one who has met Celine would believe that she would ever lose control of how much she drinks, and most of her accusations concerning that dinner appear to be of other people, not of me. It is instructive that the very next day she wrote to me without the faintest hint of ambivalence, asking for additional feedback on her presentation, and that every one of our exchanges, of which the most recent was less than a year ago, has been of similarly untarnished character. (Also, I want to make clear that I was not aware until today of Celine's prior accusations against another person associated with SRF.)
Again: as to me, no other accusers. Zero. No iceberg of which Celine is claiming to be the tip. I'm putting it out there right now: if other accusers come forward with supporting evidence, I will step aside a great deal faster than Cuomo just did. But if they don't... who's the real culprit here? Hint: in my ever-so-personal view, it's not Celine or Laura. The unequivocally clear conclusion that I draw from the above is that they have been set up. Celine has, only this year, been given - in my opinion - to believe that I did things at a 2018 dinner which had incongruously little influence on her email to me the next day. Laura, in turn, has - in my opinion - been given to believe that my one (albeit, I again admit and regret, ill-advised) email to her nine years ago was an example of a pattern, which it is not.
The only basis of implausibility for this scenario is: who would have done this to them, and thence to me, and why? I have been vigorously advised to keep my counsel on that question for another day or two... but, as they say, watch this space. I can assure you that I will not allow this matter to end with the court of public opinion viewing the guilt as lying either with me or with Celine/Laura while the actual guilty parties laugh all the way to the bank thinking that only we will suffer."
Very true. I have many stories where a bug got “fixed” only to find out that there were unexpected consequences later on.
That person is me and seems quite prevalent at least in my entourage of young people. How old are you? Age is very important when talking about side effects. Plus the potential damage is less likely for people that age, aka we get the most side effect for the least chance of actually having a bad case of the disease.

P(getting disease) * P(symptomatic | sick) * P(worse than 4 days fever | symptomatic) gets small very fast. Notwithstanding the fact that inflicting damage upon yourself is psychologically worse than chance events like getting a virus.
I was trying to use Darts earlier for some multivariate data and was struggling to figure out how to use it for it and eventually just gave up and switched to making my own code.

Is there a good "how to" multivariate data example? Or is it just turning every column in my pandas dataframe into a series to pass into the covariates array?

And rather than just bother you, is there a discord/forum to ask questions on darts?
Have you ever made a happy comment on HN? Not like ecstatic or anything just.. not this sort of thing

You alright?
Kucoin Boss on Strategy After Hack: ‘We Chose to Act’
Not OP, but we've got some open Elixir positions.

https://grnh.se/b87ce54f2us
How to use soft power as a moat for your brand
> To give him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps it was some kind of lack of social skill on De Greys side rather than actual sexual predatoriness? Am curious what that legal investigation will find out

This isn’t the benefit of the doubt. You don’t get a pass on bad behavior by reason of actual mental illness. If in the grips of psychosis you slander or assault someone you did a bad thing. You do not get off because you have BPD or are schizophrenic or whatever. There are consequences. And even if de Grey is autistic as fuck he’s intelligent enough to emulate allistic people’s basic social sense and something approaching consensus morality. If I can do it he can.

This is not a commentary or prejudgment on whether he did or did not do anything. It could be a giant nothingburger like with rms. He could be a monster. Wait and find out.
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I was hoping to hear more about his opinion on Kotlin, since it's, basically, replaced Java on Android, but there's little there outside of saying it runs on the JVM.
The point is though that a lot of them might be. Besides houses aren’t cheap or free you still have all kinds of bills to pay so your basically giving an addict a burdensome issue. Homeless shelters are a much better place for someone just trying to get clean and off the streets. There’s also an abundance of beds in homeless shelters because a lot of the people don’t want to get clean or off the streets.
http://www.vim.so/ currently says "503 Backend is unhealthy"
I never thought Brussels Sprouts tasted bad in the past -- always delicious! Also, JFC, at least make your own Guac -- it's like the easiest thing to actually make yourself. I can't think of anything easier.
I bought “Format18.io” for my https://SimpleLocalize.io project. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format18
> I agree, but I've also been told off for making many, small commits.

We're not paying by the commit, here. As long as the commits make some logical sense, you're doing the right thing and those folks don't know how to use version control effectively.

If it's their project you sort of have to follow their rules. Otherwise I'd say just ignore them!
You get the feeling though that this held water, until recent news thought right?
Thanks, yeah, I'd agree with that. Any other point I was making would have flowed from that one.
It's also discriminatory to require vaccinations to be a free member of society. Just like minorities are more likely to not have access to IDs to vote, minorities are also less likely to be vaccinated, statistically.
Get the single serve packs then.
"Pandemic of the unvaxinated" should be relabled "Pandemic of the non-existent leadership." You don't get someone on board by marginalizing and alienating them.
The parties to this exchange are all subject to UK law, as I understand it. The title here has legal implications for them if that's the case: the reach of a libel is factored into damages calculations. That means this post is likely to cause someone a real headache if the title is not changed.
Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6
Welcome to another "Meet the Batch" thread for YC's S21 batch. The previous thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28128957. The original announcement is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877280.

There are 6 startups in this thread. The initial order is random:

Kodex (YC S21) - Easy responses to government data requests - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156465

HeyCharge (YC S21) - Low-cost EV charging in multi-user buildings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156463

Parallel Bio (YC S21) - Improving drug discovery by replacing animal models - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156464

Secoda (YC S21) - Company data discovery tool for teams - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156461

Oneistox (YC S21) - Skill-building, cohort-based courses for designers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156462

Zeit Medical (YC S21) - Early detection of stroke - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156466
Hey HN, I’m Etai, together with Andrew a co-founder of Secoda (https://www.secoda.co). Secoda is a collaborative workspace for data teams that makes it easy to share metadata, queries, charts and documentation with any employee.

Companies store a growing amount of knowledge in BI tools, data warehouses, data pipelines, queries and documentation. Because these tools are not connected, it has become more difficult to manage all of this. Even with great practices, organizations still struggle to get value out of their data - up to 73% of all enterprise data goes unused. One of the big contributors to this problem is that organizations create data silos by not documenting and centralizing their data knowledge in a single place where every employee can access information about data.

Today, most data teams end up documenting all this data with Google Sheets or Confluence, which get outdated quickly. Because data documentation is outdated and hard to find, employees struggle to discover, understand and use it. This overwhelms data teams with repetitive questions about how to use and where to find company data.

In our last roles, Andrew and I had a hard time understanding context around different data resources. It was difficult to understand which table to use, what dashboard to trust, who to talk to about a particular metric or why we changed our pricing model. All of this data knowledge was in our data teams head and it made it really difficult to try to work with data. It would take around 2 weeks to get an answer to any data request because the data team was so backed up with questions. This sucked.

Secoda is unique because it's focused on helping the data team curate knowledge for the less technical employee. Data teams can use the tool to curate knowledge for specific departments or roles so that only the right people are able to see the data knowledge that they should see. We currently integrate into data warehouses, BI tools, dbt as well as Airflow and once teams connect their data to Secoda, they can get a comprehensive view of all their data knowledge in one place.

We’d love to hear your feedback or experience with the problem that we're solving and would be thrilled if you would sign up at https://secoda.co to let us know what you think!