skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're looking at a confluence of two problems. One is that drop-shipping directly from Chinese manufacturers has become so cheap and easy (because of an international-postal-rule exemption that has been discussed here before) that everyone's doing it. Including the manufacturers themselves, some of whom I'm pretty sure make up the brand names literally at random. It costs them nothing at all to make up a few dozen brands, each presenting the product in a slightly different way, in hopes that one of those presentations will catch a few more eyes. It's basically the same incentive structure that gave us junk mail and (even more so) spam email.

The other problem is "review washing". Some vendors do the "bait and switch" themselves, but there's also an actual market for Amazon listings with good reviews attached. All an unscrupulous vendor has to do is buy one of those and change literally everything that goes into it, from contact details to the actual product. It's like if you could buy the right to a best-seller book cover, replacing the content for books already in brick-and-mortar stores with whatever you want. That's why sites like ReviewMeta and FakeSpot are absolutely essential for anyone shopping on Amazon nowadays.
>On the other hand, apparently RMS has had a long history of making women feel uncomfortable around him, and not taking "no" for an answer.

I had friends meet Stallman in some conference, and they told me he could make everybody (not just women) "feel uncomfortable around him" in some ways (but nothing an adult shouldn't be able to handle).

Now, if this is about attacking women (physically, or sexually, etc) that would be something else, and would need to be addressed on its own, not using his Epstein comments, and distorting them at that.

Even so, "Not taking "no" for an answer" seems to imply something close to rape or sexual assault -- wheres "making uncomfortable" seems to imply some inconvenience at most.

If he took his willy out, or touched some woman's privates, it shouldn't be called merely "making uncomfortable".

"Making Uncomfortable", at least to my understanding, falls more on the "whistles the Popeye theme incessantly", "smells", "shouts Eureka when he has an idea", "swears a lot", "is totally blunt about weight gains", "looks you dead in the eyes for minutes" etc, realm -- not fire-able offenses outside of a customer facing / corporate environment.

>"RMS, that creepy guy who keeps hitting on people even after they ask him to stop."

Like, asking some person out or something? There's a line there in how we went about it. Many a relationships and happy marriages have started from a person who insisted (even if they were told to stop or "it will never happen between us") - and that's for both men hitting on women, women hitting on men, gays hitting on gays, and lesbians hitting on lesbians. Humans are complicated that way. Some cases persisted for months of years, but eventually the other side agreed and they lived happily ever after (I know several cases).

Of course if he was a jerk about it that's different. There's a line between "asked me out several times even though I said no every time", and "he raised his voice/threatened/followed me out/etc".

(Note that myself can't help (mild aspie) but overanalyze the situation logically, YMMV. Probably you could already tell from the balanced parentheses in prose).
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Chicago, and by extension Illinois, are too central to the regional economy to go under. But feel free to continue believing that.
>if it's OK for the charming, suave guy to do it,

I was saying that it isn't ok for the charming, suave guy to do it either.
As Vader was a cover name for annikin. Iconic evil characters are all pretty similar. Jedi are essentially space wizards.
The creator of Node is currently working on a runtime to enable exactly that: https://deno.land
(Edit: I emailed them and the article has been corrected.)

> a Library that contains 251,312,000 volumes of random sequences of letters (1,312,000 being the number of characters in any given book, each of which admits of twenty-five variations)

This seems to be a typo of sorts. I believe the correct number is 25^1312000 (sequence length m, n possible values for each, n^m distinct possible sequences).

Having hit this in the past, my guess is it was originally written with a superscript, then the text lost the formatting (leaving 251312000), and an editor left it as 251,312,000. Always worth checking final rendering for any text you expect to include superscripts.
Yes, gradient optimisation always gets the final word. But what does that word, well, say?

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“Lie” is too strict. Everyone is caught making false statements. Everyone would get “distrusted.”
In my opinion, I still use straight Git even though we have a GitLab server. We only do pull requests through GitLab when we have a new hire or a contractor. I don't believe that using GitLab to manage the remote repositories has impacted anyone's ability to use Git to get their work done.

In terms of what I would miss if we had to move away from GitLab, it's having remote repository management and continuous integration in one spot. In the past when a new project started, an administrator had to setup the repository and link in SSH keys, that same person had to setup Jenkins for the CI workflow. With GitLab, developers can set these things up on their own.

And there's one less tool to manage.
it's $42/barrel, the difference from the market price goes into their war chest
I'm enjoying finally meeting someone to challenge my claims ;) I haven't published my test scripts yet (they're not very exciting and just extract test data and add a DOCTYPE anyway), but for the time being you can just follow the instructions given in the tutorial I linked to see whether the cases you're concerned about are covered (the tutorial also explains how to deal with other common HTML parsing issues).

Nb: "<!--" in script element content isn't a problem for parsing as such and was just used to stop browsers rendering JavaScript code text during the introduction of JavaScript back in 1995 or so (see also [1] mentioning the consequences for treating script content as CDATA or #PCDATA). Predefined HTML entities are also fully supported by the WebSGML revision of SGML. Don't know about "foster-parenting", but SGML has very specific rules for tag inference to accomodate elements not allowed at a given context so I'm assuming you're referring to that (also described in detail in the linked paper below).

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/html5.html#script-data
>is a bold statement. Maybe some of us can muster up the will to resist $5 meat packages in the supermarket every single day. I am sure not all and especially not enough people can do that off their own free will.

Simply switching from beef to chicken results in a dramatic reduction of greenhouse gasses you are personally responsible for. I ditched about 90% of my beef for chicken last year and barely noticed.
> SE has always been a for-profit business, this makes Volunteering more like Free Labor and less like "doing something good for humanity".

> If a business model can not pay for labor, then it needs to be a Non-profit Foundation, not a for-profit business

Considering executive compensation at many non-profits, I don't think non-profit status alone is a good indicator of anything.

As for SO / SE, I didn't volunteer time and effort in light of their non-profit status, I volunteered in light of their mission. It was about putting in some amount of effort to make the world a better place. I couldn't care less if they made money off of it, just like I don't care if someone takes my open-source work and manages to make a business of it.
Do you think it's ok for adults to use children to slander their enemies and promote their causes?

https://medium.com/incerto/pedophrasty-bigoteering-and-other...
> Changing the beam target would require a repointing of the satellite in addition to the new guide signal.

I can believe either-or, not both. If a guide signal is important, antenna orientation isn’t; if orientation is important, guide signals are not.

> I'd like to see a real engineering cost estimate of transmitting power from one side of the planet to the other, by wires or any other method. I really doubt it can be done for four cents/kWh. And it would certainly introduce a possibility for hostiles to cause wide-scale power outages.

Do I have to? Geostationary is 36,000 km, pole-to-pole is 20,000 km over the surface. All I am claiming here is that any tech you use would also be able to solve my alternative more easily.
Yes, he rejects the specific term as too non-specific, not that there is sexual violence at all.
Two problems I see:

1. ! used here is hard to spot, it's just few pixels of difference from ?.

2. assertionFailure is not the same as force unwrap, because it crashes only in debug mode. Ideally you would log it with some analytics so developers know if problem occured, but doing nothing is usually better than crashing the app.
Well, it is often useful to ask why a user wants to do something a particular way, and commendable to inform them if it’s bad practice.

The trouble is, if you’re going to reply that way, you should strive to first answer the question, as asked. If the answer is bad practice, of course, you should mention that.

That’s the respectful way to handle a misguided question, in my opinion. Give the reader both solutions, explain why the alternate is better, and leave it to the reader how to proceed from there.
Sure, but who knows if this has been beneficial to scientific progress or not? It's not like we can wind back time and do a comparative experiment.

edit To expand on this a bit, as it might sound flippant. People often talk about "bias" as if it's something that obviously ought to be eliminated. But in fact you can't get anywhere without biases. We only have the time and resources to explore a tiny portion of the hypothesis space in most domains.
"His involvement with the 77th Brigade was made public when he disclosed it on his page at LinkedIn, the online professional networking site."

Doxing yourself on Linkedin seems like a pretty amateur psyops move.
I find that to be a funny statement. Would you actually argue that every single phd has "great value to history and humankind"?
If something maintains its behavior across continents, centuries, language groups and religions I’m going to bet it’s a normal psychological trait in being highly heritable, rather than the only example of one that’s culturally transmitted.

I don’t know exactly what the contributors to high social class are but intelligence and conscientiousness are no doubt among them and they’re highly heritable.

There are aspects of being middle class that come for free, they’re the ones children are born with. That’s why adoptive siblings are as similar in their educational outcomes as strangers and biological siblings are far more similar.

The mechanism is genetic, not cultural. If you can disprove it there’s a lot of publications in it for you.
> So, HoTT allows you to prove things that you can't prove under ordinary MLTT.

Well, adding consistent axioms often allows proving more thing, but that in itself does not necessarily mean it's more useful, and certainly not that proofs are easier -- that, I believe, was the question. For example, adding the axiom 1/0 = 0 is consistent with ordinary arithmetics, and also allows you to prove more things (e.g. that 1/0 = 0), but is not necessarily useful and not necessarily helpful.
Are you sure you haven't swapped cause and effect? Your statement implies because I had friends and a partner, I was able to be happy. Yet, perhaps it's because I was happy I was able to form deep relationships.

I suggest this based on my own life. I've had moments where I was fundamentally unhappy, and despite having a partner and friends on the books, I was effectively alone. Likewise, I've had moments where I was happy but alone, but didn't struggle to build up meaningful connections relatively quickly.

The reason I suggest the feedback loop mechanism isn't because writing in a journal is going to directly bring you happiness anymore than reading a book on finances will make you rich. It's because it gives you the insight into your life so you can make the changes needed.

As a side note, if you want to find friends and companions, you need to engage with others and have shared activities and rituals. Check out meetup, check out your local social groups (Elks, etc). Attend events, talk with other people, etc.
Fleece is one of my exceptions-to-the-rule re: polyester. That said, there's a big difference between investing in a nice, well-made fleece jacket that you know will last many years, and one that is likely to get destroyed pretty quickly. I'm happy to spend 2x as much on the jacket if it will last 2-3x as long.

Especially because, as you mentioned, more expensive jackets are sure to have better features (bigger pockets, better cut/shape, and a higher-quality fabric).
Debian-based distros can use package pinning to this effect, but since it is an opt-in feature for advanced users, it is not a full solution. I'm mentioning it here just for sake of completeness.
See Project Drawdown https://www.drawdown.org/ click on View The Solutions to see the different things all of us can do in addition to planting trees
Nearly 30k children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013: FBI
Very good! I got an early education in college when I took Real Analysis in my first year (which most programmers do not take) and it kicked my ass so hard I still have impostor syndrome. But I don't make the error that I'm the smartest person around anymore.
> I have similar experiences with H&M, and a lot of other cheap basically colored shirts. It’ll feel great at first. Then I’ll leave it in the dryer for a few minutes too long, and the fit completely changes while the material looks degraded.

Hang dry and use a lower spin speed in the wash. It takes a little more planning and time, but I hang dry almost all my clothes and I have t-shirts from H&M type store that are 8 years old and still holding up. Some higher quality clothes brands are even older and look pretty much brand new.

I can get clothing to last until the fabric actually wears out - elbows in dress shirts, knees in pants etc and even after that you can sometimes convert them to shorts with a little sewing.
It’s 5 years, not 10. (But it’s 5 years in early-2000s China, so it might as well be 10.)
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Ghostface photobombed the real estate listing for this century-old Lansing home
I've never the GitHub editor/UI to submit non-trivial changes which require more than a few words to describe. I do not need vi to write "Fix a typo in the documentation".

Is it you or the project owners who care about the 72 character limit? IME most projects will accept contributions regardless of formatting of the commit message. Most people are just happy about contributions, regardless of source.
Ok let's just clear this up once and for all because we're in some deep thread spiral here.

Here's where it all started:

> Me: "No, but he did say that having sex with children is sometimes fine"

> You: "Can you quote/link those instances since the two statements that you quoted don't say that at all."

Here is a statement from Stallman himself summarizing his own words: "Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it."

So he said himself that what he was saying back then was that in some instances there is nothing wrong with sex between an adult and a child.

This is my answer to your original question. He explained it himself.
Right or wrong, a large function of the prison system is to ruin someone's life in a sufficiently public way for performing actions outside of the given society's norms and values to serve as a deterrent to those who would follow in their footsteps.
4 years is generous. I know very few people in the states who have gotten their PhD in only 4 years.
I don't think anyone is under the impression that image can be seen with the naked eye.
In the React Native ecosystem, the Expo project https://expo.io is doing a great job at providing this kind of centralized curation, with monthly release cycles, constistent APIs and dealing with the version hell that makes "raw" React Native such a pain to work with.
Very cool!

Tangent: I'm reminded of [Mobx creator] Michael Weststrate's post^1 citing familiar spreadsheet formulas and input cells as a way to explain concepts of derivations and observables in mobx (his excellent state mgmt lib, which imho improves on redux), making React actually "reactive".

^1 https://hackernoon.com/becoming-fully-reactive-an-in-depth-e...
Just want to note that while 2/3 sounds like a lot it only refers to the CO2 released so far, not the future emissions, which keep increasing exponentially. There is no alternative to eliminating emissions. Having said that, sure, let's plant more trees.

edit: just to add some numbers for the context.

> Once mature, these new forests could store 205 billion tonnes of carbon: about two thirds of the 300 billion tonnes of carbon that has been released into the atmosphere as a result of human activity since the Industrial Revolution.

Given the current emissions rate of ~10Gt (assuming no increase), the amount captured by these new trees will be re-added in just 20 years, and will keep growing afterwords.
MIT team successfully tests a new method for verification of weapons reduction
Parcel has 57 dependencies... (not even counting transient dependencies)

That sort of defeats the purpose of switching from webpack.

And for libraries: Why do you even need a bundler? Can you not distribute the library as multiple files?
You're technically correct, the best kind of correct :)
Well if it has no value to industry, chances are it has no real value to history/humankind other than "oh that's kind of interesting"
Three sources of very durable clothing are:

+ Expedition-clothing brands like Fjällräven, whose clothes are meant to serve a person for years trekking in the outdoors.

+ Specialist shops for clothes for certain professional and industrial careers

+ Military surplus shops.

While none of these are good sources for clothes that will make you look trendy and stylish to impress, they are great options if you just want some solid shirts and trousers to wear on an everyday basis.
Not the only amateur thing...

> "The identities of the Twitter accounts which the 77th Brigade uses for engagement and communication remain unclear, however: the unit’s acknowledged account has been locked since it was hacked earlier this year, with the result that only approved followers can see its tweets."
What Java framework (for concurrency) do you use?
I agree with the "we won't do all the things" thesis, and that it's probably wise to acknowledge that and plan accordingly around that self-knowledge.

Almost everything else in the comment after that seems a bit off-kilter to me:

> The Green New Deal has turned into a jobs program

"turned into"? Are you familiar with the "New Deal" of historical note that it's deriving the very name from? It's always been a jobs program. That's part of the point.

> Soviet Union

As sibling commenters have already pointed out, I don't see how this comparison was particularly well-connected or topical.

> Increasing middle class prosperity is inherently incompatible with reducing carbon output.

No?

> The Green New Deal, together with the climate strikes have become vehicles for socialist ideology.

I don't disagree with that; what's your point, though? Are you trying to run with the association that "socialism=bad"?

I'm writing you from fairly-darn-Socialist (and fairly-darn-functional) Norway, so I'm not picking up.

> despite experts broadly agreeing that we need things like carbon taxes, the Global Climate Strike platform categorically rejects market mechanisms to address climate change.

Almost every single person I've talked to who has participated in or associated with the climate strikes has been an advocate for carbon taxes.

So, no. Those people and platforms do not categorically reject market mechanisms. In fact those that I've talked to seem to be essentially _on your side_.

> we can do it without world government

I'm sure that's true, but also, I'm not sure where there's been a suggestion of "world government" that you seem to be responding negatively to. Everything you've mentioned in your own comment is single-government internal proposals, or, groups of people advocating for general directions within their own local governments.

So in total: while I think you and I would agree in many many details about how to plan reactions to climate change, can I council you to polish your message to _focus on that_ and skip the world-socialist-government-conspiracy tinge? It's just not necessary. It seems to be making you believe you disagree with a bunch of people who... by and large agree with you, and are in fact interested in (and pursuing) market-oriented solution paths.
It also does not support Vulkan.
I'm not religious so going to church would feel wrong.

Internet dating is awful. My standards are too high.

The truth is finding a suitable mother is very far down my list of priorities. I know I could easily find one, but probably not a beautiful one. I don't think it's worth putting that much effort into something that is ultimately putting my heart into the hands of another person. Computers don't lie and cheat. I have sex with women but none of them are suitable to receive my support to raise children.
This kind of bi-modal distribution usually means one of three things. Most often it means the product is crap (Sturgeon's Law: 99% of everything is crap) and the vendor has been buying or posting fake five-star reviews. Occasionally it means the product is really good and a competitor has been buying or posting fake one-star reviews. Even more rarely, it means that the vendor and a competitor are both participating in a fake-review war. You could try looking at both sets of reviews to determine which scenario it is, but the odds are heavily stacked against it being the one that suggests a buy. As galling as it might be to let the miscreants win if that's the case, and to miss out on what's actually a good product, the safe bet is just to move on.
Why isn't it a law like everywhere else in the world. In Canada men and women get maternity leave at the country level. Why put this in the hands of employers? or on the backs of a 5 person company?

Seems like things are setup to fail.
Yeah, sure, but the point is that it would only get you a third of the way to the goal of removing all man-made CO2 from the atmosphere (and oceans) rather than two thirds as was claimed. And the atmosphere is sort-of especially important because that's where the warming happens, CO2 in the oceans does not directly contribute to the greenhouse effect. Though it does cause acidification, which isn't exactly helpful either.
I'm not sure if my memory serves me right, but my impression was that most of their clothing was made in Portugal when they were in a few flagship stores only. Once they scaled their production to a worldwide online shop, more things were made in countries like Bangladesh or China. I felt like this blurred the line between them and the cheaper H&M Premium Quality stuff.
He was already jailed, reportedly for for human trafficking. He escaped in the early 2000s.
Coming from a Facebook owned company is this really of surprise to anyone?
It’s a made up problem that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.