skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."

Was he repeating anyone here? Could you take the posts as a whole and resist the urge to cherry pick?
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To me it means "person full of their own self importance".
If I was any more in tune with my sense of smell, I don’t think I could live in New York. Walking through most neighborhoods in Manhattan is an assault on most of my senses, smell especially.

I haven’t lived in any other large cities in the United States (only a handful in Australia), but is this a common experience for people living in other large, dirty cities or am I just being overly dramatic?
JS has a unique position in being the only supported language in browsers after Java Applets, Flash, and ActiveX were all killed off (mostly for valid reasons).

Given that the frontend has to be written in Javascript, it's tempting to use it for the backend as well.
This is a pretty uncharitable read on the post you are replying to. I see nothing in it stating or implying that nothing should be done. That said, it's wrong because it significantly understates what portion of climate change is driven by CO3 concentration, and thus understates the impact the tree planting idea would have.
We can't just plant a bunch of trees and keep living like before, growing to 10 billions and beyond.

I don't think that's implied here. Clearly there's a lot to be done, this is just a good place to start.
You can!

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height: calc(var(--container-height) - var(--header-height) + (var(--other-height)*2));
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That's interesting though: what's the alternative?

Each vertical has different dimensions that matters to people, and some could be objectively measured, without reviewers.

In my case, I'm building a community for any type of classes around you (e.g. dancing, yoga, acting classes, French, etc.) at https://classalog.org and when I asked users 'how do you choose a class' almost no one tell me "I want to see reviews" as their first answers. Pictures, and knowing the experience of the instructor is more important. I'm not certain reviews with its downsides would do more good than bad, and I'm really hesitant to implement that feature at the moment.
It doesn't seem to work for vmware with debian, because vulkan is a pain to get working if it's even possible?
Great to see a Twitter exec who actually uses the platform!
Exactly my point. It scales about as well as any other language so why not use a language that's nicer to work with?
Sure, but it changes the optics from those companies doing actively something nefarious, to doing it accidentally out of ignorance of the underlying technologies.
Jeff Atwood had left half a decade or more ago, to work on a forum platform, called discourse. Joel Spolsky was CEO until last month, but I don't know how much he worked directly on the Q&A.
...or the place of birth of OP's spouse.
I know, but RMS was saying it would have been ok if he hadn't, hypothetically.
Stallman is missing, many fear of social isolation or even suicide. You can't ruin someone's career & life based on an opinion that was "leaked" and consider the fact that Italy's former prime minister was involved in an actual orgy with underage models but no one cared about and this guy is still one of the most respectable persons in Italy.
i'm currently looking into tree-planting as a climate change solution with the aim of making it into either a nonprofit or a for-profit organization, but my research so far has not been promising.

the trouble with planting trees is that it's difficult to turn into a virtuous economic loop without government intervention because the cost of land is so high. nobody wants to buy a tree that is planted somewhere else, and very few individuals or companies are interested in purchasing trees for the creation of a carbon offset certificate or personal carbon offset. in other words, people don't value carbon sequestration, they value things that sequestration can produce downstream, like air that isn't jam packed with CO2.

in a vacuum, you can plant one tree for 20 cents of effort -- assuming you own the land you're standing on. but in the real world, land is expensive, and it has both up-front purchase costs as well as ongoing land tax costs. and trees aren't exactly productive assets unless the government assigns an economic value to carbon sequestration via a carbon tax or something similar.

all of these concerns occur well before you can even start to approach the idea of scaling tree-planting to the point where it makes a dent in the climate crisis. for the idea to work economically, it needs a lot of subsidization, at least under the present conditions.

of course, this is where philanthropy could step in and make a massive difference. if a billionaire or two would set aside a few billions to purchase deforested lands and replant them, we could make major progress. but they won't, so that leaves us hunting for a market capitalist solution to a problem caused by collective ignorance of externalities during economic activity.
Hah, exactly my experience:

Open question about potential Android bug. I mention I have checked threads A, B, and C, and the symptoms of my bug are different, therefore why I opened a new question

"Closed as duplicate: thread A"

Sigh.
XY Problem is very real though, especially among beginners, which by its nature SO has a lot of.
I think what we as an industry need is a blacklist of people who have been part of these kind of lynchmobs.

Let them have their own industry.
> Greg Clark’s work on social class persistence suggests that’s wasted effort. The heritability of social class is 0.7...

...which is not because social class is genetic, but because the things you do while raising your child are, by and large, the things of your social class.

If you say, "Well, my child will be middle-class either way, so I don't have to worry!" and do nothing to help them...then they don't get the middle-class upbringing.

Sure, there are still aspects of "being middle-class" that come along "for free," but there's enough that requires actual effort on the parents' part that your apparent philosophy would be quite counterproductive.
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First of all absolutely, but more importantly who cares about the performance of your json parsing? I can only think of very few applications where that would be relevant at all, even if you care about performance in general.
Thankyou.

I would browse Workplace SE quite a bit (it seems to feature on the 'Hot Questions' list regularly) and Monica Cellio has always come across as decent/smart/sincere, so yeah, that's pretty bizarre.
I've come to really distrust Wirecutter after doing additional review research and realizing that many of the products they recommend have real issues and are in fact not the best whatever you can purchase. Also, their affiliate system isn't the most reliable one so often when you click their Amazon affiliate product link, you're forwarded to a non-existing product page.
I'm curious why you are miserable? I live in Prague and visit Germany 3-4 times a year and really enjoy it. Better food at restaurants and much better selection of food in the stores. However, I am not paying German taxes, health care or rent so I don't know much about actually living there.
I would say their quality improved. For example, 10 years ago their t-shirts were really thin with skewed cuts that became evident once you tried to fold them. Now the t-shirts are made of much thicker cotton and the cutting follows a proper pattern.
> RMS said he thinks the children couldn’t be sexually assaulted because they wanted it.

Why are you lying?
The concept of a drone and being discovered by one was probably quite a shock to him.

I guess a re-do of "My Side of the Mountain" would be completely different in 2019!
I think shopping sites should simply show the percent returns for each item. Maybe break it down by return reason.
I'd daresay that middle lower-middle and income Americans eat quite a lot of meat, probably largely in the form of ground beef and chicken.
You might be right, but what you say sounds like it's coming from a true outsider. What would someone within the community say?
Yes I have. It is more reasonable than people give it credit for. If most of the people honestly catalogued all their quirks they'd end up with something fairly similar. Usually the courtesy when travelling is to put up with whatever the host provides, but that is less realistic when someone spends a lot of time travelling.

How is a host meant to figure any of the details in that rider out ahead of a Stallman visit without him telling them? It could easily be a log of all the things that have gone wrong for him in the past.

People like to go to the parrot quote. It wouldn't at all surprise me if a Stallman fan who was putting him up the the night tried to buy a parrot if they thought it would make him happy. The man's selfless dedication to the public good has earned him a couple of true believers over the years.

It is also comprehensive and doesn't mention anything about Vi.
It’s probably not a “do all the things” solution, because (1) we won’t do those things; (2) trying to do those things will lead to undesirably high levels of government regulation of private behavior. The authoritarian infrastructure will be built, but it will fail because it will be diverted to ends other than addressing climate change.

You can already see this happening with the Green New Deal and Global Climate Strikes. The Green New Deal has turned into a jobs program. (Which is deeply ironic, because the Soviet Union was immensely energy inefficient and polluting, as a result of populist measures such as subsidized energy. Increasing middle class prosperity is inherently incompatible with reducing carbon output.) The Green New Deal, together with the climate strikes have become vehicles for socialist ideology. For example, despite experts broadly agreeing that we need things like carbon taxes, the Global Climate Strike platform categorically rejects market mechanisms to address climate change.

Carbon capture and cheap nuclear power can solve climate change, and we can do it without world government. (To many people, that second part is a downside, I think, which is why technological solutions to climate change get less emphasis than political solutions.)
How is that possible that I created like 100 questions on SO/SE over years and 90+% of them weren't closed/marked?

Im that lucky or people tend to do not care about quality of their questions and then cry about how SO is bad?
if CO2 is removed from the oceans and other CO2 sinks, won't that still leave us in the position of having less free CO2 to release into the atmosphere in the aftermath? i'm trying to understand multiple angles of this issue because i'm interested in making a company to plant trees as a service.
> Isn't that as democratic as it gets?

Why should you be able to flag for close, downvote and get to delete all at once? It's basically all the power there is, especially bad if you own a tag badge. We have enough people to separate those tasks, it'd definitely reduce one person's ability to do harm.
I built an Excel add-in with web tech
Yeah, I bet he didn't expect to be found by drones. That's got to be the most immediate confrontation with how much the world has changed.
As far as I'm aware, nobody is using Twitter as a reputable source of information.
I just format the message in my text editor and paste it back into the commit message box before submitting.
For me, once I became aware of the fact that it is now a commonplace activity to pay for falsified reviews, and there are technology platforms that scan reviews to determine if they are fake or not... almost any review I read on a mainstream shopping platform is suspect to me now. Which is unfortunate, because that's where most of the convenience and value as a consumer is to me.

If I now want to make a purchase based heavily on user reviews, I do like many of the other posters here have said: I look at the reviews and low and high middle of the spectrum, have to read each review for obvious, glaring generalizations and seek out language that implies real-world usage vs. hyperbole, and use other features at my disposal, including a verified reviewer stamp (if on Amazon), tools like FakeSpot or ReviewMeta, and reading reviews from competing shopping platforms for the same item if possible (if shopping on Amazon for a widget, look for reviews on eBay or the website of the widget manufacturer). If it's a technology purchase, I'll also look up a bunch of reviews from at least 3-4 technology review platforms, placing a greater weight on those who have included screenshots of their actual usage of the product, which tend to imply a greater deal of rigor to go through for a fake review (but this doesn't mean it's completely trustworthy either).

These additional forms of verification, on one hand, could be likened to how we used to shop before internet shopping was a thing (we'd ask a bunch of people for reviews in real life, visit a bunch of stores and window shop, and perhaps read about it in a newspaper or try it ourselves in a real-life demo in the store), but at the end of the day, I choose to shop online for the convenience vs. brick and mortar stores, and this is the unfortunate evolution of that technology.
This is completely orthogonal to OP's point. Indeed the original article was libel. I can't flag post, but it should be.
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Also, I don't feel like apologizing for having a high score. I've earned it with hard work over many years. I understand it is more difficult now, because most of the good questions have been asked, and the vast majority of new questions are a repeat, but that does not mean I should feel guilty for having been able to, in my niche sector, to amass scores by helping people in their coding endeavors.
As if you'd go and read it ;)
Straight to the point, great comment. Someone like Stallman, founder of the FSF, GNU and other projects is just so beyond the level of decency that people complaining about his behavior have shown in recent weeks.

The MIT and some members of the FSF should be ashamed of themselves.

Never heard anything worthwhile from his critics. It is certainly not Stallman that makes our industry look bad. That is on you and that is all there is to say.
The SLS is pure politics. You're welcome to ignore that, if you like, but that decision means you won't have a good understanding of why the rocket "exists", or why it's designed the way it is, or what the prospects are for its future.
> The actually sustainable solutions are those that are cheap, positive sum, and lead to humans thriving.

You're assuming that there are cheap, positive-sum solutions that will lead to humans thriving. I would be absolutely DELIGHTED if such solutions by themselves will meet the goal (I would also like to see other organisms in the ecosphere thrive, by the way - not just humans).

If such solutions exist, lets do it. However I'm both skeptical that they do exist and not yet ready to "stop caring and just hope for the best". I don;t find the counsel of despair to be particularly compelling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_axis_wind_turbine says

> research at Caltech has also shown that a carefully designed wind farm using VAWTs can have an output power ten times that of a HAWT wind farm of the same size

etc

The cups on the normal wind speed sensor have less drag into the wind.

It would be easy to imagine a VAWT where a computer knew the wind direction and feathered the blades on the back sweep etc?
Of course we need an "All of the above" strategy. Sequestering 2/3rds of all the carbon we have burnt since the industrial age began will help for sure.

This is a business opportunity. I've calculated my footprint and would be willing to pay for the 1000 trees that offset my footprint. I'd pressure my wife to pay for her 1000 trees. I know that's just the start thou. In a couple of years I would pay for another 1000 trees to offset one of my parents and then hopefully before I die another 1000 trees for the other one. I know I am affluent and able to afford this and people on minimum wage couldn't, I would hope that some of the millionaires and billionaires of the world would pitch in. I know, how wonderfully naive of me.
I think is is just a more compelling narrative that Hitler was rejected because he didn't make crazy incomprehensible "my 5-year old son could have made that!" avant-garde art. But note that cubism was barely invented in 1907, and the academy represented a conservative view of art. If you look at the kind of art Hitler endorsed when he came to power, it was actually pretty close to the academy style.
There are some nice somewhat interactive black hole renderings on shadertoy...

https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=black+hole
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XdjXDy
> I don't think that's implied here. Clearly there's a lot to be done, this is just a good place to start.

The title is literally saying exactly that, it's not implied, it's explicitly said:

Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis

Planting those trees is NOT going to stop the climate crisis, a large number of other things need to be done too.
There is an unfortunate karma-reward for making edit suggestions. This regularly results in people making tonnes of similar edits across the site, eg correcting a common spelling error, adding slightly-related tags, or, like your case, removing things that to a Puritan appears superfluous to the question.
One of the forum I'm a member of had some drama the last two weeks, over forum avatars. First all the avatars were replaced by the one from a notorious moderator/news poster making browsing a very interesting experience, at least for myself, since I recognize people there more by avatar than handle and I was catching myself "nope, that's not that mod, it's so-and-so".

Then all the sidebar info (name, posts count, location, badges and tags) and forum signatures were removed, so you'd get no information on who's posting, making it nearly 4chan-style (not a big change on the usual level of discourse there, though). And yesterday only the users who have donated money (either to the forum or to fundraisers events) have their info + signatures back.
Yes? Is it surprising to you that words can have consequences up to and including your employers no longer wanting to employ you?
So you call suicidal people with mental health issues "weirdos". Now nice of you.
Apple making money off of tiny SSD upgrades has nothing to do with actual technology cost.
how does stack exchange do it? they have aliases of tags that merge into the authority tag
With the right trees it's sequestration for centuries.
You've made multiple assumptions about my opinions that I disagree with, and honestly it's too much work to unwind. I'd rather leave now.
Please enlighten me: what's the world view I'm trying to prove by invoking Brexit?
be attacked every minute by food ads, places and people eating while walk on the street or watching TV/scroll instagram gives me anxiety. And also is terrible for climate change.
https://stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20June%20...

Done. You go on record that it’s sometimes ok to fuck children you’re gonna have a bad time. Full stop. Who gives a shit that the Minsky comment got misquoted or whatever, he has worse shit on his website. Why is this a conversation?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21091597
Hello, this is a great product. Is there any file size limit? and how it works if i upload gif files? Thanks
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I spend a year on this video on Machine Learning and it's connection to nature
> the lesson to be drawn from this isn't that it's ok to do those things

if it's OK for the charming, suave guy to do it, then the issue exists at the "victim", not the "perpetrator".

Rule of law is meant to make life more fair, and this isn't a lesson, but it is something for society to improve on.
I have significantly reduced but not eliminated my purchases. When I buy, it’s usually due to convenience and habit built up over nearly 20 years of being an Amazon customer. Also, in my latest job they sometimes give out spot bonuses in the form of $500 amazon gift cards, which brings me back to the site. It’s taking me longer and longer to spend those.

It’s getting to where I only want to buy books on the site because even a counterfeit book (yes, I’ve received one of those too which was a scanned pdf of the original manufactured with print-on-demand tech) more or less gets the job done.
We can also cut them to make room for new trees. If we don't burn the C in them to CO2, but use them as raw materials (buildings, alternative to plastics, etc.) there is even more potential for carbon capture in this way.

Of course, the long term solution is to grow as many new trees per year as we emit CO2, so there is an upper limit for our CO2 budget, but this should give use time to convert to carbon neutral energy production and consumption without hampering the the GDP growth too much. In fact, it has been estimated that world GDP can actually grow even during the transition, due to, for example, positive effects of improved environment (health improvements lead to productivity improvements and so on).
He was fired for taking an unpopular stance about a very subjective topic in a private mailing list. He isn't a law maker or a sociologist. He is a technologist. He isn't obliged to have a socially correct opinion.

You are right. Let's try to keep things in perspective.
> forced package management (as opposed to decentralized distribution of apps)

Is a great advantage over windows and is now common place with android, iOS, chromeOS and even windows (store, chocolatey) and macOS are trying to go in that direction.
I guess experiences differ. Their recommendations have always seemed like pretty solid choices for me.

What's certainly is true (CR as well going back decades) is that if you have a fair bit of knowledge and very specific wants/don't wants in a product area, you may well not be happy with the recommendations from any of the generalist review sites. (I wouldn't use them for a higher-end camera for example.)
Mr Luke
I have a lot of silicone graphic computers and stuff. Only 10000, Indy and loads of others i am trying to get rid of them if anyone is interested. Loads of spares as well
I would be willing to invest on the order of 1000$ per year in massive forestation projects, especially ones that are in remote areas.
You might as well flag this since there is no way to access the referred to data sources (and I am pretty sure there is quite a lot of actual information lost in translation).

Source: I'm Swiss, read everything I could find, nothing even comes close to "apps like Whatsapp send pictures to the Swiss police". More in the direction of: pictures get sent by US LE to Swiss LE and the volume is growing over the last couple of years.
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Hm, really stupid naive question here. What happens if violating ships were basically seized
As a side note, if you like collecting notes like this but find yourself frustrated that you can't copy paste from the source. I recommend you download tesseract, take a screenshot, and parse the image to extract the text. Tesseract runs really well on these kind of things and saves a lot of manual typing.
Everyone is able to flag for close, delete or downvote (above a very small point requirement—125, I thing). I cannot delete questions or answers on any whim. I can vote to to delete after a certain threshold of low-score passes. I don't see what is so problematic with this, as any user with a little persistence can reach this goal.