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I should temper my above comment (my own sort of mea culpea :) ). You're right, given that I don't work for Twitter, I don't know whether there is an explicit desire not to reduce toxicity due to revenue concerns. I will say whether I am right or not, there at the very least does exist the incentive especially if they ignore the long term issues as you mention. Some evidence that at the very least they don't have an incentive to detoxify is that twitter has been toxic for years, almost a decade at this point. One of the most often cited essays on twitter toxicity from a leftist perspective was written in 2013[0] but the opening discussion sounds like it concern today.

All in all, I think you're quite correct about how the toxicity is a long term risk, but perhaps people there need to realize how much of a threat it is for the platform.

Finally, I think your article was really great, as I said before. I came with a negative perspective but you convinced me otherwise. I still believe that certain cultural and mindset issues need to be addressed that might be beyond design but I definitely feel you're right that the UX design could help reduce toxicity.

[0] https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vam...
Do you think the rich and powerful would be affected by this bill?
I disagree with this note, even though I often read Dijkstra's notes for enlightenment. The pigeonhole principle is one of the basic tools we have to approach mathematics, and therefore deserves a name. We often assimilate proofs by "abbreviating" the major steps through naming them - "pigeonhole principle", "passing to subsequences" etc.

Even in the realm of "infinite" mathematics like analysis, theorems like the Heine-Borel Theorem and the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem rely on pigeonhole-like arguments. Of course, that statement can be made rigorous in reverse mathematics.
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My understanding of the terms is that online means it processes streams of data, but not that it is fast enough to keep up with the real world. Realtime means that it is fast enough to keep up with the real world. Realtime seems to be the appropriate term to me.

Do you have a different set of definitions?
I used the subscript 2 unicode character (U+2082). As far as I know, HN's formatting doesn't include anything to do subscripts. (At least, https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc does not mention it.)
In a world of pure capitalism without ethical considerations at all... these sorts of issues can be "resolved" through assassination markets against the owners and operators of enterprises that become too great a public nuisance.

Is that what you want, or would you instead prefer that ethical considerations be back on the table?
You might want to reflect on why you want anti-trust law to only apply to the strict definition of a monopoly. That's why it's called "anti-trust" not "anti-monopoly".
If curious see also (2 comments each)

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12241662

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8457635
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A true inspiration for web design.

This is what every news site should strive towards. Instead of getting clunkier like Reddit.
There is no evidence to suggest people are developing extremely dangerous genetically engineered bio-weapons in their homes or will be capable of doing such in the future.
The world population is projected to peak around 2100 as birthrates fall worldwide.

Eventually the entire world will run out of immigrants.

Unless some unanticipated sea change in human behavior occurs, the entire world will be faced with deflation for the foreseeable future.
No, any admission of fault or error makes things worse.

The public is utterly bombarded with claims that this or that person or group was wrong or did wrong with respect to something or another.

It's extremely difficult to sort out which of these allegations are true or false. Unless you admit fault, then its obvious to everyone.
Why is it that Netflix is on here but not Microsoft? Microsoft is worth 7 times as much as Netflix.
Maybe above 60° latitude Sun energy is hard to harvest, an wind energy could be too unstable. This is where nuclear power would be in place.

Even though not so many people live so far up north, it's a significant part of densely populated Europe.
Yes.

Maybe, but I don’t think it makes it any more defensible.

during a time like this I expect a CEO to take charge, be a leader, and make a steady plan for the future of the company, not punish people.
Especially when the boogieman of "Cancel Culture" usually fuels growth for whoever is boycotted? Louis CK is making more money than ever after being "Cancelled". Which viable 2020 Presidential Candidate hasnt been cancelled?

More rational heads need to point out how silly this line of reasoning is. But sometimes people need to feel threatened to (paradoxically) help their ego, and infect others with the paranoia.

so here we are.

There's this nasty problem of police brutality aimed at the black community. You might have heard about it. Breonna Taylor was shot dead in her sleep by an officer who was not (initially) charged. in her sleep. No consequences until the uproar.

Elijah McClain did not reach for any officer's gun.

George Floyd did nothing wrong. The list goes on too long to mention, even in the last year. And we can point back to the George Floyd of the 90's in LA...

Or those immigrant refugees we keep putting in cages. Did ya know that policy was the brainchild of Stephen Miller, who was unmasked as a White Nationalidt by documents delivered Democracy Now? The architect of "kids crammed in cages" under Trump actually uses the words, "White" and "Power" together.

Or there's those natives we herded onto reservations, made promises to, and never delivered. A genocide that actually inspired Hitler. Note that Godwin has rescinded his law in the face of a rising tide of actual Fascism worldwide.

Or hell - $0.77 / $1 is what the average woman makes, compared to men in the same industry.

The LGBT+ community has their own complex weave of challenges above what their non-LGBTQIA+ peers experience. Some of these can include an increased likelihood for death by cop, or lynching. Even in the US. But especially in other countries, like Russia.

But oh, something you said was unintentionally hurtful. Welcome to adulthood in the 21st century. Most times? Apologize, learn, dont do it again, and nobody has to care.

If its that bad that it still sticks? Time for some community service hours interacting peacably with the aggrieved community. Just get and try to stay involved. Nobody will have room to care in any way that hurts you when you have personal stories of a personal connection made by uplifting people. Not just "one friend", an actual community.

But yet, we have TWO Presidential candidates that have been "Cancelled"™©®, with giving so much as an apology. And nobody cares about that. Cancel Culture is practically a government spook! Or rather, the fear of it is.
I was surprised to see that many of the eastern European/Russian immigrants moving to Israel over the last 40 years don't supply any evidence of Jewish heritage (i know USSR and other European countries discriminated against Jews so it would make sense that there are a lot of Jews who don't really have the papers to prove it for a few generations).

An article I read said many French jews immigrated to Israel (due to rather recent French anti-semitism sentiment) but immigrated back to Europe once economic advancement for them wasn't attained.

Looks like Israeli society has had kind of an open door policy to Europeans who are able to attain employment (i assume in the tech scene there).
This is good news but expansion of only 50% is underwhelming and $15m is small potatoes compared to other energy projects. Ideally they'd be significantly expanding this or building whole new plants.
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There is a really nice free app called "Discourse" for making forums but no such nice app for launching an e-commerce website with free plugins ecosystem.

Is there a specific reason that free high quality forum software can be built but not e-commerce?
Not especially. It is a corporation that is very protective of its privacy and secrets.

I tend not to name it, even though it's fairly easy to figure out.

I don't want to cause them any stress or harm. Even though I wish things had gone somewhat differently, I retain the greatest respect for the corporation, and its employees and officers.
If curious see also

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148347

2015 (a bit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9425328

2016 (a bit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12219599
Is this the sort of situation that could be avoided via machine learning, blockchain, or Kubernetes?
That's very interesting.

If you've got a ready source of hydrogen, say from molten salt oxidation of plastics, which produces "syngas" (a mixture of CO and H2), I think you could run that through water to make CO2 and more H2, feed the CO2 to a greenhouse and collect all the H2 for the reaction you described. Does that make sense?
Because Microsoft pays much less than these companies, but is also more family-friendly and less intense.
> Wonder how much does this CEO work and what their effective hourly wage is.

If employees are paid fairly, then should it matter? As a founder and an owner I gather, it means less, as a publicly traded company it means a little more. But in the big picture, it matters very little if employees are duly compensated. BTW he has a boss (or bosses) also (or investors, boards, customers).
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> Well, I'd argue that slaves were the means of production.

This is not what "means of production" means in political economy.

>I'm not sure, why it's important to show that capitalism a) equates to banking, and b) is some relatively late invention of the Western civilization. Because it's not in both cases.

Capitalism does not equate to "banking", but it is, historically speaking, late in Western civilization.
It really isn’t better. It’s a sign of a completely dysfunctional company that won’t find any esprit de corps under such a infantile outburst. I expect this CEO will step down within a week.
The size of the expansion is 64.5MWh of battery storage and 50MW of inverters according to this source:
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/06/23/adding-50mw-64-5-mwh-...
Desktop GUIs that look like websites :p

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)#...
One of the explicit design choices in this was to limit people's tendency to screw up apologies in the heated moments when they haven't yet internalized the outside world's perspective of their message. I'm glad you brought up the searching of how to apologize - it's one of those super important life skills that we haven't done a good job of teaching people about. We have to design with this constraint in mind.

One of the things I think about most in design, especially in design of social products, is limiting self-sabotage. This is because there's really significant emotional risk in social systems of feelings like being exposed, misunderstood, etc.

This is why I favored the approach of not including a Follow-up or further explanations. It makes the choice Mea Culpa very simple, favoring cooling off of conflict over continued debate. Basically people can go back in their corners and think about things, and figure out how to approach things again later if they choose. It is an intentional choice to favor respectful debate over maximal information exchange, acknowledging the medium's tendency to escalate conflict and the presence of many bad faith actors.

Also note this feature does not take the place of the apologies you're talking about, it just offers an acknowledgment of mistake and an opportunity to forgive.
> By "not playing", you resign your power to others who take advantage of this new form of media.

You also set an example among members of your cohort. The incentive to "play" is social, and removing yourself from the game not only gives you more time and energy to devote to games with better ROI, but also increases the odds that people you know will do the same.

Is it really worthwhile to pursue "power" on social media? Wouldn't it be better if people weren't so susceptible to that sort of influence in the first place?
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That sounds like it would increase the load on your brain, not decrease it.
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White people are on average will have more socioeconomic freedom, so less reasons to walk around in a band or associate with anyone for survival value. This naturally leads to drop in birth rate.

Poor people have more reasons to band together, pool their money to afford nicer things. And they've more reproductive pressure because of this reasons, so they are bound to grow population wise. This is seen nearly everywhere even in places where there are no good social weflare programs like India.

It's a curse that comes with freedom, individualism and prosperity - you've end up with no reasons to reproduce or find it very difficult to associate with someone because it seems so limiting.
There seems to be more hatred for this country, from within, than ever before in my life. This has been trending all day:

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FvckTheForth&src=trend_click

Yet I still love it more than not. That seems to make me an "other" to so many of these people.
Interesting, they seemed to be attempting to solve the cleaning problem via automation from an Israeli company:

> In December 2016, Solairedirect signed an agreement with Ecoppia, a PV panel cleaning solutions developer, to provide automated cleaning solutions to the project. Due to the park's location in a desert region, it is prone to dust storms

https://www.pv-tech.org/news/ecoppia-to-provide-cleaning-sol...

Hopefully the project eventually does reach the 2000MW scale it plans. It's not clear from the Wiki how far along it is or whether it's currently operational. It mentions opening targets for Dec 2018.

Softbank is involved for 500MW which is one red flag :p
Please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments.
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The intention isn't to replace HTTP entirely. By using an incompatible protocol, a hard line is drawn.
>It's increasingly difficult to differentiate truth from falsehood. Also increasingly difficult to differentiate between truth and 'almost' truth.

Our decreasing ability to recognize truth is merely a consequence - and we've never been great at it anyway. It is the concept of consideration that is crumbling.

A lot of people either don't take the time (wilfully or not) or simply don't have the ability to reason out their interaction with a sample of information before they accept and internalize that event as is. Especially the appeal of social exchange pulls in even the sturdiest critical thinkers to make an immediate judgment and an emotional investment. That is then the trap which forms our digital and eventually real life bubbles.

The Information Age demands a strong familiarity with our own flaws, our behavioural, cognitive psychology, and sociological tendencies in particular. Since that is by far not the case, we've become a lot more vulnerable to self- and external manipulation. That is why content collapse has had such a negative impact on society.
I'm curious what the lifetime of the batteries is and whether that is being fully incorporated into the evaluation of their cost effectiveness? Of course, given they have already apparently recouped more than their entire cost before even getting fully out of testing phase, it seems like this is not going to be an issue. But I still always do wonder how well this is accounted for with battery tech.
Grant also sent Custer to South Dakota to wage war and steal land. Once gold had been discovered it was a foregone conclusion that white settlers would therefore get the land, no matter what treaties had been signed. Which lead to a white supremacist eventually carving four presidents visages into Mount Rushmore, in violation of treaties made between the Lakota and the US, and today's arrest of Lakota who were protesting this theft. I doubt the people who tore down the statue of Grant knew any of this, any more than they know the rest of Grant's history. But it's pretty fucking hard for me to get upset about a statue like that being torn down. It's not like it's a one of a kind piece of art, it's just another monument of little significance or interest as an object, only as a symbol of our conquest and unjust killing. When the American revolutionaries tore down statues that were symbols of the the English empire, they were working towards a slightly more just and free society. Tearing down Grant's statues continues in this rich tradition.

In a hundred years, it's likely that the majority of people that know about the early 2000s will look back at Obama's drone strikes that killed innocent families with similar dismay to what we (or is it just me?) see in Grant and his contemporaries.

With running an imperialist nation, it's going to be awfully difficult to avoid doing some really awful things. That doesn't make the evils they perform in our name acceptable.
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Please don't use HN for ideological flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What me and my family talked about today is that, as immigrants, we are so sad how much the "native born" people of the US hate their own country. They seem to never waste an opportunity to remind others of their disdain and it is more and more visible these days e.g. in big news media or on Twitter.

Makes me sad and I hope this can change.
> People know how to consider inflation-adjusted rates of return and invest accordingly. Soon these same lessons will be applied in negative interest rate scenarios, which I guess counts as deflation

This is part of it. Deflation means my money is worth more tomorrow than today. If due to 10% return just by keeping my money under my mattress due to deflation, why would I ever risk loaning it out into an investment opportunity. Essentially the risk-free return is now 10%, so for any investment to be worth wild it must return even higher than that. That's hard to do. The higher the deflation, the higher the baseline return needed. As a result any business that might've returned 5% is now no longer a viable option. So it reduces overall investment because it raises the bar for success.

Similar is for purchases. Why buy something now, when I can wait 6 months and get it cheaper. As a result everyone stops spending, and everyone stops investing. Now that there is no spending, there is no money to pay salaries, so people have less money to go around and so again money becomes more valuable and you get a downward cycle.

Imagine I said, at midnight january 1st any money you have in cash or in a bank will be worth 50% less. You'd buy up anything you could or invest in anything you could to get rid of cash and put it in hard currency. Even if someone had a business that would lose 10% over the year, that'd still be better than losing 50%.

Deflation is the opposite. Any cash or bank accounts you have will double. You'd sell your items, but nobody would want to buy. They could buy two couches with that money the next year.

Overall if money always is slowly decreasing in value, people want to find uses for it either consumption or investment which move the economy. If it's increasing in value (ie deflation) they wan to do the opposite. Hoard it.
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I've always wanted to do this myself just so I can see how one isolates a single star in view to get the reading.
You have a very impressive CV. What's your production function?
You're the one who brought up Independence Day. And again, your knowledge of history is shallow. I am able to remember when the schools became integrated [0]. I also know why the bathrooms at the rest stops in the South have two entrances ("separate but equal"). And I had a teacher who as a young girl was chased by the Klan.

What we have now is so much improved over what it was like just 40 or 50 years ago that anyone younger just can't appreciate the difference. I advise you to turn off your internet for a few days, go drink a beer & chat with your neighbors and maybe shoot some fireworks off. The internet amplifies biases - don't let it.

[0] The moral panic was .. impressive. The local TV station decided to broadcast that there was a riot at the high school (there wasn't) and all these angry parents showed up to pull their kids out of school. Meanwhile, the kids were like: "Steve, your mom looks really freaked out."
That's a good point but if you actually want to verify whether the original author retracted their statement then you can do localized search, e.g. "from:author 'I was wrong'". It's true the feed will show different results but I only use twitter by searching now and it's a much better experience. Tweetdeck allows me to curate exactly what I want to be aware of instead of being beholden to algorithmic manipulation.
Those tests show you don't understand why AMP works. It works because it prerendered, which is going to be faster than anything you can do.
What if the government decides protesting is unlawful?
Even Markdown hasn't sorted this out yet though.

CommonMark currently has no tables, it's up to other markdown dialects to add it.

Related discussion: https://talk.commonmark.org/t/tables-in-pure-markdown/81
There is. You have to zoom in on a region. I zoomed in on Portland, OR and found areas of light pink.

I'm more curious why the Sahara is considered a neighborhood with limited street access, but the sparsely populated Oregon High Desert (SE Oregon) is not.
When your employer caves, and the competition doesnt? Suddenly nobody in that industry with self-respect wants to work anywhere but there.

If you think this doesnt affect any bottom line but your employer's? I think you misunderstand how people work.

CostCo is one of the fastest growing retail businesses around! With or without Covid-19. They pay workers enough to care about the company.

Does your boss pay you like that?
No no no, this is a major misunderstanding, and it has contributed to a lot of public mistrust of public health authorities. Even though flatten the curve was largely believed by the media and the public in March to mean "mitigate Covid to prevent health system collapse," many experts are insisting that what they meant all along was trying to reduce Covid deaths as much as possible. And this intention becomes clear when you see an expert oppose reopening even in areas where hospitals are mostly empty (like parts of California a month ago).

Some good tweet threads on this major point of contention:

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1277236932121157632 (Carl Bergstrom, in the replies, is one public health figure who insists he originally meant essentially flatten as much as possible).

Nate Silver insists most people understood flatten the curve in March to mean mitigation: https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1277347535061946372

One of the few nations to actually follow the "mitigate Covid to prevent health care system collapse" is Sweden. The fact that the media/experts roundly criticize Sweden for having too many deaths (despite their health system not collapsing) is another piece of evidence that they really mean "flatten as much as possible."
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