skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think twitter is not allowing de-escalation as much as they haven't figured out how to do it. The product itself hasn't changed much in a long time, and there are likely many internal reasons for that that have little to do with revenue. Meanwhile the FB misleading articles example is a much more nuanced problem that has less to do with engagement than simply being a political hot potato and a really challenging question of top-down authority (as well as a straight up massive cost center).

While I agree that in the short run, drama = engagement = revenue, businesses have to consider both short and long term risk. One of the biggest long term brand risks to Twitter is how toxic discourse can be. Twitter's mission is to "give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers", in other words to be a kind of global commons where everyone may participate. To preserve that position means making sure discourse is constructive, because if it is not, that represents a "barrier" that will cause people to churn and revenue to fall.

I'm glad you bring up the high friction paths of subtweeting & screenshotting. These things are still going to happen, but in design it's about how easy things are to do. We have to make the constructive things easy.

Another way to put it is: if Twitter were a friendlier place, wouldn't that increase users and engagement? If you're not completely sure this would be false, then it's worth experimenting.
Years ago, when the cancel culture was just getting underway, I decided to help them out, and canceled myself from social media once and for all. Not only have I been happier since exiting Twitter, but I’ve also saved myself from certain destruction of my livelihood and career.

Delete your social media accounts today. I highly recommend it. Not standing daily in front of an anonymous firing squad will do wonders for your sanity.
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It's all well and good that 96% of the country has 30 Mbps coverage but for most people that's just about all they're going to get as 40% have no coverage for >100 Mbps, i.e., BT (or BT reseller) customers limited to a maximum of 76 Mbps with no Cable availability.

As a metric average speed has issues as it can translate to how much people are willing to pay as opposed to what's available but it's still useful to look at here - 46 Mbps for the country, but that's driven mostly by Cable which has an average speed of 92 Mbps while Openreach sits at 30 Mbps, it's easy to speculate that BT are more interested in hitting government targets while Virgin are providing some competition that is so desperately needed.

As far as new and exciting applications for gigabit or at least fibre goes it needs to be wide spread and cheap enough for those opportunities to come to fruition and neither of those are really true, it's no good asking an average member of the public to pay £62 a month for a 500/35 Virgin broadband only plan or £58 and £68 respectively for a 500/75 or 900/110 BT broadband plan and expecting much to come of it when less than 20% of the population has such coverage. For a price comparison hyperoptic is £60 for 900/1000 and B4rn £30 for 1000/1000 - you should note both of these providers offer gigabit upload as well which goes a long way towards providing opportunities. The average upload of the country has only just inched to 10 Mbps after it was a mere 5 Mbps 3 years ago with many Virgin customers on the less expensive plans being stuck on 2/3 Mbps.

The UK has incredibly good coverage and the minimum service is relatively decent all things considered but the average service is still behind other European countries, with countries like Sweden and Switzerland being better on price while being substantially faster and more comparable countries like France and Spain still being cheaper while being slightly faster.
I'm trying to find a way to generate stories using tropes as the building blocks.

There's a sample at https://random-character-generator.com/

There's an unreleased version, which focuses more on how to portray characters, rather than just what they are. For example, instead of saying "energetic", they'll be pacing about a bit.

I might just pivot it into a story/plot tracker for writers, and use it to fill out the blanks rather than generating full characters from scratch. Where the community can add in their own templates and tropes. An author can decide that they have a character who is stoic, cynical, and sarcastic, and the tool will generate a background story, how to portray the character, what conflicts they get into with other characters.
A bit sentimental, but on holidays we can accept that. The bigger problem with this historical account is that it is incomplete. We Americans like to pretend that this story begins with WWII, when the evil Empire of Japan invaded those bucolic isles of the Philippines, whose brave residents were inspired by MacArthur to rise up against colonialism. In reality, this history began in 1898. Americans pretended to ally with the Filipinos against the Spanish, when in reality they only wanted to replace the Spanish as colonial overlords. In the ensuing conflicts and decades of exploitation, hundreds of thousands died.

There was no reason for any of this. America at the turn of the century had no interests in the western Pacific Ocean. American intelligentsia agreed with Mark Twain that the barbarity shamed all of us. Sure, some American sugar companies made some money, and the particular Filipinos favored by American imperialists made some money. I feel an awful precedent was set. Previously our worst barbarities had been limited to the South and the Frontier. At a stroke, they were unleashed on the World. (Seen any news stories about Libya recently?) The event described in TFA seems a small consolation.
Very interesting analysis!

I've also read that in the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, the cities with the most stringent lockdowns were the ones whose economies recovered the fastest -- so your model has some empirical support.
>Basecamp is a relatively small company. Comparing Basecamp to a publicly traded enterprise is apples and oranges.

yet there are also significantly more small companies than large companies in terms of employment. Looking at the last stackoverflow survey, half of all developers report to work companies with fewer than 100 employees, whereas only ~10-15% work at very large firms. The same is true for publicly traded business of course, it's a small minority of the market.

So I wouldn't disregard basecamps attitude as atypical because they are small. Small is normal.
This is the person of which the Fraunhofer Institute is named in honor. Among other things, they also developed the MP3 coding format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_Society
This is an important point, especially with respect to the Hispanic population. It's often referred to as a race, when it's more like a cultural category - individual Hispanic people often identify as white, indigenous, or black though racial identity tends to be more fluid due to greater historic rates of intermarriage. I come from a Hispanic family, my grandparents more or less exclusively speak Spanish. My parents who were born a couple years after my grandparents immigrated would only be recognized as Hispanic if they made that part of their identity known. If I were asked to identify myself racially I'd say white, not Hispanic. I see myself as Cuban-Americans not as a racial identity buy as an ancestry - the same way people are Irish-American or German-American. 65% of Hispanics in the US identify as white: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans#...
> Epidemiologists are very confident that people who recover from the virus get substantial and reasonably long-lasting immunity.

Citation?
This would seem more credible for evaluating the US if most states with high minority populations didn't give a disproportionate amount of support to minorities. If you make minimal effort to prevent immigration and you give most family support to minorities then of course minorities will be your main high growth population. Non-racially targeted support is made increasingly difficult by the environmentalist doom cult that believes growth is bad but which can't attack support for minorities because race trumps environmentalism in US politics. It's about as mysterious as a company with more investors growing faster than its competitors, sometimes the underdog wins but capital is usually king.
> What’s the alternative if one is not to use Twitter? How do you publicize your findings or insights to a broad population?

Anonymity is the answer. A valid point stands alone regardless of who makes it. Don’t divulge your real name, and you’ll be rendered safe from retribution by those who cannot engage in a reasoned argument without resorting to ad hominem.
I would also pay 5€-10€ for something currently priced at many
multiples of that nominal amount. I think you've missed the point.
His blog is amazing (Start > Documents > Blogs). I love being able to open multiple blog posts in different windows. And the most amazing thing: it doesn't even feel like a website. The windows open almost instantaneously.
Autobidder uses ML and other signals to maximize the revenue for asset owners based on electric market data (real time and historical). It has a rough idea when the grid will be demanding power, how fast the storage project can charge and discharge, what the minimum aggregate state of charge should be, etc.

Not affiliated with Tesla except as an investor, have gotten to test drive Autobidder as part of an engineering/procurement/construction storage project.
There are also costs for the business. For example, 2.2 million WhatsApp chat messages initiated in June

2,200,000 * $0.005 per session message (Twilio cost for WhatsApp messages to India) = $11,000

I probably have that wrong, but I'm sure that's a big expense.
It’s a nice feature you can choose to use if you want. I’ve often been asked about projects on my gh account, and it’s good to have this tools alongside a static website tool like Jekyll
Is Autobidder a bug or a feature?

It's something Enron would have done. Get some energy storage, and then use it to speculate in electricity futures. Buy low and charge, and sell high and discharge later. Maybe hold back energy on hot days until the peak is reached, then put it on the market.

A battery operator has more flexibility than most generators - they can sell, but not buy. We'll know this is a problem when Goldman Sachs Renewable Power LLC buys a big battery.
I studied Kübler-Ross in university when she was still in vogue. It wasn’t pop-sci. How many of the examples you mention are included in top-tier university psychology and medicine degrees?
Sorry, but it wasn't nationalistic, if anything I'm advocating for moving a confused country forwards with humour (click the link!) Cheers.
Personally, I was really impressed by the level of attention given to the no-JS version!
There is no walking area large enough to spare you from being mindful of others.

Demanding common courtesy from others in shared spaces isn't an attempt to justify anything, much less our car culture.
> No it didn't, have you ever looked at the charts?

What charts?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Effects, it sounds like it would _increase_ the incentive to lend, but would decrease the incentive to _borrow_. Inflation, conversely, seems to decrease the incentive to lend (the inflation-adjusted return is less than the nominal rate). Naively, it's not clear to me why the latter is better for the economic system we live in (would that be free-market captialism? or something else?). Can you elaborate?

Either way, both of these seem different from eliminating the incentive to loan or borrow. 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.
Yeah, I think Scott loses his way at the end of that post. He is overestimating the chance that Warg Franklin’s approach is doomed; once you correct for that, it is not clear that trying to construct a values-aligned singleton is the best path forward, though I’m not opposed to research along that line.
It's software that decides when to charge the battery / buy power and discharge the battery / sell power using forecasts based on historical demand trends and the spot price of power.
Onyx is violating the Linux kernel's license, refuses to release source code
78.01 on Mac for me. ran fine for several minutes.
I still have a 24-faced hexaflexagon I made in 1975, using onionskin paper and an HP plotter. (Thinness and accuracy are critical for high-order flexagons.)
A little Its a little disheartening that current Lithium-Ion battery storage is at ~$350/kWh and is only projected to hit ~$150/kWh in 2050 [0].

[0] https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/73222.pdf
Because we live in a society with social norms and a moral code. If anything, we should expect more morality from institutions that avail themselves of limited liability legal forms.

This "corporations should be cynical sociopaths" idea is even newer than the limited liability corporate form, which is itself a modern invention.

Before the current era of hyper-institutionalization and hyper-legalism there was a concept called "natural law". It basically meant morality, as understood at the time.
You can say thanks for the memories buy purchasing a copy of Reaper, and get a serviceable DAW in the process..
This reminds me of quote

> You gain insights into the moral base upon which Paul makes his own decisions. All of this is couched in a form which makes Paul and his people admirable. I am their advocate. But don't lose sight of the fact that House Atreides acts with the same arrogance toward "common folk" as do their enemies I am showing you the superhero syndrome and your own participation in it. The arrogant are, in part, created by the meek. [0]

CEOs, I think, get away with stuff like this because the "common folk" accept their place in the hierarchy and don't question them. So without honest feedback the people at the top of the hierarchy lose touch with reality.

--

[0]: https://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/ch03.html
I think we can distinguish apologies into two top-level categories: meaningful and meaningless. Meaningless apologies can be further subdivided ("I'm sorry you were offended", or "It's just my culture to be a jerk"), but I'm not interested in that - they're all meaningless.

Meaningful apologies can be easily found via the search engine of your choice, "How to apologize" brings up lots of hits. The thing they all have in common though is an acknowledgement (in one form or another) that the person apologizing was legitimately in the wrong, and that they will endeavor to not do that again.

It's that last bit that is important. It's not sufficient for a company to apologize for dumping oil in the ocean or a person apologize for using a racist term. A real apology acknowledges harm caused, and shows how the entity apologizing will rectify past harm and prevent future harm.

This is why, in my opinion, at least, so few apologies legitimately improve anyone's standing. It's not that "cancel culture needs heads", it's just that people expect to say, "I'm sowwy", rub their toes in the dirt, and be let off the hook without doing anything to really undo the harm caused. People rarely even acknowledge the harm they cause, let alone do anything about it, in these so-called apologies.

So no: people who demand apologies don't just reject them after they're given. It's just that most of the time, the apology is meaningless.
How were loading times after the initial loadup? I found almost every one of these (especially this https://ash.ms/) be extremely fast compared to 'modern' websites. I'm wondering why more websites can't do whatever it is they're doing to load things fast.
Introvert-extrovert is not a black-white distinction, it's (like always) a spectrum. If I had to classify myself on the binary scale, I'm definitely an introvert (as in: I find social gatherings taxing and need plenty of time on my own to recharge). However, that doesn't mean that the isolation of working from home in a single household is all fun and games. I feel the same way as you, albeit probably on a lower level. (I can still satisfy most of my social needs via electronic interaction.)
Not saying pascal is perfect but I haven't come across any issues with missing libraries.
Those chaps from across the pond really liked to burn things down in the 19th century, the Old Summer Palace in Beijing being burnt and looted was a bit harsher.

"This is the reward for perfidy and cruelty"
Uh... all of them? Just turn off cameras and put the chat window in the background.
What are the industry incentives for Tesla to do this, instead of utilities?

It just seems kind of weird for Tesla to be saying "We'll sell you this thing you tell me you need" and also "Here's us building a thing to help you tell what you need."
This is interesting:

> The government of American Samoa has opposed automatic citizenship for its residents, arguing it would threaten the territory’s traditional cultural and religious practices.

I’m surprised the local government would prefer “non-citizen national” status.
Color plays a role with that?
Holy mackerel
> So I wouldn't disregard basecamps attitude as atypical because they are small. Small is normal.

New Relic (the company discussed in this article) is a publicly-traded company. I wasn’t dismissing Basecamp for being small, I was pointing our that what works for Basecamp’s 57 employees isn’t necessarily going to work for New Relic’s 2000 employees.
I was an engineer and a manager of software development for a very well-known, arch-conservative Japanese optics corporation.

I worked there for just shy of 27 years. LOTS of 14-hour flights (shudder).

But I am not Japanese, so it's quite possible they treated me differently from others.

My experience was, they had a difficult time, trusting non-Japanese. They tended to pull me in, when dealing with westerners.

It was not a "peaches and cream" job. In many ways, it was quite difficult and stressful, but I was in a "silo" of extremely honorable, incredibly high-quality people for a couple of decades.

In all, it was a very different experience than many Americans have had. I am glad for the experience, but also relieved to have it behind me. Although I am an excellent manager, I am most comfortable developing software. Being good at something is not the same as being happy doing it.

I'm not-so-bad at software development, but it's a much bigger pond.

Coming from that corporation, into the modern development landscape in the US has been a...revelation.
FWIW I'm not saying I dislike the project, I love when people post quirky projects like this to HN for fun. I'm just saying that even the smallest change to this project would cause the author to lose the "1776 USA" marketing strategy. One could say it's an unstable strategy at a local maximum.
I like this and posted a question yesterday on HN whether Twitter had such a UI. So I guess they don't.

The deeper issue IMO is that a) we're trying to squeeze every last ounce of value out of the dying "feature" that "anyone can join this service for zero effort", and b) the services that do leverage a web of trust (in the social sense) like Facebook have business models that tend to damage those social links rather than build something healthy with them.
Many “minorities” that used to insist they were “white” now insist they are not. Like Arabs: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-census-middle-east-no...

Seems perfectly rational, since “white” is now at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
After a second stage failure, Rocket Lab loses seven satellites
I've been studying teaching a lot lately, and one of the things all of the books say is that mastery of the material is required but not sufficient to be a good teacher. The other skills, which basically come down to organization and emotional intelligence seem to be universal. In other words teaching as a skill is domainless but being a good teacher requires subject mastery.
There are two projects that take this direction - Splitgraph and Dolt.
Beginner's Guide to Abstraction
Fertility/birth rates. A reminder - one child policy was introduced in 1979 and repelled in 2015, neither of those dates had any visible effect:

Fertility rate: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNTFRTINCHN

Birth rate: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNCBRTINCHN

And it is not like the Chinese govt didn't try, they were serious about it. It's just that birth rates are mysterious. People will have kids when they want to, and will stop having kids when they want to, and they will listen to nobody. No authority.
This is pretty much what I've seen. If you invest time and money in opening a branch office and interviewing full-time staff, you'll find sharp and dedicated people like you would here. But you cannot shortcut this process by paying a no-name body shop, because you will get "deliverables" that obviously weren't tested at all because they don't compile.
There's also the issue of hydrogen embrittlement of steel, which is probably what causes the leaks I guess?
At that point, what benefit is there to forcing yourself to use a subset of HTTP?
Enron's crime wasn't speculation, it was fraud.

By buying low and selling high, the consequence to everyone else is that the price of power is more consistent. The least consistent power producers are some of the greenest, like solar and wind plants. Since this is Australia, I'd hazard a guess that the peaker plants that this is competing against are likely coal.

So greener energy and more predictable prices, what's not to like?
> Reply to your tweet, posting "I was wrong"

There is another option. Quote tweet and say "I was wrong". Quote tweeting is a concept extension mechanism but people mostly use it for dunking. If you make a mistake then quote tweeting is the best way to correct it because people can then search for "I was wrong" and see the wrong tweet in context.
The policy existed but, after talking with some Chinese friends about this very topic, they said the system was corrupt. Anyone who want to get around the system just had to bribe a local official, and there were zero consequences.

Take this as anecdotal, of course.
Italics. :-/
Don't consider this a personal need but a game theoretic challenge. Those who pursue influence and visibility also end up shaping public perception, policy etc. Considering how much channels like twitter tend to amplify foolish ideas than nuanced and balanced perspectives, participating in that discourse in the name of reason and wisdom becomes virtuous itself.
Small passive income while browsing the web
Thanks for the warning about the page, I found your comment helpful and no more off topic than countless other tangential comments that get made on HN.
agree! It’s a challenging problem to solve. Im working on a new project that’s a sort of hybrid between twitter/slack/discord, and actively thinking about these issues... Still young but my aim is both scale and nuanced convo! (example post https://sqwok.im/p/TU2ba6D-iDEYuQ)
Boston: The startup revolution reviving its tech cred
please put Erlang somewhere in the title, theres so many titles I click because the title isn't descriptive enough and I don't want to miss out in case it happens to be a subject of interest.

I don't have a problem with Erlang, but it feels like unintentional clickbait if the title fails to convey what a reader may expect.
Apple suspends app updates for unlicensed games in China's App Store
Tokyo already passed and is enforcing an ordinance that banks smoking in all restaurants, cafes and bars. It’s great! There are some straggler restaurants not complying with it though, having just been in place since April.