skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wonder how much of this is driven by social media and the internet today. The word 'Toxic' is just thrown around now and everything is 'Toxic'.

You're spot on. The article coyly makes a mention of the real cause in this clause:

> For most of history, family relationships were based on mutual obligations rather than on mutual understanding. Parents or children might reproach the other for failing to honor/acknowledge their duty, but the idea that a relative could be faulted for failing to honor/acknowledge one’s ‘identity’ would have been incomprehensible.”

Although identity has many, and positive, functions[1], here it stands for "unquestioned affirmation of one's narcissistic self-image", in other words "what I think I am, being reflected to me". Social media can do this almost perfectly, most of them are perfectly fine tuned for our engagement, what we think we are, what we would like to hear, and what we would like to get angry at (which confirms our identity through opposition).

Anything that fails at this confirmation is expelled via the magic word "toxic"[2] and parents take their share for not being able to match this self-constructed, unearned narrative of an identity.

[1] Identity is a useful narrative that explains us to ourselves and others through time and space. But it is only useful to the degree it actually conforms to the reality, else it loses its adaptivity. Which means identity needs to stem from our relationships to the world; it doesn't come from within, it does't come from without, it comes from our genuine relationship with reality as we test it. If the majority of the reality we had to conform to was internet, where we can block, downvote, silence, cancel and get recommended to by an entity that are really interested in us sticking around, our identity becomes seriously self-deceptive and not useful across time and space outside the internet. In a sense, internet replaced the narcissistic, toxic parents we were running away from, except this parent is perfectly, and callously, able to tell us what we want to hear.

[2] Toxic exists. But not everything that pisses us off, or threatens our sense of identity is toxic. Narcissistic family systems are toxic because they put their needs above the needs of the child, that includes the need of the child to hear the harsh truth at times. What I see today is some parents are switching strategies by trying to outcompete with internet in being endlessly accommodating their children and not implementing necessary but unpopular structures their children might need. They couldn't have won anyway.
Europe aims to kill gasoline and diesel cars by 2035
I have a hard time understanding the reasoning why we don't have time to build nuclear plants, but we do have time to build new fossil fueled power plants in order to stabilize the power grid.

What if every time a country decided to build a new fossil fueled power plants, a rule went in to build a new nuclear power plant instead. In terms of climate goals, at worst we prevent the construction of new fossil fueled power plants. At best we arrive in the future with fossil fueled power plants replaced by an alternative that isn't cooking the planet.
Another layer of federated content publishing doesn't solve any problems. The web is already federated, websites are the "nodes", these big websites are just very popular nodes, if fediverse style apps take off the problem would just move to the most popular nodes on that network.
I don't see that this risk is any different than a similar apocolyptic failure happening to your on-prem equipment. There's not much you can do about it differently than the cloud just add some extra controls and hope for the best.

I very much doubt that anyone would not use the cloud because of a theoretical de-isolation bug.

Also, by the time you found out, it would probably already be too late anyway if you were a victim. If not, you just switch it off.
Designing a Calendar Table in SQL
Toxic implies that some negative influence seeps out of people or situations, which causes harm proportional to the duration of exposure.
Now that is a landing page!

Mouse scroll zooms the viewport out from showing the animation to showing it inside of the application GUI and list of controls. Very nicely done!
If I understand correctly, the fine was imposed because Youtube failed to comply with the order of the court to make the video accessible again, which took them several weeks (20. April - 14. May 2020).

What confuses me is that the article states the video was removed in January, which would only make sense if it was January 2021, because January 2020 there were no restrictions in Switzerland. Maybe the above date should be May 2021.

I think the relevant piece from the Welt article is this:

> Es [the court] kam unter anderem zu dem Schluss, die geänderten Richtlinien seien nicht wirksam in den Vertrag mit dem Accountbetreiber einbezogen worden. Hierzu sei ein Änderungsvertrag erforderlich. Der bloße Hinweis, dass es künftig Änderungen geben könne, genüge nicht.

Roughly translated, the changed ToS of Youtube were not contractually effective, because the user was not asked to accept them. Stating that changes can happen any time is not enough.
People of all nations can come up with stupid ideas. In this case it was the Japanese. The possible connection to their writing system is immediately obvious. Still doesn't warrant your overreacting and jumping to conclusions.
Seems like the right decision, hide the data and ignore the problem. /s
Should movie theaters be allowed to select which movies they show?
I experimented with this but eventually gave up. The folder was natively the outer system's filesystem and "shared" inward, and that means things like non-case-sensitivity on Mac or lack of proper permissions on Windows, not to mention the extra sharing overhead whenever running a build or whatever.
Ok, allow me to amend my statement:

The SBC was and remains the largest protestant organization in the US, and it was founded for the express purpose of defending slavery.

If you dismiss such things as mere "picking and choosing", you're unlikely to to be able to understand viewpoints to which you're inclined to disagree.
Improving efficiency means we can at least potentially retain current levels of consumption. Not that this is a particularly good idea but it shows why it is relevant.
Past comments referencing this video:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Google's response to pressures from advertisers wasn't to censor anything. They just demonetized videos that the advertisers didn't want to be associated with. Hosting someone's video for free without even interrupting it with ads seems like the opposite of censorship to me. There may be something interesting to say about how the desires of advertisers shapes our discourse, but its not censorship (in this case at least).
I'm subjectively inserting that comment. I think that a lot of it was reasonable. I'm not arguing that it was objectively reasonable. I'm writing my thoughts on the internet. I'm not obligated by the burden of proof to justify my subjective opinions.

>There's no such thing as neutrality. Leaving up a popular anti-vax video is just as political a decision as taking it down.

Nonsense. We don't apply this standard to anything else in life.
I found this extension last year and I love it! Thank you for making it.

No more bullshit injected into by feed or forced upon my eyeballs from the right column and everything stays in the correct order. Twitter is vastly improved by your extension.
It's very popular in Japan. Otherwise, journalists and celebs worldwide use it, which means crazy people yelling at journalists about politics somehow now run the news media.
> Data residency gives a government willing to bully companies a lot of power. It's simply a lot harder to access information stored abroad and you have a lot less leverage.

You have no clue how much uncontrolled power Indian government has today. This law is brought in to benefit telecom companies and real estate companies.
https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/hiranand...
Any paper that revolves around conducting a survey gets an F from me. It's the easiest possible way to generate a new CV entry without having to do anything new
archive.org scoops up all kinds of tweets - deleting them isn't really a safe way to get rid of it, just fyi
The existing off the shelf solution is resilient channels.

https://www.clarkdietrich.com/sites/default/files/imce/pdf/A...

The trade base is familiar with it and there is a robust supply chain with multiple vendors. It is a commodity product with a single non-compound component braked from ordinary steel sheets.
So a “Dr. Stone” scenario.
I think the point they are making hinges on the fact that the data just has to be _stored_ there. You can do the processing outside of India, so a company can store the encrypted data in India but process the decrypted data elsewhere.
Having a certain political opinion is not a protected class in the US
Green aside, this was an interesting video explaining that for short flights electric planes are extremely lucrative https://youtu.be/aH4b3sAs-l8 [wendover]
I think it is unfair to think that banks don't want to do things correctly but they suffer along with all other corporates of too many levels of management to be agile, systems that are far to risky to change/replace, legacy systems and a high turnover of staff. If I ran a bank, I suspect I would run it exactly the same way because I have to.
Yes, some economists started to worry about this along with our ability to hit 2% inflation targets. The concern is even greater in Europe and Japan. And currently, the hot US market is provoking conversations about this very thing.
I love the Joy of Cooking because it teaches cooking in layers. So it will start off teaching you how to make a simple dish, then the next pages are all permutations of that dish where you add a few ingredients, or slightly change the cooking technique.
Running a Next.js Site on Cloudflare Pages
> They caved to censoring things that were reasonable, but now anyone can make them censor anything as long as they have some poltical power somewhere.

On some level, we have to acknowledge that whoever is running the shitshow at youtube and twitter are actually responsible as well, in that they believe they know enough to literally dictate what everyone in the world should see and read.

For example banning Trump from Twitter is a great example of this. Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of his politics (or Biden's, or any of them, same shit different smell i say), but who the hell do Twitter people think they are that they feel confident enough to ban him? Not talking in the sense of a private company here, sure it's their business and they can do whatever the heck they want, but does anyone really think that by banning him they prevented whatever ideas of his that think should not be encouraged to stop? At best, this shows tremendous life inexperience, which I expect from kids who read a couple of books and think that they understand everything, the typical example of a tech company worker in a company like Twitter.
This right here is why I just lurk on social media.

There are too many examples of a forgotten offhand remark, a harmless off-color joke, or that one time you had a bad day and thought you were just venting to the handful of close friends who are the only people you think even know about your Twitter account coming back many years later to bite you in the ass when a future potential employer (or goodness forbid the media) decide to go spelunking in your personal social media and essentially treat that version of you from 11 years ago as the same person you are today.

Twitter makes it way too hard to mass delete old tweets or otherwise exercise fine control over whats on there.

With social media, the only way to win is not to play.
As I understand it, this isn't a true holograph; it's just a very convincing imitation by rendering the image from two perspectives every few degrees and displays it on a high-res display that pipes it through a prism to use refraction to create an optical illusion trick.

The marketing isn't very clear about that. Still very cool product, tho.
I mean, you can say the SAME thing about getting into an Ivy League school. Your application and skillset is likely similar to THOUSANDs and yet still, you have to prepare like it is the Olympics AND have luck. No one lucks their way into FAANG, you still have to answer the questions well and contrary to much of the HN crowd, these are not easy questions for most folks EVEN after studying...

You can't get in without both luck and preparation. That part I won't deny, but most exclusive things in life involve that bit of luck since everyone starts to hit the "threshold" of qualifications pretty fast
>Thus, the maximum, long-term sustainable pace of energy consumption is equal to what we can extract from the Sun. And, yet, we consume that much every year by August 1! While the trend has flattened out in recent years, it shows no sign of declining [0].

This is misleading and not what they link supports. The linked calculation is not tied to the possible power extraction from the sun. This estimate is based on CO2 currently produced per person and the earth's ability to sequester the CO2.

Global electricity consumption is is about 2.6 Terrawatts [1]

Global total potential for technically feasible PV solar has been estimated at ~ 613
389 PWh/y or 70 Terawatts [2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292991459_Estimatio...
Not sure exactly what the situation was here, but if it was an NTFS folder from Windows shared into the VM/WSL, then you are indeed running the npm operation in the inner system but paying the cost of writing thousands of tiny files across that translation layer.
IANAL, but if I understand this German article [1] correctly, then the changes in Youtube's ToS were not contractually effective, because the user was not asked to comply.

The fine was then imposed because Youtube took > 3 weeks to comply with the court's order to make the video accessible.

[1] https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article232421961/OLG...
I'm not sure what your situation is but I know Americans that have gone through an intermediate country
>"faces consequences for doing something the overall public finds shitty"

That's the thing, a lot of people have 'faced consequences' for things that aren't particularly egregious. And, what is euphemistically called 'consequences' often destroys people's lives and there's virtually no recourse for them. It's 100% punishment and 0% rehabilitation.
Extracting resources from space, and expanding to Mars or space colonies are likely non-starters due to simple physics. No matter how you do it, it takes around 100 MJ/kg to get something into orbit, which translates into about 28kWh of electricity per kg, to offer a more relatable comparison [0]. It costs roughly the same amount to land the equivalent amount of mass on Earth without making an impact crater.

One single, average human weighs somewhere around 65kg. So, not counting the mass of the fuel and vehicle necessary to do so, evacuating one human costs the energy equivalent of around 1820kWh of electricity. The average American household uses just over 10000kWh per year [1], just for comparison.

Now, let's get to the bad news. Remember the weight of the vehicle and fuel that we just conveniently forgot about? Let's not forget about it anymore.

Falcon 9 weighs around 550,000 kg [2]. So, just to put it in orbit, empty, costs the equivalent of over 1.5x10^6 kWh of electricity, or, roughly the yearly consumption of 1500 years worth of the average American household's energy consumption. That energy has to come from somewhere.

Tell me, how is space going to save us again?

On the other end, in less than 20 years, we need to not only offset the trend of 50% increase in global energy consumption, but also cut back an additional 50% from where we are today. In other words, in 20 years, in order to simply break even in terms of sustainability, we need to become 3x more efficient than we ever have over any 20 year period, if we want to maintain current levels of economic growth.

And you don't find that hard to imagine?

Edit: Alternatively, do you see us supporting 2 billion more people on this planet in 2050 with lower levels of economic growth than we've had the past few decades?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow... for population growth estimates.

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[0]: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4330/how-much-ener...

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3

[2]: https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/falcon-9/
How does one contribute to these (de)centralized alternatives? Apart from sharing links?
this will be easy money for microsoft. we're now back to the day of thin clients. with a full OS streaming from the cloud, Enterprises can reduce costs. And with 0 trust, it means data is more secure either ways i.e prevent future hacks due to incompetent IT policies.
However, as a consumer I get worried about how ownership is slowly being chipped away. slowly we're renting everything.
That's what I thought but also, when a statement is made by a senior executive, I usually assume they don't really know what they are talking about anyway. Loads of "keynote" speeches are very hand-wavy and have a feel of importance with little of real value.
Right, even a day or suncycle is kinda arbitrary and human-scale. Point is just that consistent repeatable practice rewards compoundingly over time.
Publishers aren't special, they have 1st amendment rights that protect them as well. Publishers are not automatically liable for their published works. You have to prove a causal link between the publisher and something in the book itself. And then you have to prove a harm that goes beyond the limits of 1st amendment protections. There's conflicting precedence on it, courts disagree on the limits of 1st amendment and how it applies to publishers. More commonly, it's the author that is targeted, because they wrote the work, not the publisher.
I believe they've only increased the height once with the transition to Big Sur. And they reduced the height from Mavericks->Yosemite, so it's back to where it was during 10.1-10.9 days, just with one UI row + tabs instead of two + tabs.

Are you thinking about something else?
Makes me think (and shudder) about how one could make filters for text. I partially regret saying this and also still curious :-)
Chelsea Makes a Sensational £85M Offers to Juventus for Federico Chiesa
That means they should wait until 90% of them know what it means, before removing it.
Inline C for Tcl (2015)
That's fair, I haven't tried D yet but I've heard good things about it. One thing Go's really good at is web services, and from what I've seen D seems to be a bit lacking here. But in general D seems more versatile than Go.
What's the state of Twitter API these days? Can some company really build their own app on top of Twitter feeds?
How exactly do you figure that? Like any other quango, they are almost entirely unaccountable to anyone except their own staff. A Politician might be able to cause a stink but that's assuming they knew enough about what was going on and they probably don't.
> Given how large the universe is, I'd bet there's a good chance that scientists, engineers, and enterprising people will find ways to make all these dire predictions wrong.

I want to be optimistic, but a couple of things are worth noting.

First, is that civilization has fallen back before. It's definitely possible for systems, knowledge and progress built over the centuries to fall apart and it has happened before. There's the bronze-age collapse: ancient cities were destroyed, trade routes were lost, literacy declined and in general there was a big cultural decline— not in one civilization but thought all the "known world" at the time.

Fast-forward to the end of the Hellenistic/Roman periods— there was a decline there too leading up to, during and after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Huge advances were made during that era in astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, architecture, art, etc. Alexandrian engineers were designing steam-powered automata in the centuries BCE [1], but like a lot of other classical knowledge this was lost sometime before the Dark Ages. The Renaissance was about new developments, but also largely about re-discovering what was developed in the Hellenistic/Roman periods.

We can assume modern times are different because we have more advanced technology, better political systems, different ideologies and more experience, but our challenges are also bigger. We've made it past challenges that would've destroyed civilizations in the past: droughts, wars, turmoil, etc. But we've never faced global climate change, for example.

Second— the fact that we've been able to invent our way out of possible crisis before doesn't mean this will keep being the case. The number of things that are possible in this universe is large, but not limitless— the universe still has its laws.

For example: Moores law. We know there's a limit there because of how small atoms are. We will have to figure out other ways to make processing faster and more efficient, because once we reach the physical limit, there's little we can do. We've been able to figure out ways to scale agriculture, reduce our dependence in one resource by switching to another, etc. but there's no certainty that this will always be the case. It's very much possible that at some point either the physical limits to technological development will catch up to us, or we won't be able to figure out the next big breakthrough in time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_robots#Automata

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law#Forecasts_and_ro...
> Same way that when you open a store you can't pick and choose your customers.

But you can mostly pick and choose your customers outside of discriminating against a protect class (in the US). If you don't want to do business with people with brown hair, no one is stopping you.
Why do you use Safari then, the least extensible and customizable option for MacOS?
I believe you can add "suggest_activity_tweet" to your muted words under Privacy and Safety. I'm fairly certain this still works.
That's my point. There is no objectively reasonable way to do this. What you think is reasonable to take down and what I think is reasonable to take down are not going to always agree.

I'm not sure what "elsewhere in life" means, but bookstores choose what books they will sell while also not necessarily endorsing every book they carry.
This is true. The average person on the subway or in a restaurant has no real malice or ill intent toward their fellow traveler/patron, whereas the average salesperson or business associate on the job is actively looking to hoodwink you.
If we include those, the most costly and deadly energy is hydro. Last year a much bigger evacuation than Fukushima occurred in the US because of a dam failure.

It is kind of interesting that almost no one have heard of it, and that it did not make major international news.