skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there will be a civil war. But I think it will be more of a "cold" civil war with flashes of loosely coordinated and unsanctioned mob violence.

Edit: Dreher has an excellent book called "Live not by Lies", that explains a theory of soft totalitarianism. Combined with the devestating power of weapons, the reluctance to use them, the powerful surveillance state, and the strong desire to live in comfort means that we might not see a conventional civil war.

As an example: gun owners largely fear getting raided in the night and a violent standoff like Ruby Ridge. I suspect much more likely, they will get a call from CPS notifying their children are being held until investigators can confirm the reports of firearms in the house -- or perhaps credit cards and finances being shut down. Why go for a risky confrontation when you can bring someone to their knees with a button push?

If there is a cold civil war, I expect it will be waged asymmetrically instead of conventionally.
As long as we have Fox News serving up an alternate reality to half the US population that’s exactly where we are headed.
Learning Language Is Harder Than You Think
Yes, as an adult who does not know his father, and as a son of a mother who went through 3 divorces, I would say crawl out of whatever box you're in and go enjoy life.

I really hope your whole life isn't centered around the failures of your parents. Then again...sounds like you might be a good candidate to forego the whole marriage and/or relationship thing.
I don't think this is measuring wishes.

I don't wish for a civil war, either. That doesn't mean I don't expect one to happen given the current conditions.
First Texas would have to fight the other half of Texas, its not like whole states would just join a revolution.
That only means that the Apple Messages model is outdated and a replacement is hereby being required.

If Apple prefers lock-in over innovation, it's their problem, not the users'.
Several of the recent shooting involved white supremacists targeting minorities, so it's not entirely untargeted.
Did the invention of artillery cause javelin throwing to be dead?
2/2 [sorry that this will be out of order]

For a (physical) relativist, the speed of light is really simple. c = 1, everywhere and everywhen. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrized_unit_system> This is because we have excellent evidence for the utility of <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Riemannian_manifold#App...>, and the further astrophysically-driven demands of global hyperbolicity or at least reasonably strong causality conditions, no isometric embeddings, geodesic incompleteness, asymptotic flatness around sources, junctions in sufficiently flat space, and energy conditions. Those further demands are the basis for continuing to rely on Special Relativity in laboratory settings.

For a theoretical relativist, well, the best metric signature is probably +,+,+,...,+ (89,0). (cf. Egan's (4,0) "Riemannian General Relativity", <https://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/06/GRExtra.html>)

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[1] quoting your wikipedia link, "... inertial frames and coordinates are defined from the outset so that space and time coordinates as well as slow clock-transport are described isotropically". Well, yes. Establish points first then assign coordinate labels is the relativist's procedure, surely?

On this point, Earth laboratories are in general not in inertial frames, thanks to gravitation. No laboratory is in general in an inertial frame, thanks to the metric expansion of space. We can in principle extract a preferred foliation (e.g. the scale factor a, or some function on lunisolar tides) and use that as the basis for time coordinates instead. In effect this is what we do for high-redshift objects and many lunar laser ranging experiments <https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/ftp/eph/planets/ioms/>[a] <https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08376> §3,§4. <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-010-9303-5> discusses aspects of how to choose a preferred foliation (in the context of gauge freedom) in the solar system, and in the context of grinding out a results-prediction for some future LLR experiment. The goal is to be able to show that the locations of the three instruments were accurately predicted, and Lorentz-invariance is thoroughly baked in (the calculations are so exceptionally sensitive to the introduction of tiny breaking parameters in the style of SME <https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0287> that it has led to the discovery and/or better understanding of several of the features listed as parameters at [[a] LLR_Model_2020_DR.pdf §4]).

[2] <https://archive.org/details/principleofrelat00eins/page/n189...>. Einstein 1916 is adapted into the arguably handier <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Foundation_of_the_General...> §9. c.f. there pages marked in square brackets [776-777]

[3] Baez: <https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/einstein/node2.html> 2nd and 3rd paragraph "Preliminaries".
Looks like it died, guess a few too many people tried to run it at once.
You don't want to fix/improve the society to suit your preferences through existing democratic and legal mechanisms, so you decide destroying the opposition via violence/intimidation is easier.
Yep, I wonder how it ended up like that. Is it an economically sound plan to run a company with incompetent people?
The house where one lives: no taxes. Other houses, tax them a lot especially if they are not rented.
A full-blown civil war, circa 1800s? Probably not, although a growing number of fascist types are fantasizing about it and planning for it.

More frequent and extreme episodes of violent civil unrest? Yes. I think it's going to get worse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-...
It will probably more like an insurrection. The more Trumpian states will choose to ignore the Federal government in various ways, especially regarding election laws. Opportunistic politicians will take advantage of this to consolidate power to the extent elections become a formality. Well-armed Trumpians will be targeted at specific people, places and events, and it will work. Meanwhile, police services, national guard and military will be of dubious effectiveness given that many in their ranks are themselves Trumpians.

It is truly remarkable how much damage a bad faith president can do to a democracy. But honestly, I wonder that he didn't do much more damage. It's almost incredible to me that we're in as good of shape as we are right now; the fact that it's even possible that Trump could be arrested for insurrection is a very hopeful sign. This has all been a great test of our spirit, and I think we get a strong "B".
Any unique data point can be used in building a finger print.

The forest for the tree here
I think consumer credit card debt (1) is a good indicator of normal people’s inability to pay for their expenses upfront, i.e. their “income is behind the cost of living”.

(1) https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc
Perhaps tell us why it’s amazing and the road to where it is today.

I think most can surmise that all forms of transit have been repeatedly tried all over the world. Sharing details and their applicability to other other municipalities are what will advance transit.
History is full of civil wars which were fought for very unclear reasons as well.
It is an immense giveway to the top income quintiles, which receive between 70-80% of the benefit, and giving "prospective owners" preference over "landlords" practically by definition reduces density and thus affordability.
I think some of these changes in attitude are a natural result of progression as a developer. For instance, when you're just starting out, having a good project manager or business analyst talk to users is valuable, but as you get more experienced you can do a pretty good job of it yourself. Likewise DRY is a good principle to remember when you're starting out, to prevent bad beginner mistakes like writing 1000-line methods instead of breaking the problem down into smaller pieces. But as you get more experienced writing good modular code becomes second nature and instead you become more aware of the cases when the DRY principle gets used to justify over-engineering.
Can I get an audiophile 'Hi-def' tier for $9.99 that's almost but not quite 1982 CD quality?
> Install any software

Scams proliferate, praying on elderly and young. Widespread tracking of your location, browsing history. Same with other points, narrow, selfish thinking.
It would be a civil war as long as there is a part of the country that's controlled by one side and another part that is controlled by the other side. Doesn't have to align with current state borders.
On a survey. In real life, people will do anything to avoid war especially considering most aren't fit enough to handle it
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Answering to the wrong comment? I never said that.
Isn’t one side significantly larger than the other? It seems to me that while there’s clearly two “sides” in the US, one is vastly overrepresented, due to how the US democracy is structured.

That’s not to say it wouldn’t be dangerous, both to the US and the stability to the rest of the world. So please wait until Germany have rebuilt it’s army, otherwise the UK is going to get very busy, covering for an absent US.
From the server IP looks like you're on some managed WordPress hosting that only offers free SSL on the more 'premium' packages.

Easiest way for free SSL would be to just throw the domain on CloudFlare :)
In their examples, the "After mitigation" photos seem more representative of the real world. Before you got nothing but white guys for firefighter or software engineer and nothing but white ladies for teacher. That's not how the real world actually is today.

I'm not sure how they would accomplish 100% accurate proportions anyway, or even why that would be desirable. If I don't specify any traits then I want to see a wide variety of people. That's a more useful product than one that just gives me one type of person over and over again because it thinks there are no female firefighters in the world.
I highly doubt it. Reality has nearly infinite resolution at every scale of space and time. Being physically in the world is extremely taxing on computational resources. Take bipedal balance for one example. There's a reason it's a very difficult problem. This, I guess, is assuming that embodiment is necessary for AGI, which I strongly think it is.

BTW, what exactly is boredom? Can you describe it in cognitive science or programmatic terms?
Pinellas rolls out BeBot, a beach-cleaning robot with a message for humans
Very funny! The "Scientists Warn New Faster Toothbrush May Cause Insanity"-story is not fake though, I've experienced it ;)
yeah man I mean you can call me dumb all you want but there are biological consequences to having sex and murdering your way out of it or abdicating your responsibility as a parent are not moral ways to handle those consequences. No amount of history books or walking a mile in someone else's moccasins is going to change my opinion on that.
Sounds extremely dangerous.
As a counter-point confirming yours, my best friend in infancy died of cancer right before our fourth birthdays. My parents (still friends with his) have dozens of picture of us and even some just him. They don’t mean anything to me; I have absolutely no memory of him.
Not convinced at all that civil war is likely to happen. But then again, I probably would've said the same about Russia invading Ukraine at the start of the year.

Part of me thinks this is the result of countless foreign adverserial brainworms slowly trying to push Americans over the edge.

Do you have plans if civil war were to break out?

The dark part of me thinks it would be interesting to see how a modern civil war would play out in the US. My good side just thinks it'll be a waste of human life which is unlikely to meaningfully affect the ultrarich and powerful.

I'm reminded of that Seinfeld episode where George tries to break up with his girlfriend and she says no. What if the other half of Americans just said: no, we're not going to civil war. It's not necessary, stop LARPing. Stop and think about what you're getting us into.
I suppose the closest example was the Spanish Civil War. Would different military bases choose different sides?

https://man.fas.org/dod-101/fac/conus.htm

Also, what would Trump's tomb look like (assuming he's leading one side and wins). For example:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/24/franco...
My discussion of this issue (which actually comes up in like every DALL-E 2 discussion on HN): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uKp6tBFStnsvrot5t/what-dall-...
Elo inflates over time, and so can't be easily compared like this. More interesting to me is how dominant a player was at their peak, and for that Fischer wins by a mile for modern times, with Kasparov behind him. And historically, Morphy, Lasker and Capablanca come to mind. And Tal could wipe the floor with anyone when his poor health didn't get in the way.
The intent of the law was malicious. That's why it applies everywhere.

Angry voters wanted a "tax revolt". Jerry Brown's Prop 8, on the same ballot, would have given homeowners a specific break but they wanted blood.
I see no evidence at all that increased density is a livability problem for families, and plenty of --- in fact, overwhelming --- that inadequate density is a bar for access to communities in the first place. So, no, I reject this argument outright.
Today's XKCD seems like it was written as a direct response to that kind of comment.

https://xkcd.com/2648/

"It's hard to believe, but lots of kids today ONLY know how to buy prepackaged molecules."
Context:

> Facebook Internal Memo on Rivals Undercuts Antitrust Defense

> Facebook’s parent company insists that its social-networking and messaging services have dozens of outside rivals, but an internal memo reveals that Meta Platforms Inc.’s top executives were more worried about the threat posed by its own products.

> The memo .. maps out the company’s growth strategies. It outlines ways to prevent Instagram and WhatsApp .. from cannibalizing Facebook’s trajectory.

> [It] figured prominently in a congressional inquiry into competitive practices across the technology industry that focused on some of the biggest companies, including Meta’s Facebook. The House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee released the memo Tuesday for the first time in its entirety as part of its final report on competition in digital markets.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-19/facebook-...
Related story about the origins of the infamous "Free Public Wifi" viral hotspot: https://readwrite.com/the_story_behind_free_public_wifi_-_it...
The right to have slaves without beating around the bush.
how do you ban mods to your game when the mod distribution and SDK are entirely 3rd party?
I love this collection. There are also excellent mobile versions with no ads that I love for basic puzzles to kill some time
People in power do things, make changes, move needles.

People who are not in power do things that people in power tell them to do, they undergo changes, watch the needle being moved.

If you are not in power and want to do things, make changes, move needles, find a way, any way to be part of the "power." Very few changes come from the "outside," and if they come from there, it takes a long, long time.

We may think that the best idea will emerge, that what is right will be done, that the arc of promotions will tend toward competence, but that is not how this world (primarily) works. Maybe that's how the world should work.

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If you have options, you decide. If you have no options, others decide for you. Find a way to have options.
For example, if you have no skills and are in debt, you must accept whatever your employer imposes on you. On the other hand, if you have skills and no debt, you can engage in negotiation.

By having more options instead of having none, your life will be a peaceful sail along the Mediterranean coast, instead of the crossing made by the sailor attached to the timber of the boat that is still floating in a stormy sea.
The question that always stops me is, should lazy people be left to die for their laziness if we have the means to keep them alive?
I found the chart titled "Increased Media Consumption and the Perception Gap" to be rather funny considering the title of this thread.

The more news you self-report as consuming, the higher your perception gap likely is. A rather damning data point regarding our media institutions.
Sure. It is certainly a "collective action" type problem.
EU could break up the EU operations of the said company and it leaves it up to the company whether to break up in other parts of the world or just in Europe. Just think how many shell companies are created to dodge taxes. Same can be done here.
Puh-leaze. Have you seen TickTok? Half of my fellow American's can't answer what the capital of the US is, what two countries border us, and how many stars there are on the flag. I wish I was kidding.

We've raised and trained the next generation to feel very strongly about many things, understand very little and believe they can define what "truth" is instead of discovering it.
>Why would anyone hire someone just to make sure they stayed busy<

This happens _constantly_. It is a side effect of how the promotion ladder in the management profession typically works at large companies: your likelihood of being promoted to the next grade depends entirely on a small number of metrics one of which is how many people you manage.

I actually have been documenting a very strong example of this for a book I have been thinking about writing about what destroyed a high flyer after the dotcom. After the collapse of the dotcom, one group, which had the CEO's ear as "the project that will save us" had effectively unlimited headcount even while the rest of the company was in cuts-and-freeze mode for 2+ years, and because of the headcount = promotion issue, they hired armies of people that they were barely even interviewing. The project ended up 2-4 years late depending on whether you count the first release as a viable product (it wasn't).

I have seen this behavior in every single large company I have worked for. I'm not going to give more details because it would ID me, but this is very common and I was in a position to witness it with actual data, not just a leaf node engineer telling myself stories about why XXX got a promotion to VP or whatever.
(Context: I'm a VC)

Some great points in the post, but I also see a few additional dynamics at play:

1) The last 10 years have been great for VCs and startups, but now VCs are thinking about how to make their funds last longer. Two reasons for this: first, time diversification matters. If you think markets might go down even more, you don't want to deploy the rest of your fund quickly, you want to spread it out over a few years and get a good average cost basis. Second, there's a healthy fear among VCs that LP capital will be much harder to secure in the next 1-2 years. And you don't want to deploy the rest of your current fund in the next 6 months if you won't have a new fund ready to go for 18 months.

2) Most VCs (and founders) hate down rounds. So a lot of existing companies are stuck because they previously raised at $X valuation, and now the market price is $0.75X, and either the VC doesn't want to push for a down round or a founder won't accept it, or both.

3) Aaron mentions this in the blog post, but everyone is worried about downstream investors. Our fund is big enough to lead a seed round, but it can't put a dent in a Series A, so we depend on Series A investors eventually backing our seed companies. And Series A investors often depend on Series B investors to invest a lot in the next round. And so on. If the entire growth stage market grinds to a halt -- and it seems like it basically has -- then early stage investors start worrying about making new investments because there's way less downstream funding available. So even if a seed VC believes this is an amazing time to build a company and there are lots of great seed opportunities out there, they might still slow down investing a lot if they know their companies will need more funding and that funding doesn't seem to be there right now.

4) I've been a VC for about a decade, and the gap between VC and founder valuation expectations is greater than it's ever been during that time. 3 months ago, a median seed round was at $20m post, and a lot were at $25m-$30m post. Now I still see a lot of seed founders looking for $20m-$30m post, but a lot of VCs believe we should be back to 2020 valuations of $10m-$15m post. The gap between an expectation of, say, $13m post on one side and $25m post on the other side is huge, and lots of conversations never even begin because of that mismatch.
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The company representative described it as remote. The journalist described it as in a strip mall just off the highway in Augusta. Augusta is the capital.

It would not surprise me if the store couldn't hire workers because of a reputation for poor working conditions. It would not surprise me if call outs and lack of availability were proportional to excessive call ins from an under staffed store.
I’ve been using generative models as an art form in and of themselves since the mid/late 2010s. I like generating mundane things that bump right up along the edge of the uncanny valley and finding categories of images that challenge the model (e.g. for CLIP, phrases that have a clear meaning but are infrequently annotated).

Generating itself can be art. I’m not going to win a Pulitzer here, it’s for the personal joy of it, but I will certainly never get tired of it.
Thanks for this! A bit of prompt engineering know-how will help me get the most bang for the buck out of this beta. I also just want to say that dallery.gallery is delightfully clever naming.
It's bizarre that anybody takes it seriously. After 10 seconds it is blatantly obvious they are shoveling insulting flamebait. You don't even have to pick a side- just look at the emotionally charged language.
School children don't cross roads inside classrooms.

There's enough concern to go around to work at improving both.
Whatever the real percentage is, those people deeply lack logic and critical thinking skills if they anticipate a civil war.
I agree that this is by far the biggest problem, but I don’t see it leading to a large scale conflict for one reason. The system favors the current political elite. Notice that neither party every really talks about legitimate electoral reform. They talk about voting reform, but not the way our elections actually work. No one is talking about removing fptp, or the electoral college/senate, or moving to a proportional representation system. Without politicians to rally the masses it’s hard to see enough support.
Toxic developers considered harmful (2016)
sorry I just made this site this morning to post this article. it's just a simple node-http server! I don't write much :)
If you're having to actively shape your real life to accommodate your work life then you should be compensated (Not attending events / bringing your computer with you to dinner, etc). Do firefighters only get paid for the amount of time actively fighting fires?
Are there any companies out there that will pay the normal rate?

Google is the only place I've ever worked that will compensate for oncall, and even then it's at 2/3 for Tier 1 or 1/3 for Tier 2.
I've been thinking it, but I haven't seen someone else write it - see ya in 2025 Belter.
People just need to get off social media for 6 months, and stop watching the news - and they'll be just fine.
This can include that porn you were watching in your mobile browser the night before. Ya know, theoretically.
Shrinking microstock rates already killed it.
According to their website, he left that board in 2020.

https://ar2020.rzd.ru/en/corporate-governance/board-director...
> which means they depend on the job market, which varies by location

Aren't you commenting on a post about remote work? Their job market is global (within limitations.)
Hmmm, what about these 10 or so comments of iPhone users with various cars?