skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat interesting that they don't provide the standard "breakdown" of responses by gender, age, political affiliation, etc. Perhaps those breakdowns would be ... troubling?
And with a single article, science.org loses all credibility. Nobody wants war and nobody wants to fight against the US Military. It wouldn't even be a civil war, it would be a containment of traitors using mostly drones.
Given how weird some of the internet surveys have been in the past year, I don't take singular polls all that seriously.

While you're right that polling that has traditionally been spot-on, or very close in the past has occasionally been way off in the last five to ten years.

However, isn't Ipsos a fairly well-respected organization in its field? The kind with enough experience and resources to account for any kind of biases?

I'd like to see another big polling organization as the same questions and see if the results are the same.

4% of respondents were pretty sure they were going to kill someone soon

So, if there's a 4% margin of error, it's could be either 8%, or 0%.
This is absolutely amazing. Thanks!
Or, since they are comparing to Craiyon, why not just finetune Craiyon itself? Craiyon already exists, just take it off the shelf, you don't need to retrain it from scratch, so the cost to train it from scratch on everything (which is indeed quite large) is not relevant to someone who just wants to generate great food photos.
> Groups are not seeing eye to eye on the fundamental role of government

I wish it were that. Having differing opinions on the fundamental role of government would be a good thing in a normal, functioning political environment.

What's going on now is that each side fundamentally believes the other side is rigging the system against them. Trump-siding conservatives believe (provably false, I might add) that the voting system is "rigged". Those on the left believe (but, this is actually provably true) that the voting system is also "rigged", albeit that "rigged" here is exactly how the Constitution intends (e.g. a voter in a small state has a vote worth ~50x a voter in a large state in the Senate, and that the winner of the presidential popular vote has twice in the last six elections lost in the electoral college).
Where does it happen like that? I. California we stopped local school funding with Serrano v Priest 50 years ago
> Social media seems to be filling the gaps,

It's like we went from having town hall meetings/debates to bar fights.
I was responding to the claim that companies were treated unequally, which OP claimed was unjust. I'm simply stating that treating companies equitably, not equally, is just.

I understand that awareness of the importance of treating individuals equitably rather than equally has been increased in light of the increasingly public discourse on civil inequity, but these words have always existed outside that context to mean what they do.

The meaning of "equity" in a legal context according to the american heritage dictionary [0]: Justice achieved not simply according to the strict letter of the law but in accordance with principles of substantial justice and the unique facts of the case.

Not seeing how that requires me to anthropomorphise corporations.

Also, I kindly ask you to extend a bit of respect my way and not imply that I suffer from a mental illness because you disagree with me. It's not very civil.

[0] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/equity
Spend 7 years in a fever pitch screaming the worst partisan things you possibly can, and eventually even the people inside your filter bubble will start wondering... where is that evidence of Russian collusion that was 24x7 coverage for 3 years?

I thought that whole Hunter Biden thing was disinformation? We literally banned it from the internet! Wasn't that... and the whole lab leak thing supposed to be the delusions of right-wing whack-jobs?

Didn't the Buffoon President committed the worst faux pas ever in front of the Japanese prime minister? Didn't he say Charlottesville racists are OK? Hold on, if I do five minutes of research, I find some disturbing video in the moments preceding the video I was shown.

The media sound like literal sixth-grade children talking smack about the seventh-graders. The level of discourse is unbelievably immature.

I'm only surprised because I know so many intelligent people that are so deep into the filter bubble they haven't lost confidence yet. I'm glad enough people are paying attention to tell Gallup they are on to the ruse.
I think six months is a pretty unreasonable time frame for Apple. While the security concerns around this sort of thing are often overblown, Apple will need to rework their security model for the iPhone. If there is an API surface between the OS and the App Store, they may need to rework it since it's not been designed with third party stores in mind.
> A second "civil war" is more likely to be terrorist campaigns like the IRA conducted rather than a war like the one the that northern states fought against southern states a century and a half ago.

Given the number of mass shootings and who is usually behind them, you could say this has been already happening for years.
And that pause button is never visible by default in CarPlay. Ya gotta hit the menu button in the bottom left a couple times.
I somewhat follow news, but try to just stick to science and medical news. I was in cancun recently and a employee at the hotel said she was sad to hear about the shooting. I didn't even know there was a shooting-- there are too many to even follow sometimes. It was a weird feeling
By far the most likely actual kind of conflict is just an expansion of what we've already seen in the last decade or two: states or municipalities of one color refusing to comply with the other color's legal mandates, and states forming color alliances against each other.

For example, California has prohibited any official or municipality in the State doing any business or sending any representatives to the red States. None of the red States have done exactly that thing, but, for example, red border States are exploring programs that, for example, bus illegal migrants into blue States.

This sort of behavior will probably escalate.
Europe creates consumers, who buy and use goods and services. They are literally providing something of value to Apple and tech companies.
I had a problem with the combination of Google Meet, my bluetooth headphones (Aftershokz), and Mac OS Monterey. It would keep beeping and putting it on hold. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-automatic-... was the workaround for me, and also in Zoom I disabled "automatically adjust microphone volume". Frustrating.

I have a separate problem where if my computer goes to sleep or goes out of range, the headphones keep beeping until I turn them off. :-/ But this seems specific to the one I'm using and hasn't happened with my others.
sounds like you really havent done much investigation besides being told that.
Except it happens randomly with headsets, whether bluetooth (Bose QC35) or wired (EarPods)
Yes I think it's pretty obvious that the 99% are on the side of "no civil war" but there are accelerationist groups who are trying to start one.
You can delete Apple Music from your phone, but that can break BT Audio playback on some devices.
10% also score too low on IQ tests to be accepted into the Army
Voting for a ruler isn’t really the same as choosing what regulations and standards work for you. First you only have two or three possible rulers to select from. Second, they rarely change, for example every few years or decades sometimes. Third, even if you favorite ruler is eventually in power, you still don’t control their thinking or actions.
I don't like how they're charging money for Dalle, yet they don't have an API available.
Cost is typically measured per passenger km or some such. Ferryboats can come out cheap if there are enough people on them. I'm not aware of anyone using helicopters for mass transit. Airplanes are very cheap for long distance service.
I'm mixed on this because it seems people trusted the media too much in the old days, seems naive. But now clearly there are lots of people/governments that are trying to reduce peoples believe in all institutions, including media.
I'm assuming they are referencing the somewhat contentious Milgram Experiment.
Hey! Thank you so much for your networking guide! It's my go to reference for socket programming and it is the documentation that I pointed my students to when I was giving a networking course :).

Not directly related but while you're here: you should _really_ add Marcus Rediker's Villains of all nations to your Pirates reading list. I highly recommend it! It's the best pirates' book ever =).
I wonder if this perspective is colored by the American Civil War experience. Run-of-the-mill civil war has nothing to do with traditional military objectives. Rather, it is a messy business where various factions viciously fight over turf, often times eliminating populations with (perceived) allegiances to other faction(s) from the territory they control. See Lebanon, Yugoslavia, ISIS, etc.
Do you know of any basic nix tutorials that skip the non-flake world? I'm not sure that they exist, but I think they could be really helpful. A lot of confusion when adopting flakes seems to come from the fact that the terrible UX of the old nix commands doesn't map cleanly to the (not perfect but visibly improved) new commands.

Why learn this...

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.hello

...when you can learn this instead?

nix profile install nixpkgs#hello
Maybe mail in voting wasn't such a great idea, when so many people don't trust the results. In person voting, paper ballot, simplest and most transparent.
An excellent free Android version is also available: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chr...

These are wonderful logic puzzles and particularly good implementations of them. For instance, their Minesweeper guarantees that it is solvable - you will never have a 50/50 choice you cannot identify.
Bar fight? They can't even put mask on. Good luck following orders and combat readiness.
If you’re technically inclined, I urge you to explore some newer Colabs being shared in this space. They offer vastly more configurable tools, work great for free on Google Colab, are straightforward to run on a local machine.

Meanwhile we should prepare ourselves for a future where the best generative models cost a lot more as these companies slice and dice the (huge) burgeoning market here.
Subtract all women and children, and all men over about age 30 or unfit for some reason. That doesn't get you to 3%, but that's the maximum number who would be involved.
There are christian fascists out there that would like to. Whether they'd play a big role in any civil war is a different question.
How do we distinguish between: "VCs are are selected because they go to school X", "school X is good at creating VCs", and "school X receives more potential VCs"?

My guess is probably more statements 2 and 3 for the usual suspects eg Stanford
That’s not how it work, is it? You can trick people into installing Chrome, and once that’s done, they won’t switch back, unless Apple tries to trick them. I can already hear the outcry when that happens.
No, just very happy hacker backers. I've been messing with mine for the past few hours now and love it.
Presumably GitLab will stop using local prices and cost of living when continuing to use them gets in the way of hiring developers they'd like to hire. As of now, it seems that it's working for them.

If we enter a world where most SWEs work remotely and few other companies are paying location-based, we might see GitLab change their tune. For now, they're competing first and foremost against local jobs.
I would argue that today, the median partisan of both political colors is of the belief that Democracy is at risk, today, because their opposition color is ignoring the rules, not playing fairly, and generally wants bad things to happen to people of their political color.

I've seen an awful lot of posts by both flavors of political partisans that "we're already in a war, we're just losing because we refuse to fight back"
"If you automatically update your dependencies all the time, you will constantly get new bugs, issues and sometimes even malware.

If you don't update your dependencies all the time, you will be vulnerable to old bugs and issues."

>has no meaningful answer to this...a sane industry this realization would lead to a change of the paradigm

This sounds like gene mutation and evolutionary selection pressure. It's sort of a fundamental aspect of the universe no?
There may not really be a meaningful "answer" to this in principle just various half-measures to muddle along and adapt to this reality, survival of the fittest in a sense.
> ... it is hard to think of a competitor in all of history more dominant over his sport or game than Tinsley.

I've got another one: famous hold 'em poker player Stu Ungar never lost a game of gin rummy. Utterly dominant.
Something like the rural Taliban blitzkrieg into Kabul?
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After the summer of 2020 I wouldn't be shocked things sprial out of control fast
If a civil war happens, the blame will be on (1) social media and (2) politicians using topics such as abortion and guns to divide people in order to get votes. But politicians leveraging divisive topics to get votes is not new. What is new is social media. In the old days news was filtered, vetted and verified by reputable news services before being distributed. Now because of social media everyone is a publisher, and lies and conspiracy theories spread before truth has a chance to get its pants on. The events of Jan 6 shows what can happen if a large percentage of the citizenry believes the lies. If this continues unchecked a civil war is not outside the realms of possibility.
> the rest.

It's often missed that "the rest" includes plausible deniability. As states become ever more infatuated with surveillance, this is going to become extremely important.
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> it takes just as much time to learn what "Ernest" does as it takes to learn what "shipping" does.

If that is right we should apply it everywhere, as it does not matter. My method many is going to be PeterPan and the class name Wonderland. It's as easy to learn as a descriptive name.
a. Germany had recently lost a long and bloody war.
b. The managing classes of Germany hadn't really bought in to the republic.
> They can stay in Apple ecosystem

Nope, Adobe will make sure all its apps require Adobe App Store. Same for Facebook with Whatsapp. No more stupid Apple store restrictions, yay!!
I'd be interested in how people of other countries see the situation in the US, particularly people living in regions that have devolved into civil war situations in the last thirty-ish years.

For what it's worth, the US have been judged as a "high risk" country for social unrest escalations even before the current mess with inflation, the bogus "stolen election" claims, the open partisanship of the Supreme Court and barely after the George Floyd murder [1]. I would not be surprised if a more recent study similarly based on quantifiable data would indicate an even greater risk factor... and depending on how the elections in November this year and especially 2024 turn out, IMHO there is a definitive and massive risk of widespread unrest.

The Republican voter base is riled up on the "stolen election" claims - 70% of them believe Joe Biden is not the legitimate US President [2]. It is possible that the Republicans manage to gain control of the Senate this year, but (assuming the Democrats put up a halfway decent candidate, which means neither Biden, Clinton nor Harris!) they may not win the Presidential election in 2024. And at that point, the situation can get really nasty really fast. Republicans are already openly thinking of putting up laws allowing state legislative bodies to overturn electoral college votes, Trump's associates attempted to subvert the electoral college process [3], and we've seen on Jan 6th that it was not just Congress which was threatened by violent protesters but also other parliaments. Both of these scenarios are something that can serve as a trigger for massive outrage.

Add on top of that the risk of unpredictable event chains like yet another school shooting with a dozen kids ending up dead or yet another instance of a police officer getting filmed executing someone on camera... I would not want to live in the US in these times.

Please let me say one thing as a German here: Take care of your democracy and protect it. The history of my ancestors should be more than enough proof where a catastrophic loss of trust in democracy can end up.

[1] https://www.maplecroft.com/insights/analysis/us-named-as-hig...

[2] https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/70-percent-republ...

[3] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/27/politics/fake-electors-ex...
If I search for “food” I don’t want to see a slice of pizza every time, even if that’s the #1 food. I want to see some variety.

I think you’re jumping to quickly to bad intentions. Injecting diversity of results is a sane thing to do, totally irrespective of politics.
Texas, but its more complex because we distribute tax revenue from wealthy districts to less wealthy districts. Its imperfect, to say the least.
It’ll be like The Troubles and you’ll think twice every time you ride a bus or go to a large social gathering.
A revolt isn't a civil war, though. Not that I know that people are making such fine distinctions in the poll.
The paper I was referring to is from 2020. She brings up MOND because she's explaining the alternatives to dark matter, and EFE is (as far as I know) an extension to MOND that was postulated Milgrom back in 1983.
Q2 - Tesla has announced they sold 75% of their Bitcoin
I think this is a worldwide phenomenon.

Usually one side of the political spectrum gets progressively reactionary (no pun intended) and extreme, while the rest of the political spectrum reacts mildly to that extremism.

The media then creates a bizarre narrative that there are in fact two warring political factions, both equally extreme, one the mirror image of the other. That is almost always a strange fantasy. There is really just one radical side in most countries right now, the rest are just trying to keep things sane.
>What would happen if all the bullshit work ended tomorrow?<

It can't. Some of the bullshit work is actually just to provide a bizarro-world downtime where you can't just tell people to take extra vacation because that is unthinkable: "fairness" complaints, worries that idle time makes people more likely to consider their options, and frankly the inconceivability of the idea in and of itself. So what you do is have this kind of idle time work that doesn't actually need to be done but keeps people busy. Think of it as the workplace version of engagement tweaking.

As a concrete example, in the ASIC space, the sub-teams involved routinely finish their part of the current generation, and in some cases the next generation work isn't ready to start yet. One thing startups used to do (and were still doing in my direct observation as recently as 4 years ago) was lay off their ASIC guys as they finished the current generation until they could see whether the chip was getting traction, and then they'd hurry up and hire for the next generation of so.

And so on.

What the companies eventually started doing by ~2000 was creating bullshit background work projects that were clearly, at least to most observers, either senseless (like bumping the generation for a low-volume ASIC where even just the mask costs would never be paid back if the project shipped) or speculative-but-not-productive projects.
I’d argue Jaywalking is probably one of biggest reasons traffic in India is so chaotic.

People simply walk on the street and it wrecks traffic flow, reducing all flow to stop and go with accompanying honking.

I, for one, wish jaywalking were treated as a crime on Indian streets.

Maybe then we’d fight to take back the pavements currently used by hawkers and for parking.

Side note: how does one reverse the tragedy of the commons? How do we make people treat roads and public areas like a shared resource?
I dunno about civil war, but I'm increasingly convinced the US is a failing state. Capital owners in a variety of sectors are siphoning off public money while paying next to no taxes. The introduction of unlimited money in political campaigns, the minoritarian rule by conservatives. Increasing theocracy and dissolution of church and state separation... Just to name a few things.

As a Canadian all of these things are extremely concerning, I can't imagine how Americans are feeling.
> This does add an extra bit to web-fingerprinting, it's only 1 bit.

Every single bit doubles the value so 1 bit could still be a lot.
If you know jQuery that's great, it is still the perfect drop-in libruary. It is stable, smaller than ever. You can do the same in vanilla javascript or jump into a framework ecosystem if you need to later.

jQuery UI feels outdatex