skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that gives me comfort is that there is a difference between what they say on a poll, and what they actually do.

Plenty of people are willing to say "I am willing to commit violence" on social media. My gut feeling is that if 4% say they will shoot someone, < 0.4% will actually do it.
Regex isn't difficult?!?! Maybe I don't have the same big-brains that you folks do, but the more I study these, the more confused I seem to wind up becoming.
wish != anticipate
And who would be fighting? Where would they fight?

Twitter doesn't count!
The voting system in the US (FPTP) is fundamentally unfair. Combine with post-red-map gerrymandering, it is becoming obvious even to the people "on the wings" that our election system fundamentally disenfranchises large swathes of the population. As a short hand, think "Democrats and Independents in red states" and "Republicans and Independants in blue states".

Being disenfranchised sucks. The system is designed to prevent you from having any ability to even change the system by using the system.

If everything is "ok", then people just ignore the political system. Buuuut... when people get scared (reasonably, or not), and the system is fundamentally unfair, their only option is violence.
I mean, waifu2x and similar waifuxx libraries are free and open-source, there's really no reason to pay for it if you're working on a desktop.
The whole point of an NFC chip is to allow this sort of thing. I don't see how anyone can think it's a good idea to make Apple entitled to set arbitrary payment processing fees for all NFC payments on an Apple device.
Just to be clear, though:

Grandpa has a senior exemption that reduces his property tax, and if he is also low-income he also gets a senior tax freeze that keeps his taxes low enough to pay them. If his health was failing and things were really, really tight money-wise he could apply to not pay his taxes at all and instead put a lien on his property that gets paid when he passes and the kids sell it.

High taxes don't have to be cruel. The real question is - what are they doing with the money? Are you getting a good value from your taxes? I mean, everyone knows that these governments are wasteful. But they are still spending the money on things. It's happening. Do you get any value from that?

I just moved out of Chicago last year. I am not going to claim that Chicago is well run or a model of efficiency. But they have a lot of programs that they spend money on. The library system in Chicago is incredible. It is undeniably world class. Where I live now, youth hockey costs $500 for a session. In Chicago, it was $175 - with better coaches and the random NHL player showing up to show how to do drills and such. Piano lessons cost twice as much. The list goes on. But you know, grandpa is probably not taking piano lessons or playing hockey. So maybe he's not getting the best deal. I don't know.
Unacceptable. Make sure that the file is there but empty if nobody needs to get money. If empty could be a failure case, have a 'this page intentionally left blank' type arrangement for the file contents. Done, no monitor exceptions.
The price of Coke is influenced by logistics but ultimately it's determined by the market (supply and demand), exactly the same as your work, that's capitalism.

What's the market in this context is of course the interesting question.
Ford Plans Up to 8k Job Cuts to Help Fund EV Investment
Most likely they just take the one from bing. Or, if they trained a better one, it goes vice versa sooner or later
Fortunately there is no need to start a war over federal vs state power, given that the current supreme court is ruling in favor of state power, in recent court cases.
Eh, I hear ya but there's also multiple ripple on effects. Like, the stop density on MAX is just too high. It needs to be more arterial between transit centers, rather than trying to move people 4 blocks between stops through most of downtown. But making that workable means some sort of more high density connector fanning out from it than our system currently handles. Too much of the city core has these redundant routes of multiple modes each trying to have the same stop density.
My favourite thing about bluetooth is how when i drive past my missus car randomly, my phone connects to it, and my podcasts play in her car :/
Kraken operates in over 60 countries (according to their website). They pay the same amount across all those territories, including benefits etc.? I find that hard to believe.
There seem to be REST apis that are specific to Gitlab/Github like [0].

There's also isomorphic-git [1], which is git client implemented in Javascript.

[0]: https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-13-a-simpler-api-for-a...
[1]: https://isomorphic-git.org/
> it would cause an insane amount of churn to try to make changing service names as easy as changing internal class names

It's easier to change your service name that a class name or method in a popular library used by millions of developers, and it is done because it's the only thing that makes sense.

Can you imagine that your framework class to store data was named "Mercury" and the one to manage HTTP connections "Saturn"? Nobody would use such a thing.

Good descriptive names help to use software properly. If you cannot change a service name because it's too costly, review your development process.
https://maps.org/
The civil war happened because the abolition of slavery threatened the wealth and power of Southern elites. It was about wealth. I just don't see a similar situation right now.
I would be interested in seeing of who would be willing to fight in a civil war how many of them are physically able to fight in a war.

Also, how many are capable of organizing a civil war. How many are willing to take orders that would send them off to die for the cause. How many are willing to take orders at all.

Final test would be how many people are willing to just sit outside in August heat for an hour with no internet.
Most of them will likely end up in few hotspots causing gentrification there, but there will be plenty of fine places left. Europe isn't _that_ small.
I guess I was coming at it from a 'romantic way to express commitment to someone else'. I now realize I have the wrong audience here.

Do you really think by not being married the State isn't in your affairs? Now THAT is a bizarre statement.
A large fraction of people will shoot if someone they deem an authority figure says they have to and gives them a good reason to justify it.
> My problem is with ad-tech and more generally all other developers.

Perhaps without Apple taking the 30% cut, and with the possibility of new app stores that are designed differently from the current App Store, the economics of mobile apps might shift so that there could be third party app stores that cater to users willing to pay for apps up front.

Rather than the current situation that is a race to the bottom as the majority apps are free or freemium, supported either by that intrusive adtech or by in-app purchases that range from subscriptions to outright scams or loot boxes.

> users lose and any new technology is used to fingerprint people on the web

User data tracking is also of great concern to regulators. I doubt they will sit still while third party app stores collect user data. Those app stores will still be subject to regulation, even if it's not Apple's own oversight.
Said no one EVER!
Just in my hometown, the local newspaper has gone from employing 400 people with a Sunday circulation around 100,000 in the early 2000s, to a Sunday circulation under 20,000 with fewer than 20 employees today.

All business functions, as well as printing, design, editing etc. have been eliminated or outsourced. Mid-size local newspapers are a scant shadow of their former selves, full of filler and national wire articles from USA Today, NYT and other major metros.

Television news has always primarily been fed by newspaper reporting. Without the depth and breadth of reporting that once was available for television to narrate and play some b-roll over (and with the advent of news as 24 hour entertainment source,) most television news is built on tiny nuggets of new information surrounded with pundits speculating about what things might mean, or what might happen.

Without robust local journalism, no one is covering your local county board meeting, that controversial school board meeting. No one is calling these people and asking them hard questions about their stance.

Social media seems to be filling the gaps, but in my opinion it's filling the gaps with vitriol, opinion, misinformation and a general sense of helplessness, instead of a sense of authority that speaks truth to power and shines light in dark corners.
Do you have a guide for this that you'd recommend?
Online: Google alerts saved as RSS feeds that I subscribe to in my reader (Inoreader), and then niche twitter accounts or subreddits that can exist and contain good intel and opinions.
In person: network with people in the industry and have candid conversations, maybe some light quid pro quo intel sharing (above board, nothing confidential)
Well, presidential systems like the US has mostly don't remain democratic for that long, we were lucky to have the spoils system moderating ideological conflict for most of our history and a period of unusually low polarization in the time since it ended. We've been seeing round of constitutional hardball like regular use of filibusters on every bill by the opposition that would have been unthinkable in 2000. But on the other hand we don't have senators seriously trying to kill each other on the senate floor like we did before the actual Civil War so as pessimistic as I am I'd be very surprised if things got as far as a civil war within the next decade. I wouldn't rule out a serious constitutional crisis though.

EDIT: I'd highly recommend How Democracies Die, The Revolt of the Public, and Why We're Polarized for understanding the current circumstances.
The Civil War was preceded by a constitutional issue divided geographically. The question of slavery in new states was forced by pro-slavery presidents, congressman, and justices. They sought to erase all middle ground, the tenuous bridge maintaining the union. Once it came to blows, the geography of slavery allowed the slavery states to band together.

The upshot is that not all of these factors seem possible at once today.
> give business users access to their marketing or advertising performance data on the platform

Is it what Facebook was crying about when iOS hardened its privacy?
It does via inflation which is why it's rising faster than the pre-covid trend
It's as simple as Jobs thinking people would like a free album, but they had no mechanism to "offer" an album, so they just added the entitlement to everyone's accounts. Then they had no mechanism to "remove" an entitlement, because why would anyone want to remove content that they "bought"?
> For a reality check, consider that 1/8th of respondents said they would be willing to commit political violence themselves and 7.1% of respondents said they'd be willing to kill someone over politics.

God help us. It's almost impressive how biased this sample is. I'm dying to know what else the "Ipsos KnowledgePanel" thinks. Will report back with any eye rollers.
"They're the writers of their own press releases, Morty."
Lacking Motivation, Magnus Carlsen Will Give Up World Chess Title
The last one was for States' rights to indefinitely expand the right to keep slaves. The Southern states (slaveholders) feared violent slave rebellions.
Applets and Flash are dead though, right?
But baby drawers were created precisely to decrease bottle feeding and encourage breastfeeding (and did).
Honstly I got so tired of american drama and american doom and irrelevant news, I cleaned all my socials from american news, and started following more international ones.

It gives a more global perspective and only covers things that are important, also I follow tech websites like the absolutely awesome "The Register".

Now all I hear about the US is someone got shot or there is a new school shooting, which is actually important although its a bit ridiculous that its like a daily occurrence at this point.

In general, the US is so divided, its starting to look something will happen, maybe a bigger jan 6.
On my old car, deleting the music app prevented the shitty radio from detecting that my “iPod” (aka iPhone) was even connected, so I had to have the Music app installed even if I wanted to play Spotify.
Yep I think you might be right. It's ultimately too much of a risk to all sorts of powers to have open unfettered real time communication and mass dissemination.

Even the "good guys" will call emergency that will never end.

Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. An intellectual Cambrian explosion. And all that porn!
Don't think alternative words quite convey the same meaning/weight.

Something like pénible for example doesn't feel quite equal, more something I'd use to describe someone. Bassinant would not quite feel as heavy as well.
Barber/barbe may be.

Overall chiant/faire chier is just much more common and conveys the meaning quite well and accurately when it comes to work.
Maybe your services are just too big?

I have seen classes with tens of thousands of lines, it was not good. Too big services are equally error prone and hard to work with.
That doesn’t really add up. Like many things, wartime deferred maintenance and demand shifts disrupted capital intensive businesses like streetcars and trolleys.

The thing that you’re missing is the multi-trillion dollar investment in free road infrastructure. Streetcars and passenger trains were replaced because you can’t make money selling tickets when your competitors benefit from the unlimited purchasing power of the US government.

The only places that were spared were urban areas like NYC and Boston, but even there the cities were almost destroyed by that massive investment.

I think calling this a conspiracy theory is a way to marginalize and revise reality. It was a strategy that maximized employment and drove a half century of US industrial dominance and prosperity. But it had a cost and fundamental inefficiency that remains difficult to measure.
eh...America is way too big (territorially) for civil war.

I mean, how would you even organise it?

There's not two sides which could cohere into organised military forces. Worst scenario will be an increase in temperature to what we already have now - anti-federalists who might engage in intimidation, street fights with rival groups and perhaps acts of sabotage and terrorism. In the grand scheme of things, fairly low wattage stuff
This assumption (which is largely correct) gets thrown out the window when the entire tranche of supply is hit with a cost increase all at the same time (and every participant knows it).

The point of this "margin" you mention gets rather deterministically and uniformily raised across the board.
> It forced a reduction in the out-of-control government spending

No, it didn't. California just kept adding taxes everywhere else to make up the difference and still had an annual deficit most of the 13 years I lived there.

> It saved seniors from losing their houses

Why are seniors magically allowed to be immune to basic market forces when no one else is?
> I'm not sure anyone deserves the privilege to live where they want as long as they want.

You'll grow older and possibly understand. There are things that must be experienced, they can't be learned in any other way.
I could see Christian Nationalists making waves, but those are 1% of society? Secular Progressives are non violent by creed(small joke), so I just don't see that happening.
Poor vs rich? I see poor on all sides of the issue, hard to see that happening.
property taxes are used to pay for services that the local government provides. when property taxes are high, it means that either the local government is proving more services, the local government is in debt and needs to raise taxes to finance its debt, or the cost of those basic services has risen. At the end of the day your local government needs to spend almost every penny it gets. If they have extra money, they are going to spend it on stupid things like tanks for the police.

High property taxes will make housing cheaper, but it wouldn't make housing affordable. Sure that house might only costs 100k but with a 2k per month property tax, no one can afford it.
People on the left are viscous critics of the democratic machine politicians. Pointing to them isn't an effective critique because: yes I agree. Liars and crooks all of them.

Running to the right and embracing authoritarianism is much preferable to the politicians than, say, a general strike and a unionization movement. Which would actually harm the people in power instead of squishing those at the bottom.
GDPR enforcement is getting better. But yeah man nutri-score is really flawed.
"agreed" in this paper, though, includes all responses above "do not agree" -- they gave four possible answers: "do not agree", "somewhat agree", "strongly agree", and "very strongly agree". Many people will choose "somewhat agree" to mean "well, I mean, it could happen".

(Normally, you wouldn't want to so heavily skew your responses towards "agree" by having two "strongly agrees" but zero "strongly disagrees")
I don't think a German user writing "pile of cookies", in English, would be disappointed with "English" results. Is that any different than what you get on, say, Google?

Try prompting craiyon for "Ein Stapel Kekse"* :)

* Google-translated
I'm not sure how accurate it is, but I've heard it said only 3% of Americans actually fired a weapon in the American Revolution (and likely the Civil War as well). Still those unfit to fight did often fulfill a role by supporting the economic engines supplying those who did fight.
Hasn't 60% of the population of Texas expected a civil war soon for the last 100 years? And what are those rebel flags all about? It's posturing. Just like all of those surveys that say 50% of tech workers anticipate quitting this year.

Nearly all the places that talk about secession are the same states that generate less federal tax revenue than they spend. Which is both why it would be a terrible idea, and why people get upset about it. Few people who know they are getting a handout enjoy having everybody else know it, and it makes them bristly.
>the largest generation ever, the baby boomers

At present, there are more living Millenials than Boomers.[0]

[0]https://www.statista.com/statistics/296974/us-population-sha...
Jumping straight from one tax regimen to another is a recipe for suffering, sure.

Instead, we might imagine a State shifting from 10% income tax to N% land value tax, by lowering the income tax 1% per year, and raising the LVT 1 * (N/10)% per year, until a decade later, the State's income is land value tax, not income tax.

That should give everyone the opportunity to make plans, and adjust over time.
I see now, thanks!

I'm getting more optimistic as I look into the details. Open messaging could be interesting, for instance.
> I'm no anti-government squish, but there is no evidence, and a lot of countervailing evidence, that local governments can effectively (or even non-harmfully) make policy to influence the housing mix.

I disagree. No planning has lead to many ghettos. The planning we've done here has avoided ghettos. I think the data is very clear on that.

> When it comes to housing construction and tax incentives, what they need to do is (1) set tax incentives to discourage egregious misuse and encourage density, and (2) get out of the way.

Except as I've been saying, if you encourage too much density your cities become unlivable for families, and you encourage urban sprawl and all of it's subsequent problems.

> the idea that we need to carefully control the mix of 1bdr apartments vs 3bdr apartments is... risible?

Who said anything about "carefully controlling" anything? Certainly not me.
I agree, crypto and fintech will be the first dominos to fall - they’re in free fall already.

There’s a lot of copycat B2B startups that extremely dependent on crypto and fintech for their revenue. They will be the next domino to fall.

After that, it would be infrastructure, security, and analytics vendors that will face a revenue crunch and will be unable to raise another round of funding. And then, all the startups for startups vendors like Rippling and Brex.

And the final domino would be currently well funded private companies such as Airtable, Notion, Loom, and possibly even Figma. We’ll learn that none of these products had any significant traction outside of VC-land.

This would be even worse for the Bay Area than 2000. Remote work is still the norm here (I’m typing this on my lunch break in my nearly empty SF office). An economic downturn coupled with destigmatized remote work is an environment ripe for outsourcing.
People will almost murder people wearing the opposite sports team attire in america. The police have shown they wont protect you and are under no obligation to as well. So when things keep going sideways, rent, food, energy, and inflation soars, the division will keep growing until we get a breaking point. Look at the LA riots, and tell me you can't see that playing out again, only this time with social media, cell phones, and many more guns.
Do you not include EMDR under "Talk Therapy"? If so, you may also want to explore practitioners of SFBT (solution-focused brief therapy) and somatic experiencing therapy. They do involve conversation, but not necessarily directly about the trauma trigger itself.
On Killing by Dave Grossman explores the research backing up your friend's assertion in depth. I highly recommend that book to anyone whose interest is piqued by your comment.
I don't think most civil wars involve a high percentage of the population as combatants. Victims, maybe, but not combatants. So I don't think it's necessary that anywhere near half the population engage in fighting, for us to have one.
This generates a lot more questions than it answers, does it say more about people or more about media? I hate television news no matter what. I guess it gets worse, but I don't know that I've ever had high confidence in television media. Do people trust the sources they perceive as biased towards their own interest better? Do lefists trust Jacobin but rate written news lowly because they think NYTimes? Same on the right with breitbart.

We created our media and our politics. I don't love our politics or our media, but they seems totally in line with my perception of where our population is at. If people hate it so much, why does it seem more ubiquitous than ever. I guess what people say they want and what people consume are different. "I fucking hate all this click-bait I keep clicking on"
nightcafe.studio is also free and good. Very good.
> It also starts to bother me quite a bit when we go from treating everyone equal before the law to creating certain requirements based on other factors.

Uh, are you secretly longing for filing the paperwork required to obtain Title V Operating Permit for a major air emission source, or is there some other reason you oppose the idea that different things will have to follow different laws?

Personally I think most people will agree that a company with 150000 employees (Google) is not the same thing as one with 750 (tinder).
More like rural Texas invading Austin.