skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US actually has an additional issue on top of FPTP which as far as I know is unique among (supposed) democracies: a bicameral legislature where one of the houses requires a 60% supermajority to pass anything.

This is such an incredibly fundamental part of the US political system that it amazes me that it isn't more widely talked about. It means the US is effectively not able to pass any laws that are even mildly controversial, because it's the only (supposedly) democratic political system in the world where the opposition party has to consent to any law. This effectively disenfranchises everyone, and is the root cause for the comically over-powerful judiciary and executive (because the legislature is structurally incapable of properly doing its job, the other state organs have to take its place lest the country be completely ungovernable).

For some reason people really don't talk about this issue enough, and continue acting as though the legislature operates as it does in normal democracies, and then getting confused by its behavior. For example, lots of people ask "why doesn't the US ban guns" or "why doesn't the US legalize" abortion, and often just chalk this up to some moral failing of American culture and ideology, rather than recognizing the root cause of the issue: the US can't pass laws, at all, even broadly popular ones!

Given this issue, I feel like the US is best considered a hybrid regime like Hong Kong than an actual democracy. Although at least in Hong Kong, someone is in charge...
I am 100% sure that if I broke up with my girlfriend or boyfriend, I would not need to sign any official documents.
As far as I know, the procedure if we were married instead would be a bit more complicated (because of the involvement of the State).

If it were a "romantic way of expressing one's commitment to another person," it would be enough to throw a party with friends, read a couple of fashionable poems, sign a guest book instead of an official register, and not invite the State into private affairs.
That's the most fucked up thing here. The regions with the highest concentration of people upset about paying taxes overlaps almost exactly with the places that get the most excess benefit of taxes, typically in the range of 1.1:1 (which means many other places are seeing about 15% less benefit per capita).

A lot of that money goes to roads and infrastructure, so it's a little more dramatic than it sounds, but importation of goods would take a hit if those roads degraded, let alone if someone put Czech hedgehogs and foxholes at the state line because your stupid ass didn't look at the logistics of secession.

If you think Brexit was stupid, imagine Idaho deciding it didn't want food from out of state anymore.
If you think that Democrats don't own guns, you'd be dangerously mistaken. As for owning most of the land, shrug. Who cares. In a war, property deeds aren't worth the paper they're written on.
How many respondents were responding with their willingness to kill under the assumption that they were discussing a scenario in which a civil war was occurring i.e. "people with different political beliefs brought guns to your doorstep threatening you" as many people will be willing to defend themselves and those they love.
Funny, in France one of the region that want to secede, Corsica, is like the lazy and scammy region, which is basically living off handouts from the rest of the country.
This requires everyone else who works on your product to be embedded in and cognizant of the same pop culture as you.

Sorry, engineers who grew up in another country. Sorry, offshore QA team is going to be utterly baffled by your nomenclature. Sorry, college grad new hires.
> Why are seniors magically allowed to be immune to basic market forces when no one else is?

Because they have fixed incomes (generally). This income is immune to market forces. That's why.

While many elderly invested wisely (and at the right time) to become wealthy, especially when leveraging dips (like during the 80s), it doesn't change the average case. Living month to month on a fixed income is the norm after retirement.
That should be actionable as a breach of contract, with a notable exception of sovereign wealth funds, which may or may have immunity: https://www.reedsmith.com/en/perspectives/2013/11/capital-ca...
Anyone remember the Last Exit to Springfield forum?

The early 2000s were the heyday for the most exquisitely designed Simpsons websites. I often wondered how they made them look so good.
Absolutely agree. The amount of hate increased significantly over the last few decades. A lot of people became absolutely intolerant to other's views. Many of my friends stopped talking about politics, because it quickly becomes drama. I don't remember society being so divided before. This is very concerning.
It's not about giving preference to owner-occupants; it's about neutralizing the preference to landlords that would otherwise result.
Recent decisions by the supreme court.
Haha, I was in a very similar boat when I built https://novelgens.com -- I was also supposed to be making a video game, but got a bit sidetracked with VQGAN+CLIP and other text/image generation models.

Now I'm using that content in the video game. I wonder if you could use these articles as some fake news in your game, too. :)
Discord seems to have taken over
Absolutely. The Democratic news, as you termed it, is very much responsible for platforming what were, until now, what we'd consider much more fringe ideologies. At the very least they are helping to shift the Overton window in the wrong direction.
Crude oil is about 3% of global electricity production and continues falling. And the efficiency is particularly bad when you’re using it in a reciprocating engine (as on a ship) instead of a turbine (as on land). Natgas and coal are cheaper hydrocarbons.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.PETR.ZS

Oil’s benefit is its density, storability and pumpability.

All I know is that a giant ship is the most cost-effective way to transport anything heavy by vehicle.

A few percent improved efficiency in exchange for losing a handful of container capacity on a ship carrying several thousand is a net positive. And cargo shipping is a tight business.

Battery storage and conversion losses are far less than the conversion losses from generating electricity from an ICE.
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This is why people that have experienced war roll their eyes at these headlines.

A civil war means you will kill other people and also volunteer to die over something that was irreconcilable through *all* other means. It also means being able to distinguish in a crude and unsophisticated what team everyone is fighting on.
The current situation with abortion will pose a threat similar to the slavery divide. There's a clear division of states which allow it and those with bans. Some of the states with bans are threatening prosecution of women who cross state lines for the procedure.

There's a similar situation coming up regarding gay and trans rights. Some states will continue having equal rights. Other states may not. This situation will get even worse if the Supreme Court overturns gay marriage and sodomy law precedents.

All of this will create even further division. One of the harbingers of a coming civil war will be internal refugees and increased internal migration. If people start fleeing the red states in noticeable numbers, then that's the time to start getting worried. Especially if some of those fleeing make their moves suddenly. If you start seeing hundreds, or even thousands, who leave their homes in the middle of the night to escape, then you know something bad is coming.

There's already a trickle of such people. A few in Texas did just that. Parents of trans kids who wanted to get away from a situation where the state posed a threat. And they felt like they had to leave immediately with no notice to anyone. We'll start to see more of this if some states decide to ramp up prosecutions of women and investigations into miscarriages.
That's what happens when journalists think their primary job is activism for their obviously correct worldview, rather than, you know, reporting.
I haven't heard much talk of Californians dreaming of becoming independent, but maybe I'm traveling in the wrong circles. What I have heard is people talking smack about kicking California out, and taking 10% of the US GDP with it. Which would be dumb for the rest of us.
Central planners 2.0, welcome to the soviet union.
Whatever you feel about NFTs or cryptocurrency, it's quite obvious that they are 100% lying about the reason they are doing this.

The real reason is that cryptocurrency makes it relatively easy for people to transact without Microsoft taking a cut. That's it.

Minetest had no such restrictions by the way.
WordPerfect is not only still around, a new version came out in 2021
This is what scares me off from Nix every single time. Even the biggest Nix fans keep saying that the docs are terrible. When I do try Nix people say “oh don’t do it that way, even though that’s what the docs say, now the way to do it is this new way.” I can never imagine how Nix is going to help me enough to make it worthwhile to endure this hazing.
You can uninstall Apple Music.
At least there's that saving grace.
I don't think you're grasping the point of antitrust. This was a common sentiment about AT&T in the 70's; people actually liked them despite their monopoly because they liked having telephones and didn't realize how much better things could be.
Super cool, hope it comes to the USA soon :(
I’ve thought about this and in fact porn generation sounds like a good thing?? It ensures that it’s victimless. Of course, there is a problem with generation of illegal (underage) porn but other than this, I think it could be helpful for this world.
Boy, this is an evergreen narrative on HN, but I don't really think it's true. The total all-in cost of a Prius (depreciation, maintenance, gasoline, etc...) is about 30 cents per mile. Uber drivers make about $1-$2 per mile which is a pretty big margin.

Uber has been around for over 10 years now. Sure, not everyone is an accountant, but if Uber drained every driver's wallet, they'd have noticed by now. Interesting that it's usually only people who have never driven for Uber that claim it's completely unprofitable.
I'm pretty sure that if a mob pressures the Senate into accepting a slate of "alternate electors", and that swings the Electoral College vote, there will be a very short period of time in which this could be shut down short of a civil war.

For some lesser cause? Another murder of an unarmed black person, even by police, seems unlikely to cause it. Economic inequality? Doesn't look like it. Illegal aliens? Again, probably not. Climate change? Also no.
We could have the segments of the ᛒ turn on or off based on signal strength
My condo I was on the board of Chicago had no such requirement. Our roof replacement was far enough out, we didn't need to put ANYTHING aside for it.
> the final domino would be currently well funded private companies such as Airtable, Notion, Loom, and possibly even Figma

How can you make such claims? These are great products
I’ve often thought maybe AI will end up helping here. It might be possible to build an AI that can take in all these biased stories and digest them into something that actually has more signal than noise. Lots of possibilities: try to write a de-biased version, annotate the stories to point out the bias and rhetorical tricks used, find the set of facts that are the same across all sources and distill them, etc. not a silver bullet but seems like a rich space for exploring how to turn the garbage produced by the media into signal by leveraging the fact that these are adversarial organizations that do have some predictable constraints on what they will say.
Low-floor trams make a huge difference, because the ADA also attacked many potential streetcar/tram designs, since the tram floor was higher you either needed to raise station platforms so high as to not be a curb anymore, or you had to otherwise add wheelchair lifts, etc - not just simple ramps.

It was done (the old San Diego high-floor trollies had them) but it was a significant stop/delay when it had to be used. The newer ones are barely noticed at all.
I agree detoxing from news is great, but I think that's easier to do when your daughter isnt raped and unable to get an abortion, your gay son can't marry his love and thus have equal protection under the law, and when you aren't one broken leg or week out of work away from bankruptcy.

That said, unless someone is planning to do more than vote (volunteer, run for office, etc) then keeping up with news more than weekly is simply exhausting.
If the LPs don’t meet the capital calls, they’re in breach of their investor agreement, and the penalties are generally quite harsh, including potentially forfeiting a lot of the value they currently have in the fund.
No. They will choose to transcend rather than put up with meatbags such as us.
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Hilarious this was voted down. Go look at Foxnews.com at this very moment, the entire front page dedicated to smearing everything Democrat. It's shameless.
Soldiers? Many wars are fought for unjust reasons, and soldiers just obey orders without considering if the orders are justified (e.g. Russians in Ukrainian, US in Irak, Dutch soldiers in Indonesia after WW2)
I think we should acknowledge, though, that not all abstractions are created equal. Abstractions that hide implementation details and allow people to change those implementation details without creating churn and extra work for their downstream consumers are good.

Abstractions that paper over problems that you are unwilling or undisciplined enough to tackle properly are usually bad. I think the grandparent was talking about this kind.
A lot of the original founding fathers and organizations that helped precipitate the revolution started in bar halls.

Of course so did a certain Austrian painters party.
It was the gravitomagnetism one, yes.
Haha, I can hum that opening riff instantaneously because it's the first song on my wife's phone. Do di do di do di do di do di do di. Bum, bum, bum bum bum bum!
My personal preference (based on experience) for things like software development questions/discussion has been

Best:
- Mailing lists/Slack/newsgroups back in the day

Middle:
- Stack Overflow, though it feels like traffic has gotten less over the years. The orthodox moderators took over

Worst:
- Forums, whether syndicated like Discord or their own proprietary thing (I'm looking at you Microchip, Atmel, and STMicro)

There have been exceptions. But that has been my experience.
>people possibly acting violently towards churches since they blamed them for it.

Why, I wonder.

/s
I love how movies show hacking devices as super serious futuristic goggles the open 6 different terminals that patch you through sockets on satellites, but the best thing in real life is a dolphin tamagotchi.
Ironically, in the US, most of the people that want to secede are the ones in states receiving more taxes than they pay.
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people want to work, I assure you. they just want a job that pays enough to make ends meet as well as start saving.

any 40-hour/week job should provide that and there are a very large number that do not.

people want to work, they just don't want to be crapped on while they do it.

I guarantee that any employer who pays fairly is not seeing any shortage of applicants.
For work to matter it has to help people achieve goals. If their goals are unachievable then they will not see a point in work. This is where we are.
>> Whether that is realistic today in the united states is another thing.

I didnt think a land war in Europe was a realistic thing in today's world, but here we are.
Brock, would you please date your articles?
Why not both?

jellyfish-scraper, cantor-proxy-manager, pluto-webrouter
One of my very close friends is a retired Army Special Forces (Green Berets) veteran with a total of 11 combat tours. He's seen (read that as you will) a couple of actual civil wars.

He was once at a very right-leaning event and someone suggested we need a civil war. He's very right leaning himself but he immediately shut them down essentially saying they have no idea what they're wishing for or even talking about. Needless to say everyone there was well aware of his experience and credentials so that immediately closed the discussion. I don't know that it changed any minds but they at least shut up about it...

Whether this data is accurate or not, the fact that anyone is suggesting or frankly even mentioning a civil war in the US is so flippant, macabre, and ignorant it makes you question whether such a person lives in reality. Anything approaching an actual civil war in the US would be an absolute bloodbath.
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What timeline do you think the Gatekeepeers would prefer? Is it a reasonable goal to let BigTech drag it's feet making these changes they didn't want to do on their own accord in the first place?

Amazing things are possible when the incentive is right. Given their VAST resources, it's only a matter of focus.
The shadow actor still needs to deliver a convincing performance though (=$$$). AI can't magically make bad acting turn into good acting.
Hearing logging library and next-gen framework in the same sentence would never not make me laugh.
Yes, but that is not a company that should be praised as world leader in remote work.

How do you expect to ever raise the standard of living in poor countries if you exploit their labor for pennies on the dollar. No different from apple and other who move manufacturing to cheap labor.

A real leader in remote work would try to be a part of the solution, not actively fight against it.
> I think tech investors are unable to see their bias for just how awful most tech companies today are.

I think investors are more greedy than stupid. When money was essentially free, weirder and weirder investments make sense. If the world was crazy and throwing money around, why not fund a bunch of ridiculous companies with the knowledge that you can very likely unload that risk on the public when the company ipos.

And we're seeing that that logic is correct. Just look at the record numbers of IPOs that were happening right before the market started to collapse [0].

Investors know they are playing musical chairs, but they're playing with the public and the know they song quite well and can tell when the music is winding down.

Now IPO'd companies that don't know how to make a profit are the public shareholders problem, not private VCs.

0. https://stockanalysis.com/ipos/statistics/
Respectfully, this totally ignores that the funding for most things in this country comes right out of the cities. To use your terminology, "left leaning" places are ~70% of GDP.

Also, just because some guys in rural areas collect guns compulsively doesn't mean they are remotely capable of becoming an organized militia.
> Corollary: the difference between a government and a warlord/organized crime syndicate is the time/money/effort spent on propaganda.

Only when the government is authoritarian. You can't vote out a dictator, king, warlord, or mob boss.
Many of those are gated behind permissions in the browsers that have implemented them, and safari could gate the rest too. Or they could collaborate with the working groups to reduce the fingerprinting hazard.

Many other features that safari has been late with have basically no fingerprinting usefulness like web push.
Oh man. You do realize that some 50% of GPS satellites are EU satellites right now? The US doesn’t even have a fully functioning constellation without the EU’s Galileo satellites (which are far more advanced in offering a cryptographically provable time). If the US were to go down that road, I’m fairly confident you’d have to go back to MapQuest and print out your directions.
to be fair they have been warned for years
> Would the Feds do anything but setup sanctions/blockades and wait for Texas to beg to come back if they tried to leave? Nah.

Texas represents two trillion dollars in revenue, billions of dollars in taxes, a big chunk of American agricultural, manufacturing and tech infrastructure, miles of coastline and ports and military assets like Fort Hood. The premise that the US would just let that go is laughable.
Muni monthly passes include the cable car, and I would assume many intra-SF commuters would have one of these passes (I certainly did when I worked there)
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I think they assumed, like the rest of us to a degree, that "it will never happen". If this kind of "ffs, just effing solve it with a law already" kind of law comes through, I'm seriously considering moving to an EU country.
Subreddits have taken over, but car forums are still thriving.
Suggestion: when I correctly guess the first n moves, the next iteration should autofill those correct moves for me. Don't make me repeat the first n moves I had correct.

Chessguessr #29 2/5

green green gray red gray

green green green green green

https://chessguessr.com
In the old days the reputable sources often spread the lies themselves - from local lobbying, to national propaganda, to churches.
Geography will always matter to a certain extent, but you elide the economic component of the Civil War. The business interests in the South were economically dependent on the existence of a slave-based economy. Northern states either moved to a different economic model or avoided it altogether. As such, the moral issues were much more front-and-center in the North, whereas Southerners were whipped around because of the economic aspect. As the quote goes, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." I do think that differences between the urban and rural workforce are creating divergence, especially when you consider the increased population density and service-based economies we have today.

Generally, the coastal states have significantly diverged from the rest of the country, at least politically. As such, they tend to house and draw people with similar values. Value-based migration is not inherently problematic, as the population shift will increase competition between states and force reevaluation of certain policies, both among states losing and gaining different population segments. Real issues may start if a governor decides (and the associated governing apparatus then complies) that certain federal laws and judicial rulings will be ignored. We may be moving in that direction right now (see the NY governor's views on constitutional carry), and I hope we turn back.
Yep. I don't even know who to feel bad for, either. People were (rightfully) calling this from Day-1, it's pretty amazing that people are oblivious enough to fall for it anyways.
Someone posted Vlad the other day, its a good video of how Russian propaganda does exactly this and how other groups have picked it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j6Vg7yLx54. Its really good watch, talking about how people are desperate not to get fooled, combined with floods of alternative theories, in the end people just give up.
Discord is like a graveyard. People don't really talk after the first day. Maybe they should switch from chat to forums, at least let it be searchable through Google
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The whole "forums are dead" thing must be news to all of the various forums I visit regularly which are thriving.

Examples:

https://atariage.com/forums/index.php

https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php
yes, a reasonable analogue. Even so, I don't think anywhere near - US is far more intermixed, not as clear divisions between the two ideological tribes. There'll be vicious conflict alright but mainly online and under pseudonyms, punctuated periodically with an offline incident by some guy who takes it too far