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Frankly this kind of premature excuse making won't get us anywhere. People say they're concerned about the rise of fascism or oligarchy but when it comes to pushing back, even the smallest bit of inconvenience is too much.

The Montgomery bus boycott lasted 381 days. People walked miles and organized carpools to work for over a year.

Now we can't even imagine making the sacrifice to send our friends and family an SMS, let alone getting them to download Signal when they kinda don't want to.

In case folks aren't aware, the Hind Rajab Foundations goes after IDF war criminals who post videos of themselves smiling while committing war crimes. The reason there are so many such videos is that these war crimes are popular in Israel. The IDF even had to repeatedly remind the soldiers to stop posting their own war crimes to social media.

Your comment reminded me that a few years ago a Microsoft engineer stabbed a random guy on campus, and afterword it was discovered he had a public journal of his own drug habits

https://web.archive.org/web/20230224010752/https://josephcan...

Seems kind of cool actually. Unfortunate that this is the way I heard about it.

Interesting how the answers you're getting are just a variation of the 14 words.

> the center-right party copies the far-right messages in hopes of gaining the votes of the far-right voters, then enters a coalition with them as the "voice of reason to reign them in", to ultimately just achieve normalization of those narratives, a hollowed-out democracy, destroyed political discourse and an empowered far-right party.

Now imagine you had only a center-right and a far-right party, and you have the U.S. :/

Tailors didn't do those things.

In my case I am more than capable of producing better code than the LLM, but I have never been the fastest on my team. My development speed was acceptable because the quality and robustness of the output was worth the time that thoughtfulness took. I was also able to improve the comprehensibility and robustness of my colleagues' code during code reviews.

But in the new environment of LLM-assisted coding, the LLM produces acceptable code so much faster than I can write it. Just taking time to understand and retool the LLM's output means an order of magnitude lower productivity and it doesn't feel like that's acceptable in this era.

Folks I know are landing 10+ PRs a day and nobody is reviewing anymore, and these are not companies that would have been skipping code review 2 years ago. The whole culture is turning against taking the time to comprehend and reason about our own work.

How can putting effort in and then repeatedly having the rug pulled be considered a good thing?

This can happen to mulch as well if it's left in a very big pile for a long time.

holy sht, I can solve way harder math problems now. I'll just start on this one over h..."

Aand it's gone.

"Oh wow, that opened the door to a whole new area of..."

Aand it's gone.

The crane is a poor analogy to a general purpose thinking machine that is intended to replace human effort and reasoning at all levels of abstraction in all cognitive endeavors.

Everything you're describing happened after pulling her over, but they needed a valid reason to pull her over. Flock was supposed to be that reason.

My point is that this was already the case, i.e. math research was already not a "dollars go in, useful proofs come out" field. The people lamenting the future of mathematics are largely not focused on the economics, they're focused on the fact that anything they might apply their efforts to could get sniped by a frontier lab at any moment. That is obviously demotivating.

But reading the threads here on HN, in response to people saying "this sucks", AI boosters would rather redirect the conversation into economics and feign outrage that people are being paid to do mathematics at all.

Suddenly folks seem to be both in contempt of the idea of solving abstract puzzles without practical application, and certain that they want a higher efficiency of abstract puzzles solved per dollar (again, puzzles they probably don't care about).

That only works if you have a highly organized movement whose members are accustomed to the idea that they might have to sacrifice something. Unfortunately I don't see the potential for that in the No Kings style of biannual Facebook mobilizing with zero real movement building. Instead No Kings is conditioning their followers that a symbolic self-limiting action that leads to no change should be followed by...occasionally more of the exact same. No Kings attendees aren't even an organized economic boycott force.

Before the industrial revolution weavers worked from home in a relatively peaceful environment, set their own hours, and made a respectable living.

After the industrial revolution they worked 14 hour days in a thunderously loud textile mill, so full of airborne lint that you could hardly see. The pace of their work was set by machine, which frequently caused serious injuries, and their wages often weren't enough to live on.

This is pure math research we're talking about here. It's not exactly lucrative and people looking for commercially applicable results ASAP weren't funding it anyway.

Core memory has got you covered there too

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

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p7SkE5pERtA

These days many municipalities don't want to manage more streets and infrastructure so they heavily favor HOAs for new developments that will handle what should be the city's responsibility.

Ceausescu was ousted by a permitted street protest that lasted a few hours as scheduled and then everyone went back to brunch?

Soon they won't need to bother convincing people to work on their software, or at least that's the dream.

Frankly I'm not sure why they would bother.

The organizers of No Kings may be well-intentioned, but the rallies themselves seem to be maximally engineered to make people feel like they've done their part resisting without materially affecting anything. Why would anyone in Trump's coalition feel threatened by them at this point?

Because of who runs the department of labor. When it comes to labor laws, there are a lot of them that benefit employees but are barely or not at all enforced. Even not paying wages is something the federal DoL rarely has both the will and resources to punish.

FWIW self-service gas stations are quite common in Japan.

There are buildings where the doorman sits behind a desk. Perhaps it varies by city.

I guess I just don't fly enough to have experienced it yet.

> Because it is good for society, and good for my reputation to show what I am capable of which has been very good for my career.

I feel that LLMs are destroying the reputation building benefits as well. It used to be that most people's published code was a result of their personal effort and thought process. This is no longer the case. Not only are many new contributions written by machine, but the very process of understanding and reasoning about code has been devalued.

The first 10+ times I saw these they were airplane freebies. Since I often get motion sick in planes and everything tastes worse at altitude anyway, I kind of developed an aversion to them, and was a bit puzzled to discover people voluntary buy them to eat on the ground.

This explains a lot. I always wondered why airlines eliminated peanuts but never ask passengers to avoid eating peanut products they'd brought on themselves, and why peanut based foods can be so common in public if there are "airborne peanut allergies".

I actually built a wearable that used these motors a long time ago, which is why I was particularly interested. What i found is that connecting the 3.3V rail directly to the motor gave a much easier-to-feel vibration than the GPIO pin, which is what caused me to learn about their really low current limits. However the current sunk also varies by microcontroller.