skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The meaning of Congress’ authority to declare war has been clarified (or changed) over time to mean that Congress provides oversight to the Executive branch’s proactive use of the military. Despite that, though, I think it is still fair to say that the US can effectively not go to war if Congress is not agreeable to it unofficially, as the US hasn’t ever had a situation where its president authorized military use that Congress substantially and seriously opposed.

See the War Powers Act to get an idea of the modern framework for governing war in the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution
The problem is that Jira is many different thing, and have as many uses as they have customers. I doubt that there are two identical Jira installations in the world.

I also think that this is the true reason why Atlassian is doing this. The complexity of Jira has become to much, so now they will fix the problem by forcing smaller customers into a more defined workflow, while ensuring that those who require customization are also able to pay for training and consultance.
What happens at the federal level when the two elections sync-up every 20 years?
Ultimately at some point trump won't be president. Should the media continue to show his press conferences then? So that voters can choose which president they listen to, the actual one or the fake one?
it isn't really politics though. the term war has legal meaning that will invoke actions and rulings from treatied allies and the UN. if you call it a war, the world gets involved, if you call it a strategic campaign, every gets the option to turn. their heads and not get involved if they so choose
> The process of increasing legibility doesn't necessarily need to come in the from a legal authority.

That is my point. I'm saying that legibility is not imposed by the state, but arises from market actors in an emergent fashion.
FYI: this is the common way to write dates in Sweden.
Favorite fact about the 2020 election:

Biden not only got more Black votes than Obama, he got a higher percentage of the Democratic Black vote (highest in history, in fact).

IOW, Biden is significantly more popular among Blacks than Obama was in 2008 (or 2012). Amazing!
By what measure is the US more divided than in the past?
After reading the title I got kind of excited, unfortunately this device is sadly underwhelming especially at the price points listed.

It doesn't seem like it would really be all that useful for gaming, it's fairly small for doing any kind of actual work on, but big and bulky enough that the portability of it would be questionable.

I have to say, i'm not really sure what purpose this device is supposed to serve. For gaming, there's plenty of handheld options at far better prices and for general computing, there are cheaper more powerful setups in a smaller form factor.
It's not "biased" and never has been to project a winner based on statistical data. But if we're sticking to a statistical conclusion, how do you think Biden should be described at this point?

There is essentially no basis in history or law to believe that Biden will not take office, unless he dies before inauguration. There are no credible legal theories by which he will not be elected.
The Yemen thing is a war and called that. Just not a US war. Wikipedia has it as "Yemeni Civil War (2014–present)". "The conflict has been widely seen as an extension of the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict." And then the US gets roped in as mates of the Saudis and enemies of the Iranians but it's not really a US thing and on the go before Donald got in there.
Upton talks about enterprise usage in https://www.hackster.io/videos/774 but as a thin client. I got the impression they are pretty interested in that market.
There is fraud every election. It doesn't typically change any of the results, though, and can (and should) be ignored.

If Trump voters are really upset about it, states can audit the vote and show that fraud was a very small percentage, and didn't change any outcomes. (Both sides commit fraud, so they tend to cancel each other out.)
Which *BSD: Open, Net, Free, Firefly?

Even if I had figured that out, I don't trust that the server packages I want to use have enough people using it to have sorted out differences in packaging configurations and defaults between platforms.

There was a Linux/Debian userland packages on BSD flavour (can't recall the name) that seemed interesting but gave up on for a reason I also don't remember.
Do you have some information the runoff? I wasn't aware about that.
> To me, it's still unclear why so many actually voted for him

Voting in the US, especially in general elections, is mostly about tribal identity, which explains a lot of that part of Trump's election, and he was largely a political unknown who's campaign was ambiguous enough that people could read what they want into it (By 2020, that last part was no longer true, obviously.) In the 2016 primary, he had the ambiguity factor, celebrity, the Republican establishment having trouble figuring out what he was doing, and a Republican Primary system designed to turn early pluralities into commanding delegate leads to avoid long primary fights which backfired spectacularly for the establishment.
> There is only one set of facts.

But what is that set of facts?

Twitter felt no need to censor the Steele dossier for years despite it being a politically-funded piece of nonsense.
The US does not have military hegemony as it shares it with the Russia (both have enough nukes to wipe out each other and the rest of the world). China would probably come to this stage soon as well.

Being economic hegemon (again likely to be challenged by China) is obviously good for the US but the rest of the world might not share this view for the large part.
Yes, definitely no fraud at all in this election!
You're arguing from a presumption that truth doesn't exist or doesn't/won't matter, and a lot of us disagree with that notion.
The data was provided in the description of the video. You can check it yourself.

List of names: https://controlc.com/c17e91ba

Voter website: https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/Voter/Index
to answer more specifically, the pivot from EE to neuroscience was motivated by the applications. I felt as a EE that I had a lot of tools in search of an application I really cared about. In industry, I was frequently applying those skills to disparate problems, but without a long term aim I was highly motivated to pursue.
Recently, France has been reporting about half as many cases as the entire USA despite its smaller population, and last I checked their testing wasn't even as widespread as in the US. Their numbers keep going up too. I wouldn't rely on their death rate remaining lower.
No they are. Seriously, the mental effort I had to endure to hold all these wild APIs in my head! In hindsight it’s infuriating; the gatekeeping, the patronizing condescendence when I was struggling with what are mathematical trivialities.

Screw that... I should have been told sooner
US is over twice Canada's mortality per capita. Trump did a deadly job in handling Corona.
when you say "Amoral" some facts backing it up would be appreciated for the sake of the debate.
The reality of the power balance the opposite of what you’re saying, in my opinion. Places like CA and NY have incredible influence and power even with the electoral college. The calls for one person’s vote being equal to others nationally is just a virtuous rhetorical argument to justify a power grab that would take power away from places which already have diminished influence.

The reality is that different locations have different ways of life and culture and politics, and therefore self determination must be supported through some mechanisms (like the electoral college) for a federal union to make sense and for those peoples to feel represented. If we are undoing that we need to also give states the option to secede and go their own way, since this union would simply mean the end of their way of life.
This link, which sources data from Johns Hopkins University.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...

I have no idea where the worldometers.info data is coming from.

Regardless of small differences, painting Covid-19 as a uniquely American problem stemming from American politics is silly. No countries have performed particularly well, despite trying everything from strict lockdowns to no response at all. East and South East Asia is outperforming, but that likely has more to do with past exposures and disease resistance than it is due to policy difference.
you would need a central world government, which means we need to talk about why/how that will emerge
The Associated Press, who called the election this year, and who has been calling US elections since 1848, didn't call the election for either side in 2000:

"AP did not call the closely contested race in 2000 between George W. Bush and Al Gore – we stood behind our assessment that the margin in Florida made it too close to call."

https://www.ap.org/en-us/topics/politics/elections/how-we-ca...
Even more so, by Federal Reserve ongoing policy of extremely low interest rates. If the long bond yielded 5% you'd see MUCH lower real estate appreciation, and if it got there quickly, prices would certainly drop significantly.

With that said, there are plenty of affordable places to move to, they just aren't super sexy and cool. But even San Francisco and Brooklyn were completely uncool not that long ago.
Well... there is such a thing in law as estoppel. It's primarily used in a civil context; I'm not sure a situation has ever come up for it to be tested in election law.
The impeachment was not over the 2016 election.

I point to Mueller report which looked for collusion between the Trump campaign and foreign countries and found none.
It's kind of a hallmark of diplomacy. Leadership should not be as uncouth as the peasantry.
This Philadelphia Inquirer journalist says that the hotel was announced first, but then it was changed https://twitter.com/jeremyrroebuck/status/132509276171710464...
I'm pretty sure mcguire was quoting from that link to show how absurd it is, not to agree with it.
A lock down which is properly implemented can work, with the most recent success being Australia. I’m in New Zealand and we are likely to have open borders with other clear areas in the not-too-distant future. Time will tell what the cost in dollars and lives looks like with various strategies (or lack thereof), but so far NZ’s approach seems a good choice.
When I think of submissive corporate drones, it's people in public unions.

Not the people at the mercy of Randian heroes like the entrepreneurs of silicon valley.

I had a friend who left public teaching because they wanted to own him and his votes for 35 years and a pension he'd never vote away. (not a drone right?)

As opposed those awful individuals who move between for profit companies choosing who and what they work for.
I heard him on tape (and he never denied it was him) say he could grab women by the pussy.

That is enough to mean you are not qualified to hold any office, ever.
sure. 4 years of trump are to blame for racist rhetoric but surely not 47 years of biden. trump is not the problem he is the one that made the problem more visible. racism was always there.
Here https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20001108/apon...
GraphQL should die in the same hell with SOAP.

For me 3 reasons "why not GraphQL" are:
1) Access control: rights, permissions, roles - they are just a fog when client can write own query to DB.

2) Knowledge sharing: when your client knows too much about DB, you have a very tight coupling.

3) Complexity of the service layer. If there is no tool for the language you love - write your own GraphQL library. And there is no guarantee that your other client will be able to reuse this API.
There are tons of sources of systematic error in a "strange year" election plus a "nontraditional incumbent".

One of the most plausible ones mentioned by Nate was the fact that people who wfh weré more likely to be reached by pollsters this year, and may skew D.
> Nice example of democracy and mutual respect in action.

Is that supposed to be a back-handed way of making a point? I don't understand what those things have to do with global stability.

Someone will be the de facto world police by force, now that the technology to utilize energy is so efficient. This situation has nothing to do with some sort of (USA-centered) Politically Correct philosophy. This situation is the eventuality of our time.
There are no ballots cast after election day. There are some received after election day, but none in PA, where those ballots aren't included in any counts.
> Kamala Harris also made history as the first Black woman to become vice president, an achievement that comes as the U.S. faces a reckoning on racial justice. The California senator, who is also the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency, will become the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in government, four years after Trump defeated Hillary Clinton.

Can someone explain that last sentence to a non-American? Doesn't it simply reduce the whole paragraph to 'first female VP'? Or does it mean 'first female senator to go on to government, but not the first including non-senators', in which case.. uh-ok, is that significant?

Just seems like it's slicing her up into as many 'firsts' as possible.
Biden vows to rejoin Paris climate deal if elected president
I don't think the USA has anything like Brazil's "Clean Record Act" (Lei da Ficha Limpa), but it's not unlikely that, once Trump leaves the presidency, he will face several lawsuits, and the outcome of these lawsuits might lead to him not being able to become a candidate for a while.
Some would say that outsourcing labor overseas has contributed to this.
I think you misinterpreted my comment. The poster I was responding to was talking about how it would not be the same consciousness, but a clone of that consciousness.

I am not making any unprovable claims about a spirit/soul, though I do not completely shut out the possibility there is something we haven't measured yet. I believe that externally, there is no difference in your scenario.

I think where there might be a difference, is to the consciousness itself. The continuity of that experience being the difference. In which case, gradually replacing the brain should be a solution to the continuity problem (like the Ship of Theseus). Where I think this is conceptually weakest, is when considering how much continuity of consciousness exists while sleeping or being sedated.
Not just that, you'd be comparing with countries that also have major cities that are particularly badly affected and have not removed those figures from their total.
No, I won't get them back because that's how time works.
> Had the Democrats put up anyone who was less divisive than Hillary Clinton then we are not where we are today.

You say this like Clinton did badly: she got 2.9M more votes than Trump!

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia...

Most of the voting public rejected Trump in 2016. It's just that 77K of those votes were in the "wrong" places (MI 10K; PA 44K; WI 23K).
'Need' is not the right word, since cars without any of this nonsense work just fine. You could perhaps argue the car itself is a luxury that isn't needed, but smartphone integration certainly isn't needed in any sense.
Tax Burden on Labor in OECD [pdf]
There were 10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016...
The constitution declares that the president is elected by the states, not by the people directly. The electoral college serves to moderate the influence of dense population areas.

On a straight popular vote basis, the large urban centers in a handful of states would select the president. Their interests and motivations will necessarily be different from rural areas.

The electoral college gives populous states proportionally more influence, as they have more congressional representatives and thus more electoral votes. But it serves to balance that against the interests of less populated states, which are also part of the country and should not be considered completely irrelevant in the process.
Unfortunately that would require a revolution. The system is designed to prevent substantial change because the players are already aligned with its incentives. The last big systemic change was direct election of Senators in 1913.
I honestly wonder if it was originally booked at the Four Seasons hotel, but Trump vetoed that idea because of his stake in Trump Hotels.
So since google employees have an median tenure of 1.1 year then that means google is even more chaotic organization than the US government. Should laws be "engineered" to prevent organizations like google because there is some sort of ephemeral "chaos" problem with it? Or is it that you are politically predisposed to wanting and needing a strong, lets call it, central committee, to centrally plan things and worker turnover doesn't count towards "chaos"
How to Not Be a Prioritization Machine
Why does the image resolution of sculpture on the insect head differ from the head itself?
exactly. the fact that hes the only president in recent history not to wage a war should be reason enough for a nobel if we gave it to obama
What would you expect of a pollster? "Sorry, we are currently unable to provide satisfyingly accurate polls so we close shop for this election?"
... and senate above all; definitely. In fact, I'd argue it you had to reelect any one seat of power in the event of a failed impeachment, it should be the senate above the president or house.

I mean, it's never going to happen due to constitutional constraints, but really the very existence of the senate is rather problematic, because it's elections are so very different from those of the house+presidency; the votes are very much non-proportional.

And while non-proportionality is not in and of itself really all that bad - I mean, it's bad in that it's so visibly unfair that it slightly undermines the point of democracy (it makes it look a little hypocritical), but the actual impact of said unfairness (as opposed to perception thereof) isn't really all that problematic; many things in the world aren't 100% fair.

No, the real problem isn't the non-proportionality, it's the gridlock that arises from having so very different electoral systems. That gridlock exacerbates issues with partisanship, because it makes it attractive to play brinkmanship games; and of course gridlock isn't harmless anyhow. The system would be more stable if house, senate and presidency had similar elector biases; regardless of fairness.

Really though, parliamentary systems are in this regard simply better. Having the equivalent of the president serve at the mercy of parliament doesn't make the job at all irrelevant (just look at other democracies), but it does put to bed nonsense like failed impeachments - because it's not about crimes, even in the US; it's simply about political support - and it should be clear whether the president has it, or not - and the current system is almost designed to turn it into a nasty political battle that's simply divisive.

The only situation in which impeachment in the current system is not divisive is when house, senate and president are in the same parties hands - and hey, that's basically a parliamentary system right there!
So in order for it to be good, it needs to be <insert your long Santa Claus list here>.

Basically, it sucks.
> Personally I think we are watching the slow death of the USA. May be from France I am not getting all the subtle details about the situation on the ground but the country seems to be completely divided.

I live in Washington DC and completely agree with you. The division has only been getting worse for years.
I wouldn't bet on more than a few weeks of prison time, if that.

Powerful people won't let powerful people go to prison because it threatens their own position as untouchable. Don't count on it.
>Which is as always, unclear priorities, unclear requirements.

Tell me about it. Recently had a PM ask me for a time estimate for a task called "Create reporting tool for [network] interface data from [network monitoring tool]". No requirements. No further description whatsoever. And I told the PM three business days prior that I needed more information!
No, of course it wasn't, but I also didn't say that. You're reading revisionism into a statement that is very nearly too short to contain any.

You're also misreading it: my comment was about the Senate, not the electoral college. And I left out the part about how the Senate was explicitly anti-democratic, not just anti-majoritarian, in that it was originally elected by legislators and not the people.
I fail to see why I would want this. As others point out, your phone already does this. At this point in time smart home remain a gimmick and I don’t see many go beyond a smart light bulb.
US is a mix of High and Low Density, you can not just take the national population and divide by land mass to come up with how things "should have gone" with covid

Nor is is really fair to even judge the Federal response to it at all, as under our system of government health care is largely a State matter not a federal one.

Remember the United States is a Republic of 50 States, joined together under a common Defense and Monetary system.

I don't for see large scale changes in policy under a Biden Presidency, you may get stronger messaging but power of the President is largely limited outside of dispersing money, and maybe requiring manufacturers to make certain things if there is a national shortage

Masks Mandates, Lock Downs, etc will still fall under the purview of State Governors as this how our constitution divides the powers of the government
Oh I dunno: murder of minorities by cops, vilifying an entire nation (Mexico and all the build the wall talk), increasing protests, blatant racism, nationalism being ever more accepted, to name a few.
This is true, but it emphasizes the difference between marketing and reality. Trump's evocation of authoritarian imagery has been uncorrelated with genuine threats of increased authoritarianism in USA. These threats do exist, but focusing attention on Trump has been a distraction from genuinely opposing them.
The media in this case is using approximately grade 6 math skills to tally up electoral college votes and declare that beyond most reasonable doubt Biden won. I think you're overestimating what their role is here. They were also very cautious and could have made a declaration earlier than they did.
I was too young to understand it at the time, but now I realise how difficult of a situation that was.

It's hard too see through all of the partisanship at the time.
They have some fault, yes, but not more fault than the Republicans for selecting him, or the American people, or the electoral college or first past the post voting. At the end of the day, all the DNC did was bet on the wrong horse.

Someone like Trump shouldn't have been a viable option regardless of who the Democrats put up.
We've seen what happens when a Trump figure is elected in the UK: there are no real checks and balances. Once an electoral majority was achieved, anything is possible, including a bill to specifically authorize law enforcement to commit crimes.

On the other hand, Biden has come out backing Ireland. Which is good for sanity and bad for Johnson.
Hacking defeat: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/why-trump-cant...
Not a fan of the current (soon to be previous) admin, but I have to acknowledge that a direct approach on China has been more effective than the last 3 decades of Asian pivots ( Bill Clinton tried focusing on China as well ).

American politics has brief focus windows, direct action has more impact than vague "pivots" or "focuses" which last about as long as the next crisis.
Not only was there not much market from it it is also quite difficult to extract.