skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is certainly true, and the downsides of a two-party system are not small. On the other hand, multi-party systems have a tendency to build less stable governments, which was one of the reasons for the downfall of the Weimacher Republik and the rise of the NSDAP.

With the addition of more parties to the German political spectrum, building coalitions has been harder in recent years, forcing essentially the two most central mainstream parties, CDU/CSU and SPD, to build a "great coalition". The problem of this is that people not happy with the results necessarily have to vote more extreme, and we did see a lot of protest votes, swinging from the very-left Die Linke to the ultra-right Afd, for example.

Observing the political process in the US, it seems that the primaries leave the final candidates always somewhat worse for wear, maybe more so on the Democrat side than on the Republican side (Infighting seems to be a worldwide phenomenon more prevalent on the left). By necessity, most winning candidates must then do a dance from the more extreme positions they expressed to win the primaries to the center. This is almost by construction, as the voters in the primaries will almost always be more extreme than the voters in the presidential election, even if reduced to those which would consider to vote for the party in the first place.
I'm surprised at all the people that prefer REST over GraphQL.

I'm a developer of my own projects for fun. I don't work in tech. My frontends are on iOS / Android / the web with Typescript. So my confusion is from a perspective without expertise.

I started with REST via Django and a few others, and now I've switched to GraphQL. I love GraphQL over REST backends due to the type automation tools such as GraphQL Code Generator and query tools like Apollo. Also being able to construct a query and access children via one request is super nice. For example my old REST APIs call for a post, then get pictures for that post, then get comments for that post, then gets the username and other user data for the owner that made the comment. It's four requests. My GraphQL requests just get them all in one customizable request. Post can contain pictures and comments and all their properties. Comments can contain the owner of the comment and all its properties to include things like username.

The result is a typescript object that is strongly typed and has all the data I need. Before GraphQL, in REST, this would be four requests, three of which are in series (post -> comment -> owner to get username). I know I could make a custom REST API to do the same thing, but it was just so easy in GraphQL, I didn't have to worry about it.

I'm not working in teams, I'm not creating a super large backend, it's not complex projects... so I don't know what I don't know.

But what am I missing? Maybe not everyone needs / uses the typing I do? That's the big benefit for me. Maybe not everyone cares about being able to query children (or create children via a nested create)? Maybe these things were easier than how I was doing it in REST?
Reagan is to "blame" for it, but the unbelievable condition of homes for the involuntarily committed didn't make it a hard decision to make for him.
it's not every tv station in question it's about news stations covering the election. 'every public servant' is not in question.. it's about the current president of the USA
Take a free market society with no taxes. There is no slavery there.

Now add 100% taxes. That's full-blown slavery.

Now cut the taxes to 50%. That's 50% slavery.
I don't understand your position here at all. Trump is currently doing everything he can to thwart a peaceful transition of power. The fact that he is such an ineffectual buffoon is the only reason he is not succeeding.

For me, Trump trying to use the Justice Dept to investigate his enemies and thwart investigations of his friends is so beyond the pale, way beyond what any president, Republican or Democrat, has ever done that I am shocked people can think this was not a big deal. I mean, that extreme abuse of power is banana republic, end of Rome-type shit.

Put it another way: I firmly believe if a time traveler from, say, 2010 just showed up to see Trump's autocratic desires that they'd be horrified; we've just gotten used to Trump's extreme abuses. Heck, it's become something of a new favorite pastime of mine to look at Trump's own tweet storms circa 2012 and see how 2012 Trump would be condemning 2020 Trump in the harshest possible terms.
I rejected someone who voted for wars every time one was on the table.

https://www.wral.com/fact-check-did-biden-support-wars-in-ir...
> None of this things matters, or will bring people together. These are minor issues

Ok, I'm about as far from a Trump supporter as one can get, but think about how this comment sounds to people on the other side. You just outright dismissed a fairly big topic that this person views as important.
> less-than-stellar background as attorneys

Yeah, he stands and works for people that have been underestimated, as you've just done.
I think that’s true of both parties
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

You're seriously going to claim that the US wouldn't have had a better response to a pandemic had they actually had a pandemic response team?
But belief they should be allowed to own them is quite widespread among Republicans / Libertarians.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/22/facts-about...

> “ Other proposals bring out stark partisan rifts. Democrats, for example, are much more likely than Republicans to favor banning assault-style weapons (88% vs. 50%) and high-capacity magazines (87% vs. 54%).”

You can also see in the charts in that link that even though a modest majority of all Americans believes there should be stricter gun laws, it is driven drastically by how dominant that view is among Democrats (86%) vs Republicans (where 69% say current gun laws are OK or are already too strict).

I only chose this topic because it refutes the falsehood that there’s some core of reasonable centrists in America - there’s totally not. Many issues are like this example of gun laws where it is extremely partisan and where one version of the extreme partisan divide is usually considered “centrist” (for example, belief that gun laws are mostly OK as-is, which is a really right wing belief but is seen as “centrist”) but it actually belies America being heavily shifted to the far right by default, so it’s not really center.
Generally I agree with your statement here. But realize you said “we need to find common ground” then went on to say the dems need total control to progress their agenda. These conflict. This attitude is a reason for the division, and are just plain one sided. If you wanted common grounds you’d want the two parties to work together, not one have total control of the entire gov.
Logout from every Google service. The only one you must stay logged in into on standard Android is Google Play.

Disable and remove every Google or pre-installed app you don't want to use. You won't be able to do it for all of them though.

Use something like Blokada to block ads everywhere, including apps. https://blokada.org/index.html
I assume the difference (to Apple) is that movies generally don't have varied accounts and in-app purchases. You can't buy MTX to reskin the Avengers in Endgame (yet) or unlock extra DLC chapters (well Disney+ is trying I'm sure). You log into one provider (Netflix) instead of potentially an account/provider per game, plus the streaming app. So, money.
I'm not sure about that but you can see and hear him give the introduction to the bizarre (and almost certainly not true) Soviet film "Experiments in the Revival of Organisms" (1940). Haldane was a great scientist, but his judgement may have been blurred here due to his (then) support of the Soviet Union

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experiments-in-the...
Why do you think regulation (forcing Apple to compromise their editorial decisions) the answer?

Nobody is forced into buying an iPhone.

Customers willingly opt-in to these platforms.
So I thought I'd try some long-haul traffic and was amazed that the MangaWhai Tavern[1] responds like it was next door. Those bits should be coming (at least when accessed for the first time in some cache-purge period) from NZ to Pago Pago to Kapalei HI, to Oregon and down the West Coast to me. I'd'a thought I'd see at least a little delay. Clearly the network is smarter than me.

[1] https://www.mangawhaitavern.co.nz
Class D amps are pretty amazing. the Fender class D bass amps are ridiculously good and light for the price now. like 20% of the weight of their predecessors light. Which, if you've lugged a tube 4x10 around, is pretty awesome.
That’s not how arguments work. There’s plenty who care more about themselves then others, regardless of skin color, race or gender. There’s the concept of f yours got mine. Also Trump just kept saying socialist even though that was so far removed from anything truthful, but people hear socialist and think that must be bad.
The Democratic Party supports policies that privilege minorities over White people or are even outright racially discriminatory, such as affirmative action.

Affirmative action strives to achieve top down equal results at the expense of privileging certain people on the basis of their biological character. The right solution is bottom up economic stimulus to create equal opportunity, and it should support poor Black/Hispanic Americans as well as poor White Americans (of which there are a sizable and growing number).

You need look no further than the failure of Prop 16 - which sought to remove language from the California Constitution that provides equal protections and consideration to all Californians irrespective of race, gender, etc - to understand how deeply unpopular these sorts of strategies to rectify societal imbalance really are.

While I am personally largely socially liberal, I’ve never understood how Democrats unironically adopted a policy agenda that explicitly preferences certain people on the basis of race, which is quite possibly the worst way to address racial injustice.
No idea? Bubbles are comfortable :)
Data verification to predict drive failure seems like a decent use case though. The drive is always spinning, so you essentially gain an extra data path to do read-verify-fix IOPs. Whether you can build this in cost-effectively is a big question though. But at rebuild times climbing to upwards of a week, being unable to do continuous health monitoring starts to get real problematic.
> If one big problem facing U.S. politics right now is that everything is distilled down to a binary either-or with no room for nuance, its sibling problem is assuming that everyone on the "other side" from you is the same, i.e. that the crazy extremist you see on TV is a prototypical example of everyone in that group. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth.

This is why I’m an independent. The quicker people realize the solution isn’t blue or red, but instead in the middle, the quicker we can actually resolve issues.
Apple is, and has been for a very long time, both a hardware and software company. They sell this as an advantage. Since long before the iPhone was a thing.

“More and more, software is getting integrated into the hardware… Yesterday’s software is today’s hardware. Those two things are merging. And the line between hardware and software is going to get finer and finer and finer. And one of the ways that we’re approaching the problem of trying to remove the barrier is to try to look ahead a few years and try to make some predictions at how the technologies are merging, and at the same time very carefully looking at the kinds of high level tools our customers are going to need and trying to make those two points the same target.“

—Steve Jobs, 1980
The woman who built Beethoven's pianos
All of the self driving car research will eventually be used to make self-driving tanks and other automated weapons of war. All technological innovation ends up being used for war eventually; it's just a question of whether the military or the public gets to use it first.
You took the worst possible interpretation of the former and the best possible interpretation of the latter. In what world do you think anyone believes this was done in good faith?
but its not searchable n referable afterwards.

and its somewhere between inefficient and very bad for details.. like https://192.168.1.1/iIo0/dot/slash/.slash
I wish. About a quarter to a third of the stuff I want to listen to either has been pulled from Spotify in the last few years, or was never there to begin with.

I’d love to be able to pay a cloud service to be able to stop shuttling rare files around.
This. And if you're talking about audio cards, from a music production perspective, one substandard component in the chain makes all the rest kinda pointless. They all need to be up to snuff.
Because people are failing to vote strategically. In Canada the 3 party system even more heavily favors the right (Conservatives), as our center-left parties (NDP, Liberal) are very similar and split the vote. In strategic elections this narrows considerably.

We also have a parliamentary system, where these parties can make coalitions and essentially pool votes, which softens (but doesn't eliminate) the need for strategic voting.
The labels referring to political parties within a specific country will have meanings within that same context.

> "to be relative to some arbitrary standard"

That's what you were doing by saying the left isn't actually the left. Why? The left has a clear definition in the USA. You are redefining it for some reason.

> "Far right and far left have ... meanings in terms of the actual measurable impact on lives and human flourishing."

Yes, both extremes are generally terrible for lives. Was that the point? Otherwise no, I don't know what you mean. Perhaps you can answer instead of deflecting.
Ah yes, admit you don't know someone and then draw a caricature of them and post the comment. This is a good faith argument!
The key is that the manufacturer doesn't have a way in either. The GPLv3 is okay with making software absolutely immutable in a piece of hardware. It's just not okay with locking the user out but still letting the manufacturer in.
Not if the 2% is 90% of transportation emissions (not saying it is, just that the number alone says nothing).
Sure. But you're begging the question that those are somehow evidence for an argument that Python is easy. I disagree that they would be, especially for a novice, or one who already has a familiar and comfortable workflow in a different language. I think such a user would think "wait, this is what they think is easy entry-level practical programming? Riiiight."
True. On that point, let us celebrate that this episode is over.
Biden’s position on gun control, combined with Kamala Harris, is what did it for many of the republicans I know.
Not many, and AFAIK none have in-app purchases that Apple is missing out on. If they do then it's not enough to be worth starting a fight over yet.
> There are reports of being able to predetermine when we wake before we sleep

FWIW I can do that. At one point in my life I had to wake up a specific times (that varied day to day) and was using an alarm clock and I noticed I kept waking up exactly two minutes before the alarm was set to go off. I stopped using the alarm clock but kept waking up at the right time. It was like once I noticed I could do it I "had faith" that it would work and it did.

> I assume anything related to stress, anger, or sexual responses are also consciously triggerable, given we can make ourselves stressed, angry, or horny by thinking about the right things.

That's a good point, and it's broader than you say, that is, pretty much every physiological response can be controlled through self-hypnosis, "thinking about the right things". But that's different than the volitional control over breathing and blinking. Every normal person can choose to control their breathing or their eyelids at will in a way that they can't choose to control e.g their digestion or the rate of hair growth or their body temperature, etc.
on the other hand, we do an awful job catching them, so more resources could be put to use there than they're currently getting.
I am not being glib when I say: just don't use Apple. Yes, what they do is bad. But it isn't force. It isn't coercion. It's people coming to them and wanting to use their services.

Just don't use their services. Just because you feel powerless in making individual choices doesn't mean advocating for the use of force against the company is moral.
Not if their opinions are of the flavor of: female genital mutilation is acceptable; there was massive election fraud in the US Nov. 3 election; the earth is flat; etc.

At some point you need to draw a line.
a sort of conway's law in reverse, applied to society in general
Its like bitcoin investment. There won't be any more IPv4 :)
You engage by not going in with the intent to change a person's mind. Instead, you go in with the intent to understand their position. Just because someone's conclusion seems ridiculous or wrong doesn't mean there aren't underlying facts that, when seen from a certain perspective, and with a certain context, make that conclusion seem reasonable.

There are real, legitimate, reasons why Trump voters believe what they believe. That many get caught up in the rhetoric of their "side" or don't know how to have a discussion with a goal other than "win" doesn't mean they don't see real problems that are urgent and important problems that need to be fixed.

Empathize first, argue second.
Isn't it amazing when a "white supremacist" improves his vote share of _every_ minority demographic (getting the highest share of GOP minority vote since the 60s), and does worse with white men. A goddamn miracle. This is the same guy who received awards from black community organizations before he ran, and had a black girlfriend for a while.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-vote-rising-amon...
Re: Nestle - Corporatist structures twisting the state to do their bidding isn't property rights.

Property rights and human needs are both real things. I never argued otherwise.
Well, let me literally reproduce my other comment in this thread, which was a reply to another person. It is not that easy to find, so, for your convenience, I'm reposting it below. While it talks about "checks and balances" point, I think that exactly the same argument can be made about "common ground". I hope that it makes sense to you.

As for your argument on checks and balances - yes, generally, it is definitely a very good thing. However, when one side uses their position of chamber majority not to collaborate and compromise, but to throw a wrench into "wheels of democracy" and gridlock the Congress (especially, considering the voting record of the current majority in the Senate and essentially zero breaking ranks history), which might be extremely unproductive and even damaging to the lives of the American people, that IMO does not represent the "checks and balances" that you're talking about.
ESRB isn't for apps and is US only.

Hence my point that there isn't a global regulatory framework for apps/games like there is for music/movies.
This is awesome! Mutt holds a very special place in my heart, even though I haven't used it in like a decade. I did use it for a very long time, and it was fantastic! Well into the 2000s I had UUCP delivering email to postfix on my laptop, read and sent using mutt. UUCP was extremely capable for handling e-mail on a laptop, whether disconnected because I was traveling and on a CDMA connection, on a spotty wireless, or at the coffee shop.

I have kind of given up on e-mail... I don't even check it daily for work, and a few times a week personally. I use gmail because they do a really good job of spam filtering and I don't have to deal with infrastructure.
> Trump disavowed white supremacy many times.

Source? (Preferably in the form of a video, since there is a lot of misinformation about this, and he explicitly espoused white supremacy on live TV during the first presidential debate of 2020.)
Well, sure there are audiophiles who are gear fetishists to a stupid extreme. But bluetooth, ugh.. Sketchy, bad latency, audio distortion, weird time jitter. Companies are making things like bluetooth midi controllers, but I can't imagine ever, ever, ever.. bringing bluetooth on stage for a gig.
> Is there any map of this quality of the entire world's underground backbones ?

Not anymore. The last time somebody compiled one they tried to have his thesis classified as a matter of national security.

https://gizmodo.com/for-decades-the-public-was-not-allowed-t...
Nate Silver gave Biden a 90% chance of winning, citing 3-4 tossup and 3-4 likely states. I don't see how his predictions don't look reasonable. Silver gave Trump a 27% last election - that's a very reachable percentage . Polls have considerable margin for error. It's standard for people to take a poll result as an absolute prediction and then rail against any error but that's not the fault of the poll itself. [2]

[1]https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/

[2]https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-pollsters-have-cha...
The current New Zealand government is the first in 26 years of MMP where a party gained a majority alone. The previous was made up of 3 very different minority parties. In every other election, the largest has sought the support of smaller parties to govern. I can’t speak for other countries, but MMP has not lead to instability here.
I may have misread your previous comment -- thank you for the clarification.

I do agree with you that it's tricky to try to sell being centrist when you are not, and, in some ways, better to just be out-and-out left.

TBH I'm not sure Biden really tried to sell himself as something he is not. He's been pretty clear about wanting to address systemic racism, the green new deal, a science-based response to covid, valuing international coalitions, etc.

If anything I'm kind of anticipating him walking back his pledges on those things when in office. Though I hope not.

Let's also bear in mind though that, while we can armchair-quarterback, his strategy succeeded.

I think the question of if moving to a more aggressively Progressive agenda would bring in voters hungry for change who are otherwise turned off by Democrats, or if moving more to the center to bring in voters turned off by a more Progressive agenda, is an extremely vexed question to which I have no answer.

That is interesting about Germany though.

And at the end of the day my own belief is that we are living in a time of change, and that it's important to offer policies I believe to be right (mainly Progressive policies) to address that change.

Or otherwise the void will be filled, as you pointed out about Germany, by something else.

At the same time we haven't seen that approach be successful on a national level in US politics yet. So I don't know.

Curious what your thoughts are.
Was about to write this very thing. Also many people frightened that a defunded police will not be able to protect them.
You understand that there is more to the world than the US.

Every country has regulations for music/movies/TV. US and a handful of other countries have them for games and I am not aware of any for apps.
addendum: SSV = "Space Separated Values"

Name Score
Jill 123
It's Kapolei, with an 'o'.
I had never bought his books before until I got Tribe of Mentors last month. Pretty good, and the chapters are short and self contained.

The book that I have got the most from in this genre this year has been a Jiddu Krishnamurti collection. Jiddu Krishnamurti is probably best when in conversation with someone who draws him out, especially the interviews with physicist David Bohm on YouTube.
At least in the circles I’m familiar with, there is open discussion about faking answers to pollsters because of how much the media is distrusted.