skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point you're gonna have to trust an authoritative source. Whether that is APNews or NYT or straight from the government website.

The question of "Who gets to decide the truth" is extremely tiring to refute - someone has always had the authoritative voice is determining what's true and what's not. You're shifting the burden of truth from one source to the other until there is no one you can trust.

Statement: Foo is Bar. [1]

[1] Source Baz.

You then need to argue, why does Baz gets to decide what's true or not? This goes on ad-infinitum.

By asking "Who gets to decide the truth", you're essentially saying "Why should I trust anyone?" and by that logic "I cannot trust anyone, so everything must be false." The society's fabric is based on trust in institutions. Whether it is government, an independent news source or whatever.
> One of the big reasons for voting Trump was standing up against this propaganda machine.

This is a horrible reason to vote. You should vote for the person you will think would do the best job of running the country out of the available choices.

Voting out of pettiness or personal offence is corrosive to the signal your vote should be carrying.
More importantly, since we’re talking about the United States, the President can’t actually start wars. Congress declares war. So mincing words about whether the President has technically started a “war” is vacuous. No President ever has.

Given that context it’s easy to understand that people using the term War in the modern day to discuss the actions of a US President are not referring to the technical meaning of the term.
Eh, depends on the concentration. I'm pretty sure your introductory chemistry teacher asked you to smell a dilute solution of it. And it's a common reagent in introductory chemistry classes so you've had plenty of chances of smelling it.
Netflix is testing a linear channel that should help with decision fatigue
I think the inefficiency is distance?

If I want a fancy beer from Holy Mountain, I need to live close to it, or make big travel plans to get there. The same applies for each thing I might want to do. Living nearby lots of other people minimizes my distance to each of those things, so I avoid wasting money and time on travel.
Areas with the highest covid death rates voted for trump does that mean his covid policy was sound? Minorities like many vote against their own interest. Good people on both sides. I will give you the prison reform thing but that was Kushner and trump later expressed regret for it, and it was pandering.
I think this is down to your bubble. I know quite a few people who want Biden, and said they would have voted for Trump again over Sanders (who was the most notably discussed other person). I know a bunch more people who are as you describe of course.
The DNC had at least _half a dozen_ better candidates this time. They had better candidates last time, too. It's just that the establishment wants to be in control, so they put Biden in (and Clinton last time). If that's not obvious, I don't know what to tell you. The GOP establishment tried that too, with Trump, but they're less organized, so Trump tore them up pretty easily due to his unorthodox campaigning.
It would not be one administration prosecuting another, it would be non-partisan prosecutors prosecuting criminals.

Donald Trump attempted to politicize the DOJ, but otherwise it is a non-political entity and has prosecuted Republicans and Democrats alike during previous administrations.
Not in this case, clearly.
This is what I've done with mine, and it works a treat. Never having to worry about uSD card lifespan or troubleshooting why my Pi won't boot randomly is fantastic, and I cannot recommend it enough.
These companies are as important as we consider them to be.

And just a few reminders:
1. His messages are still visible.
2. Even if they were not, he could still deliver his message in a thousand different ways, I mean he's constantly over the phone with Fox'n'Friends.

Since America exists, you've always had people commenting and criticizing what elected officials are doing and saying. Do you want to shut twitter's right to free speech? Do you realize that you are taking a position of:
"A member of government should not be questioned by a private party". Do you realized how fearful people who disagrees with you can be by hearing this argument?

The guy is literally going for a power grab. "Stand up and stand by"... I really think that those who are worried about democracy because of what Twitter is doing are focusing on the wrong thing here. And to be honest, I find it harder and harder to believe they do it in good faith... That is what I am worried about.
I would have thought that's clear when Hillary used campaign funds while running against Bernie https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-leak-clinton-team...
Likewise with Fujifilm, who successfully adapted their photography business into many diverse industries: https://crm.org/articles/fujifilm-found-a-way-to-innovate-an...
It's clear now that Shy Trump Voters existed. Some opinion pages trafficked in arguments against their existence.
I think of them in terms that our Austrian friend described.
Some pollsters were better at accounting for them.
I avoid "most media outlets" language and try to look at the data.
This is great news since it’ll probably force a lot of folks out if jira
Even more interesting on Deezer - Deezer Has a New Message for App Pirates — ‘We’re Not Going to Stop You’ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2020/10/26/deezer-pirate-ap...
But also one that contains an important message that parent should read.
I don’t know how many times I’ve dealt with broken .CSV files that someone ram through Excel or Access
The irony here is that of the "undocumented" immigrants that became "documented" I've talked to they are almost all conservative. The famous ones of course include Arnold Schwartzenegger. But before DJT, even the other, not famous, ones painting houses and mowing lawns are.

When they say why, it becomes understandable. "I came here with $7.23 in my pocket and didn't even speak the language. I'm making a living. Get off welfare and get a job."

The Dems are painted as the party of handouts and the handouts torque the immigrants off. The immigrants are working extremely hard,sending money home to their families and so on.
Right... but the question was 'why can't the same thing be done with let'.

The answer is probably a combination of 'they haven't gotten around to it yet', 'they don't see the need', 'they don't want the complexity', and 'they don't want to spend compile time doing that.'
More of this please :)

That is exactly the kind of problem solver I like to work with. Most of the time, “boring” tech will solve the problem cheaper, faster and as reliable and scalable as any shiny new tech.
I work with GraphQL, REST APIs and even JSON RPC APIs on a daily basis and when you truly use those tools, you get to know where they really shine.
Localism is better for the working class majority. Centralisation is better for costal elites. It’s a no brainer why we end up with the latter.
The Queen's Gambit (US Chess Federation Interviews)
I think in part it is because "PM" is such a nebulous role, there isn't a clear career track for someone to become a PM so you end up with a widely disparate set of skills in that role.

The best PM I worked with did comp-sci, decided he hated programming and went into project management, he got it.

The worst was promoted out of customer support and didn't have a fucking clue.
Yes! Just go to the lesson on the mainpage [1] and click at the bottom of the page on 'Recording'. The recording will be placed online a day after webinar. You can also choose to download the video of the webinar.

[1] https://indico.cern.ch/category/12909/
The one person who pointed this out was downvoted because it's literally a 404 link.

You're being downvoted because of The Implication.
You're making the implicit assumption that more of those people exist than the rural and suburban types, in which case... Yes? Your comment cuts both ways - one of those groups is going to be the dominant culture and if your argument is that the smaller one should win, I don't see the reasoning to back it up.
Build your own professional-grade audio amp on the sort-of cheap (2018)
democrats routinely accuse republicans of being racist. especially more than the opposite, so I'm not sure why you thought that would help.
If you've never seen it, I HIGHLY recommend Lessig's talk on "Free Culture" from OSCON 2002 (the book too). It's one of the first talks that got me into software copyrights, and covers a lot of ground into an area many of us (or at least I) probably only know at a surface-level:

https://youtu.be/5HiW9ZCpnK8
Yup. And censoring opinions from a specific group should be considered as editorializing.
The Wikimedia project and some other high profile projects use it.

I did a pretty thorough evaluation once which included Phrabricator, it came out very well, especially the work flow around code review. It wasn't chosen for unrelated reasons.

I don't know why it isn't more popular than it is. It seems to be very mature, certainly better than a lot of tools that organizations pay good money for.
Would you claim that European rich groups don't toss their weight around?
God it is so tired rhetoric: of being "realist" (read - empty suit, not willing to do any change); Biden being most likely to win over Trump (we've already seen, how weak he was), he has almost half a century of experience (if not for the appetite for an outsider, Trump would have no chance in Michigan and PA). Mind if ask you if you are 40+?
But Harris was still a very horrible choice.
That's no longer true unfortunately. Denialism on the left about certain things is becoming rampant:

- Blacks commit far more crime than other racial groups. There are sociological explanations for this, but that is currently a fact, and one that people on the left do mental backflips to avoid acknowledging.

- Gender pay gap in most industries is small or non-existent once you adjust for experience and other factors. Not to say that there is no discrimination at all, but this is another thing people on the left can't or don't want to acknowledge.

Those are just two among many.
Note this is written by Yusuke Endoh, one of the top obfuscated-code competition winners in the world.

Given that Christmas is coming up, and it never seems to get traction here on HN, I'll take the opportunity to link to another of his quines here. It's one of my favourite pieces of code ever, a christmas-themed animation which doubles as a quine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0eaf9iLKxg

Edit: I have to re-iterate, he is truly a genius. It's worth spending time going through his other videos too.
Ask HN: Windows 10 Without Cloud?
I was wondering how tight the OS manufacturing companies will be of constant communication with cloud? I refer here to the need to eliminate any running illegal copies of OS? I think cloud can be used to perhaps end piracy of operating systems. On the other hand you loose the freedom to work with software you bought. What do you think?
The best forms of documentation are, in order:

1. Encapsulating complexity to eliminate the need.

2. Well-designed UI Affordances to eliminate the need.

3. Documentation presented just in time at the Point of Action

4. A concisely illustrated mental model explanation and some specific searchable how-tos.

5. Well-written answers on StackOverflow.

For more on this, see the Django community and Write the Docs.
We use CSVs a lot and a good schema for a metadata file would be very useful. Rather than making up my own, does anybody know of a good, well-adopted metadata format for CSV files? I found https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/tabular-data-package, but not sure how widely used it is.
You can still have states and also have a national popular vote.
I mean, at least on the surface, things seemed pretty optimistic in the late 1980s through the 1990s, from what I remember. It wasn’t a utopia, but it’s easy to see how there would be less pressure for young people to be involved in politics.

The Cold War ended and the USSR peacefully dissolved, democracy was ascendant, the Good Friday Agreement ended The Troubles, East and West Germany reunified, the Schengen Area and the Eurozone were established, the International Space Station opened an era of international cooperation in peaceful space exploration, life expectancy was up, disposable income was up, new and amazing technologies were developed at record pace, substantially improved treatments for fatal conditions like HIV and cancer were entering the market, we’d nearly cracked the human genome, we’d made great progress in eradicating infectious diseases, people around the world were being lifted out of poverty, crime was down, the Western economy was strong. The world seemed less divided and closer together than ever.

Today, tensions between superpowers are up. Russia and North Korea have renewed the threat of nuclear armed conflict. The UK exited the EU. There’s an obesity crisis. Many of our amazing technologies have turned out to be terribly unhealthy and destabilising. Authoritarianism is on the rise, along with domestic and sectarian terrorism. The Western economy was shattered in 2008 and now there’s a global pandemic. Immigrants fleeing instability in other countries have led to political upheaval and conflict. The US became an unreliable ally. And, above all, the existential threat of climate change looms over their entire future.
>"...I'd really appreciate it if one could describe why they consider themselves one since it's totally meaningless to me when someone self identifies as a centrist."

Why would they care whether it has a meaning to you. They care about their own beliefs.
That, and your allies.
Trump was rhetorically against climate change but in large part simply because he prefers to use simple words that resonate with the majority. But the policies were primarily aimed at helping the working class - stopping job drain from coal areas (doesn’t actually work, because of economics), preventing fuel price rises (not actually that popular, they tried that in France as well but got massive working class protests) and national security (promoting US and EU energy self-sufficiency means we need to rely less on unstable undemocratic regimes in the Middle East and Russia)
How about I get to decide who to trust instead of Twitter, Reddit, etc censoring people and deciding for me?
Convicted of fraud. https://thehill.com/capital-living/in-the-know/100105-filmma...

Falsifying and modifying evidence: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approa...
If the risk is that someone like Romney, or McCain get in, I think progressives would feel more free to take risks and pick a more progressive candidate. To most progressives, while they're not fans of Romney and revisionism aside weren't fans of McCain, having one of them in power feels less dangerous than having Trump in power.

If next election they're up against an attempt for Trump to get back in, then yes, you could expect a large progressive turnout for a Biden re-election. But if he's against a more moderate republican, I don't think you'll see the turnout that happened this year repeat, which may turn out to be a problem for his supporters.
I would tend to agree with this. What I am worried is that Trump has been making a fool of himself for the last 74 years. Yet, more than 70.000.000 people voted for him. So there must be something wrong about our assumption...
The problem with that is that mainstream press outlets such as Bloomberg spread disinformation and don’t get censored.
They're just believing what their information-circle is saying. They're not looking at things themselves. For instance, in the discussions I've seen of the Right talking about fraud, they've not mentioned the shenanigans of the USPS not delivering mail that arrived on time (WaPo yesterday had a story IIRC).

They need to believe. So they follow those that help them do so.
Biden's campaign said their polling showed the race as closer than the public polling. It also doesn't do good to have too positive polling if it suppresses turnout. And it doesn't do the pollster's reputations any good to be consistently wrong.

I've heard several hypotheses, but I don't have anyway to test them. They all seem to have merit.
I suspect that his choosing of those judges was a combination of him listening to his handlers when they (rightfully) told him big portion of his base was only in it for the judges combined with the assumed belief on Trumps part that any judges he appointed to show him loyalty in any legal situation (they won't).
yet these are not 'public squares', thus they're free to manage content as they see fit.
A toaster is a simple device but the physics involved in the safe operation is not trivial. You’re dealing with resistive heating elements that get incredibly hot and exposed conductive wires with lethal voltages present. The liability and risk around repair is so high that I’m not surprised there’s no support for field service of it.

I have 2 toasters at my house, one pulls 600W while on, the other 1400W. Both toast 2 slices of bread and are otherwise the same. If someone accidentally installed the 1400W elements in the 600W toaster something would melt and possibly start a fire. I’m all for promoting the repair of consumer devices but toasters are one device that I don’t think the general public has the knowledge and skill to repair safely.
And that's why California is the most conservative state in the nation!

Oh, wait…
Yeah reminds me of the previous 20s and 30s when the great depression brings about the rise of polarized left and right and things only got turned around when WW2 broke out...
Why would you say that anyone else should decide what's true on his platform? Twitter isn't even so popular that you can say it has a monopoly of any sort. There are plenty of alternative services, and no significant barriers to starting a new one. I guarantee that if the president of the United States was to say "From now on I'm only posting on my blog" then that blog would become very popular.
Copyeditors have to pay rent, and they only have one way to monetize exposure

At least until Brave takes off...
If the "same" philosophy results in different policies when applied in different countries, that to me lends more credence to their contextuality.
I can't wait to get to this point in my career.
Sure -- but I specified "anonymously" bc so many of those suffering from micromangement, almost by definition, don't have a great working relationship w their superiors.
Bernie, like Trump, had a real backing, by real people, with real policies that speak to the majority.

Biden is an empty shell. http://joebiden.info
It doesn't look like linear is available for local server install.
I just hope we have a relatively boring 4 years without daily issues that get people on one or both side of the political spectrum upset/angry/hateful/malicious.
That's always been true of the media in general. The publisher of the NYT presumably said something (years ago) to the effect of "We don't give people what they want; we give them what they should have." Arguably there are far fewer or more porous gatekeepers today relative to the historic norm--for better or worse.
Thank you for the feedback. I just changed that to Google Drive and you can download free chapters without registering.
JIRA Cloud is very slow (we moved from JIRA Server not that long ago). There is about a 5-10 second pause between seeing (server-rendered? I'm unsure) data for an issue and the page actually becoming interactive (ie. me being able to change a sprint or labels or components). I'm running out of my flegmatism.

It led me to start writing an Elm client for their API, and although a lot of the features that I'd need for it to become my daily driver is still missing, it's _so much faster_.
Well at the point I think everyone knows that polls can be way off.

Of course a small sample of votes is likely to be too, but we aren’t talking about statistical inference here, we talking about political perception.
Biden has not "won the whitehouse". There is a process which includes court challenges, recounts, & the Electoral College. This headline is premature at best & if Trump wins court challenges, could be misleading...
> Only one side denies medical consensus on vaccines

You’re incorrect about this one AFAIK. From the Safety of Childhood MMR Vaccine section of [0]:

> There are no differences between party groups about this issue. Moderates are a bit more likely than either conservatives or liberals to say that childhood vaccines are generally safe.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2015/07/01/chapter-5-pub...
If checks and balances don't work when you need them most they might as well not exist.
I hope this doesn’t work
Yeah, just like there was a whole bunch of people going crazy four years ago, when Trump got elected.

America is extremely divided, and I'm not sure that it's going to recover from this (which I personally, as a foreigner, find very very sad).
> Make the US a one-party state. That'll happen due to demographics as early as 2024

That sounds like you believe parties don't always adjust to the electorate. No major party can have a platform that doesn't allow them to get a majority of the vote. So if demographics means the country becomes liberal, then so do both parties. That doesn't mean the conservative party isn't the more conservative one. It might mean that they want single payer healthcare or, for example.
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Yeah, that (or approval voting, or STAR) would be a good system in a primary.

In the general election, using plain score voting is a bit dangerous; if you consider a Trump vs Clinton race where all the Trump voters give him a ten out of ten, and most of the Clinton voters give her a six or seven, then Trump wins by a bigger margin than he did in 2016. (STAR fixes this with an immediate runoff of the top two after maximalizing everyone's vote.) But in a primary election, it might be good to get the candidate with the most enthusiasm behind them.

One difficulty in implementing something like this for the Democratic primary is that it isn't very compatible with the delegate system. Maybe that's not entirely a bad thing and delegates should be done away with, but sometimes it's good to have a group of people at the convention who can make decisions if something unexpected happens to one of the candidates.

You could have individual states adopt different voting systems for their primaries and just use them to allocate delegates. For instance, instead of allocating delegates proportionally to anyone with more than 15% of the vote using first-past-the-post ballots like we do now, allocate delegates proportional to their candidate's total score, perhaps with some cut-off (like, no delegates awarded if your score average is less than 4 out of 10) or a rule that only the top N candidates are awarded delegates.
The NPVIC[0] is actually inching closer and closer to being in force. It will still take a long time, but I see it actually possibly working eventually.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
Where is the information to corroborate these people are dead and not just old?
Isnt there pretty much constantly front page posts on here complaining about California's inept government? Hardly the Golden standard we should be shooting for
In case you're not aware of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...), take a look. It's doable.
Nothing. I write code for work and school on a variety of Macs.
This is awesome and I have a question that is somewhat relevant. Is there a known way to take care of marketing/up-sell disguised as "service-related" emails from Xfinity or the GrubHub marketing emails that automatically re-subscribe you every time you order food?
How do you quantify the revenue derived from that?