skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"when one side literally empowers those that executed my family in WW2, it is no longer a disagreement, but a fight for my life."

Oddly, Trump is the most staunchly Zionist / Pro-Jewish President in American history (of course, all for his own benefit, I don't think he actually cares about any of it.)

Literally his daughter, and most trusted advisor converted to Judaism.

Paradoxically, it's now the 'global left', particularly in Europe who have faced real and serious problems of anti-semitism. In the UK, the Labour Party has had to eject several members for anti-semitic views (not just anti-Israel) and had to embark on programs to remedy the situation.

"In October 2020, the UK's human rights watchdog found Labour to be "responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination"." [1] From the BBC no less!

Most of my childhood friends grew up behind the Iron Curtain (Ukraine, Poland, Czech) or in Communist nations like Vietnam, Cambodia, China. Many family members murdered, starved. My Uncle fled with his mother through a forest across the border, chased by soldiers to escape. Many Serbian/Croatian friends who's parents lived through a very special kind of hell.

Perhaps you can ask one of your workmates from Hong Kong what he thinks about 'Socialism With Chinese Characteristics'? [2]

Please don't let us assume that one person's history or clan's mortal enemies represent the 'big picture' of anything.

Trump is a 'thuggish businessman with authoritarian tendencies' - not actually an ideologue. The extreme views on either side are toxic and have quit a history of mass murder. If we want to compare 'Deaths Caused by Stalin/Mao vs. Hitler' that would be a futile effort I think.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are both fairly good representations of either side and they're both fine men, if you're having trouble grasping why most people would be ok with that statement, maybe spend some time in another part of the country (Utah?) and make some friends there.

[1] In October 2020, the UK's human rights watchdog found Labour to be "responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination".

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_charact...
Would you have any objections to the term "Technical Tax" in it's place?

The way I see it, the cruft always removes some % of your capacity to deliver. Once your technical tax bracket gets too high you have no capacity left over to make forward progress.

It's not a perfect metaphor by any stretch but what I think it gets right is that it's a reduction to your capacity to deliver that you pay in perpetuity.
The first one is a good example. The second one is about a mentally ill British man whose "assassination attempt" never had any chance of success.

Should we count as political violence the plot to kill Barack Obama with a "death ray"? I think there's a distinction to be drawn between political violence and crazy people being crazy.

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

Interestingly, reading the pages you linked and dredging up the Death Ray link induced me to notice that (1) the previous shooting of a Congressperson was by a right-wing terrorist, and (2) that page about Obama recounts something like 6 very real plots to kill him mixed in among a bunch of variously mentally ill people being delusional. I think it's pretty clear which way the wind blows here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting
Ah ok I see, I thought you were disagreeing with me.

That's a good website, I had literally never seen that video before. That's kind of what I mean by my comment, it's downright hilarious to come here onto forums and watch people argue about their respective perceptions of reality, while the vast majority of people think they are actually arguing about reality itself (which is what your video shows). That it has zero effect on most people (well, maybe makes them even angrier) is what is so mysterious about the working of the mind.
>literally everyone should if it has a a reasonable chance of saving a life

This is a moral judgement and not everybody shares the same values as you, especially regarding what a "reasonable" chance is. Some people don't believe they should inconvenience themselves just because it would contribute to a tiny decrease in deaths. There's also an absence of data: given we've got months of data on death rates and mask usage rates in different areas, it should be possible to quantify exactly how strong the correlation is, but nobody's even done this.
Not sure if it's the technical term for it, but if you didn't decide to do it on purpose I believe it's called "cruft".

People kind of use them interchangeably sometimes though.
>Moreover, p and q must be chosen independently. If p and q share approximately half of their upper bits, then N can be factored using Fermat’s method.

Wouldn't p and q normally share around half their upper bits if chosen independently? I suspect the probability distribution would be centered around 0.5
It's your lucky day!

https://live.infrapedia.com/app
Are you trying to say that "Truth isn't truth"?
when polls don't match up with reality, as they didn't in 2016, the pollsters have a responsibility to re-calibrate the way they conduct the poll. Ask different questions, find new ways of obtaining respondents from all demographics, adjust raw data, etc. A professional pollster doesn't just get to say, hey, some people didn't want to talk to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They can tackle it in other ways. US government can setup hospitals and employ doctors. It can be free of cost.
Build more nuclear plants, no one from the right will oppose it.
The really interesting thing is that when Democratic platform proposals are on the ballot, they pass even in red states.

For example, this year Florida voted for Trump by 2% AND a $15 minimum wage by 20 points.

The actual policy is extremely popular, but if a Democratic politician brings it up it just gets labelled socialism.
Ok, looking at first reply to my post, they reference "commercial freedoms", which I support. Look at COVID 19, commerce (measured in restaurant reservations and retail purchases) dropped like 90% before the government lockdowns. The way to improve the economy and provide "commercial freedom" is to defeat the virus. The way to defeat the virus is though, amongst other tools like masks and vaccines, lockdowns. You could remove all the restrictions you want and things won't go back to normal for business or their patrons until the risk serious illness from a disease is small enough that you don't need to think about it when making evening plans. Additionally, when you reference "banning cars", cars used to be extremely dangerous. We have cumulatively spent millions of hours and hundreds of thousands of human lives developing engineering solutions to make cars safer. Things like masks are like seatbelts, and "suspending indoor dining" is like adding a crumple zone to the front of the car and we do ban cars that aren't sufficiently safe.
There's 2 truisms about software eng:

1) All specs are incomplete.

2) All managers had no training.
Everyone knew for months ahead that this is how the votes would play out in those particular states. Nothing strange happened.
Political parties and news orgs benefit from having ½ of Americans stoked with animosity toward the other ½.

As evidence I offer that the most obvious yet never-offered solution to 2016 election meddling is a less malleable voter.
The point isn't "good crypto must not have footguns", it's "RSA has so many footguns, that we as a community should stop silently accepting uses of it".
See: https://www.levels.fyi/#

Most VC-funded co's are bay area, so I was guessing $140K base + $100K RSUs (which are effectively cash) => $240K based on what I recalled about big companies here. But looks like $260K for someone just a few years in (L4) and $350K for folks senior enough to be real leads (L5). Funded co's are the top 1%, so that's arguably some $600K folks (L6). Also, I didn't adjust for being in a top 1 market (bay area) or 2nd tier (nyc/seattle/austin/...) vs Other. But either way, yeah, you're right, > 50% discount for those #'s ;-)
It removes you from the list of people who get pwned with a rainbow table from leaked passwords, but that's not much security.

English has only got ~1.2 bits of entropy per character. [1]

[1] Table 1 in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.04444.pdf
This is wrong on so many levels.
Obama continued the war and killed thousands of innocent people, did nothing for blacks in his 8 years term but he is the baton of morality
> Those definitions aren't consistent, they're just different because the context is different. It's like general relativity, left vs right only exist in relation to something else.

Yes, and the US Republican party is extremely far right, so labelling other parties solely in relation to US politics is not useful for discussing like actual political ideology.

It is, however, useful if you want to paint mainstream European political ideologies as socialism.

> Everyone is aware that politics change over time.

Then recognize that and be willing to have a discussion about politics in relation to time. If you refuse to engage with someone who points out that a political party or idea is not actual far left in the grand scheme of things, you are refusing to recognize the larger context.

In general, its difficult to have conversations without consistent definitions, and if the Republican party can change the definition of "left" by moving further to the right, this makes discussion of left politics hard, so people interested in discussing leftist politics have to reject that definition to have productive conversations.

If you don't want to have productive conversations with those people, that's your choice. But say that, don't claim they're being disingenuous.

> Clinton was a Democrat who wanted strong borders and now the modern left wants open borders. Isn't that a shift to the left?

Depending on exactly what you mean by "open borders", Sanders, who is conventionally considered left-of-the-median Democrat, wants less open borders than the democratic party as a whole. He's for freedom of movement of people, but for more tariffs and economic protectionism than the democratic party.

Trump and Sanders are actually sort of unique in this regard. Conventional Democrats and Republicans both favor free trade, although perhaps for different reasons. Trump, being anti-globalization does not, and Sander, being pro-labor, does not.
I don't understand. You're saying you can't listen to spotify on the web?
> "Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos."
I respectfully disagree, at least in some contexts. If you support an API that has multiple clients with ever-changing needs, GraphQL can make your life much simpler, with much less code. I can only speak to the experience of using Lacinia in Clojure, but I found it to be fairly easy to use.
So cringe.
So you’re saying the only thing that matters at a startup is sales?
This is why I refer to it as Technical Tax. Your technical tax bracket is proportional to the amount of cruft and bitrot in the system. A technical tax bracket of 100% means every last bit of development effort is expended on simply maintaining the status quo. So, efforts to lower technical tax bracket can come from refactors, and cleanups, but also from introducing new technologies that diminish current limitations unlocking new capabilities.
Agree. I'm usually very frustrated with the app boundaries, poor system wide integration and so much duplication of work.

Another essay about computing without apps is https://humane.computer/killing-apps/
They didn't ramp up production when hipsters started using them as drinking glasses?
What the hell are you talking about.
Israel was created after ww2 just for the jews mainly affected by the wars
The family separations policy was applied to asylum seekers. Seeking asylum is an established legal process, so 'illegal immigrant' doesn't apply.
Presidents seem to get a lot of, sometimes undeserved, credit for the economy when they were President. Besides inherit a strong and growing economy, what specifically did Trump do to deserve credit for the stock market growth under him? And conversely, does he deserve partial or full credit for the impact of covid-19 (and his slow response to it) on the economy at the end of his term?
Not to mention it has a software license attached to it.

Fuck-capitalism but obey my rules plebs.
This is a difference of basic morality, not 'opinion'.
Eh, I am worried that I am not expressing myself accurately. "Their real constituencies" was definitely not sarcasm. I am not sure how that could possibly be misinterpreted as such.

The example I gave, post 2016 election tax reform benefited said real constituencies. If you do not believe me, look back what threats were lobbed and by whom at republicans if they do not deliver to said constituency. It is not trickle down, but he with the gold makes the rules. And they -- the real constituency -- happen to pay the bills.

In that context, I am not sure I understand the point about "wealthy people [don't] comprise a majority of relevant party representatives' aggregate constituency". They don't, but we don't live in a democracy. In the best of times, assuming you subscribe to taking things as they are written, we are republic ( you know, protection from the tyranny of the majority ). At worst, we already past oligarchy.

So... what does trickle down have to do with anything?
Stop using them. SSH-RSA is deprecated in OpenSSH since a few versions now.
What? He asked Federal Reserve to keep buying everything ob lnstock market with newly printed money. Thats how it went up, by also weakening dollar all around the world. Its another scam.
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Why would they? Given two random numbers with a size of n, the probability that upper halves (size of upper half is n/2) are the same is 1/(1+n/2).
As a Hongkonger I am more worry about a) the problem of USA infrastructures due to the split. The nearly 50% vote for trump this time ... and b) the external resolve and attention paid to Asia especially Taiwan. I did note it is Clinton that sent in 2 aircraft carriers for Taiwan last time, which unlike hk is not yet that much a lost case.

For Hong Kong, I do not have much hope but given it is not much of hope to begin with, fight on beyond the last stand.

Best wish for USA and Taiwan, whilst I can still send message.
You mean to say all of us are thieves, only reason we don't steal is due to threat of violence.
Bigbasket (India's largest e-grocery) breached – 20M account details on darkweb
Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV
>lets just ban driving?

Or maybe let's infringe on your freedoms by: requiring a license to drive, requiring use of a seatbelt, setting safety standards for car manufacturers...
Came here looking to see who would post about that YouTube Videos (Tech Ingredients). Those two videos are brilliant !
> when polls don't match up with reality, as they didn't in 2016, the pollsters have a responsibility to re-calibrate the way they conduct the poll.

Pollsters do that for continuously, and there were definite recalibrations in the wake of 2016.

OTOH, the conditions which produce non-sampling errors aren't static, and it's impossible to reliably even measure the aggregate of non-sampling error in any particular event (because sampling error exists, and while it's statistical distribution can be computed the actual error attributable to it in a by particular event can't be, so you never no how much actual error is due to non-sampling error much less any particular source of non-sampling error.)
What soil bacteria? Modern agriculture tills soil microorganisms to death then is forced up to make up the difference in fertility with oil-derived nutrients. Oops.

Okay I'm obviously being hyperbolic, there is still soil bacteria. But cool is not the word I would use to describe such a practice...
This is not accurate. The HEROES Act was passed by Pelosi and the House of Representatives in May, and it would have included stimulus checks. It was never brought to a vote in the Senate.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/06/heres-how-much-you-could-get...
This is a good point. Perhaps they meant to say "if approximately the upper half of p and q's bits are identical"?
Please return those goal lists to where they were. This NEEDS to stop. If you don't have an answer to why Trump et al thought it okay to permanently separate immigrant children from their parents and your stead yell "BUT OBAMA!", that's cheating.

So do you actually have an answer or not?
I'd have to at least partially disagree with both parts of that statement. The president can only do so much to influence the stock market. A lot of how it goes is due to the state of the economy that is inherited when they gain office. That said, the Trump tax cuts and dismantling of environmental and fiscal regulation probably did help the stock market (not to say I necessarily agree with those moves). However, I would definitely argue that much of his lying was in service of propping up the stock market, some of it likely successful. Downplaying the severity of the pandemic would be the latest and most obvious example, but there are many others.
...yes. How could you execute someone from a country that didn't exist yet?

To be more clear, the Jewish ethnic identity and the Israeli national identity aren't the same identity, and while there is overlap conflating them isn't insightful. OP was conflating them.
I didn't say that Tucker/Carlson/Fox promoted qanon (I referenced them in the context of pizzagate/illegal votes), I implied that some Republicans did, far in excess of their opposites.

For what it's worth, AFAIK qanon has only been mentioned/displayed in passing on Fox [1] and while I haven't been on Fox specifically, I've never been prepped or had my wardrobe reviewed on other national broadcasters' programs so I assume they don't exert editorial control either. I'm too tired to do a deep dive for pizzagate so I will admit I may be confusing it with the Seth Rich conspiracy. It's hard to keep track this deep into the abyss.

[1] https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/definit...
Not sure if UK is having same level of medical break through as US.
You can make an argument that he decreased taxes for the richest of the rich to do that. I don't think that is a cause worth celebrating. Not to mention that stock market levels don't translate to a good economy or good paying jobs for people. We can see that in the past months, where the stock market was doing well but economy not so much.
Even with all these Electron alternatives over the years, I always end up going back to Electron for my projects. My main problem with these alternatives is that they rarely mention what tradeoffs they're making to achieve the their performance gains. Electron is terribly inefficient but it does come with almost everything I need out of the box. The last thing I want is investing weeks into a project with a GUI framework only to encounter a dead end because it's missing a feature that I didn't know I'll need when I started.
I have no idea what you mean. "Division" (whatever that means) seems to be something you care about, based on your other comments, but I have literally no idea what you're driving at.
I resisted associating with a party for a long time, but Trump changed that. I was legitimately afraid for my family, who were at the time green card holders from a Muslim-majority country.

Trump tried to cancel green cards, along with other visas, without any warning a week after his inauguration. People who had lived, worked, paid taxes in the United States for years and followed every legal process were nonetheless stranded away from their homes and families.

That was really the point of no return. Trump supporters are the enemy; no reconciliation is possible.
>Forecasts give us probability distributions based on historical polling error data.

They would give you a probability distribution if they were truly random samples. But in reality, response rates are very low, and pollsters make up for this using demographic weighting and modeling - so the results don't actually represent any real population, but rather are extrapolated from people who respond onto a hypothetical population that the pollster thinks is likely to vote. This is why they are spectacularly and systematically off, more and more over time. It's not just variance.
And worth every penny if they’re good...
Except there are way more Trump supporters than "antifa", so.
TPMs and Enterprise Agile consultants can’t really make heads or tails of Phabricator. It’s an engineering centric product, hostile to those who want to enforce standardized workflows and derive KPIs. Whether this is a bug or a feature depends on where power rests in your organization.
I walked into a shop once and was casually told the camera system routed to a central database shared with federal intelligence who uses facial recognition to match against terrorist and most-wanted databases. I thought that was a little concerning.
My brother met him in an informal setting about two years ago, and expressed concern then over "wow he seemed really old / out of it". But Biden's current speeches and interviews seem lucid and coherent so maybe he was just having a bad day back then.

The presidency, like most other executive jobs, ends up being run by a team of people working together behind the public figurehead. I have faith in Kamala, in the White House advisors, in the picks for cabinet positions, etc. Biden will probably invite back many Obama-era advisors, as opposed to white nationalists like Stephen Miller. Decent people tend to build decent organizations.
Ask HN: What will a Biden administration mean for tech?
Will Biden go less hard on big tech? Will big tech split along political lines? Will Biden de-escalate the tech war with China?
Most of the people in camps on the southern border are seeking asylum. That is an established legal process.

Nonetheless these people were demonized and subject to family separations and lesser cruelties.
The difference is that with the spinning dancer optical illusion, there's never a "wrong" way to view it.

This isn't always the case with politics, or any kind of view for that matter. It's important to empathize with people you disagree with, but it's just as important that we start with a foundation of agreed upon facts.

In other words, reality isn't a point of view.
I'm not convinced that D-Wave's hardware is relevant to anything beyond D-Wave's profits. It's neat that their technology works, I guess, but it isn't clear at this point that it does anything better than a classical computer could.
Qbix Platform 1.1 has been released (Open Source Social Operating System)
so here's the timeline of the bill.

https://www.ehealthinsurance.com/resources/affordable-care-a...

It didn't even matter that Lieberman was independent. he's literally not mentioned.

and it looks like we're both wrong, apparently there was one republican who voted for it.

lol, what is your point? her position is now my 2.2 or nothing. and she was super happy with nothing.

her level of relief is apparently 0. but she can walk away morally and the republicans can't right?

jeez. imagine being called amoral for asking for less lol
Issues like basic rights for transgender people, protection of voting rights for minorities, health care for unavoidable illnesses, and the major economic retooling needed to mitigate the effects of climate change are 'just politics' only for people privileged enough not to suffer because of them.
These days there is RED which comes close to what WCD was but the user base is a fraction of the size and will never reach WCD because torrents are far less popular.