skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Neither is the President who is actually elected by the Electoral College and not by a popular majority.

In this context, the electoral college is an implementation detail. American voters put a checkmark next to their personal preference for president, UK voters do no such thing.

> Regardless, does this even matter in terms of how politically powerful that single person is?

Yes, it makes a huge difference! The PM of the UK stays prime minister as long as they have the confidence of a majority of the House of Commons. The president of the US can only be prematurely removed if they are convicted of serious crime.
I mean, there's been a literal duel in the Senate and brawls in the House... so what do I know? Democracy is messy business.

https://www.cop.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Duel...

https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1851-1900/Th...
> We need computing environments ... without the concept of applications appearing at all.

Platforms keep trying to enable this, but application vendors want to control the UX and branding, so they're not going to provide these generic reusable building blocks.

Android, for example, lets apps make use of views from other apps and securely delegate a task (e.g. take a photo, pick a file, etc.) to the user's preferred app without needing to request permission for direct access. But nobody does this - apps just requests all permissions and do everything themselves.
Not to mention the arbitrary power given to stated during primaries merely by when they vote. Why does Iowa, a state that is over 90% white, get to influence the nomination that much?
This is probably the new normal. Republicans have learned a thing or two of after four years of claims about Russia stealing the election. Both sides will work overtime now to delegitimize winners whenever possible.
The media class is not ignoring these people. It's getting really rich feeding them this poison. The media class consists of more than just a few large center-left outlets.
It seems to be everywhere (even on the top rated comment here). Biden himself is dismissed as being not left enough by a lot the online population from what I can see.

Because he wasn't the the fashionable choice for Democratic nomination (Sanders) he's reduced to being just an old guy who isn't Trump but is in the right party without anyone even bothering to even read his Wikipedia page or look up some of his speeches on youtube.

He's a passionate politician and an empathic speaker who has the experience to be a realist and appeal to republican voters too. He's exactly what is needed right now.

Sanders wouldn't have had a chance to get in, but even if he did he would just polarise things even further.
Saying that Bernie was cheated isn’t exactly right but also not exactly wrong. The entire news media apparatus beat him down with a lot of extremely bad faith questions. “Do you support confiscating everyone’s guns?” “Ok so do you think guns are great and everyone should have them?” kinda thing.

That may be half of the problem, but the other half is that I think most people think Bernie was just over promising and that they could never have socialized health care, even though most everyone else has it. Much in the same way that the UK couldn’t imagine a country without socialized healthcare, thus voting in Boris Johnson, the US can’t imagine a country with it. We’re just completely stuck. It’s a shame.
George W Bush started the Iraq war on a false pretext of lies and personal motives. I have no idea how you wouldn't say that's terrible.
They haven't been, in the long view. Historically abortion was a Catholic issue, and sometimes liberal Protestant[1]. It generally wasn't an issue for Evangelicals, who were also mainly on the political left. Then in the late 60s the teenage son of a popular Evangelical pastor/author[2] became concerned for the rights of the unborn, convinced his father to take that message to the masses, it worked, and Republicans figured out that it would be a way to build a new coalition.

If you look at the extreme countercultures of the 60s, you see one side who hated "the system" that produced mass affluence, but loved the fruits of it. The other side loved the system, but hated the fruits. So one way to look at it is as a sort of political shibboleth indicating that you were definitely on one side and not the other.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=cf5RFWIMJugC&pg=PA42&lpg=P...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Schaeffer
Lowering expectations is age old trick to improve your life.
> This sounds like a divisive unsubstantiated rant.

CA voters approved the change. Who's being divisive here? If voters want more relevant choices on the final ballot, and vote for the change, that should be fine in a Democracy.

Or maybe you prefer some other kind of rule?
What I disliked so much about this election was that I believed based purely on policies drafted by both parties, that the democrats did not bring anything better to the table than what republicans did, and this is against a party that spent billions and counting building a wall that will basically not work as advertised.

What Trump got right and why he won against Hillary back in 2016 is that US is on the brink of losing its hegemony. Nationalistic Americans flocked to his appeals to close off borders, to renegotiate trade deals, back out of agreements that hurt the US, and promise bringing manufacturing back into our borders.

Biden is a career politician so he knows how to say all the right words to appeal to as many people as possible, but where those words fail is in their over-promise in that the sum of policies put forth simply don't add up. Not that trump hasn't made promises he couldn't keep, but he has taken and put into motion a lot of things that represent a very nationalistic ideology.

Personally I think that even with the dysfunctional pathologically lying brain that Trump had, he was on the side with the better economic playbook. Regardless of what one may think about him, Trump is the one with business experience, and Biden is the one with political experience. And as much as I would love to believe that we live in a world where we can make allies, and negotiate, and hand out financial aid, and work together to green the earth, the reality is we live in a Corporatocracy, and that even Biden came to power by its merits.

I was very much on the fence. Lets just say I wasn't feeling very positive about the next four years even before the election was called.
I don't understand this. My fingers don't move straight away from my wrist unless I've got them squeezed together, which doesn't seem like a useful way to type.
He's nearly 78 now. He'd be 81 next time around, and his campaign this election cycle could hardly be called vigorous. The electorate will be younger also. I don't think there will be much appeal even as an incumbent unless his accomplishments in office are remarkable.
This includes platforms to stream games from users local PC to clients. As an example RainWay
https://rainway.com/

So this ban is broader than the article suggest.
Show HN: Covid 19 compliant IoT solution for smart airports
That means it sometimes is the case in practice.
>America is extremely divided, and I'm not sure that it's going to recover from this

Sadly without re-regulating the news it isn't, or some large trauma that brings the entire country temporarily together.

In the US we historically had similar problems, so something called the fairness doctrine was created. It was a law that required news give equal airtime for opposing views. This way no matter where you got your news you'd get the full truth, not half truths as the current American populous is getting.
It's not necessarily worse either -- if they're actively monitoring failures, updating their process and re-running the failed unsubscribes. It should be much easier to scale... especially if they move beyond using html forms and just hit the endpoints that the forms are hitting.
Biden should be held accountable for excesses of the Drug War which he supported, but Kamala Harris was Attorney General for California and as such it was her job to enforce the law. Kamala Harris did strictly enforce the law, but also provided many with options to avoid punishment by staying employed and not reoffending.

At this point hypocrisy in politics is pervasive so it is important to be specific about what people did or did not say or do.
I voted for Kamala
For all those hunt-and-peck typists who buy keyboards with per-key RGB backlighting?

I wouldn’t think those two markets have a lot of overlap.
Downvoted because in 2016 there was a "social engineering hack" and Trump received 63 million votes. In 2020 I haven't seen much evidence of that and Donald Trump received at least 70 million votes. He's a popular guy among a very significant percentage of the population... like it or not.
This election is about as far from a clear mandate as you can get, with Democrats (barely) winning a presidency but not the senate and losing ground in the house.
A couple of years ago my wife's laptop died. I opened it up. One of the mounts pins for the switch broke. It's a simple switch mounted directly on the board (yech). Not hard to fix with a bit of solder, a steady hand, and a good light source.

I took it to a nearby fixit place. The immediate feedback I got was that since I opened it up they weren't going to take a look at it or even talk to me about it. Sort of an angry "why did you so dumb as to do that?" sort of thing. So that's not a place I plan to visit again, and it looked to be the best provisioned place in town, with an actual room above an TV/gadgets/etc. store and not a mall desk.

I ended up using superglue, borrowing a soldering iron from a friend's dad, and doing it myself. It was a crappy iron likely decades old. Good enough for 6-month fix for an near EOL laptop. Not for fixing an iPod.

So I've resigned to the fact that there probably isn't a decent fixit place in town. For that I'll have to visit the big city (pop. here is 60K people). Which means factoring in travel costs.
Joe Biden won the primary because he was the least divisive. White men have no "cards" to play. They can't play the LGBT card, the race card or the gender card - so they by default have the biggest tent. Until we stop with identity politics it will always be this way.
I fixed Django once, ask me about it!
I agree for hard science, but I see more wishful thinking about society on the "left". A lot of the rhetoric about social justice implicitly hinges on the Blank Slate theory, the assumption that all (groups of) people would, in a vacuum, have exactly the same statistical outcomes. Therefore, all deviations from the average must automatically be a sign of systemic discrimination. When you look at studies, the situation is rarely as clear-cut.

The same is true with the "diversity is strength" mantra, where everyone seems to cite that one feel-good McKinsey study as if that told the full story.

This kind of naivety is not as bad as burning the planet, but at the end of the day, it's still people looking at studies and saying "can't be true".
I would be fine with Twitter censoring but providing an authoritative source (such as APNews) that justifies their censorship. Transparency is better.

I guess I am more concerned about people harping on "Well, I don't trust APNews, why do they get to decide on truth." One can go down a conspiratorial path pretty quickly when theyve already made up their mind to not trust anyone or trust their favorite source that supports their arguments and emotional state.
Faith is eroding in the American electoral process because the Republican party has been working very hard both to undermine the process and to spread propaganda to the effect that the process is untrustworthy.

People could have more faith in the process without more legal cases like Florida 2000 (which kept Gore out of the White House despite him winning the vote in Florida), the Brooks Brothers Riot[0] and its 2020 replicas, the 2019 Georgia governors race (where the Republican candidate was also the secretary of state responsible for counting the votes; needless to say, there were 'irregularities.'), pervasive efforts to prevent demographics that historically do not vote Republican from voting[1], manipulation of the postal service to disenfranchise likely Biden voters[2], the continuing myth of 'voter fraud' that the GOP spreads[3] to justify disenfranchisement, and the constant drumbeat of 'it's rigged if I don't win' emerging from Trump's Twitter account and replicated by Facebook and other right-wing media outlets.

There's no clear way to restore faith in the electoral process without removing disdain for democracy from the Republican Party's DNA.

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-is-the-brooks-b...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/05/usps-late...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/24/fbi-has-not-seen-evidence-of...
> this works so long as the USA is a legitimate ally.

so, never.
"Entitled brats" is a little harsh. What salary should an unskilled American be entitled to? (An Indian with the same skills might get a few dollars a day.) Do you live on that amount? Would you be happy about it to, if you had been born with worse genetics or a worse home environment?
Don’t Forget About Associative Memories
Wealthy state with open borders has influx of poor immigrants working hard for a better future: News, at 11.
Child labour doesn’t have to be exploitation
> Matrix layouts are believed by some to help with RSI symptoms but no research can be found on this subject.

Genuinely curious is there any evidence that non staggered keyboards are more "ergonomic"?
Personally if I was selling overpriced keyboards, I would market to more than just English speaking countries.

I mean you're basically forcing everyone else to either use stickers or a blank keyboard.

All it would take would be to throw a handful of extra keys in a bag on the side for each language and you'd have all latin keyboard layouts covered. (increasing the target market several times over)
The coastal city culture is already dominant in all types of media and academia and large corporations.
He absolutely has visible decline, compare youtube videos of him from 2016 vs 2020. Obviously, 4 years make difference at his age, but you can easily see how he struggles maintaining even simple conversations, which cannot be explained by abovementioned 4 years. I mean Sanders is of the same age as Biden and he did not decline nearly as much in 4 years, I; say barely changed. There is something wrong with the dude, and lots of people see it.
> We have to come together as Americans or someone will divide and conquer us.

Pardon, but isn't USA already divided approx. 50/50?

From the outside (I'm from Norway), I can't even believe how shit the US politics is.
They didn't reject it. They just sided with drugs and drugs won. Long live drugs!
They said the same thing about NSA surveillance before Snowden
Looks like a read-worthy site. Are you planning to add a RSS feed to it?
Ranked choice elections, or something that gives seemingly fringe candidates a chance. Skip primaries for party candidate and use the extra time for more debates.
This is a problem I have personally spent several years thinking about and working on. The trick IMO will be to build it incrementally from what we already have. For anyone interested, here's my take on it: https://membrane.io

The TL;DR is that I've been building a orthogonally persistent, message-based, user centric, programmable (js/ts) graph
> Drugs are already highly available.

not sure i follow, what is your definition of highly available? if cocaine is highly available, how do you classify nicotine and/or alcohol?

> some small statistical probability of triggering a heart issues which is the most common cause of death - from a nationalized health cost perspective this is not negligible.

do you have a link to a writeup of sorts showing the damage on the national cost perspective (don't even care if it is health or any other associated cost). it just seems 'some small statistical probability' and 'not negligible' is borderline orthogonal. would be interesting if that is already non-negligible how much worse the real offenders are.
I think this argument deserves a response, rather than a downvote. Anyone?
A classic example of stacking algorithms in a way that provides no additional benefit whatsoever. In many cases, stacking encryption algorithms actually weakens the resulting security.
Ironic that you would acknowledge bias then commit it yourself. Is the right, or the left, pushing to reject biological science that says XX = female, XY = male?
Thank you for the reply! I'm sorry for the poor leave conditions at your institution. It would be great if you got more (paid) time off and were able to participate in work in a voluntary fashion rather than out of necessity.

I was lucky that when my first was born my institution began a policy of a semester of paid leave for the mother or partner. As others have pointed out though, it seems to have a drawback that partners are more likely to use it for extra research time, which tends to raise tenure standards for everyone, including mothers.

I think the problem is larger than a policy can address. We need a culture change.

And enjoy the baby wearing! Mine are too big now and I miss it dearly.
Biggest tent that contains only straight white guys? Are you suer that's the biggest possible tent rather than one which contains everyone?
Is there a way for the Supreme Court to censure the Republican Party for the damage they've caused? Serious question…
Is there a way to implement secure boot for embedded devices in another way? I've been racking my brain and the only way I can think of is to have a flash of an image verification key also result in an on device regeneration of a private key. Then require the device to sign something with that private key to verify the boot. All of that would require a complicated boot process and probably an embedded controller to facilitate.
Is there any good reason why a fully-connected network needs more than one hidden layer? Theoretically, any non-linear function could be mapped into a fqn with only one hidden layer. Does deep has anything to do with fqns or only with cnns?
This is a major problem the US is going to have to figure out. How do you get anything done in the legislature when one party has the incentive and ability to stop everything?
> Philadelphia successfully removed GOP observers from the tabulations rooms

Don't repeat disinformation. This never happened.

Poll watchers were required to stand 10 feet away to protect workers from COVID-19. The court ruling required that they be allowed to stand 6 feet away.
My feeling is that the bigger issue with things like movies and books is not money (trade) but mind share. The US tends to have more influence elsewhere on how people think than other countries have here.

I'm American and I find it disturbing the degree to which our films, TV shows and other major media are done mostly in California or New York. Those are much more urbanized places than most of the US.

It took me a long time to comprehend why I felt like there was something "wrong" with my life. I consume a lot less popular media (books, magazines, movies, etc) than I used to and my life makes a lot more sense to me than it used to.

I found it personally problematic to be more or less brainwashed with ideas about what life was supposed to be like that in no way matched my actual life. It took me a long time to conclude that this is not some defect in me. This is a situation where our popular imagery doesn't really match reality for the majority of Americans.

That disconnect is bound to be even larger and more problematic for other countries/cultures. I think it is legitimate to be concerned about things like that under the best of circumstances and downright suspicious when the evidence suggests it's not even being done in good faith, so it's not likely some sort of innocent problem. At that point you have to start being genuinely concerned that you are being intentionally manipulated with malice aforethought.
We switched to clubhouse a few years ago. It is snappy and the UI is really nice. I particularly liked how clubhouse drives backlog curation as a largest block to smallest block. At the time, this was way ahead of JIRA. I found the team at clubhouse to be awesome too - responsive and transparent.

Ultimately we went back to JIRA because clubhouse thought differently about agile workflow than we do. At the time, clubhouse didn't support sprints other than by adding labels - but the reports didn't reflect the sprint temporal boundaries. We found it really hard to create things like a view on sprint velocity. We also didn't agree with their view on what a team is but I forget the specifics.

It wasn't that JIRA is perfect, but it was either less wrong or more right depending on your perspective.

I am a fan of the newer Portfolio/Plan functionality in JIRA which I think replicates some of the features I liked about clubhouse, in forcing a large to small PBR, but I don't use the date planning features.
You can also buy ammonia solution in about every grocery or supermarket.

It also is used as a stimulant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelling_salts:

“They are also used as a form of stimulant in athletic competitions (such as powerlifting, strong man and ice hockey) to "wake up" competitors to perform better. In 2005, Michael Strahan estimated that 70–80% of National Football League players were using smelling salts as stimulants.”
When people focus on the details of strategies for success in facing our shared problems it is relatively easy to test ideas and get people from all political views on board with effective solutions. When people focus on identifying and criticizing enemies it turns people off, builds barriers, and prevents the generation and spread of effective strategies for facing shared challenges.
> would actually prefer voter ID as well as people standing there to do a brief check. In addition to preventing fraud, it also helps remind voters if they forgot to sign or something.

I’m just unsure why you would want to make it harder for people to vote.

I’m honestly uninformed on this, apart from being from Australia which has compulsory voting without voter ID and there’s no issues, but have there actually be scenarios where there’s been fraud instances where showing ID would have resolved things? Has voter ID shown to help more people vote around the world?
And people can't vote against their interests, be mislead or be straight up wrong. Isn't that just falling for demagoguery in the end? It's not like the electorate is truly informed in the US.
Who cares at this point? You can buy DRM-free tracks from iTunes and multiple other providers now. It’s not 1999 anymore.
I appreciate that your last link isn't useful to most of the HN population - but it's also paywalled.
People like erichocean is the reason why Trump was elected. People like him are insane
Why do articles like this keep being written and upvoted? It just keeps raising problems ranging from design, technology, politics and economy. Perhaps the author should try to answer his own questions as an exercise.
Emanuel Macron, président of France since 2017 famously decided that France needed just that, after 10 years of hypermediatisation of his predecessors.

I tend to think he was right.
Literally Trump who later became president made a big deal about birth certificate.
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast,

Man never is, but always to be blest."

-Alexander Pope, Essay on Man