skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this kind epistemology fascinating. Suppose I were to not believe any institutional message, and lend it no credence whatsoever. "Thinking for myself" is not enough. Ultimately, I need information that I can't gather myself, and, often enough, some expert who can put it into context, because there are too many things and too little time, and learning anything in depth requires years. So, in the end, you have to trust someone, and it seems to me that the people who say "think for yourself" or "do your own research" might be skeptical of institutional sources, but are quicker to trust other sources than your "excellent sheep," but why they trust the particular sources they trust is pretty mysterious.

I tried, as a "magical mystery tour" exercise of sort, to see if I could get into the conspiracy theories that permeate the Trump world, but found that I was too skeptical and couldn't truly bring myself to believe what they believe, even as an experiment, because their entire epistemological system, the philosophy of how they come to "know" something, is something I couldn't follow the rules of. How someone's reputation is determined was a mystery to me. There are no documented methodologies, no agreed-upon "scientific method", no peer review. I once asked someone how he knew something, and he said that he'd done his own research. I asked him which databases and archives they had access to, but then realized that what he meant by "research" was that he'd read some posts on Facebook by people he didn't know and watched some videos on YouTube, also by people he didn't know, and he'd judged their reputation based on the opinions of others, but those others had had just the same corpus of knowledge, and nobody actually had any access to primary data, and no one even thought this should make them skeptical.

So how do you know that this conspiracy theory is something you should believe but not that other one? I assumed there was some internal logic, but I just couldn't find a pattern. I think it has to do with the aesthetics of the story; how dramatic it is, how good-vs-evil, and whether it fits with an overarching meta-conspiracy-theory of hidden powers. If the story is dramatic, they believe it. In other words, the truth is whatever makes for a good story, where I am played as a pawn of some hidden cabal. But perhaps you can shed some more light on that epistemological process.
Just pick a major one, they're all good in similar ways.
The thing with the racism and Trump is it's part of his platform. You have to think it's ok to vote for him. There is no half measure of racism.
Why has this peaked? If you don't think there is a far-right that is suppressed, angrily stewing, and heavily armed you are living in a fantasy world. The kindling is all there, just because they have been deplatformed from mainstream social media does not mean they do not exist.
I've engaged with you on numerous points. you've ignored them all, and have never offered an alternative logical viewpoint.

you're talking past me, and almost bragging that I have asked you questions you're ignoring.
Ouch whoops, yeah I mean differences like wage gap, effects of racism after generations
If you have a GPU that supports Vulkan these days, and you play games on Steam, it is very likely that you will be able to play games even without native Linux support. I check before I purchase any games, but it has become very unusual when I encounter a Steam game that I cannot play.

https://www.protondb.com/

Gold or better generally just work. The current ratings for the top 1000 games:

Top Thousand
Unrated:61
Borked:6%
Bronze+:64%
Silver+:59%
Gold+:49%
Platinum:19%
Native:25%
No, the startup is paying for it. With equity.

The VC gave them cash for equity and now asks for cash back, so it ends up being a discount on the equity they just purchased.

And theoretically they think that dollar for dollar the equity is worth more or there would be no point in them doing the deal, so they both get a discount and also get the thing they think is more valuable.
N=45 school-age children suggests that you had some serious problem with randomly selecting them; as does 32/45 girls (p<0.01) and 96% caucasian (p<0.005 against the general population of Montréal).
A system where a minority of voters with strongly-held opinions overrules a majority of voters with weakly-held opinions is a bit counter to the principles of democracy, I think. Or another way of looking at it is that most voting systems grant more influence to strategic voters than honest voters, but score voting (also called range voting) does that to a greater degree than some other systems we could use instead.

(One of the reasons I prefer approval voting over score voting is that there's less of a gap between strategic voting and honest voting. Everyone is forced to give a maximalized yes/no vote for each candidate rather than casting a lukewarm vote.)
Not my president people are everybit as unhinged as qanon people. They unironically said Trump was a kgb asset who Putin was controlling.

Again, if we found out that some Democrat staffer had stuffed a ballot for their guy it wouldn't mean that the vicotry for Biden was fraudulent. It would mean that one single operative committed fraud and probably had no wider impact.

I'd even go as far as saying that it would be far more dangerous than the fsb posting memes.
Fascinating. What kind of stuff? The whole qanon deal?
Ballots take weeks and in some cases months to count. We’re all familiar with projecting/crowning a winner with the understanding that it could change. But the way we use won in almost all competitive contexts involve a high likelihood estimation. Including ‘winning’ a contract/deal, winning a race, etc. New information can affect outcomes.
What’s hilarious with your position is that your “side”, the liberals, is perceived to be immune the conspiracy theories. For example, like how QAnon is widely believed throughout the conservative community. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/30/qanons-cons...
Agree! dev.to for example is a nice place.

However, Medium is a like a book publisher for articles. It's a good way for simple and/or new articles to get an audience that wouldn't elsewise.
How do apps like WeChat are allowed then? There are entire platforms and mini-programs inside.
Anyone else see the irony of fuck-capitalism using Visual Studio, a paid product, to do this? Unless he stole it, of course.
They don't make billions of dollars from it like they do from app store.
I think it depends. Imagine a future where quantum computers may be in reach by intelligence agencies, but a quantum-resistant public key encryption algorithm has been proposed but not rigorously defended. You wouldn't want to trust either algorithm alone, so you can use both: encrypt the data with the quantum algorithm first, then by the classical one. Decrypting would require breaking both, there's no shortcuts.
If you feel that way it may be a sign that you are too far into your own "filter bubble". I'm not saying those views are reasonable, but they are easier to contemplate if you swim in a sea of right-wing viewpoints, some of which actually make some sense. Read Fox News, The Federalist, etc., hangout on r/Conservative, follow the YouTube right-wing rabbit-hole a ways, and you will be really pissed off but probably have a better sense for how people can get sucked into that kind of worldview. My experience is that it takes constant effort to avoid capture by the "default" left-leaning viewpoint that comes through most mainstream news sources. I live in a place where I am exposed to the Trump viewpoint only rarely, and I found myself aghast at some friends who said they were thinking about voting for Trump. But when they explained their reasons for it, it was clear we weighed the importance of things differently, but their reasoning made a lot of sense. But my initial reaction had been outright rejection, like an immune system fighting an invader.
Bentley will ditch internal combustion engines by 2030
Is Fox news, the most watched news show in America not mainstream media? Trump has been slandered because of his outrageous statements and actions.
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Did the president merely tap into this simmering sentiment, or did he inflame it?

Recently, Glenn Greenwald wrote about the reluctance of large news organizations to even mention the Hunter Biden laptop story.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int...

As someone who sees this story as hard to believe for a number of reasons, the broad resolve among large news organization to avoid that story raises some serious questions in my mind.

This is not how the press is supposed to work. And it's definitely not how the press reacted to the Steele Dossier, which has similar problems with provenance of information and motivation.

That kind of environment in which the press seems to take sides makes fertile ground for conspiracy theories. If you can't trust the press to be unbiased, then how can you believe anything they say? Along comes someone who claims to have all the answers and away you go, full speed to QAnon Station.

A lot of people believe the Russia investigation was in fact its own form of conspiracy theory, cooked up by a party outraged that it lost an election it thought it had in the bag.
Was there ever intellect? Or we more generally selected gentlemen as politicians and we stepped out of that with Trump?
“Overpaid Executive Tax” in SF hits firms that pay CEOs 100X more than workers
If you're the kind of person who equates harmonic distortion with "warmth" you're in for a big treat with these Nelson Pass designs. On objective measurements these are just about the worst amps you can buy (or build). We're talking about 2nd harmonics at only -50dB. Warm AF.
I assumed the same, but I've seen in CNN's live coverage on election day (unfortunately I can't find it now) that in an exit poll (I don't remember where) only 2 of 5 Trump voters said they voted against Biden (and not for Trump), but 3 of 5 Biden voters said they voted against Trump (and not for Biden).
Most of these problems are obvious to me. I can't solve them all, and can't think of them all – and sometimes I have a good idea about a problem somebody else has raised. More eyes on a problem means more solutions, and eventually somebody might come up with a good one.
So what if somehow you implement the gaming service to work inside a browser? What is your opinion?
Pardon my newbeeness here, but is it possible to build a home cinema amp (say 5.1 hdmi) in the same spirit ?
> There is no way to obscure the call to direct "eval" itself;

Jsfuck would like to have a word with you
The massive turnout efforts likely had something to do with this.

For instance if black men who support Republicans very grudgingly (enough not to vote say) are swept up in a broader wash of getting all black men to vote more, you’d see that pattern.

Another reading of the data is that these were votes against Biden/Harris or protest votes against the Democratic party for their lack of more aggressive action on racial justice.

Or it’s all of these things. One of the thing about every 4 year elections is it’s hard to interpret trend data. Especially not 5 days later.
What do you do then? It's not listening or at least not a conversation if you need to educate someone one. Explain why they're not actually losers how they are in fact benefiting.
Haber-Bosch is the low-tech method you use when you only have heat. With high-grade electric power, you can use efficient catalysis.

The Chinese are doing a great deal of good work developing catalysts.
> what tangible value do polls provide anyway

I live in Canada but am working for an American country. I am considering if/when I want to move to the US, they informed me about the likely outcome of this election, which influenced my plans a non trivial amount (not a huge amount either, covid dominates in the planning process, but a non-zero amount).

For many people it can influence how they vote. If you're in a state with a potential to change the outcome of the election you are more likely to vote "strategically", i.e. vote for one of the two most popular candidates instead of vote for a third party that you prefer. On the flip side if you're voting in a non-competitive race you are much more likely to vote for a candidate who is unlikely to win in order to better indicate your preferences (i.e. you should be more likely to vote libertarian/green/...).

For many people who wins an election affects there careers going forward, in the US in particular a large number of people are fired/hired based on the election. Even if you're not in that position your industry might get more or less government funding, if you're a government contractor the projects you are working on might or might not be in danger of getting cancelled, and so on and so forth. Having better information earlier makes it easier to plan your life.

The US election is one of the most significant worldwide events that happens every 4 years, the idea that being able to better predict it is not valuable is... insane.
I'm not sure it's fair to say the statement: "<actions> perpetrated in recent years by fanaticised supporters of <group>" is the same as suggesting <group> is an oppressor.

One can criticize the Red Terror, for example, without criticizing socialism - if that makes sense.

At any rate, even if I agreed with you, this idea of finding someones "secret motivations" and condemning them for it instantly loses me - there is plenty of good ground to fight on without guessing and accusations.
I was thinking Switzerland. Other European countries are also enticing, and I'm actually completely fine with the higher taxes, but less fine with the substantially lower wages for software engineering.

I am sure there are conspiracy theories everywhere but it feels like even some of the crazier ones are becoming mainstream in the US. I worry that staying here too long is playing chicken against the possibility of a crazy+competent person taking advantage of the conspiracy theories in ways Trump couldn't fully do.
Early stage deals should be done using standard docs that don't involve lawyers at all. Why should anyone pay 20k to have some legal aids fill in a template? It's insane.
> Seems like a lot of these problems stem from a failing education system. Teach kids critical thinking and scientific literacy and media bias. Seems more important ever to teach kids that they shouldn't believe everything the see at face value. Easier said than done I suppose

No education is perfect. Even if those things are taught (which I'm pretty sure they are already at some level), there will still be loads of people that:

1) didn't pay attention in school, or didn't absorb the lessons;

2) don't have the ability to apply the lessons;

3) forgot the lessons (esp. if they previously spent a lot of time in a sane media environment where the lessons were less necessary);

4) found it too much trouble to apply the lessons consistently, and let their guard down;

5) found the emotional content of the conspiracy was just too tempting; or

6) encountered a evolved conspiracy theory that found a way around their (years old) lessons.
I think the result of the trade war is not that great. Trade deficit with China actually went up.
There are two things that people who do not want Trump to have ever been a president mix up and pretend are equivalent.

One is the fact that every country interferes with the elections of every other country. The other is that the fsb was so wildly successful at it they changed the result of the 2016 election.

The two have nothing to do with each other and mentioning the first when I'm talking about the second is deeply disingenuous.
> But then COVID hit, and I’m fairly certain that having coordinated, science-based leadership in the highest levels of government would have spared us from quite a lot of suffering. So much for rooting for ineffectual.

I don't disagree, but I also see how its easy to see how other voters don't agree: E.g. look at the performance of other nations. You can make comparisons where the US doesn't look bad (or even looks good) depending on what comparisons you make and what time windows you choose.

Similarly, if you emphasize the importance of the errors of science-driven bodies, the amount of flip-flopping in expert advice (e.g. over masks), or the specific state responses in states that have local administrations more like what we would have hoped for, you could make an argument that it would not have made that much difference. Maybe not a correct argument, but at least one where reasonable and informed people could have a debate over it.

There is a lot of noise in pandemic impact, a lot of noise in how people perceive pandemic impact, and there hasn't been much time to reach robust scientific conclusions on the impact of different policies. I wouldn't argue that differences between policies aren't real, but just that they're (currently) easily spun or discounted.

There is, also, I think a good argument to be made to cautious about science based leadership in general. The tremendous power of science is that it gives you the power to defy tradition, popular will, and even common sense and make the world dramatically better, because its predictions were right. But when science is wrong, it can also be used to defy reason and common sense and bring tremendously bad results. E.g. there has been more than one genocide carried out in the name of "science". Rejecting science is not the answer, but nor is blindly following whatever is passing for science in your civilization at any moment. :)
Unfortunately this is also what the current administration in the US has been saying. That it would have been impossible to predict that pandemic and that no one could have seen it coming. Despite many warnings and the establishment of a pandemic response team because this was seen coming. (Of course, not specifically COVID-19 at the specific time it did, but there were plenty of warning signs.)
OP is talking about their own family
BF% is hard to measure. Different manufacturers use different models to map resistivity data to BF%, so for the same person one can get rather different answers.
The Nazi concentration camps still stand. Furthermore, when people vandalized Auschwitz's notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work sets you free) sign[0] it was restored.

If even Jews wish to preserve the concentration camps for the significance of historical mistakes for humanity that they represent, what does it say about those who wish to destroy history elsewhere?

"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei#Thefts_of_Ar...
For me, GraphQL is great tool but it take a lot of effort to migrate in case you already has a full REST API set. So, I choose a different approach, that is introducing a Batch Request API. Client can execute several requests with single network call and only get back a part of response they care about. With a small lib I wrote & full REST API set, you have pretty much all GraphQL function.
From what I read Trump’s has many character flaws. That’s an understatement.

He is, however, one of the few presidents in the past century, to have avoided starting a new war.

Biden has a record of participating in a government that supported intervention in Syria and Ukraine, and his family benefiting from it, (whether legitimately or not is not my concern).

For this reason I have reluctantly preferred Trump to Biden.

What do I do now, how would I continue to participate in a society full of people who think and feel like you?
Omg, how hard is it to understand that any problem you attribute to graphql, will exist in rest. Every single one and more. Also, you can fine-tune any ad-hoc query, even in that magical tool, yeah. You know, your assumption of having a deeper expertise in that area is cute. I think you’ve imagined some dud who played with these magic tools and appointed himself an expert without a glimpse of understanding tech behind it. Well, that’s not true, but if it’s how you’re prefer to fin arguments, I’m fine. Otherwise, pls give me something, maybe some examples where you show how you have a better control of something or a better performance using rest over graphql? Because I don’t know if you understand, that graphql if just a glorified json generator. Yea, it’s much harder to design good resolvers, queries and limits, but it’s worth it. After all, if you have problems quering complex nested data (and you really objectively need it on a front end) in graphql, it can be only harder to handle correctly in rest, please, please prove me wrong.
shatkarma:

1. breathing (agnisar kriya, kapalbhati)

2. blinking (trataka)

3. tongue (talabya kriya, kechari mudra)
No I don’t? Do you see the irony of fuck-capitalism buying food, a paid product, to survive? Or using a computer, a paid product, to code?
Unspeakably. And yet, at that, way better than it once was.
It is hard to find evidence of abuse when practically every attempt to look into it is met with refusal and/or claims that it is not probable.
What is the 'white male position'?

If this argument was moved to, say, Nigeria, would there be a problematic 'black male position' there?
I don't really get calling Confederates traitors. I get that they are the baddies in the whole civil war thing, but traitors? I assume that they had the right to secede and the war was inevitable anyway.

Isn't the 4th of July literally a holiday in the US? That's totally a treason to the British empire.

It's my biased european perspective though.
"it was her job" sure, but no one forced her into that job.
Biden the Beloved!

But yes, miraculous—or maybe Americans didn't want to vote for another President who is clearly comfortable with White supremacy? Biden's entirely campaign was a repudiation of that worldview.
Depends on if you mean gender or sex. Both sides accept that as sex, but it's more common on the right to improperly accept that they mean the corresponding gender, and it's more common on the left to properly believe that gender is not sex.
Doctors have a very narrow area of training.
Probably worth noting that the asymmetric break of the undecideds in 2016 was what won the election for Trump. There were a lot of undecided voters and a lot of them decided for Trump late in the process so models that assumed a traditional 50-50 split were wrong.
The _entire_ point is that maternity, preconceived biases on women's behavior in the workplace, and expectations of women to do housework are factors that are to be contemplated and analyzed in their systemic causes.

There's a reason why in European countries parental leave is split between both parents and there's effort to make it easier for men to be caretakers.
I’d use a browser.
It's effectively impossible to DIY anything with HDMI but if you can get an adequate 6-channel analog output from an HDMI line-level converter then at that point all you need is three 2-channel amps or design one with all 6 channels in one box.