skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two ways to do it, that I think must work hand in hand.

Firstly,we must reduce the stakes of anyone in any given domain. This can be done by (partially) tying wealth to employment and reducing inequality. Indeed, in a hypothetical society where most companies are mostly worker owned, then the owners of the company do not have that much of an incentive in hiring climate change, because ultimately if the company folded and they changed domains they would not lose that much, and the cost of climate change is bigger relative to their stake since everyone's stake is lower.

Another part of the answer will be government, unavoidably. Hopefully, a less unequal economy that has a lot more worker ownership will allow for much more democratic government, as it will be much harder for any individual to have the resources to exploit government directly or indirectly.
Nobody on this thread is trying to 'shut down' this podcast, have them arrested, thrown off Spotify, labelling them as 'harmful' or suppressing them in any way.

People are just pointing out that it's obviously ridiculous - and that's fine.
I have been using Lubuntu exclusively at home for ages, on pretty basic hardware. Browsing, email, video player and photo touch-up. Burn it to a USB and give it a go.

https://lubuntu.net/
threatening to shoot looters
Just leave some derelict ships adrift; USA navy will run into them.
The trade war?
Are you seriously arguing "but they do it too"?
I thought Reid was minority whip when he made the 2016 comments.

Yeah, I can see Trump's comments being divisive. There have been Democrats that have made divisive comments too. Which is why I see them as similar. We'll have to see if he steps down when he's supposed to.
A plausible, but again, highly unlikely scenario:

- Supreme Court gets involved with PA and some votes are thrown out, or a recount is done.

- Recount in Georgia gives it to Trump.

- Arizona is still not declared and could go to Trump.

- North Carolina seems to be going to Trump.
Even your view of left/right being a spectrum is a woefully inadequate model. In reality political parties sit on at least two dimensions, as shown by the political compass. People who can only think in terms of left/right, red/blue, etc simply shouldn't be voting.
Exactly, they only remove false stuff.
what are the advantages of ortholinear ?
Yes, at one time Giuliani did good things. That was over 25 years ago. Giuliani is nothing more than a muckraker for Trump nowadays.

And yes that is a prediction. But it is an informed prediction. It is informed by the fact that so far, every case has been tossed for lack of evidence. I can go around making false assertions and filing false lawsuits all day too, it doesn't mean that anyone should take them seriously, and no one would. The only reason that we give these assertions oxygen is out of deference to the power these people hold.
What's the future of enterprise self-hosting?

Cloud offerings that hook into your existing IAM are really good these days. In fact, even the IAM can be off-prem (Okta). It relieves the maintenance and upgrade burden significantly.

Yet, open source + self-hostable services have found a niche. Many organizations can't use off-prem for anything remotely sensitive, so they turn to software like GitLab and Mattermost. Interestingly, I have noticed that these self-hosted services broaden their scope to incorporate functionality that might be covered by another service, to reduce said on-prem maintenance burden.
Quite right. The correct label for those protecting the slaver statue is Klan. No other country has statues to the traitors in its civil war.
You obviously have no understanding of either polling or statistics. This is like saying that if computer programmers were not incompetent we would not have bugs in programs, but since they all obviously do not know what they are doing we have a modern society held together with chewing gum and string because programmers are too dumb to get it right.
Yes, technically Biden is almost certain to win.
But this is about taking the high road and not leaving any doubt (that might be exploited to sow more doubt).
One is getting overturned the correct political way via legislation, one was legislation from the bench.

Completely different, in that public perception & approval must lead for changes in political branches. It largely follows when from court cases, if it changes much at all.
I predict a spike in Covid cases due to mass celebrations.
After all no one with a high IQ has ever got addicted to drugs?
You also get more storage for Gmail and Google Photos (if you didn't enable compression), occasional discounts/free trials for paid Google services and ability to speak to "Google experts" if you have a problem.
From the perspective of a European outsider, I very much agree. A lot of problems seem to stem from the two party system.

I'm just wondering if there is a good way for a strong third (and fourth and fifth...) party to form under the current system? Are there any good examples from other countries making that transition, and can they be applied in the US as well?
Except number of troops in the middle east is the same. Just moved from Iraq and Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia.
IMO the saddest part of it all is that many people seem to be choosing paths of division. I have different family members who are firmly inside bubbles on both sides of the political spectrum. And all of them are way too comfortable in parroting the divisive language they hear on their favorite network news channels. The terms right/left, red/blue, republican/democrat, conservative/liberal are commonly used with insulting tones towards opposing sides. And when they use these broad terms they seem totally content that they have made a strong argument on some issue that actually boils down to making huge over-generalizations of people, and over-simplifications of complex issues.

I don't accept the demonization of fellow Americans based on bad faith arguments, but I sometimes I feel like this is a minority opinion. We should absolutely fight against specific events, behaviors, political rhetoric, and policies we disagree with. And sometimes individuals or small groups deserve to have their actions demonized as completely against our values. But looking for simple labels to place on literally millions of complex humans in order to point at simple answers to issues where simple answers don't exist is a fool's game.
Because the level of mischief between republicans and democrats is just not comparable when objectively assessed (let's say from a historians perspective).

To give you an example from another context which is similar:

In Germany, polticians and some news media have started to use the notion that right-wing terror (e.g. neo-nazi) and left wing terror (e.g. Antifa) are equally evil. If you look objectively though, there is still a disproportionate amount of right-wing terror and many of the crimes attributed to the left-wing are really just part of their fight against the right (they are anti-fascists for a reason). While right-wing terror killed German citizens and immigrants each year, there is no comparable level of crime anymore that could be attributed to the left (need to go back 40 years).
Sure, I refer you to the body of evidence presented at the impeachment trial of Donald Trump that demonstrated that he has worked with foreign governments to illegally influence US elections.
I think it's clear that people being polled are not representative of those who are voting. Trump has eother managed to appeal to people resistant to being polled or has managed to disengage people that are being polled. Whatever your views on the man, it's remarkable.

What's more surprising to me is that he can do it consistently and that no one has seemingly appealed to these people before. Given that these are almost election winning demographics, it's odd that no one has spent more time on understanding these people.
You're forgetting by far the most important item: some efforts to combat climate change will happen. This single issue should have been enough to mark Biden as preferable to Trump, even if everything else had been worse.
Yes, of course it was irresponsible for Trump to do so. That has nothing to do with my comment, which is about the news media.
Broader tendency for sure, look at the Alexandra Ocasio tweet asking for a list of Trump "enablers". The future is scary
> Trump saying "I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!" [1] is clearly equivalent to shouting "FIRE".

No, it’s not equivalent at all because it doesn’t present any immediate danger. The reason yelling “fire” is a problem is not because it’s a lie, it’s because it requires immediate and possibly dangerous behavior (evacuate as quickly as possible).
I have no idea how this is relevant to a comment on US hegemony. Is this the comment you meant to reply to?

If you mean to say that BLM in the US is comparable to the great wars of the 19th and 20th centuries, I'd say that you're off by a factor of a million in deaths.
cult of personality, attacking the press, denying everything, attacking the legitimacy of our voting system, creating division by refusing to unify people, shouting "law & order" to position himself as the only solution against chaos, inciting young supporters to push his agenda with more violence (akin to hitler youth), etc.
I feel like everyone who's criticing these polls is forgetting one thing: COVID. These polls can only be as good as historical elections, and there really is not a lot of data for US elections during pandemics.
Well said. Plus, the fact that proper query-based load balancing now has to read, parse and interpret (based on the currently deployed application) the entire HTTP request in order to make any balancing decisions, whereas header-based (see: path-based) balancing only had to read a small portion of the request before forwarding all remaining connection traffic to the destination backend service after request replaying.

GraphQL has never made sense to me for anything beyond toy or small-scale projects.
> We're operating on a model that our own State Department discourages other countries from adopting.

Do you have a source for that?

Especially the point about bicameralism? I think in a federal system, having something like the US or Australian Senate's is useful in it prevents the smaller states from being dominated by the bigger ones. Leaving smaller states feeling politically powerless can encourage separatist/independence movements and threaten the long-term viability of the country.
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Censorship is the issue at hand. It cuts both ways and if you advocate for it now, it will certainly bite you in the future.
This summer, in PA, a judge of elections pleaded guilty to stuffing ballot boxes for democrats in exchange for cash.[0]

Maybe it’s an isolated incident, really.

The media response that “there is no evidence of fraud” shifted to “no widespread fraud” at some point in last three years. I remember noting the appearance of the new qualifier. That rhetorical shift was their own nuance in the face of recurring anecdote.

But let’s accept that - no widespread fraud. The concern - regardless of Trump or this election - is over a critical mass of fraud in counties that are won by narrow margins.

“Widespread” has never been a requirement of the good faith critique of voter fraud.

So when you hear the catchphrase “no evidence of widespread fraud” realize that it signals buy-in to a straw man argument which talks past the issue at hand.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-philadelphia-judge-ele...
The simplest would be to weight one's vote by some non-decreasing function of the number of people who live in the same conurbation.

That would partially achieve the outcome and also makes sense, because if someone wants to live in isolation, then they probably don't care and aren't affected very much by society's policies, and they don't have enough social experience to be correctly informed.
It was pretty shortsighted when Democrats removed the filibuster from judicial confirmations in 2014 to try and ram through judges in Obama’s final years.
I was talking to a US expat this afternoon. Besides the congratulations and commenting the expectations for the new administration we reflected on the damage the last 30-40 years of propaganda for individualism have made.

Individuals, their inner world and potential are very important, but you have systematically mortified the importance - and the “evolutionary advantage” - of the human societal organization.

Over optimization for the hedonistic “self bootstrapped” man turned most of you - that don’t have the strength, but most likely the luck, to be Randian heroes - into the exact opposite: submissive corporate drones.

It’s time to lay the groundwork for long term change, isn’t it?
Yea, I think experts agree that journalists are almost as much to blame for the war on drugs as politicians. If I remember correctly Johan Hari also writes about this in "Chasing the Scream".
That is good, but counts for very little when he has helped sow the seeds of numerous other wars, especially by rolling back most climate change fights.
Trump's wasn't by partisan lines, Romney voted for it.
Practically all western governments failed majestically.
In European law it specifically states:

Technological measures shall be deemed 'effective' where the use of a protected work or other subject matter is controlled by the rights holders through application of an access control or protection process, such as encryption, scrambling or other transformation of the work or other subject-matter or a copy control mechanism, which achieves the protection objective.

There is no provision for effectiveness in any other sense than what I claimed.
A question very marginally related to embedded Linux, but is there any way to do hard real time on Linux? I'm working on an embedded project that requires it, and while its achievable with microcontrollers and embedded Rust, it would just be so much easier if I had an actual OS.
What flaws did the Trump administration demonstrate that weren’t already obviously flaws? Did we actually get new information about previously hidden flaws?
Trump talks like an authoritarian, but his actual actions have been mainly to reduce the power of a central government, like appointing federalist judges, dismantling federal departments, etc. So the opposite of what an authoritarian would do.
> do you really think that heroin production should ever be legalised?

Yes. The actual cost of producing heroin is about a nickel a dose. Junkies who get their heroin are productive members of society, and aside from the criminal element they're forced to associate with, the crime they commit to get the cash to not get sick, the inconsistency of product, and the aggression of the state, we have no reason to think they wouldn't live long happy lives other than ideological ones.

Every junkie death is by statute.
"poll predicted Trump win" brings back a number of results for me, including https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1354506/us-election-202...
Censorship cuts both ways.
Being a centrist, I can definitely understand the desire for more conservative policies, and a rejection of more liberal policies. What has been tough for me personally, though, is to see a person as amoral as Trump get so much support. I DO agree that Trump has done some good things, things that before him neither the left nor the right was willing to do in a substantial way (mainly his forcing a re-evaluation of our relationship with China). But his utter (and ongoing) disregard for our democratic system, his incessant lying, the fact that all he cares about is loyalty to him but gives no loyalty in return, the insane narcissism, treating the Justice Dept. like his personal legal firm, etc., etc.. I just find it disgusting on every level.

That said, the recent Sam Harris podcast really helped me understand his appeal. And I hope (but am not hopeful) that the left tries to mend their ways by refraining from pushing (mainly white, straight men, but also others, like the religious) many further from the Democratic party.
> polling in most European countries doesn't go this far wrong, on almost all polls.

Brexit and UK elections would like to have a word with you...

Polling everywhere sucks. Pick a country and chances are it either has no polling to speak of or else it has the same problems.
The web site does at least include chapter titles:

CHAPTERS — SALES OBJECTIONS

• Just send an email, I will look at your offer

• Similar product is cheaper in your competitor

• It will be hard job to switch to your product

• There is a crisis, we can’t spend the money

• How is your product different than other brands?

• We’re working with your competitor (and we don’t consider changing it now)

• We haven’t heard of your company before, we work with XXX, a well-recognized company

• I’ll call you when the upper management assesses the offer

• Your company does not have a quality certificate

• A project like ours will be too big for your company

• We used our yearly budget

• This product is not a priority for us

• This product is not suitable for our industry

• You have no experience in our industry

• You don’t have enough references

• Your company’s location is too far away; we may not receive fast services

• I prefer to work with a local company rather than a capital company

• Your product is too complex, we may not deal with it

• I know nothing about your company

• We’re doing it in-house

• I’ll do more research

• I can’t decide, need more time

• Let’s close the sale at an affordable price, we will work for other projects in the future

• Your price is too high

• I’m happy with the product I use right now

• I just bought a similar product

• I need to talk to my wife about this

• I’ve tried it before and it didn’t work

• They wouldn’t like this in the office

• I’m not interested in your product

• These products don’t work well

• I’m already buying it from a friend

• There are better products in the market

• Let me wait for the next model, next month

• Your product range is short

• Why should I buy it from you

• I’ll buy it when I get my bonus

• It’s cheaper on the internet

• I don’t need it right now

• This dress doesn’t suit me

• We have a pre-determined supplier list

• There have been significant changes in your company at the administrative level

• Let’s not make a contract until we are satisfied with your services

• Your competitors give a discount but you don’t, why?
He lucked out that his actions in Iran didn't start one.
The first amendment protects a natural right, a right we all have, one we are NOT supposed to trample on each other. The 1st comes out of the framers ensuring that the government respects an already-existing right - it does not create one.

That right, then, cannot be upheld if half the country believes it's ok to silence the other half.

There's a huge value disconnect here and that's the fundamental problem. What one CAN do and what one SHOULD do are very different things and I think people's pragmatism is blinding them to how this will work out for people 100 years from now.
BBC is reporting that he has already told his staff to begin logistical preparations to hand over to Biden. He disagrees with the results, he will do lawsuits, but it doesn't look like he'll do anything more than that. So far, that proves all the naysayers wrong who accused him of trying to not transfer power when not re-elected.
I mean we were somewhat fortunate Iran's missile strike didn't cause any deaths.
I agree it has demonstrated resilience, a positive thing indeed. But I think it's good to consider what would happen in other countries should a character like Trump be elected. In Canada, a polarizing character like Trump would be exceedingly unlikely to form a majority government. As a minority government, they would be subject to "no-confidence" votes regularly. When a government passes a budget for example, if the budget does not pass the house, the government automatically crumbles and an election is called. Additionally, as the prime minister is simply the head of the party, his vote carries no more weight than other members, and he can be fired by his own party at any time.

A lot of checks and balances are baked into a multi-party system. One inherent advantage is less polarization, as there are more parties to represent the various views of the people. However, there are of course a lot of improvements that could be made to the Canadian governance system (ditching first past the post for example), but I do believe this style of government is more resilient than the US system.

At the same time, our government has not, and will likely not, be put to the test by someone like Trump. It is commendable that the US system has withstood what many feared could be the start of the downfall of democracy in the US.
Only the partisans describe judges likes that. Judges do have leanings, but it's mostly about jurisprudence, like more originalism, or believing the interpretation should consider the intent of the legislator, or lean towards where society in general is leaning.

These are unavoidable aspects of being a supreme court judge, since you are also deciding what the law means and entails.
Agreed on the second point, but when I think of "ergonomics", I'm mostly thinking about how much I have to type to get stuff done. For example, Java has generics and unchecked exceptions, but still sucks ergonomically without an IDE just due to syntax and imports.
Backwards compatibility doesn't have to mean to give up on forward compatibility !

(How do browsers deal with that ?)
>Modern marketing is all about data and however hard you might try, you can't spend any time around marketers online without being subjected to endless think pieces, how-to guides, ebooks or other dreck about how we need to track and measure and count every little thing.

I understand that this might be the perceived idea of a marketer, because the marketers that shove this down our eyes are the loudest ones. But it doesn't mean they represent marketers.

Marketing is way more then advertising and media buying, which is what most of this article is about.

Either way, data should be taken for what it's worth - different data has different value, and people that work with this know it. It helps you make some judgement, it can give you insights, and can help you understand if you're doing some things right.

Data always served this purpose and decisions were still made despite the data granularity/quality - because once again, it was taken for what's worth. You still have major brands leaning on share of voice, GRPs, Reach, which are children of TV/Radio.

If you ask me, is it worth to have AB Testing? The answer is I have no idea, because it depends on the brand/product/budget/audience and the message itself.

I'm a strong believer that a solid communication strategy stomps heavy data approach. Some people might say: "what if it doesn't work?!", well then it doesn't work - or better yet, it will work to some extent but might not generate all the expected outcomes.

But that's part of it, you have to take risk in these decisions and there's no data that will make the decision for you. That's why I argue that AI won't replace marketing anytime soon. I dare to say AI might replace the bulk programmers first before it replaces marketing.

Unless you think marketing is eating data and spitting out insights. Then you are already being replaced since the past 5 years.
He got lucky with foreign policy, and he did start a war against immigrants and people whose skin color is not white in the USA itself, led by Stephen Miller.
A photon’s journey through a hydrogen molecule is the shortest event ever timed
> If you were to write 2GB per day in an industrial/embedded application nonstop for 20 years, that is considerably less data than 700TB.

Specifically:

$ units
You have: 2GiB/day * 20yr
You want: TiB
* 14.267273
You have: 2GiB/day * 20yr
You want: 700TiB
/ 49.063334

14TB total, or about one fiftieth of your quota.