skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do this over in the UK, I read a selection of newspapers with different agenda's and if a story catches my interest I go look at wikipedia if it has an article, if it's a "Science says"/"Study says" I go look at the abstract of the study.

It's really hard to get a balance look at the news when everything has it's own slant but it's worth the effort I think to understand the nuance.
Whatever, he said “stand back and stand by”. Politicians are word-smiths and that’s what he said. If anything it’s evidence of cluelessness which is also bad, given the responsibilities
Because such analysis isn't free, especially when it's just in time. In theory it could and maybe will in the future, but it's hard to do every possible analysis and optimization.
No particular fan of the current administration here, nor do I disagree with you much.

But you have to understand, the shift of manufacturing from the US has just devastated the economies of entire regions. You have children fleeing where their families have lived for generations. I'm convinced a factor in opiates getting a toehold in these areas was due to people going on disability to try to stay economically afloat, and getting prescribed painkillers as cover for faked injuries or in recovery for real but unneccessary surgeries (I have no proof, just anecdata).

US hegemony was good for them. It helped payed their mortgages and their kids' tuitions. It's easy to magnanimous when you aren't the one losing your house or kids aren't ODing from fentanyl. And the resentment is real when you see new grads at Google or Facebook making 10 times what you make, or CEOs making 1000 times what you make.

edit: the president did little, if anything to help their situation and channeled that resentment for his own benefit. It is a matter of national security that we all fix this and I hope the new administration will prioritize it.
I really detest the conservative vs. liberal duality.

Conservatism is not comparable to liberalism. They are not alternatives. It just means a desire to maintain the status quo. The opposite of conservatism is progressivism, not liberalism.

In fact most Republicans in the US are liberal-democrats.
I'm pushing for us to try GitLab issues since we only really use epics + tickets from Jira and we already pay for premium GitLab.
As my mom told my brother and I: I don’t care who started it. I care who ends it.
> Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

* https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken#Notes_on_Democra...
They have a pretty long track record of being predictive.
Is the problem really listening? The conservatives of america are ignoring facts and making up their own reality. They ignore science and reason.

What can you listen to? You can't have a reasonable debate when one side if just making things up.

Abortion is science, climate change is science, race and gender differences are proven facts.

Edit:instead of downvoting me explain what's wrong? Wtf. So much for listening...
> I respect FiveThirtyEight and their work, and I do think they're intellectually honest and generally speaking good at their jobs.

But 538 chooses how to weight the polls. For example, they only gave Rasmussen (which was far closer on these) a C rating, preferring less accurate polls.

FWIW, their articles clearly lean left [1], IDK if that affects their analysis/forecasts.

[1] https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart-2... similar to WaPo
That's the wired version.

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I don’t think this is a tyrant of the minority but rather an appropriate averaging of influenced - it is federalism working healthily. Different places, with different people and cultures, need autonomy and self determination if they are willing to join a union of states. Otherwise why would they take part in the union and give up their ways of life and laws and cultures? The mechanisms for making the union palatable to all are found in how we apportion senators and in the electoral college. I think this IS moderation.
Depends on what kind of check it's doing. I doubt it fails open and if it does you're violating the license and open to big damages from Atlassian.
Was he there? I watched for a few minutes and it just seemed like it was Guliani bringing poll watchers to say how they felt their rights to observe was infringed.
I do not think it is unreasonable to assume Trump stating he had won was actually an attempt to incite riots and looting. He seems to really enjoy chaos. Into the history books by hook or crook.
GitLab and GitHub issues have sequential IDs with GitLab also having a bunch of the more advanced management features.
"Looking at the let" refers to code analysis during JIT compile time, which happens once for each bit of code, not run time which happens many times as the same bits of code are run.

When comparing the speed of "const" versus "let", the JIT compile time is irrelevant; the speed differences being looked at are entirely run time, inside loops.

Also the JIT compile time difference from "looking at the let" will be so low as to be virtually unmeasurable anyway. (It is such a trivial check, much simpler than almost everything else the compiler does.)

(However, see rewq4321's sibling comment about analysability and JavaScript being a very dynamic language when "eval" is used.)
That line of thinking died a ling time ago. Take a toaster. I dont think you should need to buy 2 toasters in a lifetime and yet Im over the 10 mark. A simple machine to heat bread with a timer and spring mechanism. How hard can it be to fix...we've all probably thought to ourselves.
I’ll add one doesn’t have to be a centrist by any means to choose intellect over tribalism. The “left”, the “right”, and the “none of the above” can all achieve it too if they spend less time on media driven depictions and more on deeply exploring the issues.

Centrists have it easier because they naturally see positive aspects of both sides, and that is exactly what is needed. If one can’t put themselves in the shoes of the other side and find a few strong legitimate and logical reasons they can connect with, then they really don’t understand what they are even fighting. You should be able to argue the other side. The reasons are there, and emotion only serves to blind us to them.
Wasn't the previous admin already focused on China / the Pacific region already? I do have to agree on the last point, so. And I say that as a globalist, free trade proponent and a supply chain guy. So in a sense, globalization is my job. And while a lot of people, also in developing countries, have profited from globalization, we all have to find ways to adopt the way we do things to get of the less than good parts.

I do think that a lot of people had these things on their agenda already. We didn't need Trump to come to these conclusions. Because he might have gotten the issues right, but didn't really understand them nor did he care about solutions.

Also, he didn't get out of the Middle East, he just picked a side. Not sure what that means for the region.
Rereading your initial comment, I can see what you meant.

It still seems strange to me to claim that "X isn't the danger, Y is", if X is a possible cause of Y. That's like people claiming "heart attacks are not what kills people, it's stopped oxygen supply to the brain that does". Sure, it's in a way factually correct, but what's the point in ignore the cause if you know about it?
Unfortunately Twitter's fact checking is the best solution we have so far. If you have a better idea, go build it :)
Should I go back into my archives and look over the number of technologies leaning on code generation and model introspection that failed to catch on?
I used to like jira when we had jira on prem.

Now i'm filled with rage whenever i use jira cloud. It's unbearably slow. Besides that, it often happens that the text area that I just clicked lost focus somehow, i start typing, AND JIRA STARTS DOING STUFF. I don't know all the shortcuts so i don't even know what I just did.

WTF Jira?
Obviously, the focus is on the presidential polling, but I wonder if polling is off by the same amount when there are polls regarding what Americans want or think about any given topic.
What happens if Biden dies before the electoral vote? Do the electors vote for the vice president candidate? Does she assume office as president if Biden dies after the electoral vote?
> Also, why is US hegemony a good thing? What good is it for the 96% of the world that is not the US? Does it even benefit anyone outside the US ruling class.

I’m from Bangladesh. The US backed world order has been amazing for the country. The World Bank and IMF have helped countries like Bangladesh modernize their economies, and they’re US-led institutions.

As the US pulls out, China displaces it. In Bangladesh, Chinese investment is flowing in, along with middle eastern culture. Neither of those things are good in my opinion.

I don’t think the US needs to continue footing the bill alone. But the other western powers don’t seem interested in helping. When I think about what I want the future of Bangladesh to look like in 50 years, I want it to be basically like the US or Canada, only with different food and religious holidays and movies and literature. And that seemed like the future in the 1990s, but it’s getting cloudy today.
> US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II

Even if that article was remotely accurate (it isn't, see mcguire's comment), the kinds of wars that we fought before the US's new world order could produce that number of casualties in a single year (1942, 1945), so U.S. hegemony would still be a massive improvement. It's a massive improvement even over the two-pole world, as a quick glance at the battle deaths over time graph [1] shows.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-yea...
Good points.

Do you think there's room for a middle ground on this issue? Can America handle a national discussion on gun rights, health care access, bullying, and mental health simultaneously? Gun laws cut through all of those issues deeply.
I would like to see the numbers that support this for the Republican/Democrat version of this story. I feel like most people would have strong confirmation bias when assessing this topic.

Also, do you have numbers for looking at this from the perspective of the politicians? My comment was mainly focused on the politicians and party leadership, not really on individuals without an official capacity.
Trump, for all his bluster, is not really a populist in any serious sense of the word. True populism doesn't exist in a state with a balance of powers. For example, Caesar was a populist (Populares).
You do realise how many they have sold, right?
Every key is remappable and programmable, so Esc (and maybe lambda?) is available as a primary key.
>"...with the US's armed forced being the big stick in case someone would object..."

Yup having big stick lets one tell the rest of the world to shut up and do what the're told to do. Nice example of democracy and mutual respect in action.
Mean? No, I don’t think so. Finish reading the article before jumping to make a comment that is contradicted by the article itself.
Yeah, but left/right is a big part of what differentiates political parties. It's like the first factor in a PCA decomposition.
Ah sorry, I was thinking of down ballot races and polls that would have had enough reputation to make it into the Economist or 538 polling averages. I'll do some more searching.

The DI poll is basically a push poll with questions like "Who do you believe is telling the truth about alleged Biden family corruption?”

https://democracyinstitute.org/poll-donald-trump-set-to-win-...
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Probably they'll realise it one day, in the future, when some other country will treat them like they did
These checks can be completely free, in terms of runtime cost, through deoptimisation.
Not for a company, just for my own testing, but I did this several years back.

It was ridiculously easy assuming you know how a java decompiler works. One JAR needed to be patched and re-compiled, which is a trivial process if you know how classpaths work.
I'm not saying such people don't exist -- I'm saying pollsters either claimed to have adjusted the models to account for this phenomenon, or the pollsters claimed they don't exist.

There certainly were some skeptics of the polls, but these skeptics were generally marginalized or dismissed.

The point is, most media outlets who reported poll results did so with the assumption that the poll results would reflect the actual results -- NOT that the polls results needed to be adjusted.
The DNC is as much or more at fault here than anyone else.
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There's also an hypothesis/theory that the Second Amendment was similar in origins:

* https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-ori...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/opinion/second-amendment-...
"Book it at the Four Season", "No, not that one", "Yes, the random landscaping company".

I personally cannot tell if it was intentional. Trump has held a lot of events at businesses that I wouldn't traditionally expect to hold the event. The name overlap is very interesting, though.
Slavery wasn’t the only issue that mattered at the founding of the US, and this type of framing is the is revisionism found in things like the NYT’s 1619 project. The EC was well intentioned as a mechanism for federalism and forming a coalition of states that could retain their own self determination (and continue to do so today) while also being part of the union. It spans all issues and policies. And frankly it makes a lot of sense. Otherwise you will have lots of disenfranchised places and cultures and the union would fall apart.
Trump received 8% of the votes of black people.
One thing I would like to tell democrats now that you are WINNERS. And I mean it with all well being. Is that I think you should really not focus on your opponent but on your own candidate and party. We are all just humans in the end.
Apparently not, so I've made an edit.
That's a stupid things to say. You're saying there's a problem with 50% of the population.

Don't fall for this kind of simplistic arguments. It's not helpful at all. Things are way more complex than that.
The reality is that he's not. Not yet, since the Electors haven't gone to the Electoral College and still won't for a long time. In between now and then there will be court challenges.

Will those challenges change the ultimate outcome? Almost certainly not. But it's still a fact that Biden is not the President-Elect.

Should Twitter fact check people calling him the President-Elect? IMO, probably but only to look unbiased. Will they? No, because they don't care about looking biased despite 70M+ Americans siding with Trump.
Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq might disagree. It did prevent, possibly, wars in Europe.
Police unions have a vested interest in ever increasing police department budgets that were driven in many ways by the war on drugs.
responding to your question on the court, the threat was an expansion of the number of justices on the court.
> But is your position that whatever people want to do, you should not try to prevent it?

?? This does not resemble the way anyone has been talking about these issues. You're being downvoted because you're projecting an extreme binary that does not resemble reality.

Programs like DARE are not on the ballot and are presumably still well-supported. People aren't convincing each other that drugs have no negative impact. Alcohol being legal doesn't mean nobody tries to prevent its use or abuse. Alcohol and tobacco are still legal despite both causing more deaths and harm than all other drugs combined: https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh...
The campaigns do not rely on the publicly available poll data for the reasons you pointed out - they need accurate polling in order to make serious decisions about resources. They pay polling companies to get accurate polls and they keep this data private.

The publicly available polls are done for free by polling companies or by news organizations. Unfortunately some of these companies apparently have an agenda to push. So they skew their sample away from what the likely voters are to get the result they want for propaganda purposes.

I think that the rise of Nate Silver has ironically made this situation worse. He advocates taking an average of polls to get a true view of the situation. So if you are skewing you poll to get a certain outcome and you know the poll will be averaged, you need to warp your results even further.

Ok, disclaimer time - I don't have any inside knowledge or real evidence of any of the above. It does seem to fit however. I can't explain why it seems all the distorting is to make the Dems lead seem bigger than it is - that is, why aren't there pollers on the other side of the aisle doing the same thing?

So you'll have to decide for yourself if there is any merit to the above theory.
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But ceding authority to states cuts against that argument again, as it's no longer full centralization, yes?
I believe your second sentence should end as, "has been about focusing on protecting American interests while leaving other [more powerful] countries alone."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America%E2%80%93United_S...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Oh boy so now I have to set up and maintain a Hasura instance Instead of writing a simple SQL query? Sounds like a dream!
>This was already being done. That was the whole point of the end of the Obama admins shift to Asia strategy.

Exactly. You can do this the smart way, by gathering partners and encircling China with something like the TPP, or you can do it the dumb way, by picking stupid playground fights.

One is effective and the other is just for show.
The US hegemony exists because we have projected military force across the world, and our companies are the primary driver of globalization. Leaving the Middle East would end any dream of bringing those regions under the western umbrella (as has been successfully done in S. Korea and Japan). Ending globalization would end the thing that has made US corporations uniquely successful, and which makes US economic sanctions so strong.

And focusing on China as the new red scare would (is already?) simply result in a new Cold War, to nobody's benefit.

I personally don't think the US has any business being hegemon (feel free to check my post history), but if your primary interest is maintaining the position of the US from ~1992-2016, then your best bet is to maintain the foreign and economic policy of those times, which is basically what Biden is promising to do.
Well said. The “both sides” thinking only serves to take us even more the tipping point of a scale that’s been moved FAR too much to the extreme right. America isn’t a left/right nation anymore - it’s a far far right and center nation.
I thought it was a cool fact.
To which you then have to ask: 1) were the discrepancies within the margin of error? and 2) to what extent are you justified in critiquing the polls based on a sample size of one?

I understand that the voting percentage we saw nationally was within the margin of error that 538 predicted, and that the specific configuration of electoral votes we saw was also one of the outcomes considered by the models.
Losing your job because it was outsourced is pretty objectively bad. You can go try to find another job in the same industry but all the competing companies are going to be looking at doing the same thing because they have to compete on margins and their competition just reduced their labor cost by a factor of 2 to 10.

I don't know what evidence for this would look like except for all the goods that are manufactured overseas that used to be manufactured domestically. I'm not making a statistical argument. I'm making an argument based on life experience and inference. Although life expectancy in the US is declining. Wages are stagnant but that's an aggregate over the population. If a 30-year-old worker loses their job and an 18-year-old worker gets hired in a different industry for the same "real wage" then that looks like no change from the perspective of population statistics.
I said it was a plausible scenario, not a likely one. Rather than address the scenario, you’d rather argue about the meanings of words.

I’m sorry, but I have better things to do.
Yes, that's the argument, in a hegemony (usa or otherwise), wars basically only happen when the hegemon wants them to, and the hegemon has so much soft power its rare that they want them to, and when it does happen its small scale.

The end result is ordinary people get caught up in less wars because politically war is much more rarely the right answer (either you're too politically weak to start one, or if you are the hegemon you just give people the evil eye and they usually shutup)

That doesn't make it a utopia, just a world with less war dead.
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Yes, it is! And they've done a superb job in my opinion. Very strange seeing your city in a video game - wish there were more London, or European city, based open world games.
> Lawsuits won't do anything

Lawsuits could definitely do something.

If there is fraud or misconduct, that can matter. Hell, the US spent two years investigating some Facebook ads and hackers.

But right now there's no clear indication that will in fact happen.
Exactly. Really wish we could have constructive discussions about ideas again without these vigilantes interrupting every conversation and scaring people away.
Any more than getting Trump elected? Fuck off
Your side good. Other side evil.
> I have had people tell me they don't care if there is fraud and cheating

This sounds like you suggest there is/was fraud or cheating, which you shouldn't be doing. Not sure if that was what you intended.

I agree with the rest of your post though. Joe here won because of the division in the democratic party. He would have lost to most Republicans. He gathered the most votes ever for obvious reasons. People didn't exactly stay home this year. There has never been more enthusiasm for voting, whether it was for or against something.