skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a potential factor is the democrats' anti-gun rhetoric. It's explicitly designed to cater to white suburban moms, i.e. those who think guns are bad and scary and threaten their children. This in spite of the fact that twice as many children die from accidents involving glass tabletops than firearms accidents [0]. Add to that the recent surge in new minority gun owners due to safety concerns [1], the long, racist history of gun control [2] from army/navy laws to those targeting "saturday-night specials", and the recent push to lock certain weapons behind a $200 tax and an arduous process [3] and I think it makes for a big factor in Trump's increased black and hispanic support. This is in spite of the fact that Trump is absolutely terrible as far as gun rights go, but the democrats for some reason insist on being worse. Running on a platform of repealing the NFA, the GCA, and the FOPA, or even getting rid of the Hughes amendment, would probably yield massive dividends.

[0]: https://www.ammoland.com/2020/11/twice-as-many-children-die-...

[1]: https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-americans-now-account-...

[2]: https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/civil-rights/347324-t...

[3]: https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/
>Excel tries to interpret fields with digits as numbers, stripping off leading 0's, etc. (think serial numbers or whatever with leading 0's)

Fyi for those unaware... many other tools other than MS Excel also remove leading zeros and interpret as number.

Examples of users asking questions on how to preserve them in other software:

- Google Sheets issue with leading zeros: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/120835/importdat...

- LibreOffice: https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/246295/how-can-i-imp...

- Python Pandas import csv issue with leading zeros: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13250046/how-to-keep-lea...

- R software import csv issue with leading zeros: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31411119/r-reading-in-cs...

- Tableau: https://community.tableau.com/s/question/0D54T00000C5i2iSAB/...

Everybody complains about the misinterpretation of leading zeros and blame Microsoft Excel but for some reason, the programmers of the other non-Excel software have deliberately coded the same default behavior.
@dang could you consider not allowing one sided political narrative on HN ?
> It is a natural instinct to use drugs

Citation? I’m not particularly tempted to try heroin. What’s wrong with me?
You’re moving the goalposts all over the place but sure, Trump/Republicans made some inroads with PoC in certain areas (Miami-dade, south Texas) and lost it elsewhere (Arizona) but your own links don’t describe it as “historic”:

> Eighty percent of Black men supported Joe Biden, down slightly from Hilary Clinton’s 82 percent
That's a very interesting idea.

Is there an example use case this could be useful for? Storing some audio/video media for example?

Am I understanding it correctly that it's kind of Redis with S3 persistance?
Number 6 seems a potentially good demonstration of the result of gerrymandering.
You need to set permissions manually for every GraphQL operation to be exposed with Hasura.

I think backend devs should be more worried about loosing 75% of their work when it comes to Hasura.
Again, the same point shown in guidelines.html: 'If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.'

However, perhaps this one is too big to ignore but seems like HN might as well edit the guidelines here for this reason.
> I don't have backups for due to their sheer size

If you've been living in the Apple ecosystem for a while, where 1 TB on your laptop is precious, realize that both SSD and spinning rust drives have plummeted in cost over the last decade. You can get a 12TB drive on sale for $175. That's $15 per TB. If you want something mobile and convenient, 2.5" external drives are ~$100 for 4TB. If you need speedy disk, a fast, 1TB m2 NVMe SSD can be had for just $100.

Really, for just $200 you can get two external drives (always have a backup) and have the peace of mind that all your photos are 1) safe, and 2) in your possession.
Linked in the article, worth checking out, a short feature from the 80s on the nascent business:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/codemasters/zkdfnrd
Yes, registered black male Republicans in conservative states in the South and Midwest voted for Trump at higher numbers.

The parent comment noted that in some heavily black PA districts, there were few/no registered Republicans, and those few that were there presumably voted in person due to the GOP spending months trashtalking mail-in votes.

In-person results were tabulated on Tuesday. Under recent PA law, mail-in ballots couldn't be counted before Tuesday. As Democrats generally vote mail-in in higher numbers, this meant that the mail-in ballots would be overwhelmingly Democratic with few if any Republican ballots.
Isn't that more than a bit paternalistic? Who gets to decide what people can believe about the election? You? Give people the facts, and let them come to their own conclusions.
All: before reading further, make sure you're up on the site guidelines and don't post political or ideological flames to this thread. If you're hot under the collar, please cool down and wait for your curiosity to come back before commenting (and maybe even reading) further. This is a good test case to see if HN can stick to its intended spirit: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: There are now multiple pages of comments in this thread. If you want to see the later pages, click 'More' at the bottom of the earlier pages. Or get there like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967&p=4

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As many have pointed out, a dozen or so submissions on this topic were flagged by users. That's actually the immune system working as intended, but another component of the system is that moderators rescue the very most historic stories so HN can have a single big thread about them. We did that 4 years ago, also for Brexit, etc.

Since this was the first submission on the topic, it seems fairest to be the one to restore. (It's still on our todo list to have some form of karma sharing for situations like this, to make it be less of a race and/or lottery.)

I changed the URL from https://www.cnn.com/ since that is not the most useful link and the AP seems as close as one can get to a neutral source.
"Probably" also being a key word.
On behalf of the rest of the world: thanks America, removing the arsonist of global unity and multilateralism is appreciated.
Per your link, 80% of black men supported Biden. Given that mail in ballots have tended to be in Biden's favor, in large part because Trump asked his supporters to vote in person, I don't think it's a stretch to see almost all mail in ballots from black areas going to Biden.
A simple carplay supported touchscreen is all we need in the cars
Wanting to change the economy is a worthwhile desire. Pursuing programming is a practical vocation. Biomedical engineering is an interesting field.

But they are separate. Programming in python is orthogonal to changing the economy. Orthogonal to biomedical engineering. And so on.

It's ok to pursue a vocation. It's ok to pursue an intellectually interesting academic field. It's ok to rationalize as based on a noble desire. But it is better if you recognize that this is a rationalization and there is no intrinsic nexus.

The most important aspects of changing the world are what you do and who you know. What you know, expertise, is just table stakes. Where change happens everyone is an expert.

What does a company that addresses climate change and fosters a greener economy look like? How does it make money?
How does it address climate change? How does it foster a greener economy?

Good luck.
Technically it’s false because one doesn’t become President-Elect until vote counts are officially certified.
Ask HN: Password management strategy for non-profit school?
Hello,

I'm trying to implement a robust password management strategy for a small non-profit school, and I'd like you suggestions.

A volunteer board of 4-8 people rotates yearly. If we're lucky, some members serve two consecutive years and there's continuity. Some years, the board is lousy and can't be counted on to transition duties responsibly.

There are about a dozen passwords (not currently consolidated in a single place) that need to be passed from one board to the next. Not every board member needs access to all the passwords (varies based on role).

We'd want certain people like the school admin and director to have access, as well as one or two long-term supporters of the school, who serve to preserve continuity in case the board fails to do so.

I've looked into solutions like Lastpass and Onelogin, but these cost ~$5/month/user and don't provide discounts for non-profits. For us, that's about $60/month, and I'm wondering if that's the best solution?
Do you have a source for your claims that "[t]he war on drugs was started as a way to target people of color by Nixon", and especially that Nixon admitted it on the WH tapes? As far as I'm aware the latter is completely false, and the former is generally thought to be mostly false as well (though Nixon was certainly racist). This myth seems to have started with the alleged John Ehrlichman quote from '94 - it's not generally given much credence.

I look forward to your reply
Most biden wins and supporting comments are getting downvoted. Just keep an eye and you will understand the types that moderate the forum.
Nothing new here. It's been widely acknowledged for decades that the television and radio ratings (based mostly on voluntary self-reporting by a not-necessarily-representative sample of the population) are not accurate, and yet they drive the rates charged for TV and radio advertising.
I have seen many people try to solve the "too many requests" problem by slowing expanding rest responses into "god" objects.

GQL solves this problem elegantly by allowing you to specify the data that you need in a single request.

That is just one example, there are many many others that you can google if you are actually interested.
Personal goto's:
https://www.slax.org/
https://lubuntu.me/ # official ubuntu
https://lubuntu.net/ # not ubuntu's :)

Also usually try these on to see how they work:
https://reactos.org/
http://kolibrios.org/en/ # just brilliant! and the OS size is refreshing. just did we allow other OS's to get to GB's big. rah!
https://www.haiku-os.org/ # ya, I greatly miss BeOS 5
Notably BackBlaze's B2 offering is missing from the comparisons :) It advertises as being 3x cheaper [0].

[0]: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html
How united was the country the previous four years? Why do you think that is?
I had a similar reaction to this. I don't see what the use is in ensuring the hardware is running software from "trustworthy" persons, especially when the device's owner is not usually considered to be part of that group. This feels like something we aught to question, why is it acceptable that even after buying some electronic device there's a part of it that the owner isn't allowed to touch? Embedded devices are just smaller and more focused versions of general-purpose desktop computers, and the latter has been operating just fine now allowing owners to run whatever code they want.
Headline is inaccurate. He's not president elect until a joint session of congress counts the certificates of votes from the electoral college and declares him as such.

Yeah, Biden likely will be president elect. But the news media's call of what they think is likely is in no way official.

Edit: When I wrote this, the headline was along the lines of "Joe Biden is President-Elect."
(1) General politics is considered off-topic, so most people would just shrug and move on.

(2) I imagine there are some people who got very agitated this morning (I wonder why) and decided to show their displeasure by flagging and downvoting everything related to general US politics.

Add (1) and (2) and we have our current situation. Nothing of value is lost, IMHO.
If you give a big probability for a Trump win, you can bet on it and be a millionaire easily with the current odds.
Is this one-sided?
Related thread from two weeks ago: “The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24857356
How does this election relate to the 2000 election when all media called Gore the winner, but then in December, Bush became the president elect?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2020/11/04/the...

"On election night, it was unclear who had won, with the electoral votes of the state of Florida still undecided. The returns showed that Bush had won Florida by such a close margin that state law required a recount. A month-long series of legal battles led to the highly controversial 5–4 Supreme Court decision Bush v. Gore, which ended the recount."

Can this happen again this time?
Stop Reading the News – Go Deep, Not Broad
It's predictive of a forthcoming legally-significant event.
GTA even had a few minutes coverage on the BBC TV in 1996 [0] (mirror on the YouTube: [1]). Reporter visits the DMA studio and discusses with game developers.

[0]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7372117.stm

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abz1xWpb3FU
At the time, Nevada had a 8000 vote margin with over 100,000 votes outstanding. The real question is why swing states paused counting.
Disagree. I think getting McConnell out of office would’ve been a much bigger win.
It's a lot harder for law enforcement and DAs to claim they are "Tough on Crime" when arrests are down significantly because they can only issue a citation for possession. Likewise, it's difficult to justify increasing prison/ jail budgets when they aren't packed with minor drug offenders.
Since all heads are mounted to the same arm, only one head can lock onto a track at a given time. What if each head had independent micro-actuators so that all heads can be locked to their track of the same radius, with the data being distributed across all heads. Wouldn't this improve throughput n-fold?

Edit: Seems like modern hard drives already have micro-actuators for each head to overcome precision and bandwidth issues with the main arm actuator, but it seems like none of those enable a range of motion that is sufficient to lock multiple heads simultaneously.
Surely somewhere in the emanations and penumbras of the constitution we can find that the AP’s decision is binding.
Such restrictions would make it not open source (per the open source definition). Can't both have your cake and eat it too.

There's e.g. the polyform project https://polyformproject.org/ but that's explicitly source-available proprietary software, not open source.
Trump was ineffective and easily beaten. A future strongman won’t be
Marketers are marketed to by metamarketers. Turtles...
Survey data isn’t votes counted.
Yea, but we've always referred to them as president elect once it's obvious they will win.
In general, a two-party system will evolve such that both parties control ~50% of the relevant votes averaged over multiple elections. Individuals might stick to their principles and refuse to compromise, but parties are not so limited.

Losing a solid voter base might mean that the Republicans need to change their platform to appeal to more voters, but it doesn't mean that they're forever doomed and will never win another election. Maybe that means compromising on abortion. Maybe it means immigration reform - but from the Republican perspective, and not giving amnesty to illegal immigrants. (And funnily enough, IIRC amnesty isn't particularly popular among LEGAL immigrants) Maybe it means pulling their heads out of their asses re: climate change, and running on a revenue-neutral carbon tax.

All of this means changes, but not an end to the party.
For speaking.
SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client
The orange tumour has been excised, however it's clear some chemo is required for the spread into the Republicans of trumpism.
Lets be realistic, the comment threads on this site almost always lean right.
Doesn't that actually make his tweets stand out even more? Like how putting parental advisory warnings made a cd/album even more desirable. Or how a banned books list is a form of advertising and draws more interest to the banned books.

And lets not forget the streisand effect. How many people are now actually going to trump's twitter just to view the "bad tweets" now?

Everyone here understands the streisand effect/etc here but fail to see how it also applies to trump. Trump is literally using hate/opposition as a form of free advertising. He is using hate/opposition to drive traffic to his twitter account. It's unbelievable when you think about it.
>You?
This is unnecessary.
Their cautiousness made sense. Projections just before the election showed a lot steeper win for Biden. It didn't play out that way so it makes sense to be cautious.

Trump had a lot more support among some demographics than people expected. as the race got tighter it made sense to doubt what might play out.
My Last Donald Trump Post Ever
About 15 minutes every 2 months when my daughter updates her Arch desktop. All because of her Nvidia GTX480 (I know, she needs to inherit something newer already...) that has been deprecated from the official drivers so needs manual intervention.
I don't want to sound too dismissive, but middle management does love their dashboards. I mean, I can definitely see the allure ( I am currently learning how to prepare them in R -- fun times ). So as long as they can blame.. sorry.. as long as they can point to something that informed their decision, it counts as a win. Whether it is some variation of the current buzzwords 'natural impression timeline increased holistically' or shiny dashboard that shows they are doing something, it seems to do that job.

And good god do they need it; I can tell my boss's boss is not the same since Covid since he can't walk around and badger us about the recent sports team event.
Once it became clear that the election wouldn't be called on election night, was there really any benefit to making an early call? Whether it was called on Thursday or Saturday seems kind of irrelevant when inauguration isn't until January.

It's much better to be certain that wrong.
I doubt the next 4 years will be better.
The link doesn't mention anything about ARM?
Just make it open.

Homeassistant is opensource, controlls a bunch of different gadgets/smartdevices/switches/..., gets data from a bunch of different gadgets/sensors/smart devices, and has a bunch of apps using it's API.

Honestly, I only buy stuff, if I can integrate it into homeassistant (without using the devices cloud services)... sometimes that means soldering + flashing tasmota, but in the end, I get it to work.
I really wonder how good faith conservatives can view these actions positively. One side tries to make it easier, safer, and quicker to vote. One side is trying the opposite.

The only explanation they can come up with is voter fraud which has not been found to be a widescale problem by nearly every group that has looked into it.
The Democrats maintained control of the House. There were 435 seats up for election, and a majority went to the Democrats. In 2018 they had their biggest House win ever, so it's not that surprising that a couple seats when back toward the Republicans.

Senate control is still an open issue. There will be a runoff in GA in January to determine control.

The only reason this was under contention days after the election is that PA wasn't able to start counting their mail in ballots until election day. This was a choice made by the PA legislature. I don't know why. If PA was allowed to precanvas, PA would have announced like FL on election night and this would have been over Tuesday.
California, Utah, and Washington don't.
A few differences:

* In 2000 it was one tipping-point state. Here, Biden has multiple states putting him over the top.

* The margin in those states is larger than in Florida. The final official Florida count gave the victory to Bush by 537 votes.

* 2000 involved a recount of legitimately questionable ballots. Trump's legal cases (thus far) have been judged by experts to be far less serious.

* Trump (so far) is not challenging enough ballots to give him the lead in the tipping-point state.
Yes, at least in theory. The simple reason is that in the end not the media, but the courts will decide.
dang's comment from 4 years ago on this subject (Trump's election win): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12910929
No Bluetooth? OK, I'll wait.
In both cases VC money is being used to pay the VC's fees. If the startup pays the fee, then the VC funds the startup and the startup writes a check. If the VC pays the fee, then the VC will negotiate a slightly different deal for the same amount of equity. VCs prefer the first option because they can show lower operating costs to their fund investors. Some startup founders prefer the second option because they don't like the appearance of paying for someone else's legal costs. In both cases the costs of the deal are borne by the deal participants; the question is merely which company's financial statements show the costs.
Doing marketing analytics right isn't easy and the mathematical and statistical chops required is not often a skillset that coincides with great marketing skill. Larger organizations would be well served to split out a team for analytics separate from the team doing the marketing itself. Smaller teams I think should try and rely on finance for the same job.
Prepare for 4 years straight of Kumbaya and shoulder rubs. Prepare for world peace. Just like the world had in 2015 before the arsonist got in power.
> those of us who live in countries who experienced it are fully aware that fascism doesn't dawn upon us with a bang, and more often than not it just seeps in.

I feel the same way about socialism and communism.
Nothing, I switched from Linux to OpenBSD and it’s been great. I could see people bemoaning the lack of their flatsnaps and wine.
> particularly if the economy goes south as it's been projected to do in 2021.

"As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump." -- Lisa Simpson
Ah, ok, guy. We get it. It's either your way and your preferred tech or it's total unbridled chaos which is doomed to fail. Turns out there IS a silver bullet after all. I'm embarrassed.
Russia's interference in the election still aided Trump's campaign, even if the DOJ was unable to conclusively prove there was any collusion to obtain that aid.
Until the midterms in 2022 I don't expect much to happen on federal level (minus executive orders) but there's a lot of work to do. Trump has proved US can be hijacked and someone who's a bit more competent can actually take over the country.
For the same reason as if it had said “I recently got a React dev job which mostly consists of writing Kubernetes deployments.” It sounds like the beginning of an article which uses buzzwords without a lot of depth.
> I think that these misconceptions a result of lack of experience/knowledge in graphic/databases and FP in general.

Which conception will magically convert an ad-hoc GraphQL query into "single SQL query and with 0 lines written by backend developer"?

> I don’t see people writing assembly code trying to beat compiler optimiser very often, same thing here.

No idea what you're talking about and how this is relevant

> If anything, we’ll move forward, to more conceptually complex protocol, definitely not back to the plain rest, that I saw many have nostalgia about.

As long as you pretend that GraphQL is magic that requires 0 backend work (but at the same time requires "more competent engineers and a bit of time"), then sure.