skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, an objective observer might say, only one side advocates for abortion. You might personally dismiss it and say it's a woman's right, but you have to at least acknowledge that people who equate abortion to a form of murder aren't totally out-of-line.

Point being, anyone can pick and choose a handful of issues (and ignore others) to "prove" that anyone who votes for [insert party here] is morally bankrupt.
I think it’s a feature that we have one house of Congress elected “fast” and the other house elected “slow”. It permits a following of changes in public consciousness without having the entire federal government banging off opposing poles frequently.

(Un- [or loosely] related, I also think there are benefits from gridlock, forcing a certain level of consensus for those things that have to happen federally but leaving most federal things relatively stable over time.)
There are a few parts to your question. Can I find anything salvageable in the flagged statements that he made on Twitter? Definitely not, I’m pissed off we elected someone who thinks it’s OK to say things like that in public. I think Colbert said it best: Trump doing those things puts an eternal stain on the Office of Presidency; now among the things Presidents of the US have done, being subjected to Internet moderation is one of them. This was unimaginable merely a decade ago. Trump forced Twitter’s hand here, but now we live in a world where that precedent exists.

Am I excited that We the People are delegating the decisions what speech to amplify or not to fickle private companies? It’s hard for me to get behind that. Something just feels very wrong about this idea.
> Likewise this time around, nobody I have talked to seriously voted for Joe Biden on his own merits.

I voted for Biden because although I didn't always agree with Team Obama/Biden, they weren't 10% as divisive as Donald Trump.

Anecdotes aside, I'd love to see any real data you have on this topic.
>"...Someone will be the de facto world police by force..."

>"...This situation is the eventuality of our time."

This it what you say. I disagree.
I mean, I don't disagree with you, but I feel you are missing my primary point, which is that I have no problem with people that have a strong preference for current Republican policy positions (or, on the flip side, Democratic).

My problem is that Trump is just a man of such awful character that it hurts to see how many supported him, regardless of policy preferences. I have never felt this way about any previous president, Republican or Democrat.
Authoritarianism and Democracy are not opposing ideas.
I was going to say China would use submarines for such, but they don't appear to have many (in contrast to USA) [1]. My next consideration would be China's red team (APT) but I'm unsure about aircraft carriers being hackable. I mean, it'd make a great fiction novel, perhaps a sequel to Cryptonomicon. Where does China's military strength lie?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_submarine_classes_in_s...
> But how do you know it works if you can't track it?

We can track what zero marketing does vs some: companies with marking sell more product. Most bad marketing is more successful than zero marketing as to be worth it. There are enough metrics to track this.
> This will increase the hostility between the two parties in the US.

The solution to this problem is California: Make the US a one-party state. That'll happen due to demographics as early as 2024, and almost certainly by 2028. It's critical that Biden gives a path to citizenship for all undocumented workers.

Also: No one cares what Trump voters think or want, they can go pound sand.
A dimension we under-appreciate is how much fail we’ve been tolerating for decades.

The quest to keep NK from going nuclear started decades ago and spanned administrations from both parties, and finally failed miserably and objectively before Trump got into office. This, despite all best efforts from the best minds. The status quo was hardly a defensible glide path.

Similarly, we’ve been after real change in the Mideast for decades across multiple admins from both parties. We’ve never had movement. I’m not saying that the Abraham Accords fix everything, but getting four nations to finally recognize the right of Israel to exist and engage in trade and cultural exchange is certainly visible change. Energy independence also helps lessen our conflict of interest there. That’s visible change that was seemingly unobtainium for decades. Circumstance and technology have their role in this, but there are also specific policy and regulatory frameworks that will make or break this new path over coming years.

China.. I think there’s consensus that Kissinger’s laissez faire approach to opening China has not produced the intended outcome. Basically we’ve taken a totalitarian and repressive state and made them a rich totalitarian and repressive state.

So point being that the status quo - the unmovable track our foreign policy was on for decades regardless of president - was due for a shake up. It will be interesting to see what Biden does - revert to old paths, or take advantage of the new paths?
You can put 36 15TB NGSFF SSDs into a 1U height enclosure and only 12cm deep. SSD volumetric density is a lot higher than disk and has been for a few years now.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2010183
Thanks for pointing this out. I'll get it fixed :-).
Yo, it's not just one thing. Clinton, party, absent, jerks, EC are all factors.
On your B2B contact us form, ask 'how did you hear about us', or do it as part of the onboarding.

When people leave, ask them where they're going, and where they heard about them.

Etc. Are you going to get acurate and complete data? No to both. But you might get actionable data. Will you get real-time feedback? Nope.
It's especially true for indies: if you don't sell as much Windows copies, you won't sell as much Linux copies too, proportionally. I've worked in an indie publisher, and not a single one of our projects would return the investment of releasing a Linux version.
I'm not a huge fan of most blockchain applications, but it seems like recording votes in an election would be a reasonable application of the technology.
It's interesting that Trump and Biden both have exceeded the previous record-holder for most votes: Obama in 08.

1. Biden '20 - 74,811,378

2. Trump '20 - 70,554,537

3. Obama '08 - 69,498,516

4. Clinton '16 - 65,853,514
I see the winner take all situation for electoral college votes as disenfranchising minority views.

Both for the urban areas in "red" states and the rural areas in "blue" states.
That's your problem there, the patronizing "life's a bitch now get back to work". Sure it's difficult and it takes effort and good will. But damn dude, I never said one should have all for free - that's a childish simplification. I'm arguing nobody deserves to live under the Damocles' sword of having their life thrown under the bus for a mishap, or an accident.

We have enough resources to do without homo homini lupus. enough
It's legal in many places where you explicitly vote for individual candidates, not parties (and even in some where party lists are voted)
You think this will happen? The political right have openly embraced demagoguery, authoritarianism, disinformation, and a scorched-earth, because-we-can style of politics. The media have embraced the outrage-factory model for improving as revenues. The electorate have committed to becoming single issue voters. And finally, who benefits the most from this quagmire? The corporate elite who fear the threat of government intervention in free markets.
I think these systems align to a certain power dynamic. Because of national sovereignty, its already as close to a laissez faire approach as you can get, yet there’s a hierarchy across virtually any dimension you want to measure. So if the US loses, for example, its economic hegemony another country will take its place. Same with military or any other measure.

I don’t think the US has been isolationist since before the Spanish American war.
But they aren’t taxed without representation. In fact they are subsidized heavily. The very opposite.
> You say this like Clinton did badly: she got 2.9M more votes than Trump!

You say this like Clinton did well. This is a sub 5% advantage over a racist game show host.
Yeah, I bought some of them. I use none of them. There’s more demand for laptops.
Maybe they should. Something needs to restore faith in the process. If we lose that, we lose everything. And a not-small minority believe that the election was fradulent. There's always a fringe that feels that way, but it seems to be growing.
Hey,
This is really helpful comment. I would surely implement it.
Can you help me understand how we'd know if a ballot were cast after election day, if received after election day? I understand postmark is one such form of "signature of authenticity" (in a sense).

Are there others at play?
Interesting frame -- I see your point.

Very quickly, I'm not speaking to the Ballot Counting System - I'm speaking to the Ballot Request System. The Request requires information that could be obtained from an individual and rerouted to a centralized operation to fill in the ballot for the person.

It is akin to what happens in some states where some folks are bussed to the polls and given a ballot pre-filled by a trusted member in their community and told to follow the ballot template and we will all go get dinner afterward.

However, in the case of the mail in ballot, the physical voter is no longer required, leveraging the efforts of one person beyond the previous systems limitations: i.e. bus size, trip time, etc.

^ Real life example of the previous exploit -- that is legal if done correctly.

Back to the point: the BRS had an implicit control in place previously... as in, if we see a ton of mail in requests in one location, we should probably check that out. Now that control is invalidated because of the pandemic... thus removing an implicit control without recreating a control to achieve parity (the recreated control for me is the queries I laid out above).
Developers hate it, sure. But program and project managers love it for the perceived ability to wrangle and manage the herd
Political designations are contextual, not universal. Liberals call themselves liberals and most people in the country understand what that means. Definitions used in other countries are irrelevant.
Foul-smelling as in "if you breathe it, you die".
What about your kids? There is a long game.
Open minded question: Maybe yes?

If states don't have an ability to have a voice for themselves as states, what's the point of them at all? They gain this small but important nudge towards autonomy from the electoral college.
The final popular vote is going to match Bidens favorables at around 52%. This was not a "poor set of choices", this is a pretty decisive victory.
This is very odd! I handle the input myself (so that it can look like C64 console), but this is done via pretty simple "window.onkeypress" and "window.onkeydown" - so if it receives random inputs, it's either odd events or some glitch elsewhere (I'm using Firefox myself, but on Windows). I'm not sure how to debug this - but if you have any insights, let me know!
I like to use plain JSON rather then GraphQL, can anyone explain why you would use GraphQL rather then just JSON? Is JSON too low level ?
I dont feel particularly strongly one way or another on the encryption debate but everyone always points at the fact that crimes like child exploitation have existed for forever or that bad actors will just move to encrypted platforms. That ignores the fact that 1. things like Facebook are still relatively new and greatly enable these bad actors and 2. as the times article presents these platforms report a shit ton of this stuff so while I am sure there are plenty of bad actors moving to say signal there are plenty of others who aren't.

It will be interesting to see how things play out though since section 230 reform seems pretty bi partisan. While that doesnt necessarily mean the reform needs to address encryption I would be surprised if it doesn't
> We need better candidates who generate real support and appeal other than just not being their opponent. Not sure how to get there.

Stop giving a single person that much power. The US is huge, it made sense back when news took a month to make it across the country, but now it doesn't.

Many of the best-run democracies in the world have a history of unappealing presidents, prime ministers, and so on. You don't need better candidates, you need the President to matter less. You want the seats in the houses to dominate the media, not the figurehead.

(free bonus: it'll also help you get rid of that ridiculous two-party system)
Are we just going to pretend like this election was not different from every other election? Something very unique occurred in this election and I don't appreciate the media and leaders declaring a winner when the other candidate is still contesting it. Why shouldn't we wait to be certain?
There's a lot wrong with the structure of science, and this does lead to some incrementalism, but at the end of the day, we are making huge breakthroughs and our progress in understanding the brain is accelerating.
I wonder if fear of being outed as a Trump supporter prevents pro-Trump people from responding to these polls, contributing to the skew towards Biden.

There's definitely a demographic who voted for Trump, but aren't open about it for social reasons.
I dislike Jira. My team had used Trello for four years. Now GitLab is doing all the things and it's super easy API made it very easy to move stuff and integrate with my CIC and OPS tools.
President Trump releases statement regarding election
It is certainly true that the US is frequently behind the curve of other first world nations on government deployment of new technology. This is largely because of 2 reasons. Reason #1, the US historically is frequently the first place technologies are deployed on a wide scale, and as a result the US generally has the earliest and thus the worst version of everything. Reason #2, the US system of federated States introduces great friction into any system requiring a central authority.

The absence of a national voter ID program perfectly exemplifies this. The US has an election system that works sufficiently well, so there’s no major impetus to overhaul how voters vote. And the US Federal government doesn’t even have a list of all US citizens. In fact, no such list even exists. Moreover, a lack of any existing documentation that a person is a citizen does not necessarily mean that they are not a citizen due to birthright citizenship or citizenship automatically inherited from parents.

Concerns about voter suppression induced by the introduction of a national voter ID are completely legitimate. The US Federal government lacks the capacity to ensure that every eligible voter is delivered an ID (lacking a list of all citizens), so the burden to acquire one falls on the individual. If this costs money, then it constitutes an unconstitutional poll tax. And in any case, since the Federal government is incapable of handling such a responsibility it would fall to the individual states, some of which have demonstrated historically that they will act to make the process arbitrarily difficult for individuals that the sitting state legislature would prefer do not vote.
If you have a strong (personal) need to understand how breathing impacts the body, a good source of info that can be found in layman's terms is stuff about altitude sickness and about what happens to the body at altitude even before it turns into altitude sickness. (This is probably especially valuable info if you have gut issues or blood health issues.)
It's not so much a question of law enforcement budgets as it is municipality budgets. Many of these smaller pass-through towns make significant money harassing travelers (speed traps) and through seizures of property. If MJ is legal, they can no longer use things such as "I smell marijuana" as a pretext for exacerbating a traffic stop or stacking more charges.
Removing electoral college would remove all the interesting stuff about campaigning. Campaigns would focus on large urban areas and no one would set foot in sparsely populated areas.

I always feel that we are highly inclined to promote a voting system which would help the side we support.
One of the things that's annoying about 538 is that they don't admit they're wrong. The excuse they keep repeating is that "1 in 10 chance Trump can win. That's about the same chance as rain in LA, but it does rain in LA!". 538 seems to have forgotten in their condenscencion is that we are not look at you to explain the odds. We are looking at you to provide an accurate probability estimate. Their defense is completely ridiculous. I follow betting odds which had Biden/Trump at 60/40 split before the election day - what's the point of polling when you can look at people putting money on the line, let the incentives work for you.
Most schedule 1 substances are much safer than substantially similar alternatives in their pure forms.

The real reason they remain in schedule 1 is because they've been around too long for any major pharma company to have a monopoly on them.

Cannabis isn't even a drug, it's a whole class of plants of a handful of related species. So it's the exception here.
Your buying it wasn't in vain as it allowed the RPi 400 to be made. Without people buying it would have petered out.
Doesn’t have to be efficient with renewables that otherwise would’ve been curtailed (throwing away that clean energy). Still more energy dense than batteries (for marine vessel use).
Yeah, Pepsi tried it. They spent their superbowl ad budget one year on charitable causes instead, and maybe reduced their ad budget overall, and they had significantly reduced sales for the year. Restoring their superbowl ads restored their sales.
If the error skews in one specific direction for all the polls, then I don't think you can just excuse the polls by saying they're in the margin of error.

This is some kind of non-trivial process problem.
Write them as 'benefits,' not 'features.' That is, how having 'Assignees' helps the user.
Yes, there's nothing more challenging about using Linux for hard realtime. You still need to address your IO to ensure realtime constraints but you have the benefit of already constructed realtime ethernet drivers, etc.

It's also common to run your code as init and avoid calling into the kernel.

A more modern treatment is to write whatever and then qualify the system thoroughly, and all things considered this will probably overtake everything else as the main development methodology.
Nearly all of the press and social media companies worked together to fight and censor him and he’s the authoritarian one for calling them out on it?

By creating division you mean sending in troops to end riots that were burning down businesses, beating people, and spreading the virus all in the name of dubious claims of police brutality?

The rioters caused real violence that really happened. What did Trump’s supporters do that is violent on that level?
I don't think either of these are a usual suspect anymore. I hadn't even heard of these. Maybe these are more common in some parts of the industry.
Weird, right?

You would think this would be front and center in any election, next to the destruction of quality jobs that prevented the same young people from getting on a good career path. And yet, the two gigantic elephants remain entirely unobserved.

I am seriously perplexed.
Can you please cite the states that are all-mail in please? I've been checking SOS websites and have not run across this in the states I've checked...

Edit:

Thank you both (below, too) for the info. Yeah, so for the states that default mail ballots (WA, OR, CO), I don't see an issue as these states have used this method previously.

What I'm focusing on are states that moved from 'vote by mail optional' -- to 'vote by mail, nearly default because of a recent pandemic.' Which changes the nature and security of the Ballot Request System in each of these states.

Normal implicit controls around ballot requests are out of the window in this new 'mail-in majority' culture. Refer to my 'bussing' example above.
The electoral college winner-take-all system has nothing to do with our "republic" or with "rural voters vs city voters".

From: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/931891674/as-presidency-hinge...

"States like New York and North Dakota are valued the exact same way under the current system. They're valued not at all, because they're reliably either Republican or Democrat [...] The only way I know how to put urban voters at parity with rural voters and rural voters at parity with urban voters is to make every voter in this country politically relevant in presidential elections."

The way to do that? A national popular vote that would require candidates to campaign in all 50 states. The effect would be that every voter would know their vote matters.

"I don't care if you're in the heart of Manhattan or in the outskirts of Helena. When you go vote for the American president, you know what's going to count toward the final result in a national popular vote election. And you're not going to be treated like a second-class citizen."
Sure do. Amanda Taub, for the NYT.

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oa...

Edit: here's a reprint in case that first link (from an NYT email newsletter) doesn't work:

http://www.barcelonaradical.net/info/12380/the-democracy-ref...

Leaving smaller states feeling politically powerless can encourage separatist/independence movements and threaten the long-term viability of the country.

Do you have a source for that? Proportional representation does seem to solve for it. See also: far right parties gaining seats in Germany.

Their views get heard (if not enacted), no one secedes, and the system remains stable.
I think you may have misread my comment?
Heat dissipation may be a concern, but, if we are talking 6PB of flash storage, we can pretty much consider custom liquid cooling is an option.
You make a fairly excellent point about the nature of debate and public opinion.

However, denial of scientific and historical fact is not something "anyone" can find instances of for "[insert party here]". Only on the right does that occur.
Well, the population is growing so that's not too surprising.

It's the percentages that I find incredible: more Democratic Blacks voted for Biden (by %) than Obama! That's truly historic, and gives Biden a mandate to address racial justice and end forever the white supremacy of Trump and his voters.
That's because the Overton window was being dragged rightward in the wake of Reagan.
How do behave when you go to Church? To a funeral? Out to dinner? To work in the office? It's just recognizing that not every occasion is a wrestling match.

Politics is about persuasion. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Thanks. I had one of those.

My problem with it was that it wasn't as convenient as a good ergonomic keyboard.
A lot of people say things similar to "we need to have a permanent presence on the moon", but they tend to not present a solid plan on how to get there. Really interesting to hear one and its sort of cool to imagine that within four years there could be a massive drop of supplies to the moon to start building that permanent presence.
The fat lady isn’t singing yet
This talk of disenfranchising areas feels bizarre to me. Areas can’t be enfranchised or disenfranchised; only people can. And right now people in more populous areas are less enfranchised than people from rural areas. That has led to minority rule and should not rightly be allowed to stand.