skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia is huge and USSR was even bigger. I didn't specify where I was born (on a southern border). The climate is very good for agriculture.

Sill it requires a lot of work. And I doubt that it is possible to be 100% self-sufficient.

There're many things farmer needs that are produced by other people. From tools like shovels to water pumps to animal fodder (which is also very expensive).

It's a nice thing to try though, to prepare oneself for some nasty events. When COVID-19 started I was thinking that if the world comes to an end, at least I'll be able to survive somewhat longer than others with my skills. I know how to grow my food. Didn't do it for a long time, but it's hard to forget the basics.
I would say this is the fundamental reason to vote.
What we saw in this countries current divisions is:

REPUBLICANS: voting for ideology over everything

EVERYONE ELSE: voting for democracy and stability over ideology.
Even worse the people have been watching the media fibbing to them nonstop for 20+ years, since Iraq at least.

This is how you get people like Alex Jones. People see the lie, start looking for the truth and here is guy saying "I'll tell you what is really going on!" and if they weave a coherent soundings story (which the media fails to do... they just move on to the next talking point) people take it as reality.

No matter how you feel politically the media is a big part of the divide issues in the U.S today. They have behaved horribly irresponsibly.
There's no one pushing phrabricator. No marketing means that most of the people picking a tool to use have never even heard of it, and it's not really something that a single developer can adopt and then champion internally.
That doesn't matter. Netflix still has to go through the same processes as movie companies regardless if their specific IP is exclusive to their platform. My point was that they don't have exclusivity when it comes to providing that content which is not the case with Microsoft's XCloud, for example. All of that content is only available from Microsoft because every game on the platform has to be licensed by Microsoft.
Rather than blame the left or blame the right for this, I think what we really need is a third party and Instant Runoff Voting.
This article is written from the perspective that code review is the only tool used for the described purposes (code quality, finding defects, etc), but the reality is it's complementary. Code review is just another tool in a set of many that helps improve the quality of what you do as a team. Once you look at it that way, none of the issues in the article hold up.
Yep, that's why I mentioned them specifically. It's happened to a lot of companies too.
Yep. But 538 does not run polls.
Exactly this!

The complexity and misunderstandings also creep into system design itself. Seems many are eternally astounded that transactional data is "duplicate data" stored separately from the "same data", etc. Many of these complexities are non-obvious and unintuitive, until you are forced to think it through step by step yourself. Agile is simply the concession that the complexity cannot always be handled up-front, but that solutions must be developed to be adaptable to new observations and realizations.
Mirror: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/a-prerecorded-...
Screenshots including potential personal data contained in forwarded emails?
How long amd where are these screenshots stored and what happens to them afterwards?
My point is that my experience has been that assholes are going to be assholes regardless of how much you educate them. We see this now where those with no education and very little wealth are out there saying "Trump isn't hurting the right people."

It doesn't matter the level of education someone has in that scenario - they've already decided on an "us vs them" mentality and will believe what they want to justify their actions.

There are very well-educated, well-informed, and critically-minded white supremacists - they use that knowledge and intelligence to further their racism. No amount of education will help them.

They've already decided they want to hurt other people, and just take all evidence and back it into either "supports my stance of hurting others" or "this is fake."

I think we're spending too much time on the pity party of the uneducated. That if they just had the chance of the college dream, they'd open their eyes and want to help others. I think the vast majority have already decided on their tribe, and we as a society need to be aware of this and structure accordingly rather than insult these groups by saying they're just stupid or misinformed. They know exactly what they're doing and are more than happy to achieve their goals because the ends justify the means.
React-Vis: A Composable Visualization System
Was either of these Madigans the President of the United States, and the other a close relative in charge of half of the administration's portfolio? If not, then it's not the same. I'll probably start caring about Madigans when they're nationally relevant.
US social discourse shows that people don't understand how to debate and how to negotiate with opposing views for a better outcome. These are merely group behaviours and they can change with time and education.

I feel that the first structural steps must be

1./ Replace First Past the Post (it distorts the will of the people) with some version of ranked balloting (already in use in at least one US state)

2./ Dissolve or fix/improve the Electoral College
You think the anecdote I listed and the one you listed represent the totality?

This has been a recurring conversation for decades, and the fact that it’s inflamed in the last few cycles points to the fact that it’s getting worse, not better.

Look, the weak controls that were in place on this process are evidently broken in some critical locations - denying poll watchers entry, political material outside polling places, ballot chain of custody issues. So what controls we did have, weak as they were, were clearly not functioning in many critical locations, as evidenced by videos and court testimony over the last week. Without confidence that the controls are working, the results become suspect, especially when the mistakes appear aligned in one direction. This is what the auditing world would call a material deficiency. It’s that simple - how do you restore faith in the process when people won’t just take your word for it? This is a problem set with known solutions.

Forget this election and the outcome you want to see, Biden’s the president barring something crazy - but there’s a systemic problem here that’s getting worse (let’s say relative to the 2000 fiasco).

We still aren’t conversing, as a nation, about how to bring more integrity to the process to allay the very real concerns half this country has. The institutional narrative is that there is no problem. To then willfully deny that this disagreement really matters forestalls the conversation. We’ll see how this ages, but the answer here isn’t for one side to just shut up. The answer is to take meaningful steps to demonstrate that the process has integrity. Videos of poll workers denying poll watchers access don’t create an appearance of integrity. Denying observation of the ballot counting process also doesn’t support the integrity of the results.
Er except we’ve DKIM validated some of the emails, and they’re concerning in their own right. It’s worth the media at least asking some tough questions about Hunter. If you ignore the conspiracy theory aspects of all of this, the raw facts themselves are still concerning enough to ask questions.
Yes I agree with you, I have had some songs I like disappear too. But with a subscription model, I can stop paying them when the value isnt there anymore.

A good example is that I cancelled Amazon prime this year because with add-on items and ineligible items it stopped providing any value over just meeting the minimum order $ for free shipping.
> This is not how the press is supposed to work.

It really is. As a former journalist, I can tell you a lot of crackpot stories come across our desks. We look at them, will see if the evidence can ‘stand up’ the story - if not, it gets spiked.
When you see the writers are all osteopaths, it tells you all you need to know.
> "The goverment has turned authoritarian and is slowly turning us into sheep!"

You don't need to be "covid-skeptic" to say that, I say the same thing simply because I'm strongly libertarian. It also highly depends on the value system, e.g. if you're young and healthy you might think the marginally increased chance of complications because of this virus isn't worth delaying your life for months or years.

Also, Snopes and the Guardian (along with most other MSM and fact-checking sites) have pushed enough biases, falsehoods and conspiracy theories to be completely untrustworthy.
(I'm arguing theoretically here:)

> I work at a small startup.

This means you can afford a lot of technical debt, even such technical debt as might be incurred by GraphQL (as argued by the post and many people in this conversation).

The concerns you've posted are certainly valid, but GraphQL is not the only (or even necessarily best) way to address them.

If you have a huge engineering staff like FB, then perhaps it's better to just "move the complexity to server side", but for most businesses that not what's going to happen. What's going to happen in practice is DoS galore.
Triage is usually done so the most likely to survive are prioritized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triage
> I honestly believe this is just a return to normal for both sides. Conservatism, before being injected with neoliberalism by Thatcher and Reagan, has been about leaving other countries alone while focusing on protecting American interests. Speak softly and carry a big stick. Conservatives have never wanted US hegemony traditionally. Preservation of Bretton Woods has had to be a focus post-WWII in order to combat the spread of anti-American communism. Now that the Cold War has ended, conservatives have tried to find a way back to focusing on American interests. It’s a delicate balance that has to be struck though. I think this is also the reason for the split in the Democratic Party. “Establishment” members are focused on preserving the neoliberal Bretton Woods status quo. The progressives are focused on doing away with the oligarchy that system has created and moving towards a more socialistic global society.

I would agree, to some extent, if Trump wasn't the Conservative candidate. Trump has flouted the law to the extent that very, very few American Presidents have. Where I was afraid that Obama was passing too many Executive Orders, Trump outright tried to rule by Executive Order fiat. Conservative parties pre-Bretton Woods were certainly isolationist and domestic-first, but also had a deep affection for the rule of law. I would oppose a traditionally conservative party politically, but would not be nearly as negative about it as I am about a President that seems to want to actively subvert rule of law.
Interestingly, tech workers are responsible for such a resilient divide. Tech workers, the most numerous demographic on this thread, are the ones coding up the bubbles or creating and maintaining their infrastructure.

The purpose of the bubbles is to keep you clicking or pressing. The purpose of that is to deliver ads or sell premium services. If uncomfortable views are presented a user may click or press out of the service. Those uncomfortable views are not to be confused with click bait allowed to drive bubble responses.

No use blaming the architects or company leaders. If you are coding it up, maintaining the infrastructure, or providing auxiliary support to the bubble, you are responsible. The companies making the bubbles can't do it without you, and you are the one actually making it happen.
Not legally confirmed yet.
I guess because batteries while being great for high current operations, are not the most environmentally friendly solution. My DIY power amp requires a +/- 20-40V power supply. That would be quite a lot of batteries. Toroidal transformers are the next best choice, since they are smaller than comparable regular transformers.

Large caps are not only for smoothing but also act as power bank for instantious large current needs.
She supports this project: https://www.trumpaccountability.net

Keeping such lists is wrong on many levels; and for a member of congress to suggest and support such a thing is beyond comprehension. I suggest going and standing in Dachau or similar places and reflect on what such lists have been used for in the past.

It also seems others feel the same (random selection from many google results):
https://nypost.com/2020/11/06/aoc-facing-heat-for-wanting-to...
I think you can make a pretty strong claim that without the email leaks, Hillary would have won. Thus making Russia hacks and leaks of her emails directly responsible for the push to presidency.
OK, so the transition from Make America Great Again slogan to Make America Decent Again (and Better) reality is inevitable and welcome. It is easy to get overjoyed by results of the U.S. Presidential Election (and some celebration certainly is in order).

Uniting the country is definitely a commendable goal, though it is easier said than done. The election results across all levels clearly illustrate just how divided and polarized this land is. Thus, it will take quite a lot of time and effort to see a reasonable progress on this front. We all can play our part in it by a polite and constructive dialog with opponents and first finding common ground on such pressing and all-encompassing issues as coronavirus pandemic, environmental protection, social justice and health care reform.

In the meantime, let us not forget that, in order to restore the heavily damaged moral fabric of this country, relevant measures should pass through the Congress. And while Democrats retain control of the House, the opposing party might retain control of the Senate. Which most certainly will lead to a significant gridlock in moving forward with the democratic and, in some cases, progressive agenda unless Democrats retake control in the Senate. Remember, winning a battle is not a guarantee for winning a war. That is why the U.S. Senate run-off elections in Georgia to be held on January 5 (https://georgia.gov/vote-2020-runoff-elections) are crucial.
I still don’t see the difference between licensing an IP for video media and licensing the same IP for a video game the process is identical.

If it’s rating you talk about then again both of them are rated.
Except that playing Fortnite isn't the thing that's being disallowed. It just happened to contain an in-app purchase system that did not use the Apple-approved method, and Fortnite's developers refused to remove that.

Apple has always clearly stated that this is perfectly fine on websites, just not in apps.
I'm not sure that package would have done very much. I suppose it would have been better than nothing though, and another one could have been passed after the election. You're probably right that Pelosi calculated that a compromise wasn't in her interest, but I'm also not sure if it was in the Republican's interest: I think both sides would claim victory and it would have come down to whoever was able to spin it the most to their benefit.

Unfortunately, now that the election is over I also don't think it will be easy to get anything done. The GOP is not going to want to give Democrats an early "win", and will likely pivot to their "but the deficit!" talking points now that they're out of office. I think things will need to get much much worse before a compromise is possible.
I looked up that tweet from AOC [0] and you’re really exaggerating what she said. Shame one you.

[0]https://mobile.twitter.com/AOC/status/1324807776510595078
> For example, David Brooks and Ross Douthat write for the New York Times. There’s no equivalent among the Wall St Journal columnists or Fox News hosts.

I used to think that too but it's not true. Example:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/president-elect-joe-biden-to...
Trust cooroborated stories across multiple competing and ideologically different institutions.
Totally agreed. The biggest problem in the political discussion is false equivalency.

If one side doesn't believe in truth, facts and science, and the other side defends them as fundamental to everything... than those are not equivalent positions.

This has been largely a one-sided war on decency. Don't kill the messenger.
sorry, traveling right now, just phone with bad internet connection.

the 3 nobel prices:
https://twitter.com/uberfeminist/status/1219421671305564160
If it's helpful, many of the confederate statues were actually put up many years after the end of the civil war explicitly to intimidate black people/minorities and to continue to establish that white supremacy is still something to be celebrated via statues. In this context the celebration of the 4th of july establishes the independence of the united states against an empire, while the statures are made to enforce white supremacy. [0].

[0] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/confederate-statues/
I think GP is saying that we need _different_ education, not necessarily "more". It could be more if the new stuff was added in, or it could be the same amount if it replaces something else. The total amount of education isn't super relevant, and it's a bit misleading up claim that teaching anything other than what is already part of a medical school curriculum means you're requiring students to learn "more than a doctor".

For a more concrete example, I have never gone to graduate school; my education ended after finishing my undergrad. By any reasonable measure, I received "less" education than a doctor, who presumably completed an undergrad like me but also medical school afterwards. However, I almost certainly learned certain things that most doctors didn't in my computer science education, like how a compiler or operating system is written. If instead of those computer science courses I took courses dealing with media literacy and how to recognize bias, I still would have "less" education than a doctor.
No. Triage is supposed to prioritize those for whom treatment is most likely to make the difference between surviving and not surviving, which is not at all the same as prioritize those most likely to survive.
Whatever happens, don't let the country both start and end in Philadelphia.
I’m confused. What’s to stop these orgs from shuttling all their lower paid employees into a distinct staffing solutions LLC and just use them to “hire” staff for a parent company comprised of executives?

Other fields do this regularly - hospitals often organize their physicians into a distinct staffing org, for instance. It’s entirely legal. So is this anything other than a feel good law that will push some minor corporate restructuring?
This is going to have unintended consequences. Chances are it brings in a trickle of revenue and triggers silly behaviour rather than making anyone better off.
You teach effective critical thinking in schools nationwide for a couple of decades.

You encourage empathy for those you disagree with.

You tolerate intolerant people (but not their intolerant views)
Hopefully kids in us get horrible sleep because of pandemic and fall behind.
Kids used to be taught how to tell time on a clock face in school. I suspect that's not the case now. It's not hard to learn for most. And, as we continue in school, eventually, most of us can figure it out but it's not automatically learned.
The whole Russia thing went deep into conspiracy theory territory even before the 2016 election. The part that astounded me was the conspiracy theory about Trump being in secret communication with a Russian bank (and, for some reason, a US healthcare provider) via DNS. It was rejected by multiple outlets before a partisan rag ran with it, and made no sense on multiple levels - we were supposed to believe Trump got some subcountractors of subcontractors who he had no reason to trust to set up a communication channel so poor he'd need another, better communication channel just to agree what the messages meant, giving them the ability to blow the whole scheme and tying those communications to himself for no reason in the process, and they somehow went along with it and kept their mouths shut, and that this made more sense than email servers doing DNS lookups as the result of having received ordinary marketing emails for Trump hotels like you'd pretty much expect them to do.

And yet, this didn't stop the Clinton campaign demanding the FBI investigate it from her official Twitter account, and that demand going viral. Not only that, when the New York Times pushed back against this nuttery in the weakest way possible by reporting that the FBI had looked at the claims and concluded all the evidence pointed to it being the result of ordinary junk emails, their reader's editor pushed back, there was a boycott, and they eventually admitted it was a mistake and they wouldn't do it again. People are probably still holding this against the New York Times even now, and the theory got resurrected later by publications which should know better.
> Increasing protests. I can give you that. BLM protests are probably biggest event in US political scene since Tea Party . That said, I am not sure, they are bigger than civil rights movement or Vietnam war protests. They are more visible due to social media. Thankfully, they seem less widespread though.

Even this is nothing new. The '60s and '70s saw widespread political protest and violence in America. Think the Weather Underground bombings. Political violence settled down around the Reagan administration in a brief lull (probably in exuberance/realignment from the end of the Cold War), but seems to be flaring up again.
Ah yes, the classic: no evidence is proof that it is being covered up.
Yeah I immediately stopped reading there too. GraphQL does nothing new. I think it’s useful, and would rather see it used that some in-house alternative, but it’s not revolutionary lol
Thank you for taking the time to respond to this, I have learned quite a bit from this thread.
As you would expect, the EU and UK governments are banning ICE from 2030, and international airline operations from 2050.

So it will be 6 months of sailing, cold showers, ships biscuits and salt beef for your grand children's backpacking trip to Australia.
That’s fair. Reading this over again I’m sorry for being a jerk.
Biden would never win PA and GA without 80%+ margin in those counties. No other dem candidate would come even close.
You're not wrong. But neither of those examples justify less than 3% compared to the lowest workers (assuming lowest = $30,000, and highest = $1,000,000). In reality the highest paid executives earn waay more then 1 million. This isn't okay.
Big bank I used to work for did exactly this.
The mania that these wild fabrications create in the US is... particular.

People are credulous of falsehood and don't seem able to apply critical thinking. Maybe these collective delusions help the deluded groups in some way... or serve the needs of a power structure.
First the usual consideration of mechanical construction and production runs; stopping the plastic from rattling and making headphones comfortable adds to the cost.

Then there is bulk; the transformer+caps arrangement is large and heavy, incurring cost all the way along the supply chain.

Then you get into arguments about how much distortion is OK; you can never get to zero but you can asymptotically approach it at increasing cost.

Personally I bought a Sabaj A3 for my TV, which is about $120 and has TOSLINK and Bluetooth. No audiophile will ever use bluetooth, but for playing music in the lounge it's completely fine.
I care less about someones family benefitting from it if they have the decency to be ashamed of it and keep it hidden. Trump is explicitly the opposite, he flaunts it everywhere.