skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yup, fond memories from my highschool computer classes.
we built logic gates with transistors on handcrafted wooden circuit boards.

i don't think i realized the implications then, but over time as i learned programming and other things about computers, i always felt that it gave me a better understanding of what actually goes on behind the scenes. in particular it drives home the reason for why computers work in binary
Based on the wording of the post, I'm ~95% sure they meant exclusively football, baseball, and basketball.
Other fields do this regularly - hospitals often organize their physicians into a distinct staffing org, for instance.

Hospitals do this in the opposite direction. If you're in the suburbs a metro area (where cost indexes are higher, so Medicare reimburses at a higher rate), you try to make your own expenses look higher to convince CMS to include your hospital into the same cost index as the metro area itself. One tool to do this is to separate out unskilled workers (housekeeping and the like) into a separate corporation, thus moving the average pay rate higher.

Source: wife managed Medicare and Budget at a large hospital just outside of the NYC area, and did exactly this.
You’ve addressed cost but not mobility. Citizens have agency to take their new skills and move to other companies if their wages or career opportunities stagnate. H1Bs do not have this luxury. If they switch they risk losing their place in line.
https://www.boundless.com/blog/biden-harris-immigration/
QR Codes Aren't Magic
The Free software movement hasn't gone anywhere. Copyleft licenses still exist, so does the Free Software Foundation.

There are now more people who care about these things and more quality Free software available than ever before in human history!
It's just that the complacent open-source idea, as well as proprietary software (biggest offenders are locked smartphones, etc), have spread even faster :(

I don't think the movement has weak foundations nor that it is politically naive. In my eyes it goes directly to the problem it cares about, which is human freedom in the context of using a computer. It doesn't oppose commerce, but it is aware of the current socio-political order's (i.e. capitalism's) tendency to turn anything into a sellable commodity.
The PA, WI, MI GOP state legislatures refused to process mail in ballots before hand which is why it took so long. Look at Florida who voted R and counted their mail in ballots before Election Day and were able to report results that night. It was manufactured by GOP state legislatures to sow doubt.

Sources:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/politics/pennsy...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurk...

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/04/931136905/we-ll-be-working-24...
I do think Biden stayed true to what he believes. I think he might not have pushed the green new deal so hard by himself, maybe. My point is this: For somebody sympathetic to the Democrats, Biden appears as a rather centrist person. He isn't advocating for abolishing private health-insurance for example. But if you ask a Republican voter (not even a Trumpist), I'm not sure they would say the same. Or they believe that the party would force him to be more left.

I'm not so sure with regard to the votes. 2016, yes, I believe many people on the left were not happy with Clinton and did not vote. This time, we had record vote participation, and I believe that's from both sides, so the result should reflect the true political will in America. It's likely that the coasts would prefer a more progressive candidate, but I think on average, the US is somewhere between Biden and Romney.

I like the picture of the pendulum. While Obama was quite centrist, the USA made great advances in personal liberties. Gay marriage and so on. The world was changing too fast for many. Or they felt that their problems weren't in the focus as much, or at all. So the pendulum swung back, and we had Trump. We need to dampen the swinging to make steady progress, and I think Biden might be good at that, maybe especially because of his age.

Personally, I am somewhat wary of some of the more progressive ideas. I'm not a big fan of single-payer healthcare, seeing the results in England. I generally think that a market-run system is better than a government-run, but that markets need firm rules set by the government. ACA was pretty good, but long term, America has to get away from the employment-coupled insurances. And covering preexisting conditions necessarily means mandate (or mandate through the backdoor).
Canada has 5 parties. Bloc, lib, con, ndp and green not to mention another protest right party. A few years ago the cons were split into two parties.

Rarely outside of BC does lib-ndp vote split work in the con favour and often works the other way for the lib in Quebec with the bloc.

The ndp and lib seem like they are progressive and the idea that one should vote for the other to block the cons misses the differences. And your vote is worth a few dollars so vote for what you want... because funding matters.
I have seen my fair share of brown neo nazis down here in Brazil, so I don't believe that's relevant.
Yes, I’ve been following 538 for a while now. They also grade each pollster.

The point is - 538’s input is a bunch of polls, their output is a prediction. Whether they do the polls or aggregate them is not relevant - they’re analysts whose job is to provide accurate estimates.

You can’t shift the blame on inaccurate underlying polls - Nate has time and again said, they look at many aspects in their estimates. Not just polls.
Agree, pulling a number out of my backside it feels like at least 10% of the country have some sort of white supremacist leanings.
I am not so sure Android's policy won't evolve to better match what Apple does. At the end of the day both of these platforms serve to defend their core ecosystems. It is clear that the app /container concept is the one thing Apple holds dearly. Streaming services represent a leak/wedge into another app/container ecosystem. That alternative ecosystem has its own business models, review process, developer relationship, etc). It will never fly in it's current form, for any of these streamers (geforce now, stadia, xbox, etc).

I don't think we are stuck though. Both major mobiles would love to have a way to make this work from both a product and business standpoint. The platform just needs to evolve to support them properly and we aren't there yet.

For Apple, I could see a path where upon pairing your existing Xbox console with Apple, it unlocks an Xbox branded app store across your devices. Apple would be fed meta-data for that entire store so they would have some levers of control over the experience. The key thing here would be no onboarding flow to the xbox store. You are a clear xbox platform user and you want to extend that experience onto your Apple devices through a pairing flow originating on your purchased xbox. Same could work for any hardware console.
Undemocratic Republic: The Tyranny of the Senate
What I've been looking for is a not-outrageously priced home theatre system that supports all the latest standards, like DTS-X, Dolby Atmos, etc... and has proper, decent speakers, not tiny little tin cans or a soundbar or something.

However, nobody seems to make the "proper" speakers that have the up-firing part needed for Dolby Atmos and are also wireless so I don't have to run cables from the TV to the rear speakers.

The few that I've found so far are crazy expensive.

I think home audio needs an IKEA-type manufacturer to upend the traditional economics of the products.

The expensive part of home theatre audio is that proper wood speakers are big and expensive to ship.

Someone needs to figure out a way to flat-pack full size speakers that consumers can assemble at home, but without requiring soldering irons and power tools.
This is inaccurate. The media doesn't have any authority to determine election results. We're back in a situation like Bush vs. Gore in 2000 and the election is still up in the air.
If junkies get their fix, it's literally the only thing they care about. It's them not being able to support their habit with a day job what makes them reckless and dangerous.

If junkies receive their fix from medical authorities, along with a treatment helping them to quit, they even have a hope to become in-addicted again.

Of course, arresting or maybe outright killing a junkie would instantly remove any threat to the neighbors. It just requires stopping to see the junkie as a human in need of help and start seeing the junkie as a violent criminal or even non-human. I wonder if such an approach is sort of dangerous for the society's mental health.
> The polls were dead wrong, they predicted Joe Biden would win an overwhelming popular vote.

But Biden did win an overwhelming popular vote.
Since this isn't explicitly clarified in the article, it's worth mentioning that THD (or THD+N for that matter) is not always a helpful spec to compare two amps. You can easily have two amps where the one with the worse THD is actually the superior one because its distortion is in low-order even harmonics, while the nominally lower THD amp has more distortion in odd or higher-order harmonics. The distribution of distortion over harmonics is as important as the raw sum. (For the layperson who doesn't care about the math: this is why tube amps sound good even when their nominal THD spec may be higher than low-end solid-state amps.)
Additionally poll watchers were involved in the entire process, if you read what the Trump campaign lawyers said in court

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/fact-c...
I believe it.

But I wonder how the line between Texas and Missouri got there.

And the one between California and Washington: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/submarine-cable/pacific-... (I get that it's to complete a ring, but if subsea is so expensive, they couldn't put together an in-land route to make it a ring?). Or is it cheaper to make your sea cable 5% longer instead of licensing land-RightOfWays install/access?

And Perth+Sydney: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/submarine-cable/indigo-c...

I guess they could end up being lower latency than following a road.
The two-party system is not a consequence of the lack of access to money. It is a consequence of the first-past-the-post system, which will always trend towards two parties (as a matter of game theory). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law.

The problem of primaries selecting for extremists could be partially alleviated with ranked-choice voting, so an extreme candidate with a significant minority of supporters can't win against a divided field of moderates. This is how Trump won the 2016 Republican nomination and how Sanders almost won the 2020 Democratic nomination before the establishment candidates dropped out and endorsed Biden. Or, we could try open primaries so independents can give input on the desired candidate.
Decisions made by science may be biased against certain groups.

Let’s imagine there is an AI ‘guardian’ decision maker. Who is it to say that it’s statistical/scientific methods will be acceptable to individuals.

I am reminded of Asimov’s short story “Franchise”
Please elaborate on the many non-racist reasons for pardoning Joe Arpaio who was convicted specifically for racist actions.

In what world is that not an overt endorsement of Joe Arpaio's Racism?
I used to regularly ride Flixbus in the US from San Francisco to Fresno, CA. Definitely not glamorous but also a very cheap and accessible way to get around! Much better than Greyhound.
Can anyone recommend a DIY speaker in the same vein as this amp? (Aside from the panel speaker linked elsewhere in these comments)
Well, Spotify plans in certain countries are cheaper & adjusted to what the market can afford - just like many other services.
Tech Ingredients is in my top three favorite YouTube finds of 2020.
I used to use iMessage every day. It was my primary mode of communication for 10-ish years. I bought iPhones as gifts for others who didn't have them, just so we could iMessage.

Today, I never use iMessage. I'm not logged in to it on any devices. A big part of this was Apple backdooring the end-to-end cryptography (with full plaintext message history and key escrow via iCloud Backup, which is not e2e encrypted, and on by default for all users) which makes it way less secure.

Turns out that iMessage is optional. All of the other forms of communication that existed before and after it are still available to you as options. There's no law or any requirement anywhere that you use it.

"Lock-in" is colloquial: you're free to leave at any time. I was, and I did. Anyone can.
Yes, that helps, thank you. I'd read of some officials denying it, but the information around judges is new to me and I will explore it further.

Who do you consider to be reputable sources? I will include them in my reading.

I'm also interested in why it was necessary to refer to the president as a "loser." I thought your point stood without it and all that did was clue me in on the possibility of bias in the rest of the response. Staunch supporters would likely discard your reasoning entirely because of it.
Portugal has this policy since 2001. No, demand hasn't skyrocketed.
I guess my other question was: why do we even need a president? Or a head of state? Why not a board?

Corporations are run better than countries. We could have a Wall Street like ticker for issues that needs votes. A public channel for everyone to get an opp to pitch their POV.
This is increasingly becoming less true as more people purchase the "digital only" version of most of their games. I haven't purchased a boxed copy of a game in many years, both on my consoles (PS3/PS4 + Switch) and my PC (Steam/Origin/Blizzard stores, etc). The only feasible way to resell a game tied to one of these digital accounts would be to sell the entire account.
I think "what does this have to do with Trump's numerous crimes?". What a strange question to ask.
Here's a dark thought. If Trump really did win the election legimately, and there really was widespread voter fraud, play out how both sides would react. Consider that Biden has already been declared president-elect by the media. We may be weeks away from civil war and not even realize it. Of course, I think this is a big if, but it's a scary thought.
tbh the division was created by the democrats (for money). anyway, glad they cant use the "we hate trump" card anymore. Now they'll have to blame something else for their own hatred. Hopefully it's a mirror this time.
Thank you for spelling it out for people. The seeming binary choice is part of the cause for all this. First election of Trump was a real cry that some seem to have forgotten. I am genuinely not sure how this is simply glossed over and simply explained as 'racism','anti-science',or w/e. I still remember driving through Ohio and seeing signs along the lines of 'Help us Trump' pre-2016.

And the simple reality is that until it is addressed, we will have a non-zero chance of another Trump or Trump-like candidate in the future. Worse, we will have a candidate, who is much, much smarter, who saw all the new avenues and the ways things could be done..

Instead, we have this weird sports event with confused crowd cheering equivalent of 'my team won'. It is fucking depressing. I may be bitter, because I genuinely hate sports too.
Some people believe that over time symbols can come to mean different things than they meant when that symbol was created.

When people tour Dachau they are not exhibiting support for Nazis.

When I was growing up in the South and all my black friends and schoolmates were wearing "No Fear" brand shirts with confederate flags on them, I doubt they were supporting slavery.
Legalization is more about judiciary reform, public health and allocation of resources. We've already been through this before with alcohol, where prohibition was prohibitively expensive, and basically created a completely unregulated market full of products so dangerous they regularly killed people. You can see a parallel with black-market cannabis, where there are basically no health and safety regulations or transparency. So black-market growers are free to use as much carcinogenic pesticide as they wish. On the production side, there is nothing stopping a manufacturer from distributing vape cartridges containing unsafe levels of ethanol, lead contaminated materials, bacterial and fungal contamination. So imagine we set up a system for licensing, independent inspections, regular testing, and Boom, suddenly the drug dealers are paying the state, instead of the state paying to hunt the drug dealers down and keep them alive incarcerated.

I am pretty much convinced that Reagan's war on drugs was mostly about destroying south american economies and exterminating or enslaving non-whites, rather than public health and safety. Because of that, I don't believe de-criminalization will lead to criminalization.
This is basically the liberal version of "he won't condemn Islamic terrorism." Guilt by association.
It seems unlikely that the new rules last with a Biden administration.
Yeah, an increase to 8% of the African American population from 6% is definitely a miracle. He's clearly a figure of black activism now.
GeForce Now is quite good.
>ticket readers mounted on public transport where anyone could tamper with them out-of-hours

The owner of the ticket reader is the public transport authority.

>a utility meter installed in my house where I might want to change the way it records consumption to get out of paying

The owner of the utility meter is typically the company providing the utility.

In both of these cases, I would expect the owner of the device to have full control over it and not, say, only the manufacturer. If my city's government installs ticket readers in every subway station and is then perpetually beholden to a single private company to upgrade/maintain/improve them, that feels like a problem.

Note that this doesn't have to mean that someone with temporary access to the device should have full control over it! There's still a place for secure boot-style systems; it's all about who controls the keys.

>a payment terminal taking card payments in a restaurant - as a diner I'd quite like some assurance that someone couldn't tamper with it to record card details for example

This one is maybe a bit more concerning since it's a card issued by a separate authority, you don't have the ability to confirm transaction amounts on a device you trust, etc... but sure, in this case, I'd be fine with the hardware vendor or payment processor controlling the hardware.

(Though long-term I think this is a bit silly in the first place considering approximately everyone is walking around with computers in their pockets that would be perfectly capable of letting you confirm transaction amounts on a display you trust. Card payments currently are effectively handing someone your account details and saying "pretty please only take as much as you say you will.")
Programming, in the traditional sense, has to be formal and unambiguous, that's the main issue. The complexity can arise from seemingly nothing. Here's an extreme math counterexample: Fermat's last theorem. Proving it seems easy on the surface because it's so trivially formulated, yet it took centuries for mathematicians to actually do it.

Commoditized programming faces the same problem: many problems seem easy at first, but when you are trying to solve them with your shiny low-entry-barrier interface, you are hitting a fundamental ceiling you never knew existed. There's never been a shortage of unsuspecting newbies trying to parse HTML with regular expressions, as an example.

There were plenty of attempts to make end users program things.
LISP machines and Genera (and Emacs, which is IMO the closest existing thing to the "ubiquitous programmability" you propose). BASIC, which was the main user interface for many early personal/home computers. Visual programming environments. Spreadsheets. Some of them survived and are very useful for simple cases, like programming materials visually in Blender, or automating stuff in IFTTT, but all of them suffer from the same issue: [non-AI] computers are too dumb and expect more or less exact instructions. That leaves the complexity on users' shoulders. Once you go Turing complete (and often even without that), syntax or entry barriers don't matter much - you either train for years to be able to formulate the human-generated problem, encode it for a computer, and change it as the need arises, or you hit a wall with a low entry barrier tool.

Programming is easy to learn, sure, there's no reason it should be hard. But it's fundamentally hard to master. And it's not about syntax or high friction interfaces (which can often be more productive for a trained person solving a hard problem, actually).
So you admit that you are completely unable and unwilling to consider any argument or information that conflicts with your world views

If I do not agree with you, if I have a outlook on the world that is different from your then I have "shitty ideas or opinions" and thus is ethical, moral and just of cancel me economically and socially?

So you are admitting that the Democrats do no really want reconciliation or compromise, they want victory and subjection of their perceived enemies (republicans, conservatives, libertarians)

Thanks for clearing that up for us
I'd prefer Wine for this, since it avoids using Windows.
Define worse. Ebola is much deadlier, but its kind of hard to spread a virus that causes you to bleed from your face.
Does motivation matter? If a voter claims that they are casting a "protest vote", and that vote contributes towards some outcome, why should we believe that they didn't actually support that outcome?

Hacker News political discussions are worthless because we are not allowed to explore the possibility that people sometimes act in bad faith.
Ten thousand votes does not seem to me like a strong signal. If you look at popular vote, there is a 4m discrepency. Asuming all the results are legitimate, that's maybe 2-4% of the voters that agree more with one than the other.

It is grotesque to call 2% a strong signal.

As for voter fraud, I'm curious how you think it is insignificant without an audit. And even if it was, shouldn't the fraudsters be prosecuted?
Boo to this, if you're against one party, abstain from voting for it.

Ask your self, how against the democratic platform do you need to be in order to justify affirming this guy?

Spoil your ballot.
Believe it or not, politicians not messing up the system more than it is already messed up is an actual benefit to the people. To parent's point, it is a feature that benefits everyone. Doubly so at times where country is almost evenly split over what to do.

Edit. Also, they DO cater to their real constituencies. If you do not believe it, check the votes immediately after 2016 elections. What was the priority? Lower taxes for the already well to do.
There's no evidence that would work. The evidence is you need continuity.

Companies have employees for instance. Everything little thing is not contracted out.
I'm no trump fam, but I think he's too dumb to notice the subtlety on those words

It's just more inane rambling