skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. US isolationism along with its "take my $ and going home" attitude to global institutions in order to court "one world government" conspiracists has created myriad political vacuums such as this.
It would be nice if we weren't dealing with a poorly-handled pandemic and consequential economic crisis that will take all our attention for the next 3 years. But I'm optimistic that we will develop an outward-thinking foreign policy before the end of this presidency.
Thank you for the links!

> A common use of COM was scripting with Visual Basic in the 1990s ...

This sounds nifty!
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They already are. Russia & China's tactics are not so much disinformation, but simply taking our own talking points and pushing them to us even harder.
I for one love both Joe and HRC as inspiring figures and would have voted for them even if the other candidate was not a bigoted wannabe authoritarian.
A numbers of SoC makers have adapted by adding M4 or M7s as real-time coprocessors to the main application core. There's also the TI Sitara (Beaglebone) with its PRU that can function as a real-time assist.
I really wish that the US voting system did not rely on strategic voting, in which voters are basically forced to choose the lesser of two evils.

I am a huge proponent of ranked choice voting, and I donate to https://www.fairvote.org/. Politics have a wide spectrum of opinions and choices, and our government should represent that.
To me, this is one of the biggest problems with politics these days. Everyone wants a candidate that they like more than they want a candidate who can ably run the country. The fact is that this country is full of people with different ideas, desires and needs. Donald Trump had real support, but only from a single faction. He was president of his base only. Joe Biden on the other hand, is no one's favorite but it should be pretty obvious to anyone that he's qualified and that he can be a president for all of the United States.
Please permit me a ramble, there are too many points to fit in a hn box and I'm typing on a phone.

I'm sure our stateside friends would be happy to acknowledge that US politics has a major effect on the whole world. I have had it pointed out to me before, however, that the USA can vote in whomever they please, and it is none of our business.

But American companies sell us our books and films (understatement), take cuts of our credit card payments, make us coffee, organize our taxis. All of this seems to be with preferential tax treatment. All of these things could be done without the US, but the US is our partner in peace, so it is tolerated.

And here is the rub, this works so long as the USA is a legitimate ally.

And then came Trump, telling us that we don't spend enough on Nato (with US defence companies) and threatening our peace. I believe this has lead to a situation where the US is seen less as a partner and more as a bully, a colonial overlord demanding tribute. I think the next 20 years will see a shift in this kind of trade to the EU and to the East.

The USA can be insular if it wants, but it can't do so and expect everything to be the same as it has been for the last 50 years. An insular US is a declining US. Your new President has a terrific amount of work to do to undo this damage...
BaseDash (YC S20) is hiring remote full stack engineers (US or Canada)
It’s very telling you assume that I think all republicans are rascist.
The journalists Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald talk about this a lot: the question of what happened with Clinton's loss, why Trump, why these shocks and why the persistent support.

The argument would be that there's a strong elitism that manifested in the Democratic Party, which abandoned some of its core Progressive principles with things like NAFTA (and the never-ending wars). H. Clinton echoed this, with a haughty campaign that called people she should be wooing 'deplorables,' skipping campaigning in key battleground states, and blaming sexism for some of her campaign failures ("it's about me") instead of self-reflection ("How could I have had broader appeal.") Even today you'll often find people reminding you that Trump appeals to people without college degrees. Outside of a pure data context, saying that over and over again suggests that somehow people with degrees are better capable of selecting the leaders of everyone, which is an extremely elitist perspective. So Trump comes along, attacks NAFTA and free trade, speaks plainly and so forth.

Was he making false promises about returning jobs overseas, helping workers and other Sanders talking points? Absolutely. But the self-reflection that needs to happen here (given the loss of two dozen House seats and numerous local upsets) is, what are we doing wrong, here.

To wit:

Exit polls, which can be unreliable, pegged his national support at 32%-35% of the Latino vote. More tellingly were results in certain counties. Starr County, Texas, the county with the highest percentage of Hispanic or Latino voters — above 95% — voted for Hillary Clinton by a 60-point margin in 2016, but gave Biden just a five point win in 2020.

Even more amazing was Trump’s performance among Black voters. The man whose 2016 message to “the blacks” was very nearly a parody of long-ago New York mayoral candidate Mario Procaccino’s pledge that “My heart is as black as yours” must have found a new way to connect. Trump doubled his support with Black women, moving from 4% in 2016 to 8%, while upping his support among Black men from 13% to 18%. Remember, this was after four years of near-constant denunciations of Trump as not just a racist, but the leader of a literal white supremacist movement:

[...]

Trump’s numbers with the LGBTQ community were a stunner also, jumping from 14% to 28%. In September, a dating app for queer men called Hornet ran a survey that showed 45% support for Trump among gay men. Ever since Trump jumped into politics, media observers have rushed to denounce any Trump-related data that conflicts with conventional wisdom, and the Hornet survey was no different. Out magazine quoted a communications professor from Cal Poly Pomona as saying, “To tout a Hornet poll as evidence of LGBTQ support for Trump is clickbaity, sloppy journalism.” Even the Hornet editor scoffed at his own poll, before it all turned out to be true in the election.

Trump even improved his standing among white women, 53% of whom were already pilloried in 2016 for voting for a man who bragged about how you “grab ‘em by the pussy, you can do anything.”

(Matt Taibbi, Which is the Real "Working Class Party" Now?, Nov 2020)
We don't have to explain the purpose of the laws in Japan to prove their purpose in the United States.
I still don’t see what was so bad about Trump. Can someone explain?
It went from a basically almost racially homogeneous, English speaking, Christian - with a lot of flavours I recognise but still - and ideologically united country to a multi racial, multi confessional, and now in some part multilingual with radically opposing views and interests country.

At no point in America's history was it ideologically united. It was divided from the very beginning; our founding document itself was the product of a compromise between two mutually exclusive governmental ideals.

There is more in common on many points between Estonia and Ireland than between California and Arkansas.

I doubt that very much. Arkansans and Californians speak the same language, eat the same food, watch the same shows and movies, listen to the same music, learn the same history. There are ideological differences, sure, but those ideological differences are the same as you see in other countries, including Estonia and Ireland.
Atlassian is going full Oracle. Sub-par quality, anti-customer attitude, high prices. I should buy their stocks now, this seems to be a winning strategy in software business.
Author here - there are better emulators (I used this one myself for testing things out: https://www.retrodevops.com/c64.html).

You are absolutely right that my POKE is not like the real one - because for that, you actually need to emulate quite accurately the C64 memory. So, anything related to POKE is not accurate - and this misses the experience you get as a hacker discovering tricks you can do.

However, my point was more about the interaction that combines text editor and REPL into one - and I think for that, it works well enough.
That's just your viewpoint
They were union and democrat, and when the jobs left, they looked for someone to blame. I think most people can agree it's a complicated situation. But a lot of them really, really hate NAFTA and there's a reason for the post-Clinton shifts in the midwest. At this point, you have people stewing in partisan radio or tv all day. It takes a very strong person to resist that influence. Most of us wouldn't.

Almost everyone just wants to be safe, happy, economically secure, and the same for their kids. That transcends nationality, religion, or party. I think trying to frame it around economic policy reversed the way the mindset was bootstrapped.
I think states already get that enough through the senate.

I really think the president should be by popular vote, but don't see any way this would ever get changed.
"Democracy - that flash of light between feudalism and automation and then it's gone"
For an institutional fund, they can be different, non-fungible pools of capital. The $15M comes from fund limited partner (LP) commitments as part of the investable capital of the fund (i.e. was earmarked for investments and is not the fund manager's money, in a very real sense), but the $100k might (depending on the LP agreement for the fund) come out of the management fees, and if so, is very much part of the P&L for the fund manager.

For a corporate VC, its typically all the same pool, though.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/facts/facts-on-the-nobel-p...

> Nominated but not awarded

> Joseph Stalin, the Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953), was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 and 1948 for his efforts to end World War II.

> Adolf Hitler was nominated once in 1939. As unlikely as it may seem today, Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939 by a member of the Swedish parliament, E.G.C. Brandt. Apparently, Brandt never intended the nomination to be taken seriously. [...]

> Other statesmen and national leaders who were nominated but not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize:

> Italy: Benito Mussolini
They are not so much pro-Biden as anti-Trump.
Isn't your claim falsified by this election? This opponent was someone else. Trump didn't lose many votes.

The reality that's hit me this year is that most Americans will vote for anyone who wins "their" party's primary. Everything else is rationalization.
You're a lot less likely to relapse and commit crime when you're already on a stable dose of your drug of choice. Considering how many people in america are on legitimate opiod prescriptions I find it insane how people instantly jump to 'well you wouldn't legalise heroin would you?!', there's no meaningful difference between opiods whether they're prescribed or not.
Curious why this comment was downvoted; is it because of the sentiment on most blockchain applications, or because of a disagreement that recording votes in an election would be a reasonable application of the technology?
Open our borders or borders of other ME countries?

If you mean our borders, you know that’s untenable, and so not a serious conversation.
That's a very American point of view that recently displayed it's weaknesses in France the last few years.
> The country was deliberately designed as a collection of independent states,

Hmm... Couldn't it be argued that this haven't really been the case since the civil war?

When I lived in SF, most Americans I met weren't originally from California (not had they lived there long).
> return the investment of releasing a Linux version

It must be nigh on impossible; beyond developer time, support requests will be a complete nightmare.
It matters only up to the amount of transaction costs involved in negotiating the clause which is not 0 but not something to get in a tizzy about either. VCs need companies to fund just as much as the companies need capital.

This is the mainstream economic view. Yes, you'll find scores of economic papers finding that "power dynamics" actually matter in negotiated agreements, but understand that they are published precisely because they purport to show departure from the consensus baseline which is that they really don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem.
The wiki for the PREEMPT_RT patchset has a general HOWTO: https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/HOWTO:_Build_an_RT-appl...

Generally speaking, your limiting factor wrt. hard RT performance is going to be the underlying hardware, not the OS per se. This of course assumes that you avoid known sources of OS-related latency.
Sure, but when you engage on why they voted for Trump, you receive a litany of mistruths and nonsense and it goes nowhere. Biden is going to raise taxes! Biden is going to take away guns! Hunter Biden's corruption! It's pretty hard to have a conversation when a third party is honking and playing a tuba five feet away, and that's essentially what Fox News, Facebook, Breitbart, et al are doing.
When considering a person of "awful character," a lot of people make the rational decision to nonetheless value the benefit of 320 million people as more important than retribution against that one person, if that person's policies benefit the rest.
> System's working as intended.

The System didn't anticipate the maturation of the political landscape into a steady-state of two enormously wealthy parties that exclude any disrupters, and thereby between them decide what's selectable for dinner from a menu of two choices. Do you want that lamb with mint sauce or without?

Not once on electoral coverage did I see votes for independent or third-party candidates listed.
It's a historical quirk rather than intention. No sane democracy would have the electoral college system today.
Provide a counterpoint.
I would love to see a decent PCA decomposition if you've got one. The way Left/Right is defined seems pretty arbitrary and varies a lot between cultures.
It's intention was to give slave owners more voting power without actually letting slaves vote. It was wrong then and still is now.

https://time.com/4558510/electoral-college-history-slavery/
I don't disagree but I also think that the best way to expose a lie is to push it into the full light of the sun, not try to stuff it into the basement. If someone is going to make a fool of himself, let him.
Yes, this is often ignored.

In 2016, California had the 3rd most votes for Trump, with 4.5M.

Similarly, despite losing the state 52/43, Texas contributed the 4th highest count for Hillary.
It's worth considering that the VC's are literally paying for it anyhow, it's their money going into the deal + transaction fees.

As long as the terms are well known in advance to both parties, then really it's all a wash in the subsequent valuation calculation.

If VC's want to 'require the company to spend more money on lawyers' then maybe it's good or not, but at that point the money is invested, it's going to go to ops or lawyers, if the VC's want it to go to lawyers ... well ... it's not like they benefit from it directly.

The analogy used at the start 'each party pays their fees' isn't quite right because in most situations, it's adversarial - more money = more likely to win the case. In the VC case, the lawyers are not negotiating, just doing paperwork, moreover, when you're going to jail for fraud, it's not like you are exchanging money with the people prosecuting you.

As long as you know that the legal fees for the transaction are part of the valuation ahead of time, and it's part of the valuation calculus, then it really doesn't matter that much.
> For the record, I don't like being used in this manner to further your agenda. I consider it malicious behavior.

How am I abusing you or being malicious? It certainly wasn't intended! I'm talking about you in the third person in the comment you quote me from, but then I was replying to someone else. I'm not misrepresenting what you said, or how I feel about it. That is all honest. I'm not sure what to make of you seeing malice there.

We agree that people are well intentioned but that their data and inferences are wrong.

I would describe myself as a hardcore skeptic, I don't accept data or information on trust. I actively distrust corporate/governmental information. From my perspective, when I hear the opinions on hn, many are simply parroting some consensus opinion that they have not verified. This is to say most are living their lives on the basis of unverified beliefs masquerading as knowledge. This is to say, ignorance.
Five Thirty Eights' "snake graph", which hasn't changed since before election day, accounted for poll error successfully and predicted exactly which states would go blue and which would go red, along with which several states were uncertain. Some of the uncertains went red, others blue. Florida was the only outlier in precisely how red it went.
A prominent propaganda outlet had been slandering Clinton for decades, including 20+ politically guided hearings over an issue caused by the opposition party and an outrageous politically motivated investigation by a supposedly impartial law enforcement agency.

To compare Clinton, who had been a senator and Secretary of State, and cast her as a bad choice compared to a billionaire heir and reality tv star who had no experience is sort of absurd. Politics is a popularity contest and heavily influenced by media and irrational thoughts and behavior.
Don’t forget Kamala Harris
Yes, and pulseaudio was also heavily inspired by apple's coreaudio.
If it is past exposures and disease resistence, how do you explain early spread in Wuhan? Why does Aus/NZ enjoy natural immunity but not Indonesia? Quarantines are effective against all infectious diseases and have been for centuries, why do you assume they were not effective in places like China and Vietnam? Where is the evidence that disease resistance plays any role?
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I described the life experience of caring for the people you love as a good thing.

you described it as "bitch now get back to work"

we aren't arguing about the possibility of insurance ruining your bank account.

as if the childish simplification isn't that when you're a union you're not beholden to some greater master.
> I wonder if he really believes what he says or if he knowingly and willfully lies.

He will literally say anything it takes, truthful or not, to win the current argument.

Anybody familiar with the church has encountered this sort of "playing both sides of the fence" before.

In both cases, the Holy Man has all the answers, and it sounds like they know what they are talking about-- even if their answers are contradictory.

Questioning that leads to circular logic you can't unravel, and in the end you give up and accept that they know better than you. Institutionalized gaslighting, in both cases.
Is the ballot for olympian medalists public ?

What are the incentives for someone not to vote 99 for the candidate he wants to win, and 0 for all others ?
There are (generally) three ways to vote. In person, absentee via some form of ballot drop off, and absentee by mail.

In person and absentee ballots dropped off can be trivially found to be legitimate (timewise). You have them by 8PM or you don't.

For mail-in ballots, states have different rules. Some states allow ballots received by the 12th or later, as long as the postmark is on or before election day. Some states require ballots to be received by election day. PA is under a microscope because ballots postmarked by the 3rd, but received by the 6th may or may not be counted, pending court decisions.

Those ballots, however, are not included in current vote totals as reported by the state, so Biden won PA without those votes (and beyond the margin required for a recount). They'd just further extend his lead.
Biden wasn’t just selected. People voted for him from a pool of 20-ish candidates in the democratic race. Yes, Biden is soft. He is not an entertainer. He probably has many missing qualities that Trump had. However he has almost half a century of experience in Congress driving bills and fighting for his constituents. He was the safe bet.

Out of the 20 candidates, Biden was the most likely to defeat Trump. He is a realist compared to the other candidates. People realized that and voted for him. If Bernie was chosen as the candidate, Trump would have won a second term. The bet panned out.

I feel it’s so easy to live in a Democratic bubble in Washington state. I guess same goes to California. Middle America thinks in a very very different way than we do.
Agreed. Have not met a single person who despised Trump who didn’t feel disgusted after seeing this compilation of Biden: https://joebiden.info/
I hope he succeeds, Gerard ’t Hooft is well known and well respected.

"It should be possible, these days, to collect all knowledge you need from the internet."

Perhaps so, but for many it will be difficult and they'll suffer information overload and or they'll be distracted and waste time. There is no substitute for learning in a properly structured learning environment with good teachers to keep one properly focused.

"I had the extreme luck of having excellent teachers around me. That helps one from running astray. It helped me all the way to earn a Nobel Prize. But I didn’t have internet."

That backs up what I said, good teachers are everything (including being a very rare breed). The fact that he didn't have the internet was probably a good thing, as it likely kept him focused. I'm very glad I didn't have the internet in my formative years, I know I would have wasted too much time there on trivial matters.

Nevertheless, if one doesn't have access to excellent educational resources then this website sounds as if it'll be a worthwhile substitute.

It's a great venture and I wish him well.
I disagree, Democratic voters again did not get to choose their candidate. A candidate was selected for them. Even better one of the worst candidates during the primary was penciled in as Vice President; she is a good little party follower having the approved opinion and not one of her own.

If anything it shows that the party rules above all.

The lesson of Trump is that we have two political parties so immune to outside challenge it took someone of his level of money, fame, and more, to beat both parties and make no mistake, be beat both.

Hence going forward, when Congress tells you they want to pass laws preventing certain monies from entering politics always understand it is to prevent anyone challenging their two party rule
We're supposed to have checks and balances. It seems a few key individuals were terrified of DJT and wouldn't stand up to him. Someday maybe we'll know why.
It probably should be required for any government position where the holder of the office is expected to exercise their own individual discretion. The Federal government won’t grant a security clearance to individuals that owe substantial amounts of money, especially to foreigners, or who have deep personal ties to foreigners or ownership stakes in foreign businesses. I for one would like to know whether candidates would be eligible for a security clearance (though of course the President themself is not subject to most rules about classified information).
Suppose Trump’s rant of inflammatory lies had gone on for 90 minutes; would CNN, Fox, et al., reasonably be expected to air it all? What if the president had called for terroristic acts against his opponents, show that in its entirety without editorializing as well?