skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that those of us outside the US find interesting is that you don’t have a left and a right party. You have a just right of center party and a far right party. Pick any Democrat (with a few exceptions) and pop them in another countries left party (Uk labour for instance) and they would be sent over the aisle with jeers.

My assumption is that the Cold War and fear of anything vaguely “commie” pushed the US that way as the gov in the 50s and 60s seems (from anecdotes) to have been very progressive.

I would love to see what would happen if you had single transferable vote (or similar) that picked the single issue voters away from the GOP. You might find a situation where the dems become everyone’s second choice because they are firmly in the Center and it would show just how unprogressive they really are (or at least how they appear to be to an international audience)

It still blows my brain that there isn’t wide spread single payer/NHS style health care in the richest country in the world.

And don’t get us started on gun control, I’ve travelled to dozens of countries around the world and nowhere have I felt less safe than SF/Buffalo/NY/Miami/Jackson.
The authors may want to mention it requires Laravel's Valet and therefore won't work on Windows, WSL, or Linux.
and csgo :)
It's was not a secret that NATO's enormous expansion was dubious for the US or that european countries do not contribute nearly enough. trump 's opinion was just a rude way to say what everyone knew. Even Mitterand wondered what was the reason for NATO after the cold war ended.

> An insular US is a declining US

If EU did that, it would be an empty threat. The US is already realigning towards the ascending markets in Asia rather the aging Europe. There seems also to be very little interest from Europeans to act together as an alliance. Instead they are watching passively as a NATO member (Turkey) is actively threatening allies and other NATO members (cyprus, greece, france)
Exactly. Would I have loved to see Bernie/Warren as a president? Yes.

Do I think a boring centrist president is for the best right now to deal with this pandemic and the upcoming recession? Also yes.
What an entirely bizarre and baseless series of sidetracks.
Trade war with China.
The UK classifies some of it's foreign aid budget as defence spending to meet it's NATO commitments. It may be a weak arguement to us, but there is a precedent for it.
I think Trump repulsed so many people - regardless of policy it was an epoch for the voting population where either you say that behaviour is acceptable or not. Thankfully it was rejected but it’s concerning so many people seem to accept such repugnant behaviour if the general policies align with their own politics.

I mistakenly thought the line was way further back than it actually is and I just wonder where the line actually is. Trump wasn’t the line, the population could stomach worse.

Either way, I think voting for Biden on the “not Trump” basis is fine, and ultimately the blame for the what some voters see as an empty dichotomy lies flat at the feet of the short sightedness of the Republican Party.
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Imagine a worse scenario where he needs to address some escalated global incident that could lead to world War. People only see that he didn't quite f it up like they thought he would up until covid. That's not ineffectual. It was damn luck.
This is the problem with lumping all pollution together: NOx is harmful to humans and animals in the short term, causing lung irritation. So yes, you really don't want a bunch of ships pumping NOx near human populations. I don't know if a ships funnel would be enough to get the fumes away from the crew of a ship while it's running in the middle of the ocean.

Excess CO2 is not especially harmful to humans in the short term (unless you are in a confined area), but it does contribute to global climate change.
> Obama should have gone to war with Russia over Crimea

Say goodbye to Indo-Pacific then, land war with Russia (a nuclear major power mind you) will be multiple times more difficult than Iraq and people say that America focus with Iraq allows China ascendency.

10 years after U.S-Russian war, you might face China with probably 50% bigger GDP than America, while America national debt might approach 200% GDP and ultra disillusioned Americans years for isolationism. The entire Indo-Pacific then might be finlandized by China.
Coming from the outside it might be easier to work forwards to the statement instead of backwards from it:

All vice presidents (2nd highest executive position) and presidents (highest executive position) up until this point have been white males with the exception of former president Barack Obama who was a black male and former vice president Charles Curtis who was native american male. Kamala Harris is a black/asian female who looks to be the next vice president.

Hopefully that helps :).
From your source:

"These claims have led to investigations by the United States government, including hearings and reports by the United States House of Representatives, Senate, Department of Justice, and the CIA's Office of the Inspector General which ultimately concluded the allegations were unsupported."

It's an uncorroborated conspiracy theory.
Big difference between paying for a song or album vs downloading unlimited DRM-free music for a small subscription fee.
We have fallen out of touch with working class voters. We need to reconnect with them and their needs.

We also need to undo the damage conspiracy theories have done in the red parts of this country -- many extremely blue collar meat and potatoes should-be-core-of-the-democratic-party people wince when they hear that you are a democrat because they have been taught by fox news and facebook that democrats are evil coastal elites who don't care about the working class and are part of the deep state.

Right now everything we say to them tends to push them further away (e.g. the voter fraud court cases getting immediately thrown out in court because they were without merit will be seen by these voters as PROOF of the deep state). To win over voters like this, we have to actually _watch_ the media they consume to figure out how to inoculate them from the cult-like conspiracy theories they have become vulnerable to.
I didn't say that Eliot was a fascist, I was quoting a sentence from the review, and should perhaps have shortened it.

There is a sentence in I think Notes Towards the Definition of Culture to the effect that a large number of cosmopolitan Jews in a society is suboptimal (I forget the word used, perhaps "undesirable".) Yes, I suppose that some in the ultra-Orthodox community might agree, but still.

One can say as much for Pound and Jewish writers. He seems to have been on good terms with Louis Zukofsky, for example.
If I’m following this logic correctly - running a few more algorithms on something before trying to decrypt will make it easier rather than harder to decrypt?

Is the ceiling for “max encryption” that low, or is just that one algorithm combined with another has a local maximum?
I agree, but I'm curious to see how it will shake out in real life.
First thing I am going to do is submit my resume for open tech leadership and policy positions in the new administration.
If you are in a position with experience and financial comfort to serve your country with regards to science and technology, the Biden administration will almost certainly be a great place to land. Look for policy and leadership positions in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

I'll be submitting my resume and cover letter just as soon as the transition team site opens.
Apparently they're blocking rainway end user iOS clients from connecting via external networks to end user host PCs. Local host client and server works as expected.
Starting with holidays is a fantastic idea. One of the obstacles for me personally is finding time. I'm usually so overwhelmed with work/kids/family stuff, every spare moment seems both inadequate and too precious (e.g. catch up on sleep).

On holidays, though...i'm usually more free.
Single transferable vote is significantly better, 0-99 and everyone would just give the “least worst option” 99
Let me know how I can help you get up to speed. Would love to get in touch!
I have many links to evidence that there are real people out there who are convinced that there was election fraud. Whether there actually was any is immaterial; the mere appearance of fraud is bad enough.
I'm not sure who you are referring to when you say constituency. What is your definition of that term? Mine is that all people are part of the constituency: A person elected president is responsible for leading everyone; A person elected to the House or Senate is responsible for representing everyone in their district/state, not just their party. My definition of "party" are all of the people registered as Democrats.

I think you're right that some aspects of more progressive policies are not divisive for the country: I think most people would agree that everyone should have healthcare. I think most people would agree that everyone should have access to education. I'm not sure I even look at those sorts of things as "progressive". The progressive part is how those things are structured and how they are paid for.

As I think about it further, I think there's also a possibility that a majority of Democrats do believe in progressive policies on things like this, but when selecting a candidate they opted for one someone not as progressive because they didn't think the progressive one had as much chance of getting elected. Their calculation, perhaps a bit cynical, was that the less progressive person that gets elected can do more than the very progressive candidate that loses.
The Democratic Party apparatus, particularly the DNC, logically lends its support to Democratic candidates, individuals who over time have demonstrated their loyalty to the Party. Like it or not, that's how political parties work. Sanders is not a Democrat. By all rights, he should've run as an Independent. If he had been able to successfully execute control over the party by appealing to the rank and file, good for him. But it is unreasonable to have expected the DNC lifers to have actively lent support to what was effectively a hostile takeover attempt. I don't see that as fuck Bernie, just as self-preservation.
It honestly does not seem very far fetched especially given recent fortnite news ( https://www.slashgear.com/fortnite-iphone-workaround-may-byp... ).
I built this project myself last spring. That 3e-Audio TPA3250 board isn't sold anymore, so I built my own custom variant amplifier using similar parts with a TP3251:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/gPH8VZiaGRiNYWfL6

It sounds MUCH better than my existing cheap vendor Fosi TPA3116 did -- the cheap vendor ones don't use quality components, especially for the power supply, so you're not going to see the expected performance.

That power supply board (diode bridge + filtering caps) was designed with a friend in KiCAD and fabricated by JLCPCB (I have a few boards leftover). The speakers are also DIY -- Hivi 3.1 with cherry wood veneer!

I showed article author Zorpette my work, and he gave it his blessing =)

EDIT: If you do try to build this, be VERY careful around the high-voltage power supply electronics.
Actually, it was reported about a year ago by the Dart team: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199866.

It was an excellent bug report, complete with a reproducible example.

Only after it recently made the rounds on Twitter and hn was it fixed.

https://mobile.twitter.com/mraleph/status/132175888792258969...
At the concentration needed to use as fuel, and in the confined machinery space of a ship, it could certainly be deadly.
Did you actually read what I wrote?
> All US presidents have been straight white guys

Obama is not white
My mistake, thanks, upped the number of years from 12 to 30.
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What do you mean? I just hear people say he is authoritarian without giving any examples. I just like to see examples of what they are thinking.
Let's take: Pennsylvania

These polls are from November 1.

Targoz Market Research was really off. 56 to 42

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e28be4ccb16eb0aa6496...

New York Times 42-49

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/az-fl-pa-wi/bc6b622f3...
spotify has exclusive content and I'm especially angry they make certain podcasts exclusive to their platform. itunes and bandcamp are good though when you want drm-free music.
IMO, states choosing to enter an agreement like this of their own free will, is the appropriate way to get a popular vote, if that's what the people want, while still retaining the right of the electoral college.

I personally disagree with a state choosing to sacrifice its voice in such a way, but it's its right to do so, to award its votes how it sees fit.
So mutt is still receiving releases? That's neat. I may have to revisit and see what's new in 2.0.

I went through a CLI-only phase where I didn't use a desktop environment. My "DE" was just tmux in a pseudo-terminal. The main reason I went back to a graphical workstation was a need for G Suite and Slack's horrible support for Weechat. Mutt was a critical member of the toolkit and I have fond memories of hyper productivity. Search was crap though.

If you're thinking about doing this, I recommend trying to live in a VM running Fedora Server or Arch or Ubuntu Server or something. If you find yourself unable to use a CLI browser for some reason, at least you don't have to tell work "sorry I gotta install my OS before I can look at <thing>" (that doesn't go over well).
The media is not center left. Neoconservatise(Fox) and neoliberal(CNN/NYT) are different shades of right. We are watching different points of view of right wing politics argue. Wall street vs petrochemical companies vs SV, etc... all jostling for position. And all of these people with quite a bit of overlapping interests but slightly different focus i.e. foreign intervention but should the pentagon focus on M.E. destabilization or for African and S.A. lithium?
The people who voted for Trump are not all racists. But the racists probably did vote for Trump.
A search for "biden single term" brings up the first result as this: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/11/biden-single-term-0...

"Former Vice President Joe Biden’s top advisers and prominent Democrats outside the Biden campaign have recently revived a long-running debate whether Biden should publicly pledge to serve only one term, with Biden himself signaling to aides that he would serve only a single term. While the option of making a public pledge remains available, Biden has for now settled on an alternative strategy: quietly indicating that he will almost certainly not run for a second term while declining to make a promise that he and his advisers fear could turn him into a lame duck and sap him of his political capital. According to four people who regularly talk to Biden, all of whom asked for anonymity to discuss internal campaign matters, it is virtually inconceivable that he will run for reelection in 2024, when he would be the first octogenarian president. “If Biden is elected,” a prominent adviser to the campaign said, “he’s going to be 82 years old in four years and he won’t be running for reelection.” The adviser argued that public acknowledgment of that reality could help Biden mollify younger voters, especially on the left, who are unexcited by his candidacy and fear that his nomination would serve as an eight-year roadblock to the next generation of Democrats."
Very basic example: ROT13 is a form of encryption. Applying ROT13 twice gives you plaintext.

It's of course not that trivial with better encryption algorithms. But before stacking encryption algorithms, try to first answer what you are trying to achieve (that application of a single algorithm does not).
Eugenics may currently be immoral, but they are scientifically sound. (I know this comment is off-topic, but so was his)
His interview at his home was bad. He was way slower than he was in 2016. Something began to happen to Biden somewhere in 2018. He looks like 2 different people now and then. I do not understand animosity towards what I am saying: he clearly appears having decline, and if some hard-core democrats are willing to give and believe in excuses for that, many regular people are not.
Now we can get back to destabilizing the Mideast, offshoring our manufacturing jobs, starting more endless wars and transferring the rest of our technology to China. The Trump years were just a speed bump on the way to complete globalization.
Oh boy, then what's the point of having representatives at all? Just put every line in the budget to a vote. Personally, I want someone smart and rational who can put in the work to understand what's going on, listen to subject matter experts, and make tough calls based on what's right for the country. I don't want an "empty vessel", but I'm also not super concerned with someone's political website perfectly matching up with everything I happen to believe at the moment.
> We need better candidates who generate real support and appeal other than just not being their opponent. Not sure how to get there.

IMO the democrats did themselves a big disservice by having such popular alternatives to both trump _and_ biden.

eg: yang was popular, sanders was popular, harris was popular. People wanted their candidate to be running for president, and were left with re-evaluating who they'd vote for (trump or biden) when their favorite was cut.

I really think the presidential election needs the following reforms:

Electoral votes map to popular vote in each state.

Runoff voting allowing parties to run multiple candidates without fearing the dilution of a "leader" (eg One could have voted "Yang, Sanders, Harris, Biden" and still be generally assured their vote benefitted their party.

Minor parties such as green + libertarian need to be invited to debates.
This is the viewpoint that confuses me, depending on what you mean by “default” behaviour. Do you think the everyday altruism displayed by people are exceptions? Or do you believe those people aren’t actually being nice to you/others and have ulterior motives? Such a viewpoint must make the world look like a very sad place indeed.

You may argue that altruism is actually in self-interest, by making you feel good, but that’s circular logic[1].

[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_egoism#Circularity
>Inherent, ubiquitous programmability: Currently, "doing programming" is a segregated activity from mainstream computing - separate software, command lines, specialist knowledge, clunky text-driven interfaces. This must end. Real expressiveness demands that every entity in the interface is inherently programmable - a table of data shouldn't just be a rendered picture of a table of data - it should be a table. Programming shouldn't be separate at all.

Almost every attempt at such an environment has failed for a reason. The problem with programming is not the syntax and other particularities, but inherent complexity of explaining the task to a computer.

Natural interfaces like modern voice assistants have a lot more chances to succeed than programming, because a) they imitate normal human communication and b) they are less dependent on unambiguous programming. And they are still limited because their fuzzy nature makes them unreliable and unpredictable.
I don't understand. Are you really saying your friend would have been better off if the police had arrested him? Isn't your entire comment an argument in favor of legalization?

People use drugs when they have to which means criminalization does nothing or makes things worse.
So change the incentives. Don't get rid of the war on drugs rewards, redirect them to things like catching serial killers or rapists or whatever.
I think you're proving my point. Can you just state the fact? You can even add some qualifying statements like I did. But for christ's sake just say it first! No need to go out of your way to find a subset that is (no doubt) excepted from the average. It's politically inconvenient, yes. But it's also the truth, and one that might help explain why african americans are more likely to have interactions with police (a group I have no love for, tbh).

My own mother can't do this. She goes on about how the fbi crime statistics are probably "biased" in some way, though has no interest in finding out if or how that's the case. "It's obvious" she says. This greatly upsets me. How can we deal with problems if we can't look them straight in the face?
heejin stans unite
I have a feeling that if you somehow ran a ranked-choice vote-transfer algorithm, you'd still end up with Biden as the candidate fewest people take issue with. The eternal problem of the left is getting people to agree on the specifics of how things should be improved.
Nicely done. We're more of a boutique shop building custom machine learning products for large enterprise in the mid six-figure range, slowly moving into abstracting many of what we learned into our internal ML platform[0].

Many good points about picking sectors and roles. We built for many sectors and roles, but repeat business is important as we end up developing a relation with our clients and they come to us with many other problems.

I tweeted about what worked for us[1] and been musing on turning that and other tweets and replies in here into posts. Again, congrats. This feels nice.

- [0]: https://iko.ai

- [1]: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/131066829330549965...
Well, there aren’t going to be any surprises. It’s not like voter fraud is an actual problem in the United States.
Yes, set up with Luke Smith's excellent mutt Wizard [0].

Contrary to the other point, having a local copy of my emails gives me a sense of security and I can set up scripts using normal scripting tools to move stuff around. `notmuch` is good, but actually I can meet most of my searching needs with a 'limit' filter.

[0] https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard
> most Americans will vote for anyone who wins "their" party's primary

I agree in principle, the majority of people will just vote party line. But there is no doubt that Trump supporters came out in force in 2020 far greater than 2016. I cannot for the life of me understand why so many people think Trump is an ideal choice for President, but I do continue to try and listen, maybe I will finally get hit with the clue bat. I've got Trump fans as friends, but they can never really articulate why I should agree with them other than 'democrats bad'. And that doesn't resonate with me, because I need something more than simple tribalism to guide my choice.
Congratulations, you just proposed the exact opposite.
No worries - - Trump is now VESTED just like Joe Biden will be, and all the decades of American Presidents before them.
Trump will start "collecting" in January .

All of them grant favors in return for the moolah - - it's just they have to wait until after they get out of office to collect, speeches, book deals, highly questionable but all legal.

Actually though, Joe may not make it 4 years, very unlikely, he already has signs of dementia . . .
If you think that these legislators are being disingenuous and are hiding a conscious aim of trying to hurt people in majority groups then perhaps we need a new term like "virtue washing", i.e. using empathy for one group to mask a harmful agenda against a different group.

I personally don't believe that most supporters of such policies are consciously motivated by a desire to harm those in majority groups, as many of these supporters are themselves in majority groups. They probably just don't think that the policies will affect them, or realise that the policies could backfire and be used against minorities.
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Sounds cool, although a long way away when we're still dealing with text-based development interfaces right now. Definitely need more immersive environments and fully inspectable programs, and actual graphics in our terminals and editors!