skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay this will probably not be popular but I am what I consider a good faith conservative so I'll answer your points in reverse order.

1st: "Every group that has looked into it" and "widespread". First at this point I don't trust many of the groups and institutions, because I have repeatedly over the past 4 years seen various groups act in a concerted manner to try and slander, libel and misrepresent trump while trying to drive people to be angry and irrational about. There have been multiple I've seen things reported that I've said to myself. "Okay if Trump really said that then I am way off of supporting him" but then I go look at the actual remarks and it is radically different from what he said. Any else remember a 2 week news cycle on whether or not cofeve was a racist dog whistle? Ultimately at the end of this my faith in mant previously authoritative institutions has been shaken.

Also I don't know anyone that is claiming "widespread" voter fraud, no one believes there was "widespread" voter fraud in this election it was targeted specific voter fraud at particular places and counties is the contention. Everyone knew going into this what states needed to be won for biden to win. Many of these states were decided by less than 10,000 votes.

In response to your contention about being against making it easier to vote. The fact of the matter is that the more room for error in the voting process the less likely people are to trust the outcome. If we imagine for a second we lived in a non-Covid world right now and there everyone voted like normal do you believe as many people would doubt the veracity of the election? Ultimately I consider integrity of the election to be of higher value than ease of access, because it doesn't matter who gets to vote if no one trusts the process.

Again you asked how could a good faith conservative believe this. This is how, I could be wrong I could be off, but that is how I see things right now. Maybe that'll change but for right now that's how I reconcile being good faith and conservative.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/?title=Reality_has_a_well_known_l...

https://medium.com/s/story/why-does-reality-have-a-well-know...
> and had 4 Nobel Peace Prize nominations.

FWIW, Nobel Peace Prize nominations are worthless. National level politicians, professors can nominate anyone.[1] You could find someone (or three people) to nominate you.

[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/
I believe they avoid socketed chips due to vibration issues. Definitely should have upped the physical capacity to distribute the writes, though.
Probably true but faithless elector laws are at the state level. There were 7 validated faithless electors in 2016, the most ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016...

https://www.fairvote.org/faithless_elector_state_laws

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector#Legal_ruling...
Google (and others) have a spam feedback system [1], so if the sending system has implimented that, and has enough volume and reputation on the receiving system, spam reports will flow upstream and usually result in automatic unsubscribe or blocking or account flagging depending on the circumstances.

[1] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6254652?hl=en
Likely the biggest change for the next year will be strategy for fighting Covid. Expect vast expansion of test and trace, bigger push for mask mandates, but also earlier reopening of public spaces and a sharper recovery in second half of 2021. Impact on the dollar is a crap shoot due to huge Fed intervention that never wound down from the last recession.
Trump has changed American politics forever and we'll see that in the years to come.
Multiple phone distros on Pinephone using p-boot
Yeah, reading dang's wording again brought back memories of that thread and all the events back then - and my general disbelief at the result.

This year in particular has been weird for me for passage-of-time; it feels simultaneously like the pandemic has been a constant forever - but also, spring and summer have gone so fast and now it's almost 2021.
I'd have thought the likelihood of somebody dying is far greater from these tweets, than shouting fire in a theatre.
Look at it logically. Bush was ahead by 537 votes. The court wrangling happened for so long and there were so many delays that it was impossible to do a recount in time for the legally mandated date of certification.

Biden is ahead here. Even if you remove PA or AZ, he'd still have enough electoral votes to win.

He's going to be President. The only person who doesn't get that at this point is Trump, and everyone around him is just bowing to his whims.
> When I vote I make sure I pick the candidate that other countries would be happy with.

Is not something that the common voter could control. You will do in the 50% of the cases in fact, just by chance.

And is great, because deliberately burning all bridges with all your allies and to pee in the curtains just to make a vanity statement, is not a productive way to work in a multinational team to obtain your goals.
> They were not in spec because the spec doesn't say anything over which medium

If not the spec, then original documentation. GET is a late add-on.

> How do cache headers not work well with GraphQL GET requests?

In REST:

- a resource is uniquely identified by it's URI

- when the server sends back cache headers, any client in between (any proxies, the browser, any http clients in any programming language etc.) can and will use these cache headers to cache the request

In GraphQL GET:

- http://myapi/graphql?query={user{id,name}} and http://myapi/graphql?query={user{name,id}} are two different requests

- it gets worse for more complex queries, especially if they are dynamically constructed on the client

- each of those is viewed as a separate query with separate caching

- cache normalisation and query normalisation are a thing in the graphql world (and non-existent in REST) because of that.

That's a yet another layer of complexity that you have to deal with

> And what exactly are those benefits? I'm here defending GraphQL yet none of the downsides of REST are being taken into account.

I wish anyone was willing to discuss the downsides of GraphQL. Bashing REST is the norm, but GraphQL is the holy grail that accepts no criticism.

Benefits of REST over GraphQL, off the top of my head:

- it's HTTP, plain and simple. So everything HTTP has to offer is directly available in REST. See this HTTP decision diagram [1]

- caching doesn't require you to normalise and unpack every single request and response just to figure out if something is cached

- You know your requests, so you can provide optimised queries, resolution strategies, necessary calls to external services as required by the call

> There are tools like Postgraphile that solve this. It converts your GraphQL query into one efficient database query.

I'd love to see that proven for any sufficiently complex and large database.

> And what prevents anyone from hammering a REST API?

No ad-hoc queries prevents anyone from hammering a REST API that you can specifically tune to the specific request and data you need.

GraphQL requires significantly more care especially if you're not running it on just one database. And even then, oops, joins: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25014918

And we're back to requiring the graphql server to be able to limit recursion depth, query complexity, etc. etc.

[1] https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram/tree/master...
This is something I worked on for a couple years, and I fundamentally agree. I started a company around marketing analytics, eventually selling it and integrating it with another marketing analytics company.

Our product was B2B revenue attribution: for each dollar spent on marketing, how much revenue came of it? This is hard in B2B, because marketing happens to people, but purchase happen months or years later by companies.

We found that we could do this for several data streams (conferences, online ads, gated or cookied content marketing). What we then found is that _CMOs don't care_. We were asked multiple times to widen the definition. To push up the numbers, justifying more ad spend or a bigger user conference or more headcount.

And you know what? I think that's OK. Marketing works, and it's a critical component of any company. A lot of good marketing isn't trackable, because it plants a seed inside a person's head far before that person buys anything. It tells a compelling story. The world is full of data-addicted PMs and sales VPs and ad purchasers and CEOs, but good marketing is more than that.

If the marketers have to appear (or actually be) addicted to data to communicate well with the rest of their company, then so be it. Just like Jacques says: I don't know what the way out of this mess is, or what the path to success looks like. Good marketing can still happen with bad data.
But the polls then and now weren’t just bad, they were shockingly bad and not representative of any real population that matters in an election. I’d expect something like this from junior engineers looking at metrics for the first time, but these are supposedly the most respective organizations in their field that have failed spectacularly for the second presidential election in a row. What value do they possibly serve?

Should Biden ultimately be declared the victor, I’m concerned that the public will never receive the postmortem on what went wrong and how it happened again that it deserves.
> The console is a configuration only tool. It does all the things required to configure your projects, apply datasource transformations, propagate configurations, etc. It's a rather complex stack to operate and also our secret sauce so we don't want you to operate it.

I don't need any specialized tools or secret sauces to build a REST server. I already know SQL and when my frontend needs something from the database, I simply write a query with that or do a fetch with my ORM, crafted specifically for that endpoint. Couldn't be simpler.

GraphQL is a solution for building APIs when you aren't involved with the frontend at all. Even then the time invested learning, the extra layers of complexity, "magic" and tooling hardly make it worth the effort.

I don't build APIs that way though. All of my APIs are purpose-built specifically for a given frontend and if I'm not creating both the frontend and the backend, then I'm closely collaborating with someone who is.

Keep it stupid simple. This is the way.
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Can we have a conversation about broader implications of the increasing power in the public discourse of Twitter et al.? I’m no Trump supporter but I do wonder if the tables were turned and Twitter e.g. turned Biden’s page into a wall of hidden tweets because of something it disagreed with (there are enough grievances with Big Tech from both sides).

Do people think this is isolated (because Trump is, well, Trump) or there’s a broader tendency here?
European here, I do not understand your comment. What are you calling Stalinist Russia exactly? The only thing I can think of is Biden but that seems weird so I don't get it.
First thought: A security nightmare on wheels.

Second thought: Can a company like Daimler compete successfully in software against the likes of Tesla, Waymo, etc.?

Third thought: I wouldn't want this in my home.
The media calling the election has no legal force. In principle, they look at the results and call the election once they think it's highly unlikely that a particular candidate can lose. Sometimes that call is badly made, like Florida 2000 or, IMO, Fox calling Arizona prematurely. But it's misinforming viewers to claim that all candidates still have a chance after some point in time.
It's also important to note that they work despite being wide, you can see that with the efficiency of pruning, and ideas such as the lottery ticket hypothesis that state that "successful" sub-networks within the wide network account for most of the performance.

In the theory literature, if you have a K-deep network, K=1 is the shallow case, K>1 is deep. Agreed naming could be better, but it's not like "deep work" or "deep thoughts" as the parent was stating.
Does anyone feel strange about a 77 year old man being put under this much stress?

Politics aside, I would not wish a stressful job on any 77 year old regardless of their health and well being - there are biological realities to being a human.

I don't know what motivates these decisions but it seems to me the people of his own party either don't care that there is a non-trivial chance he will die, or they think the glory of being president, even if compromised is worth dying for, or something else.

All of the reasons I can come up with strike me as misguided - 'president' is not a mountain peak you reach with your dying breath, it is supposed to be a difficult job of serving others.

If someone has a take on what his party/he is thinking that's other than 'winning is all that matters', I'd really like to know.
At this point, it is practically impossible at a statistical level that the outcome would change even if every legal avenue on Trump's wish list were granted. There is such a thing as a reasonable degree of statistical certainty, and the media have been extremely conservative this time around (compared to, say, 2000) to ensure they don't get egg on their face and retract calls.

Also, there's this whole thing about "freedom of speech" that conservatives like to crow about, too.
The legal battles in Pennsylvania aren't even substantial enough to trigger a mandatory recount - the number of ballots the GOP is fighting over is too small.

Also, the Michigan "errors" were errors in publishing the data, not in balloting: https://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,4670,7-127--544676--,00.html
Here is an article from four years ago with various republicans openly admitting to votee suppression.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/07/re...

edit- spelling.
It would also make him the only person from the Silent Generation [0] to ever be elected President of the United States. As Biden is at the very youngest end of the generation, he will likely remain the only one.

[0] Using the Strauss-Howe definitions of generations https://www.lifecourse.com/about/method/the-generational-con...

Edit: Silents were born 1925-1942. Just thought I should mention it here so you don't have to click the link. Biden was born in November 1942, so he's just before the cutoff.
Wikipedia is fine within its own defined limits. Conservatives see sources like New York Times as fundamentally biased and untrustworthy or "leftist" so from that perspective wikipedia is biased toward the left.
There absolutely is room for Biden not to have 270 electoral votes, if investigations reveal (... correctly or incorrectly) big enough issues that some states don't send electors.

I don't think there's a realistic way for Trump to have 270 electoral votes, but he could still possibly be awarded the Presidency by a weird-ass one-vote-per-state vote in the House.
> so it's not that surprising that a couple seats when back toward the Republicans.

My understanding is that Republicans were projected to lose even more seats this election - in the 10-20 range - and instead gained seats. So yeah, surprising.

I'm not entirely sure how Georgia's senate runoffs work.

> The only reason this was under contention days after the election is that PA wasn't able to start counting their mail in ballots until election day. This was a choice made by the PA legislature. I don't know why. If PA was allowed to precanvas, PA would have announced like FL on election night and this would have been over Tuesday.

Well, maybe. PA still looks to be within 50k votes, and while it's possible that precanvassing would have allowed the election to be called on Tuesday night, the policy of accepting votes postmarked up to election night even if they arrived late would still leave things potentially up for grabs. And there's a LOT of close states this year. (And to answer "why", I believe it's to prevent vote counts from leaking before people actually go and vote)

The more general point that "If there was a blue wave, we wouldn't be worrying about states with margins of under 50k votes or talking about how control of the senate will be determined later" still stands.
Does teargassing protestors for a photo op count as "violent and authoritarian"?
Why not answer the parent's specific points instead of just lecturing them to read more?
Indeed, this is all true. But do remember that the kolmogorov-arnold theorem says a 3-layer (n:2n+1:m) network is a universal continuous approximator (using an unknown neuron transfer function) -- people in the '80s were looking at 3 layer networks as sufficient partly because of that.

I have no time to go look at all those sources now, but having dabbled in nets since the late '80s myself, I remember vanishing gradients were sort-of a surprise, because everyone was under the impression that simple backpropagation should just work, and it didn't.

A lot of that early work you refer to was also mostly about linear transfer functions, and though the exact type of non-linearity doesn't matter, some of its properties do - and as I mentioned, sigmoids - which were all the rage in the '80s - are a dead end with the wrong kind of nonlinearity.

Nothing about the structure* of multilayer models is new. But successfully training them - which didn't happen until Schmidhuber and Hinton (depends on who you ask ...) - is relatively new; and that advance is responsible for the term "deep learning".

We do not disagree about the details; but we do seem to disagree about the historical context and narrative.
The difference being Joe did not call himself that. He waited for AP to call it.
When the English Witnessed Battles in the Sky
I'm not sure where you get your confidence from. Just yesterday the Supreme Courter ordered ballots received after election day to be counted separately in Pennsylvania. This will at least give us an idea if the legal proceedings can "legally alter the election results", because if that number is high enough to swing the state there's going to be a lot of litigation.

There's a long way to go until Jan 20th folks. Buckle up.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/524900-supreme-...
You won’t see 60% income tax on 400k. That would require an additional 10%+ new income tax (which no one is asking on a 400k income). Even then, you’d not lose 60% of your income. You’d lose around 35%-40% to taxes still because of how tax brackets work.
Peace Prize nominations are worthless. Literally, worthless. Anyone can be nominated by anyone.

Yes, the fact that we didn't get into any hot war is pretty much the only thing that Trump has going for him, though it was partially due to others backing him off bad ideas.

He wanted to remove us from a South Korean defense agreement, which would have been huge for each country's economy and defenses.

He bombed an Iranian general in Iraq - it was a huge gambit of arguable utility, and the only reason the Iranians didn't get more international support for retaliation was because they shot down a civilian airliner on accident.

He talked so much crap to NK that there was serious concern of an escalation in fighting.

But, yes. We didn't have any major foreign-based terror attacks, and we didn't get entangled in fighting a new conflict.

As far as the peace deals, I think they could be good, but they haven't "fixed" anything yet. The Palestinians still have no sovereignty, the Israelis still deny Arabs rights of citizenship, Iran and SA still are at each other's throats while Yemen, AFAIK, is still a humanitarian crisis.

China is perpetrating a holocaust on ethnic minorities, and Trump congratulated Xi on his success there.

The man is no human rights hero.

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edit: Not to mention his domestic policy failings, his characterizations as sitting president of all who disagree with him as "enemies", his rhetoric around protesting, his encouragement toward violent right-wing actors, and his use of the National Guard to clear out a public square to get a picture taken with a holy book he has never read.
The sculptures are very cool! That said, they're 20 x 80 x 100 microns, so aren't they microsculptures rather than nanosculptures?
They don't officially become "the next president" until the Electoral College's votes are counted in January. Are we supposed to not try to figure out who won or ignore what the likely future is for two more months?
The same way you would use redis to cache your expensive dbms queries, you can use this as the 'redis' for S3 blobs.

We use it at my firm to cache frequently accessed ML models and training data. Getting these directly from S3 can take a few seconds per blob, and with the cache it takes that down to milliseconds.
There are enough other Republicans in the Senate from safe states that I'm sure one of them would be happy to play obstructist on any Democrat policy. Eliminating any one senator without gaining majority is just a morale victory.
Democrats want to subjugate. The anti-globalist portion of the Republican party (the one that elected Trump) just wants to get the hell away and have their own country.

Split the country apart - let the coasts go, we will have the middle, let them have a northern corridor. It's time to break up, we want nothing to do with you. This is not a debate - we want to leave. My grandfather, and many other GIs would have dropped their firearms on the spot if they knew what the country would become today.

The real enemy has always been the globalists.
>small chance things go wrong

for some definition of wrong
And stop closing polling places in urban (Black) neighborhoods, etc, etc
What a nasty and patronizing comment.
The claims weren't just that the system was compromised, but also that votes were manipulated or suppressed.
Harry Reid made claims that the vote totals were manipulated.

On a side note... thank you. At least you asked a question about my position rather than simply downvoting without an explanation.
I've always thought that most of the rage came from a dying traditional media quickly realizing they could capitalize on Trump's bombastic style for a critically important advertisement cash injection. Look at viewership of major media properties declining until around 2016. Opinion pieces, designed to induce rage-clicks, are vastly more cost effective than actual journalism or just reporting the facts. Plus, for the average viewer, it's just plain fun to read your "team's" spin on the facts. I'm sure the typical response to this is that "the media has always been like this", but I certainly haven't seen a situation quite this extreme in a while.

If you spent all of your time in a bubble reading these opinion pieces from a select group of sources and news aggregators that presumably aggregate the news that is most likely to generate ad impressions/clicks (Reddit, Google News seems to push highly inflammatory opinion pieces), sure, I can see how you'd think Trump is some sort of fascist dictator hellbent on destroying the world. The average political junky isn't going to spend brainpower trying to understand the diametrically opposed.

To be clear though, most level headed individuals don't actually believe Trump is a fascist. That's an extremist view (and obviously insulting to anyone who has lived under fascism) that's just used to sow discord and get a reaction.
Couldn't the problem be that polling is just numeromancy dressed up in fancy math?