skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, he is claiming to hold a privileged position; not perhaps on the true nature of knowledge, belief, or "ground truth" (although I believe he is doing that, too), but on the ability to determine what is projected interpretation and what isn't. In fact, if he isn't claiming that privileged position, then he is more than halfway to postmodernism; not perhaps denying that such a position is impossible, but at least denying that anyone has (or possibly could) find one.

By the way, one of the difficulties of a philosophy explicitly not for everyone is that it cannot avoid turning into us-versus-them, followed shortly by the wise and knowing versus the misguided, misled, and heathen sheep. One lesson of the 20th century (if it needed teaching again) was that philosophy can be weaponized.

(One nice thing about (my interpretation of) epicureanism and possibly Zhuangzi is that the sheep may be heathens, but I don't need to care.)
Once Biden's team let Trump paint him as socialist I was not surprised to see the Cubanos go Trump (or the Venezuelans for the same reason) but I will be interested to see some of the breakdowns of the Puerto Rican vote in FL and some of the Central American Latino vote in Texas; I am betting there is going to be a reasonably large gender difference in some of those groups.
> PA SOS isn't allowed to report the segregated count

The court order does not say that.

Why lie? Furthermore the SCOTUS order was required because the districts felt like they didn't have to comply with the state level order so even if your interpretation is correct you don't know how many of the counted ballots should have been segregated and not counted towards the official count in the first place.
What is true and false? We do not live in a binary world. There are nuances. Facebook recently flagged Palestinian speech. Are Palestinians true/false to object to their position in the world?
What specifically in the post is false?

Voting population is not registered voters. Apparently Wisconsin had a truly unprecedented night with same-day registrations, mostly voting for nobody but Joe Biden.

We need a more auditable electoral system if we want people to have faith in the system. We just came off four years of claims of a hacked election, and it looks like that may be the new norm.
Do you mind elaborating pls,

From happiness to spending quality time socially feeling important is basic need for any human being, pls correct me. Never been to Detroit but seen streets of SF and India so I thought I have enough sample size.
It’s unlikely a recount will happen in Pennsylvania, as Biden’s margin of victory now exceeds the recount threshold of 0.5%.
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This is not at all a new phenomenon. News organizations have always predicted elections before they are certified.
Just so you know, that's still an incredible turnout that as a democracy proponent we should emulate throughout the land -- but I also know from local elections... I'm hard pressed to understand how that happened.
This isn't an EOL for on-prem JIRA. It's a price increase. They used to offer two on-prem products, "Server" and "Data Center," and now they'll only offer "Data Center," which comes at a higher price. (They're also raising the price of Data Center.)
Complete Tripe.

It's a conspiracy against Donald Trump because he's a man of the people!
I think you need to take a step back and really try understand those who disagree with you - your views or maybe just the way you express it is toxic and dividing. If you can't think of one reason why someone might not want to vote your candidate I feel sorry for you.

There are many valid reasons to vote for all candidates and the weighting of the issues is personal and perhaps not everyone agrees with the weighting that you do.
This isn't some philosophy or political science class. We are a Constitutional Republic which is a fancy way of saying that we are a type of democracy. One which the POTUS swore an oath to uphold.
I've heard the name but never tried it. I'll give it a go; thanks!
Almost anything FB (and FAANG) builds is hyped to infinity. Everyone drank the cool aid on this one.

React and GraphQL are extremely hyped. People build static HTML pages with React because... React. People use GraphQL APIs because... GraphQL.

These days the first thing every JS developer I've seen asks is: can we use GraphQL (which in fact they mean Apollo)?

I'm not saying it doesn't have its use-cases and merits, but it's very much hype tech.

Edit: typo
Ironically, this article got me interested in V.
So could you. I'm not sure what your point is? That is about the most ridiculous statement ever.

Career republican politicians HATE TRUMP whether they admit it or not. They had to put up with it, and kiss his ass, and fuck them for it. But they aren't stupid.

Trump is done. If you honestly think he has any chance after this is over I don't think you have been paying attention over the years.
How do you handle collaboration and search? Does the browser need to load all the records from the server to search them?
^ Exactly.

The polls were at least as wrong in 2016, even if that error was less significant this time (because the polled margin started out bigger).

Pollsters and poll-watchers downplaying this is not a good sign for future improvement.

EDIT: Overall though, I'm not sure that's a loss. People pay way more attention to polls than they should anyway.
I don’t see how that explains the Collins/Gideon race, but I’m not a Mainer. Anyone here from Maine can chime in why a Mainer would lie about voting for Gideon?
I fear this too. As someone who had read a fair bit of the history of India, and how the British/east India company mind-fucked and pillaged them it scares the hell out of me. The after effects are still there even 70 years later.

“History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes”
Here's an ignorant statement I truly believe in: social networks have ruined the world. They will be our downfall in fact. What we're seeing now is just the beginning.

They're by far the scariest product of the wonderful, world-changing invention called the Internet.
> I know most individuals are happy to offer help and their perspective out of natural good will. Mostly individuals are trustworthy.

Scientiesta are individuals too. Most scientists I know personally are quite trustworthy people with good will and intent. Sure the academic system has some flaws, I myself left it because of the stress of hunting for grants. But the alternative is what are purely anectode based approach leads to: religion. What's the bible if not a collection of anectodes?
Some of the networks wisely determined that the speech was unfounded, baseless, and harmful. News networks do not need to be a spigot for outright lies and fabrication.
It took me less than 15m to vote on Tuesday, no lines or anything (deep red county). I've heard of people waiting for hours but that's because their local govt failed them (not enough locations, under-staffed, etc).

IMO seems more accurate to say in-person voting disproportionately affects incompetent municipalities.
I drink alcohol every day to feel calm. I hope you don’t look down on me for that.
You're picking the easiest number to misread - the overall "chance of being elected", which doesn't really mean anything.

Much more interesting are the direct results predictions, especially per state where they matter most. Those are polls that give a particular result with a +- confidence interval. If the polls were to any extent competently done, you expect the result to be well within that margin of error.

The reality though has been that the results have been well outside the margin of error, sometimes multiple sigmas from the actual result - that is simply unacceptable for a poll. The only conclusion should be that polling data can be completely ignored, as it doesn't seem to have any clear relationship with the final results.
Well this measures how many people are willing to admit they would vote for Trump which is not surprisingly a lower number than people who will vote for him in an unobserved secret vote.

Even if the pollsters are the most neutral nonjudgmental people on earth there will still be a fraction of the electorate that will (irrationally) shy away from telling them the truth.

This effect is certainly real.
Copyright too. It’s still illegal to rip a CD in the UK, for example.
Also realize that may not be possible. Regardless of who won this, half of the country does not approve. So the division you speak of has already occurred. Probably earlier than now. I could imagine a time when a Roman said the same thing you did there. "let's unite" and then the eventual collapse happens. I don't really see "conquer" in the normal sense, but the U.S. will be weaker and other countries will surely gain as a result of our division. Then I think I need to get out of here, and I wonder where I would go in the world? In the end, I agree with your sentiment. It's disturbing. The polarization is palpable. M
there is legal battle ongoing in PA
Your example is wrong. I am talking about natural instincts. Any intelligent specie seeks for ways to alter their consciousness (or whatever close they have). Google about dolphins getting high...
I may never understand why people are willing to depart from the form factor of a keyboard, but still adhere to the staggered (as opposed to ortholinear) layout of the keys themselves. Both modifications will require retraining some muscle memory.

The staggered layout is a remnant of typewriters, since there was no other way to create room for the bars that connect the key to the hammers.

Computer keyboards don't have this restriction.

Switching from a staggered to ortholinear keyboard took me all of a day to adapt-to, and I still regularly use a staggered keyboard on a regular basis with no hardship (when I take my laptop from my desk)
it is symbolic, they declared a victory on november 7th! Congratulation to comrades!
The actual scale of the audit of 100 million ballots is an insane cost with extensive time. The verification is built into the system. Key features include: states conducting their own elections, paper ballots being required, ballots need to have a chain of custody to be valid, and counting is done in a transparent and continuously audited manner.

Making lists and centralized techniques are a Bad Idea and exactly what authoritarian regimes go about doing.
I thought the same thing. Expose our system to an inept wannabe despot. Hopefully the system is antifragile and this will make it much harder for a more serious and competent future one.
Having lived in 3 different cities let me tell you: they ain't got anything close to the same culture. Seattle, NY, and Atlanta are as disparate physically as culturally.

And the majority of Americans don't want a rural minority dictating the "fate of the country" either.
In Michigan there were ballots sent by dead voters:

https://austingwalters.com/the-dead-vote-in-michigan/

I found probably 10 of these, some invalidated, some supposedly had the wrong birthdate in the system (which probably should be validated anyway)...

Gov of Michigan apparently took the site down, but feel free to see the video
The funny thing is that one of the complaints many people have about the cgroups API (text-based control files in a virtual filesystem, which came originally from the cpusets system) is very much in style of Plan 9.
Mitch McConnell said that his goal was to make sure that Obama is a one-time President. When you come in with an attitude like that, it's difficult to get anything done. If your peer at work came in and said, my goal is to make sure you don't last more than 3 months here, do you think you can be successful?
That's the way it was originally, when only people who owned land could vote (not the men-only part). It was a basic test of responsibility, similar to the 501-karma downvote requirement on HN. Holding land wasn't that hard, but it did indicate a baseline.

Unless you're thinking of only allowing certain political or moral viewpoints to vote? That sounds fairly dystopian, no matter what one believes.

Edit: we used to have something else like that - a certain subset of the population only got 3/5 of a whole vote. But I really doubt that's what you want.
> There is no reason that polls would be significantly different from the final vote results in most circumstances, if they are competently run.

There is lots of reason.

If you could wave your magic wand and get a representative sample of voters in your poll you would be right, but you can't. Instead you do something like call people on a telephone, get a sample of people who both answer the telephone and who give answers you think indicate they are likely to vote. That sample isn't going to be at all representative of the voting population, so you take your best guess at what the actual voting population looks like, and how representative each of the people in your sample is of the voting population, and weight it accordingly.

Your best guess at the actual voting population is probably wrong. Your best guess at how representative each person in your sample is of the actual voting population is wrong. Your doing things like assuming that every <race> person with <education level> votes similarly regardless of whether or not they answer the telephone and respond to pollsters because you really just don't have a better option.
You really can't blame a globalization for the raid of the upper class on the middle class.
Not but given that his public interactions like re-tweeting blurbs about "The only good democrat is a dead democrat"[1] i would argue America's internal discourse has gotten far, far worse as a direct result of his behavior.

[1]: Yes, he retweeted this. The video blurb does not give any more context. The full video does, as they only call for death of Democrats "politically speaking", but not only is this retweet from the President a great example of how violent blurbs without context are unconstructive, we've seen example of violent acts recently that one can't help but feel the President personally promoted - for example the attempted kidnapping of a democrat official. Context is king, and the President is known for giving vague and awful statements without context. For his followers that only look skin deep, of which plenty of humans do, what do you think they take from this?
The media doesn’t decide who wins elections, voters do.
Also: He didn't start yet another new war.
I feel like a big reason for the divide is the filter bubbles[1] the public has trapped themselves in. I wanted to force myself to read news from both sides of the divide rather than simply NPR, which was my go-to source for several years. In spite of RSS readers being essentially dead, there are still RSS feeds available. So I mashed up feeds from 10 left and right leaning sources each and created Smash the Bubble[2], mostly for personal consumption.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

[2]https://smashthebubble.com/
Globalization has been awful for the working class in the developed world.
Maybe it's not true, but I feel as a whole that basically everything the GOP stands for is 'out of fashion'.

I feel that Trump and the current GOP was a last ditch effort to let the old traditions grab control by any means (even illegal or immoral) necessary to kill abortion, put the gays back in the closet, and so on.

I can't imagine that younger people, for who things like homosexuality, transsexuality are totally fine, who are not encumbered with religious traditions, can even contemplate voting for that kind of worldview from a bygone era.

But maybe I'm wrong.
It wasn't that little at all. Eyeballing the 538 graph it was about a 38% chance of Republicans gaining in the house? Over a one in three chance.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/...
A big problem that divides us is property renters versus owners: owners have spent the last several decades restricting access to property, and that's now raised the cost of the most productive metro areas to unacceptable levels: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/the-ren... Many millions of people, especially but not exclusively the young, have in effect been gated out of prosperity.

Matt Yglesias's new book One Billion Americans has a good discussion of the issue: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/one-billion-american..., even if you don't buy his population-based premise.

Until we can free our land markets, we're going to have a lot of political problems caused by people who (correctly) feel they can't afford to live.
I've actually had a related but perhaps converse opinion: it's demonstrated the resilience of our government. A lot of people have been noting his authoritarian tendencies and expressing concern that he might refuse to acknowledge election results, and while that appears to be the case, there's no indication that he will have his way (apart from legal proceedings, which are a perfectly democratic [albeit petulant] way to contest election results). In some countries, a president demanding a stop to vote counting might get their way, but that didn't happen here, and it's good to know that for the endless flack (some fair and some not) America and Americans get, we still have a robust political system.
Buried in there is that we finally get named capture groups on regular expressions. What a day!
Maybe move to a system instead where some people's vote have any weight instead, rather than abolishing democracy.

The EC means people's vote not only get put down the drain, but also they get to vote for candidates nominated with knowledge of this (swing states might not vote for a candidate popular everywhere else)
Biden has little agenda? Trump had none. He could not articulate a single policy that he'd pursue in his 2nd term.
I think Trump did two things in 2016:

- He gave hope to blue-collar workers, mostly white but not exclusively, who increasingly felt left behind by globalism and the tech-centric economy. This let him steal votes from Democrats as people wanted to try something different. Trump's rhetoric was tailored to them("drain the swamp", immigration crackdowns, economic warfare, etc).

- He fired up the right-wing base of the party and got them to show up at the polls. This caused increased enthusiasm and helped drive turnout of all GOP leaning voters I believe.

Also, let's not forget that Hillary Clinton, rightly or wrongly, was just not a very likeable candidate with broad appeal. She did win the popular vote, but as we all know that is meaningless.

Now we've had 4 years to see what Trump was capable of. His primary opponents will be able to point to his record instead of just his promises. I don't think Trump will come back for another round. He'll be too old in 4 years, and won't want to risk being a loser again. Also, don't forget that he has pending legal and financial issues to sort out after his presidency is over.

I suspect you will see someone else, maybe someone from the Trump family, run again with a Trump-like platform. They may very well win if the Democrats can't recalibrate their platform to appeal to more voters in electorally important states. I'm seeing a lot of wishful thinking regarding getting rid of the electoral college and it is frankly laughable. It's not happening anytime in the next 50 years. Small states will never give up that power. The best you could do is convince GOP leaders in 'purpling' states like TX to opt for a proportional assignment strategy to rob the Dems of the entire block of electoral votes once the state goes fully blue.
I vaguely remember this article but I don’t think it’s the one, as I distinctly recall mention of MS Outlook and how it wraps quotes (which means it’s maybe older than this article). It was also longer and more technical.
> If about 47% of your country was happy to kill democracy and reward immoral behaviour just to retain power

And these 47% would say exactly the same thing about the others. That’s the divide GP was pointing out and ironically your response is perpetuating it. Stop dehumanizing people.
I think this is the ideal outcome for the GOP elite. They have the senate and SC and the white house is about to stop being a liability to them. They’re thrilled to not pass any legislation for the next X years
Biden is winning PA by 30k, MI by 150k, and WI by 20k. That alone wins it. It seems there would have needed to be 200k fraudulent votes for this election to have been changed. How is that not "widespread"?

Also it isn't just the media that investigates voter fraud. Academics and political institutions have looked into it also and not found a problem. Trump's Administration even looked into it and couldn't find any significant problem. Is there anyone who you would trust that could certify this isn't a problem?
Great point that some VCs will be less concerned about transaction costs than others. Also that some startups will be more concerned than others. Where the amount of concern over fees differs, there may be more controversy over how the fees are paid.

Also if the fee is not capped and the startup will pay, the startup is right to be concerned about the fee eating into their post-deal capital.
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It's more of the half of the 47% who are in the cult of personality. I don't think they were against democracy so much as for Trump (but it does go to show how little some folks care about democracy when they are losing).
For me the bottomline of the Trump administration is that he has started zero new wars, sparing hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. As an outsider I hope that the US will not go back to its foreign military interventions.
> a new Russian President of Queen or England

I'd say you are wrong, yes. HN isn't supposed to be your source of news, it is supposed to be a source of interesting topics to discuss. Hence "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic" (from the guidelines).

This rule is one of the main reasons HN hasn't gone down in flame wars yet - topics like these routinely result in people losing their temper and the rational discourse goes out the window.

edit: looks like the mods decided to save one canonical thread on this subject after all (with a big plea to stay calm at the top): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967
I'm forced to work with it on daily basis and it makes my life more miserable.

I just wish it wasn't the defacto standard and CTOs started to get fired for choosing it.

That's how much I like it.
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With Prop 22’s Passage, Tech Companies Are Just Writing Their Own Laws Now
None of those ideas are new, and, he didnt really do anything constructive in any of those areas. But yeah those thoughts are worth thinking :)