skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, this is exactly the problem with modern politics. Take the absolute worst of the other side and project it to all of them. You like Republicans? You can't be anything other than a neo nazi racist white supremacist extremist. You leaning left? Then you have to be a communist shill who wants to tax every remotely financially successful person to death and take all liberties away from everyone ever. It's really tiring.
If I were trying to make a critique, sir, I'd be making it. I'm just urging another poster applying a more appropriate I-word that doesn't cast aspersions on intelligence, when the conflict is about a world view bundled with a set of values and policy prescriptions.
But not the murder of innocent civilians from obama and bidens massively expanded drone bombings right? That never triggered you at all
Most accounts from the Trump White House, e.g. Bolton’s book, report that Kushner had a substantial daily influence on Trump. He was officially in charge of numerous initiatives. It’s hard to argue that he and Ivanka were not present in White House deliberations.
True. The ACA was after all, literally the republican plan straight from Mitt Romney, but Democrats were unwilling to negotiate or compromise. (Yes this is sarcasm, ACA was literally the Democrats meeting in the middle when they didn't even have to)

Everytime someone like you makes this claim I ask the same question: show some examples. "both sides are the same" is a weak excuse for supporting bad behavior. The Republicans haven't acted in good faith since about the early 90s.
Government, universities and industry create domestic labor shortages [pdf]
So that is your Russiagate story? That is the collision we spent 4 years talking about?
I assume that you guys have some version of proportional representation. The US doesn't. It would take a complete rewrite of the US constitution to get rid of the two party system.
The comment section of this thread is a clear example of what the Internet looks like when Chinese Communist Party propagandists are unleashed.
> Nobody "supports" that position at all as a matter of policy

Well except that the Trump admin explicitly changed from a policy of not separating families.

> I mean what do you do about this problem /today/?

Stop policy B. The executive has the power to do so. There is no law requiring that asylum seekers be kept in detention centers. Trump directly ended catch-and-release policies by executive order in 2017.

These two things are things that Donald Trump explicitly and personally changed. The orders quite literally have his signature on them.
It will help to have an Executive administration that doesn't have its heel on the wedge for the next four years gleefully driving it deeper for adulation and ratings.
Total nonsense. Europe has just as many if not more cases. The idea that another president would have made any difference is pure wishful thinking.
I will check it out, thank you!
Some key differences include clustering for higher availability, rolling updates, and Crowd for authentication integration.
For example, these Fox News voter analysis results (and the screenshots themselves) are really something. Relatively major consensus on things like climate, renewable energy, healthcare, etc.

https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/13237520320004505...
Your post implies that everyone who supports Trump supports that policy. That’s exactly the lack of nuance that’s the topic of discussion. People who voted for Trump had two options: Trump and that policy or Biden who they found even more unpalatable. The nuance is there: Why do they find Biden more unpalatable than that policy?
If he believes it is invalid, I'm not sure what else I'd expect him to say.

The fact that the left has been absolutely out of their minds with hatred for the man for the last four years makes it very, very difficult for people to easily trust that they are not engaging in impropriety during the election. Their motto for removing him is essentially "At any cost" at this point.

I'm not sure why you're framing his actions or words along the lines of "fascist dictator". This is simply a continuation of the vitriolic rhetoric I've been trying to combat for years now. It's crazed, and I do not understand why you - someone who can write clearly enough that you must be intelligent - cannot see it. It's rhetoric like that that is driving so many people to distrust you.

Trump will challenge the election results in court and succeed or fail. It's as simple as that. Personally, I hope it's a failure because I don't want there to have been any impropriety. If that's the case, Trump is done. There is no fascism. There is no dictator. Please stop catastrophizing.
GAAP isn’t a law though . So how does this law capable of handling this scenario?
It can absolutely be reasoned away, pretending it's a absolute fact is dogma, not logic. Look at any of the many shady things Nestle has done with water rights and tell me that's ethical.

Pretending that property rights somehow are more real than human need is an unethical action.
Nice try! The Jsfuck method can't encode a direct "eval", only an indirect one :-)

Thus the emphasis on direct. Well, Jsfuck can encode a direct eval inside an indirect eval, but that doesn't give it any advantages, it still can't access the surrounding lexical environment in the form of "let" and "const" variables.

(I didn't know about Jsfuck though - it looks fun, thanks!)
What exactly is your impression of how socialized healthcare works, here in Europe?

Are you under the hallucination that I'm required to offer my services to the government so others can receive their surgery?

This is your problem, you have associated "socialism" with slavery, ergo you refuse to hear any arguments that has the word "social" in it because it's automatically bad by association.

Maybe start to accept that your fellow Americans don't actually want slavery, but maybe are instead unhappy with the completely fucking absurd and insane private health insurance system?

It is truly mind boggling, the mental jumps some of you folks are ready to make, to arrive at the conclusion that your life would be made worse were you to take example from countries that have it better than you. Because God forbid the US isn't number 1 in everything.
I "can scream all I want"?

Before I continue this conversation, I'd like to ask, do you think this is an appropriate response to my comment? I responded to your original comment respectfully and politely.

Note that I did not use "pattern recognition" in a derogatory manner, neither did I say that anything is "just" pattern recognition. I think you may be mistaking my comment for a different opinion that you disagree with.
"Ergonomic" is not a boolean value. Is an ortholinear keyboard 1% more ergonomic than a staggered keyboard? 10%? Is there even one universal scale? For me, and for all of the people I know who have tried many keyboards, a split layout is a HUGE improvement over a standard layout. Ortholinear is far less obvious - the few people I know who have tried one (such as the Kinesis Advantage) have given it up and gone back.

Anything different means that you have to switch layouts whenever you go to some other device - whether that means your laptop or someone else's machine or whatever. It requires relearning some bit of mental memory, and even if it can be done it's absolutely daunting to users and not something to be dismissed. If it's confusing, that is a risk to sales.

I have a Moonlander on preorder and will see if it's better than my current staggered split keyboards, but to claim that staggered keyboards aren't ergonomic isn't just controversial - it's flat out wrong.
I think that Obama was far far harder on China than Trump. Trump gave up any semblance of influence in the region, and China has gained massive power due to the absence of US leadership in the area. The tariffs are a pointless show that have done nothing to weaken China in the least. If Biden follows Obama's direction we will gain far more geopolitical power in the region, but it will be impossible to regain all the ground that we have lost on the international stage due to Trump's general weakness and unwillingness to engage in basic statecraft.
Jo under performed Gary Johnson from 2016, so I do not believe your correlation is very valid

In Some States, Like Nevada, the number of people that choose "NONE OF THESE CANDIDATES" for president more or less matches the number of people that voted for Jo...

Further an over all Analysis shows there were almost as many Split Biden votes, as there were Split Trump Votes

This idea that "3rd party spoils the election" or changes the election has been dis-proven often, as absent the 3rd choice most people that vote 3rd party simply do not vote at all, or choose no one in that particular race (which is an option most people for get, you do not have to pick a person in every race on a ballot, blank is a valid choice)
This comment section is the perfect example of the Chinese Communist Party propaganda arm invading online platforms.
Is Fastmail less centralized somehow?
I think the true evil here is the two party system, where people have no outlet to express and advance anything more nuanced than us vs them mentality. But I don’t think that will change any time soon, if ever...
Once again HN completely ignored enrico fermi
You left out being impeached for blackmailing a friendly country for military aid so they would dig up dirt on his rival. Also, gutting federal agencies like the EPA, silencing reports from national labs which were critical of the coal industry, and installing Dejoy as head of the Postal Service who immediately had mail equipment destroyed directly before an election which was known to most likely have large amounts of mail in ballots. Not to mention Dejoy has large stock in companies that would profit from the destruction of the Postal Service.

Edit: forgot to say numerous people close to him and his campaign have gone to jail. Steve Bannon, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone...etc.
.... huh?
> What's an example of some common ground you see

Consider pretty much any issue and there is big fat core of common ground, but typically the debate is around how to best address that issue - what is the best approach, do we tackle this problem now or do we tackle that other problem first, will this path lead to bad unintended consequences, etc.

Immigration. Most people have a pretty favorable view of immigration and immigrants - pretty much everyone has an immigrant story in their background. The debate is more on the requirements to be let in, especially in cases where there is an established legal process and someone doesn't follow that process.

Taxes. Few people want to pay more than is needed. Everyone wants taxation to be fair. It's not hard to get people to admit that they see a lot of good can come from the proper use of taxes. The debate is more about tax rates, where taxes should be spent, etc.

Abortion. A huge majority of Americans do not like the idea of completely restriction-free abortions and quite a few people have concerns that, pre-birth, that thing inside the mother is a person to some degree or another. Simultaneously a huge majority of Americans do not like the idea of the government exerting control and getting involved in people's lives any more than it should.

Gun control, the economy, national defense, education, the climate. It goes on and on - name any issue and there's a ton of common ground. For people who are interested in progress and solving problems, it's ripe with opportunity.
>>despite Biden running on a centrism and reconciliation platform

Is that his platform? I did not see much of that.

11 Trillion in new Spending [1], Expansion of the ACA [1], 3.6 Trillion in Tax hikes, The Green New Deal, and Support for the very partisan "Hero's Act"

Biden platform is one of seemingly infinite promises to push new government controls into virtually all aspects of our lives.[2]

That is not centrism or reconciliation platform, the the Washington Post called his platform "more liberal than that of every past Democratic nominee."

The fact that he is not as authoritarian / socialist left as Bernie, Warren or AOC does not make him a centrist nor does that mean is message will resonate with people that value free markets, free minds, and freedom...

[1] https://www.manhattan-institute.org/joe-biden-has-11-trillio...

[2] https://reason.com/video/2020/11/06/joe-bidens-endless-river...
You tell me. If there’s nuance there, then I’m super interested to hear about it. What’s so bad that it outweighs breaking up families, or any of the other things Trump and his government have done over the past four years?
What about non-audiophile? Are there any similar resources for professional-grade guitar amps?
I don't make any assumptions about any unilateral moral authority on issues. That is why I call for a constructive dialog at all levels and across all groups of our society.

As for your argument on checks and balances - yes, generally, it is definitely a very good thing. However, when one side uses their position of chamber majority not to collaborate and compromise, but to throw a wrench into "wheels of democracy" and gridlock the Congress (especially, considering the voting record of the current majority in the Senate and essentially zero breaking ranks history), which might be extremely unproductive and even damaging to the lives of the American people, that IMO does not represent the "checks and balances" that you're talking about.
Let me rephrase. One attribute the education system should provide students is the ability to think critically. By being able to think critically, a person should be able to have the capacity to see and understand the arguments on both sides. From there, a healthy debate can commence on which policy is better.

Keep in mind my previous comment is in response to the original post, which talks about people on both sides having the "extreme mindset", i.e.:

> It's amazing. My friends on the left think the only reason for voting trump is racism, and friends on the right think the only reason for voting biden is socialism.

Indeed, maybe I was wrong in suggesting that the poor education system is what caused this issue. But regardless, the ability to think critically is an important attribute, and I do believe extremisms are caused, in part, by the lack of it.
I look forward to not being consumed by political news every single second of the day.
The vote count turn is unsurprising since the in-person ballots could be quickly tallied while the mail-in ballots had to be hand-counted.

The reason the two types of balloting had such a difference in party-support is that the President in the Republican party had been telling his supporters not to use mail-in balloting because it would be rife with fraud. People took him at his word on that side of the political divide, so there's a resulting bias in the likely candidate supported by the mail-in ballots.
I don't think sane people are shopping for a new car every 3 years because their "infotainment" looks old. Such features IMHO are for the comparison shoppers who will compare competing cars side by side and can be pushed either way by tiniest gimmicks.
It drives me nuts that so much order of business is controlled by a majority leader, no matter the party. These rules stifle any legislation to a predetermined show for the most part where votes and "debate" is just scripted for pundits and news.

If legislation could hit the floor for actual debate and votes without being filtered through partisan leadership I think we could see a lot more progress on things that are popular and bipartisan. Or at least legislatures would have to put their names to a vote on an issue. Minimum wage hikes, marijuana legalization, criminal justice reform, redistricting and campaign finance reform have all faced great support when put to ballot initiatives around the country. But good luck ever seeing that in Congress.
What's the location with the greatest connectivity? It's not New York City. Not Hong Kong (though it could be number 1 if you include some very near cities). And amazingly, San Francisco and the Bay Area have no cable landings at all near them.

It looks like it's Fortaleza (Brazil) with 17 cables making landfall there.
It sounds ('CLI-only') like GP I was trying to exclusively use Lynx or similar, no GUI at all, browser or otherwise.
Trump got more support this year among every demographic but one—white males.

This opinion that Trump is a white supremacist, is just that... an opinion. Very few of his supporters saw him as a white supremacist. Trump disavowed white supremacy many times. This is divisive language is something I’m glad to see Biden avoiding, so far.
What Donald Trump demonstrated was that the DOJ and judiciary are structurally partisan even if they were culturally neutral.
It's pretty much the standard interpretation.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/24/trump-transition-us-ele...
Eliminating first past the post is necessary if we want >2 parties. Maine just started doing ranked choice, maybe others will follow.
Unless the democrats win the Georgia special elections and do away with the filibuster. The former seems like a coin flip, but if it happens the latter seems like a certainty.
That seems like a reductive interpretation. Can you explain which individual's freedoms are being overridden? And why is the argument preposterous?
Two reasons, first, those who want XLR inputs (and outputs in many cases) want quality sounds so they are willing to pay for something a little more high end. If you there are cheap USB audio interfaces that are pretty good, but the next level up is really several levels up in quality (though I'm not sure if you can objectively tell). Second, the volumes sold need high prices to pay for the engineering.
It’s hard to fathom that even after all things happened in last 4 years , almost 71 million Americans sided with trump.. a divided country needing a decisive leader to heal..

Tough times ahead!!
> I very much doubt this is representative of 100% of the Republican electorate. I think its probably something like way less than 1%.

Maybe or maybe not, but 100% of the people that voted for Trump were, by definition, willing to tolerate his white supremacy ... otherwise they wouldn't have voted for him.

People who voted for Trump believed that what Biden represented was worse than what Trump was represented. Personally, I think they were terribly wrong.
> Is there really any common ground?

Florida Amendment 2.

That's right, on the same ballot where Florida solidly selected a republican president, republican legislature and republican house delegation, they went >60% on a $15 minimum wage.

Progressive legislation is popular. Progressives are not, because of branding and demagoguery (and no small amount of bald-faced lying).

That's common ground. It may not look like it, but it's there.
Based on what? I think part of the problem with our politics these days is confusing social media engagement / metrics (specifically twitter) with national sentiment. Seems like there's a large mass of unobserved "silent" Americans out there.
Yes, I believe there are several flavors of source-available license that attempt to meet this requirement.

Code released under such a license would not qualify as open source, but it could allow for individuals to maintain the software themselves. A license like the BSL could even be structured to transition the code to open source after some amount of time.
anti-black racism has (and continues to be) woven into the fabric of American society. That's not an understatement, our cities are often built in ways that harmed racial minorities. When there are, quite literally, "racist bridges" in the US, not to mention the anti-black histories of everything from Central park to the US highway system, it's not clear why that is a bad definition.
Ask HN: Do you think “Not our president” will become a Rep slogan now?
I’m confident they are a tiny yet loud minority. I hope I’m not proven wrong.
I am very interested in seeing a “good faith” framing of his statements on the topic from you. Can you provide one?
It's everywhere online https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/08/twitter-bots-use-likes-r...
Do you remember when Obama's AG dismissed charges against black supremacists for voter intimidation and then one of them went on to say "You’re going to have to go into the God damn nursery and just throw a damn bomb in the damn nursery and just kill everything white in sight that ain’t right." and "drag some of these god damn rusty dusty ass crackers out of their homes, skin their asses alive, hang their asses up by some damn rope in some trees, drag them up and down the streets by God damn trucks, sick the pit bulls on them, pour acid on their asses, dump them in a God damn river, bring them back up, bust them in the head with a rock."

I am just curious if you think we should apply the same standard to Obama and his administration.
Trump lost support among whites and gained support among black, latino, asian voters [1]. Whatever it is that is going on is not as simple as you make it sound. Personally, I think Democrats need to simply stop talking as much about race and gender. Trump being an asshole about the topic doesn't mean that people care. Most people don't want to hear it. As another example, CA prop 16 was also voted down, in a minority-majority state.

1. https://www.brookings.edu/research/2020-exit-polls-show-a-sc...
I am sorry, but convinced I am not.

Most of the arguments against high CEO wages seem to completely forget about the capitalism we live in. I do not think the current system is the perfect, but for better or worse, the rules are relatively simple. To say that CEOs earn too much is a sign of double standards.

CEOs are chosen by private companies using their hard earned money from a market of CEOs governed by supply and demand. Companies are always out to cut costs, and that applies to CEOs.

You may not find it morally sound, but to blankly say "CEOs have to earn X amount" is really hypocritical.
538 is a poll aggregator, not a pollster. If the polls are systemically wrong, which is what is being alleged above, there is <explicative> all that 538 can do to fix that.
It took Jim Henson's veteran designers several hours, if not days or possibly longer, to design Yoda and refine the puppet's shape and form.

It took someone 20 seconds in a CAD tool to do the exterior product design on the iPad, using intern-level skills.

There's a difference.
The mainstream media provide unlimited and free ads to Trump. Trump is a savvy marketer. He plays the mainstream media like a fiddle. The outrageous remarks he said or tweeted are reported relentlessly by the mainstream media. The way I see it is that whatever Trump said or tweeted are like campaign ads. What the mainstream media have been doing is nothing but playing campaign ads with rebuttals. The relationship between Trump and the mainstream media is pretty symbiotic.

The things that the mainstream media have not reported enough is his corruption and incompetency. Instead, they constantly chase after his remarks. I will give you an example. The way USPS is undermined is nothing but sabotage. Trump and his officials claimed that they run USPS like business. The mainstream media simply reported it along this frame. However, no reasonable business would run like what they did to USPS. Besides, the moment they claimed that they would revert the changes, the mainstream simply reported what they said. No, they didn't revert their changes. By reading mainstream media news casually, we wouldn't know that USPS was sabotaged. Many people think that Trump administration simply tried to run USPS like business but they decided not to due to opposition. The reality is that USPS was sabotaged and the damage is done.
Some things are worth doing even if you can't scientifically prove that they are.