skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reasons why Facebook created GraphQL was to reduce the payload size of the results, which often include large amounts of data that the current task did not require. There are ways to address this with REST, mainly though creating additional endpoints, but that quickly grows out of control for complex applications and requires touching multiple application layers. With GraphQL, the consuming app specifies what it wants returned, and only that data is sent. For Facebook's mobile apps, this worked well because you might only want to retrieve a person's name and not care about the other 10,000 bits of personal data Facebook has accumulated about them.
Totally agree. How do we adjust our laws quick enough to stop strongmen using social media to whip up fear and anger?
As a brown person we are thankful for not being bombed.
But your premise that this has something to do with peoples patience “these days” is incorrect. The AP has been calling presidential races since 1848.

So perhaps you are right that this is problematic but it is neither new nor related to anything thats happened in recent history. Its hard to see why the rest of your premise is true when the rest of your assumptions are so faulty.
"Therefore if MacDonald's farm animals ultimately have long names they should make slightly shorter noises."

I totally read this in Knuth's voice, and this was made easier because of the absence of commas after "Therefore" and "names".
The limits you're talking about have always been enforced by governments because, ya know, the people agreed those were reasonable. We actually get a say in what our standards of speech actually are.

Not an unelected king who rules by fiat on a platform used by 10's or hundreds of millions of people.
Have a reference on that? Haven’t rewatched the show in a while, but I was sure the offworld gates (with DHDs) also had a spinning inner ring.
This should be (2018).
Sitting ducks, more of aliablity today.
Which is, for an US president, an almost unbelievable thing. Especially since he could have used the Iranian missile attacks on US bases to start a war there. He should get a peace Nobel prize for his actions towards world stability, which also includes his efforts to discuss with North Korea (official visit there!) and the arms sell to Taiwan.
A keyboard where "Esc" is not given a prominent place, is not a hacker's keyboard imho.

Also, I'm missing a lambda key.
While it’s true that the US government needs structural reform, the issue wasn’t anything the Constitution can fix by nibbling around the edges. The issue is that the unified Republican elite, along with > 35% of the electorate, is fundamentally lawless and anti-democratic, and will do anything it can to cheat its way into power. All three branches are implicated and have been for a while: Bush v Gore in 2000, the US Attorney firings, Shelby County in 2013, the refusal of the Senate to convict Trump in 2020, the disgusting anti-science politicization of coronavirus, and so on. The scale of Trump’s personal corruption is unique among Republican national figures, particularly in foreign policy. But the racist authoritarianism and fundamental disrespect for elections is a defining creed of the party.

One of the more unpleasant truth about democracy is that it’s quite fragile. In any real sense, the US has only been a democracy since 1965. When large segments of the population are ideologically opposed to democratic governance - universal human rights, respecting fair elections, following the plain text of the law, and so on - mechanisms by which democracy sustains itself begins to fail.

One possibility is to amend the constitution to change first-past-the-post voting in all local-to-federal elections, to let never-Trump types speak out without facing electoral suicide, and to divert right-conservative attention away from a single “leader” figure. And obviously the electoral college needs to go.

But the fact that more than 65 million people voted for Trump at all speaks to a great sickness and nihilism in American culture. Trump himself might be put out to pasture. But Trumpism existed before he got here, and it isn’t going anywhere.
Fivethirtyeight's polling averaging model underestimated Trump in all the swing states. Trump wine 2-3 states predicted for Biden, and 0 vice versa. States that Biden had a supposedly strong lead in turned out to be statistical ties in the official vote. The direction bias in the polls (about 20 of 25) is obvious, it's not symmetric random error.
I don't doubt that marketing works but always had a feeling that a lot of it is busy work (e.g. reorganizing AdWords campaign structures every couple of weeks for no apparent reason) and a lot of data-driven success stories probably boil down to right time right place.

Clean randomized experiments naturally provide good answers and are especially feasible in this space but performing those properly, especially with regard to attribution and user identification, presents a whole zoo of issues that are inherently different from what a lot of marketers seem to work on.
Then why are they repeated ad nauseam?

Polling is hard and the result are likely non-representative. Great! Then don’t display them to the public and have pollsters in interviews acting as if their insight is in any way valuable to most people. They’re either incompetently wrong or, worse, intentionally manipulative.

Just because something exists doesn’t mean it has value in the wrong context.
American death rates are similar to many Western European countries.

Lower than the UK and Spain, a bit higher than Italy and France.
The specific example of Trumps behavior in question is objectively false.

Lets not talk about two different situations at the same time. It is perfectly possible to make an appropriate decision and then an inappropriate one; one does not necessarily obviate the other.
No brown people are very thankful.
> Also, why is US hegemony a good thing?

> Globalization has lifted billions from poverty.

There, I reordered things for you to answer your own question. :)
It's a fact that Trump sympathizes a lot with dictators and got
along with Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-Un, Putin and others much better
than e.g. European leaders.

He always avoided distancing himself from fascist and racist
movements and their actions in the US. He teargassed people just
so he could get a couple pictures taken in the middle of a
protest. He tried to cast a democratic election into doubt and
talked for months about his intention of not conceding the oval
office in the case of a loss in the election.

I don't think Trump could ever be a dictator, but he clearly
does not oppose the idea and undoubtedly contributed to the
political divide in the US.
> i think we agree that constantly recriminating the past isn't helping.

We don't. You're advocating for both actively ignoring the reasons that we did things, and for the assumption that things that we do are done for a reason.
Amicably, can I ask you how you know what you say above to be true? Where does your knowledge of AI come from?

Edit: I'm asking because there is evident in your comment a confusion that is all too common on the internets today, of thinking of "GOFAI" (symbolic AI) and "ML" (machine learning) as two somehow incompatible and perhaps exclusive sub-fields of AI. This is as far from the truth as it could be, for instance machine learning really took off as a subject of research in the 1980's with the work of Ryszard Michalski and others, who considered machine learning approaches for the purpose of overcoming the "knowledge acquisition bottleneck", i.e. the difficulty of hand-crafting production rules for expert systems. Indeed, most of the early machine learning systems were propositional-logic based, i.e. symbolic. And of course, one of the most widely used and well-known type of machine learning approach used to this day, decision trees, hail from that time and also learn propositional logic, symbolic models.

Of course, most people today know "ML" as a byword for deep learning, or at best statistical pattern recognition (if that). It's just another aberration brought on by the sudden explosion of interest in a once small field.

I refer you to Michalski's textbook, "Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach" and Tom Mitchell's "Machine Learning" for more information on the early days of the field, i.e. until ca. 2000.
> Focus on China as an existential threat to US hegemony.

Phrasing it that way is unfair. Trump held China accountable for its mercantilist trade practices.
Proven lies that are trying to kill the democratic election process should be hidden by default.

It's not even censorship, they are all there still and anyone can read them.

But proven lies need to be called out. Freedom of the press allows us to call out politicians on their lies.
Portabella looks like a great product!

Some thoughts I had was that you should focus a bit less on privacy (at least on your home page). It is already the differentiating feature. Put features like 'Assignees and deadlines', 'Knowledge base', dashboard at the top. You've got a fast, private product. Make sure it doesn't miss out on features.

Wishing you luck!
Illegal content, in however the courts have agreed what 'illegal' means. Also spam, to what a reasonable person would consider spam -- and a political opinion isn't spam.
There was never any “cover” to hide behind — we never really did much mail in voting as a people (absentee mostly).

Now the pandemic is cover enough to hide a few thousand with ease.
> The senate system of 2 senators per state and the electoral college are fantastic features to provide additional stability across a vast and diverse geography.

It's interesting that you see it that way. From my perspective, it's something that was originally designed with fairly good intentions, that is now being abused by the minority to impose their will upon everyone.

Let's not forget that Democrats have won the popular vote in all but one presidential election this century. And that the Senate's structure has allowed the party representing a minority of Americans to reshape the federal judiciary for years to come. (And unless a rabbit gets pulled out of a hat somewhere, they'll still have outsized control over judicial confirmations for at least the next 2 years.)

I'm all for preventing the tyranny of the majority, but these features of US government haven't resulted in moderation, they've resulted in tyranny of the minority.
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Parent has a link to a website (https://www.trumpaccountability.net/) where people are gathering lists of people associated with the Trump presidency. I don't know if it will include his doctors.

AOC said the following on twitter:

"Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future"

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1324807776510595078
https://www.veryfinepeople.info/

Literally a hoax. He explicitly condemned them in the same sentence. You have been gaslit and are confident about it without having checked the basic facts.
>People who start with "honest question" usually are not being honest.

I thought I was in fact very honest about my low opinion of evopsych and evopsych people, and didn't try to hide my sentiment behind pretenses of "objectivity".

>All of them as far as I know.

I mean, even if you didn't bother to google a counterexample (where at least both genders participate in hunting), what do you make of the present article?

>It's human physiology. Men are built to fight/hunt/etc. We can swing swords harder, throw spears further, pull bow strings further, run faster, etc.

Yep that's evopsych "evidence" alright. It sounds reasonable so it must have been this way for millions of years. Genes? Mechanisms? Evidence of genetic selection on behavior (as opposed to plain old drift)? Accounting for the variation that must have existed across all of mankind during these millions of years? Who needs that, it's just highly likely. And then evopsych people wonder why they're not being taken seriously by actual biologists.

>Why create a throwaway for this question? That's what I find the most bizarre.

I try to abstain from maintaining a persistent online presence so as to retain a modicum of sanity and attention and this reply is a perfect reminder of why I chose to do it in the first place. Have a nice day and enjoy your new president-elect I guess.
Nice, I've added that to my to-read pile.
Prior to 1992 the only time California had two Democratic senators was post-Watergate and then prior to that single term for Tunney you have to go all the way back to 1863 to get two Dem senators. California had frequently elected Republican governors (including one who went on to become president), had house delegations that were majority Republican for stretches of time, and except for Johnson's win in 1964 CA was a solid batch of electors for the Republican presidential candidate up until Clinton.

CA was a Republican state from the late 19th century up until the 1990s.
No he didn't. Wait until mid Dec.

Trump will stay president. He will win both the Senate and the House.

You folks are so brainwashed, it's almost scary...
Is it true?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-trump-brou...

Trump brought war on US soil, Americans VS other Americans, is it better?
It depends on the senate. If republicans hold control of it after GA runoffs in January, then it will be good for the market. The market likes gridlock.
> any number of police agencies could arrest you on the spot

So why aren't they arrested?
> (apart from legal proceedings, which are a perfectly democratic [albeit petulant] way to contest election results)

Bush vs. Gore in Florida 2000 comes to mind.
What if the truth of a statement takes 6 months to suss out?

Wouldn't practicality dictate we err on the side of caution, meaning the statement is allowed before it's blocked?

Because the alternative situation is, something that NEEDS to get out never does only because it takes so long to prove.
Depending on the script (if it's configurable), you can send the request made to your own server instead of some analytics solution and redirect that request using a CNAME record. Combined with the script being served from you own domain, blockers will think it's a regular request and won't block it. They usually use a blacklist to filter unwanted traffic (like to GA). As we are still working on Pirsch, we don't have a documentation to explain the setup in more detail yet, but you should be able to find instructions somewhere.

[Edit] Okay, so it seems like blockers will catch that, see
iamacyborgs comment. But we will provide a nice and simple backend integration which basically will do the same as the script, but is unblockable.

[Edit #2] Looks like it will only block cookies using this technique, so it should work as described.
That's true. I've been kinda shocked to discover how much our system depends on entirely voluntary norms. It's not nearly as resilient to determined attack as I'd always thought.
This just doesn't happen. This has been a cause celebre of one party in the use for more than a decade and they have found on the order of a dozen proven examples of voter fraud.

https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/B... has hard data.

The problem, which doesn't require citation as it has been in the news for weeks, is partisan voter suppression, disenfranchisement (DC, Puerto Rico, Guam), and gerrymandering.

Every single thing you have suggested has been investigated and have found something on the order of 1* 10^-4 % rates of occurrence.

To remind everyone, there was a lawsuit to disenfranchise over 100,000 voters in Texas because of disagreement in how their ballots were submitted. Not recounted, not rechecked. Summarily tossed out. > 1000 times more people would have been effected by this one incident than there were provable instances of voter fraud (most of which was based on confusion by elderly). Limited voting hours, closures of voting stations so common they are accepted now but they are outrageous.

This is leaving aside the well documented actions of DeJoy during his time with the USPS. I would also like to see an investigation with subpoena of communications of of the company that caused delays in the printing/mailing of PA absentee ballots https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/politics/elections/clevela... and tracing the threatening robocall campaign in swing states: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/03/robocal...

The US doesn't have a voting integrity issue, it has a voting suppression issue.

edit: just another example of the egregious attempts at disenfranchising voters: https://ktar.com/story/3681236/elections-officials-lawyer-ca...
Maybe we should have federally refulated aocial media then, or the social media version of PBS.

Then we as a democracy could decide via legislation and law what is approrpriate and what is not.
In Germany, a while ago, absolute free speech in the form of hate and blatant lies unleashed an amount of violence that, for the history of humanity, has never been seen. You can choose to ignore that and see the world in black and white.
100% agree with that.

"They were so busy asking if they could they didn't stop to question if they should."
It also exposed how we've kicked the can down the road with North Korea and China (having to work with local businesses, forced IP transfers, and IP theft). Not that his approaches to either were all that productive; with China in particular, a lot of traditional US allies have similar gripes, so it'd be easy to build a coalition, but not when you're also engaged in a trade war with them.
Or just not having ridiculously long queues.

Much of the rest of the democratic world looked upon those reports of people waiting all day, sometimes 10+ hours in a queue and thought "it took me 5 minutes where I live".

In countries without long queues to vote, you don't need to take a day off work.
It seems like the divide comes from an escalating fixation on having your side win, rather than doing the best for the country. As each side focuses more on winning even at the expense of public good, the other side has to ratchet up to match it to get any input at all.

I sort of feel like we're in that old tale where king Solomon says they should cut the baby in two, and both sides are like "ok, I'll take my half of the baby, then."

Ultimately, though, I personally blame the extreme right wing, mostly. I think they're dying, and they're not going down without a fight, like, you know, disinformation, bullying, holding the country hostage metaphorically, whatever. If they're going down, the whole system's going down with them.
I would recommend finding a news archive of the last 4 years and just watching him?
He could have made a fortune on masks with his name and campaign slogans on them, too.

Instead, 237k Americans died and 1,500+ die every from COVID, and many Americans are following his lead by not wearing masks.
Are you familiar with 1994 crime bill Biden signed? "We need more prisons" he said, watch his old speech on youtube.

Kamala put tens of thousands of black people in prison for minor marijuana offenses.

The hypocrisy of the liberals is mind-boggling.
40% of young people supported Trump in this election according to exit polls.
Uh that's interesting, I didn't new that. Thanks :)
> Ideally, how might the budget be reconfigured constructively with the same dollar amount to make a better community?

Attrition of police officers with those remaining for only when force is required, while bolstering social worker and community outreach services and funding. Non violent emergency calls go to social response.

St Petersburg, Florida is making a go of this. Budgeting details in the link below.

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-pinellas/st-peters...
People always allude to this, and it's true an adversary could (probably, maybe) sink one aircraft carrier. That same adversary wouldn't sink a second.
Indeed many great innovations, like "have the Pinkertons shoot anyone that tries to strike".
I wonder what will happen to Trump now though, isn't he at risk of going to prison?
I think Trump's picks for justices are no different than what some generic Republican President would have picked. In choosing justices, he basically just followed the advice of the conservative legal establishment (Federalist Society, etc). His choices were judicial conservatives, but generic judicial conservatives not Trumpists.
I'd like to point out that "shouting fire in a crowded theater" is a rhetorical analogy that was invented to justify the suppression of legitimate political speech. (Namely to silence opposition to the draft.)
Saying it’s immoral is one thing that I can agree with. But that’s different than objectively showing how it makes their lives worse. I’m looking for actual metrics like a decline in life expectancy, income, etc.

Just to be clear I’m not on one side or the other because I’m relatively ignorant on the topic. Just looking for evidence
I don't doubt that Biden won, but it's not like there's zero evidence for voter fraud. A USPS employee was recently arrested for trying to take absentee ballots out of the country, another in PA said that he was told to back date ballots received after the election so they could still be counted, and they've also found ballots in the trash that were mostly for Trump. He's exaggerating, but he's not just making things up either.
The claims I've seen were:

* dead people "voted" in the election

* late votes by mail were stamped with a fictive past date

Anyway, I don't see why you're so comfortable with election fraud as long as it doesn't influence the result. There is no way to know if fraud happened and what scale this happened at without doing this so-called "deep-dive" you mention.
Great — so let’s just run the queries so I can go to sleep
> The difference is we are no longer severely punishing the people who are getting victimized.

No, the difference is that we are no longer victimizing the people who are doing drugs.
Yes. Hence the popularity of #vanlife and #tinyhouse.
>Globalization has not been good for the working and middle class.

This seems overly simplistic. Globalization has led to a drop in the cost of many goods as well as multiple new markets for US industries.

I think there's a reasonable argument to be made that the spoils of globalization have not been shared as fairly as they should of, but imo that's way more linked to other policies (like tax rates & spending)
Of course it's not isolated. It's clear that the left wants the power to censor factual information that undermines their narratives, like crime statistics, and especially interracial crime statistics. That's why they hate 4chan so much.
Cubans are anti-Castro Republican. The young generation of pollsters forgot that Cubans aren't just "generic Hispanic".
I hope it is true but doesn’t seem likely. Biden did support war with Iraq, and seems cut from the same cloth as Obama / Clinton / etc.
That's what bothers me with the world at the moment, we have powerful states fighting for their hegemony (sometimes with nuclear weapons), not thinking at all about the earth as a unified place full with people and not citizen of whatever country.
It could be you were just checked out. I certainly paid quite a bit of attention during the Bush years. (When I was a teenager) I wouldn’t say many of my peers paid as much attention but I grew up in a very conservative and rural area.