skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d like to echo this sentiment - GraphQL’s syntax is very inconsistent, incomplete, and requires annoying gymnastics in application code for no good reason. For example, there is no way to represent a Record/Map type, so you have to transform it to an array of key-value pairs on the way down to the browser (and untransform it the way up). There’s an Int type, but no Long/uint etc. For any CRUD application, you have to define your types twice because Mutations can only contain Inputs, not Types. There is no union type for Inputs. You can’t express recursive types... I could go on and on.

SQL would have been such a better choice. It’s been battle tested for decades and is so much more expressive.
Voting fraud on the scale required to influence a US election is not possible due to voting registration requirements. Registering any significant amount of fake people is not feasible, and if you are trying to cast the votes of any significant number of real people you will quickly have a collision with someone who actually does intend on voting, leading to an investigation and the whole scheme unraveling.

Voter registration + signature checks + investigating duplicate ballots is a robust system for ensuring that systematic voting fraud can only achieve a small result without being overwhelmingly likely to be caught. If the election had actually come down to a margin of a few thousand votes in a single state it might have been worth the resources to do a deep-dive, but with the margins that occurred we can be certain that voting fraud did not influence the result.
Is this good or bad for the stock market? Or does it not matter at all?
Trump is inarguably fascist, just incompetently so. Nobody really disputes this.
No, Orange Man Bad. This is different, you should know.
I think Fox News has been more of the issue than Trump.
Except there really was one candidate who would have been happy to kill democracy.

I can't speak for the beliefs or rationale of the people who voted for him but its crystal clear what Donald Trump stood for.

I don't think its dehumanizing to talk about the fact that lots people, many or most individually good, chose to vote for a sexist, racist, authoritarian.

And does anybody really doubt at this point that Trump is those things?

Even though it is a difficult, unpleasant, and heated conversation to have.
To be fair, we still don't know the loss of votes through mail-in voting. Mail-in voting is more convenient which would likely increase participation, but missing signatures, naked ballots, late or undelivered mail, etc can prevent those ballots from being counted.

When there is a major difference in voting patterns between the two political parties, then polls may not actually be inaccurate. In this case, Democrats chose mail-in voting and Republicans, by and large, chose in-person after being directed by the president.

Also, some percentage of mail-in ballots may not have reached their destination because of possible election interference through reduced post office efficiency--in particular, fewer mail sorting machines, lower hours, deprioritized mails, etc.

In short, the polls don't take into account election interference in the post office or unsuccessful delivery. If most people from both parties were voting in-person, maybe we might have had more parity between the polls and election results.
"Slandered".....

When he didn't immediately condemn protestors marching under the damn Nazi flag he sort of positioned him self didn't he?
Take a close look at yourself and who you've been listening to.
Biden will be the First Democrat since Grover Cleveland to take office without a Democratic Senate. The House majority is smaller. So his mandate is effectively toast. Another interesting historical fact. America has never elected 4 consecutive 2 term presidents. If Trump would have been elected it would have been the first time in US history that this has happened. This election wasn't a blue wave by any means, Trump underperformed House Republicans in many swing states implying this was more of a personal decision rather than political.

What do I see changing? Not much:

- foreign policy: policy changes with Syria and Iran

- China: An end to tariffs

- local changes: No more federal opposition to safe injection sites in San Francisco

- federal taxes could still go up, the Senate has two liberal Republicans who could deliver tax increases to Joe

- expanded federal regulations that do not require changes to the law

What will likely not happen:

- PR and DC becoming states is no longer plausible

- packing the Supreme Court is no longer plausible

- a green new deal or expansions to entitlements are no longer plausible

- state bailouts are now in question, which could force major structural reforms
> Also, why is US hegemony a good thing? What good is it for the 96% of the world that is not the US? Does it even benefit anyone outside the US ruling class?

As you alluded to in the previous paragraph, it's good for people because it means we're not participating in the kind of horrific wars that ravaged the world in the century before. And the US has been far less extractive than previous global hegemons. (So in that sense it's worse for US citizens, but better for the rest of the world)

Now, everything is a tradeoff, and perhaps this particular tradeoff hasn't been worth it. But there are most certainly good things that US hegemony has given the world.
> Also, why is US hegemony a good thing? What good is it for the 96% of the world that is not the US?

To paraphrase Churchill: "The US hegemony is the worst hegemony for the world, except for all the other hegemonies."

The US retreating into isolationism would likely open up a vacuum eagerly filled in by less, well, liberal-minded states. The globalization you describe was pushed by the US-EU-(Japan/India/etc.) alliance, with the US's armed forced being the big stick in case someone would object. At least this is my current understanding.
You can say exactly the same about the new "left". Eg: "if anyone disagree in the slightest with me is attacking me and he is a nazi"
Yes, it does. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/524900-supreme-...

From TFA: "It was unclear how much of an impact the order might have on Pennsylvania election boards, who Boockvar had previously ordered to segregate and separately count late-arriving ballots."

The state courts had already ordered ballot segregation prior to the ballots being counted.

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.

This is simply false. As every news site noted, including Fox News, districts were already doing this because the PA supreme court said that ballots should be segregated.

And moreover, it was not a SCOTUS order. It was a Justice Alito order. The entire SCOTUS did not weigh in.
As I said in another comment, it wasn’t okay then, it’s not okay now.
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.

And yet, the United States does not preach this model when helping to propagate democracy abroad. Tellingly, they don't include:

- first past the post elections,

- bicameral legislative branches, or

- electoral colleges.

We're operating on a model that our own State Department discourages other countries from adopting.
I'm not sure that has changed that much. There's always been a component of politics that's tribal in nature, and it takes a lot to overcome that inertia. It's not unlike sports, where people will root for the local team, even though there's not much that's local about the team other than the name.

You can see that behavior for example around the ACA. It's obviously inspired by Mitt Romney's Massachusetts health care reform, so you'd think the Republicans would be all in favor of it. Yet at the federal level, since it was pitched by the Democrats, the Republicans are against it.
The bill would have still given PA voters multiple months to get their ballot and mail it in. Hardly voter suppression. As for dropboxes, I really wish we could have some survey of opinion about them before it became a partisan issue. If it wasn't a partisan thing, I think the problem of dropboxes making ballots less traceable and enabling fraud would be pretty well acknowledged by all.
Biden has vowed to a group of his donor that, if he is elected, "Nothing would fundamentally change":

https://www.salon.com/2019/06/19/joe-biden-to-rich-donors-no...

so the title should be amended to: "Biden wins White House, effectively vowing no new direction for US".
Check https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140528-do-animals-take-...

It mostly comes to individual needs, maybe you don't fancy some heroin but you likely have experienced some alcohol, coffee or your body own drug anandamide
Jira isn't bad but for it to not suck it has to be do most of the following.

Be consistently used by everyone in a similar way using the same basic approach.

Have a lightweight workflow setup.

Be usefully integrated with confluence.

Not be used as a tool to punish Devs.

Last place used it to do the opposite of above, new place doesn't, same tool totally different outcome.

I don't mind it but it's very flexibility leads people to keep changing the workflow to fix the problem rather than addressing the problem.

Which is as always, unclear priorities, unclear requirements.
Number 1 and Benford's Law
Harry Reid isn't the center point of the Democratic party. Nor is Harry Reid the President, nor is Harry Reid trying to hold the White House hostage.

People say all kinds of crap. There are people who are democrats who are bad people, lie, and say dumb crap. There are people who are republicans who are bad people, lie, and say dumb crap.

There is a profound and marked difference between Harry Reid grumbling about 2016 and what is happening in this election.

Parties play party politics, and you're correct in that there is a lot hypocrisy in that, especially when the balance of power swings. This, however, is not an example of that. This is a refusal to not only accept reality, but also leave lasting damages and deepen the divide in this country. It's shameful and a national tragedy.
Here is an image that shows how the cosmic web is usually illustrated:

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5mBKPZgrdD6ebdRtV8NEDZ-970...
If there is a good cloud offering then some customers will want to use it. It’s convenient, after all. Even if it’s just say 50% preference, it means you are maintaining on-prem for half as many.

Whether they drive people off on-prem by raising costs or people leave because costs are raised isn’t really an interesting distinction, it’s the two sides of the same coin.
We are using https://www.taiga.io/
Its also Open Source (AGPL-3.0) https://github.com/taigaio
I wonder how you'll feel when they do this to you or someone you care about.

I don't quite understand the epistemic certainty people have that such weapons will never be turned against them, especially when history so dramatically demonstrates the opposite.
> ....Thick neural networks, would the ML/AI revolution as we know it still happened?

Cancel culture will ensure that the conference doesnt happen in the name of fat shaming.
Big tech and corporate tax cuts: targets of Joe Biden's urgent economic plans
And in 2010, Joe Lieberman (D) blocked Obamacare from getting a public option.

It’s not that a party has a 51-man majority, although that helps for simple legislation. It’s that a party has a majority that can withstand defectors. And one further, defectors aren’t always defecting out of malice. Susan Collins (R) resides in a remarkably purple region such that she needed to oppose Trump on some of his policies to ensure she could get re-elected this year (and she did).
What do you prefer? I've tried a bunch of products over the years and they all have some sort of really annoying flaw or shortcoming. Jira at least has easy to reference issue numbers and can be configured in pretty much any way.
I'm looking forward to Trump's caustic personality leaving the equation so we can finally talk about these things in a more neutral way. A lot of people, myself included, cannot look past Trump's obvious flaws despite some of his ideas(at least the overall direction, maybe not the execution) being worth considering.
Ok, that’s one prediction.

> These aren’t serious people. They never have been, they never will be.

Well, Giuliani prosecuted the NY mafia and won, so part of this statement is a little far fetched.
Mind sharing an example?

What place has large cities lacking residents with low standards of living?
As an outsider all I can think is that this is an issue with the US media. The easy story is talking about the latest poll. The more difficult, but actually useful story, is focusing on the policies being put forward by each side.
No, the story simply had very little evidence and so had no definitive claims, but for now there is no evidence that those email where planted by foreign agents nor that the content of the laptop was falsified (for example while the Biden campaign dismissed the story they never claimed the emails to be false).

Moreover a witness that was part of that email thread confirmed the conclusion reached in the original story.
Pushed the US closer to civil war though. Isn’t that worse?
> I get your point about it being more than hyper-focused short term metrics, but how do you actually know it's working if you can't quantify it?

There are always going to be ways to measure things, they're just going to be more or less fuzzy than what we're used to (even if what we're used to is wrong).
Abine's Blur has been doing this for a few years: https://dnt.abine.com/#feature/masking

It supports masked phone numbers and credit card numbers as well.
I mean a deep red county that will stay red whether they correctly reflect their populations leanings or not, so there is little incentive to suppress any voting efforts, right? That's in contrast to a currently-elected-light-red county where the population is slightly leaning blue, but can't express that due to hindrances in the voting process (you can flip the colors if you want).
It's funny that you ask me to stop dehumanising people. But what did that 47% do constantly for four years?

What do you think those 47% want with gays, abortion (is murder!!!!) and foreigners?

Knowing full well what this last administration is up to?
the iraq body count is in the millions. unless you consider americans just worth more in general.
labeling everyone protecting Robert E. Lee statue as 'neo-nazi' is a reach, same as labeling all BLM protesters thugs and looters.
This was not done after the 2016 elections. Why should such a procedure be adopted now? Are there any indications of widespread fraud / miscounting / etc. ?
+1 my thoughts as well. He's been a stellar QA, stress testing various facets of government, politics, and media.
Outsourcing manufacturing from a country with labor and environmental regulations to a place where they treat workers like slaves and treat the environment like a trash can would be an example.
Just curious. Does anyone have a reasonable response to the following contention:

Trump claims to have engineered the world's greatest economy, but in fact he has just benefitted from the Fed holding rates artificially low in spite of an ongoing economic expansion. In other words, he's taking credit for something he essentially had no hand in.
Do you realize how fucking hard it is to influence elections by ballot shenanigans?
Would that slander look something like this? https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/06/18/nyregion/18nytrum...
From https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-campaign-is-suing-ove... ...

Barry Richard, an election lawyer who served as a lead attorney for President George W. Bush during the 2000 recount in Florida, criticized the campaign’s efforts. “I wouldn’t call it a strategy,” he said. “There isn’t any legal basis for anything I’ve seen so far.”

Other election law experts have questioned the multipronged attack. Richard Hasen, professor at UC Irvine School of Law and author of “Election Meltdown,” said the lawsuits, even if partially successful, were smaller-scale and didn’t threaten the results. “If they’re not being filed to change the election outcome, what’s the point?” he said.
Trump literally would've won had he had sent free red MAGA masks to every American in March/April.

It was the perfect missed opportunity
Last I checked Pepsi is sweeter than Coke.
The thing is he could also have done a macho move by ordering a huge lockdown, have military on the streets, but control the message the way he normally does: claim he was in early, say the economy would have been worse if he hadn't, blame China, point fingers at BLM for defying his orders, and so on.

That seems to fit just as well with his playbook, he just went for the wrong pill.
But there was only one side that is proven literally trying to kill democracy. There is no both sides in this argument.

The republicans might be crying about it, but they have zero proof. Whereas they've literally given us their plan out loud of how they were going to cheat. And they followed through.
I think people would be disappointed by the Biden presidency. He cant do anything to fight globalization. The wages will average out world over. Rich countries will be the first to face the worst of it.

This will support a authotorian wave in the coming few years. They will just need to attack from the left.
Masking third party tracking through CNAME. ad blockers are already blocking this deceptive shit.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/28/brave_cname_block/
You are decontextualizing the situation.

First - he's a Jew, literally with family members who died in the Holocaust - so he can make some comments about Kristallnacht.

Second - It's a some remarks while having an evening walk - this is not broadcast TV, a publication, some giant thing. It's an intimate conversation with some other nerds.

Third - parts of the 'equality' movement are violent, totalitarian, unwilling to compromise, breaking many laws, forcing their ideology onto all sorts of people without subtlety and without factual basis. is inflamed and supported by the press and academia,

The fact anyone would call this 'dangerous' - so 'dangerous' as to have him on a Podcast about Nazis is scary.
> I really wish I could find an old MS Natural keyboard without the number pad.

I had one!

I actually sawed off the end, and folded the membrane underneath. The rest I filled in with Sugru I believe. I really don't remember if that was before or after I saw someone on Geekhack do the same. Those were terrific keyboards, I still have at least one (modified, but in a different way) in storage.

The Matias has volume keys, but they are on the F10, F11, and F12 keys when pressed with the Fn key. But the new version of the Matias can be reprogrammed, so the otherwise useless Undo/Cut/Copy/Paste keys can be made into volume keys.
lol no because there isn’t going to be a civil war
Tim Hwang’s new book “Subprime attention crisis” talks a lot about this. The whole thing is a house of cards, based on the belief that better as targeting will yield better results, and they will squint at the numbers in any way possible to keep the illusion alive, because there’s so much money to be had in it.

But so many of the models are bad. Most of the data is awful, and the results when looked at objectively aren’t really amazing
The thing is: your friends aren’t completely wrong, in that their are loud racists that support Trump, and loud socialists that support Biden.

But they aren’t the majority of either party. It’s just our media that amplifies their voices.
There was reporting recently were he followed Kushners plan to open the economy and lay the blame for spreading covid at the feet of the state governors for poor implementation. That "blaming the governors" part never really happened that I saw.
Sorry, I want to know what my public servants are saying. How we can we make sure they are serving us if their words are being hidden from us?
current forms of government are too exploitable
I'm not particularly familar with italy's judiciary and nothing popped out in a quick skim of the wikipedia article, but if you're saying that there are countries that are worse, i don't doubt it. Being not the worst is not the same as being good or being ok.
> Forecasts give us probability distributions based on historical polling error data.

... and a lot of assumptions about the supposed underlying probability spaces.
Fox and all the mass media. Pure partisan garbage. Goebbels would be so proud.
Doesn't like 99% of the keyboards in use today have staggered rows (according to your linked description)?
Many of your goals could be accomplished by transitioning to a carbon-negative (positive?) economy that captures more carbon than it emits.

Energy independence helps us avoid relying on chinese solar panels and middle eastern oil.

Building carbon capture infrastructure in the US means the jobs would be here. Delaying means eventually pumping unprecedented amounts of money into whatever other country gets there first (probably China).
They won't answer.
I don't understand your point. The war on drugs started for a single function, and operated to accomplish that function consistently during its entire history, and currently accomplishes that function.

Planned Parenthood also helps poor people have access to family planning. Sanger started it with exactly that purpose in mind. That now it helps educated people have access to family planning also is a nice expansion of its original purpose. That Sanger's purpose in encouraging family planning in the poor was to eradicate them is as relevant as Nixon's love for Notre Dame football.

> Things are way more complex than just pointing at simplified versions of history and banging on the race drum.

You haven't given any evidence of that. You're encouraging to ignore our lying eyes and our entire history and replace them with your bitterness about the discussion of race.
Forensic Accountants Use Benford's Law to Detect Fraud
For any reader of this: if you understood apparatus in the scientific sense, there is a book titled "Building Scientific Apparatus" by Moore and Davis.
Some would say its better. I guess it depends on your perspective.
Face-to-face communication is superior to written communication
Hmm looks like 548 gave a 3% chance of R control and betting markets gave about a 15% chance on election night:

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/4365/Which-party-wi...

You can also try to work the probability distribution from this betting market and I'm sure they were more favorable to R than he was:

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/6669/How-many-House...

That's a pretty big discrepancy regardless, did he ever give an explanation as to why he disagreed with betting markets so much? Seems like betting markets had a ~ one standard deviation pro Trump/R polling error baked into their pricing.
Lenses and mirror construction led the field of optics. Which then opened up microscopes and telelcoses, etc.

Here's a paper that addresses the simple model (science->tech): https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/file...

Another example would be bridge and building construction were around long before the we understood physics. In fact, through experimentation we gather examples and try to understand how to build better arches, etc and eventually learn to understand why what works.