skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do realize other patterns exist where the frontend team is largely in control of the first endpoint, right? Backend-for-Frontend is one such pattern, although I'm sure that is nothing new either.

> because they don't need to ask the API team to change an endpoint

Bollocks. What happens is you need some field implemented in the microservice or DB that your GraphQL layer talks to. This task gets tossed into your ticket system, gets managed by half a dozen managers, and weeks to months later you finally get the field you need and can finally bubble it up through your fancy toy API.

> GraphQL creates a data graph

does anyone even know what a graph is today? Serious question.
What war did Jimmy Carter start?
We've banned this account - this is an example of the ideological flaming that this site is not for.

For anyone worried about bias, same applies the other way - e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25016654

Please (all/any of you) do not create accounts to break HN's guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, that’s never been a requirement for news media. California was called within 10 minutes of polls closing because it was expected to be a mathematical improbability of a Republican win in that state. Whenever a state gets called (and inevitably therefore the presidency), it is done because the math nerds at the media organizations put the odds of the other party winning outside the realm of what can realistically be achieved in the opinion of the analysts. There is no legal requirement to be eventually correct in your calls.
Mailbox anxiety goes away after you have a couple thousand unread emails for years. Mark as read is too much work. Whatever.
That's how it's done in most countries in Europe as well in my experience. To be clear in the end it's not what the media say that matters, it's the certified vote counts but those come in often much later. In this case I believe that some states like Alaska will be counting ballots well into next week.

It makes sense to call the race once the lead is considered significant enough that the remaining ballots can't statistically change the outcome.

A good counterexample in this election is Arizona, that's been called early for Biden by some outlets (AP and Fox News IIRC) but is still considered to be potentially winnable by Trump by the others. In this case it is possible that AP and Fox were a bit too trigger happy.
Revenue attribution is even more of a mess now with Apple's ITP.

You're absolutely right to say that good marketing still happens despite bad data.
Can a company like Daimler compete successfully in software against the likes of Tesla, Waymo, etc.?

Was this article about self-driving cars? It's just thermostat integration for crying out loud.
Zero chance the Republican Party would endorse someone who lost a national election. Arizona Republicans are no-doubt regretting putting a one-time loser in a position to lose yet again.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_McSally
The typical term is "presumptive". Trump was the presumptive nominee until the RNC met. Biden is the presumptive victor, pending completion of vote counts and EC vote. But people just shorten it to the (foregone conclusion of) victor.
I'm on the nerd side too, but I was quite surprised. Sampling isn't the only source of error in election polling - people also change their minds. In this election, people decided who they were going to vote for historically early - the lowest portion of people in the history of exit polls indicated they decided in the week before the election. In theory, this effect should reduce the width of the probability distribution, and yet, the polls were off again, in the same direction as they are always off, by a little bit more than average.

A little scrutiny here is worthwhile. In 2016, for example, the polls were off in part because pollsters weighted the black demographic in proportion to their voting behavior in 2008 and 2012 (when a black candidate was running, boosting turnout). The actual 2016 black turnout looked more similar to 2004 or 2000 - other elections where a black candidate wasn't running. Though I haven't dived into the 2020 polling data, it wouldn't surprise me if a similar effect were at play.

It's also become noticeable harder to do polling. Once upon a time, everybody had a landline, so random dialing worked really well. Now, some people have more phones than others, and people are increasingly less willing to talk to pollsters, increasing the error rate.

These are all important things to talk about - when you dismiss it as "oh yeah, polls are never perfect," you prematurely shut down the conversation. Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. The polls could be better and it's important to talk about how.
Most are asking for the people to decide.

And if the people truly and directly got to decide the president, this post would have been made on Wednesday morning.
Both cases are well explained by the Overton Window.
Let’s be honest, these are activist sources who all happen to be left leaning.
Similar to the Chesterton Fence example, knowing the history of something helps me understand if there was any good thinking behind it. For marijuana prohibition, it doesn't seem like there was.
What if you look at "calling a race" as "reporting on the underlying mathematical trajectories based off of empirical vote evidence"?

Given I believe that's an accurate description of what's involved in a news organization calling a race, they're not making the news, but reporting it, albeit in a form that makes it more palatable to the average reader.
What do you mean "all media called Gore the winner"? I can't find any evidence of that. According to Wikipedia [1], "on November 8 ... the networks declared that Bush had carried Florida and therefore been elected president. ... after all votes were counted, ... the networks retracted their declarations that Bush had won Florida and the presidency".

Also, note that Gore privately conceded the election that night, but retracted it after further counting due to the <1000 vote margin.

So in fact major networks (including CNN, ABC, FOX) initially called Bush the winner, but retracted that afterwards due to the possibility of a recount.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia...
Putting 24TB parts in a Backblaze Storage Pod 6.0 would presumably allow 1440TB in a 4U rack mount server.[1] In practice, how would you reach the same density with SSDs? (I haven't looked into it, just curious if you know that SSD options more dense than that exist, and whether they are equally openly documented.)

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv...
> alcoholism is far more rampant than most drugs used in the war on drugs

Unfair comparison. Alcohol is legalized and freely available. Let's compare alcohol and drugs at times, when drugs were free to use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars .
How about an apology to the rest of the world for starting and persecuting this 'war'?
I would dare to disagree. We also work quite a lot with Shopify API. First - Shopify REST API was pretty good. Second if you know how to work with REST, then I do not understand what is more difficult with GraphQL? Third, from our experience even Project managers, QA's and other less technical people use Shopify GrpahQL explorer more because it way more easily accessible and easier to work with.
But also would love to hear your struggles with Shopify GraphQL
The OS provides `apt-get`. Learning more than `apt-get` is and should be completely unnecessary and a bad choice of Ubuntu's Canonical.

> Also what rights do you have to become the UX arbiter here?

I am a user. So user experience is certainly arbitrary.
What is really keeping me up at night is the existential problem the US faces for the next 50 years: the ever increasingly large divide that is the polarizing of the electorate. We have to come together as Americans or someone will divide and conquer us.
I don't need to prove anything, since you're the one claiming that procedures were violated despite first-hand testimony from Republican observers that procedures were not.

The late-arriving ballots were both physically segregated, and counted separately from the timely ballots by separate government employees, in pairs including one Democrat and one Republican. Before numbers are reported, the numbers in each batch are confirmed by employees locally and at the state level to make sure they match the number of ballots in that batch, and these numbers are reviewed by Democratic and Republican employees.

Segregated numbers have not been reported in this manner because the courts ordered them not to, so the numbers are kept separately and were not included in the official count. Because of the court order, most of the segregated ballots have not yet been counted.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pennsylvania-ballots... (noting that Alito's order had no effect because that was what the ballot officials were already doing as a result of earlier state court orders.)
Undoubtedly a significant consideration for VP choice (Harris in this case) is the statistical likelihood that a 78-82 year old might pass away from natural causes some time in the next four years.
I’m censored on HN because I subscribe to wrongthink.

@dang declared that no matter how calmly and politely I stated mainstream conservative positions, I’m an inherent flame war because the audience wants me silenced.

This is here to stay.

Edit:

Looks like @dang beat me to a citation, but I’d invite readers to review my post history in general.
- Why would Mitch let them do anything? It worked to hobble Obama. If the axe a fair and powerful stimulus post-pandemic couldn't they pull off another mid-term comeback better?

- Biden has little agenda, which make make comprimise appear easier, but one must not forget the pre-compromise that happened before negotiating began.

We're in for at least 2 years of no meaningful policy, people.
Voters opinions are not a black and white thing. People might be in favor of something but still vote for you even if you aren’t. Especially in a two party system politicians have to optimize for not losing your voters. If 80% of your voters are for legalization and 20% against it but you would loose 15% of your voters if you would take it into your political platform, the you simply won’t do it.
These are 11c contracts that pay $1 in Feb if he's president and $0 otherwise. It's basically people betting on what is a very unlikely scenario now.

Calling this a 10% chance he continues to be president in Feb21 is disingenuous at best.
Trump's recent tweets that were flagged by Twitter weren't disagreements, they were antidemocratic.
Has a US president ever won (or even ran for) a non-consecutive term?
It feels like twitter staff are (ab)using the popularity of its users to promote their own agenda. That is not right and will probably have implications about their relationship with Article 230 (which IIRC assumes "good faith"). It's not fair to other biased media, which are legally liable for what they publish.
That bill also bans dropboxes and makes it harder to get a mail-in ballot. It's just a normal voter suppression bill.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23648091
It looks like that page has gone back and forth a few times and is leaning toward not listing Biden yet.
I think the shift to watch will be whether Trump's tactic of out-and-out lying takes deeper roots, particularly among Republicans or more broadly.
The nearly 90% number is of registered voters. 72% of eligible WI voters voted in the 2020 election, which is about average, e.g. 2004 was 72.9%.
I really have no idea where this idea that the polls failed comes from. There were only two bad calls this cycle and every other outcome was within the margin of error. It was pretty much the same case in 2016 where people who had no idea what they were talking about suddenly decided they were certain polling failed because they are unable to grasp the concept of margin of error and sample size.

Polls can only guess about turnout and the try to work backwards from there. The turnout estimates were wrong but not shockingly so, and as a consequence a lot of polls ended up having the result be at the far end of their margin of error. Nothing went wrong. Polling is hard. Get over this idea that you can have some sort of certainty regarding an election until we actually hold the election.
Nice philosophy. Typo: battle-tested, not battled-tested.
I had similar experience but it was for sudden-sensorineural hearing loss(high frequency) and tinnitus, I consulted a doctor with in 2 days of first signs and he was unable to point me to urgent treatments like steroid or hbot. in next week I consulted well known highly experienced(one 25+years other 30+years) doctors,none tried it.
I found about possible options from another doctor after 6 months and it was too late.
chief, it uses hotswap sockets. you don't have to desolder the switches in case of trouble.
I'm not familiar with it and your link is behind a paywall. Would you be up for summarizing or linking to something publicly available where I can read about it?
The media also called Tilden over Hayes in 1876 and Dewey over Truman in the 1940s. Its almost as if they're not the ones to decide the winner of an election.
To add a counter point to the sibling comments, I found the separate halves to be really annoying.

A fixed keyboard forces you to find an appropriate position and stick with it, whereas I spent too much time constantly fiddling with the spacing and positioning of the split halves.

To make matters worse, the particular model I had didn't stay put, as each half was only half the weight of a single unit, and thus prone to being nudged out of alignment when I got up / sat down / moved about (I am not the most graceful of people).

In the end, I used a little plastic hinge to keep them together (while still allowing some room to open / close the angle they met at), and gave up on it entirely when the plastic hinge broke.
>"Seagate is confident that heating the media using laser (HAMR) is the best solution possible, while Toshiba and Western Digital believe that using microwaves to change coercivity of magnetic disks (MAMR) is more viable for the next several years. Furthermore, Western Digital even uses 'halfway-to-MAMR' energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording (ePMR) for its latest HDDs. Meanwhile, everyone agrees that HAMR is the best option for the long term.

HAMR requires new heads and immediate transition to glass platters with all-new new coating, whereas MAMR only needs new heads and can continue using aluminum media with a known coating. Even if HAMR offers a higher areal density than MAMR, it is possible to increase platter count to expand the capacity of a MAMR drive to match that of a HAMR-based HDD. There is a catch though: thin MAMR platters will have to rely on a glass substrate."

This is interesting; it seems that we might be halfway between metal and glass hard drives...

Which brings up an interesting thought, phrased as a challenge, for all Physicists out there...

Given a piece of glass, ordinary glass, ordinary glass and no magnetic metal platter, my challenge is:

a) How do you write data to it?

b) How do you read that data back from it?

c) What's the smallest size / depth you can accomplish this at, and why?

d) Does a formula govern c, and if so, what is it?

e) What do you do about imperfections in the glass?

?

We currently have CD's, DVD's and Blu-Ray discs that use lasers to write to chemical mixtures inside of those media.

My challenge is -- can we do it without those chemical compounds, could we use simple pure glass, and if so, how?

?

(Note to Future Self: Work on this in the future... <g>)
An article on the steps Wikipedia was taking two weeks ago around the election. https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedias-plan-to-resist-electi...

This suggests that experienced editors have reached consensus regarding the likely outcome of the election.
“Adopted the term” doesn’t mean “adopted the technology”. The former is used to implicate you’re doing something brand new and are naming it.
> instead just expose your database to the world

This is the part I was focusing on, sorry if there was confusion. For context, I've been working with GraphQL since June 2015, so I'm pretty intimate with the topic.

It's worth noting that those slogans you quoted are from graphql.com rather than graphql.org. The latter is the official site, the former (.com) is owned by Apollo and isn't official in any capacity -- something I personally find to be an extremely questionable situation. GraphQL's actual slogan is "A query language for your API".
Bush v Gore ordered that the recount be stopped.
Please use the AGPL (3), which also defends against SaaSS. (Legitimate SaaS providers can still use it.)
Censoring the elected president is inherently anti democratic.
I highly doubt they can outmaneuver Mitch. Especially in this current environment where the two parties are unwilling to work together and have a divisive relationship. Things might have been better a couple of decades ago where working across the aisle was more common I think.
Because the economically disadvantaged part of the US population (which disproportionately affects minorities) can't afford to take a day off from work to vote, so voting by mail is a good way for them to vote without a personal downside.

Alternatively this could be fixed by making Election Day a national holiday and/or setting up more polling locations.
I severely doubt that someone would non-anonymously choose to be the single person that gave away the election to their declared opponent, weeks after being a loyal partisan.
Michigan's results are accurate, and were never in question after one county's glitch.

“Because the clerk did not update software, even though the tabulators counted all the ballots correctly, those accurate results were not combined properly when the clerk reported unofficial results,” the Department of State said.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-technology...
It’s hard to think of a realistic example of the type of misinformation that is damaging to our society and democracy that Joe Biden could post. I think we need to acknowledge the unique threat that Trump is/was and stop both sides-ing this.
Care to tell us what you're linking? It's behind some wall (and breaks the back button as well).
Requiring users to unsubscribe from something that they didn't explicitly opt-in to in the first place is the wrong approach.

Services which spam users in such a fashion are malicious.
Further, Biden will be older when entering the office, than the next-older, Reagan, was when -leaving- the office.-

Also, of course, Kamala Harris makes history as first woman of color elected US vicepresident.-

Biden has already changed his Twitter bio to "president-elect":
- https://twitter.com/joebiden
Yes but that isn’t the messaging here. “Biden won the election” is.

If there is some kind of court challenge or recount that changes the outcome, it’s really bad for trust in the democratic system. Better to just be patient and wait - but patience is something lacking these days.
This is like a workshop at a usual conference, no proceedings, right?
Regardless of whether or not he accomplished those things, his outspoken goading of his base and complimenting other authoritarian or authoritarian adjacent rulers on Twitter and other media outlets is a clear source on violent and authoritarian points of view.
I don't think Jack Dorsey would do that to a Democratic candidate.
A warning is not censorship.
Test Demo
Test demo
Advocating for a peaceful breakup of the country is an ideological flame?
All of them knew their symbolic votes would not change the result, and they didn't all switch in the same direction.

The majority of them were pledged to the loser Democrat, and went faithless so that Republicans could be faithless without risking electing a democrat. Only 2 Republicans took the bait, and that only happened because many Republicans hated Trump, whereas Biden is extremely popular among Democrats.
Cloth/disposable masks have no effect on exercise performance in healthy people
2016 had a similar electoral vote margin, so a few faithless electors could not and did not affect the outcome.

If today's electoral vote split was 270-268 (as was a possibility if Trump won PA and GA), then things may have been more iffy.
Yes, I think so.

Fact is that mail in voting has been banned in European countries and elections overturned because its much easier to cheat.

I would need more some statistical evidence. So far I have seen graphs pointing out how Biden's tally doesn't follow
Benford’s Law.

https://principia-scientific.com/joe-bidens-votes-violate-be...

"Michigan County Clerk Admits Voting Software Glitch "Skewed" Results, Trump To Gain 6,000 Votes

https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/michigan-county-clerk-adm...

This is going to go in front of the Supreme Court. Twitter should not be trying to hide the fact that one of the parties claims fraud. A huge number of people voted for Trump. Let him make his case.

My Gut instinct is that it is suspicious that some democratic counties got 90% turnout.
That isn't quite true, addiction has a high social cost. Hurts relationships, breaks families apart, and increases national medical spending.
But what gives Twitter the power to dictate what is right and what is wrong?
Perhaps, but each of these organizations were started by a single person and then grew. Plausible is only 2 people if I recall correctly. So I'm not sure counting purely individuals makes sense. Sqlite even isn't one person, multiple people make pull requests.
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Whatever their justification, it is obvious that there is absolutely going to be a tendency to do this with anyone who is even half as much of an outsider as Trump. The notion that these watchmen are simply protecting us from “lies” is a naive delusion. And yes, regardless of your politics, that is not a good thing for citizens.
The fact they are insiders assures me nothing will get done while fingers are pointed every which way.
I think that while it may seem like a slippery slope at first, it is what we need. I think it's actually quite similar to the immune system analogy in the comment above. We need to have democratic participants in a democratic process. Our immune system needs to repel the undemocratic elements in some capacity.

Admittedly the question becomes how we can in a fair manner judge what ideas in which context can have such a dangerous impact as to be non-democratic.

We all have to reflect how close fascism and other kinds of ideologies always are just beneath the surface, and that we are all susceptible of falling on that train it isn't specifically another group that is.
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IIUC, litigation cannot (Constitutionally) change when the electoral college votes, when those votes are counted, or when the Presidency transfers. Assuming all states appoint electors in accordance with the safe harbor provisions of the Electoral Count Act, the "real call" is December 14th. If that doesn't happen, then it's possible neither candidate will have 270+ votes and in that case the "real call" is an unusually counted vote in the house.

With the current projections, it would likely have to be three states that fail to send electors properly for Biden to have a chance of losing.
I think the harder problem is not the binary cases but the shades of gray.

Want to ban Nazi's? I wont disagree, most people wont.

Want to ban group X which is fighting with group Y in a tit-for-tat skirmish over decades? How do you decide who is right? How do you decide truth?

What about cases where someone has done something bad in response to something bad done earlier? Do you ban one side? The other? Both? Does the side with more political/status power decide who gets banned?