skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have tried to do the same, signing up for the Flip Side newsletter, among other things. I think it’s still hard for me, an over-educated progressive, to understand the American right. Here are the problems:

1. Reality is often only reported in “liberal” news sources. A lot of information is censored on right wing sources.

2. Both types of news sources editorialize in the headline. Sometimes it’s hard to know they even refer to the same story.

3. People trying to achieve balance in reporting often relocate players onto the wrong team. For example, the Mueller report is not a “left wing” document and balance is not achieved by putting Mueller against a Trump surrogate.

4. “Liberal” sources already include plenty of right wing opinions. For example, David Brooks and Ross Douthat write for the New York Times. There’s no equivalent among the Wall St Journal columnists or Fox News hosts.

5. News stories found only in right wing sources are usually mendacious. For example, reporting about the Michigan ballot glitch without mentioning that it was human error and corrected before reporting the results.

Fundamentally, it’s not that we have differing information, it’s that we only accept information that confirms our world view. I can read dozens of articles written from the point of view that universal health care will destroy the country and not one will ever resonate with me. It’s just too silly to me.
I honestly believe this is just a return to normal for both sides. Conservatism, before being injected with neoliberalism by Thatcher and Reagan, has been about leaving other countries alone while focusing on protecting American interests. Speak softly and carry a big stick. Conservatives have never wanted US hegemony traditionally. Preservation of Bretton Woods has had to be a focus post-WWII in order to combat the spread of anti-American communism. Now that the Cold War has ended, conservatives have tried to find a way back to focusing on American interests. It’s a delicate balance that has to be struck though. I think this is also the reason for the split in the Democratic Party. “Establishment” members are focused on preserving the neoliberal Bretton Woods status quo. The progressives are focused on doing away with the oligarchy that system has created and moving towards a more socialistic global society.

I believe this is really just a return to the way things used to be, before the US decided to intervene in WWII and had to find a way to pay for the massive cost of that. Conservative and liberal are not opposites like everybody thinks these days. Conservative and progressive are opposites. Liberal and authoritarian are opposites. Both parties are (or should be) focused on the American ideal of liberalism and representative government chosen by the people while either preserving traditional values or advocating for enlightenment values.

However, real life is not that cut and dry, politics are messy, parties don’t fall exactly along these lines and the media plays a part in dictating who should believe what. But in general I think Trump is an indicator that we’re headed for a more traditional alignment of values. Who knows, perhaps a viable third party will emerge from this. A Conservative party, a progressive party, and a Bretton Woods establishment party.
How does allowing immigration in America lead to people being beheaded in France.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25017663.)
The pandemic, if anything, has proved the "authoritarian" diagnosis to be false. Authoritarians love to have an excuse to lock everyone up in their homes and decide from on high which businesses will be allowed to operate. Trump OTOH was like "math is tough; let the states handle it!"
It would be nice if we had more studies like that. Tech's insistence that productivity is unquantifiable has allowed a large amount of superstitions - sorry, "best practices" - to flourish.
>So the opposite of what an authoritarian would do.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that's not entirely right.

Authoritarians aim to centralize power to themselves. By removing other sources of power, their power grows. An authoritarian's ultimate goal in the US is to remove all checks and balances they can.

In comparison a libertarian aims to remove non-centeral government, like laws that effect small towns, schools and police forces in small towns, and so on, though each libertarian voter aims to remove different things, so not to mislead: Not all libertarians want to remove police, or schools, or roads, or whatever else. What you will not hear is a libertarian wanting to remove congress or another form of checks and balance.
Better to let land vote than the actual people right?
That's like saying that a machine gun wasn't more deadly because we already had rifles. Trump made a number of major expansions in claims of executive power: spending money which Congress had allocated for different purposes, claiming immunity to legal investigation, using the DOJ to defend him against civil suits predating his run for office, simply putting people in positions which require Congressional approval, claiming that he could override state health authority decisions related to the pandemic, trying to zero out taxes which he doesn't agree with, etc. He didn't get away with all of it but that Unitary Executive theory is a really big shift away from the American system of government and it happened by fiat rather than some kind of reasoned legislative process.

Put more simply, Trump managed to find a position strong enough that he lost the support of even John Yoo, who felt that the President had authority to order torture.

https://www.npr.org/2017/02/08/514049685/former-defender-of-...
Tear-gassing protestors for a photo-op.
I'm 38 and Trump is the first president in my lifetime to not start another war. It is a big achievement.
Why is this up to Biden? Why didn't Trump do this over four years?
On this topic is it possible to show the source code of your product but retain the copyright on it? Like some of the electronics my grandmother had came with a manual that had their full schematic in them. I want to make products that come with the schematic and source code but retain my copyright. I want to build products that empower you to fix it if it breaks and make it last a long time. Is that possible?
> How do you know how much is fraudulent? Just look at your internal data. If Facebook says it delivered 100 clicks, but you only see 10 show up that is something to investigate. But if you see 90ish, move on with your life.

That isn't good enough IMHO you will (should) see a high amount of clicks, it's just that most/all of them might be from bots...
You say that like the pandemic and the economic situation this year were entirely unconnected. If the situation would have been handled with more care in the beginning instead of downplaying it, it likely wouldn't have had the economic effect that it did.
Ok, I was wondering about the eye twitching.
> A mutable variable is a memory slot that can be mutated, though.

No, that's a mutable value.

The variable is the lexical representation of a value. If you change which value your variable binds to, you have changed the representation of the variable; you have mutated it. The underlying values in memory have not changed, they are immutable.

I'm not crazy that this is a real definition: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/variables/#man-varia...
Yeah, me to :(

And I don't see arrow keys, strange, how does one use such keyboard?

And where is the Esc key?
It's similar to the European Parliament, in that small member states have a small advantage over populous member states.

The whole point is to prevent Germany and France (or New York and California) from dominating everything.
ive not done hard real time for a number of years (usually I have foubd its not needed), but Xenomai would be one option for real hard realtime. The other option is to use the rtlinux patches, however that is not true hard real time, but for most use-cases works ok.
You'd need to reverse-engineer the built java files, which probably isn't so easy and that a company will do this
> What do you think those 47% want with gays, abortion (is murder!!!!) and foreigners?

Trump didn’t run on an anti-gay platform.

You’re right that anti-abortion is still big. Until you can convince people that it’s not murder, it’s pretty hard to get them to back down from that stance. This is honestly the only reason the Republicans trap so much of the religious vote.

“Foreigners” is also not something Republicans are against, it’s illegal immigration that’s the complaint. That’s why they support reforms that still allow significant immigration.
I think understanding the past, especially the truer version that tends to become available years later, is extremely important.

Personally I appreciate when people point out what really happened (based on evidence) as a counterpoint to the cover narratives of the time, which so many still believe. We need cynicism where politics and public institutions are concerned.
Is there a reason you ommitted the working class from your comment? I find it odd you're addressing everything the parent said except for how globalization affects the working class.
Lenovo offers an external version of their keyboard :)

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/accessories-and-monitors/keyboa...
The Syrian proxy war killed 500,000 Syrians. The war in Iraq killed 1 million.
This is a false equivalency because voting for Trump in 2020 is a demonstration of complicity with a years-long record of racist rhetoric and policies while it’s simply laughable that a Biden administration would implement anything as redistributive as the New Deal, much less hiring true socialists in the administration.

I blame Fox News for getting away with a decade of bad-faith claims of socialism towards things like mortgage assistance or Pre-K education.
Back in reality, it's true [China] could ... sink 15 aircraft carriers [in an hour].

That same adversary wouldn't sink a second [15 carriers in the next hour . . . 'cos they'll all be sunk]
To be fair, he did say “There won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation.”
the key is for AES cipher which is a block cipher. So, I think the tracks should already be in filesystem.
What are you talking about? CNN aired the president's presser in full without stopping it; I know because I watched it live on CNN. Are you mixing up CNN with other networks?
An unforgettable week. An unforgettable year. The most intense and unusual — especially given the circumstances — campaign in my lifetime.

I really do hope we can come together, and put divisions aside. In real life, people have more in common than we might think based on what happens online. There are actual differences, and a lot of anger, and resentment. But what makes America special is our reimagining of democracy, every generation — something we’re all a part of, if we choose to be.

Here’s to science and civility.
> Japan is largely homogenous
While that's true I always like to remind people of the Ainu people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people). They are an example of a suppressed (largely extinct) ethnic group in Japan. Basically Japan's native Americans.

Aside from that, drug prohibition has always been used to h arras people on a basis of their class background. The working and caring classes always take the main toll in prohibition.
The Democratic Party (its representatives and organization, not its voters) is not pro-drug legalization, and when in power has prosecuted the war on drugs aggressively. It's very odd to refer to drug legalization as "our ideas," yet still 1) associate them with the Democratic Party, which does not agree with them, and 2) refer to the election of a Democratic POTUS who has said that he doesn't support drug legalization as a "victory."
FBI: Hackers stole source code from US government agencies and private companies
Given New York City's very high rate, how would a person find out what the US w/o NYC compares?
They're Neo-Confederates, celebrating the cause of treason. You may be sympathetic to that cause but own it without pretending it was anything other than an insurrection to protect slavery.
You are correct, but at 48/52 with his vote joining the democrats it’s as close to partisan as one can get without it being complete.
From a long way away, and well clear of the slings and arrows that Americans are suffering, I would like to take a fleeting moment to wish you all well.

I do think that after such a president it behoves the winners of this election to have a long hard think as to why the result was so close.

Your nation's people deserve a rest from the division you are suffering. Go well and take the opportunity to set a course that is both good for you and worthy of your immense wealth and power.
Biden’s focus ought to be making sure a crazy person like Trump is never elected again and that if he is, that government institutions cannot be abused the way they were under Trump.

It should be made easier to prosecute a president for illegal activity.

Things like showing tax returns should be formalized.

New regulation needs to be put in place to limit the spread of falsehoods and conspiracy theories over facts.

Social media currently benefit economically from this and that has to stop. The economic incentive to spread crazy and extremist ideas has to be removed.
> The US doesn't have a voting integrity issue, it has a voting suppression issue.

While I whole heartedly agree, I’m concerned how we arrived here. There have been no new additional controls put in place to ensure a dramatic shift in the voter culture (from majority in person to mail in), did not expose vulnerabilities previously unused.
I guess it’s luck to a degree, but I regard it more as calling Iran’s bluff. There is no defense for their overt funding and leadership of destabilizing terrorism in the region (as evidenced). They have been to war before, it’s not “luck” that they didn’t decide to commit suicide this time. They cannot afford war, and had they started, fighting a coalition of the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and a few others would not be good for them, even if Russia or China decided to float them for a while. It would have resulted in a horrible, horrible outcome for the people of Iran, and say what you want about the Theocracy but it’s not that dumb.
Homebrew 4-bit transistorized CPU
The blast radius of this sort of per workload storage is much smaller than that of shared everything storage such as CEPH.
I think that's oversimplifying. The fact that Trump is not a full-blown authoritarian, or is bad at it, is compatible with his expression of a number of authoritarian values.
> If Facebook says it delivered 100 clicks, but you only see 10 show up that is something to investigate. But if you see 90ish, move on with your life.

Cool, so just give Facebook a 10% bonus for providing a fraudulent service?
It was incredibly close, so close that we waited for days to figure out who's going to win.
Biden has ~50.6%, if that's not close I don't know what is.

The fact some previous was closer, doesn't mean this one wasn't close, not sure how we even need to point this out on a site like hackernews.
> Who has replaced the US in this regard?

Why do you assume it was/will be replaced?

It could go back to the laissez-faire system that was present when all the European powers were running around basically doing anything they wanted. (It should be noted that the US wasn't as isolationist as the propaganda would have you believe: how else did they get pre-revolution Cuba, PR, Guam, Hawaii, etc.?)
Do not be mistaken, popular vote was one of the options considered at the beginning of the USA. It was not due to the potential for fraud. So even today, the electoral college serves as a safeguard when there is reason to believe the popular vote has been tainted. The current media narrative is there is no hard evidence, but what other evidence other than video, sworn affidavits is required? Do not be too quick to call it for Biden, not withstanding the popular vote, this probably will drag on until December despite the media attempts to end it quickly.
I don't see how anyone can argue for the electoral college as a feature in our modern times. Our Senate and the electoral college were designed in order to get support from colonies to form the new USA. It worked well for that purpose.

We have entirely different goals now. We should be aiming for fair elections in which one person's vote is equal to any other's regardless of the state they reside. The electoral college is downright repulsive once you realize how unfairly it treats citizens in more populated states compared to those in less populated states.

The electoral college now has the potential of pulling the union apart. If California and New York see a few more elections in which their citizens' votes are discounted, resulting in popular vote winners losing the presidency, then it would be logical for them to secede. They can take their massive economies and accompanying tax dollars and leave this system behind, as it should've been a long time ago.
> That's a hyper partisan view of a much more complicated situation.

No it’s not.

> it isn't sabotage or subterfuge.

It’s absolutely sabotage. “You can either count all the ballots or count quickly” is dishonest hackery, and defending this behaviour is shameful.
And not just by accident. This has always been Trumps policy and election promise.
Devolution of power is a solution to the polarisation. The division in the country is real and deep and in some places inconsolable, rather than just a media mirage. Rather than increasingly violent competition for the presidential office or the federal government, a more flexible union is probably a sane idea.

The US faces no threat of being conquered, it has the most powerful military and intelligence capacity in the world by a healthy margin. Insofar as foreign interference creates division, it's precisely the lack of decentralisation that makes these attacks dangerous.
The socialists that support Biden do so with noses held and muttering about "liberals".
I dunno, in the resnet age, many and perhaps most networks are 20+ layers. I feel like the shallowest networks I see these days are RNNs being used for fast on device ML, which trends not to be terribly wide due to the same hardware constraints.
That depends on the Georgia runoffs in January. If the Dems win those two seats, then along with Harris's tie breaking vote they would have a senate majority.
"Here's a benefit that US hegemony provides"

"But what about BLM and domestic conflict, US hegemony is dead, and the US has killed a lot of people overseas"

I still don't see the connection.
Your metaphor cuts both ways.
Electoral college is like 3 lambs and 2 wolves voting for what's for dinner. Lambs live in one state and wolves live in two states. Wolves win even though they are numerically the minority.

Your metaphor simply exposes a risk of any sort of majority rules, it's not specific to popular vote systems.
The Trump admin has performed more drone strikes than the Obama admin. The difference is transparency.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/5/8/18619206/under-do...
Someone tell Adam Smith he was doing it all wrong. This rando has the solution.
> 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.

What's interesting, and in defense of the electoral college, these three actually pick the winner in very different ways, making it harder for a single party to take control, and requiring some amount of compromise. If we just used popular vote for choosing the president, they're more likely to be the same party as the one controlling the House.
There are still a significant minority of single issue anti-abortion voters who will support any candidate on that basis regardless of what else he does. I don't agree with them, but they exist and they are sincere in their beliefs. It's a mistake to confuse that with nihilism.
The disease is kleptocracy, not drug addiction.
I distinctly remember a tweet from 4 years ago, "this presidency will be a test of our institutions and counter powers".

Well, this did not go _well_.

I wish a lot of luck to the Biden administration, there is a lot to rebuild. I might disagree on tons of policy topics with him but at the very least I can completely agree that he lives up to what should be the bare minimum for any president : respect the rule of law, be the president of all americans, not just the ones who voted for you, etc
Look around and tell me that the general middle class American is worst off than they were in any other decade of modern America.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
First World problems are a bitch! :)

I haven't worked in a FAANG, but I've worked in wholesale finance for nearly 20 years, on both the buy- and sell-side.

You can expect a lot more regulatory constraint, slower moving innovation, much earlier starts, and an completely different work culture, I imagine, on the East Coast.

I'd stay in Cali if I were you...
Arch is supposedly a good distribution to learn Linux under the hood, but I learned a lot about Linux and the CLI when Arch did not even exist (back then you had Slackware which was all about DIY, later on Gentoo had all the rice, ...). I frankly don't understand the hype. If you want a rolling release, you can also run Debian Testing or Unstable or any BSD-CURRENT. From a technical PoV I don't see what Arch does different (in contrast to an OS like NixOS, QubesOS, Tails, or Kali). The Arch wiki is excellent, so perhaps that is what Arch brings to the table, AUR being the other (its huge).

Fragmentation, when it makes sense (such as the examples I mentioned) is OK but all these thirteen in a dozen distributions won't be missed by me. Isn't it bloody annoying already when you're a Debian person and work at a RedHat shop? Why would I add another factor to that? And a rolling release OS is great on your main primary desktop. It isn't on a server, nor on a secondary computer on the side.

Hence instead of Arch I recommend to play around with both Debian and RedHat based OSes to get familiar with both. As both of these are the standard in the industry (not Arch). That and a distribution tailored for a purpose, such as the ones I mentioned. The other distribution I never understood the popularity about is Manjaro. It used to be top on Distrowatch (its #2 now). Why though? I don't know anyone who uses that. It has no market penetration in the server space AFAIK.

That being said, we are talking in a thread for and by Arch users. It ain't nice to break their party. I'll end my post wishing all to enjoy Arch Conf 2020!
One particularly scary one is 60 minutes recorded footage of rally of Trump supporters, where many of them on their Trump flags had fascist symbolism. This spiked a fear of fascism growing in America.

In response instead of addressing this growing anti-american anti-democratic minority, instead the news decided to associate anti-fascism with riots, protestors, and other scary negative fear based topics. Now the second anyone raises a concern about fascism, supporters will unconsciously turn a blind eye. I'm surprised such word smithing like that works, and frankly I'm scared it does work. I'm terrified that different conservative groups rallied behind not only fascist movements, but invented a boogyman term for it like antifa as a way to make the topic of fascism partisan and questionable. If that's not anti-democratic and unamerican I don't know what is.
quietly making preparations doesn't outweigh repeatedly and incessantly lying to public about the operation of and outcome of the election, nor sending his supporters to attack vote-counting stations.
Congratulations to the President-elect, and to the government workers and volunteers at all levels who tirelessly worked around the clock to ensure our elections were free and fair.

I think these next few weeks is a time for reflection, so that all of us can work hard to create the future we want. Wishing everyone well and to breathe in and out regularly, it's been a stressful year.