skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the million dollar question, and honestly I don't really know, but would love insightful discussion on this topic.

I thought the Sam Harris podcast really hit the nail on the head. The messaging from the left for the past 10-15 years has really had very little to offer straight, white men at a psychological level. The rhetoric is pretty constant around wanting more diversity as a first, primary goal (meaning fewer straight white men), constant talk of privilege (you should be ashamed not just for trying to take pride in your own accomplishments, but you're guilty of your parents' and grandparents' sins as well), hyper-vigilance against language that has even the slightest resemblance to a color or culture (no more master branch for you), doing things once seen as "manly" is now filtered through the lens of "toxic masculinity".

And to be clear, I don't even disagree with many of these ideas. But in a democracy why should we be shocked when people vote in their own selfish interest?
I like hasura too.
But honestly absolutely the same result could be achieved with REST too.

GraphQL is not that different from REST.
Am curious how well is GraphQL supported outside the JavaScript ecosystem. I know there are various unofficial libraries, but it seems that gRPC has far better official support for non-JS/non-Node ecosystems.
I honestly don't think any of the Dems in the primary except him would've beat Trump given how important WI, MI, and PA were.
I remember Biden and Sanders in 2016; Biden actually appeared to be speaking more eloquently than Sanders. Sanders did not change like at all, and Biden - he appears to have declined very significantly, as if if he had stroke or something. Perhaps dementia.
It used to be that reps from both sides of the isle would come together on things. Think John McCain not voting to kill Obamacare as one of his last votes before he died. There was a give and take. It seems that that is what is missing.
Trump is certainly not presidential, but if you look at his policy, he's not less autocratic and has done more to give power to the states than other presidents.
> From the perspective of a European outsider, I very much agree. A lot of problems seem to stem from the two party system.

I used to think the same way, but many (most?) countries in Europe end up having coalitions anyway, so you end up really having just two blocks. More parties might give you the option to choose a party that is more after your taste, but in reality you (often) end up with coalitions that take most ideas from the strongest party within the coalition.

I would assume the same thing would happen within the Democratic/Republican Party in the States as well, i.e. a compromise between the left/right wings within these parties based on what is shared by most members(?)
Bernie was the front-runner until the week where every single candidate simultaneously dropped out to endorse Biden. I think this is what people mean when they say the establishment rose to fuck Bernie when it became clear that he could actually realistically win the nomination.
There is a silent understanding (silent, because it isn't raised) that the US takes a larger part of NATO spending because it's politically feasible to do so there, and because protecting Europe is to protect US interests as well.

In some places, spending 2% GDP on defense (meaning cutting back on something else) would be political suicide. So that government is kicked out and it remains 1.2% or something. What happens then? Nato kicks out the member state? That hardly helps any more than a member paying 1.2% and promising to help with Article V!
You're probably right. I'm not a fan of Trump, and I'm not sure how I'd feel if I found out that there was truly fraud and the election belonged to Trump.

But I am in favor of investigating all (legitimate) allegations of fraud, not just the ones that DJT wants to investigate. And counting all ballots.
All of what you wrote, unfortunately. But this problem can be solved.

If you believe in helping people, I believe you should model voluntarism for your kids, nieces, nephews, older relatives, neighbors, etc. You don't have to do in a way that says aren't I great I volunteer. It can be something like sharing starting with holidays and then expanding to non-holidays. Perhaps encourage a smaller holiday fete at work and direct the resources to something like gifts for a shelter, Toys for Tots, shoe box gifts for homeless shelters, etc. My grandkids, for example, learn about helping others at Christmas buy picking out a toy and donating it to Toys for Tots. This is a super important life lesson and it's reinstilled frequently.

Or, there's the volleyball team. I was new in a job and pulled together a volleyball team to play in a tournament sponsored by an org I volunteered for. We had t-shirts and folks raised money. And it was fun! The team members and board members bonded in an important way on something that was bigger than us and our "issue." While the tournament sponsor did not get more volunteers out of our team, they appreciated that I was more committed and that they got new donors.

There are so many things that prevent people from volunteering/giving/helping. Very often, people will help, they just need to be asked or encouraged. People don't know where to look for ways to participate in some civic something. https://longevity.stanford.edu/three-reasons-why-people-dont... provides details I can't.

Interested individuals should still volunteer/help/do something even if others don't.
Judges have thrown out nearly every lawsuit the Trump campaign has filed.
Youtube, the infallible source of truth.

I've watched Biden live multiple times. He is not as skilled an orator as Obama was, and he indeed clearly has a speech impediment. None of that means dementia.

Either you fell for the old "youtube conspiracy hole", or you're seeing what you want to see.
Wellbutrin could fit here, it's energizing and doesn't make your feelings 'flat' but careful with the insomnia. I had to stop it because of that, and after a week or so of stopping it I started having tinnitus (the morning it started I woke up from a dream similar to EHS - exploding head syndrome)
Could be related/unrelated, who knows.
People only rose to the occasion by chance. Had there not been corona and had the economy still been booming, Trump would probably have won. Surely it is possible to find someone out of 300 million people with the same qualities as Biden -- not a big ask, since his #1 quality is that he's not divisive -- but 30 years younger?
I’ll lead off by mentioning that some states already voted by mail and have for many years. So if there were a problem with this approach that enabled mass voter fraud we would be well aware by now.

The “blank ballots” are not blank in the sense that they are interchangeable. Each ballot sent out is the specific ballot of a specific person. It’s certainly possible that some ballots were stolen from their intended recipients and mailed back with forged signatures, but what’s important is whether this could have been done on a mass scale to influence the election result. And the answer to that is no. A coordinated effort to fraudulently return enough ballots to matter would require large-scale raiding of mailboxes to steal ballots, or stealing ballots in mass quantity soon after they were put into the postal system by each state’s election commission. The former is impossible, as it would require an organization comparable in size to the postal service to be able to go house by house stealing ballots as they were delivered, and it would be obvious that it was occurring. The latter is easy to detect and trivial to rectify.

In both cases, the fraud would be detected as soon as anyone who hadn’t received their ballot went to their state’s election website and requested another ballot and were informed that their ballot had been delivered and returned.
Speaking from experience, session/object management is always tricky with ORM's. SQLAlchemy has been good for us; but the usage has been very, very disciplined and doesn't look idiomatic.
> by refraining from pushing (mainly white, straight men, but also others, like the religious) many further from the Democratic party.

According to these Fox News polls[1], that shouldn't be a problem given their views.

This election also saw a drop in white male support for Trump.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/YxxnynP
In an ideal world, I think we should do either:
A) Random selection a la the Venetian Doge (political leader, not meme-canine). The house should definitely be random selection- preferably all citizens over 18 and under say 70 filing a tax return.
B) Allow indefinite run-offs with None-of-the-above options. Basically, if None-of-the-above wins, the election is redone but nobody on the ballot is allowed to run for the run-off.
Eh, it is difficult for me to respond to this in good faith, but I will make an attempt.

I will open by saying something that may not be immediately apparent. The use of force by US government ( be it state or federal ), has actually decreased over the last decades ( not to look very far back, check historical records of civil rights and unions in US to get an idea of how things were handled in the past ). The only real difference now is that it is on video. But yes, I am arguing there is less of state violence now.

The nation vilification is nothing new in US ( Bush "With us or against us" that made US population hate Muslims -- up until then average American barely knew; Disney WW2 propaganda just to name a few better known examples ). These days, it is China ( among others ). Do you see a pattern?

Increasing protests. I can give you that. BLM protests are probably biggest event in US political scene since Tea Party . That said, I am not sure, they are bigger than civil rights movement or Vietnam war protests. They are more visible due to social media. Thankfully, they seem less widespread though.

Blatant racism. Honestly, I am not sure if racism is a function of "By what measure is the US more divided than in the past?". Quite honestly, I would venture to suggest that today's racism is waay lower than at any point in US history. That said, this is just a guess.

Nationalism. Again, I am not sure if racism is a function of "By what measure is the US more divided than in the past?". Historically, US gets more nationalistic as things go downhill ( WW2, red scare to name a few ).

So.. I am not sure you have a point here. US is obviously divided, but the things you listed are not a function of that division.

edit: added China to the example list
This should really be a $1.99/yr service.
Probably why every tech company told me every day for the last 6 months to vote. I think the thing I’m most excited about with this election is to stop being bombarded by every site to vote!
Its too late to delete but I apologize, though the comment wasn't intended as a personal attack and was more intended as a general lament, rereading it didn't sound like that. I should have taken the opportunity to get into the issues I have with the prevalence of this attitude more in depth. Sorry.
"It was supposedly intended to avoid populism"

Populism?

You mean democracy?
We need to reform the system so that people feel like they can afford not to be tribal. Key to this is the unbalanced wildcard that is the United States Supreme Court. While the Supreme Court has the ability to basically make any law or any decision no matter how flimsy the textual language support, the United States is not a democracy, it’s a dictatorship. without that fear of what a court could and would do, Trump would have never won his first campaign.

I always hope that some moderate politician will come along in deemphasize the power of the bases. A strongly pro environment Republican, or a true honest pro life Democrat. Unfortunately what we’ve seen, and continue to see in this election is at the wings in each party are all powerful.

We need to rebuild institutions that have been shaped by decades of imperial President rule. I agree with the chaos engineering example that was given earlier. We now know what part of the system don’t scale. Something that we cannot permit if we want to continue having a democracy is presidents acting like they can ignore law, make appointments were not in recess, pass executive orders with the force of law. We also need to stop excusing his behavior because of parties and links. Obama gave trump the weapons that he used in office with a national Labour relations Board debacle and his immigration orders. Trump orders were simply the flipside of that coin.

It’s time to re-factor America. we may want to consider going as far as making the presidency more of a Prime Minister role, as opposed to an independent position. The country and the stakes are now so high that we cannot afford to have another Donald Trump.
You are exactly right but in a way the election is as good as an outcome as one could hope. Regardless of his policies and how slandered he was, Trump was way too divisive and ego-centric for the country. It is a good thing he is going away. The woke culture police also got a licking, hopefully the democrats can abandon that poisonous garbage and get back to basics. If not, absent the gift of the most repulsive oponent maybe ever, they will absolutely be cruhed in 2024.
2-4 would have a plurality of support in the country, And with that, bipartisan support.

They can also be done without isolationism, but probably not without redistributing the wealth that has concentrated in the hands of the 0.1% over decades (under both parties) back into the general population.
Pennies make dollars, baby. Instead of saying, we see no evidence of widespread fraud - where we have no idea in what context you’re using the word - let’s turn the conversation to making solid attestations about the integrity of the processes, which we certainly don’t hear. Instead we hear “don’t worry about it”.

I think the accounting analogy is the best suited. You won’t say, with whistleblower reports in hand, that there’s no evidence of _widespread_ problems and leave it at that. The presence of recurring whistleblower reports about financial irregularities demands a different conversation: these are the preventative and detective controls we will put in place, and here’s the evidence that they worked, such that we can be assured a high degree of integrity in what we’re reporting.

Right now, the evidence doesn’t even exist to be challenged. Party A puts the onus on Party B to prove that ballots without postmarks weren’t submitted on time and then say there’s no evidence of a problem. No, the problem in that example is the lack of postmarks to even begin to evaluate the suitability of the ballots.

It’s hard to interpret the willful reticence to have this kind of conversation as a nation, especially because the shoe can absolutely be on the other foot some day.

When the integrity of the institution is in question, the right response isn’t to tell people to look the other way. What I’m trying to convey is that nobody believes that a talking head on the news has any authority or personal expertise to tell people “everything’s fine” when the anecdotes just keep coming, particularly in places run by people with a conflict of interest in the outcome.

You ask what authority would have credibility to be taken on their word that everything’s fine. The right question is how do we demonstrate that the processes have integrity. How do we increase the integrity of the processes such that we’re not relying on me accepting integrity on faith.

You used the word “certify”. That’s a good word and we should dig into the strength behind those attestations. Right now they’re based on very weak control structures.
No, it's the other way around. The president has to matter less means that the politicians in the houses should have more power and the president less.

The media will report on who has the power, simple as that.
You're right, it is too harsh. I'd feel the same way if I were them. It's very difficult to come to the realization that your life will be worse than that of your parents and grandparents(at least economically). It's unfortunate that they've fallen for republican bullshit because I think it's pretty clear that democrat policy is better for them in the long run, but democrats aren't willing to lie and they're very bad politicians compared to republicans.
The censorship is getting scary. I'm recently permabanned from reddit for being too progressive. I shouldn't have criticized mayor Pete for his takes on M4A on the politics sub. Both ends of the spectrum are being deplatformed.
I think Americans will super liberal or progressive policies, but not the labels that come with them. Socialist, atheist and defund the police is still not how you get elected in the USA.
How are those battle ship groups funded? Foreign debt? When was the last time the US had a balanced budget?

Having a nice battleship group does little for the average american public.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
Eisenhower
JIRA cloud is extremely slow and non-performant.

I once wrote a script to regularly hit all of my JIRA urls regularly so the aggressive caching features for a paid cloud service didn't punish me.
Yes; there's a framework in place but it's not as robust as we would like it to be.
Biden absolutely dominated the primaries once the voting began.
New Zealand switched from a mostly 2 party first past the post system to a proportional multiparty (usually) coalition system about 25 years ago. We would also end up with governments that won the most seats but lost the popular vote.

IMO we have had much better quality governments since from either end of the spectrum. We had a notorious populist authoritarian in the 70s and early 80s, and I don't see those days coming back.
> Had the Democrats put up anyone who was less divisive than Hillary Clinton then we are not where we are today.

> Likewise this time around, nobody I have talked to seriously voted for Joe Biden on his own merits. They voted for him because he's not Donald Trump.

That might just be a function of your bubble. Biden was probably the Democratic candidate with the broadest appeal, which is in fact his own merit. Biden wasn't running for President of California. He might not have deeply appealed to this or that demographic or ideological slice of the electorate, but if you go too far in that direction with a diverse electorate you risk getting either electable failures that bully the rest of the country (like Trump) or unelectable failures (like some of the other candidates in the primaries).
It's not just about Trump, though. The U.S. Congress has been consistently ceding power to the executive for decades. It would be nice to see a shift in the other direction, but I'm not optimistic.
Lockdown mentioned by 80% of callers to suicide prevention helpline – ITV News
The electoral college moderates the effect. The big states still dominate. Just not as completely. The small states have their voice instead of being completely irrelevant. It's not that they "win" or even have an equal say.
That wasn't my point. My point was just that all presidents face attacks from the other side. Parent was talking as if Trump had been unfairly victimized.
I know you jest, but I don't think that's a good example of "contrast" between the engines. That was just a bug/oversight and fixed in a couple of weeks after it was reported [1].

[1]: https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/269115/webkit
Contrarian take: Republicans should be allowed to waste as much of their own money as possible searching for irrelevant "fraud." Might be a useful lesson.
> In many cases, stacking encryption algorithms actually weakens the resulting security.

Could you, please, explain how?
Not fully. It's already pointed out that federal law overrules state law, but it's important to remember that congress is only supposed to be able to make federal law on a small set of enumerated issues. IMO the issue is when you have an expansion of what congress is able to make laws on which limits what states can do.
Some yes. Often residual carbon will deposit on the surface and change it (depositing a bit of a surface layer. If you do ion beam imaging, you do etch the surface away with each image.
> Biden has a fairly "law and order" voting history, compared to typical for democrats

Keeping in mind that Biden hasn't been a senator since 2009, during his time in the senate he was dead center among senate Democrats in terms of liberal/conservative votes cast (i.e. both more liberal and more conservative than 50% of his fellow Democratic senators): https://voteview.com/person/14101/joseph-robinette-biden-jr . Of course as noted this was over a decade ago, and what passed for centrist back then might not today.

In case you're wondering how this metric pans out for the most recent Senate: https://voteview.com/congress/senate/115/text , which (according to this metric) lists the four most liberal senators (as shown by their senate votes) as, in order, Warren, Harris, Booker, and Sanders.
I’d go further and say we need the federal government to matter less. I think everyone would be happier if we gave more power to local governments. Power should flow up from the people to the federal government but today it flows downwards. This is why both sides think the other is intolerable.

Because the federal government collects so much of the tax revenue they have so much of the power. Politics is mainly deciding who gets the money. I’d prefer if my state and my town had more to do with it than pols from places I have nothing in common with.
> Does this mean giving up on attempting to prosecute police officers who murder citizens?

I'm not sure how your response there follows at all from the GP's comment of "You can support people of color without actively denigrating straight white men", and indeed I feel like this is a clear example of what I'm thinking about.
The Nazi party was the second largest in the 1930 elections and became the largest party in parliament in 1932. They didn't need to use violence to size power when they could cut a deal with the Centre (Catholic) party and the Conservative party. The ones who went to violence first was the KPD (communist party) who were losing votes and members of parliament for years; of course when Moscow told them that the Social Democrats were the enemy they spurned an offer to work together against the Nazis at a time when the two of them together had more members of parliament than the Nazis. No need to use violence to sieze power when your opponents are either stupid or greedy.

You need to at least learn the history of the period if you are going to try to play this game.
I don't think gitlab* vs github matters. All public sites in the US and allies need to have a mechanism for DMCA removals, or they lose their safe haven status (which allows them to not be legally liable for what their users do with respect to copyright). Losing safe haven status is a death sentence.

* by this I mean gitlab's own instance of gitlab. Of course, you can host your own, and then its up to you how you respond.
> GPL is cynical at best, hypocritical at worst

It's not different from soldiers taking weapons from the enemy they are fighting. A pretty common tactic.

Fighting fire with fire. Where's the hypocrisy?