skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> unified Republican elite, along with > 35% of the electorate, is fundamentally lawless and anti-democratic, and will do anything it can to cheat its way into power.

This is unnecessary. I am of course relieved that Biden won. I am also appalled by Trump and his enablers in the Republican party. I'm also extremely disappointed that more people did not clearly repudiate Trumpism.

But that 35% of the electorate, which is closer to 48% per Trump vote share, are people and neighbors. This kind of rhetoric only serves to continue the bitter fighting. There may very well be a core of unredeemable, white supremacists behind Trump. But I'd like to believe that most are misled, misinformed, yet good people. I know my neighbor is one in fact.
> This is an example of what a "career politician" would've easily used to their advantage, and handled well.

I’m not so sure about that. There aren’t a hell of a lot of politicians who have handled it well in my view. There are a few and they are lauded for their efforts, but it’s not common. Have you any examples?
First woman of color, but not first "person of color" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis

Assuming that "significant non-european ancestry" is the determining line here.
I flagged and downvoted your comment because it follows a disturbing pattern I have seen in messages from President Trump and his supporters, that the President cannot lose in a legitimate contest. The President has today asserted that he has won the election, "by a lot"; an assertion that can only be true if a significant number of votes against him are illegitimate. Mr. Trump has previously asserted that he won the 2016 election by a historically large margin, that the primaries and even the Emmys were rigged against him.

I'm tired of it.

Your comment is nothing more than an attempt to shut down discourse by denying that any opposed ideas can have any validity. That is a fallacy in an argument. In a democratically elected leader, or his followers, it is a direct attack on the foundations of the country. Please stop.
People that have a working brain shouldn't care what networks think or determine. Those networks must limit themselves to neutrally reporting the news and let the people make up their minds.

This election has proven that US, but also Western-European media are extremely biased and see themselves as the arbiters of truth. Reading German media I noticed - without exaggeration - that Trump was getting worse press than actual real dictators. Mainstream German newspapers had articles where they invited mental health specialists to speculate on what mental afflictions Trump might be suffering from.

Extremely unethical show from the mainstream media.
I grew up in a right wing Austrian province which over a decade consistently polled 10 to 15% wrong (in favour of the right wing candidate).

I know those people in person. They are people who will tell even their spouse they vote the left wing candidate, but after the 6th beer they will tell you how they really want the strong guy in charge (note: Hitler is from Austria, voting the rightwing guy can still be a taboo for certain people).

So these people do exist. If it is just them who make up the difference — no idea, but they exist.
Can You Do Intermittent Fasting with the Keto Diet?
There was this really good take on this divide by Andrew Yang a few days ago on CNN [clip from Twitter - 0]. Yang is the only candidate I saw who seemed to understand people from all parts of the US. Also, it would have been nice to have a president who understood technology.

[0] - https://twitter.com/KySportsRadio/status/1324552953861210112
Isn't it congress that starts wars?
I've always found that people have a hard time accepting that with marketing, data really only tells you what happened. It doesn't tell WHY something happened.

I also find (as you allude to) that as much as people want to be 'data driven,' they will conveniently ignore all available data if it suits their purpose.

> If the marketers have to appear (or actually be) addicted to data to communicate well with the rest of their company, then so be it.

I came to the same conclusion. Fortunately, collecting and storing the data is pretty easy, so I do so once a quarter and move on with my life.
Your reality. How many have been beheaded in France in recent weeks by immigrants? Do you even read about those kinds of things or stay in your bubble.
The process of increasing legibility doesn't necessarily need to come in the from a legal authority. The point is that Amazon also 'sees like a state'. Everything is tagged, catalogued, marked with a date, taxed and charged at point of consumption. Amazon's full digitisation of its customers and ability to extract value and differentiate prices is effectively what every state would love to do.

The same is true for social media companies of course, to the point where the form of discussion itself specified (280 characters!). The modern tech corporation and its users are essentially a more advanced version of what James C. Scott imagined the modern and competent state to look like.

Of course we're not living in Shadowrun (yet) and they haven't claimed extraterritoriality or impose their own law in a literal sense, but we're not far off. (see the censorship debate)
What happens after you dump the key? Is there a corresponding tool to download and decrypt the tracks?
That's not at all the traditional definition of variable. A variable is the code-lexical representation of a value in memory. (Think "variable" in algebra, which is the formula-lexical representation of an abstract value).

Anyways we can't have traditional counters, because of 1) lexical scoping rules and 2) value immutability.
For me, the icing on the cake was the press conference at Four Seasons Landscaping.

Someone made a silly mistake in the booking, but either nobody noticed, or couldn't be bothered to correct it, or dared not be the one to tell Trump the mistake had been made. So the President (staff? apparently not him) gives a final press conference in the parking lot of a suburban store. It would be like watching the Emperor of Japan surrender in a dinghy because somebody brought the wrong Missouri.

Unforced error. Abandonment of dignity. Refusal to acknowledge the situation. Hallmarks of the administration.

(News accuracy notice: while it appears to have been an official press conference only Guiliani was actually there and not Trump himself)
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. 60 minutes did not say a word about this, as the topic they were covering was different, but regardless, this spiked a fear of fascism growing in America.

In response instead of addressing this growing anti-american anti-democratic minority, the term anti-fascist or antifa was created. The idea is if anti-fascism can be associated with riots, protestors, and other scary negative fear based topics, the second anyone raises a concern about fascism, supporters will unconsciously turn a blind eye, because antifa has a negative anti-american sting in their unconscious now. I'm surprised such word smithing like that works, and frankly I'm scared it does work. I'm terrified that not only Trump but Fox and other groups would rally behind not only supporting fascist movements, but invent a boogyman as a way to make the topic of fascism partisan and questionable. If that's not unamerican I don't know what is.
if it's on-prem, can't you just edit it to not phone home?
China's Belt and Road program seems to be establishing a competitor hegemony in the eastern sphere of influence, rather than directly replacing the US. They're building a lot of infrastructure in Africa, expanding their already massive supply chain and working effectively towards surviving a disconnection from the West.

I agree that US hegemony isn't gone yet, but we've lost so much of our manufacturing and materials sourcing that we'll soon need them more than they need us.
Anyone who's using Esc to return to normal mode isn't a hacker imho.

Sarcams aside (I'm referring to `:imap jj <Esc>`), I would say that sticking to staggering is the real sin here.
How do unions rely on “a steady flow of meat into the grinder?”
If you think medical spending is high (pun intended), you should see what incarceration costs, perhaps 10x as much.[0]

[0]https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/principles-drug-abuse...
Exactly. A perhaps pertinent point here is that Mao's revolution in China had less than 3% of the working class people behind it, by their own polling (Mentioned in Tony Cliff's works on marxists.org).

A revolution can be led by a minority, and almost always is, you don't need a majority you just need power, force of will, and either a distraction for the ruling forces, or enough people in the ruling forces to turn a blind eye (As with Castro -- who got the middle classes on-side first to support the revolution, and then took power while they were feuding among themselves)
Uh huh, because Republicans have a great track record when it comes to the war on drugs. We can whatabout all day
That's true, and was obviously an overreach in 1919. That it was dialed back in 1969 to limit banning speech likely to incite a riot is much more reasonable to my mind.
Right that's going to work well NOT - you know a lot of climbing he greasy pole is not what you know its who you know.
Fleccas is going to need to find *someone" who doesn't sell "bill+Hillary clinton pointing guns" t-shirts to independently check his work before he deserves anyone's attention.
It is an option, but remember something that the Democrat party was talking about in 2016... a global tax. Prediction, that will make a big comeback under Biden
We need a better word than "Trumpism". It will be too easy to disregard all the other very good examples you gave by dismissing it as Trumpism and now that he's gone, so is the problem.
There was literally a media freak out over the apointment of Amy Barrett because people thought trump was stacking the court in his favour. I don't know how true that is, but its clear that a significant portion of americans believe it (belief that the court is political is damaging in itself even if it wasn't true).
Entering the country illegally makes you a criminal. Trump got 40 percent of the Hispanic vote.
It's worth taking a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia...

It's really not clear who should have won. There are different outcomes from different groups with different, but reasonable, interpretations of what the voter intended.
Peak Orange Hell Site, my dude.
No one is comfortable with election fraud. Election Fraud is a well researched problem (by republicans too), and it's been shown again and again that it is an incredibly small problem. You are talking about a couple thousand confirmed cases [1] in elections where tens of millions of votes were cast. Claims of election fraud are not new.

A bigger problem is voter suppression, through ever growing extraneous requirements (such as Harris County, a population of 5 million, only have 1 ballot drop off, due to a law to prevent more than one drop off per county). Voter supression however does not get anywhere near the same amount of attention.

[1] https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud
I don't see a problem allowing a generic GraphQL handler. It's just that I don't like the approach of allowing arbitrary queries from clients you cannot control. If this use case has a lot of demand I don't think I wouldn't support it. I'd just rather implement a seamless developer experience for code generation so you don't really want to not use it and lose the benefits.
I had an impression this strong division already started during Obama presidency.
Probably in the aftermath of 2008 crisis.
> "Also, why is US hegemony a good thing?"

If you review history, large wars broke out between the major powers vying for dominance on a regular basis in the 19th and early 20th century, culminating in the First and Second World Wars. For all the negatives of what the US has done with its military since then, they're not a hundredth as bad as what went on before by any objective measure.

The Pax Americana has been good for stability and with stability comes prosperity. If the United States truly gave up its hegemony and turned isolationist, you'd see a resurgence of rearmament and jockeying for power among nations, inevitably followed by a new era of war after war.
If only Yang himself understood technology. His blockchain voting proposal was hilariously bad.
Build strong international relationships.

Open the gates for immigration.

Work with allies to impose extreme tariffs on China.

Build manufacturing in India, Mexico, Vietnam, and Africa. Own the shipping.

Offer US statehood to Taiwan and keep the South China Sea open to all US Allies. Korea, Japan, Vietnam, etc.
> the weak points in the infrastructure of our government

You're not wrong, but:

> But I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks--no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.

* James Madison, 20 June 1788, Papers 11:163
Filling vacancies is not what "court packing" means. That's never what it has meant. Court packing is when you create new positions (and thus, vacancies) to fill. Filling a lot of court vacancies is not court packing.

And you know this. And Joe Biden knew this when he made the same claim in one of the debates. It's gaslighting, and it bothers me that absolutely nobody called him out on it. Court packing is a red line that nobody should cross. I feel it's important that we all choose our words carefully so that it continues to stay off the table.
The most vocal of those minorities happens to be commander in chief of the world strongest, most heavily armed military. That makes the drama harder to ignore.
If the buildings on your street are still privately owned, you could convince the owners to stop renting to section 8 tenants. This is not an easy pitch since the FMR for a street that is primarily section 8 will be less than the ACH deposit you get from the HUD. If you can pull it off, in 2-4 years the values of the buildings will shoot up 50% along with the rents.
Ask HN: Is it worth giving up WLB for money? Considering High Frequency Trading
Hey all,

I currently work at Facebook and got an offer from Citadel last week that is expiring Monday.

The offer is:
220k salary, 300k bonus, 50k sign on in NYC

My current TC is 275k in California. I have a great WLB and a lot of friends here -- is it worth considering doubling my TC and moving to NYC? I think the work at Citadel and having a higher caliber of coworker would be super interesting as well. I'm concerned from going from a nice WLB where I can enjoy my life to what I assume is 50+ hours a week. Has anyone worked in both FAANG and HFT?

YOE is 8
Not quite as user-friendly with regards to exposing the keys, but if you're interested in learning Rust you can check out the reverse-engineered protocol and access already decrypted audio streams using librespot: https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot
The only real problem with making the definition so broad as to incorporate all of the indie procedurally-generated perma-death games coming out recently is that it dilutes the definition as to become meaningless -- you can no longer know what to expect when you google, or talk about, "rougelike"s.

What I don't understand is what's wrong with just tossing in a new term, instead of latching on and diluting an existing fairly well-defined term.

It's quite clear on the surface, and deeper into it, that they're not the same style of game (from emotional impact, to design structure/goals, to lineage, to graphical design), and often don't even appeal to the same communities
I definitely think this is the future. And other countries are wise to take note, and consider very carefully the threat Twitter poses to their sovereignty.

It's exceedingly likely that American liberals will tell you what to do, and pat themselves on the back.
The article I linked specifically addresses why that isn't a concern.
> const performs a lot better in optimized code than var or let

This puzzles me; if only ever one value is assigned, I would have expected at least let to perform identically to const in optimised code, because I expect the optimiser to look at the let and say “never reassigned, turn it into a const”. By the sound of it, I’m wrong, and I’d be interested to know why I’m wrong.
I agree with this perspective. We have not seen the end of Donald Trump. We have tough years ahead.
I was familiar with the name Hoya in the context of glass lenses, was unaware they make HDD platter substrates.
> Also, why is US hegemony a good thing?

You yourself just wrote a the answer: it prevents wars.
I think you did the right thing. Although game development was pretty fun at times, I feel like it had a negative effect on my programming career. There was no culture of learning, it was all about getting to the next release date in one piece!
> Voting fraud on the scale required to influence a US election is not possible due to voting registration requirements.

Im not from the US, but my understanding of the alleged fraud is that due to coronavirus many states sent every registered voter a blank ballot (where in the past they explicitely had to request a ballot) and that, again allegedly, some people would habe been able to obtain such blank ballots and vote for their prefered candidate?
That’s a very strange misreading of how elections work (and misstates US demographics, most of us live in suburbs).

But even taken on its own terms, isn’t that better than “a nation ruled by a rotating handful of states with nothing in common other than a somewhat steady 50-50 split in the electorate”? The current system is indefensible madness.
> Focus on China as an existential threat to US hegemony

This was already being done. That was the whole point of the end of the Obama admins shift to Asia strategy.

> Just freaking get out of the Middle East already.

Troop levels are the same today as they were in 2020. And I also don't think this is a novel idea, everyone wants out, but you have to do it in a way that doesn't leave us in a worst situation than just staying, and that is ridiculously hard. Nature abhors a vacuum.

> Globalization has not been good for the working and middle class.

This is a mixed bag. Look around and tell me that the general middle class American is worst off than they were in any other decade of modern America. We live safer, cleaner lives. What we don't feel is security, which is a consequence of 40 years of treating the government as an entity that is the problem, and not an entity that can be the solution.
I do hope that the experience of this election will build bipartisan support to nationalize federal elections. Personally, I'd love to see an end to the electoral college, but I can't see Republicans supporting that loss of leverage since their last two non-incumbent wins have lost the popular vote.
it is free market at work. private property rights is the cornerstone of capitalism and free market. if you want land for all, then its no longer capitalism.

land/property ownership is not a right. access to housing for those who cant afford it should be provided by the govt. many countries do this. at least in california, high property values is favoured by the govt because it is a sure source of property taxes.

a lot of issues can be sorted if high rise affordable housing can be built outside expensive zipcodes and create a good public transport network.* instead, (here in ca), they are building 'affordable housing' inside the most expensive zipcodes and increasing toll roads and hiking tolls...and not improving public transport systems. looks like this is what the govt wants.

*we just wasted money on it.. with no regards for the millions and millions raised in bonds by voters who trusted those whom they elected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail
I'm sorry but only an idiot would take that group of hipsters and provocateurs seriously, Trump said the next day he's not even familiar with the group.

Calling this evidence of 'racism' and 'fascism' is just pathetic.
It'd be nice to discuss whether the benford's law analysis can be reasonably applied to election returns, but any mention of it is flagged by the thought police.
> The postmortem of the last 4 years

I don't think the US will have the time for a "post-mortem", this is not a bug that just disappeared/was solved because Trump is no longer president. More people voted for him in 2020 than they did in 2016, the racist things that he has said and done have not come out of no-where, he had (and still has) a strong support behind him, and that support won't disappear over night.
As someone who is no fan of the warmongers, imperialist US policy, or the debt treadmill that fuels them, I would still rather have a conservative president that serves the US power structure, than a president that shirks his job during a domestic crisis and kills a quarter million Americans. Sorry rest of the world, we will get back to trying to stop the war machine after we get our own house in order.

(Also, witnessing the ceding of Hong Kong to China two decades ahead of schedule did make me appreciate the projection of soft power where USG had been keeping order without dropping bombs)
You have to be an extremely privileged and selfish person to not need to know or care what’s happening in the world.

I’m sure the author’s friends and family enjoy being their only source of local information as well.

I imagine this person going to the store without a mask and being confused and indignant at being refused entry. “Oh but my 24 centuries of books didn’t say I needed a mask at the store!” and then driving home directly into a brush fire they didn’t know about because their family was tired of handholding them.
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>Regardless of your views of Trump's politics, his administration and method of leadership has exposed a lot of flaws in how our government has been designed and engineered.

Chief among which was allowing the election of someone like Trump to begin with.
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Only four times in the history of the country. So, effectively, no.