skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short term, sure. But as we saw, US admins and foreign policy changes fast enough, max after 8 years. Being they only super power carries the responsibility to keep things stable. That means consistency, direct action of one single admin can very well the opposite of that. Especially when the other party plays the long game.

I would be inclined to agree, if Trump had any strategy behind that. His policies, or rather lack thereof, don't support that. I'd say he just stumbled around and got lucky once. And even that has to be seen.
This makes sense to me.

Then the transition of power or the changing demographics you speak of will disenfranchise those once in power and that could lead to violence (think white heavily-armed men intimidating or worse those they disagree with). This is what I fear as well.
So basically what Amiga OS had with ARexx in the 1980s.

Edit: I misremembered, that was the 90s as well because it was a later development in the Amiga ecosystem.
It shouldn't be ignored, it should be prosecuted when found. We just shouldn't waste tens of thousands of dollars searching for the handful of people in the country who are going to bother doing it. But if we find it, they should go to prison.
The way you stand up against lies, manipulation and propaganda is through truth, not just a mindless allergic reaction.

It doesn't matter what partisans have been shouting at you about their preferred candidate, you need to make a decision based on how the real candidates will behave in office.

If I took what you said at face value, I could change your vote through simply bombarding you with enough lies and propaganda against Biden. That is clearly illogical, and so much so that I don't think you really mean it that way.
She still got quite a lot of votes.

I think that what people don't want to admit is that Trump is what half of America wants. He is the right kind of masculine man and has all the right approaches.
The answer is no. There was an article about this topic stating that German car makers are more than 5 years behind Tesla. This is not only software design, but also the overall architecture of the car with so so so many ECUs from so so so many different manufacturers making competing in software features and software updates impossible for traditional makers.

What we see there is yet another legacy vs. new tech phenomenon that we see in so many other industries - from telcos to neo-banks.
It was! Then the malware came. Those links opened a million security holes that were effectively untestable.
There is no incompatibility between having proportional representation and having bicameralism. Federally, Australia has preferential voting (instant-runoff voting) in the House of Representatives and single transferrable vote is used to elect 12 senators for each state (only 6 in a normal election, the full 12 only get re-elected in a special "double dissolution" election, which the government is allowed to order to break a deadlock between the two houses). You mention Germany, which is a bicameral system as well (the Bundesrat).

For the benefits of federal bicameralism, consider the UK – England has almost 85% of the population, and so in a purely one-person-one-vote system will always outvote the other three constituent countries. The UK does have bicameralism, but non-federal – the House of Lords does not directly represent the constituent countries, and does not provide a mechanism to block an English majority – the majority of the House of Lords is English too. And I think this is one of the major factors driving the Scottish independence movement. If the UK had a system more like Australia – with an upper house providing equal representation to each part of the country, regardless of population, and with constitutional referendums requiring a double majority to pass (both a majority of the national population, and also a majority of the population in a majority of the states) – then I don't think the Scottish independence movement would have anywhere near as much steam as it has.
Democratic voters again did not get to choose their candidate

Didn't Joe Biden get most of the votes in the primaries? After Super Tuesday he was leading in delegates, and once the race came down to 1-on-1 with Bernie he did even better. This tells me there is significant support for very liberal policies like those from Bernie, but the party as a whole is still much closer to the center.
Federal law overrules local law, so they are intertwined. A vote at the federal level is in many ways a vote on local laws, too.
"children in cages" is just reductive way of saying 'a policy of forced family separation'. It's seems pretty apparent that cruelty is a key part of Trump's immigration policy when you have his lawyers arguing in court that soap and toothpaste aren't requisite for sanitary conditions.
I’d love to see an AOC/O’Rourke ticket sometime in the future. Both sides could do with a culling of the old and an infusion of new blood.
I don't think social networks are "evil" because of malice. They're evil because of our flaws as human beings. Of our biases. Social networks just amplify and exploit the way we think so mostly negative thoughts and emotions get amplified in an ever-expanding echo chamber [1] We get angrier, more polarised, more isolated in our tribe and cliques. If there has ever been an instrument of the Devil himself to sow discord on this planet, this is it.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
If not native Markdown support (without hacky macros), then I hope it's death.
I'm not sure at what scale this makes a difference, but South Korea has a population somewhat larger than California in a landmass a little bigger than Indiana. The US constitution obviously wasn't designed with 300M people and 50 states in-mind, but it's larger and more diverse than South Korea, so it probably needs to be governed differently. It's like how having states in Singapore would be silly, just at a different scale. I do think what system of elected government makes the most sense for a given country based on size, population density, population concentration, and other factors is actually an interesting question.
Why are you being so needlessly hostile?

A lot of hispanics voted for Trump in this election.
Gmail has the same problem.
California is easily the most successful state in the country with a 2.79 TRILLION GDP. That's more that France, and 6th worldwide.

We should all be so lucky to "fail" that badly...
that is the scary thing that debate is not allowed. biden voted laws that he is now opposed how is it not viewing event as how it will help or hurt him?
The reverse of that is likely just as true; people that are happy Biden won, have no concern if there was fraud, just like those that wanted Trump to win would not question him winning.
And letting customers buy lower-tier packages and install upgrades themselves? Or avoiding your car looking old after 3 years? Why? That’s the inly purpose. The only “innovation point” left for auto makers is features so they scramble year after year to show the latest trick sacrificing quality to balance the costs.
I know plenty of developers who like JIRA and not just developers: we quickly scaled adoption of JIRA to a company-wide setup, used by literally every department in our company for a variety of different processes. From this perspective Linear is not a JIRA replacement. It is a small tool for tracking software projects, but that’s it. JIRA is much more than that.
States are not people, why should states have a voice? What voice would that be, if not the one of the people who live there?
UTF-8 has won on the web and file storage. For programming (C#, probably Java too, the Windows API) it’s UTF-16. Good point is it’s an Unicode encoding, bad point is that is variable-size, which look fixed-size for common characters.
Does that include software services?

Edit: Just checked the source. It is goods only. And does not include services, software or not. So, this is sort of a meaningless argument for an economy that is shifting towards services from hard goods.
The current system is game-theory-stable given the conditions of the USA structure of first-past-the-post. You can look at the historical third parties in USA - a third party can form and gain power (with great difficulty) but then it pretty much immediately displaces one of the two parties, so you're back to a two-party system just with different two parties.
I don't think so. They wanted Trump. And people wanted Clinton, I have seen them. And people wanted Biden.

It is denial to say they don't want Trump. They truly do want him.
He also quite frankly appears to be on the verge of full blown dementia. And Harris is neither quite, nor nimble.
I still believe he (or Harris?) is a better choice than Trump, in the particular situation US is in because of Covid.
It's like deadlines. Developers hate deadlines, but one thing that developers hate more is the lack of them.
My first time pure functional programming
I very strongly agree with this. All of us need to talk, avoid judgement and just understand one another better.

A higher degree of basic solidarity will help us a lot.
Strange, but my impressions are opposite.

We are using hasura (which is written in Haskel), I'm interested in dgraph.io (which is golang).

I had terrible experience writing graphql-service in typescript. I finished it but I did not liked it's strange behaviour and bloated docker image size.
I rewrote it in 2 days with graphql-go/go and then it became OK: predictable behaviour and ~16Mb docker image.
I'm thinking about rewriting another service too.

On client side I used:
- python client `gql`
- .NET `graphql-dotnet`
- Apollo client
- graphqurl - js client from hasura team

The worst impressions are from Apollo.
Starting from their documentation.
IDK why they explain everything starting from UI.
That's fair enough, I just think if it were me I'd be thinking 'geeze can I just be VP like every white man before me?' - but who am I to whitemansplain how she/people who feel affinity should feel :)

My comment above though was mostly just that from that quoted paragraph I was pretty confused, if I now understand correctly it starts with more specific 'accomplishments' (if finally getting that representation can be called one) and then generalises massively to a much broader category, in a vague way that makes it sound like nothing or more specific than where it started.

I don't know, maybe it's just my reading.
Actually i think the number of seats gained by republicans will be pretty close to the P50 of the betting market probability distribution. They seem to have done better than 538 at least there. It's impossible to verify the overall Biden/Trump victory probability mass function but you could look at state by state races and see who did better.
> it's a band-aid around dysfunctional inter-team working.

If inter-team communication isn't a hard problem in software development, why are we even talking about API technologies?

If inter-team communication wasn't that hard, you could just email pc and ask him to email you a snippet of Ruby to process a credit card payment.
Lol, as if the parties don’t adapt to pull in more electorate.
I'm curious, what do you find inspiring about Joe Biden?
That's really interesting, I hadn't sliced it that way yet.

I know FiveThirtyEight allocates undecideds evenly - if 8% respond undecided they assume 4% will break Biden and 4% will break Trump. In one of the podcasts they discussed this assumption and it's what they have found to be the most accurate historically.

We might be seeing a shift towards that no longer being true - maybe 75% break red and 25% break blue now.

Edit: Also, It looks like Jorgensen (Libertarian) significantly underperformed her polling (~3% > ~1%) in the first few states I spot checked. If those voters broke for Trump, that makes up about 2% of the error. That'd take a lot more in depth checking though.
Biden got the most votes. Old people like him. Blue collar people like him. Black people like him. His stutter is endearing to many in a george bush kind of way. Use your brain. He'll be a great president because he knows that the most important job of the president is delegating to responsible people.
BMI 30 increases risk of severe Covid and death
"Number goes up" can be useful on its own.
Perhaps you'll go to another source, say ABC news? You can ask them the same thing "Hey ABC news, why are you guys deciding the truth for me?".

Literally every source you will use, your own argument will falsify it.
I think in addition concentrating so much poverty in place amplified how bad it was. In actuality and also in perception.
I'm not from the US, and I'm happy with how the election has turned out, but I agree for similar reasons.

I was telling my friend the other day, why is it that the presidency is a competition between retiree geriatrics of the same generation? Biden and Trump have 4 years difference in age. Where's the representation for people significantly younger than post-retirement age? Even Bernie Sanders, a favourite, is hitting his latter years, and it seems the Democrat candidate is just chosen by the DNC rather than what their voter base would like.

So, it's great news that Trump avoids a second term, but I don't see a progression in the political system yet.
And when there is a questionable war to be fought they are the first to bang the drums and demand their 'partners' join in a coalition. 'Or else...'.
The stock price did spike after they announced this a few weeks ago, so you might be on the money.
gigatexal says>" 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."

No way. Polarization will continue. The politics of New York and California will remain anathema to the majority in "fly-over states" (e.g., Texas, Montana, etc.) for generations. The former two states (NY, CA) will economically self-destruct long before such acceptance occurs.
Thanks for the followup. Yeah, that would be part of what I meant by "Which means then figuring out that process." ... except I didn't even knew all that existed. ;)
There's are reasons these technologies never took off.

Well, there is some history here. In the early to mid 90s IBM was all-in on Smalltalk, they had a product called VisualAge, they were all set to push it as the next enterprise language, replacing RAD tools like Delphi etc etc. Then Java happened and immediately developed a huge mindshare and IBM pivoted the VM and tooling they had developed for Smalltalk into Java and rode that wave.

But if Java had been a flash-in-the-pan, then Smalltalk would be today where Java is now in terms of adoption (and decades ahead of Java in terms of technology).
This use didn't go away after the 1990s - Office still uses Visual Basic which still uses COM.
As another user pointed out, Debian is a bit lighter than Ubuntu.
Also you could try out Alpine Linux which is even lighter without renouncing to the usual desktop, office apps, firefox etc.
https://alpinelinux.org/about/
That incorrect parsing of fields wih newlines is real. Here’s a demonstration how you can essentially inject made up data into someone’s analysis if you know they will use the most popular Apache project and the de-facto standard tool for big data processing (with default settings): https://kokes.github.io/blog/2020/06/12/high-performance-dat...
I know what he was doing

But we all know that "behind a joke there's always the truth"

I still hope USA will understand what kind of criminal state they have been and still are.

No hard feelings, just hope for them to learn and be better in the future
States having a voice is the whole point of a state. If states shouldn't have a voice, they should be phased out.
They haven't. It's a political alliance with the anti-abortion crowd. The 1976 Republican party platform was the first to include a stance on abortion.
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hibernation is greater than sleep. it's miles a totally deep sleep.
If three tests from youtube-dl got the RIAA angry, I can't imagine this will be up for long.

EDIT: didn't notice it was gitlab rather than github. I'm still rather interested.
Revising our electoral system to change the incentives for political parties and politicians would be an approach. Winner-take-all on a state by state basis with single-party primaries produce candidates who are far from the median voter and then campaign to drum up support among their party base. Universal primary systems encourage candidates with broader appeal outside of their party to end up as the party nominee, who then have a much easier time running a general election campaign on appealing to opposition party voters rather than being forced by the positions they took in their primary to campaign only to boost turnout among their existing base.
Well more people in California voted for Trump than Kentucky and Tennessee combined.
So the system would be bad because people voted for the wrong guy?
Bill Clinton looks the most frail out of those (including Biden)
> if everyone agrees Biden is just a stopgap, why didn't they just pick someone better?

Because the electoral college distorts what "someone better" means. Democrats picked someone more popular than Trump in 2016 and lost. Biden's home state is the swing state of Pennsylvania. Home state advantage is generally fairly minor, but in this case the margins are so close that it might have actually made the difference (obviously we'll have to wait for the final count, which we won't have for days).
Ask HN: Do you have any tips for increasing code review throughput?
I have a growing queue of GitHub PRs awaiting review.

Dealing with > 8 incoming PRs a week. Finding it difficult to do more than 6 reviews a week on top of everything else.

The difficult ones are the changes that involve database migrations. Lot of testing involved.

We are a team of 4 developers, using:
- Python on the backend
- React on the frontend
- GitHub to host our code and for PRs
- JIRA to represent our roadmap and plans
- GitHub Actions for CI/CD
- infrastructure on AWS

Drowning and need help. Please.
But that's my point - a huge percentage of Trump supporters (not all, but probably a majority) don't support Trump for his policy positions. Indeed, there are large numbers of people who voted Republican in the past who love Trump despite the fact that Trump has done a complete 180 on policy items that used to be core Republican positions: support of free trade and being against protectionism and tariffs, support for foreign wars, containment of Russia, etc.

Most support for Trump is at a deep, emotional level (to be fair, strong support for leadership usually is).
Wow, you are arguing against a study by citing Vox

Just WOW

OK, let's make it easy for you

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VIETNAMESE AND INDOCHINA WAR: A TOTAL OF 5.5 MILLION DEAD

THE VIETNAM WAR - 3.8 MILLION DEAD

1.7 MILLION MORE DEAD IN THE CAMBODIAN, KHMER ROUGE GENOCIDE

Source for death toll: Necrometrics and British Medical Journal, 2008

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TOTAL IRAQI'S KILLED IN AMERIAN WARS (1990-PRESENT) - 3 MILLION
IRAQI SANCTIONS: 1.7 MILLION TOTAL DEAD [1]

500,000 CHILDREN DEAD [2][3]

Source:

[1] Behind the War on Terror. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed. 2003.

[2] Food and Agricultural Organization Study (1995)

[3] Iraq Sanctions Kill Children, U.N Reports (New York Times, 1995

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Just these major events account to more than 10 million deaths

And they stop at the first gulf war

There are many more years to cover

Good luck denying that

> 1942, 1945

The massive improvement from 80 years ago happened even in third World countries run by warlord (financed by the US)

So what?

Can we not have another 80 years of US hegemony and compare the results?

Is it asking too much?

It's how science works: the US hegemony experiment is done and the results are meh, we ended up with Trump, now let's try something else and let's try not to bet on the wrong horse this time, ok guys?
I agree with that, though I am pretty concerned that the NPVIC would be struck down by the now 6-3 conservative SCOTUS.
Tax cuts for the ultra rich (who really don't need more money to get about, as they only have gotten more rich while middle class gets marginalized [1] [2]) don't help the working class. Worker's rights, unionization, higher minimum wage, legalization to help hard working in gig economy -- these directly help a working class in a divide and conquer society as it is.

Dividing was his creed. Trump had a lot of hot air about helping Joe Sixpack, ie. rhetoric and short-term gains. On the long-term, climate change affects us all. Including the working class. We've seen some appetizers in the form of drought and massive fires. Reaction? Denial, cause he can't figure a way to profit from it.

There's ways to profit from climate change. Its a lack of willpower and lack of inventive thinking to not opt for it, and unfortunately the world can't afford to ignore it any longer.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2017/04/24/middle-class-f...

[2] https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
In most countries states (or provinces or departments or whatever they like to call their subdivisions) exist in order to have some degree of internal autonomy. They can have their own laws and institutions based on their historical culture. That's enough. They don't have to have any special treatment at the Federal level.
My Facebook account was recently restricted from 'complex entities interactions' a week before the election until November 28, with no explanation as to why, and an error thrown whenever I click a link to contest the restrictions (for lack of a better term).

Thus far, it seems to mean that I can't follow, comment, post, or dm on/with groups or facebook pages. I cannot create events, pages, or new groups.

I can only post to my timeline, dm my friends, or comment on my friend's posts.

I do not post, or comment on Facebook, though I am a member of a number of politically engaged and activist facebook groups on the fringes for the purposes of having access to on the ground primary sources.

I have a number of friends active on the right who received a similar set of restrictions, ending on the same day. They're used to these kinds of restrictions, comment often, and thought nothing of it. This is typical of facebook to them.

More unexpectedly, and in my opinion a disturbing development in an already unsettling moderation regime, a number of second-order contacts (friends of friends and coworkers) who work as left and progressive organizers/activists (not liberals, progressives and leftists) also received the same levels of restriction.

This was accompanied by the removal of quite a few fringe activist and political pages, the most infamous which comes to my mind being 'God Emperor Trump', a large meme page that had significant reach during the 2016 election.

I don't think this is circumstantially unique. This is a preview. Assuming recounts and court challenges go Biden's way, I believe we're looking at a future where social media uses the tools they've developed over the past four years to enforce a bipartisan moderate consensus over their user-bases, restricting any populist, revolutionary, or potentially dangers speech or users that might produce it.

The activist left has largely been shielded by its circumstantial alliance with the DNC establishment and its allied institutions, given their mutual opposition to the Trump administration.

The populist right has partially been shielded by the implicit threat of Trump's executive authority.

Libertarians (I'm including the Boogaloo movement, and many lockdown protests under this umbrella) have had no such cover, and in my limited experience I've seen entire networks of users and pages been scrubbed off the platform over the past two years with little fanfare, and largely as a product of their affiliations. I believe their experience will be mirrored on the left and the right going forward.