skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The good news is, RCV is getting good traction at the city and state level. Actually it was on the ballot in several more places yesterday: [0]

(I haven't seen which of those passed or failed yet.)

[0]: https://fairvote.org/ballot-measures/
As a generality, Democrats seem eager for oh-so-convenient little narratives, about how low-effort victories are pretty much inevitable for them. And their willingness to scrutinize or fact-check those narratives is almost always nill.

Kudos to the NYT, for keep up a slow drip of warning stories over the years. Compared to the usual "click here, feel happy" stuff, those stories couldn't have been cheap or fun to write, nor profitable to put in front of their readership.
That is awesome. Thank you.
I would love to move to Galt's Gulch. Sadly, I'm not worthy enough to be selected for inclusion. It's an enticing idea of just moving away to live with all the other smart people. The trick is being smart enough to fit in.
You will never win in a democracy if your stance is 'the voters failed me'. That the dems have chosen that mindset saddens me.

It's not the voters job to come to a party, it's the party's obligation to figure out how to appeal to voters. The dems chose to tell people who are suffering that 'the economy is great, this is what we think a good economy looks like and we are patting ourselves on the back for it'. To voters that are suffering that seems like 'our version of good doesn't GAF about you'. Not a great message. You could have the best economics professors/communicators in the world explaining it, people still aren't voting for that.
I wouldn't be so fatal about what he's like. He is clearly astute, maybe just has some narcissist/sociopathic tendencies in front of an audience. Even if some of what he says defies reason, the entirety of what he says is maybe more reasonable than the other side. And that's who was voted in by millions of people.

Said as a UK resident who lived in North America for a bit.
Starship's Sixth Flight Test
"one monorepo per project (api, frontend, backend, mobile, etc. as long as it's the same project) and if needed a dedicated repo for a shared library."

They are literally saying that multiple repos should be used, also for sharing the code, this is not monorepo, these are different repos.
sigh. we are a democracy.
That sounds extremely accurate. I'm a little ashamed to admit that I've caved and started to play the game. I haven't been very productive for over half a year but my scores are off the shelf because I'm doing precisely what they've asked of me.
That is capitalize()

There's a note in the docs [0],

Changed in version 3.8: The first character is now put into titlecase rather than uppercase. This means that characters like digraphs will only have their first letter capitalized, instead of the full character.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.capitali...

EDIT:
As the other reply says, ".title()" is probably a better answer to your question. Warning as the docs show [1], this splits things on sequence of letters, not whitespace!

>>> "they're bill's friends from the UK".title()

"They'Re Bill'S Friends From The Uk"

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.title
They failed to articulate that they understood the frustration with high prices + low wages in a way that made people feel motivated enough to vote for them.
Yeah, I do see that side of it too, I think it was incredibly stupid to try him for anything if he wouldn't be jailed.
But in this case they're talking about rights in your origin country, so "expat" is the only term that makes sense.
They won't be shocked, it's literally what they wanted and why people voted the way they did. You can't just blame corruption or something anymore. It's what people want.
WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill
It's not. You're just incredibly biased.

Yes, I've listened to him speak many, many times. I listened to him speak for 3 hours on an unscripted podcast. I've listened to him speak (unscripted) to many other interviewers. Trump is charismatic, real, and genuinely funny.

The media has been so unbelievably unfair to this guy. I feel sorry for him.
Usually for me it struggles if I'm mixing types of cloth. If there's one pair of denim jeans it'll stop when everything else is dry, but the denim isn't.
I was talking about the US House and UK Parliament, neither of which use ranked choice voting.
very funny to watch this post go from +3 to -1 as the Americans woke up
"Don't worry, man who famously lies every single time he opens his mouth about even basic objective facts before everyone's eyes, says he won't abuse his powers, so there's nothing to fear!"

Also even going by his own words, what about his "dictator on day one" comments?
We think about accuracy in 2 ways

Firstly as a function of the independent components in our pipeline. For example, we rely on commercial models for document layout and character recognition. We evaluate each of these and select the highest accuracy, then fine-tune where required.

Secondly we evaluate accuracy per customer. This is because however good the individual compenents are, if the model "misinterprets" a single column, every row of data will be wrong in some way. This is more difficult to put a top level number on and something we're still working on scaling on a per-customer basis, but much easier to do when the customer has historic extractions they have done by hand.
DNC: People aren't happy with the current administration, let's put the VP as our candidate!!
If you're looking at the current popular vote totals, you understand that California still hasn't report _half_ it's votes, right? Washington a third?
If you haven't ever read about and came to this thought independently I'd say Brandolini's law[0] is an interesting one for you to read about.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
> "The planet" has always been about humanity.

No, no it has not. It has been about a multitude of subjects like the oceans and forests and preserving habitats from human interference. Humanity mishandling those has consequences for humans, but that has historically not been the crux of the message.

It has never been about “floating rocks” either, but the life in it, nature as a whole.
which claim? Almost everyone agrees that people across the political spectrum believed the election had fraud in 2020.

As for evidence of actual fraud. I'll just wave my hands towards the fact that democrat turnout in 2020 is way out of line with national trends, whereas 2024 is exactly in line with past trends.
"Seems to be guilty" is a very different thing than a Fortunate Son who is an adulterer who was found guilty on 34 charges relating to the hush money, his two defense suits against Carroll are under appeal and who knows what sort of things happened when he hang out with his buddy Epstein. Jack Smith is still fighting to get the insurrection case going. America voted a criminal into office.
Misinformation. He was actually silent during the insurrection, and he was very strongly encouraged to issue public statements after the attack happened.
Its hard to say what happened internally, but Biden could have stepped down in time for them to have a proper primary.
IMO that makes it scarier. Seemingly the whole planet is taking a sharp rightward turn.
The democrats told people who are suffering 'the economy is great, this is what great looks like to us'. How is that a winning message with people suffering?
> Have you listened to the latest the latest Joe Rogan episode with Musk.

Because those two don't have an agenda at all...
I found a tool of mine submitted by someone else on the site (pleasant surprise!) and I want to update the description and add a more recent/better image. How would I do that?
no, while you are typing, there are senior finance legislators that are reviewing multi-hundred page reports where "the only legal way to trade is with a licensed broker" i.e. you Joe Citizen cannot hold your own keys. If you have not heard of this, welcome to old news in the USA and elsewhere. This is not fringe or conspiracy at all.. this is lawyers in the backroom for the last year(s).
This is circular reasoning -- "the system is the way it is because that's how it was set up".

US States are not meaningful cultural units -- people in Philadelphia are much more like people in NYC than either are like those of the rural hinterlands of their respective states.

> The US is a federal system. It serves the interests of the states, not the People.

Indeed, and that's a bad system that makes no sense in 2024. Disliking it doesn't mean one doesn't understand how it came to be this way.

(Tangentially related aside: plenty of federal systems have much fairer systems for election to federal office than the US does. For example Germany.)
Yeah, but why does Unicode have those and not ch?
Governments have a terrible track record when it comes to privacy. Everything from the USPS selling your info when you move, to the 2 dozen texts I got yesterday because the government sells[1] your voting records on the cheap. Maybe you don't agree but surely you at least understand why people are widely worried about a future where the government decides to sell your adult website access records to make a few extra bucks.

[1]: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration/voter-re...
You are experiencing Lincoln's Lyceum Address in action.
Believe it or not, the hardest part right now is Javascript's lack of tail recursion. The browser extension I rely on for moderation (written in Arc and transpiled to JS) is stack-overflowing on this thread because there are so many comments.

Not sure whether it's more efficient to fix these errors first, or just power through moderating the thread manually, but boy does the latter suck.
Firefighting foam used in airports is a major source that dwarfs the rest
>The Democratic campaign was A+ in execution.

Objectively untrue; Harris lost.

>You can't force people to understand economics

You're correct. So you have to reformat the message. The Dems failed to do this. I can tell you have never been a teacher: teachers are forever having to change their messaging because different people understand in different ways.
There was lots of conflict. But not war.

Are you deliberately trying to conflate conflict with war to push an agenda?
It is widely thought that if NATO countries enter the conflict directly, the war will escalate.

That may or may not be correct, but it's not totally unreasonable. Ukraine has proven to be resilient enough to conduct the war competently with just its own forces.

It all kinda goes out the window now. There's a very good chance that the US will pull all of its support in January. I suppose it's vaguely possible that the US might choose this window to throw caution to the wind and try end the war before that.
I think some of the highest value from HN comes from the comments, and it's much harder to find the "best" ones, since they might be in threads you might not have otherwise read.

Not sure if it's a "premium feature" so to speak, but would be very cool to extend this to comments generally.
Thanks for the feedback! I may not have expressed it clearly—PostPocket lets you save content from any mobile app using a share extension, so it won’t disrupt your scrolling. You can revisit the saved posts later through the app.
Nah, Harris wasn't an ideal choice, just like Hillary Clinton wasn't. Ideally for next elections democrats would need someone likable with plenty of charisma and moderate stance on social issues. Being male would be a plus too, unfortunately.

I think Tim Walz would have done better than Harris.
Yet Trump rarely articulates any policy, beyond incoherent rambling, except "I will fix it!". I guess it works...
Only Ashley Babbitt died due to Jan 6.
All i can say is.. f** ajit pai
They're both ancient Greek, but different grammatical genders: neon (νέον) is neuter, while γένεσις is feminine. Better might have been "nea genesis" if those two words were to be interpreted together. But, "evangelion" (εὐαγγέλιον) is also Greek and neuter, meaning the gospel, good news, or a reward owed a messenger for his good news. I always figured the "new" of "neon" belonged with the "evangelion," and "genesis" was just kind of hanging around for no particular reason.
I see no reason to think that the science prizes have any interest in "social relevance".

The peace and literature prizes do, because those subjects are defined by their contemporary relevance. The peace prize is frequently controversial, and I'd say that it's best suited to bring attention to somebody who isn't already famous.

Most of the Peace prizes that people do widely agree on are already "influencers", and have been since the beginning. Their influence usually requires physical presence and a lot of effort, but I see no reason it couldn't go to somebody who was effective just by being on social media.

A literature prize could conceivably be given for a social media account, but it seems unlikely to be soon. Even a controversial choice like Bob Dylan got it for a lifetime of highly enduring work.
I find it laughable that the average American can choose to 'believe' something that is simply and provenly not true. That's why there are so many flat earthers, q anon believers, climate change deniers, and all kind of supporters of provenly wrong ideas. I think this is because of the (wrong) notion that an ideology or a stance is better than facts.

Well, the Earth is not flat, there are multiple easily accessible proofs, the q anon conspiracies are demonstratably false, and the 2020 elections had multiple investigations which uncovered
0 voter fraud, and as much as you might want to believe the opposite, it's simply not true. Believing in something doesn't make it true.
> The GOP wants to ban pornographic materials in children's classrooms.

One of the most popular books on the "ban" lists is Handmaid's Tale. If you read that and classify it as pornographic, I might direct you to retake high school English to brush up on reading comprehension.

There's also a huge difference between the government banning content and private entities banning sale of that content on their platform but OK.
Your edit demonstrates exactly what I mean by bad faith: you're intentionally itching for a fight in all your comments, you're not focused on conveying your points in a way that invites level-headed discourse.

Are things ok with you in general? Could there be some non-political reason why you're resorting to inflammatory techniques to get people to talk with you?
I never once heard Harris say 'the economy is doing great'.
It's `.title()`, but note that it doesn't follow language-specific semantic rules like not capitalizing "the" and "of".
You cannot be serious.
The Democrats regularly ignored the first amendment.
The order of magnitude of his mistake makes it damning. Especially considering he began his commentary by noting that "the data can be confusing"
Turns out voters hate when you tell them "you can't vote for THAT guy"
I think they knew full well that people wanted Bernie over Hilary, and they just didn't care. They believed that they could shove Hilary down our throats and actively colluded with her campaign to undermine Sanders. When people objected they fought to defend the position that they aren't required to hold a fair primary election. I doubt they'll learn anything from this and that they'll never give up the ability to make backroom deals then force their chosen candidate regardless of how democrats feel about them.
From what I've heard only about 4% of CoD: BO6 buyers were on PS4. It might finally be getting to the point where it just no longer makes sense to craft an entirely different version for the older consoles. Perhaps Switch 2 getting CoD will keep the PS4 version on life support however.
If a word has been "misused for decades", its definition has changed.

It's a fool's errand to try to claim the original definition is the "right" or "only" definition at that point.

You've lost this semantic battle against the world, and it's honestly pretty exhausting to see you wasting effort trying to continue fighting a lost cause.
Absolutely agree. This is like the discussions amongst brits during Brexit.

This is not dems leadership fault. Many of the complaints that "oh they didnt do X or Y outreach" for example, are just strange, given that people OUTSIDE of America were well aware of Dem policies.

Hell, the Dems ditched their candidate, to put forward a better candidate, against all conventional wisdom. A bold and honestly decent move.

They communicated through word and action, and it still made no difference.
> It's not acceptable to make fun of people for being skinny, ginger, shy, black, white, female, or any other things that the in group considers non-standard for whatever weird reasons

This probably seems obviously true to you but it should not. Some people think there's a reasonable amount of banter, sometimes at the expense of another acquaintance, before it becomes bullying or unacceptable in the workplace.
> these guys are pretty insightful when discussing tech and VC news

They seem insightful. They’re generally behind the curve and remind of Stratfor.

If anything, All In is better connected on politics. But that may be my Gell-Mann amnesia at play because I know the finance side of tech very well, and they’re not only frequently but paradoxically consistently wrong on it in ways that one sees institutional-versus-retail flows profit off.
"Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?"[1]

Trump is very good at covering his own language and culpability. What were Trump's actions while the mob was storming the Capitol? How long did he wait to even put forth those tweets? In his speech before they stormed the Capitol, he said[2]

"We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore"

but he also said

"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

Does saying the latter negate the former in the minds of the mob that had been primed for nearly two months, without real evidence, to think the election had been stolen?

Does it matter that that there's evidence, presented in court, that Trump _knew_ he had lost the election and further knew that attempts to overturn the result were illegal? [3]

We all saw _with our own eyes_ what the mob did at the Capitol that day. There were people there with differing motivations and different understandings of what they were trying to accomplish by storming the Capitol. They've received differing levels of punishment as a result. But, I find it hard to not view the totality of the evidence presented to date and say that Trump wasn't trying to stay in power through unlawful means (i.e. "attempt a coup").

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...
[2]: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-s...
[3]: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/jack-smith-makes-his-ca...
You can use cash to buy BTC in bitcoinmat. If you want anonymity while buying it on public place, use mask.
It’s a populist movement by a population that has felt ignored by government.

That, of course, doesn’t make it a good movement, or a smart one.

But, imo, it’s important to understand why populism is popping off right now.
He tried, and failed. I guess we want him to try again though.
I remember using both this and cnn lite 8 years ago quite a bit right around this time, cool to see they’re still going strong.
I live in a country where we saved your guys asses from that in no large part because we had a general policy of isolationism, which I hope we go back to.
Can you clarify what you mean by retained and written?
Right after it came out, my employer asked me to look into whether it might do us any good. (I was the young kid and therefore presumably the most with-it for new tech of the go-go 90s.)

I said it looked pretty bad, and that was literally the last time I heard about it until now.
and there will be a subscription to get higher priority
"Inflation is actually the increase in the money supply."

NO.

It is the cost of the goods. What people will pay.

Inflation Contributors:

30% money supply

30% was corporations raised prices specifically under cover of people blaming the government. This was actually listed on earnings calls, for profit.

30% supply chain shortages.
Politicians are very very similar to entertainers. Being on par with Sydney Sweeney would be a massive advantage.
The author of this blog is also very into terraforming Earth! https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/we-can-terrafo...
Doesn't mean we have to follow them though. Brexit is turning out to be one of the worst self-owns in the history of democracies.
Correct, bernie and corbyn were both well meaning with genuine ideas and were lambasted by the press, opposition and even their own parties to never stand a chance of election. Tulsi had similar issues.
Have I missed the news where Kamala Harris was convicted on a few dozen federal charges or ordered to pay 80+ million to someone she sexually abused? There's lies and then there are lies that can get you into prison.
>not because anybody is bad but because the space is so big now.

I completely agree but I would actually extend this principle even more aggressively. Even if, for whatever reason, we were hard capped technologically at Windows 98, even that space could be fruitfully explored practically without end, creating new genres, new stories, new games.

Fiction writing carries on just fine in books, and music has certainly benefited from new tech and new methods but there would always be music even if that weren't the case, and same with cinema. I would put tabletop games in this category too. Its continued future viability, independent of future tech advancements may be an important factor in settling whether its art.

Full credit to Nintendo for recognizing they had plenty of unused creative space to play in, and choosing to play by different rules.
9800X3D is supposed to have Eco mode with a lower TDP cap, similarly to other AMD processors. I don't see it included in the initial reviews, but it would be curious to see the followup data. If the history is anything to go by, it would significantly decrease the power consumption with only a marginal performance impact.
Westinghouse recently announced a mini-nuclear reactor capable of powering several hundred homes (https://info.westinghousenuclear.com/news/first-canadian-evi...). The reactor itself is the size of small apartment and would fit aboard a spaceship (the now defunct Space Shuttle) and is light enough that a large rocket (like the Saturn) could carry it into space. The reactor plant would be constructed around the reactor at its final destination (in this particular case, Saskatchewan Canada, but for purposes of this discussion, Mars).

As a side benefit of the design, it uses the heat of the reactor to provide heating, which a Mars colony would need a lot of.
None of those are true.

Those are lies spread by the mainstream media (which is mostly controlled by leftists) and you are a victim for believing them.

I know that the HN crowd are left-leaning and I'm going to be downvoted like hell. Maybe even flagged, because apparently leftist platforms like censorship.

But I don't have to prove my point nor there is a need to argue.

My point will be proven in the coming months because as time goes by you guys will see that nothing bad will happen to democracy nor women's rights or anything else important. Economy and public health is going to improve among many other things.

You will see. Just pay attention.

Then maybe you will remember and regret downvoting me.

Oh, also: Listen to what the man is saying himself. Not what the mainstream media says he is saying. Try to see past merely Trump & his public image as well. Pay attention to what the people on his team are saying. Great people like RFK Jr, Tulsi, Vivek, and JD. Maybe you will find yourself to be enlightened.

Peace.