skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DeSantis has made a few mistakes that have shaken previous supporters and infuriated others. I've mostly scratched my head at most if it, but one that I couldn't ignore was the adorable plot to turn our State Parks into sports facilities. I simply cannot trust or support anyone who views our priceless preserves as untapped resources in need of strip malls and golf courses. Florida is already at or past a sustainable threshold with the diseased variety of "progress" that prevails here.

For me, once we altogether lose the quintessence of this state (this isn't Disneyland or Lennar), it'll be little more than a Skinner Box with perennial cyclones, bad traffic and pestilence, surrounded by cement embellished views of red tide.
You're confusing the electoral college with the Senate. In the electoral college, the states are weighted by population. It's a flawed system, but it's not "each state having an equal say".
Where’s Clippy?

Great job! I think adding Clippy notifications would be a fun touch
The world's real problems are the climate crisis and global instability and inequality which lead to mass migration. I haven't really heard anything convincing from Trump on how he plans to tackle these (I don't mean the migration itself, but how the reasons for it might be eliminated).
I don’t completely disagree with you (I mean, I mostly do, just not completely) but do you have reason to think the hawkishness of the Biden administration (a lot of which was inherited from the hawkish first trump administration) really influenced people? Like polls, or even surprising anecdotes?

Americans mostly don’t seem to care about foreign policy at all.
From a European perspective, many here are very worried that Trump is going to end support for Ukraine and that Putin will be allowed free reign.
In other words, frame it as benefits, not features.
"make" => "try to and fail", as some people are harder to maneuver than, it seems, the American public
Moldova first. The Kremlin have already refused to recognise the new pro-EU leader, and they've been making noises about Transnistria for a while (a similar situation to Crimea and East Ukraine).
Why are you so sure there will be no pandemic this time? I think mismanagement of Trump's CDC was a big contributing factor to the last one. Compare, e.g. how Obama's CDC successfully fought ebola.
There's a story Winston Churchill tells of, of an old man who lived a long life on his death bed surrounded by his family, where one of his grand-children asks him for the dying man's advice about life.

The man thinks for a moment and then says : "I've seen a lot of trouble in my life, most of which never happened".

We can all now think of a million ways in which Trump will be a disaster.

I predict that bad as he will be, most of what we now worry about will not happen.
I don't see that.

Netherlands, Austria predominantly leaning right now, joining Hungary, Slovakia.

Germany and France are both with very unstable governments.

Pretty much leaves Poland and the Baltics
> War is not good and signing peace deals is not a bad thing.

The logical conclusion of this is that we should always just surrender whenever some other army comes knocking at our door. Let Putin walk all the way to Portugal, let Kim Jong Un walk to the south tip of the Korean peninsula, because any peace deal, no matter how bad, is always better than firing a single shot.

Putin invaded Crimea and then said "I'm done". Then by proxy he invaded the Donbas, and said "I'm done". Then he invaded Ukraine. Why do you think that if we sign a peace deal with him, that he just won't build up his forces in another year or two and invade again -- either Ukraine, or one of the other Baltic countries?

At some point you have to say, "It stops here".

EDIT: Furthermore, you have to think of the knock-on effects. If we settle now in Ukraine, that won't stop war with Russia: Putin has learned that invading your neighbor is fine, and he'll do it again and again. Xi and Kim will learn the same thing, and there will be wars in Taiwan and Korea.

On the other hand, Russia is almost defeated -- another 2 years and they'll be completely out of materiel. They're already resorting to pulling in North Korean troops. Support Ukraine for another year or two, and the war will end for good -- and Xi and Kim will learn that invading your neighbor is a losing proposition, and war in Taiwan and Korea will be avoided.

> You need to understand that played a big role.

Do you have any support for this statement? I haven't heard many people bring up Ukraine as a major reason for voting Trump or not voting Harris.

Ironically, there were Arabs and progressives who failed to support Harris because she supported Israel too much, and there are Zionist Jews and Christians who support Trump because they think Kamala didn't support Israel enough. On that particular conflict I don't think there's any winning position for the Democrats.
You need to read the basic outline of WW2.
Do you see the irony of complaining about them not "understanding your views" while you generalize a huge swath of young women? And why the hold-up on them being women at all?
As a conservative American, I'm...

Cautiously optimistic about: curbing government spending, reducing illegal immigration, protecting unborn lives, restraining Iran + proxies, continuing economic growth

Nervous about: Ukraine, additional inflation caused by tariffs, ongoing political polarization
> He has also been very clear he wants to imprison his opponents

When? He's gone out of his way to *not* imprison his opponents. Why do you think Hillary is still running around?

> violently deal with immigrants

*Illegal Immigrants

Not so sure about the violent part either, but let's just say that that's true.
By that logic ending slavery should have been a 'compromise' as well.
The working class and young men (all young people really) have been completely left out of the economic recovery. Harris saying she would change nothing about what Biden has been doing was a huge problem. She tried to address it later.

At the end of the day, "it's the economy, stupid".
Apparently that's the case.
Elon Musk didn't have a say in disbursement - congressmembers do.
The CEO of a company being one of most powerful people in government is excellent for Tesla investors. Much less so for the general population, as the conflict of interests is obvious.
It goes both ways though. Taking the high road doesn’t seem to work either.
How naive of you to think that native Ukrainians stuck under ruzzian occupation won’t become casualties after such “deal”.
Yes, that series is really good. The calcs I use most often:

* HP-25 (yes, a nearly 50-year old calculator, but you can hold it in one hand and it does most things I need very well)

* HP-11C or 15C (doesn't matter which, I don't use the extra features of the 15C)

* HP-12C

* HP-50G (very useful for unit conversions)
Time to gaterade the crops.
Sure, but then shouldn't the universal vitriol cancel itself out somehow? Democracts have been on the receiving end of a lot of name-calling too. This doesn't feel like a good enough explanation. It feels much more like the Democrats ignored (or were perceived to have ignored) a lot of substantive issues for a large section of the population.
We have a base assumption that they would continue with the Firefox as own browser as an alternative. The most work has been already done. The assumption is that they would want to keep going with more privacy-friendly alternative that also try to avoid web standards that would be harmful for the end-user (tracking, specific kind of remote attestation, e.g.).

If they would fork Chromium, they likely want to redo the GUI. This is the easy part and that does not likely need upstream updates. That's what most forks do, and that is why they are maintainable.

However, if you start changing core, extension interface e.g., and if these browsers starts go different ways due to conflicts of interests, then the challenges and extra work start appearing.

Especially because of the security updates. Not all of them are CVEs, you need to look every possible bug fix if that introduced an additional issue if you used that part of the code differently. That must happen almost immediately as it is merged/notified in the upstream, or you might give too much time for someone to exploit it. The more different your fork is, the more challenging it is to get any update from the upstream.
What if the upstream makes breaking internal API changes and you must adapt it, before you can merge new things. What if new CVEs are discovered after this API change that you are already lacking, and the fixed code goes for the code that has this API change? And so on.. and you can't stop merging upstream because reported bugs are much easier to exploit than discovering new ones from the new code.

The above is all extra work. You still want to test your own code. Even if you had more bugs in your own browser code, you have better control them and the process is always faster.
He won't need one, because Taiwan's semiconductor industry will be destroyed during the takeover and require a decade or more to rebuild.
The UK thought they had a 50 year agreement with China to guaratee Hong Kong's democracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration

Turns out if the other country decides they are altering the deal, and you don't have any leverage - the bit of paper isn't worth all that much in practice.

Would you repeat the same feat with Taiwan, if you were in Trump's place?
The Product-Market Fit Scale
There are so many layers to your comment.

Aren’t you now asking yourself, “who are they scared of?”

Let the answer sink in.
> Most Americans want legal immigration, but the Democrats took too long to do something and then Trump was able to kill the bill last minute. It looked like the Democrats wanted to simply ignore it until they no longer could.

You forgot the part where they claimed their hands were tied, then finally did something about it 8 months before the election.
Exactly. Allowing a single person, Giancarlo Devacini, hiding in some offshore from every criminal court in the world, to print "money of the future" uncontrolled, unaudited and without any limitations is a definition of insanity.

Have fun staying rich btw ;)
No, Facebook is building a cable from the East Coast to South Africa and then from South Africa to India and forward to Australia. The final leg is to the US. What Tagare did is take the W shaped network and add branching units. Those branching units have not been confirmed by my contacts. The general shape of the network has been confirmed.
From the British side of things, we are now a ballistics rag doll.

We had Brexit, a catastrophe in itself. And with that we've sold ourselves to the US for "alliance" means; meaning that we will be dragged through everything the US wants.

When we were tied to the EU, at least we had a some sort solidarity.
Is it possible that you are the one that has been manipulated by misinformation?
Is it possible that people can disagree with you without "misinformation" being involved?
look at the comment i’m replying to. if you go to both candidates pages, they’ll have their policy positions laid out. Kamala made none of them a part of her core message. She instead leaned bizarrely into the threat of fascism.
My biggest fear is that Trumps deterrence of CRINK countries will cause XI to miscalculate. Other than that I think this is manageable. EU will get a boost as the internal awakening materializes. As an European I had difficulty understanding why Trump was even an alternative, but I have come to realize that the Plutocratic nature of the US was causing more suffering for the people than was easily observed from here.
It's more like making an edible cake but the customers preferring the one containing rat entrails because they'd rather eat rat entrails than let anyone else eat an edible cake.
Soon: "Terrence Howard nominated to head Department of Education"
I don't think they see an unilateral suicide as more tempting than a bilateral suicide.
Huh?? But how is he wrong?
The truth will come out eventually, but this article suggests Rogan stiffed her on purpose.

https://newrepublic.com/post/187601/fox-news-joe-rogan-donal...
Ooooh, that's gonna be real interesting to see. An anti-vaxxer in charge of healthcare.

Taking fluoride away from drinking water.
Weakening vaccine research and development.

Looks like most Americans will be in for a long suffering in the coming decades.
Combine that with privatisation of health insurance and weakening Medicaid, this heavily points towards a Brexit moment for the USA.
can’t really be handled nicely by macros outside of the case where the drop impl doesn’t need any data from the scope.
We ratcheted several notches farther toward high-level corruption being normal—multiple family members in high level positions, no divestment from direct control of business interests—Carter gave up control of a peanut farm to be president because to do otherwise would have been unacceptable, that’s how much has changed. Even on just that front it was extremely damaging, and that’s one thing.
Or you do make a better one but still lose because people did not actually care about the cake but about the messaging.

Or in meme form:

https://i.redd.it/g0r0x1ldi0e71.jpg
HN is simply following the trend of sacrificing institutional capital for political goals. Trust in media is at an all-time low because they too decided to sacrifice institutional capital for political goals, and now they have neither institutional capital nor their political goals, and that's a good thing.
I believe social activism has been associated with the Democratic Party recently, I suppose it is implied when you run under their umbrella.
What emulator do you use?

I'd really like to run HP50G on iOS, but the only emulator I know was abandoned years ago (I got the source just in case, but it's a lot of work to fix the issues and build it).
Republicans started the war in Iraq and Afghanistan so that's not true.

And Republicans are against increasing the federal minimum wage so that's also not true.

Disinformation is what won this campaign.
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Ask HN: How important was Twitter in the 2024 presidential election?
Maybe it's just my echo chamber but people in India seemed more pro-Trump. This is despite Kamala having Indian roots. People usually take pride when anyone with Indian ancestry doing great on the world stage.
This. Its the arrogance of the Dems that is making people turn to Trump. It's getting on the high horse and calling all Trump supporters trash and drooling fucktards and stuff like that. You are making yourself look bad. Imagine someone isnt so politically active, but hears an elitist dem calling people they dont know a drooling fucktard, what do you think they will think?
I hope you don't really think that being pro choice is about pressuring woman to terminate pregnancies.

Why do I think that's much more probable for abortion to become illegal than for women to be pressured to terminate pregnancies?

Your comment feels so innocent, but different possibilities to be tested just ends up in women being denied abortion
The rightward shift in the tech sector seems to only apply to executives. ICs seem to be as lefty as they always have been.
Agreed. I thought it seemed obvious back in 2020 that we'd see a candidate flip for this election, but no one in the Dem's leadership saw this coming? If they'd been positioning Harris and laying groundwork for the last four years this would have been an easy win for them.
Yes, completely dropped the ball on an issue they could have addressed head on.
Wrong? I made no such statement! I was talking about the quality of the argument, not about the direction.

I'm not "dismissing" anything either. I have no opinion on Trump vs. Harris, as strange as that sounds to those with strong believes.

I merely observe that OP asked for arguments, and that link points to opinion letters that don't even attempt to make one. Which is fine for them - this is about this sub-thread's context. OP asked for arguments and the link does not provide them, this is not a dismissal of whatever is going on in that linked page itself, only whether it serves to satisfy OPs request here.
Perhaps you haven’t been listening to the rhetoric of republicans.
My impression is that it's not about what Kamala Harris (or most Democrats) said, but the fact that the Republicans were able to create the perception that there are strong movements which hate "whites" and which hate "men" (in various combinations), and that voting Democrats would help those movements. Apparently, they were able to convince enough non-white men and white women that Trump will be better for them.
It will cut into his Diablo playing time.
Aka “let them eat inflation adjusted household income reports”
Seem like peanut allergies were once rare and now everyone has them?
Calling him a fascist would be an understatement
While I agree with you that there are different ways of structuring democracies and that parts of US democracy seem... in need of an update, even "better" democracies can't fully prevent a slide into authoritarianism. It has happened countless times before.
We have been very lucky[1]. Do you really want to push that luck?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls
Hey, I think this is the wrong place, you probably want to post it on `Who wants to be hired` - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42017578
Basically just wet, smart cats then
Chrome on Windows 10 here. The font rendering looks very similar (if not identical) to what I remember it in Win98 -- no antialiasing, 1px thick, very easy to spot the pixels on curved strokes, very easy to spot the pixels on bold style, etc.

The style looks incredible accurate to what I remember, although there are some differences:

- The opened dropdown menu, as my parent suggested.

- I don't remember textareas being resizable.

- I remember stepped sliders had little marks indicating where each step is. Only continuous sliders (e.g., the one in the Windows volume control) had no marks.

- The tabs don't look like as I remember from Win95/98, these ones look more like Win 3.1. Too much padding, the border is too thick, and the border radius is too big.

- In tables, the headers looked like buttons because they were actually buttons (you could press them to sort the table). However, here they are not clickable.
Or maybe the competition is that pathetic
No kidding, I was saying to my partner earlier how friggin crazy the timeline is getting. That 15 years ago, I couldn't have even imagined writing a fictional timeline like this.

The most striking aspect to me is how blatent and brazen trump is with his lies, how fake he is, and how so many can't see it or just don't care for some reason.

He pretends to be religious of all things, he so obviously isn't and couldn't give a damn, but pious people of all people should care about honesty and respect, at least in the public sphere.
What are you talking about?

In 2016, the majority of outlets gave Clinton a 90% chance or more. This time almost everyone said it was 50:50. The result is somewhat similar, the predictions could hardly be more different.
Study disproves weather-dependent renewable energy more prone to blackouts
Quite possibly the most devastating thing for the country, if he follows through on the crazy health policies. It will be felt for decades.
No, it doesn’t. There are better ways to abstract away RAII, and it is a strictly bad pattern in Rust to not rely on Drop. The author needs to stop writing C and Go, both being arguably bad languages.
> The more important question, who are those people that happily vote for a convicted felon, rapist

Some people voted for him because of that.

He was found guilty on 34 counts of paying a pornstar, Many people see it a persecution not prosecution because he doesn't even know what he's guilty of. The judge allowed jurors to decide on whatever secondary charge they wanted and not even have to tell him what it is. They didn't even have to agree on a single crime, as long as they all found a one.

He denied he raped that woman (who doesn't even remember what year she was raped in) so she sued him for defamation. Jury found him not guilty of rape, but guilty of sexual assault. The judge reversed the decision saying that sexual assault is basically rape so he awarded her millions of dollars.

In both cases laws were changed specifically so he could be charged. Alvin Bragg even ran for district attorney on a platform of getting Trump.

Donald Trump ran his 2016 campaign on getting Hillary, but never actually did it. The Democrats actually prosecuted him by any means necessary.
Ballots across the country voted on various degrees of abortion and passed.
> The EU will most likely move towards developing a nuclear force of their own (as opposed to France only (the UK no longer being a member of the EU)).

The EU has no army. NATO (which UK is part of) is still in effect and it is not going to change.
Bullshit.

It’s framed as an equality movement whereas it takes as an axiom that society is built on systemic oppression - that’s the unquestionable tenet. And then the prescription is using governments power to impose “preferred” outcomes, no matter the cost.

Thanks, but no thanks - I prefer to live in a meritocracy.

Also my personal pet peeve - having a cultural preference is not racism, god damn it! Not all cultures are the same, and we should be allowed to state and fight for our preferences! (Unlike discriminating on the basis of physical appearance or features, which is actual racism).

The fact that America equates the two is asinine to me (as an immigrant)
He'll definitely go away without a fuss after his second term, right? He isn't considering what could be done about the 22nd amendment. Putin extended his terms in office in creative ways, but Trump isn't Putin and has a high regard for established political mechanisms, even if they mean there will be less importance for Trump at some point in the future.
I think the solution to that problem is usually to have fewer and smaller EC2 instances.

And you only need to get utilization up to like 15% to make reserved instances significantly better than lambda.
Again this is averages, tell me what happened to the bottom 40% inflation adjusted?
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Original quote by George Carlin, not US-centric: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
It will be fascinating to see how the long running image of Jupiter, striated with a series of bands of distinct colour with a clear big "dot", will get replaced with more updated ones like this, chaotic, swirly, almost painterly in the ways the colours blend.
I think it's about as likely as it becoming illegal. There's too many good reasons to keep abortions even in a restricted state - even though it does open up a very messy moral can of worms.
Do you mean early in the counting? Surely thay doesn't matter.
The question is not why there was a swing, any number of reasons can be attributed ex post facto.

The point is no poll caught any of the swings at all. To win with this margin Trump the polls can hardly be tied and be called accurate.

The result is not a close at all, and it is not about swing states and electoral college swings. Trump is winning the popular vote by a large margin something he has never be able to do so before.
He increased the deficit while supposedly raining in on spending?