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> this line about democracy ending if Trump wins is about all she could offer as a reason to vote for her,

This is a lie.

> I guess now we'll all get to see if the dire warnings were at all founded in reality

So, if he was lying or telling the truth?

> If they were wrong, then they burned a whole bunch of credibility pushing what turned out to be a conspiracy theory.

No they didn't. Republicans run the same claims every election and they win off it.

> the moderate voter can't use that as a razor.

Any informed voter would now Kamala offered more then "this line about democracy ending." Anyone who thinks this was "all she could offer as a reason to vote for her," you are really just saying "I was not informed."
> The supreme court balance is the same as it was when he was president

I think it's a safe bet that Thomas and Alito will step down in the next two years and be replaced by similarly right-wing justices, just much younger. The court will be majority hard-right for the rest of my life.

> literally nothing is different this time

This time he and his supporters are prepared. If you look at Trump in 2016, he seemed genuinely surprised he won. His transition team was ad-hoc and clumsy. His cabinet and advisory picks ended up being sub-optimal for him, as he kept appointing people who wouldn't go as far as he wanted to. Project 2025 is a thing now, and is a playbook for weakening and subverting the US federal government -- except in areas where conservatives want to keep power so they can impose it on states that don't share their ideology.

And any time states complain, SCOTUS will tell them to stuff it.
The last time I viewed this particular website it detected the adblocker and complained that I was depriving the owner of income.
You’re ignoring the mass-transmission losses of moving heavy panels to the Moon. Concluding the author’s back-of-the-envelope math is a “non-starter” with zero numbers, just hand waiving, is heavy with hubris.
On brand with newspapers.
About 20 million votes less than the 2020 election, with about 15 million less for the democrats, and a measely 4 million less for the republicans. Thought that was interesting.
Warning: This is not a politically correct opinion.

If I'm the boss of a company, I'd avoid hiring either group. Seems like both groups will never be happy and both groups will always feel victimized and then try to blame the company. It distracts the company and it's very unfair to people who aren't causing these issues.

And to the Palestinian or Jewish supporters who aren't causing issues, I feel for you because you may be seen by potential employers as problematic.
Nuclear explosions don't have "reactants". There's just a few Kg of Uranium or other fuel and a little conventional explosive to trigger it, and that's all. That's not enough mass to propell anything of significant size outside of atmosphere. The speed at which the mass is ejected from the engine counts, of course, but a nuke won't give the same speeds as an ion engine for example.

Aldebaran spacecraft proposed to "intake" air. But it's mass means it would have to intake A LOT of air. And that engine, as described in the article, doesn't seem to compress the air before each bomb expands it. I don't think it would work.

IIRC, the Orion project proposed to wrap each bomb in one ton of polypropylene. It would provide mass and also reduce radiation fallout.
In 2016, prospective candidates were told by the party to sit this one out. It was Hillary's turn and if you run in the primary, you will not have a future in the DNC. This is why we only got Bernie (who isnt even a democrat) and a hand full of no name DNC candidates to vote for. She was chosen, and no big names ran against her.
That is not the definition of fungible. You can put a mark on a USD$100 bill and trace it, but it still has the same value as any other USD$100 bill, or 5 20$ bills, etc.
He is barely coherent most of the time, but several of his ideas do resonate with people and are easy to understand:

1 - Other countries in the world have taken advantage of the US

2 - Illegal immigrants have changed the country for the worse and are taking jobs

#2 in particular has been framed as being racist. There IS a good deal of racism mixed in there, but the truth is that low skilled illegal immigrants DO compete for many of the same jobs as lower-skilled Americans.

None other than Bernie Sanders said as much about the subject right around 2007. His stance at that time was that we needed to do something about illegal immigration specifically to protect the jobs of American workers, but then later he changed his tune to fit in with the rest of the party.

If you address the majority of people's concerns and worries, they'll vote for you.
Those days are long gone in Apple land.
Calling free() on memory allocated by another library isn't fine even if that library promises that it allocated the memory with malloc(). You don't have to do anything particularly esoteric to be a problem; on Windows it's as simple as building a dynamic library with /MT (statically link the C runtime).
We don't need to have a system where there are only 2 terrible choices.

if the federal government wasn't so large but rather a looser organization such as the EU, then each state would be a sovereign entity and the presidency wouldn't matter so much. then you would have 50 or more choices (50x2=100)
> I do find it implausible (even radical) that the majority of people in America support a coup attempt

Agreed. The winner of the popular vote yesterday had only 27% support of people in America, not anywhere near a majority.
I didn't say that. I merely pointed out what I perceive to be an issue with your use of "valuable"
Where is the evidence for this? Obama was also not a big name candidate in 2008. It's harder to be a bigger name than someone who was both a first lady and a senator.
A linear model (liberal vs conservative) is not great. Consider a planar model with two dimensions: social and economic policy. Trump combined conservative social policy with populist economic policy. Harris promoted liberal social policy. However, in her last town hall, framed herself as a "pragmatic capitalist" (her emphasis). This is a continuation of Democratic rightward shift, the Neoliberal compromise, that was crystallized by Clinton with NAFTA in the 90s. In this election, like 2000, the US public had to choose: a liberal social policy -or- a populist economic policy. What was not on the ballot: liberal social policy with populist economic policy.
So... we should all protest any form of device that features DNS caching or OCSP?
> afconvert

Oh wow! A while back I ripped some concert audio from Youtube, but it was too large for me to sync using my `iTunes Match`. I've been too lazy to figure out how to downsample it juuuuust enough. But it looks like this works right out of the box
What did you find exhausting, specifically? Just trying to understand your comment.
> I'm just not sure if the world deserves this.

So, I'm right and the other party is wrong? No questions asked.

A more useful thing would be: WHY did people vote for Trump? They are surely intentional as you observe. What gave them this intention? Was it DEI? Did they like Trump's hair?
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I live in an area with a lot of immigration and one side effect is that "entry level" jobs are just about impossible to get for teenagers and other low-skilled non-immigrant workers because of intense competition[1]. So no, the "average" American may not care about these jobs, but the poorest Americans and those "just starting out" do.

It's ironic to pay lip service to supporting the poor while kicking the ladder out from under them with immigration.

[1] https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/massive-lineu...
It was reported because it was technically interesting, not because anything actually failed. They anticipated something might happen, monitored for it, found something did indeed happen, and made appropriate adjustments and fixes. Then the plan moved ahead, and the rollover happened without any further issue.

Your parent comment has been downvoted and flagged. Take the L instead of doubling down on your strange obsession on calling everything related to DNSSEC a “failure” and “fiasco”.
Project 2025 is not an actual policy of anyone with power.

I saw so many ads by Harris complaining about it, and that's part of how I knew she would lose: when you fight against something that isn't real, you're going to lose.
There are many faces of inflation.
The "money supply" you are talking about was not the primary driver in the last few years and there was robust demand for the treasury issuance. You will see the money supply inflation pick up when treasury auctions start to fail. I believe this will happen down the road but not soon.
Most of the inflation was driven by other factors: low-income labor shortage, and a supply side shortage that fueled an increase of prices for commodities and anything else up the chain.
I think its time for the EU to distance itself from the US trainwreck
Agreed that it may be the right solution, but it smells bad. If I was there I would be trying to reduce the complexity where I could.
The extension is in the Accessibility category. For all you know, maybe all your users are disabled - and they just don't use the computer for anything other than porn.

I know I'm mostly on my phone... The computer is for work, games, and large screen porn. General Internet browsing is on the smartphone. Smartphones have this natively and it's used a lot by disabled people - many prefer iPhone or iPad to a computer because of this.
That happened like 6 years ago, now it's just a question of high score
Which are, nonetheless, rather impressively worse in basically all respects than the old medically underwritten individual plans. Other than the fact that anyone can get them, of course.

I’m not saying that the ACA was a bad law. I’m saying that a not-so-nerdy voter contemplating whether ACA is a great achievement of the Democratic Party is likely to be unimpressed.
Nice! I recently worked on a chrome extension that personalizes the frontpage based on embeddings.

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Almost every time someone brings it up, people dismiss sexism, racism, etc. and their impacts. If I want to know the impact of, e.g., weather on farming, or the hurricane, I ask someone who has experienced it. This person had these experiences; you didn't but that's irrelevant.

> posh ... highbrow

It's using a stereotype as argument - perhaps not coincidentally - rather than listening to what people actually say.
Yes, it's supposedly coming early next year.
Voters in small town America neither care about nor understand geopolitics. They do understand and care about the price of burritos. Have you seen any recent interviews of voters and their stated concerns? Have you seen the exit polling demographics by education level?
There does seem to be a real double standard here.
hmm I read that somewhere this morning but it seems to be way off. I stand corrected.
It's literally a conspiracy theory, the question at hand is whether there really is a conspiracy.

My point is not that they're wrong and Trump won't successfully end democracy (I think the odds are low but non-zero), my point is that the strategy blew up in the DNC's faces and should have been identified as a terrible plan from the start.

Being a Cassandra is not a winning playbook. Being able to say "I told you so" is small comfort, and that's the package they chose when they decided to make themselves look crazy to the electorate. If they believed democracy to be in danger the correct move was to nominate an electable candidate last year, not wait until Biden turned out to be unelectable and then start screaming about the end of democracy.
What you forget, or may not appreciate, is that (for example) Blue voters in states that are absolutely going Red may stay home, because their vote won't really count.

I've voted Dem all my life (since 1988), and while my preferred candidate has won several of those races, my actual VOTE never helped them because I voted in Mississippi (88), Alabama (92), and Texas (96 & thereafter) -- all of which have been GOP strongholds for a long, long time. (Texas, for example, hasn't gone for the Democrats since Carter v. Ford in 1976.)

It's easy to imagine that a feeling of despair about the efficacy of one's vote would drive someone to stay home.
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Yeah, these Zen 5 are killer for that kind of workload. I also replaced my workstation with a 9900-series CPU since my Intel 14900K fried itself, and I am very pleased with every aspect, except idle power consumption which is a minor drawback.

It looks like the X3D is no better than the 9900X for non-game single-threaded workloads like browsers, and it's much worse than the 12 or 16 core parts in terms of overall throughput, so for a non-gamer the plain X seems much better than the X3D.
> Wi-Fi 8: Pioneering the Future of Connectivity

Is Wi-Fi 7 already available in consumer devices (phones for example) ? /s
Trump also lies to voters. For instance every sophisticated analysis of his tariff plan have shown it will do the exact opposite of what he promises. The analysis is as bad as the analysis of Bernie and Warren's Medicare for all plans where magically everything was 50% cheaper.
What makes you think people haven’t thought about those things the same as you or more, and still disagree?

I think every little life saved is an absolute victory, and many people (as demonstrated) share my sentiment.
> how do you think you fix that if the electorate is the one who gets to choose

Education. Democracy relies on a well-educated populace
> I went the other way (grew up working class) and I still, decades later, find middle class folk (in the UK) to be uptight and terribly afraid of causing/receiving offence.

I find the same (also in the UK) from having lived in (and grown with) a non-western culture. One that is also uptight (much more so in many ways, and definitely sexist) but in a different way.

> Whereas the highbrow view is more like - okay but if we accept those things then women can't work on nuclear submarines alongside the blokes. We want women to be able to work on nuclear submarines alongside the blokes, anything else is unacceptable

I am quite surprised at the extent to which gender stereotypes are pervasive. At a bonfire last weekend kids were being sold illuminated toys, and all the little boys had swords, and the girls had unicorns. My daughters would have wanted swords (they are teen and adult) but I have realised that is unusual.
Give it time. They've only recently launched the ETFs.
> they're also talking about a national abortion ban. you might indeed be old enough for that not to affect your life any more, but if you have extended family, it will affect someone you care about, guaranteed

I do care about the people who will be affected. But it won't be people in my social class.

There's a lot of hypocrisy built into the social conservative mentality. I've seen the world they want to go back to, and it was never about eliminating, say, abortion. Progressives think that right wingers want to eradicate abortion the way progressives want to eliminate malaria and poverty. There are a few extremists who do, yes. But most right wing people just want to institute social rules that stigmatize abortion. They want people who get abortions to be discreet about it, and they want to shame and punish anybody who gets caught. They want abortions to be a crime for the poor and a scandal for the rich. That's all they want. If they get that, they don't care how many abortions people get.

My friends are sophisticated enough and have enough resources that they would be able to get an abortion if they needed one. They would find an anonymous way to get a pregnancy test. They would not share knowledge of their pregnancy with anyone. They would schedule a holiday in an abortion-friendly place and Instagram every step of it. In this way, they would respect the taboo, and that's all that most right wing people care about. Rich people being able to break the rules is very much part of the plan.

The burden of punishment will fall on people who weren't wealthy or sophisticated enough to navigate this hypocrisy, or who belong to disfavored groups (racial minorities, etc.) who are specifically targeted for enforcement.

Think of how Alan Turing was punished for homosexuality. The nature of his sexual behavior was obvious to the police, but he was not going to be punished for it. All he had to do was deny it. Show respect for the taboo. But he didn't deny it, he didn't participate in the hypocrisy, so he was punished.

> last but not least, Trump's stated goal of mass deportation would require intense surveillance

You're thinking like a progressive technocrat. You're thinking, how would I institute a fair, efficient, and effective program of mass deportation? Trump doesn't care how many people he deports, or even whether he deports the right people. He's not going to be surveilling rich white people to catch people like Elon Musk who overstay their visa. Any mass deportations will be like his wall: a half-assed, purely symbolic stunt that makes his supporters happy and confuses progressives because of the blatant lack of ambition to accomplish anything.

Again, the victims will be people that right wingers consider fair game because of their economic status and their skin color.
Meh, you can watch MSNBC or Fox for quite different messages. Of course, the fascists are not complaining about the media because there is actually something wrong but to justify the eventual censorship.
It absolutely isnt, democratic party social policy side wouldn't fly even in the most liberal parts of Europe.
Why blame the Republicans? After all, the Democrats did pass a referendum on Trump 4 years ago and Trump lost. Since he wins now, I can only point to disarray on the Democrat side. Just look at NY State. 60% to Joe Biden in 2020 and 55% to Harris in 2024. Thats a big move.
It depends on how you measure inflation. The most important expenses for a young person trying to start a family are health-care, housing, food, child care and college tuition. Inflation in these categories is wild. I don't care at all if a big screen TV has gotten cheaper.
I would hope you realize that the average joe is a member of the lowest classes; but yes, neaeshoring certainly would’ve continued under Harris.
20M is too much of a number to be attributed to voter suppression alone. I think the main issue here is still apathetic non-voters.
In my lifetime, yes.
I believe you are thinking of Flipboard (still around, but a bit different nowadays).
Nobody promised you that real solutions would work for everyone. Performing CPR to save a life is something "an incredibly tiny fraction of the population" is trained on, but it does work when circumstances call for it.

It sucks, but what are you going to do for society? Tell them all to sell their iPhones, punk out the NSA like you're Snowden incarnate? Sometimes saving yourself is the only option, unfortunately.
from https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1851766313279963218

Anonymous TV exec: "If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they're not reading any of this media, and we’ve lost this audience completely.
A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form."
As another Turkish person, I find the resemblence between this election and the one we had a year ago rather uncanny.

- election between rightist strongman vs. boring guy whose most important selling point is not being the other guy. Also a somewhat controversial candidacy.

- Deep divide between coastal lines vs. the rest; educated and the rest.

- Polls not being confident on either candidate, but the strongman gets mire votes than expected.

Etc. etc. I find it rather strange. (I do enjoy the memes on the Turkish social media though)
lol. Seems legit.
Mid 90s I was working on neural nets and other machine learning, based on gradient descent, with manually computed derivatives, on genomic data (from what I can recall, we had no awareness of LeCun; I didnt find out about his great OCR results until much later). it worked fine and it seemed like a promising area.

My only surprise is how long it took to get to imagenet, but in retrospect, I appreciate that a number of conditions had to be met (much more data, much better algorithms, much faster computers). I also didn't recognize just how poorly MLPs were for sequence modelling, compared to RNNs and transformers.
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I use that all the time. You can also cmd-c copy a file in Finder then paste into the terminal to get its path.
Flipboard. https://about.flipboard.com/
> What I find scary is that developers see web apps (and hence the open web platform) as no longer fashionable, and instead focus on developing mobile apps (iOS and Android).

Few of those apps are standalone mobile apps. More frequently than not, the mobile app is a thin layer on top of the mobile app.
I don't know why you're commenting on the voting here. I don't care and neither should you. I'm saying: the observation I made wasn't "shade". It is in fact a useful thing to know about DNSSEC that the last attempted key rotation was operationally complicated and disrupted to the point where it was delayed for over a year† (relevant, given that rotation of these keys exists as a response to potential compromise in them!), and that the announcement today is not the same thing as the rotation itself.

Obviously, I'm not a DNSSEC supporter, but I think what's happening here is that you've read all our previous discussions into a relatively innocuous comment.

At any rate:

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

† (iirc)
The best base of reference!

1 Ringgit = 1 Ringgit
In case you intentionally left out the /s at the end of your comment...

You'd be surprised how advanced the banking systems are in some 3rd world countries. In many cases the banks skipped over a lot of the legacy cruft that 1st world countries are struggling to get rid of now.

Also, in countries where the banking system or currency is falling apart, they use USD cash. Zimbabwe is doing this, Argentina is doing this, I'm sure more places also do this.

Also also, often where you have crumbling banking or currency, you also have crumbling internet and/or electricity infrastructure. Nobody is sitting on an upturned milk crate in their dilapidated corrugated iron shack in the middle of a slum fucking trading bitcoin on Coinbase so that they can buy bread.

Bitcoin is 99% used as a speculative investment instrument and as a means to participate in illicit markets (drugs etc). There is nothing altruistic or democratising about it.