skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The role of banter absolutely can be to belittle people -frequently it’s used as a tool for establishing a pecking order.

There’s nothing better for team cohesion than agreeing on the person you are going to bully
Yeah, I was incorrect above. I just didn't search for the hyphen.
Dividends provide a real income stream people live off of, bitcoins need buyers.

It’s the difference between owning a farm and a gold bar.
It's getting sort of ridiculous how much each party is stuck in an electoral strategy where they have to pretend to be on one side of an issue which is objectively against the interests of the people they pretend to be representing.

Dems have to appear to be pro-immigration for reasons (honestly I don't know why this is like this, historically). They are genuinely less xenophobic than the Reps, so they respect the rights of recent immigrants much better. But when it comes to preventing more poor workers coming in, they are just as tough as the Reps. And I believe that's because ultimately they are slightly less captured by capital and therefore more amenable to balance the economy in favor of workers.

Reps on the other hand have to appear xenophobic once again for reasons that aren't super clear to me, but when it comes to actually preventing immigration, they always manage to torpedo their own proposals. And arguably that's because if they passed effective anti-immigration laws, that would negatively affect the interests of capital, the very obvious reason they're in politics for (and Trump is certainly no different).

Maybe now we can resolve this apparent paradox and simply accept that the Democrats are first and foremost the party of the educated, metropolitan and utterly disinterested in matters of material conditions. Whereas the Republicans are the party of people who are bitter towards the first group. Which leads to the conclusion that exceptionally few people in the US are voting according to their own economic interests.
Nominal price and value are not the same thing
Question: are there any lawyers here, to speculate on the consequences if Google adding modest warnings to their gift cards? Would that be a "safe good deed"? Or would it attract "the warning proves that they knew about the problem, and obviously they should have done MORE..." punishment?
Carl Sagan's scientific legacy extends far beyond 'Cosmos'
I think the policy positions do matter though... The Democrats were pro labor before Clinton helped to pass NAFTA. Limbaugh would even mock Democrat voters who thought Bill would "find you a job". There's no illusion of that anymore. There's just people dropping out of the workforce and the unemployment numbers being fudged to make it look like everything is fine.

Neither party responded to this until Trump came around. Meanwhile, the Democrats also seemingly gave up on the whole social safety net argument as well. Obama at least ran on helping people but, well, I don't see that anymore. While I agree that their messaging has failed, I ultimately think they've failed to provide any substance to their argument.
American expat living in Portugal here. The chega party is indeed on the rise here, but politics are less about personal identity and more focused on issues. A lot of chega’s rise has been attributed to dissatisfaction with the status quo and a warning shot to the incumbent government. Time will tell which direction things go, but the affordability of housing and low wages top the list of concerns.
> I live in a rural working class region. I have beers with these guys all the time. They're my best friends and I'm the odd coder guy that works from home.

This is what America needs more of — people from different worlds just having beers together, and realizing that we’re all normal people trying to get by.

Do you know of anyone who can articulate a compelling case of why Trump would make a good president? I’m left-leaning but I want to understand where others are coming from.
I think you might be in agreement with the parent. Increased costs (due to tariffs) will reduce consumption and therefore emissions.
Even supporters of Trump routinely say that you shouldn't take him on face value, vis-a-vis tariffs, etc. Why should I take what he said about 2025 seriously? His son and VP are absolutely aligned with the goals of the Heritage Foundation.

It's exactly what he did with Roe, trusted and subsequently empowered people whose ideology is stronger and, frankly, unaligned with his and look what happened.
Only ~61% of Americans have any stock holdings and most of those are pretty minor and/or locked up long term in retirement vehicles like a 401k. For practical purposes that money doesn't exist for people which is why a well performing stock market is a crappy indicator for how people will actually feel about the economy. My 401k is up 30% YoY but I can't feel that because the money is locked up for another 30-35 years and I can't access it via the stock market because of my job.

A much better view IMO would be median real wage growth vs inflation because that's how people mostly interact with the economy, simple day to day purchases of food, shelter, and fuel/power.
People in retirement certainly are
Labour won with 411 seats (up 211 from 2019) and 33.3% of the popular vote (9,708,716 votes) vs. 121 seats for the Conservatives (down 251) and 23.7% of the popular vote (6,828,925 ).

YMMV but I call a lead of 290 seats and 2,879,791 votes a landslide.

It was the Lib Dems that seem to have taken most of the Tories' voters: 72 seats (up 64) and 3,519,143 votes. The latter at least checks out. Reform was up 1 seat from 2019 for 5 seats total. Not quite a big splash then.

Labour also won big in Scotland against the SNP for the first time in years (but that was rather the fault of the SNP).

Data from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_el...
> I don’t understand why many people are unwilling to believe that C-suite execs pushing for RTO genuinely believe in it.

I struggle to believe them because their arguments make no sense to me. The economic arguments do make sense (from the companies' point of view), so I lean toward the more coherent arguments as being closer to the truth.
https://x.com/_saagarjha/status/1804130898482466923

https://x.com/frogandtoadbook/status/1734575421792920018
"Best sellers" usually means "best advertized because of worst sales".
The RAM speed comes from the 512bit wide bus, not the direct connection. If motherboard makers were to support quad or octa channel interfaces, PCs would be just about as fast.
Look man, nations don't have any obligations to the citizens of other countries. Why would any other country want to take in another uneducated and poor individual?
He runs a startup that is working on a methane synthesizer that might find uses on Earth but would be very much in demand on a Mars colony.
And they almost certainly will. In fact, I predict military spending is going to rise exponentially.

Can you imagine what the world might look like if all of the EU spend as much on the military as the U.S.?

Be careful what you wish for.
I don't understand how publishing cryptographic signatures of the software is a guarantee? How do they prove it isn't keeping a copy of the code to make signatures from but actually running a malicious binary?
Whats bizarre though is that consumer spending has been strong.

There is this bizarre mixed signals problem where all the metrics look strong, and yet all the people are complaining.

My personal belief is that the crazy economics of the pandemic was kick in the head to most people's perceptions of finances. Things got really good for a lot of middle and lower class people, and now there is pain in the return to normal.

And housing.
I don’t understand the war part.

It does seem like Russia will continue to push west once they take Ukraine. At this point it seems like this is almost inevitable without US support.

We have a lot of Ukrainian people in Canada and they are mortified by this event. To them, US support was a lifeline. Some friends were literally crying over this turn of events because they’re terrified for their family back home.

If Russia takes Ukraine and is emboldened to continue west, how will this impact the USA? Will you want to remain uninvolved and isolated? Does it really seem safe to allow this to continue?

Or do you think nothing much will happen and this hand wringing is unnecessary? Or perhaps that Russia won’t move further west, or it’s fine that they might?

It strikes me that a lot of Trump’s policy is that of a remarkably uninformed person who struggles to connect dots and anticipate the results of these actions.
> see Ozempic pricing

Let me just take this opportunity to point out that Ozempic is the product of a European company. So you can tell me how American healthcare is absurdly expensive, and how it is much cheaper for you, all while you are the ones making it so damn expensive for us.

Along the same lines, lets hear more about Norway being the shining beacon on the hill, the hero come to save us from climate change, while behind the scenes they finance the entire country by exporting pollution to the rest of the world.

It's really difficult to stomach the hypocritical arrogance of some Europeans. Y'all seem so nice in person, I am hoping a lot of the online rhetoric is just Putin doing his thing.
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>When Democrats feel the same, you want to run?

They want to run because the right is using violent language and saying they are going on a revenge tour. Why is that weird to you?
Do people use gold all the time to buy goods and services? That doesn't diminish the value of golds, or its validity as a store of value.
> During his presidency illegal immigration was lower

Is that true? Legal immigration was lower especially during the lockdown (for obvious reasons). But the number of deportations of illegal immigrants barely changed, e.g. https://www.cato.org/blog/president-trump-reduced-legal-immi...

> wages rose for the working class

That happened. And it happened even faster under Biden.

> He’s also positioned himself as the “law and order” candidate

And yet the murder rate rose to the highest level since 1997.

> their experience of the economy was better when he was president

I feel like it might be more accurate to say "perception" than "experience".
Imagine if you could buy car insurance after you crash your car.
Entire regions of the planet could very well become uninhabitable, which would affects hundreds of millions, potentially billions of people. Migratory flows of that size would almost certainly lead to armed conflicts. It's hard to tell how this would end, but it is certainly not going to be pretty.
Giving big history ignorant energy.
Women face higher consequences for pregnancy so you would expect attitudes towards sexual suggestion to be different. Also, when you're talking about a group where the gender ratio is like 20:1 the woman is going to be the butt of a disproportionate number of the jokes.
> Until China and India take steps to decarbonize their economies as opposed to making empty pledges we all know will never be met, then whatever the U.S. or the rest of the West does will not matter.

This is such a bullshit way of thinking. No one snowflake feels responsible for the avalanche. "But China…", "But India…" is not an excuse for not giving a shit. I hear the same arguments over here in Germany, and they're usually coming from the "I don't want to change" crowd.
What's the scenario where the government can take the digital money from your bank accounts but can't take the digital money from your crypto wallet?
Until Elon falls out of favor.

In reality we are dealing with Putin having effective control and is now basically unrestrained.
Congress has also flipped, so even if the system was working as intended, we’d end up in the same situation.
Yeah you're correct. I mistakenly said unnamed due to the theory some people have that Theophilus was not a real person but is some kind of metaphor/personification of the church.
While I agree there is a UniParty, I also assert that Trump is not in it.

If you think Trump, Vance, Vivek, Tulsi, RFK and the just the same but newer versions of Trump, Cheney, Rove, McConnell, Romney, McCain…

Well… I guess we have four more years to see about that.
There are plenty of companies whose stock is sought after but that never paid dividends (I think Tesla and Amazon are some example, or used to be at least)
Since Apple spent so much effort in getting certified:

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

These are all guaranteed to work:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/

(I may not have linked to the precisely correct version.)
Throwng in self-awareness in that context seems like a very slippery slope. That sounds like you are advocating for legal infanticide?

Besides, if you believe animals are not self-aware, why d you care about "welfare"?
And Truman had a plaque that said "The buck stops here". I don't buy these lame excuses.

Biden should have used executive orders to deal with the border. Just like Trump did. Biden didn't because he didn't care that voters were extremely upset about the border. Now we get to "enjoy" Trump again.
The kind intelligence was kicked out in July. The brat is as sharp as a rolling pin.
At what point do you think you should look a little more locally for the problem when nationwide trends are going the other way?
Ok, fair enough. I was going from the assumption that political posts generally are removed from hn. But, clearly there's just some nuance that I didn't recognize.
Until the tariffs hit[0] because the reason solar is so cheap is due to cheap Chinese panels.

Not to mention, this is a very naive take, at best.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-solar-industry...
100% That's why I made it a point to share that page.

I still get a ton of mileage from reading the macOS How-to page https://ss64.com/mac/syntax.html
I am not saying they're right. If you are told that welfare is a burden to society/communism and that you have to fend for yourself then yes you will only care about "the economy" and not ask for more welfare
These things are not disconnected
What makes it a design failure? It seems good to me. The surface is completely flat glass and easily cleaned, there is no possibility for dirt to get into the switches or accumulate in crevices.
> The US greatly increased oil and gas production under Biden.

And critically, I think, the Harris campaign failed to highlight facts like that, and emphasize how she will be different. Instead she completely bungled the messaging and went for "I'll do nothing different from what Biden did except add a Republican in my cabinet".

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/06/politics/harris-campaign-...

> “What, if anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” co-host of ABC’s “The View” Sunny Hostin asked Harris, looking to give her a set for her to spike over the net. “There is not a thing that comes to mind,” she said.

Talk about a monumental failure.
Do all the population eats Caesars pizza? Inflation (or more accurately CPI) is a weighted average where the items that represent the biggest spending on the consumer (not on volume, but also relative to their income) is calculated and changed over time. Housing is the biggest item there, then there's food, energy and health services and communication. How does Caesars pizza change of price affects inflation: via restaurants, an item that has lost relevance after the run away price increases over covid.
> it’s also equivalent to say _not_ going back to the pre-Covid normal is disrupting the life of employees.

But it actually is.

The pre-covid normal was always pretty bad, and now people are more aware that it doesn't have to be that way.
Thanks for actually getting this
He literally listed a bunch of provable facts, then suggested reasonable concern about folks’ safety. This isn’t a game. People’s lives are at stake here.
Might wanna brush up on your english listening skills then.
They return cash to shareholders in the form of buybacks.
How? Any proof?
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The biggest problem is the climate to those who profit off this agenda.
I absolutely hope the EU ramps military spending and negates the need for US support. Sometimes, you need a catalyst, and clearly another nation should not be beholden to US defense agreements.

Decoupling globally continues.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/368528/us-military-army-n...

https://indi.ca/the-us-military-is-in-a-death-spiral/

https://www.rand.org/nsrd/projects/NDS-commission.html
Judging by the comments here, it will be majority democrat.
it may be needed for certain markets and advertisements - the question should be pointed toward the OP. Why is he even asking that??

- lean into it corresponds to accept that smthg built by you is used for porn.

- not lean into it corresponds to drive away his users.

so, why is OP considering not to lean into and by that risking to drive away the users - should be the question :)
Climate policies have failed. They're all either empty signaling exercises (carbon offsets, CAFE standards) or economically ruinous proposals to deliberately impoverish people (degrowth). The Paris accords penalize developed economies while giving developing countries a pass on emissions and an unfair advantage in trade. This idea that we can just sit down in a room with all the world's leaders and agree to just reduce emissions is a fantasy.

The real climate policy we need, and one we might just get from the incoming administration, is support for startups that explore new geoengineering technology. We've on our way to being Kardashev type I civilization, and as such, we should establish explicit closed-loop control over our climate.
It's not an option exposed to users, normally.

You have to set some CLI flags for it: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/51725/do-macbooks-...
Aggregate data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

https://www.in2013dollars.com/Food/price-inflation/2019-to-2...

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/price-of-food

It's closer to 28%. I wrote the initial post from my memory of the stat, which is why I approximated it.
> Ireland is a solid democratic European, English speaking country with no significant hard right presence in government.

This is of course anecdotal, but my partner spent a couple weeks in Dublin and a couple other Irish cities recently for a work thing, and was surprised to feel unsafe there. One of her co-workers was physically attacked by two drunk men, completely unprovoked, and several of her LGBTQ colleagues had disgusting things shouted at them in public, multiple times.

Depending on what group the toplevel poster is in that makes them feel wary about remaining in the US, I'm not convinced Ireland is a good choice.
> As far as I know there is no indication that climate change will be an extinction-level threat?

We are currently living in an era of mass extinction. It's not something that's coming, we are in it, it is measurable. 75% of wild animals, insects and trees have disappeared. That is a fact, and it is not related to climate change at all: "just" to how we humans organize the world (mostly habitat loss).

Climate change will bring famines, natural disasters, and global instability (that means wars). This is yet to come.

It is fairly likely that at this rate, we will reach 4 degrees of global warming. At 4 degrees, a large part of the Earth (around the Equator) becomes unlivable for humans (it's too humid and hot, we can't regulate our temperature by sweating, we die). Which means that billions of people will need to relocate. This is not just normal wars: think entire countries that decide to leave their territory and go somewhere else, together with their army.

I don't know what the definition of "extinction-level" means (maybe you only care about some individuals of the human species surviving), but in my book that's as bad as it gets.
I agree focusing on the culture issues was an incorrect move. But, union members seem to have gone largely pro-Trump even after he talked about firing anyone who went on strike and breaking them up with Musk. It's hard to understand.
PolyCam I think is the most popular?
How about some good old-fashioned respect for the office of President?

Trump's legacy already speaks for itself.

As far as Europe and other overseas countries are concerned, Trump's most remarkable accomplishment was quite some time ago when he was President the first time.

He made unprecedented Presidential history already, and for the rest of his life (as well as the lives of millions of other senior citizens) he can bask in the degree of admiration that he brought to such an esteemed executive office.

He clinched it like no other in over 75 years of very strong & respectable leadership, recognized worldwide which really means something to international partners of all kinds.

He made sure that President Barack Obama will go down in history as the final US President to effectively be the "leader of the free world", in a long line of illustrious Republicans & Democrats who may one day regain such a level of respect again.

Only not possible in the lifetimes of millions of people around the world, for whom it's just a little too late now. Biden couldn't recover that mantle in only 4 years unless he was a miracle worker of some kind, that's how elusive it really was.

Completely eluded Trump, and once again the traditional American kind of world-class leadership on an international stage fades further into the past, with no recovery on the horizon any time soon.

This is something that nobody can deny.
This is exactly what has been holding retailers like Amazon and Walmart back
The preceding comments were about tribalism, and I was showing that policy had nothing to do with anything. That the dems talked about policy but it still be perceived that they didn’t.

> identity politics

This has squarely been a republican plank to rile and invigorate their base, regularly creating issues where none existed to get their team up to vote,

The fact that this can be blamed on the dems is always strange. I mean, the whole point of Fox was to create a counter narrative to address the march of “liberal science”. The goal was entirely to handle science and research, and present ways to combat this with feelings. Again - my favorite example is creationism.
> Trump is more than happy to pull out of NATO

Why, what's the idea behind it? Isn't he big on military and showing power?
I think people stop believing in statistics when they don't feel it is related to their daily life.

Looking at the prices of bread, eggs, meat, car price and rent/mortgage interest from another country, it's a lot of burden. Meat shoots up really a lot in Costco, and mortgage payment went up 50% as well.

Talking about the cars, the exactly same car was 30K when I bought it 4.5 years ago, and now it is 45K+ (Same model different year). It's hard to explain the differences by "the advancement of technology". And not to say that back then I got a 0% interest rate and nowadays it's at least 5% or 6%.

IMO, for ordinary people, this hike of interests does nothing to prevent real inflation that they care about, but simply increasing everything.
Are them swing states?
When the right felt like they were losing the soul of their country, they weren't being told they would be exterminated. They were afraid they wouldn't get to hate other people the way they like to.
So, CPI adjusted it means that median people are "doing better" about $30 (also CPI adjusted) than in 1980 per week? Given all the "progress" in that time, that is just not enough, and that is what people feel. People feel they don't have the money to participate in modern life, and yeah, an extra $30 per week is definitely not enough to do that.

Also, the median stats say nothing about how people below it are doing. By definition, that is 50%, and that is also about the number of people voting for Trump, alongside your run-of-the-mill racists and fascists.