skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find the concerns for Democracy comical

Trump has explicitly and clearly stated he plans to fill the supreme court with cronies, and then dissolve massive parts of the bureaucracy to instead divert that power to the president. Keep in mind, on top of this, he is also now completely immune from all crimes.

This new-found concentration of power in the president has never before been seen in American politics. It is genuinely worrying, even if you believe Trump will use his new powers in benevolent ways.
Plus with every iota of decrease in the government’s credibility, the relative credibility of candidate’s promises and proposed policies also matter less too in deciding between them…
Three times? The CPI increased by 25% from 2019 to 2023. That's a lot but not three times. Major grocery retailers cut prices earlier this year as well.

I have a feeling that increases like you describe are likely due to lack of competition and much exaggeration. When I lived in rural area my closest grocery was over 30 min away. Where I live now there's probably 50 within 30 minutes.
I understand all of this; I voted for Harris, despite not particularly liking her (or Biden)
In the words of George Carlin: “The planet will be fine. The people are fucked.”

Perhaps that was the problem with the messaging from the start, it didn’t appeal to people’s selfish nature enough.
Exactly. You can only trust yourself [1] and should self host.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_JyDvBbZ6Q
> right now there is nowhere in the country where if a pregnant woman’s life is threatened by her pregnancy then she cannot legally obtain a medical abortion.

This literally happened very recently

https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-...
> how to do you explain why the UK grew so much faster than other EU nations in the decade before Brexit? Similarly, how do you explain how much worse is the UK economic story after Brexit? It seems exactly the opposite of what you wrote.

Are you sure about that? It seems about equal to me [1]...

In any case, Brexit didn't cause closing the borders; immigration into the UK increased massively [2] (i.e. the politicians didn't deliver what the people wanted). Any negative changes to the UK economy were more likely caused by decrease in trade with the EU... [3] Although COVID makes all these statistics suspect.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/national-gdp-constant-usd...

[2] figure 5 here: https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/lo...

[3] https://obr.uk/box/the-latest-evidence-on-the-impact-of-brex...
I haven't seen these ads, happy for you to link them (as I said in my other comment).
sides of the same coin :[
Seems like they pretty much did? The polls said "a close race in each of the swing states, which either candidate could win". And I that's what happened, no?
First, the words predict and forecast are not interchangeable. Polls do not predict outcomes, they merely forecast them. Since predictions are purely subjective, saying they 'failed' is inappropriate. You can disagree with a subjective prediction, but you can't really say they failed. Forecasting relies on historic data to extrapolate. That same data basically said "its a 50/50 coin toss" so the polls did not, in fact, fail. You just thought they failed because the precise poll value was not 50/50, but rather 49.xx/51.xx which does not account for statistical variances.
>Gruez... Income Taxes are paid the year after they're incurred. Tax Year 2022 is filed and paid in 2023. The effects wouldn't start being felt until March 2023 at the earliest.

First off, 2022 taxes are not paid in 2023. Corporations have to pay taxes quarterly, not yearly.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

Second, no CFO is going to going to accept "this year's engineering expenses might be 100% more expensive (because we can't deduct it), but it's only due next year so we can keep on hiring!". The whole point of accounting is modeling the company's books to reflect its financial situation as accurately as possible, not just looking at whatever the bank balance is. This includes modeling future tax obligations.
The rhetoric has only amplified in negative ways since he came on the scene in 2015. I don't know who kicked it off, and don't think it matters. Both sides are equally guilty for the hatred they've spewed.
sorry, can someone copy&paste what's on that link? (how are people still on that site anyway?)
My bad, I guess it's just the ones with swastikas at his rallies!
The game binaries are encrypted, sure you can image the Blurays and put them online but they won't do anyone much good without access to the keys buried in the firmware, which are also a moving target since they can be rotated via mandatory firmware updates if they get compromised. In the case of the Switch, you also have to contend with the proprietary carts requiring a crypto handshake before they'll let you even read the encrypted game data.
>What do Americans want?

I'm a progressive guy. Bleeding heart, even.

But I come from a long line of white trash, and I am intimately familiar with what they do and do not care about.

They DO NOT care about gay, trans, minority people. At all. Ever. Every single syllable spoken about them only serves to enrage them.

They DO NOT care about Palestinians, except to equate them with ISIS.

Americans want low taxes, low inflation, a 400-foot wall surrounded by minefields on the US-Mexican border, and democrats to shut the fuck up about racism and LGBTQ+.

Those sentiments are only getting stronger.
In theory, yes. But in the real world the bottleneck of the same 128 bit wide memory, interface that's been popular way back since the time of dual core chips.

Less cache misses (on popular workloads) helps decrease power and increase performance enough that few things benefit from 12-16 cores.

Thus the M3 max (with a 512 bit wide memory system) has a class leading single core and multi-core scores.
>But I agree despite the hype Bitcoin's returns are still poor and easily surpassed by the S&P 500.

Over what time period?
If you don't mind me asking, to where? That is, what uplink do you see to your nearest AWS or gcloud? In the US, advertised residential speeds don't nessarly translate to realized gains. Just pushes the bottle neck to the ISP.

Agreed that either way it is way cheaper than cloud bandwidth.
How much easier was it compared to the next best method at the time?
Ch may be a digraph in many languages, but is it implemented in Unicode as a single character?
I think we basically agree then. As far as I'm aware, the Democrats didn't attempt even to make the "making the best of a bad hand" argument, much less make a case for how they were going to address the situation.

One thing that Trump is incredibly talented at at is getting everyone to talk about him. I've always thought that the way to get him beat wasn't to trash him, but to talk about the great things about the alternate candidate. So I made it a point to avoid talking about Trump on my social media.
After the DNC, I thought we were going to get the same thing from the Harris campaign -- but it seems like in the last few weeks, Harris went hard on attacking Trump, hoping to get women out to vote for reproductive rights, leaving me nothing really to share or talk about on FB.

Trump, on the other hand, went hard on getting young adult males, who typically don't vote at all, to come out and vote for him. Both efforts had their effect, but Trump's bet seems to have paid off more, and put him back in the white house.
I've never felt much sympathy for this take, given the counterpart is being called a groomer, traitor, child murderer, election stealer, deep state benefactor etc.

Why does this only change votes in one direction?
Because Trump is more vocal about having friendly ties with India. He bothered to go out of his way and visit the country, attend public events in it and have diplomatic talks.

Biden and his administration, meanwhile, just conveniently ignored the whole country. He only visited because he had to for the G20 summit, and talks were lackluster.
From a GDP perspective, the Biden economy has been stellar - but that's not what people say, is it?
Discussions:

(178 points, 19 hours ago, 54 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054867

(203 points, 16 hours ago, 95 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42055979
Yes as long as you are running your spreadsheet on the desktop version. You can open them up on the browser version too which is total trash but you’ve got full functionality of your cloud spreadsheets while on the desktop app
It's not the parent comment's concern (at all).
It is only when someone think they have power over someone else that they allow themselves to be inappropriate on the workplace. My mom was a nurse before forming nurses, and lived through that (from doctors especially). Her best friend was a security guard at diverse places, but she started at a mall (where she has "wild" stories as you put it. Confirmed 100% always her manager or customers, once the day manager was put on ice for harassment, his replacement ended the night by touching her butt the day he arrived. Crazy that people do that).

But even closer to me, and more recently: i know a woman who work in a call center, and she explained to me the reason why it's always managers on the workplace: the other don't have the time to play powergames with each other, they have too much work (for her it was a female manager who learned of her homosexuality who started to get touchy).

I stand by that. Obviously it is different in non-work settings, but at work?
> Is there some statistical analysis on the reason people vote trump ?

You could try to ask HN'ers who voted Trump why they did ... statistically speaking, folks on HN do not exactly strike me as fitting the "bunch of redneck retarded bigots" profile.

Oh but wait, that would only be possible if admitting on HN that you supported Trump was not guaranteed to have the following effect:

- starting flamewars, which might get you banned

- being ostracized and attacked

And turns out HN is IMO a reflection of what happens in US society at large: in the non-"bunch of redneck retarded bigots" social circles, telling people that you support Trump is career/social suicide.

Except that more than half of the country supports him, so if you pick 100 people, even in the non-"bunch of redneck retarded bigots" circles, chances are, you know ...

There is something deeply dysfunctional about a society where you have to hide your democratic choice for fear of being socially destroyed.
Inflation is a complicated topic that doesn't get adequately captured in the sound bites.

I kept hearing clips of voters saying they want prices to go back down, but my understanding of the economics is that this would be terrible. Instead, IMO, what we need is for wages to increase while minimizing the inflationary effect of wage increases. That's not a catchy slogan, however.

Parallel to this, I don't think the post COVID inflation is really due to politicians.
In English, questions are terminated with a question mark.
Why wouldn't he need the vote.

Ummmm.... maybe the fact that he won't even be eligible to run again? I mean, he literally has no use at all for a vote beyond yesterday's.
"facts over feelings"
There is no other way though. Climate change is not a technical problem, it's political. We've had the tech to fix climate change for long time, we know how to do it, that part is quite easy and obvious, we are just not doing it.
One of the original predictions that might be entertaining(?) to see would be the US having its first President "run" the country from prison... And the follow-up situation to witness, how different would that look, in the end?

For those who think rather than just react, I guess it would not be as entertaining...?
Can you post the content instead of just the link, for those of us who cannot access it?
Sharing links from websites with intrusive video advertisements should be prohibited. The websites should be banned, and those who share links to them should receive a paddling.
Cheatsheet? I've used it for years. Just hold down Command for a few seconds to see a list of all available shortcut keys in the current app.

https://www.mediaatelier.com/CheatSheet/feedNotes.php

https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/cheatsheet
Me pointing to specific talking points and actual material the GOP provides isn't some type of name calling. I didn't do anything - they produced this. If you're not even willing to believe the GOP when they tell you their platform, why are you voting for them?
It's weird that some people are still having the same arguments which were thoroughly discussed on bitcointalk.org 16 years ago. The discussion about its value were interesting when the price was $0 and people were speculating if it's possible that it gains any value at all. It was known that any value would kick off the bitcoin's inbuilt incentive mechanisms which would keep it running forever. A software that pays humans to run it; that was the genius behind it.

When the price history is already established, the theoretical basis of value is irrelevant. People value things based on their valuation history; that's how it goes. It can be broken down somewhat, but the price history should already contain all the relevant information for investors.

Bitcoin has now made it's way to the portfolios of the most boring financial institutions [0], which means that it is now firmly established itself as a part of the global financial system, and it's not going away.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/over-600-financial-institutio...
And you have just ensured this fight will continue.
thank you for the passionate response!

If you have a bit of time to translate the problems I was talking about from french to english here they are for example: (2022 - exercise 3) [0] solution [1], directory of past exams[2]

[0] https://perso.usthb.dz/~aisli/AmarIsli_files/M2SII/Corriges/...

[1] https://perso.usthb.dz/~aisli/AmarIsli_files/M2SII/Corriges/...

[2]https://perso.usthb.dz/~aisli/AmarIsli_files/M2SII/Corriges/
The core of this article, if I understand it correctly, is that macOS pings Apple to make sure that apps you open are safe before opening them. This check contains some sort of unique string about the app being opened, and then there is a big leap to "this could be used by the government"

Is this the ideal situation? No, probably not. Should Apple do a better job of communicating that this is happening to users? Yes, probably so.

Does Apple already go overboard to explain their privacy settings during setup of a new device (the pages with the blue "handshake" icon)? Yes. Does Apple do a far better job of this than Google or Microsoft (in my opinion)? Yes.

I don't think anyone here is claiming that Apple is the best thing to ever happen to privacy, but when viewed via the lens of "the world we live in today", it's hard to see how Apple's privacy stance is a "scam". It seems to me to be one of the best or most reasonable stances for privacy among all large-cap businesses in the world.
Because it is a mobile console, therefore battery life is a limitation and adding an extra layer of indirection (and therefore, work) will drain that battery faster.
>There was a graphic in John Kings (CNN). Segment that showed a vast majority of the counties had wages falling behind inflation.

Source? Is this simply because rural counties are doing worse than urbanized counties, and there are more rural counties than urbanized counties, such that if you don't account for population you'll come to the conclusion that "vast majority of the counties had wages falling behind inflation", even though that's not true for the country as a whole?
I disagree with him. Peter Thiel supported Trump before but the vice was from the religious part of the sector.

Vance is Thiels man. And Theil wants to be a Supreme Court Judge.
From the description, we only see a database-value changed. But we don't see this field used outside the account(?)-site, like when installing and starting an actual game. It's quite possible that there are additional checks or dependencies with steam, which would demand action from Valve for a complete link-change.
yup! feel free to add the client support, you are on the right track with the changes.

To test the whole flow out here are a few things you will want to do:
- https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/ba20fb3596c71186... (you need to create the LLMProperties object over here)
- add support for it in the broker over here: https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/ba20fb3596c71186...
- after this you should be at the very least able to test out Cmd+K (highlight and ask it to edit a section)
- In Aide, if you go to User Settings: "aide self run" you can tick this and then run your local sidecar so you are hitting the right binary (kill the binary running on 42424 port, thats the webserver binary that ships along with the editor)

If all of this sounds like a lot, you can just add the client and I can also take care of the plumbing!
Thanks.

I work for a very large org, and cloud benefits are not obvious to me ( ie we’re large enough to absorb the cost of a team managing k8s for everyone, another team managing our own data centers around the world etc ).

I view cloud as mutualizing costs and expertise with other people ( engineers and infra), but adding a very hefty margin on top of it, along with vendor lockin.

If you’re big enough to mutualize internally, or don’t need some of the specific ultra scale cloud products, it’s not an obvious fit to me ( in particular , you don’t want to pay the margin )

I understand that for a significant chunk of people it’s useful provided that they use as many mutualizing levers as possible which is what going native is about.

Is my understanding correct ?
The parent comment said "uncontrolled".

It also boggles the mind that immigrants are the issue while the 1% own as much as the entire middle class, while the bottom class owns nothing at all. When you pay more for groceries, or rent, or gas do you think it's the immigrants making it expensive?
> Well, maybe it's a wrong analogy

Yep. Try comparing the price of a 1 L bottle with 1 kg of water to a 1 L bottle with 2 kg of water. Vertical scaling can be very, very expensive.
Sure, so let's vote for the felon who openly wants to become a dictator, makes so much sense...
Ask HN: What are you doing to prepare for the coming year?
There are noises being made about increasing tariffs and 2TB in cuts to government spending. The results of the Smoot-Hawley tariffs deepening the Great Depression, and that Musk has admitted that estimates that the spending cuts will lead to "severe overcorrection in the economy" and "markets will tumble".

I'm planning to get out in front of this and cut my personal spending and start building up some liquid assets to ride out a potential economy weirdness (which many have been predicting for well over a year now). Worst case I've built up some savings (most of my money is tied up in retirement plans that I can't pull money from).

I'm also thinking about finally implementing some of the plans I've had for the better part of a decade of getting ~100gal of water storage, but there's nothing I see being necessarily any worse over the next year, it just seems prudent.

Thoughts on the above? Any plans people are taking or have taken to improve their posture?
I'm very African unfortunately
Previously (7+11+15 points)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42047806

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42052247

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42056543
Comments like this are extremely common on any apple post related to photos and honestly it's pretty sus that you and many others will start complaining about a thing nobody even mentioned, because of the thing you're complaining/concerned/pissed about. That's pretty telling imo and nobody ever calls it out. I'm going to start calling it out.
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If Dems don't want it why have they passed a bill that allows exactly that? My post is already censored btw.
There was that whole civil war thing that happened. And it didn't even matter who won this election, it's clear we are very driven by us/them thinking just considering alone how much purchase you have as a politician when you promise to deport people.

If you are looking at the breadth of history, you would be much more justified in saying that "struggle" and even "violence" is what makes things happen or not. There are political formations, disruptions, rifts, responding to endogenous and external factors. There is now also the extra-political force of capital which is a big player.

What you see, or what you desire, is the so-called "End of History". Where all things are just variations parliamentary-democratic struggle, where in fact globalism is the very thing that assures you of the USA's (very broad) stability. You can allow for a superficial rollercoaster of politics, just insofar as you truly believe (and I bet you do) there is a trajectory and it is good. Good ole' USA.

Its very much like believing either that the world is just 200 years old (again, that whole civil war thing was a big deal), or that we are in a kind Groundhogs Day decade (of the 90s).

I could say a lot, but ultimately I envy you and the world you live in. I understand how it can really sustain you. I hope at least you don't live long enough to see your worldview shattered. You don't, truly, deserve that. Noone does.
Since those might also be worn in irony and spite of the other side, I wouldn’t be so sure.
> For LGBTQ+, asylum is the likely option

Do you have any data points on this, I remember reading that some Americans have tried applying for asylum in Canada, but no one has ever been accepted.
Her campaign, and the democratic party more broadly, made a lot of mistakes. Her failing to distinguish herself from Biden was one of them, but I don't actually think it was the worst. They believed that Biden was going to win and waited way too late to swap in a replacement, it kind of makes sense that they wouldn't try to differentiate if they honestly believed Biden was a good candidate with a viable platform.
I personally came to this opinion when he declared previous elections rigged without any evidence. The election institute and its fairness is a cornerstone myth of a democracy, you cannot destroy it without ruining the democracy. If the election institute is corrupted there is no way to have a legitimate president. You can have only tyrants and dictators after that. It means that you are not anti-democratic you can oppose the election institute only if you know it is corrupt. But Trump didn't know, I'm sure he knew that the elections were not rigged, and yet he attacked the elections.

I was not sure, because I had a hypothesis that Trump is just stupid and do not understand what he is doing. But before the current elections he talked a lot how he is going to abuse power to persecute political opponents, or just any opponents, if we believe his words, he is going to persecute everyone he doesn't like.
Unless she's cutting tubing for a nuclear reactor a tape measure is perfectly accurate.
At least for me (I've installed vlc via homebrew), there is a vlc binary in the PATH, and I can just
vlc <filename>
Things take time. Erosion of trust and the creation of political apathy in the populace takes time. Also, as has been said, he did try things but was continuously pushed back on by the actual politicians he put in his cabinet. He's also 8 years more elderly and emboldened. His cult of personality has essentially stabilized into an American institution. He's also had an entire administration to place judges and pass legislation that favors his power plays. In general it seems like you're asking, why might it take more than 4 years to topple a democracy, which i think has an obvious answer, democracy doesn't want to be toppled.

Again, I'm not arguing he's gonna go full dictator, but i think it's a lot more likely this time around than last time.
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They just can’t help themselves!