skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can manufacture a favorable electorate. Republicans have been extensively working on that far harder than the Dems have since some time around Goldwater and the last great re-alignment, and it kicked into overdrive in the 80s. They pushed for loosening rules around mass media so they could do it better, and they succeeded. This current re-alignment of their party is an outcome of that “farming” they did over decades growing out of control of the party leadership post-Citizens United and the huge shake-up in campaign spending that brought in.

This observation admittedly provides little actionable for democrats in the near-term. But one strategy that demonstrably works is picking demographics and pushing media at them that creates a demand for solutions to issues they didn’t previously think existed (and need not necessarily exist). Look at e.g. the molding and elevation of the modern pro-life movement for an early example, or at their entire current platform, very nearly, for a bunch more-recent ones.
My impression is that the current-day Dem's are, in "actions speak louder than words" terms, simply not all that interested in winning elections. Stuff like not bothering to do even the most basic of opposition research on George Santos ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santos ). Not carefully checking that Biden's marbles were all still there 12+ months before the election. Their slow and half-hearted (at best) response to the RealPage ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealPage ) rent-jacking scandal. Etc., etc.
The way the party worked against Bernie Sanders is a prime example of how it treats the average American: We make the decisions, not you, and if you don't fall in line we will crush you.

Conformity, if you'll pardon me, is not a trait all those Americans who voted for Trump have, nor want. They are individuals and would like to be treated as one.
Sorting rules can get really weird, and while some languages treat digraphs as separate letters for sorting, (e.g., Czech considers ch a separate letter coming after h), Polish does not.
The one big difference with the SpaceX organization is the willingness to "blow stuff up" while they are developing, which is enabled by the amount of sensor data they get on each test. That allows them to have a higher revision cadence that decreases development time. Compared to old space tech, where a rocket failure (even during early development) spells the end of the program (such as the X-10 -- it was looking good until a failed landing leg caused an impressive looking loss of vehicle, and then no more program).
They do adjust for this when doing the polls. The Shy Tory factor was relevant in 2016, though.
They were constantly mentioning the cost of living, and even proposed extreme measures (such as price controls) to try to fix the issue. Democrats were not avoiding the issue at all. Same with the border, where they worked with Republicans to pass a massive border bill that Trump then killed.
> The next time you meet a Texan

Texas is a cherry-picked example of one of the states with the strongest specific identities. Most states are not like this.

Ask someone from Phoenix to explain how they are meaningfully different from someone from Denver and they will struggle.
I don't think Republican voters are shy.

It's just incredibly hard to build a representative sample of the population.
Even in something like C++ you often have configuration, startup scripts (I'm in embedded, maybe this isn't a think elsewhere), database schemas, and other such things that the code depends on but it isn't obvious to the build system that the dependency exists.
Not Japanese myself, but have some Japanese friends. From what I understand, the cost of living is very high, and women are typically expected to stop working after marriage or childbirth, meaning the men have to bring in a fair amount of money in order to support a family, especially a family with multiple children. Given the price of larger dwellings in larger cities, this is not easily accomplished.

For obvious reasons, the countryside is far cheaper, but very few young couples want to start a family out in the middle of nowhere.
"The Rent is too Damn High" is still a well-recognized meme. I doubt many people remember the gentleman's name or what he was running for. But the message worked! It's got to be simple and focused.
I showed this to a friend doing a PhD - in italy tho - and she laughed and shrugged saying that she's in academia not because she has a vagina but because she had the right recommendations from the right people

I think the academia world is broken not in the way you think it is

Although not in the US, she says that when doing something in the academia world being a man or a woman makes no difference (here)
Yes, exactly.

The election results don't make much sense in terms of serious policy. Voters worry about inflation: they vote for tariffs? Voters worry about democracy: they vote for the guy responsible for J6? Voters are 50% female: they vote for a SCOTUS that care less women's issues? The only issue where a vote for Trump coincides with voter concerns is immigration.

It's easier to explain this election in terms of "Trump seems confident and strong... Harris seems scripted and phony." The closest thing to a real issue is probably the impression that "Democrats are a bunch of radical woke communists"
Ask HN: Are there VC funds that focus on profitability with minimal rounds?
I’m exploring venture capital funds that prioritise sustainability and profitability over continuous fundraising. Specifically, I’m interested in funds that provide an initial round of capital, aiming for the business to achieve profitability—an approach sometimes referred to as "seedstrapping". Ideally, these funds would be open to B2C investments in Europe.

I’ve identified a few such funds:

• OpenSky Ventures: An early-stage VC firm investing in category-disrupting companies, led by experienced entrepreneurs with a track record of successful exits.[0]

• D2 Fund: Focuses on funding capital-efficient B2B software businesses in the UK and Europe, emphasizing efficient entrepreneurship and mission-critical products.[1]

• TinySeed: A remote accelerator designed for early-stage SaaS companies, offering funding and mentorship to help founders grow sustainably without the pressure of traditional VC expectations.[2]

• Indie.vc: Known for its unconventional approach, funding startups with a focus on profitability and sustainability.[3]

For context, Anu Atluru’s essay, “One-Round Wonder”[4], explores the concept of startups achieving success with a single funding round.

Are there other funds or investment models that align with this “seedstrapping” philosophy? Insights or experiences with such funds would be greatly appreciated.

[0]opensky.vc

[1]https://www.d2.fund/

[2]tinyseed.com

[3]businessofbusiness.com

[4]https://www.workingtheorys.com/p/one-round-wonder
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It's again our limbic system: it's easier to assign all the blame outsiders
There are lots of weirdnesses in Unicode that are consequences of enabling lossless round-trip translations to/from legacy encodings. Inconsistencies in how the various descendants of the Brahmic script are another such consequence.
If you've done a fair amount of leetcode problems you can recognize them and feel their levels. Then afterwards you can search and confirm your expectations.

It is not uncommon to have either verbatim or lightly modified leetcode problems as technical challenges for interviews. I think Facebook now makes it standard you need to be able to solve 2 leetcode medium questions in a 45 minute interview.
That's the thing, though. If you hear someone say those things -- attractive as they sound -- and then blindly believe them without asking how they intend to accomplish those things, then you are an irresponsible, ignorant voter.
I'll just point out that when you say "inflation improved massively," you are talking about the second derivative of price. You are saying that there was a positive change in inflation, meaning that the rate of change of the rate of change of price is favorable. Who cares? This is not a meaningful statistic. People can't afford groceries!
Didn't most of that happen under Trump's administration?
Website builders typically charge a fixed monthly fee for building and hosting your web app on their platforms. These fees often increase as you add more features and plugins, potentially reaching $200–$300 a month or even higher, depending on the app’s complexity.

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On top of that, many app builders do not provide access to the underlying code, leaving users with little control over their applications. This lack of code access makes it difficult to scale or modify the app when needed.

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Then, Sarah discovers a more appealing option: a one-time fee of $1,400 to build her app by a Software Engineer on PagePalooza. Not only is this initial cost significantly lower than a year of recurring payments, saving her $1,000, but it also offers her the freedom she craves. With full access to the underlying code, Sarah can customize features to better serve her customers, respond to user feedback, and easily scale her business as it grows.

PagePalooza It is a platform specifically for non-tech founders. You generate and edit an informative website yourself and create custom engineering tasks that will get implemented by a software engineer on top of the website you are editing. You own the custom code and pay a one-time fee for each task.

You can collaborate and chat with the engineer in-app and scale with no customization limitations. You will also have your own tasks that would be created by the engineer such as providing data, answering/discussing technical questions and deciding on how algorithms will work.

In conclusion, the choice between a recurring subscription model and a one-time payment option for app development presents a significant dilemma for startup founders. While website builders offer convenience, they often come with substantial ongoing costs and limitations that can have a negative impact on creativity and growth.

In contrast, platforms like PagePalooza empower non-technical founders by allowing them to build and customize their applications without worrying about monthly fees. With a one-time fee structure, founders not only save money but also gain full ownership of their code, enabling them to tailor their apps to meet their unique business needs.
I mean, it just totally depends on the application. It does add complexity, sure.

Turbo, stimulus, have their own pitfalls. I have worked with them a fair amount and have ran into headaches. Also, React has a massive community / ecosystem of ready made components, plugins, tutorials, etc. Turbo and stimulus are getting better on that front, but it is nowhere close, and many situations/patterns you have to figure out yourself.

Theres weird hate on React from a portion of the rails community that seems unwarranted. Probably because of some of DHH's commentary.
> free advice is worth what you paid for it.

Occasionally. Many times it is worth considerably less. Time is valuable.
"His whole business is getting government subsidies."

SpaceX absolutely dominates the commercial launch market. No one forces companies from abroad to buy launches from SpaceX - only their reliability and lower prices.

For fully subsidized organizations that nevertheless cannot compete on the commercial market, see Roskosmos and Arianespace.
Then the trans activists (not the community) should not have been pushing stuff onto the kids side of things. That's a 100% no-go area and I don't know how anyone thought that was a good idea. People, all people, want themselves and their children to be left alone.
Not everyone has to be - I do about half the childcare of my daughter and am often the odd-man-out at child activities. But most people have to be because that's what each sex wants. It's not a great plan to be looking for a partner by not having a job and telling everyone that your goal is to be a stay-at-home dad who wants a high-earning wife to support him. Women aren't interested in that.
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The video linked at the top of this thread is the evidence you asked for, have you even watched it? It doesn't matter if you consider that person a viable source or not, it has clear examples of men being demonized by left leaning sources. So much so that it leaks into pop culture/media. Men clearly feel like they are no longer welcome in many spaces, or are lesser/undervalued. I'm not here to comment on whether thats deserved or not, but it has consequences.

You seem to be under the opinion that there has to be a legislative policy or that it needs to have been said by a politician for it to affect someones sentiment, opinion, and voting choice. It doesn't.

This said as somebody who did not vote for Trump, not that I liked the other candidate that much though either. There is clear evidence of blatant hateful rhetoric towards men to the point of being considered okay to just openly talk hatefully about men that by nature of cause and affect has also led to growing blatant anti-female rhetoric, and it is driving younger males towards the right by simple gender divide. The right is just better at capitalizing on it.
China is producing roughly all of our shit and like India is 1/6th of the global population.

> You can't get one country to stop all, so you have to get everyone to cut as much as they can.

Exactly, but the US accounts for 11% of emissions for 4% of the population. Maybe they have more fat to cut than others.
Biden's choice of keeping Jerome Powell, a Republican, as Fed Chair was a choice. An extremely ill-advised one.
Also, as mass to orbit gets cheaper you can build your payload more cheaply. Many compromises in complexity and material cost are made to minimize payload mass - we'll be able to launch cheap and heavy satellites and probes into orbit instead.
Every European parliament will form into a "government" bloc and an "opposition" bloc after the election. Right wing / left wing doesn't necessarily have anything to do with it. The US congress does manage to make bi-partisan bills. Because members of congress can go against their party sometimes. In European parliaments that kind of behaviour usually results in a crisis of government and a vote of confidence.

> or they face a more moderate party taking their seats

That's not right. You cannot lose your parliament seat in any European parliament until the next election. If an MP or an entire party in Europe is too divisive, they might not be able to be part of a majority and they will be in opposition.

In the USA, the executive government is not elected by parliament - so you're comparing apples to oranges. The president builds the executive government after being elected by the people in the states. That's something different.
The voters in the U.S. who want government to leave them alone say they want this also want government to regulate aspects of healthcare they don’t like. They want government to regulate private businesses so that they can’t exclude their notion of what “free speech” means. They want government to crack down on all the people and things they disagree with.
I agree. Instead of navel gazing about internal Democratic Party machinations. I would argue it is the policy platform and messaging is what wins. In swing states, the issue that dominated by far was the economy.
The US is, right now, producing more crude oil than any other nation in the history of the world. Harris repeatedly stated that she would not ban fracking. And yet, we keep hearing this BS about how Biden / Harris needed to do something about fossil fuels.

Of course what we need to be doing is halting all burning of fossil fuels ASAP, but that would be a losing electoral strategy. Who cares about the looming climate disaster, we need cheap gas...
how is this bad?

with technology and automation, any nation, will need less and less people

plus rent in japan is super high, and the country seem over crowded

why be alarmed by low birth rate, as long as its voluntary and not caused by an endemic health concern
Incidentally: Chamath plays a fair amount of high stakes poker recreationally, including on various streams and/or filmed poker content. I forget if it was on twitter or a Reddit AMA or what, but he once gave a blurb about what he had learned playing the game for some time, and he said something to the effect of "Poker is a fundamentally defensive game", which is an absurd statement. There is no strategic bias towards offense or defense in poker, there is only EV maximization, which you would think a VC would be able to wrap their head around, but he has managed to fundamentally misunderstand the game.
caffeinate -d is incredibly useful for work... uh reasons
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I think the DNC was caught between two kinds of politics: machine and identity. The party is very interested with controlling everything, but they couldn't take the nomination from the first black Vice President. Michelle would not run, and so it would presume that to keep dark horses and other members challenging The VP, something had to have been offered or promised. Also the optics of someone like Newsome, white, affluent, and male, challenging the first black woman etc. etc. It doesn't look good for democrats and could have been very messy.

Kamala, for better or for worse, was their only choice.
> Canada

Trudeau has been PM since 2015 and the last election was in 2021. Sure, it looks like he's gonna lose the next one, but Canada hasn't had a oppositional landslide election.
My take away from those kind of exchanges is that most people have no idea how other groups of people live
They were predicting 50% odds of each candidate winning swing states, but with the results for the swing states being correlated with each other. This isn't the same as a close election, it just means the result can't be predicted confidently. It's also worth noting that each individual state and the popular vote were within error margins on the result.
That history also pretty clearly explains the shift. The argument pretty quickly shifted to being based on the effects. Debtors favored currency supply inflation because it increased prices and thus decreased. Lenders favored the opposite.

Since most of the people arguing about the term care about a specific class of effect, the term grew to encompass that type of effect. As our understanding of the cause of that effect grew, the term shifted to primarily meaning the effect.

This all makes complete sense since most people don't care about the cause in itself but about how prices are changing.
I'm just happy OpenAI hasn't gone through a half dozen rebrandings like Google has with Assistant / PaLM / Sparrow / Bard / Gemini
Someone has to tell them.
> plus rent in japan

Is that all of Japan? or just select cities?
You can’t verify a photo ID in the mail.
25,000 for first time homebuyers will just raise prices on homes by 25,000.

This is simple economics.
but lower orbits also decay quickly.

If you have debris in geostationary orbit, it will stay there basically forever whereas in low earth orbit it will burn up within a few years at worst.
Going by the recent FBI report: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-releases-2023-cr...
> the rest of Eastern Europe will be next

Do you have any evidence of these plans?
Why would matter? I guess if someone came to your house and killed some of your family members, then left, threatening to do it again, while occasionally shooting at your house, you’d have no just cause in retaliation.
How is it bad? Economically, it's a burden. Older people are more expensive, and the ratio of young to old people has certain economic implications too. As you pointed out, there are good and bad aspects to it, but the bad aspects are real and not histrionic mirages.
in terms of IPC, DDR5 can do about 50GB/s per memory channel

assuming you're only shuffling bytes around, on bare metal this would be ~20 DDR5 channels worth

or 2 servers (12 channels/server for EPYC)

you can get an awful lot of compute these days for not very much money

(shipping your code to the compressed video instead of the exact opposite would probably make more sense though)
Those things happened under Trump though. He did the stimulus money and shut down the economy.
If his VP was 2nd or 3rd place in the 2020 primaries, it wouldn't be a big deal compared to Harris because the candidate would be someone that a significant portion of the Dems actually support and want as a president.
Sorry, which country with declining birth rates has government interventions that are working?
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"By contrast, Trump was on message, had a plan, left all of his divisive rhetoric at the door."

This is when I knew you were screwing with us.
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Man pages maintainer Alejandro Colomar announced in September that he was suspending his work due to a lack of support. He has now let it be known that funding has been found for the next year at least
> the middle east is almost exclusively theocratic dictatorships that have ethnically cleansed their populations

...and Israel didn't? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cast_Thy_Bread

Supporting relatively better theocratic democracy is how the United States ended up justifying weapon sales to Iran and Pakistan. Are we holding Israel to the standards of America, or to the standards of their reprehensible peers? Are we looking at this from a flawed relativist standpoint, or are we willing to identify flaws before they spiral out of hand?

This feels like something we should clear up before the Gaza death toll surpasses Bangladesh. Alternatively, America can also admit that we never cared in the first place and announce that we're open for business to any sufficiently rich nationalists. Israel represents the point at which America can either bring down the hammer or double down hoping this time is different than the other nationalist theocracies that imported US weapons under the premise of fighting terrorism.
They just bought the domain, similar to what Google does with gogle.com.
One could argue there have been no major war since WWII and the belief in the futility of appeasement is exactly the reason.
I think a cascading series of negative economic effects from less consumerism, leading to societally destabilizing conditions is a concern.
Serious question:

Are you certain your vote was counted and not lost? I vote in person because I know when I mail things they don't always get where I intended them to be (and especially when there is a deadline in place)
Then get schooled for not abiding to the SV morals