skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for putting this into words. I have been struggling to articulate the 'why' myself.
It can be explained by Fox News. Whatever issue is spouted there is the issue of the day for republicans.
Obama is the only 2 term President to have gotten a majority of the vote both times since Ronald Reagan. Our system had been broken in a sense (depending on your perspective). We’ve had candidates get a plurality and some a majority of the vote who did not get elected. I think the electoral system needs to be abandoned.

The U.S. is far more right wing than people thought. That Trump got a majority of the vote is a huge win for him. No one can claim his win is because of a backward electoral system and not because he is popular. This is huge. Democrats will be dead for 2 years minimum. Trump will be able to enact whatever legislation he wants to.

He is the President we deserve. The DNC needs to be abolished. Democrats had the opportunity to reform the system. It’s been over 100 years since the number of Representatives has been updated. They could have imposed election reform. They could have gotten rid of archaic Senate rules like filibuster.
Don't kill squirrels just before election
> ("play fair")

Which is why they forced an unpopular, unelected candidate? I don't see it.
The colour combo, so cool
Other high ranking military officers that have worked closely with Trump disagree. I might be inclined to believe them over you, unless you've also worked with Trump? Or are you just someone that he would call a 'sucker'?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/politics/john-kelly-tr...
I think this misses a key point.

If there were a law that AI generated text should be watermarked then major corporations would take pains to apply the watermark, because if they didn't then they would be exposed to regulatory and reputational problems.

Watermarking the text would enable people training models to avoid it, and it would allow search engines to determine not to rely on it (if that was the search engine preference).

It would not mean that all text not watermarked was human generated, but it would mean that all text not watermarked and provided by institutional actors could be trusted.
The polls all said it was 50/50. They seem to be very accurate so far.
> his past performance is terrible by all measures.

Which was partially a good thing, since he failed to dismantle Obamacare or build a wall at the Mexican border, even though those were two very explicit campaign promises.

Who knows what he'll do or not do this time around.
That's not the only reason in my opinion. It's way easier for European graduates to find a job and cruise on to retirement. The govt takes care of them for life and so the do or die attitude needed to start a company just isn't there in most countries. This is a consequence of the welfare state most of Europe has become.
If you look at the polls, they were incredibly close. This result is totally consistent with the polls, given the margin of error.
This is a great example, and you’re downvoted because liberals don’t like to hear the criticisms of their tribe. They ask why people would vote for Trump, you explain your anecdote, and they downvote you. Classic blue tribe behavior.
Also, seems like there's general disregard for law and order when the person doing the disregard is "one of us". Maybe there's a lesson there.
I checked 538 before the election and they had Trump winning more often than not, but very close.
Yes, polls often tend to privilege the privileged, Harris voters skewed greatly towards higher average incomes and college education. And also, according to an exit poll, that the majority of Trump's voters decided to vote for him within the past week. It's generally been the case that populist politicians are underestimated by polling because they can't control for these factors.
Alexa is trash
They tried to get a border deal, which was stopped / blocked at the behest of Trump.

The economy has been on a up-swing for a good year now, and things have improved all-over. People can't live under a rock and think that a global pandemic wasn't a huge part of this - most countries experienced the very same economic effects.

But, again, Trump laying out his disastrous tariff plans is the canary in the coalmine - that his voters either don't understand economics, or simply chose to live in a make-believe world where they imagine Trump will just "fix" things.
You're either terminally apathetic or you don't understand the profound negative effect that allowing a small group of people to print money that every one else has to work for has.

It's the most important issue in the world for humans, bar none.
It should have been done eight years ago, alas... :|
They regularly win presidential elections by the most obvious definition, the popular vote, but lose them on the EC, which is what actually counts.

The fact remains that more Americans vote Democratic than vote Republican, those votes are just badly distributed for the EC system.
Sure, mind telling that to Russia?
There was a 2024 Republican Presidential Primary, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Republican_Party_presiden...
Citation needed. This 2018 study [1] looks at google data collection on android and iOS in various aspects, and concludes that android devices send quite a bit more to Google than iOS devices.

[1]: https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DC...
Apologies! I didn't mean to steal your valor! My memory is pretty bad these days.

My intent with the split between the true/false world of values and the success/failure world was to avoid the situation where a false x would run y, but you're right that if bool ? x can fail (for example if x fails), we haven't really solved anything. And if a failing x doesn't cause bool ? x to fail, we have some other knotty problems: does it return a value, and if so, what? Doesn't that eliminate the possibility of using the failure construct as a model of exceptions? (Is that bad?)

It's fun to think about what semantics you'd need to decompose lerp into two such operations. Maybe (a/b) : (c/d) evaluates to (a+c)/(b+d), for example.
Being susceptible to propaganda (or a scam for that matter) isn’t stupidity. We are all susceptible to it. It just varies which propaganda and to what degree.

I never called Trump voters stupid. I think there may be a misunderstanding here because traditional discourse has people believe that only stupid people fall for misinformation propaganda (or a scam). I was explicitly rejecting that.
And yet the US economy is doing great, much better than most developed countries, and most of those countries are not going off the rails to quite the same extent.

Inflation is probably relevant, since even though it's down by a lot, the sticker shock so to speak lingers for a while.
That obviously doesn't work; how do you know which direction discourages voters? Most campaigns' whole marketing approach relies on texting voters 2000 times a day saying they're about to lose.
The us economy has grown at an unprecedented rate over the last few years. I wish my home of Australia had such a dynamic economy.

(I suspect the problem, of course, is that the newfound prosperity is not shared evenly amongst the population.)
Inflation was global, and the USA navigated it much better than other Western economies.

But of course that’s far too much nuance for the average voter anywhere.
Harris won by around 5 points in NJ, Biden won NJ in 2020 by 16 points. That is a far wider swing than any poll predicted.
"Lock her up!" Wasn't that the chant from some of his supporters?

It is funny how these things turn out and who actually does what in the end and how differently it is treated.
Turns out, the average Joe is a poor, working dude. He is not a sexist colonialist or any other -ism. Yet the Democratic Party will not stop alienating men.
Well, major companies aren't ditching the cloud and there is no evidence for a trend otherwise. And 37signals isn't a major organization for any of the big cloud providers. They are just a rounding error.
Trump went on quite a few very popular podcasts like Joe Rogan and Theo Von, but Harris didn't.

IMO the average voter is quite in-line with Rogan and Theo Von culturally (more than they are with Trump or Harris, for that matter) and so for Harris to skip those was a major misstep that just further made her seem like an aloof member of the DC/Coastal elite.

Biden didn't have this problem because he was more of a blue collar/middle class guy from Scranton and despite his gaffes, was more likable by the average person.
This is weird because the information I was getting was that Harris was leading the opinion polls and the Trump supporters were dropping him at the last minute. Now this feels like a rigged election.
You nailed my biggest complaint.
And I would add, listen. Don't immediately check out mentally because you disagree with what they are saying, don't argue, simply listen and try to understand. It's really hard for humans to do, but it's important. You cannot hope to change minds or appeal to voters if you don't understand what motivates them in the first place.

And when I say you have to understand people I mean truly understand, not intellectually lazy crap like "oh they're just stupid" or "they're racist" like you already see in this thread. Stupid/racist/etc people do exist, but that isn't most people and it isn't most Trump voters either. They are normal people with real concerns and needs, not caricatures of evil.
OHCA survivor now with an ICD here. I just want to say I'm grateful for this technology and grateful that people still work on this and attempt rescue even if only 10% of people survive. I'm one of those 10%.
This has happened and is happening in Europe, too.

Many people are coming in, some of them don't integrate and cause problems, the center says it's not a problem and the left says let's have more of them.

More people are coming in, problems are getting worse (both real and imaginary), people are getting upset, the right realizes they can use that and they build their whole agenda or that and win the elections.

The number of countries this has happened in increases, so non-right parties need to rethink their strategy if they want to stop losing.
MAD. It actually works. Putin has had his bluff called on this.
Was Kamalas campaign demeaning to the working class and alienating men?

I was under the impression that the Dems were doing more for the working class, and that Trump was alienating women.
Iterative α-(de)blending and Stochastic Interpolants
I'm not sure if you're being rhetorical, but people in the United States generally do not understand this. Even among those who are pro-Democrat, the differences in tax and tariff policy are usually not the top three issues.
It remains to be seen whether that will be true this time around.
> Somehow, one way or another, dispute resolution has to scale to the number of people in the world.

This isn't the case today. A small number of superpowers resolve territorial disputes mostly through court cases and negotiations, sometimes through violence. In all of these cases a tiny number of people are involved in the decision making process. What's happening is not dispute resolution at scale, its capricious and stochastic decision making corrupted by the same forces of transnational capital that put those decision makers in charge.

The global south isn't making any of the key decisions around climate change, AI, international trade etc. Neither are most developed countries. It's at most a cohort of G8 leaders and billionaires. It doesn't work, and moreover its failing - as the collapse of the liberal political order demonstrates. Our choice is to allow it to collapse into a new form of feudalism, or to actively participate in replacing it at every level of governance through civil dissent, and consensus based approaches.
While it is true that democrats carried urban centers it is worth noting that their support appears to have eroded somewhat in these areas. Republicans picked up a statistically relevant number of votes there.
I think the only lesson that Democrats can learn from the past three elections is that women have no chance at presidency. If anything, as an outsider, the campaign Harris led, seemed to reach vastly more people than Biden's.
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What’s your evidence for that claim?
Harris had no strong stances. At all. Her only one was "I'm not Trump". Which is kind of a loosing strategy when people seem to like him.
Are you implying that the average Harris supporter will fare better against such questions?
> It would not mean that all text not watermarked was human generated, but it would mean that all text not watermarked and provided by institutional actors could be trusted.

What?
800 VCs backed Kamala Harris. There has been some rightward shift, yes, but probably not enough to offset the general vibe.
The idea that you’re going to be producing iPhones or other mobile phones in the US (for example) is extremely unlikely in the next decade. It will be interesting to see the chaos he causes if he goes through with this and the plan to deport 20 million people.
Please, please please make it happen.
Go look at a chart of income inequality. It hasn’t improved under any administration. So why do they still feel Trump is the answer? Inflation.
The government sponsors a number of DIE programs.

Also, it can enforce a ban on the discrimination we saw at Harvard and UNC (and which pervades institutions, both university and business).
To be clear, from American perspective - surely. I'm not saying that in a positive manner or negative, just as a statement of fact. Ultimately besides aliances USA has no real need to care about Europe.

And from a local perspective - a grumpy neighbour that helped kickstart World War II, that enslaved my entire region for ages and raped their way through.
Yes, that's the point. Bitcoin offers a global escape from the enormous stealth theft that most people aren't aware is even happening to them.
In this election, the Democrats were unable to offer the majority of voters the past they fondly remember or the future they can look forward to. It's that simple.
But he doesn't openly argue for that. And that's all politics is. Optics.
Could be, or the Ukraine war, the pandemic, or some other policy

It's nonfalsifiable. People will settle on the simplest observation:

it happened under Biden
The vice-president doesn't order squirrel murders.
That's how people go to the shadier side of the internet to sell their information to the highest bidder.
Use std:span instead of C-style arrays
Europe is still very much pro-American: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/06/27/overall-opinio...

However, the numbers are much worse than before and on the previous Trump presidency they crashed(recovered with Biden but crashed again): https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/06/11/appendix-a-fav...

The anti-establishment movements in EU are also predominantly anti-US, leftists are often anti-US too.

I got the impression of many Americans online believing that Europeans are tech and progress loving, bureaucracy hating people under tyranny of EU which is a building in Brussels that churns rules and regulations.

However that's not true, most Europeans love the big government hate new tech and prefer the slow and worry free life over the daily hustling.

If Trump follows up with its promises, I only imagine EU parting with US on more stuff. I also see many Americans apparently believing that EU is mostly museums and there's no technology. Also not true, EU is made of countries that are traditionally tool-makers and Europeans are anti-tech and anti-change only when it comes to adoption of tech into their daily lives, not when creating tools and machines. ASML is not a coincidence, all kind of precision tooling and machinery is the bread and butter of European industry.

So, if EU parts with US, I imagine that American stuff will be quickly replaced with European made stuff. The dominance of American tech in the daily lives is mostly due to network effect, a forced change will result in what resulted in Russia and China: local alternatives.

Europe is worse off than the US only in Energy and demographics. Two massive issues but there are no quick-fixes for those, so they are European realities with or without the US.
The drive voltage of a modern desktop or server CPU is about 1V. Which means there's up to 300-400A flowing through through the motherboard and the pin sockets from the VRM to the CPU. Pretty crazy numbers!

(1V drop, though should be easy to measure. A badly noisy ADC would be at about 10mV. High-precision in analog starts at 10s of uV)
AtlasIntel did. I met Thiago (CTO) in Rio and Boston while he was doing his math PhD at Harvard, he is nice person and a fine mathematician: their methodology uses online polling on social media with micro-targeting. I only assume competitors are not leveraging social media as well as they are.
Roman, the CEO, said they will donate all their raw data from the final polls to Roper Center at Cornell for academic research[1].

[1] https://x.com/andrei__roman/status/1854051400273244534
> Pretty sure this would work with "Trump" instead of "Brexit".

What do you want racists to do? Not vote? They're gonna vote for somebody after all.
Most corpos and banks are basically built on Excel, Outlook, Teams, Sharepoint, etc.

If you pluck that out it completely freezes 50%+ of their operations, people really don't get how much stuff in modern companies is reliant on MS stuff (and thus why they are one of the richest companies on the globe)
Why I love Rust for tokenising and parsing
Unironically yes. You have to meet the median voter where they're at, even if you find some of their positions dumb or bigoted. That's why Obama spent the 2008 election cycle pretending to be opposed to gay marriage.

The party has evolved an idea that you can do away with those kind of dirty political shenanigans, and construct a rational fact-based proof that will leave voters no choice but to support you, and I think that pretty clearly doesn't work.
One very mundane reason a company I had worked for switched to Office365, was that emails from our own domain would often end up in the spam filter.
It can cost a lot when that happens.
This fascinates me and I want to try this again. It of course involves sucking it up and talking to Trump supporters

That’s a good attitude, because nothing is truly solved with a Trump presidency. His victory was always just an expression of the undercurrent. The electorate has just voiced it, for a second time, but that’s all.
DNC really channeling that "don't get fired" energy
It’s all that matters in the presidential race. But barely over half of the population wanted him as president. The other side doesn’t disappear just because they lost an election.
Won't this be impossible since you have the urban/rural areas of the same state belonging to these two different nations ? At-least impossible without a gargantuan civil war that makes the 1861 war look like a toddler's quarrel.
Working class people who, especially, wanted to control immigration were called bigots, uneducated, stupid, racist, etc and were ignored. Result is that they voted for Brexit. No, that didn't change anything because this was ignored by the establishment (both Labour and Conservatives) and that is still festering with the resulting rise of the Reform UK party (of Nigel Farage who's celebrating with Trump in Mar-a-Lago right now).
You're losing if you write like this, because this is liberal/left wing writing. If the voters prioritize strength and machismo, you should be insulting them even more. They don't mind, they'll just assume it's about someone else.
is it better than ffmpeg in any way?
if the genuinely unprivileged gain some consciousness of their condition because of Trump, there will be changed. You cannot claim it for them.
So, how many times did you actually get the confirmation that an LLM has/has not been used?

My guess is zero times. So, you are not describing an experiment here, you are just describing how you built up your internal bias.
It says exaggerated color/contrast. It seems to be a trend lately like the recent images of the Moon and Pluto. They might even be translating non-visible spectra to color so the material composition can be distinguished better, like they do with nebula and such.

It is well intentioned, it makes the images much more informative, and they are just really cool, which helps with public support. But it is also a bit misleading and confuses people.
Abraham accords. Isis. Tax cuts. Booming economy of 2018-2020. Remain in Mexico. Far lower illegal immigration. People remember the actions too.

“From my understanding, his past performance was terrible too”

Depends on what you focus on. If you listen to soundbites it sounds like a circus. There’s a lot of drama displacing and stepping on toes of the entrenched players in the system.
Hmm, as someone from Europe I've never heard labeling of trump's supporters as nazis, that's quite a strong claim I haven't seen much evidence of.

Not that you are not correct in many aspects, but wasn't inequality sort of part of whole US setup and 'american dream'? Back to good ol' days when poor were poor and a largely invisible part of society.

For an european eye US is setup on inequality by principle, which does a lot of good and bad. When looking at resilience and strength of economy that Europe can never ever dream of reaching, I'd say bigger good trumps (eh) those evils but I have only very limited view. In Europe even big success is mild compared to how far in US things can grow into. Complex topic this is.
He's quite old and no other Republican figure comes close to his popularity or cult-like following (assuming Americans aren't crazy enough to actually support RFK Jr). I'd imagine he'll do one term and then the next Republican candidate will be a more conventional politician.
What you call victim-blaming may be mixing up cause and effect. Voters aren't stupid. They hear "the economy is doing great!" but they see their grocery bills. Maybe the victims are just tired of being victims and voted accordingly?
He gave out money during covid that reasonates.
You can skew the tax by giving more tax credit to the poor.

Also those are not only taxes on consumption but every purchase. Yacht might be too cheap in comparison of resources used but rich don't just buy yahts, they buy entire companies.
Sad day for the world.
“The government you elect is the government you deserve.”
—Thomas Jefferson
> If the executive doesn’t have parliament, they lose the executive.

Not automatically. A minority government of course more at risk of losing the confidence of parliament but it's also a powerful incentive for such a government that want to survive to use cooperation and compromise with the opposition.
I think they're rebutting that an actual understanding of policy enters the equation at all
> PDFs are in Letter (rarely A4)

You must be from North America. In the rest of the world, it’s always A4. I encounter A4 PDFs fairly often, but don’t know how long it would be since I encountered Letter, but easily years.
False. Did you see what CBS did to the Harris interview? That behavior is explicitly what he was talking about. CBS edited an interview under the guise of their news department to switch answers to questions with other answers. It wasn’t that CBS was critical of Trump, it’s that they engaged in outright fraud using publicly licensed airwaves. That’s against FCC rules. What CBS did wasn’t disinformation — it was fraud.
This time Google controls everyone's browsers, and has perverse conflict of interest between advertising and users - which Microsoft didn't had(yet).

also internet has become more and more centralized compared to it's heyday. even that alone makes it less free and open.