skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> restraining Iran + proxies

The way to restrain Iran is to put reasonable sanctions on them, then negotiate terms for removing those sanctions. An international group (the US, China, France, Russia, the UK, and Germany) did that over Iran's nuclear weapons program and it resulted in an agreement that would have delayed Iran from getting nuclear weapons for at least a decade.

Then Trump was elected and a couple years later and over the objections of China, France, Russia, the UK, Germany, and the EU unilaterally withdrew from the deal and imposed even harsher sanctions that had been on Iran before.

So we ended up back to where we were before that deal, except with Iran knowing that if you make a deal for sanctions relief you can't trust the US to keep it, and so they have figured out other ways to get by with the sanctions in place. And the US is not Spinal Tap...when sanctions at 10 don't work it can't turn the dial to 11.
What's an example of a socially conservative policy you're looking forward to the implementation of? I'm not usually sure what people mean by that specifically, I definitely can't tell here.
What’s there to talk about: they bought a President. They puppet the incompetent VP. They stand to make billions. The TikTok ban basically sealed the Trump win because its American investors were hellbent on him winning and they paid him to switch his stance on it. That’s just one example.
I never have but I think this is doubly funny since I've more than once heard Trump derided as "orange Bill Clinton" by hardline fiscal conservatives.
This time the Americans could choose between two completely different types of personalities for their President.

- A quite smart and kind Woman who believes in demcratic values

- An extremely selfish, through and through corrupt and unbelievably stupid bully with a clear agenda to end the Democracy

The chose.
That's all. Nothing to see here.
And by 'pay more' he means 'buy more US weapons'. NATO is a conveniently captive market for the US arms manufacturers, and no way they're going to want to pull out of that while they still have stock to sell.
Definitions are often based on opinion. Definitions differ depending on many things.

Some definitions are not opinions.

The definition of "far right" is an opinion. Failing to define it in discourse will inevitably result in a lack of positive outcome.
I wish all these guides used better notation. They all use the scariest possible Greek symbols (pi epsilon feta etc) that are hard to make sense of without a degree in anthropology, instead of nicely named variables like programmers use.
It's really difficult unless you're in tech, in tech the immigration system melts away at your feet

Idk which Nordic country you are in but for example in Denmark there's a scheme called fast track quick job start that can get tech workers (among others) a residence permit the same day someone applies, often within an hour of the application being filed assuming you go straight to their office to get fingerprinted.

SIRI puts a lot of work into making moving here easy if you're a net tax benefit (and imo that's a good thing)

Outside of skilled work and tech though I've heard getting a visa is pretty much impossible for non EU citizens
States elect Presidents, not the People. If you knew anything about why states exist at all, and their history in Constitutional law, and that they have far greater sovereignty than any other country's sub-national political division, you'd understand why the electoral college system exists.
> it is an important issue.

For sure. I don't take issue with anyone voting based on whatever they care about in general. I don't feel strongly enough about one topic to be a single issue voter, but I get it for anyone that does feel that strongly.

> What makes it bizarre is not things like adultery (a fundamental tenet of Christianity is that we are all sinners) but that Trump is clearly not a Christian.

100% agree. No one is perfect and I wouldn't expect anyone who is religious to always fit the bill, but Trump is an example of someone very far from any religious ideals. I was raised Catholic, if Trump were catholic I don't think he would have had time outside of confession to even run for office.
Before 2020 elections John Bolton said that Trump doesn't see the point for NATO and will consider withdrawing if he wins in 2020. Because of that a NATO Support at was passed in Congress to block the president from single handly withdraw the US from NATO. That was over 4 years ago, hopefully he changed his mind.
I think this is the middle of the end. The beginning of the end was probably 2000-2001.
I’m not calling anyone stupid. I’m saying that when they say hateful things about my daughter and her right to exist, I take that threat seriously. When they say they won’t protect me because of how I voted, I need to plan on protecting myself.

I’m just listening to what you say and believing that you really mean it.
Being unaware of an issue that only exists in hard-right media and hadn’t happened to come up in the times I’ve dipped into such—which I do pretty frequently—isn’t, like, a problem. I correctly guessed exactly what it was, anyway.
I never saw any Democrats focusing on Identity, it was always Republicans talking about it as a boogie man.

There are actual real genetic disorders Trans people are dealing with.

Republican's just chose Trans people as some small group dealing with a difficult to explain condition and decided to pile on them.
That "enough of the damn emails" moment from Bernie Sanders during the democratic debate was very weird to say the least. It seemed he wasnt interested at all at moving forward with the nomination.
Likely because you’ve sheltered yourself from it. I have been told on HN even that I’m privileged (implying I should be ashamed or aware of such privilege). Also all that recently about how racism is alive and well and it’s our fault.
Non-American here too, but since your perspective is EU, what is Nazi party when the Republican party is far right? Like, far far far right?
Don't speak the local language, not sure where I'd find employment. My Italian passport is ready!
> the majority of US voters are so morally bankrupt that they prefer reprehensible and irredeemable candidates.

Well, to make this non political.

Look at how many sports players have a history of domestic abuse; the character of a player is secondary to their ability to play the sport.
I would like to also recommend the app:

hear (macOS speech recognition and dictation via the command line)

See: https://sveinbjorn.org/hear

(Uses built-in macOS capabilities for transcription from audio to text.)
It does insofar as the US can "decide" to betray all of its allies by ignoring its obligations under a military alliance. We've already publicly proclaimed to the entire world that the American military will come to the aid of any NATO member which is invaded. We've never had such an agreement with the Ukraine and thus owe no obligations towards them.
It's more likely that there is a small vocal pro-trans lobby, a small vocal anti-trans lobby, and almost everyone else who gives it no thought whatsoever.
It’s because companies in the S&P 500 have pricing power, meaning they can raise their prices to outpace inflation.

Which means if their revenue growth was going to be X regardless of inflation, it’ll still be X in an inflationary environment if you adjust for inflation.

It’s really that simple. The stock market growth always outpaces CPI growth, unless Big Business is under some other kind of threat.

Since this round of inflation came from printing money, not from extrinsic shocks (although there was a brief energy shock two years ago), you’d expect the S&P 500 to outperform CPI, which it did. It’s not ^too^ mysterious.
No, it should have been done over 70 years ago.
Trump will be older and weaker than Biden today in 2028.

JD Vance hopefully can 25th Amendment the Trump before senile behavior wrecks the office. But I'm worried that Trump stays in all 4 years and does irreparable harm.

25th Amendment powers have never been used before. So it's not clear how far Trump will degrade while still holding onto power.
> What can you do about a low information voter?

I already explained this in another reply, but while crime rates might be going down across the board, I'm talking about what my daughters, my wife and their friends are telling me. And they are not low information voters, because crime rates are sky rocketing in our area and the data supports that. We live in what used to be considered one of the safest cities in all of Canada, and now we hear about a new shooting or stabbing in public just about every week. Mostly drug and gang related.

Everything else you said, especially about the abortion issue being a freedom issue, is preaching to the choir. I agree with you. I'm talking about the mindset of my wife, my daughters and their friends and what they say matters to them.
It has literally been a thing for years now. Since he lost the 2020 election he has ramped up his rhetoric and surrounded himself with people that are causing the comparison to be made.
Controlling the house doesn't mean anything. Any minority easily control legislation with the ability of an easy filibuster. You seem to forget trump was in for 4 years as well with many split Congresses. You can't blame democrats for all the bad things for that period when one party (minority at times) is actively working for the 1%
A database with 750 TikTok Creator
> It was exceptionally radical to vote for Obama in 2008

What are you talking about? He got 68% of the electors; 53% of the population voted for him. That’s not radical: that’s mainstream.
His ramblings are borderline incomprehensible.
So what if you are a small actor on the web and not GDPR compliant? Who will come knocking at my door?
>It's worth keeping in mind that inflation is a theoretical construct based on assumptions and formulas

That might be so, but it's better than people's vibes, which famously flip-flops based on whether their preferred party is in power.

>that may not apply for every individual or subpopulation

I never claimed that, but the parent comment did imply real wages have not gone up "for most people".
Wasn’t a large part of his platform „drill baby drill“? If he’s lowering cost of fossil fuels, guess what will happen to consumption.
basic answer is yes; essentially you are getting more memory bandwidth compensated by people buying higher RAM.
I dont want to get into a flame war, 50% is a generous number, since many times he isn’t speaking full intelligible sentences.
Trump gets a pass on absolutely outrageous things, which he creates by the second.
I feel that he is so bad, and so incessant with his content creation., that he causes an integer overflow in the audience. At that point, he is once again assessed with an average rubric.

I feel that his success here suggests that this is a strategy that will succeed globally, and that many political candidates are going to be emulating his “style”.
I watched it long time so forgot the exact details. But you are saying he could have had enough money from his cofounders, but that was still after he decided to start drug dealing. So how is that refuting that the initial trigger for his drug making was to make enough money for his treatment?
Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price
One of the finance blogs that I read published this stat yesterday:

"Here are the total returns from the past four presidential election dates:

Election day 2008 +675% (14% annualized)

Election day 2012 +400% (14% annualized)

Election day 2016 +207% (15% annualized)

Election day 2020 +81% (16% annualized)"

-- https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2024/11/some-things-i-dont-...

As he says in that article, "You can believe what you want to believe about politics but those beliefs have no place in your portfolio".
I have nothing nice or constructive to say.
Realistically, desktop interfaces will never stop trying to cater for touchscreen devices. We need a eugenics program to breed people with sharp pointy fingers.
Opening up coal mines just to bring back jobs in the rust belt does not make any sense. Start mining silicon and other minerals used in solar, batteries and chips instead. It makes a lot more sense even though the initial investment is higher.
That's a popular misconception that has been shattered for well over a decade. That is nearly impossible with the filibuster, there was one slim window of 1 or 2 months in Obama's terms that they could have squeezed it in. Otherwise it's a fight to the death every time with the republicans in the Senate (filibuster)
All politicians lie. They're only ever called out by the "other side".
I think the “ignored” is that the sitting VP was proposing policies for later that hadn’t been implemented! That was the biggest hurdle - she had to run as a dependent independent which is basically an impossibility.
My condolences to all north americans.
As a US citizen, it is frustrating but not inexplicable.

The vast majority of the voters who had the opportunity, patience, ability, and inclination to follow an argument like this -- the inflation spike was global and the US did better than its peers -- voted for Harris.

Opportunity is a key part of the problem: many voters live in walled informational gardens guarded by propagandists. The only messages that can penetrate into the gardens are short, emotional rather than rational, and lacking in nuance. They are indistinguishable from the constant barrage of lies and disinformation these people are exposed to.
>You see Democrats say white men are the problem all the time

Be serious. You might for some reason think that this is their underlying message, but they don't say this. They even chose an old white man as their nominee, for goodness' sake.
So what is the takeaway here? When referring to trump supporters, follow the line of reasoning:

- Trump floated bleach as a covid remedy

- Bleach as a covid remedy is obviously stupid (we should both be agreeing on this one)

- Trump supporters support such statements from trump

- But pointing that out is "calling them stupid" and thus we shouldn't do it?

I'm genuinely curious about this because it makes up so many discussions with trump supporters in a nut shell. I don't want to condescend to them, but I also shouldn't be pointing out things that genuinely are stupid about trump, because doing so would offend them too? What should I do, just pretend all the dumb things Trump does (and that his supporters support him for) don't exist? Just so I can find common ground? (I mean, strictly speaking this is exactly what I do in polite company with trump supporters. I just pretend all the really dumb shit doesn't exist and just talk to them about policy and stuff, and in the end I end up finding that we agree on 90% of stuff and we go on our way. And they continue to support trump for reasons I don't understand.)
> You can't have everyone in your party saying "the economy is good, it's growing better than ever, look at all the jobs, etc." while literally no average person is seeing that.

Isn't that literally what happened in his first term? Remember "I built the greatest economy the world has ever seen"? These claims were backed fully and completely by the stock market and not the rank & file. And this is the same situation we find ourselves in now. All these years later we're still in a situation where "the economy" is going gangbusters, but the average person feels left out.
I suggest you Google - Dave Feldman Cholesterol.
Women who are otherwise going to die because of a medical condition might want to have an abortion at 9 months (for example). The idea of being "for abortion at 9 months" just means allowing those women to live (instead of having to have their babies whether or not it kills them).
Well done!

Reminds me of broot (https://dystroy.org/broot/).
“It’s the economy, stupid” has never been truer. People will trade their rights for more basic needs being fulfilled and most people simply aren’t happy with the one sided economy that has prevailed since the late 80s. Interest rates were too low for too long beginning circa 2000, and the massive flood of QE led to an explosion in house prices, car prices, and food. This is what the world gets for poor monetary and fiscal management for more than two decades.
I mean considering the degree to which people on this site style themselves as intellectuals, it would be pretty astounding to me to hear that most of them voted for Trump this time around given his fairly disastrous economic agenda. Mostly tariffs—I don't really believe HN is that protectionist
Exactly, unless you rerun with a "popular vote wins" election - it's not concrete at all. The campaigns would not have been run in the same way, and the people would not vote in the same way.

I say this every election when democrats play the "but we won the popular vote" card as well - that wasn't the game being played, so it doesn't really mean that much.
When Martin L. King was murdered there were thousands of soldiers sent to the DC. I would say that movement was rather succesfull anyways.
Or maybe she was a bad candidate?

Who in their right mind votes based on the sexual organs a person has?
tariffs? the world is fed up with tariffs and sanctions, they came up with the BRICS+

the US will definitely _not_ love the death of the USD, or no longer having access to rare earth materials located in China ;)
I'd love this to be true but there's no reason and plenty to the contrary for me not to believe anything said by people associated with Trump. Time will tell but I expect the opposite.
> Cause the way it seems is that you've got a few extremely wealthy milli/billionares sucking up every single possible cent that can be sucked up while your average Joe gets screwed more and more.

Is there hope that this will change under Republican government?
> Citizens United was literally about citizens showing a film critical of a political candidate. It’s one of the purest examples of free political speech there is.

You should read fuller accounts, it’s a fair bit more complicated than that.

The part that made it so harmful, at any rate, was the court deciding without prompting from the plaintiffs to buck their normal “as narrow as possible and don’t make things major constitutional questions unless you have to” policy and widen the case to be about something it initially was not, with the result that campaign finance control at all and keeping foreign money at least kinda out of US politics became impossible.

> No Supreme Court justices are bought.

Uh. I dunno what to say. Yikes.

Pretend George Soros had been giving Sotomayor gifts amounting to huge sums of money over many, many years in ways that plainly violate rules for lower court judges, and that she’s “accidentally” not disclosed a lot of it.
> how has Donald Trump served the interests of "working people without a college education" during the four years of his presidency?

Uneducated working class folks compete with illegal immigrants for jobs and cheap housing. During his presidency illegal immigration was lower and wages rose for the working class and housing costs were relatively stable. He’s also positioned himself as the “law and order” candidate, and crime tends to impact the working class much more than the middle/upper classes.

Mostly folks who voted for him voted on the premise that their experience of the economy was better when he was president rather than on the basis of individual policies.
> What makes you sure the GOP will revert to the pre-2016 era?

MAGA just lacks the charm without the Orange Man at the helm. Trump is mortal and his successors are lacking.

That said, the Chamber of Commerce Republicans will probably stay Democrat. It'd be at least 2033 before it's clear that MAGA only lasted with Trump leading.
> I saw a lot more deflection, misdirection, lies/mistruthes and non-answers than I did from trump

Yup, it just came without the crass jokes and the mannerisms but I guess the confidence was pretty high that people would forgive her because she's just "not trump".

I think they totally bungled the messaging and stuck their head in the sand. With all the billions of campaign money, they spent most of it calling trump a fascist or orange idiot a bunch more times, hoping that's enough to bump voter numbers. There is a dose-response curve there and after some point it just doesn't yield linear results.
> Seems like a stretch. "Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States"[1] was up into the beginning of 2022. The tax changes were known in advance for years. If the tax code changes were a significant factor, why did companies hire a bunch of people in 2021, knowing that when 2022 rolled around there would be massive taxes?

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.

Also, literally everyone involved in tax policy thought it would be repealed. Heck, the IRS had to scramble to release guidance because they thought it was going to be repealed. The IRS didn't release detailed guidance on Section 174 until September 2023 -- six months after tax filings were due (a number of businesses asked for an extension to file but still had to pay the taxes as if they had filed on time). https://www.cohnreznick.com/insights/additional-guidance-irs...

The Section 174 capitalization for software development was included in the TCJA as a way to 'pay' for the tax cuts, but no one seriously believed it would stay in the law. The problem is congress is very dysfunctional, so once it was signed into law you'd need a congress to get it out. It's no surprise the congress in 2023 was more dysfunctional than the one in 2017.

Also, in 2021 interest rates were historically low, and as I stated initially the dual loss of the ZIRP environment and the massive change to how software developer policies worked together to kill software development jobs.
It was delayed, but was successful. The available metrics at the time showed that many validators did not pick up the new key, or did not store it in stable memory so every time a new VM/container/whatever started up, it had the old key. Once those were fixed, the rollover completed.

That's the problem with doing maintenance on infrastructure used by every host on the Internet. Though efforts to replace DNS with a more distributed model has never succeeded (yet).
It’s all about the economy (remember, ‘it’s the economy, stupid’).

We keep hearing statistics showing that the economy is doing well, but I have yet to meet anyone who feels like they’re actually better off.

I’m not saying that the stats are wrong, but when it comes to politics, you can’t address economic anxiety by just pointing to statistics and saying, ‘Look, the numbers say everything is fine.’
See this is what surprises me. I would have thought voting for a more regular market with higher taxes to the elite would be favourable to the majority non-tech workers, rather than the billionaires which play the puppeteers to trump
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Combined...

The 111th Congress was the only time in the last 20 years Democrats had a filibuster-proof trifecta and that was for 72 days. [1]

That was the government that gave us the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare.

The other Democrat trifecta was the 117th Congress[2] but if you look that's only with independents in the Senate that caucused with Democrats. Obviously also not filibuster proof.

That's the government that gave us the CHIPS act.

Think about how often parties are in power and they can't even fill appointed positions because of partisan opposition during confirmation, let alone pass legislation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/117th_United_States_Congress
You can't be unknowingly trolling as it requires intent. You could argue wilfull ignorance I guess?

At a quick glance, I found 10 definitions of far right that differ slightly. An assumption of malice here fails. Remarkably so.