skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switzerland is, by some definitions, an older democracy than the US, if we neglect the short period of time when Napoleon conquered it (as we would similarly neglect the US Civil War). The Haudenosaunee have also been, in important senses, democratically governed for centuries longer than the US has existed, though possibly not as long as Switzerland. And presumably many small tribal peoples have remained democratic for millennia, though it's hard to tell in the absence of written records.

It does seem very likely that the Republican Party will govern the US for decades to come, like Perón's party has governed Argentina in between the military dictatorships, or Chávez's party governs Venezuela.
One thing, that a lot of people get wrong, is the first amendment does not apply to you the citizen. it is a directive to the government, and I quote.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

My point being the first amendment to the us constitution has no application to a companies communication platform. (unless the federal government ran a communication platform). There is nothing preventing a company from creating their own free speech policy but that is it's own independent thing.
You can't admit to something you don't feel.
The burden of proof is with the accuser.

I fail to see how the Republican party is fascist. I think it's a term the Left uses to demonize their opposition. Ironically, that is kind of fascist-like.

> The term fascist has been used as a pejorative,[74] regarding varying movements across the far right of the political spectrum. George Orwell noted in 1944 that the term had been used to denigrate diverse positions "in internal politics". Orwell said that while fascism is "a political and economic system" that was inconvenient to define, "as used, the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless. ... almost any English person would accept 'bully' as a synonym for 'Fascist'",[75] and in 1946 wrote that '"Fascism' has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies something not desirable."[76] Richard Griffiths of the University of Wales wrote in 2000 that "fascism" is the "most misused, and over-used word, of our times".[77]: 1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

I assume you have good reasons to believe Republicans are fascist. I'm simply asking you and any others who believe this to share your reasons. Is that not reasonable?
Can you give a brief comparison of the different views? I’m European and watch/read a lot of US news sources from both sides and still think “European” about Trump.
I'll believe it when I see it; but yeah they _might_ target Google/Facebook for not following the free speech ideals of present day Twitter.

Don't think they'll actually break up either of them in that case though; more likely use them as a boogeyman to endlessly dispute with so they appear anti-big-tech whilst doing everything possible to boost share prices of the same and similar companies.
No, but yes for the people that elected here. It works the same here in the Netherlands.

Nobody actually voted for the Dutch PM.
I am at work on the mobile phone and quickly checking: does Trump made an incredible election (more than what was expected)?
> In Pennsylvania, 34% of respondents said they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic nominee if the nominee vowed to withhold weapons to Israel, compared to 7% who said they would be less likely. The rest said it would make no difference. In Arizona, 35% said they'd be more likely, while 5% would be less likely. And in Georgia, 39% said they'd be more likely, also compared to 5% who would be less
likely.
They have managed to have themselves perceived as anti-war, which is an obvious untruth.
Which laws, and which doctors?
> you understand why so many large companies use hyperscalers.

While there are valid use-case where you get value from the extra services the hyperscaller are providing, most of the time people go for AWS “because everybody does it” or because the choice was made by a consulting company that doesn't pay the final cloud bill and is optimizing their own added value at the expenses of the customer's one.

I've been doing freelance work for 7 years now for roughly two dozens if companies of various size, and I can't tell you how many massively underused AWS / Azure VPS I've seen, but it's more than half the cloud bills of the said companies (or division for big companies since I obviously only had the vision on the division I worked for and not the whole company).
Considering it seems Arab American voters were willing to punish kamala or even outright vote trump on account of the current administrations stance on IvP since then, it seems they are willing to look past the embassy issue for a bigger issue - the current state of affairs.

Considering how the Obama administration handled Iraq and Afghanistan, I doubt they would have acted any differently wrt Syria.

Alas if I recall Trump managed to have ultimate responsibility for that fiasco occur under Biden's watch on account of losing the 2020 election. Whoops.
Having better safety nets definitely helps people look outward rather than in.

Pensions, social security, healthcare; once you have a feeling that you'll be taken care of if things go bad you can think about your neighbours a little more.
> or the majority of US voters are so morally bankrupt that they prefer reprehensible and irredeemable candidates

Correct, yes.
That’s why I never heard an empathetic comment from a Trump follower.
What are those major crises? Decrease in housing prices?
I think that's it. What could happen overnight already happened.
Oh people already say civil war? lol.
What opinions?
Those items on your list are more opinions than facts. They are terms used by the Left to demonize their opposition.
When one guy is talking about domestic military deployments and shooting his political antagonists, and it’s not clear that the courts will stop him, then I do indeed think the F” word is in order.

The rest of it is self evident, but I’m not going to be the one to say it out loud.
Rural Canadians are eating up trump style rhetoric as fast as it can be minted.

Canada is next. There’s no escape from this kind of madness.
Do you hold this standard for Team Red? Do you tell them to use their listening skills too?
Did you miss biden calling all trump supporters "garbage"?
Yes, this is a utilitarian conundrum.

If seniors weren't the majority of the electorate, the economy would've won out.
Or educate and persuade?
> But if the US is no longer committed to their world order, I can see the return of a more selfish Europe. One that is willing to work with both the US and BRICS and does not automatically favor either.

I don't see this happening unfortunately. The much more likely scenario is that the US diplomacy in EU will adopt a partisan stance, favoring far-right parties. Anyone who has followed far-right EU movements in the last two decades can't seriously believe that US conservatives talking about isolationism means they will stop pushing their views in Europe.
Filter bubble or not; it's a disgrace. A fallen nation. A violent dictator. Lies, racism, sexism, violence. People vote for this!
I agree. The software is also possible to replace if forced.

US invested huge piles of money on the computer age and they cornered the web and software markets and now extracting grotesque profits from it mostly because its a winner takes it all industry. It's not that Europeans don't know how to write software, it's that it doesn't make business sense to go after the established American companies. Linux is invented in Europe, just as the Web but the American entrepreneurs were those who turned these technologies into great businesses. If forced by blocking, it wouldn't take much time to create European alternatives as the hard work of discovering what works and what doesn't is already established. In fact, during the internet age there were many European alternatives for most of it, there's still local alternatives to many.

Take Uber for example, it's not anything special. In places where it's banned, local entrepreneurs quickly made local alternatives.

There's of course industrial software, gaming etc and that's also plenty in EU. It wouldn't take much time to replace everything.

There are plenty of examples from the last 10-20 years where embargoes simply propelled local alternatives even in the most improvised countries.

Americans will have to be stupid to ban software to EU, so it will have to be the EU who bans American software and that probably wouldn't happen until things get really bad.
What do you mean? Europe has contributed twice as much to Ukraine compared to USA. Yeah, in plain military spending USA has given more, but a war isn’t won with just guns. This has been a strategy that has made sense given USAs military industrial complex, and EUs geographical proximity to Ukraine.

If USA pulls out it’s likely that EU will shift some of its aid over to military. This is already happening: European countries have started setting up arms production within Ukraine which gives Ukraine more guns per dollar spent than what donations of western built weapons does. So don’t think the dollar amount donated tells you everything about the amount of military support given.
Immigration does have a net benefit to the economy, generally, but of course it tends to depress wages for anyone in sectors the immigrants are landing jobs in. Even NPR admits this, when they cover the topic. If this weren’t the case, there wouldn’t be a bunch of us wanting to loosen rules about foreign-trained doctors practicing in the US.

Whether those sectors include most of the people worried that their wages will be suppressed, when who we’re talking about are illegal immigrants who mostly do stuff like chicken processing and house framing/roofing, is another matter.

It’s weird that “we had a bipartisan bill to address specifically this thing you’re worried about, likely to pass and be signed into law, and Trump scuttled it so he could keep complaining about it” didn’t resonate. Frankly, if that’s too “technical” a message to be received, we really are fucked.
So when he calls the other side names and makes threats, he is practical and gruff.

His practical message was incoherent; it was more of an erring of grievances, conspiracy theories, and wild policy ideas that he seemed to have come up with while speaking.

I can't argue with the fact that it appealed to people, but you can't say it wasn't divisive because it was practical and gruff. Those two things don't rule out divisiveness.

BTW, I voted Republican in every election until Trump, and the reason why I didn't vote for him was due to how divisive he was.

I think you just happen to agree with his side of the divide.
Simple answer: two parties, there should be more people engaging in politics and less armchair critics.

BTW I don't see Europe in good shape either, even when I would prefer to live there for other reasons that are not connected to business at all.
The simple fact is, Trump is a rorschach/inkblot test.

He is everything people claim and nothing at all. He says so much bullshit constantly that you have to just ignoring or discounting shit he says. So he reflects what you believe.
I’m not asking you to speak Greek, just to respect it.
Do you notice how nobody in America cares who the leaders in Europe are? Because it doesn’t matter. Which should tell you that you guys are bad at picking leaders.
cheap labour, not unskilled.

So what you want is to import third world immigrants so you can pay your plumber cheaply instead of paying them appriopriately.
If your idea of Trump was formed from reading mainstream media, you likely have a very distorted idea of who he is. The amount of misinformation around him is next level.
Liz Cheney voted with the GOP for the four long Trump years, how is she not a Republican
I agree that the price of groceries probably decided the election. But I don't see how Trump had any "strong policy that people can believe in". There was just anti-status-quo amongst the 10% of votes that are up-for-grabs at this point.
Trust me. There are plenty of us Americans — just not enough in the right counties and states — who are just as upset as you.
The second you have a president willing to mobilize the most advanced military in the history of the world against its own populace there's no chance of realistically resisting.
The first line¹ of the article explains it. It even has “title drop” in bold.

¹ Literally
I predict Trump dies before 2028 and JD Vance is the last American president.
Since COVID food prices went up around 50% on many items that I pay attention to. (Example: meat & fish) For many Americans, messaging about the "great economy" does not match their lived experience.
> "Hating migrants" != "want only the migrants that pull their own weight"

"Oh but not like you, you're one of the good ones!" - imagine yourself being described that way, and ask if that's a crowd you care to spend your time living with.

> Why would you personally want to immigrate to a place where you are immediately expected to foot the bill for everyone else?

Because the only places that doesn't describe are those without a functioning government capable of collecting taxes.

You want me to migrate to ${your country} to boost the economy? Well, that's only useful to you to the extent it means I'm supporting all the people in your country that can't migrate elsewhere for exactly the same reason.
No, it's called a famine and wouldn't happen. Recession would imply that the market was completely incapable of adjusting to allocate resources correctly.

Promoting a second-tier, legally-disenfranchised workforce isn't the win you seem to think it is.
There might not be a next time

shrugs
And if the GOP wins the house god help us. Smh.
Even if I listed all reasons why the rhetoric during the campaign reeked of fascism, you’d simply dismiss them, like all the times before where this has been called out already. This is why people rightly feel people like you act like they’re in a cult. You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

Like right now, by editing your comment you're desperately trying to pose there is no accepted definition of fascism. Dismissing definitions only fits the bill.
I consume a lot of American social media as a European, what about his comment was wrong?

Fox News, Twitter, Facebook etc have really done a number on the US (and the rest of the world to some extent). The lack of regulation of these companies have brought us to the Post-Truth world we're living in now.
It's a joke about mail in ballots in 2020 my dude.
They lost the anti-immigration vote to Reform. That shows, to me, that the voters that cared about that topic could see the difference between their rhetoric and their actions.
But they weren't running against women.
I think they do want those strange made-up strawman policies.
North Korean soldiers who have deployed to Russia struggling with pornography
As if Biden/Harris has set some high standars
I voted Trump. Biden was an absolute failure. I guess HN is a bubble to the extreme because anyone could have saw this coming but elite leftists
You’re missing the political viewpoint of 45% of the country if you’re not main-lining right-wing radio and Fox News. No, stop—don’t google what they just said, imagine you just believe it and see where that takes you.

[edit] if you want root-cause for how we got here, look into media ownership laws in the US, and into the Citizens United court case (check out the 5-4 podcast for a fun/horrifying take). Single entities can own unlimited reach of media, which didn’t used to be the case, as recently as the very early 2000s IIRC, and Citizens opened up unlimited corporate spending in elections, with exactly the implications you’d expect for e.g. foreign spending on US elections. Er, I mean, the actual root cause is kinda the system of elections the slave states pushed into the constitution, if you wanna go way back, but the proximate cause of the current political landscape is that.
Many recent US immigrants are asylum seekers. They do receive substantial government cash payments and free housing (i.e. welfare). I am generally pro immigration, but let's be clear about the cost.

https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/refugees/programs-and-...
It wouldn't be a reference; "explanation" for an LLM means it tells you which of its neurons were used to create the answer, ie what internal computations it did and which parts of the input it read. Their architecture isn't capable of referencing things.

What you'd get is an explanation saying "it quoted this verbatim", or possibly "the top neuron is used to output the word 'State' after the word 'Empire'".

You can try out a system here: https://monitor.transluce.org/dashboard/chat

Of course the AI could incorporate web search, but then what if the explanation is just "it did a web search and that was the first result"? It seems pretty difficult to recursively make every external tool also explainable…
Yeah, it's like the only "existing" or "correct" use of a protocol is that which is explicitly plnned for bythe authors.. No, yeah, that's not useful.

Speedtest similarly does not exist. Junior engineers holding it wrong will misinterpret the results. Yet it can provide actionable and valuable information.

As for "it's too complicated to wrap your head around": It appears the OPs major issue is people around them not understanding that "absence of confirmation is not confirmation of absence". I don't think the issue is actually complexity.
Which is getting way to close to real life Gilead.
That’s only true in western markets because legacy auto are treating EVs as luxury goods and don’t offer any model <30k. The Chinese car market is already over 50% BEV, NEV. It’s clearly the future.
From the outside looking in sometimes I wonder if it's the democrats that are the ones that "have a black friend" and use minorities as props, not the republicans...
I wonder how it compares to the filter bubble with regards to North Korea. What if it really is a communist utopia?
Juno was something about radar - penetrating the cloud layers to see what was below.

In college my son worked on the FFT engine that processed the radar data. He has code circling Jupiter!
The culture war crap is low-hanging fruit for fly-by-night scam PACs who don't know what they're doing. Hence the incompetence displayed when you get ads for states and races you have nothing to do with.

We didn't see much of it here in Milwaukee County. We got boatloads of mailers from WisGOP framing Trump as a moderate candidate, though.
As a European I'm glad that Trump was elected, despite his personality flaws.

Biden was openly hostile toward my home country (the UK), and was a dead end when it came to negotiating the free trade deal we should be aiming for now we're free of the EU.

Trump, and the Republicans have more love for the UK than the Dems have shown, although this isn't reciprocated by the current UK regime, which allegedly attempted to meddle in the US election https://theconversation.com/what-us-election-interference-la...

At the end of the day I want to see a strong and safe USA, because the US is our #1 ally. The markets have responded very well to the Trump victory, and I believe that the world was a more stable and safer place under Trump than it was under Biden. If Trump can complete his Abraham Accords he will be remembered as a remarkable peacemaker in the Middle East.

I suspect most people haven't even heard of the Abraham Accords, because the mainstream media is so weaponised against Trump.
the left went too far,it forces so many people used to be in the middle to the right.
A second administration will look quite different. If he remembers his campaign ideas, the economics will look much closer to Brexit than the chaos of his first term.
Are criminals not allowed to be elected?
Historically (last two elections) the polls have been about 2% further left than the actual result. Thus a 50/50 could/should b be interpreted in Trump’s favor
Not wanting gas to be expensive, without knowing literally anything about why gas might cost more, is about as surface level as you can get.

What happened with covid? Trump was a complete clown, but they still support him? Sounds again, very, very surface level.

You say they don't care about his height, or his gender maybe, or his race, but if he were a short female minority, that would 100% affect their opinion, even if they didn't understand it or wouldn't admit it. Very surface level no?
> uniting people under a common cause

If the common cause is being against other people, that's still divisive.
Or it could just be because of the real fear of the consequences of the mindset of American Exceptionalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
First past the post voting made USA polarized, time to modernise politics!
Because he said he would. Hopefully that was a lie too, but I guess we get to find out.
I'm Italian and the views I have here (left/center left/center friends/relatives) is that he's a crazy nut job that's gonna hurt europe as well as limiting abortion rights and similar things. I'd say there's not much talk about economy because we don't understand shit in our own economy either, let alone a foreign one... Except that we think the rich are gonna get much richer and he's gonna cut social spending (ie, less Healthcare and similar things) and he's gonna crackdown on immigration. Not expressing our own views on it, that's just what i think it's talked about Trump here

Oh, he's also a misogynistic, convicted felon that spews lies. This is partially our view in my bubble, if I had to say it entirely I would get flagged lol
Can't wait for America to become the coal mining capital of the world. Such a forward thinking strategy.
In theory, I agree with you. In practice, however, they've lost elections before, and it's never really affected their policies. They move ever more right, regardless of what happens. The border wall used to be bad, and now it's something they actively pursue. Universal health care used to be a thing they'd at least mention (and it's still a very popular position to take), and these days? Not a peep.

Their strategy, at least the past three cycles, has been "I offer you nothing, but do you really want to vote for the other side?" And I don't see that changing.
Pakistanis in the majority and Muslims in general supported Trump because Biden's govt is alleged to have toppled Imran Khan's govt and supported genocide in Gaza. American Muslims have voted for Trump
The parliamentary systems in Europe are appalling and ensure "status quo" of elites.

After watching it enough at play, you understand.

There's absolutely a sovereignty problem with the EU, which is not necessarily fixed by getting out because the lobbyists can pay the politicians no matter what.
PS5 Pro is a niche expensive system for enthusiasts. It won't be selling a ton.
> almost zero variation in policy state to state

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears..

Did you visit any midwestern state during COVID? Florida?

You can use the Google on the internet machine as much as you like and cherry-pick some leftist city in any state, but: broad/legally-enforced mask mandates, forced business closures, etc. were absolutely not happening in many areas of the United States.
back in the 80s and 90s politicians strived to be just right or left of center. That's who won. Now its those are furthest away from it.
Because a percentage of people who vote trump tell everyone they will vote dem to not be bullied or frozen out by their friends, relatives, colleagues, etc.
Dr Phil described it well I think.
> Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency

He has already won. 277 votes
Just go to Frankfurt Hauptbanhof then see there the real effects of European policies. Make up your own mind then.
Safety Type 1 and 2