skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the Democrats are first and foremost the party of the educated, metropolitan and utterly disinterested in matters of material conditions.

This is absolutely true. Though most people on the Left are terrified to face this fact.

> Whereas the Republicans are the party of people who are bitter towards the first group.

This was true in 2016, probably 2020. But definitely not this election. Just to use myself as an example: I'm an Obama ('12), Clinton ('16), Biden ('20), Trump voter ('24).

I'm not motivated by animosity against Democrats because I was voting for them. Trump's message now is way more positive. It's a message of peace with Russia, making America healthy again, getting competent people in government (Musk), etc.

And that's actually also what a lot of the most influential Trump supporters (Musk, Rogan, RFK, Dana White, Nelk boys, Theo Von, etc) have been espousing too, pretty much all of whom used to be Democrats.
The deep learning boom caught deep-learning researchers by surprise because deep-learning researchers don't understand their craft well enough to predict essential properties of their creations.

A model is grown, not crafted like a computer program, which makes it hard to predict. (More precisely, a big growth phase follows the crafting phase.)
> The moment that switched me to deciding on Trump was when Dick Cheney endorsed Kamala

Point 1: you're irrational. Good to know.

> 2. Protecting kids. I don't think kids can consent to medical gender transition. It amounts to state sanctioned child abuse. I have kids. Once you're 18 go ahead do what you want.

Sounds like an excuse you make because you don't like the concept. Are you against all kind of medical interventions on kids, or only the ones you don't feel comfortable with? Do you tell kids with cancer to wait until they are 18 before they take their own decision?

> I'm tired of having politicians that basically hate half the country and think we're dumb because we don't like to listen to their corpo-bureaucrat speeches

And instead you vote for a politician who ignores all the country and cares only about himself.
Much like, say, IQ, wealth shouldn't be compared across populations without massive amounts of contextual normalization. Individual wealth measures don't account for institutional safety nets, nor social/cultural affordances, nor geography, nor weather, nor history, nor-

Suffice it to say that trying to directly compare individual wealth across disparate populations is so disingenuous as to be tantamount to spreading falsehoods. People feel poor because they are poor; Americans simply cannot afford many of the things that other developed economies provide for their residents. We can make lots of small changes to help with this^ (i.e., we don't need a massive overhaul or revolution), but the people calling the shots have to actually admit that people are not doing well, and that the costs people face today are burdensome. They won't, because they're afraid of not being reelected (and then they lose anyway).

^Solve food deserts by opening bodega-like shops in both urban AND suburban neighborhoods.

^Replace surface parking with structures housing amenities that people can walk to.

^Increase mass public transit access by building rail and bus/bike lanes.
Because people like you are often at the forefront of wider social movements. Stuff like healthcare, safety nets, worker empowerment… Your influence goes way beyond gender care or women's rights. Beyond their bigoted sensibilities they have an incentive to shut down many of the wider political views you may defend.
Yeah. Tech employees and tech companies themselves are consumers of other tech. Lina Khan was what we needed for a long time, and it's a bad thing for everyone that she will be unable to finish what she started.
Hi – DuckDB Labs devrel here. It's great that you find DuckDB useful!

On the setup side, I agree that local (instance-attached) disks should be preferred but does EBS incur an IO fee? It incurs a significant latency for sure but it doesn't have a per-operation pricing:

> I/O is included in the price of the volumes, so you pay only for each GB of storage you provision.

(https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/)
Never have isn’t never will, dividends and buybacks are a sign the company doesn’t have use for the money. Meta and Google both eventually started paying dividends because they’re essentially tapped out of internal investment ideas.

Telsa and Amazon on the other hand believe they have something meaningful to do with the money. But eventually successful companies just don’t have anything useful to do with their giant piles of cash.
In my opinion it shouldn't be different. You should pay the same tax whether you purchase service from a company or labor from an individual.
> I don't like that Epic can one day announce the game just no longer works on that console, rendering your purchases null and void until you upgrade your hardware, but I can't expect them to update that version of the game forever.

Traditionally for these "Live Service"-type games, they announce cutting support for a console, but let you carry your purchases in that specific game (subscription, add-on items, etc), forward to the same game on the next gen of that console.

For example, how Final Fantasy 14 ended PS3 support - https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/-i-final-fantas... and how Grand Theft Auto 5 ended PS3 support - https://www.ign.com/articles/gta-online-support-ending-xbox-...

It's not a guarantee, but I'd expect something similar for Fortnite.
When Bitcoin was conceived economists said it would have built-in deflation and it seems they were right
Do I upvote the sarcasm or flag the transphobia?
As someone who was paid in stablecoins, I'm not a huge fan of them, because the final exchange rate still sucks - there's a 10% drop in value from USDC to MYR. While I definitely don't recommend BTC, ADA and LINK actually convert better here.
Reminder that Bolton is an insane person, so who knows if what he says publicly about Trump’s intentions are true.
Housing’s still shooting up really fast and I guess used cars are just always gonna be expensive now.
The ACA is not ideal, but is the line between life and death for millions of Americans.
In principle, that is true. But that is simply not the reality on the ground. States ban abortion with such exceedingly narrow exceptions that doctors and hospitals delay until the point of actively endangering women.

Four deaths, reported on by one outlet, in the past couple months:

- A Texas teenager died after going to three emergency rooms and being misdiagnosed and denied treatment: https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-...

- Another Texas woman died after a miscarriage as a result of doctors not treating her due to the state's fetal heartbeat law: https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-mis...

- A Georgia woman with chronic health conditions, which can make pregnancy highly risky but did not exempt her from Georgia's abortion ban, died of complications from a medication abortion: https://www.propublica.org/article/candi-miller-abortion-ban...

- Another Georgia woman died because doctors delayed 20 hours after she arrived at a hospital—9 hours after she was diagnosed with sepsis—before treating her: https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-ambe...
One of my "friends" bragged to me this year about how he threatened to replace one of his underperforming programmers with someone from Pakistan for $10 an hour.

Say you're on the receiving end of this threat. Do you really care what country your replacement is from? Is my "friend" really all that benevolent to fire someone for less money?
Texas has a similar thing going on (technically), but you still have to pass an NCEES[0] exam, which is not easy.

Also, if (in Texas) you stamp something outside of your area of expertise and it comes up in a review, it's viewed as if you never had the stamp in the first place[1]

[0]: https://ncees.org/exams/pe-exam/

[1]: https://pels.texas.gov/downloads/lawrules.pdf - rules 133.97(b) and 137.59(b)
It's not a good reason to vote republicans but it is a good reason to be apathetic about democrats and the political system in general.
I thought similar. Anyone moving from an office environment to one of physical work is going to struggle both with the physical challenges and the workplace culture. Trippily so coming from academia!
That seems sufficiently disconnected.

Alternatively, if the fed didn't just print money to pay for unnecessary vote-buying schemes then the inflation rate would have been only minimally (if at all) impacted by the points you made.
actually i've been using ETH lately because its cheaper in fees, but I acquired a lot of BTC, so its kind of wash to transfer to ETH
He wasn't responsible for all of it. COVID supply chain disruption obviously played a huge part, but it's like everyone has forgotten that Trump also sent out a huge amount of money[1]. We can debate if that was the wrong/right move, but it's annoying when people blame Biden for the inflation that inevitably came once the economy turned back around. Trump has as much if not more responsibility depending on how you look at it. Meanwhile, the Fed under a Biden administration has seemingly engineered a soft landing.

Trump also pressed SA to cut oil production to help prop up gas prices in the US [2]. So when the economy turned demand surged back pushing prices higher.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/coronavirus-aid-relief-and-econ...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/special-report-trump...
9800X3D looks like an all-around winner, so if you don't mind spending $500 on just the CPU, I don't see why anyone would get anything else.
I was told Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, and Ethel Cain would deliver this for the Dems months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41020940 and that Musk's actions wouldn't matter.

More recently Joe Rogan
I know that your comment implies that the bottom 40%'s income went downwards, but just because variance (inequality) increased doesn't mean that must have happened. It could have also went upwards (income increased), just slower than the top.

Some data would be good here. I don't have any, but if you want to imply that the bottom 40% went downwards, please show some data instead of insinuating it.
Neon is relating to "new" via neo- prefix, with -n added on because the Western idea in the 90s of Japanese aesthetic was futuristic neon.

Genesis is for as beginning to the new era. It's etymology is Greek for "origin, creation, generation" which is a sort of an "era". Plus a looser translation provides the extra wordplay and thematic heft with the Angels due to Genesis being first book of the Bible.

Not a translator but I write a lot of poetry, and that's what would be going through my mind as I see the difference between the literal translation and the English decision and the additional capabilities this translation gives. In my mind, the initial translator 100% intended this "gap", which is less a gap and more of an additional layering.
I am so glad that the betting culture all but dissapeared before I entered the workforce.

Hearing old stories of what people did make it seem like some sort of thug culture. I wonder what share of workplace 'accidents' was due to betting.
It's probably because the risk of a regulatory crackdown making it hard to sell Bitcoin in the next four years has just dropped substantially, which may be what you were saying.
The point is that it isn't a currency. Nor is it debt or equity. More like an incorporeal commodity.
Hm that's kind of interesting, what's your source for this phenomenon?

It sounds plausible, but I haven't seen anyone discuss it
the person just elected promised to rig every election

Quote, please?

I believe you're referring to what Trump said about in the future, New Yorkers won't have to vote.

That's not saying they won't be allowed to vote. It's saying that the folks who think they need to vote to defend their way of life won't feel that way anymore.

Of course, whether those folks are right, or whether Trump really would do anything about it, are different questions. But in any case, it's nothing like the widely-reported statement that Trump will (somehow, through undescribed FUD) put an end to elections.
"You" in this case is "the people taking the polls". The media is only trusted by 12% of Republicans and 27% of Independents [0]. Right or wrong, most pollsters will be treated as belonging to "the media", and the lack of trust will almost certainly show in the polls. "The media" demonized the right wing, so "the media" can't expect to have people self-identify as such to them.

Democrats were absolutely demonized by Trump, but their trust in the media is double that of Independents and quadruple that of Republicans. So to the extent that pollsters are treated as part of the media, they'll get more accurate answers out of Democrats.

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-re...
I think it's pretty obvious — Russia has ASAT weapons and tested them in 2021.

You would not need much to destroy a whole Starlink orbit.
So you expect progressive voters to simply politely ignore the awful things Trump has done, and the fact that his supporters don't seem to care?

Short list: Trump has been adjudicated in court as having sexually assaulted a woman, and has admitted to doing more. Nearly every person who has worked with him has described him in the worst possible terms. Stories of him celebrating Nazis [1], sexually fixating on his own daughter[2], horrifying things like that.

The man is a convicted felon, and has only escaped punishment for various other crime by virtue of his own appointees in the court system.

If a reader accepts these well-supported items as facts, what should they think about somebody who votes for that?

Should they lie and say "a reasonable person would support this"?

Or should they tell the truth even when it is "divisive"?

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-said-hitler-did-...

[2] https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trumps-lewd-talk-a...
> won’t it also give domestic manufacturing workers hurt by globalization a lot more demand for their work

Temporarily perhaps, the push for automation in manufacturing (and farm operations) will be very strong.
Yeah, I was about to write "But looks like Trump kinda does that", but thought that could be a bit controversial so I didn't.
Nah, Americans aren't that dumb. We send billions and billions to Israel every year, for what? Most Americans want to stop being a blank check for them to bomb whoever and then get mad, deplete their resources, and ask for more when they get attacked back
yeah regular blockchain, with proof of relay (data transmit) rather than PoW. it is limited to ipv4 though. no it cannot be run on isolated networks because every node needs to be able to be reachable by a static IP.

thanks for mentioning yggdrasil, looks interesting.
Yeah, we'll get right on it. Increasing tarrifs should do it, right?
There's an interesting heatmap to be made of how recently each state was considered a swing state. Anyone remember 2004 Iowa?
That seems very astute to me. As a Canadian I’m not having a breakdown, but the turmoil and conflict in the USA is seriously troubling. I would hate to be immersed in it.
I know barely anything about welding, could you explain what a good weld would look like?
It's the economy, stupid:

-Inflation is not prices; it is the rate of change in prices. Low inflation doesn't imply low prices.
-Aggregate statistics don't necessarily explain individual outcomes.

The Dems failed on this count massively, and have, for maybe the last 40 years, which is about the amount of time it took for my state to go from national bellwether (As goes Ohio, so goes the nation) to a reliably red state. This cost one of the most pro-union Senators (Sherrod Brown) his job.
TIL:

Polytonic orthography (from Ancient Greek πολύς (polýs) 'much, many' and τόνος (tónos) 'accent') is the standard system for Ancient Greek and Medieval Greek and includes:

- acute accent (´)

- circumflex accent (ˆ)

- grave accent (`); these 3 accents indicate different kinds of pitch accent

- rough breathing (῾) indicates the presence of the /h/ sound before a letter

- smooth breathing (᾿) indicates the absence of /h/.

Since in Modern Greek the pitch accent has been replaced by a dynamic accent (stress), and /h/ was lost, most polytonic diacritics have no phonetic significance, and merely reveal the underlying Ancient Greek etymology.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_diacritics)
Solved by CSS Scroll-Driven Animations: Detect if an element can scroll or not
What differentiates Aide from all the existing tools in this space like Cursor?
From the article:

> These digraphs owe their existence in Unicode not to Hungarian but to Serbo-Croatian. Serbo-Croatian is written in both Latin script (Croatian) and Cyrillic script (Serbian), and these digraphs permit one-to-one transliteration between them.¹
For protein. That doesn't account for micronutrients. For better or worse, humans are omnivores. We might be able to live on less meat. (Collectively-speaking; this individual weightlifts and accumulates injuries like crazy if he doesn't eat enough meat, sorry.)
Re: 2

You can use a broker (free to you) and get the same (regulated) plans. If your situation is at all complicated you should definitely use one. Probably even for “simple “ cases.
They define their threat model in "Anticipating Attacks"
That is exactly my point. People are conflating being alive (explicitly in this thread in the sense that a single cell is considered alive) with having a life that should be preserved. Complaining that if we found single celled life on Mars that we'd protect it even to our great inconvenience, but we will end a single cell or small group to save a host body, are making their argument based upon a false equivalence. Any life that might be found on Mars isn't ever posing a risk to a sentient host, and those defending harsh abortion controls because “all life should have a chance even single cells” don't extend “all life” to, well, all life.
Because I would like to automate programs I use in Windows with files that I actually use, instead of some random linux docker container. I should have used my actual machine instead of a real machine.
You’ve been lied to.
Or maybe people stop buying crap they cannot afford
> but isn't lower wage people getting higher wages a good thing

Their wages did not rise anywhere near commensurate with the increased costs of those goods and services - the same goods and services that those people would be buying
What's the difference with letter Ch [0]? When it's capitalized at the beginning of the word, it also looks like uppercase C and lowercase h.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch_(digraph)
Last time someone said that on here, one of the responses was, "Uxn is to Urbit as science is to scientology."

It may not be quite true (Urbit isn't completely fake) but it's sure funny.
Absolutely not. Inflation hit us very hard and we had to make real lifestyle changes to get back in the black.
If the issue is emissions per capita then the solution is simply to increase the population faster than the increase in emissions.

Similar, countries with aging population will see an increase in emissions per capita regardless if they are actually decreasing emissions, as long the population loss is greater than emissions decreases.
I think this is sort of the result of looking at any country’s politics as an outsider. For Americans, most of us are in between the parties and so they point in different directions for us. Also, because the specific policies impact our lives, we are more interested in the details (where the parties actually do look pretty different) than some aggregation or big picture view.

In terms of some big issues being bi-partisan… I mean, it would be sort of weird if the broad strokes weren’t somewhat bipartisan, right? Like if we actually switched between having a capitalist and a communist economy every four years… that would not be a feasible way to run a country, haha.

But I mean we’re going to see some pretty big differences: support for our allies in NATO will look different (I don’t think we’re pulling out or anything but the relationships will change). The parties seem to have different visions of how we should try to get semiconductor manufacturing back over here (an industry that basically… determines what a lot the overall economy will look like). Abortion access will probably be determined by states (which will be a life-altering change of circumstance for some folks).

These are big differences.
"the economy is good, it's growing better than ever, look at all the jobs, etc." while literally no average person is seeing that.

I think I'm an average person. Car prices came down and I was finally able to buy a sedan. Unemployment seems low. Eggs are expensive, sure, but on the other hand, my brand of yogurt always seems to be on sale and oatmeal prices are flat, so it's kind of a wash there. The economy seems pretty fine to me.

Certainly, there have been no threats to shut down the government (like in '18-'19), which did do a number on my retirement plan at the time...
Which part? The country is over 80% ethnic Danish, so I imagine some aspect of that has been consistent a long time.
Illegals are not competing on buying homes. Working for cash is not going to allow you to purchase a home
Hacker News is my safe space
VSCode forks are not new, there are many companies out there building towards this vision. What sets us apart is partly our philosophy (deeply integrating into the editor) and also the tech stack (running everything to the dot locally) and giving developers control over the LLM usage and also other niceness (like rollbacks which I think are paramount and important)
That's CO2 measurements taken in Hawaii so it's global measurements. Do we have a USA only emissions graph?
To be fair, RFK Jr believes that vaccines are linked to autism and wants to ban fluoride in drinking water because it's "linked to cancer". It's very worrying that he could be setting health policy.
this should be the real headline. I am certain and beyond any doubt that I speak for all of us hackernews readers when I say that I have no frame of reference on the value of cryptocurrencies without comparing first with the Malaysian Ringgit
How likely do you think governments/central banks would keep away from inflating the currency they have complete control over, when its normally in their best interest to print currency?
Spain has a left-wing government, Poland is back to being centrist after getting rid of PiS, Switzerland has its own distinct government where all major parties are represented in perpetuity, ...

Also to call the current German government "stable" is... a choice.
They won't.

These candidates are aligned with the Democrats.

That's what the party is.

It's not a party of the left or liberals or whatever you imagine it to be. They've been extremely clear on this.

Go over the historicals. I have. Many times. This is correct.
What happens when they bust out the $5 wrench?
He wants the baltics back, not poland.
Listen, the Presidents signature on a national abortion ban won’t be a Democrat. You’re extrapolating a political strategy when it’s simply: don’t sign a bill that makes menstrual tracking a responsibility of the United States Government.
My financial decisions are none of your business buddy.
> Server / CPU / RAM / SSD quality

I had no issues with Hetzner's component and especially network quality for a decade now. Before that, yeah, there could be some hiccups and issues. But they stopped being issues a long time ago. And really, what hardware issues do you expect on this hardware:

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/brands/matrix-d...