skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree and I've been slowly coming to this same conclusion. To this, I will add:

The Democratic party has left a lot of people behind and their only choice is to turn to the other party, in the hope they will help. Yes, it's not logical given the facts on the ground, the other party likely won't help them, but the other party is saying they will help. And that's the important thing.

Why did the Democrats leave people behind? It's the perception of "wokeness" and the feeling men have of being marginalized. A lot of men feel emasculated by the state and direction of our culture. And those men who feel this way are not college educated, so they are looked down upon and they mainly have service sector jobs. In other words, they are being left behind in the great economy they see everyone talking about. The jobs that created the middle class (manufacturing jobs of the last century) have moved elsewhere, and they feel they can no longer support their families in the way their parents did.

A lot of us here are not feeling that pain. I don't. But I see it out there and there are a lot of them. Trump won by a larger margin than he did in 2016.

Think about this: the Democrats avoided primaries in the last 3 election cycles. That told a lot of people: we don't give a fuck about you.

Others have said it here, but I'll repeat it. If Bernie Sanders had been the nominee in 2016, we would have likely had 8 years of Bernie and no Trump. Bernie Sanders was the only candidate in 2016 that resonated with the pain people were feeling, and those people who voted for Trump would have (mostly) voted for Sanders.
I doubt we see the same isolationism w.r.t. China, who remain Trump's main bogeyman (other than immigrants). The policy will probably make less sense, since as you mentioned his tariffs and transactional diplomacy may confound US efforts to build an anti-China alliance in the Pacific.

It would probably be a poor move for China to blockade Taiwan (an act of war). If the US decides to intervene, it would be very painful for China without a pre-emptive strike on US bases in the region. For all the talk of Trump as an anti-war candidate, he didn't seem to say no to many military strikes as POTUS, and this hypothetical would represent the US' best possible entry into a war over Taiwan.
That's a random journalist, what the hell does he have to do with the democratic party and "the left"?
> As a European

As a European you don't have presidential elections that matter. Executive and legislative power is in the hands of your parliament and the president is a figurehead (if you have one).

If you want to compare your European experience to the USA, you should look at congress and not the presidential elections. You'd probably find the same dynamics there as in your own country, with the exception that the blocs that you have in parliament have been distilled into two parties.
> Pro war

I was surprised to see Trump not entertain much war during his last term but I don't agree. Both parties equally entertain war and I fear any Republican anti-war this time will be pro-Russia and further destabilize the world.

> Working class party

I think the voters see it that way and it's a real win for Republicans since they're the opposite and get away with it for who knows what reason

> Pro free speech

I've absolutely no idea how you came to this conclusion

> Skeptical of large corps

I'd love for that to be true but I bet they'll be just fine with any large corp that helps them remain in control.

And yes, the entire topic of religion has not only remained the same but perhaps gotten worse.
Impressive! Does anyone know if this is open source? Or perhaps can be run locally as a server?
Calm down Jonathan, I was just trying to get a clarification on your point, it wasn't flamebait. Besides when I asked the question the other response hadn't been posted.
I'll now stop talking to you Mr. Strange.
Exactly. The Harris team made a key mistake by responding with, ‘No, you’re wrong. The economy is doing great—just look at the stats.’ They needed a concrete plan to address people’s concerns directly, but that was missing.

Personally, my issue with the Democrats is how they mishandled the electric vehicle charging network initiative. [0]

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-charger...
It's more flexible. For example, compare the "Turnable" and "Tumbler" rotations in the article; you will be able to set arbitrary orientations in the latter, but not the former.
Cool but the fonts are all messed up.
Literally any PC can, I just finished a full initial sync, fully indexed, on a very lean box (Intel Pentium Silver, 16GB) in less than 24 hours.

Assume ~700GB of disk space, and otherwise it's nothing. You can also run a pruned node if you have disk space limitations.
Bit of a false dichotomy: some people survive a heart attack without intervention, but suffer crippling injuries as a result. It's entirely possible to develop arrhythmia, fall into a low-oxygen state where you get brain damage, and then have your stupid heart decide to start pumping again.
Most of the stuff he promised he won't do. Simply because of the sheer complexity and resources involved. It's not in his nature to focus and work out complex issues. Imagine the logistics required to simply apprehend, process and deport 10-15 million people at scale. He'll probably do better at closing the border than any past president. That's for certain. But actually deporting all undocumented migrants already within the country. yeah, that's not happening.

At best , its going to be performative on many things. Even with structural changes to the administrative state that the GOP's project 2025 seems to be promising - it's harder than it appears.

Regarding tariffs - China is currently in an economy slump. Trump being transactional in nature , its certain the Chinese will be open to bilateral agreements. So I don't see tariffs lasting long.
Maybe 4th time is the charm with this kind of divisive messaging?
A bunch of randos, which doesn't really inspire much confidence.
- Media that criticizes him should lose their broadcast licenses (ABC, CBS) or shut down (Google).

- The Federal Reserve should do what he says rather than be independent.

- Military generals should be as obedient to him as German generals were to Hitler.
Very much depends on the issue being discussed. Economically? Perhaps. Socially? Absolutely not. The US is far out on its own branch when it comes to things like LGBTQ issues, racial and other identity issues, immigration, etc. I’m not sure these played as much of a role as the economy in terms of this election, but they are absolutely next in line in terms of the issues looming large in voters’ minds.
Trying to cheat a few votes

This is some pretty hardcore rationalization even by modern standards. Trying to "cheat a few (10s of thousands of votes so you win a swing state)" is called trying to steal an election.

but rigging a whole election is on such a different scale and planning and conspiracy level that it isn't the same thing, he didn't even try to rig the election.

He literally did from many different angles. Asking for changed vote counts, fake electors, 60 court cases with no evidence, planning violence to stop the certification of the election.

How do you square what you are saying with these facts?
Basically any electroplating tank uses <5V, no matter how large it is. So are basically all line-level audio and most dynamic speaker drive signals: 5V at 4Ω is 6 watts, which is a fairly loud speaker.

Detecting 1-volt voltage drops is not at all difficult; that's enough to turn on any BJT, and any random opamp can measure voltage differences down to millivolts, often nanovolts. https://www.diodes.com/assets/Datasheets/AS321.pdf is a 50¢ random opamp, the one Digi-Key has the most in stock of at the moment; its offset voltage is specified as 5 millivolts max, but of course it can measure much smaller voltages than that if you null out the offset with a trimpot, or if you just don't care about it.

This is not Arduino's strong point, but it doesn't have any difficulty with that task either. The ADC in the ATMega328P used in most Arduinos has a resolution of about a millivolt when referenced to its internal bandgap https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/Atmel-7810-..., and it also has an analog comparator with a maximum offset voltage specified as 40 millivolts. And any random cheap-shit multimeter can measure down to a millivolt or so. And, from the discussion above about audio line levels, it should be obvious that just about any dynamic speaker, and most headphones, can easily make millivolt-level signals audible.

Maybe you meant "detecting voltage drops in analog of <1 microvolt can be challenging".
You forgot work visa completely. Many places have a skilled-worker visa, where if you have higher education AND a job offer you get a work visa.
Reality is always a social construct, and by having air superiority you can talk anything into reality.
It is because they CAN. They never wanted to reproduce in the first place. And the reason isn't even the democracy or "rotten Western values" - they die off even faster in authoritarian, patriarchal Eastern countries, free and unfree alike. It's simply economic growth.

Give me any way of "making people reproduce again" which isn't overtly dystopian-totalitarian and i will accept that promoting "as much immigration as possible, not letting in only known criminals" was a bad idea.

Sure government can just start having babies for itself. That will be real cattle herding.
US company should try this weird, revolutionary thing instead: follow the damn regulations.

Another option is stop operating in EU. That would also work.
The Senate passed a bipartisan bill earlier this year that had almost everything Republicans have asked for. The House wouldn't even consider it.
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A woman? Lots worse than "liar" could be said about one of them, I'm curious what makes you think both candidates are equally bad but don't dare say it.
There's an app for Quest 3 called Gracia, which allows you to see these in 3D space:

- https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/gracia/25784099001234...

- https://www.gracia.ai
The only reason there are US military bases in your countries is because TWICE you idiots started wars that almost destroyed the world.
Yes but when the result is always skewed to one side then - even if the result is within the margin - the predicted mean is wrong.

Otherwise the real result would be distributed around the mean within the margin of error.

There is some bias and the polls did not correctly factor that into their statistical model.
Here's a hypothetical situation for you, arguendo in a world without nukes: China invades the US, takes over a couple of states, then a new leader of Germany is elected who will push to reduce any supplies coming in from Europe and will negotiate with China to end the war. Of course China gets to keep the few states they've gotten since they have a large Chinese population, fair is fair after all, we just want peace. Also China's demands include the US to demilitarize except for a small force, so they don't feel threatened by it, after all the US could invade them in the future otherwise! Oh well, all for peace I guess.
My theory is that legal sports betting makes the economy seem artificially worse for a lot of people. It has had a measurable impact on bankruptcy rates, and is causing a lot of self-inflicted financial stress. Trump's main platform is that your problems aren't your fault, and I think that resonates well with people struggling because they are throwing out their disposable income every month.
You're trying to make it cut and dry that Dems good Repubs bad for the working class. And working class too dumb to know it.

It's simply not true and we can go through every line item and add nuance.

> Trump going to bat for unions

Union jobs have been exported to other countries

> we'll see minimum wage increases

No taxes on tips

> maternal leave

Higher child tax credit, and generally pro-family

These things are not as simple as you make it to be. Maybe you disagree with Trump voters, but that does not make them stupid and gullible.
You really don't know what you're talking about.
> doctors don't want to save them out of fear of performing

then perhaps they should leave the profession if they’re so unsure of themselves. they’re supposed to be among some of the most educated people in society and they can’t read and understand a law? or hire a lawyer?

also have you asked the women what they want? because my wife for instance is against abortion. both of my sisters as well.
It is the first step of a rotation. Rotating the key is the whole point of doing this. There was no “fiasco”. I really wish you’d stop trying to throw shade on DNSSEC whenever you can.
Yeah, the application of new tariffs will look like the disorderly negotiations of Brexit rather than magic marker hurricane prediction.
Have you seen how Trump describes half the country? It worked for him.
He did not say that [1]. I can't decide whether people keep misrepresenting his statements intentionally, or there's some psychological process in play that prevents them from parsing his speech. He is a terrible communicator after all.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI9fbbQ-aTo&t=96s
He'll be 3 years younger than Ali Khamenei is now, and 5 years younger than the pope.
I thought Bitcoin and crypto is just fools gold, why get involved with blockchains and worst of all, proof of work?
That's great! You're getting an SoC, chassis, power supply, cooler, ports etc. for free! :D
>For Europe, yet again Switzerland is doing stuff 1000x better than rest of the continent.

Well, being the continent's money vault and avoiding two world wars while the whole continent ravaged itself twice, tends to make a huge difference in your nation's development (time in the market beats timing the market and Switzerland did both).

Also, just like the USA, Switzerland won the geopolitical lottery early on by being in a position that's easy to defend and difficult to attack and capitalized on it over the decades by attracting the highly educated elite and the wealthy entrepreneurs escaping from the European countries as they were torn by wars and revolutions, plus the dirty money of warlords, dictators and criminals from all over the world made them incredibly prosperous. It's not a repeatable formula that any other EU country could have easily replicated.

Adding the fact that Switzerland is incredibly restrictive with who they accept in the country, compared to neighboring EU countries who just let the dross in to virtue signal how tolerant they are, maintains Switzerland a very safe and desirable place to be despite it being relatively diverse (diversity in this context also means diversity of thought and diversity of opinion, not just the US identity politics version of only meaning non straight white males). So another win for them.

But if you look at Swiss elections, plenty of candidates took the xenophobic route in their campaigns demonizing Muslims and burkas as the biggest threat, but unlike EU members they don't really care what other think of them so they're a lot more outspoken about it.[1][2]

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/anti-minaret-campaign-divides-switzerl...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56314173
Yep this is what a lot of the socialists in the US don't understand - they think you'll get the same level and speed of treatment in EU as the US, you just pay much less.

That is not the case - as mentioned even in pretty serious cases you might need to wait 1 year or more for something that should be done ASAP, on top of that the quality of the doctors isn't the best.
This is especially bad for well-off people (as in middle class) as you pay e.g. 500-1000 USD a month and can't even get a basic check-up.
Voting intention (%) for LGBT people in France during the 2022 presidential election

+-------------------+-------------+-------+-------+------------+------------+
| Political Group | LGBT Voters | Cis | Trans | Non-Binary | All Voters |
+-------------------+-------------+-------+-------+------------+------------+
| Radical Left | 17 | 16 | 33 | 16 | 14.5 |
| Moderate Left | 16 | 20 | 13 | 10 | 10 |
| Center | 22 | 24 | 20 | 17 | 25 |
| Moderate Right | 15 | 15 | 7 | 17 | 15 |
| Radical Right | 30 | 25 | 26 | 40 | 34.5 |
| Other | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
+-------------------+-------------+-------+-------+------------+------------+

Source: https://www.ifop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/118851_Rappo...
Aren’t “Arabs” from the Arabic peninsula (sometimes including Israel and Turkey et al) and North Africans from … North Africa? They may be similar in many ways but they’re geographically distinct.
There are American right-wing commentators who are praising "de-dollarization" and the rise of BRICS. It's a combination of having half your lifesavings in crypto and letting anti-LGBT/immigrant identity politics override the geopolitical interests of your own country.
> erring of grievances

I don't know whether this was deliberate or a typo, but it's funny and apt.
What motivated people according to polls was firstly inflation, then a distant second was either abortion or illegal border crossings. You're pretty much correct. It's been pointed out this quarter that inflation has been abated and wage growth has improved, but notwithstanding that people continue to feel worse off financially, they remain resentful.

The DNC made some blunders. Leaving aside covid spending, they screwed up reverting Trump's border policy and waited too long to fix it. Harris was weak on messaging and came up with the Housing plan too late, didn't champion the CHIPS act enough. Also, the newscycle was constantly showing the US spending large sums both domestically and abroad which had an impact on inflation. And of course there's all the other culture-war/DEI stuff that isn't strictly within the purview of the feds but feeds into resentment.
I think AMD Intel merger is pure fantasy and some kind of click bait or joke
I maintain a more comprehensive list here: https://notes.billmill.org/computer_usage/mac_os/mac_os_comm...

But I don’t have uuidgen!
> Quite the contrary, their job is far more important to society than mine.

I doubt it. Think about how connected the world is, you can't even apply for jobs without the internet.

Both jobs are equally important. The main difference is that you can get started doing construction without many pre-qualifications, while a construction worker may take a year or more to get the basics of computer engineering down.
For business? Nothing at all bad. People will feel like shit, but the economy will boom.
I would say absolutely yes, which is ironic to say the least. I think the fact that he didn't follow through on his promises got lost in the crazyness of the pandemic times but do remember, he did not get re-elected. Also americans don't really think that far back when it comes to presidential elections, they tend to be here and now things.
I did say "or is just that willing to throw us to the wolves".

You can't pretend that we we haven't been forced into the political eye over past several years. The winning party has been extremely loud and extremely clear about their plans for us. I don't buy the ignorance argument anymore, not after three election cycles of this. If you voted for them, then you're okay with more of us dying in exchange for whatever you think you're getting out of the deal.

(Using the nonspecific "you" here—of course I don't know how the person I'm replying to voted.)
But how many more millions did it stop?
The current world war. It started ten years ago.
I didn't say anything about Nazism in my comment.

Those are words Trump has used. He said the eating pets thing during the debate.
I believe Elons kid had this happen to him, hence why he’s so pro trump despite the fact that trump is pro oil industry. The lesser of two evils he said.

Parent got voted down because HN is largely extremist left.
But they do have free elections.
I don't know if anyone else remembers this but in the late 90s, Microsoft had built-in CSS named colours that matched the Windows desktop theme/colours.

I have no idea if these still work (my IDE seems to say they do not, because everything is red).

body {
font-size : 11px ;
color : windowtext ;
background-color : appworkspace ;
}
a {
color: menutext;
}
.headerBar {
border-top : 1px solid threedlightshadow ;
border-left : 1px solid threedlightshadow ;
border-bottom : 1px solid threedshadow ;
border-right : 1px solid threedshadow ;
background-color : threedface ;
}

So you could build web UIs that matched the user's Desktop look and feel. We did this for our browser-based Intranet applications in 1998, which made them look a bit more "native".
I've often found this is a mistake WAY too many people make. A successful team has a failure. Often, the reaction is restructuring, big changes, ...

I try to tell people that. "You're a 10 person team. You've had some 50 successful projects before this failure. That means this justifies at most a 2% change. A 2% change in the team is about half a day change, once per month, NOT more than that".

Invariably, the whole team is changed entirely, randomly, or going with the political winds, usually with much worse quality as a result. And afterwards they do see it didn't work.

And then they respond differently: they'll no longer admit failure, because they do see that the changes were a disaster, but you apparently fix that by refusing to admit anything ever goes wrong ...

I'm different. I think every project is a failure, it's just a matter of degree. You don't succeed in projects, you minimize how bad they are. Drives people up the wall though.
Voting for the guy that complained American wages were too high and thinks tariffs are paid by other countries will definitely not help.

Please be more specific if you are explaining why American voters have got angry and done something stupid that will make things worse or if you are defending that stupidity as a good thing that will help the situation you are talking about.
This is an interesting phenomanon. The median purchase power is increasing but people feel poor.

Things with limited supply are becoming more unaffordable because the rich are much richer than they were before. So if housing is limited and is seen as an investment vehicle, it becomes unaffordable.

The same goes for health care. There is a limit supply of medical care. Some people can afford much more than others which compounds the issue.

Americans (and most of the collective West) can afford all things that are not in limited supply - food, clothing, gadgets, transportation, etc. This is amazing in the context of history.

The weirdest thing is that both health care and housing do not need to be limited supply. It's completely artifical. We make bad governing decisions that force it to be so. Our problems are not economic but social/organizational ones.

Relatedly, I was quite surprised when recently I realized that the median (adjusted for PPP) disposable income in America was the highest in the OECD (except Luxembourg):

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

This means that the average american really really is financially better off than anywhere else in the world. I'd say that their quality of life isn't - they die much earlier than the rest of OECD, for example. But they are definitely the richest. And not just the richest american but the average american.
Trump had the Wait in Mexico policy which was great. GOP never promised anything on gun rights, but Trump single-handedly banned bump stocks after the Las Vegas massacre which is more than Obama ever side on gun control.
"impotent gridlock" would be more accurate than "chaos" to describe Trump's first term.
Of course 50% of the population is not stupid. It's much higher than that.