skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your opinion is that elections are a referendum on the moral virtue of the candidate, or that you shouldn't run for office if you think the electorate is morally bankrupt?

I'm sorry, but I have to be blunt. That is an extremely narrow view, and a single second of critical thinking should present a million other possibilities. The former is obviously untrue, considering Trump's long list of vices. The latter is a complete non sequitur. Power is power; the electorate's morals only matter insofar as they're willing to check the box next to my name.

Trump can be reprehensible and irredemable, and still win if he's more believable on the issues Americans care the most about. He could be a fraud, a cheat, even a traitor, so long as he's persuasive. That's how democracy works, how it should work.
People are still feeling it in their wallet every time they go grocery shopping. The greatest mistake of the Biden era was to ignore the cost of living explosion and the uncontrolled greed.
Thanks for the explanation. But that sequence sounds more like "corruption -> increase taxes", or perhaps "cut taxes -> increase taxes"... not "cut costs -> increase taxes"?
Wow I love the presentation of this website, very nice!
Russia and China have been waging a cyber war against the U.S. for a long time now. Russian accounts on social media have been effective at sowing dissent, chaos, conspiracy theories, and false information. Tim Pool and others on Russia’s payroll is clear evidence of this.

The lesson of the day is that the U.S. is far more conservative than I thought. Trump is the President we deserve and we deserve what comes next. White rural voters will not be helped by him and I will not shed any tears at their plight.
I don't have the feeling it's being moderated at all at the curent time. Plenty of comments calling out Trump voters as Nazi, bigots, fascists and misogynists here are not flagged/removed while other comments explaining why democrats lost do get flagged.

Regardless of ones feelings towards the Orange Man and his voters (over half the country!) you shouldn't be able break HN ToS and get away with it. So either moderation efforts are being overwhelmed (hats off to Dang) or HN is heavily politically biased from the userbase to moderation team.
Ah well, that didn't quite work out.
You're assuming the population is homogeneous
The distinctive fascist doctrine of perpetual war doesn't seem to be a MAGA calling cry. In fact isn't the opposite more true?

And then the cult of traditionalism while strong in the NRx movement, is arguably stronger in the Republican side than in MAGA itself.

Ultimately Fascism is deeply spiritual but all I get from Trump is brash 80's boomerism. He's not ideological enough.
If it's really fine, shouldn't the compiler optimize that if away?
I live in a very Republican area and know quite a few people who do vote only on the one issue of pro-life. I don't think many of them would actually agree that Trump is an adulterer or a criminal though. They would chalk it up to Democratic lies or political attacks using the legal system as a weapon.

Heck, I know quite a few people who are very strongly religious and somehow view Trump as a good Christian candidate. That one really blows my mind, unless they've changed the ten commandments entirely since I was growing up.
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Are you seriously arguing that a rack of modern servers can’t handle 100 concurrent users?
I think there’s this massive negative bias in a lot of our media, by our I mean globally. Social media and news. So I think you’re right, life is generally getting better for most people, COVID was a temporary blip in that trend. However… Inequality is growing rapidly between the middle class and the ultra rich, and the middle class in many developed countries is being squeezed due to cost of living issues, I think that’s a a part of the reason for this result. Also median income alone is useless, it has to be compared against cost of living. A measure of a middle class family’s ability to grow wealth is the difference between their income and their essential expenses. That is what matters.
And I view Kamala as a fake, policy flip-flopping, question dodging word salad spewer.

> If people who voted for him are not stupid, they certainly act like it.

This attitude of "you must be stupid if you don't see things my way" I expect on Reddit, but am disappointed to see it here.
I'd claim that this is way better than what we've got after years of UX/UI "research" and "improvements".

And it's not that I'm some old boomer. In '98 I was one year old. I just hate buttons which don't look like buttons, tabs which don't look like tabs, text fields that you have to click to discover they're editable etc.
> Europe has long been under the shadow of the United States. Perhaps this could be a good start toward greater independence for Europe.

I wish this were true for so long, but so far we have seen nothing. Not even Draghis recommendations were really introduced.
I do! I'd much rather see that than a general war with Russia, thank you.

Only the insane believe this war could end in anything but extinction or decades of misery and conflict.
I'm pretty sure some guy who made it big on stocks now can afford to have his front deck renovated.
"There's a huge difference between invading a NATO member and invading a non-NATO member."

In practise, doesn't that depend on what the US decides?
The economy is great for about 20% of the population, maybe 30%. Take a drive down no-where town anywhere in the US and you'll see the economy doesn't work for most people. All of middle America (geographically) has been absolutely gutted by globalism, among other things.

Peter Santenello has a good YouTube channel where he goes around the country (and world) and interviews regular people. It will give you some insight on the economy for the remaining 70%.

https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSantenello
It doesn't. Part of what you're seeing is just straight up cheating. Florida wouldn't allow election observers. It might take a little while to sink in, but American elections are more or less running like Russian elections at this point, and these results are what you get when it's not honest. Sometimes it's like this, and sometimes the leader figure is said to get like 99% of the vote, when he doesn't feel like playing coy about it. It's up to him, not you.

America started when it rebelled against being ruled. I'd say that's not entirely off the table. First it has to become clear that we're getting ruled, not represented.
I think there is a slight disconnect here between making AI systems which are smart and AI systems which are useful. It’s a very old fallacy in AI: pretending tools which assist human intelligence by solving human problems must themselves be intelligent.

The utility of big datasets was indeed surprising, but that skepticism came about from recognizing the scaling paradigm must be a dead end: vertebrates across the board require less data to learn new things, by several orders of magnitude. Methods to give ANNs “common sense” are essentially identical to the old LISP expert systems: hard-wiring the answers to specific common-sense questions in either code or training data, even though fish and lizards can rapidly make common-sense deductions about manmade objects they couldn’t have possibly seen in their evolutionary histories. Even spiders have generalization abilities seemingly absent in transformers: they spin webs inside human homes with unnatural geometry.

Again it is surprising that the ImageNet stuff worked as well as it did. Deep learning is undoubtedly a useful way to build applications, just like Lisp was. But I think we are about as close to AGI as we were in the 80s, since we have made zero progress on common sense: in the 80s we knew Big Data can poorly emulate common sense, and that’s where we’re at today.
Yes, I said that was obvious. Postman makes an excellent case that that's what happens when you reduce public discourse to entertainment.

Don't get complacent; the process producing European leaders like Putin, Zelenskyy, Orban, Meloni, and Erdoǧan is no better, nor other American leaders like Lula or Maduro, nor Modi. And, although Xi's path to power doesn't depend on how relatable his stories are about how he had difficulty climbing into a garbage truck, that process is flawed in other ways that are likely worse.
Good definition! Here’s the Cambridge one:

“political ideas and activities that are intended to get the support of ordinary people by giving them what they want”.

Giving someone all they want is not seen as a good thing… unless you are the recipient, in that case internal bias comes to play.
You can assume almost every space images you see are "false colors" unless stated otherwise

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/jupiter-in-true-and-false-...

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/why-nasas-image-of-jupite...
> what always gets my blood boiling is the way

I'm also European and my rule of thumb is that if something triggers me enough to make my blood boil, the absolute least useful thing I can do, both for other people reading, and for my own mental health, is to start a pointless argument.
Yes, it's interesting how careful you have to be with what you can and can't do with negations.

For example, some forms of De Morgan's Law work but some don't!

These are valid intuitionistically:

(P /\ Q) -> ~(~P \/ ~Q)
(~P /\ ~Q) -> ~(P \/ Q)
(P \/ Q) -> ~(~P /\ ~Q)
~(P \/ Q) -> (~P /\ ~Q)
(~P \/ ~Q) -> ~(P /\ Q)

These are not:

~(~P /\ ~Q) -> (P \/ Q)
~(P /\ Q) -> (~P \/ ~Q)
~(~P \/ ~Q) -> (P /\ Q)

And with quantifiers, these are valid intuitionistically:

(forall x, P x) -> (~exists x, ~P x)
(exists x, P x) -> (~forall x, ~P x)
~(exists x, P x) -> (forall x, ~P x)

But this isn't:

~(forall x, P x) -> (exists x, ~P x)

(Assuming the existence of some x does not help here.)
I'd rather have solidarity with other average Joes than put the guilt on them, just because they're enabling someone to pay lower wages shouldn't put the responsibility on their shoulders
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Guess why I'm out of the stocks game other than the occasional gamble of meme stonks. I'm German, we don't need it either way.

The thing is, we allow corporations to become (way) too fat. When a corporation grows too big, it grows uncontrollable as well - once the complexity of any corporation grows so large that there is no way for any single person to understand at least the basic scopes of everything the corporation's parts do at the same time, all kind of auditing and oversight becomes a sham, no matter if internal (boards) or external (consultancies, auditors, regulatory agencies).
Wanting "World peace" alone is dumb. Imagine if everybody just let the Nazis win WW2 to avoid wars.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1gkwo2u/chatgpt_bl...
Not really. There is a reason Ron Paul didn't win in 2008 and 2012 despite dominating early social media.
https://archive.ph/0deV2
"bus"???

Isn't one of the proposals from Republicans is to ban inter-state travel for pregnant women?
>What do you call being the majority party, winning referendums, etc?

Nazi's were not the majority party when Hitler ran for president, they were the largest party, but not majority. They weren't even a majority even when Hitler was appointed (not voted) chancellor by Paul von Hindenburg, the man who won the presidential election. There were a few more steps before he acquired absolute power, but none of them involved voting. It's interesting, read the article.

Like I said, it's a common misconception.
Yeah, you’re mixing up a couple facts with opinions here.
When she deliberately chose not to go on Joe Rogan was where I started to seriously doubt her chances.

It was all Beyonce, Michelle Obama and Taylor Swift.

You can say everything you want about Rogan, but I still really, really wish she'd done one interview with him.
Experience as a politician is not a qualification for US President
Why would Russia want the EU dead. They were selling 10's of billions of dollars of oil and gas to it each year. Russia is however a bit paranoid about its own security, having being invaded numerous times over the centuries and wants to keep control of its own economic destiny.

Provide a way where security of both Europe and Russia can be provided for and peace will quickly follow.
This is precisely why the word stupid is thrown around. It never helps to call a stupid person stupid, because they invariably double down.
> the Dem strategy for Independents appeared to be "Trump is a fascist" "Trump supporters are garbage".

> Ok well..that's not really an argument?

Choosing to not put a fascist(-leaning) individual into power is "not really an argument"? So it's okay to re-elect individuals who have tried at least once to stop the peaceful transfer of power?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup
The trick isn't to stop talking about gun control. Democrats should be proactive about addressing the fear. They should campaign on a promise to never go door to door and take everyone's guns away and push for legislation that specifically states that the mass-unarming of the public is explicitly illegal while giving them an opportunity to carve out the exceptions that the majority of people, including republicans, agree on like keeping guns from crazy people and violent felons.

The point is that the irrational fear has to be addressed. Making fun of it, ignoring it, or lecturing on why the threat is imaginary won't help.
> Republicans are just much, much better at it.

Isn't it the Democrats who sling words like nazi, fascist, racist, deplorable, trash?
They absolutely didn’t ignore the cost of living explosion or uncontrolled greed.

Kamala proposed several policies targeted at those problems. Many of which I disagree with, but it’s demonstrably untrue they “ignored” it.

The American people were just lied to successfully by the world’s biggest liar.
No, way back in 2000, the Supreme Court prevented a recount of votes in Florida.
Notably those wars were not started or escalated by Trump's republican party. While >Dick Cheney< got accepted by Dems now just because he is against Trump...
It would be aristocracy if you had to be born into it.

Now, I'll admit that the US system of mostly only very rich people getting access to top universities is not exactly fair - but you can in principle become a politician no matter your background.

I don't think it's crazy to assume that qualifications matter. And most of the US's best presidents (such as Lincoln, both Roosevelts etc.) were highly educated and had had political careers before.
The global inflation in question was a result of the COVID over-response. I imagine the indirect deaths from negative economic impacts far exceeded the 0.1% IFR COVID-19 peaked at.
Well the largest party (as per HN rules please "use the best form of the argument", no need to nitpick), and not by a small margin -- at least 10% over the 2nd largest. And you'll still argue he did not "win" elections?

(You could not "vote" a chancellor. In a lot of perfectly valid democracies, the PM position is always appointed, never directly voted, usually from the larger party or the at least the candidate most likely to pass a (constructive) motion of no confidence. So he was elected legally per the correct democratic process. Cleanly/Fairly -- that's another question. But would you really be surprised Hitler could win elections? He had pretty ridiculously good reputation in some circles. He would have likely polled pretty well even in the US.).
people are being misled by the claim that refugees and other immigrants are the cause for their problems. and that stopping refugees and immigrants and sending them back will improve our lives. it won't.

our problems are caused by greed, selfishness and ignorance. we need to learn to care for others if we want to solve our problems. the homeless aren't being helped by sending refugees away. if we want to eliminate homelessness we need to actually investigate and address the causes that make them homeless. we need to treat them with dignity. the same goes for unemployment. "creating more jobs" isn't enough.

education is really the only way out. in our country and anywhere else. education will improve peoples lives and it will stop wars and conflict. and it will help us learn how to solve our problems.
Remember when he campaigned on criticizing Obama for playing so much golf?
> I don’t think you appreciate how easily a society can slide into a totalitarian state and how apathetic most of the population can become.

We all lived through 2020-22, yes.
True. Although the scale for anything from sperm to baby is probably human<->animal<->bacteria life. I liked it because it definitely shows it's a form of "life" in an accessible way. Where on the scale it falls and whether that life should be protected is an entirely different matter.
Why would you ask someone to define a known concept that has been around for decades? It’s not like definitions are based on someone’s opinion.
It sounds to me that this is crass exaggeration and one of the many reasons why there is such a big divide between supporters of both factions. The whole exaggerated narrative and associations to nazism is definitely off putting.
So explain to me how it would have played out if Pence would have gone along with the fake elector plot?

Aside from Trump not many people deny Biden won 2020. How would Biden have become president?
I find it sad that this is framed as an either-or problem.
I have never had anyone tell me as a white male that I should be ashamed of myself, not least from the left.

What I have been recently is very impressed by female talent in all sorts of industries, which makes me ponder how much we've lost holding them back all this time.
I don't understand the purpose of this post. "I write a lot of X so I prefer using X over Y." Great.
Exactly. Most people still dont get it. What killed Atom on Phone wasn't x86. It was partly software and mostly hardware and cost. It simply wasn't cost competitive, especially when Intel were used to high margin business.
>it's the everyday circumstances that arise when liberals are done running a place into the ground.

Not just running the place into the ground, but also actively lecturing people how everything is fine and how it's their perception that is wrong. That's what really pisses people off and gets the to vote extremists as those tend to at least acknowledge some of the issues average people are facing or seeing.

Average working class people don't like being lectured by upper class higher educated elitists off their high horse on how they're wrong.
I love this one because it's so basically obvious: the price for this work will increase or it simply won't happen and wasn't necessary anyway.
Now all we are missing is Windows 3.x -version.
Indeed, 538’s model showed ~50 out of 100 wins for either side, when running simulations. But that doesn’t mean that they were predicting a 50/50 split, a significant number of simulation results showed a large vote margin for one side, it was just equally likely which side it would be.

Although I don’t actually think it was equally likely like that, we are missing something to make all this analysis actually informative rather than a “all I know is that I don’t know anything”. We had mountains of evidence indicating that it was totally unclear, so frustrating. Perhaps that’s how the probabilities actually were, but somehow guts pointed to Trump much more regardless of personal bias, and in hindsight it feels rather obvious. Confirmation bias I guess, I still want trust all the expert analysis.
you got it buddy, been in tech (silicon valley) for 25 years. I got laid off in August 2023 and the market sucked even back then. No recruiters reach out anymore. Back in 2022 it was twice a day or more.
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Turn the supreme court partisan and overturn principles that had been valid for decades.

I remember an interview at a large evangelical event about how they could vote for the decidedly un-Christian liar, fraudster, etc.. Their answer was that a "deal with the devil" is okay as long he delivers on supreme court justices. That was their literal phrasing.
You saw what you wanted to see, which is fine. However, for others her set of benefits wasn't as clear. For most, her closeness to Biden was a negative. For me her adverts were too abstract. "I'm going to stop the price gouging" but never said how.

I get it, her campaign didn't have a lot of time. That said, the DNC should have a pulse on what voters are looking for, etc. As it is, this is the third candidate handpicked by the DNC and 2 of 3 lost to an inexperienced politician. That's not the victor's fault. Tho I'm confident there will be little to no accountability owned by the DNC. It's going to be four more years of blame the winner.
This is kinda similar to never open-sourcing some useful proof-of-concept software, because of the percieved need to polish, test and document it
I'll add `plutil` to the list. It's great for reading plist files, but did you know it can parse json too?

/usr/bin/plutil -extract your.key.path raw -o - - <<< "$jsoninput"

(obviously, less useful now that `jq`is built in)
Looking purely at the cases where an abortion is required for health reasons:

Emergency abortions required for health reasons are often needed when things go wrong, and when that is the case it might need to be performed either soon or immediately. Being in a state that opposes it might delay the decision in ways that injure or kill the mother.

Non-emergency abortions required for health reasons - that is, when there is significant risk but it is not unfolding yet - also happen but being in a state that opposes abortions at any level in general might make it difficult - doctors not willing to suggest it to avoid risk to their business, those around you refusing the need and convincing you that it would be bad, not to mention having to plan a medical trip to a foreign location to get it done - and in turn put the mother at risk of injury or death through inaction.
Fair enough. Interestingly, that +10% poll was closer to the current +14% that Trump is leading by in Iowa [1].

It would be interesting to see the sampling data between the different polls to see how they adjust for potential biases.

[1] https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/iowa
Republicans did a great job mobilizing voters. They’ve learned from the tactics the Democrats pioneered and it worked well. Things like early voting, etc. This election will be a landslide but looks like and I believe in large part because of how they exploited the early voting opportunity.
What he means is: please let us hollow out democracy without you interfering.
Half the stuff Trump says is some insult to someone. "Owning the libs" and "libtards" has been a thing for a long time. Remember when the tea party said Obama was literally Hitler for trying to come up with a better health care system? etc. etc. etc.

But somehow everyone else needs to be on their best behaviour and as soon as they say "fuck you back" in response to a torrent of "fuck you"s it 's a big deal.

If you want to talk tone and insults then you're definitely starting at the wrong end.