skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They literally considered that, it's a main point of the post you're replying to, they got answers that lacked actual details or hinged on hyperbole.

I appreciate that someone actually read my post. I'm not happy to say that's the usual reply I get from Trumpers, just an angry "you're wrong" and no discussion. I'm out of ideas on how to get them to engage in a conversation. I hate arguing. I really, really just want to understand their point of view but I just get yelled at.

And I'm NOT trying to denigrate anyone with that statement, it just feels like there's so much anger between Americans that it's hard to get someone to believe I'm sincere when I don't agree with them. It seems to immediately cause them to shut down and go into anger mode rather than just explaining to me why they feel I'm wrong.

He's got them convinced that people who disagree can't be trusted, and it fucking *hurts*.
If you want to look at someone that is further along on a concept like this you can look at SpinLaunch. Exactly what it sounds like with a gigantic centrifuge to spin and throw things really fast. But they are still throwing a small two-stage rocket.

https://www.spinlaunch.com/orbital
So you saved the company $10k a month and got a $200 meal in gratitude? Awesome.
Well the voters were wrong.
They didn't want the rich guy, so they voted the rich guy in? I think you need to work on your argument.
I think a reusable orbital tug which rendezvous with payloads is the play here. The tug would refuel from some of the gun-launched payloads.
That seemed to be puffery about a database used to store subpoena requests. You have "direct access" to a service if it has a webpage you can submit subpoenas to.
The photos of Pluto from the New Horizons mission are stunningly beautiful. Who knew you could fall in love with a frozen rock?
About Those Gaussian Envelopes (2014)
You don’t have to use iCloud. Customers in China can still make encrypted backups on their computers. I also believe, but please correct me if I’m wrong, that you can still do encrypted backups in China if you want.

All the pearl clutching about Apple doing business in China is ridiculous. Who would be better off if Apple withdrew from China? Sure, talldayo would sleep better knowing that Apple had passed their purity test, I guess that’s worth a lot right? God knows consumers in China would be much better off without the option to use iPhones or any other Apple devices. Their privacy and security are better protected by domestic phones I’m sure.

Seriously, what exactly is the problem?
> Groceries and housing are unaffordable, and any voter who complained about the issue to the incumbent party were ignored, or were outright told their experience with high prices wasn't real (which is called gaslighting).

Almost every single Harris ad I saw was about how groceries and housing was too expensive. Two of the 3 pillars of her campaign were about price-gouging on staple goods and increasing access to home purchase. How was the issue not acknowledged?
> The Democratic campaign was A+ in execution.

polls had 'country on the wrong path' at ~75%

Kamala Harris wouldn't break from biden on anything, even when she was begged by the media to do it several times over several days.

That's just one example of dumb shit the dnc/kamala did.
> we start getting into a long discussion

I view this as the major contributing cause to the current situation. The cyclic dependencies among issues that need attention mean that explaining a fix simply and truthfully is no longer possible. In the current system, a simple explanation is a prerequisite for winning the votes to implement anything. Parties acting in good faith don’t stand a chance.

> completely lost faith in American democracy

Exactly. It doesn’t function without intangibles like “good faith” or “norms” which have been discarded.
View the tariffs as carbon tax that represent the true cost of goods being produced in a coal heavy country and transported on boats that burn the most dirty kind of oil possible. It makes the whole thing look quite nicer and the economic cost a bit more worth it.
My coworkers also watch a lot of twitch so chat was already something they said before.

It's for sure something I say...
If the future German Chancellor is here, here's my proposal for your new campaign: "We choose to build one million affordable apartments in four years, not because it's easy but because it's hard".

It may not solve all of Germany's problems but at least you'll energize the construction sector, alleviate the housing crisis, learn how to finish a construction project on time and you'll have to remove some bureaucracy to reach the deadline. Build them with EV chargers outside and you'll help VW too.
Yet Paul Krugman told us that inflation was going down if we didn't include food, gas and etc. Just for this kind of gaslighting by the elites, the democrats deserve a giant middle finger.
Yep, but it actually breaks the UK system to have more than two parties so the existence of two parties there isn't actually a very good alternative. There's a lot of seats in the most recent election where the Conservative party lost only because the even further right wing Reform party took so many votes.

If I were to guess why third parties don't make much of a dint it'll be because successful movements gradually get incorporated into one party or the other via the primary system. Once a party has drained away the core appeal the third party or outside movement will flounder.
> 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.

I have difficulties understanding why you could even believe in such a fallacy: just look around you: most jobs that have to be done require barely any intelligence, and on the other hand, there exist few jobs that do require an insane amount of intelligence.
Yes, I have experienced the rhetoric from both sides. I have already doxxed myself as a Christian here, so I'll restate it again. I have a tremendous amount of disdain for Christian nationalists and, specifically, the Republican appropriation of Christianity for harvesting votes. This has alienated me from a large number of people just in my own faith.

It appears to be the plight of critical thinkers in this culture. You are not allowed to have a complex set of beliefs that may cross both sides of the culture war.
Read my other comments. It's a protest vote. They don't care what his actual policies are. No one is willing to pop the economic bubble, so voters are just going to burn the whole thing down.
They lost because they forgot about wages and retirement savings.

Inflation was uneven. It impacted prices but not wages or savings. It reduced citizen wealth directly and transferred it to corporations and the already wealthy.

They wanted to publicize the problem but not actually take the cure. Now they have zero mandate in any institution. That's what selling out your base gets you.
iSH, JIT, and EU
One of them was shot and more than 600 were sent to prison. Seems stable enough to me.
I just want to mention that EU has around €200 billion in frozen Russian assets. On top of that the various countries will contribute.

Even if it turned out that Trump has some backroom deal with Putin, and pushes hard for Ukraine to surrender - he'd be an absolute fool to not take that kind of money, and sell arms to European allies, and Ukraine.

That's money in the pocket for the US arms industry.
Is there a reason you chose not to display the comment count?
> Some will compare the difference between the natural flavor of truffles and the artificial truffle flavor with the difference between sex and sniffing dirty panties.
Fighting Crime or Raising Revenue? [pdf]
> they literally cannot afford to do such things unless they are already homeless.

Or already rich
Oh, they will get worse, much worse. But the simpletons who think the president is in charge of egg prices or whatever will never comprehend that. Maybe if it gets bad enough people will learn then.
Just got passports for my kids recently. My 14-year old was scowling in his photo. They accepted it.
> sometimes you have to do things in cloudformation, which sucks

All of CDK does things in cloudformation, which made the whole thing stillborn as far as I’m concerned.

The CDK team goes to some lengths to make it better, but it’s all lambda based kludges.
>We want an American who will fight for business and fight for America to win. We want lower gas prices, which will then make it cheaper to transport goods across the nation and help lower prices in the grocery store.

Do you think the President has anything to do with all that? The USA pumped more oil during the Biden administration than at any time in history. How is a President going to fight for business? Seriously, your comments come across like you have no idea what the President can or can't do. Do you understand where the power lies in the USA? It lies with Congress and massive corporations, the President is just theater for the masses.
Given how often the media would uncritically repeat upside-down nonsense like "Trump supporters say they're concerned with inflation" without any kind of analysis, yes, the overall media did tacitly support Trump.

I've no idea whether this was from the ownership class pulling strings to cut any real objective criticism of ZIRP corporate welfare, democrats uninterested in economics being blind to the fact that inflation actually has concrete causes, or from the writers having their brains steeped in things like racism-everywhere orthodoxy and thinking that referencing those narratives makes for a neutral objective article. But regardless of why, with friends like those...
Can Indigenous urbanism counter Vancouver's pressing lack of housing?
The reason for this isn't a mystery: the world doesn't work for the plurality of its populace. The current generations were sold a lie of infinite prosperity and comforts by their elders and governments, a lie built on the exploitation of former colonies and underdeveloped nations. We see the lie now, and know it cannot be sustained in the face of our current polycrisis (climate, housing, necessities) simply by promoting infinite growth. There's an understanding that we need to curtail consumption and start properly engineering a global economy rather than letting it spawn and mutate naturally, but there's still enough people out there who believe that this demagogue, this partisan, this policy will give them the riches and posh comforts their elders enjoyed, thus returning their country to a golden era that never really existed.

It's the desperation of the masses for what they feel is rightfully theirs, because that's what they were told by those who pulled up the ladder behind them. That era is long gone, but nostalgia is a powerful force that's easily propagandized by those who benefit from said desperation.
I don’t know about you, but I actually watched interviews with Trump and he mostly seems to indicate that he doesn’t want a nation-wide ban on abortion. It should be up for individual states to decide. Although I’m in favor of more choice for women, I don’t think Trump’s stance is completely unreasonable. There are already more than enough federal rules and some states want to be more strict. But you make it sound like Trump wants to strip away abortion rights. Please give me a recent interview in which he himself clearly said that. Otherwise it seems someone else came up with that narrative.
iCloud E2E encryption (advanced data protection) works in China.

There are other less nefarious reasons for in-country storage laws like this. One is to stop other countries from subpoeanaing it.

But it's also so China gets the technical skills from helping you run it.
I always knew video was "expensive", but my mark for what expensive meant was a good few orders of magnitude off when I researched the topic for a personal project.

I can easily imagine the author being in a similar boat, knowing that it isn't cheap, but then not realizing that expensive in this context truly does mean expensive until they actually started seeing the associated costs.
How about RICO act? Youtube is clearly and knowingly profiting from a criminal activity.
If they already have your picture the agent will usually know who you are before you have even handed over your passport. The tech has gotten eerily good.
It's possible for immigrants to both increase the health of the economy in the medium to long term and to cause localized economic pain in the short term. For those living paycheque to paycheque it's the short term that matters because they don't have the luxury to wait for the longer term effects to play out.
Clipper is a massive payload for a planetary science mission as well. SLS was the only other operational US vehicle with the payload capacity.
Let's Ease into the Holiday Season
> Jensen embraced AI as a way to recover TAM after ASICs took over crypto mining.

TAM: Total Addressable Market
The Anti-Anxiety Election Day Menu
I am eternally grateful that my MIL is an unironic trumper from an unbelievably small town in the Midwest, specifically so that I don’t need to listen to a “creator”. It’s an eye-opening experience to hear what their true, heartfelt concerns are.

If nothing else, surely we can empathize with being frustrated for ages and finally feeling seen.
I say this kindly, you must have never worked a labor-intensive job and watched your friends(co-workers) get laid off for cheaper labor.
“Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The problem is that the far right is ready to exploit that situation with their broken populist rhetoric and look to gain massively from it. Currently, they are the second biggest faction behind the conservatives in the polls. All the moderate parties have so little support that the only coalition government options are the ones that couldn't stop this growing trend of disillusionment and protest voting in the past.
Amazing what one stubborn person can put into motion
Trump was on power for less than a day, and here we are, talking about those electrolytes that plants crave, and forgetting about how osmosis really works. That was fast.

Funny times ahead.
babe. there were so many stupid toys and collectibles for kids until the 2000s. chill out lol
You also don't have a security team and Apple does have one.
Perhaps it's time to integrate LLMs into politics. Not sure that I'm even joking at this point.
Ok, sure, I can bite the argument charisma matter. I just don't see how Trump is charismatic in any way. He's a spoiled rich kid that throws tantrums when things don't go his way.
> like stripping away LGBT rights or abortion?

These are ideological battles which are specular to those of the left. All these laws to extend and protect LGBT rights? Marginally useful only to a small minority (which should be already protected in its fundamental rights by the normal laws) but great to avoid talking about difficult issues: how to go against established interests to improve the economy, how to modernise administration so that is more efficient and cheaper, etc.
Underlying the sarcasm is the assertion that California is not fiscally responsible with its budget. Understand now?
Yglesias is just repeating arguments that have been mode over and over by people who do in fact know what they are talking about (Noah Smith makes the argument well here https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/imports-do-not-subtract-from-g...)

The moon base example I think makes the argument very clearly. If you have an economy which produces nothing then it has a GDP of 0. If the increase imports for whatever reason, their GDP is still 0, which means that imports doesn't subtract from GDP, otherwise their GDP would be negative which is nonsensical.

But all this is sort of beside the point because arguments from accounting identities are almost always nonsense.
That's how I remember it as well. There were lots of reports in the 80's about the crisis of the latchkey kid, but we all just saw it as neither good nor bad, just... normal. I went to an expensive private prep high school, and most of the kid's parents were both working professionals. There were definitely kids who had broken homes, and kids who had well adjusted family lives, but pretty much everybody was going home at the end of the school day to an empty house for at least a few hours.
I think you can also do this before someone replys, so no luck there.

Honestly I have no clue who to vote for. I guess we will get a GroKo again, which is utterly retarded, SPD has to go to. Their pension packet is just insane.
Infotainment is entertainment after all. All In podcast, President talks about people eating pets, they are just same type of garbage.
That was one poll which was wildly out of line with all other polls.

All of the polls had Trump ahead there. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general... (No intended endorsement of 538, they're just a convenient list of polls)
No. That would be being unable and unwilling to build a theory of mind to understand 80 million people from all walks of life.
So you're saying he's a politician?
On the other hand, depending on their development, the Jovians might think that everything at all is circling Jupiter. :D
The trackball implementation appears to have a numerical bug in it. Occasionally (on mac safari at least) the rendering will be blank white. If you happen to let go of the mouse during that frame, then it gets permanently stuck and requires a page refresh. Seems like it might be a divide by zero due to a small cursor delta or something along those lines.
I used modelsim free edition years ago. Also got a $200ish test board just to see things work on real hardware. Never did anything super complex but I think I got my money's worth of tinkering around out of it.
Lame, boring
who would of guessed that swinging to the Right and courting Republican voters while holding no real tangible policy positions that address the pain that people are feeling wouldn't pay off?? (except for literally everybody who follows politics)

I could write an essay on each massive mistake they made after that first week after the swap, but if I had to simmer it down into a sentence, it would be: people wanted change, Kamala Harris made it extremely clear that she does not represent that change. She cozied up to Biden and tried to be a centrist-right candidate, and literally nobody wants that... and the worst part is that they will never learn a lesson from this.
> and thrown to lime light.

She threw herself under the bus. She went thought a great deal of effort to end up there. It's the deftest act of self immolation I've seen in politics so far.
They're not doing that because it's obviously illegal. GDPR forbids sharing data with unknown other people.
> The only people arguing it was misinterpreted are people who support him.

Bullshit. I'm as anti-Trump as they come, but I don't let that blind me to reality. What he meant is obvious to anyone who isn't already looking for proof of their preconceived ideas.

I'm not even arguing that he's not a major threat to democracy—I think he is! I disagree that that quote is useful as evidence of that fact, and I disagree with the tactic that the left intentionally adopted of twisting the truth to make a point. People saw through that tactic and it contributed to Trump's victory.

The facts about Trump are scary enough, there was no need to twist his words.
Stable democracies hand over to new governments without bloodshed. Any amount of violence in the process is too much to count as stable.
Just Have AI Build an App for That
It's a lot of "fun" trying to get acceptable photos. Last week I went to my local American Automobile Association (AAA) office to get an International Driver's Permit (IDP). It's just a translation of your license, which is valid for 1 year. I had to take 2 passport-sized photos with me, which I did.

But I was told they wouldn't be accepted because I had long hair and a beard in them, but short hair and no beard now. That's absurd, because it's the same photo used in both of my passports, and there's no requirement that you don't alter your appearance from your passport photo. Somehow border guards can crack the code.

Amusingly, my California driver's license shows short hair and no beard, but the AAA person wasn't even looking at my CA license at the time. What happens if I grow long hair and a beard before I travel? Was he just trying to upsell me on a $9.99 photo?

We had a hell of a time getting the UK passport authorities to accept the photos we sent in for her passport; they recommend getting your photos taken at an "official" UK location where the digital photos are identified by a code you send in. Well, we happened to be traveling through Australia during this timeframe, so we were able to stop at an Australian Post Office, which supposedly had the same "digital" system, but instead of a code to send to the UK authorities, they handed us printed photos and a web link. Thankfully I was able to use the web link to download the photo and upload it to the UK site, where it was approved almost immediately, and the new passport arrived back at our home before we returned from our trip. But there's no user-obvious criteria that was being used to reject the SEVERAL rounds of photos we had sent to the UK earlier.
Are you telling me that my virtualized EC2 server is the only thing running on the physical hardware/CPU? There are no other virtualized EC2 servers sharing time on that hardware/CPU?
2 and 3 are the same group. Accelerationists and white Christian nationalists are just rebranded white nationalists, so there is nothing surprising there. Hard to say what the distribution of purely economic voters is given how illogical that is. I'm hesitant to believe the excuses people have given how extreme of the rest of the campaign was and its parallels to a particular historical figure, going to the point of nearly plagiarizing quotes from the man.
I don’t think Digital Ocean is all that much better for pricing, but using Pulumi over CDK is a pure win as far as I’m concerned.
I live in a small town in a rural area near the centre of the UK.

I was recently told by a guitar shop owner that he sold more PAs than anything. Why, I asked, is hard to get gigs now?

"I'm playing 3 nights a week", he said, "1 with my Beatles cover band, 2 general covers". His band was a twosome with backing tracks. £350 a night, split 2 ways. I was suprised you could do that well in such a remote area, but it would be a good start towards a living.
There is a link in this thread that I'll never find that refutes your point. It quotes the bill even.
Very well summarised.

If only KH voters had been able to formulate their own top 5 reasons (excluding "because the other guy is Trump") for voting her in a similar, eloquent yet succinct manner.
Speculation is always based on future price expectations. Whether such expectations are justified is a matter of debate of course. Personally I don't find any of the rationales convincing, quite the opposite. But, look, we already have examples of irrational behaviour such as in the case of lotteries. In principle, no rational person should buy a lottery ticket, since the expected value of a lottery ticket is negative. Yet many people buy lottery tickets. The world is full of gullible people who are willing to believe that they can get rich for free.