skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have never been more divided. Neither side can even agree on definitions or facts.

I'm glad the great uniters of Musk and Rogan can take the reins in delivering high-quality information to our nation. Maybe in a few years, we will all agree on which conspiracy theories we should all believe.
It seems like what happened is that voters without economic knowledge think the president controls inflation, as opposed to it being the inevitable consequence of price rises worldwide due to a worldwide pandemic.

They don't like that eggs went up in price so they elect the opposite party. They think Trump will bring prices back down because he's a businessman, even though his tariffs will be hugely inflationary.

I'm not sure what kind of an honest DNC conversation would be able to address this.
I disagree on securing the DNS (and about how we should go about it, if we must) but in any case, have no criticism about today's announcement.
Democracy always dies by democracy though. Thats the fundamental flaw.
I'm not American. I feel sad, not because Ds lost or Rs one. A nation, which happens to wield so much power in the world, has chosen to elect as its president, a deranged, indecent, man, with dictatorial tendencies, who cares for nothing about democratic--or any--institutions, who never believed in peaceful transfer of power, who called for an insurrection. I'd have thought that alone would have been a reason enough to say, "not that guy, no way". But here we are.
What a Trump Victory Means for Tech
Government spending is how a Keynesian combats a recession. For perspective, though, look at this chart of government spending as a % of GDP. It has never gotten even close to 85% of GDP (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=8fX). Chamath claimed it was 85% of GDP growth, which is a different calculation, but looking at [this data](https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/gdp3q24-adv....) from the past couple of years you can see that the claim is still incorrect.
The shares don’t cease to exist, they are simply not in the market anymore. And the cash used to buy them already belonged to the shareholders in the first place, no value is added other than price pressure from the reduced float. Market dynamics aside, it is a net zero transaction.
Trump's election win spells bad news for the auto industry
I'm just listening to his words and assuming he means what he says. He is either insulting his followers, or he is telling them he will "fix" the country in such a way that they won't have to vote any more. You can interpret this to mean he will try to subvert the electoral result again, or you can interpret it to mean that he plans to make some kind of permanent change so that christian voters will no longer be required to vote to achieve their goals.

Which is it?
> May's attempt to argue that Google has the technology to detect scams failed, Freeman wrote, because May couldn't prove that Google deployed that technology when her particular scam purchases were made.

So now that they do have the technology, the outcome may be different, it seems
Complex automation nabs another one.

Two competent pilots knowingly flying into a sketchy situation and on full alert and yet the damn thing still crashed because they were half flying an airplane and half managing a software appliance dedicating full attention to neither.
The only thing he wants to unite are the dollars in your pocket with his wallet.
Can you please dial down the patronising sexism? Women have a right to vote, and it is not your call to declare if their decision is OK or not.
>Nor is it going to be the end of the United States

I’m not so sure about that. If it happens I’m not so sure it would be a bad thing either. This country’s system makes no sense. If I was from Texas I wouldn’t want my taxes paying for things I don’t believe in and if I was from California ditto. This country truly makes more sense as several different countries that can choose to cooperate.
I would be surprised if everyone stopped buying food...
> The reality is post-covid was an inflationary period because of hyper consumerism

That was just an outgrowth of high monetary supply during COVID to shore up the numbers and prevent economic collapse due to a steep and sudden drop of economic activity. All that money couldn't be immediately mopped up as soon as the economies opened up, so it sloshed around for a while longer.
Sure. But that’s the last guy. The question is what Democrats could have done in power. With the benefit of hindsight, it would have been massively over correcting on prices and the border.
15 years is a long time and reshaped the entire economy around basically free credit, so any change to that was going to be painful. And one of the real disconnects between economists and regular people is around the term inflation. Ordinary consumers actually care about affordability, not inflation. Raising interest rates to tame inflation does not improve affordability. In fact its goal is to further decrease affordability to reduce demand, which should then cause inflation to moderate. That works fine for economists and policymakers, but for ordinary people that’s more of a bite off your nose off to spite your face kind of solution.
How are scammers cashing out the cards? That seems like a really critical piece of how to stop this scam.
pointers to many sources:

https://libguides.princeton.edu/elections
There's nothing preventing information-dense layouts today, except that the "flat design" crowd has decreed that no work spaces, toolbars, or controls shall have any borders or lines to delineate visual separation. Too much "clutter." So the only thing left is to separate things with vast volumes of whitespace which doesn't actually work all that well when you have to deal with different screen sizes.
>> I'm gonna be honest, this is much closer to the future that humanity deserves than the AI utopia many of you were dreaming of.

My diverse opinion: "this is much closer to the future that humanity deserves, the AI and surveillance dystopia we have been so intent on getting."
Rust Trademark Policy Updates
My $0.02, just one opinion yada yada.. Charisma was a part of it sure, but ultimately people can look past that. Bush Sr. had zero charisma.

The bigger part, amongst other things, Harris is part of the current administration, people are not happy about how things are going, or how much their groceries cost. People are not happy to get censored or called nazi's for having different opinions. When asked on a left-leaning show "The View" with people all on her side, what she would change about the last 4 years, she answered, "there is not a thing that comes to mind".

Charisma didn't kill her, not being able to ask layup questions killed her. The American people are not as dumb as the Harris voters are now screaming about on Reddit/TikTok/X, the American people want to know what their president is going to do to change their lives. Trump is a sociopath, again amongst other things, but he is very very clear about where he stands on things and what he's planning on doing.
Misinterpreting data is easy. To be clear -- I think the All In podcast is frequently flagrantly wrong, but basically all podcasts that try to foretell events are.

Chamath mistaking 0.85 absolute as 0.85 relative is fairly easy to do.

Even the critique's interpretation is very shallow -- things like second order effects, like the fiscal multiplier contribution, aren't considered. But macro is an art more than a science, and what people interpret as 'true' depends immensely on their assumptions about how the world actually works.
I agree, but I'm biased. I built basically the same app as OP back in 2009 and it had different headline sizes like a newspaper:

https://github.com/gilesbowkett/hacker_newspaper/blob/master...

I kept it running for 5 or 10 years but eventually let it die.

edit: I'm not hating on OP btw. their version has pics, which mine doesn't. just agreeing that I believe the visual hierarchy inherent to newspaper title design is an important benefit of the format.
People forget that in Germany, Hitler was elected. He was very popular during a time of inflation, and blamed immigrants.

Germans are human too, it can happen anywhere.
Usually quite common when doing contract work, where externals have no access to anything besides a sandbox to play around with their contribution to the whole enterprise software jigsaw.
Okay? I don't think this contradicts anything I said. Practically every country claims to be democratic (even North Korea). Doesn't mean they are.
>those are like two major emotions most people feel

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." (H. P. Lovecraft)
If you make your own silicon can you trust that the sand hasnt been tampered with to breech your security?
Philip Rosedale: On the Election
> you think a government can? Browser engines are really hard to build.

As opposed to CERN being easy to build!? I'd say is totally doable, but it doesn't promise filling anyone's pockets at the moment so traction is hard. Who knows, maybe in the future..
I'm not sure there's much of an economic case for terraforming Mars so much as it seeming kind of cool to be multiplanetary. I'm not sure what the startups are selling.

That said I think I'd prefer they kept it more as national park / site of special scientific interest rather than a construction site.
PFBA is transported in rain and snow. That suggests that it sticks around in the vapor and condenses back into the liquid. There's no escaping it except to break it down, but that's the crux of the issue - the PFAS class of molecules are extremely energy intensive to break apart, which is why they don't break down naturally.

Important to note that while the EPA says names acceptable level of 4PPT (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/14/epa-drin...) for drinking water, they name that level out of pragmatism. They found health effects at every level, and the acceptable level is actually closer to 0.

Also distillation is very energy intensive. A solar still makes sense if you need to do this a lot and live in a sunny place.
> That makes it not well defined.

It's absolutely well defined it's just a complex topic. Most of the examples you gave in your last reply are never defined as self-awareness in an academic paper, e.g. qualia is always separate and the mirror test has always just been an indicator not the thing itself.
“Inflation” is measured based on the prices of a predefined list of goods.
In this age of endless expertise, it's easy to be fooled into thinking someone is a true authority until you hear them speak on a topic you know well. There's a certain thrill in getting a glimpse behind the curtain, seeing the man (or woman) behind the rhetoric. While I tell myself that 40% of what they say is just made up or misinterpreted, I can't help but keep listening, captivated by the illusion of insight. Even when we know better, the siren song of perceived wisdom is hard to resist. At the end of the day, true expertise is rarer than we'd like to admit - but the fantasy is always enticing.
Dearborn alone voted 50% for Trump, 22% for Jill and 28% for Harris. Thats 50-100k votes right there. A clear message and an axe to the foot of Palestine.
Yes! That is exactly their failure! As explained by the venerable poets, "The Doobie Brothers":

>But what a fool believes, he sees

>No wise man has the power to reason away

>What seems to be

>Is always better than nothing

>Than nothing at all

By failing to meet the economically illiterate at their level, the DNC campaign looked completely oblivious to those they were trying to help.
yea but we all know it wont be
any reason you don't use the chat often, or maybe it's not your usecase?
> indeed, there is more to your Nvidia stock than its counter value in USD

With large percentage ownership, I agree. Namely board positions and votes. Failing that though, honest question, what is the value other than speculation (and the belief that asset will yield a greater return than other assets, or will serve as a hedge, all of which really are speculations with no greater value other than the countert value in USD). Hence, could you expound on what those other values are? (In the common case of someone that owns less than 1M shares)
That stimulus thing seemed like a double bind. Lower stimulus would have meant less inflation but worse unemployment, right?

The whole pattern feels like a repeat of the country using Democrats to clean up messes (in this case, the mess was more Covid's than Republicans'), at which point they kick out the Democrats again. I don't think another massive tax cut (or extension of the last one) is a good idea.
this is exactly how my 2009 version (in my previous comment) chose to size and space its headlines
Manchin and Senna refused to do that, as the most conservative democrats in districts trump won by double digits. Thus they did not have the votes.
Are users able to export their organized data?
Mockery can be cruel, and even gentle mocking can be irritating or even harmful if it's very repetitious. Mockery is not always appropriate, or even truly funny. Mocking others is not an especially important activity or an especially important form of humor.

Even so, categorical prohibitions of mockery (in society, in particular workplaces, whatever) are truly and obviously joyless propositions. Maybe they're warranted in some contexts! But to say 'there can be no mockery' is indeed inherently stifling.
> And perhaps just return to running a white male as candidate...

This isn’t why people aren’t voting dem. Did you forgot that Obama was elected? People don’t want to vote dem because Dems have moved significantly to the left and are supporting crazy policies.
They even released a version of the wii without the gamecube ports or compatability (before the wii mini) which immediately supports gamecube games again if you solder the ports back on.
As a progressive in a deep red state, there is a certain amount of exhaustion that comes with feeling like an outsider.

I like many things about where I live, and I've become practiced at getting along with people that I have deep disagreements with on politics.

But particularly this morning, I can sympathize with the urge to move to a place where I'm more likely to share a common set of values with the average person in the grocery store, and those values are more likely to be reflected by the institutions around me.

I wouldn't feel any virtue moving to a deep blue area, but I would feel a bit of relief.
I remember seeing their interview with Trump over the summer. They came away convinced that Trump would offer a green card to every foreign grad student in the US. I remember how much trouble the Trump immigration policy caused for foreign students in his previous term. It's very hard for me to believe that Trump will do a complete 180 on that, and I couldn't understand why the All-In guys seemed to just eat it up uncritically.
LATAM has nothing in common with the Western thinking. You are people of passion, no matter who Argentinians vote in always ended in disaster. Milei if far right, and as big an idiot as your lefties.

Meanwhile, anyone who ever been to developed Europe or Asia can attest, that although far left by American standards, average Joe has far greater quality of live; heck even Canada has affordable healthcare which is such a big problem in the US.
Doing modular right is harder than doing monolithic right.

But if you do it right, the advantage you get is that you get to pick which versions of your dependencies you use; while quite often you just want to use the latest, being able to pin is also very useful.
Even then maybe Google but probably not Facebook. Ads used ML but there wasn't that much of it in feed. Like, there were a bunch of CV projects that I saw in 2013 that didn't use NNs. Three years later, otoh you couldn't find a devserver without tripping over an NN along the way.
Largest dam removal ever, driven by Tribes, kicks off Klamath River recovery
Well I did try to caveat it that its one of the few sources I could even find that reference the fact that the definition was changed.

My argument isn't with the fact that "inflation" is in fact being used to mean "price increase of goods." My issue is that economists co-opted the word at all and made it functionally useless, especially in isolation as it is often mentioned with no other context of why prices changed.

The use of "inflation" to mean money supply increase goes all the way back to the roman empire.
> That said, sentiments have power -- the idea that Harris is "more of the same" likely affected a lot of people, even if they don't align exactly with the people behind that message. Sadly, they're about to find out how wrong they are.

She massively bungled that:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/06/politics/harris-campaign-...

> “What, if anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” co-host of ABC’s “The View” Sunny Hostin asked Harris, looking to give her a set for her to spike over the net. “There is not a thing that comes to mind,” she said.

That was her golden moment to distance herself from Biden's admin and show some personal incentive and she deliberately chose not to.
> You can't put extreme tariffs like 200% and expect prices to come down.

I used to believe this, but the truth is we haven't been able to import food, energy or homes from China for a while. That leaves autos, and it's very hard to predict how auto tariffs would affect inflation, since people have always purchased more expensive cars over cheaper ones, for a variety of reasons. Meanwhile for stuff you and I care about like computers, well most of what you are paying for is software, which is all made here. Services like health care and education are insensitive to tariffs, and since grocery stores have to provide health care to some employees all the same, it affects prices for goods. Home prices rising is supported by both parties, and besides inflation the government basically guarantees market returns but risk free in owner-occupied real estate in this country.

I wish what you were saying were true - that bringing tariffs down to zero would eliminate inflation - but if it were that simple it would have been done already.
Get off your high horse. Humanity has been like this since the beginning and we’ve made it quite far. Have some humility and entertain the possibility that you’re wrong.
Yup, there's nothing they could have done. That's the tragedy of it.

You can't just educate people in a campaign that the President doesn't cause inflation, when it's the result of a global pandemic. They just don't listen and don't care. The different campaign messages get tested among focus groups. The ones that try to teach economics or explain inflation perform terribly.

This isn't a failure of Democrats at all. This is just pure economic ignorance among voters.
They turned out for Obama so it’s definitely not a white thing, as much as people wish it was
While I appreciate the compliment, I think the issue is mostly that European employers aren't used to paying competitive with the United States for one which helps lead to the flow mostly occurring in the opposite direction. I understand there are also complex reasons behind it making it less viable, like not having as much in terms of private investors willing to fund start-ups and such.
It's a little different when people are regularly talking about your genitals or sexual preferences or histories or your family reputation. And in public. And in team meetings.

That kind of thing rarely comes up in corporate america. In corp/academia people just like to imply you're lazy or unintelligent, subtly and frequently. But yeah, white collar jobs are annoying as well. That's why we all get paid to do them.
Not the exact same way — far from it. Look up ranked choice voting. It makes third (and beyond) parties actually viable.
> repubs aren’t pro russia

This only matter if we think that the Republican party still exists, and was not silently replaced by other party carrying its blood stained skin. Is GOP still alive? Is a serious question.

I have a lot of doubts about the real independence of republicans in this situation. The man at charge is obviously pro Russia and the republicans can't do a s*t about this. They will be replaced one by one. Anything that would try will be pushed out of the road.
He is not my cup of tea either but a lot of people like him.

Harris on the other hand is like an EU Bureaucrat.

Anyway. That’s my take, doesn’t mean I’m right.
Oh for sure! I do want to talk about how rust really helped us so many times when doing refactors or building new features, part of the reason why we were able to iterate so quickly on the AI side of things and ship features
I'm sure that the idea was raised in Democratic campaign strategy meetings and likely rejected for exactly that reason, but I don't think the reasoning is correct. "Trump printed the money" isn't hard to understand. Hard to believe, perhaps, and I'm sure he would deny it, but it puts him on the defense and beats the hell out of a thundering silence that implicitly accepts his premise that Dems were responsible for inflation.
I'm not American and not taking sides.

Have you listened to the latest the latest Joe Rogan episode with Musk. The Harris camp seems to be guilty of many of the things they accused Trump of.

Echo chambers happen on both sides and are a real issue.
Don't tie your future to the new (but transient) economic opportunities that will open up.
https://archive.is/s1mpr
today everything feels like a joke, i also thought americans had more common sense and values than this.
There have been quite a few demos over the years where voting machines are hacked. Now, this does not mean that they were hacked, for real, in a real election.

It does mean that it is possible to do, and in ways that paper ballots are not.
I made this to experiment with embeddings and explore how different ways of displaying information affect your perception.

It gets the top 100 stories, sends their html to GPT-4 to extract the main content (this was not producing good enough results with html parsing) and then gets an embedding using the title and content.

Likes/dislikes are stored in local storage and compared against all stories using cosine similarity to find the most relevant stories.

It costs about $10/day to run. I was thinking of offering additional value for a small subscription. Maybe more pages of the newspaper, full story content/comments, a weekly digest or ePub export or something?
I see this being pushed on Twitter as a proof of election fraud in 2020 but aren't the votes still being counted?

Reporting appears to be %87 at this moment, expect the numbers to add up when it's %100.

Don't you register to vote anyway? You can't be counting unaccounted for ballots, are you? You probably have a paperwork for for every vote, it's not like counting the cash after busking.

Eventually You will have Total Number of Registered to Vote = Total Ballots + Total Absentees.

This will also give you the turnout. You can't have the turnout first unless you keep track of number of votes casted and in that case you will be able to tell if there were fake votes by comparing the final ballots counted and the number of votes you counted when casting.

This is all very basic, can someone explain what I'm missing here? Why people are pushing for this thing that doesn't make sense whatsoever?
That's the first valuable, novel insight I've heard about taxation in a long time. While I support progressive taxes for other reasons (fairness), I'd be interested in the economic impact.

(The research would have to use overall tax rate, not just 'income' tax (i.e., wage tax).)
Pretty sure that if Trump learned anything from term one its that he shouldnt rely on technocrats and should try to install as many sycophants as possible.