skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shower thought:
People vote for Trump because he is actually predictable.
You never have to guess whose interests he is protecting. It's always his own.
You never have to guess whether he is lying. He sure as hell is but there is also no hidden agenda. It's unfiltered mental diarrhea but it's raw and authentic.

I think a lot of the unease and disdain for the Western political class stems from their attempts to be inoffensive and appeal to everybody. Whatever policy you enact there is always going to be a trade-off, winners and losers, and if you do now acknowledge that, how can I be sure that you are acting in my interest?

“Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.”
― Captain Jack Sparrow
That's why you put your services behind a CDN, even if it's not cacheable traffic. Then you can rate limit what's coming to you.

With the cloud, that DDoS can bankrupt you by causing you unconstrained bills instead.
Eh? All the polls basically said "we don't know, either can win", maybe followed with "X is slightly more likely to win".

Also note that a "90% / 10% change to win" is not necessarily "wrong" if the 10% candidate wins. Anyone who has played an RPG will tell you that 90% chance to hit is far from certain. Maybe if there had been 100 elections, Clinton would have won 90 of them.
The Biden administration did a lot of student debt relief.

But in the end that doesn't matter is the media isn't willing to talk about that. And people keep listening to those media.

Remember age didn't matter anymore once Biden dropped out?
If the NYT hammered Trump the same way they did Biden, the outcome would be different.
Well that's all wrong. You don't need to travel to find a Trump voter. And merely talking to them is not going to be sufficient to truly "understand" them. If only.
KANs (Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks) are one example of a promising exploration pathway to real AGI, with the advantage of full explain-ability.
Charismatic or populist? Same thing in effect, but the latter has a bit more weight / context to politics.

Also if they're having their way, they will break the current system; Trump has said people would never need to vote again if he wins, and Project 2025 aims to give much more power to the president (autocracy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
Polling has fundamental issues that can't be solved with statistics. The biggest one is the unknown difference between who responds to the poll and who votes. And poll response areas are very low these days - I've heard well under 1% is common (that is, less than 1 out of 100 individuals contacted by the pollster answer the questions).

Nate Silver nailed this in the 2016 election. He said Trump's victory there was consistent with historically normal polling errors.

What may have been less widely appreciated is these errors are not related to causes like limited sample size that are straightforwardly amenable to statistical analysis. They come from the deeper problems with polling and the way those problems shift under our feet a little bit with each election.
Easy, the rest of the world gets to watch, and solve their own problems.
This really sucks and is making me incredibly worried. I know we don't discuss politics on HN, and there's not much point in debating this. But seriously... this clown? what's wrong with the US.
My experience is that most companies in Europe just don‘t care about data privacy and continue to use whatever Microsoft sells them. Vendor-Lockin is a huge issue.
Nah, the problem is that Republicans have openly played a dirty game for almost a decade with ZERO repercussions. They flaunt the laws and conventions of politics and nothing happens.

Democrats still play by the rules for some reason and don't call out the shit done by the other party with simple enough terms.
mandm that capitol thing is a weekend where I live. That was a case of mass histeria.

Just a bunch of morons who went too hard on the joke.
The scariest thing is the Peter Thiel connection.

Thiel paid for Vance’s successful Senate campaign. Now his made man is next in line for the presidency (behind an overweight 78-year-old with memory issues). An amazing ROI for his money.

Both Thiel and Vance have expressed their admiration for Curtis Yarvin, an extreme reactionary who advocates for a monarchy. Thiel has publicly said that democracy was a mistake and it all went wrong when women got the vote.

Musk’s Tesla job title is “Techno-King” which is also a Yarvin reference. These people have a plan, and old Donald is a tool for them.
You have no idea if thats why she lost. Thats why you want to believe she lost but it could be things like inflation, immigration, and not having clear messaging. Also not distinguishing herself from an otherwise unpopular president.
Maybe mankind ain't yet so developed that what you list isn't present in general population in large numbers, even majority.

Echo chambers like HN or typical workplace of typical HN user give skewed image how much rational folks out there generally are. Most people that I ever met are trivially susceptible to smart manipulation via emotions, even to the point of shooting their own foot.
I understand calling people stupid is not a strategy to convince someone.

But it’s not like that is why someone votes for Trump, right? It’s maybe more of a way to disincentivize conversions back.

I… really wish there had been a primary though. Biden deserves to be hated for the rest of his life for this (along with all of his other decision making)
yes I make all my project in typscript
Jupiter would need to weigh 13 times its current mass to become a brown dwarf, and about 83 to 85 times its mass to become a low-mass star [1]

[1]: https://www.astronomy.com/science/ask-astro-could-jupiter-ev...
It's a good marketing case-study.

Costed policies that are feasible and attainable in one-term? Boring

Promises of fantastic wealth and glory? Much more appealing

Same thing the Brexit campaign failed on.
Even I, a Canadian, know that immigrants from all the way down to South America are streaming across the US border.
Tariffs are an unnecessary price increase. To use your example, there will be some modest net growth of manufacturing at the expense of higher prices for everyone, typically dominating any net growth in jobs.
The abortion thing is very much down to opinion.

Also, why is bacteria life on mars but a clump of cells is not life on earth? ;p

There's no winning this. That's why it's actually smart to let the states decide this - that way Trump has no say in it.
Civil war is a bit of an overstatement for what would again be a bunch of clowns trying to storm the capitol
The way to do this in idiomatic Rust is to make a wrapper type that implements drop:

struct MyForeignPtr(*mut c_void);

impl Drop for MyForeignPtr {
fn drop(&mut self) {
unsafe { my_free_func(self.0); }
}
}

Then wrap the foreign pointer with MyForeignPtr as soon as it crosses the FFI boundary into your Rust code, and only ever access the raw pointer via this wrapper object. Don't pass the raw pointer around.
> From 2014 to 2020, migrants from outside Mexico and Central America — known as “extra-continentals” — accounted for 19 percent of immigration court cases.

> In the last four years, those “extra-continentals” have risen to 53 percent of all court cases. They have arrived from countries such as India, China, Colombia and Mauritania.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/interactive/2024/...
There is no "far left" in the United States electoral system, get a grip.
They planned poorly with their candidacy; Biden and Harris were the obvious candidates being president and vice-president, respectively, but Biden was too old and they couldn't find a different candidate that wasn't as well known as Harris quick enough.

That said, the Republicans would have the same problem if Trump dropped out or if that bullet didn't miss.
Not a command, but a little known feature of the Terminal app:

(shift+command+K) or Menu 'Shell' -> 'New Remote Connection...'

opens a SSH, S(FTP), TELNET connection manager window!
Overregulation and taxation is the major issue. I can only speak for Germany. Low worker rights in the US make for healthy companies that can grow and shrink as needed. You can't just fire people in Germany, even though you pay horrendous amouns for social security.
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You mean: "He put his name on checks sent out" - it wasn't his money and it would've gone out anyway.
US is the old democracy in the world. I live in brazil and there a bunch of reporters histeric people here assuming US will be a dictatorshio soon. Bitch, we where a dictatorship like 35 years ago, Time to worry about our own problems here.
Which candidate was unwanted?
Other than the fact that I don't want to move to the US, I completely agree with you.
Every far left extremist (which have no clue what communism even means) has an analogous far right extremist (who also have no clue what it actually means), both are idiots and shouldn't be let anywhere near government.

Admittedly the US had a choice between someone unfit for office and a lawfully convicted felon, I don't envy this situation.
>why would I vote for a "tough on immigration" candidate when I can vote for the one who gleefully promises to deport all the browns?

I'm always surprised by how bipolar US politics is. There's no place for nuance or third options, it's always one or second extreme. In this case, to answer your question, maybe you want to limit an influx of new people into your country (for ideological, or economical, or whatever reasons) but don't want a full on ethnic cleansing. That's OK, people don't have to only hold extreme opinions.
> FUD!.The total including SLBM is 442

Sorry, I should have said hundreds going on a thousand. Glad we put that fab in Sunnyvale!

(442 is hundreds. Your own source says the "Pentagon also estimates that China’s arsenal will increase to about 1,000 warheads by 2030, many of which will probably be 'deployed at higher readiness levels' and most 'fielded on systems capable of ranging the [continental United States]'." By 2035 that could grow up to 1,500. These are MAD figures.)
Of course, its not logical, but voters "feel" they were better under trump without realizing inflation was a global phenomenon. This was also a failure of Dem messaging.
Succinct. Haven't seen a relevant explanation phrased like that.
In 2020 it also looked like Biden would win after Trump botched America's Covid response.

Due to how Twitter works I think it generally better reflects how people are feeling, especially these days with many filters removed.
The UK is rapidly collapsing and at this point is a husk of a country in which nothing works except the City banking accounts.
Germany just suffered 3 years of a left-leaning coalition that is just now imploding.
Your hyperbole aside, you imply that his last term was good, rather than poor. I'm asking about HN's collective opinion, which you've contributed to, thank you, but not, perhaps, in the way you thought you were.
My Ukrainian friends want the war to stop at all cost, they are on the brink and all help goes to the military effort... my friends in Lvov can't feed themselves and have to go dig mushrooms... they don't care who wins, they just want peace. NATO sustaining that war just to save face isn't peace. Trump is an opportunity to end that war the democrats have sustained.
slams fist on table Irrelevant! I want to have my cool global map and watch lines connecting nodes in real time so I can pretend to be a secret government hackerspy!

(more seriously, when I first read up how traceroute actually works I was laughing for three hours straight)
If they'd done something they would've lost more. Voters, who on average are near retirement age, hate it when you do anything because they think it'll affect their retirement.

In this case they were blocked by Manchin/Sinema from anything like filibuster reform, but they did get some big important economic reforms in.
Is the EU president elected by popular vote?
What I don't get is how the bar for the Democrats seems to be so much higher than for Trump. Sure, "the typical man" is more easily validated by Trump than Harris, but at the same time Trump says much worse things about women than Harris about men. I can see how the Harris seems more "elitist" in a way than Trump, but to me that seems like a subtle negative versus Trump's long list of very obvious flaws.

How does the hatred for the Democrats get so big?
If you need a license to operate you're not free.
Like Europe didn't have issues with democracy and general economy.

Regards, an European.
Yes, but there are comparable alternatives. Sure, the transition requires resources and effort, but to the point of making a company bankrupt?
>I wonder what would have happened if we poured the same amount of money, talent and hardware into SVMs, random forests, KNN, etc.

people did that to horses. No car resulted from it, just slightly better horses.

>I saw some YouTube coders doing calls to OpenAI's o1 model for some very simple classification tasks. That isn't the best tool for the job.

This "not best tool" is just there for the coders to call while the "simple SVMs and KNN" would require coding and training by those coders for the specific task they have at hand.
There is no way "misinformation" caused 80 million people to vote as they did.
Yes you should listen to an actual grift and live in fear.

People like me won’t. You not being able to resonate is what makes you and I different - and one of us capable of defending freedom and the other not.
He tried, but Mike Pence wasn't onboard with his plans. Mike Pence was literally the safeguard to democracy.

Trump has learned from his previous presidency, though. This time there will only be yes-men that show absolute loyalty.
One experience I had (coming from an Austrian right wing province) is that a significant share of polled people will not reveal to the pollster they are voting for the xenophobic candidate, because they don't want to be seen as a bigot.

It is like when your doctor is asking you if you eat fast food — some people will downplay it because they know it is wrong, but do it anyways in a "weak" moment when nobody is looking.

So suddenly in my village where I know everybody 56% voted for the right wing candidate, yet everybody¹ claimed not to do that when asked before or after.

¹: except one or two open Nazis
Also USA gets best of the talent from entire world, USA is almost always the first choice. But rest of the world gets what's behind mostly. So a lot bigger talent pool.
Trump says things people directionally agree with, and they forgive the details.

When your border is wide open allowing millions of people in each year, you don’t care as much about the political circus.

When your grocery bills 3x, you don’t care as much about the loose speech.
Should be interesting to see how those folks are treated by the Musk-Vance-Thiel axis that just took power in the Whitehouse.
I sure will watch MSNBC news today.
People in this thread are conflating sugar consumption and blood sugar levels.

When healthy people eat sugar, insulin is secreted and the blood sugar goes right back down. Overweight and obese people with time develop type-2 diabetes so they produce less insulin and due to excess fat around cells, their muscles don't respond as well to insulin anymore and can't take up glucose from the blood. That causes spikes in blood sugar and elevated levels throughout the day.

The answer to blood sugar control is being lean, and you can get lean by eating less fat. The clue is in the name, really.
For some people, the consequences won't be as benign.
> Let's ignore for now that this will surprise every C developer out there that have been doing if (NULL != ptr) free(ptr) for 50 years now.

If you've been doing C for five decades, it's a shame not to have noticed that it's totally fine to pass a NULL pointer to free().

FWIW, I don't otherwise agreed with the thesis. I've written probably ten FFI wrappers around C libraries now, and in every case I was able to store C pointers in some Rust struct or other, where I could free them in a Drop implementation.

I also think it's not actually that unusual for C allocators (other than the truly ancient malloc(3C) family) to require you to pass the allocation size back to the free routine. Often this size is static, so you just use sizeof on the thing you're freeing, but when it's not, you keep track of it yourself. This avoids the need for the allocator to do something like intersperse capacity hints before the pointers it returns.
Trump literally said "you won't have to vote again".

And if the Project 2025 plan works as they planned it, that's the truth. America will become a single party state and that won't change without a civil war.

They will stack the courts and every appointable position with pro-Trump (not Republican) people who will make sure every election goes their way in the future.
Yet the Senate passed a bipartisan immigration bill earlier this year that basically had nearly everything Republicans asked for, and the House wouldn't even take it up because Trump didn't want to lose immigration as an issue.

And inflation is almost down to normal levels, and Trump is promising wide ranging and massive tariffs that it is hard to see not causing a significant rise in inflation.

So its hard to see how people who are concerned about those issues would vote for Trump.

Even if they don't like Democrat approaches to those issues, or really dislike Democrat ideology which might explain voting for Trump now when the only real choices were Trump and Harris, what about during the Republican primaries?

Republicans used to have many reasonably competent people in the primaries. How the heck could they not find anyone better than Trump?
If you invest millions and your entire time it's not a "bet" it's a business plan.
Can you explain why his conviction is relevant? As it stands, the facts are that it was for hush-money paid to Stormy Daniels, but it's clearly viewed as political by voters. I would agree that it was a grave matter if his felony were an unrelated murder or something, but that's not the situation, and again, voters are not stupid.
Being incredibly stupid.

Example: I heard the leader of the West Coast Vintage Computer Club remark, recently "Well, the problem is the Department of Education! We need to get rid of that!"
The real enemy is trying to trespass your frontiers with Belarus. That's where we (Polish or Europeans like me) should focus. Platforma is a step in the wrong direction. The rest is just a distraction; fear makes the wolf bigger than it really is.
And it turns out the voters don’t seem to actually care about the cognitive health of the President, nor do they seem to care about being lied to about it.
What? Why? I am genuinely curious. I am not an American, so can't vote or have a strong opinion. Trump is weird, but does it spell doom?
Spot on. You nailed it. And dems needed to communicate why those things were not their fault or have answers... instead they tried "vibes"
Citizens United allows for money to speak. Recent SCOTUS case allows for paths towards legalized bribery.

Neither party offers a real solution, so folks go with the person promising to break everything, even if he has already proven he won't follow the law, enriches himself, and destablizes global politics.

Yeah, it might break a logjam. But don't expect things to be better after a flood.
Well, my hope for humanity is permanently eroded. Half the populace elected a blubbering rapist, felon, and fascist to lead them. Again.

I'm making rapid plans to get the fuck out of this shithole country, and as far as business goes, no known Trump supporter will ever get my handshake.
As the rest of the world, why would I care about elections results on another continent? US should sort their problems themselves. I don't even want a vote, our countries are independent from each other and we both decide for our own.
That goes both ways. In fact, there might be more Red voters who think their vote is futile and don’t do out to vote.
Within the contexts of their written rules…

And maybe you’ve forgotten how the RNC rules were changed to support their candidate?
Prejudice? Uh, I'm a native born US citizen and have lived in Tennessee, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, and NY. Once visited Oregon. Point: They are all different, no two much alike, and for each it took some effort to understand.

Even Canada, Ireland, Scotland, and England look quite different. Even more so for Spain, France, Germany. More for Russia. Italy -- old architecture, Puccini, Verdi, hard, dry cheese, great violins, and pizza. Still more for India. China? Still a lot more different -- for me, TOO different to understand.

China versus the US, better or worse, good or bad, I don't know and no doubt won't find out.

But, a crucial point about any country or civilization is doing well having children, and there China seems to be successful -- so, they can't be all bad!
I get this line of reasoning, but the US economy is thriving, unemployment is low and wages are growing rapidly at the low end too.

Nazi ideology doesn't work well as a comparison in my opinion, because Weimar Germany was crippled by reparations, hyperinflation, mass unemployment, an acute world economic crisis and traumatized from a devastating war.

The US is nowhere close to any of that, it's doing pretty well all in all.
Devil's advocate.. if Hilter once remarked that broccoli is good for you, would people throw that back at someone saying the same?
How is this relevant to HackerNews?
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Polls show voters think Harris/Walz were too liberal, not the other way round. They mostly haven't gone right either; Biden campaigned as a moderate and ran as the most progressive administration in my life.

(Which was good! But voters hated it because they don't like change and don't like inflation.)
I was moving the point away from a measure of smartness to one of racism. I do hope you haven't just damned all the other engineers on HN!
He spoke simple slogans at a 3rd grade speaking level to a crowd of people with similar intelligence.

It's simple marketing and if there's something he's good at is that.

Harris was trying to appeal to people's intelligence with complex answers and arguments, they just tuned out and went "lol, weird laugh".
That’s the nice theory. This place is rented since 1995 for cheap. No way to buy it for yourself. That’s why the price is low.