skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's a matter of intelligence. It's a matter of ignorance/knowledge.

I read a statistic that 50% of grown up Americans have only 6th grade education. Which means that what? 60%-65% may have 9th grade?

The vast majority of people is uneducated and only responds to simple thoughts: as someone said: they see their wallet shrinking, and they decide to voté for the alternative. Other more complex issues don't matter, they don't care about them.

The same thing happened in my country (Mexico) where we have also tons of uneducated people. The people voté for the sound snippet, for the demagogue who told them what they wanted to hear.

And similarly, the other parties in their smugness didn't understand why people didn't vote for more complex issues.

It's sad, but most of us (highly educated people) live in a bubble.
Changing number of representatives would require a constitutional amendment…

You are wrong on this. You should look up Reapportionment Acts. The number of Representatives does matter in an electoral system and for other reasons. A Representative from California represents far more people than one from North Dakota. This is a major power imbalance in both electoral matters and in matters of federal legislation.

The number of Representatives hasn’t been updated in a 100 years.
Let me turn the question to you. At what point would a politician become far right? Have you ever seen a far-right politician?
> We're not talking about tax collection, we're talking about how taxes are spent.

You're doing both.

In every functioning nation, the rich subsidise the poor.

I as an above average income earner am necessarily always going to subside the poor no matter where I live — unless it's a place that's got no government.

That was true when I lived in the UK, true when I moved to Germany, and would have been true had I moved to the USA instead — all that changed for me was Joe Bloggs became Otto Normalverbraucher instead of Bubba Sixpack.

> I don't care why or if you immigrate, but if you do

Except you previously wrote "How about door 3: only allow immigration for skilled individuals capable of adding outsized value to our economy?"

If you "allow" something but nobody wants to take you up on it, it's not any different than forbidding it.

I'm allowing people to donate infinite money to me, but I'm not taking any steps to encourage this or give anyone a reason to.

> People hiking across the Darién gap aren't magically going to become engineers and doctors

Likewise a degree.

In both cases the capability is already a demonstration of being well above average.
Studies didn't find benefits either, it was mostly non results. More people means more people, they work and consume services at about the same rate, what matters is just how the new people distort the ratio of different kinds of people not that they are more people.

More people means there is more competition for housing until more supply is built though, so housing prices tend to go up from immigration. That is good if you wanna sell, bad if you wanna buy or rent.
Speaking for where I know, immigrants have been substantially higher net contributors than non-immigrants while the research on wage suppression suggests it's almost certainly not true except in some very small, very specific scenarios.

So - are population and housing costs going up and infrastructure failing to keep up, while businesses don't invest? Sure - but that's down to a failure to invest the proceeds of change, not down to the change itself.
To the people that are very upset about this, I'd like to offer some silver linings.

A blowout in either direction was necessary here. A clear result is better for everyone.

The press can go back to being adversarial to power (Although straight faced bullshit like the Cheney firing squad thing will probably only be more common, so thats a double edged sword).

The dems will likely stop anointing people.

We never have to sit through a Trump election campaign again.

The first woman president will likely be a much stronger candidate. Kamala could have potentially really ruined it for women going forward.
> On the Clio 2 car, there are two redundant linear potentiometer tracks. If the dual measurements don't match or if either sensor is disconnected, the ECU will default back to a slightly higher than idle throttle.

That’s really neat. I was thinking something along the lines of having a microcontroller with a good adc right next to the throttle pedal and its angle transducer (hall effect would be better) and having that microcontroller send a digital signal. If the ecu can’t make sense of the digital signal or it is missing, just set the throttle to idle. That’s a solution that would be reasonably cheap today though but not 25 years ago.

Anyway in my experience most Japanese and Korean cars didn’t have fly by wire until the 2010s
> there was almost zero variation in policy state to state.

That’s not true, what on earth are you talking about? Everything was closed for way longer in New York than in Arizona for example.
It would be interesting to have a 3d version of a mesh warp / puppet warp
That is not what they prefer because that's not the image Trump voters see when they see him.

- They see an outsider who is not lying to them telling them things are great when in their daily lives things seem decidedly not great.
- They see someone who says he will stop illegal immigration, not someone who is anti immigrant, but someone who will actually enforce the law that democrats either refuse to or have been incapable of enforcing.
- They see someone who says he doesn't want to involve us in expensive long wars overseas like the ones everyone was sick and tired of being involved in for the last two decades.
- They see someone who has taken actions that align with their deeply held religious beliefs about what constitutes taking a life (abortion).
- They see someone who says he will bring jobs back that all the "swamp" politicians (on both sides) sent overseas in the name of globalization.

I want to be clear that I'm saying that he is or isn't a narcissistic misogynistic billionaire rapist, but that's not who the majority of americans just voted for. You can say that they are wrong, misinformed, idiots, etc. but focusing on that and not why they voted for him is exactly why the democrats lost and will continue to lose.
Well, the title of the video is actually wrong.

Smarter people did better than Dumber people. The people with a score of 8,9 on numeracy did the best [1] but not as good as they should've. This is basically best shown on page 12 [2] on the actual paper, people with high numeracy have a better chance of correct answer than low numeracy.

I suspect the effect is even across low & high numeracy but because high numeracy people were more likely to get the correct answer to begin with. Akin to say you playing a toddler in Counter-Strike. You're more likely to win a round than them. So if for a round I disconnect one of your controllers then the disconnection is more likely to cause you a loss than the toddler because the toddler was going to lose anyways, the effect of disconnection for them is dwarfed by their innate ability.

[1]: https://youtu.be/zB_OApdxcno?t=413

[2]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2319992
Intentionality matters. "It" should not count as a title drop. Nor Barbie (or any movie where the title is the characters name). But I understand it would be way more difficult to run the numbers with such a constraint. But this is a case where, to me, the results are very much tainted and thus I had to stop reading. To me this is like when developers run into a hard issue and somehow play a game of semantics with the wording of a ticket to avoid putting together something useful for the user
Just stop checking social media and news sites.
I live in Georgia; my family is from South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida. Try again.
This tracks with some of the models we have been dealing with in the defense industry.
Big reason why a lot of our national security types did not want to see Trump reelected.

I don’t think your average US citizen realizes how expensive and difficult things are going to get as US global influence eventually hits an “unrecoverable dive”
> What I find scary is that developers see web apps (and hence the open web platform) as no longer fashionable, and instead focus on developing mobile apps (iOS and Android).

Based on my reading of the original article, I think your response here might be a bit tangential to the point about offline work? Web apps and mobile apps are both in practice largely the same in terms of who controls the computing resources -- they generally only work by speaking to the remote servers of the company.

But in detail, mobile apps seem like they would have a slight edge for promoting offline work. While they in practice "phone home" (or even store data remotely), they could in principle be written without needing to contact external servers and in a way that all data is stored locally.

I do agree that apps often attempt to silo users and can do this more effectively than webapps, but as used now, both are mostly online tools and so don't really address the question of tools that are usable offline.
The vaccine was developed quickly under Trump. A genuine success he can claim happened under his rule.

He stopped talking about it at rallies because his supporters boo-ed him whenever he mentioned it.

We're partly at the mercy of his stupidity but also the stupidity (that we're not supposed to talk about apparently) of his most devoted voters.
Nah. Get ready to see him for the next four years :)
Uh I just checked the news and... It's still a Trump victory.
Exactly, and this is true open mindedness that the left used to espouse.

"Walk a mile in my shoes"

Now we love to invent reasons to never do that. "Open mindedness goes too far when it loves fascism" is one example of totally missing the point.
Do show mainstream press examples pinning this on stupid people.

Not "uneducated", but expressly "stupid".
Um..

because as UniverseHacker stated at the outset, that's a time tested method of gaining power. It works.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Trump is the new President isn't he?
Even then they were ready to sign a peace deal that was what I said: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/15/world/europe/...

And the march on kyiv was an attempt to strongarm them into that deal, yeah.
> even software engineers were hurting and couldn't find work. Unprecedented

Is the tech bust of 2000 so easily forgotten? And then the global financial crisis of 2008?
That is assuming half the country are Democrats and the other half Republicans. But the most important voting block considers themselves to be neither one nor the other, and then it becomes strategy to spit fire at your opponent.

And I don't know about other people, but I consider any rhetoric against a political party to be directed against their politicians, not against their voters - unless explicitly stated.
Just don't tell them about crypto. We don't need them on their sigma grind.
He doesn't have a reason to hide why he was voting for him, so I'll chalk it up to the low information voters who vote on vibes.

In low-information voters' defense, it's been amazing to me as a non-American how Trump's literal dementia was not in the front pages of the media every single day. The complicity of the news media in normalizing a senile candidate should't go unnoticed.
Reminds me of the quote by Gore Vidal:

"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat."
first 2 gens of epic didn't sell that much compared to Intel because companies didn't want to make huge bets on AMD until there was more confidence that they would stick around near the top for a while. also server upgrade cycles are lengthening (probably more like 5-7 years now) since CPUs aren't gaining per core performance as quickly
Im excited too, I also hope they stop with the EV mandates in various states by removing their ability to override the EPA.
Yes it will. Just because the stock market is at all time high now does not mean it must crash down.
No, I said 1. income inequality stopped increasing in 2014. 2. wage inequality is /falling/. 2. median voters (who are upper-middle-class) want it to go back up.

Income inequality is stalled because some benefits from 2020 expired, namely the expanded CTC, and we should really fix that.
Regardless, it would be far cheaper than anything in the US, especially if Obamacare gets repealed.
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The whole purpose of antibiotics is to kill life, and the term itself means 'against life' in Greek.

That does not mean that it is necessary a tool for genocide; conversely almost anything can be a tool for genocide depending on how it is used.
> Rhetoric is always about respecting the melting pot

That is the uniform culture. You see it in tv shows everywhere, people looking the same in every show etc. (the 1 black, 1 white woman 1 white man 1 Hispanic 1 Asian group you see everywhere in American stuff)

There used to be shows like Friends and Fresh Prince which means diversity, now everything is just the gruel of the melting pot.
I don't think the PDP-7 was a popular Unix host; as far as I know, Unix only ever ran on one PDP-7, because all but the earliest Unix versions were for the PDP-11, which was profoundly incompatible with the PDP-7.
I'm making the point that voters care about more substantive issues than height or color.

The fact is inflation was at a all time high during Biden's presidency as were mass layoffs. Whether they were directly a result of Biden's policies is definitely up for debate. But what is unequivocally true it happened under his watch. The buck stops with the sitting President.

So I disagree with the GPs condescending view that Trump voters were swayed by the fact he is "tall, white and confident." Voters cared about issues like immigration and the economy and felt the country was going in the wrong direction on these issues.
Giving big Chamberlain energy.
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The jobs report is what most
media parrots across all media platforms more or less is the monthly jobs report and definitely the one I’m referencing.

No matter how you cut it though Americans do not feel they are getting their fair share economically and want to avenge that, which is why I think voters didn’t push back against tariffs - which have become a cornerstone of economic rhetoric by Trump and his allies - at the ballot box.

I think it’s also because a good chunk of the electorate doesn’t quite understand how tariffs work and it’s going to backfire, but the sentiment is very clear
What do you think those "9-month abortions” people talk about are for?
A lot of people wanted more of what he has to offer. You won’t gain much by understanding why, even from his most eloquent supporter.

The best knowledge is how to benefit from this. And the topmost rule is that Trump wants to live out his life without fear of court. We may have to strike a deal that the stability of America depends on that.
Russia is however a bit paranoid about its own security,

Every rational actor (including Putin) knows that not a single NATO country is interested in invading Russia. He might have been worried about a democratic uprising in his country like Ukraine in 2014, but given how much an autocracy Russia has become, that's pretty unlikely now.

Provide a way where security of both Europe and Russia can be provided for and peace will quickly follow.

It's very clear that Putin wants to annex countries that he considers Russia's property (mostly former Soviet states). He has wars in Ukraine, Chechnya, and Georgia to back it.

Putin's word in a peace treaty will be worth as much as him saying that he wouldn't invade Ukraine up till the invasion. Nada. The only thing that will work is military deterrence.
It probably still helps to have a standardised baseline. Then the vendors can just document deviations from it, and the deviations are probably quite small, not necessating new compilers for example (just guessing here ;)).
conspiracies are not "very interesting point[s]"

The reality is that:

1. Abortion has always been one of the most divisive topics in the US

2. Roe vs. Wade to begin with was a very shaky legal hodgepodge based around right to privacy

3. Codifying something like that takes immense political might and public approval neither of which existed in a significant capacity
exactly which part do you think is misinformation?
normally I'd agree about Trump's honesty, but in the debate and subsequent Harris interviews I saw a lot more deflection, misdirection, lies/mistruthes and non-answers than I did from trump. Sure trump says some wild things which are often only 50% ish true. But kamala would openly call things lies that were verifiable fact, those are lies too, and she lied a lot.
We've had four years of a democratic regime. What have they done for abortion?

To clarify: I think this is an important issue, but I think the past four years demonstrates that the promises democrats make regarding protection of abortion rights are empty ones. The capability to do something is demonstrably there (look at Trump, he got Roe v Wade overturned, which is huge, and it's not like he has more power than a democrat president), the will to wield this capability is not.
I don’t think anyone would regard using Barbie’s name in the movie as a title drop.
There is a current discussing in Sweden about the issue of human trafficking in picking fruits. Historically we have had a fairly large source of Asians being tricked to travel to northern Europe to pick forest fruits, with passports being taken, payments being withheld, and living standards beyond reasons. Last year a fairly large case was brought to bring down the human slavery and disgusting practices, and as a result the practice has been significantly reduced.

As a result the prices of forest fruit has increase multiple times and food companies are reporting a significant increase in costs thus needing to reduce the number of employees. Every industry above in the chain is feeling the economical impact of losing the human slavery. Local government is also concerned since the created void, in combination with increase wages, may encourage new independent illegal workers which then the state must handle.
You can read why Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly (right wing Marine General) called him a fascist,

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/trump-fascis...
You're experiencing an illusion. The few who do embrace the identity of "redneck retarded bigot" will wear the identity openly. The majority who do not embrace that identity will diplomatically avoid discussing their true political opinions with you and you'll just assume their democrats because they're intelligent and sensible, and then you'll be flabbergasted when things like last night happen.
This is of course the right answer. But unfortunately it has only recently become supported by packaging tooling, and is extremely uncommon to encounter in the wild.
The movie "It" neither uses title drops, nor was the title plucked from the script.
With old 640 x 480 or 800 x 600 resolutions, the screen real estate came at premium. There wasn't much room to use generous padding and still make all the buttons and UI fields fit in the low resolution displays.
> "I just don't see Trump being a warmonger, but Kamala, she very well could be."

It's not Trump that will be the "warmonger", it's the people he empowers. Trump is a shallow personality -- all he wants is attention, he does not have an ideology. For the boring part of actually enacting policy he defers to supplicants and this time around his supplicants are more unserious and self-interested than the first time around.

This is just basic 2nd order reasoning that it seems like so many people in this country lack.
This is the answer. When you have one candidate saying things are bad and he will make them better and another saying things are great when things for most people are not great, it should be pretty obvious who people will resonate with.
I understand you think everyone who voted for Trump is stupid. But it's simply not true.

Also price of gas isn't the only things I mentioned. You hilariously omitted war with Russia, and all the other plausible reasons one might vote for Trump, like making illegal immigration harder than legal immigration, reducing bureaucracy, wanting to cut red tape to go to Mars, lower taxes.

You could assert all these things are somehow superficial, but that doesn't make it true.
I think that's hyperbolic. There are several designs advertised as being designed in KiCAD that have DDR which means there are way more not being advertised.

https://www.kicad.org/made-with-kicad/categories/Single-boar...
DNSSEC:

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> Provide a way where security of both Europe and Russia can be provided for and peace will quickly follow.

So if i'm following you correctly, Russia's nuclear arsenal wasn't enough to provide security. Only thing we haven't tried for more security is to have every European nation be in control of their own nuclear arsenal?

Its a bold claim, but by golly you've snorted enough foreign-sourced talking points that you might actually be right!
The president has huge amounts of executive authority over tariffs. I don’t know where the boundaries are but I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw huge tariff increases in the first hundred days.
> Oh she mentioned defending title IX and I had zero clue wtf she meant

Feel free to label anyone who doesn't vote the way you do a "Low information voter"
My fellow man voted for an obvious sexual predator, felon, and insurrectionist. What more is there to say, really? People are disgusting.
Yeah, access. That’s what we were all freaking out about. Lack of access. That’s what makes our system different from the rest of the western world. Access. Glad we’re drowning in access.
>and the Tax Cut Jobs act of 2017 changes (section 174) requiring capitalization of everything softwsre development related except bug fixes went into effect for tax year 2022.

Seems like a stretch. "Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States"[1] was up into the beginning of 2022. The tax changes were known in advance for years. If the tax code changes were a significant factor, why did companies hire a bunch of people in 2021, knowing that when 2022 rolled around there would be massive taxes?

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE
I believe that abortion to save the mother’s life is legal in all 50 states, every territory and the federal district.

There are a small number of women who have died due to their physicians and/or hospitals misinterpreting the law, just as there are patients who die every day due to physicians’ and hospitals’ mistakes. Those are issues which need to be addressed.

But — so far as I know — right now there is nowhere in the country where if a pregnant woman’s life is threatened by her pregnancy then she cannot legally obtain a medical abortion.