skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump doesn't alienate a specific group of hardworking Americans who turn out to vote. The people who are turned off by him largely don't vote at all.

> but at the same time Trump says much worse things about women than Harris about men

One would think so, but Trump's talk about women is just how society in general talks about women. As sad as it is, women are used to that rhetoric.

> How does the hatred for the Democrats get so big?

Multiple high profile members of the Democratic Party actively demonize rural Americans and especially men.
People in a non-swing state figure "yolo" and vote for their emotional favorite, because they're dissatisfied with the status quo and have no other way to express it?
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It's called "protecting democracy and freedom".
> where they did not otherwise violate CoC?

Violations are in the eye of the enforcer.
Harris. She was dead last in the 2020 primary.
> Also, why is bacteria life on mars but a clump of cells is not life on earth? ;p

Because the bacteria on Mars would plausibly exist on it's own. On a different planet.
Income inequality hasn't increased in the US since 2014, and sharply /decreased/ since 2019. The current administration did an amazing job at improving it!

https://recruitonomics.com/the-unexpected-wage-compression/

(Note this is about wage inequality, which strictly speaking isn't income inequality. The best policy for income inequality would be bringing back the expanded CTC.)

But the median voter doesn't actually like this, because they have above-median income due to being older, and this means service workers got more expensive.
We call that "double standard" and it's top on the list of common fallacies. The lack of education, whether I demonize it or not, definitely has a saying in its spread. And dismantling the department of education won't help getting people more educated in the following elections.
I want the Ukraine war to stop, too. However, I do not want it to stop at any cost, if that means that Ukraine will need to surrender its land to Moscow and to agree to being part of Russia (again).

This will send the wrong signal to Putin, and prove his model of acquiring buffer areas around Russia actually works - next on the list are the Baltics, and Moldova perhaps.

I'm going to be in the trenches as soon as they get ideas about Finland - and you do not want that.
I'm an outsider; is the US a democratic union of 50 states (plus districts and territories) or is it a democratic union of ~ 335 million individuals?

Is the EU vote in Brussels passed by countries or by individual citizens?

As I recall the current electoral system was set up to weight the votes of states that were members of the union .. if the US has moved to a single unified country of individuals then it might be time to reset the rules (the US founders would be in favour if I read their comments on evolving systems correctly).

Perhaps 'dated' is a better description than 'broken'.
it remains to be seen whether they can find the next trump hes unique
My comment isn't about compiled vs. bytecode languages. It's about memory management. For example:

• In Elixir, each process runs in isolation, has its own heap, and prevents one process from directly accessing or corrupting the memory of another process. In contrast, Goroutines share the same address space, which means that a bug in one goroutine can potentially corrupt the shared memory and affect other code.

• Elixir uses immutable data structures by default, so nothing can be changed in place. Go, on the other hand, allows mutable state, which can lead to race conditions if not managed correctly. In other words, Elixir is inherently thread safe and Go is not.

• Elixir uses a generational garbage collector with per-process heaps, meaning that the garbage collection of one process can't impact another process. In contrast, Go uses a mark-sweep garbage collector across its entire memory space. This can cause global pauses that can open a window for denial-of-service attacks.

• Elixir uses supervisor processes to monitor operational processes and restart them if they crash. Go's error handling can lead to memory leaks and other undefined behavior if not carefully managed.

• Elixir inherently protects against race conditions, whereas Go relies on tools like the race detector and developer onus to avoid them.
I wish there had been a primary, too. The DNC did a massive disservice to the American people.
They probably will. The EU is a neoliberal institution; it is not long for this world.
Good for them. My Australian application is presently sitting in the queue, and I've already had extensive conversations with a number of lawyers about UK and Dutch immigration.
We lack the critical infrastructure and skills to produce a lot of these things, so it won’t just magically restore jobs but it will increase taxes for the foreseeable future.
The one that didn't win their primaries.
Economically Europe is pretty much doomed.
great point I agree
"the polls" are often just part of a narrative to influence the outcome.
He's had a "concept of a plan" for over 8 years regarding health-care reform.

What makes you think he'll have anything ready this time?
> Then we will build a million houses per year

He actually promised the opposite of this last time, because suburbanites don't want any new housing built. I haven't checked what he said this time around.
The lesson is that Reddit is not real life, and that calling half the country racist sexist fascist inbred stupid genocidal monsters turns out to not be a winning strategy.

Whether democrats finally learn that lesson is another thing. I am not optimistic on that.
Depends on who you ask. Both sides demonize the other, but say they don't. Republicans are just much, much better at it. The ads and rhetoric are all designed to solicited emotional responses from the constituency, putting them in a very easy position to "Other" anyone who disagrees. If you can make your followers feel like they are disenfranchised then it's a simple matter to control them by promising to be the solution for their discontent.

Project 2025 also helped, since Democrats answered it with shock and horror instead of countering with their own improved version. Say what you will about the depravity contained within those pages, but Trump voters hold it up as "at least it's a plan" without having read it, much like their other beloved book, The Bible. Knowing that, it was quite easy for the Trump campaign to whip up support.

As much as I want to end with some pithy comment like "manipulation is a hell of drug," I can't. Half the country just got permission to put their ugly truths on display and they certainly did not disappoint. I have trouble laughing about that anymore.
Bubububutttt he’s totally going to bring back those 6-figure factory jobs in the Midwest and make houses cost $150k again by….deporting large portions of the underpaid manual labor force, taxing foreign goods at 100%, and ending all government programs including public education.
Why would anyone expect that they can free in one language something that was allocated in another? The allocator might work completely differently and require completely different actions to free.
You do know that USA stands for United States of America, right?
Geoffrey Hinton (now a Nobel Prize winner!) himself did a summary. I think it is the single best summary on this topic.

Our labeled datasets were thousands of times too small.
Our computers were millions of times too slow.
We initialized the weights in a stupid way.
We used the wrong type of non-linearity.
People with these beliefs tend to largely vote Trump. On the other hand, not every one who votes Trump has these beliefs. You can't just inverse this.
I don't see the use case of this
Just to clarify: you're talking about the book "Goebells" by Peter Longerich?
While I'm also skeptical, production could be moved from the US and other Western countries into Asia thanks to the "correct" economical incentives. There is no reason it can be moved again. But we all know it will be moved to Africa and Southeast Asia, but still.
You didn't listen to what the pollsters were saying.

What they said was that they could not predict the outcome, and were giving basically 50/50 odds of either candidate winning, which is essentially just another way of saying "I have no idea".

Just because their odds were 50/50 though, does not mean the outcome would be close. The pollsters were all warning that the swing states would likely be strongly correlated, so if a candidate performed strongly in one swing state, they'd probably perform strongly in all of them.
It's quite simple actually:
- many different regulatory policies to follow in order to sell accross the EU
- different languages / culture
- risk averse culture in investments and business (Americans go all-in and do not fear to fail fast)
- lot of lobbying from already established compagnies (which are often state-backed which doesn't help)
- no start-up culture basically. Contrary to the US, regulatory entities expect the same from a 10 000 people org and a 15 people start-up. It completely kills most startups.

In the end all these regulations allow Europeans to have access to "safe" products but it kills most of our innovations in favor of the US or China.
Oh, that's a pity. I'm pretty bad at keeping up to date on MacOS releases, but I should probably start figuring out `wdutil` so that my muscle memory is adapted before I've got no choice!
Classic example of how the media and the uninformed combine to take him out of context / in bad faith.

The absolutely true fact is that that statement had nothing, even so much as a hint of a dog whistle, to do with that you’re saying. Like not even a shred.

He was speaking to a populace that doesn’t typically vote. So he’s saying that they can just vote this one election, because it’s important for them to for their own good. Then, he’s saying “just this once” because, again, they typically don’t vote. And again - after that he says “I’ll fix it so good you won’t have to again” - this is in reference to him fixing the government so well that they won’t need to vote again since it will be so well-functioning.

By the way, this was my take originally, on first listen. It was reinforced further my listening to it again. It’s completely clearly the true take, and I think if you have trouble accepting that it’s because you’re disturbingly mislead by bias, probably not your own fault entirely, but undeniably so.
> We should never doubt climate change as is presented to us,

Oh god, you're one of them, aren't you?

It's not like there's literally decades of evidence showing climate change to be objective truth...

Sigh.

Great job.
I do think catering to nimbys was the democrat’s original sin in some respects. Housing unaffordability makes everything else worse and blue areas are especially bad.
> think a zygote is equivalent to an infant

Missouri and Florida were won by Trump and both passed constitutional amendments to guarantee abortion access.

> think vaccines cause autism

I don't think this is a partisan issue. I've spoken to plenty of liberals who believe similar things. Basically the "crunchy mom" stereotype.
> Democrats had the opportunity to reform the system. It’s been over 100 years since the number of Representatives has been updated. They could have imposed election reform. They could have gotten rid of archaic Senate rules like filibuster.

When? How? Any change like that in the last few decades would be very hard, and probably before that as well.

I don't disagree with you, I've argued "fixing the system should be #1 priority" for years, but even if the Democratic party wanted to, I don't see how they could have done so.
Obviously not 80m of them lmao. But sure has an impact
I know you're not advocating for it but it doesn't make sense to essentially vote in 2x billionaires into office.

I'm just disappointed we may never know what Russia has on Musk. He went from being an avid atheist Democrat to pretending to be a Christian and pushing for Republican like his life depended on it. What is he hiding? Why was he so afraid?

You might as well empty Arkham Asylum whilst all the pardons for crimes are being dished out.
Didnt Biden want to raise taxes on those making more than 400k a year or something?
It is some sort of tribalism. Believers can't see it. E.g. we gotta remember that people were gaslighting eachother into pretending Biden is not what could charitably be described as about to be senile.

Refusing to see one self as part of the problem, fundamentally.
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I think the difference is that Harris (less so than Clinton but to some extent) was seen as representing a liberal consensus that men, particularly white, heterosexual men are 'over', that the 'future is female', etc.

Trump is just Trump. A rhetorically violent, deeply unpleasant convicted rapist, but not the vanguard of an explicitly misognist movement. At least not one thats culturally hegemonic. So while American progressives may label Trump voters sexist or racist, the overwhelming majority of them don't see themselves that way. Meanwhile, a highly vocal minority of progressives do actively demean men, while people, straight people etc, and have for a decade. They've enacted DEI practices, and scholarship and funding practices that exclude men from fair participation in the workforce, education and the arts. As efforts to correct historic imbalances in that participation. At the same time, they've ignored how male participation in higher education has dropped off, the epidemics of alienation and underemployment affecting men.

Edit: Just to clarify I'm addressing the question - not advocating Trump, or suggesting that life for men or white people or straight people is in fact materially worse. Just pointing out people strongly dislike being disliked, actively biased against and demeaned and this does in fact affect their voting preferences.
Yeah, I have noticed that I may have bought into a bit too much "slick Apple UX" syndrome with my Ubiquiti "conversion", but it was sooo pretty.
But Scholz, Esken and von der Leyen are really popular! Oh wait, we're talking US politics here, my bad ...
The few policies that were campaigned on are going to be harmful and counterproductive. I'm inclined to agree with the propaganda angle.
Jesus fucking christ don't give them ideas.
It's strange to say this, but I prefer all of the attempts at remastering the "lost" recording [1] – the _actual_ recording kind of plods along in comparison. [2] Don't meet your heroes and all that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbnUtf7rdW4
[2] https://vocaroo.com/1jJyuKd4jA6c
Namecalling and shit slinging is exactly what Trump and his supporters do and it seems to work out well for them. They love thinking about people crying over their insults and whatnot. But they also complain loudly if anyone turns the same against them.
This is all moot now. We have a far-right supermajority in government. America is fucked for the next few decades at the very least. The DNC is no longer relevant.
I think you're dismissing their points too easily.

You may think they're wrong, but I find it entirely plausible and convincing that that is just exactly what they believe.
It's not 50% though; in 2020, only ~240 million people were eligible to vote (out of 330 million, so about 72% of people); only ~158 million people actualy voted (48%). Oversimplifying, only 25% of the population of the US voted for Trump, and it's probably even less due to the system of electors.

This is why democracy is broken, because not everyone gets a voice.
Joe Rogan's three-hour interview of one candidate got 40M+ views.
Poor Ukraine.
What I always find interesting is how Democrats insist their failure is due to a lack of sound strategy. That is of course a strategy in and of itself to NEVER admit that it might be a refutation of their policies or (gasp) their values. Telling yourself you just lost because you didn't "play the game" is a cope. It serves its purpose though, as it allows ardent followers to avoid actual self reflection.
Here's a better analysis of the Brexit thing which was posted here yesterday. It was mostly decided by the fact that the pro-Brexit people had better marketing campaign.

https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/q-and-a
Sadly, this is not true under neoliberal capitalism. With the correct oversimplified messaging and a lot of money, you can influence a lot of people to behave a certain way.
You're seriously considering UK over US ? Seems odd to me, that's like choosing only downsides.
Yes, being a woman in power is clearly a political statement in this country.
Imagine thinking and saying something this parochial and isolationist in an era of massive, evident climate change.

Wow.
It is in fact documented that you can't do this:

"Currently the default global allocator is unspecified. Libraries, however, like cdylibs and staticlibs are guaranteed to use the System by default.", however:

"[std::alloc::System] is based on malloc on Unix platforms and HeapAlloc on Windows, plus related functions. However, it is not valid to mix use of the backing system allocator with System, as this implementation may include extra work, such as to serve alignment requests greater than the alignment provided directly by the backing system allocator."

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/alloc/index.html
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/alloc/struct.System.html
Correct. Tariffs increase the prices needed to purchase cars generally, not just those produced in the US. Perhaps that is what you're missing in your analysis. If the market rate for a car is P, which is below what America can produce the cars for, P_America, then the only way for domestic production to be competitive at an equivalent quality is for a tariff to balance P_America <= P+Tariff. So while folks prefer to purchase at price P, which a free and non-tariffed market would prefer and would give consumers a better price overall, we instead rely on a distortionary tariff and pay P_America, ultimately hurting consumers. In this Econ 201, this results in dead weight loss. Hacker News would benefit from image inserts here, so indirect you to wiki instead to understand the topic better. This is an inefficiency, meaning that tariffs in imported autos are driving a jobs program without real economic benefit to all (but a minor benefit to folks that are working in an industry doomed to fail after the tariff is removed by a more savvy political party who understands you can't infant-industry your way out of offshored industry).
The entire Project 2025 gives me chills, to be honest. I know Trump has distanced himself from it previously, but who knows what will he actually do when given the keys to the country.
My mom canvassed for Harris in PA and she’s 64…
They have their own countries with candidates to consider. They should mind their own business and US citizens should mind theirs. The US needs to move closer to isolationist policies for that reason.
I'm still staggered by the thought of brain-worm being charge of all things health related and potentially (although that appeared to be a joke) in charge of everything save oil profits.
“ I wanna do infrastructure. I wanna do it more than you want to do it. I’d be really good at that, that’s what I do.”

And then his party reminded him that that is specifically NOT what they do. They like to let the private sector handle everything, because that’s who funds them and how they get rich too.
This account definitely does not represent the Ukrainian community.
The DNC reminds me of the board a formerly successful company with good people - but has terrible management and keeps promoting unpopular leaders.
Source(s)?

(Serious question, not a European)
Well, it was close enough that it should worry the Dems and put NJ in play for Republics in the near future. NJ has not always voted consistently for democrats.
It would have been pretty silly for Harris to campaign on a Hope and Change™ platform, since that would imply she is doing a very poor job as incumbent.
What are the price ranges of the different cars you're comparing?
This is quite bleak.
I do try. The problem is, a lot of times what they're saying is just nonsense.

"The economy is terrible" -- well, no it's not. We had some inflation a few years ago, but so did every other country in the world, and the US has had far lower than most other places. The Biden administration has been doing a great job with the economy. And you know those business people who want Trump to win because they want lower regulations? Yeah, they're not on your side -- they're trying to screw you over. You feel economic pressure, and so you're going to vote someone who's going to make it worse?

"Libs are weaponizing the justice department" -- People who have flagrantly tried to flout laws and undermine our democracy need to be held accountable. I mean yeah, "Always prosecute the outgoing party" is something we want to avoid, but "Never prosecute anything any politician does" is just as bad, if not worse. And at any rate, if that's something you're actually concerned about, why is your solution to vote for "LOCK HER UP!" Trump?

"Biden / Harris are just as bad" -- I mean, no? Trump literally sent an armed mob to attack his own vice president. Nothing you think the alleged "Biden crime family" comes anywhere close (and BTW there is no "Biden crime family").

"Immigrant gangs are invading our country" -- I mean, just no.

Not everyone is like this, but a lot of people are just living in a fictional reality constructed by Fox, Newsmax, and now Musk.
Even Boris Johnson can't hold a candle to the imbecility of Trump. And a parliamentary system generally acts as a better safeguard of sensible governance. UK might not be doing great right now, but I feel tentatively positive about the next 5-10 years.

Plus, as a self-employed business owner, I need health care, and I'm not confident that Obamacare will survive the next administration.
Perhaps a sanity check at those media companies would help. They've been broadcasting propaganda non-stop and you've witnessed a colony collapse just today.