skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When democracy and the rule of law are considered less important than (insert all the dem ills here), it’s not dems. It’s the voters.

Democracy and rule of law like... covering up the mental decline of a sitting president, foreign leaders lying to the American public saying Joe Biden is fine, only for him to finally expose himself so badly live on TV they jettison the man off the 2024 ticket while leaving him in office? Then imposing a candidate by fiat?

January 6th was absolutely a constitutional crisis, but it lasted less than a day. The cover-up of Biden's mental state was a multi-year constitutional crisis that still has not been fully acknowledged.

When there are two competing harms you fall back to things like who is going to put more money in my pocket. This is 100% the dem's fault.
There have been so many investigations at the state (especially Georgia with Rs in control) and federal level that have surfaced no evidence.
“You know, FDR 16 years – almost 16 years – he was four terms. I don’t know, are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/trum...

he has vowed to be dictator on day one

https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritar...

On February 27th-the Reichstag in Berlin was set on fire. 4 weeks before, Hitler was appointed to chancellor. Hitler placed an urgency regulation to ban all political activities. He destroyed democracy in one month. Trump can now do it one day.

he is definitely signaling something, whether it will come true or not is another question.
David Sacks*
100%. In 2016 it was fair to be shocked that he meant what he said literally rather than figuratively in a crass manner of getting elected. I think everyone expected he would cut to the middle once elected, as he was a New York democrat for his whole life. But in 2024 we now know that when he says something he means it.
I agree but i think HN does a somewhat Ok job with the upvoting system. Well at least compared to reddit which is in a full blown meltdown because their bubble popped.
Him being a rapist and pedophile should be enough for men not to endorse him. They’ll put “shoot your local pedophile” decals on their trucks then go and vote for a notorious pedophile. Therefore supporting pedophilia. It’s such a weird cognitive dissonance thing I can’t wrap my head around. Implicitly or explicitly supporting a pedophile is a no go for me one and done.
I find these guys are pretty insightful when discussing tech and VC news. The politics talk is awful. Chamath is a lightweight who doesn't know anything about how our government works but speaks confidently -- I remember one time he was talking about how raising the debt ceiling will allow the President to spend more money. Sacks is a partisan hack who will spin everything as a positive for Trump and MAGA politics. That's after he was a hack for Desantis.
Well then isn't the limbic system in charge? Because those are like two major emotions most people feel
Seawater has a high salt concentration—about 3.5%, or 35 grams of salt per liter. The human kidneys are limited in how much salt they can filter out; they need a lower salt concentration than what seawater has to effectively expel salt. When someone drinks seawater, the kidneys are forced to use more water from the body to dilute and excrete the excess salt. This actually leads to a net loss of water, worsening dehydration instead of hydrating the body.
the missing context is that the Christian groups he was speaking to typically have low turn out/don't often come out to vote. He's asking them to please come out to vote, it's important this time. It's exactly the same rhetoric democrats use "this is the most important election, you really need to vote this time, this time it really matters"
The idea that the DNC stole the 2016 nomination from Sanders is silly. Sanders had no path to beating Hilary.
Come on. We all know Trump effing talks weird, that's just part of his weird personality that no one likes. I don't like it, think it's confusing and winding around requiring much mental parsing to understand even for normal stories/sentences. But to take this tiny little sentence as definitive proof of some giant plan that's coming to end democracy is just... mental gymnastics in search of meaning for a narrative that they've already decided it means.

Here is the Full quote so everyone can see it. He even explains in the end what he means.

> "And again, Christians: Get out and vote! Just this time. You won't have to do it anymore! Four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians, I love you Christians, I'm not Christian, I love you, get out, you gotta get and vote. In four years you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not gonna have to vote."

From Snopes:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vote-four-years/
The sentiment is Republicans are focused on winning while
Democrats are focused on a deeply unpopular corporate-imperialist political project and scolding people into voting for them.

They will occasionally virtue signal elsewhere but their policies only align with the project

Progressive policies on minimum wage, labor and other things won in Red States once again. Nebraska's minimum wage increase, for instance, went 75-25. 60% for Trump, 75% for minimum wage increase.

It's important to realize the Democrats have no interest in those. Absolutely zero.

Their project is bowing down to companies like Wells Fargo, Equifax, Lockheed Martin, and General Motors and that's it.
I get what you're seeing but it's very clearly not what that poster intended to communicate.

Not:

> Even though he's Jewish, meaning you would expect him to be despised and incompetent, he seems to be popular and competent

Instead:

> He may be jewish by birth, violating the condition for a Christian, but since he seems popular and competent that shouldn't matter so much.
Yes, they are wrong and it is complete garbage.

Otherwise, why didn't Trump already abolish the entire constitution and voting straight after the 2016 election just to make himself a dictator?
I was using uBlock origin.

Had also seen how he had editorialized some of my mailing list posts and I felt that I would be guilty of Gell-Mann amnesia if I carried on reading the site.
Lesson from election: too much wars and enabling genocide can cost you the presidency
If people want him in, maybe those laws aren't great?

I'm no Trump fan, but I'd much sooner trust an election over a judge and jury to decide who should be in charge
See this interaction, I would encourage you to try again. I think its more closed to reality than based.
People complained about google not showing election sites for trump on google, then goggle came out and acknowledged this. I don’t see this type of interactions anywhere.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1853902675441578146
I haven't been as excited about technology in a very long time as I have upon discovering eInk devices this year.

Most of my Internet usage is skimfeed/Hacker News and the occasional jaunt on Reddit. I've also gotten back into books given how parasitic the Internet has become writ large.

The iPad Pro is overkill for this use case, and its screen is harsh on the eyes (unless you use it in what I call "red mode", i.e. dark mode with a 100% red filter overlay).

Given this, I wanted an eReader that I could read articles on the Internet with.

The Kindle nails the first part, but its web browser sucks all sorts of shit.

Enter the BOOX Go Color 7. This thing is exactly what I wanted: a super-capable eReader that's easy on the eyes and small enough to fit in my bum bag. It sucks at videos and is kind of slow, which makes it a slam dunk for my narrow use case.

This inspired me to get a reMarkable 2 for keeping track of customer notes (I'm a sales engineer at the moment) and journal my work when I'm hacking on stuff. Loads of people have gushed over how much better this is than an iPad for writing; they are 100% correct. Having a paper feel is everything. No good solutions exist for this on an iPad, but it's totally possible with eInk displays.

The rM2 inspired me even further to ditch my iOS weightlifting journal app (Strong) for a Go Color 10.3.

I've used all sorts of apps for this purpose over the years (Google Sheets, then JEFIT, then Hevy, then Strong). Since there isn't an open standard for weightlifting logs (lol; can you imagine), all of these have different data schemas that you need to normalize yourself. Gigantic pain in the ass. For this reason, logging reps and sets is so much easier on paper, but I hated keeping track of paper notebooks.

This is the perfect replacement. No futzing around on an app, and I can leave my phone at home. It spends nearly 0% battery when its off and barely anything when its on. I can put this in a soft case and leave it in my gym bag for weeks at a time. I even have Kindle and Firefox on this too so I can read books during rest periods. It's incredible.

These days, my iPad Pro is only good for being a HDMI and macOS Sidecar monitor.

Yes, Onyx refuses to comply with the GPL and has super duper shady stuff pre-installed in their BOOX devices. ONYX is also the only manufacturer that's putting serious money into this niche. Root them, install AFWall+, install AdAway, don't connect your Google account; problem solved.

(One last positive I'll mention for the reMarkable: the RM1 and RM2 come with SSH and are rooted out of the box. It even uses systemd to run Xochitl, its frontend. You can hack the living daylights out of these things if you're into that.)
So you don't have a substantive reply? In that case you maybe shouldn't hit the reply link.
Holy crap, that Mac OS 9 one is fantastic!!!
I think a lot of people are probably not exactly thrilled about the 'extra' provisions for "first generation home buyers" (meaning the parents didn't own one).

In the current political climate, with the current border policy, that sounds an awful lot like a two-tier entitlements system where the more significant help will go to 'illegal immigrants', 'asylum seekers' etc.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-propose-25k-payment-s...

Also $25,000 really doesn't mean much when the entire housing market is set to double or even triple when you look at the last 5 years and project into the future. If your mortgage is still going to be $2,500 for a run-down house that would have cost $40,000 25-30 years ago but it's more like $400,000 and rising now... it's not exactly the 'lift' I think most people want.

Honestly as someone who has been scrimping and saving to try to buy a home for the last 6 years, I would be somewhat annoyed if suddenly every broke first generation person is thrust to first in line for the limited housing supply we have, driving prices up further. The fact that it is specifically structured to exclude people with roots here is kind of a slap in the face -- there is no reason it shouldn't just be tied to income, so suddenly it is needlessly political.

My point isn't really to argue the merits of either approach though - just wanted to give you some insight into why as a 'first time' but not 'first generation' potential home buyer I find her plan to be a short-sighted attempt at grabbing votes. Not that it matters now - clearly there is a mandate to swing the opposite direction we have been going.

I'll also add this though:
Under the last Trump presidency, I made literally 50% less than I do now (thankfully got a solid 50% bump right before covid happened) and I had MUCH more disposable income. It's crazy that I am longing for the days and economy where I made $60k and could go out AND save money regularly. Now I have to plan any extra expenses, I have moved back in with family to be able to save, and even without the $1,800 rent payment I am still behind where I was in the last Trump economy.

I can't be the only one.
As best I can tell, he speaks at the level of someone with about a fifth-grade education. I believe that to be intentional, as it means he's easily understood and not perceived as demeaning.

More importantly, his speech is consistent and has been his entire political career.

Biden's problem isn't that he's not able to speak at a collegiate level; it's that he's very obviously getting worse over time. The man is currently President of the USA - when's the last time you heard him speak publicly and take questions?
> Ham sab gaye tel lene kya? Ham bhi bhugtenge

Pakistani Diaspora agar Genocide aur LGBT enabler say hamrdari rakhta tu unsa bara beghairat aur kanjar koi nahi, un k baghair tel ke danda dia jye ga
One was conciliation on Gaza, an issue inflamed by the protests and that was material in Pennsylvania, the tipping-point state she lost in. She also wasn’t “tough on the border” in any specific way—Trump channeled that anger effectively.

Another was student loan modifications. This transferred wealth from non-college taxpayers to college graduates.
Obviously, the US is VERY fragile.

Their egos are fragile, they're afraid of women, LGBT, people who don't look like the default Caucasian stock and so on.

This is why they elect idiots who don't educate them and instead play their fears because he shares so many of them.
Fascism is right wing
In my experience, no one cares unless you make it their problem by oversharing. (I grew up in Israel but lost interest in the conflict years ago)
Musk gets community notes all the time if he lies, ever seen this happen on any other platforms?
Yeah, so instead they voted for the guy who printed the money. That'll show the DNC!
Sure they were. Biden actively sought to pass bipartisan immigration legislation. Trump blocked it because it would hurt his chances at reelection. Neither Trump nor Vance denied this during the debates(they had multiple opportunities to do so).
20M ballots is not the same as 20M voters. I don't understand where those 20M people went. Kamala checked a lot more boxes than Biden.
As many times as people deliberately twist his words to mean something different than he meant?

I despise Trump, but it's really disheartening to see how the elite doesn't realize that they actually lost the election in part because they lost credibility by fighting dirty. The ends do not justify the means, and the means were deliberate distortions, out of context quotes, and politically-motivated prosecutions.

I held my nose and voted KH because I think Trump actually managed to be even worse, but I can hardly fault other voters for deciding that the Democrats had it coming to them after all the intentional distortions.
> Both sides are not equally guilty

Yes they most certainly are.
You're thinking like a progressive technocrat. You're thinking, how would I institute a fair, efficient, and effective program of mass deportation?

I'm really not.
China heavily invested in Mexico. They are building up Mexico's manufacturing capacity to cover American demand. Either way, China wins.
I would absolutely be affected by my wife dying from something which should be preventable but has been made pretty much illegal.

I would absolutely be affected by my friend dying from something which should be preventable but has been made pretty much illegal.

I am not an 18-40 woman and I am affected by the abortion policies in my state.
Ask HN: Voting Data Source by County?
It would be really nice to be able to download the a CSV of voting for each presidential election broken by county or zip code or something of the sort. My google skills are not good enough. Does anyone know of such a data source?
The point was that he's not Christian, which is a much more marketable religious affiliation in America.
Energy touches basically every corner of the economy. It seems like it'd be difficult to narrow down price increases to just one cause, especially a base resource.

It looks like US electricity costs are up around 10% since 2022. How do you peel that apart to know electricity prices changed first, and that that is what caused all other prices to go up?
> Was landing people on the moon economics?

No it was an investment. Military and civil research (in so many fields), as well as propaganda (to USSR, US and the world). It was the cold war.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Aeronautics_and_Space...

> Why climb a mountain?

Sports, hobby, in some cases I am sure also inferiority complex.

Neither were done by companies though, so the question still holds, when there appear to be more viable options.

I am not going to judge what makes economic sense, but these questions really don't seem related.
The most valuable "metadata" in this context is typically with whom you're communicating/collaborating and when and from where. It's so valuable it should just be called data.
> They've prosecuted their opposition

Because their opposition committed multiple crimes.
If that happens those companies will likely see an asset sell off as owners seek cash to buy basic commodities which will perpetuate a great depression. Sufficiently sized multinationals will relist themselves on different exchanges with other more stable currencies but the general panic will cause a downward spiral for most securities.
You are not wrong, the Democrat strategy obviously failed, the racist right is significantly better at identity politics, because a) whites are still a majority and b) latinos are very christian and anti-socialist on average.

And Kamala Harris was an uninspiring candidate, the democrats have proved to be the definition of "lesser evil" without any true identity with teeth to speak off. Still, Donald Trump is a pedophile, a rapist, a good friend to Jeffrey Epstein. I don't understand how anyone can be morally bankrupt enough to vote for someone like that.
I will firmly admit, that in the 2015 primaries I thought he was the lesser of 2 evils between him and Ted Cruz. I will absolutely state that I was foolish and wrong. That's not happening again.
Not sure why this is double the comments from the first time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907201
This doesn’t happen in real life, outside. This happens on Twitter. I know it’s difficult to understand the difference for some people.
> only barely the majority preferred it

If true, this is not really a democratic country and should stop lecturing the world about democracy.
>forcing non-trans people to accept a fiction (people can change sex)

This is dishonest.

Obviously, vanishingly few people disagree on basic reality. Undeniable facts include: Whether or not I have a penis; whether or not I have a Y chromosome; whether or not biologically male and female brains/bodies normally differ; whether or not I feel like a man or feel like a woman; whether or not that feeling is permanent (that one would involve predicting the future, but is still ultimately factual).

The things people actually differ on are:

- The semantics of words like man/woman. This is 99% identity politics - "semantic argument" is practically a synonym for "pointless argument". "I'm using this word in a new-ish way."; "No, I disagree with that usage." It's utterly tangential.

- More relevantly: How (un)comfortable they feel about some of those basic realities listed above, and whether or not they express that using pettiness, word-bending, cherry-picking, physical violence, murder, etc.

>influencing vulnerable children into harmful and unnecessary medical procedures

I can't say that a "you are whatever you feel like" influence has literally never resulted in an impressionable mind making a horrible decision for themselves, but it's monumentally overstated by conservatives, which is easy to do because it's so subjective and so dramatic. The line between the obviously correct "be who you are without fear" and the less prudent "wouldn't you like to be who you feel like you are?" can be very blurry.

>Stop doing that and almost everyone will happily leave you alone to dress and behave however you please.

Surely you can read this and see that "almost" does not qualify this into reasonably true territory. This is just not how people are.
What kind of a veiled threat is that? How would "the left" not let a president leave office?
Where are the long form interviews that cover the policy from her point of view?
That's an amazing analysis on systematic bias!

The data he has to back up his "too close results to be true random polls" is fantastic.
You're thinking of liberals, not the left.
Amazing..and you're telling me you made this with less than 600 programmers?
> This review is mostly structured around I Am a Strange Loop, which conveniently also serves as a review of the major themes of GEB. Consider this a low stakes bait-and-switch, for which I hope you'll forgive me.

Not forgiven; IaaSL was a disappointment after GEB.
I accidentally found how to do this while using a solid modeling software and use it quite a bit. I don’t see a formal name for this maneuver, or anyone teaching it. ‘Gimbal tumbling’ is the closest description.
I don't perceive this to be happening in any systemic way. I think (in fact, I know) that social media is really good at magnifying the extremes, and the extremes of the right are scary, mean, and evil. That doesn't remotely represent the majority of people in the country. Less than 28% of US adults voted for Trump this election, its a single-digit percentage of even those individuals who would even consider acting out the rhetoric, and let's be real: They're mostly in those very isolated parts of the country like the west or apalachia which does have internet but, sadly, not much else (least of all, good public education).
I'm not very familiar with either project, but they have similar names.
trying to be de-facto world police has caused many issues for US. (Current) repubs wants to stop getting involved in other conflicts (except supporting Israel)
That makes him a uniter?
> It's safe to drink if you're eating a balanced diet, since food will provide all the minerals you need

I mean, not OP, but you're the one who made the initial assertion. Maybe you should be the one providing published evidence?
I’ve already seen people posting absolutely unhinged comments on Reddit. They think they need to go further left, more extreme, completely ignoring the rightward shift of every group but white women.

They don’t want to understand why so many people see the appeal of Trump but not the Democratic Party. They are so caught up in whatever their personal ideological take on some fringe issue is that they miss the big issues and the popular support for change away from the status quo on those issues.
Both parties have been printing money since Clinton was in office. I don't really see debt or inflation as a problem of one party.
> Is there are proper French spelling for that pronunciation? Like how h is aitch in English.

No, French doesn't have spelling for the name of letters.

(I'm a native French speaker.)
Bad arch decision are punishing. AMD was absolutely dwarfed in the early core iX days and never really came back until Ryzen. The whole bulldozer linage was DoA to the point Opteron just never factored in.

Hopefully Intel pull something out again but they look asleep a the wheel.
It's actually libertarian gibberish.
I'm Canadian and living in California. I want Universal Healthcare.
> The Dems failed on this count massively

What was their failure here? The failure to explain to the economically illiterate that while inflation is now about where it was prior to covid that prices won't be going down (unless there's some sort of major recession leading to deflation)?
I think the downvotes probably have to do with how you're approaching the topic, at least in this post.
Fox News is by a huge margin the most popular news outlet. Throw in the New York Post (huge presence on the internet) and the WSJ, and conservative media is the mainstream media at this point.

They also shilled for Trump relentlessly, without pretense. But that's beside the point. The left should accept that they no longer represent the aspirations and priorities of the mainstream or even of ethnic minorities, and the right should stop with the underdog charade. They've swapped sides. Of course, neither side will make that admission anytime soon.