He’s not just left of center-right, he’s literally a “democratic socialist” which is far, far left. His tenant advocate literally has called for seizing of private property.
> he’s literally a “democratic socialist” which is far, far left
For an US perspective, yes. From an European perspective... him and Bernie are center-left, if not centrist. The Overton window is positioned much more towards the authoritarian right in the US than it is here - although the huge amounts of American and Russian funding towards far-right parties have been shifting the window here as well for about a decade.
Because Mamdani is not "far far left" unless you live in the American echo chamber which treats anything not right-wing as a leftist threat [1]. On a global stage, where actual political systems exist beyond America's basic, captured two-party system, the words "left" and "right" have established political meaning.
because Americans are incredibly stupid when it comes to understanding class politics so they just throw words like marxist and communist around without knowing what they mean (source: I am American)
Because in the US feeding kids for free in schools is seen as communism, but that's not what communism is. You can't say this dude is a communist or an islamist because words have a meaning and these meanings transcend American borders
Wait until you hear about what the GOP has allowed energy companies to do with eminent domain... and the expansion plans they have recently called for.
Please don’t classify me as some sort of GOP supporter just because I am clarifying the parent post as to Mamdani’s self-admitted political classification.
I didn't say you support the GOP. I am saying that the seizure of private property has long standing political support in the US from both sides of their political spectrum. It is hardly a "far-left" idea.
This is factually incorrect. There’s no way that you are sampling ALL posts and comments because otherwise the average would not be 35 points. The vast majority of posts get no upvotes.
In addition, comments do not show the points accumulated so there’s no way you can know how many points a comment gets, only posts.
Thanks for the pushback this is exactly the kind of peer review I was hoping for at the preprint stage. You are likely correct regarding the sampling bias. While the intent was to capture all. posts, an average score of 35 suggests that my archiver missed a significant portion of the zero-vote posts (likely due to my workers API rate limits or churn during high-volume periods). This created a survivorship bias toward popular posts in the current dataset, which I will explicitly address and correct.
To clarify on the second point: I am not analyzing individual comment scores (which, as you noted, are hidden). The metric refers to post points relative to comment growth/volume. I will be updating the methodology section to reflect these limitations. The full code and dataset will be open-sourced with the final publication so the sampling can be fully audited. Appreciate the rigor.
If you want some more feedback, why are you using Cloudflare workers that presumably cost you money? You can retrieve all of the HN content with a regular PC pretty easily. I’m talking a single core with a python program and minimal RAM.
You're right that a simple Python script would be more cost-effective for this kind of archiving. I went with workers because I was already familiar with the stack and wanted real-time processing, but for a research project focused on completeness rather than latency, your approach makes much more sense - please reach out if you want to offer your help. Initially I was planning on building a public realtime dashboard and might as well still do.
Google’s lack of support is a directly correlated to their monopoly. They are able to not pay for proper support staff because they don’t have any competition. They should be regulated to spend a certain portion of their revenues on support given how critical they are to people’s lives. You can’t rake in hundreds of billions while being a monopoly and then claim you can’t afford proper amount of support staff.
Stop obsessing about the illusory magical power of competition, many companies operating on very competitive markets have the same kind of practices.
It doesn't matter if there's competition at the customer acquisition stage, as long as there's some form of customer lock-in the corporation is going to abuse them somehow.
More most markets have some kind of natural lock-in, and even in markets that don't companies without some kind of barrier to exit never scale in the first place, and that's why we must face this kind of bullshit pretty much everywhere even from companies operating in competitive markets.
A so-called news article that uses tweets as its primary source material is garbage and is utterly useless. They might as well be summarizing a family WhatsApp chat thread. I wish I could ban any article in my newsfeed that references tweets.
Could you help the slower ones like me understand how one of the most powerful people in the world owning, training, deploying and defending a platform that spreads CSAM is the equivalence of a arbitrary and anonymous family’s daily chatter?
This is a great example of how free content was exploited by LLMs and used against oneself to an ultimate destruction.
Every content creator should be terrified of leaving their content out for free and I think it will bring on a new age of permanent paywalls and licensing agreements to Google and others, with particular ways of forcing page clicks to the original content creators.
“The job description says remote on HN, but it says hybrid Austin on the jobs page, but disregard that, it can be remote like I originally said. But also some teams are only going to be hybrid no matter what.
So some jobs are hybrid onsite and some are fully remote but even if i said just now that all jobs can be remote, some jobs aren’t really fully remote because I can’t envision it in my mind that they would be effective fully remote, even though I myself am fully remote.”
