skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they really want that, though, or do they simply get more excited by it? Let's take a more striking example: someone trying to avoid wallowing in a pit of despair and grief over a loved one dying. I feel like many such people would tell you they are actively wanting to and even trying to avoid triggers for such, but once they run into one it pulls at them and they start to fall down a rabbit hole where a few hours later they are staring at old photos, listening to depressing music, and sobbing their eyes out.

Now, imagine you have the job to recommend content for them. I feel like not only would a compassionate person know to avoid these triggers "for the user's own good" (which I would find way too paternalistic), even a really competent human (or a truly powerful AI) that was optimizing for "what this user wants" would avoid triggering content as the customer probably is even able to express this want verbally.

The issue, though, is that if you happen to ascertain (whether by active analysis or more passive experimentation) "omg every time I show them this thing they immediately drop everything else they are doing and spend three hours watching similar videos!!! this is amazing: I have found the best possible thing to show them!!!" and act on that despite it not being what the user wants you are just being evil.

And that's Google: the people at Google that work on this software are evil. Google employees seem to just be selfishly optimizing for "engagement" (to the extent to which they succeed... honestly they aren't even all that great at it, but they do much better than we would actually want ;P) and will just blindly show people stuff that they themselves might actively wish to avoid but can't help but get sucked into... so Google can make more ad money.

In the case of these conspiracy theories, I will contend most people want to be informed. They are momentarily skeptical of something, which makes them likely to get turned on easily by these videos, but then it is Google that radicalizes them by realizing "omg when I show them more videos of this form they just keep digging into the rabbit hole!!! SO MUCH AD MONEY" and "ugh when I show them videos from the other side they get turned off and maybe even drop the whole issue and go off to do something else more productive... that sucks! :/".

The engineers at Google have thereby built a system that, sure, "shows you what you want", but it shows you the most twisted, myopic, and even cruel version of what you want in the name of making them ad revenue over all other potential benefits to the user. Sure, sometimes this can be rationalized as showing the user something they legitimately found fun or interesting, and if you go into it with a careful mind and a wall of defenses it is possible to get what you need despite this perverted optimizer... but, I would hope we all can understand that it goes much deeper than that and that the negative effects are not ones that should be ignored in the name of making more money.
> I'm sure he wont force linux down her throat if she says she can't use it and will gladly install her the OS she wants.

> I am trying to move her away from Windows, but she resists, because that is the only OS she knows and does not want to 're-learn how to do everything'.

This does not seem like a case of a husband trying to help a wife keen on giving it a shot make it easy for her.
In essence Westminster Parliament lost its power, but the Royal Family remained unaffected in many cases.

There was little for the Royal Family to adjust to.

They were the sovereigns of those nations, if independent from the UK. They still "appoint" the PMs of those countries and have a fair amount of political influence via governors.
I was looking at the control plane api but the campaign contribution metering rates are extraordinary and require lobbyist api key credentials.
Wow, $2.46 billion is a lot of abuse.
I was able to get it working with the 'X-Api-Key' header and it seemed to give back JSON by default without adding anything to the query string.
No one call the forest rangers, I'm running down that hiking trail! :D

No, but legitimately, my motivation is "I know what I'm good at, how do I apply that to create new things?" If I'm forced into things I'm not good at, I falter motivationally. And if I'm doing what I'm good at, but not creating anything new or interesting with it, I burn out and become miserable. So in the context of this framework, sign me up to start running up that (hiker's) hill!
> Anyone else see the mock-up and think “this looks slow”?

It just looks clumsy and distracting compared to plain HN, IMHO. It highlights elements like usernames, the total amount of comments(!) or the upvote/favorite actions, that users will only rarely interact with or even want to look for. Meanwhile other actions have to be hidden beneath a "…" widget, lest the page become too cluttered. The factory HN look does a much better job of bringing the comment text into focus and reflects the threading hierarchy without needing a lot of padding to space things out.
Only once, not for every phone. So if you get it once, buying another phone won't renew it. And now it's only 3 months.
I think these are reasonable design decisions.

Headers are harder to use than query string parameters. You can't start poking around in an API as easily using just a web browser if the API requires authentication and accept headers.

The downside of query strings for API keys is that they can inadvertently be exposed by log files. For this API, where the API key appears to be there purely for analytics reasons, I don't think that risk is particularly bad.
> that just exposing people to the opposite viewpoint would cause outrage

You mean in the way that video recommendations about stolen elections cause outrage?
The point of the link in OP is that now in v2.6, Caddy enables HTTP/3 by default, and doesn't need to be explicitly enabled by the user.

So I'm not exactly sure the point you're trying to make. But yes, CDP is an awesome project!
And don't forget, LibreOffice has a tabbed view option that makes it look like MS Office. [0]

[0]: https://www.howtogeek.com/788591/how-to-make-libreoffice-loo...
You have an overly expansive view of presidential powers.

The Congress does not answer to the president. It is an independent institution. It does not convene and dissolve by presidential request.

Executive orders can be over-ruled by either of the other two branches of government

Veto power can be over-ruled by the congress.

Until recently, presidents needed congressional approval to make war. Now we skip that part and just don't call it a war.
There's no standard among GIS tools https://macwright.com/lonlat/ It's similar to tools that convert colors, hex <=> int, URL encoding or such. Of course one could write a script or copy&paste into Excel and another methods to recorder the numbers. I'm biased, I work with coordinates a lot.
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China passes USA in life expectancy
I was in London during Covid, and the Queen's Speech to the nation during the pandemic was a pivitol and powerful moment.

"We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again."
Well yes, obviously we tipped at the end, but I was just surprised that everyone in our group was unhappy with the entire service and food, yet we still had to top. There is a saying where I'm from "co kraj to obyczaj" - "every country has its customs". That custom just stood out for me.
Honestly, I think the US populous really feels the same about this but from the perspective our history. On the other side of the coin, is the UK has been one of longest running allies in the world with a common history born out of the womb of war. The romantic nature of nobility runs from a far, without the struggles of having the institution in that format - though some would argue we do, but in the oligarchy of wealth. I need not go further, as it treads that fine line.

I myself, am in agreement however. If governance of the UK would modernize, the removal of generational status like what a monarch represents would be a step in the right direction. Why one would do that, and loose the history in the process? Not sure if the UK populous is ready for that, since its still a beloved part of the country and outwardly is a hallmark of the country's brand.

I digress. I am probably just speaking ill of the dead to some, but just glad to be in the US for our representation structure of legislation and executive by proxy. Direct Democracy is the red headed step child of mob rule, and I'm content to not have that either.
Yes, not every... but a lot of former dominions kept the aristocracy in place.
It is lovely but does not beg the question.
I think you're working on a super important problem. Having moved from a software company to a political organization, this kind of thing drives me crazy. Used to be hey, what's the most critical issue and who's working on it and what's the latest status: oh easy just check the company-wide bug database. Now in a politics org: first track down 15 vague email threads, go to 3 different meetings which are 90% chitchat, get yelled at for not working on some other thing that's deemed higher priority. Making serious workflow management palatable to non-software organizations would be a huge win.
That's not what I'm suggesting at all. The point I'm making is that employers are not capable of being optimizers because they will generally be willing to spend more on medical care than individuals, and it's because they think about money very differently from individuals. Employers are generally able to swallow a premium increase of $15,000 -> $20,000 per employee per year (it just gets rolled up into total compensation). It's usually a drop in the bucket for employers, but to an individual that's actually a lot of money. It's the same reason why corporations typically cover business class (or economy plus) air travel without blinking an eye, whereas many individuals spring for basic economy depending on their willingness to pay. Showing employers the shape of their medical care spend doesn't change that equation all that much for the same reason that enterprises today are willing to spend more on SaaS licenses than individuals (or even small businesses) regardless of how precisely their QuickBooks or NetSuite instance shows them the shape of their SaaS spend. I work in insuretech too, sometimes even work directly with employer HR teams, and see this behavior all the time. We agree that employers should not be the optimizers here. It's not that they need to step up their spend management game, it's that the way they play that game will always be different from the way individuals play that game, and that's a big part of why per capita $'s spent are even able to be so inflated in the first place.

What I'm suggesting is that the proven private sector model is one where employers are simply not involved, not a part of the equation. Private insurance purchased on the individual market. That's exactly how it works in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and also how it works in Medicare Advantage (seniors directly buy their insurance plans using dollars they theoretically set aside over the course of their lifetime through Medicare FICA taxes).

The most practical way to get there, in America, would be to either enact Medicare Advantage For All, or to tweak the employer mandate to only include ICHRAs rather than group health insurance. ICHRAs are employer-sponsored funds (in lieu of employer sponsored insurance) that the employee-beneficiary uses to buy health insurance on the individual market.
GREAT, BUT! We need an API on who wrote which parts of the bill. Find lobbyists who wrote parts. Find when there is an evil part (where lobbyists get congress to sell out), and we need to find out WHICH congress person put it in there.

We need to track the evil parts of bills to the congress person who is the sell out for lobbyists (and the corporations beind them)
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Charles should abdicate to the young and more relatable William and Kate.
Isn’t this akin to our major politicians having ties to Billy Graham/Evangelicals?
Look up cellular scaffolding and how much is actually dependent on it. It makes stuff like this all the more clearer.
> But back to Perl. I always thought one of the best things about Perl was CPAN.

I'm a younger developer, so I wasn't around when Perl was super popular. I listened to the Corecursive episode about CPAN [0] and was really impressed. It's a good listen even if you're not that interested in Perl anymore.

[0]: https://corecursive.com/tdih-cpan/
> a constitutional change

Just in case anyone didn't know, the UK does not have a singular written constitution like you may find elsewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin...
Ask HN: Will the constant asking for feedback ever end?
It seems every interaction I have with the economy results in a request for my feedback.

Every company wants to know "How did we do?".

Sometimes quite persistent and nagging, asking multiple times.

Is this a fad that will pass? Will it ever end?
Just wanted to follow up and say that reaching out to online support landed me the replacement for free. Thanks all!
Yep! The CDP plugin https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy makes configuration per docker service pretty easy!
No, I don't believe 'we all' know such a thing, so could you please cite some data?

Offhand, my recollection of just about all the major press coverage (pick an article on it from any of them) is along these lines:

In 2016, Trump won the majority of Electoral College votes

In 2016, Hillary won the national popular vote

The interstate voting compact does not yet have enough electors to follow the popular vote.

My recollection of the timeline is: In early 2016 the DNC might have rigged their internal voting in support of Hillary, rather than Bernie. The press didn't do a good enough job covering that with transparency so I'm not sure. I know this almost alienated me (as a generally left leaning voter) from voting D. I know at least one friend who wanted change of any sort enough to vote for Trump after that. It was a close race, to alienating their base like that _may_ have rigged things in favor of the candidate that won the electoral vote.
I'll take this opportunity to point out that if you're doing anything numpy related that seems too slow you should run numba on it, in my case we were doing a lot of cosine distance calculations and our inference time sped up 10x by simply running the cosine distance function from numpy through numba and it's as easy as adding a decorator.
I tend to agree with you, if only for that fact that in the span of a single lifetime an individual, as a child, could have stood and watched man fly for the first time, and then as an adult see man land on the Moon.
In my experience, it can work well. For several people, I put Debian (or OpenBSD) on their machine, with XFCE as the desktop environment, and some icons on the desktop for their most frequently-used apps (or direct browser URLs to go where they usually like to go), give them a few tips for finding things in the menu, set up and test CUPS printing, and be available to troubleshoot anything or answer questions, and they didn't have to "learn linux" at all. It's enough like Windows XP that they have been able to use it generally without problems other than the occasional question about how to manage a 2nd monitor (so I showed them how to click to xrandr or arandr or something).

I also make/made sure to do upgrades for them. For debian, that includes but is not limited to installing the "unattended-upgrades" package, so many updates they get without my involvement.

(Some users don't use these computers any more because it was for a class that was discontinued after a few years, another family member continues, happily.)

edit:I admit, there have been some adventures with printing.
Sorry, the only videos youtube should recommend are those impusely directed towards the watcher's present mental state, which is the soverign basis of free thought. /s

It turns out, freedom = living in a casino for the mind.
Yes, I am a bit embarrassed by how inflammatory that appears to be. I am actually a bit happy that the HN algorithm devalued the post fairly significantly.
No, and if it is, who knows what version it is.

I think that's the main thing preventing one from using ruby like this. It is otherwise preferable in pretty much every way.

Perl is kind of pre-installed on virtually every Unix-like system for what are at this point historical/legacy reasons. It is unlikely any other language can ever achieve this at this point.
No it doesn’t. It takes the energy out of the environment. The result would be more energy, and cold air.
What does it stand for?
In the US restaurant owners are legally allowed to pay their staff less than minimum wage because waiters will make up the difference through tips.

Which is brilliant, because 1. they are able to show "discounted" food prices on the menu, with the expectation that the customer will end up paying an extra 20% in tip and x% in taxes on top of it 2. they can pay their staff less than they would have to otherwise.

The consumer gets screwed. The staff gets screwed. The business owner does ok, but the restaurant industry is pretty rough anyway, so it's unclear if they're laughing all the way to the bank anyway.
The internet would be a friendlier place if people were more willing to give each other the benefit of the doubt.
I am not at all trying to delve into the topic of the legitimacy of the 2020 election. So, my next question is not an assertion that fraud took place.

When you say "demonstrably untrue", who determines such things? It is usually not the case that one side is entirely and wholly untrue. Losing a court case or having one be dismissed on procedural grounds does not mean the defense or prosecution had no merit whatsoever with their claims.

What is the process for letting people make up their own minds on conflicting evidence? I sense the danger is letting, or even demanding, that private companies make these judgments and filter dissent away from the masses under the guise of safety. I also sense the people calling for such things understand that their own ideological peers are the ones who would be in control of such algorithms.
I would say that expecting a queen or king to remove his own power and influence by abolishing the monarchy is not very reasonable. If then it's the job of the people.
Caracol is a large ancient Maya archaeological site approx 200 square kilometres
Caracol covered approximately 200 square kilometres (77 sq mi), covering an area much larger than present-day Belize City, the largest metropolitan area in the country, and supported more than twice the modern city's population.
Discussion of fraud is not beyond the Overton window. Continued discussion of dangerous ideas which have already been proven false should be, simply because of those two reasons. False balance is bad; false balance when one of the ideas on the scale is dangerous to human beings is worth removing.
2016 or 2020? The algorithm should know the difference
Thanks! I'd read all that documentation and came to the same conclusion. I'm using disable_canonical_uris as I prefer avoiding trailing slashes even for directories (as I see it, page_name/index.html layout is an implementation detail, and I'd like Caddy to expose it as /page_name).

I'll follow up with issues tomorrow (I think an issue for updating the common caddyfile patterns bit on the website also makes sense - I suspect a blanket rule for removing trailing slashes is more likely to be a common pattern people seek a solution for than removing a trailing slash on explicitly enumerated paths).
DELETE /congress HTTP/1.1
Host: api.congress.gov
Accept-Language: en

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Wouldn't that be something?
The Julia ecosystem (BinaryBuilder specifically) forbids libraries built with -ffast-math for exactly this kind of reason.
Whoa there... the right to kill yourself should be an inalienable right - regardless of your location.

Without the option to crash - you aren't a pilot.

If and when we find the secret to immortality - this right to end your own life how you see it will be eroded by corporate greed.

Tangential point, back to the main one.

There are 2 classes of drugs I would not legalize and you named one of them. the opioid and amphetamine are a chemical moth to the flame trap - And I support making that trap harder to find/get into...

Psychs on the other hand, RC's of course are dangerous due to their inherent novelty, Don't do the same things as Meth/fentanyl/crack, and generally are less dangerous/abusable. Basically anything that rewires the dopamine reward circuit should be highly suspect at best - and banned at worst.

Most psyches build a tolerance quickly in the brain - resulting in weeks/months between effective 'trips'. To abuse psyches is tough - and not desirable (after a trip most people want a rest for a long while from doing that again)

Yeah - freedom of brain chemistry should also be an unalienable right. If the government tells you what is allowed brain chemistry and what is not: that's government mind control...

If someone controls what you ingest, see and hear: they control (to some extent) what you think.
> So, even without a profit motive, what do you do?

You acknowledge that human interaction and metrics are not compatible, and apply actual judgment. You're a human being, not a paperclip optimizer.

Your goal isn't to stripmine anything of value out of a community, but to provide a vibrant place people like coming to. So, for feedback, you ask them what they like, what they miss, what they wish for.

Qualitative assessments instead of quantitative ones. Lean into the power of the humanities.
I added some context in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771419
Yours is an excellent example of how correlative observational studies (however formal or informal) are practically useless. Once you have experience interacting with the unhoused population, you will quickly learn that they are largely using things like crack, meth, and opioids (if at all -- many are in fact sober), not psychedelics.
But it has way more parts... And it moves. This other path has no moving parts.
This. Her personal wealth would already have been astronomical even without the Crown Estate.

She could have retired 40 years ago and never worked another day in her life if she’d wanted to. Charles would still have been King and her family would have been no worse off.
Like a special flavor of propaganda with political and corporate support that created a movement to burn down cities, loot stores, murder innocent people? That kind of thing?
This is simply semantics. She was clearly given tons of property, real estate, airplanes, vehicles and means to access goods&services only because she was the queen; including the very estate she passed away in: Balmoral Castle.

She was rich because she was part of the royal family; it's not the case that she was part of the royal family and then independent of that had private wealth. There was never a possibility of her being poor as long as she was the queen.
For HTTP/3 support with python clients:

- aioquic supports HTTP/3 only now https://github.com/aiortc/aioquic

- httpx is mostly requests-compatible, supports client-side caching, and HTTP/1.1 & HTTP/2, and here's the issue for HTTP/3 support:
https://github.com/encode/httpx/issues/275
Nobody should. Beyond the server levels, ability to pay should be the only thing restricting service.. full stop!
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