skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An illiterate coworker of mine showed me his phone and asked for help. It was utterly amazing, he exclusively got videos from goat and donkey farmers. The most stunning part was that most of the videos were completely hilarious. People talking to their goat then the goat does what they say or the opposite on purpose.
> They're places where people buy a voice and the illusion of support by astroturfing the platform and/or manipulating the algorithm (either through paid advertisements or by owning a platform and controlling the algorithm outright)

Anyone willing to take a good-faith stab at why this couldn't equally well be a description of traditional media too - say - the WaPo?
People who use tiktok tell me it gets better when you have an account. All I know is whenever someone sends me a video it always tries to show the most emotionally charged stuff (e.g. war footage) right after. Now it's even showing pictures of Trump when you pause the video
Proprietary software is absolutely the issue. Once you open that door you are just waiting for the long list of abuses to run down on you over time. Proprietary software puts the power on the publisher's part and therefore you are completely at their mercy.

> It can't even be used as a watch until you have signed in with a Google account and "consent to Google using my health and wellness data". Of course you don't get to see this before you break the seal on the box.

Fitbit is not supported but for many smart watches you can use gadgetbridge to avoid sending your data anywhere
Wait, since when is TikTok decentralised?
There's less extreme government action possible: tax meat & dairy higher.

There are already precedents for that, for example here in Germany cigarettes are taxed to about 70% and hard-liquor (altho it's more complicated to calculate as it depends on exact alcohol content) to about 40%.

Meat is only taxed at 7% via VAT (similar to sales tax in the US).
It's never actually explained how n=2 is possible. Here's how it works:

P1 and P2 start executing. P1 sets temp=1, then P2 runs through the loop for i=1..9. Then P1 sets n=temp=1. P2 sets temp=2, then P1 resumes executing for i=2..10, and completes. P2 sets n=temp=2, then completes.

The intuition is P1 checkpoints, P2 runs through the loop up until the last iteration, P1 resets n to the checkpoint + 1, P2 checkpoints, P1 runs through the loop, then P2 resets n to the checkpoint + 1.
I mean, so are newspapers, but you don't want to ban those either.

(I don't like TikTok and I agree it is damaging, but this is just reasoning I can't get behind)
Who said what about x-rays? And what is your argument? Because x-ray technology developed to CT scanning, then all technology will develop infinitely?
At first, I saw your comment as character assassination. Then, I saw pages after pages of CP handled by Drew, or someone who wanted to look like Drew. This HN thread covers the drama succinctly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41837782

My summary: Drew DeVault first posted an anonymous teardown of Richard Stallman, accusing him of sexual deviancy & political failings. Drew pretended the report was new to him. HN discovered Drew was actually the report's author and asked him to clarify. Drew hasn't commented since then. Other sleuths soon pieced together that Drew (or "Drew") had a long-running sexual interest in anime children pornography.

IMO, Drew's attack against RMS feels hypocritical.
In the scenario I laid out, no additional real children are being abused either - because the government is simply framing you and you never consumed or produced any CSAM. That's what I meant by it being similar - if your concern with punishing people for AI generated CSAM is that law enforcement could lie about it and frame innocent people, then what I'm trying to point out is, that same risk exists with the real thing, they could lie about that too - if you want the government to enforce any laws you need to trust they're mostly trustworthy.
You are massively conflating what is possible with what is done.
> The problem is that good journalism doesn't have funding.

The BBC and Reuters can be posited as counterexamples to your assertion. They’re good journalists and well-funded (and not primarily by advertising either).
Specialized pieces of amphib equipment for initial landing, but bulk of sealift is going to be done via commercial ships / RO/ROs. Likely down to 100,000s of fishing boats / commercial vessels to distribute survivability for a reverse dunkirk. Point is PLAN never had intention to build out enough gray hulls to ferry 100,000s men + equipment, so analysts/arguments fixating on PRC _military_ sealift readiness needs to recalibrate on what % of sealift work will actually be done by military procured hulls. My guess is... very minor %, and a shockingly many of commercial ships will get drafted / voluntold to assist with sealift.

SCS islands are too small to need amphib. Like even largest Taiping island is basically just a 1km long airstrip. LHD + paratroopers is enough. Maybe for Ryukyus if things get really spicy.
What a pathetic response. Across the entire world bigots have managed to scrape together a few hundred examples assuming they are even real? This is why bigots like you are driving people to suicide with your blind hate? And what kind of weirdo creates a website dedicated to things like this? What kind of weirdo is familiar with it and thinks it represents something valid? Since you like lists so much and place so much value on them, I wonder how you can support conservative politicians considering how many of them are pedophiles and rapists?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/8/2252541/-Republica...

There are FAR more Republican sexual predators than there are "males stealing sports wins from females" in your list. And your list is international while mine is just for the US. So Republican sex pests must be much more of a concern for you right? Or is it only wrong to steal a sports victory from a woman and not to rape her and then force her to carry the baby to term?
Two reasons that I understand 1. not all these AIs are LLMs and many have much lower latency SLAs than chat and 2. These are just one part of a service architecture and when you have multiple latencies across the stack they tend to have multiplicative effects.
All families can't afford meat daily, let alone any type of meat they want. So, some families might favor chicken and certain processed meats here and there, but most cuts of beef and lamb for example might be out of the question, and so will daily meat consumption. The same applies for dairy, they might afford big blocks of tasteless cheese, but won't touch often cheese with taste, French or otherwise. There is no enforced rationing, but choice is reduced if not removed for a good fraction of the population, purely for economic reasons.
The major players in AI are collectively burning 1-2 gigawatts, day and night, on research and development of the next generation of LLMs. This is as much as my city of a million people. The impact is real, and focusing on inference cost per query kind of misses the point. Every person who uses these tools contributes to the demand and bears some of the responsibility. Similar to how I have responsibility for the carbon emissions of a flight, even if the plane would have flown without me.

I'm saying this as someone who finds LLMs helpful, and uses them without feeling particularly guilty about it. But we should be honest about the costs.
Smoking, drinking - both on the decline for the last decades.
The successful fight to save a remote phone box
This is a wonderful perspective.
Not to mention that it doesn’t have the battery degradation that my leaf suffered from. Nissan engineers messed up big time by leaving proper battery thermal management, giving edge to newcomers like BYD.
Which makes you a subletter, and the one with the highest fee of the whole chain…
I would agree with you, but Americans intentionally reinforce car dependence whenever it's discussed.

It's bad enough that even non-US people regurgitate those talking points despite them being significantly less true for them; because they see it so much online.
Enforce a global carbon tax, price it in, and tax the land
See, my point is that everyone first goes “it’s not me”, then they understand it is them and go “but it’s not my policies” and then they vote in the policies which are the problem. It’s totally fine to go “we need collective action to fix this”. But you have to actually join the collective action. You think billionaires are getting rich by committing environmental arbitrage? Then don’t oppose attempts to make the costs appropriate, even if you must now pay your fair share too.
...plenty? That's at least more than 2 for me. Can you eat 3+ bananas in one sitting? Are we talking really small, average or big bananas?
US and Turks and Caicos to inquire into failed SpaceX launch leading to debris
My brother in history, I can't even read mine
while 3% might sound like a drop in the bucket, there isn't any single specific chunk of the rest of the 97% that will immediately cut, say, 30-40% of emissions (also remember that 2-3% is the super specific "Americans not driving cars", not "everyone in the world not driving cars").
> It's a far better argument to me, to suggest that the societal utility in using the material to identify and remove paedophiles before they have an actual victim far exceeds the utility of any sort of "freedom" to such material.

Or at the very least: flag pedophiles for further investigation, including one's social network. Even if a given pedophile hasn't actually harmed any children, one probably is acquainted with other pedophiles, possibly ones who have harmed children.

Softening the punishment for CSAM possession in and of itself could actually help with investigating the creation of (non-simulated) CSAM by this logic, since people tend to be more cooperative to investigators when they think they have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide.
People with minimal training drew up billions of doses of covid vaccines from multi-use vials and administered them intramuscularly (deeper and therefore potentially more risky than subcutaneous ozempic/mounjaro) and I never heard of anyone getting an infection from this
My wife convinced me to take a bath with magnesium once when I was stressed.

Afterwards I got up, went to bed, and slept like an absolute rock.
This is a general problem with all federated systems.

It's annoying that we don't have a decent solution to this even for home automation. You ought to be able to take a "house ID key", probably a Yubikey, and present it to all your devices to tell them "you're mine now".
Then they can talk to each other.

There are military cryptosystems which have such hardware. There's a handheld device called the Simple Key Loader.[1] That's what's used to load secure voice keys into radios, encrypted GPS keys into GPS units, identify-friend-foe codes into aircraft, and such. It's 15 years old, runs Windows CE, has a screen with a pen, and is far too big. The Tactical Key Loader is smaller and simpler.[2] 7 buttons and a small screen. About the same size as a Flipper Zero, but ruggedized and expensive.

[1] https://info.publicintelligence.net/SKLInstructionGuide.pdf

[2] https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/kik-11-tactical-ke...
Vegetarian here. People who eat meat tend to reduce their consumption if you 1. charge them appropriately for it and 2. give them good alternatives. Telling them to not do something usually makes them angry unfortunately.
SpaceX Starship explosion forced FAA to divert flights to avoid debris
I did real bad (48 flips), but that's to be expected at 1:40 in the morning. Any thoughts on having the top 8 cards be randomized posts and the bottom 8 being randomized comments? That lowers the challenge a bit, but I felt frustrated whenever I paired a post to a post or a comment to a comment
Then why was he surprised to find out that Devon is basically just ChatGPT? He should know first-hand what is is.
I think the most you could say is we’ve had improvements - from gpt 4 to whatever the current model is has definitely not been exponential improvements.

My experience is acctually they’ve become dramatically less helpful over the past two years (past year in particular). Claude seems not to have backslid much but it’s progression also has not been very fast at all (I’ve noticed no difference since the 3.5 launch despite several updates).

Everything grows sinusoidally and I feel we’re well past the tipping point into diminishing rate of improvement
Yes and no, you really don't need a deep expertise to diagnose the very common illness.

And that's where chatgpt is doing great.
Do you know what it actually does and how it does it?
Per capita beef consumption is down by 35% in the US since the 70s. From 62kg/person/year to 35.

Beef produces ~100kg CO2 per kg of meat. That's a reduction of 27,000kgs of CO2 reduction, per capita.

That's not nothing. By simply reducing beef consumption by 1 kilogram a month, you can prevent more than a metric ton of CO2. If 5% of Americans cut 1 kilo of beef a month, that'd knock out 15 million tons of CO2.

Small changes can have an impact on aggregate, and just because someone else is not making those changes doesn't excuse us looking at ourselves and saying, "I could choose something else this time".
It’s really not, not even close to the same. The algorithm is really, really bad compared to TikTok. You can’t pause videos, can’t download them, can’t use copyrighted music, the comments are awful and full of bullying and hate and anger. It doesn’t have the powerful tools to actually edit your videos. It doesn’t have the community. Instagram reels just feels like a bad copy of TikTok. It’s also not timely; on TikTok you see things as they happen. News arrives instantly. Stitching enables two way conversations. Everything on Instagram is just recycled crap from two weeks ago on TikTok. I only use instagram to talk to people really; the actual content doesn’t do anything for me.
Trying to scam Thailand prime minister
It won’t be 1.45% but it will be 1.3%. Meat is exceptionally inefficient compared to non-meat. It sounds false but it really is like that :(
Sure, recognizing that the problem is political is step one. Step two is... political activism, I guess? Lack of local political engagement and organizing is part of what allows problems like these to form.
That's how I found it, actually. Was looking for the series and stumbled into a TiL moment.

The game series thread is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42737120
Ironically this is exactly why I think TikTok is so important. Obviously every media site is used for manufacturing content, from NYT to Facebook. Also, obviously the US government has a say in what gets published and promoted. Wouldn't it be good then to have checks and balances to this, by having media not under the US government supervision?

Unless are you suggesting that the US government doesn't misinform the public in harmful ways?
Facebook? lmao, you are completely out of touch
I guess there are quite a few Ys out there lol
My traditional(?) set has been foo, bar, baz, quux, spam, ni, ecky, ptong.
You realize you’re expressing yourself without having to be on camera right now, right? That is in no way unique to TikTok.
tbh I think zero is a completely reasonable result for a general thought-exercise like this. sleep-based "memory fixes" are quite common in practice, and there's no synchronization at all in the sample.

though there's a lot of fun in here if you allow for optimizing compilers and lack of synchronization. e.g. without explicit synchronization between P/Q and the observing thread (assuming it's the main thread), it's reasonable for a compiler to simply delete P and Q entirely and replace the whole program with `print(0)`
Can it unload "cars" on the beach?
I started keto in June of 24, lost 50lbs and added a compounded version of Ozempic in November to get through the holiday season with a little extra help. I'm on a fairly low dose, 50mg/week, and it's working tremendously. I've lost another 25lbs up to now and it's about 10x times easier to stick with keto, macro logging, and calorie tracking.

I feel like even with keeping my calories to about 1500/day I'm just fine, and the cravings for sweets and over indulging just aren't in my head.
And 80% of all the trash in the oceans come from fishing industry (e.g. abandoned nets).
Not a content creator, but a TikTok user for several years. I really feel like the app changed my life. It opened my world to new cultures and ideas, brought me out of my comfort zone, introduced me to several real life friends. I made big changes in my life as a direct result of TikTok and have improved my life and health significantly as a result. I’ll be really sad to see it go.
Show HN: ReProm – CLI to bundle code and structure into one Markdown for AI
Hi HN,

I built *ReProm* ([GitHub](https://github.com/keisukenagakawa/reprom)) as a simple command-line tool for anyone who’s ever needed to share a bunch of files (and their folder structure) with AI tools like ChatGPT. It automatically scans the folders you specify, grabs all your target files, and merges them into one Markdown file — complete with a directory tree and the file contents. You can also copy it into clipboard.

*Motivation*:
- Tired of copy-pasting entire file contents into chat windows
- Wanted a single Markdown “package” that included both an overview and the code
- Simplify debugging or code review with AI by providing it all at once

*Key Features*:
- *Directory Tree*: Generates a `tree`-like overview
- *File Contents*: Collects file content into one Markdown
- *Pre/Post-Text*: Optional sections for custom notes or instructions
- *Multiple Configs*: Switch configurations easily in a single YAML file
- *Output*: Save to a file or copy Markdown directly to the clipboard
- *Written in TypeScript*, published under MIT

*Usage*:
```bash
npm install --save-dev reprom
npx reprom --config=reprom.config.yaml --name=yourConfig
```
Or configure a script in `package.json` for repeated use.

*Demo*:
It exports something like:

1. Custom “preText”
2. Directory structure
3. Individual file contents in code blocks
4. Custom “postText”
5. Usage statistics (character count)

*Repo*: [GitHub – keisukenagakawa/reprom](https://github.com/keisukenagakawa/reprom)

Would love feedback, suggestions, or contributions. Thanks for checking it out!
> Telling them to not do something usually makes them angry unfortunately

Then it's up to you to get even angrier.
TikTok itself isn’t subject to penalties - it’s any company providing services to TikTok that need assurance. Hosting, collocation, network providers, etc. They face 5k/user/day in fines.
Is that true in general though?
I think if you good at the fundamentals the current status of technology is actually not that important.
What I'm trying to say is most of us don't send people to Mars so the technological setup is way less important than the right product market fit.
If the fundamentals hold you should be fine.
I think they are fishing commerially a lot. Most of the ocean trash comes from the fishing industry (e.g. abandoned nets).
I see you edited out the part where you made fun of the author using Lua and then called them stupid. It’s a bad look, especially using all that space to paste a script that could be reduced to 5 lines, which is pretty typical of the slop that the author has an issue with in the first place.
There isn’t really a magic wand we can wave and get 50% back for free and without inconvenience. The other 97% involves things like individually figuring out where our electricity generation goes. Or figuring out which farms to shut down, or what manufacturing we don’t like anymore. All of this must happen. It will be inconvenient. I picked a slice that is immediately relevant to a lot of people here. But there are a lot of axes to look at this.
Neat post, but it doesn't seem to work in Firefox. The benchmarking just runs forever. I see a JS error about it blocking Cloudflare's beacon.min.js. Is it using that to benchmark?

I can confirm it works in Chrome.
Comparing magnitudes does not prove the headline, poor analysis.
Not by rationing, if you meant the US government: US per-capita consumption of meat is 328 lbs/year [UN FAO]. You'd try to reduce the subsidies and incentives for meat/ corn/ soybean production which are baked into the USDA budget ($200bn in 2024), since the 1930s (Great Depression), and more since the 1950s (and related stuff like the marketing tool of the "Food Pyramid"). These will be as politically hard to cancel as defense production or military bases or prisons.

Here's even a 2023 editorial from the Kansas City Star pointing the blame at Big Ag "Corn drives US food policy. But big business, not Midwestern farmers, reaps the reward" [0]:

> No, corn is not an evil crop, nor are farmers in the Corn Belt shady criminals. However, the devastating effect of corn owes to the industrialization of the plant by a small group of global agribusiness and food conglomerates, which acts as a kind of de facto corn cabal. These massive corporations — seed companies, crop and meat processors, commodity traders and household food and beverage brands — all survive on cheap commodity corn, which currently costs about 10 cents a pound. Corn’s versatility makes it the perfect crop to “scale” (commoditize, industrialize and financialize).

A libertarian take is the Cato Institute "Farm Bill Sows Dysfunction for American Agriculture" [1]:

> The Sprawling Farm Bill:... has its roots in the century-old New Deal and is revised by Congress every five years... "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), was added to the Farm Bill in 1973 to ensure support from rural and urban lawmakers, accounts for about three-quarters of the omnibus package. Some lawmakers and pundits have proposed splitting SNAP from the Farm Bill to stop the logrolling and facilitate a clearer debate on farm subsidy programs, which make up the rest of the bill." ...aslo criticizes crop insurance subsidies (which mainly go on the four big crops),
Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) ("Welfare for Wealthier Farmers"), Crop insurance subsidies (" originally envisioned as a more stable and cost-efficient alternative to ad hoc disaster payments, but they have acted more as a supplement than a replacement—and may have actually increased risks along the way.")

[0]: https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-com...

[1]: https://www.cato.org/policy-investigation/farm-bill-sows-dys...
Here's another one. All you need to do is look.

https://time.com/7207459/israeli-hostages-gaza-ceasefire/

You wrote in your comments that the hostages were treated well. This is absolutely not the case.

There are plenty of hostages, btw, who have openly discussed that they were raped repeatedly. I don't have the stomach to reread the hostage accounts but they are easy to find online.
Ask HN: Why can't we solve the problem of direct eye contact in video calls?
Or rather, given state of the art, why 'aren't' we doing it?
I'd trust table 3 and the general sentiment of the paper?
The social post embedded in the page links directly to this page with all the instructions. Once I created an account and signed in I just selected a state in the original tab and was right there and could start translating.

Do you perhaps have uBlock Origin enabled or some other limitation on Javascript/cookies that might be messing with your login status?

The direct link to the mission that was in the social post. https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions/revoluti...