skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't China's national TikTok equivalent do that?

I'm fine with going back to 100% chronological feeds. Show events as they happen and don't put a hand on the scale.

That's how social networks usually build their base then they switch to an algorithmic feed to satisfy advertisers once their user base is big enough.
this would be interesting to see
Assuming that social media is an evolution of traditional media.

The traditional media loves to chase negative news (If it bleeds, it leads) and we let that happen (muh free speech!). So it is logical that social media amplified the negativity of society, coupled with algorithms evolution and instant broadcasting the impact is amplified.

Fck around and find out I guess.
A lot of companies doubled in size due to the Covid surge, for questionable strategic reasons
No apologies necessary. You were just sharing your own personal experiences. I wasn't offended or hurt.
Does anyone else read the title and only identify ~6/9 of the words in the title here? I've got no clue what this is about before clicking on it.
Those who don't like something always say it'll ruin the economy. They probably did that with the 5-day week, the 40-hour week, vacations, parental leave, overtime pay, etc.

It never quite happens.
it does, just more slowly - modern religions are absolutely the result of natural selection for virality and fervor in the field of ideas
FDA bans Red No. 3, artificial coloring used in beverages, candy and other foods
Could someone replicate this feat by creating a "WTF Happened in 19XX" website for any year in the 20th century, then combing through thousands of charts and graphs, and picking only the ones where there was a change in 19XX? Or was 1971 truly a special year?
Ah, you're right—it's not a threshold that automatically kicks in at a certain number of users, but the president can't add one to the list until they reach that threshold. Thanks for clarifying.
for now. odds are good that may not be the case in four years...
But... they will anyway, if public sentiment favors it. If not, they'll blame the predecessor. This seems predestined to be.
> The U.S. and France bought Russian uranium until 2024, long after the Nord Stream pipeline was blown up.

Unfortunately in times of conflict like this, things aren't exactly clear cut, and our need for Russian uranium may be too high to stop buying. It is what it is.

> They bought Russian oil via the so called shadow fleets. Pure hypocrisy

Cite your source.

> Just now Biden sanctioned Rosatom and the shadow fleets in order to make things more difficult for Trump.

How does this make things more difficult for Trump? You mean it makes things more difficult for Russia? Or should we buy oil from Russian shadow fleets? I'm not following your point here.

> Just last month The U.S. coerced Ukraine to stop transit of Russian gas (while collecting transit fees).

Weren't you complaining about the United States and France buying Russian uranium?
I automatically don't want to use this database because the number of third party dependencies are an unfixable, never-ending source of security vulnerabilities.
He is one of the best Diablo players in the world. You gotta respect that /s
It's mentioned in the abstract and 45 times in the article. Most scientists don't use the brand name of a drug.
> Education? You probably mean repeating exercises in rote? You likely mean memorisation? That’s not education.

There’s so many classes that I want a refund on my wasted childhood time. Reading the “classics” in English, studying foreign language, Theology (Catholic schools), History (yes, History). I hated all these classes, didn’t learn much from them beyond what it took to pass the tests, then quickly forgot what they taught. Anything useful that would have come from those subjects I learned later, through alternate more enjoyable means (e.g. Assassin’s Creed was way more effective in teaching me the history those games covered).
And still don't understand anything digital.
Trump and first his administration were incompetent. He has a much tighter ship this time around.
There is no way this is true.

People look at ugly schools, and they look like prisons, and the kids are captive in the ugly buildings, so it invites the prison metaphor. But makes no sense. Schools are a series of classrooms, prisons are a series of small cells. The designs would not be reusable at a fundamental level, or any practical level.
Thank you for the feedback and glad you like it :)
We are definitely exploring the idea of including videos/gifs for each exercise to make it more visual.
We are actually exploring the idea of allowing users to upload their own videos and we will then curate them to show the best ones.
Obviously, this is not a tech story, but as many techies are into music, I thought this sad news might be of interest to some. For those not familiar with Shoenberg, he was a groundbreaking composer of the early 20th century. While his avant garde atonal music did not have popular appeal, it was massively influential on experimental musicians.
I mean, the early 70's saw some incredibly pivotal policy changes.

The US ended its trade embargo with China. The US dollar flooded European markets. The Vietnam War. The 26th amendment to the US constitution was passed, lowering the voting age. Women really entering the workforce.

Also, president Nixon announced that the US will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, and with this, froze wages, prices, and rents for 90 days.

Many things can point to this crucial economic change that all culminated around 1971.
More cats are strictly cuter than less cats.
Ask HN: How much money does AI save your business monthly?
We've all heard the grand promises about AI productivity gains, but I'm curious about concrete numbers.

Sure, devs say they're faster, but by how much? Are we actually net positive?

Would love to hear real numbers from other teams:

- What's your monthly AI spend?
- How do you measure the ROI?
- Most surprisingly profitable/unprofitable AI use case?

I'm especially interested in hearing from teams who've done rigorous before/after comparisons.
Definitely different than movies...

In my most recent case, it took one long day. 30 minute intro video on being on a jury. An hour to select the jury. 20 minutes of instructions. Then most of the day would be spent sitting down, hearing 10-15 minutes of the trial, then being sent off to a room so the lawyers could talk and negotiate. Over 8-ish, hours we probably spent an hour sitting as a jury, and the rest of the time just sitting in a conference room together waiting for the next bit of the trial. When all that was done, the judge gave us instructions, and we went to deliberate. That part was quick - about 10 minutes. We walked out, said our verdict, the judge said thanks, and we went home. (Not all deliberations are that quick.)

The bit of the lawyers getting up and talking to the jury is real. Opening/closing arguments, testimony, all that, is fairly accurate to movies. But that just isn't the majority of how time is spent. And movies skip the legal details - it felt like we spent as much time listening to the judge instruct us on the details of the law as we did the lawyers presenting their side.
Are you sure that Canadian version is less detrimental to the health of the consumer? It too looks artificial color-loaded to me.
True, but there was a bit more to it than that. Anti-nuclear sentiment has always run high in Germany, but Fukushima made it more intense. At the time of the accident, campaigning was underway in Germany. Merkel announced the closure as a way to hold off the Left and achieve a win for her party (It worked.) The Greens had always campaigned hard on this, the timing of Fukushima was a godsend for them, and had the potential to swing the election. Merkel had a tough choice: Keep the reactors online and lose the election, or announce a shutdown and take the wind out of The Green's key issue. She chose the latter, and CDU/CSU won. The reactors weren't EOL.

"Cheap" (or "costs") can get complicated to calculate as there's more that Europe factors in than simply the costs of running the plants. Europe doesn't have fantastic energy reserves, so that energy has to come from somewhere. Historically, a large percentage has been oil via the Middle East. That has political and military costs such as how they work with the Arab states, support for the U.S. which maintains security of the Persian Gulf, etc.

France's choice of nuclear is influenced in part because of security decisions they made in the 50s and their (until recently) ability to source cheap uranium from Mali.

Germany phased out their plants in order to stave off a last minute electoral disaster, which worked. But I'd argue that it was before they were ready. Renewables have promise, but have not reached the point where they are cheap and plentiful enough to power the energy-intensive Germany economy. I'm sure they'll get there eventually, but they're going through a painful phase to bridge that gap thanks to Merkel's decision.

Good read: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/history-behind-ge...
Non CCP controlled platforms can definitely choose what stories to promote. Musk does it every day on twitter. Oligarch controlled social media is just as much a blight as government controlled social media.
> Require human moderation. That naturally limits scale.

Does it? Does a human need to examine everything posted? You can certainly send letters without them going through a human moderator. Only what is flagged by a scanner? What if nothing is flagged? What should be flagged?
The plot thickens.

At the time of writing this, the linked-to Google Sheet redirects to an html-only view with this message: "Some tools might be unavailable due to heavy traffic in this file." In this html-only view, while the user can still see the entire list of sheets at the top, in-document links to other sheets do not work, and some text overflows its cell and is not visible.

Most important information appears to be visible still, but those who wish to add to or edit the document seem to be out of luck.

What went wrong? Perhaps each Google Sheet has access throttling, not ideal for users of high-traffic docs like this, especially if the users have critical information to share.

And yet, what other tool should they have used?

We need collaborative, easily-shareable, WYSIWYG document editors for situations just like this, except of course, their access should not be throttled, and their content should be discoverable by search engines.

Do we need a new web? A web whose content is able to be directly manipulated? A web that is collaborative by default?
It’s not always easy to keep up with the Republicans’ evolving positions.

For the past century, they told everyone that it was none of the government’s business what people choose to eat. Now it suddenly is.

It does have a whiff of trying to mold the citizenry towards a physical ideal. Fitter, happier, more masculine energy.
More than that, the first oil crisis gave the ruling class the go to break the postwar consensus and start dismantling the social contract
Yes, I'm extremely happy with it.
I'm not sure that's true, and even if it was, the law as passed requires American companies to not serve the app from their app stores, which is a restriction of American company speech.
Sounds to me like the United States just handed South Korea a gift.
The gold standard era was full of crises
Amazing that it all actually accelerates in the early 80s with Reagan who kicks it into overdrive with the collapse of unions.

But yeah, it was the "gold standard" and not the collapse of the labor movement, there's nothing stopping us from taking back the value of labor except it comes out of the pockets of our oligarchs.
And yet, I bet when you make a trade on craigslist (showing my age :), you meet in a public place where people can see you. Why?
Ah the classical Rakoit Linkplay series of modules! I have a arylic up2stream amp that also has one but its the A31 series. Pretty neat to know that its a full Linux computer on a little daughterboard running Linux. Just sad that they dont comply with the Gnu GPL for Uboot and Linux and other Gnu stuff and as an argument have "the multiroom streaming software is quite complicated to integrate reliably". I might get one myself and see if i can do some hacking work and maybe get Openwrt or any other Linux distro on the module with amlogic chip. They seem to be able to be flashed with other firmware because i flashed my Linkplay a31 module instead of arylics software with a tiny openwrt image for the chip which in my case was a Mt7628 so basically a router soc. They seem to use standard Linux and Uboot but with a few custom binaries to handle communication with the dsp-coprocessor on the carier board and a webserver for Management and app control and a custom binary called rootApp that does the magic sauce
You're missing one of the single greatest factors which is that shortly after that time, executive compensation became wholly disconnected from worker compensation. If executive compensation were tied to average employee compensation, I think you'd find a course correction in short order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_compensation_in_the_...
Don't chip fabs require a great deal of water? Wondering why a place like Arizona, with serious water issues, was selected.
I wonder if this will have an effect on iPhone sales vs Android. On android the app can easily be side loaded while on iPhone (in the US) it's incredibly difficult for the average user.
If your software is in such heavy development that you need changes all the time, it should never be in a stable distro to begin with, it's not stable code.

Overall(last I checked), the testing is roughly equal between the stable distro's(Debian/Ubuntu/etc) and NixOS. The difference is stable distro's back-port bug-fixes. NixOS rarely does, since their release cycle is only 6 months long.

> * Alienating you from upstream: why contribute upstream if you'll only benefit from them in 2 years.

I contribute upstream, regardless of if I'm running NixOS, Debian Stable or Windows. It makes no difference to me which OS I'm running when a bug shows up. If I find a bug in X package, I go fix X package. Sure I also fix it locally in my running instance(s), but that's my problem, regardless of which OS I'm running.

> To mitigate breakages we should be aiming for better test coverage, at various build levels: class, package, program, system.

Yes, yes we should. Most software has a terrible testing story. There are very few pieces of software with robust testing. SQLite is one such. One could probably name a handful of others, but after that the list gets really hard to add to.
great way to burn out people and scar them for life, look at all the stories of facebook moderators etc.
This is silly, the US is only 15% of Tiktok users.
Go to Italy or France, or any EU state. The food is better and often cheaper in almost every case.

Even a McDonald's hamburger is good, and not dominated by the fake chemical garlic substitute. In the US, McDonald's french fries contain: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (maintain Color), Salt. natural Beef Flavor Contains Hydrolyzed Wheat And Hydrolyzed Milk As Starting Ingredients.

In Italy, the ingredients are: Potato, Oil, Salt.
Why’s there no avenue for receiving risk appropriate compensation funds for having increased personal risk of death by consuming something a reasonable expert in the industry could consider dangerous?

If I skirt the law on technicalities to cause harm to an employer for example, such as knowingly implementing trivial security encryption on critical transactions, I feel I could be liable for damages. Why is this a game of spot the problem and then get off with a warning before going to the next preplanned technicality workaround that usually also causes cancer but will buy them a few years until the process repeats?

Shouldn’t mass risk of life be considered a terror level charge? Or rather, instead of saying no to that question because it didn’t appear to meet X criteria, why aren’t we finding ways it could meet that criteria? For example if it needs a political reason, we should ask how this could be a politically motivated decision rather than saying this doesn’t appear to meet any political agenda. That’s how the laws are always completely one sided abused against normal people anyway in a more extreme stretch than my example. I think it’s reasonable to do a reasonable-amount of application back.
Seems totally unrelated.
Show HN: Anyshift.io – Terraform "Superplan"
Hello Hacker News! We're Roxane, Julien, Pierre, Mawen and Stephane from Anyshift.io. We are building a GitHub app (and platform) that detects Terraform complex dependencies (hardcoded values, intricated-modules, shadow IT…), flags potential breakages, and provides a Terraform ‘Superplan’ for your changes.
To do that we create and maintain a digital twin of your infrastructure using Neo4j.

- 2 min demo : https://app.guideflow.com/player/dkd2en3t9r
- try it now: https://app.anyshift.io/ (5min setup).

We experienced how dealing with IaC/Terraform is complex and opaque. Terraform ‘plans’ are hard to navigate and intertwined dependencies are error prone: one simple change in a security group, firewall rules, subnet CIDR range... can lead to a cascading effect of breaking changes.

I’ve dealt in production with those issues since Terraform’s early days. In 2016, I wrote a book about Infrastructure-as-code and created driftctl based on those experiences (open source tool to manage drifts which was acquired by Snyk).

Our team is building Anyshift because we believe this problem of complex dependencies is unresolved and is going to explode with AI-generated code (more legacy, weaker sense of ownership). Unlike existing tools (Terraform Cloud/Stacks, Terragrunt, etc...), Anyshift uses a graph-based approach that references the real environment to uncover hidden, interlinked changes.

For instance, changing a subnet can force an ENI to switch IP addresses, triggering an EC2 reconfiguration and breaking DNS referenced records. Our GitHub app identifies these hidden issues, while our platform uncovers unmanaged “shadow IT” and lets you search any cloud resource to find exactly where it’s defined in your Terraform code.

To do so, one of our key challenges was to achieve a frictionless setup, so we created an event-driven reconciliation system that unifies AWS resources, Terraform states, and code in a Neo4j graph database. This “time machine” of your infra updates automatically, and for each PR, we query it (via Cypher) to see what might break.

Thanks to that, the onboarding is super fast (5 min):
1. Install the Github app
2. Grant AWS read only access to the app

The choice of a graph database was a way for us to avoid scale limitations compared to relational databases. We already have a handful of enterprise customers running it in prod and can query hundreds of thousands of relationships with linear search times. We'd love you to try our free plan to see it in action

We're excited to share this with you, thanks for reading! Let us know your thoughts or questions here or in our future Slack discussions.
Roxane, Julien, Pierre, Mawen and Stephane!
A couple of years ago, I read this cool article about how humans tend to solve problems by adding things. Training wheels are a perfect example - we add these extra wheels to help kids learn how to ride bikes. But there's actually a less obvious approach that involves taking things away, and the article explored this concept across different areas.

I'm from Uruguay, and here we have something really cool called a "Chivita" - it's basically a wooden bike without pedals that toddlers use. Kids learn to balance on two wheels before they ever touch a regular bicycle. When my 5-year-old moved from the Chivita to a real bike, it only took just a couple of tries. Its amazing!
If you're curious, just Google "Chivitas bikes Uruguay" to see what they look like! (Chivito is our traditional sandwich so you might get false hits ;))
A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter
It's really rare for me to be pro-intervention when it comes to the government vs free-industry but TikTok has become undeniably, geopolitically hazardous for the US. The dismal bit of it is that nation state backed, habit-forming propaganda apps are only likely to proliferate.
> Most of all, it’s so ironic that in America, which is supposed to be the bastion of free speech, is banning something that is so valuable for many people

1. There's plenty of speech you can't say (fraud, libel), so speech is believe it or not regulated.

2. This isn't about free speech per se, it's about the right of a company to exist. the government has broad leeway to regulate which entities do or don't have the right to have limited liability. if TikTok were a unincorporated business entity and the owners were liable for lawsuit the story would be different.

3. the government forcing a sale is individual free speech maximalist position in this situation, because the users of the platform can still have their free speech. if tiktok doesn't take the deal, then the "loss of free speech" is on them, not the government.

4. America, which is supposed to be a bastion of free commerce, forced the sale of Merck away from germany (there is still a german merck with the same name). this is no different.
What I fear: blaming on the immigrants.
Your duty as a parent is to your own children first. Not to other people’s children or to the state.
I don’t see any merit, honestly. That would assume one is able to audit every bit of code they run, including updates, and control the build system.

I mean, the Wally paper contains enough information to effectively implement homomorphic encryption for similar purposes. The field was almost entirely academic ~12 years ago…

I miss talking shop on HN. Comments like that are why we can’t have nice things.
Only if they actually cause cancer. The FDA's statement (https://www.fda.gov/food/hfp-constituent-updates/fda-revoke-...) says:

> The way that FD&C Red No. 3 causes cancer in male rats does not occur in humans. Relevant exposure levels to FD&C Red No. 3 for humans are typically much lower than those that cause the effects shown in male rats. Studies in other animals and in humans did not show these effects; claims that the use of FD&C Red No. 3 in food and in ingested drugs puts people at risk are not supported by the available scientific information.

if "these sort of things" aren't actually harmful, and what we see in Europe is mostly governments reacting to unscientific panic among their citizens, then I'd say it's other countries that are wild, not the United States.
A lot of other countries do not have the shear mass of industries and services that the US does.
I hate the stereotype in movies that jocks are bad.

There must be some bad apples but mostly they are focused on their sport and the team and don't have time or energy to make trouble, and if they do make trouble, they are off the team.

The time some people attacked me at my dorm I ducked into the room of the captain of the rugby team and that was the last time they came to my dorm. The captain of the football team at my high school was popular because he treated everybody well, I'd say the same about kids who were stars in youth soccer. In fact, even though I didn't feel terribly engaged with it at the time, youth soccer is a precious memory to me because it was one place where I was never mistreated (a group photo shows me standing next to the coach who probably gave me just a little extra attention because of my neurodivergence.)
My favorite is the matrix-like maneuvering about taxes. Now excise taxes and tariffs are cool. But "death tax", income tax, social security tax -- that's communist.