skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly this is probably the most realistic solution. The only reason all the shit ragebait addictive content is so bad is because it drives ad revenue.

I do think there's one exception/problem: youtube. While there's a lot of pregnant spiderman-elsa crap on it, there's also tons of historical, educational, investigative journalism, etc etc etc content there that strikes me as distinctly more valuable than literally anything that's ever existed on facebook, tiktok or even twitter.

And in addition to the backlog, there's an economics problem. Having good, free, easy, available video hosting is a huge good. It's also ridiculously expensive (videos are big, and you have to render multiple qualities of them, and store them forever) and a hard engineering (network and software) problem (what tiny % of video upload constitutes 90% of the actual network traffic? but you also have to brace for videos from nobodies going viral and needing to be served to the entire globe).

So how do you fund something like this? Normally I'd say, well, damn, this sounds like a utility. But given the political climate we're going into for the next 4 years, and the fact that even healthcare is privatized (well, the part of it that can generate a profit... unprofitable customers are of course pushed to the taxpayer)...
Laravel has something like this called Livewire. It's excellent.

Laravel is so much better than Django, but I just can't go back to PHP at this point.

https://livewire.laravel.com/
Thanks for the feedback!!
- Very good observation on the progress bar. We will address it!
- The count down should be synced worldwide, regardless of IP or device type. We will look into it and test it from different devices. Would you be up for sharing the device and the web browsers you are using? It would be super helfpul!
- Love the music idea. It could work well to incentive other people in your office to join as well :D
Looks like among other things this one is leaning on a lot of economic trends that started in the 80s and hoping if you draw an arrow to the 70s no one will notice.

Most economists date the big breakdown in real gdp vs real median wages to have started in the 80s.
Uranium contracts are long lived contracts. It doesn't make sense to kill off a contract in the middle. They also buy uranium from many other countries since it is available only in certain countries.
The problem with that premise is that almost every substance has a remote chance of causing cancer in some way or another. Just ask the state of California. So you would have to ban everything if that is really your stance.

The correct (and scientifically valid) thing to do is to only take action when there is actual evidence and proof of harm being done. Otherwise, anyone can simply say X is harmful and pass regulations to get their pet bogeyman pulled off the market, and that is basically what is happening here.
chip fabs are big and contain a lot of things like pumps (and even a few very exotic lasers). but they're not power-intensive the way a steel plant is - or even a datacenter.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42712142

> Removing dyes and healthier food in general is one of RFK's stated goals
Cool post, thank you for sharing, it could be a useful use case indeed.

You mention AI-generated code causing dependency issues. Are there plans to integrate AI-driven recommendations?
This was a direct consequence of asset-backed currency being converted to fiat currency unleashing the stock market and the creation of new money at will.
Displaced in terms of total population, but the aristocracy of the US was mostly Mayflower types will into the 20th Century.

I think some overstate the influence of Radical Protestants on American ideology with offhand references to Max Weber or by calling whatever their pet cause is a fight against "secular puritanism." On the other hand, I do think there are some interesting parallels.

For example, one could argue that the mistreatment of colonists by the mother country was overstated by a population already distrustful of the Crown. I'm no expert, but it would be interesting to read more about that dynamic.
There's a lot of issues with social media - I don't think anyone denies that. But not everyone thinks like the HN crew. What about the millions of users who actually enjoy FB and use it to connect with friends and family? To pretend that use case doesn't exist seems naive and biased. There's a reason these companies are so big - some people actually like them. Maybe they're the naive ones and we need to save them from themselves, but I don't think it's that black and white.
Yes? Employees should have a vested interest in the financial success of their company, and an ownership stake. That's how it used to be "in the good old days" when folks had both pensions and stock tying them to the long-term success of the business.

That worked quite well prior to robber barons looting and pillaging, declaring bankruptcy, and screwing the workers out of their pensions.
I am not sure if this still works, but 2-3 years ago I listened to a kindle book that I bought through my Echo show device. It was pretty good. I listened to it while I was cooking. It even allowed you to carry on where you left off. But I did notice that a few pages were skipped as I had read the book before. I have since packed away my echo show so I can't verify if they have removed this feature or not.
What Went Wrong – The Failure of Economic Growth
You know, there are no photographs of the man. Are we certain that he's not from the future, hiding out in his past as a fugitive?
Maybe this has evolved, but the version of this I was exposed to was in the context of French, where you would play these "ecoutez et repetez" things and the class would say things out loud. Pimsleur has a most likely well-deserved reputation for language fluency training, but I would go a step further.

For me the critical thing is hearing the playback of your own voice and being able to learn to hear the difference. I've encountered this with professional mimics / celebrity impersonators -- the most important thing to do is to hear what your voice sounds like.
The credibility of the food industry is so low that I think people would support bans on most additives on general principle. We look back at things like putting lead and radium in paint or using asbestos in insulation and say "they should have known better, how could they be so stupid". Well, good additives have a lengthy history of containing harmful additives and I think future generations will say the same about many of these currently in use. What's interesting is that from our current time we can see just how easily it happens, even with the amount of information available to average person.
do you really think fabs are labor-intensive, or that they discharge toxic waste?
Sure I did, just not to you directly. Read the full thread and the time stamps
> This is what I meant by "counter-steering" but 1/ it only works at relatively high speeds (above, say, 20 mph, which isn't high on a motorcycle, but pretty high on a bike)

No, it works at much lower speeds. This guy is not going 20 mph: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Counters...
> there is no reason to let a foreign adversary have a deniable propaganda line to millions of Americans

Is the argument itself correct or not? Or do we evaluate it based on motivation, i.e. it's ok when we do it because we have good reasons for it? Sounds like the ends justify the means to me.

The correct approach would be to increase the critical thinking skills of the population, increase transparency, require corporations to make algorithms fair and equitable. Require all feeds to be chronological or some other uniform, fair rule for showing posts. No boosting certain viewpoints, or paid promotions. But these things would bother corporations and politicians in the west as well as the external forces with "bad motivations", so just ban the external social networks.

The EU I think has a better approach, of course made possible because we don't have any powerful social networks of our own, and so nobody lobbies against these rules. I'm sure the DSA and DMA would be different (if they existed at all) if at least one of FAANG was European. Nevertheless, the concept is better.
Debugging the garbage other people committed using an LLM
> Does anyone have thoughts on why TikTok would choose to stop for existing users?

What business would choose to keep operating if it can't gain new customers? Think about it. The law makes it impossible for tiktok to grow or be profitable. What advertiser would be interested in a platform that will lose users every day and won't gain more in the future?

The law was sneakily and intentially written to outright ban tiktok. It would be like congress creating a law saying you specifically cannot buy more gas. You can keep using the gas in the car, but you can't fill up your tank anymore. Would you spend thousands to fix your car? Change the oil or the tire? No. You'd either sell the damn thing or just throw it away.
Nope and nope.
> support must be worse if you prefer free drivers
So there are models for Pose estimation like [PoseNet] or Qualcomm's [MediaPipe] that give you a graph of the body position. This metadata can be converted to a string representation and be fed into a generative model. If I record myself in different exercises, extract the poses, and label them with the appropriate steps, I might be able to perform few-shot inference or RAG over a set of labeled positions, such as the model can infer new body positions from exercise steps.

If that'd possible, then it is fairly easy:tm: to generate illustrations (e.g. like stickman figures. See [Kawamoto] for an example)

Of course, none of this is necessary if I can record (or let users record) and upload videos of each exercise, having enough of them to not feel they are repetitive.

[PoseNet](https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-models/tree/master/posenet)
[MediaPipe](https://huggingface.co/qualcomm/MediaPipe-Pose-Estimation)
[Kawamoto](https://github.com/kenkawakenkenke/stickfigure-recorder)
Normal human here, when that happens to me I use Google rather than post my question to a forum.

But it's ok if you don't know some words, just no need to tell everyone.
These graphs depict indicators with varying lead and lag, so of course you'd get a spread. Doesn't mean they don't share a root cause or set of causes.
You cannot destroy the Largest Dam ever built with conventional Ballistic Missiles but you can level the dam with a nuclear weapon, in which case why use the nuke on a dam why not use it directly on population centers.
> Additionally, there's plenty of "Upgrade to Pro" buttons sprinkled about. It's the freemium model at work.

I don't think they care much about few "Pro" upgrades here and there. The real money, and their focus as a company, is in enterprise contracts. Note that, Matthew Prince, the CEO, had outlined a few reasons why they have such a generous free tier on an Stack Exchange answer[1]. I think the biggest reason is this:

> Bandwidth Chicken & Egg: in order to get the unit economics around bandwidth to offer competitive pricing at acceptable margins you need to have scale, but in order to get scale from paying users you need competitive pricing. Free customers early on helped us solve this chicken & egg problem. Today we continue to see that benefit in regions where our diversity of customers helps convince regional telecoms to peer with us locally, continuing to drive down our unit costs of bandwidth.

Cloudflare had decided long ago that they wanted to work at an incredible scale. I would actually be very interested in understanding how this vision came to be. Hope Matthew writes that book someday.

[1]: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/88685.
I don't think this article is a good faith analysis of Homeschooling. Clearly the author was home schooled and had some concerns with how they were instructed. With that in mind the arguments that are brought up are very much ignoring the breath of options that are all covered under "homeschool". There is far more diversity in the home school world beyond academic overachiever and religious fundamentalist.

Fundamentally home school allows children to be taught in a way that is appropriate for them, and with the speed and oversight they require. Something that you can't really do in a corporate school setting. All three of my children learn at different paces, and require different amounts of involvement. They all require much more involvement then they ever got at traditional schools, and they have at times progressed through their coursework much faster or much slower then the "average" pace.

It is true that if you have a child that is a academic prodigy they will greatly benefit from homeschooling, and its true that keeping your children in your home can allow you to be the greatest influence in their moral and social instruction, but its also true that even "average" students will probably do better with 1-1 instruction from a parent who is well equipped then they will with a teacher who might be better trained, but is ill equipped to actually instruct each individual pupil.

As for the main point that somehow this is some form of elitism where homeschool families don't want their kids around the common rabble. The homeschool families I know range from households where both parents hold post secondary degree's, to ones where the parents got GED's, and the career expectations are suitably broad for the kids being schooled. This stands in stark contrast to traditional school which ranks its self on how many kids go to 4 year colleges, and looks down on anyone who would join a trade, or be a home maker. This is literally my biggest complaint with school in the Bay Area. If your kid didn't get into Berkeley or Stanford your household was perceived to be a failure, and if they had any desire to do something other then be a Product Manager at a FAANG then they were going to be forced to live at home forever or move to another state.
This article seems to conflate Facebook allowing (or not allowing) you to say whatever you want and the government doing so.

The First Amendment gives Facebook the right to ban specifically Robby Soave's articles for no reason whatsoever.

Some people say that the government needs to force places like Facebook to host more user content in various ways. It'll be interesting to see how that pans out.
sounds cool but how do you prevent it from false positives? What’s the accuracy rate so far?
The early waves of most communities is 'better'. Strangely this is really consistent, even if you've been on sites quite a bit.

One of the rules of moderation I believe in, is that the workload depends on the nature of the people in your community.

Oh, so communities follow the rules of subculture founding and decline ???

So there should be a point where things that were not cool, become cool again?
I remember so fondly coming home from high school and reading over my friends posts, curating the pins on my pin/cork board, messaging friends who would otherwise not be savvy enough to join MSN or IRC or yahoo messenger...

Now I feel physical disgust when I look at the FB logo
Thanks. Yes, CPTSD would be more accurate -- the result of a state of near-constant low-level fear. I had, and continue to have, massive trust issues, particularly at work. I struggle to think everyone doesn't secretly hate me and that I'm not constantly on the verge of getting fired, even though I can see it's not logical. Steadily getting better now thanks to CBT and similar techniques.

But I have lost many friends and career opportunities as a result of my time at school. I had a basically healthy and happy home environment, but as you say, school can still screw you up badly.
The only people asking for the return of a gold standard are those who are hoarding large quantities of gold. Ironically, the only reason they were allowed to hoard this large quantity of gold was due to the end of Bretton Woods which also ended the government's incentive to control the price of gold.
Idk if they're open source, but netlify was the company that I thought sort of made this feature free and easy to use.
Github pages is also a free alternative.
US citizens do not want this.

Every news article descending into tangents on any other point than that is part of why we can't have nice things.

The whole country has turned into some sort of lower primate improv troupe where whatever stupid thing comes up gets a "Yes and let's" diversion instead of an adult in the room standing up and cutting the crap.
No, you assign a risk score as well as a cost score to all the industrial inputs that you can use. In this case, there are readily available red food dyes (eg cochineal from industrially farmed insects) that have much lower risk scores (as they are from plant and animal sources) and not significantly different cost scores.

You also need to ask, what is the cost of not having this substance? In this case, the cost would be - you have food that isn't red. Is that a substantial problem for society?

To treat these as irrelevant and boil it down to "prove it is harmful or shut up" is needlessly reductive.
> Germany should have build up a "high tech" Internet industry

Could have been cool. But even project like a digital medical patient journal that other countries had for 2 decades they have trouble with.
Incorrect.

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-00830.pdf

Scroll down to "I. Introduction".

> In the Federal Register of February 17, 2023 (88 FR 10245), we announced that we filed a color additive petition (CAP 3C0323) jointly submitted by

RFK was not the HHS nominee in February 2023.

But it appears this process has been going even earlier than that: November 15, 2022 [0]

[0]: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/17/2023-03...
not sure how you expect me to take into account things you are saying in different threads after i made my original comment
I suppose it boils down to freedom of expression. Analog is a type of red plastic does nothing to humans, but can cause cancer if rats eat it. Do we ban it? What if we're actually trying to kill rats in our area?
You don't have to have a solution to recognize that there is a problem.
Yes, most people can understand the title even if every word isn't familiar. But that's HN these days, dumb jokes about the title and no substance:(
>But I don't buy it.

Because it didn't happen to you. You have no skin in that game.
Seems more like a problem with uneven application of bans.

Red dye 3 might cause cancer (maybe) but it's admittedly such a weak effect that studies aren't finding a link in humans.

Meanwhile, there are carcinogenic things like alcohol which anyone can buy (over 21).

Heck, we can't even mandate that alcohol must contain B12, which would absolutely save lives and prevent some of the serious injuries of alcoholism.

But we can ban this dye that may or may not in some very small percentage of people cause cancer.
I hadn't heard of rope data structures until I read about the xi editor (also written in Rust) a few years ago, but it looks like that's been discontinued.

https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor
>We (humans) don't subsist on some Matrix-like slop that provides all of our nutrients for no pleasure. Eating is a weird combination of necessity and pleasure activity. You could ask: if there's even a slight chance it causes cancer, and it adds nothing to the food other than a slightly more appealing taste, why risk it? You'd ban most spices with this line of reasoning.

I mean, we absolutely do that already. There's plenty of folks on a low sodium diet because while the salt tastes great, it's bad for them.

In this case we aren't talking about eliminating the color red entirely, we're arguing about a slightly different color. You can get red from a strawberry, raspberry, cherry skin, etc. which will work just as well. It just won't be the neon-red that red-5 produces.
You have some valid points, but this mostly reads as exasperated defeatism that doesn't offer any actionable solutions.
Thanks for your kind words!!
It'd be great if people stopped just copy-pasting stuff from LLMs and then responding to that instead of other real human people.

It's not a foregone conclusion that just because people haven't ingested things before doesn't inherently mean that ingesting them is bad. Saying it is is itself a pretty obvious logical fallacy. Now I'm not saying at all that ingesting oil, even byproducts after multiple rounds of synthesis, is a good idea. But it's not impossible to synthesize something edible out of something inedible, so the fact that oil is inedible doesn't mean that all oil derivatives are as well.
> using less water won't make it last longer when you represent a permille of the total consumption

Using less water will make finite water supply last longer. You yourself have a small effect, but it is an effect.

Compare that with the elections, where you're not going to have any impact whatsoever.

> The problem with climate change is that it's more like 95% of people doing nothing cause they just want to live a normal life, and 5% of people trying to do something in a futile way.

Those 5% can lobby, talk to friends and make it 10%, then maybe 20% and it starts to become a strong political force.

OTOH you appear to lobby for making 0% out of the 5% ...

> In the end it doesn't matter if a few million choose to cut down on consumption when the end result is exactly the same in an ocean of billions.

No, the result will not be exactly the same. If you e.g. produce less waste, then the total amount of waste will be smaller by that amount.

> That's more like a democratic fantasy, believing that most people would even chose to to the right thing if given the option, instead of the most convenient thing.

People have been convinced to do less convenient things. In most western countries, people learned to not throw trash on the sidewalk and make the extra effort to throw it in a in.
The things I really really really enjoy doing with my time are not (realistically) for sale

Do you sell your time for doing things you don’t love doing?
This is a slippery slope style argument with immediate overstretching into tiktok.

There’s a difference between learning google sheets and learning markdown.

And you are misinterpreting the desire to not deal with irrelevant complexity as some race to the bottom, as if it wasn’t constrained by the task itself.

The task of both wiki and google suite (in this case) is to create web documents with formatting and links. We clearly see what wins when there’s no additional constraints that wikipedia as a project imposes. Tiktok is completely incomparable to these and is not the “minimum state” of the same task.

This type of thought process of making everything as streamlined as possible is why that happens.

This is just an incomplete thought. Multiple factors at play here and only one of these is a type of thought process. This is as unreasonable as saying “attention to details is bad cause it’s a type of thought process that allows burglars to enter homes”.
Typical pathetic response from a silly political activist. There are tons of american companies operating in china. I listed few of the biggest. Google used to operate in china. But when china tighten their laws, google chose not to follow them and left. Probably because google, like facebook, are state sponsored propaganda outfits. Unlike tiktok...