skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those that are curious about the original ivermectin study:

"A few days ago, the [original ivermectin] study was retracted amid accusations of fraud and plagiarism. A masters student who had been assigned to read the paper as part of his degree noticed that the entire introduction appeared to be copied from earlier scientific papers, and further analysis revealed that the study's datasheet posted online by the authors contained obvious irregularities.

[...]

"No-one spent the 5 minutes required to download the data file that the authors had uploaded online and notice that it reported numerous deaths happening before the study had even begun. No one copy-and-pasted phrases from the introduction into Google, which is all it takes to notice just how much of it is identical to already-published papers."

https://www.sciencealert.com/ivermectin-study-controversy-is...
I think you're missing the forest for the trees. The surplus we are going to have of renewable power is going to be huge. We are going to build way more than we need for peak grid demand, because we are going to need as much as we can get our hands on for direct air carbon capture. Our peak electric facilities are going to be phenomenally large, and the storage we need to cover the overnight grid is going to be a very minor cost component by comparison.
Wait, you're calling my comment "strange" and then you come back with something like "comedian is a job?" Maybe you misunderstood me because you don't know what a comedian is. It's not a job. You tell jokes in front of people for one-off fees. I would take a WAG and say that 90% of comedians don't cover their living expenses from the craft.

If you're serious about comedy today, you're probably going to live on the road. If you aren't on the road, it's because you don't have the means or the bookings (or you're in a pandemic.) People on the road don't have much bills. The people at the top might, but if you're a young comedian, maybe you're living out of your car. Your bills come from the people controlling the pump you're getting your gas from.

Comedian must be the strangest existence. You sort of get into that mindset by not taking anything seriously, certainly not bills. Then at some point he got into Fear Factor and I imagine that bills were just a question of how large he wanted to live, not worrying about his electric getting cut off. Then he landed the Spotify gig and became a member of a super exclusive club of people who have signed a 100+ million dollar contract. When this dude says he doesn't have to worry about paying bills, he's on a way different level than most people posting here.
> so your problem is not the potential of the damm thing listening on you 24/7?

How do you know your smartphone isn't doing the exact same thing?
I don't know the guy, but one property owner here is sitting on a lot of property he bought ages ago that he doesn't even bother to rent out.

I think the reason is that the repairs any tenant would demand would be costly, and he paid next to nothing for the buildings. So, in his calculation, he makes enough from appreciation (assuming an eventual sale) that he has no need to rent it.

Once you have enough capital, you no longer need to optimize at this level. He may be leaving money on the table, but he's wealthy enough that it doesn't matter. He can afford to be lazy and still turn a profit, while letting the community bear the negative consequences of his vacant eyesores until he inevitably sells them for dozens of times what he paid.

Speculation is the real value in real estate. If you don't need money from renters to make your loan payments, why even bother with them?
The classes getting shut down are equivalent to SAT prep schools, they make billions of dollars of money by fearmongering parents into purchasing more classes because their peers are buying more classes and thus their kids will be left behind in the university application race because their kids don't get as much practice as other kids. Kids in China are then forced to these cram schools after school for 4-5 hours and it becomes a neverending vicious cycle. Most importantly the kids targeted are junior to middle schoolers so it becomes ridiculous after a while piling on the work.
I don't see why you would find this confusing, do you think you are at the height of wealth? If you could just not on any given day, would you not feel wealthier?
Why is China smashing its tech industry?
I don’t think functional prototypes have negative value…
Those numbers are only extremely weakly correlated to specific jobs and specializations for those jobs. As a non-expert in this field it also does nothing to inform me of how readily those workers might transition to roughly equivalent jobs and how many are in need of a greater skills assessment and adaption of experiential knowledge to a proper field.
Nit: Breaks do change because of regenerative breaking.
The GDP of the US last year was less than 21 trillion, and we're talking about fraud that's allegedly 400 billion. Ergo, we're talking about ~2% of GDP. That's not "chasing pennies."
My recollection is that the Amiga was 99% dead by 1995, at least in the UK, and by 2000 it was 100% gone.

The PC killed it off. Even before 3D accelerators came along, there'd been years of year-on-year performance improvements, each time at the same or lower prices thanks to competition between suppliers of commodity parts. You also had byte-per-pixel display memory, and much better ALU throughput than the Amiga, so the games would look more interesting even when they weren't the nice high production value stuff you'd now be able to get from US developers.
It's make more sense for them to be distributed by the tax authorities, but we love to do things the stupid way.
Do you mean that Chinese education must involve Western values? For example, is logical reasoning a Western value, and the Chinese government cannot exist if their citizens think logically? Maybe freedom is something that is universally desired by all humans, and the Chinese don't know that.

I'd actually guess that a ban on for-profit tutoring is a larger risk for the CCP. Students spending their time unsupervised could lead to more "unwanted though" than students spending their time memorizing and reasoning around well-vetted facts about how governments work or about the history of Confucianism.
It’s really unfortunate the position they’re put in. It’sa hangover from the 1800s really when they were part of the professions and almost minor aristocracy. We need more competent technicians who are willing to work with their clients and admit that they don’t know the answer and then actually do the research.
Clever idea, very pretty, nice and cheap. I bought a copy, and I'll check it out later. But good job!

Working on a game myself, but I'm nowhere near ready to put it on Steam yet, even on Early Access.
It makes me wonder how these socially inept people lived life before Facebook ran their lives for them. Perhaps they cared about things more than following some high school drop out they once knew in a prior life decades before.
WebOS was great on the phone I had.. forget the name. I really wish it had gotten more traction. Easy for webdevs to build apps for, and still would allow lower level access for games and such.. by now it would of been really dialed in and the modern hardware would of offset performance issues.
How vegan activists are saving Spain’s farm animals
Pretty sure this is not the rationale behind this move, because those are very small links, if parents don't have money for cram school, they won't pay for it. It's more because cram schools culture in China and East Asia is a toxic, vicious cycle preying on young kids in junior to senior school by overburdening them with work so they can have an edge over their peers in university application exams and then grabbing money from the parents.
Yea, Palm Pre - I had one, it was great!
I try a variety of sources, and use Calibre [1] to manage my ebook library. First Amazon (Calibre will strip the DRM), and I'll step through Barnes and Noble, ebooks.com; failing any of those, libgen (and I'll buy a used dead tree copy to pair with it). I do my best to be a responsible intellectual property consumer.

[1] https://calibre-ebook.com/
That's a wonderful quote. I've only read Mere Christianity by CS Lewis, would you recommend reading the book you quoted?
I never said I was confused, or that I was at the height of wealth. I said I went from having near unlimited agency (working remote for a high paying job that didn't take up much of my time and nothing at all to take care of at home) to having almost none and I feel far wealthier. I am sure any of my friends and family would say that I'm wealthier now with a family as well.
Yes it's really annoying because they also aren't available in the UI for fusion drives. You have to go into the command line tools in recovery mode, break the fusion drive volume down into its constituent pieces, and wipe the HDD separately, then rebuilt the fusion drive manually.
I've tapered down my usage of Facebook over the past few years. Now when I use it, it just makes me angry.

Why would I spend time on a website that makes me angry?

What's worse is the implied social obligation to use Facebook. My mom occasionally informs me that I've been invited to a family event through Facebook. I now just wait for a normal invitation, (mail, phone call, email,) or ignore the event.

I just don't want to get sucked into Facebook just to check on party invites.
So Facebook is no longer showing all posts to people who intentionally subscribe to a page? If so, what, if anything, does “subscription” or “following” mean, then?

I realize I’m showing my age here, but I remember when missing an issue of a paper “subscription” was cause for anger and resulted in an apology from the publisher (and usually a redelivered copy). But I also remember when “follow” meant “show me all new posts from this user” on Facebook, too, back before they fucked up the News Feed in the 2010s and turned it into their manure delivery system.
The tax authorities don’t do such a great job of making sure they send the money to the right people either.
I use ID.me to track down my payments...It was indeed a very PITA and I can't imagine those who are less computer literate and those where English is a 2nd language can navigate this complex system. It needs you to turn on your webcam - what if you're using a desktop? I had to take a picture of my license...what if someone doesn't have a smartphone? Even if you do, would they know how to get a photo easily from phone to a computer before the timeout?

There has to be something better.
This connection is certainly typical western stereotype of Xi. If something doesn't make sense, then it probably does not make sense to Mr. Xi either. By forcing laughable narrative to Mr
Xi, the Western media achieve a form a detachment for the western people, which become convenient when the situation arises, for example, maybe one day we need to start a war against China, and it's certainly helpful that everyone not only think Mr. Xi is evil, he is also a ridiculously stupid fat moron!
I'm 45 and not completely unfamiliar with the problem.
Great question. Until last year, Salt Lake City was probably the most convenient airport in all of the US. So what did they do? Tear it down and replace it with a new terminal that requires a 15-20 minute walk to get to any gate.
I think this should be looked at a lens of what’s net gained and net loss. From my point of view , if Apple was to allow other engines on their devices chrome will be the de-facto winner.

No Apple is not going to try to make Safari compete with chrome , especially on windows.

No developers are not NOT going to use Chrome as their target browser and use Chrome push standards

Yes people will switch over to chrome since it will be the one browser developers will target for sure to make sure every hiring works. All it takes if for one website to recommend it in order for users to switch.

Ironically the only thing saving the web from complete Google Control is the opposite of competition. I do not see a scenario where competition does occur and Google doesn’t win. Especially on a service they’re not willing to put in their death bin.
You can use this to your advantage when negotiating if you can figure out a way for your official rent payment to be what they want but receive rebates or other cost cutting measures so the net payment is what you want.
> study on low long term impacts on children for example

How can that be proven? This pandemic is less than two years old.
“Yes, we know Facebook is not the only harmful corporation on Earth, but sweet-jeepers-boy-howdy it is a blood-curdling fart in the elevator of existence.”

I can definitely relate to this.
This is really interesting to watch, I hope there are some academics out there charting out the facts of the rise and fall of social networks for the rest of us to follow along, there are so many interesting things happening in the US big tech world.

I think people overestimate how quickly competition happens and underestimate how powerful it is. There is a massive hole for new competitors to move in to the social media space. I see Brett Weinstein has finally decided YouTube is untenable, for example. This is just another data point in a trend of people with interesting opinions rediscovering the dangers of centralisation.

I single out this quote from early in the article:

> For the past few years, we at Damn Interesting have been hearing from scores of long-time fans who were under the mistaken impression that we had ceased all operations years ago.

What this says to me is it takes people a few years to notice when a social network is no longer providing value. That sits well with my assumption that users actually leaving a platform is a long lagging indicator that the platform is dead. The early sign is that the content producers are being squeezed.
I mean I hate Facebook because they messed up the feed, but looking at it from their point of view, why would anyone advertise if they just give you an rss(like) feed to your fans? Is there some balance of algorithmic feed with ads where it isn’t awful and some people buy ads?

Maybe there is but Facebook is just too greedy?
Any sources to site?
Huh... That's plausible. But I'm curious, how this bot would work? How does it "know" it should make this particular submission?
Footage of “sinister” police raid on Antepavilion building triggers anger
I had someone file for unemployment in my name. I got an email from our Human Resources telling me my unemployment claim was rejected because I’m still employeed, with some information about what to do next if I hadn’t filed the claim (I hadn’t)
> If you want to fix it, you have to be honest about the problem.

If you read the comments on this topic it’s pretty clear that there are a bunch of people that don’t want to fix the problem.
Same with YouTube. It is infuriating as a user.
It's far worse than almonds.

Saudi Arabia is using California land to grow water intensive crops to feed their cows. (because it's illegal to do so in their own country).. and they pay next to nothing.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-w...
it will be something to see when people realize miami is not the netherlands and can't just be "sea walled from the sea"
What If Popular Websites Were Made in the ’90s?
What good are you to the family, and people who depend on you, if you don't have the autonomy to spend time with them and help them when they need it?

You're much less good to them (up to the point to being an absentee parent because e.g. you work too much) if you don't have autonomy.
The point of advertising is to reach people who aren’t already your customers.
The NES sound hardware is pretty simple and easily emulated, you can find some nice virtual synths: https://www.mattmontag.com/projects-page/nintendo-vst You might even just be able to use any old synth and its basic square, triangle, etc. waves to get really close to the NES sound.
I got the impression from their page that the cells are immersed in liquid electrolyte. I’d guess that humidity shouldn’t effect things much
A point, not the only point.
You can do that (and millions do) and be literally broke or worse (in debt).

Tons of people by a $5 coffee or a $50 steak that they can't really afford (because they have credit card debt, because that way they don't save anything for retirement or an emergency, and so on).

Wealth ain't that.
You'd probably want to remove that check mark if you want to move your taskbar (the checkmark indicates you want to lock it in place so it can't be moved).
"Ailun" is right.

I'm not sure where the original commenter is at in China where 50% are not going to high school. "Ailun" is also right about the private school thing. It's big in China. Finally, the idea that Chinese students are not learning calculus is patent nonsense.
Journalists? What? It's written by a doctor and medical students.

Authors: John Havlik, Pranam Dey, and Howard P. Forman

Bios: John Havlik and Pranam Dey are medical students at Yale University. Dr. Howard P. Forman (@thehowie) is a professor of public health policy, management, economics and radiology at Yale.
And don't think that those studies that you got sent by the article supporting a claim are the only studies concerning that claim. Nobody will link you the study that discredits them, but it will often exist.
I grabbed a copy because it's a Weinberg book, and although I found it a little same-y (i.e. it covers similar bases to his previous books of the same level - not much electromagnetism), it's a nice one to have on the shelf.
Quantity proves the article's statement is factually false, regardless of quality.
There's a difference between investing in the Chinese stock market vs investing in a Chinese company listed in the US stock market as an ADR. An ADR usually goes through more vetting - but that doesn't mean there are not scams. Luckin Coffee comes to mind...but in the US we also have Enron.
Gaokao tests are mostly fixed subjects. Therefore tutoring focus on how to answer and solve questions that ultimately drive from some common knowledge.

It's like to learn how to describe the same thing with many different methods.

Sure, it's not entirely a waste time that the tutoring can teach some interesting aspects. But at the end of the day, it does not teach anything that was not already covered in the school teaching.

And we all know that Chinese students in US tend to limit their thinking in narrow scope. Then why not let the students to absorb non curriculum staff outside of the class, therefore eliminating most of the tutoring.
According to HN today social media is a necessity that must be forced on children:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27942843

Parents that say otherwise are the great evil. It does make me wonder how many of those wonderful individuals (experts) actually are parents.
how is this different to zircon
It’s fine, a lot of people still use Safari on desktop despite Google Chrome being available. And developers have to support it all the same
Scientists Have Created the First Genetically Engineered Marsupial
TAL, mentioned in the article, is listed in the US stock market, NYSE specifically.
Perhaps, but it's one of the safest bets to make that huge multinationals with billions of private interests do things for profit, rather than for "the customers", "to change the world", and so on.

It takes a special kind of naivety to believe something like Google's early "Don't be evil" slogan.
> There has to be something better.

In today's world, the short answer is probably that there should be an iOS and Android app. That probably would have a higher average success rate than a desktop computer.
Yeah if you wanted to you could also probably use VS Code, there is a .vscode directory in the GitHub source code so I imagine the author used that too at some point.
> It’s crazy to me that this ‘after school study’ was identified as a major reason for declining birth rates, as if decades of policy and the ensuing culture could turn on a dime and the government could ramp womb production by 250% from the party offices.

It is again another example of superficial interpretation of what's happening in China.

Benefits of for profit off school tutoring of core subjects like Chinese literature, math, English have been debated for a lot time in China by educators, academics and government officials. And there were study and theories that those tutoring have no link to actual academic benefits. There were such studies in China, Germany, Korea and many other countries.

For profit k-12 tutoring companies have been using all means to drive up parents' anxieties of fearing their children to be left behind if not to take the courses.

And because of fierce competitions, most smaller k-12 tutoring companies couldn't survive and they often make a big sales push to collect as much tuition, as much as tens of thousands of RMB per child before they close and run. It happened so many times that media lost interest in them.

Chinese government always plays heavy hands in market. This is no different. But the decision itself isn't as simple and sensational as to boost child birth.
> The merchants of bullshit are the same cast of characters, on the same side of the political spectrum: ...Vietnam

Fact Check 101. US Presidents involved in Vietnam

Kennedy (D)

Johnson (D)

Nixon (R)

While they may have been sociopaths, I have no idea about that, they were definitely not a member of the same political party, or highly similar.

Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
Isn't this also true of Twitter? Why always such unique hate for FB? Because they don't deplatform conservatives quite as aggressively as Twitter? "We’re sure many of you, like us, have experienced first-hand how Facebook gives people license to be their worst selves. It can elevate mere differences of political opinion into anger and hostility, pushing friends and family into extreme views, turning loved ones into ugly caricatures of their former selves. Perhaps you have even regretted some of your own posts there; the Facebook interface is designed to make it difficult to engage in good-faith disagreements."
> If a republican says abortion wrong...

Whoa! Let's not get into politics. ;)

You took my comment out of context. I'll take fault for not explaining myself.

Morgan Housel writes for the wide audience of people who might need info about how to handle finances. The target persona is probably someone who has high paying job. Joe Rogan went a path which is probably as far opposite of this you can get. I love the list though. MMA commentator with a company which has only recently been hitting it big. Among the earliest comedian podcasters, which was probably a long grind meant to get more bookings rather than make money directly and then the Fear Factor thing. Just seems like Joe Rogan doesn't really fit as the sort of person you would take something away from while also reading Morgan Housel.

> That's how he got famous

I'm a fan and I love stand-up comedy. The thing that's so cool about stand-up is that even when comics turn mega-stars, they still turn up unannounced at hole-in-the-wall clubs. When I call him a comedian, it's because once a comedian, always a comedian. And I say that with the greatest love.
> Are you suggesting that HN is anti-lists?

This gave me a seriously hearty laugh. They're just in bed with "Big List"!