skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Australia, we call this 'cultural cringe', and also express strong preferences for foreign produced media.

I personally would rather stare at a blank wall than read fiction by local authors- it is always too familiar a setting and doesn't provide the escapism I am looking for.
National, standardized, digital ID is inevitable.
Are you sure it's not more simple, less cynical? Perhaps morality of the time and place didn't want people to be conspicuous-consuming assholes, and saw it as the duty of the state to uphold.
Are the majority of public students, in the year the commenter specified, not accurate...?
Entertainment was often held to buy votes or influence. The gold vase law was enacted by Emperor Tiberius, who seemed to dislike opulence in general.
Someone give this man a bachelor in marketing. Bravo!
> why does China suddenly want more children?

Body count is important.
> it lasted shorter and was overall better than a common cold

The illness was described as causing total debility for 36 hours, like food poisoning. That is much worse than a common cold, IMO, which generally doesn't stop me from doing any activity and is just a nuisance.
I don't know if we'll ever see a truly bipartisan digital currency in the form we know it now. Fraud prevention and similar services exist in the US government to prevent extreme exploitation by bad actor businesses, which rules out the support of many people in the government who could work to create any such currency. Protection procedures exist only from government institutions, and these range from hard to completely impossible to make with a cryptocurrency or similar systems.

That said, a digital currency (as well as secure identification) would certainly reduce things like credit card fraud or identity theft. So maybe it balances out? This is really difficult to answer definitively lol
Herbert Hoover championed and then signed a sumptuary law regulating the number and type of pieces in a cutlery set.

The rise of machine made cutlery led to an explosion of different kinds of forks, knives and such, and keeping up with the Joneses causing stress on households.
I maintain notes about related social media questions and ideas that may help: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/social-network-plan
This kind of fraud is more related to the lack of a trustworthy digital identity than to digital currency.
its always about the elite and what they like.
first comment!
> Abolishing these kinds of systems and banning them seems honestly right to me and meritocratic.

It seems neither to me - it’s based on the false equating of school with education and it creates a totalitarian state monopoly on education.
I am looking to do the same. What are the best alternatives to reach your followers? Do the majority of users still read their emails?
Sure, but how do you find people who could be potentially good advisors?
Blocks can be up to 4mb. You could store all your passwords, private keys, contact/identity info, etc
I see decent bit of parallels with such cram schools and Leetcoding for FAANG applications.

I just completed a final interview round for Google and went through 300+ problems on LC. It improved my test taking ability a lot, but in the actual job will be completely useless. Similar to the Chinese children, this artificial testing is getting more and more competitive.

Just wanted to bring it up.
Also why is this list so US centric? I see titles relating to small-time American politics personalities.
Nextdoor was good when posts were local to 1 neighborhood (~100 people). Now that posts default to 20+ neighborhoods in a 10 mile radius, the conversations are far less personal and neighborly. And more political topics now, and less moderation.

Pushing beyond Dunbar's number in order to maximize growth and "engagement" was a mistake.
Is being a refusenik alone justifying the charge of arrogance, or was "Craig" smh arrogant beyond merely being a stick in the mud?
How does this compare with LFS (Linux from Scratch)?
Is it an example of the suckless philosophy?(suckless.org)

Inquiring minds want to know!
Nextdoor is, at least in my area, 10x more toxic than Facebook ever has been.
Wow, I'm really digging that minimal css design! Really tasteful and keeps the site usable while smartly using <pre> tags for the main content area.
Study on Electromagnetism of Vaccinated Persons in Luxembourg
Then how would you know about all the interesting stuff you’re missing out on in FB marketplace?
It is totally about preventing alternatives to the App Store.
> but the numbers around unemployment insurance fraud are unbelievable. Axios reported that as much as half of all unemployment insurance paid out has been stolen

If we’re talking about theft, why not talk about government bailouts of banks, low inheritance tax for the 1%, the corrupt military contracts and the millions of other ways the elite plunders the commons and steals from the working class?

I’m pretty sure when we have the numbers somewhere in the future, unemployment insurance fraud will be a drop in the bucket compared to all of that.

Also, seeing the level of alienation; the miserable conditions of American ‘jobs’ these days (I’m looking at you Bezos), I seriously do not blame people for trying to get more cash to escape their exploitation.
In my experience, doing leetcode to such an extent is in general useless for job searches. Companies are not stupid, and your ability in solving the technical problem is only a very small part of the interview rubric. I’ve done 5, maybe 10 leetcode problems and never had an issue interviewing.
Point stands that a private service is not a public delivery mechanism unless specifically contracted to do so.
Show me a traditional App Store app that doesn’t pay 30% of IAP to Apple.
Looks interesting, and generally always like to see how someone puts a new distro together, but “simple” here is a very specific definition of simple.

This is not a trivial, easy, type of simple.

Rather a raw and uncomplex simple.

Not going to assume either is better, but somewhat curious which people default to assuming and/or preferring.
Not really if you've ever driven a manual transmission. Regen usually is stronger but the drive feel is not dissimilar.
Easy, any app that is making less than a million a year, or any app where people have been subscribed for over a year. They pay 15%. Also you didn't specify the app even had to be paid, so any free app counts too.
What is not explained is how Sonderman came into possession of @Tennessee's IRL details. Is this connected with the "OG account" crew and their infiltration of Twitter? That's a big story in itself.
Sure, there is some number at which this becomes true. But we’re talking about landlords who have supposedly kept properties off the market for years at a time in order to rake in the tax benefits.

Keeping properties off the market for years at a time in order to mitigate the risk of actually having tenants is not a very good plan.
It’s clear companies are now going overboard with algorithms.

Instead of getting fancy, they should just give it to you straight. Chronological ordering. You subscribe to a page? You see that content. You don’t follow something? You don’t see that content.

Just keep it simple. Will there be less revenue? Perhaps, but the platform may become more enjoyable to use.
"less is more" doesn't imply trivial/easy, instead it implies that tradeoffs were carefully considered and made.
Also consider that Chinese people who study abroad are paying the full sticker price of a US university, so it's really not any sort of representative sample of Chinese education. Hell, paying full sticker price for a US education is a tough lift for most Americans, who have higher standard of living.
Wow I was about to ask the reason why Chinese government is doing this. Thanks for giving us such detailed answer and context
Hydrogen-air batteries already exist and work extremely well. I think we are approaching the end of people seriously trying to make a new novel type of metal-air battery. Stuff like these are probably the last of its kind.

BTW, hydrogen-air battery = hydrogen fuel cell, if you didn't realize that.
A friend of mine tutors Chinese kids in English with VIPKid. It's kind of like Uber/gig work for tutors. You take the work as you have time for it. Some of them make decent side money doing this.
A lot of us here also like reading things for the sake of curiosity.
Almost the entire second paragraph is patently false, you probably should have stayed in r/China.
Facebook and Twitter went from having relatively resource light pages to having "simple" interfaces that somehow use 2GB RAM per tab in Chrome or Firefox. Same thing with Reddit and its redesign.
So Mass Hysteria then
Once I realized that FB was controlling what posts I see, I started the painful process of deleting my account. I was furious that a friend of mine was in town, posted on FB but they filtered the post. Then I realized that they were blocking my posts from being seen my actual friends (not FB 'friends'). It was 2014, FB DELETE (disable? Who really knoes with those bastards). Wish I never signed up to the toxic dump of a website.

Check out Neal Stephenson Fall or Dodge In Hell. As usual, Neal called it.
>Facebook that won was more like Wikipedia.

Wikipedia actually is failing as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0P4Cf0UCwU
Korea has been going through a very similar struggle regarding its cram schools, with regulations on maximum fees, allowed times etc being imposed, and both parents and cram schools developing elaborate subterfuges to work around them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagwon#Regulation

Until the underlying incentives (= having a single exam basically decide your life) are fixed, this move in China seems equally likely to be ineffective.
Based on my experience (I designed pharmaceutical clinical trials in an earlier life) this is much harder todo than it sounds. You have to start early (Phase 1) and what you end up with goes on your label (basically the package insert). You don’t always end up where you want to.

The real shenanigans appear once your drug is approved.
The linked post was literally from 2008
What's a TAL?
Oh well. Now I'm disappointed.
Why would there be a lawsuit? There's no law that forces local government to run a media company or media companies to run government announcements for free. If the local government had decided to advertise in the local newspaper then the citizens would have to subscribe to this newspaper and pay for all issues in the hope that some of them contained public announcements. Facebook has a different business model and, in this case, the local government (which was elected by the citizens) decided this was a better match for its community's needs. If the citizens don't like it they always have the option to elect someone else instead. (Although, in all likelihood, receiving a decent number of complaints would probably do the trick too.)
I think this is the declaration for the volume containing the conference in question?

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1956/1/...

Higher acceptance rate, but more reviewers per paper.
That’s like telling kernel developers to go back to tech support jobs. Most of those losing jobs are not assembly workers.
Depends on a bunch of things - how hard are you pressing on the brakes? above a certain threshold you're going to exceed the max current of the electrical subsystems and the traditional brakes will kick in (you don't WANT to hit that truck do you) - also once the battery is full the regen system has nowhere to dump that energy, my Prius behaves slightly differently as it switches over from regen braking once the battery is full.
Video discussing what this retraction actually means

https://odysee.com/@DarkHorsePodcastClips:b/ivermectin-meta-...

> One of the virtues of meta-analysis is that it allows conclusions to be adjusted with changing evidence. One Randomized Controlled Trial included in the BIRD Group's meta-analysis of Ivermectin has been challenged in The Guardian. It is unclear if the study in question is fatally flawed. In this clip, Tess Lawrie shows us what happens to the meta-analysis when the suspect study is eliminated. Answer: the estimate of the medication's effectiveness change somewhat (prevention of death drop's from 62% to 49%. Prophylactic effectiveness goes up slightly from 86% to 87%. Confidence intervals become somewhat wider). The conclusion of the analysis remains the same: Ivermectin reduces deaths substantially and is a very effective preventive measure against the contraction of COVID-19.

Tess Lawrie is an MD and PHD, external analyst for the World Health Organization, and an expert in analysis of medical evidence.
I still don't understand.

> if the developer had cut the rent in half to get the building full, the banker now has to lower the building's value from $10M to $5M, and therefore the maximum loan is reduced to $4M. But the developer owes $8M to the bank, and doesn't have the money to pay it off. Not even the $4M to cover the difference and refinance the rest.

Why do they still owe $8M if the loan was changed to $4M?

And why can't they pay it back since now they have a full building of paying tenants compared to a previously empty building not making any money?
I wonder how long before the groups on these platforms realize how much the social media companies are using the same variable rewards, random payoff, low friction, and rule of reciprocity to manipulate the groups or companies into buying (or continuing to buy) ads? Measuring ad effectiveness is already hard, now the social media giants are both the platform and the technology for measuring "engagement".

Isn't it blindingly obvious that organizations that use social media to reach their audiences are essentially putting coins in a slot machine, pulling the "show my content" lever, and getting a good feeling when the metrics show their post 'went viral'?
Thanks for the nuanced view.

While I'm sure these measures do some good overall, I hope this doesn't escalate the chinese education system into cultivating a bubble of thought similar to colonial era china. Eventually, they should let the kids be exposed to the thoughts of the wider world when they are of age.
Getting rid of public school because we cannot class-action Instagram or whatever would be a truly profound failure.
This story is blatantly being artificially pushed to the top of HN.

https://ibb.co/4Ns8DWk
> current generation that went through those arms race think it's enough and decide not to play the game a second time.

it doesn't work this way, because if an action gives you an advantage over your competition, that action will be taken, and only those who don't take that action suffers. Thus, everyone takes action and leads to this arms race.

It is so for advertising for companies. it's the same for private tutoring.
BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered (2016) [pdf]
So sad. My mom bought a used copy of The First Three Minutes years ago when I was in high school. Very readable, got me interested in physics.
I really appreciate this explanation, thank you.
I think it's more akin to telling COBOL programmers that everyone has migrated and that their skills aren't needed anymore
I think the goal is to put more educational resources into public systems a.k.a. a more equal world. But the competition is there so unless they decide to tickle that one (gonna take a lot more than a few policies) no policy is gonna work.
How did this get to #4 on the homepage with only 6 upvotes at the time? That seems almost impossible without manipulation.
They're not designed for tourists, and Penn Station has all the ambience of a shoebox, but at least the connection from AirTrain to LIRR is seamless; find out which platform has the first train departing from Penn (always something around) and then take 1 elevator. You'll have to stand near the door with your lugggage though.

The real issue is that tourists just go "oh I should use the subway", partially because the LIRR doesn't obviously say it's going to Manhattan in the Jamaica terminal, partially because people are way more familiar with the subway, and partially because the fare is much lower (~$7 lower during peak hours). That connection is bad.
You’ve exactly described the Facebook “Boost” button, with its murky (at best) effectiveness, and pervasiveness throughout FB’s UI.
Related:

Pinczakko's "All Things BIOS" website:

https://sites.google.com/site/pinczakko/

Including such articles as:

"A BIOS Modification Journey":

https://sites.google.com/site/pinczakko/a-bios-modification-...

"Preliminary BIOS Modification Guide":

https://sites.google.com/site/pinczakko/preliminary-bios-mod...

PDS: A lot of interesting articles about The x86 PC BIOS, IMHO...
They don't seem to be first off the block. An advanced stage venture (mentioned in the article)..

[ESS] already has a factory pumping out flow batteries just south of Portland, Oregon. Its core product is the Energy Warehouse, which fits a rotund tank and several stacks of battery materials into a shipping container, along with the necessary electronics... During a June visit, I saw a test line in which robots prepared cells to be glued together into the battery stack that the proprietary iron liquid flows through.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/ess-is-betting-the-worl...
It’s not just teenage years. It’s also overall:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29557759/
“It is now incontrovertible that heavy use of cannabis increases the risk of psychosis. There is a dose-response relationship and high potency preparations and synthetic cannabinoids carry the greatest risk. It would be wise to await the outcome of the different models of legalisation that are being introduced in North America, before deciding whether or not to follow suit.”
Yeah so we are going back to square one.
> The story was genuine
Debian 11 – Tested Hardware and Statistics
This was only true a couple months ago and required a them to be sued by Epic (and a general "trust busting" attitude from the new admin) for them to drop it. They didn't do it out of the goodness of their hearts.
I think newer/more recent posts can hit the front page with fewer upvotes as a way for potentially interesting topics to get out of “new”. I wonder if it could also be a function of how many users are currently on the site? So late on a Saturday night perhaps it only requires a handful of upvotes for a new post to hit the front page while a post in the middle of the day during the week would need more.

Either way, this definitely isn’t the first time I’ve seen something on the front page with only a few votes so I’m certain it’s nothing nefarious.
You can’t continue to use unsustainable farming practices. The local future of farming will be combinations of permaculture food forests in public spaces, rooftop gardens, vertical high efficiency (closed system) farms, etc.
What's the causative link here? That parents will have only one kid because they will put all their resources into that one child instead of having more kids if they didn't feel the need to put all resources in one kid?
> If so, what, if anything, does “subscription” or “following” mean, then?

It means Facebook is using its system to game page owners into buying "boosts" or straight up ads. We know social media companies use the same psychological tricks that casinos use to get users to keep coming back, would it shock anyone to know that the company is turning the technology towards organizations and companies that have hitched their fortunes to it? All FB has to do is massage the algorithms just right to generate appropriate variable rewards and random payoffs to nudge page owners into thinking paying for attention is a good deal.
Don't mods boost certain links they think are interesting?
> The story was genuine, but didn't include anything about vaccine deaths. But in this context it would give the false impression that the death rate statistics had come from the leak.
I'm fairly certain you're correct, but the fact that various secure delete tools overwrite data multiple times probably helps propagate this myth.
Can the authors expound on the reasons why they can't compile their language's string semantics into whatever representation will be used by WASI? Both C++ and Rust support numerous string representations, C++ even more so than Rust.
... after that, at least some of European governments started with not informing their population about the catastrophe and lying frantically about the lack of risks, with full support from the TV stations.
At least in France, where the tradition to infantilise the citizens was apparently as strong back then as it is today.
So you're correct of course, but, ironically, I lived in a historical area which had strict rules about what could and could not be landscaped. I literally had the plants that were legal for me to have.

Please find attached a story about the City of Orange suing its residents for landscaping with drought resistant plants.

"Orange officials sue couple who removed their lawn
By Amina Khan
March 2, 2010 12 AM PT

Some Southern California cities fine residents for watering their lawns too much during droughts.

But in Orange, officials are locked in a legal battle with a couple accused of violating city ordinances for removing their lawn in an attempt to save water.

The dispute began two years ago, when Quan and Angelina Ha tore out the grass in their frontyard. In drought-plagued Southern California, the couple said, the lush grass had been soaking up tens of thousands of gallons of water -- and hundreds of dollars -- each year."

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-mar-02-la-me-ba...
Do you ask the same questions when the same thing happens with pro-Ivermectin articles?
> I think the distributed answers have failed, sadly, mostly due to barrier to entry.

Any new non-distributed social network would face an even higher barrier to entry. Without support for the ActivityPub protocol, the social network would not be interoperable with existing fediverse accounts, including Mastodon's nearly 1 million active users. Instead, you would start from zero.

Mastodon stats: https://fediverse.party/en/mastodon

If you want to create a new social network, supporting ActivityPub would be the strongest boost you could give it from day one.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
Not typical (tuition was high when I went there relative to similarly ranked schools), but also probably not the most expensive school.

Today's rate for the lower tier 1 private university I attended would be:

Bachelor's: $74,180 per year x 4 = $296,720

Master's: $50,787 per year x 2 = $101,574

Total: $398,274

This is in one of the poorest large cities in the US, so that is WAY out of reach for local residents (without substantial financial aid, which is why I attended).

Tuition goes up every year, so it would actually cost more than this. It's been two decades since I enrolled, and the cost per credit hour has gone from about $900 to $2186 in that time.

For undergraduate that includes room, board, books, fees and tuition. For graduate it's just tuition and fees.
Doesn't bode well for the quality of evidence included in the meta-analysis.
Those centralization examples are slowly breaking down right now, and the independent, community systems are (re)gaining popularity.
Perhaps phase 3s aren't perfectly free of bias, but they are essentially impossible to effectively manipulate by the drugmaker.

Even if we assume all the physicians involved in the trial are willing to be bribed, the pharma company doesn't know which ones are handing out placebos.