skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had assumed big tobacco and alcohol companies were ready to step in and crush all these mom and pop weed ops the second we had federal legalization. Especially tobacco since cigarette usage is on the decline.
In the U.S. I think "bible based" churches have scratched that itch.

Cult scholars think that some of those groups are coercive, but "by grace alone" is a safety valve that means you can blow off anyone who says you are going to hell. If you don't like your church you can find another down the road or go to divinity school and start your own.

They broke into jail and killed the founder of the LDS. Look at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE

You really get a lot of resistance when you start something new! This song expresses the sentiment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXOgZXUzp3E&list=PLBDDC70B0C...

There is a lot of interest in eastern religions and paganism in the US, but for better and worse it is not organized or evangelical. I know people in a coven who have a policy that you don't talk about any workings you do (even though nothing they do is scandalous)
Microsoft Edge Bug Could've Let Hackers Steal Your Secrets for Any Site
Best True Wireless Earbuds Under $50 in 2021
NASA shares view of ISS crossing in front of the sun
Isn't the probability cloud still pretty much empty? It may have a greater probability of being in a particular point in denser probability space, but it still is not actually at all of those points. Though I understand it is also not quite the same as most of the space being truly empty in the traditional sense either.
> Or if all medical data was public, we'd have a medical revolution in understanding.

No, your insurance premium would go up. That's it
Smokers need to be encouraged to switch to vaping.
I think the 2 are similar enough that are a bit subjective. For me it’s easier to pull out my card holder and slide out my card than trying to unlock my phone several times in a row. It doesn’t help that some places don’t know how to use NFC so the card works 100% of the time for me.

If I lived in a post-facemask NFC-aware country I’d totally use Apple Pay
The sooner everyone has source of clean energy, the sooner we can stop global warming. Yes, NK can steal the designs, but so what? Like something stopped them from making a nuke.
It does not even take a lot. I run a production service on cloud run, the typical load is around 500qps, and the dns queries to resolve metadata server do fail frequently enough for this to be noticeable.
These programs also take awhile to get money into the account.

For the poor, losing a job arbitrarily, with no protections, even cultural, can be massively life disrupting.
The true ah-ha moment comes when you finally realize how much bullshit this is.

"Hard work" is the mantra that keeps you a slave. "Success stories" are the tasty carrots that keep you toiling away your best years enriching others in pursuit of the things you're supposed to seek in life: Power, success, status. "Life hacks" are little dopamine hits to keep your eye on the carrot.

And the kicker is that those few who actually do attain these things mistakenly attribute it to their own prowess, when it's mostly luck and circumstance with a smattering of ambition and striking deals in the right networks. They then take it upon themselves to perpetuate the system that now feeds them at your expense.

So you go on toiling away, pushing that wheel around and around for years as your masters feed you stories of their success and a promise of your own one-day-someday, until eventually you hopefully realize the futility of enriching these parasites, and get off their treadmill.

The proletariat are only useful to the rich if they're toiling for them.

Edit: In case you're wondering why this tanked to the bottom of the comments despite being at 38 points after 30 minutes, it's because the admins can artificially drop a comment's priority if they don't like it, and prevent further upvotes (downvotes still work though).
I used React for 3 years and I'm using Angular for 2 years now; Angular is super heavy handed and gets in your way
Large portable diesel generators that operate with that kind of power in 24/7 operation is very dirty, costly, nosily, and require continuously transporting of fuel. You do not want that near a hospital unless it is an emergency (short duration) or the life lost to the pollution is preferable compared to not having a hospital with power. The design parameters for those portable nuclear reactors is to not having to refuel, and being able to use it in places where pollution is not acceptable.
The article asks a moral question, which to me is no different than asking "Is murder actually fine?"

If you go down the rabbit hole deep enough, the natural order has no rules - no laws.

So, asking this question is ridiculous. Yes, the taboos do make sense. For one, the animal doesn't want it. Also, it's probably a source of disease. Finally, what's wrong with you?
>Doing the same thing to an adult can get you an assault charge, or a punch in the face.

Kids aren't adults and they can't reason with logic or words. Therefore, if a child does something like bite, hit etc. (which they do often) an equal response teaches them immediately that committing those acts leads to a negative outcome. Of course, modern mentality is that this is an awful abusive way to treat your child. I disagree, I don't think a spank is akin to full on abuse and there are times when it's appropriate.

Additionally, adults that do act the way children do and start violently attacking people often get a quick response either from the individual they were attacking or the cops. Maybe they never learned consequences for their actions when they were young?

Have you ever been around a group of young men or boys when someone started something? Typically the quickest way to end it is a swift physical reaction that immediately shows you won't tolerate stuff.
“ If you code to just the DOM - that is is where you will stay. Forever.”

Svelte native exists…

The VDOM which mirrors the document DOM is an implementation detail of React, as something sitting between the actual DOM, and the VDOM fragment returned by a React view. It’s true that if the document DOM gets fast enough, the mirroring VDOM could go away, but some diffing algorithm would still have to reconcile the document DOM with whatever fragment is returned from a view.

I think one of the realisations of Svelte is that rather than returning arbitrary runtime generated DOM fragments from views, it is better to have the view implemented by a template that a compiler can understand and manipulate at compile-time. Here we trade off some expressivity (run-time generated DOM) for the ability to do much much more at compile time - I think this is the real point that should be being made in the article.
There are some facts, but not as many as most people think.

Many people have religious views with a nutrition component, and some will try latch onto any study that supports their view and push it while ignoring others that don't support it. Some will even go so far as to design a study to provide the results they want. Vegetarians are the most obvious example of this, but there are others.

Nutrition is hard to study even when you want to do the right thing. Most effects are small and so it takes a long time for anything to be measurable. People tend to be unable to stick to their assigned diet long enough for a controlled study to get real data. (the exceptions are confined to a hospital bed or prison cell - both of which add confounding factors that mean the study won't apply to normal people)

Attempts are made to work around the above with surveys. However people are bad at remembering what they ate yesterday, and tend to lie to make themselves seem "healthier" than they really are. As always when doing a survey it is hard to separate confounding factors - the big on in this case is people who smoke also eat what is considered a less healthy diet and so it is hard to figure if the diet is really less healthy, or just another bad effect of smoking.

That said, there is some good science out there. I don't know how to find it, but there are nutritionists who know statistics and are making real attempts to separate the above confounders to find a truth. They tend to not get a lot of press though: since most of what they discover is small effects it won't generate headlines, while someone who doesn't take care can easily cherry-pick something and extrapolate far beyond reason to claim another miracle diet that will add 10 years to your life (or something else that diet will never do)
> React sold us the idea that the virtual DOM could give us a better programming model and still outperform the template based frameworks of the day.

React, imo, is about the programming experience. "Thinking in React" is a lot more than just VDOM, and the benefit of "thinking in react" is about the developer experience not the pure benchmarkable output.

Svelte has been around for a few years now - and I've yet to see/hear about an application built with Svelte at scale.

The reason I think React works so well and is so popular atm is because it works just as well at a small scale as it does on a team with 5-6 active contributors (in my experience, at least).

That isn't to say that Svelte can't deliver the same wonderful experience at scale, I've just yet to see a truly shining example of it.

I may also be in the minority, but performance of front end frameworks is near the bottom of my evaluation checklist.

I've used svelte for some one off personal projects, just to get a feel. And it's fine but nothing about has convinced me to lead a project/team towards picking that over React, Vue, or even some SSR framework.
Rationality really only makes sense in relation to goals, as far as I can see. If your goal is to meet your basic needs, then it’s irrational to work all day. If your goal is market domination, then I’d say working all day is a very rational thing to do
> The part that I think the article misses

The article is about VDOM and nothing else. It does not "miss" the part about why react is popular, it simply does not discuss it.
Anathem worked for me
It is comical how so many seem to think wood and drywall is always inferior to concrete.

I would even say it is the opposite, you are lucky to have access to cheap enough wood.
I'd go a step further and it sounds woefully disconnected from the joys of culture and life. For those it works for, I imagine that this seems satisfying but for the rest who work hard and don't hit acclaim and fortune (or at least not wild acclaim and fortune), they're going to have midlife crises when they realized they itemized away their youth... I'd guess.
Parent (now GP) said:

> The problem with decrim is that it forces users to interact with criminals to get their fix.
ResearchGate Awarded U.S. Patent
It is now possible to use wooden structural components to build modern skyscrapers. Maybe not 100 storeys buildings but 30 storeys is feasible[1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171026-the-rise-of-skys...
I mean you literally can. Billing data included the doctor, the procedures performed, the diagnosis given, patient demographics (age, gender, zip code, etc.). Plus a whole bunch more. Very well structured data actually although there's biases in it. My last company literally did what you said using the data. Not enough money in it so it all goes nowhere and all the big players in the space don't really care.

edit: You also have full medical billing history for each patient in the data set so you can build a historical risk profiles for patients.
Physicists confirm two cases of “elusive” black hole/neutron star mergers
https://web.archive.org/web/20200813222647/http://moglen.law...
First by Pink, last by Christopher something. I can look it up shortly.

Edit: harder to find than I thought: https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Money-Studies-Anthropology-His...
You might want to take a look at the HAT stack:

https://htmx.org - server interactions in HTML

https://alpinejs.dev - small front end tweaks in your HTML

https://tailwindcss.com - styling in your HTML

This is pretty a simple stack that keeps everything in one file (for something I am calling Locality of Behavior[1]) and all of them are dependency free.

full disclosure: I am the author of htmx

[1] - https://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/
> humans aren't wired to think about the wellbeing of large groups, even less about the entirety of the world.

It’s even trickier than that. Humans have a hard time putting their “future self” above their immediate gratification. You almost couldn’t engineer a worse crisis for humans than Climate Change because the effects are largely in the future — though we’re really starting to experience them now — and it requires sacrificing things in the short term. People can barely be convinced to save a bit of their income for retirement (or are so stretched they can’t afford to).
> The Human Rights Center predicts 2021 will break records as the worst year for what it views as anti-LGBTQ legislation, surpassing 2015 when 15 new anti-LGBTQ bills were signed into law.
Are you communicating goals and expectations clearly?
"And if its rate of growth continues, it will overtake the total weight of Earth's biomass sometime around 2040."

Rather than impress me with the amount of concrete, this actually impresses me with just how incredibly huge the biosphere is! That's an enormous amount of life.
Some people respond more than others. I personally don't care about "achievements" in games at all, despite playing quite a lot of them. However, several of my friends play for achievements often, or alter their behavior so that they get more achievements while playing.

I like the point you bring up. That badges and such make gaming seem less of a wasted time. I know people who can't tolerate open ended games for this reason: no clear goals. Minecraft added The End dimension specifically because of people like this, so that they can "finish" the game.

It has links to status as well I think. Even the name achievements and badges reflect this, and also they're often featured on the profile of the player, so that people can quickly compare others and themselves.
What will actually happen is QR code menu experiences will get better, and paper menus will ... stay stagnant. A tale as old as time
> Privacy is trendy, but imagine if everyone had access to salary data.

Already true in Norway. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40669239
I wonder. I definitelly don't have my phone number and e-mail address visible to public (this has a purpose - if someone can find it, it means they at least spent 30 seconds of their life to issue a search query in Google) and I think most people don't as well. But that's the same thing with FB 2019 - my phone number was leaked, but I never made it public. Why would I.
You don't need to do anything regarding Ivy League sports to be involved with the academy, how is this relevant?
This is sort of tangentially related, since TFA doesn't really talk about long hours as such but I definitely prefer the following angle: https://ericlippert.com/2019/12/30/work-and-success/
> I had to learn what real work was before I could wholeheartedly desire to do it. That took a while, because even in college a lot of the work is pointless; there are entire departments that are pointless.

The arrogance! This is one of my pet peeves at work: When someone looks at another person's work and judges its value or difficulty. "That's easy." "That's pointless."

Ugh.

Everyone else's job looks easy and/or pointless until you're the one doing it. Then it's important and challenging (hopefully).

Most people who feel their own work is pointless simply don't understand how their role fits into the bigger picture. I assure you, the profit motive is very good at weeding out truly unnecessary costs. It may lag, sometimes. But if there's a dollar being spent that doesn't need to be spent, someone is going to eventually find out and eliminate the expense.

I think this mentality comes from a deep need to feel superior to others. So when we can't understand or appreciate someone's job, it feels powerful to declare their work easy or pointless.

But that's just ignorance, arrogance, and, frankly, bullying by other means: I'll make myself feel bigger by making you feel small, and I'll do it in front of all of my friends so they can affirm how big and tough and awesome I am.
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The key to online learning's sucess is counter to the current system's goals. What these big-name universities could do to make online learning go mainstream is lower the barrier to entry by: i) lowering tuition fees in accordance with mass production practices and ii) provide real credits and degrees without the pomp. But both these actions would water down the "good" name of these legendary institutions (a legend built on exclusion and cronyism). In other words, they themselves are the ones holding on-site education as superior, lest the system collapses. No matter, it's just delaying the inevitable.
> For every Tesla there's a thousand little diesel trucks driving around on the african continent

Nah, this isn't accurate. Tesla has sold over 1.5 million vehicles (probably will get over 2 million by the end of this year)[0]. There's only approximately 30-40 million cars in the entire continent of Africa[1]. (And expand this to "little diesel trucks" isn't going to change the math much, and probably there's fewer of those.)

Tesla is also scaling up, producing almost a million vehicles per year right now... over 180,000 last quarter, and they have 1 new factory in China that is expanding and 2 totally new factories (in Texas and Germany). So Tesla will soon be producing about as many new vehicles as all the new car sales in Africa (which has ~1 million new car sales per year [1]). And Tesla is just one provider.

More cost-optimized electric vehicles, like are super popular in China (the Hong Guang Mini EV is $4500 [2]), are likely to be the big sellers in Africa.

[0] https://insideevs.com/news/499678/tesla-model-3y-million-sal...

[1] https://lmc-auto.com/news-and-insights/african-auto-market-m...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56178802
This needs to be said more often! Having worked at & with many non-profits, if you don't have competitive wages your top talent keeps leaving. That crushes small non-profits because top talent wear multiple hats & are very difficult to replace. Anyone who has had to replace talent knows the pain of having to hire & then get a new person up to speed.

As for marketing, spending lots of money on marketing isn't bad as long as it's working.

People need to quit judging non-profits just by looking at 2 numbers without understanding the entire scope. This is a huge issue for non-profits.

I know of non-profits that have been forced to setup multiple entities. One for "public" where they can say 100% of donations go to the cause & one for people who understand running a business where they can get private donations that help pay people salaries, building expenses & everything else.
Another huge advantage of opinionated frameworks is that someone who knows the framework will know how to navigate a new codebase day one. As a consultant, I've seen this countless times. So much so that unless I'm working on a pet project I like to stick to as much of a 'plain vanilla', idiomatic use of an opinionated framework like Rails or Django as possible.
> As lovely as the screens are, the media ecosystem around them is worse than what we had with good old color tv+radio.

You realize this is completely subjective right? Perhaps if your interests were completely aligned with the mainstream then that past was preferable, but today anyone can “zap channels” about any niche they are interested in.
Why? It could also go down.
You don't want to live in a multi-family wooden house - the noise from above you will drive you wild. With a concrete house you don't hear your neighbors.
So what? Being able to comment on HN requires a certain amount of privilege too.
I don't have an iPhone. So, recontextualize my comment in that light, and give it a more charitable reading.

Apple pay is, for the poster, a stand in for NFC pay of some sort. Which indeed requires a device, which indeed is its own class of requirement, but also, cash works even if less practical.
To avoid the problems of rust, epoxy coated steel is often used. It costs more, so in situations where the contract is won by the lowest bidder (unless it is expressly required), you don't get it.

So as a result, buildings that could last 200 years start to crumble after 50.
The most important part of Svelte, to me, is that it allows me to write web applications in the most elegant possible way. The compiler first approach means we get to choose whatever syntax we want to make the whole process as enjoyable as possible.

The most brilliant part of Svelte was the decision to stay as close to JavaScript as possible, so anyone who knows JS, HTML, and CSS knows svelte. Importing any vanilla JS library is plug-and-play, meaning the community and ecosystem span the entire JS ecosystem. No more x-for-react or y-for-vue.

The unbeatable performance is just a plus for me. The DX is so good that building things is incredibly fun, intuitive, and headache free. I can’t emphasize enough how empowering it is.

It’s so exciting seeing the community grow exponentially lately!!
Another riff on this: When people find their jobs interesting, it's almost never because someone else has sent them work they find interesting on a silver platter. The work you're being asked to do is connected to goals, processes, and people in your organization... can you find something in your environment that you have the skills and interest to improve?

A good manager will help you find those opportunities when you feel stuck, but in the end nobody is better suited than you are to find your interests, whether it's within your workplace or the world at large.
What do you mean by doesn't feel? Look at Wikipedia client statistics for instance: https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOper...

Outside of US no amount of marketing would convince significant number of people to buy a product, that has nearly 100% same functionality (maybe even slightly less) for 2x markup for home. Elsewhere they just convinced most people, that iPhone is a status thing.
I can't really understand proponents of wealth tax...either they are very confused, or are intentionally obscuring the truth for their political purposes. Based on the author's pedigree, I have to unfortunately assume it is the latter. But either way it isn't a great look.

For example, in the article the author laments that Buffett's wealth went up by $X, but he only paid $Y in taxes, and that's not fair to middle class people. But middle class people benefit in exactly the same way - if you pay $250k for a house and a year later because of a housing boom it is now worth $350k, you don't pay taxes on that $100,000 you "made".

If the whole world decides a random rock in your back yard is worth $10M, you shouldn't need to give the government $3M while the rock just sits there.
We could talk about why all day long but I want to make this fact super clear to any restaurant workers/owners: If you ask me to get my fone out of my pocket then I leave and give my business to your competition. Literally all it takes is a menu printout taped to a wall and you can keep my business. Make it happen.
> It's like a cognitive defect, a disability except you're unable to not-do.

He specifically trained himself to have leisure anxiety and advises other people to do this as well:

>> The most basic level of which is simply to feel you should be working without anyone telling you to. Now, when I'm not working hard, alarm bells go off.

It's certainly effective, but as you say, effective to what end?
> Why made it easy, when you can have it complex? ;-) And it came from well known Facebook, thats it, nothing more.

You can keep telling yourself that React only took over because it makes things more complex and it came from Facebook, if that's what makes you happy.