skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Collecting such individual data via blood & urine samples (possibly fat biopsies & breast milk as well) on a yearly basis should really be part of a standard medical checkup procedure

No so long as sickness is so profitable. The incentives aren't there like you would think.
The dead cats don't bother me as much as the dead birds. Introducing just one cat can completely change an entire ecosystem. Outdoor cats are a threat to global biodiversity.

I know it makes you feel better to allow your cats outdoors but please recognize that it affects the ecosystem on a larger scale.
There is no limit. They can bank millions if they want. And yes, there are poorly run nonprofits just like there are poorly run businesses. How many businesses can survive 3 months with no income?

What are you doubting, exactly? That nonprofits can't charge for services?

Here's a few examples... some big museums (the NY Moma, the Field Museum in Chicago), the Green Bay packers (and the NFL as a whole until 2015), the Mayo Clinic, the Kaiser Permanente parent organization (which owns the for profit hospitals), etc. Donations are a part of many of their income streams, but not all.

In tech, some other examples include VLC/VideoLan, the Linux foundation, TechSoup, Change.org, the Internet Archive...

None of those have FAANG level money, but that was never their goal. They still manage to survive and produce very valuable output.

Of course I would want a nonprofit payment processor, along with a nonprofit Lyft/Uber equivalent, etc. If I had the money or talent, I'd build those myself.

Don't get me wrong, the nonprofit space has a lot less money overall because it can't attract investment. That doesn't mean they can only survive two years at a time. It entirely depends on their business model (yes, even nonprofits have one). If they don't diversify and depend solely on donations and don't get any, yes they will die. Businesses without income will die too.

I'm not really sure what we're arguing about anymore. That nonprofits are poorer? It's true, they are. That they can't make or bank money? That part is not true. It's harder for them to attract money because you can't invest in them, but once they get it, they can manage it like any business, even buying up for profit businesses as investments.
You've never the Telegraph
You have to somehow employ more people and slow down corporate growth, so React was introduced, plus google idiocies like WEB VITALS... oh my friggin god, web development went full retard mode in the last 5 years.
It seems we can gain a lot of efficiency by having a different c-suite gut punched every morning as a part of the NYSE opening bell ceremony.

Then we can just skip steps 1-5.
Interesting test, but I find some of these benchmarks kind of miss the point. Even Grafana's.

The appeal of Thanos/Cortex/Mimir is the long term object storage. The value isn't that it is simpler or cheaper to run. The value is that I can compare data to months if not years ago. It can cost much more than the price of the instances to store good metrics over time even when the data is rolled up.

Scaling the read/write path separately has a lot of benefits as well too, but I would guess that doesn't come up often for most folks.

How much telemetry you can get in/out of your system over a day is important, but how much you can get in/out of it over years is overlooked.
You disagree, but even you admit that the old style was something you rarely, if ever, visited. So, when they try to determine what their users enjoy, what you enjoy won't get counted as much.

> Now I have zero interest in ever visiting it again.

You barely had any interest in visiting in the first place. You don't build a commercially viable product by catering to people who routinely do not use you.

You can disagree, but again, you didn't visit for years at a time, so it doesn't matter.
The HTML/CSS/JS platform offered by modern browsers is very powerful and approachable, but the web's security model prevents most platform customizations. Browser-managed navigation, form submission, control appearance, etc, is largely a take-it-or-leave-it proposition.

JS frameworks allow front-end developers to get around this limitation by rebuilding parts of the platform as a JavaScript application. For example, if you want to customize how navigation works on your page, you can either use the few, limited hooks offered by the browser (e.g., registering window.onunload callbacks), or you can make navigation an application concern by writing your site as a single-page app. There are plenty of things you just can't do with a framework-less multipage site (like animate transitions between pages) that are possible once you make navigation an application rather than platform concern.

I can understand why many enterprise teams choose to use front-end frameworks like React even when it would arguably be faster and easier to just use vanilla JS, as there's a risk someone may need to add functionality that is not supported by the native web platform. For personal projects, though, I use vanilla JS and HTML.
If this is really a problem good business rules are being ignored.

Where is the long list of items that have been shoved to the backburner?

What lean projects could be implemented that Bob can work on? i.e. Bob makes everyone more efficient.

What is the toughest project that exists for the team? Assign to Bob.

What ancillary projects exist in the business that Bob can tackle. Perhaps these aren't just Dev projects.

Good business is about best utilizing the resources you have. Bob in this case. You are wasting his time.
> since you've had many HN accounts in the past

well aren't you the one now making big insinuations? I feel you are invading my privacy and making me feel unsafe so I guess I will use a VPN next time, thanks for making me aware.

I don't think I'm alone with my assessment. I've seen threads where comments were downvoted and flagged when they were critical of certain YC companies, and I can't recall 100% is why I suggested the likelihood of the same pattern. I didn't say YOU removed it but the people in that thread for whatever reason felt justified to censor those comments.

> we flagged zero comments in this thread and unkilled a bunch of comments that users had flagged.

Incorrect, you've removed my original comment which you completely took out of context and just assumed malice. This is a pretty aggressive stance, and it just reinforces what I've pointed out.

"hey i think theres censorship"

flagged and removed

to the outsider doesn't it seem pretty clear? you should at least allow some discussion around this, maybe I was wrong, maybe I'm not but claiming you removed zero comments is incorrect here. It only adds fuel to the suspicion.
Wars over resources are far different than a ‘war on global warming’, which is what I was referring to.

The technology would have to be similarly transformative as nitrogen fertilizer was - which is what avoided the whole Malthusian population trap in the first place.

We don’t know what we don’t know there, frankly, so hard to say if it exists or not.

Co2 capture and most GHG emissions though have a serious thermodynamic challenge which says ‘not easily’. Once the clock spring is unwound, it’s really hard to wind it back again.
You could consider calculating a "difficulty" score for problems and use that for ranking. The number of solved problems could be used as a tiebreaker if two people share a score. A simple difficulty ranking would be to take:

difficulty = #registered/#solved

Which approaches 1 (lowest difficulty) as more people solve a particular problem. You can also account for the number of people who have tried to solve it but not yet succeeded:

difficulty = (#registered + #unique failed attempts)/#solved

Unique failed attempts means that if I try it 10 times it still counts as 1 failed attempt. You can either keep the failed attempts in the score, or reduce that count as people move from failure to success. In the former case, the score for hard problems (where people consistently submit failed solutions on their first try) will have a difficulty approaching 2 in the limit, and in the latter it will again approach 1.

With numbers, the three schemes:

#registered = 100
#unique failed = 50
#solved = 25
#solved with an earlier failure = 20

1) difficulty = 100/25 = 4
2) difficulty = (100+50)/25 = 6
3) difficulty = (100+50-20)/25 = 5.2

A person's score is the sum of the difficulty ranking of every problem they've solved. Since the challenges are released at a particular time, you could give a small bump for something like the first 5, 10, whatever participants but be careful of making it too big. Otherwise late joiners will always be in the bottom ranks.
Most sealife has mirror symmetry though, doesn't it?

I guess jellyfish, urchins meet the rotational symmetry though.
I like the idea but the landing page doesn't inspire confidence. My browser window is half with on a normal macbook and most of the text and images overlap making parts of it un-readable.

https://movim.eu/
"Until your manager changes which happens often at" many/most companies.

As I wrote elsewhere, there are no guarantees in life. Maybe you're at a large stable company that pays well enough and that has a pre-COVID history of being remote friendly. In that case, you're probably in reasonable shape at least until you want to change jobs for some reason. But anything that's team dependent could change in a heartbeat. You may be able to drag your feet for a while but eventually you may have to choose between going back into an office at least part-time or finding something else.
Brilliant comment because this could mean Facebook or Engadget, and either way it fits.
It won't happen because it creates a problematic power structure for the federal government.

In that scenario, any of those intermediaries who are unhappy with the tiers above them can simply refuse to pass on the income. If Texas wants to strong-arm looser federal gun regulations, or California wants to strong-arm abortion protections at the federal level, they can just refuse to pay taxes to the federal government.

Citizens can do the same thing, but at a much higher risk and dramatically more organizing. Citizens risk being arrested and funds can be confiscated, but what can the feds do if a state does it? Invade? Plus you would need millions of citizens to not pay taxes to have an effect, but you need a tiny number of states to throw the entire budget into chaos.

What you're saying makes sense from an efficiency perspective, but I don't think the power dynamic is acceptable to the federal government.
apology accepted! and sorry if it came off a bit harsh.

to be fair, the all-or-nothing suggestion isn't practicable on the face of it (otherwise you'd get more troll postings, or more unhappy users), so it was more an opening gambit than a fleshed out suggestion.

however, it's pretty clear that implicit biases strongly and unflatteringly drive[0] what gets flagged and what gets popularized (largely by hn users of course). is it hn's job to address implicit bias? that's certainly debatable, but i'd think you'd want the widest reach possible and potentially turning away upwards of 80-90% of the world's population isn't a long-term winning strategy for yc.

most entertainers (singers, actors, celebrities, etc.) are stale topics of conversation (mostly rehashes of what they did/said), but way too many make the front page anyway (or conversely, far too few of the more interesting ones make it).

[0]: it'd probably be an interesting exercise to analyze what obit posts gets flagged, uncommented/unpromoted, and popularized. i've casually observed (and even tested a bit) that nearly all the black/brown people and most women don't make the front page, many of whom are fascinating historically, otherwise they wouldn't have cleared the higher bar for getting noticed in the face of bias in the first place.
The tedium? The tedium is with React et al.
I've run an XMPP server for a group of friends for years with no spam. We just don't federate...

I've considered looking into maybe adding Movim into the mix; one of my friends can't be on public social media due to job reasons.
Study reveals striking differences in brains of modern humans and Neanderthals
By photos captured or by images reproduced?

I would think not so for the former but I think certainly so for the latter.

Perhaps Gandhi or Mao Zedong would give her a run for the money (so to speak) as their images all appear frequently on world currency.
Does this still work with Python 3.10 changes removing runtime evaluation of type annotations? I seem to recall this screwed me when I was writing something for runtime usage of types.
It's because you can't scale up without modularisation and component re-use. This applies to pretty much anything. You can find this 'problem' in other languages, markup methods etc. all the same, for the same reasons.
There are plenty of poor people in these “wealthy” states. It’s not all just wealthy people that live in California, what a shocker. There are 40M people in California, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more poor people in absolute terms in California than, say, Mississippi with a total population of less than 3M. The “state welfare” programs that are for some reason maligned (whereas Federal welfare programs aren’t for some reason) largely go to help poor people in these states. That’s my point about balancing: I’m not saying either is necessarily good or bad, both are trying to theoretically help people in need. SALT allows CA more wiggle room to help it’s own poor given that it is net negative on Federal money out vs. in (in part because people think that that somehow magically means everyone is fine there).
I'm not upset, but I flagged your comment because it was an unserious, low-effort attempt to provoke the thread, which is something you've been doing a lot lately.

I'm probably being too testy about this. There's been a pretty clear shift with your comments (people have emailed me about it out of the blue!) and it's been disappointing, in the sense that I have a rooting interest in people who contribute good stuff to HN continuing to do so, and not tearing the place down. But that's my problem, not yours.
Still not sure how post-Covid, we haven't concluded that improving indoor ventilation should be a massive public health priority.
The idea is that those blockers or objections are valid. Something is going wrong if they continually raise issues which do not meet the organisations goals.

That said, it does sound like a strange function to allocate to a specific team.
> these people are also nutcases.

In what way?
Wow! Good find. That's probably exactly it (although I haven't seen that document before).

I was a GA from 2003-2004.
There's React Stockholm Syndrome: downsides of React are often praised.

Somehow people think there's a lot of foresight and wisdom in JSX invention. There's just so many good properties JSX has. But JSX was merely an easiest solution to an immediate problem.

Think about how React was created:

1. DOM management complexity gets out of hand. You solve it by treating view as a function of state (great idea btw).

2. If you do it naively, it is going to be slow. You make it performant with VirtualDOM.

3. Now that you went with VDOM, writing HTML is a nightmare. You address it with JSX.

JSX is obviously a great replacement for manually written render functions. But you know what's even better? Not writing render functions at all.

Same with setState() vs MobX/VueJS approaches. setState() was (is?) a horrible way to manage state. But it was the easiest thing that allowed you to implement V = F(S) formula at the time.

setState() a cost, not a benefit. JSX is a cost, not a benefit. I wish people stopped praising it.
What about constant stimuli fighting for our attention by exploiting our lizard-brain emotions every waking hour?
Yes, the point is that the banks are (edit: should have said "would be, in the absence of government regulation") far more predatory than government - it's in fact government (who GP claimed is "sticking them at gunpoint") that is protecting us from the banks.

Just look at loan sharks for a view of what banks sans regulation are.
In the US the explanation is simple: the far right conservatives in Congress don't want to do anything to address climate change or even want to do things to make it worse (less renewables, more fossil fuels), and the Republicans who are not far right and are open to dealing with climate change are afraid to go against the far right because the far right voters are the ones that most turn out for primaries.

And so it is only Democrats proposing anything that seriously addresses climate change. Like most big bills in Congress such proposals end up with other things attached.

Normally what would then happen is that there were would be bipartisan negotiations to get a bill with mostly just the parts that both parties could agree on, but the far right wants nothing to do with that and so few or no Republicans in Congress will have anything to do with the drafting of the bill.
Three Myths About Renewable Energy and the Grid, Debunked (2021)
Stuff is literally engineered to create that sort of thinking.

Case in point: trying to find a contact number, is intentionally buried on websites.
What if someone doesn't want to stop?
inventing harms to prevent like arsonist firefighters.
Computer experts urge Georgia to replace voting machines
Good god, as if "builder" was the only type of person that has value.

Most "builders" are, if not constrained, like cancer cells. Unlimited consumption & growth without a counterbalance. In order to justify their own existence, they need to continue to churn out things without concern of what they consume, what use their product has.

Maybe, just maybe, there's value in having different kinds of personalities - unchecked by itself, pretty much every tendency is ruinous.
Good security and privacy teams do a lot of work to establish good practices and build frameworks and platforms for others to build upon.

The bad security teams just show up and expect to say criticize everything and stop other teams without providing workable alternatives.

The problem with having a team with a vague charter (“responsible innovation”) with unclear scope (e.g. not just security or just privacy) is that it’s really hard for them to feel like they’re building foundations for others to build upon. It’s too easy for them to fall back to roles where they see themselves as the gatekeepers and therefore backseat drivers of other teams. It becomes a back door for people to insert themselves into power structures because nobody is entirely sure where their charter begins and where it ends.
> That tweet is 3 years old. Web Components weren't ready for prime time a few years ago.

So. Have they solved any of the issues listed?

> Google has the Lit framework is using it in Angular.

You've missed a few words in there.

yes, Google has Lit. And yes, Angular can be twisted to use them (but doesn't use them by default).

> Web Components are here to stay. I'd like to know what Rich Harris thinks about Web Components today.

Literally nothing you wrote answers my question.

And the answer is: no, despite the tweet being 3 years old and web components "not being ready for prime time then", none of those issues have been solved in the three years since.

---

Edit. As to what Rich Harris thinks about them now?

https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1518912939876618242

They're the past. Specifically, they took our best ideas circa 2010 and ossified them into the platform

https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1513638143584518154

I don't see any evidence of [fameworks will be transpilers to native web components in the next 5 years]. if anything, i think we'll see frameworks begin to explore the notion that 'component' is a purely author-time concept

etc.
I can't make a cow at home either, or an avocado.
This feels like short term thinking on their part. You are unlikely to gain many allies this way and more likely to develop enemies.
Fair enough.

But then again, shouldn't Orlando be filled with computer people and Silicon Valley with outdoorsmen?
An enjoyable read, I had no idea telegrams were still used. This makes me want to send someone a telegram for their next birthday as a little surprise.
Because it's difficult. How do you solve for this problem in a house without internal ducting in temperature extremes throughout the year?
Contaminated ground water around military bases from the use of fire extinguishing foams.

https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2020-military-pfas-site...
Same here. Used to be a daily for me, then for some reason I dropped it and completely forgot about it until this post. Maybe around the time Digg imploded? I'm not sure.
Thanks for sharing these! this is actually very appropo to a conversation at my work now. Any other great guides like this you can share?
It is telling that people are unwilling to even talk about that. Telling that people fall off science for their political ideologies.
Nah they're technically correct. You can't simulate a Turing machine with finite memory.
IMO this is the best answer. A clear, history-contextualized summary of the reasons why vanilla is often not enough for some use cases.
And the control group?
That's the rest of the teams.
I agree with your perspective on separation of concerns as that was the intent of the html5 standard.

The reason react was invented was to enable real time update of items on the page -- to update when someone liked your item, or send you a notification update instantly instead of polling the server.

It was the idea of pushing code to the webpage. So they made a component in javascript that updates in realtime -- the state or prop determining the content or how many likes the post had. However this ended up requiring a huge Redis instance which is also very expensive, so now they need to sell more ads. In order to figure this out they realize emojis on the like button allow people to choose a sentiment of their reaction to the content. Their ML uses the sentiment to group and sandwich ads between content the ML knows or thinks you will react favorably.

So for example, a comedy central ad will be shown after a meme or story that is similar or something you reacted Haha to because the advertiser's desired reaction is a Haha as well.

Thus the name React. Plus it makes that div/element/part of the page defined as a "component" in js that will update or "react" in realtime -- anytime they push an update to the server everyone viewing that page sees it change in realtime.

Essentially a combination of a push notification or pubsub and ajax request.

Honestly, when jsx goes out of style like it should because its idiotic, and gross, and a violation of those separations of concerns, it could just be an html page where you write a js function to add a realtime update to an id or class...

Svelte uses that style of approach to the DOM.

If you don't have a realtime data store like Redis or any type of realtime data streaming going on, React or any other component based framework is a waste of time.

The ability to update the page without reloading or building as a single page app is not SEO friendly unless you use SSR which you already would have created in your normal seo friendly html files.

also name your files consistently and clearly.

unless you need to change the page in realtime without reloading, react and these other component frameworks have no use case.

If you want a clean css3 framework to help build a web front end that works neatly in html5 check out Bulma.

Bulma.io

You are exactly right, the js developer scene is like a herd and people wanted to work at facebook or look smart so they learned it.

It's useful for making single page applications, however all framework interactivity can be written in normal js, so if you take your time you'll have much cleaner, unbloated code, yielding pages that run better and faster...
Because Poland did it without invading the Czech Republic.