skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As one who actively participates in this parlor game, I disagree with the premise. Prior to writing proposals, I would have thought writing proposals was a huge waste of time and effort. However, we have a saying that no good idea goes to waste. When writing, you have to be clear and concise and your idea has to be good to get funding. If you don't get funded, you usually get good, useful feedback. You get better, your ideas get better, and the person reviewing them has learned what many scientist in the field are proposing as the best new directions for research. These are all valuable uses of time that might otherwise be spent learning how to make your ideas better, how to communicate them better, and how better understand what is going on in the field. In other words, things that you would be doing anyway.

I think the biggest problem facing science right now is the scale at which it is occurring. My field does not have this problem, but I can't imagine what it's like trying to stay on top of the literature in e.g. medical sciences. Paper writing and peer review work at much smaller scales - there are order hundreds scientist in my field and I think it's functioning just fine. For fields with thousands and 10s of thousands of active researchers, I think there needs to be a different way to vet and organize information. I don't know what that is exactly but it might look something like twitter (can't believe I'm writing this!). On second thought, maybe it looks more like HN!

The misalignment of incentives can be problematic as well, but arguably, not the biggest problem.
Yes that's the email address.
"Deep fried" is a problem because it almost always saturates carbohydrate-heavy food in fat. There's no debate about whether potato chips are probably just as harmful! But it turns out: the baked potato chips are just as harmful. Vegetable oil on its own is probably not a problem at all. Research on ketogenic diets suggests bacon simply isn't a problem: it's an extremely high-satiety food (it's physically difficult to eat a lot of it!).

Bacon might be a problem for other reasons; for instance, maybe the CVD correlation with saturated fats will pan out. But in terms of basic metabolism, appetite, and hunger, the current trend seems to be away from the idea that people should avoid bacon-like fats.

I'm not here to say "bacon is the answer" so much as to say that your original post, suggesting that there's a simple nutritional answer to this problem, is both glib and not especially well-informed. The truth is: this stuff is very complicated, and there's a lot of uncertainty.
Aww, it might have been HN-hugged. I was hoping it could answer a question I have about the ScummVM codebase. :/
How are you avoiding hitting the rate limit for open ai apis
Wired journalist using them on potholed roads. https://youtu.be/qe4CHWulnDs?t=223

He was impressed with how well they work on bad surfaces.
I love the current state of startups/capitalism, it's impossible to tell if a product is a satire, a joke, a scam to raise investors money and disappear, an AI generated product coupled with AI generated images and text, &c.
You're talking about creating reproducible builds - which is a good idea, but in most cases you will still need to deliver that binary somewhere.

That typically requires authentication, whether you're deploying to kubernetes or copying the files somewhere using scp, etc

So either your laptop or the ci system needs some level of secrets present to put the artifact in the correct place
Does anyone have a recent list of power-constrained activities on satellites in LEO? That is, something you'd like to be able to do but can't because putting albatrosses of panels on low-orbiting birds makes them go down fast?
Narco Subs 101 (2020)
It is actually supported in browsers.

It is not a formal standard, because two implementations are required for that, and there can be only one SQLite.

"Mozilla's argument against it becoming a standard was because it would codify the quirks of SQLite."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_SQL_Database
and pebbles, their most dangerous enemy
I'm not saying the existing solution is complete, either. But banning noncompetition itself is not the right answer. Why do contract noncompetes clauses exist?
What about the small companies and inventors and IP owners? None of these replies I'm seeing have considered the side effects to the world except what would clearly also benefit giant companies.
That last sentence was absolutely wonderful and caused me to do a spit take
CPI data per month can be found here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL

(This is the raw price levels, so inflation is the derivative of this graph).

The most recent month of data (Oct - Nov) has been pretty flat. But the previous few months, (Sep - Oct, Aug - Sep) is still a higher change than normal.

I don't think that one data point is enough to declare inflation is back to normal.
Twilio’s toll fraud problem
UX is strange. I searched for a founder friend and he has multiple companies listed but clicking on his image or anywhere in the result row just opens the page for an old company.
Pomax's primer on splines is excellent, though it's not specific to SVG
> Even in California, you can get sued for violating an NDA when going to competitor if you bring private technical data, which seems like a reasonable compromise. You can bring your expertise, but no code. Intersecting with this are patents. A company can also protect its IP with patents, but when should choose to disallow, or have more liberal patent laws? It seems there are similar tradeoff between the value to companies, competitors and public interests.

What does that have to do with non-competes? What you're describing is IP law and theft; and is illegal pretty much throughout the western world.

Non-competes specifically and only exist in the context of barring employee competition and migration of talent. All via legal labor servitude at the justification of "training investment" and/or "unfair competition".
My parents aren't too excited about using motorized scooters but have limited mobility due slow pace and/or joint pain. Could be an avenue for letting them be more mobile.

EDIT: a Pittsburgh /CMU project! fantastic.
Is there a YC connection to these or is there a joke I'm missing or something?
I don't think that comparison is fair at all. You're comparing concerns of a technology and how it scales, to how no one talks about physical keyboards and smart phones? That's not even remotely the same and is pretty dishonest to make that comparison.

The problems of solar as a scalable renewable are very fair to talk about, considering that Africa and India NEED energy to grow their societies. The only solutions that scale are oil or nuclear. The idea you can just hand wave any concerns about renewables doesn't seem very rationale if you genuinely care about the problem.
If you want something done right...

I find this myself now in a few things. I've taken to making Mead and seeing how much of the process I can insource. I'm currently looking at Beehives. I could even build that myself, but it seems like an easy target for outsourcing.
Huh. If they make it down to a few hundred bucks with no history of them exploding/unexpectedly accelerating or stopping/etc then maybe I'll get some for a break from biking everywhere. I dunno how well they'd cope with New Orleans streets and sidewalks, though.
It reminded me of Google Glass as in it reminded me of DoA product. To be honest though, I thought that they looked far less strange and more useful than these shoes. I still grieve for their passing.
Hundreds of WordPress sites infected by recently discovered backdoor
"our most searched term is Comet"
That's great ! I have been looking for such a quick online vim experience for
quite some time.

A month ago I did find what I consider to be even better : make of any textarea
on any page a neovim instance with the firenvim extension (thanks to which
I am writing this comment in neovim in my browser!)

It's not even a vim-like experience, it's literally your configured neovim in
the browser !

Somehow I haven't managed to get it to the front page (this is not my creation
but I am a big fan since I have been looking for this for so long)

I even get autocompletion and all coding niceties in the little code playgrounds that are all the rage
in nowadays tutorials

https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firenvim/
> The changes from the i80286 to the i80386 were extreme

It was the 386 that really put the platform's strategy squarely in the realm of general purpose computing.

The 8088 and 8086 were intended as short term backfills for the gap left by the dismal performance and high cost of i432. The 8018x chips were targeted at the embedded space and the 80286 was targeted at phone switches. It was really something of an accident that the 286 worked in the PC AT class machines as well as it did.

The 80386 was Intel's realization that they were successful in general purpose desktop computing and needed a product targeted specifically at that space, and with backward compatibility in mind.
The original premise was that trades are where all the money is, and Gen Z should be listening to that. My point is that we were previously told: the money is in college degrees, the money is in STEM, the money is in nursing. And people invested a lot of time and money in taking that advice and it went nowhere. Then we were called stupid and foolish and entitled for believing that advice.

So why aren't Gen Z taking this magical advice on trades? Because they know older generations don't have a crystal ball, they've seen what happens if they listen to that crystal ball advice, and they're not falling for it. And if you talk to Gen Z, they have very little hope for the future, given we are doing very little to stop climate change, runaway capitalism, and they're watching jobs get automated without any change to the "cost of living" agreement when people are watching jobs disappear.

Boomers don't have to worry about any of that anymore. And there's nothing more tone deaf than Boomers giving advice on a world that no longer exists for younger generations.
>there is a finite end to the career

this actually brings to mind something else:

I think the idea of a career is dead for a lot of the 40 and under set. The idea that you'll have the same job for decades is just nonsense so any job that feels too specific also feels like a it'll bite you in the ass in 5 years.
Tell HN: A stranger is using my YouTube account and Google can't log them out
Hi HN,

I believe Google has a grave authentication issue and I cannot burst the impenetrable tier-1 support wall to solve it.
Hopefully I'm wrong, but for the life of me and the support reps I talked to, we cannot get a stranger logged out of my YouTube account.

The stranger is using my YouTube account through my old Smart TV that I gave away (my bad for not logging out, but there should be recourse for this).

Once I discovered this, I have changed passwords and revoked auth tokens on all relevant services (Spotify, Disney+, etc.). All services no longer show the stranger accessing them - with the exception of YouTube.

The actions I've taken multiple times (as instructed by Google support):
- Changed my Google account's password
- Revoked all "devices I trust" under my 2FA settings
- Logged out of all devices in the "Your Devices" list

This did force me to log back in on my own devices (phone, TV), but I still see new videos that the stranger watched in my YouTube history.
This has been happening for weeks.

Google support walked me through these steps and then gave generic "make sure your password are strong" article links, but of course, refuse to escalate this.

If you wish, you can view the support transcripts here (I admittedly got a little short during the 2nd conversation, which I regret):
https://pastebin.com/GypwBPFj

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Some details:

- The videos in my view history are in Arabic, so I know it's the stranger who watches them

- I know the stranger has access through my old TV because I saw their activity on all apps I had installed on my TV, and I saw my old TV signed in from a distant city under "Your Devices" list
> The Fourth Amendment quite literally has the words "unlawful search and seizure".

It literally does not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United...
Go Programming Blueprints by Mat Ryer
love all the cuts on that section of the video, absolutely nothing fishy happening in between.
> He was very impressed with the wheel design

I can make a very good looking and well designed cake out of human feces, I'd still go for the 100 years old tested and proven brownie recipe that looks like a brick though. No matter how well something is designed, if it's stupid it's stupid
Szilard certainly nailed it with this piece.
Maybe you could use microwave power transmission (from the ground) to power atmospheric pseudo-satellites, but practical applications seem dubious.
1. Shifting profits from the entrepreneur (with skin in the game of providing consumer wants) to the middleman can be deadweight. You'd want some evidence that rewarding disloyal middlemen results in we the consumer surplus, not just a flourishing middle-man economy.

There can be price-discovery benefits to middlemen, like market makers at the NYSE. But the financial markets usually involve fungible goods. Consumers seem to benefit from finding ways around the middlemen, though.

2. We the people have egalitarian ideals about jobs and opportunities. The old-fashioned way to 'lock in ' people to loyalty is to hire family or from the same social strata. Historically, those benefits have been distributed unfairly.

So the non-compete provides some mechanism for the "haves" to spread around opportunities to the "have-not-so-many-reasons-to-be-loyal," understanding that the law will enforce the agreement to be not-disloyal.
I think about this too, but I'm conservative enough that I would not held onto (all) BTC as it went past $1000, so I suspect my gains would have been large relative to my investment, but not life-changing.

I tell myself the same thing, except I would have sold at $100
Wikipedia has a picture from 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lunar_eclipse_at_sunrise_...

Here's a nice post thinking through how you might actually observe this: https://photoephemeris.com/articles/the-selenelion-challenge
Well, I'm not so sure about that. It's rare among embedded databases in that it supports a rich and standardized query language, but it's SQLness alone isn't sufficient for SQLite to avoid competition. There's plenty of healthy tension and switches between SQLite and e.g. RocksDB, cabinet, and LMDB, and there are plenty of other contenders as well.
> HR exist to represent the interests of the company

In the company I worked for, HR was there to protect the C-Suite. There were two sets of rules: The ones for the executives, and the ones for everyone else.

It was pretty routine for us to get training (lots of training), telling us to avoid specific activities (like, say...f'rinstance, dating subordinates), yet we'd see the executives, doing exactly that, without a peep from HR.
Peter Pan and Neverland VC Returns
> Why do they use a walking motion, vs planting your feet while using the motors?

It sounds like they're using walking speed as a control (walk faster, wheels move faster, walk slower, wheels move slower).
I have never had a bad encounter with a cop. Yet I still see countless examples of abuse and criminal behavior from police and the lengths that the police forces will go to shield their own.

> So I take all of these "cops are evil" claims with a grain of salt

No need to take any "claim" as fact when there is tons of actual evidence in the form of recordings, law suits and more. I simply do not understand how someone is able to have a positive view of police with the access we have to information. Police are not your friend, they do not serve you and they should not be trusted.
> Which is kinda ironic to me considering anytime a new rider is in my car I make sure to tell them about pressing the small button to open the door because they seem to find that escape latch on their own and often think it's just a regular open door latch.

Is it the same in the Model Y from the article as your Model 3?
Goodbye TypeScript, hello native typing for JavaScript
A pretty easy choice when the other charges don't work on some of the busiest travel days in the US: https://youtu.be/S4e8GfBzqSk
Google also sells computers, though: https://store.google.com/product/pixelbook_go?hl=en-US
> HR that are completely oblivious to the idea that people have about them.

I can't imagine that's the typical HR pattern. That's certainly not better but I tend to think that they appear oblivious by design, or rather, by education.

Since HR must keep their smiling poker face and their never-promising aleays-optimistic discourse no matter what, they fake this seemingly oblivious character. I guess.
It’s worse. They’ll try to get recurring revenue from what should be a one-off expense for the customer. You’ll be offered personalized coaching. They’ll partner with one of those dieting companies that wants to replace your groceries. God help you if you enable alerts because the app to control the device will hound you endlessly until you sign up.
The historian bret devereaux has a multi-part and thorough evaluation of this trope through history, which he calls "the fremen mirage" so clearly based on the same dune example of it. He also strongly agrees with the OP's suspicion: it's a mix of myth, propaganda, and storytelling device depending on the exact context it's deployed, but completely unsupported by history. It's a good read.

https://acoup.blog/category/collections/the-fremen-mirage/
With an electric skateboard you don't have to swap out your shoes when it's time to use it.
Is there really a good day-to-day use case for ntfs on linux though? I mean, I get needing to move some files back and forth, but having say a debian machine use a ntfs partition for /home or something just doesn't seem to make any sense really. (Which kind of makes the need for high performance vs. just working slow but reliably less important, IMHO.)
I love that series by Slime Mold Time Mold but I don't entirely agree with their conclusions. Sure, Doritos and Twinkies existed before 1980, but anybody who's been alive since the 60s or 70s can tell you that the food environment has changed dramatically in such a way that processed junk food is now much more accessible and makes up a larger portion of the average person's diet. There are probably multiple things going on that involve environmental contaminants, the food supply, and cultural attitudes towards food.
This is really slick. I was figuring it was just a simple wrapper for yt-dlp which scraped some additional things (comments, views, etc) but you went above and beyond with the web interface. Nice job!
Economies are about supply and demand. But wages are not directly tied to the demand for the trades. Wages are controlled by the bosses. Even if the price of wiring up a new home goes up, I would not expect the bulk of that increase to be reflected in the wages of the electricians (at least in the US).
> Microwaves are highly tuned to the particular frequency that causes water molecules to resonate.

That's an urban legend. If it was true, they'd be great rather than "meh" at melting ice, and (I appreciate most don't do this anyway) we wouldn't be able use domestic ovens for glass-working or melting alumina to make synthetic sapphires and rubies.

• https://youtu.be/XojnG2IFfTo

• https://youtu.be/xwEQZw3KPWg

• https://youtu.be/ybcdRQmQcHQ
It has a 3.0 Ah battery (not Wh, assume one 18650 lipo cell -> 11 Wh), comparable with a smartphone or flashlight. At a full 300W discharge, you're emptying the batteries in just over 2 minutes. You'd better have well-insulated soles before stepping on a pair of 150W space heaters, also, no 18650s are rated for 100C discharge, 20C is a lot and 5C is more common for the high-capacity low-discharge 3.0 Ah cells.

You get 5 mile range by using them like roller skates, using your own legs to power them. The motors are just to aid in walking up stairs and such.
> AMD claims the new AMD Ryzen 7040 series will offer 30+ hours of video playback in ultrathin notebooks

So those 30 hours from the title are just for video playback, with no mention of the battery size and screen resolution and brightness of the laptop from this benchmark.

Still, as a owner of a Ryzen 5000 laptop, I'm really looking forward to an upgrade. Bring it on!
On second viewing I agree that is pretty dodgy.
With an electric skateboard you don't have to swap out your shoes when it's time to use it. Bigger battery. More fastness if you so desire.
I have now read all the content on the website, skimmed the various channels on Discord, flipped through all their posts on Instagram, and even watched the various videos on TikTok (including one that was almost promising: an introduction by a founder)... but I don't see how this is "decentralized". Does one self-host it? Is it federated? Are streams registered in a shared DHT (or on some crazy blockchain? ;P) and then the client is open source? Given that "spots are limited" it would seem like it will clearly be "centralized".
The extent of Microsoft's love for Linux might be debatable, but the company certainly doesn't like NTFS: they tried to replace it with ReFS in Windows Server 2012, but that never really went anywhere.

Apparently, the NTFS source code is so insanely complicated that maintenance is a problem even within Microsoft. Due to the usual recursive kludgefest of backward compatibility requirements, a greenfield cross-platform replacement would also be more trouble than it's worth.
I blame the EPA just because they've allowed two sets of EPA test suites to co-exist under the same marketing term.
There is an inherent rate-limiting in trading anything with others. Physical media gets lost/confiscated and you can only re-read the same magazine so many times before you get bored and move on.

Nobody invited you to an endless all-you-can-watch telethon of fresh content. That's where we are today.
If this is accomplished I'll believe you.
last I remember, he was suggesting the first known agricultural peoples were influenced by survivor(s?) of some kind of lost civilisation in the Americas somewhere. what does that have to do with race?

do you think it's possible that you're seeing things through an overly racial lens?
Mycorrhizal Network (Wiki)
A wiki article on an underground system of information transmission between plants, reminds me a lot of what we tend to perceive as collective consciousness.
I am watching my wife recover from this. Before long covid she was lifting 50kg at the gym and working out 5 days a week, she's been a fashion pr organising massive events, she's done more than most people and has a strong drive to live and enjoy life.

After getting covid she was 'flu' ill for about 2 weeks then got worse. Along side losing her sense of smell (back before that was a known symptom), her heart rate and blood pressure spiked. About a year later she was diagnosed with POTS and myocarditis. She's been lucky that after another 6 or so months, and numerous tests showing her heart issues, that it slowly got better. Her blood pressure still drops, and her heart rate can still spike occasionally.

Despite all this all she wants is to get better and to enjoy life and our kids again. She can work again now (though she's had to move into a new career) but is shattered easily. She'd love to workout but even light exercise can leave her wiped out for a day or two.

She's building back up slowly, but for someone who did so much, it is a real pain.
So please realise that most people with long covid have no interest in sitting and suffering. All they want is to be better. Not being believed and stupid comments like yours do more damage than you can imagine.

(note that after SARs infections people had similar responses - so long covid should not be considered novel).