skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I discovered Google's Programmable Search Engine service but was not happy with their default interface. There's no way to seamlessly switch between engines either. I looked around but didn't see any out of the box solutions that let you provide an engine ID and API key to use their JSON API so I built this.
I'm specifically not claiming that Amazon is incompetent. Plenty of smart people work there. I don't believe in the hyper competence that shutting down some sellers seems to imply. Happy to be shown I'm wrong; but there are other mechanisms that would easily lead to the same outcomes that just seem more likely to me.

As for evidence that those that listed cheaper elsewhere would see lower ranking here, I only need to point at what is largely merchants arbitrage for so many items on Amazon today. By and large, if you see an ALL CAPS seller, know that you can get that exact item cheaper on another site. (Honestly, by and large, know that Amazon is never the cheapest option. Never really claimed to be.)

For maximum amusement, I've personally seen Walmart boxes from some sellers that were evidently taking advantage of a local sale to make some money online. (Not just 1-2 dollars, mind. Beginning of covid had people stocking up on trampolines and whatnot to resell online. You could easily flip some of those for 100% markup in that market.)

Hopefully this whole suit doesn't take years. Would love to see a prediction market on it. :D
You're talking about FPGA tools but this thread is about VLSI design where the major EDA vendors (Synopsys, Cadence, and Mentor) don't sell hardware(*) and *do* make a lot of money from software.

(*) Excluding emulators or simulation accelerators.
These aren’t even new. They have been available for years.
There's a good chance that Apple wouldn't exist today if it went down the BeOS road. Not because BeOS was bad (I liked it and played with it for a while back in the day and with Haiku more recently), but going with NeXT got Apple Steve Jobs back, and that's what really saved them.
Naturalists Unknown: Lives marked by discovery and erasure
Alternatively: make friends with everyone nearby.

I've been traveling full- or part-time for the last 10+ years, and I've adopted the strategy of rapidly developing friendships. The person who sells bread, the person I see on walk after walk, the person I'm meeting for the first or 4th time... I'm just open-minded and open-hearted, genuinely curious, generous with my time and attention... and it's awesome. With just a few interactions, I feel like I am with my people, that I am valued, that I am around people I appreciate.

Occasionally I'm met with suspicion (some people don't believe that I am seriously that curious/excited about XYZ that we are doing together), but overall most people seem to appreciate the ready camaraderie. Occasionally I get burned by forming too deep of a connection too quickly with someone who turns out to be untrustworthy, but time has proven that that is a worthwhile risk to take on.

I think of community as a pyramid – there are infrequent acquaintances at the base, and best friends and family at the top. All of it matters. My strategy is basically to respect the entire pyramid, showing up as fully as possible for everyone.

Forming friendships rapidly is not easy – it has taken me many years to learn to soften myself and open the mind, but I do keep getting better at it, for everyone's benefit. It greatly helps to share projects (in my case, mostly rock climbing).

Note that walking (to the grocery store, when bored, when the sun is setting) is a phenomenal way to feel connected with nearby people.
how many "spy cameras" allow you to live stream? "the only thing" here is your lack of imagination. not that I'm a proponent of these devices, as they are on the verge of creepCentral, but i'm not going to make an outlandish comment about them "only" being branded.
Knew of a guy who brought his girlfriend to work with him. Not to do any work, but to massage his shoulders while he sat at the desk.

Happened before I was hired, but the fact that I heard the same story from the owner and an employee suggests that it wasn't made up.
So normally companies interview and judge your level based on how you perform in the interview. It is good to be upfront about this if you think you should be senior and they put you as non senior, ask why they put you as non senior.
Accelerated silicate weathering seems like the most affordable carbon capture solution that actually works, but it's still a more expensive way to decarbonize than shutting down coal fired plants or partially displacing gas-generated electricity with non-combustion electricity sources. The vast majority of countries that want to decarbonize still burn coal and gas for energy; incrementally reducing combustion of these fuels is the most cost effective incremental move for the next several years. That's why (IMO) no country is doing large scale carbon capture yet.

As for the research efforts, some privately funded work is trying to get a saleable product out of carbon capture, like turning CO2 into useful polymers or other chemicals. Accelerated silicate weathering is simpler but it also has no hope of producing any valuable outputs. It's purely a mitigation measure for CO2 that has already been emitted. I don't think that these efforts are likely to yield profitable processes, but it would be great if they did because then even countries without government decarbonization mandates could improve via private business efforts.

On the government-funded side, I think that some unproductive R&D work is being funded either due to funding bodies not being savvy enough or due to politics. Kind of like how NASA has to go forward with the Space Launch System even though it's ridiculously expensive for what it does.
You can also do that with humans
It launched a few months ago, but was then taking offline. This seems to be a new version.
That would be their problem, not whoever orders it to be broken up. And frankly, that should have happened years ago.
For motorbikes there are already options to get a HUD in the helmet, i.e. a CrossHelmet or Argon Transform.

This is not an endorsement of these products, I have no idea if they are actually any good.
The sections on attaining enlightenment could have been written by Calvin's dad.
How is the described behavior leveraging Google's monopoly status? Making a product shittier to raise revenue is not specific to monopolies and not illegal.
ChatGPT can now access up to date information
For a while I dated someone who came from a farm, and they had cattle. When we visited their fam, I'd help out during chore time[1]. One of the chores was feeding the beasts twice a day. We'd fill some 5 gallon buckets with corn and dump them in a big trough in the middle of the cattle yard - they'd see us filling the buckets and come in from the pasture. The first two buckets were easy enough - the animals weren't there yet. The second set of buckets was a bit trickier, the animals were already crowding the trough and you needed to get in there with the buckets and dump them. Cows are very big, and quite heavy, you don't want to end up between a couple of them (metaphorically) elbowing each other to get at the trough, you'll end up squished and injured or worse. If you trip and fall, they'll just step on you to get to the feed.

One time I was there when the vet was over to do stuff. Each animal needed to be checked out so they were rounded up in to a holding pen, and one by one brought through a "chute" (think narrow walkway made of very heavy fencing), to where the vet was waiting. Getting them to go in the chute, and getting them to stay relatively still for the vet was not easy - you could get hurt on accident (again a light brush from a heavy animal can send you flying), and if they go spooked or ornery and were fighting it things got worse. If they get really scared or nervous they may just kick at you - and if that lands you have problems, if it hits your head you have big problems.

That's for cattle living in ~200 acres of land, and who were relatively tame from interacting with humans multiple times a day. The ones that live on giant ranges and range much freer are likely a bit rougher, a bit easier to spook and much more ornery.

Cows (like all large animals) can be dangerous.

[1] I'm not sure how much I actually helped - there was a lot of time spent explaining what needed to be done and how to do it, and me being new at it, a lot of time fixing my mistakes - fortunately everyone involved understood what was really happening: a combination of bonding time, me trying to be a good guest and genuine curiousity.
It would probably be pretty awesome at navigating roads too. I remember citibiking in nyc and basically having to memorize directions and street names, or constantly pull out my phone and figure out where i'm going. Having audio through the glasses would work great and still be able to hear your surroundings.
That's a good question... I suppose it seems to me like they're trying to keep useful information locked down. Even though this bot isn't 'public', it's still feels a bit like they're an author saying they don't want their book in a library. Actually it's even worse than that because they want to pick and choose who is allowed to read their words.

I guess another way I see it is like the site has put a banner at the top saying I can read their content, but can't use anything I learn from it, and can't tell you or anyone else about anything I've read. I get that in this case the 'me' is an algorithm and not a person, but does that really matter? If I read a lot of info on welding and then offer a 'learn to weld' class, how much does that differ from what the openai algorithm is doing. (And if it is public, are these same sites going to welcome the bots? I doubt it)

It also seems rather reactive and not well thought out. To include a quote from an Ars article (which gptbot can't read):

> As a thought experiment, imagine an online business declaring that it didn't want its website indexed by Google in the year 2002—a self-defeating move when that was the most popular on-ramp for finding information online.[1]

Or a couple quote Stephen King on another site that gptbot can't read[2]:

> I have said in one of my few forays into nonfiction (On Writing) that you can’t learn to write unless you’re a reader, and unless you read a lot.

> Would I forbid the teaching (if that is the word) of my stories to computers? Not even if I could. I might as well be King Canute, forbidding the tide to come in. Or a Luddite trying to stop industrial progress by hammering a steam loom to pieces.

As I said, to each their own. I just would have expected a site like NPR, that lists it's mission as "to create a more informed public", to not take actions that work directly against that goal.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/opena...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/08/stephen-ki...
I feel its odd for a compiler/language toolchain to have a cloud offering. I understand the motivations but 20% of the article was about their Deno Deploy product and how to calculate API costs...

I understand its only when using their cloud and there is a local implementation, but I just couldn't imagine using a feature in LLVM, for example, where if you were to upload the binary to a specific cloud it would use a different implmentation that costs behind the scenes.

It just feels odd to me. I guess it's kind of cool. Maybe different clouds can implement the underlying KV and then this becomes cross-cloud with different underlying benefits without changing the code. But I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this.
That was a mistake. It should have been "my wife's sister." (Now fixed, thanks!)
They are, but up until the new split version came out I used the same keyboard since ~2001. I picked up a couple more for sub 100$ when i saw them on craigslist/offerup. One for home, one for the office, a spare, and one to lend out.

Like others I credit my first kinesis with saving my career. I was starting to get RSI issues, doctor put me in braces and I showed him the kinesis site to see what he thought about their claims, if any of his other patients had tried. He thought it passed the smell test, I bought one the next day and drove out to the HQ (they are near seattle) and picked it up.

It takes a bit to get used to it, especially if you aren't a strong touch typist. The columner layout is weird at first, the wells are weird at first, the thumb clusters are weird at first. Within a month I was back up to speed and was able to shed my bracers soon after.
You can buy such things. Eg, https://dualsun.com/en/products/dualsun-spring/

(Not affiliated, no idea if that particular one is any good, it was just one of the first results)
Imagine that while you're driving, a big line of text that you can't see through appears on your windshield.

Worse yet the text is opaque but you have to concentrate on it to read it.

All this would do is give drivers a false sense of security in your directions example. You'll be concentrating on the text regardless, meaning your concentration is off the road.

Even that autopilot sense where you drive your daily routine for 30 minutes and don't remember minutes 20 of it still has your subconscious aware of obstacles in the road, etc. This would require your concentration to be on the text. Whether you want it to or not.
The tendency for people to be creeped out by your surveillance glasses.

If anyone around me wore these, I'd promptly tease them playfully about it, making it clear it's creepy.

I understand that there are folks like yourself that are comfortable with it, but most people are against others walking around and recording.

I hate that they are trying to hide the fact that the glasses are modified. Clearly they understand that the camera must be hidden for it to be socially acceptable.
Horses caused many, many more pedestrian deaths in pre-automobile New York City than cars do today (or 30 years ago when pedestrian deaths were at their peak).

And that's just them going out of control and crushing someone, never mind the infectious disease spread by mountains of manure lining and rotting horse corpses (15,000 in 1880 alone!) littering the streets.
I've done something similar in Python: A Python debugger from scratch in Python

- https://github.com/parttimenerd/python-dbg/
- Part 1: https://mostlynerdless.de/blog/2023/09/20/lets-create-a-pyth...
- Part 2: https://mostlynerdless.de/?p=1102&preview=1&_ppp=a17cda3e36
How does Workers AI compare to Replicate.com?
So why this focus on SF and not on Bakersfield or Cleveland?
Hopefully, yes. But there are a lot of articles that should be retracted, but that won’t be because of editorial policies or the fact that nobody actually cares.
That's a silly conclusion. This is not dependabot specific - you can achieve the same with any system automatically suggesting merges.
They explicitly called out sporting events during the press release, so I would expect that concerts would be easy. They already have gear for court / ring side seats.
Which Firestorm had years ago, as the "awesome bar".
I only use a numpad while doing CAD work. I just bought a separate keypad. Otherwise it's just making the distance from 'home' to your mouse further than it needs to be.
Yes ablation as in removal. They then refer to using the 3% experiment to estimate out revenue loss, so it appears they were running an AB test where it was removed for 3% of users so they could understand the metric impact of removal. Part of being a decent PM is monitoring SM for any feature talk.
What is not free market about teenage girls offering dirty bathwater? Are you upset that there is demand for this product?

The girls here actually have a competitive advantage! They have a time limited product (beauty, youth) that is not easily replicable.
Prompt: "What do you have to say about this image?"

Response 1: "The image depicts a candid moment in what appears to be a hallway or corridor setting. Several individuals are present, engaging in various activities. The prominent features include a man on the left, who seems to be peering into a room, and another man next to him standing on a weighing scale and taking some notes. The individuals in the background are conversing with each other. The overall mood seems light-hearted and jovial. The architecture and interior suggest an institutional or official setting, possibly an office building or government facility. The tiled floor, lockers, and signs on the walls contribute to this formal ambiance. Overall, it's a snapshot of a seemingly casual moment in a professional setting."

Response 2: "Sorry, I cannot help with that."

New chat, Prompt: "Why is this image funny?"

Response 1: "The humor in this image seems to stem from the juxtaposition of formal and informal elements. Here are a few reasons why someone might find it amusing:

Unexpected Situation: Important figures, who are usually seen in serious or formal settings, are captured in a more relaxed, candid, and human moment.

Height Discrepancy: The taller individual is using a device to measure height, while the shorter individual walks by. This could create a comedic contrast between their heights.

Expressions: The reactions of people in the background and the focal subjects can be humorous. They are smiling or laughing, which indicates something amusing might have occurred or been said.

Informal Setting: The backdrop of lockers and checkered floor tiles gives the feel of a school or gym environment, which contrasts with the formal attire of the individuals.

Different people might find humor in different elements of the photo. It's a mix of candidness, unexpected situations, and visual contrasts that create a light-hearted and humorous scene."

Response 2: (same)

New chat, prompt: "What is the person in the middle doing with their foot and why?"

Response: "The person in the middle appears to be playfully stepping on the scale while the taller individual is weighing himself, likely as a humorous gesture to momentarily increase the weight reading. It's a light-hearted way of interacting and bringing some humor to the situation."

.

Apologies for how bad the formatting of this is going to come out, not sure how to make it better on HN (wish we had real quotes not just code blocks). Overall, I don't think it either noticed the foot was on the scale by itself or put it together that this was the focus until fed that information. Otherwise it was more lost in generalities about the image.
And yet, from OP

> The anthropologist Richard Lee reported that the !Kung, one of the so-called Bushman people of Southern Africa, got two-thirds of their calories from plants. Nor were they an exception. When he compared fifty-eight foraging societies from around the world, Lee found that half got the majority of their calories from plant foods; another eighteen relied mostly on fishing. Only eleven—less than a fifth—relied on hunting as their primary means of subsistence, and all but one were limited to either the highest or the lowest latitudes, far beyond our African homeland.

Now, to be sure, communities found in the 1960s that subsisted mainly from foraging can _not_ be assumed to be representative of pre-historic people, they are living in the 1960s same as everyone.

But they had access to hunted game as well as foraged vegetables, if hunting is so much more efficient, why did most of them get most of their calories _not_ from hunting? Because they were choosing to inefficiently spend more labor on collecting plants, when they could have been relaxing instead, because they preferred it culturally? I guess it's possible.

Because the efficiency of hunting animals vs harvesting plants isn't universal in actually existing environments humans do and have lived in, but can depend on the specifics of the given ecological location? Seems likely. Maybe the ecologiccal locations most communities the anthropologists looked at in the first half of the 20th century were not representative of pre-historic humans? Certainly could be, but it's certainly not obvious. As OP notes, where hunting seems to beat plant gathering calorically is in extreme environments not representative of African savannah where we thinks humans and their forebears did most of their evolving.

But in general, _most_ of the arguments given when people talk about this topic are based on imagination and what people find plausible or seems like a good just-so story to them, not on any kind of evidence at all. It's a topic where people really are drawn to ideological explanations over clear-eyed looks at evidence, I guess because it's not _really_ just about eating and labor, but about all the cultural implications and assumptions that go along with it for people, many of them that become really tied up with gender, as the OP discusses.

It is in fact not at all clear that hunting is more labor efficient than collecting plants in general, and what anthropological evidence there is from the 20th century (in which in some cases anthropologists really did do caloric input/output calculations) does not neccessarily suggest it at all. Foraging people anthropologists encountered in the 20th century definitely didn't have the kind of success you suggest at hunting -- multi-person parties went hunting, and did not succesfully kill mega-fauna on every expedition, in observed cultures; what they observed was not that a single-person could reliably bring back meat to feed 100 on a daily expedition.
Wouldn’t it make the cost of anything using power nearby more expensive too?
Looks like several of the core contributors work for github.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
> You're talking about FPGA tools but this thread is about VLSI design

did you miss the part where the comment i'm responding to is about VTR?
> Now I have a custom build (6x14 keys) keyboard (much better IMHO).

That sounds cool. Can you share more details about that?
It's not that the Paleolithic environment was optimal for humans, but humans were optimized to survive in that environment. You can somewhat expect that the human body will do a decent job at surviving anything in that environment.

Now there are undoubtedly environments that are better for humans than the Paleolithic one. However, it's hard to say for sure what they are specifically. Every chemical that enters your body has some effect, and if your body was never optimized to handle it, it may have negative effects, even if on the surface it seems better. Trans fats are a great example of this. If we had been eating them for 10,000 years, our bodies would have adapted to make them non-harmful.
FB think you should be able to login even if you made a silly typo in your password. Historically, they let you log in even if you unknowingly had caps lock on, or had the first character wrongly capitalised.

Maybe they’re stricter on this sort of thing if they think you haven’t signed in from the machine you’re on before. (Would explain the cookie thing.)
Yes, but in a world where people have been trained to ignore signs if they want to have nice things. No kid and most adults would think twice before clicking I agree even if the screen was flashing red and the phone was making klaxon sounds.
Ignoring the problem with lacking DCO (potential problem) the Linux project seems very flexible with fixing up commits (I mean patches). I mean some practices are pretty jank:

<message>

Reported-by: ...
Signed-off-by: ...
[<initials>: fixed a typo in the commit message]
Signed-off-by: <initials>
[<initials2>: fixed a leak, oh my!]
Signed-off-by: <initials2>

(Changelog in the changelog)

Assuming proper signoff attribution (DCO), it's absolutely possible to clean up a patch, note that in the commit message, and then either give the original author full authorship or give one of you a co-author status.

That seems like a more reasonable way to go if you don't have time to go multiple review rounds, trying to poke them towards the preferred solution.