skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We used to... somewhat attempt manual changelogs. Every time it came to a release the release manager would ask around for what the key changes were, and we usually ended up with only a couple of entries.

Now, we use https://github.com/twisted/towncrier . Every change goes through pull requests, and every PR must have a newsfragment file - and we enforce this with a test that fails if it isn't present (with convenience functions of rewriting the number to match the PR if you name the news file XXX.{category}). If it's not a user-facing change, then we just have a category that is ignored.

On releases (or on individual PRS along the way), the release manager generates the changelog, but also edits them into a relatively coherent style (or rewrites developers news fragments along the way).

Every change has a note written aimed at the user. Every entry in the changelog has a link to the relevant PR or commit. We have much better changelogs now.
No, I actively avoid optimizing my personal life - specifically talking about productivity techniques used to maximize desired outcomes. I used to use those techniques for optimization. Now I don't.
"May".

Apparently what they really mean is that by 2030, we could have an AI that can translate between languages as well as a human can. That would be impressive, no doubt. But:

1. That's not the same as AGI, despite the article's thinking that it is.

2. AGI itself isn't the same as the singularity. The singularity is where an AI can improve itself, without any further human intervention. More, it's not just improving itself to asymptotically approach some limit; it's improving exponentially or hyperexponentially.

On both counts, while impressive, this isn't the singularity, even if an AI achieves human-level translation in 7 years.
Is there any evidence that antibiotic resistance in any significant way crosses from livestock pathogens to human pathogens? I had a medical professor lecturing a couple years back saying it was basically a myth.
Any new consensus on chocolate milk? This was the post-lift craze a few years back.
> Some of the most corrupt or impoverished countries are also monocultural.

Which ones are you talking about? Are you sure they just didn't end up being monocultural ones just because their impoverishedness contributed to a former multicultural country disintegrating along cultural lines?

Not a historian, but that would make sense to me.
> That’s right: if you host your show with Apple, the only listeners you can have are folks with the Apple Podcasts app. This feels like an absolutely wild choice from a product perspective; it’s the mindset of a company who still thinks that they have dominance over the podcasting world. It’s ludicrous to assume that it’s a good thing for listeners to have to have specific hardware in order to listen to a podcast.

I'm gona keep shouting this from the rooftops and maybe it will eventually sink in for some people:

Apple's end game is vertical integration, it's "lock-in" on steroids. When they own every product or service in the stack, they can tune one product (like podcasts) to serve the purposes of another, even when it appears to hurt a product and it's users individually, because it benefits Apple as a whole.

I get that Apple stuff is generally a nice experience and there is genuinely lots of cool technology, but people need to understand the future they are buying into with Apple. The deeper someone gets, the more painful it's going to be when that table flip moment comes, because that table has the weight of the whole Apple ecosystem holding it down - and so people will unconsciously endure much pain before doing so (lest they lose access to their podcasts); If that table flip moment comes with a competitor for an _individual_ service like this one, it's going to be a tiny inconvenience, and so users will endure less, and the product owner has more market pressure to provide a good service as the friction to change is low.

Those passionate about Apple will argue with individual counter examples, but the core issue is the broader strategy that does not have user interests at heart. It's honestly heartbreaking as someone who grew up with and loved Apple computers, they hung onto the concept of holism from the 80s in making the whole computer and it has produced some excellent machines. But now the same strategy is being twisted into something that actively works against the user instead.
Yeah, I have recently switched to "scanning" my 6x6cm and 35mm negatives with a macro lens and digital camera. It's probably not as flat out perfect as a really good scanner, but the end results look amazing and fit my workflow for digital images as well.

I recently got a camera with "pixel shift" technology and using that the files have 96mb and really show off the grain. Plus it's just faster than scanning ever was. I am really very happy with the setup.
And weirdly, if there were no trees around [it], it wouldn't even be [called] a forest.

I would love to hear from a botanist/banana-related person what a bunch of banana plants are called. Are there similar differing names as for groups of various animals?
Right, well I just use it as a phrase, to shorthand mean, "wow, really pay attention to as changing how we work and behave".
Yes. But where to store the backup codes for occasions when that device breaks or get stolen. That is what I like to know. Cause several providers says in a pw manager.
Would switching to a federated / distributed protocol fix things? Or is there some additional critical role that ADS-B was providing?
Trees, for a forest? Those would still produce more for the planet than what an datacentre provides. Which takes resources from the planet..

Water is a finite resource, you need electricity too. Carbon emissions from the build. While I'm sure it will green DC but doesn't solve the fact your destroying natural land for nothing other than a building with servers in it.
Yes my neighbor is one of those resellers. He's had several shipments from Alibaba vendors intercepted by customs for non-compliance.

If Aliexpress would do this, they themselves would be liable. Here in Spain that do have stores but they have a highly curated inventory.
I don't have my laptop with me everywhere I go and use my phone, iPad etc to log in to services.
I see your blad pun, and I leica it
The epson consumer scanners are good. Really good. But they are nothing like drum scanners and other professional scanners.
I believe it was James Cameron talking about "lengthy flying scenes". Something along the lines of: "I want to see it".

Edit: found it, it appears to be ripped from his masterclass

https://twitter.com/fiendformojitos/status/16111646188895641...

Edit: sorry, didn't mean to sound like the Tarantino quote doesn't exist, they've probably said similar things.
Unions & collective bargaining is another option - depending on the profit margins of the companies involved.

Basically, if social workers collectively refused to work for the current pay, either social work would be eliminated (unlikely), or pay would rise - either through government subsidies, or at the expense of profit margins.
It's going to almost impossible to match backgrounds between the two groups and selection effects are huge.

Another question is what are people owed if someone's ancestors were under artificial selection by slavers for many generations?

I think a claim there may be legit. However I'd rather keep objective admissions and hiring and just give cash transfers. I can understand though that people want status as well as cash
As I see it open source killed free software. We don't need open source, we need free software. Stallman was right, as he always is with these things.

It's a meaningful distinction and the fact that open source mindshare won is what effectively killed any momentum that free software had.

Software freedom completely disappeared from the public discourse and it was not fortuitous.
If more people committed to open source, there would be more pressure on hardware vendors.

I suppose all that's needed is for a good chunk of Windows and Mac users to stop thinking of open source as only Vegas flings of opportunity, and more like a life partner.
This is just openjourney model fine-tuned with Dreambooth. You can use any of these tools: Draw Things, Mochi Diffusion, DiffusionBee, AUTOMATIC1111 UI on M1 / M2 with this model. (I wrote Draw Things).
Sorry :)

I should not really say too much, but the software tends to be kind of a trainwreck. WFE companies are definitely engineering-first organizations, but software is a second-order concern in general since it is a check-the-box requirement rather than a truly differentiating product feature, and companies like Lam and AMAT which are headquartered in the Valley have serious trouble competing for software talent. Moreover the software has a multi-decade pedigree with a concordant amount of technical debt. Pretty much everything is C++.

Anyway, there are fairly well-specified standards issued by SEMI like SECS-II and GEM that govern interoperability. In my (highly biased) opinion, the really interesting stuff is the real-time control systems that operate on millisecond timescales to make minute adjustments on the fly using data from onboard sensors to improve process outcomes.
> "can be a real hassel"

haha, i see what you did there
FYI, Hancock is a writer not an archeologist.
Yeah several threads on HN that have lists of tools and pros/cons.
> But if people stopped making dangerous financial compromises to take jobs they are passionate about, then those jobs will either have to get funded more such that the salaries go up, or yes, they'll cease to exist.

If a "passion" is common enough, it will get systematically exploited by employers.
Reinforcement learning should solve this problem. We need to give robots the ability to do experiments and learn from failure like children.
Yes that makes sense! Thanks!
No one cares about your feed. If you don't want "political agitation, aggressive content that targets people or minorities and news to piss me off" on your feed, then don't follow people who post this kind of stuff.
I live next to where this is going in (walking distance). We already have a huge Google Data Center, One of the Ohio-east region availability zones. A Meta data center and office park, and a dbt data center under construction all within a short radius. We also have a vitamin factory being built, we have a large Amazon Fulfillment center, an R&D lab for a perfume company, and an R&D lab for plastics packaging. All of this has been built over the last 3 or 4 years.

This particular spot has electricity and water available from multiple service providers. It has one of the lowest seismic activity ratings in the US. We don't get hurricanes and very rarely get tornados. It is very flat and has great access to highways. We are within a 12 hour drive of something like 60% of the population of the US.

There are huge tax incentives to support Intel's Ohio One, which may have 6-10 fabs built within the next few years. The Intel project is paying for highway development the power and sewer extensions and more.

Spin off development is adding a slew of hotels, big box stores and other development all happening at the same time.

The local schools are rated very highly, and we are only a short drive from The Ohio State University, which is one of the largest universities in the country.

Columbus has a vibrant startup scene with several unicorns in the last couple of years.

They are taking our quiet country town on the outskirts of Columbus, of about 15K people to 100K people over the course of the next 7 years. They are taking many square miles of farmland to make this happen. They are bulldozing over everyone and anything that gets in their way. The developers are making money hand-over-fist. In particular Les Wexner's development company "The New Albany Company". Wexner is one of the key players behind all of this development.

I live on land that goes back in my wife's family to a Revolutionary war grant. I'm pretty sure we will be pushed out within the next year or two as well. The only thing that has stopped them so far is that we have most of the land set as conservation land, which is hard to undo and just pave over.

That doesn't stop the bulldozers from pushing things around next door to us and right up to our property line.

They cut down huge swaths of forest with 100, 150+ year old trees. They got permission to wipe out acres and acres of wetlands without having to worry about mitigation by donating the money to some wildlife fund instead.

We have a pair of displaced bald eagles that have been spotted flying around the area now trying to find a new home.
> Arabic numerals, which were designed for a base-10 system, are inadequate for Iñupiaq and other Inuit languages.

I am curious as to why Arabic numerals (or any number system, for that matter) are inadequate for a language.
I use 1Password with a family account. Good luck getting my mother to understand the nuances of KeePass with Syncthing.

Previously she wrote her passwords down in a notebook.
I think it was on Howard Stern [0], see video.

[0] https://www.unilad.com/film-and-tv/quentin-tarantino-makes-h...
At this point I've lost track of the number of people who extrapolated from contemporary challenges in AI to predict future shortcomings turning out incredibly wrong within just a few years.

It's like there seems to be some sort of bias where over and over when it comes to AI vs human capabilities many humans keep looking at the present and fail to factor in acceleration and not just velocity in their expectations for the future rate of change.
Because war is unambiguously suffering, only serial killers can enjoy it!
That it turned out to just involve regular men with branches stuck to their heads annoyed JRR Tolkien so much that he created the race of Ents.
> if you use Patterns (which is neat)

Wasn't sure of their proposition/hadn't heard of them.

> Run and deploy web apps, task queues, massively parallel compute jobs, machine learning models, GPUs, and much more with a single unified framework for code and infrastructure.
What game? If I send someone a document, I expect them to read it. If I send them a list of repeated keywords just to rank higher in a dumb algorithm that I'm hoping they use, and it turns out it's a human now staring at a page of repeated words... I don't find it surprising that the human is not impressed.

> It forces people to make a choice where they're effectively rolling the dice as to what the best course of action is

The best course of action is to make good resumes. If the scanner can't pick them out, the company will notice in any spot checks that it spits out only garbage. If you optimize for a computer, computer says yes, then a human opens it to see what your experience is and what to talk about in the (phone) interview, human would still see you're trying to cheat their system (which could be a good thing if you apply for a hacking company, perhaps).
This may not be what you're thinking but I see many;

Nokia on phones vs the Bell companies, Toshiba on laptops, pretty much everyone on the PC vs IBM, the entire Steel industry, the railroad industry before them, Japanese cars eating Detroit's lunch, Zenith and RCA's TV market, GE's appliance market.

Where is the gatekeeper in the Amazon/Aliexpress scenario? I'm sorry but I don't see that one yet.

EDIT: You did say "infra" and the best example I know of are the foreign car companies that set up factories here to build cars in the US to get around import issues.
Walmart now operates a marketplace (https://marketplace.walmart.com/). However, I am unsure if they take those same validation steps as they do in their physical stores or not.
They only need to add thermal engineering to fix this. The terminators are coming John Connor.
Apparently the Apple Silicon macs don't have the capability of running 32bit binaries. Since this software is abandoned, it's not like a longer support window would have given them time to recompile the drivers.
Interesting point, I should have made the distinction on company size. Most of my knowledge comes from speaking to early stage DevRel.

I hope I'm not being disingenuous. I'm not disputing that the bottom line always comes down to growth metrics similar to marketing. My goal is to build my own DevTool so my motive is to figure out how all this stuff works.

I'll give you an example. I spoke with Brandon West who was the first DevRel at SendGrid and he said "If you're considering a DevRel job thinking about what size of company you want to join & whether you want to be on marketing, engineering, product side - because DevRel can work on all of those departments. If you want to have your hands on product, then a startup will work better than something with big efficient machinery and you're there to be the spokesperson" https://podcast.bitreach.io/episodes/the-early-stages-of-dev... from 3m5s. Throughout the whole episode the feeling I get is that everything was messy and Brandon was doing everything that needed to be done. He's like a hybrid of engineer and marketer.

You made a good point though and Brandon supports your point too - it seems to be a lot more delineated and specialised beyond the startup stage.

> That the work looks more like running or attending hackathons or giving technical talks at developer-focused events doesn't change the goals or measured outcomes.

Great point! You're right the measured goals are similar in marketing and DevRel. I guess that's the question. Is the activity of the role or the objective the defining characteristic of the role?

P.s. there are big debates in DevRel about objectives - check out swyx's great piece on it https://www.swyx.io/measuring-devrel

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, very interesting!
> The software that drives these scanners is compiled for 32bit architecture and hasn’t been updated in well over 10 years

Might be worth it to try using Wine to run the windows software if they have windows drivers. Wine should run on mac if that's your poison.

> It seems the Firewire ports on these things start to go bad after about a decade. If that happens you’re looking at a 3,000 Euro repair bill

A soldering iron is cheap, and so are firewire ports on digikey. I doubt they invented their own proprietary firewire connection. Ferrari's use volvo parts, you can probably fix it for like $3.
My daughter is a huge fan of flags so we'll be doing a lot of trying this out!

Any way you can configure the number of possible answers? I think 10 options is a bit much (as a clueless American).
> Your resume should talk about results. Don't say "Created a new CMS for the company". Say "Created a new CMS for the company in Python that resulted in an ~70% reduction in website update times, from 1 hour to 18 minutes."

You do exactly the thing the author discusses, and without addressing any of the author's (very valid, IMO) criticism of the problems with trying to do this.
Is there any value of this cost that we can say "this is dangerous". For any reason?
Still pretty pricey for average person, but these will trend cheaper and why I think it's futile to "regulate" AI. Someone somewhere will train models on anything visible to public, licensed or not. Feels like Pandora's box has been opened and we need to deal with it.
Yeah, of course.
They show it the next day
I look about a decade younger than I am and do nothing. I even drink and have smoked in the past. That said multiple grandparents and great grandparents have lived to late 90s or early 100s.

I guess blame the Nephillim DNA in the distant past. I probably got some Merovingian in me.
And prior to that was billions of years of training by evolution that got us to the point where we could 'fine tune' with our senses and brains. A little bit of data was involved in all that too.
Thanks so much, really glad you enjoyed it. Yeah sticking with a message was my big takeaway too. Such a challenge when there are shiny new messages always popping up.
Maximizing for quality adjusted years is a better goal, though probably amounts to the same thing in the end.
Bharat OS (BharOS) is unveiled by JandK Operations Private Limited (JandKops) who (I think) has spun off from the Diamond Bay Technologies Private LTD (also an IITM incubator).

Intended to be a NDK, PASS, 5G, AOSP-based Android phone.

So far, no source code to its AOSP-derived BharOS. But I would keep an eye on @Bharosa on Github (created Jan 2023). BharOS may get the name Bharosa (meaning to be “trust”, in Indian).

sources:

- https://www.diamondbay.in/

- https://jandkops.in/

- https://twitter.com/dpradhanbjp/status/1617745055980326912?r...
Open source (OSI definition) is exactly the same thing as Free Software (FSF definition) so your comment makes no sense without clarifying further. Are you perhaps referring to Source Available software vs OS/FS?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
But yeah, it’s software engineers that are paid too much. I wonder why billionaires never fight for lower pay for C-level staff.
Wouldn’t it be exciting if it was working because someone / something had found it and started tinkering. Hackers, if you will.
> It seems unfair to penalize people for playing the game and attempting to maximize their chances for success

If you bring up the topic of attending _college_ on here, there will be at least five people who say "I make a point of never hiring college graduates, because I knew one once who was incompetent". Penalizing people who play the game is something of a sport in nerd circles.
Could you use a 35mm condenser enlarger to project the image directly onto a scanner bed? You would probably need to disable the light in the scanner, remove the glass, and upgrade the light in the enlarger.
Another way of describing it, rather than a Docker/Container image being a group of layered archives, each with changes, instead a list of file hashes is distributed, detailing where those files need to be in a mounted filesystem, with x permissions.

Since everything is named based on hashes, content is naturally deduplicated if two images share the same files and all files are stored in the same place.

If you boot on top of a composed filesystem, you also get easy file verification as long as the booted list is signed and unmodified. If you modify the local files, the hashes won't match.
I disagree. To me the “is-should” gap is the only thing worth talking about. Everything else is just a matter of fact. I’m not a lawyer anyways so I don’t feel like my opinion on what the law is will be very helpful.

Apple is going to do what is best for Apple, and when that is contrary to our interests we should talk about it. Laws of Man are not laws of nature, they are a perpetually shifting body of agreements that in a democracy we have some liberty to adjust.
Scribes were not authors. They were expected to copy. Bad faith.
A fence?
I do mind you asking.

You can choose to engage with the content of the discussion or choose not to engage with it.

"Everybody who disagrees with me is either a child or clinically depressed" isn't what I come to HN for.
Why not more?
I agree,
I had a custom controller board for a pair of huge electric motors go bad.
I was able to bring the machine back to life using only what I learned form Jeremy Fielding's channel.
Mmm maybe. A bit annoying to backup regularly, but maybe by doing an hybrid approach like other have suggested here could help reduce the backup frequency/annoyance, i.e. duplicated two-factor key for important accounts, and the rest is stored in a password manager.

Now if only banks would implement proper two-factors...
lifehack obtained!
Is there an OCR that reports character coordinates? Couldn’t find a tesseract-ocr option for that, but maybe it’s in a block-detector-something source code?
Heck ya! How are you processing your negatives? Negative Lab Pro? Manually creating positives in Photoshop?
In what alternate universe did the USSR gave workers total control? Maybe before Lenin used the German cash to take Russia out of WW1, do you mean during these months?

The gall of calling Stalin a defender of the workers, this is hilarious.