skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of people from generationally-marginalized families and communities who would love to be hired for positions where they'd be well-compensated while developing valuable skillsets. They're fine with the work being difficult or non-"sit-on-your-ass" oriented. But when People of Influence jump to the solution of, "Import skilled workers that will not only compete for these jobs we need filled, but likely shut out existing residents who've never had access to the requisite training or networks, forever," it speaks to how well PoI truly intend to take care of, say, PoC. If you sense that your abilities won't be appreciated in the future, why spend the time and energy developing them?

At the end of the day, we pursue economic affluence for the promise of social stability it's supposed to bring. Selling out existing Americans, rather than investing in them, in order to save money and hit the ground running short-term, is likely a long-term demographic nightmare. I say this as a progressive, not because I'm anti-immigration, but because the solution suggested seems less about keeping the country open and more about maintaining the wealth of a few at the expense of their marginalized neighbors across the train tracks.

Remember how the auto industry brought a bunch of Japanese trainers over years ago and then threw their recommendations for developing the local workforce in the trash? Let's do the right thing this time.
It seems to me with electronic medical records that you could do population-wide studies using data that already exists (and I think that would pass IRB, or at least "ought to"). That would likely tell you "for the patients matching criteria X (are covered by BCBS and live in state X, or whatever), the 10 year outcome for patients who turned 50 in 2010 was Y vs Z conditioned on whether they had a colonoscopy".
This is fascinating, but I am still curious: would I ever have a good reason to repackage seven binary trees as one (or other way around)?
Show HN: InvokeAI, an open source Stable Diffusion toolkit and WebUI
Hey everyone!

Excited to be able to share the release of `InvokeAI 2.0 - A Stable Diffusion Toolkit`, an open source project that aims to provide both enthusiasts and professionals a suite of robust image creation tools. Optimized for efficiency, InvokeAI needs only ~3.5GB of VRAM to generate a 512x768 image (and less for smaller images), and is compatible with Windows/Linux/Mac (M1 & M2).

InvokeAI was one of the earliest forks off of the core CompVis repo (formerly lstein/stable-diffusion), and recently evolved into a full-fledged community driven and open source stable diffusion toolkit titled InvokeAI. The new version of the tool introduces an entirely new WebUI Front-end with a Desktop mode, and an optimized back-end server that can be interacted with via CLI or extended with your own fork.

This version of the app improves in-app workflows leveraging GFPGAN and Codeformer for face restoration, and RealESRGAN upscaling - Additionally, the CLI also supports a large variety of features:
- Inpainting
- Outpainting
- Prompt Unconditioning
- Textual Inversion
- Improved Quality for Hi-Resolution Images (Embiggen, Hi-res Fixes, etc.)
- And more...

Future updates planned included UI driven outpainting/inpainting, robust Cross Attention support, and an advanced node workflow for automating and sharing your workflows with the community.

We're excited by the release, and about the future of democratizing the ability to create. Check out the repo (https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI) to get started, and join us on Discord (https://discord.gg/ZmtBAhwWhy)!
I don't think I would consider a good action wasteful, even if their might have been a outcome with more of a benefit. While it's worth considering for example what the best way to improve overall health is as there's no real objective way to evaluate the superiority of advocating for reform versus helping people directly there isn't much more information available past your present biases and past experiences to sway you one way or the other.

I might be able to for example estimate that 1M spent on reform might have x% chance of improving outcomes for y number people, but it would be so tortured of an inference it's really just a guess based on what you already think. As a result I think going with your best guess is good enough, to avoid decision paralysis if nothing else.
Can't you redirect/store the information in the URL and then somehow read the URL data in CSS?
Hahahahahahahahaha

No.

Of course we haven't. Of course we never will. To paraphrase my current CEO: "Cost of living adjustments have never been a part of our pay raises."

And also, of course, as a public company they won't cut into their record profits and growth to take care of their employees. To quote Wall Street: "Grow or Die."
I also use Gboard for Dvorak on iOS (well, prior to reading this post) and it's laggy and slow. I think that's true for all non-native keyboards on iOS, though. I've just switched to this new native keyboard option and after 2 minutes of playing with it, I can already tell that it's faster.
We should stop failing to measure economic productivity, but instead of switching to failing to measure well-being we should just stop fetishizing the idea of measuring macroeconomic or sociological phenomena.

The economic metric treadmill looks something like "we want to measure 'economic productivity', which is a term that has a colloquial meaning". Second, create a formal definition that almost, but not quite, matches the colloquial meaning. Third, try to measure it in the past using available proxy metrics. Fourth, try to measure it in the present using new proxy metrics. Fifth, try to measure it in the future by introducing new measurements.

The sixth and most complex phase is to stitch together all those measurements as though they are measuring the same thing, and then via sleight of hand to use the colloquial meaning of the name of the metric to derive some sort of conclusion.

Now we get to play the game of repeating steps 3, 4, and 5 in order to draw interesting and new conclusions, and best of all, to try to guide policy decisions to increase "economic productivity" by instead guiding policy decisions to increase the metric for "economic productivity", yielding results that are invariably nonsensical.

Once you see this pattern it becomes impossible to not see it everywhere in econometric research. Even things like "GDP" or "DJIA" are insanely stitched-together pseudo-metrics that we just pretend are actually measuring something but are completely disconnected from reality because of their use in policy-making.
Micro Labs struck gold with Dolo-650 during Covid-19
So you realize how bad it is that a phone made by Google introduced in November of 2019 is losing support in 3 years? iOS 16 supports the iPhone 8/iPhone 10 from 2017 and the iPhone 5s from 2013 just got a security update August of this year.
Super easy to white label on demand and hard for most people to measure actual quality, would be my guess.

I assume there's some company out there that is basically drop shipping coffee and it's all coming from the same place with different branding. It probably costs the youtubers almost nothing to set up and the drop shipping company does everything and then forwards some percentage of the sale to the youtuber so it just runs on auto pilot. It's easy money if you already have an established brand.
> but are you arguing it's a fundamental right to stare at the gogglebox?

It's interesting to me how people can rationalize the government coming into their homes from every possible angle. The idea that a government agent can --according to the law-- come into your home to determine if you have a TV is nothing less than dystopian to me.

Funding the BBC? Have a separate tax people can vote on to fund the BBC. If they think it has value they can vote every n years to keep it funded.

I feel quite strongly that both liberals and conservatives have lost their ways. Freedom should be a top class unassailable right that rules all decisions. I am not taking about no government and complete mayhem. What I am talking about is government becoming a brutal beast that swallows it all and controls it all.

I'll give you an example of this. We live by a lake. I can walk there. It's beautiful. I love walking around the lake. However, I cannot dip my toes in the water. I cannot walk along the shore in water up to my ankles. It is illegal. I could be fined a non-trivial amount for this. No, this is not a source of drinking water at all. There are people fishing and kayaking in the lake. There are a couple of zones designated for swimming (only when allowed and lifeguards are present). Getting your feet wet, either sitting at the edge of the water or walking, not permitted.

Every time I go there I think "Land of the Free" (a common US phrase and part of the national anthem) in a sarcastic tone. It's ridiculous that we have allowed things to get this far. And this is a simple example. We need less government, not more.
In the relatively small niche of US software developers maybe... in other areas it doesn't matter. Most white collar jobs have otherwise externalized credentialing. Some places actually train workers on the job!
Lol author complains about voodoo measurements but then proposes a much more voodoo measurement.
Only thing I think they should implement proper responsive design so that you can have the width of the window less than 800px or whatever without getting overflow. I think at around 500px it switches to mobile view, so there's a gap in between when you have a horizontal scroll bar.
Thank you, I'll learn more about this.
pccmarket prices are sooo insanely expensive. I wonder who can afford to shop there :-/.
The problem I have with economists is that they pour their effort into what is trackable after waving away the softer stuff.

What does it rhyme with?

- Companies that pour their effort into fine tuning their websites and adverts based off of what their analytics tells them. Years later their product dies and nobody really says why. [Narrator: All the best designers and developers left as the product and company slowly turned soulless.]

- City planners that make deals with builders for suburban housing which increases the tax base. Decades later they're stuck dealing with the outsized infrastructure maintenance costs for things like sewer lines without the proper density to afford them.

- Prisons, schools, and hospitals get mandates from the state to include a fruit with every breakfast. Individually packaged jam fits the poorly written bill, so that's what we all get.

And on and on.

The point is, there are things we need to do and problems we need to address that are frustratingly hard to define and agree upon, but the answer is not to wave them away. The answer is the opposite. To head right into them and try to really make a difference without getting lazy.

I could, easily, in an afternoon mention dozens of quantifiable proxies for different aspects of a good life. I'm very sure that countries with the technical prowess of Apple and Tesla are capable of achieving better instruments of our collective wellbeing.

What we need are economists with courage and resolve. There is obviously something horrible going on across the world right now even if GDP keeps growing.
They weren't referring to my dumb joke, but to the claim that there were negative comments. I thought I saw one or two as well, maybe they were deleted.
Developers of vB 3 left the company and started new forum software named XenForo. They were then sued by Internet Brands (vB owners) for IP theft - IB claimed XenForo was next vBulletin. In court hearings we’ve learned that IB plan for vBulletin development was to fire all but lead dev, and have this lead dev only delegate and review work to outsourced devs in Asia. We’ve also heard that „only developers care about quality of code” and trying to keep code good is „waste of time”.

And then vB 4 landed and turned out to be insanely poor launch - forum index was plugin based, but it was very easy to end with index page that did 700 mysql queries, which took forever to execute without relying on full page cache like varnish.

Today its supposedly much better, but Internet Brands uses internal version of vBulletin 3 (3.8) to run their sites instead of v4 or v5.
This is a bit of conjecture on my part, but I see many "entrepreneurs" who go on vacation or otherwise encounter the large margin from exploitable cheap labor on cloud forest crops like coffee and chocolate (palm oil and others as well), and cannot resist setting up a co-packing operation and using their network to shoehorn it into grocery stores or shill it to their followers. It is a relatively easy "wealth expansion" play if you are decent at marketing or already have an audience.

There is a large spectrum from slave-owning cacao operations to fair trade and regenerative operations, but for sure the margin is a part of the draw.
How’s the quality of life otherwise?
Outsider's perception of every US state
Interesting "create test account from hn" button!

As a side note:
1)which are the differences between pocket?
2) do you have a smartphone app on your road map?

Great job! Gonna test it!
My answer to this recurring question: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2957

The really short answer is that the problem stems from a incorrectly imported concept from C, where void pointers are all 0. If you treat Go as Go, and don't try to understand it as another language, you would understand there's no particular reason to treat nil the way people are treating it. It isn't a void pointer. There's also an issue where people incorrectly attribute the problem; it isn't where the nil (of one type) fails to compare equal to nil (of another type), it's where the value was created in the first place that didn't mean what a C-based understanding thought it meant. Go isn't C, just like any language X isn't language Y.

In reality, once you understand this issue correctly, it essentially dissolves simply because you have the correct understanding. I've been programming in Go now for years and I simply don't hit this problem. You do have to be willing to let go of your wrong ideas, but, it's not a matter of opinion about design or something; they are objectively wrong ideas about how the values in Go work. Once you move the problem from trying to "detect" the problem to not creating the problem in the first place, it's not hard.
Yes, we do need to say things like that, just like we need to say things like “doctors shall do no harm”.
> it's exactly what Brexit was intended to do.

These sort of details weren't specified in the referendum, though. What we currently call Brexit is mostly unfounded interpretation by the successive governments of the UK.
My Snark died and I was about to order another one when I saw the TC Electronic PolyTune. I splurged and bought it. I love it!
Up until a few years ago IC was a rare thing to effectively advance your income. ICs were seen ad just ants that are useless without a manager.

As for "cesspool that is California" - SV provides the highest income opportunities, even if you include low raise opportunities.
To encourage startups and investment, they could relax employment law around small businesses. Should be possible.
I'm not an expert in the area and hadn't heard about Sailfish before, so I took a look and stumbled on this article [0] of Rosteltelekom (Russian national company) acquiring majority in the company Jolla that produces Sailfish OS, which makes everything about Sailfish a bit less enticing from a security perspective.

Another article [1] from a few months back says that Rosteltelekom owns about 45% and Jolla is trying to find another EU company to buy those shares, but didn't see anything more recent.

[0] https://together.jolla.com/question/178875/rostelecom-acquir...

[1] https://www.engadget.com/jolla-samuli-simojoki-post-russia-1...
Why another OS? Why does anyone ever do anything?
It's not even millions yet, and Firefox along with Mozilla is already dying. When will the cargo cult end.
No the OP, but for me the only bloat is Pocket. I also disable DoH but that isn't really bloat.
Not what I saw on another site, but yours is more recent so ok.

Still a long way from 1:1000
NSA’s TAO surely has many orders of magnitude more budget than Google’s red team?
It feels very retro - back to the earlier days of the web circa what Craigslist still looks like. Are you doing this just for development experience / fun or to make it something bigger? I still find no-JS back-end forums such as PHPBB and similar to still be useful. People are still running vBulletin. These systems are all very robust and handle moderation and many other forum-related must haves. Are you looking to build those as well?

It definitely feels like we're going full circle with the Web and back to its earlier, decentralized, stripped-down past.
I use Dvorak for 10 fingers. I use QWERTY for two thumbs. It turns out my brain keeps the two separate with no issue whatsoever.
HN's model is bad for high volume. Sometimes on HN you only get one top level reply on the whole page because once it puts the top top-level reply it then puts all the replies to that above the next top-level reply.

So you get a vast amount of low quality replies above the next high-quality reply.

For low volume it works okay because you can manually collapse but for high volume once it starts paging it breaks down and you just get further into the top level comment without properly being able to escape.

Reddit's model of auto-collapsing so you get a mix of threads and top-level replies is much better for picking out the better responses.
I couldn't be sedated, because I had no companion to take me home, and a taxi doesn't cut it.

I wouldn't describe it as "extremely awful". It was very uncomfortable; I'd compare it to 40 minutes of dental hygiening.

I think it's nuts that they use this procedure for screening. I'm screened for bowel cancer annually, using a fecal sample pack they send me through the post, and that I post back. No hospital visit, no treatment room, no expensive equipment, no nurses and doctors. The only reason I can think of for using colonoscopy as a screening technique is that it's costly.
I didn't have time to go over all 50 but I do like #3, "I have confirmed that someone else can articulate what problem I am trying to solve."

Too often I see devs go down some deep rabbit hole to solve a problem no user has ever had, and I wish they'd have talked to me first about it.

But the author of this article could have generalized a lot here, many of these could be summed up by the (admittedly less interesting) "I know how to communicate clearly and do so frequently with my team."
Bhutan is a country that does improve on well-being. They measure Gross National Happiness (GNH). That should give a first approximation of the potential of that idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness
Don't see why it can't just be a situation where you have a different roommate in each state.
Very fast. Really like it.
Also curious about who would oppose EA. My first thought is people who would be threatened by expectation that we measure the actual impact of social efforts.
This isnt right because capital losses count against capital gains. So, taking a loss allows you to not pay taxes on an equal amount of gains that you would've been taxed on otherwise.
It is a great project and who knows, one day might come as standard in some OEM system.

Happy birthday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Nickell

This researcher and a small team re-created a method to make Nazca lines in the 70's with the same tech that the Nazca civilization had. People make very complex crop circles all by themselves, too. It's simply a matter of a bit of math and careful planning and practice.
Brothers and sisters of Dvorak! Hark and come forth!
Yes, we have to make it happen

Governmnets are A-OK with outsourcing the police, secret services, public order etc to Google and Apple. It's cheap for them and easy , and nobody complaints. It shouldn't be any of those
HNs version of ads
Well I’m here to agree with both sides and not downvote you. :). I think the nil issue is one of the ugliest, most confusing parts of Go, and yet I still like the language as a whole for its relative simplicity.
there are a lot more marine mammals than there used to be. They're eating a ton of hatchery fish according to (many) anecdotal accounts. I also overheard a few Fish and Game guys putting forward that theory regarding the very bad returns during the Prince William Sound seine fishery.

I'd never seen so many otters, seals, and orcas as I had in my return trip. With a lot more predators, it's a stretch to think that could be contributing.

So while environmental contamination is never a bad bet, I'd be surprised if that's all it was.

The people who say stuff like "overfishing" in regard to Alaskan fisheries (some of the best managed in the world) have no idea what they're talking about.

Fucken English enough for ya?
1. For profit companies are in business to make money, not “market share”

2. Having access to the premium market is important enough to Google for them to pay Apple $18 Billion a year to be the default search engine on Apple devices

3. Do you think developers are advertisers care more about “market share” or who has disposable income?
How can they enforce a price limit on natural gas? What is being done elsewhere is a subsidy to lower the effective price of natural gas for as long as the credit of the nation can afford to pay the difference. This completely removes the incentive from people to save gas that would come from letting it rise to meet demand. This is a strong distorting influence on the economy, it's a perverse incentive.

The same can be said of fossil fuels in general, they're been priced at the cost of extraction, not even a tiny fraction of their true value for 200 years. That pulse of incredibly cheap stored sunlight is entering its decline phase now, and I worry that humanity isn't ready to handle it.
It accurately shows how much money I lost in Celsius.
VSCode has a vertical 'subwindow' on the left which list all the opened tabs. I call this 'a tab view/list', I don't know what's the real name.

Usually I have between 10 and 20 tab opened, so the tablist is very helpful for navigating between tabs.

Unfortunately (AFAIK) the 'fast' editors (vim, kakoune, etc) don't provide such feature. Some have a tree list but not a tab list :-(
> had them ready to surrender already.

Any citation? This is the first time I have heard this claim.
javascript :(
"Compliance is hard" when it comes to the GDPR is patently false. Don't gather data you don't need, and don't track things you don't need, don't share personally identifying data, and don't retain data you no longer need.

All those things are the default. It is hard to run into a situation where you risk violating the GDPR without actively making a decision to do so, with maybe the exception of the whole "users have a right to all their information/delete all their information" thing, which should be a straight-forward database operation unless you're doing something asinine.
I don't think those have the same performance characteristics. At the end of the day you can't have your cake and eat it. You can't keep large scale indices that facilitate fast joins without writing them out to disk and you can't keep them in sync with your data without transactionality/atomicity. This boils down to tradeoffs in terms of locking/consensus/scale/indices/data locality. That said if you're going to be emulating this over noSQL anyways then there's an argument for using something that does it for you (assuming it meets your requirements).