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Show HN: Using AI to write picture books
Ever wanted to create your own picture book? Introducing Mr. Seuss! Just input images of your protagonist and a basic storyline and he'll produce a (funny but weird) picture book for you using AI.

The linked colab uses GPT-J to generate a story and Dreambooth Stable Diffusion to generate relevant pictures to the story. It's completely free and takes around 30 minutes to run on the free tier of colab.

Let me know what you think in the comments! So excited to see what's possible for storytelling using AI.
A problem is that people are often optimizing to compensation literally right now. This leads to the following common scenario on blind or other similar communities:

Person 1. "I'm a junior engineer and two senior engineers just left my team, now I'm being asked to do do a bunch of work that they used to handle."

Person 2. "If they aren't bumping your pay immediately you should leave. Never do senior work for junior pay."

Now this person is missing out on a huge opportunity to get a ton of experience and prove themselves to be invaluable.
Design decisions don’t make you compliant, you have to hire experts whose job is to convince regulators you are remaining compliant over time.
There have been bills introduced to ban members of Congress from insider trading but, amazingly, they keep getting shot down in committee.
Thanks for the clarification. I've never heard or seen the word "laity" but have become wary of using gendered words on the internet so added "folks" without much thought. Sign of the times I suppose, hard to please everyone.
No, alternatives like you suggest increase your risk exposure. You don't want to self host this stuff from a risk POV. Your risk-based choices are to not collect it at all, or to use tier 1 services like GA.

Users don't actually care.
Sure, it _seems_ like withcraft. The illusion disappears when you know how it is done.
The operation it's replacing is something like "SELECT, followed by UPDATE/INSERT".

Implicit in that sequence is transmitting the selected rows over the network, and buffering the rows in-memory on the client side.

With MERGE, you eliminate the network stress, and push the burden of managing the rows in-memory onto the postgres server.

That's quite nice if you have beefy operations and want to keep the services/jobs running those operations lean.
Will the Metaverse Replace PCs?
The blind community is solely concerned with TC.
Based on my limited experience with using arenas and preallocated memory I find debugging memory issues significantly harder since it’s super easy to accidentally reuse allocations and only notice much later.
This is some cyberpunk-level stuff and I am here for it.
It's still done. I did the code review for the guy who wrote it for our server. If we're crashing due to an OOM situation we still have enough memory to write out a minidump.
I've used p5.js to teach classes of entire newcomers to programming - people who really disliked maths and anything science-related, in a graphics design school. It worked super well. My classes online aren't up-to-date and the slide system I used kinda stopped working in newer browsers, but if that can be useful to anyone feel free to reuse. https://interactive-design.jcelerier.name/b3
> So they literally are not receiving any meaningful payments from Disney. A “$7000 hotel stay” you can’t even resell is worth very little compared to $ in bank.

Except it's $7k that they most likely would have spent themselves as a business expense to try and get money from their streams. It's still Disney paying them, just in an alternate way.

It's why YouTube, Amazon and others require you to disclose that you got the item for free, because that can significantly alter your view and is basically turning you into an ad.

How many "normal" people would spend $7k for a 2 day hotel stay where you basically are stuck in someone else's itinerary? Hint, not enough to fill out 100 rooms consistently, even within 2 days. But it was all "OMG THIS IS AWESOME YOU HAVE TO DO IT" from the 'influencers.'

>Also, you forgot about Club 33. Those folks sometimes get better treatment than the regular passholes.

Oops, yep. Forgot the $100k Disney club. Plus the timeshare suckers.
thats exactly what i mean, they made it sound like this kid was some average guy who at the age of 15 went to the public library, read books and solved some hard math problem. I bet this kid had an advanced math education and math immersion since he was a toddler.
> contribute to an Open Source project that you really like

My 2c: This is the harder but better way to prove your skills. It shows you can learn a new codebase, interact with team members to learn and get things done, and that your code standards are up to code with an established org.

Just don't make my mistake of trying to contribute on your own. Find a mentor, and before you try to make a change, explain your approach to that mentor or anyone to make sure it works. And only then start writing code.

If this gets a ton of upvotes, I'll make a guide for doing this.
While I agree with the premise, your example doesn't really prove it.

Your friends basically invested in real estate and got lucky.

Whoever sold this house was also rich and lost potential profits.
In fact, "long time horizon" is literally in the text of the L6 expectations.
My worry is that we've displaced the casualties to a far less visible causal agent. There's a lot of economic variables that have been pulled at every level, from the individual to the state, to global concerns. And I think these are more pernicious and difficult to track than would be a disease, but I do expect the impact to, overall, be more severe that it otherwise would've been without the (perhaps naive) interventionism. That's just a hypothesis.
> we demonstrate that videoconferencing hampers idea generation because it focuses communicators on a screen, which prompts a narrower cognitive focus.

I wonder what including virtual reality in the study would have resulted in. I feel like being surrounded by a shared environment, and (in the near future) seeing facial expression and gaze tracking might make VR a better environment for idea generation.
Elon Musk Has Some Bad Ideas for Mass Transit. We Have Solutions
Digital license plates approved for all vehicles in California
California isn’t printing money for these checks like the federal government did. It is all coming from the budget surplus, and is not going to have a meaningful effect on inflation.
In that case you have two lazy employees, your colleague and your manager.
I think you're alone if your spending has remained constant. I don't know of a single grocery item that I buy that hasn't gone up in price significantly.

My wife used to work for a well known food brand. Somewhat early on in the pandemic grocery stores raised their prices for that brand's products, even though they weren't paying any more for the product. Eventually the brand did raise their own prices as they decided they'd rather have that money themselves.

In both cases it was as simple as other prices being raised, consumers had the money to spend, so why not?
I bought a Chipotle burrito for about $9 or $10 just a couple months ago. I live in a major east coast city. What do you do, ask for every damn topping, triple avocado, etc?

BTW, fast food prices have inflated much faster than grocery store food, because labor has inflated more.

So the lazier you are about cooking, the more this will impact you. But for those who mostly buy non processed foods and cook them at home, and vary their diet seasonally, using the produce that's currently on sale, it's been a pretty tiny impact over the last couple years in the food category.
Access to nature, some of the best food in the country, access to the freshest produce, scuba diving, surfing, redwoods, walkable city, educated population, interesting people, consistent non-intrusive weather, wine country, etc.

I frequently visit NYC and the homeless population there is more threatening, and the shit in the street is roughly on par, so I’m not really sure where else people would recommend without extreme lifestyle shift.
Sure, and people buy them up, just as they buy land. They're a finite resource.
The Java Logging Battleground Gets Two New Updates
Cannot speak highly enough of this recommendation. This will give you a clear picture of your progress and make you confident about the type of problems you can solve.
Obsidian is a note taking and knowledge management tool whereas sublime is a text editor.
One of the best programming books (for any language) ever written IMO. Seibel has a knack for clear, readable but still technical prose that's all too rare unfortunately.
Which is a shame. Their web suite is better than Google's, but nowhere near the capability of their desktop applications. And it never will be.
I have been using scrivener as my note taking app. It’s actually made for writers and for researchers to make their work (books, essays) but as a note taker it’s very versatile.

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/
I actually went from 50k in a median city to 200k in an expensive megalopolis so I know exactly whether it's life changing or not. Consider $3000 rent for a 2br apartment.

My lifestyle hasn't changed to the slightest, except I work more. I won't be able to sustain that lifestyle for many years, because ageism + stressful job. For comparison, in France, 10% of people inherit more than 500K without doing nothing. I'll probably never reach that level of savings, won't ever be able to live in a house and so on...

I'm not complaining as I'm in a privileged situation. But in countries like France, inequalities come primarily from inheritance. It's hard to lift yourself from middle class with salary alone.
The divisions we had were already bad enough. Now amplify those up to eleven with social media, and you end up with the perfect tool to endlessly divide society in difficult to detect ways. People seemed to be at least somewhat aware what the doctrines of the various -isms were, even if warped through propaganda. Customized echo chambers can make it impossible for any affected slice of the population to ever experience how deep in they really are, and get a genuine impression of what people outside are like and what they think. Best case, they are seen as ignorant, worst case as a danger, which can lead to violence being seen as a legitimatd tool to deal with them. We have seen what this can lead to on Jan 6, 2021.
What's the status of zheap?

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Zheap seems to claim it has been rebased on top of 14.1, but generally progress seems slow?

Also https://cybertec-postgresql.github.io/zheap/
I've added a link to the top text.
>AFAICT, there's nothing stopping the government from charging recipients with fraud even after the loan is forgiven.

Nothing except that peaky thing called political reality that tends to get in the way of every ham-fisted enforcement action that the pro-jackboot subset of any given democracy is calling for at any particular minute.

Remember back when they tried hiring more IRS agents? The left made memes about government turning the screws on the poors once again. The right made memes about shooting feds. It was very clear that few on either side of the isle supports that kind of stuff right now.

Political reality precludes making even a suggestion of doing that prior to November 9th or thereabouts. The PPP fraud is a dead bloated deer in the middle of the political road at 3pm on a Friday. And 2/2 employees of the animal control department are hoping the weekend guy can deal with it if the coyotes don't get to it first.

And frankly, I kind agree. It's water under the bridge at this point and while the fraud was predicted it did mostly get dumped into the economy as intended and there's no way to know we didn't avert a worse crisis by doing that, fraud and all.
> Legally, I believe it's the first.

They're jury instructions. There isn't further legal analysis. These words mean precisely what a jury of your peers interpret them to mean. That's it.

You don't get to make a legal quibble over a juror's reasonable interpretation of the instructions. If there's ambiguity, it's up to the jury to resolve at that point (and often jury instructions deliberately have some ambiguity to them—because the job of the jury is to apply sometimes ambiguous phrases such as "reasonable care" to specific facts).

So you can't say "oh, most of society is just misinterpreting the jury instructions", because that just means you might very well lose the argument before a jury!

You say there's ambiguity. Fine. I left a challenge for you. Can you find a single state where the jury instructions are unambiguous and foreclose on my interpretation? One state where the actual harm jury instructions clearly don't allow damages from the predictable actions of third parties?

Frankly, I'm done with the discussion until you try. I've put in effort to cite cases and jury instructions to support my positions, while you've cited nothing but your own opinion.
I've seen many a "startup within a corporation", but the benefits of that are almost never, what what I've seen, realized. I wonder what gives. Why can't anyone figure out how to make that work?
Exploring Glitch Level Pointers in Super Mario Bros. [video]
Wasn’t rm also the same?

I vaguely recall it being little more than ‘mv $1 /dev/null’ under the hood. But this might be something I’m misremembering.
Don't know if there is such a word but there's definitely an HN guideline about not-writing shallow reaction comments about such triggers.
+1 for Notepad2. Super fast. Has MVP set of features. Can hook Notepad so it replaces it completely.
> After all this time, you’re still getting confused and think my complaints are about VR. They are not. I’ve used VR for gaming and simulations on and off for 6 years now. The problem is not VR. The problem is Meta’s approach to what VR should be used for.

That’s interesting because your complaints that are supposedly exclusive to meta are so generic that it seems to apply to VR at large. That and your DMV analogy would still lead me to conclude that you haven’t really used VR much if at all, but Ive been wrong before.
The people most likely to vote republican while taking government handouts use social security and medicare
So that money gets paid to the states to cover medical costs related to smoking? Is there any documentation of people getting free healthcare for their smoking related illnesses? I sure as heck haven't ever heard of this.
I've designed my everyday computing to absorb distractions with ease. Many talk of being 'in the zone' but it's difficult to engineer that mindset and you literally have to cut certain people out of your life if you really want to enter that mindset frequently.

You also have to become antisocial and turn off your phone, or at least put it on silent and preferably disable notifications for everything. Then there's cultivating the right headspace for deep work. Many solve this by doing various rituals (meditating for 15 mins each morning, taking a cold shower etc).
The capacity of the battery was the issue, unless you’re talking about a different issue. Older batteries were unable to meet the power demands.
At the risk of shilling for Big Rust (or at least any language with ownership semantics, really) -- well-designed Rust code can truly eliminate use-after-free. I was the lead engineer on a project that wrote an entire filesystem from scratch in Rust, and we did exactly this. 100K lines of code without any use-after-free bugs in the whole development process.

One of the first bits of code we wrote in the project was a statically allocated pool of buffers such that the only way to free buffers back to the pool is for all references to that buffer being dropped.
Without looking through the implementation, I suspect that the consequence here is that it pre-allocates way more memory than it needs and then does some custom dynamic allocation with that.
Slightly off-topic, IMO Xero has really gone downhill. The Yodlee integrations with banks fail so often these days, it makes it hard to use the product at all. When you refresh a bank/credit card feed or log in for the xth time, you have no expected timeline as to when the feed will update or whether it will even work. There are multiple buttons to reset a feed, and they do different things.

It's nearly impossible to just log in and reconcile all your accounts because you are always fighting with unconnected bank feeds. This degrades the core value prop of making it easy to stay atop of bookkeeping—now I always have some form of "accounting debt" these days.

I got so frustrated that I am in the process of migrating my personal account to Tiller + Google Sheets, and I'm still looking for a solution for our small business account.

I agree about the billing issues; I waste time figuring out where the invoices live in the product and manually posting them. Otherwise, the product would be fine if outdated, if it wasn't for the unreliability of Yodlee.
> sending data from the EU to a US company

1. not data. Personal Data. of course if you know you know, but threads like these are rife with non informed readers.

2. nothing to do with the geo residency of the company. it's about sending the data to the US (or most non-EU countries). Even an EU company can't send the data to the US absent various agreements.

3.You are way overstating the violation part. It's very easy to be able to send the data and be compliant.
What if the stock is owned by a spouse?
What large bumps due to merges/acqs are you referring to?
Thanks for the AMA Peter.

Two questions on L1-B visas:

1. Is it possible to meet the employee requirements (1 year within the last 3 years) if you worked for the sponsoring company via a ltd company (i.e. not a direct employee relationship)? I work remotely and hence have worked through a limited company. However, the ltd company has only ever had revenue from the sponsoring company and I am the only employee so it was purely set up like that for administrative reasons.

2. What is the easiest/quickest route for an L1-B visa holder to get a green card?

Huge thanks
Blind is mostly Indian and some Chinese. Two cultures that care a shit load about money and prestige. I would know, I am from one of those cultures.
Sometimes I feel like people here mistakenly or purposefully obfuscate TC info for one reason or another (uninformed, can’t/doesn’t want to get into FAANG, etc..) but even with the current market downturn, I’m safely at around the ~500k mark as a ‘senior’ engineer at a FAANG (levels.fyi is your friend). I’m under 30 and have been doing this job at a comfortable pace for over 5 years now so no risk of burnout hopefully. I save much more than 50k a year, and yes it’s social status changing money and no I don’t feel out of league with my friends who are doctors.
Food and energy have very high variance. The Fed uses core CPI, which excludes food and energy, as an important gauge of price changes. The data I quoted was the core CPI data (also from BLS). To use the non-core CPI numbers for the last two months is really cherry picking, especially with how much energy costs were down last month.
That's one of two parents. Ayelet Lindenstrauss, interviewed in the article, is also a mathematician, as was her father Joram, and her brother Elon got a Fields medal.

To accept OC's comment as 100% correct is to accuse two mathematicians of academic fraud. And if we're going that route, are we going to insinuate Joram Lindenstrauss responsible for both Ayelet's and Elon's academic works?
people already wear belaclavas; headsocks; headbands with VR headsets.

so do they eventually get banned for ToS, community standards etc.

or will balaclava face with glasses be allowed as a method to opt out of a user experience tailored to your likes and usage.
> Starting to sound a bit more like a hardware failure

Nah, it works perfectly on Linux.

> or simply a buggy Windows driver

This I can buy, but the point stands: it's not guaranteed that Windows will support new-ish laptops any better than Linux.

> consumer-grade laptops

HP EliteBooks are pretty much "laptops meant for business", and not even particularly low-end ones at that.

They have the price and (superficially) looks of a macbook pro, but come complete with ridiculously bad displays and shoddy assembly. Mine even have a smartcard reader!

One of the good parts, though, is they seem to be one of the rare AMD laptops with no soldered RAM.
I was more describing the energy.
Please tell that to the women in my life and see what they claim you're doing :)
If anything, it might make use-after frees more painful. Now the address sanitizer won't help you find them.
You need a house, you don't need a nice house. You can buy food you need to cook instead of expensive premade stuff - or even go to primarily rice, beans, and potatoes. Medical care you can put off, switch to a cheaper generic medication, etc.
This is technically true in the abstract, but the people who use phrases like "post-capitalist" usually have a slightly different meaning in mind than what you described.
Is standard markdown a thing? What is now called commonmark [1] was called by thar name originally, but the name was changed after John Gruber objected. Other than that, there seem to be a plethora of markdown dialects, none of which is very “standard” as far as I can tell. Perhaps variants of the github flavor are most widespread, though.

[1] https://commonmark.org/
Since we're sharing anecdotes, anecdotally, the only business owner I know personally who received PPP funds (My wife's employer) needed the loan, kept everyone on the payroll, paying them to do nothing, until PPP funds ran out, and once that happened, laid off half the staff.

He then continued running the business at a loss, paying out of his own pocket for the next year and only now has returned to something resembling profitability.

Why was the business operating at a loss? Because of the social changes brought about by COVID, it took over a year after the mandates were lifted for his customers to return to the status quo.
Live free or die isn't a "burrying-our-heads-in-the-sand" policy. It's the lord Farquaad policy, and has widespread support in the US.
I'm not sure where you're getting that, as I'm not denying climate change at all.

I just thought the longer term cycles not man made are interesting.
If I were a regulator I would be suspicious if a company runs its own billing on its own billing software and then something goes wrong with the numbers. Keeps honest executives honest in a way. Also keeps outages and hacker attack vectors somewhat contained.
Perdue was fined 634.5 million USD, actually.
Shooting on film has more merit than the "vinyl is better than CD" argument because if you nail the exposure -- especially on Kodachrome -- you get colors and vibrancy that no other film or digital sensor can capture. That said, I cannot see why anyone shooting on a deadline of any kind would want to shoot on film.
You're just focusing on the downside without considering the upside.

Maybe you want to go see a movie you've been dying to see tomorrow, and you've got your $100 tickets in hand.

But there's someone else in the same situation, but they'd really like to see it. If a market exists they could offer you $1000, and you'd both be happier, as you can now afford something you'd prefer more than the $100 activity.

The same goes for real estate, it's just a less liquid market currently.