skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are models available that give you more control - in some senses, at least.

For example, you can use Stable Diffusion with 'ControlNet' [1] where for example, you can input an 'openpose' to choose the pose of people in the scene.

There's also a 'Regional Prompter' [2] which lets you use different prompts for different areas of the image, giving you some control over the composition.

You can also use 'inpainting' to regenerate select parts of your image if, for example, you don't like the shape of the clouds.

Of course this stuff isn't perfect - for example, you'll get hands with the wrong number of fingers sometimes, no matter what you specify. And you can't easily generate things like multi-frame cartoons without characters clothes changing between frames.

[1] https://github.com/Mikubill/sd-webui-controlnet
[2] https://github.com/hako-mikan/sd-webui-regional-prompter
Would you mind sharing the company you work for? Seems really interesting! I'm also hopeful about cooperatives, but don't actually know much about what they're up to in the energy space.
If it's for a specific factory, can you just... not put it on the grid?
Luxury beliefs (see: NYC right now)
While it's theoretically possible to block roads to prevent the movement of vehicles, doing so on a large scale presents significant logistical challenges that could weaken an authoritative regime. Roadblocks require personnel, materials, and continuous maintenance to remain effective. Every blocked road would require surveillance and manpower to enforce the restrictions, diverting resources from other operations. Moreover, road networks are often intricate and expansive, providing multiple alternative routes that would also need to be blocked and guarded. The sustained effort required would strain any regime's resources, making it a less viable long-term strategy for maintaining control.

Additionally, while blocking foot traffic might be "harder," it's crucial to recognize that pedestrian movement has its limitations in speed, distance, and the carrying capacity for supplies. The argument for the "difficulty" in blocking foot traffic seems to overlook these inherent limitations, which can be just as easily exploited to contain and control a population. For instance, restricted zones, barricades, or even curfews could be implemented in walkable areas to deter foot movement. And unlike vehicles, individuals on foot are far more susceptible to environmental factors like weather, further limiting their effectiveness in a scenario requiring rapid mobilization.

Contrary to the notion that cars are easily contained, their speed and range offer a unique form of decentralized power. The very act of needing to block roads to contain vehicular movement is a testament to the car's potency as a tool for mobilization and resistance. Therefore, while no method of transportation is completely impervious to control, the ability to move freely in one's own vehicle still offers a degree of autonomy and flexibility that can be crucial in challenging situations.
We know at the very least that marijuana requirements are taking out people who already have CDLs. https://www.marijuanamoment.net/tens-of-thousands-of-trucker...

> Data from DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) shows that, since 2020, more than 100,000 truckers tested positive for cannabis, as Transport Topics first reported. Marijuana was by far the most common banned substance to come up in the drug screenings.

> Overall, there have been approximately 166,000 people who tested positive for some prohibited substance since 2020, according to a report that FMCSA’s Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse published last week. There is an option for those truckers to enter a “return-to-work” process that would require another drug test; however, the data shows that a large fraction of people are not taking the opportunity. About 91,000 of those 166,000 truckers who didn’t pass the drug screening have not enrolled in the process yet.

> This would be problematic from an economic standpoint in any industry, but it’s especially troubling in the transportation sector, which has been facing a significant labor shortage.

Trucking is not the best industry to be in and there are a lot of problems, but dismissing people who smoke weed, at all, is adding fuel to the fire.
non academic here - what is a "desk rejection"?
> The problem is, you don’t want to operate on code points. A code point is not a unit of writing; one code point is not always a single character. What you should be iterating on is called “extended grapheme clusters”, or graphemes for short.

It's best to avoid making overly-general claims like this. There are plenty of situations that warrant operating on code points, and it's likely that software trying and failing to make sense of grapheme clusters will result it in a worse screwup. Codepoints are probably the best default. For example, it probably makes the most sense for programming languages to define strings as arrays of code points, and not characters or 16-bit chunks or an encoding, or whatever.
> people who willingly violate laws are more reckless

That's a blanket assertion - surely it would depend on the law being violated and how it is violated. What if a law was unjust? What if a law was designed to be violated? Are free speech activists in authoritarian countries reckless?

> insurance companies can only charge high rates for speeders if they can prove their past payouts were higher for speeders than non speeders.

Untrue, there's little regulation on how insurance companies determine and charge for risk and there's next to no transparency.

> Also the 20mph policy is about reducing the risk of pedestrian death, not accident rates.

The referenced article looks at 'outcomes' - `road traffic collisions, casualties, or driver speed`. Not just accident rates.
I don't get it. my comment got heavily downvoted yet the objection to my comment is wrong and also downvoted. So ...I guess people don't like closed source, period.
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Over the past 12 months we rapidly scaled through founder-led sales and are making our first sales hire:

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You mentioned a basement so I assume you don't live in California. My neighbor here had his roof replaced with among the lowest quality options and it costed him $25k - around here $5k wouldn't get you much.
I don’t know if it still does it, but an enormous pet peeve of mine was how Google would conflate NSTableView and UITableView in search results.

They’re quite distinct!
yet another hungarian nobel prize winner who managed to get it while left hungary long ago. yet hungarians going to be proud of her. this country such a shame.
Really? What record does the US have leveraging aid for UN votes, political concessions, or just seizing ports and land?
Oxfordshire 'explosion' LIVE: fireball lights up night sky as 'loud bang' heard
Academic gang seems quite good at converging on a solution in general though.

Not always a very open solution but converge they do. See matlab etc.
Bigotry is a bad look. It's not more acceptable because of your target, either. This sort of communication breaks down goodwill between groups of people.

It's easy to assume one was manually blocked when you go to use a site for the first time one day and you're not allowed to post. Doesn't require any self-centeredness, it's just the simplest answer. "Huh, I was banned... but why?"

Because they're white and male? Get your philosophy in order. If you're against bigotry, then you ought to be against prejudice against all groups or you're just a garden variety, man-hating hypocrite.
IMO Global Governance failed in 2020 not because of populist resistance and conspiracy theories but because the people in charge didn't practice what they preached. It didn't help that some governments took the opportunity to "not let a crisis go to waste" and push through unpopular or controversial policy.

> I was saying that the coronavirus was a fire drill for global governance and would be a test of our ability to react to bigger problems like climate change.

This is an interesting analogy. You talk about conspiracy theories and populist resistance (which were and are rampant) but let's not pretend that the "fire fighters" weren't at times sitting inside the very building that's ostensibly on fire drinking fine wine tea and eating fois gras. There were countless examples of the ruling class making exceptions to lockdowns / covid policy for their friends and political causes-du-jour while being outright draconian in restrictions to activities and groups that did not fall in line.

The most obvious example in the US being the riots in 2020 surrounding BLM and the George Floyd killing vs people not being allowed to go to church services. Certainly, the zeitgeist from the media and ruling class would lead you to believe one was righteous and good while the other was "literally killing people".

Alternatively, if you don't want a "culture war" example: small businesses were forced to shut their doors while big box retailers were allowed to remain open under the guise of being "essential businesses". How many of the small hardware stores survived COVID vs Lowes and Home Depot, both of which made record profits?

Or, a more personal example: A very close relative of mine passed during COVID yet we were not allowed to have a funeral for her. We followed all the prescribed precautions - vaccine, masking, social distancing, testing...all of it. When a high-ranking politician (John Lewis) passed, not only was his family allowed a funeral, they managed to have three former Presidents of the United States in attendance!
I have it loading and able to create new pages, but not able to put a template on a page (just scrolls forever) or upload and image.
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> defaulting both skin tones to my settings

But that's kind of wrong, no? The entire point is that you can choose both sides individually. What if you set it to black and want to kiss some white bloke?

If anything that only underscores my point that it's too complex and that no one is using them (certainly not as intended anyway).
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Currently particularly looking for:

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You are not being cynical enough - "Vendor lock in" would be a more appropriate term;)
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Over 250k engineers (including engineers from 1/2 Fortune 100 companies) build with Roboflow. We now host the largest collection of open source computer vision datasets and pre-trained models[2]. We are pushing forward the CV ecosystem with open source projects like Autodistill[3] and Supervision[4]. And we've built one of the most comprehensive resources for software engineers to learn to use computer vision with our popular blog[5] and YouTube channel[6].

We have several openings available, but are primarily looking for strong technical generalists. Our engineering culture is built on a foundation of autonomy & we don't consider an engineer fully ramped until they can "choose their own loss function." At Roboflow, engineers aren't just responsible for building things but also for helping figure out what we should build next. We're builders & problem solvers; not just coders. (For this reason we also especially love hiring founders.)

We're currently hiring full-stack engineers for our ML and web platform teams, a web developer to bridge our product and marketing teams, several technical roles on the sales & field engineering teams, and our first applied machine learning researcher to help push forward the state of the art in computer vision.

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Similar example: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

> Lawmakers who opposed the bankruptcy bill cited a 2005 study by Himmelstein, Thome,
Warren, and Woolhandler finding that approximately half of bankruptcies were medical-related. Supporters of the bankruptcy bill countered with a court record analysis conducted within the Department of Justice (DOJ). According to the DOJ analysis, over half of the sample (54%) had no medical debt at all, the average medical debt among those with any such debt was under $5,000, and medical debt comprised only 5.5% of the total unsecured debt of the sample.
> The standard national layouts often being poor fit for technical use only makes the situation more annoying.

Definitely!

And the absolute biggest pain with physical keyboard layouts is that if you use anything not standard then you're sorry out of luck when you buy a laptop (until your carry your external keyboard with you in addition to your laptop).

Even buying a common laptop with a US ANSI physical layout (wide enter key, not tall) is not trivial in Europe. It's doable but it requires some research/planning.
Show HN: A Simple Show HN TUI Client in 93 Lines of Crumb
> in the case of hunger, a negative condition is eliminated—no pleasure is produced

is he suggesting that consuming food does not necessarily produce pleasure? or that there is no pleasure in satisfying hunger at all?? or even simply that there's no pleasure in eating period???

that passage leaps out at me, I can't charitably find a way to frame it such that I agree with it. Eating food is pleasurable, whether you're doing it to satisfy hunger or not. If you're seeking pleasure, you might find it just as easily in eating as in fucking, surely?
I vehemently (border line militantly) refuse to use these services and actively tell friends and family not to use them. There are a few reasons but at the core, it's not right that people can pay to jump to the front of airport security, something everyone has to go through as a condition for getting on your flight.

I'll leave with, it is a sad reflection of society that even the airport security line has been financialized.
if the data is important enough just buy a laptop for bitlocker only and then disconnect from the internet after installing it.
Also, airports are really loud and smoggy. They depress real estate prices near by. In California there are lots of small airports that could have been turned into bigger ones but the neighborhoods don't want it.
That eternit/asbestos roof in the first picture ... no, thank you.

Another article about Slovenia's beekeepers: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/business/beekeeping-compa...

“If you overcrowd any space with honey bees, there is a competition for natural resources, and since bees have the largest numbers, they push out other pollinators, which actually harms biodiversity,” he said, after a recent visit to the B&B bees. “I would say that the best thing you could do for honey bees right now is not take up beekeeping.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41271-5

Honeybees disrupt the structure and functionality of plant-pollinator networks

... results show that beekeeping reduces the diversity of wild pollinators and interaction links in the pollination networks ... High-density beekeeping in natural areas appears to have lasting, more serious negative impacts on biodiversity than was previously assumed.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.76795...

The Diversity Decline in Wild and Managed Honey Bee Populations Urges for an Integrated Conservation Approach

Using honey bees as an example, we argue that several management practices in beekeeping threaten genetic diversity in both wild and managed populations, and drive population decline.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7708548/

Why bees are critical for achieving sustainable development

Bees comprise ~ 20 000 described species across seven recognised families ... Fifty bee species are managed by people, of which around 12 are managed for crop pollination ... Wild bees contribute an average of USD$3 251 ha−1 to the production of insect-pollinated crops, similar to that provided by managed honey bees

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722319/

Do managed bees have negative effects on wild bees?

The majority of reviewed studies reported negative effects of managed bees

https://www.nwf.org/Home/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2021/Ju...

“Keeping honey bees to ‘save the bees’ is like raising chickens to save birds.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01847-3

Greater bee diversity is needed to maintain crop pollination over time
You can run most Android apps, but the developer can opt out of it showing as compatible for Chromebooks on the Play Store I believe. You can also sideload APKs.

Some apps can be resized well, others are stuck in their default size and orientation. Compatibility is pretty mature and solid at this point. They can also be pinned and float which is kinda cool.

I am able to download and sign in to Lyft app on my Chromebook but didn't try to book a ride with it.
If you don't know the story... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok
Well, who hasn’t used that classic datastructure `dictstack` (and famously the dict.pop operation)?

At first I was kinda giggling. But actually there are such things, if the Mapping is also ordered.

LRU cache, trees, tries… and—oh wait—all CPython dicts are ordered these days!

(Honestly I have only used the modern ordered-nature of `dict` for serialization to versioned or human-editable files. But why not an algorithm with a “`stackdict`” I guess?)
If the Chromebook project itself survives so long.
> disaster of an anti-feature

Untyped languages tend to be at the forefront of paradigms, and typed languages come in toward the end when reliability and need for tooling are more important than innovation/discovery.

In the 90s a bunch of kids were building websites with LAMP stacks while serious engineers were building aging/about-to-be-irrelevant desktop software in serious, typed languages.
And I never heard of TypeORM until now, which means that it's not boring tech in my eyes. I find it hard to classify anything in the node world as boring, considering the infamous churn rate. Popular yes, boring no.
I also do this, C-x t to open a tmux tab to whatever directory the current buffer is:

(defun tmux-here ()
(interactive)
(if (not (eq (getenv "TMUX") ""))
(shell-command (format "tmux new-window -c %s" default-directory))
(error "Not inside a tmux session.")))

I know, I know, tmux is slow and should never be used. I like it, OK.
then buy pro. If the data is important enough, $100 is trivial.
Yes, sure. But the difficulty about monitoring is not the hosting per-se, but hosting in different datacenters throughout the world abd keeping all these services up.

My monitoring should not show "just down" if users from location A can't reach it but everyone else can.
Hey Siri re-enabled itself on my iPhone 12 Pro Max after I installed the iOS 17.0 update. It's one of the first things I turn off when I get a new phone and I would not have knowingly turned it back on.

Could it have been an installer fluke? Sure. But it's concerning enough.
Can just upload it into an AI background remover.
How dare Fox entertainment pundits make people think gas stoves are going to be confiscated out of their homes imminently, when the discussion is about considering preventing installation in new builds due to health hazards.

Go play with some lead paint and stick it to the libs.
> Virtually none of them own their commercial premises.

Of course this is probably the case; but how many people in higher positions are invested in REITs that invest in commercial RE? I bet it's a fairly large proportion. Hews to the old adage espoused by Buffet and others of "only invest in what you know."

Just because they don't have skin in the game on that particular building they are bossing people around in doesn't mean they don't have vested interest in seeing office space being rented in general.
> this is what traction looks like in the USA

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

Seems apropos here. Bonus fun fact: this is usually attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, but apparently that attribution is questionable.

https://apnews.com/article/archive-fact-checking-2315880316
Yes if by "smart device" you mean iot or watch. A quantized 7B can fit on a high end iphone (and perform well) though so all relative
I'll be curious how it compares to mixamo's auto rigging. How does it perform on humanoid models? Seems from the marketing the focus is on non-humanoids.
Why bother? Someone will come up with a model that will just suck it all up and convert it automatically... and by someone I mean some sufficiently motivated LLM.
The US is clearly investing in its infrastructure [1].
[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/build/
there's proven ways to unlock older iphones. you can upload a modified ROM that increases the lockout limit. then brute force your way into the passcode.
Vista was truly an abomination though