skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mean transforming a sketch to a 3D-looking image(i.e not a 3d mesh model): If so Stable diffusion with control net can do that using a good prompt and the SDXL model.

Do you mean you have an existing photo of something and would like to add a realistic setting. There's a lot of ways to do this, but probably the easiest right now is the Generative Fill feature in Adobe Photoshop (beta).
US SEC drops claims against two Ripple Labs executives
Did a PhD in CS straight from undergrad. Stayed in academic research until I was 37 and was then offered a job in the automotive industry. Pays much better. Benefits are much better. Off-work time is respected. The work I did in academy felt more fulfilling, but I got over that after a year.
Home prices are ~50% more than pre-covid, yet homeownership is growing: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/07/younger-house...
What do you mean by packaged RAM and what protocol does it use that would be faster than DDR5?
Yes, agreed! I think I could even formulate a cogent argument for why the diagnostic variability is itself a result of ignoring qualia, but the last comment has drained me of energy for the day ^^
Tyranny of averages... You can buy a home on way less than that here in Iowa. If you're renting here it's because you're planning on moving sooner rather than later.

DSM is pretty affordable but I'm 2 hours out and it's even better. Maybe that figure would make sense in MPLS.
You can be compelled to provide evidence that incriminates you, but not testimony. It's the difference between "tell us if you committed this crime" and "we're going to comb through records of your past speech to see if you said anything suspicious and there's nothing you can do to stop us".
"There you go, bringing my words and actions into the debate!"
As a product designer, I naturally agree with this, but... are there any instances of this actually happening?

I suppose there's Blender, but it's kind of a special case.
Net neutrality prohibits ISPs from restricting internet traffic based on content, senders, and recipients [1]. It is not exclusively about restricting internet for profit reasons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
He had amazingly feathery fingernails.
It's even harder to afford a home when you can't afford transportation to your job.

Since the 1950s vehicle prices have more than doubled, adj for inflation

Here's how entry level pickup trucks fared: https://www.thedrive.com/news/34333/heres-how-much-the-ford-...
The oldest living tree has seen 9,565 birthdays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko), but it doesn't have 9,565 rings. Even if it did, there's a gap of at least a few thousand years ;-)

I'm impressed they got it exact, but wasn't by ring-counting (only).
From what I can tell, convoy has not filed for bankruptcy protection yet, which indicates that after dumping the load of their payroll, they believe they can remain solvent long enough to continue to shop their tech stack around.

That’s kinda disgusting imo. People deserve severances.
Very tasty as fritters.

Buñuelos de Algas (seaweed Fritters) from Rocha, Uruguay [1]

[1]: https://www.sippitysup.com/seaweed-fritters-bunuelos-de-alga...
Yeah, how are you going to get all that valuable data without some good engineers?

I guess the real money maker is the hiring department.
> I can't imagine a situation where I'd want my iPad to be half or double its current size

A temporary smaller size would be useful while transporting it. Easier to throw in a purse, bag, case, (etc) while it's not in use.
Ownership? As in they hold the title? Or they are in a rent-to-own relationship with lenders?
Network engineer
Frontend engineer
Now a hotel owner

But can't leave behind tech. Still writing code to automate things at work.
I want prices to come down, I want affordability to go up . Who cares if wages go up and prices go up even faster.

The question is not what is the price of a house, but how many hours does a median wage worker need to work to afford their house, their car, their utilities, education, healthcare e.t.c

US is slowly becoming a zero sum game as the growth shrinks to ~1%. We need to increase the pie.
I was using the free version so 3.5.

I've never heard of titli makhi before, but have heard of bher from multiple sources. I don't know definitely (as in I haven't looked it up in a formal dictionary) but colloquially in my dialect bher is more correct.

Also worth noting that GPT-4 used the incorrect letter representing the R. Google translate correctly provides: بهڑ

Thanks for the added context though, it's super interesting.
> Imagine if all the SWEs at all these VCs backed companies went on strike unless the laid off Convoy employees got six months of healthcare (it would have been in the initial employment contract).

Congress made secondary strikes illegal a long time ago. Maybe it would still be OK since that wouldn't technically be cross-industry; I'm not sure.
I spent some time driving forklift after programming and computer tech work burnt me out. Also did some construction, and a few other things. I think me calling the "driving forklift in a warehouse" "my vacation" the entire time I was working there helped attitudes a lot. It sure got people laughing often .. (made "employee of the month" a couple of times too, I was definitely keeping up with everyone!)

After that, pivot to IT security ... burn out.
Then pivot to web development which emphatically burnt me in different ways (I'm kind of nonvisual, so visualizing things is my bane. see aphantasia which I found out about later). Last - embedded electronics software, where I'm much happier. Sadly out of work for the last year so let's see where next....
She started as a "inside job" 9/11 truther, then worked at RT for a few years, and is now actively covering Palestine from an explicitly pro-Palestinian point of view.

She also works on the "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions" anti-Israel movement.

Maybe she has valuable footage or a valuable viewpoint or just an opinion you're curious about, and that's fine. Just know what you're getting.
> Looks like he was doing his patriotic duty.

"Thiel publicly called on the FBI to investigate Google's ties to the Chinese government" kinda ignores the fact that Google competes with several of his company, and their 'ties' are allegations that come from... Thiel.
You must have failed stats class.

The cohorts are all that matter here... so do the incoming cohorts own less than the older cohorts at their age. The answer is YES by a great deal!
Yes, I ended my career to make apps on my own or within worker cooperative structures. No more bosses, no more wage labor. It’s peachy.
C++ has had std::u8string, std::u16string and std::u32string since C++11
They have only distilled the diffusion model used as a replacement for the VAE decoder, not the main diffusion model.
You only have to pay childcare if you have kids, and if you have them, it's a temporary expense for the first few years until they are in school.

People online act like you gotta pay childcare for the rest of time once you have a baby.
Don't worry, the next one (if you happen to be living in 2018) is going to have rocket jets anyway [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1005577738332172289
How easy/hard was for you to find job?
I guess they have to pay $8 like everybody else ...
In a gold rush (mental health crisis society), sell shovels (adderall xanax prozac)?
I loaded these all into a SQLite database so I could explore them with Datasette Lite (Datasette running in WebAssembly).

Here's the result:

https://lite.datasette.io/?sql=https://gist.github.com/simon...

You can use this to answer questions like which binaries are new in iOS 17 compared to iOS 16:

https://lite.datasette.io/?sql=https://gist.github.com/simon...

Or here's just the binaries in the /System/Library/VideoDecoders folder - it's interesting to compare iOS 1 (just H264H1 and MP4VH1) to iOS 17 (AppleProResHWDecoder, AppleProResSWDecoder, AV1SW, AVD, H264H8, JPEGH1, MP4VH8, VCH263, VCPMP4V) https://lite.datasette.io/?sql=https://gist.github.com/simon...

Details on how I built this here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/0b8a2ddaeab76fe407b08a2b20412...
> The distinction doesn't feel worth commenting about overall.

That's like saying that the distinction between the output of stable diffusion and a real artist isn't worth commenting about overall, since they're both just paintings.
The laws that have been passed in California will not have any meaningful impact on affordability, so I wouldn’t look to them for hope or progress. It would take decades and decades of building at a level not seen since the postwar era to undo the damage done to the state by real estate speculators and Proposition 13.
First, I would like to suggest that you take a step back and think about how many non-FOSS projects are complete failures even though a ton of money was thrown into them. So yeah... there are good, average and bad FOSS projects just like there are good, average and bad proprietary projects.

Then, you have identified some characteristics of FOSS projects: some do tons of things somewhat passably (that's typically the case when the maintainers try to accommodate the contributors), some don't do much and don't get many contributions, some don't do much and just refuse contributions that the maintainers don't care about, etc.

But you have to understand that maintainers don't all have the same goals. I don't know if you have ever been a maintainer, but users can be real jerks. Almost blackmailing the maintainers ("if you don't implement this feature I won't use your software for free"), sometimes even being aggressive ("this project sucks, I spent 2 days trying to understand how to do that, if I had a choice I would use something else but I don't want to pay"). Almost nobody says "I will pay you to implement this feature properly and I don't expect you to maintain it for free forever".

It's hard to be a maintainer, and if you manage to do a good job and went for a permissive license, chances are that people (companies) will just use it without contributing anything back (not even honoring the attribution clause, because 99.999% of people don't understand that permissive licenses require attribution).

IMO companies would have to contribute much more if everything was copyleft (at least MPLv2).
> I'll earn $114k in NY to be able to afford a home in Alabama

I'm seeing 512 1+ bedroom apartments in Manhattan for sale at $576,000 or less (4x $114k) [1].

[1] https://streeteasy.com/for-sale/manhattan/price:-576000%7Cbe...
I came here to mention Ireland. Seaweed was a huge food supplement during the famine for those on the west coast, especially. Still in practice today to a degree. I love Ireland.
You should apply to YC.
Here I sit as an employee of the State of California, at the top of my profession, at the top of my salary band... and living in the Bay Area, if I didn't have supplemental income I couldn't even afford to buy a new car.

This isn't a "woe is me" statement, I love my job, have other sources of income, and will be fine. Many of my coworkers are not so lucky. Our comically ineffective union just negotiated a new contract with a 10% raise over 3 years. That will likely be less than inflation. Public employee job postings stay open for months because it is so difficult to recruit anyone. More and more people move into private industry where they do little to serve the public but are more fairly compensated. More broadly, in the Bay Area, there are a small group of professionals who make a decent salary, and then there is everyone else. Something has to give eventually. I worry what that will look like.
It's sort of dismaying that SwiftUI is regarded as a superior native choice as opposed to second-citizen cross-platform frameworks, then see examples like the macOS System Settings app. Though perhaps that is more of a case of poorly-executed Catalyst iOS to macOS porting, and poor design, than a lack of "nativeness" with SwiftUI.

The framework lacking consideration for navigation until recently shows that its rollout has been half-baked, though.
I think it's more interesting than anything else. As far as I know Swift won't pull in a heavy runtime or anything like that
The percentage of home ownership by age group is important to understand. Far fewer younger people are purchasing homes now compared to ten years ago, 20 years ago.
Exploiting the egg farmer, I suppose. Just seems nonsensical. Every trade benefits both parties more than the trade value. Otherwise the trade wouldn't happen.
Florida has enough crazy exotic animal people that I bet the polar bear example isn’t as far fetched as you think.
mass unemployment
"British articles posted during British hours, submarine anti-Musk marketing!"
It's so awesome society cares so much about kids they'll toss you in jail for leaving them in the car while you run in the gas station to pay, but they won't lift a finger to contribute to the future tax slaves until they're five. Society in its sick tragedy of the commons war against parents want to get all the tax generation rewards with none of the risk and the minority of the investment.
Amazon trials humanoid robots to 'free up' staff
I find this article strange and somewhat irritating.

It seems to imply that people are shy because it was trendy in media? Now that shy characters are no longer popular, you should just stop being shy because it's harming your personal brand and career.

Perhaps I'm not understanding the thrust of the article. It does make references to media and internet culture that I haven't experienced.
You keep insisting that a startup operating out of a garage with employees that all know each other requires the same risk profile as an at peak 1500 employee company with a quarter of a billion dollars in funding.

The only people who insist this must be true are founders that want to unload as much of the risk on their investors and employees as possible so that they themselves carry little to "skin in the game"
The value of the fence is different for different people.

For me it's $500, for my neighbour it's $5000 - because it stops rabbits from eating his garden and stray dogs or whatever.

If it's $5000 value to my neighbour, should I have charged more even though I would've accepted $500? Who would have been exploiting who then?

This is directly analogous to my employer as well, except replace "neighbour" with boss, and "fence" with code. It's still a voluntary trade.
There's at least some differences, such as HTTP/2 usage, or maybe algorithm usage/bugs in newer versions. Whether or not most tracker staff actually bother to attempt fingerprinting, IDK.
Vast majority of house holds are not dual income equal pay... also... tons of other stats that contradict that. 73k is median, make this a great deal above median.
It's called the screenshot tool for most operating systems, so using the term screengrab doesnt match what is commonly used.
10 years at FAANG companies, laid off, now considering classical guitar conservatory + indie dev ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Tesla success with mass manufacture the Model 3 highly profitably in 2017/2018 was a huge shock to the infustry. Nobody thought it was possible and it lead to a huge increase in investments.

And even then the base from where these investments sarted was massivly higher because all companies had increasingly experimented with EVs. The Roadster making EV cool and desirable and the Model S really showing what a modern car was.

Battery investment doesnt come from knowwhere either. You need products that actually allow for continues battery scaling. Tesla investing huge amounts into Giga Nevada was necessary to build batteries in these quantities. And the other battery companies took note and also started to think way bigger.

Those battery factories is what allowed for things like the Model 3. Consumer electronic alone wouldnt have driven battery demand so agressivly since the Model S. Battery improving comes from increase investment and research drivien by expectation of growth in the demand. And Tesla unquestionably was the most important driver behind the believe in future demand.
I’m a web developer and I hate React and TypeScript. I love jQuery.
I couldn't be happier! Do me a favor: help me preach the good word that philosophy is an important and practical subject! :)

If you want me to really tickle your noodle, consider that a lot of modern-day issues stem from a quest for transcendence in a society that has largely dismantled the institutions capable of delivering it. In particular, I am of the (somewhat provocative) opinion that things like radical Islamic terrorism, fringe climate activism, and the more virulent brands of third-wave feminism are all, at their core, performative quests for such transcendence.

But that's all secondary to the fact that I am glad my comment is helpful to you on a personal level :)
> It's also very surprising to me that the median home sold price in Seattle is more than New York City.

Surprised me too but then it seems more reasonable when you see media listing home price per sqft in New York is $780 compared to Seattle's $584. New Yorkers are just buying smaller places.
YES! Do not click on any appeal buttons on Meta properties. It is a known trap.

Read my post here that goes into detail about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254898
It is likely much more doable as a family unit. I can't speak for everyone, but I wish I didn't have to depend on anyone else to be to afford my own home.

Dual income is nice, but the ability for one or the other to not have to work (sickness, travel, sabbatical) would be really nice. Or just having the ability to live alone and not throw away money into rent.
How has the size of the average home changed? In terms of square feet. I’m curious how that affects the price increase rate. We definitely need to build more housing, that’s for sure. I’m very hopeful that the huge investments into renewables and modernizing the grid will produce a huge growth in worker compensation and another economic boom.
You can do it tiny horse! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEA2lEXou8A
I have a model 3 and found a few things wrong (some my own fault even) and Tesla fixed everything without charging me. They are just like any other company, depends who you get and how nice you are to them. At least they are not insurance which will fight tooth and nail to rip you off.
We're talking about iOS binaries supplied by Apple here, so cross platform support isn't hugely important.
How much do you make per year, excluding your other sources? And what kind of car are you talking about?
Show HN: SQLiteDAV – A WebDAV Server for SQLite Databases
Hi, this has been a labor of love over the last few days =)
Can't wait to hear you feedback and of course AMA!
You don't mean to, but you actually do. Come off your high horse and stop assuming things you don't know. Please do not misinterpret what I wrote, I think it's clear enough.
I've spent a lot of time down this rabbit hole recently. I have a Dell M1000e blade server (16 blades, each with dual CPUs). A comical amount of compute for a home, sounds like a leaf blower. Hosted a couple dozen small apps on it. Power usage was 1.5kW (ouch), made less painful by large rooftop solar.

Just today, I replaced the whole thing with a single mini PC with a laptop Ryzen chip (6900HX). Pulls like 60W at the wall under load.

This is a circuitous way of saying that, for non-mission critical stuff, you can self-host and save a ton of money over the equivalent hosted option. You don't even need server hardware necessarily, depending on what you're trying to learn from the experience. Standard caveats about securing your home network apply.

(Note: I'm not actually seriously saying a 16x blade server and a mini PC are equivalent. I got the blade server to learn things (more networking, mostly), it was very, very overpowered for my workloads)
At some point, during a monthly accounting reconciliation, someone should have piped up and said "Unless $<x> revenue comes in the next <y> months, we will be unable to fund personnel/payroll in <y> months." .
Never buy a Tesla. I will buy BMW and flood that car and yell at them instead.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37946017 (189 points, 339 comments)
Vast majority are NOT dual income?

According to BLS, 53% of households are dual income, 66% of households with children are dual income. The difference, according to the BLS, is that old retired people are often single income and don't have kids. But retired people are generally not in the market as first time homebuyers anyway.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2020/article/comparing-characte...

So frankly, it would be fair to say that the vast majority of american families ARE dual income.
To build a data culture, focus on outcomes
It's shocking how much of medicine is just based on trust and word of mouth. Studies made decades ago that turn out completely wrong and not reproducible. We flatter ourselves that we're enlightened and based on science, but the more you dig the more you realize it's all a game of trial and error and fighting cultural wars to get your "remedy" out there and profit.

It's rather shocking to someone who's not familiar with the inner workings of the pharma industry and medicine in general.

In particular in psychiatry, we have working theories about how the various agents work to achieve anti-depressive or anti-psychotic effects, which are taken as the gospel or proven fact. And then those models turn out absolutely wrong. And we have to face the fact we're prescribing drugs to sick people we have no clue how and why they work. And whether they work at all, often.

It's especially the case when a given drug must be taken for months before any effect is seen. It's essentially impossible to control for other variables over MONTHS of someone's life. You can easily convince them they feel slightly better now because they've been months on end taking Zoloft. They may've easily been better if they hadn't taken it.
Three-bit floats have been the subject almost serious research, http://tom7.org/nand/nand.pdf
What's your generation speed?
If you go far enough away from the nearest city that housing prices drop, median income drops as well. I'm not saying I'm surprised that housing in NYC is expensive, but I live in the suburbs of Philadelphia (specifically in one of the cheaper areas that's still close enough to commute into the city) and housing is expensive here too.
Off topic but I can't resist: happens to a lot of people accused of sexual harassment at work. They get permabanned from work, and don't know what they said or did, nor when, where, or to whom.
I met him on this bridge once, he was polishing an old work. He told us that he had the blessing of the owners of the bridge. Other places where he worked, he didn’t have permission.
> What is the magic that separates success from failure that apparently only magically appears within the last 4 weeks with operating capital in the bank?

I've heard it said that every boss of a failed company will tell you that they almost got a last minute investment, or almost made a big sale, or almost got acquired, if they'd only had an extra week or two it'd have all been different.

Of course that could be wishful thinking - or a sign that in the final days they were offering fire sale prices.
> People have been complaining on HN that "houses are too expensive to buy" almost since it started 15 years ago.

15 years ago was the height of the housing bubble. They were right.

Two years later, housing prices were sharply lower and so was the level of complaining.

More recently, people with money in the bank found themselves homeless and we had complaining again. Because being homeless sucks.
What AI does this use?
I just watched the Anthony Bourdain special where he talked to people in Israel about previous wars, and they talked about Twitter saving their lives, calling in NATO strikes by Tweeting about enemy activities.
Dozens of us
Clearview doesn't let Europeans delete themselves anymore
Drones attack US Military base in Syria, US officials say