skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A short sci-fi story written with GPT-3 and illustrated with DALL-E 2
Hi there HN,

Disclaimer: I've submitted a Show HN as well as the link for this general project before, but particularly like this one short story so want to submit one for it specifically. Hope it's not considered spammy!

I and a collaborator who writes sci-fi just released the short story "The Great Filter Button" - https://storiesby.ai/p/the-great-filter-button

Here's why it's relevant to HN: most of the text for it was generated by GPT-3 (with human curation, using SudoWrite) and it was entirely illustrated using DALL-E 2 and MidJourney, and a bit of DreamStudio aka Stable Diffusion (of course with human selection of prompts) AND it narrated using neural voice synthesis (via BeyondWords). And I think it came out very well!

To my mind it is a pretty good example of how the newest commercial tools by powered by learned media synthesis models can be leveraged by humans to make art. It also shows some of the limits: DALLE-2, MidJourney, and Stable Diffusion all have trouble with more complex prompts and don't follow various aspects of them, the voice synthesis is still pretty robot-y, and the GPT-3 written parts are heavily guided by human text (and the whole story is quite short).

We plan to keep exploring these realm of human-AI creative collaboration by releasing weekly short stories with this newsletter, and would love feedback, suggestions, or even entire submissions of your own creative work done using AI. Feel free to just comment here on HN, email us at contact@storiesby.ai, or comment here - https://storiesby.ai/p/submit-your-stories-ideas

Last thought: even with AI doing the "heavy lifting" of writing and illustration, a great deal of creative decision making is still left up to us with respect to subject matter, style, formatting, etc. I hypothesize that sturgeon's law will remain true in the age of AI-generated text/images (most of everything will be crap), and the job of literary agents, producers, etc. will just become far more involved. Sort of like A24 is mostly a distributor (and to some extent producer) yet have made a huge name for themselves - this may become the norm.

Edit: wow thanks for feedback HN! To the comments saying this is at best a mediocre story/outline, totally agree. Since we want to put something out weekly, these stories are quickly generated with the intent to be a neat example of human-AI collaboration, rather than with the intent to reach the bar of published sci short stories. Maybe one day...
> And every SEO expert knows that long articles rank higher than short ones, so now "treating covid headache" takes you to a thousand-word article when really I just want short summaries of the top three treatments.

John Mueller from Google has been saying the opposite for years: https://www.reddit.com/r/bigseo/comments/clg1hn/how_to_find_...
AI: remake seasons 5-8 of game of thrones, based on the critical consensus version of the final two books autocompleted by GRRM-style emulating generative network.
AI popularity is fading away...Maybe that's why.
What's wrong with asking candidates to find nonesoteric bugs?
We monitor Azure across North America at Metrist.io and we aren't seeing any notable issues. We have seen a few issues rolling through products like Azure App Service and Azure DevOps Repos, but not the core products like AKS, Blog Storage, VMs, etc.
It has been told before, but I'll repeat it: US has such high healthcare cost, because they are pushing boundaries of what's possible in medicine, both by inventing new drugs and innovating in surgery and other forms of treatment. Basically, US subsidizes healthcare for the rest of the world.
Is there a declarative language or framework for creating ad-hoc GUIs that consume structured data from stdin stream and spit-out a GUI?

Like feedgnuplot [1] but not only restricted to graphs.

[1] https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot
Actually pretty interesting: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41698-020-00129-0

>> The majority of the antineoplastic activity of honeybee venom has been attributed to melittin through inhibition of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR axis in breast cancer, MAPK in melanoma, JAK2/STAT in ovarian cancer, and NFκB signaling pathways in lung carcinoma cells1.

It's the melittin. They also suggest they can engineer it more, and it could possibly accompany some chemo infusions.

Obviously, this could cause anaphylactic shock in patients.

Personally, I'm more interested in the cowpea mosaic virus in conjunction with modern immunotherapy: https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/researchers-shed-ligh...
What's really terrifying / depressing / disgusting though, is that an even more insidious kind of Chinese "pre-censorship" is now increasingly worming it's way into western media not even explicitly intended for the Chinese market.

As China becomes the either #1 or #2 global market for films, tv shows and video games, global media companies are lobotomizing their products to ensure they'll pass the CCP's censors / goons, and as a result, marginalized voices are ultimately going to be pushed further even further to the margins. Big globomediacorps won't take the risk that including whatever "Sensitive" subject matter the CCP has decided it's against that week will bar their product from the Chinese market, and as a result the Chinese censors don't even have to do anything as the film / tv / game companies are doing their job for them in advance.

I mean, just look at Legendary Entertainment. There hasn't been a single LGBT+ character in any of their films since Wanda group bought them in 2016, and I've got a bridge to sell you if you think that's anything less than intentional.
McMaster Carr
It has some reputation as a brand. If I buy something from Walmart I generally don't expect it to be a quality product. It will fall apart very quickly and it'll probably have some unexpected issue with it. But I do expect that it won't be an *outright* scam.
You know it seems to me that we are going to eventually end up reinventing the idea of a brand.

As these massive online marketplaces continue to allow third party sellers their reputation will continue to suffer, people will be less and less likely to get what they ordered, and eventually look for a way to identify good products. Eventually some sellers and marketplaces will end up being identified as only having good quality products and people will start to buy from them.

Honestly a lot of the discussion around Amazon seems a lot like the arguments and discussions I heard around Wal-Mart in the early 20's like almost all the arguments are the exact same to a large degree, right down to the discussions of labor issues and the effect of their monopoly on smaller retailers.

It seems eventually Amazon, Wal-Mart and online marketplaces that allow third party sellers will end up like the Aldi's, Dollar Tree, Wal-Mart, type stores, with a cheaper price and expected quality, and people will know there are other online marketplaces to go to when they need quality or something that lasts.
I have to imagine that if twitter were to launch an onlyfans competitor, it would be under a different brand. Twitter has the infrastructure for maintaining a platform for content creators to distribute to subscribers, if it weren't for the massive increase in liability it would be well positioned to compete. At most, there might be some technical integration to convert twitter followers into paying subscribers, but I think they would do everything in their power to avoid drawing attention to the fact that they would own both platforms.

While definitely not the most novel idea, onlyfans has proved that the business model is a cash cow. While twitter's revenues from advertising have been increasing, their operating expenses have been increasing faster. Profit isn't everything, a large user base and growth potential are valuable, but to match the EBITDA/Market Cap ratio of other major social media companies like Meta, they should be bringing in around $3-4 Billion/yr to justify their current valuation. They are no where near that point, and they're moving steadily further away. Adult content might not be the play but they need to do something to reverse the trend.
Cool. I wish more people that had “made it” thought of “giving back” in this way.
uBlock origin is far better, especially compared to this Manifest v3 version of AdGuard.

AdGuard are just doing this to capture the upcoming hole in the market as uBlock Origin stops working in Chrome.

Everyone should switch to Firefox.
> a comedian pretending to be a journalist

It's a cop out. Often times he's very serious about the political points he's making, even if he packages the point in a joke. The point or argument itself isn't a joke, at all. So you can't do that but then hide behind "I'm just a comedian!" when there's a flaw in your argument.
Did you actually read the copy on the website?

> Measure your baseline inflammation levels and see how they fluctuate with lifestyle choices (nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress) so that you can make the right choices for you

> Be Golden works by using an at home finger prick based blood testing kit and a digital platform

I'm not sure what "story" is left to be told here. It's pretty self-explanatory.
Is your point that it’s a bunch of buzzwords that most folks don’t understand? Then yes, I 100% agree.

Knowing what the buzzwords mean, I was translating. ‘stewardess, I speak Jive’ style.
Looked for mention of ECC support beyond EPYC. Not found.
Doctors can be wrong (they have been for me multiple times) and I feel a certain sense of responsibility for learning about and understanding what is going on in my body. Now, if I had a panel of doctors at the ready to answer my questions and explain things to me in the detail I want, that would be great. But that seems unrealistic. So we do need something to bridge the gap between the fallible doctor we very occasionally get to talk to and our otherwise deep ignorance of our own health and bodies.
Time for someone to copy the good parts and implement them as FOSS. Good luck getting enterprises to pay for diagrams.
Time for homeowners to invest in green tarps.
I worked for a NACHA processing backend for some years, the mechanism of protecting overseas transactions from bad actors is usually based on sending additional information contained in the IAT transaction, which includes some extra data from both the origination and the receiver[1]. When the bank process it, it could either:

1) settle the transaction in the next few days (3 usually).

2) ask for additional information on the next few days.

3) deny (return) the transaction if it looks too suspicious according to the bank.

[1] https://www.nacha.org/system/files/2019-07/IAT-Specific-Data...
I imagine that if the choice was to watch a movie with the family, free of annoying propaganda, that you'd be right. But if the choice was to never be able to see the "propaganda" you're being protected against, that fewer people would take the deal.

These discussions conflate voluntary censorship like age-gating with willingness to actually let someone lie to you, even in cases where you know the truth directly, and accepting it - ostensibly for the good of the group.
CompuTutor / Using your machine for the Apple IIe
Television software from Chase Scientific. (normally in) color. 100 minutes. (c) 1984-1985 by Chase Scientific, Inc. Hosted by Brent Seltzer.
Yeah, I guess I need to physically go into stores now if I want to really avoid counterfeits.
Solar panel sales boom as energy bills soar
Investments are not “grants.” Very misleading.
Are you aware of Taiwan's diplomatic status?

It's a real cluster fuck.
Thank you for explaining this, something was obviously missing. Living on a 7 meter torus would be challenging for many reasons, but seeing many cylinders or images of yourself wouldn't be some of them.
All of these retailers have purchasing departments with professional buyers who curate the products they resell - which is the sole purpose of the branded store. If the retailers don't do that, there is no purpose of that retailer. They don't add any value to the customers purchasing process.
Show HN: Our dream team chat implementation combined with a virtual office
There are homeowner-class track mowers that are designed for steep slopes. Our property is pretty hilly so I keep telling myself that when my Husqvarna riding mower finally dies (it's only 16 years old) I'll buy an electric one. Unfortunately that Kawasaki motor just keeps on going and I keep repairing everything else.
OP here: we originally posted Spot on HN around a year ago with a product that really focused on a virtual workplace for companies. This was driven by our personal experiences and having had very real connections with other people via online gaming (UO anyone?). We wanted to bring this sense of connection and community to remote work and the enterprise.

Since then, we’ve found that our most successful customers are the ones who use Spot as a full-fledged Slack alternative (in addition to a virtual office). We’ve doubled-down on this and are building a powerful team chat implementation directly inside the product. Unlike a lot of other “spatial chat” solutions out there, you will find that we have the most robust and familiar chat implementation. Things like channels, reactions, threading, search, etc. are table stakes, but we also have named topics and are planning on a message-retention policy that is more friendly to the free tier.

Please try it out and would love some feedback from the HN community on both our product and team chat in general!
IBM disguised Watson Health layoffs as a 'redeployment initiative'
Target I believe.
Whenever I hear the title "Architect" I have to think about certain segments of the IT department at my company and also the participants at my scrum master training. Both were full of "senior architects" that were good at talking but were so out of touch with reality that they couldn't contribute anything real. It's pretty easy to architect a system if you ignore the little, annoying details that make an implementation difficult. And to know what's hard you need hands-on implementation experience. These guys get away with their nonsense because often the implementation is outsourced to developers who just implement what they are told to do without asking questions. Never mind that the bad design decisions make the system much slower than it has to be and takes way more effort to implement.
The Science on Sustainable Pace, Stress, and Motivation
Log message:

Dynamically link these /sbin daemons: dhcpleased, mountd, nfsd, pflogd,
resolvd, slaacd, unwind.

The mitigation story is way better: syscalls are in a randomly located
libc, and every syscall stub is randomly located inside that due to
random relinking. As opposed to fixed offset inside a release binary.
There is one known consequence: /usr nfs mounting must use statically
configured IP addresses.

ok kettenis florian, others
Not “appointing”, but voting. Just like in US. Unless you want to maintain that eg displacing Gang of Four was Mao’s idea.

But yes, if Xi held power despite losing support that would be… fairly bad.
Try this one with the docker image instead: https://github.com/AbdBarho/stable-diffusion-webui-docker
I tried with a few words from es-ar, and I found one missing :).

Also, it's annoying that any word that starts with "ca" gets

> “cha” Chinese: to have sex. Direct match at start or end, potentially serious!

It looks like too easy to match. Is that really a problem? (I don't speak Chinese, so I don't know how bad it is.)
I’m imagining PSON as the alt-universe equivalent of JSON, where it uses a reduced version of the syntax that can only represent data, not execute instructions. So you’d get /symbols, (strings), << /Key (value) >> dicts, [ (arrays) (of) (items) ], numbers, and booleans, but no { procedures }, % comments, or operators.

Just for fun, here's MDN's JSON example turned to PSON:

[
<<
/name (Molecule Man)
/age 29
/powers [ (Radiation resistance) (Turning tiny) ]
/inAlliance false
>>
<<
/name (Madame Uppercut)
/age 39
/powers [ (Million tonne punch) (Superhuman reflexes) ]
/inAlliance true
>>
]
>>Why is the private sector responsible for providing accurate health information? As this article shows, the incentives for people running medical websites <in the private sector> and the people reading them are not aligned.>>

I don't know that the cause of this particular misalignment is "private sector". But no doubt the current implementations by the private sector exhibit this misalignment.

>>I'd say the UK NHS website <which is public sector> and symptoms/medications pages hit the nail on the head>>

I assume this implies that the NHS website does not exhibit the previously noted misalignment. Why is that? Obviously this site's sole funding is not from advertising. I assume it's from taxes collected by the government. So what is incentivizing those that build this site and maintain its content to make it so good?
I'm billing $100+/hr with Toptal. I'm currently 0 hours available and they check on my availability every week with possible contracts.

Yes, the interview process is a bit long, but opportunities have been non-stop for several years in a row now.

Never an issue with pay, although it can border on 6 weeks in arrears due to billing cycles with the client and bi-weekly deposits from Toptal.
Photoshop has always existed. Yet we haven't lost the era of not trusting pictures. What is new?

I think we're making the folly of comparing AI generated art to human generated art from the 90s. Humans have "advanced" much further with the advancements now that DALL-E is nowhere close to.

https://youtu.be/iKBs9l8jS6Q
> It tests if you understand the subject well enough, and the "other person" well enough, to communicate it to that other person

Interestingly, writing code not different in that regard. Too many developers think that it's enough to understand the subject. But the hardest part is often communicating the subject to other people through code.

And yeah, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging is a thing.
Technically the US supports the one China policy.
It is assumed WW3 starts if that ever changes.
When you put it that way, it's so glaringly obvious that Doubleclick (wearing their Google skin; keeping the name when they merged was the smartest thing the devil ever did) is the precise and irreconcilable opposite.
Sephora to pay $1.2m to settle Cali privacy law claims
personally I don't see a need for it, but I'm sure someone will do something dumb that requires it
and yet its able to generate Getty images watermark
Well, do you think the parent comment meant 100 year storms anywhere, or did they mean in the same area, based on the context of what they said?
or camo tiles mimicking a basketball court.
Costco does a pretty good job. I can purchase something there without research and still get a reasonable product at a reasonable price.
Here in Canada Best Buy sells refurbished hardware but it's not Best Buy itself. You buy it on their site and it looks like Best Buy sells it but it's from a third party and most often it's junk. Not outright fraud like Walmart but close.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-best-buy-test-1...
Joining/using Twitter is in direct conflict with the first goal of "Don't force yourself to do anything you hate"
Was that from Walmart the retailer or someone else selling on Walmart's marketplace? I would be very surprised if Walmart itself resold you something from Amazon, but that does happen with third party retailers on their marketplace.
Because we have sweat glands for pheremones in our armpits. The main theory is that armpit hair serves to waft that.

We don't have those types of glands on the backs of our knees or inner side of elbow, etc. So no extra hair there, and no need for antiperspirant there either.
Critical hole in Atlassian Bitbucket allows any miscreant to hijack servers
Medicalising Art
Luckily, I have not seen evidence that Walmart/Target commingle inventory, so restricting searches to sold by Walmart/Target should work.

But who knows what is happening behind the scenes. Amazon removed the wording that made it clear they commingled inventory, but I am sure they still do.
Given that the Hacker News frontpage has been taken over by GPT-3/DALL-E/Stable Diffusion in the past couple months, consumer AI popularity definitely is not fading away.
My only experience is with Blitz2, I'm sure my code ran on A500/1MiB, but I never put much effort in testing because I always targeted Kickstart 2.05+.

If you're looking for cool BASIC for A500/A600 you can't go with Amos:

https://retrogamecoders.com/installing-amos-basic/
This malthusian crap needs to end. The earth can happily support 8 billion people if we just use a better energy mix. We already (in the US) emit less CO2 than we did in the mid 2000s, and it's only going to keep going down. It's literally financially unreasonable to run coal plants, and the developed world should be doing everything in it's power to fill india and the middle east and africa with solar panels.

With a little help, most of these nations could jump straight past the pollution of a fossil fuel based economy and directly into a renewable/sustainable economy, while only improving their lives.

This is also completely orthogonal to the fact that if you want less people on the earth all you have to do is send women to school, allow them to start a career, and give them easy access to birth control. Population drops pretty reliably after that.
In regards to Go, in most cases its a pointless optimization. Unless the string is quite large, its the same result. Go is nothing like C# in this case.
Amazon is killing them and has been for a decade, and they’re trying to compete. Too late, and badly, as it turns out.

You didn’t notice it as much earlier, because it wasn’t the high end ‘stuff you went there for’ that people stopped buying, it was all the other random things they bought when they went there to buy something, and the marginal customers.

Now the core customer base is eroding, and they’re getting desperate.
My reaction too. I've only superficially played with some of the AI image generators, and while it's easy to get something which looks interesting or even good, getting something which matches a specific idea precisely seemed hard. This walkthrough shows a clear technique which seems endlessly adaptable to using it as a tool to get to a specific goal.
Is there a serious expectation that millions will be attempting to relocate permanently just from this one event? Adapting to a new normal where extreme flooding happens far more regularly seems intuitively slightly less problematic than trying to adapt to frequent extreme heat/drought, storms, fires, outbreaks of disease etc. - indeed the ancient Egyptian empire is often presented as having thrived partly because of regular flood events, and there are entire cities in countries like Bangladesh that routinely cope with flood events that would be considered extreme in most other parts of the world. Having said that Bangladesh itself has been seeing huge levels of internal migration (primarily to Dhaka) triggered by recent flooding, so clearly there's some point at which continued adaptation in a given area becomes impossible, at least not without massive investments in infrastructure that are beyond what many such countries will be able to afford. Still, if forced to choose between a neighborhood that suffers frequent mega-floods and one that has to deal with regular droughts or super-cyclones or uncontrollable bushfires or indeed a permanent increase in water levels due to sea level rise, the former seems the least worst option. Interestingly two of the most deadly natural disasters in history were flooding events along the Yangtze River in the late 1800s and then the 1930s, killing millions. Yet people still live there in huge numbers today...
Can you name one? Note: not “unknown to me”, but unknown to virtually anyone.
It's called sshlog. It's a patch that logs username/password.

https://github.com/62726164/sshlog