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Show HN: Quick prototyping ideas with ChatGPT – thisfairytaledoesnotexist.com
I wanted to try out ChatGPT to do a small but tangible web project from start to finish in one evening to see how suitable it would be for quick prototyping.

I used ChatGPT to write short fairy tales and also asked it to output a story title and a prompt for Stable Diffusion depicting the story. I copied all stories as-is, and manually picked one of the 4 options stable diffusion gave me for the image generated by "a children's book illustration of <prompt from ChatGPT>".

Separately I asked it to generate the HTML template for the site, pick a font, write the about page and come up with a creative <meta> description. Even the PHP script to redirect the user to a random story was written by ChatGPT. (see /chatgpt.png for my conversation with ChatGPT relating coding the site). Only minor tweaks were needed.

I got the project done in one evening. Crafting the prompt to make the stories (see /prompt.txt) took most of the time (still not perfect), together with registering the domain name and setting up SSL (Hetzner). In the end I only had to tweak the html/css/about parts of the project a little bit.

Of course the stories lack some depth and the images are not of the highest quality. But it works and I could not have done this in one evening a few weeks ago. This makes me wonder what would be possible to achieve in one evening 3/6/12 months from now. I can absolutely see this being very useful for quick prototyping / co-creating projects. What do you think?
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It's interesting that the english language model is loaded and it's clearly trying to pronounce things in a spanish way.
There is pbs space video https://youtu.be/uTrFAY3LUNw about topic.
> like flipping burgers.

Programming an information system is like flipping burgers; developing industrial software is not.
OSR2/SR6

Please stand for Oral Sex Robot and Sex Robot...
This is an ad hominem argument. "If you believe this theory, you are a bad person, therefore the theory must be wrong."
For computers to be used forever, we must accept that the code written for a computer can be outlived by the form factor. So what persists throughout time is not necessarily code but ideas.

So I want people to create whitepapers and document their learnings of their project and industry projects so others can learn from their lessons. The good ideas should be passed on through time.

For example, NES/Playstation/Switch/Xbox/PC game sourcecode are essentially one-shot projects, the code is not mutated much after release except for bug fixes whereas general purpose computing the code must be adapted over time to cope with changes in the world. The lineage of code written for these game consoles and old PCs, amiga and commodore are all ending. But the ideas behind that code persists.

For example, the code of Pentium Windows 95 tower probably doesn't resemble the code of Windows 11 anymore. And the tower CPU is very similar.

You can probably see ideas in the code there but everything else is different.

All the lessons of DOS, Amiga, Commodore and other old retro computers and minicomputers such as PDP-11 and IBM mainframes should all be learned and passed on.

We want software ideas that are durable and last forever. File systems are an idea that are durable. Processes are an idea that are durable.

I do wonder how many young people possess the capacity to writing an operating system today. The skills have been long fought by Linus and other operating system developers throughout time.

I want people to document the lessons and implementation notes of various low level system services. The UNIX POSIX API is durable.

I'm writing this on an Intel 10th generation NUC and it is plenty fast for running Ubuntu virtual machines and running IntelliJ on Windows 11. It has an Intel Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10710U CPU @ 1.10GHz, 1608 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)

I suspect I can get a lot of usage out of this computer and move homes more than once if need be. The computer is only 4 inches by 4 inches so it is easily transportable.

Another idea that needs to persist is the idea of archive quality formats. PDF, JPEG, Markdown shall probably be readable in 10 years time. But other document formats maybe not so much.
Isn't this sourced from the same people who claimed North Korea made propaganda about colonizing the sun?
So, I went ahead and tried to read further about the author -- Doug Bonderud. Interesting that his articles are pretty much about aliens, "Aliens in the Ocean", "Proof of Mermaids", "Area 51: Aliens, or Just a Simple Myth-Understanding?", "What do Astronauts do in Space?", "5 Odd Theories of the Universe That Might Just Be True", "The Great Conjunction Curse: Creative Conjecture or Concerning Coincidence?"
"Cammer" is the unisex name in the industry, as far as I'm aware.

Though it was more popular with the earlier wave of webcam streaming activity, back in the era of Chatroulette's first rise.
That's the point! Evaluating knowledge of university-level topics with childish multiple choice questions is so strongly associated with the United States that there's not that much doubt it's a US test.
The Kurds and Ukrainians are the US’s enemies?
Right, but the hours are long and the pay is low. VFX is even worse than games from career perspective
I can have empathy on users for them wanting to treat the development system they are on for 1/3rd of their daily lives like a personal machine. What I cannot actually allow is them treating their development machine like a personal machine.
I'm really starting to think these fringe "activist" groups are driven by the FSB doing "active measures". Putin cut his teeth as a field agent in Germany supporting fringe groups to destabilize governments. In 2014, it was these types of groups that stormed the Luhansk and Donetsk governments. In 2021, right wing groups attempted to do the same in Washington. Now we see the German version of this in 2022.
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I've noticed two posts of yours where you replace 'th' with 'þ'. Any reason?
That's why I have this phone in my pocket that can access the internet via the airwaves.
Checkmate corporate network!

Oh, wait, now Google will update the ad analytics for me based on this visit. Abort! Abort!
Speaking as an American... they can stay in Russia then, more power to them.

I remember seeing a video of two guys just walking holding hands and the entire town basically ready to jump them, not knowing there was a camera going.

If they want to live like victims, fine, that's a choice you can make, I just don't want them exporting their insanity.
The article is incredibly patronizing, while being also incredibly stupid. If the orcs were half as smart as would be needed to extract metadata from (poorly) encrypted traffic, they would just sidestep that altogether by adding a second device to the Ihor's Telegram account. That would have given them plaintext.

This low-tech "attack" would also work even better with WhatsApp and Signal (better because in Telegram secret chats don't get shared between multiple devices while in WhatsApp and Signal they obviously are - cause every chat is encrypted).
Replacing US with NK, the comment will never be allowed to post in NK. They don't have an Internet though.

Also your comment is a counter-example for the US's brainwash, if that holds.
How does this ring to people?

I work at a company that is starting this debate releasing a product that is "good enough" and some time after launch provide a substantial upgrade package OTA for additional cost.

Some members of the team, especially the older generation, are very much against this idea. They suggest we develop the product until we get the most we can out of the hardware then never touch it again. They fear customers will be unhappy that the hardware box they bought last year suddenly has better performance because of an update (that they had to pay more for).

Younger members of the team suggest that we can ship it earlier and working well but not completely optimized. Then release this update unlocking better performance.

Is this really a generational thing?
They will probably push harder to make difficult/ illegal using decentralized cryptocurrencies.

They will thank to all the opensource projects that helped to mature CBDC, and kick them out.
Interesting thought experiment, but untestable with current tech. I’ve wondered if dark matter/dark energy couldn’t be organized into life. There’s 80% of mass we know next to nothing about. Any reason that can’t be organized into dark matter planets with dark matter people running around?

Interesting thought experiment but my 2c is physics limits space travel such that it can never be what we see in sci-fi. Any civilizations elsewhere - phosphorus based or otherwise- have just as hard a time getting off their rock as we do, if not harder (larger gravity wells). If they do, they have an even harder time getting off their star. Certainly getting beyond their galaxy is physically impossible. Makes lousy sci-fi but fits observations.
Interesting. Last I recall from working with Zig the plan was to run the self-hosted compiler against itself to produce a C file that would, itself, be the bootstrap compiler. Now it looks like there's an extra step involving a WASM blob and a WASI implementation, and the only explanation I could find is in a 50 minute video with no transcript.

I'm both surprised and, at least as regards my current understanding of the situation, disappointed.

Also, one of my toy Zig projects depends on async[0] functionality not currently available in the self-hosted compiler, so I hope the add that before ditching the current stage1.

[0] I used the suspend/resume primitives to build coroutines, which are significantly simpler and easier to follow than the state machines they replaced in that code.

PS: I did some more digging in the Zig Discord channels and discovered that this is a temporary plan, and that all this WASM/WASI nonsense should ultimately be replaced by a C implementation. Still finding the reasoning for it a bit dubious though.
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needs more newlines still, blocker for me
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/4274
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What a great twist.
See also this whole radio-altimeters vs 5G debacle that wouldn't have happened if radio altimeters used a reasonably modern design.
:) Tricky. Is it an option to build some source files with C++, and use C functions (the usual FFI) as the interface between them?
People have definitely been raided by police for distributing movies over the Internet. It's only a matter of time until somebody gets killed.
I think you're confusing necessary and sufficient conditions.
The new large model is garbage at translation (ja) compared to most of the other models.
So 5 years later we need to search that hard for maybe one win for GDPR legislation?
People don't know how brutal oppression can be.

Go and read what's happening now in Iran. Random people are being killed in streets. Teenager girls are kidnapped and then when they're released many days later they're raped many many times. People have no media. The government uses military equipment against people.

And Iran is nowhere a dictatorship like NK.
Hmm i dont think so in this case. We dont really have any evidence for this theory, so the thought of "we are the first" might be coming from those adjectives he just said. Not that they are bad, but it might just be true.
In Europe I've seen airports and cities and even countries dead for weeks due to strikes. In my country I've seen union leaders become politicians and then in jail for corruption. In US I've seen evil laws (AB5) imposed on people by politicians (Lorena Gonzalez) owned by unions (Teamsters).

But I am open to the possibility of mistakes in my logic and dfxm12 post above had some good points.
Cool. Was never a user of Vivaldi or any chrome derivative but adoption of mastodon a la activity pub /fediverse is a good development. Better than crypto/nft nonsense at least IMO
> I’d say any form of life out there would have to go through some form of capitalism

This is anthropomorphizing at its best because we humans have largely decided that capitalist is the best "*ism".
Alien intelligence could have basically unimaginable governments, societal norms, morals and/or motivations.

> (...) then why another intelligent form of life hasn’t developed here on earth other than human species?

The answer here is probably just evolution. Other intelligent species have developed on Earth thorough its history (e.g.: Neanderthals, Denisovans). They're not here anymore because we (Homo-Sapiens) killed them.
Piecemeal deployment might work, if not discovered. But the discovery risk is rather large.

When an opponent discovers the deployment, either after-the-fact, or during deployment. They have many responses beyond immediately launching everything. The main problem is that this deployment corners them. Perhaps they try to attack the missile shield in space. Perhaps they run covert operations to disable the shield. Perhaps they take economic warfare counter-measures. I imagine plenty of former allies might side against whomever made such a huge uni-lateral move.

In any case, as we say in my native language, a cornered cat makes weird jumps. I don't think it makes sense to corner China or Russia in this field. MAD works well enough.
This seems like a false dichotomy: The choice isn’t "leak my data to western or the Russian government".

End-to-end encrypted (by default and for all chats) messengers exist, but Telegram simply isn‘t one of them.
Regardless of encryption or authorities cooperation shenanigans, Telegram has (had?) a serious privacy issue in that your number is public by default, and even if you set it to private after the registration, it gives enough time for a state actor to siphon your phone number off your profile, by running a bot with access to SMS. Which is enough for all practical purposes.

The only real reason ex-Soviet drug users keep using Telegram is they are careless and it's popular. Another suspicion of many is that most of the drug trade in Russia is under FSB "protection", and they have no reason to kill the goose that lays golden eggs. Drug dealers only run Telegram for their clientele though, with anonymous SIMs and Tor; for more serious purposes, they and other criminals use more secure communication channels, XMPP in particular.

>the Telegram's owner (Pavel Durov) relocated from Russia for ever due to issues with his previous project (VK)

...while keeping Telegram developers in Moscow and regularly showing up there himself. (no idea whether it's still true, probably not)

I can't say with 100% confidence that Telegram itself is compromised, though, there's no clear evidence for that. Some smoke probably, but no fire, sketchy indeed.
Interesting. Any thoughts on where they can be found?
North Korea has had thousands of foreign workers, mostly aid workers, in its borders, and businessmen from neutral countries that have not signed up to sanctions are given privileged access to the country. They are more reliable sources on how the country operates than any "unnamed source".

The big name I can think of is Felix Abt, who wrote about life in Pyongyang. Bad, but much safer than most of the other comparable capitals he did business in. He's biased in favour of ending sanctions and sanitizes some of what he said, but "A Capitalist in North Korea" confirms some of the negative assumptions about the country while criticising the more extreme claims.
Whoa, executing them might make them bigger heros in the eyes of their supporters aswell as make the government look like a bigger oppressor. Just ignore the shit out of them like a toddler throwing a tantrum while making sure that they don't hurt themselves or those near them.
> Thinkpad keyboards are indeed much better, but only if you don't care about small water spills rendering your keyboard unusable.

This kind of generalization is as far I can tell the source of a lot of pointless discussions around thinkpads.

The truth is the quality varies, a lot. Sure wrt. most aspects the quality is at least good, but weather it's better or worse then a mac especially wrt. the keyboard is quite device dependent.

For example the one I have has a better keyboard then any mac keyboard I tried and the keyboard is quite nice to type on and quite robust, much more then then any mac keyboard. There are some models where you can continuously pure water on it and they will be just fine. But then there are some thinkpads keyboards which aren't, but then apple had also keyboards for a while which died from a bit of dust.

So in the end general statements like ThinkPads have the best keyboards or the most reobust ones or apple products have that are all kinda pointless. From both companies you can pick modules to get whatever result you want especially if you include some "fake ThinkPads" (published under the ThinkPad brand but not really thinkpads wrt. robustness, repair-ability etc.).

My main point for favoring ThinkPads is that you can easily remove the keyboard and use an external keyboard until an replacement part arrives.

(Just to be clear: I'm not speaking about the very old thinkpads; Only mean thinkpadish thinkpads e.g. mainly the T and P series but not e.g. the Yoga Thinkpad; Mean water and not liquids with a higher acidity)
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None of this comment makes any sense at all. MacBooks can be bought with tons of software preinstalled (or did you mean it's missing apt-get? Try brew). And the mouse/touchpad are as good as it gets.
> programmers sure seem to love it

Unless they have to implement it. It sure is a pain! :)))
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Why is this NK apologist post getting upvoted? Anyone who thinks dictatorships like this are fine should move there and become citizens.
They claimed this when I visited in 2019 as well.
Or they are positioning themselves as a “thought leader” in order to win lucrative contracts to study those UAPs. For the public benefit, of course.
How exactly does US support it?
The smart choice is to have a separate generator to charge the batteries, maybe offset some of the electricity use with solar panels.

But it all depends on what you use the RV for. If you want to go to the Appalachians for weeks without human contact, go with the liquid fuel option and bring a lot of it with you. Maybe a small solar panel for electronics.

For a random camper like me with access to a pretty good EV charging network the lack of electricity won't be a problem. the ID.Buzz has a 77kWh battery that can easily run everything I need for multiple days without needing to charge.
I'm mostly referring to the cases where the teenager or child was killed by the police for no reason at all. There's no movie involved, but the execution happens nonetheless

https://eji.org/news/black-children-are-six-times-more-likel...
The subthread though is about whether "any dev who can write Rust today is also a good C dev, ain't it?", not about kernel drivers...
It’s a question of cost. Facebook has a billion users, if they can save $0.10 per user someone just got a promotion.

Here’s a related question: every day, people lose access to their Google or Facebook accounts. This could easily be solved with some process where they could get a third party (librarian, notary, police or DMV, etc.) to do an ID check. Nobody does this because the cost would be greater than zero.
There are also people who have it better. Some countries even have the right to life.
> I do believe the part about patriotic names

And the editorial board that crafts that news also knows it, so they are counting on it for that to have an extra pull that way as well

It is common for the general public to name their kids after what's in vogue it happens in all societies and the degree to which they are compelled to do so varies ofc, ergo all the little girls named Elsa that can be seen nowdays
With a library, I can't borrow an ebook to my reading device. My country's libraries doesn't really offer ebooks to borrow, my device doesn't support Amazon DRM, and Amazon Unlimited in not available in my region.

So no, we don't have such a thing.
Your local non root user can install new network drivers and launch ARP attacks against the switch in promiscuous mode?

There are plenty of ways for a local dev to self sign local trusted executables that can only run on their own machine for testing purposes (that would not be trusted being distributed to the public).

At least in Windows there are a few different systems that protect against running unknown executables, and downloading and running unknown executables would be a resume generating event that would get you walked out the door by security.
Markets and trading predate any formal type of rules. We have rules in certain markets now but this was not the case for most of history
From the universes timeline, there had to be a civilization which was the first. They pondered to themselves "the universe must be full of life, where is everyone?" But they were the first, hence they never encountered a more advanced species to themselves.

Maybe that's us.
I would also recommend standing underneath the upright Saturn 5 at Huntsville. Those engines are unbelievable.
Show HN: Compile and run C directly in the browser
Hello,

I made hexacademy.io, a course for people to learn programming and computer science, without skipping the fundamentals that many courses miss.

The site uses WebAssembly to provide an interactive, offline programming environment which can compile and run C, which as far as I'm aware is a first for a programming course.
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You are welcome.
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They can’t censor transactions? They can’t block certain protocol updates by continuing to use old/custom clients?
I don't know if you've tried this, and it might very well not be easier per se, but you can separate writing your text from the "typesetting" by composing in a barebones editor and then pasting that text into wherever you need to display the text. I don't know if something as barebones as notepad exists for phones, but the method I've described might make your experience better on a desktop.
If we are speculating, then this one is my favourite: what if there are other universes out there? With sufficient time civilizations of another universe could move freely between universes. If they can do that, then they probably have tech to be "invisibles" as well. If the multiverse theory is true, then we have an infinite number of multiverses in which an infite number of civilizations could have developed tech to travel between universes and to be invisble. They are here already :D Nah, well, who knows.
We can also use WeChat and TikTok and leak to the Chinese government :)
Not sure I follow. My point is North Korea is a communist dictatorship that bans markets yet they exist anyway
There's some 20 years of lead time, but if you're willing to wait and have the capital to scale up early, after those two decades you'll have a money printer.
Curiously, Durov didn't mention Fragment/blockchain initiatives in his post about Telegram's monetization strategy[1].

[1] https://t.me/durov/203