skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I linked to this when DALL·E 3 was originally announced, but perhaps it's more appropriate now.

Last year I generated around 7,000 images using DALL·E 2 and uploaded them to https://generrated.com/

I've been re-running the same prompts using DALL·E 3, although haven't updated the site yet (although I'm planning to). So far I've created 2,000 like-for-like using those prompts.

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In the meantime, here are some things I've noticed with DALL·E 3 vs. DALL·E 2:

- the quality is astounding, especially illustrations (vs. photographs) — as I've been looking at the DALL·E 2 images I've constantly felt like the old images look like potatoes now we have DALL·E 3 and Midjourney (even though at the time they seemed stunning)

- you will struggle to get an output that references a specific artist, but it will sometimes offer to make images in the general style of the artist as a compromise

- it can get quite repetitive when you ask it for concepts — if you look at the 'representation of anxiety' images on Generrated, you'll see that there's a huge variety in them, but as I've been running them with DALL·E 3 it seems to prefer certain imagery (in this case, a human heart under stress appears a lot), and the 'discovery of gravity' will include a tree and an apple 80% of the time

- some of the prompts need guidance to get the output you desire — 'iconic logo symbol' works well on DALL·E 2 to create a logo, but with DALL·E 3 will often produce a general image/painting with a logo somewhere in the image (e.g. a NASA logo on an astronaut's suit rather than a logo of an astronaut)

Those are some I can remember off of the top of my head. But it's so much fun to play with!

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Edit: I quickly put together 3 comparisons between v2 and v3: https://imgur.com/a/L9DYCSA
It's still in most distros default repos, unlike things like caddy, and also supports features like mod_ldap out of the box without enterprise, like nginx. If you just need a simple web server, potentially with some auth even for static files its a no brainier default for internal projects.
Ah! That sounds like a life saver!
This article is ... strange. It reads a lot like "arms manufacturers discuss concerns raised by emerging world peace".

Like, there will definitely be economic effects in some areas if weight-control-via-consumption-reduction treatments become commonplace. But isn't that ... good? If the goal is increased health, which it seems like these drugs could help many people with, then it seems odd to focus on the financial impacts to companies which profit from unhealth without discussing the benefits (to those receiving treatment and to society as a whole) as well.
Meta Plans to Grow Threads by Ramming Its Posts to Facebook
Yeah, you have to run GCC with `-MMD -MP` so you get .d files along with your .o files. Then in my own Makefile I have:

include $(shell find $(BUILD_DIR) -type f -name '\*.d')

so that make will check for header file changes.
Hands have definitely gotten much better in the latest version of Midjourney. Text is the one everyone struggles at, but early samples of Dall-E 3 had some promising examples.
>Have heard the theory that it's part of Calvinistic protestantism to avoid strong flavours

That's very believable. Puritan protestants banned all kinds of things that produce "pleasure". How do you think westerners got so prudish about intercourse?

> but then I'd expect to see more seaweed etc in the South.

Warmer waters carry less oxygen(I think that's the gist of it), so less seaweed grows.

Just think about a perfect beach, with clear blue waters and seeing all the way down to the sand on the seafloor... you know it's somewhere very warm and there's no seaweed.
Using a wireless mouse is a much more pleasant experience than a wired one, which is always giving a little resistance in one direction due to the wire.

As for keyboards, a lot of people move their keyboard. For example, I move mine from my standing desk when standing, to a keyboard tray when sitting, since no one can seem to manufacture a standing desk converter with proper ergonomics when sitting. The keyboard always ends up at desk level, instead of just below. Unfortunately, they don't make a wireless version of my favorite keyboard, and the wire is always getting in the way when converting.
So this is yet another post about how terrible is the python ecosystem with the versions.

The author of the post seems unfamiliar with the meaning of a major release.

maxcountryman (author of flask-login) doesn't know how to pin down versions.

I'm not a big fan of Flask to be honest but this doesn't seem a problem from them. I'd rather blame maxcountryman , the author of the post or pip for this case
Joining CSV Data Without SQL: An IP Geolocation Use Case
If you want the Lovecraftian mythos to be a thing, then the field of chaos magic (popularised largely by Peter J Carroll in Liber Null and Psychonaut) is an interesting one.

For traditional ritual/ceremonial magic The Heptameron is possibly the easiest of the old grimoires to read, and whilst he has his detractors Joseph Lisiewski's Ceremonial Magic & The Power of Evocation is pretty readable as a modern take.

(None of this is to comment on the truth or practicality of the belief systems and practices, it's just a pointer to possibly interesting early stage sources.)
And similarly the scene with the various anti-Roman groups that hate each other more than they hate the Romans in Life of Brian was a brilliant satire of how rival progressive groups acted in the 1960s and 1970s
Right but the internet is inherently an interstate enterprise. That’s why I feel it likely falls under the purview of congress.
> The 25% seem to match my observation in non-Shenzen areas, which I mentioned in my original post.

Doesn't Shenzhen have similar regulations as Beijing? If they are providing different and larger quotas for people to register EVs, you'll see more EVs simply because that is what the government is allowing people to buy.
The real reason CEOs want people back in office is 100% because they are broadly part of the same socio-economic class that owns the vast majority of commercial real estate around the world. They and their friends and family own all the commercial real estate, and high vacancy rates are are hurting their bottom lines and reducing the rate at which their property values increase, so they want people back in the office to prop up their property values and keep the commercial real estate graving train flowing.
> you "a billion people" threshold makes it look like you want to shut down debate, rather than actually look at data.

Not so - the threshold is there for a reason. It's inherently harder to corral more people than fewer people. At the time that South Korea became a fully fledged democracy, their population was between 37 and 45 million people. That's roughly the size of the urban area of China's 3rd largest city.

You cannot control a country of 1.3 billion people (with a landmass larger than the continental USA) that has regional cultural differences such as diet and language as easily as you can a homogeneous population of ~40 million in an area the size of Indiana.

If I wanted to increase the GDP of the city block I live on, it's a lot easier than if I wanted to increase the GDP of my entire city, let alone the county, state, or country. Things are harder at scale. That's where the efficiency of a dictatorship shines. Not that I'm a fan of The Party, or of dictatorships. Fuck them both. I've done business with The Party, and 10/10 would not recommend. But credit is due where credit is due, and The Party has managed to do some things that have been incredibly beneficial to China at large, on multiple fronts - economics, infrastructure, education, etc... Part of their ability to do so comes from having a centralized dictatorship.
Totally agree. Moreover, every bluetooth connection is a pain in the neck with the logic, which device auto-connects to which -- every time it's different: when the loud speaker is turned on, the phone sees it in the active list, but may pick it automatically or may not! It's completely random. Sometimes it takes 2 attempts, enabling/disabling bluetooth and turning the device off && on to make them connect.

Laptop may steal-connect headphones from the mobile, if it knows them.

I guess there's been some logic written for managing these auto-connects, but it's now a complete mess.

Had to install a special audio system in ubuntu to work with Bluetooth headset with microphone -- it took years for it to appear, apparently. It does work -- although you have to go down some menus to turn mic on, and with the last update you can't switch back to hi-quality playing without mic -- it just stops working at all. But the biggest disappointment was that the old Logitech H600 headset now stops working in a minute or two after connecting!

This is modern software. Instead of a mechanism that turns, clicks and snaps, it's just a contraption that may work sometimes or may not. Johnathan Blow is absolutely right in his observations.

PS. Despite that, I should say wireless USB-dongle-mouse works fine for me.
> offering more evidence for the theory that life on Earth was seeded from outer space.

This hypothesis seems to be getting more and more traction. There is an excellent recent video on topic from Kurzgesagt [0].

Interesting that neither the video nor the article uses the name panspermia[1] to refer to the hypothesis. I wonder why that is. Wikipedia also states that "[the fringe theory] is also criticized because it cannot be tested experimentally". Can't it? If we ever find an organism based on DNA compatible with organisms on Earth, wouldn't that validate it?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOiGEI9pQBs

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
It is possible to avoid wires for the graphic pointer, without requiring batteries or wireless connections, by replacing the mouse with a stylus and a graphic tablet (configured in the "relative" mode).

This substitution has the additional benefits that a stylus is much more comfortable, faster and more precise than a mouse.
I agree entirely. Especially about the need for a battery.
The relationship between frequency and power consumption is very far from linear. The 29W core is running at twice the frequency of the 3.6W core.
China has had lots of small/cheap/first-gen EVs that westerners would be snobby about as they ramped up and the bare numbers don't reflect that qualitative angle.

I would however agree that they do now currently dominate the market for EVs (including the high end and mid market), and that dominance will only expand over the next decade. I can't see any way for EU or US to reverse it now, but they could keep up better if they tried.
It seems to me that I can get most any look and feel I want. Most of the ones other people post seem to have a very different look and feel to my own.

That said, you can sort of get a default look and feel if you just give a short prompt, and then it will tend toward the ones that are favored by RLHF. I prefer very long prompts.... as long as it will allow.

So if you do "a cool treehouse" you'll get sort of the default look. It will be very different if you say "treehouse, naturally occurring, in an old beautiful tree with branches that are low and spread widely and have lots of character and hanging moss and thick bark and curvy roots and mushrooms on a rocky outcropping from a mountainside. photograph, golden hour, sun through trees, damp from rain. Treehouse is part of tree, with fractal forms and live shaped wood and stone and stained glass and glowiness. art nouveau, gorgeous colors and fantasy design"

It's funny that the same people who complain that AI is "cheating" and uncreative, often are the ones who go to so little effort to get good results. It's not like it takes any arcane knowledge to get good images, but if you can use some imagination and string a lot of descriptive words together you can get so much better results.
I'd be worried if I were Midjourney specifically because Discord is a terrible user interface. Trying out DALL-E 3 on a regular web interface ia so much better.

I'd try out MJ again if they had a regular website. I don't even like OpenAI as a company, but I can't stand using Discord like that.
I've found that code formatting in general is massively overrated. Same with consistent function naming.
Once you get over the initial OCD it is quite liberating to not be bound by any rules. And with languages such as C you end up mixing all kinds of naming conventions anyway.

What matters much more are idioms, matching interfaces and descriptive names.
Right, but only because Altman got there first.

Congratulations to him. But if he'd gone out for lunch on Monday, and somebody else rolled out their product Tuesday, is the world really a worse place? It waited an extra 24 hours, but other than that the only effect is that somebody else got rich instead of him.

We celebrate the guys who get rich, but I'm not convinced that they're really being rewarded for the uniqueness of their work, only the uniqueness of their ability to make themselves (and everybody around them) miserable. Which often bodes badly for the future: "I gave myself scurvy so that this company could be first to market, and now I expect all of you to pee in a bottle so that I don't have to hire more people".

There's no way to stop people from working themselves and everybody else to death. But we can be skeptical about how crucial they are to technology. Their willingness to harm themselves is not connected to the innovation, which could well have occurred without them. Maybe just a few days later, and a little bit less worrisome.
CXL for CPU access to DRAM is overkill. Plenty of server mobos allow you to directly attach 2 TiB of DRAM.
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Well, I did say I knew that wouldn't go down well here...

No, nobody should be thanking them for this.

We should be mocking them for making such a ridiculous, offensive and typical statement. As if anyone would expect them to not have the forethought to check where the line would be. As if a company protecting itself in the usual way is a reason for why no actual people should think ill of them. As if we should be thanking them.

Note that all they are saying is they weren't given access to membership information. The only way they could have had access is if it were given to them. When I say "legally acquire" I'm not ruling out other means of accessing that information directly, but the trick being performed here is mentioning this when it's irrelevant. They don't need access to membership information to know who is "on their side".
Our laws are very similar to our medicine. We take a pill that causes a side-effect, which requires a pill to fix that side-effect but causes another side effect... so on.

We start with state interference of the free market in a small way, and it mangles the fair game. And then we "need" laws to "protect" us from issues caused by state interference in the first place.

So sick of it all.
It still hijacks back button on Brave/Chrome.
Does anyone know how access rolls out? I'm a ChatGPT+ customer, and it seems like it took weeks to get access to their image prompt feature after they announced it.
... Yes? I make money writing code but I'd love to do tech journalism (no one would pay me money to read my stuff right now).
A lot of it is driven by underlying params - if you decrease style param a bunch in Midjourney, some of the high contrast & high saturation affinity goes away.
And it's fantastic by the way: it understands way better instructions than midjourney; also can do decent logos.

But I didn't cancel midjourney because it has more options, and is better at producing stunningly beautiful things.

The other comments are right though, the more time passes, the more open ai looks like a platform. But just like the Apple's platform, or twitter's, fb's, ms's, etc., it will adopt the features of the top apps built on it and kill them mercilessly.
Despite the "it's your fault" vibe towards Miguel, I have to say: thank you Miguel!!

Your tutorial was a turning point for me 4 years ago, the care you take to write and help people is very precious. My ability to write modest web apps takes its roots in your free online materials, I am grateful for that.
“Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.”

― Terry Pratchett, Eric
It's not an unreasonable proposition but life had to have an origin somewhere, so if it came from space where did that source come from?

Deep sea thermal vents seem like a reasonable origin as well.
I'd have no problem with ads if they weren't so invasive and frequent. should be no more than 5% of time should be dedicated to ads. seems like the cost of ads needs to go up not down.
I was a contractor for Motorola and had to take a drug test, I have never consumed so much water in my life.
I wondered what had been happening in our riverfront towns along the Mississippi. Every other house for sale at fire-sale prices. Combination of high interest rates and local employer closures. And nobody buying riverside vacation properties any more?

Anyway some really impressive stuff for around $100K, which is ridiculous. Inland its half a million.

Lots of old worn-out places too of course. Those towns have been there for a century or more.

https://www.zillow.com/clinton-ia/?searchQueryState=%7B%22pa...
Users in California may download from a service in New York. Users in New York may download from a service in California. I suspect it would be more expensive than it's worth to have asymmetric infrastructure that would allow them to them to throttle the New Yorker without violating the law for the Californian.

All that network management would require teams of engineers and specialized hardware, all for something that may change on a whim and be obsoleted. What if New York copies California law? Bam. That investment instantly evaporated.
The first thing I thought when I saw the title was this.
Very predictable
Colorado Is Still Not Holding Most Rogue Cops Publicly Accountable
It can't be for tabs in chrome, that browser can't even use all 64gb I offer it ("putting tabs to sleep" is disabled on purpose as I need the tabs to stay active)
Only if you don't prompt more precisely.
> because that's what matters over the specific strength

... but the specific strength does come into play when discussing the costs of hardening and mitigation.

This event is twice as powerful as the previously known largest event.
> The battery also lasts a week or two

That's not remotely long enough for it not to be a pain to manage. Being battery-powered is my primary objection to wireless mice and keyboards.

That said, I do have a use case where the presence of cords are a larger problem than the hassle of being battery-powered and use a wireless mouse and keyboard there. But for everything else, nothing beats a cord.
Been using this feature for about 2 weeks now. Works very well, but straight prompting works better from my tests. I'm sure there's a way to get a direct prompt inserted through CHATPGT though, I've just compared their prompt creation to my custom one in bing images.
Related:

RowPress: Amplifying read disturbance in modern DRAM chips [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36479683 - June 2023 (6 comments)
> the other 150-odd retired cops who have the required LAPD-issued permits

I'd love to see whether it's at all possible for someone who isn't a LEO or retired try to acquire these permits, and just how brazen they are that this is a racket for cops.
Could you add a basic description of "Trail" to the documentation? It's a blank page on one of only a handful of major features
> Except for high-security jobs, which are never possible remotely anyway, I have never heard of a client or employer asking for a drug test.

Some companies have contracts with the Federal Government and even if you won't be working on those projects or won't have to get the security clearance, there are certain clauses in the contracts which requires the company to not have employees drink at work, to drug test employees and other stuff like that.

I once was asked to do a drug test as the offer was contingent on the drug test to clear because of this kind of contract. I rejected the offer from other reasons, but the recruiter told me we can schedule the drug test weeks in advance, to make sure 'everything is out of your system, just in case'. It was a urine test, and I got the feeling that the company was trying to make sure the test was going to clear regardless of my lifestyle outside of work, no questions asked.

Also, the recruiter told me it was a one-time thing for me and other 'general purpose' employees, but persons directly involved in the whole security clearance government stuff were subject to random testing.
Hyundai China is a Beijing-based JV, so you'll see more up north than down south. Toyota got absolutely hammered by production problems in their Chinese factories a few years ago (so the reputation for Toyota in China is low vs. the higher quality rep they have everywhere else). GAC Toyota is based in Guangzhou however, so you would expect to see more down there. PHEVs don't have any special incentives in China, so you aren't going to see them (EV will get you into a special quota where you can buy a car at all in many tier 1 cities, PHEV gets you nothing).
Hmm, I don't think that gives an accurate picture, China:

> ... has about 70% of the world’s production capacity of cathodes (the part of the cell that receives electrons) and more than 80% of anodes (the part that releases electrons on discharge), and well over half of electrolyte and separator output. Those parts come together to make a lithium-ion battery, more than three quarters of which are made in China and mostly by just two firms — Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. and BYD Co.
Exactly. And it’s really not the first and surely not the last time this happens in tech industry. It’s just Gartner hype cycles all the way down.
Have you tried clearing cache? (I've configured the server to be a bit more aggressive about caching to improve load speeds, but JS bundle updates should be available instantly.)

I've just tested on Chromium 118.0.5993.70, Firefox 118.0.2 and Safari (iOS 17.0.3) and the issue seems to be gone.
Desktop apps (SDL et al) don't interact with DOM but they thrive. I don't agree with this take at all. I do however think WebAssembly implementations need to increase storage size, with the current 10MB localStorage in Firefox/Chrome and 5MB in Opera et al, web apps are almost completely memoryless without cloud. If you could use a web app as a standalone app with its own memory that you can download/upload/sync it'd be much more useful.
Anthony Lewis educated a wary nation about the Supreme Court (2013)
Seeing the money some thin apps have already made, seems fine if you have your expectations set correctly. Ie small app, quick to publish, get what you can while you can.
I can’t believe people are making these tools out of endangered species.
I’d say it was full of hard to get (and potentially embarassing) goods and services, legal or not. More of an anarcho-libertarian mindset than “I gonna break the law and the law only!”.

Plenty of things that aren’t illegal but regulators over-reach anyway and make it difficult to transact in. Then there’s the “illegal in USA, but not in _____”, or “illegal in France but not in USA”

Having to make a public claim that you were just going to buy a technically legal viagra analog is a good way to make sure nobody bothers (on top of the gov just making spurious claims that the marketplace is itself a criminal neighbourhood where anyone present is subject to arbitrary search/seizure).
Quite common in Peruvian seafood too. Yuyo (Chondracanthus chamissoi) is everywhere.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondracanthus_chamissoi
> And, spoiler alert, Brian does not get crucified. But rest assured he will still sing Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life."

Seems like they keep it for the most part. What would this production be without Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life ???!!!