HackerNews Summary (2023-06-11 07PM)

Source: The Guide to Sleeping in Airports

Summary
Travel community shares tips on how to survive airport sleeping. All kinds of travellers sleep at airports due to various reasons. The Guide to Sleeping in Airports provides advice and reviews to make airport sleeping more tolerable.

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💤 Sleeping at airports is no longer just for backpackers.

🌍 Travellers from all walks of life sleep at airports due to early flights, long layovers, cancellations or weather delays.

🗺️ The Guide to Sleeping in Airports offers helpful tips and airport reviews from other travellers.

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Source: The Reddit alternative API

Summary
Reddit has banned Reddiw API, subreddit and author’s account as of 2023/06/08 for violating rules. This was a free and read-only API aimed to provide a fallback to developers in case Reddit starts charging for using their API which is currently free.

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🚫 Reddit has banned Reddiw API, subreddit and the author’s personal Reddit account.

🆕 The goal of the Reddiw project was to offer a fallback to app developers in case Reddit starts charging for using their API.

👥 The Reddiw API is compatible with the existing Reddit API and supports features such as GET /r/:subreddit/hot, GET /r/:subreddit/new, GET /r/:subreddit/rising and GET /r/:subreddit/controversial.

📈 To avoid violating official Reddit API limits, users were advised to stick to a maximum of 60 requests per minute and set their User-Agent to something unique and descriptive.

🚫 Unlike the official Reddit API, there was no need to authenticate using OAuth for Reddiw API.

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Source: Moderation Strike update: Data dumps, choosing representatives, GPT data, and where we’re holding

Summary
The striking moderators have been asked to appoint three representatives to engage in negotiations on their behalf. Stack Exchange, Inc. has disabled the data dumps due to concerns that the information could be misused by companies building LLMs. The disabling of data dumps has caused disappointment amongst the community and Stack Exchange moderators, who see it as a violation of the platform’s commitment to free access to knowledge.

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💼 Three moderator representatives will negotiate with Stack Exchange, Inc. on behalf of the striking community.

🚫 Data dumps have been disabled due to concerns of misuse by companies building LLMs.

💔 Disabling the data dumps is considered a betrayal of the founding philosophy of the network and a violation of the platform’s commitment to free access to knowledge.

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Source: How to make a QR code with Stable Diffusion

Summary
This post explains how to generate artistic QR codes using Stable Diffusion without a custom model. It provides step-by-step instructions for generating QR codes using a generator, and then using ControlNet to imprint the image onto a similar image created with img2img.

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📱 To generate an artistic QR code, use stable diffusion with ControlNet turned on to imprint it onto an image similar to the code.

🔍 Before generating the code, choose one with high fault tolerance, use a basic square fill, and a white margin around the code.

🎨 Use AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion GUI with ControlNet extension installed to create QR codes on Google Colab, Windows, or Mac, following the provided tutorial.

💡 A good prompt can help blend the prompt image with the QR code, while shorter text QR codes have a higher success rate.

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