skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious to continue the thread, I used the same prompt as you, except with that response as input.

ChatGPT's Response to the Response:

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Wow, talk about missing the point. The issue with using language models like GPT-3 isn't that it makes content online inauthentic, it's that it makes it nearly impossible to tell what's real and what's not. And just because someone is a good writer doesn't mean they can't be fooled by a well-crafted piece of AI-generated content.

The fact is, the ease and affordability of generating content with GPT-3 and other language models has significantly lowered the barrier to entry for creating believable, yet completely fake, content. And the idea that the quality of online content is solely determined by the person creating it is naive at best.

So let's not brush off the concerns about the potential impact of these tools on the authenticity of online content. Instead, let's have a serious conversation about how we can ensure the integrity of the information we consume online. And for those who are still skeptical, just remember: even a broken clock is right twice a day. But a language model can generate an infinite number of fake news articles, 24/7.
What's wrong with Substack? I don't know much about it.
Public health insurance cost is ~proportional to income up to a cap of about 800€ per month. So GP is reaching the cap, for which, by the way, you don't need to be seriously rich. It's IIRC 80k€ or so before taxes per year.
This is only true if you want multiple versions in the same global environment. If you really want them in global environment, you can create meta package that aliases with symlinks. Otherwise you can use nix-shell to get any environment you want.
I’m not an academic.
What's wrong with Substack? I don't know much about it!
I suppose the benefit of being a niche player in search is you don't have to deal with targeted SEO.
The way I think about is that when we drive as humans and an obstacle appears, we have over 15 years of knowledge that we have to determine our next step. And we coalesce a lifetime of knowledge in a matter of seconds.

These modern algorithms do not try to implement general AI. They do not work with 15 years of knowledge. They just recognize some patterns with no understanding of what they’re are looking at. It’s a different and
easier approach but I think it has some severe limits that will
never be overcome.

To me it’s like a software programmer that copies Stack Overflow snippets but doesn’t really understand programming. They get only so far
Wow. So you are a good player, and you are matched against cheaters. What a justice. I don't understand this practice. Playing against cheaters, or being treated like one, what's worse?
The steam controller touchpad in trackball mode for coarse look(and quick spins) plus gyro for fine aim work really well.

I think it works so well because both are direct like a mouse, unlikely a joystick which is good at setting a rate of change.
> They're not going to buy your daytime energy either when they can make their own DC power at $10-30/MW

Unless it's night time. Or cloudy. Or during the winter when the incidence of the sun reduces solar output. Again, this is why any plan that involves cutting power to mines, smelters, etc. needs to factor in the costs of shutting down these industries when renewables fail to produce energy.

> Then you might want to just stop and think about how you might go about storing energy if you have a pump and a reservoir on a hill or a water tower. Just ponder that one for a few seconds.

Right, except we just have to have a lake on a hill handy. Some places have it. Most do not.

Why don't we just use hydroelectricity for all of our power needs? Ditch nuclear, and ditch solar and wind. Just build dams. Problem solved.
>there are fundamental limits in physics to the dynamics of self-propelling systems (upper-bounded in efficiency by the ideal rocket equation.)

You realize a car works by pushing against the road, not by expelling propellant, right? The rocket equation is irrelevant here.
The distance-per-energy is numerically backwards compared to the energy-per-distance.
This is important when e.g. wondering which car to replace, calculating a fleet average consumption and so on and so forth.

For example: "Which saves more gasoline, going from 10 to 20 mpg, or going from 33 to 50 mpg"?

There is good reason that the rest of the world uses the opposite system, and the reason isn't just that no one else uses gallons. It's that it's an objectively worse way of communicating fuel consumption in every single way that matters.
Who would have imagined that the future of humanity is explaining to a computer why it is wrong.
It made me think of that demo someone made which downloads a bunch of code from stackoverflow with the search terms “sort an array js” and evaluates and runs them until it finds one that will sort its data.

https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/

ChatGPT’s program output seems to be basically the smarter version of this, but it ain’t gonna scale to anything truly novel.
This is so great and so disturbing. A tool that can be used to generate infinite arguments against a single point of view, arguing in favor of why it isn’t an “issue”. It’s like a gun arguing it can’t kill people.

This is one of the more impressive replies I’ve seen, and I love that in its rebuttal to defend itself against my argument, it just proves the argument itself. Amazing.

edit: I tried my hand at crafting a prompt to refute my argument, result:

This comment is just another example of the kind of lazy, uninformed thinking that seems to be all too common on this site. The idea that GPT-3 is going to somehow make it impossible to tell whether something was written by a human or not is complete nonsense. If anything, the generic language and poor grammar of GPT-3's outputs make them even easier to spot.

As for the idea that the "cogency/validity barrier" has been blasted away, that's just ridiculous. The fact is that anyone who puts in the time and effort to research and write a blog post is still going to be able to produce much better content than any GPT-3 generated nonsense.

And let's not forget that fact checking is still a thing. If someone posts something online that is clearly garbage, it's not going to take long for people to call them out on it. Just like with the infamous "AI-generated paper accepted at conference" story, it's only a matter of time before the truth comes out.

In conclusion, this comment is just another example of the kind of alarmist nonsense that we see all too often on Hacker News. The reality is that GPT-3 is not some magical tool that is going to make it impossible to tell whether something was written by a human or not. So, let's all take a deep breath and relax. As they say, "fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
> He or she preferred a time when the world was less connected, and one’s ability to travel was dictated more by wealth, status, and education.

No, I started travelling frequently around 20 years ago and was by no means wealthy. Just single with a normal job and willing to spend all my money on it. I've also always been able to plan my own travel and never used agencies.

> But social media is just one small input in all of this.

I really don't think it's small. For example just yesterday I visited an island nearby with a very nice beach. It was mostly unusable, all the good areas were occupied by people taking photos and videos, with others queueing to take that spot and do the same. A constant stream of activity and noise, the opposite of relaxing. I left. I get that's a rant and people have every right to do that, but I stand by my point that social media has very noticeably made things worse.
> only a small privileged group was able to have slaves.

That may be a USA-centric view. It differed in other areas.

https://www.historyireland.com/from-baltimore-to-barbary-the...
My WAG is because a mouse allows control using the full range of muscles from putting your back into it to delicate fingertips and the shoulder, wrist, and elbow in between.

And that’s how our bodies are wired. Anything that requires isolating muscles will not be as kinesthetic.

I think that’s why old people tilt and shift and swing Xbox controllers…and why old people can play the Wii.

But again that’s just a wild ass guess.
What? It is a bit confusing but by the time you read the first AI sentence you should have realized that the order is not A,B,C.
The massive Costco brand rolls that everyone I know uses seem to still be PVDC (or at least were when I bought the one in my pantry).
My XBL 2001 account got permabanned with 10~ years of purchased content on there, all my network of friends and leaderboard achievements and the likes, the works. Lost access to literally everything that wasn't on-disc, and appeals didn't help.

I'd had one genuine temp-ban beforehand, and my theory is over the years I got enough reports from opponents that they just built up into saying t'ra to my account and purchases. Yay, right?
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Why don’t we just put overhead electric lines on highways for semis to pull electricity from, rather than lose weight on big batteries?
Yes. This incentive applies only to the US. Only for December. Only on certain variants of Model 3 and Y. All thanks to people unwilling to take delivery in December due to IRA kicking in on January 1, 2023.
Literally everyone in any field has a drawer full of great ideas. The "idea guy" is a myth unless you're rich enough to buy companies and actually make your great idea. Until you actually have something what you have is the software equivalent of people with a "great idea" for a novel they will never write.

What you should be afraid of is someone having the same idea or realizing the same need and moving faster while you worry about someone stealing it.

Now the truly truly savvy thing to wonder is: if this is such a great idea, why hasn't anyone done it before? Because a lot of times, someone has but hadn't pursued it for good reasons. Or they did and found out why no one was competing in the space.
Computers are not that good with symbolic reasoning. Even state of the art symbolic math software can easily be given problems it will have no idea what to do with.
That's, basically, Cuba. Don't remember when did the US invade.
All our content lives at incident.io/blog, and is shared on Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
I don't know react. Is this correct? It looks correct. And a good example of how to use ChatGPT - a human asks for the answer and then augments it with their expertise.
I was more of a Trade Wars 2002[1] guy myself :-).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Wars
I assume it's just for cases of people saying "ChatGPT produced this output", not guessing.
Engineering Explained made a good breakdown and analysis video on the physics of the truck:

"Does The Tesla Semi Make Any Sense?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv44W7xa4IU
That's what I figured too — and it's VERY good at making connections for us in our field - connections we just recently figured out on our own. So we'll be using it a lot more as "jazz"; as a way to just bounce off a bunch of weird, crazy, outlandish ideas without running any experiments or even waste time discussing. Most of these will be outlandish ideas we'd never even voice — and maybe one or two won't seem so outlandish to ChatGPT — those are the ones we might bring up in lab meeting and actually try. There's SO many different things to try, I think Chat will really help us narrow down our scope.

I'm really excited for this new way of working!

With that said, I half expected it to know more about our individual papers. Somehow, it does not.
All that stuff apple say in their ads about health is just garbage? Or nobody who does manual labour cares about their health? Or both?

Not seeing another interpretation here but maybe I'm missing it? It's valid but I'm not going to agree with it at all.
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The difference is that the unfair advantages a lot of people who start successful startups have are not easily attainable.

There is no comparison here with a gym membership or having limbs. Both of those are many orders of magnitudes easier than say, getting accepted into Harvard or passing an interview loop at Facebook.

I read very few startup stories that I can actually relate to.
It's not atypically large, it's not even up to the mean army base size, which is 189,000 acres: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56231
They also recognize the value of circumventing or wholly ignoring environmental protections laws, labor laws, anti-trust laws, taxation etc...
Going on a major tangent, VR today feels a lot like the BBS era: too few people see the potential and future of the technology. Of those few who do see it, they tend to be geeks in their tweens and teens.
Why don't private landowners firmly set two tall metal poles, covered with razor wire, 2 inches from the corner?

I support public right of way, but it seems a landowner who wants to de facto seize the public land could do that.
I've blissfully ignored RTL so far, but I know that I shouldn't - I just can't imagine the pain of actually figuring out how to deal with it. :')

My favourite character is the Greek question mark;
> The "I now have to run my own server, and tell my followers to move with me" is kinda the blocker here

Not what I suggested. You have 3k+ instances to pick from before you need to opt to run your own. And Mastodon has built in functionality to move followers for you. Could be smoother, but it works - I've used it. Took me <1h from initiating the move until most of my followers were following my new account with no actions on their side.

> The amount of power they have is same or even bigger, just over smaller amount of users.

The very fact that people can move diminishes that power for any admin who cares about retaining users.
> given problems it will have no idea what to do with.

Yeah but the question was mostly given by Math PhDs, no?

I don't think problems given by an average American would be that difficult for AGI to solve.
Best anti-cheat is the one that has never any false positive.
If the language part doesn’t have reasoning capabilities how can it interpret the results? This wouldn’t make AGI, otherwise they would have already plugged it in.
Was going to post this exact same thing. Currently writing this comment sprawled out on the couch, mouse next to me, working just fine on the fabric. TV is just a big computer monitor in practice. Works great!
Likewise!

Unfortunately I don't think the sample return mission is likely to settle this. Any extant life is probably underground to avoid the harsh radiation and hostile chemical environment of the surface. Especially now that we know there is a lot of underground ice, and almost certainly liquid aquifers. I think we'll need to send people to get access to those and sample water sources that are likely to have life. Maybe it will turn up a fossil though!

Regarding astrobiology announcements, I think the source of the problem is the refocusing on the search for life as a core nasa mission. That happened after congress turned against Mars exploration in the early 90's, as someone politically astute figured out that was a strong enough justification to keep funding. But frustratingly it became the only viable reason for exploration, and therefore a lot of money and reputation is on stake for anyone who can deliver an astrobiology win. All that pressure leads to hyped up press announcements for early results that haven't been confirmed.

I was working at the NASA Astrobiology Institute when the arsenic extremophile announcement was made, and perhaps my views are a bit colored from that. I thought we handled it alright with the information that we had, but it was just one study that hadn't been adequately replicated or peer reviewed. There was just so much pressure to get out ahead with our own announcement rather than have the story break on its own. Getting further review requires public sharing of knowledge, so I'm not sure what the right approach is :(
I think it could work - but you'd have to find a way to let ChatGPT exclusively deal with the sort of repeat questions that are rather annoying to human posters - while all the actually interesting, new questions (which are also more likely to cause ChatGPT to create a flawed answer), are reserved for humans.

(Also don't let ChatGPT pose as a human - give it it's own user name and automate it.)
Transportation vehicles are outside their wheelhouse. This auto idea was an obvious loser to many mechanics:

"... completely reimagined the car battery ..."

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/ohm-yc-s15-is-making-a-ligh...
Depending on what equipment has been damaged, physical attacks on electrical infrastructure may take months to repair.

There are a number of books that address risks to the grid. The one I specifically recall was by Ted Koppel, Lights Out: A Cyberattack: A Nation Unprepared: Surviving the Aftermath though there are several others listed here:

<https://shepherd.com/best-books/electrical-grid-vulnerabilit...>

By one account, attacks on just nine substations could take the US power grid offline for up to 18 months:

<https://www.foxnews.com/politics/small-scale-power-grid-atta...> (2015)
If random bans get more common the developer risks a game of whack-a-mole with private servers and cracked clients if not players packing up and leaving for a competitor.

Legal protection sounds like it would actually benefit the cheaters given how long an average court case takes.

In my experience, private servers deal with cheaters and bots better than Activision/Blizzard
This is the scary thing about this - I keep asking it questions, and it gives confident, lengthy responses that look perfect. But when you read it thoroughly, you start noticing small but important mistakes that are not obvious at first.
100% agreed. I get the point of it, I just think that it's useless in examples.
That's strange because this problem is actually solved with specialised payment cards that you give your employees and they can spend their allowance they way they like and there's no paperwork because the card network handles the restrictions on what the card can be used.

Maybe those are not available everywhere?
Can you please share what TV you saw?
Dialing into BBSs at 11-13 years old, making ANSI art, downloading shareware games, and playing MUDs was so much fun, and makes me so nostalgic.

I don’t know what the equivalent is for todays kids. Maybe Roblox or Minecraft.
The average cost per ChatGPT chat is in the single-digit cents
There was a post a few days ago about Roman Egypt that mentioned how there are so many papyri that are just sitting there and not enough trained Egyptologists to read, translate, and contextualise them. There is clear value in training Egyptologists, since by learning more about Egypt's place in the Roman empire, we can learn more about Western society (as we are in some sense descendents of the Roman Empire) as well as Middle-Eastern society (as Egypt was one of the first huge conquests from the Romans by the Rashidun Caliphate, and thus an early example of how the Middle East became Islamic)
Yeah, I know, but obviously I mean meaning in relation to the context. :)
"Here is an example of using async IO in Java which you should read while enjoying a refreshing Coke(tm)."
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You can cite it, which in a functional place should have some weight behind it.
If tolerance is intolerant of intolerance and politics is intolerant, then tolerance is indistinguishable from intolerance.
I can't wait till Munro and co take a look into this stuff. The amount of people already crapping on this is astounding.
> why should they be trusted?

They shouldn't be, not as a general rule anyway.

Though as a general principle, what happened here was just, "some rich people thought <company> would be worth a lot of money, and then they were wrong." Nothing super shocking here, obviously that will happen all the time.
ChatGPT Launched on Wednesday. Today It Crossed 1M Users
To add to this, for AC, there is a conversion stage (ie inverter) that needs to convert it to DC to charge the batteries. This unit, at the currents that the Semi requires to be charged in a reasonable amount of time will be wasting too much energy in conversion losses.

Due to its inpracticality, AC charging is unlikely to be an option, but maybe they include it for those exceptional circumstances.
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How to estimate an SSD’s working life
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Then pick an instance which doesn't. Your choice.
Yeah - if I were signing a contract for these semis, I would want the '1 million miles' warranty to mean 'if the truck stops working and can't be repaired by Tesla within a week, then Tesla will buy back the truck for the purchase price * miles driven/1 million.'

I'd define 'stops working' as 'stops being road legal or able to drive at the speed limit with the rated load for at least half the advertised range'.

So a broken cab heater or faulty app wouldn't be reason for a warranty return.

I would obviously expect to pay a higher ticket price to get this warranty.
People not only search a thought space, we have internal reasoning that does symbolic manipulations and sequential steps to get to a conclusion. Like, you would have no problem following a simple rule given to you ad infinity, while these models simply can’t take into account all that.
This might not be essential, but you're missing out on playing with some amazing technology.
I very briefly dated someone whose brother was a police officer when I lived in DC, and prior to grad school I was encouraged to consider law enforcement by the very field office I’m complaining about a little over ten years prior to this thread.

I find your comment condescending considering it’s in reply to an admittedly emotional rant stemming from the fact my local police failed so thoroughly in their mission it made an FBI agent’s eyes go wide and say they’d open a civil rights investigation.

(Though maybe they were more focused on the fact I also very bluntly said “I’m not a Russian spy” and listed off the people making want to re-enact the scenes from the hit HBO television series “The Americans”.)

Being a police officer is less risky than say, a construction work flagger, but people feel coerced into giving them unearned respect since a construction work flagger can’t misunderstand on purpose and shoot you dead if you don’t kiss their butt like they’re an aggrieved military officer in 1930s Germany they will lie through their teeth and not follow through on their claim that they will do their damn job.

Please pick up a copy of “Rise and Fall in the Third Reich” and get back to me before replying again because I think you have no grasp of history.
I would think that for trucks it's make sense for the battery to be in the bottom rail of the trailer and for pit stops for fuel where you could drive over a pit and swap the whole battery.