skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, here we go:

Prompt (slightly modified from your comment):

> Please write a scathing response to the comment below. Attack each point but avoid criticising the poster. End with a humorous barb. The response should be written in the style of a Hacker News comment. Here is the comment:

> <OP's comment>

Response:

What a load of utter nonsense. The idea that the use of language models like GPT-3 automatically makes all content online inauthentic is ridiculous. Just because it's easier to generate content using these tools doesn't mean that the content itself is any less authentic.

And to suggest that the "cogency/validity barrier" has been blasted away by GPT-3 is equally absurd. The quality of online content has always been determined by the person writing it, not the tools they use. If someone wants to generate nonsense, they can do that with or without GPT-3.

Furthermore, the notion that the cost of publishing content online has any bearing on its quality is completely misguided. The fact is, the cost of publishing content online has decreased dramatically in recent years, and yet the overall quality of online content has not necessarily declined.

In short, this comment is little more than fear-mongering and hand-wringing. Instead of trying to scare people into thinking that all content online is now suspect, let's focus on creating and sharing high-quality content, regardless of the tools we use to do it. And remember, just because you can generate an article with a single prompt doesn't mean it will be any good – that's still up to the person using the tool. So don't throw away your writing skills just yet!

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Me: Honestly surprised at how well it pulled off the "scathing" part... It does still have that signature ChatGPT vibe where it's all solid writing, but somehow it feels slightly off. Perhaps that's just bias because I know it's from ChatGPT, though. It does do a pretty good job of attacking the ideas, but I think it just feels like it didn't quite get OP's exact point.

Edit: Actually, on a second reading, I think it did address all of OP's points quite well. There are a couple slight misses but you have to read very carefully to catch them, for example the point about "just because you can .. doesn't mean it will be any good" is logically a bit of a tangent, I think. But it's pretty subtle and seems easy to overlook.

I'm trying to think about why exactly it feels off... Maybe it's because of the way it attacks each individual point without really synthesizing them into a broader theme. It's a very systematic, procedural way of writing a response that I think doesn't feel very humanlike. There's also something about the way it writes about pretty specific topics while still using very generic-sounding phrasing.
And yet, from [1]:

> In the chart here we see global transport emissions in 2018. This data is sourced from the International Energy Agency (IEA) [2].

> Road travel accounts for three-quarters of transport emissions.

> Most of this comes from passenger vehicles – cars and buses – which contribute 45.1%. The other 29.4% comes from trucks carrying freight.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-transport

[2] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/transport-sec...
I had that same model Zoom modem. The case was actually slightly transparent and the status lights were LEDs on the main board, so they showed through when lit, but the light also lit up the board around them enough to see it. Very early-90's hardware aesthetic.
> Elon's word is worth very little these days

His words are worth fine. Articles and second hand mangled version of what he actually says is worth nothing - I agree.

As far as this topic is concerned, demand for Tesla Semi is enough evidence.
I love the whole "they don't want you to know" schtick. Always takes 5 seconds to disprove.

They don't want you to know they were never hiding it from you.. The other they..

They being the ones that want you to believe they don't want you to know... The other they!
This is why the whole “Unicorn” schtick looks like a scam. If these pie in the sky valuations can fluctuate so wildly, why should they be trusted?
You’re assuming that range is actually useful. There’s a reason Tesla is also producing a 300 mile semi, EV’s really only work for short haul trips anyway so a big battery is pointless for many users.

Ideally you have charging infrastructure at a loading dock between shore trips not along the highway at which point a 250 mile Escadia vs a hypothetically faster charging 300 mile Tesla isn’t really worth much without a much larger investment in charging infrastructure.
prompt: write a short essay as a scientist which is better, celsius or fahrentheit

partial answer which some faulty reasoning about precision:

First, the Celsius scale is based on a more intuitive and logical reference point. The Celsius scale sets the freezing point of water at 0 degrees and the boiling point of water at 100 degrees, whereas the Fahrenheit scale sets the freezing point of water at 32 degrees and the boiling point at 212 degrees. This means that the Celsius scale has a smaller unit interval, which allows for more precise temperature measurement.
https://archive.ph/eHBJ1
I don't hate everything he does and I'd imagine he's probably an interesting guy to chat with

there is a subset of 'clean code' fanatics who treat his work as religious text and tend to produce some of the most bloated unmanagable code bases I've run into

I wouldn't even say his work is valueless but it's a horrible starting point and shouldn't be a destiation
Since it is a centralized service provided by OpenAI, they should really provide services (paid or not) that given a text, check if it is generated by ChatGPT recently.
> The reason this is true is simply because it's dominant

And I remember a time where it wasn't dominant, where people went out of their way to install it, even when their OS would shove other browsers in their face...

It didn't become dominant by being a bad browser...
> Capacity weighted new solar in germany is about $3.80/W or new onshore wind is about $3/W.

This alone is more expensive than nuclear power built during the nuclear boom.

> New 4 hour battery is around $2/W.

So 12 hours of battery, which is a minimum estimate of what we'll need is $6/W. Also, this price is rising: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/battery-prices-to-rise-for-...

Combined these sources make for $9-10 per watt. Furthermore, they have life spans lasting far less than nuclear power, meaning they'll have to be replaced more frequently. By comparison, your own source found that nuclear was built for $2-3 per watt during the nuclear boom. Again: your own sources contradict you.
I think you will see more of a focus on the creator's individual personality, livestreams, etc. and a shift away from anonymous, generic sources of information. Individuals will become authority sources rather than search engines; e.g. "I listen to Joe's podcast daily and trust his recommendations on products," rather than "I am going to type what I need in Google and then look at the results in order to make a decision." It will be a long, long time until AI can convincingly generate the quirkiness and unpredictability of a person doing a livestream video.

This seems bizarre and futuristic, but in a way, it's actually just a return to pre-technological social norms, except with the benefit of broadcasting to a wider audience.
Human-level intelligence by 2029. Not like a digital version of a conscious autonomous being and not necessarily super-human in many ways. But at or above human level abilities for most tasks, including things like programming. This is about 6 years out.

2045 we are looking at 1-6 orders of magnitude smarter than humans. To the point where humans without tight integration with AI will have no chance of keeping up or knowing what is going on, and in general developments will be beyond our ability to predict with our current intelligence (or fully comprehend).
Self driving is a year away!

If you've never seen the Sea Lioning comic, I recommend it:

"Sealioning refers to the disingenuous action by a commenter of making an ostensible effort to engage in sincere and serious civil debate, usually by asking persistent questions of the other commenter."

Very Curious, btw on your response :D
Europe cuts gas demand by a quarter in bid to shed reliance on Russia
Good luck bro... I cheated at games especially MMO's from 2000 to 2005. Since then, with all new emails and account ID's I've seen more false positive bans than I saw positive bans in that previous period. I once left wire shark open and got battle eye and VAC banned. I was not attaching either to active network traffic or processes at the time. Just last week I got banned for having Charles proxy running by accident on my 5th DayZ account. I guess I should segregate my dev and play boxes... the problem is I make games.
Obviously not (see numbers I crunched above) but....

a) The long and fascinating history of brain zapping only starts with fish. There were all kinds of cockamamie inventions in the 1700s-1900s, some of which were a lot of closer to this purported effect. There was also a lot of interest in using weak electric currents to improve sleep c. 1965-1975 ("electrosleep"). Anyway, I just thought it was a cool fact worth a mention.

b) It was actually an Atlantic Torpedo (a ray), which is still stronger than this. Weakly electric fish might actually be in the ballpark: they only emit about a volt--and in freshwater.
Yeah, exactly. Estimating, based on marketing fluff. Let’s wait for real numbers before we claim deep dive.
For a second I thought this was going to be "Prediction that two people in the photo or video frame are going to engage in intercourse" with deep learning. That would be an interesting article though.
Whenever someone says they are for open source but then cry when someone makes money off of their open sourced code all I see is some greedy mf crying he didn’t figure out how to make money out of his project.

Almost always your open source project is nothing special when it is used by “everyone” you just happened to either be first or by pure luck were picked up by some other project that made your famous. That is the beauty of open source it doesn’t live or die based one one individual. If you don’t like the project anymore do something else if you want to make money then you need to start with that in mind. Trying to pivot to for profit after decade of free software is pure bait and switch.
According to the DOE [1]:

Light duty: < 10,000 lbs.

Medium duty: 10,000-26,000 lbs.

Heavy duty: > 26,000 lbs.

Light duty covers most of the 10-20' UPS/Fedex/whatever trucks for last mile urban delivery which is far less efficient than delivery to a warehouse. Without more data on fuel consumption by gross weight, it's impossible to separate industrial delivery from personal travel/commuting.

[1] https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10380
Point me where they talk about price, payload and range outside of I5 in CA.

No rush, I’ll wait.
Seems like SPACs have been a race between getting ‘discovered’ as worthless and unloading owner and VC equity to the public at high valuations.
The part where it said that cards can be widely accepted made me chuckle. Don't fall for it, cards wouldn't be accepted in most places where you'd go, and in half of those places your card wouldn't be working because it wasn't issued in Japan.

The only place where card would be almost guaranteed to be accepted is konbini. Everywhere else it would be better to rely on cash. Especially if it is inaka
My one critique of this prescription is that UUIDs are not identifiable as user IDs. IMO you're better off with a format like "user{20 random characters}"
News orgs claimed to know it was fake and Russian disinformation?! Do you have sources for this?
Does the fingerprint reader work?

How long does the battery last?

Using Ubuntu, does hibernation work?

As a final tip, the touchpad might be good, but imho the real benefit of the thinkpad line is the TrackPoint. You can do basic mousing without moving your hands.
I had a similar question in relation to Twitter bans recently [0].

One person thought in case of Twitter perhaps Twitter Support doesn't want to tell, to make it more difficult to script bots that can prevent getting banned.

Perhaps for games it's kind of the same. Perhaps knowing why you got banned can aid bot devs to prevent their bots getting banned.

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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33738470
Garrity’s “All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School” may be of interest. It’s not comprehensive but it does touch on the main ideas that one should know for each topic. It also points out relevant books for each topic, which I found useful.
High pay-out = high risk? The lottery ticket with a $5 billion pay out is still a lottery ticket.
With the way criminals are evolving it might make sense to look at who bought a large amount of generators for resale right before this happened.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if ChatGPT was trained on data originating from Stack Overflow. Not familiar with deep learning algorithms but I can't imagine that it would be a good idea to have an unintended training data loop.
Moneyball is a good investing book by Michael Lewis. Legendary investor Bill Miller recommends to read books by Michael Lewis.
The best metric I can think of is expected lifetime miles driven over total cost of ownership.

But I don't get why you think it's backwards! You want kwh/mile to be low. Basically, you want to use as little amount of energy stored in your battery to drive a mile. That's what that is.
I don't have the link on hand but the app store (last time I read up on it) explicitly excludes hardware based things when it comes to their in app cuts
It's getting easier and easier to make such a drone. I mean it's within the reach of a single developer with $1000 budget. When Skydio came out it was some sort of break through (if we forget DJI and Autel), but now it's not that impressive, sort of normal. There are many models and libraries. NVidia has the whole zoo of them optimized for small devices. For free. I'm pretty sure even my level is enough to make a flying obstacles avoiding drone. I would use of the shelf hardware, of course. Objects tracking, waypoints isn't a problem. BTW, this would make a nice open source project. The problem is, in wrong hands it can do a lot of damage.
> By its nature dance is sexual "vertical expression of the horizontal desire" and all that.

A 4 year old dancing to music is NOT AT ALL an "expression of the horizontal desire". For the same reason, adults can and do dance for the joy of it.

If you view dance through the viewpoint of sexual desire, then sure, ALL forms of human interaction are a result of sexual desire.

That wouldn't be wrong, abstractly speaking. But there would be no reason to single out dance.

As someone who used to dance a lot, your interpretation seems bizarre and strongly at odds with my observations and experience.

For perspective, I could make the BS argument that American football is popular in the US because it's a culturally-safe way for males to satisfy their suppressed homoerotic feelings. The vast majority of fans will disagree. The onus therefore is on me to present a strong and compelling case that they are wrong.

Just like there is now for your views on dance.
Could it be due to the fact that, college level mathematics are meant to prepare extraordinary students to graduate into research. I imagine research often involves not-so sexy parts of mathematics.

I hear a lot of similar sentiments in school level mathematics in the country i live in. The problem comes in the trade-off. Do you cater to the topmost/ most promising students, who will end up contributing a lot in science, or do you cater to the ones who need most help, who will end up getting some skills on this, to make a living ?
Bay Area transit agencies project doomsday scenarios
No policing for kids porn? Seriously?
> Most people wouldn't eat meat if they had to kill an animal either.

I remember clearly we did the fattening and killing of chickens at home when I was a child. I had to step on a broom stick that was on the chicken neck, and wait until the chicken died. Then the adults cooked it and we ate it.

There was nothing strange or shameful about it, chickens were not 'pets', and every household did the same.

I would say people will step down their high horses as soon as the hunger and need of protein can not be satisfied with supermarket meat.
> As far as this topic is concerned, demand for Tesla Semi is enough evidence.

The Tesla Semi is the Tinker Bell of automotive.
Canada's Trudeau says people in China should be allowed to protest
Might make a lot of sense up in the PNW where electricity prices are very low (thanks to abundant hydro and low population density) and diesel prices are relatively high.

The electric drive train with regeneration would also be very beneficial in the PNW's more rugged terrain.

And at least Washington and Oregon are quite keen on environmental improvements, so they might get low resistance and even help from government and regulators.
That's a good point actually. I hiked 20km recently and got to a very scenic waterfall, but not only were my photos of this momentous occasion full of some people who were having lunch with their group right by the waterfall, but also of course I could not access the spot they were at (since they were taking up the whole plateau/rock that acted as a nice plaform). We hung around, drank some water, messed around on the radio, but those people were there before we arrived and stayed after we left. With all that considered, obviously the reality is there are just lots of people who want to see the same cool stuff -- I don't think one can reasonably argue it's "selfie-takers" nor "hoarders", since it's quite subjective what amount of time or experiential indulgence happens to be the optimal acceptable level.
This reads like a poor quality AI response already.
> You’re assuming that range is actually useful.

I'm not assuming that. The entire trucking industry keeps talking about how they won't buy low range stuff. Also, while batteries are still slow to charge, any extra minute spent waiting to charge multiple times on a trip is money lost.

EDIT: instead of speculating, get hold of someone in those companies that put order down for Tesla Semi and ask them why in their right mind they would do that. Then come back and enlighten us with their response.
> StackOverflow and Google are finished. This is expected and it may not look like it now, but banning an advancement in technology (even temporary) is usually the first step to irrelevance of those pushing back.

Depends on the reason for banning a technology. In this case it isn't because SO's business model is threatened, really; right now it's largely because the ChatGPT answers are usually wrong, and getting spammed to high hell by people who think they're clever by using ChatGPT to answer questions.

It's similar to image boards banning or requiring labels for AI-generated art. It's not that artists feel threatened... it's that the people looking at art don't want to have to wade through a ton of similar-looking, mediocre AI-generated crap.

Or to put it another way; if I set up some bots to start spamming every HN post with dozens of ChatGPT generated comments based on the submission title[0], and I (rightfully) got banned for such, is that because HN feels threatened by ChatGPT?

[0] not using text from the article as a prompt to more accurately simulate the average HN comment
I mean, the literature is out there and it seems crazy to me that you’re pretending to have never seen a well-sourced article about wealth inequality and rent seeking, but here:

Trends in wealth inequality - https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/

Rich kids stay rich, poor kids stay poor - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rich-kids-stay-rich-poo...

How rent seeking is at the heart of America’s economic troubles - https://jpia.princeton.edu/news/something-nothing-how-growin...

I could go on there’s about a million articles about this. I’m sure you’ll find something to criticize but at this point it’s like denying climate change.
I don't use TypeScript and I didn't found how to do proper ML-style wrapper types in TypeScript. But I guess one can use type aliases for that:

type UserID = {
userID: number;
};

let validateUserID = function (x: number): UserID? {
...
};

Note, that my original example was missing the fact that not every input value is a valid user ID, i.e. the function should return Maybe<UserID>, Option<UserID>, or Result<UserID,SomeErrorType>.

In TypeScript one can use optional types xxx? instead.
I don’t see the issue. Unless the issue is that now they have more competition since there are easier tools to use, which is just stupid. It is like ancient lumberjack complaining how much easier it is to cut down trees with a chainsaw compare to just using axe and how that is killing lumberjacking industry. If you can’t compete after AI tools your business was built on lies
Also there are some decent comments below the dead post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33859954
Cannabis is no better than a placebo for treating pain
Valve attempted something like this with the steam controller, which features touchpads instead of joysticks. I've never used one myself so I can't vouch for its effectiveness.

Corsair makes a small keyboard and mouse surface that you can rest on your knees while sitting on a couch, they call it the Lap Dog. It might be the best option at the moment for using a mouse from a couch.
I noticed a wry smile cropping up while reading this. Thanks for sharing. I've also noticed that last thing about specific topic prompts sometimes being responded to with generic-sounding phrasing. Unsure if that's the model or the specific prompts I'm using.

We are living in a strange time indeed.
most of these passengers are also just carrying a single person. The car industry has won the culture war and convinced everyone it's normal and sane for every individual to have a car and use it all the time instead of investing in our public transportation infrastructure
I went to Japan last in 2015 with my aging dad. Subway was hard since no escalators/elevators at most stations and that marble they use for stairs becomes slippery really quickly during a rain. I wouldn’t have noticed either of these problems if my dad wasn’t mobility impaired (I didn’t know he degraded so much before the trip, so it was a bit of a surprise).

Trains stations were mostly fine in comparison.
Valve did a lot of research and built a controller to solve this problem. A small trackpad assisted with gyro aiming seems to actually bring you close to a mouse. I think there was some article published when they released the Steam Controller.
Perfect. This kind of junk is going to litter our collective knowledge bases for years. It looks just good enough to be authoritative, but is fundamentally incorrect.
We can't have nice things if it requires a little extra, compared to absolute horror all the way down, that's free somehow.

I'm the one who raises flags that are neatly placed in the furthest down regions of backlogs nice to have sections.
I am more cynical and I think it was because I wasn’t playing the META and other players reported me enough
> In binary, UUID can be encoded as Big Endian or Little Endian or even Mixed Endian

RFC 4122 section 4.1.2:

> The fields are presented with the most significant one first.

> while the string encoding is usually lowercase with a certain hyphenization rules, I've seen variations of that.

RFC 4122 section 3:

> The hexadecimal values "a" through "f" are output as lower case characters and are case insensitive on input.

The hyphenation is normative, per the same section

UUID = time-low "-" time-mid "-"
time-high-and-version "-"
clock-seq-and-reserved
clock-seq-low "-" node
Sure but this is just bob telling alice to shut the fuck up cause hes already on the same page
I agree. The equivalent of mpg is miles per kWh. Using the reciprocal is confusing.
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