It was interesting to see how ChatGPT performed on the word problem about determining which weight is inaccurate: https://chatgpt.com/share/67611e29-6db4-800b-9ebd-00d7938380... I was surprised by how poorly it did.

Why does it include Chinese "bons mots" [see below] in so many of its answers? That would be an annoying quirk even if it were right, but it's especially obnoxious when it's being smugly stupid.

Maybe I should attack the bailey instead, but anyway I'm compelled to note that the French plural for "bon mot" is "bons mots".

(I'd also like to offer this comment as evidence that humans too are fond of being obnoxious while being smugly stupid.)

And octopuses is the English plural of the loan word "octopus", but I'll edit if it warms the pedantic heart of a HackerNewser.

Thank you, and for the record, I say "octopodes".

My system prompt tells it to occasionally teach me Chinese words and phrases.

Combining this technique with an automation website like Jenkins and a "no code" programing language could be an interesting product. I imagine having a UI where prompts can be specified and predefined components like send X an email can be dropped into the workflow. Acknowledgments that steps and complete can be tracked, and long running workflows could be shared between users.

The underlying concept would be akin to Business Process Modelling.

Using something like https://camunda.com [0], you can execute a business process model. Such a model can include sending emails, waiting for responses, human action, custom API requests, etc.

Camunda is not no-code, but it comes close to what you imagine. I suspect that when the existing API landscape of a company needs to be used for workflows, coding/integration is inevitable.

There's also (truly) no-code platforms like https://bryter.com

[0]: I only know of this because there's a department at my current job that specializes in implementing workflows using camunda. I got explanations for it during moderate drinking, so my recounting of it may be incorrect in parts.

Why is the power density of the ARC/SPARC reactor problematic?

Lower power density implies larger size, which implies higher cost. Since the parts outside the reactors themselves (the turbines, generators, heat sink, etc.) will be similar, this means a fusion power plant will cost more to build that a fission power plant.

The other problem is that size is also related to reliability. A fusion reactor will have many more parts than a fission reactor. It will also be much more complex, and operate at higher radiation and thermal stresses. This is particularly important because it is very difficult to repair something that is so radioactive that hands-on access is not possible.

1. Soli style gesture controls will be ubiquitous.

2. Construction will begin on a structure that will be taller than anything we have now and use an active support system.

3. A child will be born that lives to be 234.

4. Andrew Yang will be elected to some office, but it probably won't be president.

Cells might be worth transporting. Although the DNA can be sent as data and reconstructed, de novo reconstruction of the rest of the cellular machinery needed to run the DNA might not be practical.

A seed universal constructor would be worth transporting. If that is a machine or a ship with cryogenically frozen human of all ages is a topic for another day.

Why humans of all ages? Young humans could grow into old ones, but not vice versa.

It's easier to use human to raise other humans than to hope an AI gets it right.

If you need them quickly, like ‘human to go’.

I would like to see a split screen mode applied to trails. Seeing the current page along side the page I visited to get to it would work well on a lot of the sites I visit. For instance, it would be useful to see the main page of HN along side pages I reached from it and be able to click on the HN links to alter the content of the other panel similar to the way side navs work in many apps.

FLOSS has a warm-hearted host with some good computer stories but it's not really a call-in show. They do answer some chatroom questions.

I've been working on a graphical command-line for manipulating webpages with natural language queries (https://contextscript.com). So far I've been using a bookmarklet, which has the benefit of working across browsers, but it has a lot of drawbacks too. If I go the browser extension route, this looks like it would be very useful for developing the UI.

Thanks for trying it out! I haven't noticed problems with cors enabled sites in general, so I'm curious what you tried to do. The bookmarklet doesn't with with websites that use headers to block scripts and css from unknown domains. Github is one example.

Yeah it was with github that it didn't work.

Nice work! I'm thinking about buying the novel but I would like to be able to use Paypal.