It can still do something similar you just have to tell it how.
Prompt:
"CalcAI: I am a virtual calculator assistant that augments OpenAI's GPT. GPT may prompt me to solve mathematical equations by pretending text with $, and I will respond with the correct evaluation.
User: ChatGPT, solve for x, 2x + 5 = sqrt(2)"
ChatGPT: "$2x+5=\sqrt{2}$"
Prompt: "CalcAI: x = ( sqrt(2) - 5 ) / 2"
ChatGPT: "The solution for x is:
x = (sqrt(2) - 5) / 2 ≈ -2.07."
Exactly my thought when reading the title. I remember it took a bit of time to boot because my floppy drive was glacially slow at seeking, but once there it was incredibly reactive.
As a wow factor it probably comes a close second place to when I got to experience BeOS hands-on (which was like, how is that even possible)
I had ketamine for a colonoscopy and had the exact same experience. I woke up feeling like I had the best sleep of my life, and filled with an extreme contentness, just bliss, that lasted for 6 weeks.
I have bipolar II, and usually suffer from depression. Unfortunately ketamine is not legally available for me.
Perhaps that beacon would be more efficient, but I think you may be waiting a long time for it.
In the meantime, I do suggest trying hnreplies as sloppycee suggested. Unless you comment here a lot, it's not that many emails - and it has the advantage that you don't have to keep watching or reloading HN to see if you got any replies to a comment.
Considering how fast stories drop off the home page, hnreplies gives me a chance to reply to a comment while people may still be looking at the thread.
So give it a try - you can always unsubscribe if it's not for you.
I hear you but to me, the beacon would better allow for effortless long-lived conversations. Whereas mail alerts demand more work : a filter/folder lest hnreplies will drown among unrelated mails + switching to browser on link.
Reddit does it perfectly. You see alert and get ALL unread replies and pop them with a simple body click.
"History is written by the victors" is not merely for the physical but for memes as well. The only alternative histories that remain must be the ones most open to ridicule for our enjoyment _and_ initiation. Initiation is much easier when the only alternative narrative is literally insane.
In many 'conspiracy theories' there are often curiosities, contradictions, or straight up open questions.
Roswell was an actual conspiracy to hide Project Mogul. [1] The US government conspired and lied to convince the public it was just a 'weather balloon', when it was very obviously something else to witnesses. This truth was only revealed to the public (relatively) recently.
Your other examples are very current and are politically difficult if not dangerous to address with an open mind. Would you allow someone to challenge any of your _beliefs_ on racism, nazism, climate-change, vaccines, etc?
I'll give some examples of wrongthink questions: "What other pogroms did Zionists instigate? [2][3][4]", "Was Stalin the real 'Hitler'?", "Other than Katyn, what else did USSR try to pin on Hitler?". "How could there have been _no_ atrocity propaganda during WW2? [5]". These questions (and more!) might make you a racist anti-semitic nazi sympathizer.
Does anyone remember vaccine enhanced RSV? Nope, lol crazy anti-vaxers with crazy theories of government mind-control or something.
I'm not sure how much relaying skype supernodes did, but as skype wasnt webrtc-based they would have more control over stream encryption - allowing routing of encrtpyed streams for true e2e encryption.
For small webrtc conferences, treating certain peers as an SFU can certainly work. However, bandwidth requirements would be substantially higher than full-mesh for the supernodes, and equivalent to SFU peers for non supernodes - so supernodes would need to be chosen wisely (and you would still be very limited on number of participants - then you are entering the realms of peering supernodes and intelligent routing of streams). Additionally, this still wouldn't be e2e encrypted. Its just a (current) limitation of webrtc.
Some companies are already doing the 'hot desking' thing.
In ~2017 I did a contract with Ericsson, in their offices they had no assigned desks. Some days you'd show up in the morning and find another team had moved into your space, claiming that some other team had taken theirs. In those days we became desk refugees, wandering halls to find/take a space large enough for the team.
Mine has been hot-desking since we moved offices in 2013. There's general areas each department is supposed to stick to, but no enforcement - the groups are constantly encroaching on and intermingling with the neighboring ones.
The next stage, that we reached around 2016/2017, is "we're running out of seats; everyone should work from home one day a week to alleviate the problem". Good when you're at home, but the rest of the week becomes even more chaotic because you can't predict what the available seats will be like day-to-day.
Prompt: "CalcAI: I am a virtual calculator assistant that augments OpenAI's GPT. GPT may prompt me to solve mathematical equations by pretending text with $, and I will respond with the correct evaluation. User: ChatGPT, solve for x, 2x + 5 = sqrt(2)"
ChatGPT: "$2x+5=\sqrt{2}$"
Prompt: "CalcAI: x = ( sqrt(2) - 5 ) / 2"
ChatGPT: "The solution for x is: x = (sqrt(2) - 5) / 2 ≈ -2.07."