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To play the devil's advocate: AI allows non-tech people to bootstrap a functional application. A global good design may be missing when the code is generated in small quantities and stitched together. It's sloppy in the sense that it cannot be maintained and extended easily but it works™

The ideas underlying the implementation are not necessarily tied to the implementation given the skill gap.

Excellent visuals! The 18th century warship video is a good watch too. It's a nice comparison to the ship described in this one.

Great project!

For long running containerised simulations, this saves a lot of time on failures ( as long as you have a safe place to write the snapshots to ) by not restarting from 0 every time.

No, I did not make that assumption. His answer to the investigator's question should have been what the operating handbook says and not an opinion he held.

Even he was offering an opinion as addendum (that may have been edited out of context in reporting), it shouldn't be this one.

> His opinion was that the Cessna 185 simply didn’t stall.

There's your problem. Don't opine on operating characteristics of a production aircraft. Read the handbook. This incident was caused by poor airmanship.

People draw an arbitrary line of difference in the way we treat AI programs and human outputs.

A human imagining orcs and one horned horses has 'fantastical, larger than life' imagination but AI generation drawing people with strange hands is 'incorrect'.

These are not one to one examples but the point stands that with enough suspension of belief, people are more likely to take on human creations at face value than AI when they know the source.

The microwave example is very interesting.

The prompt only asked to "warm up my lunch" without specifying how.

SayCan[1] generated step-wise high level instructions using LLMs for robotic tasks. This takes it a step further by converting high level instructions to low level actions almost entirely autonomously.

[1] https://say-can.github.io/

Pasting all plain text on the discussion page here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34470287 as of 22-01-2022 16:00Z renders Hilbert curve prominently while the rest is a Hodge podge of blocks and lines.

Did something similar with a previous incarnation of OpenAI's LLMs - codex.

Far more constrained no doubt but it made some things convenient like finding obscure `ls` flags.

Waymo has demonstrated capability (in a limited sense) with full self-driving so I'm excited for this to take off.

What concerns me are the screens. They are going to play ads on a loop. Phone ads to car ads to house ads. We'll get the no billboard demands because your screens are the boards!

> single subsumption event on earth between a bacteria and an archaea.

Do you mean symbiogenesis?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis

> Modern IDEs tend to support SSHing out to remote hosts to perform builds there, so as long as you're ok with source code being visible on laptops you can at least shift the "I need a workstation with a bunch of CPU" problem out to the cloud.

JetBrains has Gateway[1] and VSCode has remote Dev tools[2]

Gateway's performance is very dependent on the network connectivity. If you have bad ping, you're going to curse the world seeing the input delay.

VSCode seems to be caching the files locally and updating them separately. With bad internet, you still get the native input lag.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/gateway

[2] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

Taking long term considerations into account does not need to happen over a long period of time. The advantage of machines is their superior ability to parallel process efficiently so you'd expect answering questions would happen pretty quickly or even as the model parses the book.

I can attest to the unstable handling of '+' suffixed emails. UPS allowed me to ship a package as guest with [email protected] but wouldn't let me create an account with the same email ID. I had no way to track the package pickup onwards.

What if I am travelling to another country physically where I don't read or write the local language? Would this affect my website access even if I'm connected via an IP inside the country?

That is incorrect. On-campus employment is allowed in the student visa and graduate student appointments are typically RA positions which qualify as employment under this definition.

I've always wondered if the fluorescent markers are visible to the fish and whether that might change their behaviour during experiments especially if it is a group interaction with other specimens who are not similarly modified.

We could send a small remote controlled submersible vessel through it. Get some lights in there and see it from the inside out.

I ride a bike as my daily driver and have owned and operated motorcycles extensively in the past.

Motorcycles should never ride as close to the edge of the road as bikes do. They're faster, bigger and more noticeable. They are given a wider berth compared to bicyclists in my experience since you can take up the middle of the lane without holding up traffic.

Riding a bike deeper into (relatively) high speed lanes is more dangerous. Impatient 4+ wheeled beings tend to drive past you putting the bike very close a lot of moving mass.

CDC alone can't solve an issue that stems from high sugar food encouraged by the subsidies from the government.

Please note that I'm not knocking on subsidies as a concept but the sugar subsidies which enable the low cost diet in the US.

Slightly tangential but don't soon and ASAP mean the same with the difference of an urgency qualifier?

The focus of the article is American literature. In that context, cricket has no standing. Across the erstwhile british empire, yes, cricket is quite the snooty sport ;)

While I've personally never had issues with sleeping, I know someone who was having them almost everyday.

This is of course anecdata but in their case it was trying to make plans for the next day while in bed trying to sleep. It was causing anxiety of planning every night leading to poor sleep.

The solution we eventually arrived at was to not plan that late. They weren't going to stop planning for a hectic day anyway so might as well flesh out the plan earlier in the day and clear the mind.