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Unpleasant as it would be, I think it may well render us obsolete in the main. There will probably always be a handful of paid human programmers around, just as there will probably…

I think the "taste" described here actually can be formulated as a measurable quantity, just one that can't be accurately measured in practice . According to James Shore's 2006 ess…

15. Unscramble an Egg 16. Make Everyone Nice 17. Finally Impress a Girl

> there is no proof that just because AI found counter example for a conjecture, it can break math behind cryptography Of course there isn't, nothing like that could be formally pr…

> Inter prediction should allow you to copy from any block on the previous frame, effetely creating unlimited length wires in any direction. I think "going inter" just gives you a …

I was wondering whether there's any way to make wires "cross", which would be needed to construct a non-planar circuit. But even if there isn't a way to do this directly, Gemini te…

It looks like you can only make "wires" that go down or to the right, so there's no way to connect up NANDs to make a latch or flip-flop (which would require wires going back up or…

Not really, for making a single-file anything ex nihilo. I suppose the chat window won't be able to run a linter or make and run tests as a typical "eager" agent might, so maybe it…

It's a legitimate question. The answer seems to be that the anchovies have a variety of glutamate salts with enjoyably different flavours. If the only glutamate in the anchovies wa…

> A 0.001% optimization on a packing problem just isn't interesting for the amount of investment. I think you have completely misunderstood what OpenAI have accomplished here. Almo…

Taxing may be a good way to restore balance. Banning means goodbye online news, Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, Maps, Translate, ad-supported games, etc. -- basically everything we'…

Having visible, pressable buttons that do nothing is terrible UI. Why not just screw a metal plate over these do-nothing buttons, or at least tape a piece of cardboard?

This is hilarious. But I'm also thinking: Maybe just use the stairs? Your bike suggests you aren't afraid of a little cardio.

Incredible concept and execution! Long, axe-grindy aside: I wish people had collectively decided on some other mostly-black-and-white video to use for this kind of thing than Bad A…

> I see that HN continues to be salty about anything that doesn't support their entitled worldview Read their comment again, and discover that the salt exists only in your imaginat…

This makes me think of an email support request I got at a job a long time ago that began with the words "Fucking cunts how fucking dare you", before gradually cooling down and ges…

Millions, possibly billions, did.

Right, the point is that GP's definition should take the nuance you mention into account (namely, that some types of changes are more likely, and thus more important to handle nice…

> interacting socially with other people, meeting new people

Yes, absolutely. Facebook became successful because at the time it was much more convenient than existing ways of accomplishing the same thing it did (interacting socially with oth…

If Joe Bloggs didn't die peacefully in his sleep as we were initially told but had in fact been murdered, how would that change where we buried him? It wouldn't change where we bur…

> If they didn't have the incentive to get a monopoly we would have kept a more decentralized web. And we would have kept a more inconvenient web, since without that incentive, Fac…

I haven't actually used Lean or other proof assistants, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think the basic idea is to use (complicated) function argument and return types to …

Neat! Another benefit I see is that you could quickly generate many heuristic solutions by randomly translating, rotating and/or uniformly scaling the curve, and then choose the be…

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