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Your friend is thinking ahead that the next word would be apple When they say ‘an’.

But GPT can’t think ahead what token it will add after the one it is on. Or can it? It could “predict” internally the word apple for the next “meaningful” word and output ‘an’ because of this.

It would be cool if they built a car with a generator in it so you wouldn't need to fill up the generator and then the generator charges the car. You could just put gas in the car!

Yes, for the unborn.

>The world degrades from the garden of Eden towards more chaos and finally the reign of Antichrist.

I think you are missing a key moment, Christ being born. Christ’s life is the greatest moment in creation.

snyk does exactly this. You can also integrate it with bitbucket so automatically make PRs with upgraded package versions.

Who makes sure the Anti-Corruption Court isn’t corrupt? Is it courts all the way up?

I don’t think accountability on the international level has proven very effective in the past.[0] And I don’t think this would be any different. Especially because those member states cooperation would be determined by people who only stand to lose from being a part of it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Assistance_Mi...

I think the two of you are using two different but legitimate definitions. GP is not trying to make it mean something it doesn't.

1. Existing independent of or external to the mind;

2. actual or real. Based on observable phenomena; empirical.

3. Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices: synonym: fair.

For an example, I write an algorithm to use different seeds and distance functions for the Voronoi diagram to find the one that benefits Republicans the most. It would be deterministic and maybe objective in definition 1 and 2 but it would not fit definition 3. I would say it is heavily influenced by personal prejudice, just one step removed because it is the coders prejudice not the algorithms.

Mine looks like a chest or robot cyclops, I like it.

I agree with 2. I have found that working on the hard parts triggers the realization that something needs to change on my inputs, outputs, or the whole way I am thinking about it much more often than the easy parts do. So I save the easy parts for writing once I know the hard parts are going to work.

Thanks for the response. There are some interesting ideas on hat site. I guess this is another example of something discussed extensively in the rest of the thread, the name/slogan of the movement not using the conventional meaning of terms.

I wonder if a timer for comments to be shown could be useful. They could be batched or the time is inversely proportional to the length.

Anyone know of any website that implements this or something similar?

What would provide for people? It seems to me we would either all starve and die, AI would do it for us (impossible in its current state), or we rely on effectively slave labor of poorer countries (which would mean work is not abolished for everyone).

You can pick multiple.

He is not generalizing at all, he said what happened to his team.

Very simple sites can violate it. For one example: if you, or anything in your stack, logs IP addresses you need a legitimate business interest to do so. It is needed for security and usage statistics and stuff but you will need a lawyer to explain that when you get hit with some fines.

You also don't "take" the king. The game ends one turn before you would be able to take it.

A cliche is a saying, idea, or artistic component that has lost its meaning from overuse. The way you used “the path to hell is paved with good intentions” points to the fact that it is a cliche and that you want people to be aware of that and consider it instead of reading past it.

You are talking text book liberal but I believe the person you are responding to is using liberal to refer to a specific political party, The Democratic Party. Democrats are referred to as liberals or THE liberals in the US.

Mixing in generics to an already existing code base sounds like a bad idea.

Eventually all video gets transferred over one cable, HDMI.

I don't think port knocking is security by obscurity. It is another layer of secret that must be known (or guessed) to gain access.

Why does fixed space make it so that justifying is good and non fixed makes it bad?

I think I see what you’re saying, but why is this so?

Or you just train a machine to do it and then generate a bunch and have this second machine sort out any it thinks are machine generated.

Correct, and this is talked about a good bit in the article.

No I don’t think it’s education. I think it’s a mistrust of a system that has screwed people over for money many times in recent memory.

Many healthcare workers originally said they weren’t willing to get the vaccine[0], people who are clearly educated, maybe not specifically about vaccines, but about medicine in general.

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/nearly-40percent-of-hea...

Yes. They really are. Here is just some over the table stuff: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/10/congress-corpor...

> And I submit that your lack of ability to conceptualize a GUI for doing the same thing does not mean one can't exist, but that is beside the point

If you have the time I would challenge you to spend an hour or two mocking up what you think a GUI with the same capabilities as powershell or bash would look like. I would genuinely be curious what you come up with. Personally I do not think it would be possible to do in an intuitive way.

> Someone who is just getting started in a new programming environment shouldn't need to know the ins and outs of a dozen different tools, especially when those tools are used to solve problems that user has not even conceptualized the existence of yet.

For some more complicated environments yeah it is hard to get the environment up and running. Python environment hell is a very really thing. But if you want a a simple environment to write a simple program is it trivially easy to get one up and running.

I am on computer I’ve never downloaded python on. I just googled python IDE. Clicked on the top result, pycharm. Downloaded latest release clicked next 4-5 times without looking at options. Opened it. Agreed to some TOS. Clicked new project and then clicked next without looking at any settings. Then I clicked the big green run icon. It printed “Hi, PyCharm”.

Python is a beginner friendly language and if I wanted to start programming it is probably the recommendation I would get. I did not have to know anything to install it and start programming.

And even easier if I want to do front end development I just go to codepen.com and that’s all I need to do!

“Just” to program stuff for the web? Web development is a complicated and amazing feat of engineering! The fact that you can write some code on your machine to make any pretty graphic and maze of pages you want and it will run in this thing we call a browser that pretty much anyone in the world can also run even if they are on Linux, windows, android, iOS, or any other number operating systems not to mention hardware! Think of all the layers of abstraction and code that is necessary to have millions of combinations of hardware + software all show the same thing! It’s amazing how simple it is to do web development! The fact that it is doable to set up a website in an afternoon that is accessible all over the world is ASTONISHING.

Reading this thread was extremely frustrating for me as I have this idea in my head that everyone on HN is a seasoned software engineer. But obviously that’s not true, which is a good thing! And I certainly shouldn’t be frustrated at other people’s perspectives, it’s making me think about complexity a little more.

I think there’s a lot of misunderstanding of complexity by newcomers of programming. A lot of people are pointing to the current state of the Unix command line as an example of being overly complex and bad. And certainly you could point to this or that command line tool and say that could be better designed and you’d probably be right. But all the command line tools we are familiar with weren’t designed in one go, they grew over time to fill needs. It could not have been done in one go, the different needs of different users and the overlap and disconnect is too great to know all beforehand. And the same thing would happen if we started from scratch today. We would design something we think is great and multipurpose only to realize it doesn’t quite fit this new requirement so we will have to add an edge case. Maybe we could do better than the current standard, but it won’t be perfect, there will always be corner cases and competing requirements.