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Yeah, this was partly inspired by how easy it is to solve Wordle, 4/6 is doable in most cases. That said, I think most people play Wordle with the objective of getting a 3/6.

Oops, didn't try it on Android, thanks for pointing it out.

It's the flavor of the month, for better or for worse :)

Yeah I think that's the way to go, will leave it up to the player to decide. Will also change the colors to match the green/amber color coding, thanks!

Yeah I think that makes sense, will add that as an option for the player to choose.

Hmm, I took the words from `/usr/share/dict/words` on Ubuntu, maybe I need a more comprehensive dictionary.

Thanks! I hope you got today's word! I was able to guess it within 8 tries the last few times, but I failed today.

Well, I chose red and white because those were the colors used to score in Mastermind :) But yeah, I suppose green/amber are better, and consistent with the color coding of the characters in the grid.

> allowing a nonexistent word once per game

That's a good suggestion, I guess I can introduce easy/hard modes and implement this in the easy mode. Thanks!

That's right, I wasn't sure whether the answer should be revealed or not, so I left it out. Do you think the answer should be revealed, or should the player be given more tries?

Yeah, I think a keyboard that shows used letters just like Wordle does would be a nice addition. Thanks!

The title of the post is also the link, just like any other HN post! This is the link: https://playhurdle.vercel.app/

which in turn, is based on Mastermind, right?

Yeah I too found the syntax somewhat unintuitive at times. But to answer your question, you would do 'map(.k1)'

If you assume the human-centric definition of the word "pain", perhaps. But I don't think that paints a complete picture - organisms experience and react to negative stimuli in so many different ways.

IMO, what we're seeing here could absolutely be considered "pain" in the plant kingdom, without altering or stretching the definition of the word even in the slightest.

They've used Next.js

Pretty much this. Your "consciousness" is nothing but neural activity in your own brain. By definition, it cannot appear anywhere else but your brain.

> It did not understand what you meant because it did not take the whole environment into consideration.

This is the crux of the matter. These voice recognition agents are trained with goal of accurately modelling a function that converts recorded sound to a series of words, and then act on those words to perform the most appropriate action. They are NOT trained to model the entire world, which is an incredibly complex task that no one has been able to formulate as a problem that computers can solve, yet. Humans on the other hand, have a machine that is extremely well-equipped to do just that - the brain. And that is exactly why humans are able to "understand" things, while we feel that machines are not, with our definition of "understand".

In the far distant future, if and when we do figure out a way to model the entire world, come up with suitable objective function, and solve it on a computer, there's no reason why that machine should be any less capable of understanding things than the average human.

Well, what does it mean for humans to "understand"? Don't humans understand things by altering the state and connections of neurons in the brain? You could make the argument that the brain is also an "incredibly sophisticated loop".

My point is that humans are also highly-sophisticated, biological machines, so if you say machines cannot "understand", you are making the same claim for humans as well.

http://www.playcatan.com had a pretty good client... too bad it's not open for new registrations any more. They have Catan Universe now instead - not sure how good it is, though.

A good thought, but the problem is, the strata of society that will be affected the most by this kind of automation do not necessarily have the right skill-set to transition to these jobs that tackle these "nice to solve" problems. Think of your average truck driver - what will he do when trucks are suddenly driving themselves? Automation may not hit all of these kinds of sectors all at once, so he might find something to do in the short-term, but over time it will take over most of the jobs that don't require human ingenuity.

That might be the case now, but who's to say that won't change in the future? What will happen when robotics and computer vision advances to a point where employing a human on an assembly line doesn't make economic sense?

If said team uses Keras as just a black-box, I would argue that it is. Not having intimate knowledge of the complex algorithms that you employ to build your services is not exactly an ideal situation to be in. If things doesn't work as expected, you can't just look it up on Stack Overflow, for instance.

> Broadly, no way do I believe that many people, not even fleets, especially not individuals, will put up with the charging time of a battery powered car. It's just so darned much more convenient to fill up a 20 gallon tank with gasoline.

This may not hold true in the near future. With charging stations capable of putting out 350kW, we will have drastically reduced charging times. [0]

> Finally, I'm guessing that Musk has had a lot of subsidies, and I have to guess that Trump will turn off that faucet.

Actually, Tesla doesn't lose much if ZEV credits go away... In fact, the way things stand, other auto manufacturers are able to fully monetize their ZEV credits, while Tesla only makes 50 cents on the dollar. [1]

[0] - https://electrek.co/2016/12/26/tesla-supercharger-v3-zev-cre...

[1] - http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-trump-decision-on-e...

What is human intelligence, if not the result of a colossal, distributed function optimisation process driven by evolutionary forces over millions of years?

Care to elaborate?