It is deeply funny to me that my asking a rhetorical question and using a little italics triggered you while "So, you can scream fake news all you want, but..." earned not a single complaint. Perhaps I just struck a…
Peel an orange? Crack an egg? Thread a needle? There's a huge range of tasks that a non-specialized, general purpose robot simply cannot do yet. I'd be easier to enumerate the things they can do than the things they…
Sure. Those should be addressed, too. The difference is they already exist while the datacenters don't. And its a lot easier, in a democracy, to stop a thing from being built in the first place than to tear it down…
Yeah but it's all Chinese propaganda so it doesn't count this time. /s
Hard disagree. The problem is sensors. There are simply no technologies today that can replicate the density and precision of human touch sensors. Until then, there is simply no way to create generally capable robots…
Except the data doesn't support the claim. Sarbanes-Oxley passed in 2002 and the number if IPOs climbed between then, in the wake of the dot-com crash, and the GFC six year later, while the median age didn't change…
It's an observation about prevailing libertarian values in the HN community that tend to attract upvotes while going unchallenged. If you consider that part of a "culture war", then it seems that term has lost all…
I think you're being oversensitive or just looking for a fight if you detect even a hint of "culture war talking points" in my comment.
And further, if the goal is to eliminate regulatory frictions in public markets that keep companies staying private, then you're effectively advocating for eliminating public markets. The entire damn deal we make when a…
> The increase in regulations, post GFC, made it impractical/impossible for small companies to go public. Care to be more specific? "Regulations bad" is a pretty common platitude around here but you've stated your main…
The Toyota system springs to mind.
Maybe first define "participating" and then perhaps I'll respond. Because if this a case of "well you use a computer so you're part of the system, man" then I probably won't waste my time. Cynical fatalism usually…
No, I can quite positively say that no business, project, or other work that I've been involved in has participated in or contributed to that kind of destruction and that I've actively chosen not to work for business…
Sure. Who doesn't love 10 episode seasons every three years. I know folks in the industry absolutely love the total lack of job security...
Who's we? You're certainly not speaking for me. Making things previously impossible possible? That's the business I joined. Destroying people's livelihoods without care for the consequences while pursuing monopolies,…
And yet Apple succesfully destroyed the grey box clone market in their space. Clearly it was indeed possible: https://www.wired.com/1997/09/apple-kills-clone-market/
Survivorship bias. My own experience is that the jerks self-select out because no one wants to work for them. That said, in the entrepreneurial space it's less clear to me this is true. In a team setting? Sure. But the…
It's downvoted because it reads as though IBM made a mistake the commenter thinks they should've never made, as opposed to a mistake from IBMs perspective given their business strategy at the time. That is, it appears…
Yeah you're still missing the point. A more appropriate analogy for what you just described might be writing vs ghost writing. But it's certainly not handwriting vs typewriter.
I wouldn't characterize that as sloppy or buggy in any way (though certainly that is also true for some games). Exploiting hardware in new and novel ways was an essential part of developing for older consoles. This is…
Yup, fair point, totally valid criticism.
Weird, I don't think any of my comments express outrage Bafflement? Certainly. Maybe a little sadness at the lack of understanding of, or appreciation for, the creative process? Sure. Outrage? Nah.
You still don't get it. Think about the act of writing with a pen. Now think about what a typewriter does in that context. Now think about what an LLM does in that context. Can you reason about how those are vastly…
Because byte-for-byte identical output is far easier to measure than trying to test for functional equivalence. This is also partly a preservation activity so (as best we can create it) identical code generating…
If you can't see why your analogy is deeply broken I honestly don't know what to do for you.
It is deeply funny to me that my asking a rhetorical question and using a little italics triggered you while "So, you can scream fake news all you want, but..." earned not a single complaint. Perhaps I just struck a…
Peel an orange? Crack an egg? Thread a needle? There's a huge range of tasks that a non-specialized, general purpose robot simply cannot do yet. I'd be easier to enumerate the things they can do than the things they…
Sure. Those should be addressed, too. The difference is they already exist while the datacenters don't. And its a lot easier, in a democracy, to stop a thing from being built in the first place than to tear it down…
Yeah but it's all Chinese propaganda so it doesn't count this time. /s
Hard disagree. The problem is sensors. There are simply no technologies today that can replicate the density and precision of human touch sensors. Until then, there is simply no way to create generally capable robots…
Except the data doesn't support the claim. Sarbanes-Oxley passed in 2002 and the number if IPOs climbed between then, in the wake of the dot-com crash, and the GFC six year later, while the median age didn't change…
It's an observation about prevailing libertarian values in the HN community that tend to attract upvotes while going unchallenged. If you consider that part of a "culture war", then it seems that term has lost all…
I think you're being oversensitive or just looking for a fight if you detect even a hint of "culture war talking points" in my comment.
And further, if the goal is to eliminate regulatory frictions in public markets that keep companies staying private, then you're effectively advocating for eliminating public markets. The entire damn deal we make when a…
> The increase in regulations, post GFC, made it impractical/impossible for small companies to go public. Care to be more specific? "Regulations bad" is a pretty common platitude around here but you've stated your main…
The Toyota system springs to mind.
Maybe first define "participating" and then perhaps I'll respond. Because if this a case of "well you use a computer so you're part of the system, man" then I probably won't waste my time. Cynical fatalism usually…
No, I can quite positively say that no business, project, or other work that I've been involved in has participated in or contributed to that kind of destruction and that I've actively chosen not to work for business…
Sure. Who doesn't love 10 episode seasons every three years. I know folks in the industry absolutely love the total lack of job security...
Who's we? You're certainly not speaking for me. Making things previously impossible possible? That's the business I joined. Destroying people's livelihoods without care for the consequences while pursuing monopolies,…
And yet Apple succesfully destroyed the grey box clone market in their space. Clearly it was indeed possible: https://www.wired.com/1997/09/apple-kills-clone-market/
Survivorship bias. My own experience is that the jerks self-select out because no one wants to work for them. That said, in the entrepreneurial space it's less clear to me this is true. In a team setting? Sure. But the…
It's downvoted because it reads as though IBM made a mistake the commenter thinks they should've never made, as opposed to a mistake from IBMs perspective given their business strategy at the time. That is, it appears…
Yeah you're still missing the point. A more appropriate analogy for what you just described might be writing vs ghost writing. But it's certainly not handwriting vs typewriter.
I wouldn't characterize that as sloppy or buggy in any way (though certainly that is also true for some games). Exploiting hardware in new and novel ways was an essential part of developing for older consoles. This is…
Yup, fair point, totally valid criticism.
Weird, I don't think any of my comments express outrage Bafflement? Certainly. Maybe a little sadness at the lack of understanding of, or appreciation for, the creative process? Sure. Outrage? Nah.
You still don't get it. Think about the act of writing with a pen. Now think about what a typewriter does in that context. Now think about what an LLM does in that context. Can you reason about how those are vastly…
Because byte-for-byte identical output is far easier to measure than trying to test for functional equivalence. This is also partly a preservation activity so (as best we can create it) identical code generating…
If you can't see why your analogy is deeply broken I honestly don't know what to do for you.