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by hippo22 7mo ago
https://www.wipo.int/en/web/global-innovation-index/w/blogs/...
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by hippo22 7mo ago
I think you’re missing my point: we’re only able to predict large numbers of coin flips because we have an accurate model. We don’t have an accurate model for weather, so we can’t predict it well. I don’t see a reason to assume our model fo
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by hippo22 7mo ago
You can’t predict a coin flip because it is random. However, we have an accurate understanding of the random process producing coin flips and therefore, we can make accurate predictions about large quantities of flips. Weather may or may no
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by hippo22 7mo ago
If you weight papers by some measure of impact, e.g. by citation count, this is not true.
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by hippo22 7mo ago
I guess you’re not a big fan of Plato then?
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by hippo22 7mo ago
It’s fine to disagree with my analogy. But I find it a little ironic your dismissal of the analogy is a non sequitur. The invalidness of the analogy doesn’t directly follow, logically, from the fact that the written word and the spoken word
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by hippo22 7mo ago
Isn’t a better question: why would they migrate off COBOL? Their business is working. What’s the impetus to change? It’s not like they need to use COBOL for every new project.
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by hippo22 7mo ago
> Are you proposing that an LLM can extract some meaning from your initial prompt that a human being couldn't? No, I’m asserting that an LLM can help formulate ideas in a coherent, understandable way. You can give it a brain dump wi
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by hippo22 7mo ago
I disagree. The purpose of writing is to convey ideas. If written language had just been invented, I’m sure you’d be saying “IMO any important stories you expect others to know should be communicated orally. It’s kind of disrespectful to co
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by hippo22 7mo ago
But a query optimizer only matters once you have an established business with large customers. You seem to be implying Salesforce’s business is successful because they have their own query optimizer. But the causality is reversed. Salesforc
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by hippo22 7mo ago
Your friends don’t produce much content yet people had a need for frequent entertainment. Also, people realized that posting things to social media meant that it was there forever. This led to a bifurcation: friends / family updates ar
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by hippo22 7mo ago
It's not really that hard to make a Salesforce clone now though. Writing the software was never the hard part of building a business.
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by hippo22 7mo ago
You should feel that C’s longevity is insane. How many languages have come and gone in the meantime? C is truly an impressive language that profoundly moved humanity forward. If that’s not insane (used colloquially) to you, then what is?
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by hippo22 7mo ago
Many of the built-in types in Objective C all have names beginning with “NS” like “NSString”. The NS stands for NeXTSTEP. I always found it insane that so many years later, every iPhone on Earth was running software written in a language re
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by hippo22 7mo ago
How is this different than any other access control system?
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by hippo22 7mo ago
I think that’s different. You have a problem: invoice management. LLMs have made that cheaper and you should expect disruption. But you’re not building your own invoice scanner. You’re using another, cheaper product on the market. However,
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by hippo22 7mo ago
It’s worth asking: what do Wall Street traders know about building software companies? Almost nothing. Anyone who has attempted to start a startup knows that the software is always the easy part. Building the business is hard. The notion th
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by hippo22 7mo ago
You look at what Claude’s doing to make sure it doesn’t go off the rails? Personally, I either move on to another ask in parallel or just read my phone. Trying to catch things by manually looking at its output doesn’t seem like a recipe for
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by hippo22 7mo ago
I don't think this is necessarily a fair comparison. In your sample of David Greene, he's being _interviewed_, which is different than hosting a radio show or podcast. For instance, turn on the nightly news and listen to the very
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by hippo22 7mo ago
I grew up near train tracks. I’m totally of incapable of even hearing trains unless they’re directly in front of me.
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by hippo22 7mo ago
I have had good experience with Go, but I've also had good results with TypeScript. Compile-time checks are very important to getting good results. I don't think the simplicity of the language matters as much as the LLM being gene
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by hippo22 7mo ago
I’m sure there is pressure to be contrarian, but there’s also a huge amount of shared delusion. It’s completely illogical to assume one can know much about society thousands of years ago unless there is widespread evidence. And yet, archeol
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by hippo22 7mo ago
I think this should be higher. It’s a sad day when HN joins the fake news cesspool.
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by hippo22 7mo ago
I don’t have anything to add other than to say this was beautifully written.
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by hippo22 7mo ago
Did you read the article? The issue isn’t code vs. data, it’s code vs. system state. The system can be in states not model-able by code, e.g. versions 1 and 2 of a piece of software running concurrently. Other examples I can think of are th
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by hippo22 7mo ago
The point of the article is that the system is not representable in code so all the tools FP provides are useless in systems programming.
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by hippo22 7mo ago
I watched the entire video: kind of ironic that the swarm was tasked with something and produced nothing of value.
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by hippo22 7mo ago
> If countless people are “using it wrong” then maybe there’s something wrong with the tool. Not really. Every tool in existence has people that use it incorrectly. The fact that countless people find value in the tool means it probably
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by hippo22 7mo ago
I think you’re ignoring the growth trajectory. Surex AI generates almost always working code now, but what till it generate in 1-5 years?
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by hippo22 7mo ago
“I have a cool idea in my head that I’d like to show other people” is a problem that some people need to solve.

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