Radim

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by Radim 5y ago
You're not wrong but… it's pretty disheartening. Do you see a way out? For businesses that want to minimize their reliance on the (trickle-down scraps of) the fraud money business.
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by Radim 5y ago
This is a good point, and thanks for the links. Sometimes it does feel like gimmicks all the way down. So much of the "digital market economy" is about generating demand , as opposed to answering demand . Conservatively, I'
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by Radim 5y ago
I applaud the effort (Boston FTW!). But what can we do to treat the cause, instead of just the symptoms? Stopping big-tech's tracking is cool, but strictly inferior to removing their incentive to track you . How to do that? The ads ar
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by Radim 5y ago
There's a story by George Dyson that gave me chills. He's playing in a barn as a kid and finds an ancient (clunky, weird) computer abandoned there. (George's dad, Freeman Dyson, was a heavyweight close to von Neumann & co
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by Radim 5y ago
Developed 30 years ago and in Sweden, judging by the code comments :) https://github.com/historicalsource/pinballfantasies/blob/ma...
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by Radim 5y ago
All of Life of Brian aged well. I rewatched the film last year – still thoroughly enjoyable. What I completely forgot were the scenes with Stan transitioning into Loretta. What seemed like an eccentric joke at the time (more than 40 years a
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by Radim 5y ago
Perhaps, but I'd be curious to see the actual numbers. How many employees in Colorado, out of Palantir's worldwide total of ~2000? A few hundred? Relative to Colorado's population of 5,800,000. How big of a deal is this reall
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by Radim 5y ago
> Even as Palantir earned $345.5 million in federal contracts in 2019, the company did not turn a profit; in fact, it hasn’t been profitable in its 17 years of existence. How much does Palantir pay in taxes, realistically? Which taxes? T
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by Radim 5y ago
> cringe at seeing the anti-mask or whatever protest This started the thread. More generally, act = take active measures to protect whatever is on the other side of the line you drew (wherever you drew it; e.g. your life & the life
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by Radim 5y ago
> We are quiet. But come election day, we will be heard. Which elections matter in this respect? When is their election day? Serious question. This is a spectacular social experiment being run in Australia, and I think a lot of outsider
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by Radim 5y ago
That's fine. You (jollybean) seem to have the line figured out, for yourself. I didn't mean anyone to answer publicly – finding the line is a personal, intimate investigation. Pavlik Morozov-style on one end; anarchists on the oth
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by Radim 5y ago
Cringe less, act more. Consider this: "What would MY government need to do, for ME to decide "This is too much" and take action? Of course, different people will have different answers, it's a cultural thing. The line
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by Radim 5y ago
What's your cost matrix? How much does a false positive hurt? False negative? I built a commercial system like that for Thermo Fisher, except their descriptions were encoded as natural language text on input, not vectors (for an extr
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by Radim 5y ago
> We realized soon that it's hard to monetize such [self-hosted product] Spot on. We iterated on a similar product in this space: "privacy preserving", "self-hosted", "open source" etc. But focused on l
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by Radim 5y ago
> Stating the death of German soldiers as the most important outcome from WW II Who stated that? The quote explicitly relates to Elser, whose motive in Hitler's assassination was to save Germany's workers and common people from
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by Radim 5y ago
dgb23 makes an astute observation that the market (demand side) seems to undervalue SW robustness => writing robust SW has poor ROI => not a viable strategy, product will be outcompeted => company goes bust => DON'T DO IT.
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by Radim 5y ago
True, there's always someone who has it worse. Obligatory Monty Python sketch: "I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock in the night, half an hour before I went to bed. … And when we got home, our dad would kill us and
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by Radim 5y ago
Happy birthday inglor! Dad bod is a real thing; I've heard explanations that relate it to the "parental stage" of your life. The body accumulates energy reserves for the sleepless nights & bouts of fatherly activities. Pr
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by Radim 5y ago
Try asking your girlfriend whether she thinks holding her hand is worthless :-) Making someone happy (-ier) is a great, canonical example of creating value. People will tolerate surprising levels of discomfort, even financial loss, to be ph
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by Radim 5y ago
I guess you're right. TBH I didn't expect that offering my point of view would unleash such storm of downvotes. Clearly many people consider their phone not only a useful device, but a core part of their identity . To each his ow
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by Radim 5y ago
Allow me to offer an opposing anecdote: smartphone means fuck all to me. It changed nearly nothing in my life. Most of the time I don't even know where my smartphone is (except for car navigation). Do people really consider smartphones
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by Radim 5y ago
"The machines themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines." — God Emperor of Dune Frank Herbert was a genius.
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Show HN: Olympic “combined climbing” calculator in Python
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by Radim 5y ago
Message couldn't be delivered: "NXDOMAIN Domain name not found: freddym.xyz". You guys are taking leave-me-alone privacy really seriously!
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by Radim 5y ago
Ha! That explains why I never heard back from him in my emails. Freddy, do you mind reaching out to me at radim@pii-tools.com? I'd like to discuss options of support / partnership, for the (formerly) PrivacyTools.
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by Radim 5y ago
And also of "Socrates", an American Quake 3 player who insisted on the "soh-crates" pronunciation :-) I also love the double mind-fuck of "karaoke": EN: pronounced "owe-kee" JP: "oh-keh"!
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by Radim 5y ago
I live on both sides of this divide, so maybe I can offer my 2 cents: * Created & maintain Gensim and other open source, used by thousands of companies for free. * Created & sell an (unrelated) B2B product. Yes, I've had B2B pr
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by Radim 5y ago
Heh. Happens all the time with tests and questionnaires, the choice is always frustrating: * "Does the author really mean what they are asking? Are the mistakes in the phrasing or corner cases intentional, meant to catch me, test my d
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by Radim 5y ago
Isn't "very special time and place for community, energy and excitement" a function of your age, more than anything else? Everybody experiences their special unique unrepeatable time and place. It doesn't matter which
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by Radim 5y ago
And have you tried getting a dolphin to guard a sheep? :-) Yet dolphins are generally acknowledged to be smarter than either a dog or a wolf! In other words, maybe guarding sheep is not the hallmark of intelligence.

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