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by ssivark 4y ago
> But, in all sincerity, do you really think that the readers of HN would positively discuss a "Bill of Bytes"? I think there will definitely be an interesting discussion. But that's only the tip of the iceberg, and the mo
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by ssivark 4y ago
Meh. The article expends zero effort in actually engaging with the Reserve Bank of India's motivations or the CBDC design [1], and is filled with shallow comments about the roll-out in other countries. This is a very important topic
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by ssivark 4y ago
Did your class publish a report/website with the list, and any further analysis? That would make a great HN submission for discussion.
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by ssivark 4y ago
Had you considered that this might be a macro problem? The last several decades had a stable narrative with special places for certain institutions. With the narrative world order unwinding, institutions are having a hard time seeming autho
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And it’s still more adaptable/robust/intelligent than almost any system we’ve built so far.
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by ssivark 4y ago
I’m sympathetic to that failure mode of Wikipedia, but in this utopic vision, if there is no mechanism regulate which content gets to claim priority for stubs, what stops spam/ads from flooding the network?
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by ssivark 4y ago
While I grok how graphs could be useful for personal information management, I don’t quite get the use case for a shared graph database of this kind, beyond replicating Wikipedia (but would that substantially improve on the current capabili
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by ssivark 4y ago
> Yet another is Stepanov's "Elements of Programming," which by first chapter's end Feynman is telling me to read it again [1]. I'm very curious what you mean by this -- is Feynman recommending Stepanov's bo
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by ssivark 4y ago
A few that come to mind immediately: 1. Books by VI Arnold. To get a sense of his style, see https://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik.TP/~munsteg/arnold.html 2. Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham is an absolute
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by ssivark 4y ago
Here's something I don't understand: How are "little languages" different from a bunch of functionality wrapped into a library/module? Is it just that (with some convenient syntax sprinkled on top), or is there mo
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by ssivark 4y ago
But should that technology even be a part of mathematics? Different fields/applications will have different needs so I would imagine that these critical discussions should be part of each field and its methods. Eg: physicists don’t g
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by ssivark 4y ago
I want to give a shout-out to “lieer” (formerly “gmailieer”) which is a nifty tool for fetching to maildir and two-way tag synchronization between gmail and notmuch: http://lieer.gaute.vetsj.com/
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by ssivark 4y ago
Just because machine learning uses the word “learning” doesn’t mean it “learns” in the same way a human mind does — that analogy is doing a lot of load bearing in your argument, and needs proving why the program’s nature of creative remixin
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by ssivark 4y ago
That misses the point that the number of “productive” humans (some fraction of working age people), and the number of humans that need to be supported (especially the large aging populace) are mismatched. There are a lot of growth obligatio
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by ssivark 4y ago
Yes. Dark matter is typically modeled as approximately dark… dark enough to have evaded experiments so far, and bright enough to have a footprint on phenomena (newly) observed at a fine level of sensitivity. I’m glossing over important te
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by ssivark 4y ago
(from August 2020, FWIW) I wonder what it would take to digitize this whole process, so that a single application can trigger all the relevant approval requests, and the overall status can be tracked -- both by the applicant, and at the sys
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by ssivark 4y ago
I would imagine energy density to be a bigger shortcoming (gravitational acceleration times height difference) -- especially for typically accessible height differences. Eg for 500m this is something like an order of magnitude lower than c
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by ssivark 4y ago
Does this mean we can now have a StumpWM port (or equivalent) for Wayland? Is this already in the works?
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by ssivark 4y ago
To put it succinctly: technology used to be about tools that increase your (the user’s) agency on the world. Today’s technology (and “design paradigm”) are about providing services that maximize the service provider’s agency over the user —
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Because it’s about partnership on an adventure, and that requires trust . Compare with the other partnership scenario that people are more familiar with: finding a romantic partner, and accomplishing something together like raising a fam
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This mythical programmer must exist somewhere, but in my experience most people I see & have worked with seem to have underinvested in tooling — not because the estimated value calculation came up short, but mainly because lack of clari
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by ssivark 4y ago
Echoing my frustration... A few months ago I went through a similar search. IIRC my needs were: binary data storage (not ascii), index-based access on arrays without loading the whole file in memory, being able to attach metadata with the f
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by ssivark 4y ago
I'll begin by quoting an excerpt from "A man for all seasons" Alice More: Arrest him! More: Why, what has he done? Margaret More: He's bad! More: There is no law against that. Will Roper: There
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But isn’t that basically “good enough” if you know you want Linux and can either afford the latest thinkpads or are okay with a slightly bulkier older Thinkpad? Seems not worse than different from needing Apple hardware to use Apple softwar
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by ssivark 4y ago
I'm increasingly keen on such a system. If nothing else, it removes the massive costs & uncertainty of paper delivery, and allows a searchable archive of the "important" bureaucratic stuff. Among other things, this also m
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by ssivark 4y ago
Changing an email address seems like a solution totally out of proportion to the pesky problem of spam. I can see many ways for the system to work effectively: 1. Have this "official" email only for communication with "state&
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by ssivark 4y ago
I appreciate that critique. So what would it take to make this pathway smoother? Do you think interfaces might be a silver bullet? If so, what’s holding back the language from prioritizing this in the medium term? (For v2.0, say) Or maybe t
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by ssivark 4y ago
Would you prefer to add correctness tests to the compositionality that Julia gives “for free” due to multiple dispatch, or would you rather rewrite huge libraries from scratch? Eg: if you want a “new” feature like autodiff on numpy code the
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by ssivark 4y ago
So what kind of libraries have you been building in Julia? Please do link!
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> I don’t recall saying that at all. My gripe is that different discipline always seems to be architecture and the design patterns topic has been talked to death for over 50 years now. I concur with the spirit of this gripe. While archit

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