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Control Everything: On Hartmut Rosa's "The Uncontrollability of the World"(lareviewofbooks.org)
1 points by ssivark 2y ago|0 comments
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by ssivark 2y ago
To reuse another HN headline, all this is probably because no one really cares X-)
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by ssivark 2y ago
Traditionally we were using CRT monitors and 80x24 terminals... it feels silly to hold on to that out of inertia.
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by ssivark 2y ago
Thanks for engaging. Your comments point to a different mental model for thinking about government procurement of software. Not sure whether I'm convinced, but it's certainly food for thought.
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by ssivark 2y ago
> Yes, if a govt has a “we must only spend money on pure open source products” policy then they won’t buy Synapse Pro. I imagine anything else would be quite irresponsible in a geopolitical climate where sanctions could pull the rug out
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by ssivark 2y ago
> All work (other than stuff which primarily benefits scalability for enormous deployments) But anything that could be considered public infrastructure better be able to scale to millions of users! I wish you had chosen to gatekeep some
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by ssivark 2y ago
I sincerely wish you good luck with building -- hope people find this new product useful. This bait-and-switch leaves a really bad taste for me though; I now feel silly for having advocated for Matrix, and will cease henceforth. You can lam
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by ssivark 2y ago
Regarding what I see as a common thread between this example and the ongoing TikTok saga in the US -- why the hell do apps even have access through these parts of the API in the first place? Shouldn't iOS/Android be restricting th
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by ssivark 2y ago
But for every step that turns out to be "correct" you now have to go back and redo that in your held-out sample anyways. So it's not like you get to save on repeating the work -- IIUC you just changed it from depth-first exec
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by ssivark 2y ago
For starters, how is it not a violation (eg. "personality rights") to use a person's likeness without permission? As a further example, do we really want insurance companies serving ads using near and dear ones as potential d
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by ssivark 2y ago
I wish Python had tools to support combining tensors a la einsum but with arbitrary operations instead of just multiplication and addition. The only tool I'm aware of that provides a very slickk interface for this is Tullio in Jul
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by ssivark 2y ago
Did you even read the article? Starting with the opening paragraph > BURIED IN THE INNER workings of your laptop is a secret blueprint, dictating the set of instructions the computer can execute and serving as the interface between hard
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by ssivark 2y ago
How about Amazon style meetings with 4-6 page memos?
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by ssivark 2y ago
But why should there be two polar opposites: utility & art? Even when reading comments on HN I appreciate a a well written narrative with clarity and cohesion, instead of an assorted stack of bullet points. The idea is that good writing
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by ssivark 2y ago
Could it be that such increasing specialization (sales, accounting, coder, glue…) is driven in part by decreasing attention spans and ability to focus? Maybe nobody is able to exert significant deliberate cognitive processing on anything be
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by ssivark 2y ago
Isn't that still roughly an order of magnitude less than what one spends for housing, in an area with access to economic opportunities?
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by ssivark 2y ago
I don't understand all the pessimism. - It's clear from user share graphs that Firefox as just a browser is tending towards irrelevance. No amount of "improving the browser" is going to solve the problem. - More fundamen
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by ssivark 2y ago
> Yeah right but that's life. Oh, most definitely. So you gotta do what you gotta do. > Your argument is basically "someone could stop willing to do business with me so they should give me the means to be independent of them
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by ssivark 2y ago
When judging a system using the ROC curve, you need to evaluate both the precision AND the recall. You are pointing out that the precision is low, and must be improved; the article is pointing out that recall ought to be improved. Both are
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by ssivark 2y ago
It’s a third party platform which can de-platform you at the drop of a hat and cause a big headache. Enough people are worried about that and the broader implications of a platform not governed according to the fundamental principles/v
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by ssivark 2y ago
You mean, like… Intel these past few years?
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by ssivark 2y ago
This kind of capability would be quite nifty as an IDE plugin -- I'd like to get visualizations based on some selected code -- maybe a few lines, files or even a whole project.
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by ssivark 2y ago
This experiment ought to be a great reflection on the importance of picking the right metrics to manage, rather than just focusing something that's easy to measure -- even if it might be directly related to the outcome / bottom li
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by ssivark 2y ago
A good mental model is to compare the number of floats being processed -vs- the number of primitive computations. Matrix multiplication has n^3 computation with n^2 data. Multiplication of large matrices is therefore special in the potentia
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by ssivark 2y ago
But it's also a valid descriptor for Mathematica :-) ... for a significant slice of professional and hobbyist use cases, and there are no alternatives AFAICT!
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by ssivark 2y ago
> The problem was nobody was connecting the cost cutting to outcomes. If so, that sounds like (reckless) criminal negligence in the most charitable case and wilful disregard bordering malice in the worst case. https://en.wikip
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Return To Office mandates and brain drain(papers.ssrn.com)
12 points by ssivark 2y ago|2 comments
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Julia hasn't "taken off" but I venture that it might be "getting there" with recent improvements in being able to generate (relatively) compact binaries. More generally, I wonder whether the future of software devel
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by ssivark 2y ago
Very nice "visual" introduction a topic that's usually treated very abstractly in math textbooks! If you'd like more of such a visual perspective on differential geometry, I recommend Tristan Needham's book [1]. [1]
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by ssivark 2y ago
I'm confused -- While there's much to be said about walled gardens, the thing he seems to be most critical of seems to be a policy which aligns Substack to the open web he's so fond off i.e. no global platform moderation, and

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