skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think some of the "why" has to do with it being time-consuming and expensive. There's also the "hur-hur n00b, your spec can be wrong, so verification is pointless" crowd that pops up any time the subject comes up.

That said, my favorite verified software packages are
seL4 (https://sel4.systems) and the CompCert C Compiler (https://compcert.org/compcert-C.html).
the flaw in that reasoning is that you’re creating a single point of subvertible power (and failure). that might have made sense 250 years ago before the advent of electricity and telecommunications (and smaller systemic dangers), but not so much anymore. it also doesn’t solve the ‘aww shucks’ issue you mention at all, which really is an incentives issue beyond representation (you could instead, as a wild supposition, make all representatives live within 20 miles of the plant to align incentives).

we should elect 10s if not 100s of such representatives at a time (and those folks can hire further experts as necessary) so that no one rep has inordinate power, because depending on a single person is certain to fail at some point. that also is more likely to provide diversity of thought, which is crucial to effective decision-making. we’re rich enough as a nation to support such a panel without batting an eye.
You have to love the s/weird/unusual [1] names of places in the UK (and it looks like a beautiful area from the small picture):

> Tintern, in the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire

There's also plenty of "upon the"s and "x-in-y" (ie: Henly-in-Arden). Not just the England but seems just as common in Scotland, or even more common.

I can imagine the early computer systems of the postal organization having to deal with these quirks.

[1] apparently "weird" is being taken as bad or something. I like weird.
> If your company isn't growing but the market is, your company is shrinking.

Shrinking relative to the addressable market.
Earth has a hot new neighbour – and it's an astronomer's dream
I've never had kids, but I have many sisters and cousins who have, so my genes have already been passed on.

I'm personally mostly indifferent and sometimes want my own, but it's my wife's choice more than mine and she has medical issues that would make pregnancy extremely unpleasant and dangerous.
The "time to solution" metric sounds a lot like SRE's mantra; automate ourselves out of a job. This is often measured in how many hours of human labor we can save for better use elsewhere.

The optimal app requires zero interaction time from the user but still provides tangible benefits. Aside from entertainment, most people don't really want to interact with software.
Serious question; what is the impact to product pricing in such a market?
I mean, the regulatory capture is absolutely real. I don't mean to absolve cable carriers of their many sins, chief amongst them a decade or more of chronic underinvestment in their infrastructure which is part of why the battleship is so hard to turn today.

I just want to make it clear that there is no magic button that legacy cable carriers could press to suddenly have infrastructure that is fully capable of the latest DOCSIS standard. It is an expensive and time-consuming process that, from what I have seen, is indeed underway at many major providers.

At the same time, they are absolutely lobbying to minimize any regulatory pressure to improve. My personal belief is that increasing competition from LTE has been more of a factor in companies like Comcast suddenly investing in Node+0 than any regulatory activity. Pressure from the government to provide 100mbps upstream could be a huge boost in getting these companies to invest more in the project and get it done more quickly.

It's just, you know, there's no silver bullet here. And most emphatically, "fiber" is not that silver bullet. In most cases the only real advantage of fiber internet is that it puts the infrastructure under control of someone other than an incumbent telco or cable provider, who is more willing to play ball with the community. I can't help but feel, though, that this is a waste of resources when the same goals could be achieved, with less monetary investment, if the cable carriers were deprived of their lobbying operations and forced through franchise agreements or telecom regulation to provide a certain service level.

Put in the most extreme way, I think "roll out fiber" is in many ways a worse solution than "nationalize Comcast." It tries to force a technical solution to what is fundamentally a business problem - a business problem that does have some technical limitations as accomplices, but the way to overcome these is largely well understood.
> it's crazy that a women doesn't get paid for raising kids

Effectively they do get paid. In a marriage, mothers own half their husband's income. Outside a marriage, mothers get child support.

The fact it's not taxed as "pay" is a bonus for mothers, not a downside!

It's weird how the myth persists that mothers "not getting paid" a taxable wage is some kind of negative.
Amen. I really don’t understand the stigma around having children when you’re young. It should be the norm.
That’s not how the national debt works at all. Who do you think the debt is owed to?
Even the hardest core Stallmanites aren't unwilling to use BSD/MIT-licensed software, nor Stallman himself. In contrast, these sorts of licenses that restrict what the software can be used for are unequivocally condemned by the FSF.
Well, if by “open source” you mean broadly any software available whose code is viewable on the internet, you’re essentially advocating for no projects that use “nonstandard” licenses to exist.

That seems like a waste if there would be otherwise be projects around with a nonstandard license that was acceptable to a subset of users.

For example the CPython interpreter (the official interpreter for the Python language) does not use a standard license. Would you not want Python to exist?
Take a look at the rclone targets list:

https://rclone.org/

In fact, most of them are not files in a directory - that's what makes most of the rclone use-cases so impressive. If they can interact with gdrive/photos/S3/etc. they should be able to interact with iCloud Photos ...
I'm a HEY user and thrilled with this new feature, although I didn't realize I needed it until they announced it :)
Work hard, keep your head down, and when those who rob you of your time in life, be prepared to give up even more.

How much time are you willing to be robbed of before you say enough?
Formal verification of what? Termination? Memory-leaks? Undefined Behavior? Formal verification without qualification is about as meaningless as corporate jargon; with qualification it is not formal verification anymore. Formal verification requires a formal specification that is based on a mathematical model of a system. Those models and the methods used to define them alone are effectively infinite.
My favourite current design is by Moltex Energy. Its basically, what happens if you take a Sodium reactor design and instead use molten salt.

It basically fixes all the really terrible ideas about sodium reactors and gives you the advantage of molten salt reactors.

The problem is, what we are doing now are all things that could and should have been done in the 70-80s.
> every client provider can do whatever they want

I feel like you're missing his point a bit, which is that sure they can do whatever they want, but it would be within a well-defined and highly regulated system, and would need to conform to an interface that would be difficult to change and evolve.

A bit like how IRC never really got updated with features people like to see in newer IM apps, like conversation history, read receipts, sending images and videos, threading, and so on. Or HTTP. Or email. Federation always leads to ossification.
I’m afraid some people really do seem to believe this. Hard to understand, I know. Fixed, regulator defined protocols everyone would be forced to use. Sheesh.
The secret sauce in Apple/Google photos is not the API for accessing the data.
If you view it from a game theory perspective, both the ad business (your Google's and Facebook's) are subject to the same incentives as your Flattr's.

At the core of both of them is an economic transaction (direct dollars vs. ad impression), both of which use personal data like web history (to know which article has been "bought").

The big difference is the ad supported model is not linked to your bank account, and has some pseudonymous properties, but there is still the classic three-party structure of reader, publisher and platform, and still the huge pressure to be profitable.

1) So you're still having your personal web history tracked by a technology company, possibly even worse because it's linked to your bank

2) Economic pressures and incentives are roughly the same

3) End result is your data will eventually get sold anyway, much the same way that cable companies always introduced ads

I also have a belief but no hard data that advertisers pay more per impression than consumers ever will, which leads to this cycle happening in the first place. People seem to forget that the internet wasn't really profitable until targeted advertising, cutting that would mean the end of most web technology companies.
And for some women breastfeeding is a pain (often literally) and pumping at least works.
From what I've read the design of asymmetric broadband speeds has been a design feature since DSL technologies (does that count as broadband?)
What’s weird about that?
I won't assume you don't have kids, but what you said does not align with my experience at all.

I have two kids from different relationships, and as dad, in both cases, I calmed down my kids better than the mothers did. They both relied on me specially in the worst baby crying situations.

I don't think I am an exception in ability or anything, I just cared to go learn a bit about babies, that's all. Thought a couple of friends how to do it, they also became very good at it.
I'm not sure why you're downvoted.

After 50+ years of routine operation generating a nontrivial proportion of energy, we can look back at a decent amount of data. And what we see is that nuclear has been remarkably safe. Up here in Canada, coal mine disasters alone have killed far more people. When you start adding in air pollution and other such nasties, it's an enormously vast gulf in lethality.

A cynical take. Estimate how many people would have died from air pollution due to a coal power plant generating the same amount of electrical energy as the reactor at Chernobyl that blew up. Estimate how many died from Chernobyl. The reasonable estimates of the high end of the former, and low end of the latter, are overlapping. It's not entirely preposterous to suggest that replacing unscrubbed coal plants with shoddy reactors that simply explode after 20 years of operation could actually save lives in net.
Now that we are subsidizing fertility procedures, will SV companies also subsidize nannies because productivity would depend on sleep and outsourcing it to night nannies would help female employees tremendously. Why not?

How much more can we extend this? Let’s be creative here.
And it seems likely that with enough operating plant, there always will be engineering failures. Aeroppanes sometimes fail catastrophically too of course.
If this isn't some type of thought experiment to prove a point, then this is some off-the-charts chauvinism. Why do you believe they would actually want to relocate here?
Would that necessarily imply it is memorizing on the non-random labels though? I know analogies to human learning are overdone, but I definitely have seen humans fall back on memorization when they are struggling to "actually learn" some topic.

So genuinely asking from a technical/ML perspective - is it possible a network could optimize training loss without memorization when possible, but as that fails end up just memorizing?
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Competence here is indistinguishability from human in conversation. The most straightforward way to implement it is to make the algorithm have the same structure and work in the same way as human mind. We can say that it understands and is conscious because it's not different from human mind in structure and operation. It's a good part about artificial algorithms that they are transparent and we can show that they aren't only effective in conversation, but have everything to be had behind that conversation. It's due to the latter. Simply put, the algorithm isn't GPT, but AGI.

>It's not self-evidently the equivalent of an accurate real-time computer simulation of a specific person, for instance. I think you can make a strong case that such a system would amount to a conscious person and should be treated as such.

This was touched recently in art. If you're interested, it's "Sword art online Alicization". The shutdown problem is applicable to AI too. What's new is that the life of virtual people is shown at length and discussed questions as to what identity those people should have, what worldview, religion, philosophy, pride, dignity, justice.
> Already in this announcement is the non-transfer of Live Photos because presumably Google doesn't support it.

Google Photos definitely supports Live Photos, I've successfully uploaded and shared lots of Live Photos via the Google Photos for iOS app.

Which then raises the question of why doesn't the tool support it?
It's really housing and then money only as a prerequisite to that.

To start a family you need somewhere to live. When housing costs are insane you need crazy money to afford it, so everything becomes about money.
This is something I miss from Android. I could tell Google Photos to ignore my downloads and screenshots albums, but iOS you either need to manually select photos to upload, or upload all photos.
A lot of the software that has been formally verified is either proprietary, classified, or used for academic research. Historically not the most open of communities.
Why not all of those? Genuine question. Sorry, my knowledge of this topic is very limited.
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

The right to data portability allows individuals to obtain and reuse their personal data for their own purposes across different services.

It allows them to move, copy or transfer personal data easily from one IT environment to another in a safe and secure way, without affecting its usability.

It doesn't say that they have to implement moving from one provider to another without you having to download the data, but I think the key phrase is "easily from one IT environment to another in a safe and secure way, without affecting its usability".
They laid the fiber, they just didn't use it (for consumers). Google Fiber started out by just buying up a bunch of unused fiber lines that had been sitting there for years.
Can you give hard reasons for the delay? As in this concrete needed to be poured 6" thicker than originally speced and what the upgrade provides?

The couple times I've actually seen these changes described, they are changes enacted to stall the development, not because of a hard technical reason in the design.
Oh also if tab group titles aren't working you may need to update your Chrome to the latest version (~89). To update: chrome://settings/help
I don't want people to think I wrote the license. Also, the purpose of this post is more general than this specific license. I feel the current title is appropriately general.
Yeah, it's not as obvious as it could be, i'm in the process of writing an article on the subject and how important i think it is combat ads and tracking in the long term.
In England years ago we would visit Weston-under-Lizard (the town of Weston in the shadow of the hill Lizard — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston-under-Lizard). That’s my favorite name of this type.
> This used to be common knowledge, and it was so for a reason.

It also used to be much more common for women to wed older and more established men. It also used to be less common for women to go to college. There are lots of societal norms that have changed to make early parenthood less popular than it used to be.
The only solutions to all this I can think of are considered hopelessly "radical" and "socialist".

One thing that would help is having a Universal Basic Income, with Universal Healthcare. This would allow people to work on startups at their own pace, instead of desperately needing to become successful in a relatively short time-frame in order to create some stability.
The Pandemic of Male Loneliness
That assumes Google provides API and authorizes the access, or else you're stuck scraping complex web apps with a Chrome extension.

Custom 3rd party software is usually banned from a consumer cloud API for security reasons.
It is covered by right to data portability included in GDPR passed in 2018.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Yes, I should have acknowledged that is a problem for many also.
Well for one thing it didn't seem to transfer over to North America when the Brits (and French, etc) were naming towns and cities here in Canada, and the US...where I grew up. It's like a legacy thing.

It seems they were more likely to stick to singular words here in NA when naming regions. So it's interesting to me? Is that taboo or something?
Frustratingly, support for Google Photos in rclone is handicapped by the limitations of the Google Photos API: you can't download Photos at original resolution. This is documented on your second link.
absolutely nothing, it would subject their applications to genuine competition (they could of course still offer their own client) and destroy their walled garden, which is the entire point. The purpose such regulation is to benefit consumers, developers, and the health of the market overall. not Facebook. I assume they would be kicking and screaming.
Scaling your e-commerce business using hybrid fulfillment
Fair point.

When I run Windows 10 Professional at home (which I still occasionally do) I get excellent reliability. The moment it hits heavily locked down networked office laptops is when it starts going bad, but to be fair to Microsoft I'm pretty sure that's more the interaction of complex software with a massive amount of commodity hardware in configurations that are way to varied for all combinations to ever be tested. HP being especially bad and Lenovo especially good in this regard.

I do find myself occasionally wishing that the Surface range had the same hardware as my M1 Air as I'm still more productive on Windows, partly due to the UI/UX (when it is consistent which isn't everywhere) being better, and partly because it's just a whole lot easier to keep my hands on the keyboard and away from the mouse/trackpad than it is on Mac OS.

Whilst I do Python, Node, Go, Ruby, etc., I've been a .Net developer since 2001 and in many ways (going back to DOS in the 80s) Microsoft are responsible for me having a good career. I'm not blind to their rapaciousness, but I am grateful too.
Not cheap, but if you are dealing with large code bases, it is definitely worth it to invest in a powerful workstation.

While not the most powerful, i have found few codebases I couldn't navigate smoothly with my 6 core i7, with 64GB of ram and dual 500gb nvme drives running in raid 0.
It is, ,I'm sure, a thought experiment, but presumably the reason would be to get out of China's military reach. But I don't get the impression it was intended as a serious suggestion.
That would be awesome.

Unfortunately, young people also don't have money. That's the time period when many people feel a lot of pressure to accumulate savings -- often, that might specifically be so that they can afford to raise a child in the future.

Acceptance of multigenerational households, living with grandparents, and raising kids there, would be an option and allow people in their 20s to become parents before their careers have taken off. But even for those who have loving and supportive grandparents, that also can be a major strain on a relationship.
My vet recommends the Seresto collar. I asked again yesterday, and they reiterated that they haven't changed their minds on that. (I'll inquire with them again as new information comes out.)

This is a vet I trust very much, and who has given my cats decades of excellent life. They do not sell it directly and do not make a profit on it.

I don't know what the difference is between my vet and the ones you know. Do your vets recommend the drops instead? I use the collar because one of my cats did not react well to the drops. (Nothing serious, but he had a bald patch.)

I've never had a problem with the Seresto collars. Which isn't to doubt the article; the incidence of problems is high enough to be of serious concern but low enough that it's not surprising that I would observe no issues. I trust my vet will keep me posted.
> The word “addiction” is overused in my opinion. Bad habits are not addictions. An addiction is something which actively harms you, but you can’t stop doing it.

I suggest parasitism as a more accurate description of what seeking "user engagement" is.
The three D compilers use, the GCC backend, the LLVM backend, and the Digital Mars backend. All the decades of optimization in them are taken advantage of by D. If you write C-style code in D, you'll get the same code generated as if your wrote it in C.
Sounds like a trust to keep minor providers out of the market.
> unfortunately codebases today can be very, very huge

why is that?
HN hates data on energy discussions. The HN vibe is strongly in favor of EVs, for example, despite the fact that EVs are the slowest and most expensive way to reduce transport greenhouse gas emissions. Fission is, likewise, the slowest and most expensive way to add electrical generation today. Fission is the only power source where the costs increased in the last 10 years. PV is now five times cheaper than fission. Onshore wind costs the same as PV. Batteries are easy to mass-produce. The substantive debate is over.
I would love to see the functionality of cargo-deny built into cargo, and a sensible set of defaults added that prevent people from accidentally using proprietary code like this (while still allowing people to use proprietary code if they knowingly choose to, as well as allowing local first-party code by default so this doesn't stymie people's own internal development).
Its always fucking baffling to me when people believe everything about nuclear is lobbying. Its a tiny industry that absolutely sucks at lobbying.

> reducing the load or better managing the load (with flexible pricing etc.), especially since that could be very data driven which should align well with the HN crowd.

Nobody is against that, but its not a actual solution, its an optimisation that doesn't play into the overall discussion.

At the end of the day you need to generate a lot of energy, no matter how much you want to reduce or recycle.
I don't know, a lot of people in that thread argued that this must've actually cost Rockstar a lot of money. I'm not sure which side of the argument is true, both sound plausible to me.
"Robert Stickgold: "Psychoanalysis is about as useful to neuroscience as creationism is to evolutionary biology. Freud, who aggressively defended his theories in spite of a lack of evidence, would have been at home in the Trump administration."

Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department
> It works just fine with google photos

Second line in your link:

> NB The Google Photos API which rclone uses has quite a few limitations, so please read the limitations[0] section carefully to make sure it is suitable for your use.

For anyone intending to use rclone to download their photos from Google Photos, be aware that you will lose EXIF data. If you download videos, they will be lower quality. There are more limitations in the link.

[0] https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#limitations
Disclaimer: I used to work at Cisco, where the now open-source VPP/fd.io originated, but I wasn't involved in that effort.