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> I recently reviewed a paper that kept saying things like “we rigorously prove” and “we formally verify” — despite the fact that the paper contained nothing but proof sketches

Yep. Some people think "formal" means "mathematical," whereas it actually means "mechanical". A formal proof is one that can be correctly checked by a computer.

> The second problem is deeper: it is extremely difficult to argue convincingly that a verification result is correct. By “correct” I mean not only “mathematically sound” but also “the result is faithful to the intent of the verification effort.”

Worse. Even if we're convinced that the properties we verify are the right ones for correctness, we can only prove (even formally so) that an abstract algorithm satisfies them. We cannot prove that a system — which ultimately comprises a lot of hardware — does.

On the other hand, because reducing the probability of (catastrophic) failure is all we can hope for anyway, formal verification in various forms can help do that better — i.e., reduce the probability further, and with lower cost — than traditional testing methods alone. For example, because a formal specification can be quite short, it might be easier to convince ourselves that the properties we're checking are indeed the ones we're interested in than thousands of tests. I absolutely agree, though, that formal methods researchers often make the mistake on focusing on the wrong thing when communicating the value of their work. Formal methods can never prove a system correct, but they can help make it more correct and with less effort than using traditional assurance methods alone.

In other words, formal methods help catch some dangerous bugs more easily than traditional testing, and that is where their value is. Using the word "proof" when describing the goals of formal methods is doing them a disservice.
I've noticed that too. For some explicit or implicit reason, designers are making UI's without the date. Of course this makes anyone unable to orient itself in the time context. Wonder if they are mindlessly influenced by the transient nature of social media design. Things being "conversation" oriented can gain from peers interaction but for highly technical content, an informal UX will prevent high engineering from _flowing_ (emerging smoothly) or at least less difficult than needed.
If you look back at sci-fi from the 60ies, despite it appearing utopian today, it often dealt with the anxieties and issues of the day.

Trek is a good example. It’s often hailed as “utopian” and “visionary” today, totally ignoring the Cold War themes, fear of technology (Just look at how many times Kirk faced an intelligent computer antagonist!), overpopulation and of course the counter culture.

In the space hippie episode (Which Way to Eden?) Spock even talks about the discomfort many people feel with technology and the universal longing for a pre-technological eden.
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In academic content, the lack of date is the most pernicious!
https://youtu.be/q3OCFfDStgM?t=1342

"We simply don't expect software to work anymore." - Jonathan Blow
When I was in the USA a few years ago with an hispanic looking friend, he was often offered a steep discount at the various shops and restaurants. Often enough that we would ask him to do all the shopping.

This happened to us in multiple cities (NY/Miami/SF)
Julia's parser is written in Scheme using femtolisp. Look for *.scm files and the 'flisp' directory in the repo[1].

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/src
On pixel phones I'm pretty sure you can install the camera from the Play Store with no fuss on LineaseOS.

I say that using a LineaseOS Pixel 4a with Google Camera and don't remember doing anything special to install it.
I've been using Komoot and have been pretty happy with it. Crowd-sourced routes and points of interest, smart-enough routing, free* for most uses. What's really missing for me is being able to set a target distance/time and then add waypoints and it would fill in the rest.

* Unless you live somewhere where the "one free region unlock" doesn't work like I do, but I was happy to pay
Neither, it's because of a (mainly) East Asian concept of "grue" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...). This is also the reason why the Japanese traffic lights has the "bluest green" (according to the Japanese government) in use today (https://www.rd.com/article/heres-japan-blue-traffic-lights/).

P.S. Russians have a different problem with blue: there's no singular word that maps to the English "blue" (they have синий (siniy, darker shades of blue) and голубой (goluboy, lighter shades of blue)). To be fair, English has the reds going on here: there's pink (in some languages substituted with the local equivalent of "rose") and maroon (which is just replaced with "dark red", and is a worst offender since that the French uses it for brown!)
Because almost everyone refers to Kafka as a queue. And Kafka isn’t a queue.
Not all of them are free, some of them are kidnapped by traffickers from the country side.

https://www.economist.com/baobab/2012/04/24/maid-in-ethiopia
The gig economy is trying to solve health care's burnout crisis
Can you give a tldr/eli5?
Studio recording is a different type of labor, to produce a one hour record musicians should put at least 6-8 working hours. This is for quartet, bigger orchestras will tend to take even longer to properly record. We also need to factor in a work of recording and acoustic engineers, equipment and sound stage cost.

But to be precise, one full take of one hour recording will still take exactly the same amount of labor from musicians)

The whole idea of record distribution is actually a different type of economy. Live broadcast would be an interesting twist in this path of reason, but it was not a thing in 1960s.
Agree, it's a really fast and lightweight software even in folders with thousands of photos.

It's definitely on the list of "Must Install" after a fresh OS install, with VLC and a few others.
At least in Japan, some maid services are more like cosplaying escorts.

https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/100650

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/10/national/u-n-of...
Hacker News is the only aggregator I consistently check. I consider it my secret weapon. It exposes me to a variety of important technical ideas, which helps me stay on top of my part of the industry.
yeah it doesn't take much eye squinting to see lisp in julia. given these similarities i wonder if julia users could start to appreciate the s-expression syntax. i come from matlab then python background and i have come to really enjoy the s-expression syntax. modern IDE tools have made s-expression code as readable as pythonic pseudo-code-like syntax while affording the programmer unrivaled editing power
That is not the generally accepted meaning of the word "corruption". You are playing fast and loose with words here.
I understand your pain. Maybe keep in mind what operation they are running (complexity and scale) and that feedback may take time to implement. To put this into perspective think about what replacing certificates (or say obtaining new certificates) felt like before Let's Encrypt an ACME were a thing. ;-)
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Why not add something together with the date telling people for how long this information will be valid? Does not have to be a date, can be "indefinitely" or, in the case of software "until new major version update". Works best when you also revisit old content occasionally and update that information. I think you drew the wrong conclusions from those inquiries.
I just checked, this isn't true. I've Google Calendar entries from over 10 years ago. Where did you get the idea that they delete anything older than 2 years?
I’m all for providing telemedicine to those who choose not to be vaccinated against COVID (compared to those who medically can it be vaccinated). But letting them into health care facilities? Nah, get your shots and come back.
Interesting anecdote! It facilitates to rewrite the past, influence the present, control the future. We need to be mindful where to invest our records.
> normalize any differences!

Elsevier could easily make this completely non-trivial. For a very silly example, imagine how this would work if each user got a PDF using a different font. How do you automatically normalize the difference between Comic Sans and Times New Roman? Sure, it's trivial to write a tool that understands what "fonts" are and does this (especially for PDF), but you can't do it with a simple binary tool.

And of course Elsevier can do something entirely more complex.
> If by better you mean increased chances that the first few results will contain the answer you need, then Google is still king.

Hasn't been true since at least December. Kagi is better now by almost an order of magnitude.

Of course my Google is not your Google. Still I have experimentdd so much with Google over so many years, logged in, logged out, from multiple addresses that I am confident in saying that it hasn't been itself for a decade and finally now we have a better alternative.
Exactly our experience. We had stalled jobs and lost jobs on both Bull and Kue.

We wrote a celery-like library for Node[0] and RMQ has been rock solid.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/peanar
Since then banks (at least my bank) has changed so that the Bank presents a QR code which I scan with the BankID app, meaning there's no "prewriting my social security number for a challenge".

Also, even if I authenticate someone to my bank account they're unable to transfer money out of my own accounts without me approving a transaction, where the BankID app will show me the amount and the destination for the money.

So this issue is mostly solved as we move towards the QR code thing and people stop giving their money away. It's impossible to fix layer 8, if someone "willfully" gives their money away it's their fault when the UX is as good at preventing this as it actually is.

Someone could be tricked into giving their money away in person or by other means, look at Theranos, Nikola (I would argue anything Elon Musk touches too) and the likes. They're also scammers. I didn't invest in Theranos or Nikola because i called bullshit directly, same same but different.
My colleague tried to get me in on "Onecoin", he walked away with a loss and I didn't because I called the bluff straight away.

What I'm trying to say is, the system isn't insecure at all. There are many failsafes people have to ignore to get scammed.
Not so unfortunately. The com.apple.CloudPhotosConfiguration also remains up (icloud sync is disbled, so not sure what cloud it's hoping to configure).

Similarly, "ScreenTimeAgent" is there even with the feature disabled. AppleMusic and AppleTV daemons scan for caches throughout the day - never opened either. There's also "gamecontrollerd", "studentd", some iMessage and FaceTime related stuff, etc. etc.

And on a system where you've disabled all analytics/tracking, turned off Siri in all places [1], disabled dictation and all other voice input related options, you even keep your microphone muted when it's not in use, even then, "corespeechd" will send out several MBs of data to Apple on every single boot.

Most of this is nothing more than very unexpected and strange behaviour. The exceptions being those 3 apps that keep tripping over themselves, those actually destroying my battery and fans. A little less unintentional obscurity, maybe some official descriptions for these processes, just some communication, that would go a long way.

[1] Siri settings are scattered throughout, a lists exists though: open Preferences > click button "Siri Suggestions & Privacy" > click button "About Siri & Privacy" button > click bu... eh wait click heading "Siri Suggestions" - yes that black print > then, finally, all the places are listed right under where it says "You have choice and control".
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Haggling is fun. I’m convinced the modern aversion to haggling in first world countries is because people grow up avoiding all direct confrontation. They think it’s somehow how rude to disagree with someone about the price of the article at hand. The next level of it is when they justify this “politeness” by claiming that haggling is inefficient or a waste of time.
> Do you mean intercept the I/O from the OS to the EC in Windows so you can replicate the same functionality in Linux?

Exactly. Thanks for the pointers. I'm gonna give it another try.
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Yes, I find it strange that the advocates of modern JavaScript based sites say they are faster when my experience as a user is the complete opposite, even on modern hardware.
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I sense there might be a bit of a business model here for companies that actually do want to 'archive' stuff.

The company would take a bunch of arbitrary content and do minimal presentation for it, and host it, forever.

Basically 'hands off archiving'. I'll bet a lot of companies would be interested in this.
Things that were luxuries in the past could at the same time be necessities today. That’s not counter-intuitive.

Maybe you need to have a cell phone for work. Clearly that was optional in the year 1900.

> They rented a fourth-floor walk-up apartment in London with four bedrooms, two sitting rooms, and a “nice outlook on green.”

Did people who lived in London back then require a car? Maybe some people would prefer to be able to rent a place in London without owning a car rather then to commute to London for work with a car.
https://calyxos.org/news/2022/01/19/android-12-changelog/
If you found it through google, or search it on google, you can see when it was cached.
Worse? No. The unvaccinated are far more likely to get sick or die as a part of any medical procedure right now just because of the base risk of COVID in hospitals. If you can’t take the first step to protect yourself and others, there’s not much health care providers can do to change your mind.
"social power relations" are an ideological construct too, that's the idea, that we use ideologies to ideate better explanations, simpler explanations for things. No shit, in other words. Nice try, though.
> The percent of chronic homeless in the drug/substance abuse bucket is pretty high

That's true, but correlation does not equal causation. Many rich people have drugs/mental issues, too. Some drugs are basically a social status symbol in some circles (cocaine, champagne and some other fancy alcohols, for example).

Many people become homeless due to reasons unrelated to drugs. Once you're homeless, basic survival becomes an every day struggle and it's not hard to see how mind-altering substances can be very appealing in this situation.
All search engines have some form of implicit bias. An unbiased search engine would be beyond useless at actually finding anything but extremely well specified queries. The trick is to tune the bias to favor results that are interesting and relevant.

This is also why having just one big search engine is a bad idea.
"we don’t have a substantial labor force willing to work for a few thousand dollars a year"

Few thousand dollars, room and food, to be precise.
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In the middle of my life I am grateful that I've finally worked out a decent sleep system. It took a lot more than people realize but diet, exercise, regular schedule, stress management, and bedroom environment all played sometimes surprisingly important factors. Worst part is it's going to be different for everyone, but IMO totally worth the potential years to figure it out. Only advice I can offer is to use the scientific method, keep everything as static as possible and change one thing at a time but to get a real impression of that one thing changing it might take a couple weeks.
Well they lack basic medical care so no they don't have everything they need.
That's mostly because tsc's parser is used by the JS implementations.

Writing a parser for the purpose would achieve performance closer to the other implementations.
> Our searching includes anonymized requests to traditional search indexes like Google and Bing as well as vertical sources like Wikipedia and DeepL or other APIs. We also have our own non-commercial index (Teclis), news index (TinyGem), and an AI for instant answers.

Kagi seems to use both Google and bing results and will cost a minimum of $10 a month. Seems like the worst of all worlds to me. It’s a good option I suppose for those who want to pay.
Most things were cheaper for the (then rather small) upper-middle-class, yes. For others, not so much. A lot more people had to choose between starving and freezing in 1919 London than in 2021 London.
I haven’t “ducked down to the shops” when I’m ill. It’s not that hard to keep necessities around.
I think I will be subscribing to kagi for their better code search alone. Also not paid etc just a happy user
I was in that situation. My only car was a two-seat convertible lovely car but at some point when I got good at surfing I needed a way to transport my board from my house to the beach (about 5km). I decided to sell my car and buy a larger luxury one that could carry my board and still be enjoyable to be in. Obviously I could afford to get a second, cheap, car to do that but the hassle of having two cars just wasn't worth the trouble for me.

It's the same for your example I suspect: if you can do it in a single car, that's often the option with the least amount of hassle.
Seems to be copied from https://otonomo.io/redis-kafka-or-rabbitmq-which-microservic... (where it has a date from 2019)

This same blog already had a copied submission yesterday, so it seems it regularly does this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30061113
I just tried "python convert datetime to unix timestamp" on marginalia and it came out with nothing. Kagi I signed up for the beta and I'm on a waitlist.

Still nothing better that Google for me.
This is absolutely infuriating when it's meant to be informative, especially about something in a fast-changing landscape, like how-tos on Kubernetes, for instance.
Techno optimism wasn’t just a sci-fi thing, it was the spirit of the times to a large extent in the Western World and Eastern Block alike.

All the “Better living through chemistry” and dreams of tiny nuclear power reactors in every car and house, providing virtually free energy to all.

And to a certain extent THEY WERE RIGHT!

The green revolution in the 60ies revolutionized agriculture, and made a world with more than a few billion people possible.

Folks growing up in the 60ies were the first generation in Europe, the USSR and US (Heck, in many countries around the world) who grew up never having seen famine or real hunger.

Things that were once unobtainable luxuries, like cars or airplane travel, became something within reach of regular people.

The techno optimism might appear quaint today, but likewise we have forgotten just how much life has been transformed for the better.
This browser addon claims to show the origin country of any item: https://www.wecultivate.us/

I haven't tried it much though (I'm not in the USA).
Leaving your usual context (work setting) and maybe getting some fresh air while doing so worked for me. Buying a bicycle and regularly taking some short-ish tours around my neighbourhood/city feels really nice.
Parent was saying that if you saw this guy on the street, you wouldn't think he's a deca-millionaire just by the looks, which is what you implied. In most pictures he projects a middle manager look.
Could be worse, you might have gotten a big tattoo
"The next layer of your unfolding purpose may make itself clear immediately. More often, however, it does not. After completing one layer of purpose, you might not know what to do with your life. You know that the old project is over for you, but you are not sure of what is next. At this point, you must wait for a vision.
There is no way to rush this process. You may need to get an intermediary job to hold you over until the next layer of purpose makes itself clear. Or, perhaps you have enough money to simply wait. But in any case, it is important to open yourself to a vision of what is next. You stay open to a vision of your deeper purpose by not filling your time with distractions. Don’t watch TV or play computer games. Don’t go out drinking beer with your friends every night or start dating a bunch of women. Simply wait. You may wish to go on a retreat in a remote area and be by yourself. Whatever it is you decide to do, consciously keep yourself open and available to receiving a vision of what is next. It will come.
When it comes, it usually won’t be a detailed vision. You will probably have a sense of what direction to move in, but the practical steps might not make themselves clear. When the impulse begins to arise, act on it. Don’t wait for the details. Learn by trial and error what it is you are to do.

[...]

And then, one day, a few years later, it is finished. This layer has dissolved. And the cycle begins again, and again, until you have penetrated all the layers into your deepest purpose. Then, you act fully, until that purpose, too, is dissolved in the bliss of the love that you are."

— David Deida
True, but academic journals usually try to maintain some sort of acceptance ratio, and avoid accepting every submitted article. (If they do, they will have the reputation of not being selective, which will harm their rankings and will make people try submitting their work to more selective venues first.)

Of course, for commercial publishers, there is an incentive to publish more -- so there is tension between taking more articles (more revenue in APCs, more volume, easier to attract subscriptions, more perceived impact for extensive properties like h-index) and being more selective (more prestige).

So worse reviews probably doesn't mean more papers accepted but a more random selection of accepted articles.

Assuming that articles have some intrinsic "quality" that most researchers would agree on, and that good reviews are better correlated to this quality than bad reviews, one would expect that getting worse reviews would make the journal selection process (even) more noisy. This can harm the prestige of commercial journals (if they start rejecting articles perceived as "good" and publish articles perceived as "bad").
I think you hit it on the head. Value is subjective, and they'll charge whatever they can get away with. People will stop paying when it's no longer worth it to them (which will hopefully be soon as other models are embraced)
https://archive.is/fzqv1
got a usb on ebay with malware for windows.
I spent a month in singapore a few years back, about 5 miles from the office. I took uber everywhere though - bill was about £450 for the month when I put the expenses in.

Uber was about 15-20 minutes, public transport took over an hour. That’s 40 hours a month extra time, and my time is worth far more than £11 an hour when my company’s paying £3k for the apartment alone.
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Not to start a war but iCalender has saved everything since I first started using an iPhone in 2013.

edit: Make that 2011
That only works if the foreigner has no friends and doesn't talk to anybody about how much they pay their housekeeper and the grocery budget. And if the foreigner just pays t housekeeper a lump sum, rather than a wage + cost of supplies, then that also won't work.
The now has been always preponderous over the past.

There are different ways to look at the issue.

* general assumption: the future is synonim of progress, so now is more relevant.

* general assumption: we know the past, so focus on the unknown aka the now

* fact: maintain the memories needs energy, and energy is a scarce resource. So societies forget its past to focus in the current issues to preserve themselves.

BTW, Same vibes looking to twitter timelines