nextos

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by nextos 2mo ago
You need them in some scenarios. For example, lots of car rental companies refuse to take anything but a physical card.
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by nextos 2mo ago
AFAIK, Galois is 100% employee owned: https://www.galois.com/life-at-galois I know people working both at Galois and Mondragón, and they seem to be relatively similar in spirit.
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by nextos 2mo ago
> You can't formally verify your application works correctly under transient network error conditions if you never thought about what your application should do under those conditions. This is why it's so important to separate
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by nextos 2mo ago
I agree with the core thesis that LLMs + theorem provers might make formal methods cheap enough to be practical in software development. The biggest issue was always cost. But there's still an alignment problem. Without human supervisi
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by nextos 2mo ago
Yeah, I heard some horror stories a few years back. Trustpilot and Google reviews had some interesting cases.
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by nextos 2mo ago
Gatwick long-term parking is not expensive if you book in advance. You need to take a slow bus shuttle to the terminal, but it's never more than 15-20 min including waiting time. I've used it a zillion times as I'd rather not
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DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge(ncofnas.com)
3 points by nextos 2mo ago|0 comments
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by nextos 2mo ago
It's sadly becoming harder. I've been playing that game for quite long and hope to stick to web apps, but still. Some banks limit functionality on web apps, which is annoying. More importantly, many refuse to provide a decent 2FA
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by nextos 2mo ago
And he effectively killed the last EU platform. Will we ever see another one? I miss these simpler times when devices were made to serve users, and not the other way round.
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by nextos 2mo ago
I think this is the real problem. I am sympathetic towards automated code synthesis. But without formal verification and a human reviewing specifications to ensure alignment, I think code will end up being broken in unexpected ways or drift
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by nextos 2mo ago
Exactly, and it sold really well despite that. It was Kafkaesque, discontinuing a product before release.
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by nextos 2mo ago
Discussed in HN many times, but worth restating once more. The N9 was fantastic. A joy to use, and in many ways the best design, both hardware and software, I've ever handled. Everything had been designed with care and some UI elements
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by nextos 2mo ago
Yes, this is why garden leaves are popular in quant finance. You get paid for about a year to do nothing so that the trade secrets from your firm (trading strategies) expire. That's very different from a non-compete. A non-compete is a
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by nextos 2mo ago
I have never said they always act as a bloc, but their industry has a strong component of long-term strategic government planning behind them.
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by nextos 2mo ago
I think it's a deliberate business strategy of commoditization of their complement. China acts like an entire bloc, not as single companies, and they want to monetize hardware.
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by nextos 3mo ago
It is true that Lean has seen relatively little adoption in software verification compared to e.g. Isabelle and Rocq (previously Coq). Even Agda has had more traction in that domain. However, Lean is currently gaining significant momentum
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by nextos 3mo ago
SailfishOS can run lots of banking apps with an Android emulation layer. It's not perfect, but far from useless. Some use it as a daily driver. Depending on your country, it can be super doable. There are also lots of indie native apps
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by nextos 3mo ago
Keep in mind vitamin D is really, among other things, an immune signaling molecule. So, we know the mechanism, and it's quite plausible that supplementation works. In other words, as an skeptic, I don't think it's just an epi
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by nextos 3mo ago
I am not sure I agree we've yet to see any other architecture that competes with a large transformer. For example, in long-range tasks such as those related to genome prediction, state-space models (Mamba) exhibit SOTA performance. I a
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by nextos 3mo ago
I agree. I also think it's about the hardware and, obviously, recognizing AD as the fundamental primitive. Particular architectures don't matter so much yet. It's quite possible that S3-Mamba or xLSTM could be used in lieu of
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Diagram of Distribution Relationships(johndcook.com)
4 points by nextos 3mo ago|0 comments
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by nextos 3mo ago
I agree. The US Army already recognized this problem and developed the Munson last before WWI. Some mid and high-end footwear brands produce boots with Munson or Munson-like lasts. It helps tremendously. I cannot go back to narrow toeboxes.
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by nextos 3mo ago
I would say that lots of interesting things are happening in biotech, and these things are slowly building critical mass, similar to what happened in computer hardware during the period 1970-2000. Genomic platforms are now able to capture m
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by nextos 3mo ago
It is difficult. I think the key is that Spain has a large corps of civil engineers working for the government. They plan all projects with great detail and then oversee their execution. Agile regulations against NIMBYism and a world-class
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by nextos 3mo ago
True, also very precarious and unstable. It is now common not to get a long-term contract until your 40s. Given the massive pay gap with industry and scarce funding, it's natural lots of innovation has shifted to industrial labs.
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by nextos 3mo ago
> "Probabilistic Machine Learning" by Murphy [...] even if it contains virtually no deep learning in it This is confusing. Are you referring to the old 2012 version? Volumes 1 & 2 (2022-3) contain a substantial amount of de
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by nextos 3mo ago
See for example https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/engineering/conformance...
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by nextos 3mo ago
I've worked in formal methods for quite a long time, and I disagree a bit with your statement that new logics are not helpful. Industrial logics are really practical and allow you to write all sorts of sophisticated properties that you
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Formal Methods and the Future of Programming(blog.janestreet.com)
107 points by nextos 3mo ago|4 comments
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by nextos 3mo ago
My statement obviously referred to major cities, which is where most IT jobs are, as I indicated remote work allows you to leverage cheaper locations. Take for example Oxford. A typical rental will be around £1,600 pcm. The median pre-tax s

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