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Are you based in Alaska? I’d love to hear more if so; I have contact info on my website. (I grew up there).

Yeah fair enough. I can definitely see the value of property-based verification like this and agree that useful properties could be easy to express and that LLMs could feasibly ver…

The whole point I think, though, is that it doesn’t matter. If an LLM hallucinates a proof that passes the proof checker, it’s not a hallucination. Writing and inspecting the spec …

I think formal verification shines in areas where implementation is much more complex than the spec, like when you’re writing incomprehensible bit-level optimizations in a cryptogr…

> there's a section of road near where I live that's dangerous, and we all know it's dangerous Clearly not enough people know it’s dangerous or how dangerous it is, or one of them …

Semgrep has supported uv for months now (I added it).

This free tradition in software is I think one of the things that I love so much, but I don't see how it can continue with LLMs due to the extremely high training costs and the pow…

Do you mean 500Wh rather than 500kWh? 500 kWh would be around 10 EVs worth, and looks like it costs around 700k [0], but 500Wh seems to be a common size for portable power stations…

I think they mean backwards-compatible syntax-wise, rather than actually allowing this feature to be used on existing code. If I’m understanding correctly they would prefer for the…

I found out yesterday that it is now the law that federal employees are guaranteed back pay after a shutdown, thanks to the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 passed af…

I actually think that Cloudflare has made publishing on the internet _more_ accessible for many individuals. I’ve helped a few people get personal websites running on Cloudflare pa…

Hm. To me it is indeed the big bad tech companies at fault for implementing _obviously_ user-hostile functionality (mandatory suggested posts, for example) that exploit human natur…

Is it possible that the current form of social media is actually contributing to the erosion of your liberties because it is so widely used in society and is likely contributing to…

I think modern social media is a huge problem but don’t see we can fix it without regulation. It’s clear that all the current incentives point companies towards engagement and rage…

> it works for human drivers Sure, for some definition of "works"... https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/fatality-statistics/deta...

Why are the socio-political stars aligned in tens of countries across Europe and Asia but not in the US, if such alignment is so rare? I might argue that the bay area focuses on tr…

Note that Caltrans only maintains state roads; looks like from that document that they distribute some money to localities but as far as I can tell we can't see what fraction of lo…

There are also a variety of ways that "efficiency" can be defined; your comment considers monetary efficiency, but both modes of transport have costs on society that are not consid…

Do we have the crypto to build an asymmetric variant? The way that I’d immediately think to do it is have the authenticator create a signature over the current time (chunked into 3…

It depends on the phone, but for many phones the security story remains very good even when lost, unless someone knows your passcode. So it’s still “something you know” protecting …

Wow, great article. I love the cable car photo https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Strip_ph... Must be somewhat interesting deciding on the background content, too.…

That’s the tough part; it’s self-reinforcing :) both are causes and both are effects, and we’ve got to break the cycle somewhere. But no, all of them. Low usage causes service cuts…