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Hard agree on this! Given the aggressive templating a lot of these projects have, it's actually positive to see "ok, these clankers can do the boring thing..." from one so traditionally safe-playing on development approaches as GCC.

This blog is actually very useful... There's also the flip side, possibly due to the expense (technically, intellectually, and emotionally), where "IT'S FORMALLY VERIFIED!!" has become some marketing code for "it's safe, secure, and PFAS free..." - just because something is formally verified, doesn't mean it's secure or fit for purpose. It usually just means it conforms to a given spec "and that's that..."

Even GCC admit... nobody likes writing tests.

The comments are worth it... the full spectrum of personalities and the hottest of takes. 10/10, would recommend to a bored friend.

Nice to see SaxonQ getting some deserved attention. Diamond, not needing much cooling, would be perfect if you could 'place' the NV centres more easily. I heard a group was trying with FIB tech, but it's early days. Great writeup, in general.

Interesting to see this pop up again, as I agree with the post but not the bait-and-switch in the title :-P

Open source is not a business model in and of itself, but many very successful companies and large enterprise units are built off open source foundations and the aggressive adoption that that garnered. I'd always urge the framing to shift towards something like; 'open source is rarely the only thing to do, but it's worth doing widely for many commercial reasons'. (in)Famously IBM's revenue from open source services was $2Bn in 2003 before they stopped separately reporting it.

Fun fact - the computiles piece is an uncredited rediscovery of Wang's work from the 1960's on computable tilings. Specifically, he went as far to show that the halting problem is equivalent to the 'domino problem' - can we tile the plane using a given finite set of dominoes (aka tiles) where we have infinitely many copies of each and the tiling must preserve edge-meet criteria. Every tiling is a computer program, every computer program is a tiling.

Technically, it's the link between tilings and computability. Braids have a different more mutable algebraic structure.

"Like Turing before me, I have reinvented the nondeterministic computing machine..." -- Wolfram, probably...

There are pedagogical books (CF. 'Counterexamples in Topology', 'Counterexamples in Analysis') that teach the nuances of subjects through counterexamples. They're popular as it's sometimes easier to learn details from a pathology or degenerate example than from just learning what is intended.

Neat! Perhaps add a wishlist or Project tab? :)

Tangentially, I recall reading a paper not that long ago that showed that under certain assumptions that Zermelo's theorem showed that making the games 'quantum games' didn't actually offer any real advantage.

It's so old skool, it's almost new again... almost... Still waiting for that third (or fourth?!) wave of XXE (or similar) bugs.

"Control iOS games through mouth movements" ... not me gurning continuously at candy crush, no siree... x-D

I've been trying to get access to CHERI for quite a while - I have a background in hardware security so was very curious to have a play. But only 'approved partners' are allowed to have access... guessing even in projects like this, Security through Obscurity still reigns.

Short and simple Chrome extension that reads the requests in a page looking for '.pdf'in URL or 'pdf' in MIME type, and then reads all the chunks and reassembles the file from the base64 provided by Chrome. Uses `Network.getResponseBody` to get the data - select a tab from the dropdown, go and reload the content (scroll all the way through if it's long), and it should find all the pieces, reassemble, and present them as a download.

Designed for getting a file out when you have to from a page that doesn't have a download button and has a CDN that you have to parse through all the chunks in order to acquire the file from raw requests.

EDIT - uses `chrome.debugger` API, so wont' work in Firefox without totally reworking it (but probably possible!)

Hard agree with this My fave workflow I did was making the first fully regulatory approved LLM workflow for a global retail bank, using GPT 3.5 in June 2023 on Azure early access. That stack is still the reference for a lot of the work we've done since and currently.

Geography has really started making the internet a lot less open... In the UK, I guess there's some kind of allowance for free access?

Nice - can't wait to see how it grows!

I think recounting how far YAML has come is actually really useful - props to the author for stating the case I think quite well!

If we couldn't make underwater datacenters work, I doubt it's half as easy to make space-based ones work.

Cobbled together with Clanker Claude over a few weekends, based on work I was doing on the RAPTOR project for automated vulnerability finding. Based on the CHEESECLOTH by Cueller et al. from USENIX '23 - https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentat...

With a lot of disclosure chatter going around like it's 2000-and-great, perhaps we can utilise the cryptography of ZKPs and tlock cryptography to disclose bugs; I can prove the bug works in a zkVM, without anyone knowing the details of the exploit except those who have the keys. Then you can timelock it to reveal after disclosure period, or not... your choice. Either way, we can assess the risk and determine important facts about an exploit without ever diclosing it until required.

Aim - to upgrade the conversation around disclosure. It's the future, let's act like we have more options.

Update - put it on a site for folk to use: https://shadowcat.online/

I'm actually very impressed how many people are now playing with Zero Knowledge on HN... I put this out a week ago, and have seen many more popping up. Amazing!

So two parts to a reply - first is, you don't need the encryption per se, but you can add that in the case that you give it some key and then it's encrypted. I don't see the value unless you're using this to generate frames for a video, which isn't current functionality but totally doable.

Second part, Charlie Bennet said "the only entropy source is one you can trust" and the best entropy source is quantum fluctuations, so we built a fully open source phase diffusion QRNG at Quantum Village and released it. Link: https://github.com/QuantumVillage/EntropyLoop

There is a toggle where you can show what chunks have been received. This is also where the 'show specific chunk' function comes in... the receiver can see "oh, I'm only missing chunk 125, so just show me that" etc. etc.

This seems to get impressive results cross compiling models from torch (with vollo-torch) into FPGA friendly formats. Speedups look quite impressive...

With great difficulty...

Cheers!

QR code has limits, use the file transfer to chunk it. :)

If you like this, you're probably gonna like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessboard_complex