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philprx··on How do we prevent mathemathics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy?
Make the proof from LLMs with the same constraints as human mathematicians have:

The proof must be as succinct as possible so that it's reviewable. It's ok for the same LLM to publish repeatedly, but it's not Ok to drop a bulk 600kb Lean proof.

The proof must build on other works that are similarly bite sized and published before (so that it's incrementally reviewed)

The proof must be published as soon as fully formed, and not in bulk like current LLMs proofs.

philprx··on Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
"Good job, Microsoft, amazing uptime."
philprx··on Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta
Recaptcha is taking ages
philprx··on Google Public CA is down
that's roughly 1/45th probable downtime window = 2.22% downtime probability (yeah, it's a figure not a real proba ;-) )

compared to say, roughly 1/365 probable downtime window for a 398 days cert lifetime = 0.25% downtime probability

let's pray you don't need to rotate when it's down...

Dan Geer famously said: "Dependency is the root cause of risk"...

PS: even stricter shortlived durations in some context:

Internal/Private 1 – 7 days Corporate VPNs, Internal apps

Ephemeral 5 mins – 1 hour Docker containers, CI/CD runners

philprx··on Google Public CA is down
Trust is down ;-)
philprx··on Programming languages used for music
Strudel.cc ?
philprx··on DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service
You're advocating for going the way of dystopian china?

Gee... Those who trade privacy for security will get neither (and deserve none?)

philprx··on Public Access OpenVMS System
wooohooo... it had been a long long time since I last entered VMS command in a terminal !

Thank you sooo much for making this happen! very happy here

philprx··on Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1
I didn't find the GitHub project for bufstream... Any clue?
philprx··on Show HN: I made a curated list of Open Source Boilerplates for developers
Given the uptake of FastAPI and FastHTML, is there any plans for these on top of Flask?
philprx··on Ask HN: Anyone learned art (drawing, caricature etc.) as an adult?
Passion, focus.... Just like tech.
philprx··on A low budget consumer hardware espionage implant (2018)
What are other equipments similar to this one but different?

There seems to have many GPS location trackers on the market, are they all based on the same hardware?

philprx··on GenZ software engineers, according to older colleagues
Paid content click bait
philprx··on OpenAI compatibility
How does Ollama compare to LocalGPT ?
philprx··on Thirteen Ways of Looking at Art
Excellent composite quote:

"Art is for seeing the world from different perspectives. And also money laundering and tax avoidance."

;-)

philprx··on Build a startup or side project faster with these SaaS templates
Is there a fastapi equivalent?
philprx··on Why are we being DDoSed by Cloudflare?
Well they certainly can’t feel good about not detecting egress DDoS from their customer usage.

It could be VPN originating or maybe Worker originating maybe?

Don’t they have a security.txt and security@ email address?

Looks like posting to social media the full analysis of the attack is the sensible thing to do.

philprx··on Things we always remind ourselves while coding
Excellent !

I learned some things. I'll consider making posters of this ;-)

philprx··on Rxinfer: Automatic Bayesian Inference Through Reactive Message Passing
Great, congrats!

What's the equivalent in python?

philprx··on Chart of percentage of 'failed' startups incubated Y Combinator, 2005-2019
So what's the rationale behind this data?

They got so much better at advising startups?

Startups are being insulated for real world truth eg. Due to too much funding?

Data is corrupted?

philprx··on Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
Last or first nail in the coffin for Google?

Definitely ground for breakup IMHO.

philprx··on You Don't Have Balls To
What's written is quite right, but is quite short ;-)

I was expecting a bit more "Then what" (the rest of the website is okayish).

One thing that also is important is: luck in timing, mass in market.

You can be as daring as you want, if you don't come at the right time for the market, and if the market is not sizable enough, then your effort will be fruitless.

philprx··on Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
No, it would mean for Firefox developers that it's illegal to have feature that can disable the EU member state certificates.

Such crypto backdooring failed in the past, so they're trying to go after the weakest link they can think of. In this case, software publishers.

philprx··on Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
You obviously didn't have to deal with the misuse of security, "for the children" pretext for interception, and crypto scare attempts...

Yes, there are too much ill conceived attempts against security that in the end will hurt everyone. It's disappointing to see it coming from EU.

philprx··on If you plant milkweed, they will come
Which is great because being an awesome tree for bowmaking, nobody cares if you harvest a few straight stave: On the contrary people will say "Good, you're removing these" :-)

Plus they give excellent liquid yellow honey and you can make yummy perfumed donuts with their flowers.

But yeah, it's a pain to get rid of: even if cut, they will regrow nearly endlessly and their thorns are so pointy and durable that they routinely kill tires...

philprx··on WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
actime24 is possibly for Arrival City time, not aircraft time.

Fun research!

philprx··on Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of A.I. Weapons
Behind paywall :-(
philprx··on Ask HN: Which school produces the best programmers or software engineers?
School of self learning with open source.

Sorry if it's half a joke, because of course it's not a school per se, but that's the best source for me of great programmers I've seen in my 30+ years dev hiring experience (usually as CTO).

philprx··on Search real content by real people from the indieweb
From searches I made, content returned is not relevant enough
philprx··on Hundreds of Google employees laid off: NYT
Not available internationally, geographic blocking :-(

"This content is not available in your country/region."

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