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Multiple readings An opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source software Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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Catala law programming language paper

Catala: A Programming Language for the Law

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Luis Villa
“Yeah overall the vast majority of law won’t be usefully provable in this way, only specific things (like tax law) that have highly structured logics. So I bet a lot of admin law? Anyway here is one of the key papers: arxiv.org/abs/2103.03198” evidence ↗
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“Yeah overall the vast majority of law won’t be usefully provable in this way, only specific things (like tax law) that have highly structured logics. So I bet a lot of admin law? Anyway here is one of the key papers: arxiv.org/abs/2103.03198”

7 experts discussed this · 21 posts
D. Hicks: ffs
Grace: They should’ve compressed it into a 3 minute slop music video obviously
Luis Villa: gonna solve constitutional law this weekend
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Anthropic open source vulnerability service

An opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source software

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · evacide, Luis Villa
“I understand that Anthropic thinks they're doing open source projects a favor here, but what they're actually doing is creating an enormous amount of work for people that they are not paying. www.anthropic.com/research/lau...” evidence ↗
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Tim Kellogg evacide Eileen Clancy 🧿 James Grimmelmann Luis Villa mackuba.eu
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“I understand that Anthropic thinks they're doing open source projects a favor here, but what they're actually doing is creating an enormous amount of work for people that they are not paying. www.anthropic.com/research/lau...”

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“Claude for critical infrastructure Anthropic has a new program where open source projects can apply to use a new service for code review to spot vulnerabilities Users must prove that they’re actually maintainers, and projects must be critical infrastructure…”

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evacide: I understand that Anthropic thinks they're doing open source projects a favor here, but what they're actually doing is creating an enormous amount of work for people that they are not paying. www.a…
evacide: What do you do if you are the core maintainer on a project and your options are "more vuln reports than you can ever hope to triage" or "someone finds a critical 0day in your project and either exp…
evacide: I assume that the reason requests are considered on a case-by-case basis is that they think they will be able to catch all of these.
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4 experts · 27 posts · 15d ago
Luis Villa Dan Hon austegard.com apenwarr.ca
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“Right, which is why I say that for a lot of things you need correct underlying architecture that, as much as possible, eliminates footguns deterministically rather than asking "are you sure". That'…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Opportunity & adoption · 2 Markets & investment · 1
Luis Villa: I would like this to be right, but I don't think it is. Once upon a time I looked semi-seriously on what it would take to do self-hosting on an Android base: apps fully sandboxed; installable from …
Luis Villa: Really deserves a whole essay, but: capitalist (really, Venture Capitalist) control of software creates enshittification in a very specific, predictable dynamic; third-party control of our data has…
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4 experts · 14 posts · 11d ago
Tim Carmody Luis Villa Amy Hoy B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
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“that is why Granite was one of the models I evaluated, and why it was so disappointing that it sucked :( Last I checked I could not get enough access to Nemotron to test it but that was some months…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Amy Hoy: summarizing text is actually an incredibly difficult task (for people) and i’m continuously surprised that it’s positioned as being trivial
Amy Hoy: i assumed so. but yeah diff models will work better for diff stuff as jake says, but imo none of them are great at it except the frontier models
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