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15 | 1,654 | |
490 | 526 | |
1.0% | 0.6% | |
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15 days ago | 7 months ago | |
Isabelle | TypeScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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l4v
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Rewrite the VP9 codec library in Rust
> C/C++ can be made memory safe
.. but it's much harder to prove your work is memory safe. sel4 is memory safe C, for example. The safety is achieved by a large external theorem prover and a synced copy written in Haskell. https://github.com/seL4/l4v
Typechecks are form of proof. It's easier to write provably safe Rust than provably safe C because the proofs and checker are integrated.
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CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in WebP (Chrome)
You can't really retrofit safety to C. The best that can be achieved is sel4, which while it is written in C has a separate proof of its correctness: https://github.com/seL4/l4v
The proof is much, much more work than the microkernel itself. A proof for something as large as webP might take decades.
- SeL4 Specification and Proofs
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What in the name of all that's holy is going on with software ?
When something like the seL4 microkernel is formally verified, the remaining bugs should only be bugs in the specification, not the implementation.
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Elimination of programmers
seL4 specifications and proofs are not a programming language.
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Google Announces KataOS and Sparrow
Yes, especially 'logically impossible' when you dig into the details. From the blogpost:
> and the kernel modifications to seL4 that can reclaim the memory used by the rootserver.
MMMMMMMMMMMkkkkkk. So you then have to ask: were these changes also formally verified? There's a metric ton of kernel changes here: https://github.com/AmbiML/sparrow-kernel/commits/sparrow but I don't see a fork of https://github.com/seL4/l4v anywhere inside AmbiML.
I mean, it does also claim to be "almost entirely written in Rust", which is true if you ignore almost the entire OS part of the OS (the kernel and the minimal seL4 runtime).
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A 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)
Probably the only way to prevent this type of issue in an automated fashion is to change your perspective from proving that a bug exists, to proving that it doesn't exist. That is, you define some properties that your program must satisfy to be considered correct. Then, when you make optimizations such as bulk receiver fast-path, you must prove (to the static analysis tool) that your optimizations to not break any of the required properties. You also need to properly specify the required properties in a way that they are actually useful for what people want the code to do.
All of this is incredibly difficult, and an open area of research. Probably the biggest example of this approach is the Sel4 microkernel. To put the difficulty in perspective, I checkout out some of the sel4 repositories did a quick line count.
The repository for the microkernel itself [0] has 276,541
The testsuite [1] has 26,397
The formal verification repo [2] has 1,583,410, over 5 times as much as the source code.
That is not to say that formal verification takes 5x the work. You also have to write your source-code in such a way that it is ammenable to being formally verified, which makes it more difficult to write, and limits what you can reasonably do.
Having said that, this approach can be done in a less severe way. For instance, type systems are essentially a simple form of formal verification. There are entire classes of bugs that are simply impossible in a properly typed programs; and more advanced type systems can eliminate a larger class of bugs. Although, to get the full benefit, you still need to go out of your way to encode some invariant into the type system. You also find that mainstream languages that try to go in this direction always contain some sort of escape hatch to let the programmer assert a portion of code is correct without needing to convince the verifier.
[0] https://github.com/seL4/seL4
[1] https://github.com/seL4/sel4test
[2] https://github.com/seL4/l4v
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Formally Proven Binary Format Parsers
I mean, just look at the commits with "fix" in the specs folder: https://github.com/seL4/l4v/commits/master?after=4f0bbd4fcbc...
- Proofs and specifications
hn-search
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Rule of Thumb: Anything that looks fancy is not worth you time
- Ads with Psychological tricks
Truly good websites have around 2 facts per 10 word sentence, and get instantly to the chase. Also: good websites give you the names of all their competitors/alternative websites before showing their own stuff, and give you further reading.
Right now the world of technology is supposedly more innovative than ever, but somehow Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org/) and Search Hackernews (https://hn.algolia.com/) beat billion dollar search engines.
Articles written decades ago are still unsurpassed in terms of quality and ease of understanding, but the best modern websites can do is textbook explanations. It is time society graduates from boilerplate buzzword textbook culture.
Now the gems of the internet are slowly being buried beneath mountains of trash.
If something sounds boilerplate it isn't good enough.
Don't bother saying something that has been said before, and better.
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What makes a translation great
>for more detail: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Oh, I see. We actually discussed Pound about four years ago - just a little back and forth about the ABC of Reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24196681
>What's your explanation of why Pound went Fascist?
I'm not sure I particularly have one; I haven't read any of his longer political or cultural (i.e. non-literary) works. I just think it's silly to correlate an approach to translation that you dislike with fascism. Especially as I'm not sure it even makes sense on its own terms: I can only read your comment as 'lazy translator? Figures that he would be a fascist', but if I imagine the type of translation a fascist would approve of, the approach I picture is fastidious, fussy, concerned with fidelity to the point of stickler-ishness. (Isn't that from where we get 'grammar nazi'?)
And oh, well, since you ask I'll take a shy at it: my vague sense is that he became fascist because saw a society in decline due to it becoming more and more a sham society: opulence without virtue, power without vigour, money no longer tied to actually existing goods. (Of course, all of this shades easily into antisemitism.) He saw fascism as the answer; It's easier to see in retrospect that it wasn't.
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Zed Decoded: Linux When? – Zed Blog
"multiplayer notepad" goes back 15 years at least - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... notepad&sort=byDate&type=comment
it was used back with a popular website which opened a text document and anyone viewing could type, but I can't remember the name. That became a thing in Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Floobits, and lots of self-hosted and cloned sites.
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Louis Rossmann: YouTube's Legal Team sent me a letter [video]
If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at [email protected].
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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An Oil Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation in 2021
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
I understand the reason for repeating these sentiments—it's the same reason why they get upvoted to the top of threads*—but repetition of this kind is what we're most trying to avoid here.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
* I've marked this one off topic now.
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Validating app for manufacturers enhancing process reliability and efficiency
I was looking for it in the guidelines. There are a couple of conventions for postings. Consider a bit of prior examples: [https://hn.algolia.com/?q=show+hn]
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Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News
yeah there are only three stories coming up from the site search
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=postgres+clustering
only one is semanthically correct, the other pick up the wrong version of clustering (i.e. k-means instead of multi master writes)
but yeah if one doesn't test the hard cases, how does one know it preserves semantics :D
- Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays
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The Scientific Method Part 5: Illusions, Delusions, and Dreams
Like dismissing the work of Feyerabend or Wittgenstein without seemingly having read either:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
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Any Google Analytics Alternatives?
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
What are some alternatives?
seL4 - The seL4 microkernel
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
hubris - A lightweight, memory-protected, message-passing kernel for deeply embedded systems.
v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
agda-stdlib - The Agda standard library
parser - 📜 Extract meaningful content from the chaos of a web page
creusot - Creusot helps you prove your code is correct in an automated fashion. [Moved to: https://github.com/creusot-rs/creusot]
readability - A standalone version of the readability lib
cryptography - cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
yq - Command-line YAML, XML, TOML processor - jq wrapper for YAML/XML/TOML documents
codeball-action - 🔮 Codeball – AI Code Review that finds bugs and fast-tracks your code
milkdown - 🍼 Plugin driven WYSIWYG markdown editor framework.