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"We found three concrete gaps during this incident, and we would rather be upfront about them than gloss over them." claudism?

a surprising paragraph in the middle of the article "The “urine-no,” a hostile antiurination surface"

In the UK, the telegraph newspaper censured for story of fictional top-earner family’s struggle to pay school fees

Wow! This is the kind of news that we want on hacker news in 2026. Amazing hacker ethos.

The article could have been better with sharing some photos taken with the new camera.

As large language models (LLMs) transition from research prototypes to production systems, practitioners often need reliable methods to verify that model outputs satisfy required constraints. While sampling-based estimates provide an intuition of model behavior, they offer no sound guarantees. We present BEAVER, the first practical framework for computing deterministic, sound probability bounds on LLM constraint satisfaction. Given any prefix-closed semantic constraint, BEAVER systematically explores the generation space using novel token trie and frontier data structures, maintaining provably sound bounds at every iteration. We formalize the verification problem, prove soundness of our approach, and evaluate BEAVER on correctness verification, privacy verification and secure code generation tasks across multiple state of the art LLMs. BEAVER achieves 6 to 8 times tighter probability bounds and identifies 3 to 4 times more high risk instances compared to baseline methods under identical computational budgets, enabling precise characterization and risk assessment that loose bounds or empirical evaluation cannot provide.

how are you creating the IR?

this reminds me of permutation city and the question of what is time...

you would know before consuming how much you would end up paying. not so in the land of the free.

this sounds about right - the same yardstick was used by the British to define Hindus in India - people who are neither christian nor muslim.

wondering how would literate programming be with the actual code being written by LLM? I have been searching for any tools that allow for such a setup... may be my next weekend project in a long list of projects

I can concur - that shift in mindset to "i'm hungry, oh well" is crucial for your body I feel.

nice analogy comparing it to BBC Radio 3- if you/someone knows which neighbourhood would be like BBC Radio 4? I find R3 too high brow for me - Radio 4 seems more accessible :)