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by imiric | 2025-10-22 17:30:33+00:00
> how can it be a "fundamental misunderstanding of OSS" to strictly interpret OSS by the terms of the licenses, which don't mention any sort of "social contract", while they do include language explicitly contrary to such expectations of users?

Because free and open-source software is more than a set of licenses approved by some governing body.

It is part of a social movement and ideology pursuing the open sharing of knowledge, and building communities around this where everyone can benefit, not just a select few. Software is one aspect of this, due to its roots in the hacker counterculture of the 1970s, but the core idea extends beyond it.

You can read more about this in many places. Bruce Perens specifically refers to a "social contract" in this early post[1] on the Debian mailing list. This is what is usually referred to as the "spirit" of open source, and is not strictly encoded in any official definition. The success of OSS depends on implicit mutual trust and respect, not on explicit rules and licenses.

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/1997/msg00017.html
by behnamoh | 2025-10-22 17:31:30+00:00
If you're smart enough to run LLMs locally, then you're automatically in the small group of enthusiasts who know something about LLMs and how they work.

Sometimes I wonder if HN people really realize 80% of people out there haven't even heard of ChatGPT, and the remaining 19% have not heard about Claude/Gemini. It's only a small group who know local models exist. We're them, and we complain about their security...
by pugworthy | 2025-10-22 17:31:30+00:00
HP gets a lot of crap for home printer quality and ink DRM, but does still have some neat products like this.

The industrial printers for example, especially the PageWide Web Press line are impressive. The T1100 is a huge beast.

Then there are the life science products that can do precision dispensing of fluids for life sciences and drug discovery. Some of them also do individual single live cell dispensing.
by cwmma | 2025-10-22 17:31:30+00:00
but much like AI hype quantum hype is also way over played, yeah modern asymmetric encryption will be less secure, but even after you have quantum computers that can do Shor's algorithm it might be a while before there are quantum computers affordable enough for it to be an actual threat (i.e. it's not cheaper to just buy a zero day for the target's phone or something).

But since we already have post quantum algorithms, the end state of cheap quantum computers is just a new equilibrium where people use the new algorithms and they can't be directly cracked and it's basically the same except maybe you can decrypt historical stuff but who knows if it's worth it.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-10-22 17:31:58+00:00
It's not a luxury room like drug lords have had in corrupt countries. He's in the VIP wing, which means life generally sucks except he won't have to worry about random violence or gang politics. It's a lot better than normal prisoners get, but it's hardly a vacation.

I agree that the point is punishment and deterrence to other public officials, proving no one is truly out of reach of the law.
by mikece | 2025-10-22 17:32:34+00:00
I had not heard that. What chemical weapons are they using?

As for "they are at war, what do you mean 'escalations'" I'm referring to western countries, including the US, giving Ukraine the ability to make deep strikes into Russia that could provoke Russia in declaring officially what has been the de facto case for a while: it's not fighting Ukraine, it's fighting NATO and NATO is striking through the Ukrainians but Russia has not yet struck back at NATO.

Forgive me for hoping that we might be able to find peace and avoid the deaths of hundreds of millions of people by not ratcheting things up in Ukraine more than it already is.
by EvgeniyZh | 2025-10-22 17:32:45+00:00
It is not very clear from the text and from what I can say there is no "verifiability" concept in the papers they link.

I think what they are trying to do is to contrast these to previous quantum advantage experiments in the following sense.

The previous experiments involve sampling from some distribution, which is believed to be classically hard. However, it is a non-trivial question whether you succeed or fail in this task. Having perfect sampler from the same distribution won't allow you to easily verify the samples.

On the other hand these experiments involve measuring some observable, i.e., the output is just a number and you could compare it to the value obtained in a different way (one a different or same computer or even some analog experimental system).

Note that these observables are expectation values of the samples, but in the previous experiments since the circuits are random, all the expectation values are very close to zero and it is impossible to actually resolve them from the experiment.

Disclaimer: this is my speculation about what they mean because they didn't explain it anywhere from what I can see.
by peter_d_sherman | 2025-10-22 17:33:19+00:00
I love the idea of replacing an Ethernet card with a microcontroller where Ethernet is implemented as open-source software using signal paths off the microcontroller's GPIO...

Another great option would be to use an FPGA, ideally a Lattice iCE40 (https://prjicestorm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) -- or other FPGA with a completely open toolchain...
by dns_snek | 2025-10-22 17:33:38+00:00
Ah, the "you're using the wrong model" fallacy (is there a name for this?)

In the eyes of the evangelists, every major model seems to go from "This model is close to flawless at this task, you MUST try this TODAY" to "It's absolutely wild that anyone would ever consider using such a no-good, worthless model for this task" over the course of a year or so. The old model has to be re-framed for the new model to look more impressive.

When GPT-4 was released I was told it was basically a senior-level developer, now it's an obviously worthless model that you'd be a fool to use to write so much as a throwaway script.
by apizon | 2025-10-22 17:33:58+00:00
All but english and french (my native language) are machine generated yes sorry about that but there is quite a bit of text with all the lessons so I can't afford man made translations at my scale.

Maybe I will find a middle ground and get translators just for the critical parts such as the challenges, or at least find a better way to translate parameterized strings like the one you are referring to.

EDIT: there is indeed an issue with some localized entries where the parameters are not placed properly, I will fix this for the next version
by regularfry | 2025-10-22 17:34:09+00:00
There's a very clever scheme I remember reading about a while ago where you dump the heat into an oil that you then spray in a fine mist towards a collector. You get a collosal surface area that way, in a very confined volume, with not that much more mass than a coolant fluid which you already need; and it's relatively easy to homogenise the temperature across the radiating particles. I seem to recall that it got as far as Dupont coming up with a specific coolant mix for the job; the rest of the system is a relatively well-understood (if precise) nozzle/collector design so you don't end up squirting your coolant off somewhere you can't catch it.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-22 17:34:24+00:00
Integrating LLMs with the actual business is not a fun time. There are many cases where it simply doesn't make sense. It's hard to blame the average developer for not enduring the hard things when nobody involved seems truly concerned with the value proposition of any of this.

This issue can be extended to many areas in technology. There is a shocking lack of effective leadership when it comes to application of technology to the business. The latest wave of tech has made it easier than ever to trick non-technical leaders into believing that everything is going well. There are so many rugs you can hide things under these days.
by Rygian | 2025-10-22 17:34:42+00:00
> then took a car from the lot and drove it home, no I would not be surprised if it fell apart before getting out of the lot.

Congrats, the brakes failed, you caused bodily damage to an innocent bystander. Do you take full responsibility for that? I guess you do.

Now build a security solution that you sell to millions of users. Have their private data exposed to attackers because you used a third party library that was not properly audited. Do you take any responsibility, beyond the barebones "well I installed their security patches"?

> It is well known that while the pure engineering disciplines, those that make cars and planes and boats, mostly know what they're doing... the software engineering industry knows how to produce code that constantly needs updates and still manages to segfault in so much as a strong breeze, even though memory safety has been a well understood problem for longer than most developers have been alive.

We're aligned there. In a parallel universe, somehow we find a way to converge. Judging by the replies and downvotes, not on this universe.
by teachrdan | 2025-10-22 17:35:09+00:00
A) I'm well aware Ephesians is not found in the Old Testament; that's why I chose it. These verses are specific to Christianity, just as anything from the Quran would be specific to Islam.

B) "The concept of submission is presented as a voluntary act" What is written in any faith's texts is imposed on its followers, whether it was intended to be voluntary or not. We can only speculate how many millions of women were instructed to submit to their husbands as if he was God himself. This indoctrination starts as soon as children are old enough to attend church and continues as long as they go to church. There are obviously progressive leaders in any faith, but that tends to be the exception, rather than the rule.

"the biblical view encourages understanding it as a partnership where both spouses honor and respect each other’s roles" The dominant view among Christians in America today is "complementarianism", which sounds a lot like what you're saying. It's designed to appear at first glance as equality, but really means that women are restricted to domestic grunt work while men control all the levers of power: All roles of authority in the church, in business, and of course still telling what their wives and children to do at home.

The fact that you even say "honor and respect *each other's roles" strongly suggests you believe that a woman's role is to be, in essence, subjugated to her husband, limited to giving birth, raising children, and taking care of all the husband's emotional and logistical needs. Correct me if I'm wrong!

"As with many things in the bible, they are symbolic, and not to be taken literally... translations and interpretations differed wildly from scholar to scholar."

This is a fine perspective to have. But OP was happy to demonize all of Islam based on a few quotes with seemingly no account of their historical or religious context. Virtually any religion can be
by nickpsecurity | 2025-10-22 17:35:14+00:00
I'll ignore the insults and rhetoric to give some examples.

The brain-inspired papers have done realistic models of specific neurons, spiking, Hebbian learning, learning rates tied to neuron measurements, matched firing patterns, done temporal synchronization, hippocampus-like memory, and prediction-based synthesis for self-training.

Brain-like or brain-inspired appears to mean using techniques similar to the brain. They study the brain, develop models that match its machinery, implement them, and compare observed outputs of both. That, which is computational neuroscience, deserves to be called brain-like since it duplicates hypothesized, brain techniques with brain-like results.

Others take the principles or behavior of the above, figure out practical designs, and implement them. They have some attributes of the brain-like models or similar behavior but don't duplicate it. They could be called brain-inspired but we need to be careful. Folks could game the label by making things that have nothing to do with brain-like models or went very far away.

I prefer the be specific about what is brain-like or brain-inspired. Otherwise, just mention the technique (eg spiking NN) to let us focus on what's actually being done.
by vector_spaces | 2025-10-22 17:35:38+00:00
I meant "problems" in a broad sense -- I loved disorganized professors who would pause and stare at their lecture notes in silence for a minute, realize their proof or example contained some flaw, and then have to correct it on the fly.

I found those moments really valuable if course-correcting was non-trivial -- the typical Definition-Theorem-Proof-Example format certainly is essential for organizing one's thinking and communicating new math in a way that's digestible to other mathematicians, but it is not how mathematicians actually think about math or solve novel problems

In the grad analysis sequence this "course correcting" mechanic was built into the course, since we were required to regularly solve a challenging problem and then present its proof to the class and withstand intense questioning from both the professor and peers. If you caught an error in someone's proof and could help the presenter arrive at a correct proof, you'd both earn points.

The thrill of surviving an incredulous "Wait a second..." from that particular professor (who later became my research advisor) was hard to beat

Anyway my intent was to analogize math lectures (whatever they might look like) with language courses or immersion in the sense that they are an opportunity to practice speaking and listening, and to immerse yourself in cultural norms. I think it goes a bit deeper than this, in that language is inextricably connected to most thought and vice versa -- we experience this in a very explicit way whenever we find our thinking clarified in the process of formulating a question, but it's always there

That said, pure immersion for language learning is actually easy to beat -- lots of research shows that immersion together with explicit grammar instruction has far better learning outcomes than immersion alone. Immersion alone misses lots of nuance -- and it relies on the speaker being acutely aware of the difference between their output and target forms.

With your verb conjugation example, lots of time can be saved by knowing that there's a thing called the subjunctive and that it is distinct from tense and it shows up in a myriad of places tending to concern hypotheticals

Similarly, I gain a lot from talking to mathematicians and attending conferences. But I also need to spend time alone consulting relevant theory, reading papers, and playing with examples. Both are important, but in math it seems you one get away with less immersion
by GrinningFool | 2025-10-22 17:35:43+00:00
The thing is, these sites that give you an option to pay only let you pay to opt out of advertising (and some only partially!). It does nothing to stop tracking you.

There are several sites I would not hesitate to pay for, but the most that will net me is generally "content with invasive tracking". Sometimes with no ads and sometimes with "fewer ads". But in either case, still a non-starter because it's still capturing the same data about me and sharing it.
by xpe | 2025-10-22 17:36:16+00:00
TL;DR: I recommend downloading and reading the "News Integrity in AI Assistants TOOLKIT" (PDF) [1] linked from the article.

=Why?= The PDF is something that can appeal to anyone who is simply striving to have slower, deeper conversations about AI and the news.

=Frustration= No matter where you land on AI, it seems to me most of us are tired of various framings and exaggerations in the news. Not the same ones, because we often disagree! We feel divided.

=The Toolkit= The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and BBC have laid out their criteria in this report "News Integrity in AI Assistants Toolkit" [1] IMO, it is the hidden gem from the whole article.

- Let me get the obvious flaws out of the way. (1) Yes, it is a PDF. (2) It is nothing like a software toolkit. (3) It uses the word taxonomy, which conjures brittle and arbitrary tree classification systems -- or worse, the unspeakable horror of ontology and the lurking apparently-unkillable hydra that is the Semantic Web.

- But there are advantages too. With a PDF, you can read it without ads or endless scrolling. This PDF is clear. It probably won't get you riled up in a useless way. It might even give you some ideas of what you can do to improve your own news consumption or make better products.

All in all, this is a PDF I would share with almost anyone (who reads English). I like that it is dry, detailed, and, yes a little boring.

[1]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/news-integrity-i...
by apizon | 2025-10-22 17:36:25+00:00
As the "other Tom" has said you can use the app without an account there is just a warning message telling you that if you do your progress is not backed up online.

I actually shipped without this message at first and realized by talking to non technical family and friends that some people might not realize the implications and didn't want someone ending up in my support email 1 year after buying the app telling me they had lost all their data.
by alex1138 | 2025-10-22 17:36:46+00:00
You can think of Metabook like a chemical spill

If you're not swimming in their river, or you weren't responsible for their spill, who cares?

But it spreads into other rivers and suddenly you have a mess

In this analogy the chemical spill - for those who don't have Meta accounts, or sorry, guess you do, we've made one for you, so sorry - is valuation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7211388
by saltcured | 2025-10-22 17:37:10+00:00
I know this is anathema around here, but this is why I have always liked grant-funded open source work. Whether government or private, someone at a policy level decides that something is important, and pays for development, leading to a new public good.

The development cost is based on the complexity of the work. It doesn't require a royalty payment in order to deploy more copies or to run them at higher loads. The software already exists. Separately, normal economic decisions can be made around support of deployments, e.g. whether to use in-house labor, hire consultants, or subscribe to some service contract. Sometimes, but not always, the users are another grant-funded project.

This model isn't a lottery ticket for the developers, nor the capital class. But the developers get paid a good wage for the time they spend on a product. I've done it for the majority of the last 30 years, almost like being a conscientious objector to the VC marketing complex.

Unfortunately, there are societal forces working hard against open source public goods. I think regulatory-capture is turning the whole security space into a compliance moat for heavily capitalized players. And the higher education cost spiral keeps increasing the overhead for universities, where a lot of these open source developer jobs used to be found. These are overlapping, but I'd say not the same thing. The overhead in academia is more than just compliance burden.

And, the whole fad-chasing and hustle aspect of contemporary IT is an inflationary process, eroding the value of previously developed open source products. Over my career, it seems that production-ready code is getting an ever-shorter service life. More maintenance and redevelopment work is needed or else users abandon it for the Next Big Thing. It's been quite a ride for me, following the whole wave of GNU, MIT, BSD, Linux, Python, and scientific computing tools since the early 90s...
by turblety | 2025-10-22 17:37:31+00:00
Yeah, fair point, although it's this Android XR thing I don't trust will live a year.

Even if it did, to me Samsung + Google is just a no go:

Samsung: Bloated with apps I don't want, can't uninstall but probably won't be killed off.

Google: Lean, not too much bloat, but can't trust it to exist more than a year.
by palmotea | 2025-10-22 17:38:02+00:00
> The problem then is that you're making a valuable tool and giving it away and then wandering around hat in hand. That's not going to work for anyone.

That is textbook open source idealism: you give to the community, the community gives back. The problem is a lot of people are moochers, even very rich people who have money coming out of their ears.

> It starts to feel more like a protection racket. You've got some great features here, would be a shame if something happened to them. Oh no, your docker containers! Oh, that's a tragedy what happened there, but you know, accidents happen.

Come on, don't be so uncharitable. It's nothing like a protection racket, which is pure, planned exploitation. This is open source idealism coming into contact with capitalist reality.
by epolanski | 2025-10-22 17:38:06+00:00
I don't get the whole point of your post.

What I meant is that general media (either social or legacy) has often strong biases and narratives and at certain times it gets too much to the point of propaganda.

But, if you're not very intimate in some topic, or have not been part of the events it's not that obvious.

Few examples.

1. Almost a million people protested the war in Gaza few weeks ago here in Italy, in many cities, but if you turned on the tv (any channel really) or read the news this was skipped and instead the entirety of the focus was on few limited clashes with the entire narrative being built about how if you protest for Gaza you're automatically violent and antisemitic. Nonsense.

1.5 At an anti-Covid protest in Piazza San Giovanni, a place that comfortably holds half a million people, the place was ultra full, as packed as during concerts...But ask the police and the official numbers were below 10k. Ridiculous, it was at least 15 times as much. I wasn't part of the protests but lived nearby so I had a full account.

2. Around 15 years ago our main airline (Alitalia) was in terrible shape and Air France-KLM wanted to buy it out, pay the debts and retain most of the workforce. Non stop bombarding on every outlet about how we could not sell our main company, and that taxpayers would foot the bill. The bombarding went on with plenty of interviews of how Alitalia staff was in favor of this operation, but I had several friends working for the company and actually the opposite was true: most of them supported the merger rather than the bailout, but the propaganda did its best to silence these voices.

Again, how would you know about those things if you were not intimately knowledgeable about the topics?

I really don't have time to get knowledgeable and fact check or be part of every world, national and local event. Thus I'm not equipped with distinguishing a genuine fact based narrative from a biased one.
by lysace | 2025-10-22 17:38:31+00:00
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_weapons_of_mass_des...

The "peace" word in this context is not really what it seems like. The "peace" movement in our countries is often of full of at least former Soviet and Russian funding. Essentially tankies. I think you can imagine their goals.