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Ask HN: Software is now an extension of law, would it be best kept open?
Ever since The Code of Hammurabi, we have benefited from the advantages of laws being public, and therefore open source.

Today, as software eats the world, we allow "proprietary knowledge" to enforce laws. If not make the laws, we at least allow black box code to enforce them. Arguably, this is the same thing.

As "AI" progresses, this seems like it could only get worse, and yet more acceptable.

This could be facial recognition, or social media metrics, or otherwise.

Is it realistic, possible, and necessary to require all software which is used by government to be open source as it is an extension of the law?

I am slightly conflicted. I believe that open source is not a panacea. For example, bio-weapons should not be open sourced.

However, I would argue that we will regress as a species if law, and its enforcement, is not open.

Maybe this is one of the more complex questions that we could consider.

What are your thoughts?
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They have some good tips.
pretty cool. "period" finetuning could be useful for game npc sims
Yep, the consult suite and rg are two of my favorite things. And I'm not even a SWE.
No, you are making that assertion. I brought up the driver thing as a joke, but you're the one that turned it into this inane whataboutism

Almost all windows applications are distributed as compiled binaries. Even very advanced users would find it difficult to audit most apps.

Bash scripts are in plain text, and idiomatic enough that it can be read by anyone with a passing familiarity with bash. Which is the very large majority of Linux users. The script very clearly states what it does, and if it doesn't, you shouldn't run it.

Driver updaters are nearly universally malware, and the common advice has always been to avoid them as such. Similarly, running random bash scripts from the internet without even looking is discouraged in the same way. Mystery binaries are much more dangerous than a script because you can't audit them, but the same advice is given for both: don't.

If what the user can do matters less than what they actually do, then Windows is the most insecure operating system by a very large margin. Windows users install malware at rates order of magnitude higher than any other system. Linux may as well have zero vulnerabilities compared to the shit that Windows users will blindly install.

You're right, it's stupid to compare these situations. So why are you doing it?
Pydroid3 with a bluetooth keyboard
Issues with GNOME come down to three inter-related issues.

* Configurability - GNOME goes out of it's way to remove any configurability from their DE. First they move settings to obscure places, next they remove them entirely.

* Compatibility - GNOME devs don't provide solutions for common use cases like window positioning or screen capture (yes I know that screen capture is now supported, but it's a compositor specific implementation rather than actually standardized by Wayland), at the expense of end users with those requirements.

* Consistency - GNOME seems to go out of it's way to do things differently from other mainstream desktop platforms. Windows does typeahead search, macos does typeahead search, KDE does typeahead search, GNOME does their own weird recursive search instead.

On their own each of these isn't a dealbreaker (I can deal with weird defaults if I can change them, I don't need as many settings if the defaults are less weird and don't break my software). But all three together is too much - GNOME looks like they are sitting in an ivory tower trying to dictate their opinions on desktop design to the world while having sub 1% market share. People won't drop window positioning or screen capture just because GNOME devs say so - they'll just not support Wayland. I know at least one real world person who swore off desktop Linux as a whole after Wayland screen capture broke at a critical time.
Reminds me of a 2001 Metafilter april fool's joke:
https://www.metafilter.com/there_is_no_spoon.mefi

Which really seems quite prescient, 22 years later.
This isn't MIT vs GPL. It's literally one of those few corporations that's in a position to monopolize AI calling a license that says "you can use this at our pleasure" open source. Any open source movement definitively cannot include such licenses. If this was a split over a smaller thing I'd get your point.
The upper class at least gets the choice. The lower class does not.
You create an account if you are sending online. The shipment is linked to that account. Then when you ship in-person you can add those shipments to your online account via some id on the shipping receipt last time I checked.
Nah I don’t think would ever be a good idea. To learn yes but not to actually code. Sorry.
The whole point of the hero monomyth is that the hero is a hero. They're an exceptional individual, sometimes the child of a god, sent on an exceptional quest that nobody else can accomplish. And even so, they are reluctant to leave society at first, and eventually return to it. I don't think its purpose is primarily to facilitate individual aspiration.
I can appreciate why it was cool. "What if everything could automatically do the right thing when it interacts with other things, and you wouldn't need any of this ritual boilerplate stuff? Why do we keep needing to convert from string to number to string over and over and over it's crazy. The language should just do the right thing!"

I think it's very easy to be sympathetic to the design trend.
You. and HN. and Python. and Urbit. and Krsna. and Now!
https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/id-card/
I often check out the LaTeX subreddit and I perceive the number of posts are down, even with a pretty recent new mod, who was doing a good job.
^!
It's Time to Come Clean (2001)
In my case it had been a very specific community (computer music). It helps if you have the same esoteric interests :)
There was also ack (IIRC) written in Perl, earlier.
> Is this tongue-in-cheek or meant seriously?

Let’s assume it was originally written in FORTRAN. Would you think it was a joke or serious?

The writing is on the wall for C++. They’re a little ahead of the curve, but rewriting in a well-liked modern language will likely benefit the health of the project’s contributor pipeline for years to come. There aren’t a lot of people choosing to learn C++ (or FORTRAN) these days.
Programming -- Principles and Practice Using C++ is one of the few must-read programming books in my opinion.

Even if you're a C++ expert, have 20 years in industry, etc. it's still an amazing example of beautiful technical writing.
you seem to be begging the question

almost precisely the same assertions could be made about you with precisely the same degree of justification: you aren't an agent and no intellect can be ascribed to you. you are a device unintelligent agents have made and ascribing you intellect is equally as erroneous

an intelligent agent would have recognized that your argument relies on circular reasoning, but because you are a glorified autocomplete incapable of understanding the meanings of the words you are using, you posted a logically incoherent comment

(of course i don't actually believe that about you. but the justification for believing it about gpt-4 is even weaker)
Imagine a program that utilizes several separate windows for palettes. If the program has no way to specify where to place those palettes, the user is going to be presented with a ton of palettes piled on top of their document window and that they’ll have to sort that out themselves, rather than a neatly organized immediately usable workspace. That’s not really an acceptable user experience no matter how you slice it.

Multi-screen situations is another place where this comes up, which includes not just multi-monitor desktop setups but things like foldable devices, and it can be useful to have functionality that lets the user designate a screen for a particular function (for instance, putting sliders and knobs for audio production software on a touchscreen) and have it available regardless of the compositor the user is using.
I'm pretty sure I've used that 2465, and I don't remember any of those pots not having a stop.
Instagram is the same. They steal video from real products, funnel purchases through a random e-commerce page, and disappear by the time you need to request a charge back so that you can’t find evidence of the original offer.
That is awesome. I haven't gone to any meetups anywhere to meet anyone. Maybe one day since I am close to DC and Richmond
There's one on eBay right now for an eye-watering $750: https://www.ebay.com/itm/295704213444

The photos in the auction show some of the internal details and the array of ports on the backplate. It's definitely a cute little PC.
Given that we're quickly destroying the environment we need to survive and have enough nuclear weapons pointed at one another to annihilate civilization multiple times over, it seems that a lot of people thousands of years ago didn't raise their kids well enough.

Maybe instead of having more children as the OP notes, we can take care of the tens of millions of neglected ones we already have, or try to work towards providing a healthier environment for those who are already here. The idea that we need more, when we're currently screwing up the ones we have, is silly.
Separation of the infotainment and flight network is actually an FAA requirement. Turns out they take those seriously.
My only qualms is the number of genuine C only compilers in use, vs number of embedded system companies/projects/codebases in the world.

The subset of C features that are incompatible with C++ is quite small, and most of the features are a little out of the way IMO.

Of the regular suspects (GCC, MSVC, Clang), your C codebase is probably entirely compatible with C++ as each of these has varying levels of compliance with the C and C++ standard.
How is that ironic? Saying "risk is our business" doesn't imply you'll be successful. It implies the risk is worth it, and you acknowledge the possibility of negative and dangerous outcomes.
Nope: Portugal B-)

Back in the day, our incumbent telco was quite cutting edge technologically.
anyone found a decent alternative for apollo on ios?
Seems pretty cool. I've heard great things about deep brain stimulation and how it is the SOTA for many neurological disorders. It has
actual experiments in humans instead of rodents. And the humans are healthy adults too!

So it ticks all boxes for me as an amature enthusiast for a potential 'enhance my cognition' method. I wonder, where the catch?
Pretty unreliable products. I usually avoid amazon basics, but i have higher expectations from things.
That stands to reason - the last time I had to edit xorg configs was probably over 15yrs ago getting multi monitor working before xrandr. Since 2005ish, xorg seemed to be able to happily autoconfigure itself.
Meanwhile, imagine what that could do for the MTA, the housing shortage, the migrant situation, or the homeless population.
It’s just a website. Doing all this plotting and scheming takes a lot of effort. Not going to a website because it sucks takes no effort.
That’s bound to be fun. Encryption is easy; key management is hard.
If I recall back then we would just call them car phones.
I hope you used rg to catch the catch :)

#eatyourowndogfood
For Blender, you must carefully read requirements of your software.

Unfortunately, only NN software are more or less standardized, so in many cases, you could choose best fit for your pocket, but all other could be tightly coupled not even to one brand, but to one model. For example, I've seen some software which work in Nvidia-960; I'm not sure about 1060; it don't work on 2060 (for some reason, developers avoid this series).
This is also sometimes called "baby aspirin".[0]

I remember a conversation with a doctor where I casually mentioned that baby aspirin must have been created for babies, he was slightly aghast and and said no, you do not want to give it to babies!

[0]https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/low-dose-aspirin/who-can-and-ca...
Fun fact: The Wright brothers didn't have modern airliners in mind when they invented airplanes.
That makes sense, I guess I missed that it's a cinecam not a still camera.
But otb is more stressful.
> hence the self-centeredness of thinking one is entitled to having children, resorting to all sorts of immoral technologies to have them

Huh? I'm confused how you reconcile this (seeming) attack on fertility treatment with the pro-natalist sentiment expressed later in your comment. Who or what principle is transgressed by what technologies?
I internally laughed by ass off when I found out my mostly technology inept mother now uses lemmy instead of reddit.

I entirely quit it myself, and when I do end up driving bythe more niche subreddits from typical search results, I find that it feels way more dead.
It's good - spends a lot of time debunking claims from previous bios and memoirs that dont hold up under an examination (e.g. some memoirs werent written until decades after the events, and others with fantastic claims were likely cash grabs as the authors were destitute). he sticks to the letters written by napoleon/written to him by others, and doesnt mince words during stuff like the slaughter at jaffa. there was a really interesting retelling of napoleon's near drowning during a sightseeing tour in egypt at the moses-parted-the-sea spot, and the grim telling of josephines back story helps the reader understand how her actions were part survival instincts instead of pure lust.
These radios aren't cheap (not saying they're justified). The ones we just got issued in my county's fire departments were over $9,000 each.

But they are both VHF and UHF, fully watertight, connect to our SCBA packs, can give precise location info (UWB as well as GPS, I believe), can withstand high heat, are 'intrinsically safe' (which I gather to mean that even if dropped the battery / pack / terminals should not arc, which could be a problem in a hazmat/flammable gas situation) and are very heavy duty.

Again, not saying it's worth that, but also a lot more going on than the HT1250s they're replacing, which go for about $150 on eBay now.
>Brooklyn and Manhattan are in different counties too.

You're going to use the most densely populated city in the US for your example?

>Ask yourself questions like what airport do you fly to

Colorado has one international airport - are you saying ALL of Colorado is Denver? Are you saying Newark NJ is in the same city as Brooklyn? I don't know where you're heading, but it's just logical gymnastics.
I'm aware of the guidelines, however I didn't link to the whole talk - I linked to the specific time segment where he was talking about the subject mentioned.
https://archive.is/EC8CO
Why would they do that? They could easily make this possible with their current expertise. They clearly don't want that, and that's how they've been their entire existence.
> And this is why Texas allows for small claims court, where no lawyers are allowed for either side [...]

Are you sure about that? The small claims FAQ [1] on the Texas State Law Library site says lawyers are allowed. It cites section 500.4 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure.

Looking at the Texas RCP, it looks like small claims is defined by rule 500.3, which among other things says small claims cases are governed by Rules 500-507, so 500.4 would apply as stated in the FAQ.

Most states actually allow attorneys in small claims court. But even in a state that doesn't allow attorneys it probably doesn't matter. That's because it is usually easy to appeal small claims decisions, so if you lose in small claims court but think you would have won if only you had had an attorney you can appeal. The appeal is heard in regular court.

[1] https://faq.sll.texas.gov/questions/48996
I built up to that over four to fivish years. I did not do a couch-to5k in one month or anything. I do not feel like its bragging... I know at least three marathon runners and my schedule looks like I do not run compared to them.

I also have done a lot of reading, as a lot of my friends tell me running is bad for your knees. As far as my reading of data goes, there is practically no amount of "bad running"... unless your body says "stop" and you keep going.
Yes. I started very late in life. Never ran before about five years ago. I feel much better.
You have some good examples here https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...
> ...didn't require demolishing entire neighborhoods like previous 1970s-era plans did.

There were plenty of houses demolished to build some of the Westconnex developments. The development of the exhaust stacks negatively impacted a lot of local residents as well.

> But on the upside, Sydney is finally getting serious about metro and light rail, so things are looking up on that front too.

Too little, too late. Sydney's metro and light rail are both a complete joke. They're both embarrassingly expensive, and poorly implemented projects.
how is this much (if at all) better than hifi earplugs?

e.g., https://www.amazon.com/Etymotic-High-Fidelity-Earplugs-Stand...
I find that when you ask chatGPT questions about the future of AI in society, it seems to be fine tuned to give Senate hearing approved talking points.
These radio systems are designed to handle key management fairly intrinsically.
KDE supports fractional scaling. GTK doesn't and as a result neither does GNOME. There's hacks in gnome to work around this by faking it with downscaled integer scaling (render at 2x, squash into 1.5x) but it never provided a good experience for me.
In case you are serious, and I am not super sure about that.

- depencys include blobs, or other blob like things(big code bases, think react)

- there is little value in seeing changes in a blob or blob like things as changes in those have a bad signal to noise ratio. Version information (minor/major) + changelog is much more interesting for the average dev

- there is a performance penalty for having to many things/big things in git

- there is no nice way to keep dependencies up to date in git

- the discoverability of git/GitHub has not been great

You can use git as a package provider, see pip for example, but using git alone is painfull.
Missed opportunity to use own font on the blog post itself!
>The affordable housing plans here basically boil down to a lottery.

They don't "basically", Section 8 housing is literally a lottery.

https://boulderhousing.org/
The hero usually has companions and almost always has a mentor. The hero must be of strong mind and body, certainly, but that doesn't necessarily suggest individualism.
What bookmark manager options will catalog the bookmarks I add via Chrome's native functionality?
I think what you're looking for is possible with LLM agents. For paperai (mentioned previously) at least, it's possible to build workflows that connect multiple prompt steps together.

txtai (included with paperai) has the ability to build semantic graphs (https://neuml.hashnode.dev/introducing-the-semantic-graph).

I agree that RAG is just one part of the equation. But the tools are available if one wanted to build their own complex multi-agent workflow.
So…? Arlington and Fairfax are different counties than DC. Heck, they’re in a different state and across a river too. But nobody would argue they aren’t suburbs of DC.

25 miles is well within commuting distance for many major metro areas.

Boulder may arguably be a suburb or not. But an arbitrary 25 mile limit isn’t what defines suburb or not.
To take that full circle, though: the hardware capabilities of the 2600 were designed as a generalization of earlier "hard-wired" consoles. Support for graphical features like a "ball" and "player" paddles was built into the TIA chip, and it was by creatively manipulating these features that later games like Pitfall were able to produce (relatively) sophisticated graphics.
> Because the best thing you can do for the world

Is to not have any children so the population gets back down to sustainable levels
Even the researcher who popularized the idea of the alpha wolf in the 60's, Dr. L. David Mech, changed his tune in the 90s when he actually studied them in the wild:

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...

>Conclusions - The above observations show that, at least in summer, social interactions among wolf-pack members are not very different in intensity or quality from those among members of
any other group of related individuals.

He states on his personal website,

>The concept of the alpha wolf is well ingrained in the popular wolf literature, at least partly because of my book “The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species,” written in 1968, published in 1970, republished in paperback in 1981, and currently still in print, despite my numerous pleas to the publisher to stop publishing it. Although most of the book’s info is still accurate, much is outdated. We have learned more about wolves in the last 40 years than in all of previous history.
The analogy holds. Deep thinking is useful in real life. "Very high" running skill is not useful in any environment outside of artificially restricted controlled races.
> If we had to eat raw meat and the 50k year old wild variety of vegetables we’d be on the brink of starvation.

We’d have been adapted to it, I doubt we’d be on the brink of starvation though we’d be a different species.
If we did have access to the training data wouldn’t all these organizations be sued for distributing copyright works?

It appears all my favorite books have been scanned by Open AI. I am assuming that they didn’t purchase them.
Trotting out every argument against E2E encryption, but in reverse… secure communication for me, but not for thee.

Accountability doesn’t need to be real time - every word is recorded, either centrally or by multiple body cam mics. All those recordings are accessible where accountability really matters - in court.
I think we're talking about entirely different levels of understanding.

We do, of course, understand ML models at a pretty deep level. What you can't do is identify the weight values that encode all information about squirrels. You can't point to a particular neuron and say this is why it hallucinates. We do not grok these models. I severely doubt that it's even possible for a human to grok a 13B parameter LLM
Right, which is the point the grandparent was making, that our evolution is intertwined with our tools in a profound way.
I found the ideas in Neuromancer to be, at the time, revolutionary. Going back to it, I thought that it read like a kids book. Naive and cludgy - like a Drizzt D&D book.

Neal Stephenson is I think a better writer, while also moving the genre and sci-fi concepts forward. I highly recommend "The Diamond Age" for people that couldn't make it through Neuromancer.
Concorde ran a profit until its last flight, actually. It was retired in expectation of how expensive it would get to maintain; it was one of the few planes so analog that it still had a flight engineer seat, when it was retired.
Sounds like you don't really "prefer" it so much as you don't have any need for it, but would indeed use it if you were a Steam user. That correct?
Did all of these organizations acquire training data in a legal manner? Seems like we are tip toeing around the real issue here.
I don't follow. "It feels crowded because not everyone can live there?".
People with unwavering ethical principles left.

That's been the only outcome.