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Neither party is interested in governing - have you seen the border right now? The out of control spending?

Instead we have a crusade against the number of Doritos in a bag https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warrens-shrinkflation-rant-...
I think you can do this in a principled way with some extra corporate/bureaucratic machinery, like the Free Qt Foundation, so that it doesn't allow rug pulls.
A config file would be useful, as I can template the config file, which means I can effectively do auto-discovery of intranet resources working on my cluster.

Stepping further into config files, a helm chart (once config file support is added) would be very useful
Thanks for the suggestion! That's a good idea & something we'll think about more.
This article misses the mark on every level for me. I would have thought that the article was talking about how to sell AI to laymen, but then it says "These are almost all very technical people". That's me.

I disagree with the assertion that "I don't trust AI". It's not a question of trusting or not trusting "AI". It's a question of trusting or not trusting the people and companies who are capitalizing on it, and I don't trust them even a little bit.

The rest of the objections they list are ones I've heard some people express, but none of them are remotely why I view the entire field with suspicious eyes.

I absolutely see the utility of this stuff. I work on ML and deep learning systems for my day job, and so the utility is obvious to me. My issue is that the people working on LLMs/generative AI seem to be refusing to address the rather serious risks and downsides.

I'm not talking about ridiculous notions like rogue AI taking over the world and the like. I'm talking about about the deep social and economic dangers that will inevitably be posed by how some people and corporations will use this stuff.

What concerns me the most is that LLMs/genAI will seriously decrease the amount of trust people can have in society when the trust level is already at a crisis point. Without a certain amount of trust, society cannot function.
Hey Kyle and congrats to the launch! Riza looks great!

Looks like we're building in the same space. I'm Vasek, co-founder of E2B [0]. We recently launched our Code Interpreter SDK [1].

We think safe code execution for AI generated code has a big future potential. I'd love to chat some time if you're up to it! Maybe there's a way we could join forces and build something great.

[0] https://e2b.dev/

[1] https://github.com/e2b-dev/code-interpreter
I hate to be the downer here, but we said the exact same thing with the F4. And then the F4 got hosed over Vietnam. So we went back to having a gun onboard.

Things are appreciably different this time, yes. But how different, and how that will shake out in the fog of war, the friction [0], is another thing to be seen.

All I guess I'm saying is that caution is warranted before we declare the dog fight dead, again.

[0] Clausewitz, drink!
Should there be? A single example isn't going to change a prevailing trend. If laws change to by and large hold companies responsible and make them liable for their outsourced ethical violations, the mindset will gradually change.

IMHO, this is good. Companies should take proactive effort to make sure that their suppliers behave ethically out of a fear they will be held responsible for any violations.
> > Colonialism itself did not stop in 1945,

> Yeah I guess France has its whole neocolonialism—

It's over for France. Putin sent Wagner to set former French colonies on fire. Why do you think Macron is talking about sending French weapons and soldiers to Ukraine? Payback for dismantling the French order in Africa.
Sunflower and groundnut oil is higher smoke point than olive.
Kindly read or listen to any long-form work by Sarah Kendzior.

But I don't know if the statement you quoted is correct either. Trump isn't the politician who has people tracking their stock trades because they so consistently outperform the market (that would be legislators, including Democrats, who trade on insider information, but face no consequences because the arbiters of such judgment are... themselves). Unfortunately, I'm not sure that even a second Biden term will save us.
55% of the Bay area is Hispanic, Asian, or Pacific Islander. The major point how they differ is that the south has far more black people and fewer hispanics and Asians, vs the bay area having far more hispanics and Asians and far fewer blacks.
Yep; though HashiCorp would be a much smaller company had they not started with an open source license.
I developed a web application called Prompt Perfekt, designed to swiftly optimize user prompts by automatically applying all required prompt engineering techniques for a given query. This ensures quick access to optimized prompts for individuals unfamiliar with prompt engineering.
This "paralyzed" legislature just passed, by large margins, a large amount of foreign aid and a very significant provision on a popular social media platform.

Before that it spent billions of dollars on covid aid.

Throughout that time it has appropriated billions of dollars to keep the government running.

This "paralyzed" narrative is something the press and politicians like to push because it serves their ends, though for different reasons. It's false.
It's weird because in this case you could also read it as "Jeff Geerling says that corporate open source is dead", which just happens to be posted on his personal blog that has a domain name which is his personal name. It's not as if it's the site that called "Jeff Geerling" after all.
> loose enough screw to make anything happen

eg "stand back and stand by"; cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capito...

At least the SA pretended not to be a paramilitary organisation, but masqueraded as a "gymnastics club" before they got into power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung#:~:text=More%20...
>Hopefully TX officials were smart

You sure asking a lot from the Texan politicians down here....
It’s not scope creep as much as recognizing that Congress is less functional than it used to be. Obstruction has been normalized since the backlash to Obama’s election – think about how often people claim you need 60 votes in the senate – and that means anyone who sees a problem has an incentive to figure out how to do it without needing timely action.
enhancer - sesame oil is more used as a dressing/seasoning AIUI rather than a frying oil.
I simply paid for Bitwarden which offers the option of storing and generating otp codes
Yeah but it's about what the chemicals turn into when they reach a certain temperature, seed oils probably have something in them that is chemically different
Homogeneity also comes with its own problems -- smaller, more homogenous governments are much more likely to discriminate against the "out group", for instance.

Government grows because what we do grows. We didn't need legislation on airspace and radio waves and net neutrality and cyber bullying when our Constitution was written. In many cases, powers simply come into existence, and I'd rather the government have those powers than a monopoly or oligopoly of private rich entities.

Rather than limited Government, I'd rather see an Open Government -- one that is accountable to, accessible to, and made up of us. Then why does it matter if government gets big? Government is us, after all. At least we can work toward that. Maybe?
this is correct. it's clear that smoking elevates cancer risk, but why doesn't it cause cancer in all smokers?

to develop a cure, we must better understand the causal mechanisms.

this starts with acknowledging what we know and don't know about a devilishly complex disease that is arguably better conceptualized as a broad category rather than one monolith -- similar to how the flu, cold, and covid could be grouped under one mega classification, but are better identified as distinct conditions.
John Carmack on Meta Horizon OS
Thank you. It would not be possible without the financial support and advocacy from people like you.
Hmm. Orgs which ban AGPL should be marked and targeted for dismantling. Any way to scope them out, or public registry of them we can build? Orgs banning AGPL should not be allowed to exist at all, or use open source at all. They should all be systematically sabotaged by the OSS community, and if possible acquired/reformed, or destroyed.

And it would be very convenient for me to be able to relicense an AGPL contributor's work as if it were mine all along, like an evil genius capitalist, tee hee hee :3

But I would fork a project that tried it, and that is the attitude we should encourage.

Those aren't valid reasons for CLAs in my organizations and projects, since they do damage to AGPL as I envision it.

I wonder if there are other reasons for a genuine AGPL radical to support a CLA? Seems AGPL is good enough on its own, and most CLAs just weaken it - both technically and in a spiritual and ethical sense. Could we strengthen it instead?
Proportional representation, multiple parties, and parliamentary system (no legislative executive divide) can fix this.
The VTOL and the Navy versions of the F-35 lack a gun.
Ask HN: GPT4V and function calling use-cases
Hi folks, What are some use cases of GPT4 Vision with function calling? Curious to hear what applications it potentially unlocks over the usual model with json mode.
> Biden nominated Gigi Sohn in 2021

Democrats controlled the Senate in 2021. Republicans didn't block the nomination. Democrats allowed the Republicans to block the nomination. The process by which that block happened could easily have been eliminated by a Senate rules change. There were attempts to do this on other issues (eg voting rights) but the rotating villains of the Democratic Party at the time (ie Sinema, Manchin) blocked it.

Joe Liebermann was previously the rotating villain. He is singlehandedly the only reason why 55 year olds can't buy into Medicare to get health insurance coverage.
There's this one that goes one step beyond that, it's built out of 40,000 discrete transistors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z71h9XZbAWY

EDIT: there's more information here: https://www.megaprocessor.com/
Sounds good in theory, but we are more intertwined on private sector levels.

As an example, the cost of natgas on the east coast after California's rules limiting coal for power generation. People in nearby states with different COL pick up part of the tab.
I think they have a clear plan in two parts.

1. Since the opposition seeks progress in many forms, blindly obstruct them in all cases.

2. Legislate the country back to 1953. When that is accomplished, legislate the country back to 1853.

The only part I'm unsure about is whether they're interested in renaming the nation "Gilead."
Ask HN: My SSD keeps failing. Are SSD's reliable long term storage?
I bought a Samsung 2TB SSD last year. V-Nand 870 EVo. About once a month it drops off the Windows 11 file explorer and I have to restart so Windows can do a disk fix on startup. My question is basically should I enjoy the speed of SSD's for everyday use but stick to magnetic hard drives for long term storage?
When you read into Wagner, they’re clearly a neo nazi PMC committing atrocities in Eurasia.

When you read about their African exploits though, they seem to be the most anti-colonial colonial project on the continent yet. They support and arm the local strongmen, but unlike the traditional colonial powers they don’t seem to lord it over them, just build independent Russia aligned states with anti western attitudes.

In fact a chunk of 20th century history was the USSR supporting independence movements and pushing them towards communism whereas the US supported the colonial hegemon such as the French in Vietnam. If the US supported the independence movements but pushed them towards liberalism instead… geopolitics now would be a lot less cynical but probably even more anti-US from the European powers.
What stops them? You could have a WordPress plugin that uses Stable Diffusion to generate images, or encodes uploaded video, or provides an AI chatbot, and needs fast GPUs because there are a lot of users. Providers will supply anything the customer is willing to pay for. The expected AI plugins would be doing inference rather than training, but the user could use the same hardware for plugins that do something else.
And if it actually happened the way I described, with a wink, there exists no evidence that it happened - yet it did. And that itself would be evidence that this mindset of mine has validity.

Trust is like a vase. It takes a lot of time and effort to make one. It takes a lot less time and effort to break one. And even if you fix it, you'll always be able to see the cracks.
> The first batch of very high performance RISC-V chips are dropping soon, and there will be servers, as well as Android devices.

Is this the new "2024 is the year of linux desktops"?
None of these blogposts (including this one) have any realistic solution to the problem of making OSS software and being able to live from it, and prevent others from exploiting you in the process.

Hyperscalers like Amazon exploit OSS projects by reselling them as a cloud service and they earn a gigantic sum in the process. But this is not a neutral thing to do - the OSS project is still responsible for maintenance! (And in many places, the "no warranty" clause seems completely disregarded - users and corporations demand bugfixes since it's a "critical library")

The most telling sentence is "Open source culture relies on trust. Trust that companies you and I helped build (even without being on the payroll) wouldn't rugpull."...

where is any trust in exploiting someone's work without giving anything back? the hyperscalers routinely break the OSS social contract, but because they abide to the letter of the licences, they get a free pass and many white knights from even the OSS community and even OSI itself.

A business model of "you can see the source, you can modify it but you can't offer it as a service or resell my work" is much more honest and trustworthy than the "develop a library, a cloud service picks it up then pressures you with PRs and issues until you permanently burn out from the whole thing"

This is partly addressed by the post - "But you know what? I'd just prefer honesty. If revenue is so dependent on selling software, just... make the software proprietary. Don't be so coy!".

This is not honesty though. Claiming that anything not party-approved.... I mean OSI-approved is not open source and it's proprietary is a very myopic thing. For users and developers, it's much more beneficial if they can see or even modify the source even if they don't have an unrestricted right to use and modify it however they want. This absolutist, black-and-white approach could potentially lead to many pieces of software becoming fully proprietary, all-rights-reserved in the future since the open source community harasses source available projects quite frequently, and not many have the patience to put up with that. And that would be a sad outcome indeed for user freedom, repairability, portability and other values RMS and the FSF dearly holds.
That's not technically true - you can probe for I2C devices by only sending a START, an address, waiting for the client device to ACK (or not), and then sending a STOP. I don't think the linux kernel driver allows us to do this, but I've implemented this on some microcontrollers with lower-level control over the I2C hardware. It worked on all clients I tried it on.
The GNU philosophy believes Free Software[1] and Open Source are two different things[2].

1. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

2. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
This is correct. Solutions architect may be related to sales or it may have nothing to do with it at all.
I don't think it's a technical issue. The implementation is technical, but the implications are societal. Is the state allowed to restrict ISPs from certain forms of network management? How far the governmental control over ISP actions can go? Does such restriction benefit the society? I'm sure a lot of people have opinions on these questions, but it's not a technical issue and not one that has an obvious correct solution. It's not like "is quicksort better than bubble sort" (even that is not 100% clear cut but let's not get into the weeds) where you can make mathematical arguments and tests to establish the conclusion. It's a matter of values and policies, and as such, it's bound to produce disagreement. I don't think it's also useful to frame it as "it all worked super awesome and then greedy capitalists stole it from us by their dirty tricks". It's usually not how it works and it's not what happened in this case.
React 19 Beta
Overregulation. Source, I work in telecom in Canada.
I was erring on the side of charitableness. America makes great films and characters, but the audience tends to have a hard time deciphering whether some of those are cautionary tales or instructional videos.
It's funny how his speech is an indicator that he is too old for office, when his opponent's speech is so frequently and completely unhinged[1], that it sounds like a self-parody.

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> [1] I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.
Are they only charging or also restricting the number of tickets available per day?

Restricting the number of tickets is probably an effective way of handling overtourism.

Just charging would probably be only be effective in reducing the numbers of tourists if the price were much higher. And then it would, righltly, be seen as unfair to poorer tourists.
> What happens is some folks decide they want to make violent threats towards others, or espouse ideologies that are inherently violent (e.g. white supremacy, which aims for genocide to create a white ethno-state), or decide that they want to be misogynist, or racist. The folks that do this are selfish and don't deserve to have their hate* and ignorance amplified.

Oh, come on. While I may not agree with these things, the first page talks about things like lab leak theory, Hunter Biden's laptop, and questioning "that children needed to wear face masks." It is obnoxious and credibility-destroying to conflate that with stuff like "violent threats towards others" or "ideologies that are inherently violent."
We ordered 1k popcorn bags to drop off in NYC offices next week
> Is it more democratic because the reps who voted on it were elected rather than appointed by people who were elected like over at those agencies?

The presidency is not an elected autocracy. The extent of his powers are strictly limited to those granted by a) the constitution, and b) acts of congress.

Attempts to circumvent these limitations through clever legal theories are undemocratic, doubly so when that circumvention bypasses duly elected state governments. No act of congress has ever explicitly banned non-compete agreements or authorized the FTC to do so, and the plethora of employment law at the state level strongly supports the notion that it wasn't even a federal matter to begin with.

Would you argue that it's more democratic or less democratic when powers previously belonging to states are subsumed by the executive in this way? What if the people of Texas believe non-compete agreements are important? Why not just federalize all laws and tell state legislatures to pound sand?
IRI is likely in control of IRGC at this point. They summoned ambassadors the other week with FM completely out of the loop! The revolutionary courts just ignored the supreme court's judgment and sentenced Toomaj Salahi -- a rap artist that expressed the voice of the people in his dissident songs -- to death.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/world/middleeast/iran-rap...

Btw, HN, that young man's life can be saved. [deleted incorrect info.] PLEASE CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE!
> Funnily, one of the best places for this in practice (IMO) is microsoft. Who is now, again funnily enough, GPLing a lot of their software but have CLAs so they can do long term support for people that want to pay for it.

Huh, what software is MS releasing under the GPL now?
I was curious enough to go looking. It's not very well documented, but seems shared quite a bit.

I found this:

https://blogdelviejotopo.blogspot.com/2014/04/40-aniversario...
>because likely there will be a president I don't support in that position, and I'd rather her/him NOT have that type of power.

I wish more people had this perspective.

The topic of packing the Supreme Court comes to mind. There are people who want Biden to do this, but if does it, what’s stopping the next Republican from doing it too… back and forth until the court is so big it can’t function. These easily won “victories” can just as easily work against a group as they can work for them. It’s very short-sighted.

The only reason the courts are getting involved as much as they are, is because Congress can’t get anything done. They make the law, the court interprets it. We need a functioning Congress to avoid the courts needing to give their best guess on what the law currently is for issues that aren’t well defined, or not defined at all. Packing the court as a solution is solving the wrong problem.
Dependent types in Haskell, Part 3
I am sure this inevitably is going to blame Asian cooking, but one important factor here is that the women surveyed were 40-70 year old. It is important, because a huge portion of these women would be first generation immigrants. That is important to know because first generation immigrants from decades ago are more likely to have a lower socioeconomic living conditions. Life in Asia with higher pollution and lower safety standards, life in America in poor neighborhoods with exposure to pollution, asbestos, and other carcinogens are all likely contributing factors.
Ask TekSavvy that question.
I would say that is unfair because their actual platform is deliberately sabotaging any kind of functional governance and refusing to change any government policy that is clearly broken and in desperate need of change. Obviously they won't admit that. But that is what they have been doing for decades. They wouldn't want to accidentally make things better for people because then they can't campaign on fixing the problems.
The triple quotes are probably because it uses chatGPT, which is optimized for chat and not code
Ugh, have to say goodbye to breath of the wok? Or make an outdoor kitchen I suppose.
I think the FSF's take is philosophically solid, and I've gotten a ton of of their software and advocacy over the years, as most software developers surely have. However, developers and other technical people are nearly the only people for whom that's true.

So much of the FOSS world blames marketing for the lack of non-technical users, routinely ignore, or even deride the prospect of prioritizing the most important factor non-technical users choosing software: usability. The people who do so dismiss interface and experience design as superfluous aesthetics. It might be true for people with a working mental model of software architecture in their back pocket, but to others, those little 'trivial' bits of prerequisite knowledge aggregate into a giant frustrating roadblock.
I haven't used Tiktok in several years but I can tell you Reels is worryingly addictive to me.