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Ask HN: What license to choose in an open source project with code from an AI?
I have been working for several days in a small package that could be useful for developers as it is useful for me.

The problem is that the package uses some obscure built-in API that I asked a coding AI to help me with and I worked on top of that. The structure is being the same, but I changed the internal behavior (think of a callback system having all the internal code re-implemented by me).

Could I release the project as open source? What would be a good license? Would it be ethical? How much different needs the code to be from the one that was outputted by the AI tool? What do you do in this cases?
You’re better at writing than I am then! I make mistakes all the time, so being able to move my words around on the page is super useful.

This to me is calm tech, because that’s all it does: note taking. If your definition is such that only pen and paper meets it, that’s not a very useful definition for tech IMO
Any time prompt crafting matters is just when demonstrating the current edge of capabilities - next iteration, you can get away with a much more general/primitive prompt. Those are just people countering the "gotcha" arguments people try to levy against LLMs, showing that even now those tasks can be done with a good prompt. Anytime it's a practical concern though - just wait a little longer for the next model to smooth that out.

You don't have to pay attention, that's the point. You can code without reading code now. Sure you gotta tell it what the app looks like with each iteration - but again, that's temporary til the next model comes out with good enough vision to assess that itself. None of this is permanently planning on requiring human interaction - it's just early days and these are progressing through mediums one at a time.

They're not canned responses either. They're bespoke mixtures of all the various elements of the current environment/context translated to an answer. It certainly handles novelty - that's the whole point. They certainly handle plenty of novelty - like entire mediums of text and images - to expert levels. I think you're just being greedy for more, here.

As for consistency and avoiding error? There are benchmarks for that. There are error checking methods. Those are all steadily improving too, and are already well-consistent on easier topics/mediums. It would be foolish to think that's innately impossible from AI for remaining ones.
what was your prompt?
>wars which break out because of scarcity issues

That doesn't seem to be much of a thing these days. If you look at Russia/Ukraine or China/Taiwan there's not much scarcity. It's more bullying dictator wants to control the neighbours issues.
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> He literally made a marketplace for people who sold, tortured, and killed children, even babies.

cp was explicitly not allowed on Silk road. the man was a lot of things but he wasn't a monster.
>If I want to ship this to colleagues

then they don't need your dev tools.

>won't know what a venv is but do have to write python every now and again

In practical terms, you have to understand what a venv is in order to be a Python developer, for the same reason you have to understand environment variables to do anything serious in the shell. Learning the fundamentals is a one-time cost.
Some beg to differ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-7qFAuFGao
> yet nowhere can you find ill intentions or a desire to oppress anyone

Well, you can. Its impact is heavily amplified, but there certainly are ill intentions and a desire to oppress people.
The whole military-industrial complex (defense industry) has about the same yearly revenues as Google.

As others have already said, we Europeans do have central governments and there's fewer of us.
A globe is always the best projection. Unfortunately it fell out of fashion to have one on your desk.
What word would you use instead in this specific case?
I get what youre saying but Im not sure absolute liability is quite right. Im thinking of SBOM directives, or industry network security requirements for bgp announcements, for example. Amazon and, I assume, some of the other mega corps are AGES ahead of industry at large. Like huge multi year investments so that theyre plausibly close to complying with secure provenance, review, build tracking, and artifact integrity reporting from initial CR to request processing for everything that touches customer or business data. My impression is that the industry generally isnt any further than tracking some package names and version strings and calling it SBOM. If the new directives can preclude a large number of contract competitors that seems like a huge win.

Or, maybe Im thinking more of advantageous requirements/regulations than oversight per se.
Just because you have an SPA doesn't mean you need any state in the frontend. Main problem with react devs is just overcomplicating and over-abstracting stuff. The best way to explain it to a backend person is like the same interpersonal problems with overengineered microservices architectures.
DeepSeek is a scrapy tech startup fully funded by a successful hedge fund owner without any cooperation with the government.

Meanwhile OpenAI's board includes the most recent head of the NSA and Altman just announced he'll be in DC pandering to Trump next week.
Yes those were also violations of the rule of law, thank you for the examples.
The problem was the miscarriage of justice.
dammit, just updated the link. Thanks!
Typescript has so vast productivity benefits there is no any second though to use or not to use it.
"The same level of awareness that created a problem, cannot be used to fix it"
It was 'accurate' until the 1930s when a certain lawyer with initials FDR found his programs unconstitutional, so he threatened to pack the Supreme Court until they were willing to shit can the 10th amendment.
My local government runs all those, federal just provides the funding. Redistribution of tax proceeds is enough of a job to excuse everything else for you?
First-pass guess is that it got "captured" by individuals that wanted to "take an equity and inclusion lens" on cybersecurity... and something something 2020 election interference. Those are the usual suspects when it comes to this sort of institutional rot.
My (quite uninformed) take is that it was a show of loyalty from Zuckerberg or Meta to the Trump administration. Tech oligarchs have been trying to curry favor after Trump's win. Due to Meta's previous stance on fact-checking, Meta might have been asked to demonstrate its loyalty.
To paraphrase the asshole quote: "if one person misunderstands you, that's their fault; if everyone does, it's yours". The same goes for your comedian analogy: sure, you can tell a brilliant joke in French to a Chinese audience, but why?
Then why did he run a site which allowed people to order hits on people? If it was just an online drug marketplace, that would have been a different matter.
Given I was able to see the errors directly in the js console, yes. You used to be able to break everyone's state by putting an emoji in a URL.
There is two ways for efficiency, either wipe everything clean or well setup a committee to evaluate which committees can be eliminate. And usual joke in bureaucracy is that later one will discover that even more committees are actually needed.

So the knee jerk reaction of current administration is burning it to ground. Which could actually change something.
> "The Day"

So it was fine when they were censoring republicans, but only became "the day of infamy" when blocking the left...

Zero acknowledgement or mention in the article about the history of censorship against the right.

I thought they believed in equity?
Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML
Meta and Zuckerberg never believed in democracy. Just the highest bidder.
Perhaps someone came in and realized that this advisory board had 0 benefit and just a waste of tax payer money? If so, I’m all for getting rid of wasteful spending
Is Elon putting on some black leather?
> only remaining national holy religion, the rule of law

Uhm... Really? Is that present tense?

If rule-of-law was a national holy religion, the last 10 years of US politics would have played out very very differently.
Can Democracy be blocked by Instagram ?
I think it's more announce the plan first, then try to find the investors for most of it.
The main problem is that it is not really viable to start with HTMX and add react (or another frontend framework) later because you end up having two completely separate stacks that are very incompatible with each other.

The worst sin a large codebase can do is being inconsistent.
Show HN: Habby – A straightforward bullet journal with habit tracking
Heya HN,

I started journaling about a year ago and recently landed in my perfect setup, a simple sentence to remember each day, combined with a flexible habit tracker. Over the holidays I turned this approach into a free expo app that I want to share.

Basically, you get:
- One sentence per day, enough to remember each day.
- Flexible habit tracking (still working on finding the best UX here)
- No backend, no tracking, all in device (just sentry for errors)
- Clean, minimal interface
- Export your data
- Stats to track your progress

I built this primarily for my own use, but I'd love to hear what the HN community thinks about it. Android is still in closed testing, but will be available soon.

Thanks!
what are you feed into the model? Image (like product packaging) or Image of Structured Table? I found out that model performs good in general with sturctured table, but fails a lot over images.
> it seems I overestimated my audience

I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, somebody who aspires to be a better writer. But, no, this clarifies that you're just pretentious.
I sincerely hope this attempt of a technocrat oligarchy to be the downfall of social media as we know it, we lived without them, everyone has been on and off at some point even after joining in, even younger generations, so everyone knows we can easily unplug with net positive impact in our lives.
And that's all it takes for their power to vanish like smoke in the wind.
Crime has always been legal for the ones with money and the right connections.

Biden pardonning his son and other criminals also made this clear.

Most people are becoming aware most politicians are actually criminals in suits.
0day and spear phishing are about extracting/obtaining information. Misinformation and manipulation campaigns have the objective to ingest/manipulate information.

"Information security is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks." [1]

Not exactly rocket science.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_security
And superplagiarism of human-created content
Yes Intel SGX gives you the enclave measurement which you could reproduce (if source code code is reproducible), the measurement can be verified against Intel keys to prove it came from that hardware. Similarly AMD SEV-SNP gives you that, it is preferred to SGX due to the ability to run VMs as opposed to smaller applications.

AWS has their firmware image in OSS to be able to reproduce it and then compare the measurements in their Nitro instances: https://github.com/aws/uefi

Azure has confidential compute offerings as well, their attestation, mhsm, ledger services rely on it.

But it is easy to talk about confidential compute and the link between the measurement and the source code. Such link does not exist in regular non-encrypted services and you basically need to trust the service provider about the proofs they give you.
That's precisely what I meant by underlying problems. New emperor? Let's revolt. Emperor captured? Free for all king of the hill. Old emperor returns? Let's blind him, imprison him, and then free for all king of the hill.
Not GP, but yes.
More than the ISA, its the memory interconnect that require standardization. At SoC level, ARM is already a de-facto standard (ACE-Lite, CHI, ...), but its only a standard for communication inside a chip, to interconnect varius IPs.

I guess this standard aim to keep being a standard interconnect even in multi-chiplets system, to create/extend the whole ecosystem around ARM partners.
You can see it on his map.. it's one of the pre-configured waypoints (top right map symbol)
It actually isn't alot, about $100 spread out over a few years for every person on earth isnt enough to do these things..
I'm sure there are benefits and that might it help overall if implemented here and now in our current America with our current levels of public access to civics and career education (MAYBE.) However, this change would be the exact opposite or a total repeal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which good people died for. At a meta level, I trust those who died for voting rights to care more and know more about the correct answer to your question than I do, and I guess I would recommend to look back at historic speeches from MLK and other leaders to understand their full reasoning about why literacy tests were either irredeemable or undesirable, and their reasons for thinking so.

If we assume that both you and MLK were right, but that different policies better suit different conditions, then your proposal could maximize meritocratic effectiveness in an already-very-fair society, whereas MLK's way (the Voting Rights Act) provides a better minimum standard of human rights (similar to 1st and 2nd Amendment protections for people).
I'm guessing but it may make it easier to sell CPU cores if you can sell physical dies instead of IP blocks.

Anyway, this is presumably no different than why Intel took an active role in the specification of what a motherboard looks like.
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While I can see this preventing many of the current issues, I can't help but wonder who will serve the interests of the people that are not allowed to vote.

Would it be a better system if the not-allowed group is totally dependent on the people that are allowed to vote?
PrimeFaces is very well-maintained and regularly updated.

I'd even go further and say that it's one of the few things that makes working with JSF bearable for me.

I'm still a thousand times more productive with React though, and PrimeReact also helps there.
It is a relic from the time when most countries had kings who could pardon people.
I don't doubt inflation moves between economies. I just don't think there's any evidence that US monetary policy causes the negative outcomes you're outlining through that movement. I think you can do a China, but the US doesn't do that.
Also it depends from API response. It could vary from FE dictating schema or backend making hard orthogonal domain modeling API.

In first case FE is productive there is no need to transform data but makes BE a hot mess. Otherwise FE have to maintain layer of code to convert BE data to presentable UI data. It's harder but allows to decouple UI reqs from changes along all stack.
I can't see the talk scheduled anymore, I'm glad the organizers took action !
> here's a human-made piece that I appreciate a lot

I like your art. I'm glad you made it. What I like most is that it's fun to look at and think about which is what you say you intended. I hope I get to see more of your art.

> To this point, I don't believe there's such a thing as "bad art" (all works have something to say about the artist!).

As a classically trained oil painter, I know for sure there is bad art especially because I've made more than enough bad art for one lifetime.

Bad art begins with a lack of craftsmanship and is exemplified by a poor use of materials/media and forms, or a lack of knowledge of those forms (e.g. poor anatomical knowledge, misunderstanding the laws of perspective), or an overly literal representation of forms (a photograph is better at being literal, for example).

> Here's an example of some "slop" from the AI Art Turing Test […] But it's very clearly AI-generated. Can you figure out why?

It's only "clearly AI-generated" because we know that AI is capable of generating art. If you saw this without that context you wouldn't immediately say "AI!" Instead, you'd give it a normal critique that you'd give a student or colleague: I'd say:

- there's too much repetition of large forms.

- there's an unpleasant hierarchy of values and not enough separation of values.

- The portrait of the human is the focus of the image yet it has been lost in the other forms.

- The composition can improve with more breathing room in the foreground or background which are too busy.

- Here look at this Frazetta!

However, my rudimentary list could just as easily be turned into prompts to be used to refine the image and experiment with variations. And, perhaps you'd consider that to be a human making decisions?
I think it was in a Daedalus article that I read a passing reference to a technician who had had an operation for cataracts - the synthetic lens then allowed them to see a little way into the ultraviolet and thus they were able to calibrate a spectrometer "by eye" !

Edit: Ok, I looked it up... from the Daedalus column in New Scientist in May 1969:

"... Daedalus recalls the story of a professor of spectroscopy who lost an eye-lens in an explosion. He was given corrective spectacles with enough UV transparency to let him see some way into this region of the spectrum. Accordingly, he could line up the departmental UV spectrometers by eye, and was much in demand!"
Mark Zuckerberg is a lizard, he made the right call to bow to Trump.

Now Meta will continue to destroy the world's mental health until the situation worsens more.

Trump was a hope that this Meta non-sense would end, but both became allies and forgot about the so many studies that shows how it's a toxic digital product.

It will now take longer for humanity to understand that Meta platforms are worse than cigarettes, but doesn't come with any labelling.
"this would be akin to have a having a license to vote) would that remedy the situation a little? The idea would be that informed people would vote for informed people. Could you imagine this being a net benefit or not?"

The idea has been around for a bit and I call it interesting, but also with huge potential of misuse.

Change the test slightly, so your target audience will yield better results, giving you a better result.

Either way, as long as climate change and darwinism are controversial topics, I see it hard to implement in a meaningful way.
That is how most Westerners refer to things from China, or things done or made by Chinese people.

Sadly, that sort of rhetoric is usually used negatively.

If you meet someone really backwards, they'll say anything involving something remotely Asian, "Chinese".
That's a nice end-run around “innocent until proven guilty”: they didn't have to prove anything about those allegations beyond making them, because he wasn't charged with them.
I straddle the fence here, I think we jump down people's throats a bit too quickly when it comes to putting names on their new library. But I do also wish we'd stop reinventing things and patting ourselves on the back in other cases.

Eg we are definitely working backwards from SPAs now. "JavaScript islands" were how we got to SPA frameworks in the first place.

I don't have all the history and references, but anyone working in web in the late 2000s and 2010s can attest to how progressively adding in javascript on server side rendered HTML was already happening, even componentizing the server side code with CSS and JS packaged up was very common.

"The term “component island” was first coined by Etsy’s frontend architect Katie Sylor-Miller in 2019. This idea was then expanded on and documented in this post by Preact creator Jason Miller on August 11, 2020."

My only gripe, is that this leads the ready on an alternate history of how we got here.
For hot springs, go to Hvammsvik instead of Blue Lagoon. Hvammsvik was a much calmer, far less touristy experience with none of the kitchy BS.

For some fun culture and history in Reykjavik, book a cooking class with Salt Eldhaus. Had a great experience there, the hosts talked about how much Iceland has changed from when they were young, got into the history of some of the dishes we made.

Hakarl is a tourist gotcha, it's really not bad to eat at all, even outside of Reykjavik. Not my first choice, but you can see why it got them through long winters. If you have time, stop in Selfoss for the Skyr Museum and yes, definitely eat all the Skyr you find, it is delicious.

Friðheimar, the big tomato greenhouse farm, is worth the drive. The food was good, walking around the grounds was super chill.

We went during Oct of 2023, so the weather was between 40-50F and slightly rainy, but nothing we were not used to being from the northern parts of the US. Pretty decent time to see some Aurora Borealis though. You often can't see it with the naked eye unless geomagnetic conditions are absolutely perfect, but the camera on your phone can pick up things your eyes cannot, so don't be afraid to just snap pics of a seemingly blank sky.
Not voting was the most popular choice among Americans eligible to vote in 2024, so "it's what we didn't vote for".
39 million people died on the European theater of WW2 alone. Estimates of Jewish deaths during the holocaust range from 4.9 and 5.9 million people. Are you seriously suggesting drug ~regulation~ caused more deaths?

Silk road was not primarily used for "unregulated medicine" but for recreational drugs, weapons and other quite unsavory illegal things.
Amen.

Reading the comments from top to bottom, the above is exactly what I wanted to write.
Does complexity mean a long block of code with many levels of nested conditionals which are messed with cross-block mutable variables ?
I’ve seen a bit of how these sorts of things work and I’m going to give Meta the benefit of the doubt for the initial block, I’d like to think their leadership isn’t that brazen, and the fact this was fixed suggests an error. One bad piece of content (possibly related to critique of the incoming regime) tripped up an automated filter and took down a keyword at an unfortunate time.

What’s inexcusable is that it took so long to fix it. Taking so long caused the appearance of a strong political statement, and the fact that it took so long at least makes a statement about the importance of an issue like this in the company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9foi342LXQE comes to mind!
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If that's true, this was just a test of a newly released "feature" rather than the "show of loyalty" itself.
The justice system is flawed, but I don't see how adding a political dimension makes it any better.
As long as they do not run the voting, I think not...