Lots of people are saying agentic cyberattacks are a marketing hoax. The argument is that either AI is not capable enough to carry out these attacks, or that it would not carrying out these attacks without nudging from…
Really? I thought Maps was pretty constistently up to date with GNIS changes.
What would be a valid basis for relabeling a shared body of water for US users? Would it be based on popular usage? The procedure by which it changed? Maybe we distinguish between bicameralism and presentment, an…
At internet scale, this would roughly be equivalent to not doing any warning or detection at all. Scalable systems need to use heuristics to catch threats. Needing concrete evidence in every case means that an…
How is any kind of antivirus or threat detection software supposed to operate on this standard? Libel suits can be financially catastrophic, so even a tiny false positive rate could present risk that disincentivizes…
It seems that many people lean into the "community" aspect of open source. In real communities there are webs of mutual responsibility. If you use open source to fill the role of community in your life, it makes sense…
> RISC-V doesn't make sense to 99% users at this stage. Agreed. Boards like this are helpful for getting RISC-V to the next stage, where it could make sense for more users.
I'm not sure if it's true that the leader is less powerful. In many countries, it seems that the leader has near total control over candidate selection, and dissent is punished ruthlessly. In the US, it's easier for a…
I thought QPR2 and QPR4 were the only releases anyone cared about regardless.
I agree that we should not provide targeted subsidies for Twinkies, Mountain Dew, or cigarettes. The whole premise of food stamps is flawed. We should provide cash instead. If there is an objection that giving cash is…
Mountain Dew and Twinkies are bad for your health regardless of your income level. We should tackle unhealthy eating by going after the supply, not by going after a class-segmented group of consumers. Like many…
People should be able to get cash transfers to buy goods on the general market. There shouldn't be food stamps. The success of SNAP comes despite its inherent inefficiency, friction, and the indignity of its…
> I am a firm believer that the very notion of IP ownership needs to die a horrible death, something that AI may very well make happen in short order, yay. The leading AI labs are not killing IP. They are taking IP and…
I don't understand the disappointment expressed here in the maintainers deciding to WONTFIX these security bugs. Isn't this what ffmpeg did recently? They seemed to get a ton of community support in their decision not…
It depends on the nature of the code and codebase. There have been many occasions when working in a very verbose enterprise-y codebase where I know exactly what needs to happen, and the LLM just types it out. I…
This is tricky to get right. If the false positive rate is consistently 0.0%, that is a surefire sign that the detector is not effective enough to be useful. If a false positive is libel, then any useful malware…
Notably this post did not examine whether any of the sites it was hosting on this domain was malicious/misleading.
If religion had been the cause of a lasting difference, I would have expected it to go in the opposite direction. Articulate, persuasive, emotive public testimony done in a declamatory style is part of the fabric of…
iMessage is extraordinarily popular in the US. Its userbase dwarfs Signal by over an order of magnitude
This might not be charitable, but my perspective is that some of the advocates want it both ways. I would be interested in seeing an MIT/BSD licensed project saying, from the beginning, something like "This project is…
I haven't been following this conflict: have the terms of the GPL been broken?
> We're made to feel like we should open source things and not retain exclusive rights to commercialization. Who is telling you that you have to write open source software? Millions of programmers around the world make…
Permissively licensed software is intentionally designed to be used by anybody for any reason with essentially no restrictions beyond attribution. Advocates of permissive licenses explicitly reject the argument that…
Democratic Party voters seem to be more aligned with Euro-style socialist policies, but among elected Democrats this is a small minority view. European socialists usually advocate for direct state ownership of certain…
This is why I'm so glad that I work in a closed monorepo now. There is no package management, only build tooling. I find myself nodding along to many of the technical and organizational arguments. But I get lost in the…
Lots of people are saying agentic cyberattacks are a marketing hoax. The argument is that either AI is not capable enough to carry out these attacks, or that it would not carrying out these attacks without nudging from…
Really? I thought Maps was pretty constistently up to date with GNIS changes.
What would be a valid basis for relabeling a shared body of water for US users? Would it be based on popular usage? The procedure by which it changed? Maybe we distinguish between bicameralism and presentment, an…
At internet scale, this would roughly be equivalent to not doing any warning or detection at all. Scalable systems need to use heuristics to catch threats. Needing concrete evidence in every case means that an…
How is any kind of antivirus or threat detection software supposed to operate on this standard? Libel suits can be financially catastrophic, so even a tiny false positive rate could present risk that disincentivizes…
It seems that many people lean into the "community" aspect of open source. In real communities there are webs of mutual responsibility. If you use open source to fill the role of community in your life, it makes sense…
> RISC-V doesn't make sense to 99% users at this stage. Agreed. Boards like this are helpful for getting RISC-V to the next stage, where it could make sense for more users.
I'm not sure if it's true that the leader is less powerful. In many countries, it seems that the leader has near total control over candidate selection, and dissent is punished ruthlessly. In the US, it's easier for a…
I thought QPR2 and QPR4 were the only releases anyone cared about regardless.
I agree that we should not provide targeted subsidies for Twinkies, Mountain Dew, or cigarettes. The whole premise of food stamps is flawed. We should provide cash instead. If there is an objection that giving cash is…
Mountain Dew and Twinkies are bad for your health regardless of your income level. We should tackle unhealthy eating by going after the supply, not by going after a class-segmented group of consumers. Like many…
People should be able to get cash transfers to buy goods on the general market. There shouldn't be food stamps. The success of SNAP comes despite its inherent inefficiency, friction, and the indignity of its…
> I am a firm believer that the very notion of IP ownership needs to die a horrible death, something that AI may very well make happen in short order, yay. The leading AI labs are not killing IP. They are taking IP and…
I don't understand the disappointment expressed here in the maintainers deciding to WONTFIX these security bugs. Isn't this what ffmpeg did recently? They seemed to get a ton of community support in their decision not…
It depends on the nature of the code and codebase. There have been many occasions when working in a very verbose enterprise-y codebase where I know exactly what needs to happen, and the LLM just types it out. I…
This is tricky to get right. If the false positive rate is consistently 0.0%, that is a surefire sign that the detector is not effective enough to be useful. If a false positive is libel, then any useful malware…
Notably this post did not examine whether any of the sites it was hosting on this domain was malicious/misleading.
If religion had been the cause of a lasting difference, I would have expected it to go in the opposite direction. Articulate, persuasive, emotive public testimony done in a declamatory style is part of the fabric of…
iMessage is extraordinarily popular in the US. Its userbase dwarfs Signal by over an order of magnitude
This might not be charitable, but my perspective is that some of the advocates want it both ways. I would be interested in seeing an MIT/BSD licensed project saying, from the beginning, something like "This project is…
I haven't been following this conflict: have the terms of the GPL been broken?
> We're made to feel like we should open source things and not retain exclusive rights to commercialization. Who is telling you that you have to write open source software? Millions of programmers around the world make…
Permissively licensed software is intentionally designed to be used by anybody for any reason with essentially no restrictions beyond attribution. Advocates of permissive licenses explicitly reject the argument that…
Democratic Party voters seem to be more aligned with Euro-style socialist policies, but among elected Democrats this is a small minority view. European socialists usually advocate for direct state ownership of certain…
This is why I'm so glad that I work in a closed monorepo now. There is no package management, only build tooling. I find myself nodding along to many of the technical and organizational arguments. But I get lost in the…