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Posted by enriquelop 10 hours ago

Spanish legislation as a Git repo(github.com)
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boredatoms 6 hours ago|
Is there something like this for the US?
wavemode 6 hours ago||
Even if there were, it wouldn't be very useful. In a "common law" system like the US, legal questions are rarely answered purely by the plain text of a law. You also need case law - that is, how the law is typically applied in practice by the courts.
boredatoms 4 hours ago|||
Sure, then that with case law too?
smitty1e 4 hours ago|||
The legislation seems more high-level requirements, that then implemented over in the Code of Federal Regs[1].

Using AI to plow through and make sense of all this would put us at risk of people knowing what the USG is getting up to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations

the-rc 4 hours ago||
There was a project at Google Chicago to do something like that, around 15 years ago. For some reason, it was never launched.
ks2048 7 hours ago||
A couple things I noticed opening one random page (https://github.com/EnriqueLop/legalize-es/blob/master/spain/...)

It left out the tables (e.g. under 2.1 Materiales.) and the images (e.g see the very bottom).

sebastianconcpt 7 hours ago||
We need something like this for every country.
8bitsrule 7 hours ago||
Looks like we're heading toward some resolution to the old problem 'ignorance of the law is no excuse'. Born in a world with plenty of laws, the jeopardy that goes with them, and no easy and reliable resources, that would certainly be welcome.
dorianmariecom 9 hours ago||
for france there is https://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/
icpmoles 6 hours ago|
For older edits there is https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil

Unfortunately Git is based on Unix timestamps so everything pre-1970 has the wrong date.

wouldbecouldbe 9 hours ago||
This is really great, anyone know of a Dutch version?
layer8 8 hours ago|
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554274
wouldbecouldbe 5 hours ago||
yeah thats a great start, however the md files of every change are really helpful in going though history and understand steps with llms'
bertil 8 hours ago||
This is a key project, and I’m sure many countries have enough developers who might try and get it done, but a project that can do it for most legal systems (assuming the sources are on-line) would help a lot more people access legal resources.
coopykins 10 hours ago||
Hey, very nice! Seems like a great way to have LLMs answer questions about the laws more reliably.
worksonmine 6 hours ago|
Hey! How can I make this about LLMs?

(Many countries' laws are already available online and included in the dataset they're trained on. The project is very cool for humans though.)

notorandit 4 hours ago||
That's how it should be everywhere!
0x3f 9 hours ago|
Neat. I wonder if there are commercial products that are formal specifications of laws, decisions, etc. Such that you can reason on them via solvers etc.
embedding-shape 8 hours ago||
I think it's a rite of passage for every developer who ever touched the ecosystem of law to also wonder the same. Probably even since the invention of "business programming" there been developers wondering this. Many has attempting, so far, I don't think anyone succeeded.

But I'm sure someone at some point might figure it out, you never know :)

0x3f 8 hours ago||
Well, there's a new batch of autoformalization attempts with LLMs now. Although I've also heard people say autoformalization will always be impossible.

It's interesting to wonder what kind of coverage Cycorp managed to achieve internally, and on what domains. Seemingly no job openings at the moment though!

planteur 7 hours ago||
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177022
0x3f 7 hours ago||
Nice, now I just need to spend 5 years encoding it all and I can finally start my 'AI' tax evasion consultancy firm.
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