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chxon Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court

They don't quite do that.

You will notice they only order US companies to do so.

ASML, however, abides by U.S. export control regulations because that was a requirement for the approval of the acquisition of SVG.

Everything flows from there.

chxon Detecting when LLMs are uncertain

Detecting when LLMs are Uncertain?

return true;

There, I didn't need a paper to answer the question.

chxon Geoffrey Hinton said machine learning would outperform radiologists by now

A chatbot just killed a teen.

While I don't think AI will be be banned wholesale from, say, interstate commerce despite it really should until the industry self regulates the moment it starts killing people in medicine there it will be banned. And it's obvious it'll kill people. For eg in radiology it'll add its bullshit to images which is just not there. And so forth. It's just a question of how and when , not if.

No dystopian novel has predicted how fucking mundane it'll be when AI begins to kill people.

chxon Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3

Observe how I posted about content while you posted about ... me.

There's a difference.

chxon Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3

People are dicks to one of the last companies which operate in a transparent manner and open source their product.

There was a bug, it got fixed. Nothing to see here, move along.

chxon Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3

No, they are not. They have a separate product which is closed source and there was a accidental mixup between the dependencies of the two. They fixed it quick. As I posted repeatedly in this issue: we need to be much much more lenient and supportive of one of the very few companies which still try. If this is the support they get why would anyone else even bother?

chxon Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3

Repeatedly: when people post shit like this they more or less guarantee the next company won't even try. People! this is one of the few companies which open sources their product. The time to doubt and preach is not here yet... by far.

chxon Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source

And you are wrong and I am right. As always when I post here (although I really am angry that I was right that AI will start killing people and it did). Bitwarden is doing the right thing.

https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611#issuecomme...

chxon Can A.I. be blamed for a teen's suicide?

Murder app?

chxon Apple and Goldman Sachs deceived Apple Card customers, regulators say

you downvoting fuckers don't just downvote but comment why

chxon Apple and Goldman Sachs deceived Apple Card customers, regulators say

> Cardholders with an Apple Card Monthly Installments plan essentially had two card balances – the plan balance and their interest-bearing revolving balance. For more than 10,000 cardholders, Goldman Sachs misled consumers about how it would apply certain refunds between the two balances. Contrary to Goldman’s representations, portions of refunds for unrelated purchases were applied to the interest-free plan balance instead of the interest-bearing revolving balance. As a result, consumers incurred additional and unexpected interest expenses.

nice

chxon How I use git

Here's how I use git:

1. git status doesn't need to be run manually, https://github.com/woefe/git-prompt.zsh

2. I dislike aliases because they only work locally and not anywhere else which will be just confusing and especially when confusing when dealing with an emergency on non-local. It also makes sharing workflows harder. So I'd rather not use any.

3. On the other hand, I override git reset to commit before destroying work to save my own bacon. Oh and I added git cd which I guess contradicts #2 but oh well :) -- it's also not an alias -- and, to be fair, I use it somewhat rarely and it's not really a git command -- I could've named it cd-git-relative or something. Anyways here it is: https://gist.github.com/chx/d4e30aaf8e3d9a6fccad9e89bb8d73b8

chxon Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license

1. I am fairly sure games and other performance sensitive apps are using the Android NDK which is not available for RISC-V.

2. I am fairly sure a competitive RISC-V CPU is not days or weeks but years away.

chxon USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/who-owns-the-mineral...

> Mineral rights are automatically included as a part of the land in a property conveyance, unless and until the ownership gets separated at some point by an owner/seller.

> Since sellers of land can convey only property that they own, each sale of the land after the minerals are separated automatically includes only the land. Deeds to the land made after the first separation of the minerals will not refer to the fact that the mineral rights are not included.

> in most cases, you cannot determine whether you own the rights to the minerals under your land just by looking at your deed. Owners are sometimes surprised to find out someone else owns the rights to the minerals under their land

> U.S. laws regulating mining and mineral rights typically prohibit mineral owners from damaging or interfering with the use of any homes or other improvements on the land when extracting minerals. As a result, mineral owners do not typically attempt mineral extraction in highly populated areas. This means that if you live in a city, or an area with many houses on small plots of land, you probably won't need to worry about whether or not you own any minerals that might be under you

chxon Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source

So there's nothing.

> Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug.

Tempest in a teapot.

What about reporting a bug and chill? Instead of immediately jumping the gun and flooding the issue tracker of the one company that still tries with preaching? What is this going to achieve? Of course they locked it. Shame on everyone who commented some RMS-inspired lament into their issue queue.

chxon S3 as a Git remote and LFS server

Client side is, while interesting, of limited use as every CI and similar tool won't work this. This seems like a sort of automation of wormhole which I guess is neat https://github.com/cxw42/git-tools/blob/master/wormhole

chxon Blue whale skeleton at New Bedford museum still oozing oil

The typical claim made is "it was the wealthiest city per capita in North America in the first half of the 19th century" but on p23 https://npshistory.com/publications/nebe/clr.pdf claims it was the second in the state. New Orleans is claimed to be the nation's wealthiest in 1830s-1840s.

chxon AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95%

You are imaging LLMs are capable of much more than they actually are. Here's the only thing they are good for.

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.

chxon Reports show some Canada euthanasia deaths driven by social reasons

No, the majority of the population is now leaning towards fascism as per https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canad... and of course Trudeau bows to them because after all he wants to stay prime minister

you forgot to apologize for spreading lies btw

chxon Reports show some Canada euthanasia deaths driven by social reasons

Fascism is on the rise in the entire world and Canada is alas no exception. Why, after three years what happened to Lytton, BC they are ready to elect a party which refused to add climate change to its policy book. That doesn't mean your propaganda about 3-5% immigrants who leech on the country has any truth in it.

chxon Reports show some Canada euthanasia deaths driven by social reasons

That was a typo, I fixed it, you were too quick. It's 500 000. Check the source linked.

chxon Reports show some Canada euthanasia deaths driven by social reasons

First, we are about 41 million people and every year we welcome about half a million new people to freedom and safety. That's about 1.2%. About 300 000 of these come to us in the economic immigrant category who are decidedly able to take care of themselves or they wouldn't be to immigrate so. A bit more than 100 000 of them are coming as family, 70-75 000 come as refugee and about 10 000 come as Humanitarian / Compassionate other. I always thought a nation as rich as ours should welcome a lot more refugees.

Source: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/ne...

Cheers from a not-so-recent Canadian immigrant: I landed on September 1, 2008 and became a citizen in 2016.

chxon Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace

Here AI might be useful, I am not saying maroofy is perfect but it's worth a try. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34635352

It's one of the few uses where if the AI is wrong? oh well.

chxon Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace

Band level doesn't quite work. Alas, it needs to be track level. There are a lot of bands where I like a track and that's it.

My favorite example is Seven Sirens And a Silver Tear from Sirenia, a Norwegian gothic metal band. There's no metal in that. It took me a long long time before I learned this but the track is a direct descendant of the Midlight Sonata. And I was hunting for similar songs and I now keep a playlist of them -- but if you started from Sirenia you would never find any of them.

chxon Code that helped end Apartheid

Yes, including Citizens United itself...

chxon Code that helped end Apartheid

You need to understand as long as Citizens United stand it's practically impossible to make a change like this in the United States. People don't care enough and political issues are bought.

chxon Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

Even some countries which can't enter these international conventions because they are not part of the UN/WIPO due to lack of wide diplomatic recognition have laws to honor copyright as prescribed in Berne, it's too important for international trade. For example, part of the Stabilization and Association Agreement the European Union made with Kosovo included IP laws including copyright. https://cps.rks-gov.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LAW_NO._0...

chxon Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

Copyright law is universal under the Berne Convention and it prevents unlicensed duplicates of the software from legally being distributed. This is not US law, it's law everywhere, even the very few countries which are not signatories to the Berne Convention are signatories to TRIPS.

Gates does not hold the copyright for MS DOS 6.22 and it's not 7 years but 70. But yes, eventually yes, see how Sherlock Holmes became public domain. For PC software in 2024 this is not yet relevant, the Berne minimum is death plus 50 and the IBM PC is not yet 50 years old.

chxon Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

Ah you misunderstand.

All free software licenses grant you additional rights on top of copyright law. These rights allow you to make copies of the software given certain conditions. If you violate them then they do not apply and only copyright law applies so any copies you made are illegal.

chxon Mullvad VPN: macOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

I do not think the user particularly cares whether it was an intentional feature or an unfortunate byproduct of features and bugs when they open a laptop in a classroom or a meeting and it starts blaring the music they listened to before closing it.