mlinksva

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by mlinksva 1mo ago
The CA amending bill with a carve-out for open source is still active, is not yet law (see https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.x... for the changes to current law if the bill passes).
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by mlinksva 2mo ago
Including on the dimensions of (1) having a very fast website and (2) not having any paywalls. Feels very good to read.
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by mlinksva 2mo ago
Agreed as does the org putting out the linked paper https://www.prohousingpgh.org/blog/policy-land-value-taxes And if you read the linked paper, particularly the section "Effects of Reassessments on Split-Rate Tax
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by mlinksva 3mo ago
I can't tell from the site or the linked twitter handles. Their core ask for every state seems to be "Please support clear safe-harbor language for lawful local AI ownership, research, model modification, open-source publication,
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Advocating for fixes to California AI Transparency Act to protect open source(github.blog)
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An Open Letter on Transparent AI Cyber Protections(freefable.org)
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Itty Bitty Mosquito Committee(ittybittymosquitocommittee.org)
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by mlinksva 3mo ago
Cool concept, I hope it becomes fully realized, scaled, copied. Created a play prediction question to track that https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/by-eoy-2030-what-wil...
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by mlinksva 4mo ago
Good development, along with the most recent changes to https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... A colleague is hosting a virtual session on these and other similar bills around the world in two
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The "Digital Complexity" of Nations(github.blog)
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Why age assurance laws matter for developers(github.blog)
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by mlinksva 7mo ago
Which is approximately all companies because all companies use software and depending on what the researchers look at, 90% to 98% of codebases depend on OSS. Conclusion: support OSS from general taxation, like the Sovereign Tech Fund in Ger
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by mlinksva 7mo ago
https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031 https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822239138038382684 "In the end it came down to Swift vs Rust, and Swift is strictly better i
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by mlinksva 7mo ago
ExoAgent (from your bio/past comments) looks really interesting. Godspeed!
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by mlinksva 8mo ago
I don't know that there are any similaries besides the names -- well maybe something thematic about distributing the future or what looked like it at the time to more programmers -- but the handful of times I've run across Grain (
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by mlinksva 8mo ago
Do you have a pointer to where LeCun spoke about it? I noticed last October that Dwarkesh mentioned the idea off handedly on his podcast (prompting me to write up https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/llm-trained-on-d
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by mlinksva 9mo ago
Good title!
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by mlinksva 9mo ago
Different cutoff but similar question thrown out in https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/thoughts-on-sutton#:~:text=If%20y... inspiring https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/llm-trained-on-data-...
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by mlinksva 10mo ago
I've had approximately the same thought, to different but complementary ends "More generally (not covered in this question) perhaps this could also be a fun way to interrogate the tech tree, e.g., what could have been discovered g
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by mlinksva 10mo ago
Lots of discussion on the EFF's post on this same topic last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985890 I expect a deluge of critical comments near the Dec 2 deadline. Add yours! :)
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by mlinksva 10mo ago
It is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Ka_8kHTj4&t=903s
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by mlinksva 11mo ago
It's a very good thing the US has declined to sign this. The digital rights community has been campaigning against it since its proposal by Russia in 2017. The US not signing it is a small victory across a very large loss. Many explain
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by mlinksva 11mo ago
There doesn't seem to be much info about OMA available online. Your thesis linked from https://www.bristol.ac.uk/research/groups/trustworthy-system... which is linked from your home page/timeline is a br
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by mlinksva 1y ago
Great to see in the priorities "sandboxing by default" (under desktop variety) and https://nlnet.nl/project/Capability-based-RedoxOS/ (under security).
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by mlinksva 1y ago
As the post mentions wallets like MetaMask being the targets, AFAIK MetaMask in particular might be one of the best protected (isolated) applications from this kind of attack due to their use of LavaMoat https://x.com/MetaMa
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by mlinksva 1y ago
Fairly comprehensive and good blog post. Possibly too new to make it in, a proposal to take the learnings of the German STF (mentioned in the post) and expand it to the EU level for the next budget cycle (2028-2035) https://eu-st
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by mlinksva 1y ago
*million rather than billions https://rustfoundation.org/media/google-contributes-1m-to-ru... but sound analysis as far as I can tell.
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by mlinksva 1y ago
I did not see a link to your screenshotted comment in the article so looked it up, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936830 to save others the work (not the whole thing is screenshotted, and the comment and its thread
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by mlinksva 1y ago
I tend to agree though the conventional response I'd guess also has merit: "secure" isn't binary and various mitigations deployed on non-capability-based operating systems change the economics of attack/defense and
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by mlinksva 1y ago
I don't really know because I haven't put work in to investigate, but some things in that direction seem to be, possibly in order of some combination of maturity and comprehensiveness. - CHERI compartmentalisation - LavaMoat

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