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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 curren…

Including on the dimensions of (1) having a very fast website and (2) not having any paywalls. Feels very good to read.

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 o…

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, resea…

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...

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 …

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 OS…

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 …

ExoAgent (from your bio/past comments) looks really interesting. Godspeed!

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 -…

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.…

Good title!

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…

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 …

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 …

It is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Ka_8kHTj4&t=903s

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…

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 hom…

Great to see in the priorities "sandboxing by default" (under desktop variety) and https://nlnet.nl/project/Capability-based-RedoxOS/ (under security).

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 t…