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by dhx 5d ago
In the case of Assange, Australian politicians did a lot of work to get him released in the end[1], including: * Sending a delegation representing all major political parties to the US to argue for the release of Assange. Imagine picking th
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by dhx 8d ago
> authors won’t publish if anyone can republish their work for free There's plenty (even a majority?) of authors that publish and will continue to publish without any expectation of direct remuneration. Open source software develope
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by dhx 8d ago
The US government's official position on LLMs is (very simply paraphrased) that LLMs are sufficiently transformative and do not hamper the potential market of authors of training material, therefore, copyright claims arising from train
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by dhx 8d ago
The parent comment I replied to is concerned with "life's work got appropriated without consideration, compensation or consent". To alleviate this concern^, "sweat of the brow" doctrine would be required, but it doe
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by dhx 8d ago
"Sweat of the brow" doctrine has been rejected in most countries.[1] Even Europe's Database Directive, probably the closest thing to an implementation of this doctrine, largely doesn't do much in practice. An example of
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by dhx 8d ago
I wasn't thinking of the UI being "highlight text -> context menu -> translate", rather, one of: 1. Open bonjour.md and a banner automatically appears above the document asking whether you'd like to translate from
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by dhx 9d ago
How long would it then take to be able to use the backed up data? Wait for a war to end and a replacement data centre to be built...? By that time most data probably no longer matters (e.g. business no longer exists). It's more likely
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by dhx 9d ago
Some feature requests have already been raised previously: epiphany: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/work_items/2889 papers: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/papers/-&#x
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by dhx 9d ago
Global offline maps including public transport routing and timetables is a fantastic (and if I'm not mistaken, also unique) feature. Google Maps' offline feature by contrast doesn't work globally (some areas are excluded), do
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by dhx 10d ago
For me-south-1 (Bahrain), all 3 data centres providing the redundancy were blown up by Iran.[1] The redundancy was localised to small geographic area and a single government--something customers of AWS were hopefully aware of when they entr
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by dhx 10d ago
robots.txt was only intended to help search index crawlers not get stuck in endless crawl loops for badly designed websites. What you suggest is explicitly not a purpose of robots.txt per RFC9309[1]: "These rules are not a form of acce
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by dhx 11d ago
Wouldn't it be possible to confirm who may be supplying imagery by taking some IRGC supplied imagery such as [1] and figure out which satellite(s) were overhead at the time and capable of taking the image? It may not be particularly st
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by dhx 12d ago
A description of how GFP was first extracted is at [1] and includes a custom-made "jellyfish cutting machine" capable of processing 600 rings an hour, and harvesting and processing 50,000 jellyfish to create just a single milligra
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by dhx 16d ago
See [1] for the theory. I couldn't find a model/calculator that would help visualise typical COP values for particular climatic conditions. However, you'll find in your travels that a COP of ~2-2.5 is typically achieved for a
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by dhx 21d ago
djb provided a link in his blog post to a long history of ECDSA side channel vulnerabilities in ECDSA implementations.[1] It's not that RSA implementations weren't prone to side channel vulnerabilities either[2], but more with EdD
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by dhx 29d ago
For the panel discussion "Why do you contribute to OSM?" one of the questions sought to be understood is "What stops or demotivates you to contribute (more) to OSM?".[1] My response would be the incorrect application amo
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by dhx 1mo ago
Some relevant information: [1] Federal Vehicle Safety Standards (US) § 571.206 Standard No. 206; Door locks and door retention components. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/p...
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by dhx 1mo ago
Most discussion in recent years about chip fabrication shortages, expansion, etc has focussed on leading nodes (<7nm) and AI/computer chips. But perhaps more quietly in the background, China has been rapidly building other semicondu
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by dhx 1mo ago
I've contributed a bit on the infrastructure side of things to OpenStreetMap--high voltage transmission lines, pipelines, etc. I also have contributed to alltheplaces.xyz which whilst mostly known for collating shop locations, also col
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by dhx 1mo ago
I found [1] which appears to offer state-of-the-art performance of ~1000s latency for a FHE GPT-2 transformer block, equating I think to 3.33h inter-token latency (0.00008 token/s) for GPT-2(small) which has 12 transformer blocks. This
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by dhx 1mo ago
To throw out some real and up-to-date numbers from [1] for FHE at "128-bit security level", to sort 8x 8-bit unsigned integers on the most ordinary of desktop PCs, wait 3 seconds for the result. Want to sort 32x 8-bit unsigned int
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by dhx 1mo ago
Distribution infrastructure capacity is a current and ongoing concern for summer peak loads (every house turning on air conditioners at once) even with the large government subsidies that have existed for residential solar panels, residenti
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by dhx 1mo ago
I take it from [1] (transcript of recent DeepSeek CEO discussion with investors) that DeepSeek would disagree on the immediate catastrophic impact to the likes of OpenAI or Anthropic. The reason is even though technology parity mostly exist
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by dhx 1mo ago
It would have to be reproduced on a CUDA stack because AFAIK Huawei don't sell the Ascend 950PR (for inference) to anyone, rather, they operate them as part of the Huawei Cloud and only allow select customers (such as DeepSeek) to rent
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by dhx 1mo ago
Now that people have played with the model for a bit, there is one reported real world win for DeepSeek v4 Pro 0813 that is perhaps quite consequential given the drama in the US about Mythos. In a benchmark, DeepSeek v4 Pro 0813 found 87.5%
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by dhx 1mo ago
Old DeepSeek Flash 0731 prices have been independently reproduced.[1] The issue is DeepSeek being inundated and not having capacity to serve the demand, hence the price increases to significantly dampen demand. Never mind international dema
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by dhx 2mo ago
Also of interest: DeepSeek V4-Pro-0813 (1.6T-A49B) benchmark scores have apparently just been announced on the DeepSeek WeChat channel and they're sitting about Fable 5 level.[1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalL
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by dhx 2mo ago
They're going to rely on a fuel source which only has 9-17 years of domestic supply at current production rates and proven reserves?[1] And a fuel source with largest proven reserves in countries that are currently or can be foreseen t
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by dhx 2mo ago
For lumber, data at [1] indicates much volatility in North American lumber prices from January 2023 to February 2026. Trough-to-peak prices for 2023, 2024 and 2025 have been over 30% across a given year. The main difference for 2026 so far
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by dhx 2mo ago
There can be surprisingly few critical components and processes in a water and sewerage network due to gravity-fed designs (far more cost efficient), large buffers (water reservoirs, sewage sumps, etc) allowing intermittent operation of oth

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