"Considered harmful" considered harmful.
At certain point this will become ""Considered harmful" considered harmful" considered harmful.
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noxs commented on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail techcrunch.com/2025/04/29... · Posted by u/impish9208
I mean this is just absurd.
> On Tuesday, the Karnataka High Court directed the Indian government to block Proton Mail, a popular email service known for its enhanced security, following a legal complaint filed by New Delhi-based M Moser Design Associates. The local firm alleged that its employees had received emails containing obscene and vulgar content sent via Proton Mail.
How does this make any sense. Would the court block gmail if the same happens via gmail?.
India somehow is stuck in the worst of all worlds. There is no freedom like democratic countries and there is no good government like China.
To any westerners commenting, this is not same as think of the children. Government or courts mostly don't even need to give such excuses in India (max they might say to counter traitors). There is obscene amount of corruption in the country at every step from the local to the highest, and it is internalized by the citizens so much that everyone knows and nobody cares.
Edit: good government above means competent government
People often underestimate how much impact the education of certain aspect (Infrastructure in China and Democracy in Westerner countries) has made to their values to a government, and meanwhile the education is controlled by the government to certain degree.
noxs commented on Huawei's Ascend 910C delivers 60% of Nvidia H100 inference performance tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/sien
Yes China wants Taiwan.
Taiwan has been touting it's "Silicon Shield" defence for years and trying to tie China's self-interest with leaving Taiwan alone for now.
But the Silicon Shield is tumbling.
On the one side the US (the carrots of the CHIPS act under Biden, the stick of sanctions on Taiwan under Trump) is trying get sovereign control of chip production.
And on the other side China is ramping up getting sovereign control of it's own top-end production.
If both stay on course then China will have one less big reason not to invade, and the US will have one big reason less to defend.
Of course if China wins the 'race' then it could be to it's advantage to have a rocket exchange or invasion with Taiwan to choke of the West's supply of chips before the West has brought chip production home?
I don't really think it will choke the supply, but only reduce in capacity in short term, for example TSMC Arizona[1] took 4 years to be in produciton. Intel's process is still acceptable and better than China.
Also semiconductor is very complicated manufacturing process not only invovles Taiwan but vendors all over the world, like the light source of EUV is provided by Cymer based in U.S. I don't think China taking over Taiwan would mean they can transfer whatever is there into something productive in any short time as because of supply chain problem. Note that many SMIC's (basically China's TSMC) leadership are actually from TSMC already[2].
[1]https://www.tsmc.com/static/abouttsmcaz/index.htm [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang_Mong_Song
noxs commented on Huawei's Ascend 910C delivers 60% of Nvidia H100 inference performance tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/sien
> This suggests that Huawei's AI processor's capabilities are advancing rapidly, despite sanctions by the U.S. government and the lack of access to leading-edge process technologies of TSMC.
So chipping away at Taiwan's "silicon shield" (the defence strategy that an attack on Taiwan would deny China of the chips it needs itself).
Soon China can have a security situation with Taiwan (doesn't really matter if it actually invades, or just has a hotting-up conflict with rocket exchange) to choke off supplies of high-end chips to the West whilst domestic alternatives ramp up?
China's territorial claims over Taiwan starts from 1949 since the civil war ends. [1]
The semiconductor doesn't play significant factor here. It only becomes hot topics in past few years because of TSMC's lead on its process, but really doesn't have any direct relationships.
In other words, current situation is a result of U.S. "Asia-Pacific Rebalance" strategy and military deployment over the first island chain [2] that China wanted the island regardless of TSMC.
noxs commented on Proposed bill to make it a crime to download DeepSeek in the US congress.gov/bill/119th-c... · Posted by u/_DeadFred_
> Today we are even more closed than CCP
No, we're not. Not even close.
Please stop with the obvious deranged takes.
If I have to be precise with my natural languages sure, more closed on certain dimensions
Recent years efforts from these politicians make me believe we are heading towards the direction that one day it's not just certain dimensions but fully isolated.
Name one Chinese EV you can buy in U.S.
Name one U.S. EV you can buy in China
Now we want to do the same efforts for llm, not even allow to download to run locally that is specifically from China, and running llm doesn't even need Internet.
Honestly I've never heard such legislation in any other country, not even north korea or iran.
I can understand ban export, but banning import? Seriously? Even Kim Jong Un is riding with Mercedes.
noxs commented on Proposed bill to make it a crime to download DeepSeek in the US congress.gov/bill/119th-c... · Posted by u/_DeadFred_
Thinking from a different perspective, if the Chinese government has banned import of NVIDIA GPU, or downloading U.S. made llm because of so called national security reasons, DeepSeek certainly won't make such progress.
Today we are even more closed than CCP, what a joke. These elites'/attorney politicians just can't stop their arrogant attitude towards a non-western country's achievement. This is just going to destroy the industry at U.S.
We have seen examples of EV and Drones already.
noxs commented on Anthropic's CEO says DeepSeek shows US export rules are working techcrunch.com/2025/01/29... · Posted by u/pseudolus
This kind of double-speak is so annoying.
"To be clear, the goal here is not to deny China or any other authoritarian country the immense benefits in science, medicine, quality of life, and so on that come from very powerful AI systems. Everyone should be able to benefit from AI. The goal is to prevent them from gaining military dominance.”
A moralizing statement that weasels out of the implication.
This would be a more straightforward way to say it: Export restrictions are necessary to prevent China from gaining military dominance, even if those restrictions deny China the immense benefits in science, medicine, quality of life, and so on that come from very powerful AI systems.
U.S. even failed on military too as China recently demostrated their 6th-gen fighters, i.e. their own NGAD[1], while U.S. has paused the NGAD development.
Arrogance is the biggest enemy of U.S., not China.
[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3293762/why...
noxs commented on DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf] github.com/deepseek-ai/Ja... · Posted by u/reissbaker
people have been scare mongered about china for so long theyve just absorbed the racism into their bones, half this comment section is just "tiannemen square!" or "winnie the pooh!"
Many people hide their racist views to Chinese people under the guise of criticizing the Chinese government.
noxs commented on DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf] github.com/deepseek-ai/Ja... · Posted by u/reissbaker
Everytime when there is some achievement made by Chinese companies, there are always comments like "what about tiananmen square", "I won't trust companies under CCP supervision", "must be fake propaganda", and then being ignorant to the achievement and biased against the not-us-made models, and not focusing on the actual technical part of the achievement itself, like how they can make training so fast and what can we learn from it. Beyond that some US startup CEO even starts spreading rumors like they have 50000 H100 while the paper and model are open sourced since older versions of deepseek that everyone can reproduce and verify it, the theoretical compute need is calculable from model architect.
Sure sure that censorship is a problem, but that's a political background everyone knows, while none of the researchers of deepseek can do much about it, and literally do people think Chinese people like to put more efforts to censor LLM output?
Associate researchers with CCP without any evidence and being ignorant to their achievement is really insulting to deepseek researchers' hardworks.
Physics operates on mechanical causality while human behavior does not.