I have heard the following statement from someone around me:

Main reason this person is alive today comes from the fact, that the deepseek provided "recipes" were too complex to realize. You can tell me whatever you want about "Muh Freedom", but these "cripple the model" features are a good thing. At some point OpenAI reported, that they face thousands such questions every day.

I am all for "open source models", as you call them, but would like to point out, that posting the weights is very much comparable to posting a binary, and it's definitely not comparable to posting sources. These "open weights" tell you nothing about how the model will respond to "certain questions" until you ask them. Such a model can still do useful work, if you can run it for yourself in private, but I personally would not offer it as a service to anyone else. YMMV, especially with models created out of reach for your jurisdiction.

Because China's business model is "do what the westerners do at half price". If they have to raise their prices to Anthropic/ChatAI levels, their whole unique selling point goes up in dust, and people suddenly start asking questions about the political posture of China.

Their low price may also be viable only due to Chinese subsidies, and they may be unwilling to spend infinite amounts of money on subsidies.

They did not hack Anthropic's secret software for training their models. Their model weights didn't leak either, but their Claude Code CLI thing did leak.

It's a cost estimate from AWS Health Dashboard, and with that word in the name the trillion $ amount actually sounds credible.

This would still not provide an explanation for trillion $ charges ...

I am sure, that being a high-wit allows you to tell me in detail, why South Dakota has a severe staffing problem, when California doesn't. I am sure, that your explanation will be entirely free of classism or anything which could possibly offend some snow flake. Please refrain from anecdotes of some trad wife who loves it there.

If you look for signs of collapse: Based on the stats discussed here I see these in South Dakota much stronger than in California.

All places have some shitty societies somewhere, but in some places these people run the show, and these are not the places a well educated and civilized person wants to be in the long run. God help you, if your significant other looks or sounds foreign, or just doesn't want to blend into the "inject 'em with the Wuhan flu" maga crowd.

Lots of people left the sunny south of Europe and moved to the tundra in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. Weather only stops people so much, and in times of well observable climate change and temperature rise a place like Southern California sounds less pleasant than it should.

Compare this statement of fact against all this right wing drivel of "liberal hell holes" that everybody wants to leave ASAP. It looks like some regions may have to change their attitude towards educated people, if they want to attract a decent work force.

Banking industry is sometimes really stupid and oblivious, I received dozens of scam emails asking me to urgently install the "Security App" to unlock my bank accounts. It took a few months, before my bank decided to create an app to securely access my bank account. You'll never guess, what they called that app.

Paypal change of ToS would also be an example of frequent emails, that I had to research before actually deeming them legit.

Tariffs are a tax, if you apply them across the board. If you apply them highly targeted, they are an easily avoidable tax for all Americans, yet an economic hit on the country trying to benefit from scams.

If Bulgaria hosts these scammers, the USA are well within their right to lean on EU to clean up their back yard. Also, Bulgaria wouldn't last long in a direct economic confrontation with the USA, so these tariffs wouldn't have to last long.

To make a long story short: if you apply tariffs and sanctions smartly, they are very impactful and effective. If you do it like DT47, then they're like a tax.

There are European countries with a lager tradition, and those who prefer ales. The lager drinkers vastly outdrink the ale drinkers, and all recent beer converts in Southern Europe also drink lager. There's a hipster circle trying to make IPA palatable, but that's 1. new and 2. not that big in volume.

And yes, I did experience lager beer with flavored hops e.g. at Gordon Biersch in Palo Alto, which was a cool place to be while it lasted. They were very proud of their flavored hops and happily presented them to us "look how good" during a guided tour through their brewery. And yes, I do agree with you, that a flavored lager is a shame.

While the Americans in our group insisted, that Oregon Pale Ale was very good, in fact at least as good as any decent lager beer, the profound quantity difference of beer consumed at happy hours (compared between a keg Pale Ale vs. a keg of Spaten beer from Munich) told a vastly different story.

The main premise, why "American beer is bad" comes from two sides:

• 1. Central Europeans, who are the most avid beer drinkers and therefore most likely going to complain about "bad beer", typically prefer lager beer. So you have the choice between cheep American lager beer and expensive craft beer.

• 2. For some reason Americans like flavored hops, which is a big nono in Central Europe. So even the few craft lager beers will not match their expectations.

Any high roller pharmaceutical company would quickly found a small startup with enough separation to provide plausible denial, then fund it with the cash required to get that data. Whatever trade secrets are in these 1+TB, knowing them is worth way more that these 25M.

And I am sure you never asked yourself: how did Nightmare Eclipse find all these bugs so quickly? And why now? Right?