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What's the incentive for the Chinese labs to continue releasing weights 5 years from now?

In the short term it attracts talent and builds brand, but they make little money on inference to support research and training costs. Tin foil hat thinking: it also pulls inference revenue away from Antropic/OpenAI and a financial crises at those organizations improves the relative position of Chinese labs.

Is there a reason to think open-weight models are a stable outcome? Open source software provides a collaboration framework for engineers from many companies to work together. Model weights are mostly a one way street.

In addition to this article, I've seen well thought out assertions from knowledgeable people that Hormuz is far worse than the market thinks and the market just continues not caring.

Maybe they're both right? Horrible things can happen to oil importing economies without derailing the AI build out that's driving the US economy and stock prices.

I think there's a catch-22 where Trump will hold out as long as the market lets him and everyone in the market wants to look through him throwing in the towel.

Apple/Google make less money if they sell the data because their ad product would no longer have an advantage. So no, I don't think they do that.

The professions with the least negotiating power will have the most draconian "oversight". Imagine a cashier graded in real time on how many customers they smile at. Or tracking how many glasses in a restaurant are empty.

Wild to me that Bitwarden raised > $100m from VC. Seems like the kind of thing that would make a nice lifestyle business.

The enterprise version never went beyond password management so I'm not sure how this could have generated a viable ROI.

Better commit messages, better and more up to date docs, etc. It's not all slop!

Why would an investment manager choose a CIT over an ETF? I can't help but think there's additional fees being collected somewhere.

To adapt a popular phrase to personal finance, "If you don't understand the product, you are the product."

This seems like the kind of thing that the right kind of engineer could turn into a lifestyle business. Two mobile apps, two or three browser extensions, a server, and a marketing website. A lot of care for the core security decisions and a bunch of CRUD UIs.

I know I'm being "that guy" so tell me where this gets more complex than I think.

tbh, I do that with Uber/Lyft, too

Thank you, Sunnyvale man, for hitting this edge case before I do.

Interesting way to encourage competition for its competitor. A single, scaled self-driving company is a massive threat to Uber.

During peak hours Waymo is more expensive than standard uber/lyft - I don't pay attention to black/premium pricing. Off-peak the price can be comparable. I mainly check because my wife prefers it.

Anyone know how much harder water resistance gets with replaceable batteries?

Are there good hosted options that will not respond to non-judicial data requests?

Someone is going to say self hosted is better and I don't disagree, but there's limits to how much time I can spend on self hosted stuff.

From the article

In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data.

Property taxes come to mind.

They've blown up several ships so which ship owner will test them? Spend $1m on a transit fee or risk $90m on a new tanker.

I suspect more fighting in Lebanon means less oil through Hormuz. Iran kept its definition of "open" vague. Everyone is keeping the pressure up during negotiations.

I suspect this is the real reason behind Anthropic limiting subscriptions to their own products and keeping API prices several times higher than comparable models. Applications more sticky than API users and less technical users more sticky than programmers (ie Cowork more sticky than Code).

One supreme leader replaced by another, even more hardline, supreme leader. Trump failed.

The nuclear program is orders of magnitude more important than everything else. If you think JCPOA was bad, take a look at Iran's 10 point plan.

Let's not forget the road to war started in 2016 when Trump walked into the White House at withdrew from the JCPOA. He's wanted the war for years, got it, and lost it.

I get where the authors are coming from with these: https://github.com/drona23/claude-token-efficient/blob/main/...

But I'd rather use the "instruction budget" on the task at hand. Some, like the Code Output section, can fit a code review skill.

Agree it's a thin disguise. It works because the same sword hangs over Trump's head as well. He needs the price of oil to not spike too high so any oil supply is welcome.

Jamf shareholders got very lucky. The acquisition closed less than 2 months ago. Tough day for the new PE owners, though.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/francisco-partners-completes-...

Can't wait to see the price of the first US made home router. We [USA] really need a formal designation of trusted supply chain partners. Would improve security and make a useful bargaining chip.

Appreciate what you're doing!

Now map property taxes per acre and tell me who's subsidizing who in this country. Urban3 has been doing the work: https://codesigncollaborative.org/urban-revolution-through-d...

Municipal costs per resident are effectively the inverse of these maps because the more spread out people are the more roads, pipes, etc are required to reach them.

If this was human written sarcasm, bravo.

Growth and fewer restrictions on what can be built makes your land more valuable. Apartment buildings in place of detached houses means rent prices can go down while land prices go up.