it's now a case of choosing between who you least care about spying on you - think I'll choose a Chinese phone next time, at least they're not currently engaged in genociding children
They're currently engaged in doing all kinds of awful things that we know about, and no doubt lots of even worse things that we don't. Try looking up Xinjiang, Tibet, or the Falun Gong for a taste.
Was situation in Tibet really good before China came?
I've recently learned that movie "7 years in Tibet" is full of lies, starting with the fact that the main character was hardcore Nazi follower in real life.
There are a lot of things that we don't know because media are not interested in enlightening people. They are interested in pushing the current agenda.
E.g. Tibet was a poor feudal state with slavery, but you won't easily find this information, because all you can find now if you search for it is: "China is bad, bad, and Tibet is very good, enlightened people, very warm and kind". It is not like that.
> Well I imagine there was a lot less persecution by the Chinese government at that time.
Is feudal society with slavery and human sacrifices better? How can we really be sure about more or less persecution by Chinese government if we don't live in Tibet, do not know Tibetan and Chinese, and all we know about those "persecutions" are somebody else's translated words?
> You're right, the media in China are mostly or exclusively mouthpieces for the state.
You're right, the media are mostly or exclusively mouthpieces for the state. FTFY. There are not exceptions anywhere in the world.
> How can we really be sure about more or less persecution by Chinese government if we don't live in Tibet
You're conflating your lack of knowledge about the subject with a general lack of knowledge about the subject; those are not the same.
> You're right, the media are mostly or exclusively mouthpieces for the state. FTFY. There are not exceptions anywhere in the world.
That's a false equivalence; yes, most or all countries' governments have captured the press to some extent, but the degree to which it happens varies wildly by country, and again the fact that you don't see that speaks more to your own experiences than any objective reality.
Given this is a sociological phenomenon, it makes more sense to give them a more scientific designation even though some of their members may have called themselves in an ironic sense.
"Incel" is now widely used as a negative-connotation catch-all term for young loner men almost with the implication that they chose this life for themselves rather than being denied opportunities by society.
They didn't necessarily choose the life, but there's a lot of overlap between alt-right propaganda and the red-pill incel sphere. A lot of these young men are set up for failure, but then are propagandized to blame their failure on everything external, particularly women and minorities.
The truth is everyone can get laid, and it's not very hard at all. But the pre-requisite is liking the people who you want to sleep with, which is hard when you hate women.
While I understand the term fits as "derisive", I'm not understanding why you think it's a hypocritical term. It seems pretty clear that "involuntary" is correct, and a definition for celibate is "having or involving no sexual relations", so that seems to fit as well.
Yeah the timing seems strange. Considering how much money will move hands based on those results this might be some kind of play to manipulate the market at least a bit.
Hard to say exactly how it will affect the market, but IIRC when deepseek was first released Nvidia stock took a big hit as people realized that you could develop high performing LLMs without access to Nvidia hardware.
I thought the reaction was more so that you can train SOTA models without an extremely large quantity of hyper-expensive GPU clusters?
But I would say that the reaction was probably vastly overblown as what Deepseek really showed was there are much more efficient ways of doing things (which can also be applied with even larger clusters).
If this checkpoint is trained using non-Nvidia GPUs that would definitely be a much bigger situation but it doesn't seem like there has been any associated announcements.
Plans take time to adjust; I imagine a big part of the impact was companies realizing that they need to buy/rent much less expensive GPU compute to realize the plans they've already committed to for the next couple years. Being able to spend less to get the same results is an immediate win; expanding the plan to make use of suddenly available surplus money/compute takes some time.
And then part of the impact was just "woah, if some noname team from China can casually leapfrog major western players on a tiny budget and kill one of their moats in the same move, what other surprises like this are possible?". The event definitely invalidated a lot of assumptions investors had about what is or isn't possible near-term; the stock market reacted to suddenly increased uncertainty.
Except that, all Deepseek models so far have been trained on Nvidia hardware. For Deepseek v3, they literally mention that they used 2,048 NVIDIA H800 GPUs right in the abstract: https://arxiv.org/html/2505.09343v1
I know of enterprises in APAC now spending millions of dollars on Huawei GPUs, while they might not be as efficient, they are seen as geopolitically more stable (especially given the region).
DeepSeek helped "prove" to a lot of execs that "Good" is "Good enough" and that there are viable alternatives with less perceived risk of supply chain disruption - even if facts differ may from this narrative.
Hope he will one day get round to fixing the issue where document file types in Windows 10 become associated with Calibre without being explicitly asked to do so.
You may argue that if you're installing Calibre, you want document file types to be associated with it, but it'd still be nicer if the user was given an option not to do that in the installer itself, instead of just overwriting whatever other file type associations user has had.
Yeah it's incredible when the mask drops this far.
Trump is a pathetic fuck, but this lines up with how he only ever plays to the domestic audience in advancing protectionist interests. We're feeling that dissonance because this kind of protectionist thinking is extremely rare, basically unheard of these days for world leaders.
That would have been Micropolis in 2008, I think (better known as Simcity, the open source release was renamed to be super clear it doesn't include the trademark)
Nothing to do with race. Japan is a western nation with high levels of education. Niger is... Not. One doesn't replace the other, no matter their races.
If you'd told me that you could replace Japanese people with the same number of say Thai people I would've made the same comment, and they're both "Asian". Nothing to do with race, just look at the country stats.
No it's really not. I've had enough problems with badly-maintained/broken packages that I've switched to Archlinux (btw). Just go with Debian Sid or Arch.
