Very much like gambling, you can hit the jackpot, or just have continuous near (and far) misses.

In the Russian-Ukrainian war the GPS guided shells that the USA was sending to Ukraine cost about $40k a pop, where as you can get at least a dozen drones for that price.

Even the fanciest self propelled artillery is getting destroyed by these little cheap buggers.

A key point here is open in terms of being able to download and use it, not open as knowing what data and instructions were fed into it when training.

A paranoid part of me thinks that these models are all inherently biased and instructed to be pro CCP, with specific gaps in their training data related to undesirable historic events and political ideas.

The same thing applies to US models. Check out various system prompt leak repos on github. There are also prompt injections by various parallel "alignment" models that pre-process the prompt before it's sent to the main one with questionable guidance.

You'd be surprised how much of bias exists in easily extractable information. Now imagine how much of that happens during training, that you can't easily extract.

So this is largely a moot point. Yes, Chinese models will likely have some weird things injected into them. But so do the US models. Do I care? Not in the slightest. Models are my code monkeys, and if the code leaves my machine, I assume IP is leaked be it a Chinese model that clearly tells me they do use the data, or US models that pinky promise they don't.

Sure but that goes both ways. Any dataset has a bias. My coding doesn’t need to know about Tienamen square.

Applies both ways, ask it about Israel.

They aren't going to make _this_ show, they might make another show in the future, one catering to a broader (non-core-fan) audience.

One concern I've heard about the move to ARM cores is that it is done in order to lock down the devices more so they're more like a phone rather than a computer.

Recent Surface ARM laptops do not seem to be locked in any way.

ARM based devices don't have boot anything you want like x86 platform - in practice.

Adding to this.

x86 Most random Linuix ISOs will boot on anything. I've seen software compiled before the hardware had finished being designed boot just fine. (in the latest case lstopo was very confused, but everything still worked!)

ARM, I go looking for a build for my chip/device in particular.

x86 I just buy hardware and it works, ARM I check for OS builds before buying, and wonder if the builds will continue to get updates.....

I would have thought that the default 5V coming through the cable should be enough to power on the chip and negotiate power delivery though?

Or was it actually working but charging only on 5V and taking a long time to wake up?

Perhaps this was the case.

Bare metal or bare bootloader only right?

Or stuff like FreeRTOS, NuttX, Zephyr, and co.

There's definitely some form of addictive behaviour going on in a similar vein to poker/slot machines. There are studies and anecdotes that I've heard where the most thrill and reward comes not from the wins at gambling but from the near-wins, those close calls and near misses. It seems very similar to the kind of output that an LLM generates where it looks like what you want but is not quite there so you try to fix it by going again.

Isn't there a limit on the public markets where if a company has less than a certain percentage of its ownership traded publicly then it is no longer a public company and therefore de-listed?

I remember hearing about a guy trying to squeeze out short sellers of his own company but ended up effectively taking his company private because he bought out like 95% of all the shares.

I wonder how that aligns to these small releases of stock for the public.

There is no legal minimum free float requirement before deregistration in US, however, different exchanges have different rules

Essentially, a stock has to stay above 1$ per share, have a minimum market cap of $15m, minimum 400 shareholders and "adequate" liquidity If it meets those 4 criteria, it's essentially not at risk of deregistration

That sounds quite scammy, like it could have been designed to scam applicants or people that wanted to hire that agency.

Then again maybe giving an image of a more normal "white/multicultural" Australian office might make it easier to sell services into the Australian market.