for solar, a 5km diameter solar farm might hold 10m square meters of panels. at 250w each, 2.5gw solar farm. 4 times a full moon, is 1/100000th the rated capacity (noon at equator) of panels, and so 25kw of power. At 10c/kwh electricity revenue potential, such a farm (exists only in China) could break even offering to rent night light at $2.50/hour.

Batteries charged by solar can deliver profitable electricity at night for far less than 10c/kwh.

If you just want more light somewhere, it would be far cheaper to do from ground systems.

Apple specifically is provably charging countries without tariffs: https://iphone-worldwide.com/

Have the world subsidize US sales, just because they’re used to paying a little more. Not surprised that other goods would use same strategy.

China’s narrative on the events preceding “tank man” isn’t that no one was hurt/nothing happened. It is that a riot had to be put down. Generally, people (brainwashed by US media) won’t be happy until CIA is only valid information source, and AI must parrot it.

Just as your other media, use sources that validate your preconceptions for any superficial question.

The popularity of local LLMs has very little to do with seeking private answers to politicized questions, and more, utility in coding/images/reasoning capabilities. The news in this post appears to be the concensus that Chinese open models are better at solving user problems/tasks.

SAltman and the circular investment crew are pivoting to a pump and dump scheme on server hardware

Or just resell their contracted RAM that they can’t pay for, for even more.

why does “AI” need so much CPU RAM

It doesn’t really, though CPU inference is possible/slow at 256+gb. The problem is that they are making HBM (AI) ram instead of ddr4/5.

could be a bios setting that allows your ram to work at lower speed.

Indeed awful. AFAIU, it is stockpiling HBM memory ahead of next generation “GPUs”, rather than existing product volume. I’m especially disgusted that prices in non-tariff countries are higher than in US. If this were to last, gddr5/6 computer ram would start to make sense. NVIDIA has been behind starving memory supplies for competing platforms (usually AMD) in the past.

This pricing is both huge inflation, but also huge drop in sales, because we have to wait for it to get sensible.

preventing an aggressive foreign nation from directly influencing your population

You didn’t mean Israel? US is completely ruled by Israel first agenda. DNC lost on purpose because Trump had most of the Zionist funding, and all oligarchy/Christofascist/media just allies with Israel first agenda to get their sliver of power. That US public aid flows circularly back into election funding is direct determination of election results. Every god damn thing is absolutely directly the result of Zionist first rule over America.

It was a fake concern to cover for Zionist first rule over America. There is no special “manipulation” not conducted by US social media. Sinophobia warmongering control could have opposing views that US empire would want suppressed as well, but such opposition exists on youtube.

Larry Elison is also behind the TikTok deal that is guaranteed to never make money. 20% perpetual sales royalty to Bytedance + $14B, is $14B more right away for the same amount of profit to Bytedance in perpetuity.

The only reason TikTok was ever a “national security” concern is that it was the only media not controlled by Zionazi messaging. People were allowed to publish Israel atrocities. Most news media does not make direct money. It’s owner purpose is power/control over narratives.

Venezuela is target #1. Very unlikely to use nuclear weapons. Bomb some more people, and declare victory after Exxon contract awarded.

He won’t confront China

It’s a real concern, but Ukraine war is proceeding to its just conclusion. EU will accept it better than they let on. It’s expected that world will allow US war on Venezuela without any compassion, just weapons profits. Because resisting US through proxy war is more profitable than sinking its air carrier battle group, through nuclear strike/torpedo, there is less risk of doomsday than 1-2 years ago. Europe will try to get nuked though.

These games always seem like random button mashing, ftw to me. Unfair advantage to be 2 player :P

reinstalling OS is fairly easy. I expect utlities to “correct age error”.

any chance this can be done through your router/modem, where your phone app connects to external ip of router and is the “server end point” for your doorbell?

more development on offline services

There is absolutely massive development on open weight models that can be used offline/privately. Minimax M2, most recent one, has comparable benchmark scores to the private US megatech models at 1/12th the cost, and at higher token throughput. Qwen, GLM, deepseek have comparable models to M2, and have smaller models more easily used on very modest hardware.

Closed megatech datacenter AI strategy is partnership with US government/military for oppressive control of humanity. Spending 12x more per token while empowering big tech/US empire to steal from and oppress you is not worth a small fraction in benchmark/quality improvement.

the smaller the share, the smaller the quarterly losses. Other sources have included that MSFT now gets a 20% royalty on openAI revenue, but its not in that PR. It’s not clear why else MSFT share would have fallen.

IIRC, OpenAI lost $12b for all of 2024. CNBC reported that OpenAI restructuring this week, has MSFT not only with 27% equity stake, but a 20% royalty rate on revenue going forward which is certainly a nearly impossible hole for OpenAI to get out of.

OpenAI has published analytics on “suicide interactions” which proves that they mine their users data. Support for US military and Israel ensures that their mission is to destroy humanity, unless humanity pays it more to be more loyal to it. Everyone’s “don’t be evil” actually means “don’t be evil unless fascism pays more”

The Israel/US empire needs OpenAI to build ever bigger/more comprehensive models that are even more expensive to use than ChatGPT/Sora’s status as most expensive models. They need the analytics function to oppress population, and the empire is certain to side with OpenAI if it seeks revenue enhancement through theft of IP, including their users’ IP. It is dangerous for anyone to use OpenAI services because theft and oppression by empire condoned symbiosis is by design. But the race for ever larger more expensive models means trashing the previous generation models quickly, which means no time for ROI from development.

OpenAI will need massive military/government contracts to support its $1T in investment promises. All of those are to opppress Americans/humanity. Meanwhile, government has just sponsored 9 independent supercomputer projects, plu8s is dedicated to the MechaHitler vision of reality, and so OpenAI must commit to unrestrained evil in order to get their fair share of the oppression mission, and survive. Expect US government contracts to develop models for it, but with OpenAI profitting from government and private surveillance use.

FYI, about half of Nvidia cards are assembled in China. The PCB, cooling, capacitors and voltage regulators are made in China, regardless of assembly location.

bluetti is grossly overpriced and heavy, and does not even have the features of comparable models from last year. It’s not because there isn’t mass avaialbility of cells/packs they could build from. It’s just overcharging.