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These days you can land in jail for simply bad mouthing the government. US needs to strengthen its adherence to their constitutions. Words on paper are useless if they aren't followed.

The latest version has already removed most of the worst of the changes, if you set your settings right.

The Apple TV one drives me insane. The selected button is so subtly raised that it takes a lot to see. Usually I need to move it back and forth and look for the motion.

The new Mistral large is already competitive and it hasn't even finished training.

The latest Mistral preview already matches Deepseek and it's not even finished its training yet. But please do continue.

State support has nothing to do with anything. Also, in practice the EU has its deepseek equivalent model in Mistral.

You will never stop hearing about this until they are restored. Also enjoy your very slow commute with all the bikes now legally required to ride in the car lane and block you.

> If you care about the environment you get an old VW or ideally a Mercedes that runs on used vegetable oil.

This is not realistic nor scalable. The reality is that the US and Canada were built around cars, and even if we had huge transit projects there would still be a need for roads and vehicles due to the size and rural/industrial areas.

Lithium batteries can be recycled. All the studies have shown that electric cars are a huge net win for the environment, and the cries about the environmental cost of building the cars in the first place don't actually match the reality. Especially when you consider that future ev ecosystems should and hopefully will have a strong battery recycling operation.

> - no emissions

Can we just say it out loud? Because it's good for the environment and we don't want our children or their children to have an unlivable planet. This should probably be the number one reason, but yes EVs are better in many other ways too.

Sure, but assuming you're on the expensive 200usd a month plan with claude, 5x is 1000 USD a month. I mean, even if you're running 10x agents you're still only hitting $300 US a month, which is not close to 5x.

Anthropic doesn't really publish their limits so it's hard to do a direct comparison when these things come up. I just have doubts that DS 4.1 Flash is remotely close to 5x as expensive. Also, I've seen a lot of people claim that switching to it cuts their costs by a huge amount, which based on API per token costs of Claude seems to be far more likely.

8.4M tokens cost me 0.26 EUR on GreenPT. 10 USD is 8.96 EUR. Based on my usage data that would be 289M tokens a day. Anthropic doesn't publish the token limits per plan so I can't compare, but that's quite a lot of tokens.

For my usage almost all of those tokens are cached input, which is why the cost is so low.

Using Deepseek v4.1 Flash on something like GreenGPT is probably about a euro a day if you use it all day. Hard to see how that is 5x more expensive.

The level of astroturfing and hate on HN whenever a non-US AI story is posted is really quite shocking. HN has always had a US bent, but it's gotten to the point where you can't even have a technical discussion of non-US AI because it will be drowned out by a very vocal anti-everyone-else-but-the-US crowd.

But yes, great piece. It really captures why I use open models on european hardware. It's like we haven't learned by now that competition is good and we should be encouraging a diverse and open ecosystem.

They don't need to equal in badness to want to avoid them both. But I'll note that at least China still believes in science, on that front.

But even from a business standpoint, the US is not reliable. For all I know Trump will ban countries he doesn't like from using US AI just because. And there is plenty of evidence that at this point in time things you say bad about the US administration can cause them to attack you. I have no confidence that they don't have access to e.g. openAI.

Not that I'm using AI for that mind you, but you put it all together and it's just not worth it if there are good alternatives. Which there are. You can use even use Chinese models but hosted by European countries with privacy as a selling point.

Altman is definitely very Trump-aligned, which to me is enough to not trust his company on data security. But also, there have been many many accusations that they potentially spy on users. E.g. stealing proofs from mathematicians and such.

It's just not worth it to me. And the way the US government is increasingly using data it collects to attack people who simply say bad things about it, there is no reason to doubt that such Trump-aligned companies would help ex-filtrate data.

I have fewer issues with Antropic, but also, from a business standpoint it's too much of a risk. Who knows, maybe the next tariff will be on software, maybe he'll ban random companies from using US AI. Too unpredictable and too risky.

Based on the latest news yesterday it seems that the law would require them to implement more metadata collection, which they are refusing to do. Not sure what will happen if this actually passes. Wonder if we will be able to use foreign hosted VPN services and use Signal through those.

Some of us don't use US models for the same reasons. It doesn't leave much out there aside from Cohere and Mistral.

That's not quite correct. It requires the collection of available metadata only. It does not require that encrypted messages be decrypted, unless the provider holds the keys rather than the user. Still, it's not a great bill.

And I guess VPNs are not end to end encrypted. The provider would still be able to access your data if they want to unlike something like Tor. So, it will be the death of privacy focussed VPNs. But presumably things like Signal and Apple's disk encryption will be fine as only the user holds the keys.

Yes it is cherry picking. The fortune article above even quotes:

“I think there’s been way too much focus on the month to month—is it men gaining jobs or women?” Long told Fortune. “That moves around a lot.”

You don't need to wait for September, you can already see from historical data that this measure jumps around a lot from month to month. A lopsided month is not news except for people with an agenda to mislead.

1. He quote two heavily biased right wing media outlets. One with questionable accuracty. [1][2]

2. He cherry picked one month of data. And in fact the data for that month was flagged as bad and the new data for the number of women is not released yet. [3]

The real data for each months looks more like:

Monthly Job Changes — U.S. Establishment Survey (CES), 2026 (Seasonally adjusted, in thousands. Women = BLS Table B-5 / CES0000000010. Men = implied: Total − Women.)

Month ΔTotal ΔWomen ΔMen (implied)

Feb -156 -27 -129

Mar +214 +98 +116

Apr +148 +84 +64

May +63 +49 +14

Jun +31 +89 -58

Jul -10 -32 +22

Aug +133 +145 -12

Sep +29 +14 +15

So no there is not some crazy trend that only women are being hired. This is classic propaganda using cherry picked data.

[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/institute-for-family-studies/

[2] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/national-review/

[3] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_10022026.ht...

lol

Humans are some of the dumbest when it comes to survivability. We've already sealed our extinction by fucking up the environment. Eventually it will be too hot for us to survive. Other smaller animals will probably be able to manage, but we won't.

And instead of averting that we're spending our time worrying about some fantasy villain. Compared to things like bees that have been hear for millions of years, humans are very recent and so far it's not looking good for us.

Because if you can't build the model from scratch you don't have a model. Open weights are nice but fixed in time. This isn't a technology that stays static, it improves, and sovereignty means being able to continue to improve independently.

Mistral's medium is absolutely good enough to help with a ton of coding tasks. I've personally used it and found it very helpful. If hypothetically the US cut off the rest of the world from their models Mistral would be a very useful model to continue to use.

Also, it's not like it's fixed in time, they are continually building more powerful models as well. Simply because you're in second place doesn't mean you quit the journey. Though, I'm sure the US has a huge vested interest of convincing people to "just quit and submit."

No. Thanks.

I used to be a classic "tech guy." Identified as introverted, said I don't like parties, etc etc. The whole bit. Id' be exhausted after social events, need time alone to cool off, and so on.

At some point my partner told me I should stop saying I'm introverted because she saw me always interacting with people and enjoying it. So I reflected, realized she had a point, and stopped identifying as introverted.

Over time I realized that actually, I love interacting with people, especially closer friends. A "party" can be 4-6 people, it doesn't have to be huge. And sure, after larger events I still need some time to cool down, but stopping identifying as introverted has been a huge improvement overall to my life.

I feel you, especially on the WCAG stuff. It's so damn basic and yet, they refuse to do it. The regressions on usability and consistency across the design space is just so maddening.

And honestly, I'm not even that mad at AI. The way these companies are going I'll take an AI that is taught to follow the most basic design guidelines over what most companies shovel out these days.

Like fine, you want to stand out? Use different colour schemes or unique fonts (but like one or at most two fonts). Change your corner radius from time to time to freshen up. There are so many ways to make your UI "different" but still consistent and following basic best practices.

Some of the stuff throw out now a days would fail UI 101 assignments.

Nobody cares about non-free countries like the US. AI in the rest of the world is the only AI that matters to us.

From a Canadian perspective, the US looks like it's trying to destroy itself, not just lose. But yet people in the US seem far more interested in shitting on other countries than fixing their own shit.

Really? I'm more surprised when I see a large company still have design standards. It seems it's all the rage to fire all your UX people and have your devs wipe up a UI because "UI is so easy."

Follow design standards? Fuck no, we need to STAND OUT instead. If you find the design hard to use as a result of not following standards your just an old curmuddgen.

No one thinks we don't know how to cool things in space. Everyone is saying that it's not feasible because you'd have to put too much mass up. Stop derailing the conversation please.

If you have something useful to contribute regarding how to actually reasonably put up enough mass to make this remotely a feasible idea then please contribute. We have the technology to prevent global warming, and doing that is far easier than this, and yet even that is apparently not feasible for humanity.