presumably in a similar way to this https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19760009531

I’ve been slowly learning Putonghua for the past two years here. At this point, I just can’t see how anything gets better in the west in the near term, meanwhile life in China is improving by leaps and bounds each and every year.

for sure, this is a very resilient approach that makes it incredibly difficult to take code down

looks that way

I wasn’t curious enough to look deeper.

the world adapts :)

US likes to impose arbitrary sanctions on its adversaries. Basically the US government decided that people from a particular country aren’t allowed to collaborate with people using US based platforms like GitHub.

OrganicMaps GitHub repo was blocked due to contributor being geolocated in a US-sanctioned place https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370

Yeah, Huawei demonstrates that worker ownership works at scale and that a worker owned company is just as efficient and competitive as the best oligarch funded companies. It’s a threat of a good example.

Mr Ren is the founder, and the company was started as a cooperative as I recall. The total size of the company is 207,000 people, but typically people have to work at a company for a bit before becoming part of the cooperative. Hence why there non owner members.

https://www.huawei.com/en/corporate-information

Indeed they do

Ownership

Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd. is a private company wholly owned by 151,796 of its employees and retired beneficiaries, as of December 31, 2023. Mr. Ren’s investment accounts for nearly 0.73% of the company’s total share capital.

https://www.huawei.com/en/media-center/company-facts

yeah they’re in use right now https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-fintech-company-uses-domestic-semiconductors-for-ai-breakthrough

the key bit

This represents a potentially significant shift in AI deployment. While traditional AI infrastructure typically relies on multiple Nvidia GPUs consuming several kilowatts of power, the Mac Studio draws less than 200 watts during inference. This efficiency gap suggests the AI industry may need to rethink assumptions about infrastructure requirements for top-tier model performance.

Critical support for the US destroying its scientific and technology base.

ah, crossposted

That’s going to accelerate the process for sure. Also worth noting that the US education system has been terrible for decades, and they’ve relied on poaching talent around the world to stay at the top.

It looks like China has just reached parity with the west this decade, and now it’s starting to visibly pull ahead. I think we’ll see the pace of that accelerate over time as well given that the very act of catching up requires faster rate of development.

Seems like this is a shocking development for a lot of people who bought into China collapse narratives floating in the west.

a good explanation of why that is https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/08/the-value-of-nothing-capital-versus-growth/

The reality is that capitalism is already visibly failing today, and we see mass civil unrest growing across the western world as a result. It’s possible that bandaid solutions like UBI may be attempted, but it’s pretty clear that there would need to be major restructuring of economic fundamentals going forward.