stev1983

The two countries have ALOT more in common than most residence of either understand.

One thing the US has that China doesn’t is the ability to self govern. Yes there are forces trying manipulate or these control the way people vote. at times it may not feel like it, but US citizens have the absolute power to elect and remove politicians.

This is a foundational difference that keeps most Americans from realizing just how similar countries are.

> I'm not saying we should trust megacorps, but they have a very strong incentive not to build these sorts of backdoors into their models;

All it takes is one disgruntled employee. Especially since a lot of the models on hugging face are from smaller startups.

I noticed that as well—the title REALLY downplays the issue.

Here’s what is says on their site: “Courtesy backoff Adaptive backoff keyed to target response codes. When a target returns 429 or 503, we back off immediately, so our fleet never applies denial-of-service pressure to a site.” By the time you get the error you have already crashed the site. Geez.