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There were comments like that on HN, assuring us all that Trump has serious people figuring out a rational plan for tariffs.

The parent's market share claim is for desktop OSes, where Android is irrelevant.

It's still far easier to not install chrome than it is to install it: downloading a thing, running the downloaded thing, click through all the dialogs, ignore all of Windows's nags to stick with Edge (which is probably a greater abuse of platform control than advertising on the search page), ...

The same thing happens in corporate budgeting too. Seems to be an artifact of big organizations.

DeepSeek offers for free/extremely cheap, a very expensive to provide service, requiring huge server infrastructure, to a userbase that probably grew by 3+ orders of magnitude in the last week.

There's no way they weren't going to be forced to throttle user signups, "cyberattack" or not.

Is the model architecture actually that different from anything else? Or are you just saying that you can get away with smaller models now?

There are obviously degrees of support. Sure, China could support Russia more than they are now, but they'd be risking their ability to trade with Europe and the US, so they don't.

> But who's the baddies now?

Russia is currently invading Europe, to the tune of hundreds of thousands KIA. And Russia's invasion would be dead in the water without Chinese support.

I really doubt there was any intention behind it at all. I bet deepseek themselves are surprised at the impact this is having, and probably regret releasing so much information into the open.

Funny, everything I see (not actively looking for DeepSeek related content) is absolutely raving about it and talking about it destroying OpenAI (random YouTube thumbnails, most comments in this thread, even CNBC headlines).

If DeepSeek's claims are accurate, then they themselves will be obsolete within a year, because the cost to develop models like this has dropped dramatically. There are going to be a lot of teams with a lot of hardware resources with a lot of motivation to reproduce and iterate from here.

It doesn't matter who you "commission" to do the actual work, most of the additional cost is in legal battles over rights of way and environmental impacts and other things that are independent of the construction work.

Don't like it? Don't license the critical tech for your company from the US DOE: https://www.eetimes.com/u-s-gives-ok-to-asml-on-euv-effort/

You're lumping "not sure" in with "oppose the ban". You could just as easily lump "not sure" with "support the ban" and conclude that not banning it is deeply unpopular.

Here's the actual poll: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/05/support-f...

The dramatic messaging was entirely the point. India probably did not have an easily exploitable target for such a message, so there was no point in trying that there.

This is simply false, at least in the US. A small majority favor banning it. It's not huge, but it's not a "deeply unpopular idea".

A quick google suggests that in 2008, Google's search market share in China was ~45%. That's pretty significant.

If you think money is what is on the table here you lack imagination. It's the "Trump knob" in TikTok's ranking algorithm that is the real thing of value here.

No actual deal is necessary here. It's obvious to everyone involved what the deal is: TikTok ensures that its content is friendly to Trump, TikTok stays unbanned.

China's trade policies, unreciprocated, guarantees that all internet companies will be Chinese eventually, it's just a matter of when.

It literally was? Everything that happened in the last 24 hours specifically has nothing to do with any legal requirement or deadline. It was a show.

> I don't think I've seen anything like it in a long time. I also don't think an American company would ever do that as it seems "unprofessional."

Have you been paying attention the last few weeks?

NVIDIA: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-policy/ "As the first Trump Administration demonstrated, America wins through innovation, competition and by sharing our technologies with the world — not by retreating behind a wall of government overreach."

Companies aren't stupid. They know that in order to be successful in today's world, you have to personally fellate Trump. Thanks to the American voters for bringing us this reality.

> US social media startup

> if a US social media startup somehow got extremely popular in China

China avoided this problem by ensuring that never happened in the first place.

This doesn't make any technical sense. The key part of what is at issue with TikTok and other social media companies is editorial control over the ranking algorithm. The ranking algorithm is not done on the client, and I don't see how it can be.

And even if you could do it somehow, that is in direct conflict with the other main complaint people have about social media apps ("selling your data"). FB had an API that they opened up to some degree, then Cambridge Analytica happened.

This does happen, it's just done at neighborhood level. That makes some sense, the biggest fire risk factor for your house is probably your neighbor's house burning down.

V3 reduces the damage extensions can do to users. Complain about the impact to ad blockers if you want but this point is nonsense.

Many of those launches are sold to itself (starlink), just like google uses a lot of its TPU capacity for its own purposes.

They could process it themselves and consume or export those higher value materials

99% of FB's moderation has nothing to do with "biases", unless you think FB is biased against spam, scams, and all the other dregs of the internet that incessantly pops up anywhere users can post content.

They were clearly scamming someone, money doesn't appear from nowhere. The only surprise is that they were scamming everyone.

Original source: https://youtu.be/vc4yL3YTwWk?si=Kl7AUS9kphYgaHMw

He cites an HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589273

> If you are working on an older codebase that has evolved over 20-30 years, or one that has not been maintained by talented people, you will have a very different experience.

I'm trying to think of any other language that could fit that description and not also be a terrible experience. In fact, I'd prefer C++ to many other possibilities I can think of (C, Java, Fortran). The exception would be C#, but I'm not sure if it's old enough to fit.