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zbshqoaon Italy's privacy regulator goes after DeepSeek

They do regularly in Europe as well, just don't act like it's something that doesn't happen

zbshqoaon Italy's privacy regulator goes after DeepSeek

It's not common sense regulation. It's anticompetitive regulations. You're happy to ride a taxi that often times takes a longer route to steal you a few extra euro? Are you happy that a taxi driver earn 500-600-700 euro a day when the avg salary in some EU countries is 1.5k a month? Are you happy that they don't take credit card payments and accept (often time) only cash? Are you happy that they evade taxes? Are you happy to go inside a car and don't know how long and how much your ride is going to cost? Are you happy that often times in touristic cities they refuse to use the meter?

You seem to know well what Europeans want but I bet you never got scammed by a taxi driver. Europeans like everybody want to simply pay less by having an open market that allows the best players to offer services without artificially inflating the price because that specific category some privilege.

If you claiming that Europe is not decaying probably you're living in the wrong Europe.

Europe is decaying faster than you think.

zbshqoaon OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

It's 80/20, but in some tasks it's much better (e.g. translation)

Nonetheless the fact that you can just change a bit the prompt to instruct the model to do what you want makes everything much faster.

Yes the trade-off is that you need GPUs to make it run, but that's why we have cloud

zbshqoaon Italy's privacy regulator goes after DeepSeek

You conveniently left our everything else I mention and those companies aren't really leading. Bolt for example has an edge because everywhere in Europe they're been killing Uber or limiting it hardly, and in some countries it's still the case.

In most cases those companies are knockoffs of American companies and you've yet to mention cases were Europe is actually leading the way (aside from some unique cases it doesn't happen regularly)

P.s. Russia is not part of Europe, you can safely leave it out (and yes they've plenty of competitors to american companies telegram, Yandex, VK etc. we can't say the same for Europe)

zbshqoaon Italy's privacy regulator goes after DeepSeek

Ya cool, does this change the result? No.

Europe has no competitors to the US/Chinese tech giants and their citizens want to use technology like anybody else without a layer of bureaucracy preventing them from doing basic stuff.

I don't think European citizens have been forced to use Uber, Airbnb, Apple, Android, Facebook , WhatsApp and so on.

zbshqoaon Why DeepSeek had to be open source

That shouldn't be the premise of a company that has "open" in its name as well?

zbshqoaon Italy's privacy regulator goes after DeepSeek

While I'm not necessarily against GDPR and regulations, is undeniable that the regulatory landscape in Europe has been preventing innovation.

In fact it's tech market is predominantly dominated by US tech companies (and probably soon Chinese ones as well)

zbshqoaon OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

Number 2 is already possible with open models. You can do distillation using Llama, which could likely be doing #1 to build their models (I'm not sure it's the case though)

zbshqoaon OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

Realistically that's the actual headline. Only another AI can replace AI, pretty much like LLMs / Transformers have replaced "old" AI models in certain task (NLP, Sentiment Analysis, Translation etc) and research is in progress for other tasks as well performed by traditional models (personalization, forecasting, anomaly detection etc).

If there's a better AI, old AI will lose the job first.

zbshqoaon CTO / cofounder exit deal after 1.5y at 600k revenue without SHA

Make sense but 60k for 600k in revenue with a pipeline to 1m or more it's quite small.

I'd try to negotiate at the very least and keep like 5% instead of 1%

zbshqoaon CTO / cofounder exit deal after 1.5y at 600k revenue without SHA

Keep the shares and quit the company. It you don't need the cash it's pointless to sell your shares (you don't have to)

He'd need to raise capital at some point, new investors could buy your shares at a higher value.

zbshqoaon Crossing the USA by Train

How do you know if they never had the option to use a train?

zbshqoaon Crossing the USA by Train

Which Europe are you talking about? Europe is a collection of independent counties and what you just mention is all wrong.

Most of the European railway companies have been privatized and there are companies that run the rail network and companies that run the train. Subsidies are not a thing in many of the European countries

zbshqoaon Crossing the USA by Train

So it's easier to drive to San Francisco from Seattle instead of parking your car at the train station in Seattle, take a train and then do your business on downtown SF, come back to Seattle and take your car back home?

(It's a figurative example I'm not sure there's a train from Seattle to SF)

zbshqoaon Crossing the USA by Train

I don't think you can compare the most advanced and rich country to other first world countries.

Someone can definitely do worst, that's out of discussion. We are looking at the upside potential.

The picture of this post show interstate trains that are old, slow and dirty. I'm sure standards can improve.

zbshqoaon Crossing the USA by Train

The question is why they don't develop it for people as well. Instead of just "let's add another lane" for cars

zbshqoaon Crossing the USA by Train

Don't get me wrong, but there are third world countries that have better train infrastructures

zbshqoaon Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license

https://www.arm.com/markets/computing-infrastructure/cloud-c...

> Annapurna Labs, Ampere Computing, NVIDIA, Intel, Marvell, Pensando Systems, and others use Arm Neoverse and Arm technologies to create cloud-optimized CPUs and DPUs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family

> Companies that have designed cores that implement an ARM architecture include Apple, AppliedMicro (now: Ampere Computing), Broadcom, Cavium (now: Marvell), Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, Fujitsu, and NUVIA Inc. (acquired by Qualcomm in 2021).

zbshqoaon Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license

Ah? ARM doesn't build chips but provides the architecture and license it to other companies.

There are plenty of ARM chips designed by multiple companies and built by multiple foundries

zbshqoaon Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

I like this project but I don't think I agree on the 3 branches that I see when I open the website.

Science is not a standalone category. In fact science is directly connected to mathematics which is directly connected to philosophy (through logic for example)

We might argue that also art is an extension of philosophy (e.g. finding objective or subjective beauty).

Probably Claude doesn't agree with this definition.