OpenAI initially scraped the web and later formed partnerships to train on licensed data. Now, they claim that DeepSeek was trained on their models. However, DeepSeek couldn't use these models for free and had to pay API fees to OpenAI. From a legal standpoint, this could be seen as a violation of the terms and conditions. While I may be mistaken, it's unclear how DeepSeek could have trained their models without compensating OpenAI. Basically, OpenAI is saying machines can't learn from their outputs as humans do.
I'm skeptical about Elon Musk being the richest person on the planet. My mantra these days? 'Show me the money!' If Wall Street banks are preparing to sell $3B in X loans, maybe he should buy them back—with real cash this time.
Who cares if he's the richest? Why should he show this to you? How do you know that he should buy these loans as opposed to this being a normal process working out the same as it always does?
Maybe you should collapse the number of items you have an interest in formulating an opinion on so that you can give more attention to those things that you can provide something that adds to the discussion.
For those who have achieved this, well done. I've experienced the positive impact of reducing my social media usage over the years, while still keeping my accounts for the occasional need to connect. I've taken steps to limit social platforms from accessing my phone contact list and have set a cap of 20 contacts, including on WhatsApp. This has significantly reduced Meta's profiling and advertising targeting.
Market cap is just speculative pricing, the grand illusion of wealth. Then, there is investment banking advice, which is still speculative. The real value is only confirmed when a transaction occurs.
yes. It is only the opinion of the last buyer and for part of the company. It may or may not translate to a total price.
Ill offer you $1 for 0.000,001 stake in your HN account. That doesnt mean someone else will buy the whole thing for $1M. Valuations in general are moving estimates.
I think the real scheme behind these companies was to monopolize the restaurant industry the way that uber has monopolized the taxi industry.
7.3B makes sense if you hold 40% of the restaurant business across the US.
Build out delivery network for existing restaurants, capture all of their order data, use that data to create ghost kitchens to sap business, ghost kitchens can turn into full restaurants, and continue as far as you could.
The 7.3 billion dollars figure doesn't come from market cap. It was the price that Just Eat actually paid to purchase the entirety of GrubHub 4 years ago. So it wasn't speculative, someone actually paid it in full.
"could be blocking RSS users" it says it all "could". I use RSS on my websites, which are serviced by Cloudflare, and my users are not blocked. For that, fine-tuning and setting Configuration Rules at Cloudflare Dashboard are required. Anyone on a free has access to 10 Configuration Rules. I prefer using Cloudflare Workers to tune better, but there is a cost. My suggestion for RSS these days is to reduce the info on RSS feed to teasers, AI bots are using RSS to circumvent bans, and continue to scrape.
This what you expect from VCs. I always prefer to report these incidents to GDPR authorities if user data is leaked. Then they pay the fines and some get a criminal record. Money is something VCs “print” and manipulate.
DHL, FedEx, and UPS are experts in overcharging to process a form and not caring about customers. Duty and VAT are usually low compared to this processing fee, and shipping has already been paid. Here is the catch in the EU, this simple duty form can be processed by the receiver, an agent (some related to the carrier), or an attorney-in-fact of the receiver. The big three carriers (and many others) threaten you if you refuse to use them.
At the end of the day, they don't care if we get phished or scammed; it is all of customs confusion. Next time process your customs form, you will realise how much money you will save, and the form only has less than 8 fields, the Union Customs Code is easy to read.
In Finland you can declare DHL/UPS/Fedex packages yourself with customs and pay directly to them, with no fees to carrier (it took a Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority decision in 2017 to get rid of the fees, though). But this is a bit different as it is not a hidden option but standard procedure (though you still get the option of paying the carrier to declare, instead).
Declaring inbound packages to Customs by yourself was already the standard here for postal parcels even before Customs internet services, so this was not a completely new way of working.
This. They have been paid to ship an international package. Billing the recipient for delivery is just dishonest. I assume they do it, to make their price for the shipper look artificially low.
For this reason, whenever possible, I choose delivery through the post office.
That's very interesting to hear. This last weekend down here in Florida was unbearable.
I got my first sunburn in like 20 years, just last Saturday.
And I'm out in the sun every weekend wakeskating.
I run two SMEs in Tourism, and as their size is small we opted years ago, to spend certification costs into CO2e offsetting. We use United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a pillars for managing.
If it's of any value to anyone, perhaps as an indication of hardware/environment implementation, I get identical numbers (<1% difference) on Oracle's Ampere Altra servers with OpenSSL 1.1.1n on Debian 11.
