Agree with the headline part, but the second part not so much.
As someone mentioned it's about the trend.
I have heard from people at multiple major open source projects that what is keeping them at Github at this point are free GH Action credits that they get and they couldn't really afford CI/CD if they left. Meaning numbers would be bigger if GH wasn't "paying" projects to stay.
Also my 14yo self was far more skilled at circumventing online guardrails (mostly piracy back then) than my old ass is today.
I’m not winning that battle of cat and mouse.
I like to point out often the yellow vests protesters being ratted out by Proton as good example of how misleading their marketing is.
French police contacted Swiss police to get the id of the accounts, Swiss told proton to hand over the data.
Problem is - under French law, their police would not be able to get that data from local providers.
Proton - HK owner, dev team in Bulgaria and marketing with mythical claims of "Swiss company privacy".
For a company that is selling essencially trust, they sure are shady as f...
Thats the variation within the classes. And there will always be outliers, but even if you look at bodybuilders in 100+ kg, they are not what you’d call weak even if they don’t optimize for strength.
Qualcomm has bought plenty of companies that serviced small customers, and what happed is exactly what the person you’re replying to described. You can’t even get a quote many times.
What I expect short term is what happened to Eagle in the PCB space when Autodesk bought it (best thing that happened to kicad).
Longterm Arduino goes into the periphery of the maker market, similarly to beaglebone.
it's unrelated to the manufacturing of EVs. If any factory reaches a significant energy generation (usually this means from solar) it makes sense to look into a battery solution.
It just happens to be Mazda's manufacturing plant.
Wanting the latest and greatest was a thing back in 2010s, when there was a lot of progress and a lot of experiments by the phone manufacturers.
Today, me and most of my friends are pushing our phones as long as we can (4+ years). My parents hate when they have to change phones, because they then have to adjust to a new UI.
If battery and screen could be easily replaceable + security updates, many people would not be changing their phones for 5+ years.
I did not refer to the talent directly contributing to the technical progress.
P.S. - clarification: I mean not referring to talent at OpenAI.
And yes I have very little doubt talent at DeepSeek is a lot cheaper than the things I listed above for OpenAI.
I would be interested in a breakdown of the cost of OpenAI and seeing if even their technical talent costs more than the things I mentioned.
One thing I (intuitively) don't doubt - that they spent less money for developing R1 than OpenAI spent on marketing, lobbying and management compensation.
It had a vary suspicions statement.
They stated that they see specifically a lot of Mullvad ads.
Not general VPN ads. That is what makes is sound malicious.
Mullvad is not even close to being in the group of biggest marketing spenders.
You need a minute on their website to see that they have a very simple approach to funding their business. No "life time subscription" exclusive offers, no BS privacy claims...
Also this is HN, not a comment section on something like Yahoo news, really hard to consider people commenting here as being detached from tech trends and news.
As someone mentioned it's about the trend.
I have heard from people at multiple major open source projects that what is keeping them at Github at this point are free GH Action credits that they get and they couldn't really afford CI/CD if they left. Meaning numbers would be bigger if GH wasn't "paying" projects to stay.