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4-5x times what it would have been if not for the demand from AI. According to my rough calculation 4-8tb ssd drives were going to reach parity with hdd this year

What you need is ownership of not just the code but ownership of the company if your work is your own then you care a lot more about then if it belongs to someone else.

why though it is open source the only problem the original dev has is that they are using his name and trademark they could name it something else and it will be okay.

If they'd named it something else, it would indeed be OK. We wouldn't be here having this conversation if that were a thing that had happened.

When there are no trademark issues then there are no trademark issues to discuss.

But they haven't named it something else, so here we are talking about the trademark issues that this raises.


With how cheap and fast DeepSeek is and now using its free chat over the last few days I just cancelled my claude subscription so far I was using the chat interface only but I might just have to learn how to use the api.

they will be getting 20% more than what Ebay is worth today

Once. Followed by a tank in price and descent into chaos.

You can sell the stock. This isn't complicated.

Won’t eBay shareholders own most of the combined company though? They won’t all be able to exit at the sale price.

True, it isn't complicated. With everyone rushing for the doors the price will rapidly tank.

Selling is a taxable event

Only for individuals, isn't it? Mutual funds etc don't have to pay CGT on everything, do they?

It looks like mutual funds pass the gains, and the tax, onto those holding shared of the mutual fund.

> Because mutual funds are pass-through vehicles, they are required by law to distribute most of these gains to shareholders each year. These are called capital gains distributions.

Other types of funds don't necessarily have this problem, or lessen it.

> Holding mutual funds inside an IRA, 401(k), or Roth IRA shields you from annual tax bills.

> Index funds: Passive funds trade less frequently, leading to fewer gains.

> Tax-managed funds: Specifically structured to reduce taxable events.

> Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs): Use an “in-kind” redemption mechanism that avoids triggering taxable sales.

https://mutualfundnation.com/mutual-fund-capital-gains/


Neither is ignoring the offer and continuing to hold, if you’ve already been in for two, five, ten, twenty or more years like some have been.

If all the curated data is really shared with an AI over time they will be better than most individual doctors. I personally think AI could be a great triage system.

I think the regime narrative is mostly made up by Americans what's the difference between any of the Arab countries from Iran. The only difference is they are not controlled by America. It the same bullshit narrative of promoting democracy but in reality it's just about pushing for a government no matter how bad as long as it supports US control.

Iranians are not Arabs and thousands of them got gunned down earlier this year protesting the regime. "America bad" doesn't change the fact that the Iranian people deserve a better future.

Who said 1000s of people were gunned down. The pedophile in chief says that and we are supposed to believe it the same guy that has won this war 10+ times already. Bombed and killed thousands of women and children. If you want the Iranian people to have better future remove the sanctions let them grow economically they will gain their own freedoms not the shackles you want on them in the name of your freedoms.

FYI it’s not an Arab country

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Wow, there are no words. You would rather live in Tehran or Tel Aviv?

Preferably neither, but anywhere is better than Israel. Who would want to live in a genocidal apartheid state? Iran was a democracy before US and UK intervention, perhaps they will be again when they win the illegal war against them.

Anywhere? North Korea? Sudan? Houthi’s Yemen? The hyperbole broke the charts…

It's not an Arab country at all. Iranians are Persian, not Arab. Iran is low-key at war with most of the gulf Arab states.

And no where in any of my statements did I call it an Arab country. I was just calling out hypocrisy of the west when realistically Iran regime is as good or bad as any of the Arab countries or even the untouchable Israel.

Not sure why he is being called for this (or maybe he edited his comment?) but I re-read it a couple times and he is not saying Iran is an Arab country but comparing to the other Arab countries.

It's normal. They can't debate the actual statement, so they talk about something irrelevant to derail the conversation.

I'm not interested in whatever it was you were debating. You referred to Arab countries, someone said (correctly) Iran isn't Arab, you said "I understand it's not an Arab monarchy", and I was moved to point out it's not an Arab anything. I'm not a party to whatever other debate you believe is happening here.

This just means big layoffs are coming in this sector and they are astroturfing before hand so that they can show this stat that jobs are available Meta and Microsoft just started the ball rolling and it will accelerate over the next 2 years.

If something can't be profitable charge it to the government for multiple times and make it profitable and let taxpayers ie the citizens hold the burden. I never thought I would see this scam outside a poor corrupt country but damn US is falling fast.

Tiktok was about only one thing and that was Israel losing the narrative war as unlike most of western social media which was deranking and censoring showing of Israeli atrocities to the world Tiktok was not.

That was the straw that broke the camels back but it was always a big concern.

Anyone who says it’s about one thing is probably under-informed, we also saw how tiktok was pressured into showing people different realities in Russia and Ukraine.

TikTok was about capital realizing that feed algorithms are cheaper and more subtle to buy than advertising or a newspaper.

Same reason Elon bought Twitter.

Money is money, but convincing people is power.


No, there were efforts to ban TikTok well before Oct 7th 2023 in 2020-2021 by the first Trump Admin, and there was ongoing effort in 2022-2023 during Biden Admin.

TikTok Agrees to Sell U.s. Operations, https://www.tiktok.com/en/trending/detail/tiktok-agrees-to-s... , 25 Dec 2022

Biden approves banning TikTok from federal government phones, https://www.npr.org/2022/12/20/1144519602/congress-is-about-... , 20 Dec 2022

U.S. is 'looking at' banning TikTok and Chinese social media apps, Pompeo says, https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/us-looking-at-banning-tiktok... , 7 July 2020


There were National Security ghouls pushing a TikTok ban as far back as 2020 because of the "China bad" angle, but it didn't really become a widespread and bipartisan concern until after the latest round of massacres amped up in Gaza and USAians started seeing atrocities on TikTok.

China is bad. It's a hyper authoritarian state using information collected from accounts for nefarious purposes, including informing their influence campaigns, targeting and they were censoring for specific issues.

It's unthinkable that any free nation would allow a fairly oppressive and powerful entity to have that kind of power.

China had (has) it's own police force in Canada, monitoring ex-pats and students, and very actively monitors nationals and ex-nationals, they us research funding to leverage acquiescence on those kinds of things on campus etc..

Media, Finance and other 'core industries' are protected everywhere, the only place it's less visible is the US, because they haven't needed to - the nation is huge relative to it's peers.

Instead of being TikTok specific, most nations should have foreign surveillance rules and they should be applied much more severely to the extent that those nations are authoritarian / totalitarian etc..

China should not be allowed to own any media entities in the West, full stop.

Most nations should definitely ban US Social Media companies from hosting certain kinds of data, have some domiciling rules that protect form CLOUD act etc..

All of that proportional to the risk and general concerns; obviously the US represents a risk vector of greater proportion than in 2008, so rules need to adjust.


> It's a hyper authoritarian state using information collected from accounts for nefarious purposes, including informing their influence campaigns, targeting and they were censoring for specific issues.

As an american, I'm already used to that from my own government.


As I said, National Security ghouls.

You made a vacuous comment, lacking any reason or principle.

The 'National Security Ghouls' are those arresting people for comments such as yours, putting them into camps, cutting access to information, disabling travel or access to services, shutting down expression and dissent, intervening in judicial affairs, arresting journalists, telling students what they cannot say, threatening and intimidating ex-pats etc..


Oh, you mean ICE? No, NatSec ghouls are more bipartisan than that.

Are you gaslighting Israel has been committing a genocide long before Oct 7th. Reactions of people after the shock of Oct 7th wore off made Israel to actually do something about tiktok using its Israel lobby. The only one that can get both US parties do what it wants without much debate

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