> The Information reported on Thursday, citing two people with knowledge of the situation.
I miss the old days of journalism, when they might feel inclined to let the reader know that their source for the indirect source is almost entirely funded by the fortune generated by a man who worked slavishly to become a close friend of the boss of one of DeepSeek’s main competitors (Meta).
Feel bad for anyone who gets their news from The Information and doesn’t have this key bit of context.
I don't think it's well known that TI has FB CoIs. I didn't know myself until fairly recently. You can talk to a lot of people about this sort of stuff without anyone pointing it out.
Absolutely. I think the FB CoI within American venture capital, where they have fully infested the LP and GP ranks of most funds, is a much bigger and more important story. It really helped me understand that we need to work really hard to keep the rest of the world’s capital markets free and open — a major focus for me these days.
You never know which stories The Information won’t run, or which “negative” articles are actually deflections. Similarly, you never know which amazing startups remain shut out of funding, and a lot of entrepreneurs have no idea about the amount of back channel collusion goes on in creating the funding rounds and “overnight successes” they’re told to idolize.
A random dude on HN such as me shouldn’t be the source of this knowledge. Hope someone takes up the cause, but we live in a time of astounding cowardice.
I missed the old days of HN commenters when they might feel inclined to let the reader know who they are talking about without having to solve a 6 steps enigma.
Software frequently has bugs and sometimes they have security implications. In order to claim that a specific bug is a backdoor you need to have evidence beyond the existence of a bug.
Oh man, the irony of this response. Do Kwon very specifically did NOT have USD in this situation, and I’m pretty sure his defense will be that there was no representation that the peg would be maintained indefinitely. Whether the evidence points to the contrary is another matter altogether.
>Do Kwon very specifically did NOT have USD in this situation
The indictment lists a bunch of ways that ties his crimes to the US
>KWON solicited and obtained investments from a number of investment firms in the United States and other locations [...]
>DO HYEONG KWON, the defendant, nonetheless fraudulently promoted Chai to investors in the United States [...]
>On or about October 12 , 2020, KWON sent an email to a representative of an investment firm based in New York containing a Terraform promotional document falsely claiming [...]
>On or about October 14 , 2019, KWON made a false and misleading statement during a CNBC presentation transmitted to, among other places, the Southern District of New York, about Chai 's usage of the Tena blockchain [...]
As someone who works in an office alongside Japanese illustrators and graphic designers, I would like to know where the manga-style training data came from, and what is being done to ensure that the artists are fairly compensated?
Currently we’re using open sourced data and third party models. Our vision is to help creators monetize on their data and skillset, so we’re in conversation with creators to build a long-term equitable solution. We’d love to chat more and discuss any ideas you have! Feel free to send us an email at support@lumistory.ai
This is ridiculous. The EU has a complete axe to grind against Apple, for reasons that I believe border on corruption (if not, veer completely into it). Meanwhile, Meta has a near-monopoly on social networking in the Western world and is subject to a slap on the wrist at best.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, one of the best friends of the current EU Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, is currently on Meta's payroll. For this reason alone, the current EU Competition Commissioner should recuse herself from being involved in this role. There are other reasons, including direct conversations I have had with co-founders of Meta regarding EU commissioners, that cause me to have very little faith in these people to act fairly, or to do little other than carry out Meta's very long agenda to be able to ride on top of Apple's platform and deliver their own App Store with their own currency (remember Facebook Credits, anyone?) and completely replace iMessage etc for people who live within the mass-scale dystopia that is the Facebook-Instagram-WhatsApp Industrial Complex.
Meta is a total monopoly that causes daily harm to society, and yet this is what the EU finds itself obsessed with. These people should be ashamed of themselves. And, they should release the records of every meeting and every communication they have with Meta and its various lobbyists, and the children/spouses of these people (because they love using the family connection to avoid scrutiny, as evidenced by their hiring of various congresspeople's children in roles that make no sense).
The EU fined Meta for 1.2 billion dollars last year, the largest GDPR fine ever [1]. And last month, the EU announced another investigation into Meta [2].
> I'm a SysOps engineer at a fairly large online casino. We have around 4 million monthly active users. We had been happy Cloudflare customers since 2018 on the "Business" plan which has some neat features and costs $250/month for "unlimited" traffic.
Sorry to be “that guy,” but, you’re serving 4 million people at a casino and paying $250 a month for shared multi tenant infra, and you’re SURPRISED you have problems? Really?
To be honest, I’m glad these sorts of businesses get kicked off Cloudflare because it causes problems for others sharing the same IP space and infra. I’ll let someone else with experience discuss how many times a day the network would see a hacking or DDoS attempt against the online casino, which is by far the favorite target of hackers. But in general, I just don’t want any of my infra touching the same stuff as these guys.
Like another person here, I am assuming that Cloudflare ops told someone “tell these guys to get their own IPs and upgrade,” and then the message went to Cloudflare’s (utterly lousy!!!) sales people to try to fix before shutdown, and then it all turned into the mess we see here.
The true moral of the story, I think, is, if you’re running an online casino on a shoestring budget, expect bad things to happen to you. Of all kinds.
While we are on this topic — can someone, anyone, tell me how to disable the AI autocompletion suggestions in Outlook for iOS? Getting ready to dump Microsoft and Exchange to get away from that utter mess.
Perhaps some of the people who are commenting here don’t realize that there isn’t much of a way to opt out of these data “analysis” activities.
Don’t worry! Visa and MasterCard have lobbied the hapless fools who inherited this wonderfully efficient and effective system, and the trains of Japan will soon switch over to join the global payment oligarchy.
Japan is about half a generation away from mass-scale mediocrity.
To the parent, the credit card system will be parrallel to Suica/passmo, not a replacement. People would freak out with a system that isn't prepaid (think school kids), doesn't fully work offline and is twice as slow as the current one.
The problem isn’t technical, it’s social. I don’t want my bank, and some “global payment network” that can easily lobby its way out of real data oversight, to know my transit patterns and habits.
i think i may have seen those at some stations, they are attached like clunky add-ons to the gates, but ive never seen anyone actually use them.... i wonder why they are being installed... easier for tourism maybe?
Getting a suica card on your phone is super easy as a tourist, easy to charge up using a credit card attached to ApplePay or whatever the google equiv is. The only issue is if you are traveling with a kid who needs children fares, then you actually need a physical card.
Maybe it's different on iOS but it is impossible on Android to use unless you have a Japanese credit card with a Japanese address. There seems to be no way to even use a foreign credit card to add money to an IC card. Had to relent on getting the cash back on my Sapphire and just top up with cash my last trip.
I'm just glad most of the machines allow for 10 yen increments now, so I can just dump in coins I get from the rare place that doesn't accept credit cards nowadays.
I heard that was also a restriction for Apple a few months before I went on my trip, but by August 2023 it wasn’t anymore. Maybe the same is true for Android? If not, that’s a super weird limitation of Android. It definitely doesn’t exist now on a iPhone. My wife and I were able to use and load phone-based suica cards without issue.
Apple has supported FeliCa globally since 2017. Android still doesn’t. It’s not a restriction someone can remove; the non-Japanese phones just don’t have either the hardware or license necessary.
That was a problem with foreign Visa cards only, no? AMEX and MasterCard worked. It was the same on Apple devices, but it might be fixed in the latest iOS update.
It's super easy but it's still an extra thing to do. For an occasional user such as a tourist it would be much better if you could use your existing payment instrument rather than having to buy a local, purpose-specific one.
Beg to disagree. I visited Japan as a tourist and even if you stay for two days the number of times you will use the subway in, say Tokyo makes the 2 minute setup totally superior to your credit card.
This reminds me of the time at Facebook when one of OpenAI’s current board members was upset that the Director of Facebook Platform was getting more praise and attention than he was, in his role as Co-Founder and CTO (or whatever). That caused a lot of problems, from which the Facebook Platform never recovered.
People who start out petty usually remain that way. There’s a lot of people in this world whose happiness depends on others doing just a little bit worse-off than them.
If I was a developer building on OpenAI’s platform today, I would begin putting my contingency plans into place.
I miss the old days of journalism, when they might feel inclined to let the reader know that their source for the indirect source is almost entirely funded by the fortune generated by a man who worked slavishly to become a close friend of the boss of one of DeepSeek’s main competitors (Meta).
Feel bad for anyone who gets their news from The Information and doesn’t have this key bit of context.