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Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
More wild speculation, now with wishful thinking spread on top.
Comment · 3 months ago
Grok's latest model is objectively superior to any of the current Google models in the most relevant use cases. I don't like Elon musk but that does not change reality.
And Google came up with the Transformer architecture (2017 "Attention is all you need"). The Attention mechanism they based it on is from Bahdanau, Cho, and Bengio (2014, ICLR 2015). And there were many other self-attention variants by 2017. It was an amazing paper but let's not twist the story and give proper credit.
And not one of the people in that paper are still at Google, AFAIK.
Google has more compute, more data, and had the best 2 labs. And it seems they squandered it all. I'd blame their McKinsey CEO, the board, and management in general. It's a shadow of what it used to be. And it's a shame.
Comment · 3 months ago
xAI > Gooogle & DeepMind
I did not have this one on my 2026 bingo card.
Comment · 3 months ago
AGPL only closes the SaaS loophole and forces them to publish their changes to the code. It's not anti-business at all.
You could argue the BSL is anti-business. But IMHO even that one is only a reaction to abuse. Database companies investing millions in research, development, and maintenance for some trillion dollar corporation to take it and make billions off it without giving back a single penny.
Comment · 3 months ago
It is quite telling that most cloud companies stay away from AGPL. Their business model is antisocial.
Comment · 3 months ago
IMHE the models work much better if you go directly to the creator's API. DeepSeek V4 official API gives me 8x better caching so it was 40% cheaper in my case. Unless it bothers you China gets your data instead of giving it to the American VC-backed companies.
It also prefer to give my money to the pro-social companies giving away their open models (they cost many millions) instead of opportunists who don't give much back.
Comment · 3 months ago
The real thing not the knock-off website in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48818963
Comment · 3 months ago
Yep https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816025
And EU leadership completely destroyed Europe's future by betting on depending on US and Chinese models. https://pleias.ai/blog/fable-eu
Comment · 3 months ago
This new forecasting industry is pushed by very dirty people.
HN search shows 21 comments in the past month from simonw+pelican: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
You can choose to look the other way but 3 comments out of 21, where 2 were kind of the same one on the same day, and 27 days ago... But you say "repeatedly crosses into harassment" as if I'm a troll chasing him around.
I was caring about the quality of this site with my 18 year old account... Unbelievable.
But as you bless him, I give up. It's your site. Quite a bummer after I defended you many times over the years, though. I remember in the beginning your interventions were not generally welcome.
Edit:
His comment is now 12th in this thread and there are comments saying his pelican SVG test is pointless. At least there's some sanity with other users. Or are they harassing him, too?
Sadly his other comment on Hy3 thread is still the top comment. And of course it also has a link to his site. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848950