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It's a European guy coping on HN.

That's OK.

They have no idea my sub-region of California produces the entire GDP of their country.

Very normal thing to happen… in Maoist China or Stalin’s Russia.

L1 is primarily for management and execs.

> You don’t even need a visa to leave

Either unable to critically read or extraordinarily pedantic. Classic HN.

Those workers were on the B1 visa.

> What I'm more interested in is how is he getting dealflow:

Because he's Saquon Barkley. Other than your lead + maybe 1 or 2 others, everyone else is pretty interchangable. At least Saquon is interesting.

I got this set up and working in basically 5 minutes. Going to try to set it up at work. Super cool! It seems like the open source version already has a bunch of features, how do you plan on making sure you can sustainably support it?

Why should you not have to pay to rent the use of a public good?

Extremely oversold article.

> the core insight: predict in representation space, not pixels

We've been doing this since 2014? Not only that, others have been doing it at a similar scale. e.g. Nvidia's world foundation models (although those are generative).

> zero-shot generalization (aka the money shot)

This is easily beaten by flow-matching imitation learning models like what Pi has.

> accidentally solved robotics

They're doing 65% success on very simple tasks.

The research is good. This article however misses a lot of other work in the literature. I would recommend you don't read it as an authoritative source.

> Canada falling to a belligerent dictator

Hmm

I wrote this opinion essay on the American tech sector, which the Trump administration conveniently ignores when talking about trade surpluses. As global trade is upended, I argue America's trade partners should more carefully examine the place the American tech monopolies have in their countries.

The prevailing wisdom is that American dominates tech simply because American companies are better. While that's true, I argue that a huge portion of this comes instead from the monopolistic winner-take-all dynamics of tech not found in other industries. Despite the American car manufacturers being significantly worse, they still exist. The European tech industry is significantly worse, and they're almost nowhere to be found in tech. The Chinese tech industry is worse in many ways as well, yet shielded by the Great Firewall, they've found themselves with cloud hyperscalers, frontier AI models, global consumer businesses, etc.

Once upon a time, this mattered less, but as American values diverge from the rest of the liberal democracies, the the effect American tech has on our political discourse and economies are becoming a matter of national security.

This is from the perspective of someone who works in the American tech industry but is not American, and has spent a fair amount of time in China.

As an opinion piece, I'm not sure my arguments are entirely correct, but I think they're worth thinking about.

I'm not saying getting hidden would be a good thing.

Just that it would happen.

Every time something like this comes out, his supporters mass flag the article no matter how relevant it is to tech. Browsing /active is the only way to see some of these.

In their defense, if every atrocity and grift this administration committed were allowed free and fair voting on HN, it would completely clog the front page.