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New comment by beernet in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

beernet — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:49:51 +0000

Exactly. Even the German "Urheberrecht" has a deadline (70 years afaik, outdated and too long obviously).

New comment by beernet in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

beernet — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:16:03 +0000

> What does it say about progress that the same laws that protect human rights also stifle innovation?

Claiming that GDPR and the EU AI Act "protect human rights" is very, very far-fetched. How does the training of, say, Claude or GPT-X models, hurt human rights?

New comment by beernet in "Tell HN: The bloatification of SpaceX stock has started"

beernet — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:07:04 +0000

So what exactly are you telling us here? If you believe the "bloatification" has started only after the IPO, you are very late to the party

New comment by beernet in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

beernet — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:05:29 +0000

Absolutely not, even if Europe was given all of the compute in the world. The issues are much much worse. Starting at "data privacy", continuing with the "EU AI Act" and just an overall mindset of regulation and German angst. Many structures in the EU actively prevent and fight against innovation. Oftentimes more subtle but the consequences stay the same. If you ever had to use one of the "sovereign" AI provides such as StackIT, OVH and the-like, I feel with you. It is just so bad in terms of product and performance, there is no comparison at all with Hyperscalers, and it shows. Eventually, it's a cultural and structural problem along the way and the future here looks horrible.

New comment by beernet in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

beernet — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:58:18 +0000

Have you been reminded yet? +40% looks pretty nice on my SpaceX position right now, taking profit.

New comment by beernet in "A Mathematical Theory of Communication [pdf]"

beernet — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:55:23 +0000

This is the most influential information theory work of all time and always a beautiful read.

New comment by beernet in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

beernet — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:27:00 +0000

Yes, I mean exactly these guys, who did effectively nothing since these "glory" days (which are not really so glory if you Look at the entire story).

This insitution could not exist a minute without tax payer money and provides very, very little in return. Mediocre (at best) employees with the work ethic of public officials, and we know what this means when talking Germany...

New comment by beernet in "AI-Generated Papers in the NeurIPS 2026 Position Paper Track"

beernet — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:57:20 +0000

> While we recognize that thoughtful use of AI can result in productivity gains in research, the use of AI to write papers creates an acute risk for the peer review system.

Saving an outdated system above accepting progress. Old white men at work again.

New comment by beernet in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

beernet — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:49:31 +0000

They didn't even bother removing the typical AI slop from the text, lol

New comment by beernet in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

beernet — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:45:26 +0000

> Like that, a few companies are specialized in sucking public funds and delivering nothing. Or just the minimum to say that they did something.

Agreed. Fraunhofer institute in Germany is a prime example.

New comment by beernet in "DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision"

beernet — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:25:16 +0000

No pelican? I don't believe it.

More seriously, LLM eval is totally broken judging by the related articles on HN.

New comment by beernet in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

beernet — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:24:06 +0000

This is total nonsense and you sound like a bot. A bad one at that. This is pathetic.

Fear is not equivalent to zionism. In addition to that, Russia has many more nuclear weapons and is getting destroyed at this very moment.

New comment by beernet in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

beernet — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:23:51 +0000

> albeit without the drug addiction or prison.

No disrespect, but this is not at all comparable to the situation described in the article. A few nights sleeping on the streets is much (!) easier when not addicted to substances.

New comment by beernet in "Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math"

beernet — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:50:07 +0000

> while on the other hand, they are duct-taping in deterministic plugins for specific prompt types they find it better to offload

So, in essence, just like human beings?

New comment by beernet in "Anatomy of a Learning Stall – How LLM Hallucinations Become Human Hallucinations"

beernet — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:40:29 +0000

Four years later and I am still irritated by the "phenomenon" of hallucinations.

Each LLM completion is a "hallucination" per design, some just happen to align with our world view and happen to be "factually correct". For the same completion, this may be different in other parts of the world.

These posts are a nothing burger

New comment by beernet in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

beernet — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:36:56 +0000

Some people here truly need a bunch of lessons in economics and capital markets. This is not about making a profit at this point in time. Each of these companies could turn profitable im a heartbeat if they wanted to. Which would be exactly the moment in which they lost the race and become irrelevant.

New comment by beernet in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

beernet — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:24:31 +0000

Bots in full effect now?

This guy literally helped killing thousands of Israel's "enemies", out of which a majority are innocent civilians. Above everything, you are showing your true color.

New comment by beernet in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

beernet — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:22:12 +0000

> Basically everyone in the US is a zionist.

What? What kind of world view is that? Surely not a factual one.

I have no view here other than what I hear from people and news. What stokes me is that people like you are really shocked and surprised when confronted with the truth.

New comment by beernet in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

beernet — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:13:53 +0000

This comparison is nuts and invalid. Each of Anthropic/OpenAI/SpaceX has more revenue than the mentioned companies combined at IPO time.

Doomers gonna doom

New comment by beernet in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

beernet — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:26:43 +0000

Companies are innovating things that significantly enhance human capabilities and people will still find a reason to drag them down. I am not a fan of either these companies. At the same time, I strongly disagree with these doomer scenarios as they are dangerous for progress of humanity.