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New comment by xnx in "Waymo Premier"

xnx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:00:59 +0000

> through USAA, $120/month

Good deal, but not available to most.

New comment by xnx in "Waymo Premier"

xnx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:58:01 +0000

Waymo?

New comment by xnx in "Waymo Premier"

xnx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:56:27 +0000

A lot of business travel is kickbacks/bribes for signing contracts.

New comment by xnx in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

xnx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:19:34 +0000

I agree with this more than the parent, but think about apps is probably too last generation. The rich don't use apps. They have assistants to do things and tell them what they need to know when they need to know it. AI is more likely to be like that type of assistant.

New comment by xnx in "Waymo Premier"

xnx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:14:45 +0000

A lot of people (myself included) would pay $30 to get Waymo a month earlier in their home city.

New comment by xnx in "Doing nothing at work"

xnx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:09:49 +0000

Efficiency is the enemy of resiliency.

New comment by xnx in "Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers"

xnx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:08:19 +0000

Are you counting the emissions to get the datacenters into space?

New comment by xnx in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

xnx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:06:21 +0000

+1 to the Guardian for mentioning their data source, but -1 for not linking to it.

+2 for EMBER for having a data source AND being able to link to the parameters that show solar overtaking coal for the month in the US.

https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?ent...

New comment by xnx in "Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers"

xnx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:02:17 +0000

Cost = emmissions

New comment by xnx in "More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might slow you"

xnx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:53:59 +0000

'Making your team faster doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.'

New comment by xnx in "HTML is a native image format, hear me out"

xnx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:46:34 +0000

Chrome started supporting this at some point (though I wish they would've added in motw support). Lack of support for mhtml is one of the things keeping me away from Firefox on mobile.

New comment by xnx in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

xnx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:30:11 +0000

Misleading

> Among the 270 jobs in the 1950 U.S. census, only one job was automated away — elevator operator. But many others were rendered obsolete by new technology, like the job of telegraph operator.

In that same time farm jobs went from 15% of the workforce to 2%.

New comment by xnx in "DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation"

xnx — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:06:44 +0000

Is the diffusion approach any use in Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters? https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-...

New comment by xnx in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

xnx — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:14:24 +0000

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21638-there-are-two-ways-of...

New comment by xnx in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

xnx — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:02:42 +0000

Is this also the case for Google Cloud? https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platfo...

New comment by xnx in "How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks"

xnx — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:51:13 +0000

People already ride motorcycles so why not let them drive in much safer kei trucks?

Bringing the latest Gemini models to Apple developers

xnx — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:26:04 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/bringing-gemini-models-to-apple-developers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455479

Points: 2

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New comment by xnx in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

xnx — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:49:30 +0000

Did Apple indicate they are using local models?

New comment by xnx in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

xnx — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:46:47 +0000

> wasn’t as strong of a difference in model quality between Google, anthropic, and OpenAI as there is now

What's the difference now? I would guess 9/10 people here would have a very hard time telling the models apart in a blind taste test.

New comment by xnx in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

xnx — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:45:32 +0000

What part of using Gemini do you think is a disadvantage?

Also important to remember how immature OpenAI and Anthropic are as companies. It would be a huge technical, legal, and reputational risk to commit to using them.