I mean most pets are carnivores or omnivores, it sounds to me like they just scaled up before they had really found product-market fit

HN is social media, and if you look at the implementation of the Australian law it's more political than anything else. They banned X but did not list BlueSky, which has an ongoing pedophilia problem. This has nothing to do with protecting kids from social media it's just political maneuvering, like banning children from reading the epoch times but not the NYT

Or maybe, as new platforms spring up and start harming children in noticeable quantities, they'll be added to the list?

I had that thought too, describing that something might be physically possible isn't really inventing it, you have to build (and arguably sell) the device too. Re-organizing someone else's equations and saying it's technically possible is maybe enough to publish a paper but certainly doesn't rise to the standard of inventing in my mind

As a personal anecdote in agreement with the article, I've seen design consultants come in with no industry experience and ruin projects. Friends of the VP with no satellite experience saying we need to introduce random exceptions everywhere who don't understand threading or type systems outside of Java. It's frustrating to see potential bugs introduced at the design level with no regard for how the end product operates

To Elon's credit he didn't start out with millions

Just a well off white politician as a father during South African apartheid.

In Errol Musk's political career, he was a city councillor and member of an opposition party. So, while true, this is minor league. His business ventures appear to be more relevant to his wealth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Musk#Career

I'm not OP but that seems like a pretty reasonable assumption. LLM dominance is basically a US thing (Europe is handicapped by the EU and China is handicapped by hardware), and there are only a few companies that are actually competitive in LLM's (OpenAI, Gemini, xAI, Meta, Anthropic). I think top 5 is a safer bet but top four isn't an unreasonable thing to say confidently

> pretty reasonable assumption.

Sure if you have no clue about the frontier-lab landscape then it's a pretty reasonable assumption.

xAI has the largest GPU cluster for AI training in the world, and they regularly produce top-ranking models. Companies like mistral produce clever models but they’re functionally just not on the level of things like Grok

Yeah the anti-Elon sentiment on HN seems unique to this platform and maybe reddit. If you go onto any college campus, you'll see a variety of students wearing Tesla or SpaceX merch. Neuralink has a 7 or 8 stage, highly competitive interview process, and most of his companies are internationally recognized and careers with them are highly sought after.

I suspect a lot of people are just upset they got rejected

I don't have the capital for it right now but hearing about all this stuff makes me want to start a hardware company lol. Drones are the most relevant to my current work, but networking hardware sounds like fun too.

I was hoping to hear more about what's happening on the front although I suppose the people doing things probably aren't spending their evenings on HN

I think executive orders are going to keep growing. Every president now signs, ostensibly political, executive orders when entering office to enforce certain social norms. The following president of a political party must undo those orders, and then orders the opposite. I suspect as time goes on we'll see more and more things being declared, and the retribution list will simply keep growing.

Certainly the president needs the power to do some things, but it does feel silly in implementation.

Of course, the end goal of one side is to just eliminate the possibility of an opposing "following president of a political party".