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I think it is because of the Chinese new year. The Chinese labs like to publish their models arround the Chinese new year, and the US labs do not want to let a
by i5heu 8mo ago
I think it is because of the Chinese new year.
The Chinese labs like to publish their models arround the Chinese new year, and the US labs do not want to let a DeepSeek R1 (20 January 2025) impact event happen again, so i guess they publish models that are more capable then what they imagine Chinese labs are yet capable of producing.
- woah 8mo agoSingularity or just Chinese New Year?
- syndacks 8mo agoThe Singularity will occur on a Tuesday, during Chinese New Year
- r2vcap 8mo ago[flagged]
- phainopepla2 8mo ago"Happy Holidays" comes to the diaspora
- FartyMcFarter 8mo agoHappy Lunar Holidays to you!
- rfoo 8mo agoFor another example, Singapore, one of the "many Asian countries" you mentioned, list "Chinese New Year" as the official name on government websites. [0] Also note that both California and New York is not located in Asia. And don't get me started with "Lunar New Year? What Lunar New Year? Islamic Lunar New Year? Jewish Lunar New Year? CHINESE Lunar New Year?". [0] https://www.mom.gov.sg/employment-practices/public-holidays https://www.mom.gov.sg/employment-practices/public-holidays
- zzrush 8mo agoI didn't expect language policing has reached such level. This is specifically related to China and DeepSeek who celebrates Chinese new year. Do you demand all Chinese to say happy luner new year to each other?
- 0x3f 8mo agoBut they're Chinese companies specifically, in this case
- saubeidl 8mo agoWhere do all of those Asian countries have that tradition from? Have you ever had a Polish Sausage? Did it make you Polish?
- jfengel 8mo ago"Lunar New Year" is perhaps over-general, since there are non-Asian lunar calendars, such as the Hebrew and Islamic calendars. That said, "Lunar New Year" is probably as good a compromise as any, since we have other names for the Hebrew and Islamic New Years.
- Electricniko 8mo agoThis all seems like a plot to get everyone worshipping the Roman goddess Luna.
- triceratops 8mo agoThere's more than one Asian lunar calendar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996396. The Islamic calendar originated in Arabia. Calling it an Asian lunar calendar wouldn't be inaccurate.
- janalsncm 8mo ago“Lunar New Year” is vague when referring to the holiday as observed by Chinese labs in China. Chinese people don’t call it Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year anyways. They call it Spring Festival (春节). As it turns out, people in China don’t name their holidays based off of what the laws of New York or California say.
- triceratops 8mo agoPlease don't because "Lunar New Year" is ambiguous. Many other Asian cultures also have traditional lunar calendars but a different new years day. It's a bit presumptuous to claim that this is the sole "Lunar New Year" celebration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_New_Year%27s_days#Calendar_view https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_New_Year%27s_days#Calen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_New_Year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_New_Year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz
- kristopolous 8mo agoI guess. Deepseek v3 was released on boxing day a month prior https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news1226 https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news1226
- littlestymaar 8mo agoAnd made almost zero impact, it was just a bigger version of Deepseek V2 and when mostly unnoticed because its performances weren't particularly notable especially for its size. It was R1 with its RL-training that made the news and crashed the srock market.
- dboreham 8mo agoAren't we saying "lunar new year" now?
- Cyphase 8mo agoI don't think so; there are different lunar calendars.
- lifthrasiir 8mo agoIf that's a sole problem, it should be called "Chinese-Japanese-Korean-whateverelse new year" instead. Maybe "East Asian new year" for short. (Not that there are absolutely no discrepancies within them, but they are so similar enough that new year's day almost always coincide.)
- walthamstow 8mo agoIt's not Japanese either. This non-problem sounds like it's on the same scale as "The British Isles", a term which is mildly annoying to Irish people but in common use everywhere else.
- keithluu 8mo agoIn fact, many Asian countries use lunisolar calendars, which basically follow the moon for the months but add an extra month every few years so the seasons don't drift. As these calendars also rely on time zones for date calculation, there are rare occasions where the New Year start date differs by an entire month between 2 countries.