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powerapple··on Anthropic raises $13B Series F
Also not all compute was necessary for the final model, a large chunk of it is trial and error research. In theory, for $1B you spent training the latest model, a competitor will be able to do it after 6 months with $100M.
powerapple··on Good EU regulations
I recently rode a scooter for couple of times, and I find it is the best thing to move around in neighbourhood. It is convinent, parking is easy, cheap to run. Everyone should have one electronic scooter.
powerapple··on China Is Run by Engineers, and the US by Too Many Lawyers
People in the US thinks it is a bad thing that US is run by lawyers? I would argue differently. The real difference is that China is a developing country, and US is a developed country. China should focus more on growing the pie and US should focus more on sharing the pie, hence lawyers to set up rules and regulations.
powerapple··on China State Council begins investigating and regulating '内卷'
CCP has a backlog of tasks, ordered by priority, every year, this list is evaluated, every 5 years, the priority is adjusted. This topic would have been discussed for sometimes in the past until it surfaces for a broader discussion, followed by think tanks, policy making.
powerapple··on China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide
And that's the exactly reason the title says 44% instead of 10%, because 10% does not make a good headline
powerapple··on Gemini CLI
Google does not care about users at all, ZERO, it is full of people are so fond of technology, they try something and soon move on to something else. I am using Google Cloud for work, and previously Google Mail , Google Map, and YouTube user, zero good experience.
powerapple··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
It does not make sense to frame Iran versus Israel as religious war. Religion is so fundamental, when we frame it as this, it becomes a unsolvable problem.
powerapple··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
As an outsider, I believe that the outcome would be exactly the same: Trump did not push a minority. Of course it is politics, the other side would say something bad about him. Both parties are supporting Israel unconditionally. Maybe I am being naive.
powerapple··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
You think the not-Trump president would do something different? Not an American, but I have assumed the outcome would be the same.
powerapple··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
What's the reason of incompatibility of Islam and Jewish religion?
powerapple··on MiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model
I compared its website with openai's, not much different, both do not say it is an American company or a Chinese company. Most time only when the company is targeting its domestic market, very popular for food products, some will even label the country name on the package.
powerapple··on Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices
the way I see it is that a country is better (or richer) if US allows them to trade with rich countries, not directly built on political systems, but political systems can affect being inclusive or exclusive of the global market.
powerapple··on Why does the U.S. always run a trade deficit?
Other people's consumption is your income, not production, producing does not generate income by itself.
powerapple··on Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes
I guess where you come from definitely determine how you think: the bus stops look better than neighborhoods does not offend me, it actually shows collectively you can have something better than on your own, which makes a lot sense to me XD
powerapple··on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
I tested windsurf last week, it installed all dependencies to my global python....it didn't know best practices for Python, and didn't create any virtual env..... I am disappointed. My Cursor experience was slightly better. Still, one issue I had was how to make sure it does not change the part of code I don't want it to change. Every time you ask it to do something for A, it rewrote B in the process, very annoying.

My best experience so far is v0.dev :)

powerapple··on Zhaoxin's KX-7000
I think it should. Chinese language does not have the concept of word in writing, there is no space, and each character is a unit in writing. Pinyin was to mark pronunciations of each characters, it would be Lu Jia Zui, meaning 3 characters. Pinyin is not English. LuJiaZui would make it easier to pronounce if you don't know Pinyin. There is no standard way to write it though, maybe Lu-Jia-Zui, Lu'Jia'Zui, or Lu'jia'zui. The most confusing and would lead to wrong pronunciation version is Lujiazui.
powerapple··on Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model
I need a visa if I want to go to US.....
powerapple··on Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model
Is Tibet not part of China? Last time I visited Tibet, I didn't need a visa, or special permit.
powerapple··on Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model
Yes, this is very annoying, because how Pinyin works. There were a lot mistakes made when using Pinyin in English content. Pinyin suppose to break at character level, Pinyin = Pin Yin, you can easily write it as Pin-Yin, or Pin Yin, but Pinyin is just wrong.

Hun Yuan is a lot better. I agree, with unicode, we can easily incorporate the tone.

powerapple··on Show HN: Translate Japanese manga and Korean manhwa with Chrome extension
If you can learn a foreign language, why not AI. Translation does not rely on grammar structure since these can be learnt. The attention model specifically designed to handle these dependencies in translation, which then led to development of AI in other tasks. You will be surprised.

For old translation systems, you are absolutely right though.

powerapple··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
reference please. As a Chinese I would love to learn about it.
powerapple··on The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
they don't, it is a playbook on how to win elections, and it is what's happening in democracy.
powerapple··on The Demoralization is just Beginning
What is a good economy and what's the purpose of economy?
powerapple··on Welcome to the Zero Sum Era. Now How Do We Get Out?
AI + Robotics, let's stop slaving other people, start slaving robots.

Every era is zero sum, depending on who you are listening to and care about

powerapple··on China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns
Can US arrest the head of Chinese startups who have bought banned NVidia chips from the black market? Is buying a crime?
powerapple··on China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns
In my opinion, all developing countries could do it and should do it. You either stay in line or push up, that's the unfortunate fate of developing countries. Rules are not set to protect the poor, they are set to keep poor people in places.
powerapple··on Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone
To be fair, it is not trained to produce VALID code, it is trained to produce code in the training data. From the language model point of view, it is not hallucination because it is not making up facts outside its training data.
powerapple··on South Korean regulator accuses DeepSeek of sharing user data with ByteDance
if you really want to understand how Chinese government works, you need to read the book "The Lean Startup".
powerapple··on Strategic Wealth Accumulation Under Transformative AI Expectations
when there is no labor, there is no money, and no capital. AI does not work with capitalism, AI fundamentally is communism XD

What do you mean by having a large group of robots working for you? to produce products? to trade for what?

powerapple··on South Korean regulator accuses DeepSeek of sharing user data with ByteDance
loads of rubbish XD The government does not know what data is important, and most time does not know who is technological leader
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