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It's amazing to make it go through a whole book with little hallucination. It still lacks multimodal capabilities though.

I hope they open-source DeepSeek v4 in Q1 2026 with enhancements to coding, agentic, and multimodal capabilities. Usage limits and timeouts are the pain points of all other models.

Nah, the Chinese companies just don't believe that a business moat could be built by pure technologies given there're a surplus supply of fundings and capable engineers, as well as the mediocre IP protection law enforcement in China market.

Instead, they believe in building moat upon customer data retentions, user behavior bindings and collaboration network or ecosystem.

It's all about tradeoff between profit margin vs. volume scale, while in China market the latter one always prevail.

Cool, any plan to support searching within favorite list?

|> I have zero connection to any side (not Chinese, not turkic, not muslim, buddhist, whatever).<|

But your information source is limited to English world, which favors separatists over the other side.

|> Note that this level of surveillance is not pervasive throughout the rest of China; this is about a region populated by non-Han Chinese (Uyghurs, a who are Muslim and speak a Turkic language); most han residents are colonists.<|

Hah? Xinjiang was founded after the extinction of Dzungar people who were mongolians. Most han and manchu residents in Xinjiang are desendants of military migrants of Qing dynasty. The Nothern half of Xinjiang had never been populated by Uyghurs and although the Uyghur population has been expanding much more rapidly than other ethinics in Xinjiang, they are NOT the owner of the entire Xinjiang. Please stop repeating these disgusting FAKE claims.

|> the government and newspapers describe it as an integral part of China with a terrorist separatist movement no different from, for example ...<|

They're terrorists. You're a terrorist defender. Pure and simple. Attacking innocent people to attain certain political influnce is the essense of terrorism. I've been fed up by your kind of takiyah and abuse of political correctness.

|> all muslims are evil terrorists <|

It's not true given the Hui muslim in China get many many privileges over Han and other ethnic minorities. One of the most important PRC founding fathers, Zhou Enlai, is a desendant of muslim as his niece recently disclosed. The PRC ethnic and religion policy framework was set up by Zhou Enlai. The Xinjiang problem was sparked by Zhou's wife Deng Yinchao in 1980s. The CCP censoring departments are established and controlled by Hui muslim CCP leaders according to the Criminal Law Act 250/251 (which was set up by a Hui imam in 1997).

In fact, many atheist and agnostic people are fearing the rapid islamization of China society, especially the legal/eductional sectors and the hatred the Hui CCP leaders showing towards Han and other secular ethinic groups.

In conclution, you know NOTHING about the REAL China. Han people don't have the proprotional ruling power and influence over the CCP elites with respect to the population scale. Keeping China as an integral nation is the responsibility of the PRC government, not the duty of common Han people. It's Hui wumaos who have been yelling to nuke Taiwan.

REPEAT AGAIN: Zhou Enlai was a Hui deceived as Han and set up a lot of laws against so called "Han chauvinism". This month alone there are two legal cases sentenced 2 Han people into jail for humiliating respectful historical ethnic figures.

Downvote me as you wish. Given the twisted information the English media keep spreading, I won't be surprised there'll be a civilization collision between West and East, beneficial to all muslims, if one day the Han people fight back the islamization led by those Hui CCP elites.

Great civilizations never fail to rising challengers but always fail to their own arrogance and ignorance.

Turn any rational debate into a moral debate [good people vs. bad people] and appeal to authority/majority [to get the good people tag].

Yep, since the booming of Conficius, generations of Chinese has been wasting their IQ and suffering from rationality-reality inconsistence.

Increasing IQ without reforming the culture is just a mean to crush opponents in Chinese social darwin scheme.

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Yeah. In fact, the CCP has been pro-Hui Muslim to an extent that the Han majority fear the country will be Islamicized some day.

The ordinary people's resentment towards Muslim stems from the Hui's abuse of political privileges to expand their religious strengths, such as Saria Law, to intervene Han people's daily life everywhere, from Ningxia, Gansu to Henan and Shandong, from Canteens, Schools to Police, Courts.

In the meanwhile, the majority has little to zero knowledge about the Uyghurs because only a few Uyghur people live outside Xinjiang.

The situation is really weird and there is a conspiracy theory saying that the CCP leadership has been controlled by the Hui Muslim.

BTW, the Hui Muslim and the Uyghur Muslim have been enemies since the Qing Dynasty.

Not weak, but fragile.

In fact, the government structure designed by Lisi in Qin dynasty 2000 years ago, and still being used today, is a fragile structure in peaceful times. It's a structure designed for war and the law enforcement tends to vanish if no direct threats are present to ordinary people. The central government will lose authority if the officials cannot contain dissenters, especially those who may be backed up by the provincial government officials.

Liu tried to restructure the aforementioned political structure through 08 Charter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_08

We still don't know the details about what he actually had done besides drafting the manifesto.If he tried to create a political group to materialize the 08 Charter, then it's definitely a substantial threat to the central government and even to most of the Chinese people, though it would be a trivial issue in any western countries.

The Norwegian government officials apparently had no idea about the severity of backing a dissenter challenging the central government in China due to cultural gap. In fact, many NGOs failed the same way in China. Those few who helps the central government are successful though.

Liu spotted many flaws in the current political structure that many Chinese people know for years. Even scholars in northern Song dynasty and late Ming dynasty also tried to fix the same drawbacks Liu mentioned, but they failed miserably and gave up the entire civilization to Mongolians and Manchurians.

In my opinion, Liu's importance is exaggerated by western media. His solution to our centuries-old problem is completely non-realistic and very dangerous. Ordinary Chinese people will laugh at his naiveness instead of respecting his idealism.

To do a successful political system reform to attain the same achievements that western civilization has obtained through hundreds of years of improvement, China needs to meet Chinese people's most urgent demands step by step and reason from First Principles instead of mimic any model countries.

It's kind of similar to the way for a startup to succeed.

Edit: Added the Norwegian government paragraph and fixed some grammar issues.

HP has another problem: https://www.howtogeek.com/307311/how-to-check-if-your-hp-lap...

The Lenovo has ruined the good old IBM Thinkpad but it's still better than HP in any sense.

Dell and Asus are producing top notch laptop these days.

Many prefer Deepin rather than Kylin. https://www.deepin.org/

Not only amusing but also a failure.

Because we are lazy. Com'on, the US government hasn't banned Win10 export to China yet.

Home baked RTOSes prosper though.

Or maybe he had an experience not reflecting the reality, which often happens when someone fails to overcome the language barrier.

Maybe you were not trying hard enough. https://microsoft.tmall.com/

You're downvoted because you violated political correctness of foreign affairs.

Political Correctness = Fine tuned reports from the media leading some topics + Lazy and emotional followers with little first-hand experience + Political groups representing a few radical protestors.

These politically correct people never reflect on their worldview despite repeat messup, because thinking like that makes them feel good and it's morally correct!

However, the realities are more complicated than the reported 'facts' with purposefully tuned spectrum.

There're a lot of valuable points in this topic's comments.

I'd like to add one more which has been ignored: the GFW/Golden Shield was built to uphold the central government's authority over other provinces.

One-to-many propaganda is the most important leverage for Beijing to suppress provincial rivals.

And I assert the same propaganda leverage applys to the relationship between Washington D.C./Newyork and other states in the U.S. as well as the relationship between the U.S. and its allies.

Censoring/manipulating the internet is not merely for silencing individuals.

Birth rate gap? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Serbia It happens everywhere that Islamic ethnic groups replace others with population explosion.

"Force feeding muslims during the Islamic month of Ramadan" --- Media Garbage. Only officers, teachers and students were disciplined, and I see no problems here. Religious practices are not allowed to paralyze public services. It's not new but had been a norm until extremists changed it.

Apparently, you're pro-Muslim and anti-Han. You may find a lot of brothers and sisters in Malaysia and Indonesia where the laws undisguisedly claim MALAY FIRST.

It's interesting that President Obama says nothing about this kind of extreme racist laws in his childhood residential country. Maybe he's pro-Muslim too?

You put a pair of quotes on "Anti-Terror" to show your anti-Han position given the facts that Han suffered most from the tension between the Government and Muslim Extremists. It's a clear sign that you're a media puppet.

China has a lot of "Affirmative Actions" against Han, including the birth control policy and Han people are furious about the situation.

Maybe some day, there will be a HAN FIRST government for you to criticize Han racists but not now.

Open source replacement https://github.com/CloudI/CloudI in early stage.

You nailed the point. The continuous expansion of the Japan-US ADIZ(Air Defense Identification Zone) in east China sea in past decades could reflect a lot of things never will be mentioned in English media.

South China sea had been the traditional 'naval silk road' of ancient Imperial China for hundreds years while both China and the neighboring tribes/countries under tributary system hadn't learned the concept 'nation' from the western colonists.

Since 17th century, a few islands had been controlled by various western countries and more had been marked or renamed.But the pirates, armed merchants and provincial navy of imperial China were still the dominant power in the area for a long time.

Chinese people totally lost control of it after the Sino-French war which changed the geopolitical status drastically: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-French_War

The nine-dash line stems from the eleven-dash line when ROC was the ally of the US after WWII and was accepted as the transferee of those islands from Japanese army who had acquired them from France/Great Britain.

But the ROC were too eager to fight back to the mainland instead of sending naval troops to guard those islands.It just chose one island Taiping as a strong point.

The unattended reefs and islands have been occupied by various countries in all kinds of sneaky/funny ways merely in past 30 years after the US-Vietnam war.

The validity argument makes no sense in this 'occupy and claim to own' game. Every country is a thief and the biggest is Vietnam whose navy had been more powerful than China's with the support from the former USSR during the PRC-USSR conflict.

Maybe the ROC in Taiwan should be the rightful owner according to the arrangement after WWII. But it is too weak to say anything now.

The whole history of the area is a vivid example of military power dictates terms.

IMO, it's related to the fear of failure and the social discrimination against losers.

Copying and improving is the safest way to gain attractions from the public when you cannot afford the risk of being ignored.

There is a business strategy called market follower strategy.

Philosophic Taoism introduces Dao, the origin and derivatives of the essence of nature, its laws and forms, on top of which the Taoist religion developed a complete methodology for normal people to ascend into heaven by practicing introductory transcending courses and eating natural/artificial elixirs.

The ultimate stage of ascended beings will be Tao itself, the advanced stage is celestial being, and the intermediate stage is god, and the beginning stage is 'trueman'.

Celestial beings have freedom to create new rules/universes with certain backfiring possibility which may cease their own existence. Normally they don't care about earth and human beings except for promoting new gods. Gods are anthropomorphic and every one has a job. They either enforce specific rules or govern certain domains to maintain the human world. Truemen are long lived human beings and they can self-educate themselves ascending to be new gods or destroyed by Tao if they fail to purify themselves.

Therefore, Taoism has two ways of creating anthropomorphic gods: promoted/guided by Celestial beings or self-help to ascend.

The first way is for great inventors and heroes etc. The second way is for Taoist priests and emperors, but neither of them succeeded.

LoL

In China history, many famous emperors were poisoned by mercury because Taoist alchemists believed it's an essential ingredient for any elixir (on purpose?) ;D

As far as I know, Huawei was the only real employee-coshared company on the planet issuing dividends attached 'virtual' stocks to their employees where virtual means stock ownership validity tied to the employment.

Engineers working in Huawei bought shares priced at net asset value with salary or bank loans and gain dividends at a yearly ROI around 17%~75%.

This unique 'communist' capital structure was created due to lack of venture capital and outside financing. It's also an experiment before China fully adopting western style corporation law.

Huawei has a complicated capital structure of founder (1.42%) + employee union (98.58%) which scared many big investors away and hindered it from IPO.

Recently, Huawei adjusted the virtual stock policy to freeze its capital structure because the structure complexity incurred a lot of accusations from the US government and harmed its growth in several major markets.

Alibaba also failed to request change of Hongkong IPO rules to apply employee-partnership to protect its senior employees.

Therefore, employee equity isn't merely about internal profit sharing or fairness at all. Investors or traditional capital markets don't like the 'communist' flavored capital structure.

Employee option is the only viable solution before some one totally disrupt the current capital market.

Thanks for the clarifications but it's still hard to get it.

Is pCell an alias of Picocell?

What's the difference between a pCell and a Femtocell with cooperative MIMO and distributed antenna system (DAS)?

"pCell is indeed protocol agnostic" means nothing has been modified in LTE Rx/Tx physical layer or data link layer right? Then does that mean all the inventions are in the antenna system?

Without cellular, how do you handle the dead zone issue, because real time tracking & beaming will be blocked by walls?

Does anybody know why do particles spin in the first place?

But it's not recurring revenue. I can't imagine someone keep buying 10+ packs of stickers. Only stickers, no game credits? There's something I fail to understand here.

Is it true the Monsanto's approach is threatening the genetic diversity [1] as @e12e mentioned?

If it's true, we're going to rely on a much smaller gene pool for food production in next decades, which will cause severe genetic information loss and more vulnerability to new crop diseases. Another potato famine disaster but in global scale?

Do we have any measure to protect the gene pool? Do we need something like Gene Tax to curb the genetic convergence? I've no idea how Carbon Tax helps solving the global warming issue, but it seems a good idea to invest some money to protect those 'useless' genes and make all reserved natural seeds open for public access.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_diversity

Erlang is really good, especially for engineers with hardware background, who may find FP & Message Passing are more intuitive than OOP & Context Switching.

But it's quite difficult to hire.