Well, one, but it’s also not literally “unprecedented” in the Japanese they’re translating from. They’re quoting the JMA, which, in the official warning and in related press events, described the event as “like you haven’t experienced before” in order to get the point across that it was a more dangerous event than usual (keep in mind that this part of Japan gets a yearly rainy season as well as typhoons; the baseline of experience is already pretty catastrophic by many other places’ standards).
Do you know if the microphone can be disabled? Or the features that use it? Basically I’d want glasses like these that primarily react to inputs I make on my phone or show things the phone can figure out based on my location etc. I’d want to be 100% certain no audio is being recorded or even uploaded to a translation service.
The bot argument is valid but the OS X thing could just be because most browsers on macOS report “Mac OS X” in the User-Agent string for compatibility (and 10.15 as the version regardless of the actual OS version, for privacy reasons).
They use their own Ascend NPUs. They’re weaker individually than Nvidia’s chips, so they emphasize connecting many more of them together to compensate. It’s not about replacing individual pieces; the product is basically the complete system (think rack-scale AI supercomputer). It’s an alternative to Nvidia’s system level products like NVL144, not necessarily in terms of performance but also because it’s produced 100% domestically in China.
Tbf they (Moonshot) claim it’s not as good as Fable overall. Fable is also held back by US government mandated guards. Anthropic could well be ahead by a lot in terms of research and maybe we just don’t have the full picture. But that puts them in an even worse spot because it would mean they’re already at the limit of what they can compete with in the market.
That Chinese people like it doesn’t make it less true and calling it propaganda won’t fix your problem.
You have two options if you want to improve the situation:
start a company that makes cheap AC units that are compatible with a market where most people rent and can’t install a device permanently, and then manufacture them in Europe instead of partnering with Midea like most existing brands do
lobby for a right to AC. This could push people toward split devices, where the market is less reliant on China
If you’re planning for the future at all then I believe the answer is yes. When the average temperature rises by 1-2 degrees that doesn’t really mean it’s 1-2 degrees hotter year round. It means the extremes become more extreme.
I read an article the other day about Eurostar upgrading the spec for trains they ordered to requiring the AC to work up to 55 degrees. That is exactly the kind of planning we need to do. We can’t afford to say “I can deal with hot summers as they are now and therefore we don’t need AC”.
Where I live we regularly get near 40 in spring and summer now, and while that’s a lot more than what we used to see during my childhood in the 80ies and 90ies, it’s temperatures that can be made survivable with other means. But even so, and even though AC is an option, people die. Germany had 5100 deaths from heat this June. That’s nearly twice the yearly number from recent years. It’s not going to get better.
I read it and I think you’re confusing reality you don’t like with propaganda.
First off, it’s factual that air conditioners manufactured in Europe are generally split devices that need drilling (which anyone who rents can’t do, not just people who live in historic buildings who the article focuses on), and they also require installation by a certified expert (limits what brand you can actually buy at your location).
It’s also factual that people are buying more of them. I want to say I’ve never seen as many windows covered in plastic with a hose sticking out as this summer, and that all my neighbors are either talking about getting AC or smug about already having AC (I live in a building built less than 10 years ago and many of us have split devices), but it’s actually a well-documented trend in the last few years, not just now.
It’s also factual that Midea’s reported sales are surging and it’s factual that they have a large market share in Europe, nearly 30% here in Germany. That this brand appears often is due to them having a market share this large in the residential segment. Gree is larger worldwide but e.g. in Germany only has less than 5% in the residential segment.
What I’m getting at is that it’s true that there is a lot of advertising right now for their portable split device, but that they’re one of the biggest names in Europe in the residential market is not a new development at all. There is no sudden push from China.
Outside their share of the market, for portable devices it’s mostly Chinese manufactured devices too. Probably because those need to be cheap.
For split devices, the big names that are not Chinese are Japanese (Daikin and Mitsubishi). For some reason these Japanese brands are the big ones to go to if you want manufactured in Europe. I remember when we got our current AC there was a German brand we could have gotten, but they manufacture in China… in “partnership” with Midea. We went with Daikin, although it wasn’t for this reason.
So this is the reality. The worldwide market leader is Chinese (Gree). The market in countries like Germany is dominated by Chinese manufactured devices on the lower end (mostly Midea) and other countries only play a role on the higher end, but even then it’s >70% Asian.
Europe simply is not prepared to deal with rising temperatures by itself, and it follows that for every heat wave in the future, we can expect more articles about Chinese AC manufacturers growing their businesses in Europe. It’s certainly convenient for China, but it’s also just the reality we have.
How irritating. Doom used BSP. Wolfenstein 3D was the one that used raycasting. With a grid based map, so everything was - historically correctly - axis aligned
I would have had a use case for something like this but compiling to portable POSIX sh instead of bash about 15-ish years ago when I was still writing scripts that needed to run on many different flavors of commercial UNIX.
Comments on HN full of people posting how Opus or GPT “got it” but failing to realize it only got the decoy. We don’t need a way to make text unreadable to AI if the humans don’t read it anyway; we can just not write anything and convey the same amount of information.
Anrufen um eine kostenlose Waschmaschine anzubieten ist halt auch maximal bescheuert. Cold call der praktisch das Stereotyp für Betrug ist. Ich kriege nie Betrugsanrufe und würde wahrscheinlich ran gehen, aber wenn mir jemand von der Caritas eine kostenlose Waschmaschine anbietet dann lege ich garantiert sofort wieder auf.
Tariffs won’t help because while they’re losing across the board, the most important market for VW, and also the one with the most drastic losses, is not Germany but China. They bet a lot on expansion into China and once reached ~20% market share there, but that has since dropped to half. For BEV specifically it’s abysmal, so the outlook is also bad: BEV has rapidly risen to nearly 60% of the Chinese retail market but VW’s share is in the low single digits.
The spell casting isn’t something I’ve felt myself, but I’ve absolutely heard it from other people watching me type apparent line noise into a weird dark window with nothing but text in an alien language in it.
Non-technical people in general understand neither bash nor vim, and they use their computers within the fixed constraints of the software they buy, unable to go beyond those constraints by themselves. When we make the computer do something completely new, they’re like: how are you changing the reality in front of our eyes with nothing but words?!
On the other hand, I can’t build a house, but when I watch others build one, it never looks incomprehensible to me. So yeah I think spell casting is actually not that bad in terms of comparisons.
I don’t know about dumb. First off, she lives in Switzerland with her wife and children, so she can mess with German politics as much as she wants and it won’t affect her private life that much. Might have to finally start paying taxes there though if she has to flee Germany.
Secondly, she lived in China for years, speaks Chinese fluently and probably is more popular on Chinese social media than in Germany. So there is another option why she might be interested in breaking Germany other than just stupidity.
One thing that sometimes trips people up with 常用漢字 is that it’s not just a list of kanji, it also includes readings. For example, 人参 are both 常用 but the second character is only listed with readings サン (as in 参加) and まい-る (参る). The ジン in にんじん is not on the list.
LED ist sogar noch mehr als nötig, ich treffe die Teile auch ohne Zielbeleuchtung ganz gut
Well, one, but it’s also not literally “unprecedented” in the Japanese they’re translating from. They’re quoting the JMA, which, in the official warning and in related press events, described the event as “like you haven’t experienced before” in order to get the point across that it was a more dangerous event than usual (keep in mind that this part of Japan gets a yearly rainy season as well as typhoons; the baseline of experience is already pretty catastrophic by many other places’ standards).
Do you know if the microphone can be disabled? Or the features that use it? Basically I’d want glasses like these that primarily react to inputs I make on my phone or show things the phone can figure out based on my location etc. I’d want to be 100% certain no audio is being recorded or even uploaded to a translation service.
The bot argument is valid but the OS X thing could just be because most browsers on macOS report “Mac OS X” in the User-Agent string for compatibility (and 10.15 as the version regardless of the actual OS version, for privacy reasons).
They use their own Ascend NPUs. They’re weaker individually than Nvidia’s chips, so they emphasize connecting many more of them together to compensate. It’s not about replacing individual pieces; the product is basically the complete system (think rack-scale AI supercomputer). It’s an alternative to Nvidia’s system level products like NVL144, not necessarily in terms of performance but also because it’s produced 100% domestically in China.
Tbf they (Moonshot) claim it’s not as good as Fable overall. Fable is also held back by US government mandated guards. Anthropic could well be ahead by a lot in terms of research and maybe we just don’t have the full picture. But that puts them in an even worse spot because it would mean they’re already at the limit of what they can compete with in the market.
That Chinese people like it doesn’t make it less true and calling it propaganda won’t fix your problem.
You have two options if you want to improve the situation:
If you’re planning for the future at all then I believe the answer is yes. When the average temperature rises by 1-2 degrees that doesn’t really mean it’s 1-2 degrees hotter year round. It means the extremes become more extreme.
I read an article the other day about Eurostar upgrading the spec for trains they ordered to requiring the AC to work up to 55 degrees. That is exactly the kind of planning we need to do. We can’t afford to say “I can deal with hot summers as they are now and therefore we don’t need AC”.
Where I live we regularly get near 40 in spring and summer now, and while that’s a lot more than what we used to see during my childhood in the 80ies and 90ies, it’s temperatures that can be made survivable with other means. But even so, and even though AC is an option, people die. Germany had 5100 deaths from heat this June. That’s nearly twice the yearly number from recent years. It’s not going to get better.
I read it and I think you’re confusing reality you don’t like with propaganda.
First off, it’s factual that air conditioners manufactured in Europe are generally split devices that need drilling (which anyone who rents can’t do, not just people who live in historic buildings who the article focuses on), and they also require installation by a certified expert (limits what brand you can actually buy at your location).
It’s also factual that people are buying more of them. I want to say I’ve never seen as many windows covered in plastic with a hose sticking out as this summer, and that all my neighbors are either talking about getting AC or smug about already having AC (I live in a building built less than 10 years ago and many of us have split devices), but it’s actually a well-documented trend in the last few years, not just now.
It’s also factual that Midea’s reported sales are surging and it’s factual that they have a large market share in Europe, nearly 30% here in Germany. That this brand appears often is due to them having a market share this large in the residential segment. Gree is larger worldwide but e.g. in Germany only has less than 5% in the residential segment.
What I’m getting at is that it’s true that there is a lot of advertising right now for their portable split device, but that they’re one of the biggest names in Europe in the residential market is not a new development at all. There is no sudden push from China.
Outside their share of the market, for portable devices it’s mostly Chinese manufactured devices too. Probably because those need to be cheap.
For split devices, the big names that are not Chinese are Japanese (Daikin and Mitsubishi). For some reason these Japanese brands are the big ones to go to if you want manufactured in Europe. I remember when we got our current AC there was a German brand we could have gotten, but they manufacture in China… in “partnership” with Midea. We went with Daikin, although it wasn’t for this reason.
So this is the reality. The worldwide market leader is Chinese (Gree). The market in countries like Germany is dominated by Chinese manufactured devices on the lower end (mostly Midea) and other countries only play a role on the higher end, but even then it’s >70% Asian.
Europe simply is not prepared to deal with rising temperatures by itself, and it follows that for every heat wave in the future, we can expect more articles about Chinese AC manufacturers growing their businesses in Europe. It’s certainly convenient for China, but it’s also just the reality we have.
It’s a BBC article written by a Singaporean, how do you make the jump to Chinese propaganda?
There are smart glasses without camera that can do translation. So there are some options.
How irritating. Doom used BSP. Wolfenstein 3D was the one that used raycasting. With a grid based map, so everything was - historically correctly - axis aligned
I would have had a use case for something like this but compiling to portable POSIX sh instead of bash about 15-ish years ago when I was still writing scripts that needed to run on many different flavors of commercial UNIX.
Only bash makes it much less useful to me.
Comments on HN full of people posting how Opus or GPT “got it” but failing to realize it only got the decoy. We don’t need a way to make text unreadable to AI if the humans don’t read it anyway; we can just not write anything and convey the same amount of information.
Anrufen um eine kostenlose Waschmaschine anzubieten ist halt auch maximal bescheuert. Cold call der praktisch das Stereotyp für Betrug ist. Ich kriege nie Betrugsanrufe und würde wahrscheinlich ran gehen, aber wenn mir jemand von der Caritas eine kostenlose Waschmaschine anbietet dann lege ich garantiert sofort wieder auf.
Tariffs won’t help because while they’re losing across the board, the most important market for VW, and also the one with the most drastic losses, is not Germany but China. They bet a lot on expansion into China and once reached ~20% market share there, but that has since dropped to half. For BEV specifically it’s abysmal, so the outlook is also bad: BEV has rapidly risen to nearly 60% of the Chinese retail market but VW’s share is in the low single digits.
The spell casting isn’t something I’ve felt myself, but I’ve absolutely heard it from other people watching me type apparent line noise into a weird dark window with nothing but text in an alien language in it.
Non-technical people in general understand neither bash nor vim, and they use their computers within the fixed constraints of the software they buy, unable to go beyond those constraints by themselves. When we make the computer do something completely new, they’re like: how are you changing the reality in front of our eyes with nothing but words?!
On the other hand, I can’t build a house, but when I watch others build one, it never looks incomprehensible to me. So yeah I think spell casting is actually not that bad in terms of comparisons.
I don’t know about dumb. First off, she lives in Switzerland with her wife and children, so she can mess with German politics as much as she wants and it won’t affect her private life that much. Might have to finally start paying taxes there though if she has to flee Germany.
Secondly, she lived in China for years, speaks Chinese fluently and probably is more popular on Chinese social media than in Germany. So there is another option why she might be interested in breaking Germany other than just stupidity.
We can put it in a new EU state. A second Netherlands. Let’s call it Overseas Nether Regions or something like that.
One thing that sometimes trips people up with 常用漢字 is that it’s not just a list of kanji, it also includes readings. For example, 人参 are both 常用 but the second character is only listed with readings サン (as in 参加) and まい-る (参る). The ジン in にんじん is not on the list.