🎞️ Life#
May Day Trip to Wuhan#
Overall, it was unremarkable and not suitable as a travel destination
A popular photo spot, the lights went out shortly after we took the picture, poor people behind...
Saw some dancing
Rode around East Lake, the photo I am most satisfied with
May Day City Walk in Shanghai#
💭 Fragments#
Blameless Culture#
Software companies should advocate for a "blameless culture."
When product accidents or service interruptions occur, do not assign blame and punish individuals; instead, assume that the individuals involved had good intentions but lacked the correct information to make better decisions or the tools to prevent their mistakes in a timely manner.
Departmental Organizational Changes#
Recently, there have been significant changes in the department's organization, leading to a pessimistic outlook.
Due to revenue concerns regarding organizational changes, layoffs or business adjustments will be easier in the future.
📰 Weekly Excerpts#
China and the US Reach Five Points of Consensus#
On April 26, 2024, Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister, held talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing, resulting in five points of consensus based on a comprehensive exchange of views.
First, both sides agreed to continue to stabilize and develop China-US relations under the guidance of the two heads of state. They acknowledged the positive progress made in dialogue and cooperation across various fields since the San Francisco meeting and agreed to accelerate the implementation of the important consensus reached by the two heads of state in San Francisco.
Second, both sides agreed to maintain high-level exchanges and contacts at all levels. They will continue to utilize the diplomatic, economic, financial, and business consultation mechanisms that have been restored and newly established. Military exchanges will also continue. Further cooperation on drug control, climate change, and artificial intelligence will be advanced.
Third, both sides announced that they would hold the first meeting of the China-US intergovernmental dialogue on artificial intelligence; continue to advance consultations on guiding principles for China-US relations; hold a new round of consultations on Asia-Pacific affairs and maritime affairs; and continue consular consultations. The China-US drug control working group will hold a senior officials' meeting. The US side welcomes the visit of Liu Zhenmin, China's Special Envoy for Climate Change Affairs.
Fourth, both sides will take measures to expand cultural exchanges, welcome students from each other's countries, and successfully hold the 14th China-US Tourism High-Level Dialogue in Xi'an, China, in May.
Fifth, both sides will maintain consultations on international and regional hotspot issues, and the special envoys of both sides will strengthen communication.
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Reports Indicate Apple Negotiating with OpenAI to Add AI Features in iOS#
On April 27, reports from Bloomberg indicated that Apple is currently re-engaging in potential partnership negotiations with OpenAI to discuss the possibility of deploying GPT technology in iOS/iPadOS 18.
Bloomberg claims that the core of the negotiations is to use OpenAI's technology to power an AI chatbot in iOS/iPadOS 18, although it is unclear whether this chatbot will be offered as "Siri 2.0."
Previously, Mark Gurman stated that Apple is developing a large language model that runs on-device, prioritizing response speed and privacy protection. This model will serve as the foundation for Apple's future generative AI capabilities, operating entirely on-device rather than in the cloud. (Source: IT Home, Wall Street Watch)
No reason not to use the best one
Nanjing Plans to Relax Household Registration Conditions, Buy a House to Register Directly#
According to 36Kr, the Nanjing Public Security Bureau recently released a notice regarding the household registration of individuals with a legal and stable residence, stating, "To implement the municipal government's work deployment requirements and deepen the reform of our household registration system, the bureau has decided to further relax the conditions for household registration. Non-Nanjing residents who have a legal and stable residence and actually reside in the city can directly apply for household registration." This draft is now open for public feedback, with the deadline for feedback set for May 6, 2024.
Follow-up: Currently, apart from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hainan, and Tianjin, all other places have lifted purchase restrictions
Musk Visits China, Restrictions on Tesla Lifted Nationwide#
According to Reuters, Elon Musk arrived in Beijing for a surprise visit on April 28. During this visit, he is expected to meet with senior officials and discuss the rollout of fully autonomous driving software and permissions for data transmission overseas.
On the afternoon of April 28, after Musk's private jet arrived in Beijing, Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, met with Musk. Subsequently, Premier Li Qiang also met with Musk.
At the same time, Tesla has passed the national vehicle data security authority standards and requirements, and various regions have begun to lift restrictions on the stopping and driving of Tesla and other smart vehicles. Previously, Tesla had introduced a third-party authority to audit its information security management system and passed the security management system certification (ISO27001).
Earlier this year, it was seen that the country would gradually relax restrictions on foreign finance and information
JD and Taobao Cancel 618 Pre-Sales#
Recently, the rising star Pinduoduo has put significant competitive pressure on its predecessors Taobao and JD. On November 29, 2023, Pinduoduo's market value surpassed Alibaba for the first time; by January 3, 2024, Pinduoduo's market value reached $197.893 billion, exceeding Alibaba's $195.058 billion and JD's $43.224 billion. Although many industry insiders had predicted this, the market value is ultimately more intuitive.
Faced with the relentless pressure from competitors, Taobao and JD have made a series of adjustments to their organizational structures and business strategies, aiming to return to a fast growth trajectory. This year's 618 is a crucial moment to test their interim results.
According to reports from Jiemian News, both Taobao and JD will cancel the pre-sale system for this year's 618, simplifying the shopping process, improving service quality, and emphasizing price advantages to return 618 to a user-centered shopping model. In short, they are cutting out the flashy pre-sale mechanisms of the past and letting price and service speak for themselves.
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The classic example is JD, pre-sale + deposit is not as cheap as on the day of 618
Many Lottery Shops Run Out of "Scratch Cards"! Welfare Lottery and Sports Lottery: Out of Stock Due to High Demand, No Control Notice#
Recently, many netizens have posted that "scratch cards" are hard to come by in their cities, with a serious shortage of instant lottery tickets. There were rumors online that the state was controlling the sale of instant lottery tickets. Journalists from Haibao News verified with China Sports Lottery and China Welfare Lottery, both of which stated that they had not received any control notices, and the shortage was due to high demand.
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Difficult to collapse
IOC President Supports WADA's Handling of Chinese Swimmer's Case#
On April 27, Xinhua News Agency reported that IOC President Bach expressed support for the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) handling of the case involving a Chinese swimmer who tested positive due to contamination.
In an exclusive interview with AFP, Bach stated, "We have full confidence in WADA and the anti-doping rules themselves, and we firmly believe that WADA will adhere to the rules."
WADA President Banquet stated at a previous press conference that WADA followed all due processes at every stage and thoroughly investigated every lead related to this issue. "If we had to do it all over again, we would do exactly the same thing."
In January 2021, during the National Swimming Championships, the doping test results implemented by the China Anti-Doping Center showed that an athlete's sample tested positive for a very low concentration of trimetazidine. The China Anti-Doping Center immediately launched a comprehensive and detailed investigation from all aspects and, in conjunction with doping tests and related evidence, determined that the athlete involved did not intentionally use prohibited substances, and the positive result was not caused by the use of drugs or nutritional supplements, but rather due to the ingestion of food contaminated with trimetazidine during the competition, and the athlete should not be penalized for this.
Subsequently, WADA conducted a thorough review of the case and found that the possibility of trimetazidine being contaminated could not be refuted, and the testing data in the case files also supported the possibility of contamination, concluding that the athlete was not at fault or negligent. According to relevant regulations, to protect the athlete's legitimate rights and interests, the case will not be treated as a doping violation, and the relevant parties have not appealed the case, so the handling results will not be made public.
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Doping should consider periodic testing results and dosage more.
Professional athletes and organizations should collect and record daily diets and medications for inspection purposes.
From May 1, Autonomous Driving Fully Opened in Hangzhou's Main Urban Area#
According to Qianjiang Evening News, the "Regulations on the Testing and Application of Intelligent Connected Vehicles in Hangzhou" officially took effect on May 1. Thus, Hangzhou becomes the first city in the country, apart from special economic zones, to clarify the specific process for autonomous vehicles on the road through local legislation, and it is also the first city in the country to legislate for low-speed unmanned vehicles.
At the same time, starting from that day, Hangzhou took the lead in designating all eight urban districts (Shangcheng District, Gongshu District, Xihu District, Binjiang District, Xiaoshan District, Yuhang District, Linping District, Qiantang District) and Tonglu County's urban area, totaling 3,474 square kilometers, as testing and application areas for intelligent connected vehicles, serving a population of over 10 million.
It is reported that in Hangzhou, all high-level autonomous vehicles must first complete virtual scenario testing and closed scenario testing before entering the "road testing and application" phase as stipulated in the "Regulations" — simply put, autonomous vehicles follow a process from being unoccupied to occupied, from having a driver to being driverless, and finally entering commercial application. All stages have requirements for driving time, mileage, and safety. So far, Hangzhou has accumulated over 1.2 million kilometers of safe testing and application mileage, with a zero active accident rate.
IT Home notes that the "Regulations" specify the determination of accident responsibility, punishment subjects, etc. If an autonomous vehicle is involved in a traffic accident, the relevant departments will determine the accident responsibility of all parties based on their actions and the severity of their faults. This responsibility determination is actually the same as that for vehicles with drivers. If an autonomous vehicle commits a traffic safety violation, the driver or accompanying safety officer will be dealt with; if there is none, the entity that submitted the testing and application will be held accountable.
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Wow, a milestone event is here
OpenAI Developing "SearchGPT," A Strong Competitor to Perplexity#
- It is reported that OpenAI is about to launch a competitor to Perplexity called Sonic - SNC (SearchGPT)
- SearchGPT has entered the evaluation phase, adding multiple features:
- Image search
- Various small tools (weather, calculator, sports, finance, and time difference calculation)
- Ability to ask follow-up questions
- This evaluation uses multiple models, including GPT-4 Lite (Scallion; POR), GPT-4, and GPT3.5 (Sahara-V), combined with various search engines such as Bing (POR), Sydney, Fortis, and the internal search engine Labrador.
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Project address: https://search.chatgpt.com/ (previously tested but now inaccessible)
Sources Indicate OpenAI's AI Search Product Expected to Launch Next Monday#
Reuters cited two sources saying that OpenAI plans to officially announce its AI search product next Monday (May 13), although the report emphasized that the specific announcement date may change.
OpenAI declined to comment on Reuters' report.
Foreign media The Information reported in February this year that OpenAI has been secretly developing its own web search service, supported by Microsoft's Bing search engine. Microsoft integrated OpenAI's technology into Bing last year.
The timing of May 13 is just before Google's I/O developer conference this year. Google is expected to announce a series of AI products at the developer conference, likely related to its core business search engine.
Recently, Bloomberg and The Information reported that OpenAI is poaching AI search developers from Google, stating that OpenAI's search product will be able to access resources from channels like Wikipedia to answer user questions in text and image formats.
In addition to Google, another important competitor to OpenAI's AI search product is the startup Perplexity.
The latter was founded by former OpenAI researchers and is currently valued at around $1 billion (IT Home notes: currently about 7.22 billion RMB). Perplexity claimed earlier this year that its namesake search engine has reached 10 million monthly active users.
OpenAI's AI Search Product Expected to Launch Next Monday - IT Home
The news is getting more detailed
Meta Releases Llama3, Jumps to Top Four in Rankings, Generating Speed Crushes GPT4#
On April 24, Meta announced the open-source release of Llama3, jumping to the top four in the large model rankings, second only to GPT4, with users reporting an output speed of 800 tokens per second.
- Related parameters: 8B and 70B parameters (8B can run on-device, 400B will be released this summer); the dataset contains 150 trillion tokens (ordinary large models have 20-30 trillion, which is 7 times that of Llama 2); context window of 8K tokens (6000 English words); primarily in English (Chinese expressiveness is weak, only 5% of Llama 3's pre-training data is multilingual)
- Model performance: Surpassing both open-source and closed-source models (evaluation scores lead Claude3 and Mistral, close to Gemini 1.5 Pro); "manipulability" is stronger (reducing the refusal to answer questions and improving accuracy in trivia, history, STEM, and coding tasks). Generation efficiency is significantly faster than GPT4 (using grouped query attention at 8B and 70B sizes, employing masks to ensure self-attention does not cross document boundaries)
- Core changes from Llama2: Larger training data (2T vs 15T, yielding significant results but at a high cost)
- Impact of Llama3 on the industry:
- Accelerates the emergence of Chinese large models, competing with domestically developed closed-source models (Tsinghua has launched Llama3-8B-Chinese-Chat);
- Helps developers quickly realize the commercialization and productization of models (prospering AI products based on Llama3);
- Increases the demand for fine-tuning training computing power (rising GPU costs)
Open-source > Closed-source
Joint Statement by China and France on the Middle East Situation#
China and France condemn all acts that violate international humanitarian law, including all acts of terrorist violence and indiscriminate attacks against civilians. The two countries reaffirm the absolute necessity of protecting Gaza civilians based on international humanitarian law. The two heads of state oppose Israel's attack on Rafah, which will lead to a larger-scale humanitarian disaster, and also oppose the forced relocation of Palestinian civilians.
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Little Ma is getting tougher again
AI-Based Trendy Toy Apparel, "TOP FAVOR" Completes Fourth Round of Financing#
Checked the Taobao store, it aligns quite well with the aesthetics of straight men
HackerNews Summary#
Why do a daily summary of HackerNews?
- I want to know which articles have been popular on HackerNews in the past 24 hours
- But I don't want to waste too much time browsing, so a quick overview would be best
- The comments from netizens on HackerNews are usually very valuable, and I also want to understand whether it's worth reading in depth
Solution - Use an RPA solution to automatically fetch Top Stories daily (currently 10 articles)
- Use GPT to automatically summarize (quickly understand article content)
- Also summarize the comments from HackerNews users (understand everyone's focus)
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Already added to RSS
📚 Articles#
Can Douyin Get Even "Cheaper"?#
Web Summary#
Douyin e-commerce will continue to adopt "cost-performance ratio" as its strategy in 2024, building a more complete e-commerce ecosystem through optimizing shelf scenarios and deepening the supply chain. Douyin values white-label products, and many white-label goods have succeeded on the platform due to their cost-performance ratio. At the same time, Douyin is also catching up with the "shelf" army, increasing the proportion of shelf scenarios.
Key Points#
- Douyin e-commerce will continue to adopt "cost-performance ratio" as its strategy, striving to catch up with e-commerce platform competition.
- Douyin will optimize shelf scenarios and deepen the supply chain to build a more complete e-commerce ecosystem.
- Douyin values white-label products, and many white-label goods have succeeded on the platform.
- Douyin is catching up with the "shelf" army, increasing the proportion of shelf scenarios.
Some categories still require caution when purchasing white-label products.
China's Super High-Speed Train Designed to Exceed 1,000 km/h: What We Know#
Web Summary:#
China's super high-speed train is designed to exceed 1,000 km/h and has completed full-size superconducting electric suspension tests. This technology allows the train to "fly" in a low vacuum tube, referred to as high-speed flying. The test project is developed by military industrial institutions, combining aerospace and land rail transit technologies. This train could fundamentally change long-distance transportation and have various impacts on economic growth.
Key Points#
- China's super high-speed train is designed to exceed 1,000 km/h and has completed full-size superconducting electric suspension tests.
- This technology allows the train to "fly" in a low vacuum tube, referred to as high-speed flying.
- The test project is developed by military industrial institutions, combining aerospace and land rail transit technologies.
- This train could fundamentally change long-distance transportation and have various impacts on economic growth.
If realized, it would directly change society and the world
Llama 3 Outputs 800 Tokens Per Second, Pressuring OpenAI! GPT-5 May Be Released Next Week on Ultraman's Birthday?#
Web Summary:#
After the open-source release of Llama 3, it has become the strongest open-source model, sparking a wave of testing and fine-tuning in the AI community. Llama 3 achieved an output speed of 800 tokens per second on Groq, far surpassing GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus. The powerful performance and open-source nature of Llama 3 will give rise to a new industry worth billions of dollars and open up future possibilities for AI.
Key Points#
- Llama 3 is the most powerful open-source model, and its release has sparked a wave of testing and fine-tuning in the AI community.
- Llama 3 achieved an output speed of 800 tokens per second on Groq, far surpassing GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus.
- The powerful performance and open-source nature of Llama 3 will give rise to a new industry worth billions of dollars.
- The open-source nature of Llama 3 will open up future possibilities for AI.
Can't wait to experience it!