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  • Tesla Gets a $94 Billion Reality Check as EV Winter Sets In

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  • didn’t take off until Tesla built a Gigafactory to supply their batteries

    BYD doesn't rely on Tesla to supply their batteries. It's the other way round: BYD started out as a battery company, and Tesla relies on their batteries in Shanghai, Germany, and other factories. Tesla originally used batteries from CATL, another Chinese company, but started switching to BYD a few years ago.

  • Tesla Gets a $94 Billion Reality Check as EV Winter Sets In

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  • "EV winter" is a silly framing. Many Chinese EV companies are on a roll, with BYD just surpassing Tesla in EV shipments in the last quarter. EVs are now mainstream in China and the car markets in other countries won't be far behind. Obviously, Tesla faces more challenges from the fact that it no longer has the market to itself, but competition is a good thing.

  • 13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives

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  • Pretty bad article, but here are my two cents on the actual answer, as of right now:

    • General chatting: OpenHermes
    • General querying, instruction: Mistral
    • Coding: Deepseek-coder

    These perform similar to or better than ChatGPT 3.5, in some cases comparable to 4.

    For specific niche applications (role playing, nsfw stories, etc), just search on huggingface.co and read the user reviews.

  • Elephant-Sized Apes That Once Roamed the Land Mysteriously Vanished. Now, Scientists Have an Answer.

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  • Over geologic time, the vast majority of all species that have ever existed have gone extinct. It's not particularly meaningful to try to divine the reasons for the extinction of any one particular species. Obviously, the subtext they are trying to convey here is "these were apes, and climate changes drove them to extinction; we are apes, so won't anthropic climate change drive us to extinction?!1!?" But it doesn't carry over like that.

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    China’s Solar Dominance Faces New Rival: An Ultrathin Film

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  • Perovskites are the solar tech of the future, and they always will be.

  • In the race for AI supremacy, China and the US are travelling on entirely different tracks

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  • As police lose the war on crime in South Africa, private security companies step in

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  • The thing is, individual citizens can't reform the police, or ambulance services, fire brigade, or power utilities, all of which have been gutted by the ANC. All they can do is to pay, out of pocket, for private sector replacements. No one is arguing that this is better than having working public sector versions in the first place, but that's not achievable until the national government gets totally overhauled (if it ever happens).

  • As police lose the war on crime in South Africa, private security companies step in

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  • This is what happens as the state gets hollowed out by decades of ANC corruption and misrule.

  • Kagi is now partnering with Brave

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  • Google allows Brave to run ads, so by using Google you're promoting homophobia... Microsoft allows Brave to run Windows, so by using any Microsoft product you're promoting homophobia...

  • Japan determines copyright doesn't apply to LLM/ML training data

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  • Maybe that would finally get them to stop using fax machines.

  • Exclusive: China removes official after video games rules spark turmoil

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  • The one time the CCP backs away from clamping down on the private sector, it's over video game microtransactions and gacha. Go figure.

  • Xi Jinping says Chinese business having ‘tough time’ in new year message

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  • Xi Jinping says Chinese business having ‘tough time’ in new year message

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  • [Argentina] Milei’s mega-decree officially takes effect

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  • Honestly, many of these reforms are urgently needed and long overdue, such as lifting export controls---it's literally insane that a country facing a shortage of foreign exchange would deliberately crimp its own exports. For these parts, Milei has a pretty good justification for issuing an emergency decree.

    The big gamble Milei is taking is to stuff the package with a bunch of lower-priority items that, while arguably needed, are hard to defend as emergency measures. (This is quite similar to what the US government has often done, see e.g. the Inflation Reduction Act.) This increases the risk of the package being voted down, which hasn't happened before with his predecessors' decrees.

  • Myanmar Infantry Division Surrenders in Laukkai, Shan State: Reports

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  • Bad title. An entire army division (10,000 to 20,000) surrendering would be a spectacular event. Turns out the article is talking about "some (~180) soldiers from a division", which is totally not the same thing.

  • Protests erupt in Argentina against President Javier Milei’s economic shock decree

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  • After a century of Peronism, the current state of Argentina isn't a case study about libertarianism. Quite the opposite.

  • Study shows AI image-generators being trained on explicit photos of children

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  • 3200 images is 0.001% of the dataset in question, obviously sucked in by mistake. The problematic images ought to be removed from the dataset, but this does not "contaminate" models trained on the dataset in any plausible way.

  • Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?

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    Blacklisted Chinese chipmaker SMIC is working on 3nm process technology despite US sanctions that limit access to advanced tools

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  • These sanctions are marketed as being aimed at military applications, but the dirty little secret is that high-end semiconductors are irrelevant for military tech, which overwhelmingly uses previous-gen semiconductor tech.