alexlur
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I don’t have a position. I’m simply very curious how this will play out.
You don’t have to guess what they mean since the CEO did an interview about it. For your convenience, I’ll paste a translated excerpt here:
> For many years, Chinese companies have often relied on others for technological innovation, adopting these advancements for commercialization while waiting for Moore's Law to deliver better hardware and software effortlessly. Our approach, however, is not about quick profits but about advancing to the forefront of technology and driving ecosystem development. China must gradually transition from being a free-rider to a contributor.
> Most Chinese companies tend to follow rather than innovate. The challenge for China's innovation isn't a lack of capital but a lack of confidence and the know-how to assemble highly skilled talent. Our team is entirely homegrown, without overseas returnees. While the top 50 global talents might not be in China, we aim to cultivate such expertise domestically.
> The intent of the original "boast" is to somehow claim the know-how comes solely out of China.
No, it isn’t. It just means they haven’t studied aboard or have worked in the U.S., which has been long seen as a prerequisite to innovate in the tech industry there.
My original comment was merely citing what they think. It’s unfortunate that you cannot tell the difference between describing and endorsing.
Your snarky tone aside, “overseas” usually means outside of one’s country. Microsoft has research teams all over the globe. You don’t have to be in the U.S. to work for Microsoft.
I have good news for you. DeepSeek openly bragged that none of its people have “overseas experience”. They are all local talents.
Will Microsoft consider adding a permission model for extensions?
Note: Author is the CEO of Anthropic.
Not to mention that temporary seasonal agricultural workers have ever been called “expats” either.
Is it just me or the “Read in other languages” links in the article are just plaintexts that don’t link to anywhere?
This isn’t factually correct. The French colonial administration romanized their writing and enforced chữ Quốc ngữ.
The modernization argument only makes sense if your society is economically or militarily inferior to the society you want to emulate. It was the case 100 years ago, but not today.
The Japanese economy has been stagnant for over 30 years with no end in sight. Following the same logic, Japan should perhaps “modernize” their language by following China, which is a ridiculous conclusion as you can tell.
They are not comparable. The Chinese script was tailor-made for Chinese languages, while it was simply adopted by the Koreans, which arguably was a bad fit because it’s 1) agglutinative and 2) not even a Sino-Tibetan language. Even then hanja is still part of the national education curriculum today (look up 한문 교육용 기초 한자).
Because China is not the only place where Chinese languages are spoken. There’s more than 10 million ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia alone. And it’s not only a mainland-centric view: it’s a mainland–Mandarin speaking centric view.
It’s really bizarre to see someone claim kana has anything to do with “modernization”. The Japanese modernization and industrialization period is famously associated with translating Western concepts and terminologies into Sinitic words that later spread to China, Korea and Vietnam.
Again, this is a very mainland-centric view. Hong Kong has never simplified their writing system or even developed a proper romanization, and yet consistently has one of the highest literacy rates in the world. Guess what helped literacy? Post-war socioeconomic development like poverty reduction and mass education. Romanization might have helped, but it’s not the panacea like you described.
> it added a phonetic component to the language
Fanqie has been a thing since the 2nd century. Zhuyin was invented in 1913.
It’s only almost all if you only interact with the millennials or younger. Pinyin is an IME for Mandarin. If you aren’t fluent in Mandarin, chances are you use voice input or stroke typing.
This is an extremely mainland-centric view. Cangjie is the dominant IME in Hong Kong.
> how inefficient Chinese characters are in general (but especially evident in computing)
We are not in the 90s anymore. UTF-8 has been around for 32 years now. If you’re working for a system that has no UTF-8 support, you have a much bigger problem to worry about.
> characters have no direct relation to phonetics
Most characters are phono-semantic where one part of the character is a phonetic hint and the other is a semantic hint.
> modernize it similar to Hiragana
Hiragana isn’t and wasn’t intended to replace kanji (unless you are from the fringe Kanamozikai). It serves a different grammatical purpose and is complementary to the other two. Kana is useful for an agglutinating language like Japanese, but not Chinese languages.
Chữ Nôm is a borrowed writing system and not native to Vietnamese, which isn’t even a Sino-Tibetan language to begin with.
Thank God it didn’t happen.
Old thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32264372> "Powered by LibertOS, our proprietary privacy OS"
> James O’Keefe quote on the front page
> Gettr link in the sidebar
This is not a phone for privacy-conscious people. This is a phone marketed to Republicans.
For people using Cloudflare DNS:
> By pausing work on iOS 18 — along with iPadOS 18, macOS 15, watchOS 11 and other next-generation operating systems — engineers could spend a week focused exclusively on rooting out glitches.
> The delay, announced internally to employees last week, was meant to help maintain quality control after a proliferation of bugs in early versions.
A wrapper for Fig that doesn’t require me to create an account in order to use my terminal. I’d say it’s a good thing.
For people who don’t want to open Twitter:
> These filters have been obsolete since a long time, no content blockers is using these. They are just being spread by non-official sources since at least last June
I’d just like to say thank you for your team’s hard work on TypeScript. I can’t imagine writing JavaScript without TypeScript.
You can’t modify ToS without asking the user’s consent. See Sifuentes v. Dropbox, Inc. (20-cv-07908-HSG).
Is your DNS 1.1.1.1 by any chance?
NextAuth also intentionally made username-password authentication difficult to use because they think signing in with your Twitter or Google account is better.
Meanwhile their home page advertises “own your data”.