alexlur

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: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845612

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.

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.

Worked for Switzerland.

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

Aren’t you American?

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).

Anyone got a screenshot?

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”.

> So much so that people talk about dropping it every now and then.

They did consider it in the 20th century when Japan was modernizing and catching up with the Western world. Nowadays nobody takes you seriously if you propose abolishing it. The debate was settled in 1962-1966 [1] when the government officially gave up any attempt to remove kanji from the Japanese writing system. It’s a very much a fringe idea now.

[1]: See 国語国字問題 on Japanese Wikipedia. The full quote is 漢字仮名交じり文が審議の前提。漢字全廃は考えられない。

Desktop link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeLite

Runtime type checks usually decrease the performance.

Programmatically yes: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/28cd1fbd13b8d09...

You just need to call this from somewhere like ts-morph.

It really says something that when faced with _universal_ opposition, he still asked people to either provide “constructive” criticism or GTFO, which is just a nicer way to say “we will push forward this no matter what you say”.