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If you googled a bit, you could have found the answers to 2 and 3: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/tech...

Shanghai is a city with a unique role in the progression of the CCP and its global efforts. Also PLA Unit 61398 is in Pudong, the shanghai district mentioned in the article. Overall there's a lot of CCP/PLA-adjacent tech talent in the area, and of course the local police still ultimately report to the CCP.

Because it might be the only place this is posted. Instagram is one of the most popular social media websites in the world, and even if they have a bad interface or block people without accounts, they have interesting and widely-viewed content.

We're trying to do this in Milwaukee right now and talked to Brian from nycmesh who got us in the right direction. It's going to be difficult to get things started but there's so many great resources. Thanks for adding so much documentation! It really helps a lot.

If anyone's interested in helping in Milwaukee please reach out! We're looking for any technical talent we can get, especially in the networking space.

I cook a lot and follow these recipes with joy. The website is probably not intended for people that cannot estimate ingredients and personally I like it that way.

> The basic surface-level story of WSB is this. It’s a bunch of autistic losers that live in their mom’s basement who are gambling what little money they have to try and become rich to live lifestyles of hedonism.

> On the surface, it seems really weird but it’s mostly a type of gallows humor that permeates a lot of especially young millennials and zennial men.

The key is "the basic surface-level story" and "it's mostly a type of gallows humor". It's a story or myth, not reality. You'll see a lot of this self-deprecating humor on other 4chan-adjacent communities.

Also, I do not think that Jeromy Sonne is speaking from a position of experience with the wsb community. He has an entry-level understanding of internet communities but the article is mostly fluff and speculation instead of first-hand knowledge or research. Plus, a lot of content on wsb is "artistic works of fiction and falsehood", just like 4chan.

This could be a good way to navigate comments, but I'd recommend turning the graph upside down since that is how comments are ordered on the page.

Does anyone in the bay area have experience working with Foxconn?

> California doesn’t need money; it needs ventilators.

Source?

Is there any way to download them all? Ebooks are very small so it shouldn't be a problem to make an archive, or at least have a way to use curl/wget to download them all from a directory.

In taiwan, they would call the 7/11s that were everywhere a "Sei-ben", a japan/chinese-zation of "seven"

Check out gwern's fantastic article about this: https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition

I had the same moment of confusion, especially when there were two (uber) Ludwig documentation tabs open next to it.

This is delightful.

I think it's an American problem of treating 18 year olds like 14-16 year olds. Same goes for drinking. Why can't we trust (young) adults like other countries do?

They've just (last year or so) started doing this for chinese citizens when boarding trains. They place their ID card and ticket on a scanner thing and look into the camera to let them into the terminal. When you check into a hotel, get a visa within china, or make some larger purchases like residential internet, they also take your picture. I've also seen it being used for smaller payments (ie at institution canteens or through alipay at KFC), but that's still not too widespread or mandatory.

As another posted noted they're also running facial recognition on security cameras for "public safety" and there's some propaganda about them finding a wanted criminal in the crowd at a concert and arresting him there using this tech. But I think a lot of the time there's too much bureaucracy to get this system to run efficiently unless the scope is within a certain, limited area (like Xinjiang) or a major crime was committed.

I wonder if Stripe or Venmo will be the first to get QR payments going in the US.

While HN is also one of my most visited websites, I agree about the "opinion" articles. I have enough of an intuition now to spot them and not click through them, focusing more on news, technical articles, and releases of software.

For most of these comments, it just comes down to "why are you right? What's your experience?" There's so many armchair speculators that get upvoted. If I can't go through your post history or look at your cred, why should I trust you to be correct about complicated topics that I might not understand? Do you even write code? Humans judge this stuff based on accomplishments and reputation in real life so why not on the internet?

I only realized this after coming across these kinds of comments about fields I specialize in or have a lot of experience with, and seeing blatantly wrong comments being upvoted and affirmed by other comments. If it's like this for exporting I have experience with, it's probably the same for stuff I don't know. Upvotes and affirmed comments should not be taken as truth.

And in the end opinion doesn't really matter unless you have influence in a community. Otherwise nobody that matters will really listen. Write a longform blog or something more captivating rather than some sneaky comment on HN that people will forget about after a week. Same goes for this comment I guess ;)

In these instances, can the URL of this post be changed to the primary source rather than reporting on it?

Just wanted to say as a 20-25 year old, snapchat is still extremely popular among people I know. The perception is snapchat for friend's daily lives, instagram for following celebs/creators and permanent posts, facebook for events and extended family, and messenger for email/wechat/whatsapp functionality. It's the primary way I keep in contact with acquaintances, and many other people I know are the same.

It's a more intimate version of social media that is typically only used by smartphone-savvy people and it's perfect for this. I see nothing besides my friend's content and a few ads between viewing their stories, while instagram inserts ads and algorithmically sorts content in the feed. Once I go through every one of my friend's stories, there's nothing to keep me on the app and endlessly scrolling like instagram. To me and others, insta is intentionally addictive Posting permanent posts there about your life can sometimes come across as vain, while snapchat is more of a window to view your friend's world through and gives very open statistics like who has seen a story, if someone has opened a snap, etc.

I have my problems with snapchat, like poor android support, slow startup time, bloat, and sponsored stories on the right side are tabloid trash. But it's still very heavily used in America. Most friends outside of the US say that it declined in use in their European or african countries like a fad, but it's become a standard in the US. Those of you saying it's useless besides teenagers using it to sext or not knowing anyone above 18 that uses snapchat look out of touch or like you're pushing an agenda. It might be declining but it is still a large force and very used!

I had the same leadership training with minecraft, leading factions in RP servers and trading with other cities, complete with alliances, trade deals, and wars. Eventually I became an OP and eventually an admin, with all the responsibilities that entails at the age of 13. But obviously EVE is another level of complexity.

An interesting article related to minecraft economics can be read here: https://www.alicemaz.com/writing/minecraft.html

I simply don't like it because it's blocked by the Chinese firewall. There's never any problems with self-hosted personal blogs in this regard.

But beyond that I don't think it's an unreasonable publishing medium. It's convenient for authors and scales to most platforms.

> They are frustrated their country turned dictatorship.

You're wrong; the majority of chinese I've talked to say that while it can be overbearing, it's given them more opportunities. I hear more things positive about the government in frank, private conversations than with most people from my country. This is a result of the recent rise in wealth. But just wait until that prosperity subsides.

I'n not arguing that there isn't bribery, censorship, or corruption. I think that western societies function better under democratic rule, but the chinese culture and political system is much different than ours. As long as the people are prosperous they won't mind the rulers, but once things go bad at a large scale the power will change.

The best equivalent to the let's verb conjugation in Japanese is adding 吧 to the end of sentences.

This is an official mouthpiece of the CCP.

That said, if any government could make a widespread EV grid, it would be china. In prosperous times, an authoritarian outlook can be a real boon for widespread adoption.

This is the real problem.

I spent a lot of time at lake Park for pokemon go almost exactly a year ago! It was basically a huge party and a great example of how AR could bring people together.

What's next? Vimeo? Vidme?

Working with real code in class. Finding what it takes to jump into a repository and start making incremental changes based on need. This could be an apprenticeship sort of thing or the professor finding some good OSS to have students look at.

This should be done in tandem with theory.

How does stuff like this get to the front page?