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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: https://news.ycombinator.co…

> The intent of the original "boast" is to somehow claim the know-how comes solely out of China. No, it isn’t. It’s likely they mean they haven’t studied aboard or have worked in t…

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.…

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) agglutin…

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 vi…

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 translati…

Again, this is a very mainland-centric view. Hong Kong has never simplified their writing system or even developed a proper romanization, and yet has consistently one of the highes…

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 strok…

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 f…

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 Th…

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…

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 sour…