yogenpro

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Hy4 Preview(huggingface.co)
16 points by yogenpro 1mo ago|1 comments
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by yogenpro 3y ago
I'm all for banning apps that carry spywares (either by app store policies, or privacy laws), but I see no reason why such ban applies only to apps published by Chinese companies, rather than all apps.
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by yogenpro 3y ago
"People should be allowed to see whatever they want, but if they are attracted to influences controlled by the boogeyman, then the government knows better and should cut off your access, for your own good." This has been a common
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by yogenpro 3y ago
Of course. Nor does free speech exist on Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, Youtube, etc. Only difference is who makes rules for censorship.
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by yogenpro 4y ago
As the report says: > a seemingly recent campaign to counter transnational telecom and online fraud (according to the official provincial statements) The increase in telecom scamming activity is a real thing in China, with scammers opera
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by yogenpro 4y ago
Not only what videos are shown, but also what videos /topics are suppressed, which is also a useful tool for swaying public opinion as Meta has demonstrated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607698
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by yogenpro 4y ago
Could that be used to measure one-way speed of light? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light
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by yogenpro 4y ago
I've been using Bitwarden's clients (browser extension, mobile apps, desktop apps) with a self-hosted vaultwarden [1] server. It's marginally free if you are already self-hosting other stuff. I'm hosting it on a raspberr
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by yogenpro 4y ago
I remember this from the era when building websites with FrontPage and DreamWeaver was still a thing. There were sites with catalogs of those "apply cool effects to your website by copy-paste this snippet to your HTML source file"
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by yogenpro 4y ago
> Because that's what "Sept", "Oct", "Nov", and "Dec" mean. Please keep that idea to whatever languages that assign those names to months. East Asian languages have been calling them literally
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by yogenpro 5y ago
Translation based on screenshot: https://i.redd.it/vlj0wyw9apo81.jpg The pandemic changed everything for the airline industry, which went into recession for two years. Pilots' incomes went down 10% to 40%, so did fligh
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by yogenpro 5y ago
> 3. ... if you forfeit $1 of income and the strike price of options is $1, ... Does this example need another prerequisite "and the current price of NFLX is $1"? Because if the example runs with NFLX at, say $10, then each opt
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by yogenpro 5y ago
Sorry for being ignorant but sincere question: where / which culture considers the V gesture offensive? I'm assuming the V gesture you are referring to is the one that consists of holding up both index finger and middle finger, ra
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by yogenpro 5y ago
> Most commercial aircraft can fly themselves except for take off and the last few hundred feet of landing (thanks to instrument landing systems). Not a pilot, just wondering -- does this include communicating with ATC towers? Such as mo
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by yogenpro 5y ago
Obligatory "If Microsoft Made Cars" joke: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/pnw/microsoftjoke.htm For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. A
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by yogenpro 7y ago
Except travelers are not "on us soil" until granted entry by customs. Customs could just deny entry if foreign travelers won't voluntarily consent to search.
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by yogenpro 7y ago
The establishment (somewhat aligned with "pro-Beijing" camp) has more than half seats (43/70) in HK's Legislative Council. Goverment bills require simple majority in the Council to pass. Establishment's support guar
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by yogenpro 7y ago
Automatic Revalidation? Yes it works for F visas. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-inf...
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by yogenpro 7y ago
My guess is that you misunderstood the original word they used "歹徒", which is more like "gangster, villan". And the clip you referred to, I think was the "tank man" video being aired by CCTV on 1989/6&#x2F
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by yogenpro 7y ago
There is "Google Contributor" [1]. The idea is basically that you pay the publisher out of your own pocket for their ad space, to buy your own impression. This might be a great product if it covers the majority of ad inventories..
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by yogenpro 7y ago
> that any Chinese student who studies abroad must become a member of the Communist Party Not true. Being a Chinese student who studied in the US in the past, I never joined, or was asked to join the Communist Party. In fact, the majorit
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by yogenpro 8y ago
Weird. I've been primarily using Internet in China, and I have never heard of 265.com before. I believe that's also the case for most Chinese Internet users. I doubt how valuable the data collected from that site would be.
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by yogenpro 8y ago
For 1, right now it is still fairly easy to buy "identities" from black market to use with Chinese Internet services. With the so-called "4-piece set" (national ID card, SIM card, debit card linked to a bank account, U-s
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by yogenpro 8y ago
> They have no credible replacement for Hangouts, do they? Hangouts chat is supposed to be the replacement: https://gsuite.google.com/products/chat/ It might be made available to (non-gsuite) consumers at some
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by yogenpro 8y ago
> Every Chinese citizen I've talked to is pro-DragonFly, myself included. You might want to talk to some Hong Kong people, or even people from Taiwan, if they are still considered "Chinese" for this matter. A real concern
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by yogenpro 9y ago
China is ruled by a party with "Communist" in its name, that's the only connection with communists. Officially China runs "socialism with chinese characteristics", but as other comments have pointed out, in realisti
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by yogenpro 9y ago
Well definitely not perfectly coincided. In fact in dry seasons some went to Inner Mongolia where coal is cheap and coal power stations' output is much stabler... That part indeed is a waste :\ Some sources: https://www.wash
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by yogenpro 9y ago
And it's NOT a waste of resource. Miners mostly use seasonal renewable energy that otherwise would not be converted to electricity in the first place. To maximize profit, they utilize hydroelectric power plants built on Yangtze river.
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by yogenpro 9y ago
In terms of the source, on a side note, I personally know people who were on the square that day, and later escaped to the US to seek asylum under Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992 [1]. They have a lot of first-hand information and pho
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by yogenpro 9y ago
He's name in Chinese was 蔣介石 (courtesy name 蔣中正). If they came from mainland China, they would definitely recognize both, since they're in the history book for everyone. The same goes for those 2 names' Pinyin (the Chinese ro

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