EastToWest

My naive implementation (as shown in the linked question) in Rust was mind boggling slow. C could do around 150MiB/s, while Rust could only do 10MiB/s. A simple `objdump -d` shows Rust is generating a lot more code. I'm not sure how much of that is relevant though.

At that point my coffee time ran out. I wish I had more time to figure out why. :-(

> Btrfs has had no real work done on it since then, and anyone that is actually serious about data storage has moved to ZFS, or has left POSIX filesystems entirely.

I'm not very familiar with this space, but if this were true why would Fedora use Btrfs by default?

Also on Fedora wiki [0] -- Btrfs is a mature, well-understood, and battle-tested file system, used on both desktop/container and server/cloud use-cases -- which seems to contradict what you said.

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BtrfsByDefault

Source? The creator's twitter doesn't mention that at all.

Linux is well funded in the sense that corporations put big money looking after their own interest in the kernel. Anything outside of their respective areas of interest? Good luck.

Paragon, for better or worse, is just yet another corporation. They shouldn't really expect other corporations or volunteers to care much about their code, other than the fact that their code may break others'.

Now that they have Linus' blessing, they can just send a pull request. The work paid off in the end.

Not necessarily politics. It could be purely due to lack of interest from maintainers and reviewers.

I would cry and run for any scientists who improve the wellbeing of tens of millions of people when they pass away.

It is fine that you don't relate to or understand his contributions.

I would have done the same if I were in Changsha.

Feel free to believe in what you think is true. I'm done with this discussion. Have a nice day.

I'm totally lost. Are you implying he's responsible for the great famine somehow?

"Fighting famine" is a generic term. His contributions prevented future famine. That does count as "fighting famine", doesn't it?

Minor correction, his family name is Yuan. Longping is his given name.

And? Should people hate him for what he did? What is the dispute here? Would you not feel grateful for his contributions, regardless of what end of the political spectrum you're on?

Take your ideology crusade elsewhere.

Yuan Longping's breakthrough happened in the 70s. The great famine happened in early 60s.

I'm not sure what your post is about.

Fun facts:

  1. Mars is 火星 ("Planet of Fire") in Chinese.
  2. 祝融 Zhurong, as mentioned in the article, is the god of fire in Chinese mythology.

Bad, sure, we both agree.

Dystopian has a very specific meaning though.

From Cambridge dictionary: relating to a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, or to the description of such a society.

I fail to see how one can derive "a very bad or unfair society" and "a lot of suffering" from a QR code in night sky.

I think it is rather dumb and annoying. Dystopian? Far from it.

Do you consider a plane flying by with a banner behind it dystopian? Isn't this more or less the same kind of thing?

Your first example lost me. Are you really talking about China?

That someone is perhaps a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. I think a close equivalence is an MP in the UK or a congressman / congresswoman / senate in the US.

They make proposals on various aspects of life in China. Those proposals aren't official policies.

BBC should really have done a better job here.

It is also funny to see the top thread a few minutes ago quickly developed into something like military might and "China must be stopped".

Incorrect. A lot of Chinese people will see this.

Chinese people know Twitter is blocked but largely don't care because Weibo is more fun. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing is left as an exercise to the readers.

I now wonder what will happen to US Embassy's Weibo account. My impression is that their Weibo account promotes "unpopular" opinions but has mostly been left alone.

But I haven't been a Weibo user for the past >5 years so my impression could be way off.

> I found the greatest offenders of media that portrays China in a poor light are CCTV, xinhua, people’s daily, etc... if you consume those media, you get the impression that China is a backwards authoritarian state with lots of flaws, but of course the truth is more nuanced.

You're not their target audience, period.

Also you're molded by Western culture, of course you interpret things differently with your own bias (in a neutral sense).

On the flip side, a lot of Chinese find Western media chaotic, unruly and full of lies, which portray Western society in a poor light. And of course, the truth is more nuanced like you said.

How do you expect a Chinese to respond to this kind of "Have you stopped beating your wife" questions?

Whether some of the view points are valid in the first place (at least the second or third one) is deeply contested to Chinese. If you're just parroting Western media view points without showing at least some understanding of Chinese view points, you will likely not get any genuine answers.

> It's not necessarily triggered by the government. Chinese are very patriotic, if not nationalistic, and the power of social media does the rest.

I can relate.

I have seen people who are very critical of the government but at the same time circulate anti-West materials all the time.

At least one?

https://www.cnet.com/news/wwdc-2018-apple-diss-android-faceb...

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Unfortunate side effect?

Do you realize some of those Chinese are naturalized US citizens like you? Do you realize that you're advocating treating a portion of your fellow citizens as enemy or second-class citizens?

I hope your country of origin will never be at odds with US.

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Why don't you have a look yourself? https://maimai.cn/

Does it resemble LinkedIn to you?

My impression for the social credit system is that people seem to like it (mind you, I'm not in China), because it is a powerful tool against bad behaviors and law breakers. I'm not sure if people are aware of or care the invasion of privacy in the implementation of the system. I'm not a big fan of this system in its current form, but someone will need to propose better alternative.

As for the reeducation camps, I haven't been following that closely, haven't had first hand account or direct experience. To form my opinion I will need to travel to Xinjiang to see for myself -- yep, I live up to my own suggestion.

Hey, cool down a bit. I don't think posting here on HN has any effect on the piece or journalist's style.

Westerners think any opinions Chinese people have, if not conforming to Western values, are due to either "brainwashed" or "fear repercussions".

I have resigned from expressing my opinions long ago in real life because I don't think people around me care much about what I think other than claiming superior or vindicating their own position. So my normal response has been "fly there and ask people what they want, see for yourself".

It has been fascinating to see so many Chinese people who go oversea but end up supporting the current government even more (mind you, not everything the government does, before someone brings this up).

The reverse, to a lesser extent (only about Western politics), is also true in Chinese media.

I don't think there is a decently translated version.

You can try Google translate. Its result is probably good enough for understanding the most important bits.

Found a transcript (in Chinese) if people are interested.

Warning: very long text -- 20,000 characters in length.

https://m.huxiu.com/article/300415.html

Good job on picking one sentence in a 150-minute interview to serve an agenda. No wonder people here say "This doesn't make any sense" -- because it doesn't.

The actual interview contains a lot more information. For example, Ren urged people to not go overly nationalistic, thanked companies in the US for working together, urged people to not blame US companies, explained his thought in detail on recent events, how to attract talents etc.