The complainer is a self-proclaimed policy wonk. I am sure he knows all the corrext policies to enforce include NSFW content policies. Heck, looking at his comment history, I get the impression that he might be a policy wonk in everything.
XSLT is no more "baggage" than HTML itself. Removing it in no way "moves the web forward". And integrating technologies part of the current hype cycle, which very well may disappear in a year, is a terrible idea.
The Cambodian civil war only ended in 1991. To call a country full of any type of people is the definition of racism. YC news moderation standards is quite something these days. For actual foreigners’ opinions of Cambodia after having lived there long term, watch this YouTuber’s videos:
Austin Tukwa
@austintukwa https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhN9L6mXjPI
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
Edit: please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45597318 also. I'm sympathetic for where you're coming from, even though I don't fully understand—but this implementation is not working.
My SO's family is from the portion of Gia Lai neighboring Cambodia. Gia Lai itself is fairly poor, but ime the neighboring half of Cambodia is even poorer and desperate.
It's the same story in the Mekong Delta as well (having had to go to extended family weddings in rural An Giang).
And calling out the relative lawlessness in Cambodia is not racism in any shape or form. Based on your comment history, it seems you are reflexively defensive about Cambodia to a startling degree.
Cambodia was dealt a bad hand, but so was Vietnam and Laos as well, yet neither have the same degree of institutionalized criminality that you see in Cambodia.
The problem at the end of the day lies with the country's leadership, and a quasi-reformed Khmer Rouge member like Hun Sen just isn't the right leader to help Cambodia develop out of the LDC category.
Heck, Bangladesh (historically a peer of Cambodia) was also formed due to a tumultuous history and severe instability in the 1970s-90s, but concentrated on state capacity development - something which Cambodia's leadership thumbed their nose at in the 2010s.
Based on the fact that Cambodian day laborers come to work as migrant workers in a region that Vietnamese (Kinh or Jarai) try to leave if they can.
HDI metrics themselves also represents that fact. Gia Lai - one of the poorest provinces in VN - has a higher Human Development Index (HDI) than all of Cambodia.
> Given the recent developments in Bangladesh
Yet the average Bangladeshi earns more money, is significantly more educated, and has a longer life expectancy than the average Cambodian.
Cambodia's HDI remains well below it's LDC peers across Asia, and that divergence only really began in the 2010s.
> Based on your biased opinion given your relative partiality toward Vietnamese...
I have been fairly open on HN about my criticisms about Vietnam, such as the authoritarian regression under To Lam along with VN's increased hallmarks of falling into a real estate and export economy induced middle income trap
> Cambodia has cooperated with the foreign government consistently
South Korea has literally banned Korean nationals from travelling to vast portions of Cambodia today and is considering cancelling aid projects because of non-cooperation from the Cambodian government.
> I see no such thing
In English, "you" is often used in the 3rd person as well, especially when communicating on a forum where conversations and readers are not only the OP
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There is no reason why Cambodia can't pull off a similar developmental story like Vietnam or Bangladesh, yet Cambodian leadership in the 2010s and today has dropped the ball because any attempt at making Cambodia a more open economy would undermine rent seeking activities.
Citations needed for almost everything you just wrote.
On the other hand, South Korea has the right to do whatever it wants within its rights. I strongly support South Korea in its geo-strategic calculus to isolate Cambodia government. They must have very good reason to believe this is the right course of actions.
Cambodian government should learn from this experience and improve its law enforcement and its own geo-strategic planning.
> There is no reason why Cambodia can't pull off a similar developmental story like Vietnam or Bangladesh
Again with the Bangladesh comparison. Can you google Bangladesh and read news about it in the last year before commenting?
HDI comparison of Cambodia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh [0]. Notice how Cambodia and Bangladesh used to be developmental peers until 2010.
Life expectancy comparison of Cambodia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh [1].
Mean years of schooling in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh [2]
Gross GNI per Capita PPP (log normalized) in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh [3] - the only metric Cambodia is roughly comparable to either country.
There is no way around it - the average Bangladeshi let alone the average Vietnamese is healthier, better educated, and richer than the average Cambodian. And this divergence only began in the 2010s when Hun Sen and Cambodia's political leadership began backsliding into kleptocratic authoritarianism.
How and where in the Merriam-Webster are these supposed to be measures of “desperation”? Where is the citation for Cambodians going to work in Vietnam and not the other way around?
Also, cherry picking PPP GDP instead of commonly used nominal GDP to avoid conceding a point is quite desperate. Cambodia has a higher GDP per capita than Bangladesh but you won’t admit that. Can you buy a barrel of crude oil with PPP dollar? Also, you haven’t admitted that you are clueless about the current Bangladesh political and economic mess.
https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/stock/foreign-investors-f...
If you want to play the comparison game, the average Vietnamese can also be said to be much poorer and much more desperate than the average Malaysian based on your flawed reasoning.
Then why are you ignoring Cambodia's abysmal education rate and life expectancy against Bangladesh?
Cambodia has Sub-Saharan levels of developmental indicators, and in fact plenty of similarly sized or larger Sub-Saharan countries like Kenya, Ghana, Congo-Brazzaville, and Angola have outpaced Cambodia despite Cambodia being within ASEAN and with all the opportunities to take advantage of FDI-driven growth from neighbors like Malaysia and Thailand, let alone South Korea and Japan.
Cambodia has had a geographic advantage that most LDCs did not have, and has absolutely blundered it because of horrid leadership.
Heck, the median age in Cambodia is now significantly higher than much more developed Phillipines, so a demogrpanic crisis is clearly looming.
> the average Vietnamese can also be said to be much poorer and much more desperate than the average Malaysian
They absolutely are.
You don't find Malaysians working under the table in California or the UK, or cleaning toilets in South Korea or Japan. You do with Vietnamese.
Poverty in VN is much more severe than that in Malaysia (and Thailand), and the social safety net is almost nonexistent.
And that's the thing - even with such desperation, you still see Cambodians doing the same work Viet would do in South Korea in Vietnam or Thailand.
You are arguing with a wumao which many of us have been seeing in threads regarding Cambodia's pig butchering and its close affiliation with CCP insiders.
This bugbuddy user's modus operandi seem highly similar, detracting conversations and trying to downplay the seriousness of the situation.
In Korean language communities online, many Koreans point out similar accounts posting in broken Korean trying to blame the victims and crying racism when people are justified angry at Cambodia.
All in all, the image of Southeast Asians and Chinese in Korea (already bad due to crimes and illegal visa overstays) have hit rock bottom and this incident is likely going to have a long lasting impact on that community.
I think they are just a hypernationalistic Cambodian, Khmer American, or a former expat in Cambodia. I saw content from similar types of accounts during the Thailand-Cambodia conflict and the Techo Canal crisis.
But yea, it's stupid tbh and shows how badly Hun Sen is wreaking Cambodia.
The only reason Vietnam is where it's at today is because of being friendly to foreign investors and working on rooting out criminalization in the 2010s. Otherwise, VN would have languished. Cambodia has the right pieces to become the next VN, but is completely squandering the opportunity.
This kind of ploy to leveraging hypernationalism to mask weak economic growth (an LDC like Cambodia should not be growing at 5-6%) and increased isolation.
How does calling a country full of people who are sad and desperate for a better life discriminate against them? This is the same kind of rhetoric I would hear someone use as an appeal to helping them. Hearing about these things makes me more kind and empathetic to the people involved - not less. It feels like you are trying to do a good intentioned thing here but maybe it’s misaligned to more malicious folks compare with how most people read these comments
> Saying we can’t negatively stereotype basically says you can only have positive opinions about this country
This logical fallacy is a False Dichotomy (also known as a False Dilemma or Black-and-White Fallacy).
This fallacy occurs when an argument incorrectly presents two opposing options as the only possibilities, when in fact a wide range of other options exist.
How it applies to the statement:
The statement "Saying we can’t negatively stereotype basically says you can only have positive opinions about this country" creates a false choice between:
Option A: Engaging in negative stereotypes.
Option B: Only having positive opinions.
This completely ignores the vast and reasonable middle ground, which is legitimate, specific criticism.
> This logical fallacy is a False Dichotomy (also known as a False Dilemma or Black-and-White Fallacy)
Fair enough. Saying "negative stereotyping of a whole group is racism" also permits neutral stereotyping not being racist.
That said, don't you see the problem with ruling out any negative stereotype? Populations have characteristics. Those characteristics can be judged positive, neutral and negative from a given perspective. Not every perspective that judges a population is racially animated. (And not all judging from afar is wrong. To say otherwise dismisses history and anthropology--which study people separated from us by the much-less bridgeable time--as practical fields.)
Dostoevsky and Turgenev consistently portrayed the imperial Russian peasantry in a baseline state of misery. That wasn't racism. It was--based on what I know--an accurate description of their state. I'm (in part) ethnically Indian. I don't think someone saying that Indians were despearate and divided when the East India Company landed would be speaking racially insensitively.
Yes, I agree the US is an a great country. The US culture is still the most influential in the world. Everyone loves American foods, movies, and consumer products.
Cambodians love American culture. Young Cambodians are desperate to see new American movies, try American foods, and get their hands on new Apple products. They love Facebook. The majority of Cambodians favor the US over China:
https://www.statista.com/chart/32058/preference-for-us-china...
Interestingly, the majority of Thais favor China over the US. The most likely reason I guess would that a very large percentage of Thais claim some form of Chinese ancestry.
> * To call a country full of any type of people is the definition of racism*
This is bullshit. This kind of stuff isn’t black and white. Am I racist for calling Monaco a place full of rich people? Of course not, I’m describing the situation people are in, not their characters. Same holds here.
> I did not call him a racist. I said his statement could be understood as racist
This postmodern redefinition of racism really needs to be discarded. It’s done so much damage by giving actual racists cover, since if everyone is racist then racism isn’t a problem.
>> Negative racial stereotype as a definition of racism is the classical definition of racism
>It wasn’t racial stereotyping. It was stereotyping a country’s population as sad and desperate. Saying X country’s quality of life sucks isn’t racist.
>If they’d said or implied Cambodian Americans are also sad and desperate, sure. But they didn’t.
This is a distinction without a difference. A negative stereotype about the people of a country is a stereotype about that country's dominant ethnic group. Their geographic location is irrelevant.
By this logic, saying "All Japanese people are [X]" is not a racial stereotype as long as you're only talking about the ones in Japan. It only magically becomes a racial stereotype when they are "Japanese Americans." This doesn't make sense.
There's a fundamental difference between:
Criticizing a state: "Cambodia's economy is struggling and its government is corrupt."
Stereotyping a people: "The people of Cambodia are inherently sad and desperate."
The original comment did the latter. That is, by definition, a negative ethnic stereotype.
Could you please stop perpetuating this flamewar? Other commenters are doing it too, of course, but you've done it the most. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
I totally get that you have good reasons for feeling so strongly about Cambodia, Vietnam, and so on, and I also get (to some extent) how the root comment was provocative. It did sound like it was putting down an entire population, or at least was easy to take that way.
But going into aggressive abstract argument is not a helpful way to respond. It just degrades the discussion, poisons community further, and causes everyone to dig in.
A more helpful way to correct any misperception in the OP would be to share something of your own background that leads you to perceive things differently, i.e. to express your own personal experience and what it has taught you, that's relevant to the topic.
You don't have to do that, of course—it's just an option. But we do need you to respect the site guidelines when posting here, and you've been breaking them badly in this thread. That's not ok, even if your views are entirely correct and your feelings entirely justified.
Most time travel theories ignore the fact that the earth is not fixed in space. It is moving relative to the sun in the solar system and the solar system is moving relative to the center of the galaxy, and the galaxy is… etc. A motion in each of these systems is not 100% accurately predictable forward or backward in time.
This fact alone means that any time traveler is most likely to arrive in the middle of empty space.
> Most time travel theories ignore the fact that the earth is not fixed in space
This is a misconception that bugs me. The problem isn't that the Earth isn't fixed in space, it's that there's no such thing as a fixed point in space. Position is only defined relative to other objects. If you're going to use time travel in a story or something then it has to use something like an anchor object to determine destination. I.e. the relative location of the traveler and the anchor is replicated from the future to the past.
We would assume that the time-space traveler would have to tell the machine both the time and space directions from their current position in time and space. Assuming the time-space traveler cannot stop to observe his or her “location” in time-space coordinate along the way in small increments, he would have to calculate the entire travel trajectory beforehand.
I am saying this trajectory calculation relative to current coordinates is impossible. Even modern satellites with super precise instruments still need regular ongoing “adjustments.” Time travel requires many order of magnitude more precision than satellite orbital maintenance.
Go backwards in time 15 minutes at a time. At this short distance your calculation error will be small, and you can land your hovercraft back on earth to correct for any drift. Then go backwards another 15 minutes, repeat ad infinitum. Even present day aircraft have autopilot, so surely this can be automated too.
I think you have a good premise for a science fiction story right here: Say some "magic" (i.e. invented) physics quirk allows you to travel both into the future and the past, but all you can do is essentially accelerate and rewind time drastically. You don't "jump" to a time, there's still a physical presence, and colliding would have catastrophic results.
The logistical impacts from that would yield plenty of storytelling material: If you want to travel back in time, you need some ancient cellar that has been undisturbed since the target timeframe. If you want to skip forward, you need to establish that cellar, and round trips are limited by the space available.
That is - essentially - how 2002's _The Time Machine_ showed travel: Alexander's machine was 'stationary' on the earth, but time passed around him in a massively accelerated manner
Relativity just says "nothing about space seems to require a preferred reference frame", not "such a thing as a preferred reference frame can't possibly exist". If we're allowing for the discovery of time travel in the story, I'm willing to allow for such a discovery as well.
In reality I'd bet neither are realistic, but that's what makes the stories interesting.
Even if you could magically arrive at the right point, how would you get the right momentum? If the Earth were standing completely still, it would still be spinning at a horrendous speed.
I'll give a half-baked counter to this: we know gravity impacts the flow of time through relativity. There is currently no evidence that time travel wouldn't be impacted by gravity in some way. Maybe the way time in time travel interacts with gravity protects you from this problem? Probably not, but it has just as much evidence to support it as your claim of time travel will dump you in empty space.
You’re positing some unknown influence will cause everything to work out well in the ends without any evidentiary basis. Occam’s Razor suggests that you’re more likely to be wrong than parent.
Of course the idea that your point of origin must be fixed from time A to time Z if you’re willing to allow for time travel is itself flawed. If you could somehow move an object to an arbitrary time you could move them to an arbitrary point in space, and your ability to calculate may be significantly greater on the grounds that you’d have more advanced technology than us. It’s all scifi woo though until someone actually time travels.
I disagree with this interpretation of what I said. We HAVE evidence that time and gravity interact. It's actually more of a violation of Occam's Razor to suggest that time travel is somehow exempt from that interaction than to claim that yes, time travel should in someway be subject to the influence of gravity.
It’s even crazier if you imagine that whole universe might be countless universe lengths away from its starting point every microsecond for all we know. Acceleration is the only thing we feel.
You’re very likely to travel into an undefined void even if you map out and calibrate the whole system.
That why it is important not to mess up coordinate system. With wrong calculations they fall to ground. Or they are buried under ground. And space is full of frozen bodies.
Imagine how useful it would be we could just add a button show our approval or disapproval of a piece of content without having to type true or false in the comment section. Let’s call it upvote or downvote button.
> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.
I would agree, and have personally enjoyed the article. I just assumed that the person who wrote "false" might have considered it to be spam (perhaps in the broader sense), and if they did, flagging is considered to be the proper way of showing their disagreement.
There are a lot of stories that aren't worthy of flagging, but they're just low-quality.
And I've seen people abuse flagging because they treat it like downvoting. Flagging removes a story from the front page entirely, whereas ideally downvoting would simply deprioritize it, i.e. a bunch of downvotes would move it from #5 rank to #60 or something, not get rid of it entirely.
I've definitely had to e-mail the mods a number of times to restore a flagged story that was entirely appropriate, but which a few users simply didn't like. It would be much better to have a downvote button, and reserve flagging for actual spam and inappropriate content.
i have seen a lot of speculation about my "false" comment on this story. i think the story is bullshit and AI 100% it raises the ceiling and doesn't help incompetent people that much. you see it over and over where incompetent people use AI and submit legal docs with hallucinations or have egregious security holes in their vibe coded projects. but i have seen highly skilled folks get month long projects done in a day with higher quality, more tests and more features than they would in the past. explaining all that didn't seem necessary since the whole thing is just not true.
LLM’s source of “knowledge” is almost purely statistical. The prompt injections create statistical noise that make the token search a crapshoot. My guess is there are certain words and phrases that generate and amplifies the statistical noise.
