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Yeah that's terrible. I checked the founders of this company (Hirundo) and found that it's basially an Israel company with 2 cofounders worked at Technion, an Israel university, before. So this stuff is totally a polical narrative BS.

> The fact that she can't call Xi "Winnie the Pooh" on Douyin

Actually she can do this. There's plenty of such videos on Douyin ... If you clicked such videos frequently, algo will recommend a lot of them to you.

The worst case of uploading such videos is an aaccount ban (but very rare). So yes the freedom of speech here is fewer than in the U.S., but it's not like you'll be put into jail if you say sth about the president.

I happen to live in China now and lots of my friends work in frontier labs. I don't now there's a restriction for major updates of LLMs.

Western media doesn't have correct informtion source about China. This is because Western favors Web ecosystem and most inforamtion live in the Web, but in China everyone use Apps.

* Z.ai

Wait... You praised DeepSeek and your future choice would be Z.ad?

You know that China informed the UN in the first time when they confirmed the virus right? Just because your country ignored some messages from China (as usual), doesn't mean China didn't do it's job.

The history: 1. The virus was firstly reported by a docker working in Wuhan, but the govt doesn't take it seriously. 2. The covid spreads and Chinese govt started to lockdown. Also the govt informed the U.N. 3. Covid spreads globally.

So can you tell me what China lied about covid?

The research competition is basically a funding competition nowadays. In the 20th century, China had far less research funding for universities compared to U.S.. That's due to two facts: 1. China was poor back then. 2. China had barely no high-tech industries which can provide additional financial support to labs and cultivate talents.

Therefore, people got high-level education who want to pursue a research career would have less chance to get a job in China (at least mainland) and had to go to U.S., EU or Japan to utilize their knowledge.

In fact, until now, U.S. still offers the highest the research funding to its universities. That's why there're so many Chinese students in U.S. schools.

Not an export in OS. Can op explain the project motivation and high-level design a bit? The readme file seems to be a feature introduction and barely touches the motivations, i.e., what problem does it aim to solve, is it designed for any specific domain or it's a general purpose OS, what gain could those feature bring in practice?

Chinese censorship operates with a 'turn a blind eye' approach rather than strict enforcement. The government allows citizens access to outside information while maintaining nominal restrictions. GitHub exemplifies this—officially censored but widely used by Chinese developers without consequence.

VPNs and encrypted messaging apps like Telegram are technically forbidden but practically tolerated. This selective enforcement extends to politically sensitive topics. While the Tiananmen Square events of 1989 remain officially censored, most Chinese citizens know about them through VPN access. Other historical events like the Cultural Revolution are not cencored and are actually taught in schools.

About me, I have studied in the U.S. and lived extensively in China, so I guess, from your standard, I'm one of the least brainwashed people in China? I know lots of cencored information but none of them relates to Xinjiang opperession. Therefore, as an educated person who lived in U.S. and China, I can confidently state that reported oppressions in Xinjiang are false narratives.

You also talked about one-party rule. Oh c'mon, a lot of people, including more than 50 minority groups, dislike the one-party rule. It's meaningless for the government to oppress one specific group.

Extremists face detainment in re-education camps for two specific reasons: First, their radical beliefs exceed public tolerance—unlike most Muslims, they engage in violence. Second, they combine religious extremism with separatist ambitions. These interventions target violent extremism and territorial separatism specifically, not related to the one-party rule. Furthermore, the number of extremists is very small. I don't think they constitute a large portion in Uyghurs. So it's not millions of extremists, I think it's at most thousands.

You may heard lots of such fake news from BBC, CNN, NYT newspaper, etc, and these media outlets function as propaganda tools. I can give you an evidence: BBC and CNN used to report a lot Chinese human rights violations. But during the Trump administration, they magically fliped to support China and praise China a lot. This dramatic shift proves that they are political tools, or at least part-time political tools when speaking of China, that simply convey the message what they're ordered to convey.

If Western critics truly wanted to challenge China and make Chinese people wake effectively, I can give they some suggesions. They can talk about

1. unaffordable housing prices in China,

2. persistent low incomes in China, and

3. environmental cleanliness. I mean most places, excluding big cities like SF or NYC, are cleaner than places in China.

These are real problems that resonate with Chinese people rather than fabricated oppression narratives.

If you want to check my words, feel free to visit China to see the reality for themselves.

I happen to live in China right now and am using a VPN. I find your comments to be fundamentally incorrect. I live here more than 20 years and can't find any information about genocide, and I have a lot of (I suppose you are talking about) Xinjiang friends. Yes, there are extremists in Xinjiang with foreign funding. And The the government prepares extreme religious individuals for modern society. This process involves learning Chinese and learning basic skills to have a job. If people really died there, why we Chinese people don't know it? I mean I can literally drive to Xinjiang to check these information.

If you don't believe my words and still think people are oppressed in Xinjiang or whatever place, please apply a Chinese visa and visit here. If your visit is short-term, then a visa is not even needed.

Your narratives about China reflect self-projection. Western historical treatment of minorities doesn't mirror our approach. It's like saying Chinese people are too oppressed to afford bread or are forced to pick cotton—ignoring that bread isn't a Chinese staple and cotton-picking doesn't carry any other cultural meanings here.

By the way, if I said capitalism makes Americans too poor to eat rice, wouldn't you find that ridiculous? I'm sure you would, because you guys generally don't eat rice. This projection is exactly what your views about China represent.

I am a first year MSc student in Computer Science, supervised by a young AP conducting research on SSL(self-supervised learning). However, I have a lot of doubts about the practical usefulness of this field. I think I'll do a PhD, but have no plans to enter academia. I want to be productive in industry. An example of an exciting industrial application of ML is that OpenAI created ChatGpt. But for SSL and RL(reinforcement learning), the papers I've seen are basically about programs to play Atari games and MineCraft. It's very far from being practical and changing society. I googled the problem, and it looks like the only industrial applications for SSL and RL are autonomous driving and healthcare, but I'm not interested in those. What other industrial applications are there for SSL/RL?