That's just English being irregular. One that hosts websites should be called a hoster in principle :)

Host is both a noun and a verb. (The host can host a party.)

Hoster is new to me too.

But I get it as a pattern. (If you dine at the party then you are a diner.)

Wow, perhaps Nintendo/Konami actually learned this tactic from IBM, threatening smaller game developers with patents when their case for copyright is too weak...

That's like saying online banking is doomed because rubber-hose cryptanalysis exists. The defense does not have to stop 100% of the exploits to be effective.

I hate kernel level anti-cheats but they do provide friction and reduce cheating.

There are open source solutions out there. If anything there is less friction now.

To give them the benefit of doubt, English may not be their first language, so they might not be aware of the implication this comment gives.

It would be such irony if they asked GPT to reword it to a more polite tone though...

> Generally speaking, orgs aren't trying to replace high-quality human translations with lower-quality machine translations.

Seems that this is exactly what Mozilla did? And Microsoft, and Reddit, etc.

Correct.

Companies are absolutely falling over themselves to replace high quality human translations with lower quality machine translation. I’m not sure how a hacker news poster could miss this trend.

A hacker news poster is very likely to consume the original English text and never encounter anything else, regardless of whether it's human-translated or not. Just like the people who make these decisions in the first place

Not OP but the phrase in Japanese also carries a negative connotation, that important issues are decided by a shadow process hidden below the surface, beforehand by those in the loop. Meetings are just for show.

Please do not let my comment take away your enjoyment of the article.

I hate to nit-pick on such a beautiful story but that it ended with a faux-Ghibli profile picture is just sad.

How can someone working so hard to humanize technology and preserve history, justify this soul-less commodification of art? Do the animators deserve to get treated as anonymous model trainers without their consent, names and frames lost in a dead ocean of bit-vectors?

my kids made the avatar so...sorry if it triggers

I understand, and I apologize for the rant.

Thank you for all the efforts that went into preserving the memories of those that built the world around us.

I use Lua the same way, without LuaRocks. I use a Makefile to run my programs on Lua 5.1~5.4 and LuaJIT and compare the output files, to ensure portability across versions.

> So you don't believe child porn should be illegal?

The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse strike again!

Child abuse is already illegal. Law enforcement tracks down creator? Good. Court orders website owner to take down material? Good. ISP preemptively decides what to block? Bad.

CP is often used as an "I win" card in this kind of arguments, as it can stir up emotions in the general public, in favor of ever expanding scope of surveillance and censorship. We should be extra aware of this.

> A system fails when its natives don't know how to use it.

They definitely do, it's just that hand writing has become a more niche use case in modern society (regardless of the language).

If you removed all kanji in a block of Japanese text (replaced with kana), I'd expect at least a 50% reduction in reading speed for natives, and some errors in comprehension. They're fundamental to the language.

You wouldn't expect the same 50% reduction if the natives had been educated under that paradigm and suitable adjustments made to the system like adding spaces etc to accommodate it.