jcytong

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

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vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I think the equivalent would be if New York Times is somehow owned by Tencent and given that the Chinese government uses golden shares to control private companies. In that case, I think it's fair game to force NYT to divest or force them to shutdown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_share

jcytong

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

dang, I knew I shouldn't be drinking water while checking out the link. Almost caused water damage to my laptop

jcytong

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

It's wonderful the world is big enough to celebrate whether you run a $45k/mo company solo, or find joy in nature walks, rock climbing, reading or raised VC to go big.

jcytong

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I have a MBA 16GB and everything is fine until I use Docker. It's under constant memory pressure and I was looking into getting a 32/64GB Macbook Pro 14 M1 Pro max. But really dreaded the additional weight/size of the laptop + 96W power brick which is an additional of ~2 lb

jcytong

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Discovered Ruby on Jets in this thread and started watching the video on the project page.

The author addressed the cold start problem here(timestamped) https://youtu.be/a0VKbrgzKso?t=439

Hope it helps :)

jcytong

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Only if we open sauce...

jcytong

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

From the README

  Specifically Clerk wants to address the following problems:

  - Less helpful than my editor

  - Notebook code being hard to reuse

  - Reproduction problems coming from out-of-order execution

  - Problems with archival and putting notebooks in source control

I encounter these problems every time I interact with a Juypter notebook and think about a Clojure style notebook environment :)

Great job!!!

jcytong

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

I have heard this many times from many different people that I respect. However, I'm just not experiencing "the joy" after several attempts. Maybe it's just not how my brain is wired.

It's probably not helping that I'm not starting from a greenfield project. Needing to go through and understand other people's code with an out of date Rails and its dependencies have made me spent most of the time on infrastructure. The entire test suite takes 50-60 minutes to complete with a lot of integration tests hitting the database.

Do people allocate a certain amount of time just to upgrade Rails? It seems like there's an expectation that Rails is 1) used to start quickly with scaffolding (great for hackathons) 2) constantly running app and cared for to not diverge from the latest version

At this point, it's one of those love-hate dysfunctional relationship with Rails for me

jcytong

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I think you are one hundred percent correct :)

But I can see it being useful if the idea is translated to NLP -> regex

a GPT3 to regex would be awesome

jcytong

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

> "Phonebooks were like DNS for telephone numbers."

A floppy was like the save icon on old software. :)

jcytong

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Serious question: How does one get educated about modern China? (I'm Chinese but mostly Western educated)

Having seen my grandparents/parents/relatives escaping communist China and now my generation escaping HK, it has heavily influenced me on how even people who identified as Chinese and hoping for democracy and freedom for their own cousins in China are being played and lied to for multiple decades.

My people in HK are screaming that the West previous engagement policies have proven again and again to be ineffective. It's believed that the only way is to "distrust and verify" and not kowtow to their ways like what the West had been doing for the previous decades.

I do not claim to know everything about how the Chinese system functions and can only observe how my immediate network is being oppressed but still hope that there's a way to engage the CCP if at all possible.

jcytong

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

It's mostly CCP propaganda though if you actually talk to HK people and see how the majority of them tried to work within the system to "make the change" since the early 90s and fight for what was promised in the Basic Law[1] which was drafted by a committee with 36 representatives from China and 23 from HK. It promised that the Chief Executive of HK and its legislative council to be formed by an election.[2]

The Chief Executive election has been delayed for 2 decades requiring the CCP to "pre-filter" candidates which the public rejected.

The legislative council election has been controlled by disqualifying candidates as well as the mass arrest of 53 pro-democracy candidates for simply organizing the primaries and engaging in debates. [3]

TLDR; China wasn't as strong in 90s so took a softer stance. Later decided to go back on its words so had to find ways to control the elections or the results.

> No real death in over an year of violent protests by police firing in Hong Kong vs 5 deaths in capitol building siege speaks volumes about the professionalism with which Hong Kong police handled the protests.

This is not true. After witnessing the 2019 movement and the real police behavior captured on live tv/news[4], I have a much better understanding of the Stanford prisoner experiment.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Basic_Law [2]https://www.basiclaw.gov.hk/en/basiclawtext/chapter_4.html [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Hong_Kong_Legislative_Cou... [4]https://tl.hkrev.info/en/police-timeline/

jcytong

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

This seems to be the pattern. Obviously, when managing a country of 1.4 billion people, it is a major challenge to get every single directive in a precise and timely manner. Many of these directives need to be carried out by regular citizens and professionals so a lot of interpretation is left to the lower level leaders.

By only giving a high level ideology/direction, the top leaders give themselves room to manuver when things go sideways and can shift blame onto the lower level leaders' execution.

The system also seem to over penalize under-execution rather than over-execution.

Many examples can be found clearly demonstrated in Hong Kong as the integration with mainland China get sped up by the National Security Law. The recent freezing of exiled HK lawmaker Ted Hui's bank accounts along with his parents and family members accounts which was making global headlines and causing attention.[1]

It seems like the move was part of the high level "exterminate HK pro-democracy figures" but after the headlines, Ted Hui's bank accounts were unfrozen for a while which subsequently allowed him to move some of his funds. Shortly afterwards they were re-frozen [2]. Some believed that the execution went too far as to undermine the global trust in HK which would cost more to the regime so it had to retract to mitigate the damage.

This type of farce seems to happen more often as HK transition into a police state masquerading as a rule of law society.

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/hongkong-security/former-hon...

[2]https://hongkongfp.com/2020/12/07/hsbc-re-freezes-accounts-b...

jcytong

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I moved away early this year due to its poor track record on security: 2019 - Report of the Zoom app's malware like behaviour-using a hidden web server to enable Zoom much more capabilities than simply launching a zoom call like re-installing the Zoom software[1]

2020-Tricking its users during installation pretending the OS is requiring password[2]

In general, playing fast and loose with its users' data-sending a conference en(de)cryption key between two users in Canada/US to an ip address in Beijing.[3]

[1]https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/zoom-zero-day-4-million-... [2]https://twitter.com/c1truz_/status/1244737672930824193 [3]https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto...

jcytong

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

You are correct

New results show it's 5x slower on the M1 https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/m1-mac-mini-scores-highe...

Interestingly, it's only utilizing the neural engine and no GPU. It'd be interesting to see what happens when M1 Tensorflow updates to utilize both GPU + NE

jcytong

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

> this represents an economy but the denizens of that economy would be impoverished and miserable, constantly waiting for some outsider to come solve their problems

The outsider in this case is the government bailing out industries like when these digital nomads(businesses) failed, they'd go back to their parents (government). When their parents(gov) run out of money, they'd put it on the credit card (print more money by the Fed) and the cycle continues...

It's funny how this sounds exactly like how our economy works LOL

jcytong

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Exactly what I did too! 2015 MBP -> 16" MBP. Couldn't wait for the ARM Macbooks but super happy about the physical escape button :)

jcytong

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Apple last quarter generated 16% of their revenue in China. They've also cooperated with the HK/Chinese governments to pull police tracking apps[1] and VPN apps[2] from the App Store.

I'd say even if they relocate 100% of their manufacturing from China, they'd still stay silent because 10B of revenue per quarter is very significant to their top line.

[1]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/apple-pulls-police-tracki... [2]https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-pulls-vpns-from-china-ap...

jcytong

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

That seem to be the strategy of the CCP. Blocking foreign influence (Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc...) with the Great Firewall while taking advantage of the West's openness to promote their own platform TikTok, WeChat, ...

That allows them to promote their ideologies and export "The China Way" to becoming the next World's superpower without changing. Great way to take advantage of the asymmetry to have your cake and eat it too.

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