Hacker News Reader

Thank you.

LiweiZon Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist

For me, there are people want to perfectly analyze a thing and discover its model, there are people try to do something with the thing with whatever they have. We as humans are usually not able to achieve the first. The later is what we have every day, almost all day. A perfect model does not mean we know how to do anything properly. Without a perfect model, it's even less possible. But humans always want to do something while we can ... While most parties are doing things the similar way. They are able to play the same game before the game can not continue. Just another way to put what I said above:)

LiweiZon Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist

http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~wbarthur/

W. Brian Arthur is an economist I like. Complexity theory is also very exciting for me. I do not have any experience in those, but they and other things inspired how I perceive the world.

I probably did not deliver what I think clearly. The link above might be helpful to deliver what I mean.

LiweiZon Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist

I believe what they try to achieve is beyond what we currently have. And if Mises was born in this age, he would've probably go to the biology level or even deeper to start his work. The tooling and data to connect the dots in his mind was simply not there. To me, he wanted something that is not approximate. For those purposes, what you mentioned might be the best tools one can have at starting stage. I think some work in micro-economics has something similar to Mises'. They can work on simulations now to have fact-based and measurable discoveries. In the end, most likely what human can do is limited to the tooling, not the understanding and educated imagination.

LiweiZon Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist

As a layman, I think Austrian school lacks of quantitive ways to do repetitive applied work for fields and industries compared to the mainstream schools. And many of the tools and information sources were not available at Mises' time. Our society is based on calculation. Economics as a tool for management teams has to provide effective calculation for as many things as possible. People communicate and make decisions based on the calculation framework and the results. The world's economic states are modelled in a more or less approximate way. The school that can offer more "fact-based" and measurable data and results are welcomed by decision makers and the people work for them. Organizations need them. When many of organizations are using similar frameworks, the can communicate with other similar parties. It's easier for parties to make their data and results compatible to their own system. Just some random thoughts from a layman. And yes, I love Mises' work. But the tooling is missing for a lot of applications. There can be very limited actionable decision you can make if you adopt it. I'm probably misinformed, misunderstood and biased. Just some of my observations and thoughts.

LiweiZon Simulated Dendrochronology of US Immigration 1790-2016

Do colors used have any meaning? When I look at it as part of a tree, green and calm colors for me always suggest healthy growth. I understand my question might be a bit political. I'm just getting this feeling when I perceive all the beautiful graphs as part of a tree. This probably would get many downvotes. But still I want to let you know my instant feelings.

LiweiZon The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history

Big companies seem to have industries as their unit of operation. If this is generally true, top leaders have very limited detailed input/output into a specific product itself. Many resources can not be taken into the process of a product evolution. Put it simple, top leaders of a big company usually have quite different direct goals instead of a product. A product's evolution depends on the options and resources a product team can have in a time frame. The rest of a big company is meaningless. The bigger the overlap of top leaders have with the product team, the better chance the product can evolve with the market demand. Jobs comes to my mind.

LiweiZon Libp2p – A modular network stack

Any idea why this is upvoted to make the front page this time?

LiweiZon Bytedance said to be valued at over $75B in new round

今日头条 toutiao is huge in China. Poor quality news feed for a lot of people.

LiweiZon Is Apple Really Your Privacy Hero?

And consumers simply don't have any other options can match what Apple is offering. If an average cares about both product and service experience and data privacy, I don't see any alternative comes remotely close. That's the position Apple has been building for a few years and it's a clever move. This alone can make Apple a lot more attractive for data privacy concerned consumers. Apple doesn't have to worry about the decline of their software/hardware design/production level as before. Data privacy service can compensate those to a very big degree. Any alternative not more expensive, easy to use and not more burden on user's mind as a whole is welcomed.

Am I trust Apple with my data? No, but that's my best choice for now and near future.

LiweiZon Ai Wei Wei's Beijing Studio Destroyed by Chinese Authorities

Well, see my other comments here. I might sound that way to people don't realize the real consequences of many of his activities if someone else did something similar.

LiweiZon Ai Wei Wei's Beijing Studio Destroyed by Chinese Authorities

You can not image how sad I was/am as someone comes out of that system and I love my nation from the bottom of my heart. I want to see my nation has a bit more awareness of fairness you mentioned. The part of Ai I criticize is mostly how he got away from those kind off trouble safely while collecting so many credits internationally. Sounds strange to outsiders, I know. I just have deeper understanding of what the consequence for many of his activities should've if that was someone else. Outsiders don't have knowledge of this. So as expected, I got many downvotes on this one. Some reporters lost their lives and were betrayed by their wives since they were the first to report some food/medicine quality issues affecting a lot of people (in some cases, the majority victims were very young kids) over the past 2 decades. They did what actually mattered in a massive scale but were not known to average outsiders. People like them are not very marketable in the outsider funding market (This is just a simple and blunt way of describing some fancy and socially high-profiled things. This can get many downvotes as well.). We know too many people like them. And Ai became an icon for outsiders in such a way. Hopefully, my rant can give you more information to know what I feel. There is nothing people can do. There is no party can/need collect the opposing force and combine them into something bigger. Cooperating is the way to go or you are forced to get funding from outsiders to fulfill their own agendas. And they do not know what Chinese think of. So once they live on outsiders' funding system. What they delivered associate little to what average Chinese can echo. Soon they are not relevant any more. It's a different system.

LiweiZon Ai Wei Wei's Beijing Studio Destroyed by Chinese Authorities

You mean the reporters I memtioned? No, they are/were all in China.

LiweiZon Ai Wei Wei's Beijing Studio Destroyed by Chinese Authorities

There would be another guy like him then. This is a market for this kind of person. And I wish my opinions matter. LOL. Thanks for asking.

LiweiZon Ai Wei Wei's Beijing Studio Destroyed by Chinese Authorities

'ignoring the forced confession'

That's extremely hard for someone to get away with. He can simply ignore it? I do not follow Ai's news after I did a little research many years ago. He's famous on HN. So I wanted to find out what this guy did and what his works were like at that time.

IIRC, he is a son of a ruling party's famous poetist which indicates he has some strong connections.

Last time I read some news of him was live stream his own life in Beijing's studio or something like that. Of course, with his experience, acceptance/approval level in western world and his art skills (he has some real art work. For me, his work is facing outsider customers, expressing the customer's view of China in a bit above average customers' way.), he is among the best options for some field.

I don't understand what you mean by mentioning 'last part (not the middle)'.

LiweiZon Ai Wei Wei's Beijing Studio Destroyed by Chinese Authorities

And he got back to be in the view of the public proudly. He did ok in the jail. Jail time became another shining badge. Do you know those reports in China regarding serious food quality issues over the past two decades? If you do, do you know how the first reporters for those news ended up? China for me is not just a symbol. So I want to give out another angle many are not aware of.

LiweiZon Ai Wei Wei's Beijing Studio Destroyed by Chinese Authorities

Ai always gets attention from inside the country and he has been there for a long time. Waves of such people left or disappeared in public's view. He's still there. Someone can stay and do a lot of opposing things and get and be able to keep constant public attentions is like a miracle. Why he? Why not others like him? He's like collecting those badges every time the government did something to him. And he's doing good and better. If you know China and know what people act like him could have faced, he is such an odd spot. I know westerners like him, giving him a lot of high quality badges. He has a quite rooted network to keep him safe and do a lot of fancy things delivered to public and shows this off. All sides seem to need him.

Sorry for the rant. As a Chinese, I just hate those people with very special privilege to show off in the name of some symbol impressing outsiders and has nothing to do with all those truly matter.

LiweiZon Crypto Coin Tether Defies Logic on Kraken’s Market, Raising Red Flags

I love things with substance. Those are where the beauty of human intelligence and execution lies.

However, hype does solve the most difficult part of sales process: customer's willingness to pay. And it solves it way beyond perfect. After 15 years learning in the market, it's the mindset I found I need to learn and adapt to. I don't like the feeling of being dragging to most likely opposite directions. But sales seems more important to a lot of market participants.

LiweiZon Why China doesn’t dominate soccer

Dynamic coordination among a group of people. Top down approach does not work best under this. It's not reactive enough. There are just so many to talk about regarding this. But I think that's one of the very core dimensions of this game. And there are so many other national teams do not reach their potentials. China is a nice key word for clickbait. And it worked well.

LiweiZon The odd reality of life under China's all-seeing credit score system

Just for those interested: "All Systems will be Gamed: Exploitive Behavior in Economic and Social Systems," in Complexity and the Economy, W. B. Arthur (2014) http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~wbarthur/Papers/All%20Systems%20G...

LiweiZon Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story

Spurs is always a very well engineered team. It's a beautifully crafted team. That's why they last long as a team. Personally, I'd put Barkley and Malone above Tim due to their options to create space and finish. Bulls core members are all very unique and top specialized in their own domains while all held very high bball iq and passing skills. Your words let me notice how diversified that Bulls was both in terms of basketball ability and their personalities. That's beyond engineering. I can't believe I'm talking about bball on HN and found out a new angle.

Thank you. That is definitely a huge if. And shaq vs MJ's Bulls in 2000 could've been a must watch. Bulls would definitely make some adjustment to get some fresher blood. But just as they went through big man's era, their answer would probably not get one or two big men to go head to head against shaq. They played in their own way and took advantage of opponent's weakness.

LiweiZon Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story

If the Bulls kept their roster, they would highly likely get one or two more championships. The Bulls roster was more diversified and hard to froster from a builder's point's of view.

LiweiZon Deciphering China’s AI Dream

Yet we Chinese have less top masters that revolutionize the fields they are in. I, too, believe we have more than enough number of brains to have the leaping happen. It's just the mind and behaviour of combination at individual level being dramatically reduced. And for the a few still hold them, the incentive to keep doing with combination mind and behaviour is simply negative. Hence, at the group level, there are less organically grown mature groups of individuals to provide foundation/platform for those capable and willing to do that. A metaphor I can think of are the soil and the seeds. How people perceive the soil leads to what people's expectations on the issue.

LiweiZon Benz remotely controlled vehicle stuck in cruise control mode for 1h at 120km/h

Sorry for the misleading title. I tried my best to contain the title short enough to submit. Please change the title for a better one. Or suggest a better one, I will change it ASAP. Thanks.

LiweiZon China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit

People are educated from very young to have this sense of one China, while we lost many more territories to our big north bro.

LiweiZon China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit

You told some truly interesting points and got lots of downvotes.

LiweiZon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2018)

SEEKING WORK

Remote: ok

Location: Toronto, Canada

Technology: Started learning and using Python, JavaScript, Scala, Java, BeautifulSoup, React, ReactiveX, Kubernetes, Kafka, Spark, Docker and D3js from last summer to build a prototype. Before that, worked on Swift, Objective-C, Go for 2+ years.

I'm interested in all kinds of opportunities.

Email: matt.z.lw@gmail.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/liwei-zhang-3440512

Github: github.com/liweiz

LiweiZon 'Alien Alloys' in The New York Times' UFO Story

Might be interested for layman like me to take a look:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread976484/pg44

Electromagnetism, UFOs, and the Weaponization of Alien Technology(page 44)

LiweiZon The world's most toxic value system (2001)

Off topic, the web site is truly content-centered and looks clean and clear with no unnecessary information. Font size for each level is very good, too. For me, that's how good design should look like.

LiweiZon What's new, Atlas? – Boston Dynamics [video]

Kung Fu Robot