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> It'd be a travesty if she was lost.

She probably will be saved. It's a lot of troubles if she would be harmed. All those will be blamed on CCP, and the lower officials who are handling the case in the frontline will be the scapegoat.

Everyone in the chain of command is incentives to ensure her safety.

But many in the West would want her to die. In order to denote the conflicts.

> Her videos shined a light in the chaotic darkness of the beginning of this pandemic.

Yep. But if you actually watched her video, most of them are actually herself speaking the darkness, seldom there is an actual scene of darkness caught on her camera.

I think she was mostly a very conscious person of the surrounding. But I highly doubt her news reporting skills and objectiveness.

> I've been concerned lately that a lot of articles critical of China's government have comment sections filled with things like, "America is no better, just look at their prisons" or "Europe has no right to judge, look at how they've handled the migrant crisis", etc.

Could you double check your statistics, and making sure that your impression was not exaggerated. And make sure that you are not siloed in some algorithm trap as well.

If you think about it, there is actually negligible amount of articles that are not critical of Chinese government. China is literally everyone's scapegoat for anything that is tangible for anyone to joke or divert the public's attention.

If you are seeing comments showing alternative views. That's a good thing! It's good not because they trust China. It's good because people are thinking more of the situation, and what's good for their living.

> Or, worse, accusing the authors of being xenophobic or racist only because they cast China in a poor light.

I mean, given what happened during the pandemic, and the Asian hate crime surge. It's not a stretch for some concerned readers (just like you) to have such emotions.

I myself were seriously concerned. And I bought 2 hand guns, 2 rifles, during the pandemic. Because I am a Chinese living in US, and I am concerned of my own and my wife and 2 young kids' safety. (And it turns out shooting as a sport is kind of fun, but that's a different story).

> There seems to be an odd desire right now to ignore any injustices going on in other countries, in favor of critiquing Western nations.

Really? Where are your evidence?

> Or even downplaying and excusing foreign corruption, to try to highlight how bad Western corruption is.

Name some examples. You are stating sweeping concept without evidences.

The global media is predominantly Western. I see no such sentiment reflected widely.

My comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29481910 Probably should be posted here instead.

I am startled by the fact that people do believe there is large scale forced rededication camp anywhere in China.

Look at US spy satellite's capabilities https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/03/commercia...

Of there is such camp, where is the satellite image? Did you see any issued by US information service?

All existing images are from random NGO or news outlets who have all the incentive to ounce on evidence without much verification.

Use your brain to analyze the situation. And see the propaganda and the manufactured consensus...

There are chaos.

I seem no corruption. I do see the Chinese workers who did exteadornry work to support Wuhan. One great example is a hospital built in 10 days https://youtu.be/53nhErXUd9A

All people on the construction site are volunteer. They have had the chance to go back. But decided to risk their own lifes.

Besides there are numerous medical workers from all over China to come to Wuhan to alleviate the chaos.

My highest respect to those ordinary people.

> she should be more polite about it

My motto has always been that I should be polite to any reasonable counterparts. I have dealt with CCP members before, a lot of them high officials. Those are reasonable people. I see no reason to not be polite.

But I did not suggest Zhang Zhan to be polite particularly. I suggest her keep her safe and healthy, such that she can educate the mass.

You can call this absurd, but your assessment would be more convincing if you can give the evidences.

One call Gahdi absurd, and see what he achieved...

> She brought this on herself for not accepting the terms of a made-up agreement

No, CCP put her in prison according to some law. She did hungry strike out of her own western influenced values.

To call this brought her onto her self, it's a misread. I never intended to depict that kind of image. I guess it was my English doing a disservice.

> she was not actually offered that's not actually mentioned in the article

I mean, this is pretty much the norm in china. Political issues are always solved with some back channel.

Zhang Zhan would refuse to accept such term. And she obviously decide to show her anger by hungry strike.

That's separate from the fact that the government can jail her on the ground of some dubious evidences and some previously enacted laws.

All in all, that's not to say one can blame herself for such suffering. That's not what I said, and not what I believe.

Well, it probably was my English doing me a disservice here again.

> This woman put her life on the line to do the whole world a service in a time of crisis

Not sure if you have watched her video.

Her video is about people and business suffering during the lockdown. Just like a lot of businesses are closed here in US, some random guy is going to post video about it. And showing great emotions about that. Viewers are moved and calling the lockdown inhuman violating human rights etc. Look, one even refuse the vaccine...

Is that a service to the world. Sure.

Is it extraordinary? I don't see that. I mean, it's a pandemic. Lockdown or not, no one knows how bad it would have been. And human history has no previous example of a large country like China can successfully extinguish a more than usual coronacirus before wide spreading.

She of course should not be jailed for posting videos. But to say she is some kind of Nobel character who did great benefit, is just plainly baseless.

> Her situation now reflects nothing more than the umbrage her government has taken with information getting out to the rest of the world about what was really happening in Wuhan

You can find a lot of vlog type video on what's happened during lockdown. Nothing too terrible. Just like what we experienced last March or so...

You are writing a lot of haunting words without much evidences. Don't fall for the MSM propaganda... BBC's deliberate video editing has been ridiculed on YouTube constantly. One example: BBC PSed trees to grey in order to show a gloomy scene out of nowhere... https://youtu.be/eS8EceIa1MQ

I am not sure how could you get such idea that "educating people about western values" would put one into rededication camp?

I dare to say, that's from main stream media reporting?

I have wechat group where people living in mainland and abroad discussing political economic topics. We exchange information, about the most sensitive topics. Peng Shuai, covid, US politics, Xi's lifetime term, etc. We are very open, of course we do use jargons to feel safer. No one is remotely close to be harassed by rededication camp recruiters...

My friends are all very open about Western ideas. They just don't care about voting and other western values. As I said, such value system are built from very young, it takes time.

They of course admire US environment where people can speak a lot of things without risks. And I absolutely sense that they prefer the society moving into that direction.

Given 1-2 generations, I see no reason why not CCP's core members will move into a mentality that open public discussion of most sensitive issues are OK, because at the time, the core members when they grow up, already accepted such values.

Let me tell you a story. Before 1970s, people in China value the communism high vision, they absolutely have much less interests in the material enjoyment; now they can always openly pursue such pleasure without any danger. That's the change that have always been happening, and will continue to happen.

She should be released. But probably she refused to accept the offered term, likely to admit wrong doing according to the Chinese law.

The crux of this type of incident is that, one who are aligned herself with western style of morality, would find Chinese laws often to be incompatible with those values. Often such conflict were named "authoratarian" "dictative" etc.

As a matter of fact, just like a lot of laws were passed in US without much democratic debate, most laws in China have no democratic debate in the process. There is public opinion collection phase, which does not have a open process. And that were seldom publicized for obvious distrust of the common people's judgement.

Then this lady probably did herself the ultimate sacrifice in practicing hungry strike, for proclaiming her own righteousness.

Unfortunately, this type of self sacrifice was not useful in changing the people's perception and mentality.

I always suggest people like her, western alike, to take a constructive approach to alter the CCP's behavior. I.e., one can always start by educating the normal citizens about the western values, one person after another.

Explicit and revolutionary conflicts are exciting, and probably can bring changes really quick. Like CCP did before, transformed the largest nation on earth from an old emperism led system to a socializism totalitarian system, in less than a few decades. But that causes a lot of human suffering, probably the worst in human history.

So, as I said, I want Ms. Zhang to keep herself healthy and strong. If she was imprisoned wrongly. Let the system know that you want to fight in a way that yielding is not an option, by actually living well.

Don't you need to pay someone to deploy the program?

That would be a nice PR project! I think you are onto the right idea here. Let's seem what happens after the Christmas.

“参禅之初，看山是山，看水是水；禅有悟时，看山不是山，看水不是水；禅中彻悟，看山仍然山，看水仍然是水。”

These are all from the Zen philosphy, it says:

When getting start with Zen, I see hill as hill, water as water When get experienced with Zen, I see hill as more than hill, water as more than water. When finally got mature with Zen, I once again see hill as hill, and water as water.

> CCP fosters intense nationalism domestically (maybe after you left?)

I am pretty sure that the domestic propaganda is not too different from what it used to be.

When a nation grow strong, it naturally demands more space for its realm. And they are learning new skills to push back the things they used to feel incapable of (like China seems starting to cultivate an alternative theory on democracy). Also, you have to understand, any ambitious politician in China understand the immense power if the nationalism is used properly.

Imagine a nation back to its pinnacle in the Han and Tang dynasty, that's hugely attractive, and also to the people...

The issue the US media sees, it's essentially that China does not put herself as a subordinate of the US dominant international hierarchy.

If you think in that way, the wolf diplomacy is just normal tic to tac between two rivalry nations. And in fact, each instance of so-called wolf diplomacy action was never proactive. It was always some random Western guy or media provoked previously dormant issues, and the Chinese have to react...

I wonder what's your evidence of implying China's restoration is poor or bad.

Restoration in the forbidden City has been remarkable. https://youtu.be/avrRiNUmOlY it clearly has kept its original style and sentiment.

I am starting to feel weird about this mentality, I.e.:

If someone is capable of attacking us, they are most likely already planning to attack us, and we must plan to attack "first". (Implied in "stand-up to China, as if US were already being put down...)

I mean, I was born and raised in China, CCP does not manage to install such mentality into adult Chinese. I never see anyone who say "we have to prepare to strike first".

Is this mentality real? Or I perceived wrong?

I would be automatically on board on a plan that restore it to its original form. That's what's called "repair the old to be like old" (修旧如旧 in Chinese), one core principle of most antique repair/maintenance projects.

The article has a eye-grabbing title that is quite larger than what's covered in the content, which has become a norm nowadays. My read: the article builds on 1 core thesis --- the big 3 are moving into infrastructure focused vendors, and more and more software layers, when moved to Cloud, will be owned by vertical aligned vendors with gradually refined market focuses (data warehouse, streaming/messaging, app hosting, etc.; and the pattern repeats itself along even higher levels).

I cannot say I have enough data to agree or disagree with the prediction. Mostly, the Cloud is still very early in its development.

The Cloud today only changes how the underlying business model works in provisioning computing. I.e., people now by default goes to Cloud for machines. That's a generational transition from the old DC/on-prem model.

But on top of this new model, the software only start to gain some properties that are distant from the old model fundamentally. Lambda is one such example. Docker/Kubernetes, as the article points out, is actually very incremental development over the old models (thinking about Vsphere puppet scripts etc.).

My sentiment is that fundamental shift like Cloud, only manifest itself after it gives birth to fundamental shift in how applications are developed and run. There are a lot of relatively new trends in this area, but none of them give me the impression of a killer paradigm. I am looking for something like PC + windows, Internet + Google, Cloud + ? type of thing.

Let's see in 10 years.

> I had to deal with an asshole making jokes

My read is that the primary cause of the bad experience is because of a perception that the interviewer made a joke about missing semicolon in the white board code.

The attribution of that being “asshole” seems typical for a young guy who was stressed in a technical interview. Especially there could be additional signaling in the interview process that is problematic to the interviewee.

But the whole post does not sound too bad to me.

My personal worst example is one guy who is asking what I did previously, and after each time I gave an overview of one project, that guy just said: that sounds very easy (that was in Chinese, we were doing the interview in Chinese over phone). And that guy is a msft researcher turned engineer. I was internally amused at his employer being clueless about the skill gaps between an engineer and a researcher.

To me the saddest part was that he basically is not able to present an interesting description of the prospect projects in his own team (apparently that's expected based on his reactions to my previous projects), nor appreciate my side of the story. That makes the time spent close to being meaningless for both of us.

What's the motivation behind this question? Or why do you think Amazon wants to create lockin for Graviton processors.

Note that graviton represent a classic "disruptive technology" that is outside of the main stream market's "value network". I.e., it provides something that is valuable to marginal customers who are far from the primary revenue source of the larger market.

> This question could be dismissed by saying that Nix and Docker are different tools that solve different problems.

> One is a container deployment toolkit and the other is a package and configuration manager.

My reading, based on the mapping from the arrangement of the 2 words Nix and Docker, is that Nix is a "container deployment toolkit" and docker "package and configuration manager".

Of course, this interpretation is wrong.

Further, even if applying container deployment toolkit as a description to docker, it still misses a core part of docker, I.e., docker is also a container image building tool kit. The building part and the deployment are for different steps with seemingly equal importance.

I am not personally felt much about the situation. Your reasoning is always admirable.

I did what I did because I believe there needs someone who can be more open about certain things, so that they extend the range of discussion seen as normal here.

My statements also serve as a tool to expand the space for discussion for fellow HN visitors to feel more comfortable to express themselves.

Do I intentionally break some guidelines here? I personally don't think so. But I cannot deny the accusations according to the site rules. Because site rules are interpreted in that way, and my interpretation is slightly different.

You defended me? I thought you stand for the HN rule and its culture of open and reasonable discussion.

If you do think you defend me, then you should see that I am still in a situation where I am becoming more and more attacked based on narrow view on China-related topics, especially politicizing everything to the degree that alternative and reasonable discussions are plainly impossible.

If you do still have faith in HN's value, then you should not defend me, you should defend the value.

And if you think I am not embodying HN's value, then do whatever you think it's reasonable. I don't care much about personal "support", I have long forsake those narrow views.

Yep, my original writing is dismissive to emphasize the similarities between this and the Clinton case.

What for?

You think CCP had make anything out that sports community can have a talking point?

> This does not reveal anything more than what Lewinsky revealed about the US voting politics.

They reveal the characteristics of how 2 systems play out the sexual scandal. Of course, the actual revealed facts are different.

Well the OP said he becomes more confident in GCP, that's why I said this... My personal experience working at Amazon and Google told me that Google's engineering culture and practice are setup to a slightly different scenario than AWS. So if we assure cloud is more of an AWS defined business, than GCP seems are catching up, but not as fast as I would have hoped for.

I told you they are not improving. Not that config induced outages is not nasty...

Why?

If you read past post mortem, you should notice that configuration induced outages have been the sole category of all large-scale outages.

GCP is repeating the same mistake with similar cycle. (Don't quote on this, that's just my impression)

That means they are not improving the situation.

China's system is not much of value in comparison. UC's problem is that there is no verification on acquired knowledge. Not standard test. You can have non standard test on how much and how well someone learned the knowledge.

> One billion people

If you referring to people who take the exam, it's 10.78M [1].

> One standardized metric to determine who goes where.

This is just to determine the entrance to public university. Of course, the people who can afford alternative higher education is negligible compared to those taking gaokao.

But there are actually a lot of people who won't take gaokao, as they entered vocational school, in 2019 6M entered the so-called vocational high school.

> Removing entry exam requirements does not help underprivileged students.

You got it wrong.

It's not about privilege it's about the effectiveness and efficiency of the talent selection. Secondary is about giving education as a means of climbing social ladder.

[1] https://3g.163.com/dy/article/GBTPVA0U0517M6OP.html?spss=ada...

You are repeating my point. More creative people move to SF because there offer better chance of success, which is fundamentally determined by the market size (and capital etc). That's not because SF is managed better. Swap SF mayor and SG primer minister, you still have the same SF and SG (very likely, let's not be mirred in hypothetical assumption).

> San Francisco has many more creatives per capita than Singapore

This is out of scope.

The comparison is about city management. Not creativity.

When you talk about creativity, SF is at the forfront a giant nation of 300M people, 2 orders of magnitude larger population and market size. That naturally support more creativity and innovation.

As for how much the market contribute to your claimed advantage, it's hard to measure. It might be that indeed SF per capita creativity, excluding market impact, is better than SG. I have no reason to doubt that, but I see not proof.

Not mentioning other aspects when you are a central cit in a superpower.

> Discrimination was commonplace and even explained away by the majority.

Could you name a few example? I have college friend who live and work there, and they never mentioned discrimination. Although we are both Chinese mainlander, might be treated as part of majority.

Nothing different than what I encountered who don't like Chinese students tenants because we like to cook ourself, and Chinese cooking uses stir frying a lot which causes a lot of smell...