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eunos··on China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
>Xi admin remains petulantly opposed to what it derisively terms as "Welfarism"

The joke I heard that Xi welfare mindset is much closer to Reagan than other welfare states. However I say it's not entirely wrong. Freebies and welfare including very generous pension is really addictive policy and no electorates would be willing to sap them out much less going cold turkey.

The chicken will come home to roost when it's time to upgrade your tech, industry or infrastructure but you don't have adequate capital to do that.

eunos··on Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20
Because Cuda moat in China is wrecked artificially by political reason rather than technical reason
eunos··on US High school students' scores fall in reading and math
Media from mainstream to alternative march in tune with pro intellectualism messages. Any works of art that espouse anti intellectualism would be swiftly and immediately canceled (including its authors) without hesitation. Do this for a generation or two minimum.
eunos··on US High school students' scores fall in reading and math
That must be dealt with full spectrum crackdown on national level.
eunos··on US High school students' scores fall in reading and math
>culture averse to education

Remind me when Vivek told his followers that American education need ti be more rigorous to compete with China and other Asian nations he got owned so hard, practically quiting from DOGE before it started.

eunos··on US High school students' scores fall in reading and math
>"acting white"

Honestly this is one of the biggest bullshit I've ever heard. Assuming that this mentality is quite widespread(not necessarily universal) among non White, then any attempt to introduce affirmative action or other equalizer practice would be futile. That kind of mentality must be purged hard from yesterday.

eunos··on U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier
Another GFC during a "cold war" with China and Russia? Great, just great.
eunos··on South Korean workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home
There's a Georgian TikTok user that is claimed snitching them. Heard also that she's running for office.
eunos··on South Korean workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home
It's a bit different since they "srlf-deport" before the government formally deport them. That mean they are not banned from coming to the US next time.
eunos··on ICPC 2025 World Finals Results
Lol and the Huawei note wrote otherwise. AI still hallucinates a lot so pursue mastery over algorithms and data structures to improve the technology
eunos··on You don't want to hire "the best engineers"
>Would you rather be a green bar in this chart, or a red one?

LMAO with the cult of "No False positives". They'd rather never hire anyone at all.

eunos··on Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space
> transparency here is a form of soft power.

I severely doubt that and the ability to form and control narrative is much more important

eunos··on Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space
Or it is mostly updated in Mandarin and in mostly Chinese-exclusive media ecosystem like WeChat which is not easily indexed and probed.
eunos··on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel
So Intel is an SOE now?
eunos··on An engineer's perspective on hiring
> veto right

I honestly disagree with the veto right because it makes it too easy to be abused. In my opinion, a supermajority (66% or even 75%) agreement should be sufficient. They said that Liberum Veto rotted the Polish-Lithuanian parliament.

eunos··on Show HN: An open-source e-book reader for conversational reading with an LLM
Some of the books I read are really hard to understand to the point I think the author is deliberately rambling (looking at you Mark Fisher). LLM really help me understand it.
eunos··on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
I think I'll take that over management doing lay offs because vibes or whatever.
eunos··on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
Many IT folks were cocky during the post-COVID height. Some even mock Unions for making firings harder, worried that their "incompetent" co-workers difficult to boot.
eunos··on Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills
Getting 70% of total score during final exam is already good enough and I have at least 2 hours to finish it. Live coding bar is quite brutal because expectation is almost flawless and time is very limited.
eunos··on When Sigterm Does Nothing: A Postgres Mystery
But I want my Software-Defined-Aviation now
eunos··on When Sigterm Does Nothing: A Postgres Mystery
With quirk like these, honestly I'm not even confident how can PostgreSQL or any software in general can be used in mission critical system.
eunos··on Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses
>because not everyone cares firstly about money?

You better care money first and foremost because when downturns came it could be devastating, remember the great lockdown?

eunos··on Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses
The same reasons why folks prefer buying things on Amazon (or Walmart). It is renown and you know that it will have what you need and qualities are reasonably guaranteed.
eunos··on AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings
On the other hand, I have great difficulty following who speaks what during an online meeting. I think that most people speech arent clearly transmitted, well as a justification looking the live caption, it also contains a lot of mistake
eunos··on I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst
When I was in college I found out that I have better reading experience reading LaTeX typsetted books. That's why I prefer to read Springer published reference books rather than class recommended books.
eunos··on LeetCode for System Design
From reading your response it suggest me the riddridiculousness of the System Design interviews. Are folks are supposed to design a planetary scale system in <1 hours?
eunos··on LeetCode for System Design
System design questions are already ridiculous. Seems that you need to follow 100% of the script they already had in mind fluently and smoothly.
eunos··on BYD's Five-Minute Charging Puts China in the Lead for EVs
Nope some Govt like India would veto that.
eunos··on I'd rather read the prompt
There's also strong inferiority complex. When you read and find out the output your motivation to at least paraphrase the prompt output instantly dive because it looks so good and proper whereas your original writing looks so dumb in comparison
eunos··on An interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers
> "My favorite interview question, because we've interviewed quite a few of these folks, is something to the effect of 'How fat is Kim Jong Un?

I wont be surprised if the list of "must-denounce" will be growing and in the future there'd be a litany of "mock the enemy" for every interview.

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