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Well, there must be an indoctrination process happened sometimes in the history. After all, facial masks are not invented in ancient time people are not used to wear them.

So when the obedient Puritan people coming to this land. They are very cooperative in helping maintaining the community.

Through some indoctrination, they learned to stand up with their own wills. Turns out coins indeed always have 2 sides, right? When the individuals learn to stand up coercion with their own wills, they would stand-up against facial masks, vaccines, quanrintaines, etc.

> I always find articles like this very interesting, because what they're talking about is manipulating the worldviews, sentiments, desires, minds of people, and therefore behaviors, which is the ultimate goal. This is very intimate, and military people discuss it matter-of-factly.

If you look at the world, such feeling is not only prevalent, it's actually far more disturbing than you think.

For example, all ads industry is built on manipulating human emotions. And surfing the web, you are forced into so many such abusive staff every single seconds.

Look at the web content as well. When people staring at their phones, they are bring manipulated in the literal sense.

And you'll find every one of these AD's producers have a matter of factly explanation, or even glorified one.

Surprising?

Not at all. Karl Max predicted this inhumane end of the capitalism more than a century ago.

They definitely have a mask mandate.

But my question still remains, what exactly does the author suggest?

https://jp.usembassy.gov/covid-19-information/ There is also travel restrictions. Nothing is not the right word to use for Japan's covid policy.

Reading this, I am not sure what is the "right" policy in the author's mind.

The author argue that the ups and downs of infection is more of a innate dynamism of covid spreading, than any society wide policy. Is that suggesting there should not have been society wide intervention to covid? Like just keep things as normal.

Although I agree with the conclusion that the covid policy in US definitely has not been effective.

You mean the the reaction to jndi logging RCE for log4j has been way too seriously?

What's the basis of this assessment?

Logging library fetching remote code and inject to local application runtime. Seems a pretty bad idea for any people with decent amount of programming experience, right?

Or I missed something.

> AWS has 17 ways to run containers and 7 ways to do async message processing, all overlapping and reinforcing and supporting each other, Cloudflare will tend toward introducing singular primitives, stuff them in a box, and try to ship those boxes to as many places as will possibly take them.

Actually AWS also "tend toward introducing singular primitives, stuff them in a box, and try to ship those boxes to as many places as will possibly take them."

It's just that AWS covers such a larger terrotery, that they appear fragmented.

This is why I now almost don't read this type of macro-analysis articles. They themselves lack the overall birds-eye view, because they are usually produced by people with little concrete technical background.

They often is very good at producing analogy, which is very intuitive, but very easily breakdown after moderate amount of details.

> but loyal to China with deep CCP contacts

What are the evidence of this? Other than him being self interested and commit misconduct.

He has no idea probably.

ByteDance's founder is an engineer, who happened to notice the fact that automation should come into content distribution in addition to all other aspects of social and economic activities.

So he started JinRiTouTiao, pretty much a DouYin/TikTok applied to text news. The narattive is this to give an analog. The fact is that DouYin/TikTok followed JinRiTouTIao's model.

TouTIao's content, like DouYin/TikTok, are manufactured to catch the attention. With attractive/provoking/(or whatever encourages clicking) titles, like the filtered/enhanced cover photo of any DouYin/TikTok video. The content is largely nonsensical, usually a rehash of some well-known old news. Just like DouYin/TikTok, just nonsensical videos to give you some short-term surge of satisfaction. The ads are mixed together with the manufactured content, which also has the same attractive title and content. Just like DouYin/TikTok.

The thing is that ByteDance, as a new generation of Internet company, becomes more fragile than any of its predecessors. In the sense that most of key factors of its success are based on machines, which are much easier to copy than things invovled more human activities (for example, it's easy to copy a successful anime, to make it successful, but it's much harder to copy the idea of a motion picture with actors and make it successful).

You can imagine someday, another startup, happen to invented a new AI that can generate content, whoola, ByteDance would be crumbling. If the founder would be as convicted as Mark Zuckberg, ByteDance would be killed in a few years...

> Mesos (and many other Berkeley AMPLab efforts) had briliant ideas behind it

Brilliant on paper.

The idea was influenced by MR workloads on Borg. Because MR is so large a workload pattern on Borg, that it benefits from having its own scheduler, and Borg also benefit from unnecessary meddling.

The idea was only brilliant for a very small number of human users, both inside Google and in the broader industry. In terms of CPU & memory usage, mesos' approach should always take great share, because workloads that in the category of needing their own scheduler always is the big ones.

But as an open source product, its adopters are far off from that group. So you can see that all early adopters of Mesos are large corps. I seldom hear any startup applaud Mesos.

Precisely, I have repeated many times when Mesos was still relevant, that its model makes it costly to get started. It will never succeed unless it start to package a product that can provide the scheduler part.

We all know what happened after K8s. K8s works because Borg already worked for 12+ years.

> an elegant implemention that allowed for much more than what Kubernetes was desgined to.

By design K8s is more capable then Mesos. Because K8s includes scheduler. And numerous other capability. Heck, excluding performance and scalability, K8s is a level a bove Borg in terms of feature and capability. Mesos is far behind Borg even, not mentioning K8s.

Mesos does offer better scalability, on paper. I had no experience though.

> Kubernetes was supposed to be scheduler for Mesos and Google invested in it.

I never heard of such plan.

True, but you missed the underlying concept of this statement.

The trend of innovation is increasingly becoming grassroots-driven.

In part, that's because our fundamental research advancement has stagnated, i.e., the nation states can no longer steadily produces ground breaking tech that leaves the industry to adopt. As a result the adopt of standards become more relevant to SMBs and individuals.

On the other hand, Internet has driven down the knowledge acquisition cost to probably bare minimal. I.e., modern days, one who has good understanding of English can learn pretty much any highest-level of knowledge almost for free. The SMBs and individuals are becoming more and more sophisticated, making them gradually become competent to be involved in the standardization process.

In short, ISO's practice is fine looking from a perspective of 10 years ago, but it's now wrong.

SF Bay area, used to commute to SF. Interestingly, every point you said was completely false for me:

> 1. Socializing is the primary activity that happens at work for the vast majority of workers. The gal or guy coming by your desk to "check in" or "see how your weekend was" etc... is literally where they find their social outlets and personal connections.

Not for me, or most of my cowoerks at Google. We absolutely would be doing more work by WFH. When we indeed going to hang out in the office with coworker, that's because we are bored by the work at hands, and need some outlet or simply resting. Not that we desire hanging out with coworkers.

> 2. Managers like to be able to watch their direct reports because it makes them feel more in control than they are

I never was in a team that managers need to see their reports. Most of the time, I often want to see my manager(s) in the office, but they were enjoying their meetings all day every day through the week.

> 3. The commuting routine, even if it's a nightmare, offers a sense of normalcy that most people have gotten used to and in a weird way rely on for grounding.

This sounds weird. I absolutely hate the commute. I am pretty sure that without the commute, my work output would double. Just by having those commute time being actual working hours.

I dont feel commuting is normal. Commuting isn't ideal for anyone. That's an unreasonable idea to me.

> 4. For a huge swath of Americans at least, work is an escape from the drudgery of the home.

That's somewhat true.

I indeed felt relaxed in office without being bothered by my children.

But now after all of us get used to the mode where my closed door means I am not to be disturbed, I absolutely love working from home. For example, if I need a rest, I can grab my younger son, and play with my older daughter. Fantastic experience! I think WFH have reshaped my relationship with my daughter because of more time together.

> Google certainly has the resources to fill the gap

Quite possibly they dont have the resource.

The eng culture today is dominanted by visible impact. Documents are great for everyone, every Googler knows that, but it just cannot be measured.

I wrote some of the most spectacular docs in my previous Google teams. Everyone loves it when they saw them. And no one mentioned them in any formal scenarios. And I am aware of the measurement rules well enough that I didn't bother to waste my time to promote them.

For me, I just care the feelings of the users so much that I personally feels rewarded, but for Google as a whole, there cannot be enough resources for documentation, by the design of the engineering system.

Nothing you cited are one percenter problem, they were branded as such to keep you from emotionally involved, which in turn might give you the mental strength to push for the right things to happen.

Any of these problems, can directly affect your children.

Let me tell you one example, my parents generation suffered much higher cancer rate than normal. That's caused by 40 years of rapid industrialization in China.

Think about it, these issues let limbo, will very likely make your retirement miserable in 20-30 years...

Chinese immigrant in US here:

I don't think it's a stretch to state the risk of tiktok being mass propaganda machine, from India's perspective.

Additionally, I don't take this as a particular politically charged statement against China, as quite a few replies stated. The reason is that China and India are on a very delicate geopolitical environment. The history is long and ambiguous. The current rivalry is subtle and dangerous. You just cannot give any chance in this situation. After all, China do not have any foreign social network services anyway. There is no reason to gift the opponent an potential upper hand.

The Pandora's box was formally opened in the Arab spring already. It was a well intended start, followed with an ugly development and messy prospect left for generations to suffer and struggle.

Now the whole idea of social networking services as an actual helper of connecting people with different cultural background roughly reduces to nil. That really was a buffer.

Lastly, I don't think it makes sense for any sovereign government to force their country's corporation to serve them directly.

That would immediately destroy any chance of those organizations to expand beyond their home country. Someone might argue Chinese firms are OK to that because they had a big market already. That's a totally unreasonable imagination on Chinese business men's brain structure. I never encountered any such Chinese business man who believe loyalty to CCP is higher than their profit. Other argument is that Chinese law can coerce, but all the laws are saying the company ought to corporate when necessary for the security of the country. I cannot imagine any sane political personnel can convince anyone else that offensive propaganda in peace time is necessary for national security. At least I did not see any such behavior or even minor behavior with hint of such reasoning from past history.

What's the real performance of the system so far?

Trend wise, applications are expanding more and more into controlling its whole life-cycle from binary to deployment. Repeatable build Containers VM Unikernels Standardized libraries

There are other means to share build artifacts or code across language boundary, not necessarily through availability from OS distros. For example, Docker registry solves this issue with container images and overlay FS.

I think one way or another, Google's model has been proven to work for large-scale (probably the largest C++ code base on earth) c++ code base. In that I have my full confidence of adopting Google's proven approach.

disclaimer: Work at google, but not the c++ team