Hacker News: surajama

New comment by surajama in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

surajama — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:54:21 +0000

That might stop European companies from buying inference directly from China. I don’t see how anyone could possibly stop them from taking an open-weight Chinese model and then modifying it and selling it to Americans as a European model.

Brian Armstrong Makes 'Open Call' for Ex-Doge Staff to Join Coinbase

surajama — Wed, 14 May 2025 14:17:58 +0000

Article URL: https://decrypt.co/319660/brian-armstrong-makes-open-call-for-ex-doge-staff-to-join-coinbase

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43984861

Points: 2

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New comment by surajama in "The Nature of Code (2nd Edition)"

surajama — Fri, 03 May 2024 20:20:50 +0000

The first edition was absolutely critical in helping me understand how to program anything more than simple scripts. I got hooked into the physics simulation portion and created a pretty fun Asteroids-inspired game.

Although OOP is going out of style, I think learning it is super important to understand how you can use layers of abstraction to build increasingly complex programs.

The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Startups

surajama — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:24:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/technology/silicon-valley-cryptocurrency-start-ups.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29639641

Points: 15

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New comment by surajama in "Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era"

surajama — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 21:38:23 +0000

The Canadian tech sector has completely changed over the past 5 years (which is when I first came to Canada). When I first got here, $100k+ salaries were rare unless you were very senior or at a select few companies. I am now looking for a job in Toronto after working for a FAANG for a few years and often see companies offering over $200k for mid-level positions. However I will say that level.fyi is a little unrepresentative because it's mainly people with impressive TCs posting on there.

New comment by surajama in "'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video]"

surajama — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:05:21 +0000

https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/canadas-gender-identi...

“could someone go to jail for using the wrong pronoun?

In the Criminal Code, which does not reference pronouns, Cossman says misusing pronouns alone would not constitute a criminal act.”

New comment by surajama in "Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites"

surajama — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 23:19:22 +0000

You are basically describing IPFS. Content-based addressing instead of location-based addressing. Allowing content to be decoupled from any single hosting platform

New comment by surajama in "Doctors and Nurses Are Running on Empty"

surajama — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:07:51 +0000

If they refuse to work during the greatest health crisis of the past century that is going to forever tarnish their record and may impact their ability to find a job in the future. Doctors often have hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans and don't have skills that can easily transfer to other lines of work. They don't have a choice but to work through this.

New comment by surajama in "Facebook Q3 2020"

surajama — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:44:02 +0000

From the link in the post Facebook has two different metrics: MAU (month average users) and MAP (monthly average people). They don't define these terms but MAU sounds like someone with a Facebook/IG/WhatsApp/etc account who logs in, which that 2.74B figure applies to.

A Timeline of Information Control on Chinese Social Media During Covid-19

surajama — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:49:58 +0000

Article URL: https://citizenlab.ca/2020/08/censored-contagion-ii-a-timeline-of-information-control-on-chinese-social-media-during-covid-19/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24276580

Points: 2

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New comment by surajama in "How China’s Expanding Fishing Fleet Is Depleting the World’s Oceans"

surajama — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:46:05 +0000

400-500 million people in India are vegetarian [1]. Are these all magical creatures?

[1] http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/the-food-habits-of-a-na...

Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event

surajama — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:16:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/zoom-closes-chinese-user-account-tiananmen-square-f218fed1-69af-4bdd-aac4-7eaf67f34084.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23480918

Points: 2003

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Taiwan is making democracy work again. It's time we paid attention

surajama — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:23:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/taiwan-democracy-social-media

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21649198

Points: 3

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New comment by surajama in "Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong"

surajama — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 14:39:08 +0000

The US's relationship with Taiwan is much more nuanced than that. Taiwan-US relations are actually at the closest they've ever been. For example:

1. US sells $8B of fighter jets to Taiwan (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/approves-8bn-sale-66-...)

2. US passes the TAIPEI act, which outlines the US's strategy in dissuading Taiwan's few remaining diplomatic allies from switching recognition to China. (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/340...)

3. Visa free travel in the US for Taiwanese citizens (https://www.export.gov/article?id=Taiwan-Visa-Requirements)

The US might officially not recognize Taiwan as a country, but would it sell $8B of military equipment to a country it truly believed to be China?

New comment by surajama in "Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong"

surajama — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 22:19:03 +0000

The current government of Taiwan actually openly disagrees with the one China policy [1]. This is a major reason China has ramped up their pressure on Taiwan.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/a...