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hujun commented on China Can't Win campbellramble.ai/p/china... · Posted by u/imastrategist

alganet · 2 months ago

I don't think China wants to fight.

What would Trump be without an enemy? I think that's the question we need to answer here. Can he thrive in a world in peace? I have difficulty imagining what he would do.

I would go even further: most countries in the world right now don't need an enemy. There is just a few of them that are defined by persistent war.

hujun · 2 months ago

really unfortunately, these few have capability and will to drag everybody else into war

hujun commented on Geedge and MESA leak: Analyzing the great firewall’s largest document leak gfw.report/blog/geedge_an... · Posted by u/yourapostasy

FridayoLeary · 3 months ago

My first thought was unfortunately whether the UK and other Western nations would copy this to build their own Firewalls. To be honest i still don't think it's a goal anyone is actively working towards and that's a bit of an hyperbolic take. But the truth is that we are moving more towards such a system then we are moving away.

My second thought is how badly Chinese communism must be doing that they need such a massive effort in order to prevent their citizens from accessing information and voicing dissent. We are lucky to be living in such a free society. Internet seems to be losing the battle against government interference and censorship and that is more of a bad thing then a good thing.

hujun · 3 months ago

"My second thought is how badly Chinese communism must be doing that they need such a massive effort in order to ..."

China have visa-free visit policy for many countries, you could actually go there to see how "bad" it is

https://www.china-briefing.com/news/china-visa-free-travel-p...

hujun commented on The elegance of movement in Silksong theahura.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/theahura

fishtoaster · 4 months ago

> Selling to businesses is very easy. You go to a business and you say "hey, you like making money?" And the business will say "why yes, I do like making money" and you will say "great, I can help you make more money.

This is so wrong it hurts. You'd be amazed at how often "I will save you $X, guaranteed, or your money back" is a non-starter when selling to companies.

I've spent a career very slowly gaining respect for enterprise sales people - going from "Ugh, sales people are all snakeoil salesmen" to "I can't believe what they do is even possible, much less regularly done" over about 20 years.

Selling software to large organizations involves finding a champion within the org, then figuring out the power structure within the org via an impressive sort of kremlinology. You have to figure out who loves your product in the org, who hates it, who can make the buying decision, whose approval is needed, who's handling the details of the contract, and so on. You need to understand the constellation of people across engineering, procurement, legal, leadership, and finance – and then understand the incentive structures for each.

Then you have to actually operate this whole complex political machine to get them to buy something. Even if it's self-evidently in the interest of the whole organization to do so, it's not an easy thing to do.

Anyway, all that to say: "b2b sales are easy" is... naive... to say the least.

hujun · 4 months ago

yes, and I think one big reason enterprise might not buy your product even if it is guaranteed to make/save $X is $ is often NOT most important thing to the people make buying decision, specially when it is not your own money to save or gain

hujun commented on argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for Go github.com/tdewolff/argp... · Posted by u/networked

latchkey · 9 months ago

Cobra https://github.com/spf13/cobra uses https://github.com/spf13/pflag, which supports GNU style flags. Cobra has been developed for many years now and has a ton of additional features, like automatically generating the autocompletions and has tons of unit tests.

I'd just use cobra.

hujun · 9 months ago

one thing I liked about cobra is the auto complete support, but I don't like the manual process of define command and parameter and not easy to extend, so I wrote https://github.com/hujun-open/myflags, it is built-on top of cobra but allow uses a struct to define all commands/args and also easily to extend support new types (even existing types)

hujun commented on The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide apnews.com/article/us-air... · Posted by u/geox

rqtwteye · 10 months ago

This is just nuts. Stuff like this is what made the US a leader. I bet next is to turn off GPS outside the US because no money. That's how you lose world leadership.

hujun · 10 months ago

nah, GPS is needed by US outside US as well, I bet someone will propose a 'great' idea to start charging for it

hujun commented on Broadcom, TSMC eye possible Intel deals to split storied chipmaker reuters.com/markets/deals... · Posted by u/0xbs0d

ThinkBeat · 10 months ago

Why would TSMC want to buy factories from Intel?

Intels plants are far from start of the art. Given their inability to compete and catch up with TSMC

hujun · 10 months ago

because Trump said TSMC is stealing US chip biz, and threaten 100% tariff [1]. I think this is TSMC's attempt to avoid tariff

[1]https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-intel-was-great-until-taiwa...

hujun commented on Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux previnder.com/tls-ca-linu... · Posted by u/previnder

hujun · 10 months ago

for user wants to have self hosted CA (for testing) with easy to use GUI, XCA is a great option

hujun commented on Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks [pdf] cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut00... · Posted by u/commandersaki

hujun · 10 months ago

one thing I agree that software/standard people like to churn, churn is a source of new income regardless if QC could break RSA or not in the future, people could make profit now

hujun commented on 50 Years of Travel Tips kk.org/thetechnium/50-yea... · Posted by u/thm

hujun · 10 months ago

one tip of the list I can't agree more is the www.seat61.com for train ticket, especially if you travel in Europe, where train is the most convenient way to travel between cities/nations but man is it such complex system, there are so many different rail companies and lines, this website gives a clear instruction on options, price and where to buy the ticket

hujun commented on OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5... · Posted by u/timsuchanek

bilekas · a year ago

> “It’s also extremely hard to rally a big talented research team to charge a new hill in the fog together,” he added. “This is the key to driving progress forward.”

Well I think DeepSeek releasing it open source and on an MIT license will rally the big talent. The open sourcing of a new technology has always driven progress in the past.

The last paragraph too is where OpenAi seems to be focusing their efforts..

> we engage in countermeasures to protect our IP, including a careful process for which frontier capabilities to include in released models ..

> ... we are working closely with the US government to best protect the most capable models from efforts by adversaries and competitors to take US technology.

So they'll go for getting DeepSeek banned like TikTok was now that a precedent has been set ?

hujun · a year ago

or sold to US I could totally see this happening soon