I think everyone seemed to just forget that this happened in the last two generations, every Chinese has fresh memories of:
1. How they just largely self funded their own liberation wars against the Qing, the KMT funded by the Americans and a coup by the USSR
2. How opium was everywhere and sold by so and so merchants overseas and then they solved it
3. Then they recovered most of the guns in the country
4. Then they took over western technology.
And while these happened under the coordination of the Chinese government, it was largely self-directed by the Chinese people. When you talk about totalitarianism, you are not describing anything the Chinese are going through, and if anything the CPC are a balancing force between the world and the Chinese. Foreign tactics like “We don’t hate X, only their government” doesn’t work here because when X is Chinese, the CPC is a kitten collectively reared by the Chinese to keep themselves in check and it has every characteristic of the Chinese.
You are talking to people who, when compared to Americans or Europeans were fighting for their destinies while Germany played hooky twice in their attempt to nationalise Europe while committing crimes on humanity.
If Indonesia cared about long term growth then they wouldn’t have allowed forest burning in the first place
Interesting timing
Oct 24: Indonesia cuts natural gas exports to Singapore
Oct 26: Saudi Arabia announces plans to store crude oil in Singapore from 2027.
> SG diversifying energy supply beyond its neighbours
> Saudi gains a strategic storage and trading hub in Asia
> SG strengthens its position as a regional energy hub
> LNG provides alternatives to Indonesian pipeline gas
> Indonesia risks losing long-term export demand as SG diversifies
Singapore is playing the long game, building energy infrastructure, diversifying suppliers and reducing reliance on any single country
The easiest way to lose a customer is to teach them how to live without you
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백업 서버마저 실시간으로 랜섬웨어에 같이 걸려 있었음 같은 내부 네트워크 망에 연결되어 있던 게 화근이었음 그 순간 머리가 하얗게 질리면서 진짜 길바닥에 토할 것 같았음
다행히 남은 마지막 카드가 하나 있었음
매주 수요일 퇴근길에 외장하드에 따로 회사 주요 데이터를 수동으로 백업받아서 내 자리 서랍 깊숙이 넣어두는 습관이 있었음 귀찮아서 몇 번 빼먹을 뻔했던 그 외장하드였음
떨리는 손으로 서랍을 열어보니까 다행히 그 외장하드가 고스란히 들어있었음 혹시나 싶어 랜선이 뽑힌 감염 안 된 노트북에 외장하드를 연결해서 내부를 확인했음 천만다행으로 수요일 오후까지의 데이터가 아주 멀쩡하게 남아있었음
토요일 새벽부터 하루 종일 밤을 새워가며 사무실 PC 40대를 전부 포맷하고, 서버를 새로 구축한 뒤 수요일 자 데이터로 복구를 진행했음
결국 목요일과 금요일 이틀 치 데이터는 날아갔음 하지만 그건 월요일 아침에 출근한 직원들이 보관 중이던 종이 서류와 이메일 발송 내역을 일일이 확인하며 손으로 다시 입력해서 메꿨음 예정된 출고는 오후로 조금 밀리긴 했지만 단 한 건의 구멍도 없이 무사히 나갔음
이후 한국인터넷진흥원(KISA)에 랜섬웨어 피해 신고를 접수했고 경찰청 사이버수사대에서도 정황 확인차 연락이 왔음
나중에 로그를 추적해서 감염 원인을 찾아보니까, 영업팀 직원 한 명이 택배 조회 메일에 첨부된 악성 파일을 무심코 열어본 게 시작이었음 그 직원은 월요일 아침에 나한테 찾아와서 미안하다며 거의 울먹거렸음
사장님은 사건이 다 수습되고 나서 "그때 비트코인 안 보내길 진짜 잘했다"고 허탈하게 웃으며 한마디 하셨음
그리고 그다지 길지 않은 치사에 이어, 다음 주에 내 책상 위에 외장하드 두 개를 더 사서 올려주셨음 이제부터는 매일 요일별로 백업을 받으라고 하셨음
지금 내 자리 서랍 속에는 월, 수, 금 이름표가 붙은 외장하드 세 개가 든든하게 들어있음
This is not correct. Russia doesn’t want AI to displace the already fragile working class, nor do they want to involve the Chinese in restructuring their infrastructure. I’d bet most of their land has already been repurposed militarily since the USSR and inviting the Chinese in would spill all their military secrets. They may sell off Siberia if the Chinese asks for it, for data centers, but inviting them to Moscow? Hell no.
Quando un cinese capisce la situazione russa meglio di tutti i cosiddetti esperti dei talk show:
«Guardando la situazione attuale, questa operazione della Russia è come avere in mano una mano di partenza perfetta e riuscire a giocarsela fino a mandare tutto a puttane.
Se non avesse invaso l’Ucraina, oggi, nel grande poker globale dell’intelligenza artificiale, oltre agli Stati Uniti e alla Cina, con ogni probabilità ci sarebbe stata anche la Russia.
Per sviluppare l’IA e addestrare modelli di grandi dimensioni, la logica di fondo è: consumare una quantità enorme di elettricità, raffreddare tutto e mettere insieme tonnellate di hardware. Negli ultimi due anni, i responsabili dei data center di tutto il mondo si lamentano delle bollette della luce e dei costi dei sistemi di raffreddamento. E la Russia? È come se Dio stesso le avesse servito tutto su un piatto d’argento: in Siberia basta aprire la finestra per avere un condizionatore naturale di prima classe. Nel Paese ci sono acqua, energia nucleare e gas a basso costo. Non a caso, quando si faceva mining di criptovalute, tutti sceglievano la Siberia.
Inoltre, i russi sono forti in matematica e negli algoritmi. Nelle competizioni internazionali di programmazione e su Kaggle, nel campo del machine learning, i russi fanno regolarmente a pezzi la concorrenza. E, al di fuori degli Stati Uniti e della Cina, la Russia è uno dei pochi Paesi ad aver sviluppato un proprio ecosistema digitale completo: per le ricerche c’è Yandex, per i social network VK, oltre a Telegram. E adesso c’è Nebius, la nuova stella emergente nel settore della potenza di calcolo, le cui azioni sono schizzate alle stelle sulla borsa americana. Il suo nucleo è costituito proprio dagli stessi russi che lavoravano in Yandex.
Se, dopo la pandemia, la Russia avesse messo a disposizione terreni, aria fredda ed elettricità a basso costo, per poi invitare la Cina — quella macchina da guerra delle infrastrutture — a contribuire alla costruzione di linee ad alta tensione, stabilimenti e reti in fibra ottica, attirando anche capitali europei per costruire fabbriche di server, i russi avrebbero potuto trasformarsi nella più grande «fabbrica di supercalcolo» dell’Eurasia. Mentre Stati Uniti e Cina si affrontavano come divinità, la Russia avrebbe potuto stare in mezzo e riscuotere pedaggi da entrambe le parti.
E invece com’è andata a finire? Putin si è dato una pacca sulla coscia e ha deciso: no, io devo conquistare quei due pezzetti di terra.
La mente di Putin è rimasta definitivamente intrappolata nel vecchio sogno zarista ottocentesco dell’«espansione dei confini». Che importanza ha avere uno sbocco sul mare o una zona cuscinetto militare? Anche se fossero davvero necessari, esistono mille modi per ottenerli. Ma siamo nel XXI secolo! La lotta per il dominio mondiale oggi si gioca sulle catene di approvvigionamento dei semiconduttori, sugli algoritmi più avanzati e sulla conquista dei migliori talenti nel settore high-tech. E tu vai a impantanarti nel Donbass per un paio di pezzi di terra fangosa e qualche acciaieria abbandonata, ipotecando in cambio il futuro dell’intero Paese.
Non appena sono risuonati i primi spari, tutto è crollato. I programmatori e gli ingegneri più brillanti sono scappati in una sola notte. Il nucleo tecnologico di Yandex ha dovuto sottoporsi a una brutale amputazione per non affondare: ha reciso i legami con la madrepatria per potersi ricostruire in Europa sotto il nome di Nebius. Putin ha terrorizzato le persone più lungimiranti del Paese, trasformandole in rifugiati e fondatori di startup all’estero.
Alla vigilia dell’esplosione dell’intelligenza artificiale, il mondo intero corre freneticamente per aumentare la propria capacità di calcolo e cerca disperatamente un biglietto per la nuova rivoluzione industriale. E il capo della Russia trascina decine di migliaia di persone a sprofondare nel fango, combattendo una guerra di posizione nello stile della Prima guerra mondiale, cento anni dopo».
Ai psychosis at its finest
1. Opensource mostly consists of single contributor projects. Do I need to remind folks of rsync and other popular projects? The xkcd meme about Nebraska?
2. They somehow also banned non English speaking users if there is suspected AI usage?
IDK about you but programmers need a life, and agent driven development is probably the closest we get to that.
Why are these the same folk who encouraging anti-AI sentiment? Somehow believing human surgery can replace natural organs is not the same as believing that AI can replace human thought? (nearly impossible given how much machinery is even involved, just maintaining a healthy bacterial system is impossible with current technology because we don’t even understand how symbiosis work between us and the bacterial film on our bodies, and we don’t even understand the human brain!)
Seems more related to anti intellectualism than any semblance of liberalism.
Side note is that Turkish/Arabic Islam is to toxic that countries that have imported culture from them are doomed to fail, Re: Indonesia and North Malaysia.
The original point of Islam, if you take out most of the Hadiths and the additional content added later by the Arabs, is
1. Don’t engage in senseless violence.
2. Don’t fleece people, don’t gamble, don’t do drugs, don’t do alcohol.
3. Learn from China, get as much knowledge as possible and improve oneself
4. Don’t disturb or disrespect other ways of life.
And you look across most muslim countries and it is really hard to see anywhere where this is practiced except maybe ironically where the muslims are embedded in Chinese communities like China or Singapore. Even Malaysia has a Shisha problem.
people are making too much noise over this. Which one do you think can last longer:
A nation that has the backing of both China and the US, who also manages the datacenters for both
Or the other with a dysfunctional stock market, burning forests, a government that is set out to face civil unrest? Cutting off something you sell is called idiocy, because you ain’t getting that market back unless you lower your prices further than before. Everyone is itching to diversify. America tried that with China, remember?
小国生存，如履薄冰。
新加坡刚追究印尼跨境烟霾责任，印尼能源部长就放话，要减少对“不尊重印尼”的国家的能源出口。
紧接着，印尼在10月24日削减对新加坡约9%的管道天然气供应。是不是在掐新加坡脖子？反正印尼官方说是优先满足国内需求。
但这件事确实戳中新加坡的软肋。我们约95%的电力靠天然气发电，天然气又几乎全部依赖进口。约57%通过船运从全球采购，43%靠印尼和马来西亚的管道输送。邻国一旦减供，我们就得寻找其他来源补上。不是明天就停电，但能源成本和供应保障都会面对压力。
再来看总理黄循财@LawrenceWongST 今年的外交动作：与澳洲、纽西兰加强关键物资供应保障；与泰国谈能源合作；到文莱深化国防关系；最近又跑卡塔尔、阿联酋，谈能源、贸易与投资。这些合作不是等印尼减供才开始布局的。
都知道，新加坡总理薪水高，高薪当然要有高要求。至少从这些行程和协议，可以具体看到总理是不是在做工。有句话说：群众的眼睛是雪亮的。
小国没有天然资源。只有人力资源。
Idk, i have been saying this since Sonnet 4, but everyone is larping on how to use agents effectively .
Anthropic 最近开始建议企业「少用点 Subagent」，甚至把一些专家 Agent 重新合并回主 Agent Loop。
他们在多个企业项目中发现，单 Agent + Skills 的效果经常比复杂的多 Agent 架构更好。有个客户改成单 Loop 后，运行速度甚至快了约 2 倍。
原因很容易理解。
多个 Agent 之间反复交接任务，每次都要传递和总结 Context，信息容易丢失，延迟和成本也跟着增加。
Anthropic 现在更推荐让一个主 Agent 负责规划和执行，需要时再动态加载 Skills 和 Tools，把业务流程和领域知识留在可复用的组件里。
不过文章里有个细节值得关注。
他们曾把客服系统里的 Subagent 合并，延迟确实降低了，却让一个原本能完成的任务失败了，因为主 Agent 漏掉了向物流专家确认送达时间这一步。
所以作者强调，每合并一个 Subagent，都要用端到端 Eval 验证，尤其要检查哪些原本通过的任务突然失败了。
当然，并行研究、独立验证、Context 隔离这些场景，Subagent 依然有价值。
这样看来以后设计 Multi-Agent，可能得先问问自己，每个 Subagent 真的需要独立的 Context 和执行循环吗？
Anthropic 还开源了一套迁移工具，可以帮你分析现有架构，逐步合并 Subagent，并比较改动前后的质量、成本和延迟。很推荐做 Agent 工程的朋友试试。
原文：claude.com/resources/article…
Wtf
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Reading code is a superpower. In the age of AI, intelligence is here but scaling is uneven. You will die of scale. You need to survive scale. And that means being very efficient and effective in how you scale.
Sometimes you gotta wonder what sort of marketing these folks are doing on these half baked tech platforms
People are paying money for devex they don’t even use. Just use AWS.
It's 9:57 am. Been up all night. Postiz is back up!
Been a very hard night, and I feel like I let everybody down.
All the comments I got were very encouraging; nobody scolded me. Thank you so much for that!
During the day, a major PHP vulnerability was discovered, affecting about half the web.
Deployments on @railway stopped, and I assumed it was because of that, even though you do want deployments to upload the latest WordPress fix.
Everybody pinged Railway on Discord, and there was no answer- crickets... and people started getting extremely worried, especially because of >> PHP.
Then I got an email from Anthropic and Stripe saying my API keys were compromised. Still no answer from Railway, but I didn't take the risk; I rotated them and put Postiz down.
We all, even in Discord, already understood there was a leak, but Railway reported it only one hour later.
So the goal was to rotate all 140 keys (that's wild), because each key is duplicated across different containers (scattered). Some have the same variable with a different value (like different DB pool connections)
I was overwhelmed; it was too much, and I froze. I didn't know what to do.
I am lying on my Airbnb bed, but I know I need to get into sitting mode to be more serious, so I go to the kitchen and sit on a chair.
I asked claude to vibe code a system that:
- Will take all the keys and values from Railway (using their MCP)
- Will have an easy way to update all of them or one by one. Based on containers.
- Give me categories so I can be more organized. and prioritize.
I also started rotating keys from 12 am to 7 am.
All while Railway is still down and deployments are paused.
Once I finished I used Railway MCP to update all the env variables. if AI didn't exists I don't know how I could have done it.
Then, around 8:40am to 9:00am, we started deploying everything back to Railway to minimize downtime as much as possible.
And now everything is up.
I feel bad because DevRels at Railway sweet-talked me into staying after each incident and promised things wouldn't happen again; after two incidents, I should have migrated.
I couldn't find a platform I enjoyed as much as Railway, so I didn't want to switch.
Railway problems will happen again, and I will do everything I can to make sure they don't affect me like that anymore. The main problem was the lack of communication and 17 hours of downtime, which isn't realistic.
In the next few days, we will come up with a solid plan to migrate from Railway to a different service, trust is gone.
Also, Postiz grew from $300k to $303k MRR overnight. If you tried to cancel your subscription and couldn't, please contact [email protected], and they'll issue a full refund (super sorry about that).
This week, will be security week for everybody!
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I finally found the source of this strange Chinese-Turkish internet skirmish.
I'm German here. I train myself horse riding in China and know not only Uyghurs but also Kazakh, Kirghis and Turkmen as friends. Those central Asian ethnicity groups all identify themselves as citizens of their sovereign states. I have not met a single Uyghur who does not consider himself or herself Chinese.
It is actually quite interesting for Turkey: Germany has very large Turkish immigration population, and Turkish government has been very long accused by German authority of promoting Turkish nationalism in Germany, e. g. "funding religious groups, spreading anti-democracy disinformation in Germany" and so.
I for long thought it is some false accusation made from German political circle individuals. But seeing how some Turkish community always encourage the minorities living in one countries to "leave" that country: This is very dangerous, and now I believe the accusations made by German authority is likely true.
This is very inappropriate, and it crosses the line by both European and Chinese standards. – at Republic of Korea
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