Andoryuuta

To add an actual source to this thread, a brief paper by researchers at the International Labour Organization (ILO) states that for knowledge workers globally "... there are between 644 and 997 million jobs, which represents between 19.6 per cent and 30.4 per cent of global employment respectively." [1]

[1]: Berg, Janine and Gmyrek, Pawel, Automation Hits the Knowledge Worker: ChatGPT and the Future of Work (April 21, 2023). UN Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (STI Forum) 2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4458221

Ah, I see. Yeah, that one definitely took me multiple attempts to see what it wanted.

I believe that the "enemies":

1. Must start with "#"

2. Must be exactly 6 hex digits

3. Must be lowercase

As far as I can tell, the first combat level enemies all start with "ALERT-" and have exactly 3 digits.

I believe it is very much a two-way ban, depending on the specific chips [0].

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/9/17/china-bans-tech-...

Semi-related: Firefox 142 was released a few days ago and is now using CRLite[0], which apparently only needs ~300kB a day for for the revocation lists in their new clubcard data-structure[1].

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2025/08/crlite-fast-private-and-co...

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/clubcard

    > You’ve asked us, “A hundred products is a lot. Can you please be more
    > prescriptive?” and “Can you make your pricing more straightforward?”
    >
    > We heard that feedback loud and clear.

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[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/enterprise/externa/

In the context of snooping on the SNI extension, you definitely can.

The SNI extension is sent unencrypted as part of the ClientHello (first part of the TLS handshake). Any router along the way see the hostname that the client provides in the SNI data, and can/could drop the packet if they so choose.

In order to function, CDNs have to act essentially as giant opt-in MITM services. When you setup a CDN in front of your site, you will either need to give them your cert, or let them issue a cert (e.g. via let's encrypt).

If they can serve your site with https normally, they can serve any content they want under it.

I'm not sure why it would be different from any other hosting provider. They do clarify what they consider abuse / forbidden content, and their operational policies though:

[1] https://pico.sh/abuse

[2] https://pico.sh/ops#code-of-content-publication

At a prior job (fairly recently, past ~5 years), we still used ColdFusion MX7 for some internal apps and reports. They had been around for a long time, so don't break what works I suppose. :)

The biggest issue with them was that _some_ feature (cfform IIRC) was generating flash .swf input forms, which broke after the flash player EOL. Switching it directly to the plain html version wasn't compatible, so we had to manually fix a bunch of code.

Is there something in specific that makes this easier to use in Rust projects compared to the Lua wrappers/bindings like mlua[0]? Or is it just an overall ergonomics thing?

Genuine question, as I don't have any prior experience embedding any scripting language into a Rust project.

[0] https://github.com/mlua-rs/mlua

Haha, this made me chuckle :)

I'll concede on the joylessness front. However, I assure you that all the posts on my personal blog are 100% artisanal human-made joyless posts! No AI needed.

Yeah, I should probably update my Hugo theme to include the date (not that I ever write anything on there anyways TBH). Also, the I changed domains not too long ago, so that probably added some more confusion.

I wrote this in 2020 apparently:

https://github.com/Andoryuuta/website/blob/b95a693c745688995...

There are multiple competitors though.

See: Azure Front Door, Amazon CloudFront, Google Cloud/Media CDN, Akamai, Fastly, BunnyCDN, and so on.

People are _choosing_ to use Cloudflare, whether that's based on cost, features, or even just brand recognition - but lack of options isn't the case.

> widely

Bullshit.

Dark Reader has >9 million total users across browsers as reported by the Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Mac app stores [1][2][3][4]. That is definitely a very small percentage of total web browser users - with some estimates putting chrome users at 3.2 billion(!)[5], but 9 million users isn't something to scoff at either.

FWIW - I completely agree that mckirk's comment was a great passing "fyi" that doesn't put pressure on the dev. I also think it relevant to the original post (not some tangential common complaint, nor against the HN guidelines).

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-reader/eimadpb...

[2] https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/dark-reade...

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/

[4] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dark-reader-for-safari/id14382...

[5] https://www.statista.com/statistics/543218/worldwide-interne...

I think people certainly have been trying for a while. In fact, I recall being on a (Skype?) call with my brother almost a decade ago while he was trying to write an SIMD library in Go. If I remember correctly, at that time, a bunch of the AVX instructions weren't even encodable in Go's Plan9 assembler - so we had to manually encode them as bytes [0].

The most complete library I've seen (though admittedly never used) uses CGO _partially_, with a neat hack to avoid the overhead that it comes with [1].

[0] https://github.com/slimsag/rand/blob/f1e8d464c0021a391d5cd64...

[1] https://github.com/alivanz/go-simd/

One big difference is the licensing. Docker Engine itself is apache licensed (and hence free to use at a company of any scale), but Docker Desktop requires a paid plan if your company has more than 250 employees or more than $10 million in annual revenue [0].

[0] https://docs.docker.com/engine/#licensing

I love words like this that have slang meanings that are basically the complete opposite meaning. Very similar to slang usage of "sick", "gnarly", "crazy", "insane", etc in (American?) English.

I'm choosing to believe that the egui (library) name is the "positive egui" form[0]. ;)

[0] https://unseen-japan.com/egui-japanese-meaning-change/

The former CEO does (Dennis Muilenburg), but not David Calhoun.

I'm not a lawyer, but the idea of #2 seems crazy to me.

Have there been any past case(s) where the country/nationality of minority owners of a company has been grounds for changing a ruling?

UG is now owned by (Muse Group), which also owns MuseScore, Audacity, StaffPad, etc.

They've had their fair share of controversy beyond just dark-patterns on UG. From adding telemetry into Audacity[0], causing a bunch of drama and multiple forks of Audacity, To (most notably, in my opinion) having their director of strategy, Daniel Ray, publicly threaten to report/have the Chinese government whisk away the developer of a Github repo for a MuseScore sheet music downloader[1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27727150

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27881539

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github.dev also requires being logged into github.com.

I think it's a play on "four score and seven years ago". "Four GPTs and seven years, eleven months, and nine days ago" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

I had a TIA(mini-stroke) a few years ago in my early 20s.

From what I understand: strokes are not more dangerous with age, but are much more likely to happen as you age.

I was told that the the risk factor is a matter of how quickly the stroke is identified and how quickly you are able to receive medical care after the onset. Faster response == less time for brain matter to die due lack of blood.

Yep. I don't believe it's mentioned in the linked article, but Herb has mentioned in other articles/talks that cppfront is intentionally named after / following the same model as C++, which originally had a C++ to C transpiler named cfront[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront

You'd be surprised, or perhaps horrified, by how cheap (self-proclaimed) human-based captcha solving services are.

If you just search for "captcha solving service" the first few results that come up offer 1000 solves of text-based captchas for <= $1 USD, (puzzle / JS browser challenge captchas are charged much higher).

Whether these are actually human based, or just impressive OCR services, it seems like they are still much more cost effective than GPT-4 is for now.

I could be wrong, but I think intentionally operating at a loss in order to make it impossible for others to compete would run afoul antitrust / predatory pricing laws in most countries.

Interesting! I've heard of winhex before, but I never knew it had a templating language.

I've been using 010 Editor, which similarly lets you define templates with c-like syntax, run it against a file, and edit the fields from there.

(Cross platform too, which is nice. It is a paid product though)

https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/

Statements like these only serve to polarize people, not encourage them to write safer code / use safer languages.

There are many places where C/C++ (and many other non-Rust languages) are still used, and where it would not be feasible at this time to fully rewrite them in rust.

Modern resources like the OP posted should be encouraged, as they actively teach about proper use of the language, and foot-guns to avoid (e.g. don't use c-style strings + strcpy, use smart pointers, etc).