skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. SWIFT is just helps to make transaction fast. There are alternatives that include Russian and Chinese systems. And you can always use phone, fax, etc.

Disconnecting Russia from SWIFT will a) create short term hiccup in transaction clearing, b) reduce SWIFT revenues c) force Russia to switch oil/gas contracts to rouble or yuan. This in the long run is not good for euro as a reserve currency and will hurt petrodollar.
Drugs have always been a part of the music scene. I guarantee its corporatization and the focus on profits. Greed ruins nearly everything.
Such an obvious crack for Russia to drive a wedge in.
While not practical for you, it's not priced out for every single small team or individual user ever. If I recall correctly, there's no minimum seat requirement still. You're changing the position of the goal post on your original comment :).

Original comment from you:

> Actually I take that back, my favorite feature is that I can host my own private instance. Gitlab gets even better if you have admin access to the system. And that's one feature Github will probably take a while to copy, if ever.
At least she woke up before her husband died. Can you imagine waking up with the news that he passed after taking care of her for 30+ years?
Seems like he expected Ukranian leaders to fold and get into negotiations in a matter of days. The longer they hold the harder it will become for Russia to reap any benefits from the conflict.
> Elephants are not the easygoing, kind, loving creatures that people believe them to be.

Do people actually think that? My experience with wild African elephants is that your best course of action is to walk softly, keep your distance, and don't piss them off. They're scary, and smart. When they look you in the eye, they very clearly are saying, "I can crush you like a bug, little one". Our Land Cruiser got charged by a pissed off cow one afternoon. Her tusk went through the rear sheet metal of the car, and lifted the rear wheels off the ground.
But if it always does that, it messes up the heat sink's efficiency when you're indoors and warm.
> You don't need batteries per se, only energy storage systems.

That's true, but there are synergies. We will need lots and lots of batteries for electrifying the transportation. There's lots of R&D money in battery research. Much less in other types of storage. There's all the reasons to believe batteries will become cheaper in the long run by a factor of 2, or even more [1]. There are also a few advantages that batteries have over other types of storage: they don't have moving parts, they have quite high round-trip efficiency, their maintenance is cheap, the failure mode is not that bad.

[1] https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/79236.pdf
DSL - domain specific languages. Juuust in case anyone wasn't aware. ;)

BTW if you don't recognize an acronym in an article or title -- just ask. Someone here always knows, no matter how obscure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language
Putin can have painted himself into a corner without necessarily being a buffoon.
It won’t. But it might make them sell it cheaper somewhere else, resulting in lower spend on the army. Also, think of all Russian businesses loosing money. Their owners will be pushing the government to fix the situation. At the end of the day, money is power, you don’t want to loose it.
likely but it's an open secret at this point that nato is non-reciprocally sharing intel with ukraine, this is completely unprecendted. look at intelligence aircraft signalling their presence on ads-b, including forte11/12 drones in the black sea - ukrainians are getting data from them, no other explanation for their effectiveness - they seem to be aware of every move of russian forces, every inbound airstrike, etc.
> they burn billions of dollars per day in foreign exchange

Well, given the sanctions they might as well burn these dollars/euros. So maybe it's not that bad to pump their currency rate here.
What are the hospital bills like in cases like this?
With the discontinuation of POTS, is the copper being used for some other purpose?
Yeah because what happened 40+ years ago with Soviet Union military technology is totally what should guide current day policy because they both have 'nuclear' in the name.
Not really, unless we can figure out how to make sun shine or wind blow 24/7. The intermittency is fundamental problem of solar and wind, and unless we figure out cheap storage, prices of electricity will not go down.
This is known as CPFP (Child pays for parent)
> People understand those with talent are setting the steps to be performed and are the sleuths with the hound nose for fraud. Clients are paying paying for that talent and the experience.

This is too generous. The talent and experience didn’t prevent 1,100 of their own people from cheating. They didn’t prevent Enron, Bernie Madoff.

“The guy with hammer” eventually gets promoted to Manager or Partner and then continues to see everything as a nail. But the hammer in this case is bunch of checkboxes.

It’s incredible to see in my organization that Internal Audit now has some responsibility reviewing corporate internet security. Auditors running around with CISSP certificates. The result is a bunch of checkboxes.

The auditor report on financial statements is now just a required check box without meaning. The hound noses for fraud are now the active investors, which try to untangle the obfuscated financial statements. When was the last time you saw anyone use Net Income as a indicator. Everyone tries to undo the accounting adjustments and look at EBITDA.
Yes, how awful to support the logistical needs of society and modern infrastructure like power and running water. You don’t live on an island where food and potable water magically appear.
We take the general concept of heating people, not the space, to heart for our outdoor swimming pool. While most other folks heat their pool, we go ahead and swim in the cold water... but we buy everyone in the family a wetsuit. A few hundred dollars on wetsuits each year is far better than many hundreds on propane every month.
NOBUS vulns are a fantasy, and the NSA's dual goals of strengthening and weakening security are impossible to truly resolve
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Can anyone with more familiarity with these systems chime in whether this is not true?
The speculation is that the CIA has stealth drones that are hitting key Russian targets at night. There is also incredible intel filtering down to Ukrainian command and control. Ukrainian special forces now behind enemy lines are likely doing severe damage to supply lines, guided with excellent instructions.
Supposed video of one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM1PlldjfHs
To keep people from selling the ruble and buying dollars and euros because they fear their money will become worthless.

If Russians stop accepting rubles and use foreign currency for transactions, the Russian govt stockpile of rubles, and it's ability to print more rubles, becomes worthless. They will need foreign currency to pay people.
We do want to expand the number of ecosystems we support, but need to balance that with making sure the data on existing ecosystems is complete and high quality.

Right now, our focus is on going deep for a smaller number of ecosystems before going broad. The intention is that anyone using one of the languages in the current list feels “fully covered” by the data in the database.
Yes and I've seen the transition happen before my eyes as i have visited China at least couple of times a year ever since the early 2010s till literally the weekend before the Pandemic blew up. I still remember the air pollution of old (which made me decide to NOT take up a role with a promotion offered to me there at one point as my family members are asthmatic) and how one of my direct reports there used to get continuous coughing bouts every winter and hasn't really had them in the last couple of years.
Pretty sure Bank of America, Chase and Citibank didn’t get disconnected from SWIFT during that war you’re mentioning

If they had, it definitely would have the same effect
What are the economics of large scale LNG shipments versus a pipeline? This is at best a lifeline, not an alternative.

It is also a very attractive target.
As an American living outside of America, getting non-US investment accounts is impossible, and most US banks don’t want non-residents investing, and lying about your address can get you in hot water with the IRS (are you, or are you not living in the US?).

Crypto companies follows much the same pattern and in some cases you can buy crypto but can’t cash out. If you could buy a game with bitcoin and get cash-money in a refund, this is quite viable.

We haven’t even started talking about money laundering…
It's what goes on under the table in Washington. Same thing for Australia. The Australian Government isn't hardly as crafty as the US though so it's more apparent.
Maybe I’m stupid but did he not calculate the cost of this? Their stock market crumbled, the ruble crumbled, SWIFT kicked out. All that for Ukraine? What is so valuable there to him, I really still don’t get it. Is he just a crazy person? So what if Ukraine joins NATO. Is NATO going to launch an offensive on Russia? No. I don’t understand how his mind works.
Not much of a loss on 20 year old gear. Or newer gear which is widely deployed or exported.
> They don't have media that talks about the war their country started

Stop spreading misinformation, this is not true.

This is basically the only thing that all russian-speaking media outlets are talking about. Plus, there is nothing preventing one from opening reddit and seeing what the western media has to say.

On the other hand, people in the West seem to be completely (and willingly!) disconnected from the situation in ru-net.
CNN is one source of news for me.

turned into a tabloid over the years, full of advertisements

The “native ads” (ads styled the same way as content) on the front page of the website are indeed quite annoying - but that’s where it stops. It’s not like I (nor anyone, I hope) see one of those ads and the consequence is that I believe CNN has some position on mesothelioma lawsuits or how to moisturize my elbows.

and "my wife left me for bigfoot" stories.

I haven’t seen that. Can you think of any examples?
It can consider whatever it wants, but it's not exactly in a position to wage a second one.

It seems that the outcome of this week is a full reprise of the Cold War, with the first and second world economies operating in a largely disjoint manner. The USSR didn't have access to SWIFT either, so it sounds like it'll have to suck it up.
I'm going put my dang hat on and say please follow up with substantive arguments if you're going to lead with hyperbolic/insulting questions.
I don't understand this complaint. Are you suggesting that you'd prefer to let Russia oppress and kill so that you can have cheaper gas for a little while?
> will not reap any benefits

Keeping Russia at bay?
a boatload of gucci moccasins and german luxury cars for a tanker full of crude, obviously.
I see the content thanks to one of the people who responded to me.
Didn't that already happen when the Ukraine split away from Russia in the 90s? It would be funny if it happened again.
I feel sad for the people in Ukraine, and in Russia, who don't deserve any of this.
Hah, no it doesn't; anyone can mint what they claim is a season ticket right now. The buyer still has to verify that what they're purchasing is genuine.

On the other hand, it's probably easier for Coachella to maintain a public list of valid ticket NFTs than it is for them to maintain a P2P marketplace for items that change hands very rarely. And also it means that any fraud that occurs is Not Their Problem.
Elon Musk just announced (26 Feb 2022 22:23 UTC) "Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route." [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1497701484003213317
I wouldn't underestimate them to implement business measures to make certain models obsolete without any legitimate technical reason.

Remember, Verizon was a staunch proponent of CDMA adoption across the USA because it ensured vendor lock-in and non-portability across carriers. Yay capitalism!
My armchair analysis:

Losing SWIFT access is bad but it's definitely not a death knell (estimated to cause around 5% GDP contraction initially but they could probably get by with the alternatives). The central bank thing seems much worse because an 80% collapse in the ruble would result in lots of angry Russians who had their savings wiped out. I read that Russia has a lot of its debt denominated in rubles so I guess it would be beneficial in that regard. Seems like Russia did not really prepare for this part or maybe I'm missing something.
I think it's absolutely splendid the way a 17 day old account with just 2 posts here, both about the Ukraine invasion, has such insight about the deceptive propaganda uses of simulation games! Could you please show us some examples?
Not a German, but their official language on "turning point" is very precise. The close relationships between government and industry means everyone has accepted to take their medicine. Germans are better at doing this than others.
It seems like he severely underestimated the willingness of Ukraine to fight back.

Seems familiar...
As someone who has been dealing with mysterious gut issues since May, I am glad this sort of research is being done, I just wish it were something with more clear answers and solutions for suffering people.
(and yes, I realize there are practical implications to the spreadsheet-ization of performance reviews and compensation adjustments that this could make challenging; I'd wonder whether allowing peers to adjust each other's compensation based on pull/merge requests could be worth some experimentation)
That’s the point. They can. Are you reading this as me thinking the collusion on minimum fee levels between miners being a bad outcome? I think it’s going to become necessary as the block reward goes to zero, and therefore it’s necessary and good for the system. It’s nice that Bitcoin (including BCH in “Bitcoin”) has a the block orphaning mechanism for enforcing cooperation in this manner. It’s much stronger than enforcement mechanisms available to cartels such as OPEC.
One can read about the Olkiluoto 3 EPR and it just seems very complex. The turbine has hydrogen cooling for example. (Can't seem to locate it anymore, but there was a really good pdf explaining the plant.)

It's a mystery to me why the CO2 turbines haven't gone forward? The talk has been there for 15 years.
there's always WASM
You mean miner fees? How's that a 100% margin after hardware and electricity? Sure if the network transfers to a PoS/ETH2 model those operating costs go down, but so will transaction fees, hence revenue, with the planned sharding, transaction wrapping/bundling (I'm forgetting the terminology here) and burning, no? It also seems necessary to gut those transaction costs if ETH wants to be useful. Even then, that staking model isn't exactly costless either for nodes, they do have to freeze assets therefore giving it opportunity cost and making their goods highly illiquid.

I'd add, if your revenue figure is right, 12B profit (let's be generous) isn't exactly something to drool about on a 250B base. A 5% yield is of course fine if sustainable, arguably high end (in line with sectors like oil, but below sin sectors and specific stocks), but I'd bet 5% is not the sort of returns the crypto crowd is aiming for, not even close. There are safer ways to earn 5%.
This is not a matter of throwing a switch: reducing dependence on SWIFT has been a priority for Russia for a while now but it's been nearly a year since the EU parliament said this disconnection should be a consequence of invasion and these systems still do not offer many counterparties. This disconnection means a painful period of adjustment for Russia.

Cf. https://carnegiemoscow.org/commentary/84634
That’s awesome to hear. And I hear you on Elixir/Erlang. I have personal skin in the game on that one - in my Dependabot days I created the open source Elixir Advisory Database and very much want to transition that to the GitHub Advisory Database (and get alerts working).

https://github.com/dependabot/elixir-security-advisories
China had little to do with the root causes, which largely relate to simple economies of scale and massive R&D investments. You can look at various log plots and the same tends continue for decades. If anything I would suggest Germany as the country that really subsidized early solar to reach the point of economic viability, almost everything after that point was just economics and market fluctuations. That said as of 2020 China does have 32% of global solar capacity installed, which has pushed prices even lower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics#/media...

The slight price bump around 2002-2005 relates to them starting to be financially viable with subsides resulting in a shortage, but factories where being spun up worldwide to meet demand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics#/media...

While panel costs have continued to drop they stopped being a significant issue for adoption years ago. Prices that used to be incidental such as labor, inverters, and grid connections now make up an increasing share of insulation costs.
Legacy building. The strongman who longs for Soviet.
What's the real difference between the west's economic retaliation versus a military retaliation?

Won't Russia decide that it is being attacked either way?

Seems to me totally isolating Russia from the world financial system means they have nothing left to lose and might lead to the war expanding.
The US government is currently very much not involved. And sure, the ua gov will have a GitLab somewhere, but their time is limited and GitLab does not seem like a great value.
Cut off the supply of natural gas to Europe?
Whatever happened to those irak would-be migrants stuck in the polish-belarus border
This is a debate that raged for decades in the security community. Most people now agree that more info helps the white-hats more than it does the black-hats. It does make it easier for black-hats and gray-hats to gather info, and it does help script kiddies who write shotgun scripts, but when the info is private what often happens is the vulns get found and passed around the bad guy communities, while the good guys are unaware and caught off guard when they get hit. It also makes it drastically harder for good guys to figure out how the attacker got in when the info isn't public.
It's not a corporate merger. Who is going to make Russia pay Ukraine's debt?
> China has made 1 exception, they will still import russian wheat and that's it.

Are you saying China won't import Russian oil?
They also reportedly destroyed every rail line leading to Moscow which is very impressive given that they’re surrounded
Here I fixed the title:

“Landlords charging more for rent than a hotel”
That 2004-2007 period is really quite incredible from the perspective of Steve Jobs. To have that many balls up in the air simultaneously and getting every decision, even in hindsight, correct while raising children and recovering from his pancreatic cancer diagnosis scare. On top of that he was under undoubtedly intense pressure from internal feuds, external competitors (Motorola), buyout negotiations (Disney), suppliers (Foxconn) and the telecom industry (AT&T).

This was a man at the peak of his life.
Russia doesn’t have the same stockpiles of Precision Guided Munitions, they don’t have the same infantry level access to NVGs, they have some high speed high tech gear, but limited amounts compared to Americans.
Elm may be niche (even if The Elm Architecture no longer is), but it's pretty great to code with. Especially since the backend is Go (nice enough, but way less fun).

I'm convinced statically typed functional languages are significantly more productive.
Those are improvements over free-form tags and I especially like the namespaces for attribute/field names, that's clever. The enterprise software my company makes has decent support for defining and applying structured tags like business terms and attribute values to the data objects our customers manage, and our users do make use of those when filtering and searching.

But (in my experience) many people still seem to gravitate towards storing and navigating objects hierarchically. I can think of a few possible reasons:

First, some people intuitively think of a data element as having a location in an information space. That is, they seem to intuitively remember "where" something is by piggy-backing on spatial memory in a way that tags don't seem to trigger.

Second, navigating a hierarchy involves a sequence of constrained choices, like a wizard. Having a sequence of decisions can be especially helpful for novices. It also generally takes a predictable number of steps to locate an item which can be preferable to something that is faster on average but has slow edge cases.

Third, at each level of the hierarchy you can often display all of the options meaning we can rely on recognition over recall[1].

(You could constrain yourself to hierarchical tags and use hierarchy-like positional language such as "object is in baz" at which point I'd consider it a hierarchy.)

Of course relying on tags has plenty of upsides -- typically faster, better mental model for overlapping sets -- and large-scale data storage systems need both. But at the end of the day they don't seem to be a replacement for hierarchical systems for most people.

[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/recognition-and-recall/
There still has to be a covered entity involved. The HIPAA business associate rules are for business associates of covered entities.

In the case of a police department collecting DNA data for analysis by a police forensic lab there is no covered entity involved.

Other entities besides most state and local law enforcement that often have medical data but that are not covered by HIPAA include most private employers, state agencies such as child protective services, and most schools and school districts [1].

[1] https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr/privacy/hipaa/un...
John Spencer, 'Chair of Urban Warfare Studies, Modern War Institute', gives a twitter lecture to Ukrainians on urban warfare tactics to employ:

https://twitter.com/SpencerGuard/status/1497583307504046087
> The talented business-woman, who had run two apron shops near Toronto, Canada, before her illness, fell into a coma on Nov 22, 1963, aged 50.

Given that the woman was from Toronto, probably $0.
Putin has nobody around him that he fully trusts, that trust him fully. It's all fear driven, so there isn't anybody that will tell him that something will not work. Yes men, all of them.
This is copied from TheOnion.com, surely?
Please don't cross into personal attack or post any more flamewar comments to HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
He's building a legacy alright. But not the one he thought.
Interesting! Guessing you live somewhere fairly warm?
There's a general misunderstanding that RT_PREEMPT somehow lowers latency. This is not at all true as RT_PREEMPT is about assured determinism not latency. Non-RT Linux has demonstrably lower latency but not determinism: response times can be very spiky (sometimes fast - often faster than RT, sometimes very slow).
Please do not feed flamewars on HN, no matter how bad another comment is or you feel it is.

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do the Russians really have numerical superiority in the theater? I thought Ukraine had 250,000 troops (which includes the conscripts) and Russia had 150,000 in the area.
But if the price keeps falling for electricity generation, isn’t there some sort of break-even point where you overcome the increased distribution costs?
We famously tried policies of appeasement for dictators in Europe looking to expand their borders in the past, without success.