skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tad concerned about this, although I’m not sure it impacts commodities. If / When that occurs I think we may run into major issues.

1. The only reason the dollar is the world currency is we effectively force commodity exchanges in that currency

2. Russia is a large resource exporter (one of the largest and largest energy exporter to EU). Iran is a massive exporter. And China is the largest consumer.

3. Russia and China can now dictate how they conduct transactions. They’ll say gold, Bitcoin, Ruble w.e.

4. That’ll cause dollar to drop like a rock in value. As suddenly no one will need trillions in dollars any more to do transactions.

5. Separately, Russia said they’d view any sanction as an act of war. Which could result in a massive escalation.

6 Russia has been preparing for this. Switched to conduct trade with China, has EU by the balls in winter via energy and has a massive gold reserve
My understanding was that China had restricted to some degree dollar denominated trading.

So, I think they can move their yuan freely to China still, but USD and Euros are harder to move (though not impossible?) in China
As far as I know France uses mostly electrical heating and most of that is powered by nuclear.

Had other industrial nations acted like France in the 70s our problems, health wise, climate change wise and geopolitical would be about 1000x better.
China is planning on learning how to make nuclear reactors cheaper
or we would want Mexico to alley with China. Better example IMHO is if Russia allied with Cuba and moved missiles there.
> Sanctions on Iran worked pretty well until Trump torpedoed the nuclear deal. They're understandably leery of restarting it now.

Reminds me of an article I read this morning (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-27/war-on-ukraine-where-...):

> [Under Obama] Iran made a fortune out of its nuclear deal — halting but not abandoning its pursuit of nuclear weapons — and used the windfall to fund terrorism in the Middle East.

I'm sure they'd love a restart under the same terms.
Payment by check is really not that common in US retail commerce.

2021 numbers from the Fed indicate 2% of in-person payments are via check, and I suspect that skews very heavily toward older customers.

For comparison: 34% debit card, 31% credit card, 28% cash, 4% "other".

https://www.frbsf.org/cash/publications/fed-notes/2021/may/2...
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=wZH_N7cAAAAJ...

he's had his name on publications over the past few years while still doing the podcast
The police are the strong arm of the government.
As it is rumored that Putin is actually (aside from the top 13s), the richest person in the world.

He seized all the oligarch's assets for himeself and his cronies, then requires % and payment in every endevour...

Just like Xi...

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I personally thought he was just going after getting eastern Ukraine in order to obtain Odessa for the port.

I'd like to get confirmation on the bombing of the US Biolabs, though.... even though after it was reported that they were bombed, the US removed the documents from the site which talked about the US funding the joint Biolabs

Thankfully all the documents were archived prior :-) [0]

Now I am really unsure where the heck this is heading -- these are some really unprecedented events...

Is it that the world saw that the Bear was actually weak and everyone is turning on Russia because he was not playing along with WEF and the Great Reset?

So they need to knock russia out?

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[0] https://newspunch.com/us-embassy-quietly-deletes-all-ukraine...
I would like i can believe in this. :*(
Ukraine has claimed to have caught Russians disguised as Ukrainian soldiers, which I think actually qualifies as a true war crime under international treaty.
A lot of this is about giving people hope.

Hope is so important during a siege.

I am Quite confused why you don’t understand that?
I much prefer having the whole house heated. I have read about Japanese using this concept and it always sounds horrible.

I don't think it is even too horrible as long as there is proper insulation in place and technology used makes sense.
> QoL impact on the average Russian

What is the "average" Russian exactly?
Moscow and St. Petersburg is only ~10% of the population.

~20% is completely rural (Boratesque) and the remainder (from what I've seen from vloggers) is _extremely_ depressing isolated small cities.
Russia claimed that their rockets destroyed Ukrainian planes and anti-aircraft defense in the first strike. And then they started loosing their own planes, tanks and trains to Ukrainian air forces. Planes simply weren't where Russians thought they would be, since there is large supply of leaks from Russian side, and Ukrainian military knew exactly when they would attack(they ended up striking an hour late tbh).
Cant you keep the space above freezing? Just not as warm as people would prefer
I use Afi.ai & keep all my important files on a one-drive backup folder/sharepoint.

For both work (business owner) and personal.
I've been thinking about the inverse problem. I live in a very warm city. Air conditioning (cooling spaces) is the norm, but tons of money are spent with installations, maintenance and the monthly electricity bill. The new houses are designed with zero consideration about ventilation, designers seem to take for granted that you are going to buy an AC system. Oftentimes, a very simple change in the project would be enough to improve ventilation, but apparently they just don't think about it.

Some months ago I moved into an apartment with good ventilation and started to do some simple experiments directing the air flow and staying in places where it's more concentrated and the wind is slightly faster, improving the heat remotion. I use, at most, a fan, and didn't feel the need for an air conditioner so far.

I wonder how much energy we could be saving. I'd love to find an article as thorough as this one but about air cooling.
My country faces no threat from Russia.
I was happy to find that with Go, I can target my low-end NAS, which runs a Marvell Armada CPU. The binaries run just fine.

(If this is easy with other compiled languages, let me know. Maybe gcc?)
What’s missing is the exit strategy. Putin can never back down now. The hope is that his military chiefs turn on him and force him out, so where’s the carrot for them?
Very hard. Lots of stuff out of certification unless they were mothballed with the explicit goal of being restartable, if the fuel has been removed it will be weeks at a minimum, but more likely months assuming that it is possible at all.
Looks like there may be some sort of bug. I clicked on "Hash Table" using Brave on iOS and it opened about 50 tabs, mostly "about:blank" but a number of others like stack overflow, Wikipedia, Wolfram, etc
That is too calculating. The public responds to emotions, and for better or worse that narrative is being driven by TikTok and Twitter in realtime. Flattened cities, corpses, and streams of refugees will force the western leaders to do something. It won't look good at home in Russia either, which is probably why it hasn't happened (yet).
Learned behavior. He took Crimea without firing a shot. Took Georgia and it didn’t even make the 6 o’clock news. Slowly expanded his empire while the West was preoccupied with Iraq and Afghanistan.

Even up until the tanks started rolling in did Europe not even consider the possibility of invasion to be real. Just last Monday was the Ukrainian President asking for calm and not to overreact.
Um...The Military Industrial Complex did. And fyi The MIC is not a conspiracy theory.

You're naive to think that there are not empire builders and control freaks within our borders. And they are comfortable with most any means given their ends.

Nobody? No way.
> All that for Ukraine?

They don't have Ukraine.
Among the 10 largest economies in 2050, the US will be the only Western one. "Pretty much utterly dominant" is laughably ignorant.
Run Slack and MS Teams at the same time
Coronavirus came from Wuhan market and not Chinese lab, new studies say
I'm not convinced bitcoin solves _any_ problems at all. It isn't anonymous at all, exchanges are the gatekeepers of the whole system and they have to comply with local laws. Canada was found to be directing exchanges to not allow cashing out of certain coins and putting the coins through a mixer just automatically blacklists them from being cashed out.

Bitcoin does not provide sufficient privacy which allows exchanges to freeze tainted coins and authorities to track down real identities.
> Switched to conduct trade with China

China and the EU are not trading the same commodities with Russia though.
Adapting the largest supply chains takes years, decades even.
NATO is already literally on his doorstep without Ukraine. All he has done is demonstrate why NATO is still necessary.
That’s what happens if police is preferentially treated without any checks and balances. They do what gets them paid more.
The Soviet Union didn't, in Afghanistan.
Who doesn't? Near zero temperatures outside mean that it gets cold awfully quickly and with sub-zero temperatures there is lot of risks with pipes and so on.
But if he annexes Ukraine or installs a puppet regime there, doesn't he get NATO on his doorstep anyways? Romania and Poland are both NATO members IIRC.
Of the three options of don't invade, invade a little, or invade the whole country, invading a little would allow Ukraine to mount an attack against the breakaway regions and the West was bound to supply advanced weapons to make sure they would be successful at it. So when Putin said they were going to secure the breakaway regions my first thoughts was that there would be no way to do that unless you neutralize the entirety of Ukraine.
Police are people too. They choose to join the police force. They choose to carry out orders. If they disapprove of their orders then they're free to resign, quietly or in protest, and free to choose to join the protesters or to lay low and try to move on with their lives.
Right. BLM has absolutely nothing to do with a Marxist organisation. How are they planning to seize industry, means of production, and institute a dictatorship of the proletariat? So no, they are not Marxist (note that them not being a Marxist organisation does not preclude some Marxist people to be part of it). “Marxist” is not a label you put on things you don’t like.

Besides, the parent post mentioned “far more act of political violence and destruction”, which you did not address at all. Pointing out that one group did some material damage tells nothing if you don’t look at what the other did. The vast majority of terror events, both in the US and in Europe, are due to either white supremacists or Muslim fundamentalists. You can start with these sources. They cover 2 years, but you’ll have pointers for the rest of the last 2 decades:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/white-supremac...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/domestic-terr...
That's the most tony stark thing i've ever read.
China's voting behavior in the security council has been consistently predictable, to the point that Chinese people would laugh at the abstentions at almost every noteworthy issue.

Reference:
https://jamestown.org/program/chinas-voting-behavior-in-the-...
Ahh, that makes sense. I was thinking of #1 being primarily external focused.
I used it at a previous job and it was fantastic. The first-class threads are the way chat should work, the UX with the message river is brilliant, the keyboard shortcuts make everything two keystrokes away and it's extremely fast.

In comparison, I hate having to use Slack every day today. It's slow as shit, whenever I type a keystroke too fast (e.g. editing a previous message) it always gets into a weird state (usually edits the message before last and messes up the edits) and it encourages rapid-fire, thoughtless replies. Search also sucks and it's impossible to find anything. I fucking hate Slack.
The 6,465 is curated advisories that apply to open source packages in the ecosystems listed. NVD’s 170,804 is all CVEs issued, many of which (the vast majority) don’t apply to open source packages.

(Not trying to claim the GitHub Advisory Database is perfectly complete - it’s not, and achieving that is part of why we’ve opened it up to community contributions. Just that the comparison with everything in the NVD isn’t apples to apples - the databases have different scopes.)
Maybe the eu should have listened to us administration that relying on so much Russian energy is a short term win at a long term cost.
That article's clearly an op-ed:

> The Trump presidency. A man who exploited the worst of America, trashed alliances, cosied up to despots yet was a symptom of a system already poisonous.

"Made a fortune" describes the lifting of sanctions as part of the deal; Iran got a variety of its frozen assets back. That we wasted that leverage (and years of multi-national diplomacy) by blowing up the deal unilaterally for no good reason is not Iran's fault.
Johns Hopkins curators examine musical mystery linked to Edgar Allan Poe
China played a key role, but so did Germany, Japan, Australia and the US

https://news.mit.edu/2018/explaining-dropping-solar-cost-112...
Russia disinformation isn't worth the bits it's proc generated with. You shouldn't be repeating it.

"Magic CIA Drones" is stealing the credit from self sacrificing self defense malitia.
Interesting. So at a pretty large expense do you think it’s something that could be done before next winter?
If Russia wins the war the government will probably not claim that Ukraine is part of Russia. They can make a couple of puppet states that take Ukraine's old debt plus the cost of the Russian invasion.
Ventilation doesn't help much with humidity, which frequently overlaps with the heat.

I get by without AC in the northern Midwest, but I'd be inclined to get a window unit if there was more than a few uncomfortable nights a year.
If you read through his speech the other day, he actually thinks the Soviets betrayed Russia and laid the groundwork for the formation of Ukraine
Wow, a diplomat from Kenya made a speech therefore all of Africa cares. And they say Americans think the universe revolves around their orbit.
What Measarshimer is missing in his presentation is that Russia's plan with Ukraine is not to be a neutral country but rather a puppet like Belarus.

I smell bias.
The consensus in this thread is that Putin has gone crazy. But I think there's a rational angle that we must accept.

What's the cost of this to Putin? Think about it carefully -- for Putin himself, there is more or less only an upside.

1. China unfortunately is choosing to side with Russia. Realistically, we can't do much to interfere with trade between China and Russia. That means that sanctions that we're going to impose will have less of an effect.

(I hope this doesn't read as political flamewar, since it's my intent just to state the facts.)

2. I am rooting for Ukraine, and I think they have a chance at victory. But the reality is that the battle is far from over. And in the worst case, if Putin loses, he still has the option of employing a tactical nuke as a last resort. My point here is that even in the worst case for Putin, he still believes he can win, no matter what.

I'm hoping that Putin will lose, and does try to use a nuke, because that seems the most likely path to Putin finally being assassinated. But until that moment comes, we're witnessing the outcome of an unhinged person who is also acting rationally. (Both can be true simultaneously.)
In addition to the ones already mentioned in this thread, I’d also recommend The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll and The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.
...prequels...

Pearls before swine. The prequels were a work of art, expanding and deepening the meaning of the originals.
As a swimming experience, you're getting what you pay for.
"Russia Would Consider Cutting off from SWIFT as Act of War: Medvedev"

https://russiabusinesstoday.com/economy/russia-would-conside...
Also remember not to ever use AC. That is also big savings on energy.
If you're in Europe then I would advise against taking bets that there are no nuclear weapons in Russia with the name of your capital on them.
My implication is that there’s no way to link up DNA to an individual without having a reference point. A hospital or lab (both covered entities) would provide this data (perhaps under subpoena?), and would ostensibly be working directly with the forensics lab in these cases. How else would they link up DNA (which is by itself not PHI) to an identity?
Disagree. Will accelerate the adoption of renewables and non oil energy sources.

Where oil is needed it’ll encourage sourcing diversification
That was before nuclear weapons though.
So basically nothing would change, it's not like it wasn't the case up until now.
Honestly, having lived in the Middle East for 22 years, I’m not sure what Iran-sponsored terrorism is being talked about here. The only plausible thing is the Yemeni conflict, and that’s more about US allies Saudi and UAE bombing the shit out of a poor country (Yemen).
Imagine it’ll be a bit of a cat and mouse game.

But it’ll be easy for these countries to observe when the volume of a particular bank jumps significantly. When that happens, that bank will be added to the list.

At some point, banks not on the list may not be willing to allow money to be passed through them (or they may restrict the flows to a very small amount).

It’ll be a game of cat and mouse now
It definitely should, I'm not sure making your A/C work harder deliberately makes sense economically, I guess you'd have to do the math. PVT or even just thermal panels (i.e. rolls of garden hose painted black in a glass covered box) would make a lot of sense if you're in a colder climate though.

Your system should give a an overview of your yearly input/output and any drift of the well temperature right?
> What's the real difference between the west's economic retaliation versus a military retaliation?

It is considerably easier to reestablish SWIFT transaction processing than it is to return the dead to life.

> 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.

As a dictator Putin might place zero value on Russian life, as you've done in your comment, but it is unlikely that everyone on the Russian side will see it that way.
One detail in the case of Venezuela is that most sanctions were to individual people and companies associated with the government, not to the entire population.
I think this is deeply ignorant, no matter which European country you're in. You're already being operated against.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep21140.10

And I hope for example you don't rely on any submarine cables to talk to other continents.
Is anyone here able to translate what he is saying ?
I was surprised that there is a tag for explainable on the article and this is the only article on that website about explainable AI. I remember but cannot find at the moment an opinion piece by Jaron Lanier on the subject that was pretty compelling argument (to me as self driving outsider) that it should be required for self driving technology.
Famously after the initial presentation BlackBerry had a meeting of important people and decided the whole thing had been faked because it was impossible.

The original iPhone (and to a degree the iPad) really seemed to have been right at the edge of what was technologically possible.
Brilliant! Now there is something that is of valid help to the Ukrainians.
ACM is moving to an open publishing model. acmQUEUE is open.

(Not speaking for ACM)
The users should change this by changing the email provider. Worked for me.
Total transmission loss in the US is about 6%.
Same. Not a rhetorical question.

Wildfires are the clear analogue. I wonder if it actually works that way. I would guess not. The size and strength of a massive earthquake is just so hard to understand. That the Richter scale is logarithmic is just incredible. A few small quakes here and there seem unlikely to meaningfully detract from its power.
Just curious, what part of the world do you live in?

I've lived in cities where we experience anything between below zero to 120F throughout the year. I couldn't imagine not having AC/Heating in those areas even with more efficient ventilation/insulation.
You’re absolutely right, I definitely abused “average” there. Really I meant the middle classes and up.

I mean the places which matter, big cities like Moscow, St Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don.

The Boratesque villagers won’t be the ones who might overthrow the government, but the city-dwellers could.
You're definitely repeating some of the misinformation in the form of reductionism. The situation with WMDs in Iraq was definitely wrong, but doesn't rise to lies. Two different countries were saying that they suspected these weapons were in Iraq, where Al Qaeda was heavily present, and often protected. The cherry on top was that in the 1980s Saddam had not only manufactured chemical weapons but he used them as well. Saddam refused to allow UN investigators in, and thus we had the Iraq war. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_des...

One of the things I also remember from this time period was about why 9/11 happened even though some individual agencies had bits of information. It was discovered these agencies didn't share information so as to protect it. FISA and The Dept of Homeland Security are direct reflections of their own internal criticism.

I was raised never to trust the government. I served in Afghanistan under two different presidents and I definitely get what it's like to witness lies and misinformation spewed across TV stations while your reality on the ground is very different. These days I have a healthy distrust for government still, however, I expect to see reports and trajectories change when those institutions mess things up. This is what composes "trust" for me now. That's the best I feel that I can expect from any large bureaucratic organization government or otherwise.
Couldn't we encourage people to take converted container ships to the middle east, ie Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco or South America to enjoy an enjoyable warm "winter" ? All that heavy "German" industry producing cars and other such stuff could take a break too... like during the initial Covid outbreak, skies would be clearer... Also how about using our shit producing plumbing system to provide a lot of biogas.... Adversity is the mother of invention... I'm just glad that so far it's been a warmish February... but I sure as hell wish this serves as an example for an enlightened future when we stop buying stuff from autocratic regimes like MBS and China to get them to change... but one can only dream that the geriatric leadership realises that it can save the planet from burning up and not give in to Putin (ironically his name means "little" in Romanian)
Look up the term "Lebensraum" from WWII era. That might put this into context for you.
This isn't that much... If you want more you can go to your favorite cloud provider and spin up many 100s of gigs of ram in an instant. Of course it will be slower in the cloud. But still... Not much use for this on a personal machine IMO