skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The sanctions have already had a profound impact on the market valuations of Russian companies"

And all that means is that somebody else can pick up the physical capital for next to nothing. Which is what the nationalisation process Putin announced allows. Essentially if the West pulls out, then the Russians will confiscate everything physical and carry on producing in the same way. All that is lost is the monetary value extraction to the West, which is then diverted to the Russian Treasury.

"Their ability to conduct a military campaign is going to be severely limited by the lack of available inputs and capital as well, in a mechanical way."

How is it? What are the Russians, Russia being a country that can put people on the International Space Station, lacking in physical terms? They always have as much money as they require because they have their own currency and it has a floating exchange rate which means that it always circulates within the Russian currency area no matter what.

That means Russia can provide whatever liquidity is required to allow internal production to continue, and the Russian tax system - which requires payment in rubles - can be relied upon to drive the system.

Russia doesn't need up to date Western equipment. Guns and bullets made 1980s style will still kill people very effectively.

So they have all the available physical inputs, and all the necessary physical capital. Monetary capital is never an issue in a nation with its own currency. Plus if the West doesn't want Russia's exports, they can move people from that industry to the War Machine.

The only people that lose there is the West. Less natural resources in circulation, higher prices, less output. China, on the other hand, gets an energy discount which will be reflected in the cost of Chinese output.

I doubt very much that sanctions will impede the Russians. What it may do is get the West to re-evaluate what they believe. In particular whether 'the mighty dollar' really is that mighty after all.

What people seem to forget is that the value of the ruble in US dollars is utterly irrelevant to Russians in Russia. The price of their bread in rubles is unlike to change because of it, nor is the availability of that bread.

If we want to stop Russia, we have to put boots on the ground. I'm not sure the West is ready to face up to that uncomfortable truth.
Doubt it. The US will never get punishment for Iraq and Afghanistan so the precedent of we go to war because we really want to will stay. The lesson will be - be better prepared.
The process takes much longer due to political issues not technical ones. The ongoing price crunch and energy sanctions have allowed Finland to speed up the process. The same thing happened with vaccine production and COVID. Normally, vaccines take much longer to develop, test, and approve. If we followed your logic, we wouldn't bother with lockdowns since a vaccine could take a decade to develop.
It's such an absurd tradeoff for the Omicron variant, which is less deadly than the flu[1]. COVID isn't ever going away. China seems to be willing to pay a giant recurring cost, eternally, for an infection less harmful than the flu. Insane.

1. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1501773203261165570
Can we trust disease statistics coming out of a system where everybody from regular citizens to local officials is incentivized to not report possible COVID cases?

There is a reason fever medication in China had been selling so well that the government wanted to control its sales (don’t know if they ended up going there or not), while the country reported almost no COVID.
EU countries have been incredibly incompetent in their handling of covid. What you're saying about expecting to travel freely is just copium. Pretty much all EU leadership should be fired and possibly prosecuted. I'm European myself btw.
> tough to explain McDonald's and Coca Cola, both profit seeking companies, voluntarily choosing to withdraw operations from their country.

It's not: Sanctions from "the west" have crashed the ruble... profit seeking companies can no longer make profit, and have to close.

I'm not convinced these companies are leaving on moral grounds. Purely the currency crash.
All that attitude does is that it puts the potential neutrals in Russia on Putin's side, after all the West is the side that has taken Coca Cola and bank credits and Big Macs out of their reach, why should they side with the Russians that approve of those people? at the limit they're traitors.

The West will learn about the futility of all this pretty soon, but I doubt they'll change course, it's too late now, it will mean showing that "Putin has won".
The only message these sanctions are generate is more hate towards the west.
People in the west think that most Russians appreciate the attitude of the west towards Russia. In fact it's the total opposite. Not entirely strange, since a lot of people feel the effect of sanctions for a long time.
The current sanctions will not result in hate towards the Russian government, but more hate towards us the west.
Don't forget good bicycle infrastructure
I wonder why is nuclear power controversed? I believe that is one of the most clean forms of energy and leaving hydro and coal aside, one of the cheapest.

Is it because of political activism and some occult groups of interest which have their own agenda?
https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/llvmpipe.html
Maybe some induction stoves use a thermostat, but my 15 year old one is definitely power.
Have you actually looked at app previews for other apps, especially ones featured on the App Store? They’re mostly all like that, like fast-paced trailers or glossy ads. What you’re describing is more like a tutorial video which does not fit into the time constraints of app previews.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30659070
My leading contender is KeePassXC.
https://keepassxc.org
It was no more obviously a troll move than seeing if they could join the EU. If they had been given a “Yes”, even with many, many conditions they’d probably have jumped at it. The prospect of EU membership was a big enough carrot for the Turkish military to relinquish control of the state to the electorate. NATO and EU membership? That would have been massive. Even EFTA membership would have been enormous. There was a brief period when Russia and its leadership sure looked like they wanted to be a normal country. Could have been a con. If not it was an enormous squandered opportunity.
But I believe that was a very different situation at that time, with it not already spread globally and being less infectious.
> Hopefully WFH gains acceptance and becomes normalized

Why would this suddenly happen now considering it didn't happen anywhere over the past 2 years?
It's not like Google or Amazon is better in customer friendliness. (Amazon at least has a working customer service where they get you a refund even if they have absolutely no idea wtf happened to your precious order.)
Rand's idea that money is an instrument of peace has some historical basis but has also been contradicted by history pretty much forever. Cue to thousands of examples, including money-fueled coups in Ancient Rome, public or private wars paid for by banker's money in Renaissance Italy, the Medici ending the Florentine republic by strength of money, bankers bankrolling both Franco and Adolf Hitler, etc.
> The way you would know this to be true is when professional kitchens are defaulting to induction instead of gas.

That is not how you would know that. There are plenty of industries where people stick to the "tried and true" (for various reasons, some of which might even be reasonable) and chose to neglect efficiency gains or long term health of either their employees or customers.
Yes, offices become quarantine sites if someone test positive.
I'd say for the foreseeable future I simply want to focus training and running trained models, I don't plan to do anything at scale like launch a business, so the creating and training aspect is the one I want and probably should only focus on at first either way.

But I like your approach of stitching together various vendors so they fit your use case, I think it can be really flexible but also probably more expensive and slightly harder to manage... I think it can be worth the tradeoff though.

Thank you for the input!
24/7 isn't true at all. People keep repeating this like it's 2020. There's an ongoing energy crisis that started in 2021. Low wind speeds across all of Europe were a massive trigger.
Yeah, but Hitler had the Wehrmacht and all the competence there. Putin only has… whoever is responsible for that megaconvoy stalled for a week, in uncontrolled airspace.
Substitution won't be so hard if only Western nations impose sanctions.
You will see countries like China stepping in, and becoming an intermediary.
Nobody dares imposing sanctions on them though, so they won't be as effective.
My take on the productivity paradox is software is a form of literacy.

We have put a pen and paper onto every desktop and every pocket but almost no-one can read or write.

Edit: And those that can find that only a tiny fraction of the fold is written down (accessible through the virtual cyber world). Amazon's secret to success was forcing every service to live behind a "public" API.
Time to remind that friend what happened after Brutus. Or Lorenzino/Lorenzaccio, for that matter.
> What about the authors and publishers? What about the bookstores! People will just steal and/or destroy the books! People don’t even read anymore! I am quite confident they would never get built in any major western democracy today.

Unfortunately modern (digital) libraries cannot currently be built in a way that would deliver on many of the greatest inherent benefits of digital technology (unlimited readers, free delivery to anyone in the world via the internet, unlimited sharing and copying, automatic translation into readers' preferred languages, no limits on number of books taken out or reading time, etc.) without running afoul of copyright law.
Bitwarden also works with self-hosted servers.
I live in Europe. Here there are not "plenty" very well paid senior roles, especially not for .NET

Also take into account I'm looking for some serious amount of money in order to work there for 3-5 years and then retire.

Or maybe a US company that hires remote and pays well? Until now they all prefer to hire in the same timezone so I've had no luck so far (and I haven't seen a remote salary as good as a faang one)
And 8K deaths since 2020: https://covid19.who.int/region/wpro/country/cn

How the WHO can report these numbers with a straight face is beyond me.
Because we only had 2-3 months of lockdown before, after that it's been business as usual. But to contain omicron you need literally everyone to stay at home, and also more will need to as I think it will be impossible to not be a second degree contact a month from now.
That's the same on reddit and HN. You can use downvote to mean "I disagree with this opinion but it is a valuable one" or "this comment is rubbish".
He's saying that while we were once in the correct lane (right side for US drivers) we are drifting to the opposite lane.

He's probably also being intentionally inflammatory given the association of left and progressive politics.
But it worked quite well so far.

Now it is told to any other countries that if you plan to go with aggression to threaten the core interests of the west, better be prepared to the consequences of a complete cut from Western economy as whole.

That is a pretty good example that Russia is setting.

And it will have long lasting effect.
How is pointing out hypocrisy a fallacy? You may say that it is a dodgy rhetorical device, but it is not fallacious in any way.
You make a good point there. Personally I’ve struggled quite a bit moving from one off models to taking them to production. Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by none of the platforms being robust enough?
Nuclear can produce less too, it's just kind of pointless since as you say fuel is cheap.
Yeah that solution would work. Definitely better than the current state.
I totally agree with learning from others do but I don't think you'll get too much use out of asking for honest feedback.

Either people won't trust it's 100% anonymous, won't see an upside for themselves or maybe bad actors.
Seriously, Omicron is so mild, why is everyone going on lockdown? This is finally how everyone can cheaply get herd immunity!
One person can click to see different subforums on those sites, and often does.

One FB/Twitter, you can only see stuff posted by your friends, friends of friends, specific people whose names/usernames you know and have searched for, groups you have chosen to join, and ads they show you. The other 99.99% of content is invisible to you.
This is pretty damning. What is actually needed to find a serious CVE in Linux:

One night a few weeks back, I was bored. [...] so I decided to do some random (kernel) code review.

So how does he decide which direction to look?

... a few notable bugs in the netfilter kernel subsystem ... relatively complex subsystem that’s widely available - the perfect target

That's an awfully low bar.
Chinese companies are already shying away because they don't want to be sanctioned themselves. China is not self-sufficient enough that it can actively thumb its nose at American sanctions. There are specific institutions in China for bypassing sanctions, but they are a small minority and must be kept separate to avoid cross-contamination. This minimizes their utility.

Also, Chinese support of Russia has cooled after this embarassing fiasco. China is more interested in not getting Russian dirt on them atm, since they have a housing and building crisis to manage, as well as a half-finished cultural revolution and self-sufficiency push that makes them more vulnerable for the moment. Now is not a good time for this shit.
Yes, that's their plan of 15 years, coming to fruition. Look at Mac support, Windows 11 needing TPM, etc.
As I mentioned, policy will change after this as it becomes clear that it is not fit for omicron.
The author has nothing to offer for either of the main arguments against .Net:

1. It remains a walled-garden language, subject to Microsoft whims. The only reason Java ever took off was that it offered people freedom from Microsoft sharecropping. It is deeply foolish to yoke yourself and your career to Microsoft again: Microsoft will always ensure they get the major benefits on the platform, not you.

2. It is still almost as badly designed, as a language, as Java.
If you're rich or can afford the months of devoting your life to that, yes.
Sometimes as short as 20 I believe, although 70 is common. They do own the building, but yes the land is always on leasehold terms I believe. Will the government renew it? They say yes, but ...
Was it a boycott or indifference?
> All the stock examples using built in mnist or whatever gloss over the most important parts of setting up the data

Could you elaborate on this / provide a link to a tutorial explaining what’s going on?
You are betraying your preconceptions here if you think masks are the difference between success and failure and QR codes and “health codes” are an acceptable and normal way to live.

That all sounds quite dystopian and of questionable value to me given what we know about Omnicron and the vaccine efficacy.
Omicron could be the best thing that happened -- a mild, very infectious variant that gives everyone NATURAL herd immunity to the entire coronavirus family. Why are politicians so afraid of it?
I see that some of this hinges on the federal Do Not Call list. I wish you could do the same for political spam. I want to vote in primaries, and I want to not get spammed with “vote for X” all the time. But as far as I can tell that’s not possible anymore since I stupidly gave my phone number when registering to vote.
Conservancy won't settle without GPL compliance according to their principles:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.htm...

Its pretty clear that Vizio violated the GPL, the question to be answered by the case is who gets to enforce the GPL.

If Conservancy win this case, then they get the precedent set that any recipient of GPLed binaries gets to sue for GPL compliance. That precedent applies to any person or company that distributes Linux or other copyleft code on hardware or elsewhere. That means any person who buys Linux hardware can sue if it doesn't come with source code. Potentially that means many more possibilities of GPL compliance suits, maybe even class action ones. The threat of that and the actual suits in turn will hopefully lead to much higher amounts of GPL compliance.

If Conservancy lose this case, then the copyright holders still get to sue for GPL compliance and I assume Conservancy will switch to pursuing Vizio in this way.
They do this so more countries like Finland would join NATO. There is really no other reason.
Product idea; adhesive patches with physical switch/knob/slider that can be applied over touch interfaces.
>SMR nuclear reactors, if they ever become mainstream, would be an excellent source of clean heat and electricity for cities. Current nuclear power plants are located (by design) too far from cities for it to be economical to pipe their waste heat to where it's needed.

I don't believe that waste heat is plenty. Here, in Romania, we use the waste heat from the nuclear power plant as district heating but that is enough for a small town near it.
Writes Putin
> You seem really angry about this

Well, as I have tried to indicate before, only the words are mine, the tone and emotion you attribute to them while reading are entirely yours and are limited by your experience with people. If you are still watching superhero movies with engagement, it is very likely that you are attributing the emotions of those overblown characters to people you encounter.

There is no anger and definitely no yelling here.
The people operating these plants at gun point are truly amazing.
The chinese people are probably more conservative and will likely self-lockdown if the gov't doesn't handle the situation well by locking down early.

I think it's probably a better idea to give the populous assurances and demonstrate that outbreaks are contained, so that the populous return after the lockdown with confidence to go out and resume economic activity.
The sanctions against Russia are not just economic. They’re also being sanctioned from all sporting events, football, gymnastics, ice skating, Formula 1. How do you “substitute” that?
Transportation in the US aid particularly bad, but I’m not convinced that there has been a reduction in overall energy usage due to WFH.

For one thing, I haven’t seen any news outlet, or other source that I frequent, show that the US overall consumed less energy over the past 2 years.

If WFH was truly saving us energy it would have shown up in the overall numbers somewhere, and if it did, I suspect that would have been very big news.

And I can see mechanisms why WFH may not actually have led to an energy consumption decline.

The biggest to me would be the fact that most Americans live in single family homes with poor insulation. These require a lot of energy for heating and cooling. As opposed to the almost certainly more energy conserving office building spaces most of these White collar workers work in.

In addition, these office spaces are obviously cooling far less volume per capita than a home air conditioning system would have to for even 1-2 people working out of even the smallest apartment in a big city.

And heating/cooling is one of the biggest consumers of energy in the US.

That’s just 1. However, there’s probably other stuff. So, for example, WFH may not actually have reduced all that many trips. Because most people tend to run errands on their way back to work, and pick up food on their way to work at a drive in.

If they’re continuing those habits, WFH means they may still be driving out to pick up breakfast in the morning (or even if they order in, someone’s driving), and taking the car out again to run the errands they used to. So they might be canceling out a ton of the saved commuting energy as well.
You do not necessarily need a high performance GPU to step into ML. I'm running a couple of my hobby projects either on my notebook or an old discarded former Server hardware with onboard GPU.
I don't think any country that hasn't ever been part of the global economy in a serious way can be a good example.
The author of the parent post is expressing an emotion commonly referred to as “surprise”.
Unrelated to post, but does anyone know of a text-to-speech app that would allow me to listen to this or any other long text article in audio format?
You can try entering Beijing from the outside and see how difficult it is.
I hate Russia’s war as much as anyone, but McDonald withdrawing from a country is not in itself a message that can’t be ignored or turned around.

To put things in perspective, in an unrelated case Meta raised a risk of withdrawing from EU depending on the sanctions they face, and the general opinion on that hasn’t been to lament the EU governance.

I’m willing to bet the farm that the Rubble falling down and the direct financial sanctions leading to restricted access to deposits have far more psychological impacts than McDonald’s and Coca Cola (did Coca Cola actually withdraw from Russia ? I thought the local bottling company was still doing business)
The "zero Covid" approach has been doable with the "old" virus variants, but with Omicron being so infectious, it's (IMHO) simply not feasible anymore. And I wouldn't call it "non-threatening", maybe less threatening. Maybe now we are at the stage where we can really compare it with the flu and handle it with the same approach. Of course maybe another variant will appear that's as infectious as Omicron but as dangerous as the previous variants, then we really have a problem...
I found those burners too weak for stir-frying. I suspect that unless you have special ventilation, a burner that's hot enough for wok cooking will not be safe for indoor use.
Ours is used outside because that's where the gas bottle has to be kept and because apparently it generates too much carbon monoxide to be safely used inside. And because we have three small children and this thing burns with a foot-high flame like a jet afterburner. It's great fun
I would say that I found Bitwarden much better than keepass for selfhosted too.
Short addition: Keepass just stores everything in one encrypted .kdbx file. You can then sync that file to your other devices (phone, other computer etc) using your cloud, nextcloud or if you don't trust any of that using a local filesync solution like Syncthing.

I have explored syncing of these Keepass files with Nextcloud and Syncthing and both just works fine and I can recommend it.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's just the opposite. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Omicron is not "so mild". It appeared to be mild in many other countries due to high vaccination rates and/or prior infections/deaths. This is not the case in China, where prior infections are very rare. And although the headline stats for the initial 2-dose vaccination rates are good, they didn't use the more effective mRNA vaccines, probably don't have a high recent booster rate, and most crucially, the vaccination rates among the elderly is relatively low.

Look at Hong Kong for a sobering example. They've never had any large outbreak during the entire pandemic until two months ago. Now they're averaging almost 200 Covid deaths per day, on a population of 7 million. Per capita this is worse than the peak of the Alpha and Delta waves in the US or UK. If a big outbreak like Hong Kong happens in China, they might be facing 50k+ deaths per day.