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> Because I think, it would influence my opinions I would dare to share.

I would be amazed if the MSS decides to respond to these random pseudonymous comments I posted on HN/Reddit/Twitter, in English. I expect that talking to them about my shitposts in English (and then coreced into signing an "agreement" that I won't do it again), would be an exciting and entertaining experience :p ofc I might be outliers

> But I am ignorant about actual way of life in china, is it common and maybe even somewhat normal for tech people to have this freedom to just connect outside of the great firewall?

Well, Google is blocked. Baidu or Bing isn't nearly good for random tech queries. More importantly, even though not blocked, GitHub / DockerHub etc is painfully slow in China due to some misfortune about how China is connected to the global Internet. Without a tunnel I just can't work efficiently.

Every corps I worked for in China so far provided free Internet access for employees (at least engineers).
COVID deaths per-capita were really high in Belgium and it was one of the worst in the world until recently, but it seems it's now just about average compared to southern European countries, but way above most of its neighbouring countries.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Uber and Lyft have made life much easier in San Francisco, since the taxi service here is very poor. I was in Vancouver a few years ago, before they allowed Uber and Lyft, and we had an extremely hard time getting a taxi there too.
Imagination is only thing you have in your argument.
There won't be massive famines tearing through the third world. Much of the third world consists of net food exporters, not importers. As for the importers, food prices will increase due to missing Russian and Ukrainian supply, but food prices have always been volatile, and in recent decades that hasn't led to famine except in a few specific countries where high prices are combined with extreme repression or civil war.
Do you feel like time is faster now than before?
Do you feel that time is going fast after about 2018, I think it is the problem of atomic clocks.
It's easy to detect when looking at the evening sun (compare the speed of movement in memory).
Snmalloc: High-performance message passing based allocator
Techo Serfdom.
It's crazy seeing the numbers in Hong Kong and South Korea in the last couple of weeks and have been wondering if and when Omicron would eventually make its way into China.

I would imagine the Chinese health authorities to be very nervous at the moment. Currently in Hong Kong and most people seem to be more concerned about the inconvenience that comes with a positive test than the risk.
colab or rapidminer.

both of them work great for scratch projects.
Of course it is! Net is another ms’ ignorance joke. And punchline is, you always pay ms.
I suspect not everyone in Russia is either pro-Putin or anti-Putin, as in most other polities, for that matter. That's why I think this premise:

> Russians by large stand by Putin or think Ukraine deserve it. That is with or without sanctions.

is false, or used to be false before these sanctions were implemented.
Don't worry it's coming. The proof of trust that is.
The problem is that Ukraine was not able to join NATO and is invaded anyway.
Reputable scientists from the Lancet published hoaxes not too long ago. You cant trust anyone.
Okay well I am not a particle physicist, but I did design and build laser plasma ablation devices, and I will echo the skepticism of the particle physicist.

> easy to reach MeV scale

Thermal photons in MeV!? Whoa. Going to need a citation on that one.
You're sample is simply not representative. If we could go back in time to 5 years before Uber's founding, I could show you the taxi system on the entire west coast of the US was non-functional, from San Diego to Seattle, service, pricing, availability were all abysmal.

FWIW, I actually agree that the "Gig Economy" is riddled with problems, but at least in the case of Taxi's where Uber started, the existing system was rotten and in need of replacement.
I just find it really weird that there wasn't a thinktank in 2005 or so, that said "Okay, what are the next big phone applications?" and invented Uber and a few others. What is the point of these thinktanks if they can't predict 3 years ahead along our current technological advancement curve?
The discussion about effectiveness of sanctions is made pointless by the fact that they are, next to sending arms, the only way the West can respond to Russian aggression. A military response is out of the question for obvious reasons.

And sanction will work -- the reason the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc collapsed is economic. People seem to forget that e.g what made workers go on a country-wide strike in the 80s Poland and eventually led to the downfall of communism in that country was not the notorious lack of freedom and media censorship but empty wallets.

The situation here may be similar and the process can be long, possibly decades. I think what makes the situation worse for Russians is the fact that economic ties with the West are so much stronger compared to the 1950s. The Russian middle-class from big cities will be hit the hardest -- losing their good paying IT and finance jobs and facing a huge downgrade in the quality of life or facing emigration. It's true that the sanctions will have less effect on blue-collars or people from smaller town and villages, likely the main source of support for Putin and also the main audience for the state propaganda. But, I'd argue that the middle-class city dwellers are more influential and less prone to the propaganda.

Oligarchs are another group key to influencing Russian politics and that's harder to reason about. On one hand losing one's yachts and houses on Cote d'Azur is a blow to the status. On the other hand their wealth comes from exploiting commodities and sanctions are unlikely to target that. On the contrary: in the short term the current situation is likely to be beneficial.

If there's a silver lining for the EU, it might be accelerating the process of Green transformation. Even if the war ends tomorrow, I can't see there being any support for retaining existing level of dependence on Russian oil and gas. That ship has sailed. Countries that will remain dependent on Russian fossil fuels, e.g Hungary, have visibly strong autocratic tendencies and will be increasingly ostracised in the EU, possibly eventually leaving it.
Maybe you were unlucky but I never had an issue at all in Essex growing up or Newcastle where I spent 15 years. Also Blueline taxis had an app before Uber gained market relevance in the UK and it was great.
RyanAir (and other similar budget airlines) fill a niche.

People use it. Wouldn't almost anyone love to fly in a private jet? Sure, but it has a cost.

The problem is that this fucking cross-financing infested hellscape of consumer web built on the abyss of advertisement sucks in almost everything , because "it's free" even though of course there's a hedonic quality adjustment to using a site crafted for a purpose that you pay for versus the same with endless dark pattens, freemium upsell hooks and ads ads ads. banners. modals (remember the fucking popups?) cookie consent "you are the product" dialogs.

but at the same time it's true that dismissing those modals and scrolling through ads takes a few seconds while paying for content takes more time and some actual money too.
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They both work under the banner of the ICRC, which was involved in both the Haiti disaster (I'm talking about the Red Cross' incompetence, not the earthquake) as well as Ukraine operations.

It's hard to see how a corrupt incompetent organization would be different because an affiliated entity is operating in another country (Ukraine also has its own corruption problems).

After this much graft and incompetence, why trust them with more millions?
Not when you look at the restrictions imposed on citizens, there are comments here about office blocks being locked down for 48hrs and everyone tested. Plus all the regional lockdowns where people were forced to stay indoors that were reported widely in western media.

China could simply deal with a virus like COVID-19 far better than the west. They have the political environment for it (more authoritarian), and a society more willing to make sacrifices for the "common good".

Personally I would take western democracy/freedoms over an ideal COVID-19 response, but there is no reason to think it didn't work like that in China.
I don't know what kind of DPI Russian ISP's deploy. WireGuard used to go through China's Great Firewall when it first became available. I don't know what the situation is now
But Uber is horribly in the red financially. They disrupted a poorly ran industry, but didn’t produce anything that truly raised the economy… that’s the point.
Get a standalone induction plate. They're cheap and portable and they let you try it out without a huge expense. I do 90% of all my cooking on a single induction plate I paid ~$60 for. Non-induction electric hobs are trash, and induction is much closer to gas, but more controllable, less messy, and less dangerous. That said, I would strongly recommend against a builtin induction hob. They're expensive as fuck, and eat lots of counter space. The standalone induction plates are amazing, much nicer to work with, and cheaper, and you can put them away when you need the extra space. Restaurant supply shops have standalone induction plates for ~3x the cost of the consumer ones which are phenomenally good, that's what the higher end new kitchens are going for.
> Science is what one does, not what one is.

yes but someone who has a MBA is definitely NOT a scientist but a salesman.
Protests grow in Russia where they are being arrested for holding blank signs
Thank you. My overall mood is grave, but I have a business to save and a family to feed.

Yes, I'd be able to live quite well with the cheaper ruble, but that requires being able to retain the foreign revenue flow into Russia and being able to convert the dollar to ruble at a decent rate. There's still a lot of uncertainty about both of these.

As for why am I staying... well, that's a big, big question. I won't feel at home abroad. Yes, I've been to multiple countries in Europe, and I'd be perfectly fine on an everyday level, but I won't be at home. And I'm not exactly young either.

It is sad that the Russian World is really small, compared to the Angloshere, and it's dominated by Putin's Russia. We Russians don't really have another place to run to... Yes we can smuggle ourselves to Europe, but we'll spend decades on getting the citizenship, diligently working boring CRUD jobs, wasting our potential until we're old...
I think these behaviours would occur. I think it’s pointless and sickeningly discriminatory to legislate too hard against them.

The taxi issue seems trivial compared with the cost of actual healthcare. I’ve no objection to some light-touch system for reducing this risk, but it hardly seems worth worrying about. You (your government) could attempt to fix this by sorting out their transport networks and taxi legislation too. This isn’t a flaw in a healthcare system, it’s a symptom of a broken transport system.

Those immigrant workers “avoiding tax” are doing the worst jobs in your society, and living in the worst conditions. The very least you can do is pay their healthcare .

There may be an “immigration problem”, but it’s that national borders create an arbitrary and discriminatory barrier to free movement people and enforce QoL disparities across the world.
Also furthering the COVID Zero policy while participating in the global economy is just not feasible now. If every country did what New Zealand did, we would have stomped out this virus the same way we did SARS. I'm sorry that we didn't. But now that major economic zones like Europe and the Americas are taking a "treat COVID like the flu" approach, countries like New Zealand and Taiwan need to choose between following suit or committing to perpetual, never-ending isolation.
Have you listened to Russian media?
Actually scratching the skin of an apple does negatively affect the apple - the part of the "mantle" under the scratch begins to rot right away.

Look at a graph of the temperature of the Earth as a function of depth. The temperature jumps tremendously below the crust, and is much more stable per depth below. The crust is the insulation of the Earth - and damaging that crust might affect the mantle is ways we cannot yet imagine.

The answer remains "we don't know".
> we’re basically letting COVID rip now

This is the way.

Vaccinate the population as much as possible, then pursue super immunity for what's to come via exposure to this luckily less severe and highly contagious variant while the vaccines are still potent.
Belgium did overreporting, so they had 2x the COVID counts vs. Other countries just because of that ( every untested death was assumed a COVID death).

Most people that say Belgium did "terrible" don't even know about that.
I believe his point may be "transitory".
> Ukraine and Russia supply a third of the world’s wheat

That does not appear to be true, 2019 statistics [0] put it at 13%.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_wheat_production...
Sure, but like I said - solving a problem in the US and then rolling it out across the globe just “because” doesn’t mean the rest of the world needed it, just mean you had enough money to outcompete even if your service is worse.
Source for that? I have several Roku devices and they hit my pi.hole all the time
Your argument is essentially that just because you don't need/like Uber doesn't mean it's useful? The problem Uber is addressing is not just a US problem - with Uber you essentially don't have to deal with all the shit taxi drivers pull, like refusing rides if they have to go to a slightly less profitable area, overcharging for rides for people new to the area/tourists, etc. Not to mention that with Uber you know exactly when the driver is coming, how much you will be charged up front, etc. You may not like how Uber is addressing these problems - and indeed there are fair criticisms, but ride sharing apps are most certainly solving a real problem.
Thank you! As someone considering flying my family out of China soon I had a rush of fear reading that headline!
I mean for Malaysia, schoolchildren of Chinese descent already have to pick up at least 3 standard languages
Mandarin <- standard malaysian mandarin
English <- duh
Malay <- the official language of Malaysia
On top of that, you add on the dialect, now there are practical considerations
1) Penang <- dominant dialect hokkien, and a penang kid who isn't even hokkien is going to need to figure out which dialect to use, hokkien, his native dialect or mandarain or english
2) KL <- cantonese in general, BUT certain places have certain stronger dialects etc etc etc

For practical reasons alone most people are going to focus on those top 3. I know some people who are reasonably fluent in no less than 5 languages but it's not that common and you will obviously see at least two or 3 are passable at best. These are going to happen even if the schools could somehow teach 4-5 dialects + standard mandarin +_ english + malay!
Because the long term benefit of density ends up lifting the local economy a lot more than the property prices go down in the short term. Especially with remote work, the extra income brought in adds to the local coffee, haircut and food scene, and increased overall property taxes on the same land make the city money.

People just don't think in that long a timeframe but there are localities which do and hopefully it works for them and we all get to learn the timeframe for benefits (or the lack of benefits) from such a change.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2020/08/12/portland-passes-sweep...
I have a 3090 for serious (hobby) work and a 1070 from 4ish years back next to my bed. I think getting anything 1070 or better is good enough at the beginner level (training baby datasets/models from scratch such as MNIST/CIFAR, transfer learning the big models). I just don't understand the cost argument .. you can get this stuff used. Main thing is you need CUDA.

The 3090 machine gets about the same use as the 1070 in my case. While it is nice to have more GPU memory to have huge batches and train things faster, this is a quality of life improvement/bragging to be honest. Serious work in some sub-areas needs multi-GPUs or enterprise grade hardware (e.g. A100s).

Software-wise, I just use Pytorch/Pytorch lignting/keras, and anaconda.

Edit: I used to build my own machines in my younger days. The two machines I spoke of above are alienware. Got them on black friday sales. Cost-wise, they were ridiculously cheap for the power they give/impact on my career.
Cash, card or tap and pay. I was paying taxis with card before Uber was a thing.

US payment systems lag the rest of the world massively - particularly the UK
This whole comment is simply an appeal to authority fallacy. Could be right or wrong, but it does not support any of their claims with hard data which makes it suspect or low quality.

"I have a PhD and I know better" is not a compelling argument.
This is probably counter, but why do a participation merit system when you could do a participation demerit system. Your grade can go no higher than a D without participation
Uber did many things, but “provide shittier or less reliable service than circa-2000 taxis” isn’t among them.
They hammer on effectiveness, in juxtaposition with "wars being effective" (how do you measure this, are they really resolving problems?). Yet they claim they do not want to compare. In any case, even if economic sanctions were 3x less effective, it is reasonable to choose it over war, where the omnipresence of violence and uncertainty causes massive, large-scale trauma.
> non-woven base material

what does that mean?
If your country was at war with another country, you would not be doing business with them. The effects would be indistinguishable from sanctions.

This is war. It's just one we're the western powers are pretending they are not at war with Russia. And for good reasons.

People in the US are too used to being able to wield such an asymmetrical power, namely the ability to just respond to violence with violence without really worrying about the consequences (and some people even threat to "just nuke them" etc).

However here the opponent is a nuclear power, and one that can employ an effective madman strategy.

I don't think these sanctions are designed to apply western soft power. They are a desperate act of war a response to Russian aggression.
I wish HN would ban twitter links.
I was born and live in the UK and will only take a non-Uber taxi as a last resort. Been ripped off one too many times by taxi drivers in my life. With Uber there is no opportunity to be ripped off.

The fact that I can often use Uber abroad is a massive bonus. It's almost a guarantee that you're going to be ripped off when using taxis in a foreign country.
> The sanctions are much harder than anyone predicted

That's an unfalsifiable statement, but let's not forget that this is exactly what Biden had been saying for weeks before the war broke out... if Russia didn't know this was coming is only because they chose to believe Biden was just kidding, which I personally find silly to believe.
>Having taken a $30 Uber to drive 15 minutes lately, when a taxi would’ve cost $10 or so, I don’t think they’ve ultimately created much value with their rideshare service. They’ve basically just moved the entities around, and now it takes a lot longer to get a taxi.

You forget just how terrible the taxi industry was prior to Uber. I would walk for miles rather than take a taxi. I would gladly pay 2-3x more for an Uber than taking a taxi. There are signs that traditional taxi companies are waking up to their enormous service issues, but it only took their imminent demise.
Bitwarden has a cli app. With this you can automate everything.

Regarding keyboard navigation in the ui. If your are into that just use the cli and create some helpful scripts for rofi, alfred, ueli or whatever you are using if you want to have a ui.

Bitwarden is so insanely good that this minor downside shouldn't keep you from using it.

My mum is really bad with PCs. Yet bitwarden has solved all her password problems. Especially on mobile. With KeepassXC she was just frustrated.
The WHO can only report what the health authorities of each country report to them.
Ask HN: What to Do with an Old GPU?
Hello all,

for many months my custom bulit gaming PC from 2014 has been sitting around my appartment, not finding any use. I am working mostly on my laptop from work nowadays and I stopped playing games for the most part. The GPU is a Nvidia GTX 780.

Recently, I started using machine learning tools on my work laptop and realized I have a reasonably strong GPU sitting around - or so I thought. Looking up the requirements for pytorch I found that the GTX780's CUDA version has long since lost support and now I wonder what to do with the GPU, or even the whole system, as gaming is not important to me anymore and for an ML box it's too old apparently.

I know I could sell it, but I'm wondering if anybody might have ideas on what such old hardware could still be used for?

Cheers,
- V

Edit: spelling
> It is much harder to beat the market, especially in a bear market.

This is the crux of the Warren Buffet vs Hedge Fund bet, and why it failed. Buffet quite possibly realized that a new bull market was about to begin, and the market would beat a hedge fund. When the bull market ends though, let's see if hedge funds don't start beating the market with their long-short-cash strategy.

I am nowhere near hedge fund territory, but do have some qualms about whether this bull market will just grow to the sky or have a big reset sometime quite soon, quite possibly reaching 6000 on the S&P before that.

Also, I find the efficient market hypothesis quite bullshit, so there's that.
I was so happy moving houses because I’ll stop hearing that jingle. I now have the choice between two supermarkets, and I purposedly avoid the old brand because of the jingle, even though the other seems a bit more expensive. It’s driving up sales!
Yes, I'm still programming for fun by doing pets, and I always try to get some fun from my payable work. It's the only way to move on being a programmer, as I think.
Friends complain all the time that Ubers don’t show up, take forever to arrive and don’t allow you to plan ahead. I’ve literally never bad that problem with taxis. I can book ahead, they arrive on time, they take me where I need to go, charge a predictable price and if I’m in a town or city I can just walked to the nearest taxi tank and find dozens of taxis waiting to take me somewhere. Yes this is anecdotal but I just don’t see the problem Uber is solving in the UK
The 3rd paragraph is incongruous with the 4th paragraph. If they are not generating profits then how come we accuse them of extracting rent and "maintaining techno-peasants"?

The major characteristic of feudalism was that power centers deteriorated and power was distributed to local lords insted of central kings. So how is having a single gigantic company more like feudalism?

Lastly, why come up with such convoluted theory when "too much speculation due to cheap debt" explains everything with much less gymnastics
You seem to think electricity is not produced by fossil fuels. In most countries the majority is made with gas and coal.
> surely I don’t want to alert the enemy to it

That already happened, a long time ago.

> lest they develop defences

That already happened, Starlink.
That looks really nice - I might consider that one if I'm switching away from gas later this year

How is it for keeping a constant, low-mid temperature? One of the issues I have with induction is that the heat is applied in bursts rather than as a constant with gas

This means that when frying with some oils, induction will either heat them past their smoke point in the burst or the temperature will be too low in-between bursts