skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how would you know how much crime "actually happens" if you don't have an objectively quantifiable measurement? Your argument seems to boil down to "these numbers feel too low, I feel less safe in the US, so the numbers must be cooked, let's assume the situation is a lot worse."

Also, if we take the idea of "general feeling of safety" into account ... do you really think you'd feel safer in Colombia, or Somalia, than the US? Many of the countries above the States in crime per capita have law enforcement systems that are even more corrupt, and even less likely to give good statistics - if the numbers of the US are cooked in that overview, chances are so are everyone elses.
Let's make it more concrete: the elephant in the room here is Apple and Google (android).
Because it's not an argument against the action, it's a complaint about the lack of other actions.

The poster has not presented an argument as to why the sanctions are not a good response, or won't have the intended response, instead they have posted a list of other injustices to which we did not implement sanctions or otherwise take action.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Annecdotal but I know a few families in the Philippines where some members got Pfizer and others got Sinovac. The Pfizer group did significantly better when the inevitable occurred (the situation last year was particularly horrific).
I am a bit aghast that the author does not mention the American robber barons who are intentionally trying to tear down government so they can pay fewer taxes and get to pass their wealth down to their children tax-free. It’s not “the West” that can’t do anything, it’s that we have whole organizations devoted to stopping any progress.

I hate when people complain about government inefficiency or incompetence when the government is being opposed and sabotaged. My county’s DMV has been nothing but a pleasure to work with. When a government system in the west is failing it’s because it’s probably underfunded or weaponized (such as punishing unemployment insurance rules).
Had this happen to me multiple times. App is published, then we do a minor update, like api endpoints and the review fails for something that didn’t change.

I get it, perhaps it should have been caught on first review, but it is always very frustrating specially if the update is urgent.
I got more or less the same from the article.

Pape says the data (HSE database) is flawed and that the logic of
sanctions is flawed. We've never properly evaluated their impact. And
we cannot separate their effect from military actions which almost
always occur simultaneously.

He says that sanctions fail because there is rarely coherent
international cooperation - actually that seems to be different in the
present Ukraine crisis.

Also that nationalism drives sanctioned countries closer together into
a more dogged position. Possibly that's true in Russia.

48 pages of academic prose is too much for a Sunday morning, so my
take-away is light - it's not that economic sanctions are ineffective
but that we have no real understanding of how effective they are, and
if so why.
In New Zealand we are currently experiencing our first wave, by captia our case numbers are insane, and reality is vastly higher than what is being reported because the system now relies on self reporting from RAT tests. In an hour we have as many new cases as we had in total in the first two years of COVID.

But life is going on as semi-normal, most people are being reasonably responsible. 96% of the 12 yr+ population is double vaccinated, and about 60% boosted. The government has ruled out more lockdowns.

I would be think China would have at least as good vaccination stats as New Zealand, and would be just as well equipped to deal with a "first" wave in 2022.
We felt exactly the same way bugging a new kitchen last year. Salespeople thought we were being obstinate.

Fortunately we found one with knobs. https://www.aeg.co.uk/kitchen/cooking/cookers/electric-cooke...

It does have auto off on spills, but it's not overly sensitive and only triggers if you really let things boil over. Had it 9 months, can highly recommend this cooker.
How to make money by hacking a “walking for money” app
Yup, exactly my point. I think the only issues with softer measures are, what if you get a more dangerous variant mixed in.
A more plausible scenario is Russia refusing to bring back American astronaught, Mark Vande Hei and leave him stranded on the ISS to find another way home - at least according to this article. [0]

[0] https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2022/03/russia-threate...
The currency crash doesn't need to impact them. They can just raise prices. If your theory were correct, McDonald's wouldn't still be paying their employees, but they are. It's very clearly a moral, or at least reputational, choice.
https://archive.ph/20220313085155/https://greg-satell.medium...
Well said, that article had lots of qualified statements that were not reflected in the headline.

Russia is in a bad way financially, and I'm not sure what their "peace with honor" exit strategy is.
Take those polls with a grain of salt:
1) they are all conducted by government or affiliates, independent ones are extinct
2) in danger people tend to stick with the power
3) you can get in trouble for saying anything against the regime, even in polls
> are you really suggesting that workers need to be paid like shit without benefits and social security

Where did I suggest that?
For what it’s worth, I lived in China, but am from the USA, and ended up with more or less the same opinion as OP. I live in Japan now but find the way that Americans talk about China as pretty misguided, definitely hyperbolic and often racist.
Also don't forget that quality of life in Russia increased significantly last 20 years.
Despite the authocratic system people received more economic freedom. That's why Putin is still popular amongst it's citizens. The complaining minority is what we see in the west
Hong Kong and mainland are totally different. Vaccination rate is very high here and you have been able to get booster shots for months. I agree with your second paragraph though.
Most people don't drive all day long either. They drive half an hour at a time several times a day, going to work or school or the mall and back. The remaining ~22 hours a day are available for charging.

If a country has abundant solar power (probably not Finland!) it would make more sense to wire up workplace parking lots so that EVs could absorb the excess midday electricity.
I believe Russian propaganda is a bit more sophisticated than that. It will be more like:

"Western countries aren't sanctioned for their war crimes. Hence sanctions are only siege warfare against Russia."
I've only lived in 3 countries and all I have learned is that some people are good/nice/polite and some people are bad/ugly/rude regardelss of their nationality, religion or culture.
Debt has to be repaid and at some point you can't.
I think your sarcasm detector might need some recalibrating.
"I would be think China would have at least as good vaccination stats as New Zealand"

This is probably not true. The Chinese vaccines are known to be much less effective.
> I have not had any luck to pull all the right nuget dependencies to do that so far.

thats because they are not directly on nuget. at least not in the included one, you need a framework reference, since for packaging reasons they have a runtime and a "web runtime" (kinda like that)

https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/aspnet/core/fundamentals/ta...
I found it to be quite pleasant to work with.

Context: I’m mostly working as an iOS Developer, but I do have some experience with other languages that are not Swift/Obj-C. I did not have any prior experience with the dotnet ecosystem, though.

When I chose F#/.NET Core for my side project 2 years ago, I was looking for something similar to Swift in terms of pragmatism and reliability (big chunk of available standard/first party libraries), but more mature as an API technology and slightly more functional.

Why more functional? Because I was interested in it. I’m not a religious person.

F# ticked all the boxes. Most libraries you’ll find, that interact with the outside world, are basically functional wrappers around established, mature C# libraries. Those are either first party (ASP.NET Core) or “the standard” (Npgsql for interfacing with Postgres).

A couple of tools and libraries that I use, off the top of my head:
Saturn, Npgsql.FSharp, FluentMigrator, NLog, Flurl
Stoves have to be replaced at some point, especially when doing renovations or rebuilding.
Enterprisey usually means high-overhead, tuned to require many developers to achieve what would be done by one on a less enterprisey
system.

This quality is attractive to managers who benefit by increased headcount, and prefer to have their "reports" or "resources" less generally capable, and more easily replaced or shuffled. Total cost is much higher, but individuals' salaries are lower, which makes managers look good.

Java and .Net are both very enterprisey platforms.
The point is for us to figure out how this time it is different. Yes it's arguably more "out there" (though if you ask some, there have been far worse wars/invasions previously that we've ignored), but it's still the same thing.

Maybe we'll realize that the big difference this time around is the media going through great lengths to weaponize public sentiment. It's a very bad feedback loop because the media will feed off of it and give the public more of what it wants.
SEA and China are two very very different places
Credentialism and the Downwardly Mobile
Great perspective, never thought of that, makes sense to me.
Thanks for the nightmares
Yourkube needs a Youtube video
You're describing an onboarding/training problem. That's not the purpose of App Previews.
I don't necessarily disagree with that statement, but it'd be nice if you backed it up with some actual examples.
Do you trust inflation stats in the country you live in?
He is saying it is not 'news', not that the story is fake.
One peoples' basic freedom is another peoples' copium.
Lol what Japan is uncultured, doesn’t value food and local culture? Must be why the hottest food trends globally are mostly second rate knockoffs of Japanese food, and the world over treats pretty much any ordinary Japanese food and cultural goods as among if not the finest you can find anywhere (wagyu beef, high end seafood, so on). Let alone the fact that “classy Japanese” go to convenience stores all the time since they really are great, and is also known for preserving its culture better than practically any developed culture. Have you even visited before?

Must be a troll, or at least have a prohibitively closed mind.
There is also the reimplementation of Bitwarden's server, vaultwarden. https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden. It's worth a look if you're self hosting.
The Isrealis haven't been keen since they did even just the smallest amount of work.

The deal is to avoid an all out confrontation with a quid pro quo so iran doesn't finish; it doesn't erase the knowledge & capabilities they now have.

I would guess if the deal fails Isreal would probably attack again and this time I'm not sure it would be with the US and only digital (and probably more than targeted assassinates too).
If someone had told me last week that WB would categorically deny that the government traffics incarcerated Uyghurs from the concentration camps to manufacturing centres for forced labour, I would have said he's crazy.

A shame, really. Your account is on the CCP apologia watchlists now.
F# allows you to put DUs on the stack, with `[<Stack>]`, for what it's worth.
Here is your 1 rouble payment comrade
So here's the thing: a huge amount of Europeans don't really like Meta, and realize it's a highly substitute-able thing.

McDonalds in Russia is...kind of a big deal. It's a giant billboard that Russia is open and participates in the global economy, and the wealth and opportunity that brings. Americans don't see it because they were never that cut off, but for anyone behind the iron curtain the whole concept is still a sign that they had left an age of rationing, empty shelves and unavailable produce.

If you're a young person in Russia today, you have probably heard stories from your parents about when their wasn't McDonalds, or supermarkets which had things. The big mark of stuff getting better after the cold war the influx of the American brands, and the massive luxuries they brought in.

This is a cultural perspective that's hard to communicate, but Russia - well the USSR - used to have exactly one McDonalds - which opened in 1990 in Moscow[1], and parents would save for months to be able to afford to take their children there. The people who lived through that time are still alive.

[1] https://www.boredpanda.com/first-mcdonald-restaurant-opens-s...
> I didn’t envy the likes of New Zealand or China throughout because they really have no exit strategy other than eventually losing the war after multiple years of damage and hardship.

I'm in NZ. It's more like multiple years of mostly normal life, while we got vaccination rates up high. The exit strategy has always been opening up again, after delaying and preparing, and that's in progress as we've now given up on containing Omicron, and currently have about 20k cases per day (well, more, as that's hitting limits of testing capacity). Graphs and numbers here: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2020/05/coronavirus-covid-1...
You're talking about SA (Selective Availability) but I think the parent comment is referring to the "fine" signal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals#Precision_code
These techniques worked for earlier variants, but Omicron is too virulent. I'm not sure how long it will take for China to realise this.
Of course, when you have a law that forbids saying it is a war in Ukraine, you have to take everything people say with a grain of salt.

But it is still quite unequivocal that most people support Putin even if it is due to their lack of information.

Here is more detailed explanation: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-war-in-ukraine-...

I am surprised that you find this idea so unbelievable. I have many Russian friends and a lot of them are supporting Putin when talking in person. It is not about them not being able to speak against but very active being pro-Putin.
> So what does my anecdata tell us? Nothing.

You are surely right there, but having played with a ton of kids from all nationalities as well (football, handball, whatever) this episode still stood out for me, because it was much more brutal than anything else I had experienced out of tournaments and "serious" games. The game in question here was not even a hotel tournament, it was just a "hey, wanna play a round"-kind of game.

However: as you rightly mentioned it is unwise to extrapolate from this one experience onto the character of a group of people (I added this in the post above). This was not my intention here, it was just a very memorable experience and I never quite understood why it escalated the way it did.
Use https://www.lesspass.com/#/ - I've found the approach very fresh. Of course, you have to be sure that master password is not leaked, but the same is true for any stateful password manager.

The real problem though is that it does not support hardware security tokens at the moment.
Most induction stoves have touch based inputs. They're awful.
I used to have one of those, now I have one with knobs. Couldn't be happier about the change.
Make sure you tell every member of staff why you are walking out as you go.
@Yoric and Lazide

Sure I get it. Arguments against my "bad things will happen" is "don't
worry they are already happening" :)

That doesn't lessen the case that we can and should work on resilient
money systems that protect the interests of ordinary people.

When the boot is on the other foot, maybe in 10 years when China is
"turning-off the dollar", we'll all be glad we built robust and
democratically controlled means of exchange.
Please tell me you reported this to an ombudsman
Same with delta and Thailand. Thailand (with thousands of km of land border) was making Covid Zero work (ignoring the fucking the tourism industry got) until delta came along. I think China is about to show us Covid Zero can’t survive omicron.
> Social distancing has never been a big thing in China because we've had masks for two years. It's only when for example lining up for a covid test that there's been marked one meter distances you had to pay attention to.

I haven’t seen anyone pay attention to those stickers in over a year. In the group chats I’m in everyone is complaining about how they can’t even test building by building instead of getting entire compounds to wait in line at the same time. Social distancing is not a thing.
I worry about potential retribution from the Russian side if provoked by the US. America is, after all, wholly dependent on Russia to return astronaut Mark Vande Hei safely to Earth later this month. I don’t want this to happen, obviously but according to this article they have already threatened as much. [0]

[0] https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2022/03/russia-threate...
I disagree that writing software is comparable to literacy.

I think it's more similar to any other profession, with a skillset you can learn if you're interested, or learn to get paid.

Not everyone is interested in writing software, and that's fine.

It has also never been easier to tinker with things, as root VMs are cheaply available, in comparison to 20 years ago, when you really were just given a cpanel interface, if you were on a budget.
Thats a great comment, thank you for that!

I wonder where is this boundary in terms of intellectually challenging, because thats how programming feels at this point to me but I am still at the beginning.

In the end its probably just a mean to an end to fulfil something more grandiose in terms of a solution to a problem.

Also reminded me of: "Everything is a remix" video.
If anything, the sanctions are not enough. Bite the bullet, cut off all their energy exports.

Putin stooges and apologists like to bring up European winter and industry.

Whatever, Europe survived without Russian gas, there are substitutes even if they cost more

Bringing Russia to her knees is worth the price.
Apple’s password management is getting better and now includes 2FA. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it spun out as a separate app sometime soon.
How would that work? They develop the vaccine first, then do the trials. And in any case the Chinese vaccines were trialed outside China (Brazil, Philippines, others - not sure about Sinovac specifically) largely for this reason.
To be more precise, the analysis suggests it’s optimal for it to happen within in the next two weeks. They could remain indecisive.
Ha are you in denver? A ton of people in cities are in the same boat.

I wanted to get an electric car. But not only do my neighbors not want to split cost of a charger station but also I'd have to pay over 10k to upgrade/fix the electricity - or so I was told.

It seems like it could be even simpler than a heat exchange that I think puts pipes into the ground?

Like it's just creating steam. Can't we just scale up an electric tea kettle? Seems like it would be pretty efficient.
Alan Kay has been redefining what he calls OO for decades. He has lost all credibility.

He cribbed OO for Smalltalk from Simula, same as Stroustrup did for C++. (Smalltalk-72 was not OO.) "OO" is just a name for something that already existed.

Anyway there is nothing very meritorious about OO: it is sometimes the right thing for part of a problem. But organizing a whole language around it is as idiotic as organizing a car design around making left turns.
I think it strongly depends on the ecosystem one is in and the usecase. Android support for keepass is pretty solid with keepass2android.
You're OK with a good implementation that tracks and stores your eye movements for data mining?
Shameless plug, and I don't sell them anymore (but you can build your own): https://finalkey.net/ is a hardware dongle that stores passwords on-device, rather than on some server online.
I assume that behind the scenes, negotiations are probably happening, and such negotiations probably involve the payment of money's or other considerations for China to take one or other position...

For example, Russia might say "we will sell you oil at 10% below market rate for the next 50 years if you join the war on our side".
Wasn't this approach the one taken by Python? I don't actually know, since I don't really keep up with Python.

If it was though, how well or poor is it working there?
"In my opinion china's policies have been the best"

Interesting, but could you really express any other opinion without fear of repression of some kind, while living in china?
Technically, Yanukovych was removed 2 days after the Russian invasion started.
Disrupting GPS may result in some economic chaos - it is used for precise time synchronization on financial markets.
> can't quarantine and hospitalize people for omicron when it is not dangerous

There are enough people it’s dangerous for, especially in a population not widely exposed to it and who haven’t had mRNA boosters, that it can cause hospitals to jam up and pictures of grandma dying on a stretcher outside a regional hospital.

This is a political big deal when you’ve spent 2 years mouthing off about the decadent West’s poor handling of the pandemic.
Don't delude yourself and others. Wars of aggression are the prelude to world wars and mass scale violence.
Are you using the official server or vaultwarden? Do you mind getting more into the experience of it?
+1 KeePass + dropbox/gdrive/ "getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."
Or somethong transparent. I propse glass until we figured out transparent aluminium or force fields.
Good point. This is going to be tricky.
"Russia is in a bad way financially" is accurate, but from a Western perspective.

Russia is obscenely rich in oil, gas, and almost every commodity. Russia is USD poor, gold reserve rich (even with the West stealing some of it), and long literally every input material that the West will need for the massive infrastructure projects it claims to want for ESG purposes.

Give it six months and when massive famines tear through most of the Third World (a term that is suddenly applicable in its Cold War era meaning), Russia will not have food security issues. Gas will be obscene expensive in Europe, but cheap in Russia. All these benefits will be extended to countries that chose to continue to trade with Russia. Want food security? Here is some Russian wheat available at a reasonable price . . . or you can import some very expensive American one.

To put it simply, Russia's "peace and honor" strategy is to run the timer. Let the West's self-destructive sanctions work. Destroying yourself economically over Ukraine is the definition of a luxury belief, and most of the world has no room for luxury beliefs. Whether their wheat is coming from a corrupt Ukrainian government or a corrupt Russian government makes no difference as long as it comes.
Not to the same extent they haven't, and even if that were not the case, there's a big difference - Russia was a developed-ish country. People have Internet everywhere, mobile phones, computers, gadgets, Netflix, Spotify, etc. Lots of heavy industry relying on imported machinery. Lots of exports.

Cuba, North Korea didn't have any of those. Venezuela and Iran only share the export-reliant economy bit.

If the goal is to make the population turn on Putin's regime, sanctions are more likely to work here than ever before.
Can you explain this a bit? I'm trying to figure out what the appeal is of YARP, so far the only thing that makes sense is the load balancing.
Crazy that every nation other than china has had 3 big “waves” of Covid cases. Yet somehow china has only had the initial wave of Covid back in early 2020 and nothing else until now.

Very strange.