skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, Russia is already post-industrial state and it experienced multiple industrialization waves in its history - from colonization of Urals (there were the biggest manufactures in the world in XVIII century and there's a special term for that amazing period of history of Urals region - Mountain Manufacturing Civilization introduced by Russian writer and historian Alexey Ivanov), to industrialization in late XIX century (with such projects as Trans-Siberian railway and production shifting to European part of Russia), to industrialization by Stalin in 1930s and finally industrial expansion of 1950-1980s. It's all in the past now, not least because Russia lost most of its industry in competition with China and hi-tech manufacturing to the West. Indeed, Russia is a petrostate now, but it still has large industrial capacity, to name some in which there's some good progress - aerospace (how many nations are capable of creating new civil and military aircraft designs?), arms, automotive (very hot sector with big investments and non-stop race on building new plants). It's not feasible and already too late to compete with China or emerging economies like Vietnam in light industries or consumer electronics, but some targeted efforts to join global manufacturing chains are already paying (e.g. did you know that sapphire glass for Apple products is made in Russia?)

Putin's mistake is not that it applies XVI century resource extraction approach to finally get industrial economy (which is not true because of above), but that it applies command-administrative methods of XX century to build post-industrial economy. He is more interested in playing war games, than writing economic strategies - this job is left to his advisers, and there's ongoing competition to fill that position between liberals like A.Kudrin and communists like S.Glazyev. These bureaucratic battles did not produce any document that could be fully implemented, so significant progress could be visible in only some technical fields, which are far from politics (hence very smart Central Bank, Federal Tax Service or Ministry of Informatization and Communications).
Are you talking about apt-x?
That's not really true, MDMA in high doses does have dangerous acute effects which can be deadly (hyponatremia, hyperthermia).

See f.e. Martha Fernback, Anna Wood. I mean even if you die from water poisoning or heart attack (at the age of 15), that would not happen if you don't ingest MDMA beforehand.
Would it have helped to deflate the tyres on the trailer a bit?
Environmentally, dams are hardly harmless. Just the opposite: they tend to have devastating consequences for the ecosystems they withhold water from downriver. Sure, they don't pump out carbon dioxide, but they cause lots of local damage.
They're free to invite and disinvite whoever they please. You're free to not attend. I don't think airing private grievances will help anyone.
A more plausible explanation is that the CIA needs "dark" money (untraceable) in order to operate their shady activities, and that the drug trade is an ideal means for obtaining this money. This is no conspiracy theory but backed up by solid journalism and research - many books by respectable authors have been written on the subject. The CIA has been involved in drug trafficking for decades.
It's the same in Finland. Tax rates are fairly easy to discover for anyone. And based off that you can get a very good idea of their earnings.

In practice I've never met or spoken to anyone who has gone out their way to do this. It's normally just the tabloids outing the salaries of politicians and celebrities once a year.
This crashed my Macbook Pro in Chrome. Full reboot.
You are of course aware that what you are listening has already been tweaked, knob-turned and filtered by the recording studio, sound engineers, artists and whoever else was involved. In the end music is subjective. It sounds different and pretty much every playback system. And to the listener, it either sounds good or not. It's never "correct".
Ask HN: Why should open source support be free? I don't think it should.
i.e. the software is free and open source but the developers only answer questions from those who pay.

Got a question, maybe the community will help. Definitely want an answer? Pay the monthly support fee.

How would you feel about that?

I'll say how I feel - I think it's entirely reasonable that you get to use free software for free, but if you want the developers to answer your support questions it hard for me to see why they should be at your service for nothing.

Software free, sure thing, great. However, I can't see why any open source support should be free.

Tell me why it should.
That is an incredibly disorienting photo
> after reviewing complaints against me

you'll have gotten better treatment than Mr. Crockford did, because clearly there wasn't much reviewing done by Nodevember. Otherwise, they could surely fill us in on what they reviewed?
I think part of it is caused by the tab-width setting. The developer appears to have been using a tab-width of 4, and there are some instances where they used spaces for indentation without realising.

The only explains some of the wierdness though. That second link is completely inexplicable.
the theory is interesting and plausible

I disagree. Supposed evidence cited in this English summary:

(1) Northwards the stream is divided and becomes the nine rivers. What the original Chinese is saying is that a river to the north of the current location divides and rejoins. This is normal for many rivers, particularly in silted plains such as that of the Yellow River, the dominant river north of the centers of early Chinese civilization. The Yellow river is known to have flooded and changed course many times over history.

(2) Chemical composition more closely resembled those of ancient Egyptian bronzes than native Chinese ores. Tin was traded by many early civilizations, even if you have direct evidence that tin came from the other side of the world it doesn't mean much at all.

(3) Hyksos possessed at an earlier date almost all the same remarkable technology — bronze metallurgy, chariots, literacy, domesticated plants and animals — that archaeologists discovered at the ancient city of Yin, the capital of China’s second dynasty, the Shang. Well, none are hard to invent if you live on a flood-plain with horses, and Chinese civilizations definitely had all of those (in the case of literacy, to some extent) in the Xia (ie. prior to Shang).

(4) Since the Hyksos are known to have developed ships for war and trade that enabled them to sail the Red and Mediterranean seas, Sun speculates that a small population escaped their collapsing dynasty using seafaring technology that eventually brought them and their Bronze Age culture to the coast of China. Oh yeah... so they skipped major cultural centers like the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia's seafaring kingdoms on the way and came all the way to China for no apparent reason? Without needing repairs? Sounds likely. I'd wager local sailors familiar with local conditions were far more likely to trade information and goods in a chain fashion than for a far-flung ship to make it all the way with no particular purpose or direction.

In any event, back then 'China' did not exist, instead you had a few settled peoples in what is now northern coastal China and adjacent areas intermingling. Recent research shows, IIRC, that the genetics of peoples as far north as Shanghai derive in part from Southeast Asian Negrito and Austronesian populations.

Also, the article ignores the fact that at the same time as the Xia and Shang Dynasties you had very developed, independent bronze culture complexes in Sichuan[0] and north Vietnam/Yunnan/Guangxi[1][2], the latter spreading across much of mainland and island Southeast Asia. Central Asia no doubt also had well developed bronze at this stage. Furthermore, if the claims were true there would be genetic evidence, but the real kicker is that the Bronze Age in South Asia began around 3000 BCE. Why would China need to reference Egypt? Archaeology shows they already had bronze, chariots, writing, animal raising and agriculture themselves.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanxingdui [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%C3%B4ng_S%C6%A1n_drums [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BB%93ng_B%C3%A0ng_dynasty
President Lincoln said it best:

"I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming."
I doubt it. What prevents a Chinese citizen from installing Skype? Nothing. It's the payment and protocol that are blocked.

Looks useful for command and control type applications though.
Who gives a fuck about Nodevember??
Telecommunications products should be based around open protocols. That Skype keeps their protocols to themselves should not be reason enough to send lawyers after software implementing interoperability after reverse engineering.

Re-using the reverse engineered code is the problem, he should have simply used it to spec out the protocol and then use that spec to re-implement it.
Questions gyms should (not) ask their members
This sounds familiar. It brings a few things to mind.

I can't remember the term that was used, but I remember reading about audible frequencies possibly being affected by inaudible frequencies in ways that are perceptible to humans. So if you have two source files played using the same equipment with one including the inaudible frequencies then they will sound subtly different due to the interaction.

With the 'getting tired' while listening thing, I know just what you mean. Listening to music on a laptop for instance is a mentally draining experience for me. I've heard it explained like this: your brain knows what a piano sounds like and when it hears the poor imitation it is busy 'filling in the blanks'. Listening on good equipment is much more relaxing - as is listening to something that isn't 128kbps.

I don't claim to know that either of the above are true, but to me they are plausible.

I'm also a little sceptical of the 'lossless is no better than good lossy' claims that inevitably come up in these discussions. While I accept that there is likely a point that audible differences between lossy and lossless would be imperceptible, I've been hearing those claims for a long time (starting with "it's digital - it's cd quality'). When I was seriously interested in these things there most definitely was a noticeable difference. I was right about 128kbps. I'm confidant I was right about 256kbps. Maybe with 320kbps that's changed now, but I don't know as I haven't had a decent stereo for some time. I'm not about to be convinced by those blind test studies that people keep pointing to as objective and conclusive - they always make me think of that one where it was 'proved' that cheap wine is just as 'good' as expensive wine.

I'll stick to lossless when possible and compress to lossy when necessary. Can't go wrong like that!
It's not blocked. However, if you download in China you get a version specifically compromised for Chinese government surveillance.
Enable wireless hacking gateways for cars ?
It is still done today. Prescription opiods are loaded with acetaminophen that will make you far sicker sooner than the opiods will.
For comparison, if you assume 22 work days/month, and a two way trip, that is $1,27/min = $76/hour
I'm not saying it's good, of course, I regret about such level of evolution. I use paid licenses :)
> because I live in a country where people use copyright

I live in a EU country where interoperability is a law yet is almost never respected, so I say, fuck copyright in that case.

However, this is not the first successful reverse engineering of skype. Each time they broke compatibility with their next version.
If these flaws are minor or inconsequential, then you might be right about your remark but if these flaws are flagrant or critical, then the OP had the right attitude to make concerns public.
"all rights reserved" doesn't conflict with openness, it's a (now obsolete) technicality meaning you opt in to getting your copyright license enforced under an international treaty.
9/11 conspiracy gets support from physicists' study
Thanks for the figures reference. I was making a guess based on my limited vocabulary. But, having a core vocabulary + knowledge of history is still effective.

If you go back far enough, my assessment could still be correct. That is, the original standardization (oracle bones -> Qin dynasty) of Chinese characters probably had less words constructed with a sound indicator.

At the Qin dynasty, China became an empire and incorporated many new ethnic groups. It then had multiple words used in different regions (like he and jiang for river).

Pictorial and semantic characters take more thought to construct, with pictorial probably more difficult and historical. Later on, it became possible to build upon these to quickly form characters, perhaps even as a shorthand.

So it's not surprising that phono-semantic took over. This process even continued as traditional characters became simplified in modern times.

Your discussion on what characters should sound like may be more complicated. Old Chinese pronunciation is much different from Mandarin, and today's simplified characters may or may not have followed the pattern (I don't know, I didn't learn simplified).
And yet some people (mostly homeless and addicts) find a way to drink it anyway, with such strange methods like filtering through bread crusts.

I totally don't understand why article tries to blame government for all those deaths when it was clearly mob trying to make money.
Given the processing power of modern computers, I have always been surprised that operating systems haven't moved to vectors for all user interface elements. You would think this would be desired for resolution independence, if nothing else.
As a non-US citizen, I can't wait to see a world where a whole IT industry will exist without caring much about merchandability in the US.
Are you so certain our model of human behavior has gotten better? We face a similar, although less direct, problem with drug prohibition today: due to following outright prohibition over regulation, innumerable people are affected by tainted, low quality or overly potent drugs who instead could have been helped by harm reduction programs and regulated substances.
http://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm

More here: https://www.opus-codec.org/comparison and all over https://hydrogenaud.io

Blind testing is also easy to do yourself.
Farmer's subsidies are also public knowledge in the EU and are routinely printed in papers. That lets you know appropriately their gross income. I can't see that happening for other sectors of society who benefit from government support.
Conversely, with LSD, there is no such thing as a harmful dose, so...

Logic and health are not the issue here, entrenchment of economic interests is the point.
Why is this a surprise ? US government sells child porn to catch child porn consumers, US government sells prohibited weapons to drug dealers, US government sells weapons to terrorists.

US government has too much of money that is the problem.
Well it's obviously not the originally intended message, but the idea is that "crybullies" get their strength from weakness, in the sense that it gives them a feeling of moral superiority due to victimhood. They then use this as a platform to attack opponents. "Punching down" is the worst sin in the modern liberal conception of morality, so if your peer group consists of those people (and that means, nearly everyone in the middle and upper classes of modern western society) then you can very effectively have someone shunned by the group if you paint them as an oppressor. It doesn't appear to matter how tenuous those claims are, if the purported victims are sufficiently weak.
I remember seeing an earlier incarnation of this around five years ago; I'm very impressed with the author's dedication to this project.

I don't know if it is still the case now, but I recall that earlier versions of Skype were quite heavily obfuscated and contained anti-debugging mechanisms. So it would have been quite an intricate reversing effort to get past these, on top of figuring out the protocol.

Over time, Microsoft has changed the Skype protocol significantly since version 5.5 so I do wonder how applicable this work is to the current crop of clients.
I'm not sure that this is exactly what you need, but I recommend "The Development Abstraction Layer" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/DevelopmentAbstractio...
How many americans die each year because FDA has taken too much of time to approve drugs ?
Maybe it's tongue-in-cheek, as the word for forest is made of two woods...
If this is newly written code not based on Skype code then there is clearly no copyright issue. Trademark is a potential problem but easily solved by removing the Skype name from the project.
> And yeah they are in short supply because you can't teach them directly.

If you can think critically are you going to get past the HR filters and convince them you are the recruit willing to take a deal that will descend into just a little worse than unemployment? (So your empty shell of a life after they spit you out is devoid of any unused benefits.)

If you want to openly think critically in corporate employment, step 1 is becoming irreplaceable so they can't replace you when you become inconvenient at step 2.

An easier tactic, (employed by the best corporate game theorists that I've encountered) is following directions like a total Svejk, this leads employers to think you lack critical thinking skills. Then more resources are allocated and eventually you have a whole empire of minions.
Graphene camera sensor 1,000 times more sensitive than current sensors
I made a program for one handed keyboard input. it has a rather unique way of selecting symbols, and it can insert it into any X11 window. So far it's in far from polished. It runs on Ubuntu if you download some rather common libraries. Take a look in the Makefile for details.

I won't have very much time to continue the development.

https://github.com/richard-jansson/veta
Of course. The typical music I listen to (techno mainly) goes through the producer's studio and usually has another person doing the mastering. Until now all compression is done by professionals who have ear how the end product should sound (with their Genelec studio monitors, of course). I'm fine with this.

What I don't want to have is an automatic lossy compression done by systems which the artist has no influence. Depending on the sound of the original music, this might have no effect or then the compression completely ruins the dynamics and sound of the original production.

On this time and age, bandwidth is cheap and the connections are fast. Disk space is cheap and cloud storage is cheap. I don't see so many reasons to use lossy files anymore and with flac I can be sure that I have the closest possible copy of the production that left the artist's studio.
Criminal gangs selling bootleg liquor will sometimes sell contaminated product.
ToS only applies to terms of continuing use of a service, if you're prepared to not be an user anymore, then the conditons of ToS are not worth the paper they're (not) written on, you can simply not accept those terms. Click-through and shrink-wrap licencing terms are not binding almost everywhere (they likely could be in USA, though).

And while USA has DMCA, in most of the world copyright (as according to Berne convention) doesn't prohibit reverse engineering but only grants a limited monopoly on copying with some exceptions - often including interoperability, so you can do that even if the copyright holder disagrees.
The table says Zstd 20 gets down to 339.4 kB without the filter
and 226.7 kB with the filter. This seems like a very good result for the filter.
It seems to me, that amplifier design is so slow moving, that the argument is not really in its favor. However, the abstract point makes sense, because only talking about low hanging fruit is misleading. From some higher vantage point, I guess, the fields are too different to be comparable at all, up to the point where it all might come together through maths.

Computer Engineering at the intersection of EE and CS is all of both or nothing really, depending on your point of view. A respected man once said, every idiot can count to one ;) But then again, digital and analog with enough precision seem to be the same thing from different perspectives. So, I'm not sure whether it makes sense to look for differences between those.
Obviously we need more STEM funding. Music, humanities, and sports have never improved anyone's critical thinking skills and personality traits.
Not sure what the answer is, but alcohol is involved in around 88,000 deaths in the US each year.

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-co...

Despite what the popular press says, Prohibition had some beneficial effects, and not all of the negative effects attributed to Prohibition actually arose out of Prohibition.

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/16/opinion/actually-prohibiti...
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Don't! Not until the next release. We use the 9.4 and it's very experimental.
And the recent widespread availability of Oxy, which doesn't have acetaminophen (i.e. tylenol), is thought to be responsible for the current opiate epidemic.
> I remember seeing an earlier incarnation of this around five years ago

https://github.com/skypeopensource/skypeopensource
Stand up cowards and respond to this excellent comment.

The conference organizers are making me feel uncomfortable.
You are missing the point... It does not matter if you feel comfortable or not. If you dont like something someone says, you dont have to attend. Instead of ruining a conference for people who dont care that someone uses normal language to describe things. Heck, I like speakers to be a bit raw, including people like Linus etc. So what if they are a jerk, I value them on their work, not their language. Of course I also have a personal limit of what i can classify as "acceptable", but if someone goes over that limit, i just ignore and move along. Why would i try to change the speaker or event to cater to me? Even if it was a slur or comment directed at me, it would be so much easier to just ignore it. I dont understand what gives these people the balls too try to publicly shame someone who have produced so much more value to society and tech then most of these guys combined.
TL;DR; I'm an impoverished small scale serial arsonist of expensive components remembering that software means never having to leave physical proof of your boo boos, most of the time. OK, I'm actually a software engineer back into hardware engineering after 20 some years cause I need to build custom cameras for machine vision projects. Major recovered sills are CAD (Eagle), more geometry (layout), exercising credit cards due to I'm still bad a spice, lazily using standard cap and resistor values even when they're wrong for >this< circuit, and excessive shining about stray capacitance - since I need to work at 3.3V and I'm in my 50's, I can't see the parts so well and my motor skills aren't what they once were, so thats even more expensive crap I need (rework station, reflow oven)
>despite MDMA never having been reasonably blamed for any death

You're just plain wrong here. Ecstasy is a dangerous drug that can cause overheating, dehydration, and other very serious conditions that can and do result in death. Further, the drug's effects discourage the behaviors, like eating and drinking water in reasonable quantities, that are essential to preventing those conditions. With their sense of hunger and thirst totally haywire, some people try to overcompensate and end up dying from too much water.

And as for the long-term effects of regular MDMA use: persistent brain damage and loss of cognitive function.