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I'm in the same spot. When I was leaving the country after then-"election" in 2006, I had to wait until the engineer I was handing the project over to finished his 30-day prison sentence.

This year even my ever optimistic friends who were never intent to move have been sent packing. The hijacking makes things even worse for the unwillingly growing Belarusian diaspora, but there should not be mucking around. I advocate for the strongest pushback possible, even though anticipating a lacklustre response.
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I know that people can joke about the west in Russia but are people allowed to make jokes about their own government in Russia and in the associated eastern european states?

Is it like China yet? I'm guessing not as there's no visible list of banned words and phrases, but we don't see (in HN) much criticism of Russia, Belarus from there, just attacks on the hypocrisy of the West.

Do you see it headed towards China, where no internal criticism is allowed?
That's not quite true. Their relations have had multiple ups and downs. Besides, Belarus having burnt other bridges always offers Moscow extra leverage.
It never occurred to me that BS would mean anything other than Betriebssystem considering the naming scheme of main competitor IBM (OS/390, OS/400) but that logo I didn't notice tells otherwise, so TIL. Still, the logo looks bland and generic, the kind of which a developer would use for his home project, so I'm still not 100% convinced ;)
Old computer systems are fascinating from many points of view: The article discusses the software used to wring the last drop of performance out of hardware that we would probably now consider to be inadequate for running a disk controller. It's super cool that many of these systems are now available as emulators! I was a little surprised that the author only got twice the performance of the DtCyber in an emulator until I saw that they were emulating on an 800MHz P3 :)

In addition, visiting these old devices IRL is pretty instructive: one thing that always strikes me when I visit the Computer Sheds in Yorkshire (http://www.computermuseum.org.uk/ - an absolute gem BTW) is the enduring problem of thermal management. Up close, those old mainframes are basically huge air conditioning systems with some chips attached. My understanding is that managing heat is >still< the ultimate factor limiting performance (otherwise we could just stack up silicon in 3D)...
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Exactly. GaN FETs are slowly taking hold of the market, due to their ridiculous performance capabilities (mainly being able to switch much faster than silicon for the same losses). I think there was a car manufacturer who reckons there would eventually not be any silicon power transistors in their vehicles, they would all be either GaN (for lower voltages) or SiC (for higher voltages).
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I think that was the old solution: they have a large tray with 100 slots and a bar which allows for multiples of 10 to be counted. The digits are done manually. The problem was that pearls could fall out of the tray and, as they are round, roll around on the floor taking up to 30m to find. It is a mechanism for counting out a specified number rather than determining how many are in a bag, which may be more limited. Another problem was that if workers forgot the partial sum, they would need to start again.
I mean spread awareness but that's pretty much every job. I've done a lot of kinds of work in my life but this is pretty much the easiest. At least we're paid well and respected. All the other kinds of work were just as hard under as much or more pressure and also for poverty wages. I'll stick with this one lol.
>This will likely have no consequences to the regime in Belarus

That's the problem with sanctions, at some point you run of of things to take away. From then on your target can pretty much do what ever they want, knowing that things can't really get any worse.
Highest likelyhood of returning to Wikipedia within 30 days, not including the day they saw the info card.

If people find a site useful, they will voluntarily return again later. That's a very hard metric to game/abuse. Do not count a user returning from a promo email or browser notification or any of those dark patterns.
They said this:

> Further, the researchers were surely in the 18-49 age bracket. CDC’s estimates for the 2017-18 flu season in that age bracket were 58.8 per 100,000. That is 0.0588% per person per year.

They're using CDC figure for the wrong year to say that younger people were not particularly affected. The 2019 flu season in Australia was

1) much rougher than the 2018 flu season in the US

2) much earlier than normal

Both of these mean that it could well have been an early, rough, flu season in Wuhan that hospitalised these people.

I understand that people really want this to be lab escape, but the way to show it's lab escape is to be honest when you're discounting everything else.
I'll think about it. For me keeping things simple is a priority. What are the chances that a user might share the unique email address by mistake?
> And, yet, we didn’t do this to Austria (or any of the other countries in Europe that cancelled use of the airspace)

France and Spain, notably. It was a disgusting violation.
forgive my ignorance...but I thought a guy at the USDA developed the hybrid rice used in a lot of asia?

Ahh - Dr. Borlaug did wheat it appears:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
This app charges a premium for dark mode :/
There is nothing really new.
My point here is for learning purpose, but I also ended up with something lightweight for the daemon on the servers.
For example I use less CPU time compared to Netdata, ... and my solution is focused on speed and automation.
Yeah sure, state funded terrorism does not affect you until it does
Adding an extra 50 yards to any single Ryanair flight would likely bankrupt the company
That's because EU is too expanded to be able to reach consensus. Individual countries are taking action however
Redesigned how, 90% of cars look the same, and it's been industry standard for years.
Before Apple decided that PC/handheld programming was only something that should be accessible to the elite most people kept scripts and small utility programs on github.
Yeah I might have some modification for the UI to do.
I'm more a backend developer trying to come up with something elegant. It's sometime hard.
Probably talking about the Saudis, who were allegedly behind 9/11?
> I just don't understand why so many trillions of dollars around the world are being spent on military power that just sits by and watches dictatorships kidnap protestors from other countries and execute them.

We make wars to control energy sources, trade routes, etc. The west as happily puts a dictator in place of a democratic government when it's in their interest (or the best interest of the men in power and their supports).
The big improvement is you can get the same performance in a smaller space. This either lets you go more efficient (and the difference between 90% and 95% efficient is halfing the amount of heat to get rid of) in the same space or smaller for the same efficiency.
>Mobile OSes have an intuitive and discoverable UI. That's why they don't have man/info pages.
buy the "No kidnapping" package for an extra cost of $169.99/person
Is this a bad time to remind HN of that famous comment on the founding of dropbox?
> There is a huge difference between diverting an international flight and terrorising one’s own citizens.

So what? Do you remember what had happened to MH17? So what?
As a parent and a cat owner, I would.

Taking care of a pet is like childrearing in easy mode. You have more time for everything - past some point in your animal's growth, the care becomes routine. It's also obviously much more tolerant of mistakes.

So if one can't handle caring for a pet and treating it with respect, it suggests some personal growth work needs to be done before even considering becoming a parent.
I found this picture[1] via http://www.sketchyscience.com/2015/05/sinkholes-natures-most...

which shows visually what actually happened with the drill.

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[1] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--Q5XY2Gkwns/VVK8dT2pPSI/AAAAAAAACG...
How will you know if the answer to this is honest or censored, though?
Manjaro rebuilds dkms on every kernel update, sadly.
That would be in line with France's findings of COVID-19 cases from November [1], and Italy finding traces in waste water [2,3].

IIRC, public toilets due to fecal matter were a possible infection vector (I hope I am using the term correctly) [4], which suggests that there had been covid cases since December in Italy as the traces were in waste water [2,3].

Some hypothesise that covid had been circulating in humans long before the market outbreak [5], this hypothesis does seem to corroborate the hypothesis that the virus had long spread before the first 'official' outbreak in Wuhan.

[1] https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20210311-surprises-about-french...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53106444

[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiegold/2020/06/18/new-scient...

[5] https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/mar-27-covid-pandemic-origin...
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In a an image with sufficient contrast between the foreground and the background, thresholding and using the fast radial symmetry transform[1] should do the trick. I have some really old code that I wrote a few years back that does something similar. I was able to use the same algorithm for counting objects in images captured from a Neubauer chamber [2] and saved countless man hours at my university.

Disclaimer: the project is really old, and from a time when I barely knew how to code. Lots of bad coding practices et al.

Github: https://github.com/vibhuagrawal14/segmentation-of-overlappin...

[1] https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F3-540-47969-...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Images-of-Canis-familiar...
If you want a bit more of an in-depth, audio depiction of this incident then check out the Well There's Your Problem episode on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgKU0zu6KB8

It's a podcast about engineering disasters (with slides) that I enjoy and share whenever I can :D
Well that is an argument no-one is making. No one is comparing email and IM and asking which is succeeding better at being a decentralised application. You're right: email is certainly less centralised than Whatsapp. But it's a red herring. The comparison is between the original implementation of email as a decentralised system and the current experience of email, which is highly centralised.

In the olden days, any business could say in good faith "I want to offer email services" and they would have been treated pretty much the same as any other good faith provider of email service. But today, a business who wanted to start up an email service is insane; just check out the nearby thread of a person who replaced Mailchimp with a semi-self-rolled service. As a matter of fact, no matter what the RFCs say, people in the industry do not treat email as decentralised.

This is partially because people joined the network in bad faith, but it's also because a small number of large nodes are able to assume anyone who isn't known to them is acting in bad faith and therefore force people towards the larger nodes.

As I said before, email and the web continue to be usable in a decentralised fashion, but to do so involves wearing a hairshirt. This is the failure of decentralised applications. The author of the article has a view that is closer to "the market is only as free as its weaker members" rather than the view more fashionable hereabouts "the market is only as free as its stronger members", which leads to a different conclusion. It would probably lead to more insightful disagreements to discuss this underlying difference rather than arguing about what technologies email is less centralised than. (Edit to clairfy: These things in quotation marks are not quotes. The quotation marks are used to help delimit the propositions.)
Blizzard was been using it for few years, and does not for 8 years now.
Yes the First generation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_rice#History
It’s odd to me that the Ryanair flight yesterday was already closer to its destination of Vilnius than Minsk when it turned around.

Ryanair said that the crew had been "notified by Belarus (Air Traffic Control) of a potential security threat on board and were instructed to divert to the nearest airport, Minsk".

So they didn’t have an incident onboard? There were no hijackers claiming to have a bomb? Just ATC telling them they have a bomb on board? And instead of landing at the nearest airport of Vilnius they turned to take a longer, more indirect route to a further away airport of Minsk?

This would seem obviously suspicious to me. If you have a bomb on board, wouldn’t you want to go to the nearest airport, not the one further away? Wouldn’t you ask why you are being redirected further away? Then wouldn’t the response when you point out you’re closer to Vilnius and for safety want to land there make it clear to you something fishy was up? I would love to hear the radio communications and any communications back to Ryanair operations on this one.
As a EU citizen, this is quite hilarious. The EU is so toothless it hurts.
It doesn't have to, but eventually it will. At the first inevitable downturn, jobs that get cut in a newly-automated field will never come back.

People are creative, we will find new things to do (particularly as more and more people will get taught automation and coding in school, making them tech-adaptable for life, as opposed to the "boomer" generations who were often fundamentally tech-averse), but let's not kid ourselves that technology isn't burning away a bunch of jobs.
The recent incident is painted in exactly the same light by Belarus authorities. They say that the plane was diverted due to a terrorist threat. All passengers were safely evacuated, and once the threat was cleared, they were allowed to continue their trip. During their time in Belarusian soil, one passenger was detained, for completely unrelated reasons. Of course Belarusian police could not do otherwise than detain him, for they were already looking for that person.

As is evident, the whole thing is a bullshit excuse to claim plausible deniability. Exactly the same as with the Bolivian plane. The only difference is which official discourse you chose to repeat.
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This post should be pinned to the top.
My understanding is that it applies globally, regarding data collected on EU citizens. Enforcement is obviously a question here.
> The ideal interface here is really good, interactive voice.

It's only ideal when voice recognition is on the level of having a small conversation with the car, not brandishing commands like I never do in real life. It feels unnatural, and I suffer from the same issue as you and the other commenter in the thread: Siri, Google Voice, Alexa, etc., all have some issue with my accent and I don't even have a thick accent. It's absolutely infuriating to use voice assistants like that, missing 5% of the commands is worse than missing 50% because then I'm always on edge if the next command will be recognised or not.

I've always tried voice assistance, since the first time I could use one around 2005, so far I have absolutely no desire or use for them as the technology keeps just getting in the way instead of helping me out. Not even to set alarms or timers it's good enough, the feedback loop is too long and I prefer to just do 2-3 taps on a screen instead.
As kapilvt said, I'm going full Rust for this.

I'm trying to have everything homemade, I use Postgresql and it's replication feature to get a realtime feed which is then transfered using WebSocket.
For the Chinese you can tell when they cannot even refer to, say or admit certain things: e.g. massacres. But they would say "we are not being censored"

For China and Russia, etc, it feels as if by mocking the hypocrisy of the West they are naively assuming that there's no such criticism from within the West.

I think this is revealing but I might be wrong.
I think that majority of HN readers, being from US and Europe, don't realise how many people from the shithole countries actually think like that and don't see anything wrong with this statement.

And yes, I'm using the Trump's derogatory words here. I was born and still live in such a shithole country, and I'm incredibly angry and at it and this shithole mentality that shapes reality around me.
Constraints differ around the world. The term to search for is "unbanked". There are a lot of people unbanked worldwide.

In the UK where I live, "hostile environment" policies make it illegal for some people to obtain any bank account. It is illegal for a bank to open an account without a person providing documentation to prove the "right to banking". (There is a similar law preventing people from obtaining shelter, "right to rent").

Anyone who knows what happened to the Windrush generation, or to many people who transitioned from "legal" to "illegal" while in the country lawfully, due to arbitrary and capricious Kafka-esque processes, relationship breakdowns, or surprise letters you couldn't have anticipated, knows how harsh the hostile environment can be - some of them died due to critical medical care halted.

As you can imagine, such people desparately need the cash system to continue to exist, if only so their friends can support them with cash so they can continue to purchase life essentials.
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Anonymous "intelligence sources".... Sounds as legit as the super micro back door.

Meanwhile the actual real people on the WHO team said they investigated and didn't find anything more than seasonal flu.
And what if after going across the Atlantic other countries also restrict your air travel?

I guess then you have 2 options:

- Crash into the ocean

- Enter unauthorized airspace and be shot down

But sure, it was just a "choice".
Getting stuff from Alibaba in single quantities though is very very difficult.
It is a crime to make caricatures of Vladimir Putin.

Someone is downvoting this comment to death, so I'm sharing the story for the brave and curious.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/05...
"Is this going to make you any money?"

The answer should be: yes, because you are hiring me now for the skills I learned doing this.
> If Element had better branding (maybe focusing on the Matrix bridges)

The folks at https://www.beeper.com/ are pursuing exactly that angle, all based on Matrix.
It has been a joke outside of Russia, also... I share your hope.
That would be the normal procedure, but there is not much to do when the aircraft is pursued and escorted by fighter planes. Any country has jurisdiction over their airspace, including shooting down any non-compliant aircraft.
> But the plane was not forced to land in the first place.

It was indirectly forced, if the other options were to either be shot down by entering unauthorized airspace or to land.

If it could have returned safely it probably would, but fuel is a very limited resource in a flying plane.
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Lukashenko will not go down without a fight, and Russia is very unwilling to see a color revolution again next to its borders. Putin dreams of annexing Belarus.

Couple this with the EU's overall weakness and fragmented interests (eg nordstream 2), and it's hard to imagine a good outcome.

A few sanctions will come out of this that will make EU officials look good and further place Belarus into Russian hands (namely, as you wrote, making Belarus airspace dependent on Russian airspace). Let's see what the real leader of the EU has to say.

If the EU can't stand for the people of Belarus, for the sake of freedom and human rights, then it will have once again failed.
Current sanctions on Belarus are somewhere between light and negligible.

There are a lot more things that could be taken away.
Very accurate description IMO. I hope no EU company flies over Belarus after that. In retrospect this is an unacceptable risk.

PS: Which also brings to mind the downed Malaysian flight when flying over Russian-friendly Ukraine. I hope that airlines also have these areas in their no-fly lists.
> one should have the intuition to recognize them as such, otherwise he will miss the opportunities of such developments.

That's the narrative of scam artists since before time.
An interesting and insightful thing about CoD1 was also how easy it was to die - if I remember right it only took one or two hits.
Android sounds great, devices using it absolutely get lots of updates long into the future.

Oh wait.
> Like on-chain insurance

Doesn't need blockchain

> tranches to compartmentalize risk

Doesn't need blockchain

> creating entirely synthetic assets on-chain

What does it even mean? Also: doesn't require blockchain.
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Decentralised doesn’t mean egalitarian, though.
Depends on your baseline excitement. If you're so hyped up that you think it can classify bad and good prospective employees from a single photo, you should tone it down because that's nonsense. If you think it's all fluff, then you are also wrong. There are many great ML applications for constrained scenarios.

But this pearl counting does not require modern ML at all. It can be done with decades old image processing algorithms like Canny edge detection, Hough transform, thresholding, Hu moments etc. How reliably is another question. This kind of stuff is/used to be called "Machine Vision" (related to computer vision, but in hard industry they like to say machine vision).