skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all I can find in Google is just Ukrainian propaganda and few articles from Russian claims

As I said all I can find for Ukrainian losses is Ukrainian propaganda straight from Ukrainian gov or Russian propaganda from Russian gov. I wanna filter out both of these extremes and see some reasonable numbers since any data from RU/UA are clearly completely unrealistic for their own purposes.

"Information" spread by Ukrainian gov ais well known propaganda and not "information", there is no point to call them otherwise.

There is really no use of discussing it if you can't provide independent estimates by UK, US or even better some more neutral observers like China, India, etc.
It shows why we need to rapidly embrace the idea that knowledge of an ID document number and its associated personal details is insufficient proof of identity.
What's really interesting is Entangle.

https://entangle-photo.org/

It works with a lot of DSLRs, it doesn't require you to do any of these steps, and it captures the output. The only thing it doesn't do is then map that to an output for other applications to pick up.

There is an open request for this, but it seems to be out of scope for the application.

https://gitlab.com/entangle/entangle/-/issues/68

It could be really neat if this solves the EOS webcam issue in a tidy way.
USDT wouldn't be fully backed if they gave it out for free. Having USDT be fully backed is their motive.
> Then they bought Skype and it went downhill from there. I don't know what happened, but they took a lot of time integrating technologies from Skype (peer-to-peer) with their own tech (which was more telecom/server based)

I was at Skype at the time, working on this very migration, so maybe I can shed some light on what happened.

There were a number of failures (on Microsoft part mainly) that made the whole thing collapse:

- The original Skype developers were used to program in C++ with on-premise Linux servers. When the migration plan came in, the tech stack switched to C# on Azure. Most developers were not really keen or experienced working with C# and Windows. Azure was very much beta at the time, I remember the philosophy was "eat your own dog food" which created an insane amount of frustration working with sub-par tooling, little to no documentation, plenty of bugs on Azure. There is also a mentality/philosophy shift of working with C#/Windows coming from C++/Linux which was not great for team morale.

- Support for group chat was paramount, which meant there was a need of transition from peer to peer to client server.

- The original Lync team was very much annoyed with the rebranding and migration plan and was not really keen on helping Skype developers. I remember us receiving a "dump" of the Lync VCS as tech reference, in the form of a big fat multi GB archive. There were tons of binaries, even videos in there... Lot of fun...

- MS/Lync used a _huge_ amount of proprietary SIP extensions to have Lync work.

- The migration to the cloud and client-server model was accompanied by a huge migration to a brand new microservices in C# project. It meant recoding everything in a new language, a new platform, a new protocol, dealing with hundreds of half baked microservices in a half baked cloud platform. It was slow, buggy, and an architect astronaut fest.

- Overall 99% of the original Skype calling team resigned and joined Twilio.

- Pretty much every manager from MS that I have seen at Skype stayed no more than a year then rotated to a new role, at one point we had 4 changes of management in 2 years.

- Every single interaction with Microsoft management was surreal. Pardon my language, but they were not technical at all, unable to understand the most basic architecture proposals, bullshitting tech talk 9 words out of 10,and overall they were living in an other planet in terms of market share and branding. You could definitely tell that they were talking "product" and "objectives" for Skype, but never used it, understand it's competition, challenges, etc. Pure bozos.

In the end I think Microsoft still extracted some value from Skype, mainly:

- Skype had good PSTN contracts worth a lot of value. The matching engine to select the cheaper one dynamically had value too, and historical data.

- The brand itself had value for customers.
BUT... it's so easy for corporate IT dept to buy into. Each different vendor is a different nightmare - but with MS you have only one. And they have it all. And it's maybe not best in class, but good enough. You can see why they are so successful.
Kittyhawk – Larry Page's air taxi startup – is shutting down
sooo.. clickhouse? XD
This is a big missed point.
For those with better understanding of where zig is at, why not zig for kernel development? Is it merely because it's still in heavy dev?
> On the level that you would write a prescription for it like a drug?

I'm assuming the prescription is just for bureaucratic purposes to determine who pays for the museum entry fees
I'm happy this didn't go much further.

In my list of successful American remakes:

* Wilfred

* The Office

In my list of awful American remakes:

* Dinner for Schmucks

* The ring

* Old Boy
Because the control and ownership uses cryptography and USDT is a currency. Hence it is a cryptocurrency.
You can't make an account with the number or a scan of an ID document (at least here in the EU, but i doubt it'd be much different down under). The real thing is required, or in the case of neobanks, multiple photos at specific angles + selfie from their app.
Show HN: Rocketry – Statement-based scheduling framework for Python
It's funny, I have used Communicator/Lync and I remember everyone hated it, including the CEO which was a MS fan, which was the reason why we started using it in the first place. I remember it not being even able to sync presence status properly. We switched quickly to Hipchat, which was not great, but felt like an improvement at the time ^^
How hard was it to get firmware/flash it in the first place? I assume the driver updates are easy to get but the actual flashing tools always scare me enough to never try stuff like that myself.
> houses would be at prices which people can afford through their salary.

Isn’t this how a mortgage works? Put some money down, and allocate a portion of your monthly salary to pay the remainder.

> Interest seeks to empower people who have money by making them more and more richer.

The largest and most profitable companies in the world are oil/gas and technology. Wealth inequality would definitely still exist
Care to elaborate the options?
In my opinion the issue with the balance here is that no matter where you fall on the "climate scale belief" (except probably the most extreme of deniers), people consider anyone that thinks a better future than you is coming will be labelled a denier, while anyone who thinks a worse future than you think is coming is given a soft pass as just having stronger convictions. That unfortunately leaves the vast majority of people being labelled as deniers from people with stronger beliefs, no matter where you fall.

I think the vast majority of people today do know that climate change is coming, that we are changing the weather at a global scale, etc. Actual true deniers that say human have no effect in global climate, IMHO, are so few that they are not even worth mentioning besides anecdote (at a similar level to flat-earth believers).

The issue then becomes, what level of climate change vs what level of sacrifice are we willing to accept? It seems clear that even with this question there are extremes that are likely unwanted, and there's probably another distribution going from two extremes: do absolutely nothing now and people will die later due to climate change, and the other extreme is sacrificing the prosperity of developed and developing countries now (which means people will continue dying at a rate too high) and have a minimal climate change effect later.

Both extremes are too extreme and seem wrong, and somewhere in the middle seems like the obvious, correct solution, but where exactly in the middle is the important question that not many people seem to be talking about and baffles me.
It's funny because that show was super popular in France, via subtitles.
Well, we didn't get this one, but at least McHale was free to work on Community!
Herbert Hoover Had a Medicine Ball Cabinet [pdf]
More importantly, it shows that they've been taken in by the Billions spent on propaganda to convince people that fossil fuels are necessary for modern society, and not an inefficient and polluting tech that we should be glad to move beyond with better alternatives.
What's wrong with Ayoade? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wePK__NJ3uw
> Just because it's been in use for a long time doesn't mean it's any good.

Not conclusively, but I would argue that on average, code that is still in production after 28 years is going to provide a higher ROI over its lifetime than code written yesterday.

In other words, the age of the code doesn't prove conclusively that it is either good or bad, but higher age is an INDICATION (as in correlation) of higher quality (at least for the time it was written).

> We have plenty of problems with this system,

Had you argued based on this, instead of the age, I would not have objected.

> It's fine as a data transfer protocol, but it's terrible as a real-time communication interface.

Again, had you specified that ftp/sftp was used for real time communication, I would not have objected. (It would have been fine for the 90's though, and might still be in use if it was completely stable.)
Samsung CLP-310 was the last one you can buy color toner in one liter bottles from Ebay for 10€. Filling those cartridges yourself is messy business. The powder is almost like liquid and stains everything.
Yeah, I actually had heard about that but it didn't show up in my first search. Thanks!
I don't use public transport anymore, but constant surveillance certainly would not increase my willingness to return to bus or train.

It is different in a larger cities with pervasive transportation, but outside of those I don't see how public transport can get attractive anymore.

I don't see this as an expansion of the state, I see this as a result of society getting worse with crime. Highly depends on the location whether such surveillance is needed or not. Personally, it would prohibit me from feeling comfortable.

Surveillance has a suppressing effect, not a moderating one and that is not restricted to criminals. They are probably affected the least.

I don't want to do a check-in like in planes, the security industry is already very parasitic and usually superficial. A state extending it looks weak and seems overburdened.
OC did mention a plastic bag. And I bet any condensation would only happen after the copy happened.
One big difference with living in the west is that I can read your post, and the GP. I can "take in the truth" and I can (and do) go further and read other, more credible sources and come to the conclusion that the worlds history is not black and white. The US is certainly not an innocent player. And then I can read Putin's own words and I can read Dugin and come to the conclusion that Russia is 100% at fault for the current situation in Ukraine. I might be wrong in this judgement, but at least I won't go to jail for expressing it.
I don't really understand what such an opinion piece does on top of HN.

I guess that the article gets likes because of affection people have with this anime. But, otherwise, I have the feeling that this article is completely off-topic, and does not even provide any meaningful information.

In addition, the atlantic website sucks so so much as it is completely broken on mobile web browser, with the scroll not working...
"It's not a crash until the people/companies I consider viable and fundamentally sound get destroyed."
I could be wrong, but i think i remember that they have made some "magic" inside mdadm or lvm to allow btrfs self healing to work, and bypass the normal lvm self healing.

They tooted something around the release of DSM 7 that Btrfs now used native self healing instead of relying on lvm, but of course i can't find any documentation for it.
I tried to sign up for Optus in around 2007? They had this contract system you agreed to over the phone . I spent ages saying “yes” in different ways because it couldn’t pick up my kiwi accent. Eventually I managed to agree and got the worst internet experience ever. Moved to TPG after the contract finished.
I second it, and on top of that follow Bjarne's advice regarding static analysis and the C++ Core Guidelines.

Additionally have a look at,

"Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code"

"Embracing Modern C++ Safely"
Drones make it possible to aim. Russians don’t have anything to aim - they can cover an area with artillery, but for that you don’t need a drone.
Well learn to read, then.

You can live in an imaginary world of ponies and rainbows where wars don't happen at all cuz you really-really-really want them not to happen.

Unfortunately in real life they DO happen. And when they do, they turn into a complete shitstorm as soon as something like NATO gets involved.

And thus my point is that you are a cruel monster if you think that the logic of "Oooh, let's give them some weapons" results in anything but a bloody fun show for wealthy white people.
it's not encoded in law, but we do have a society where who can have many children is determined by economic factors that are not fully under ones control.
UPDATE The head of Russia’s tourism agency said no restrictions have been imposed on travelling abroad so far and that Aeroflot, the country’s flag-carrying airline, said it was not limiting ticket sales.

Also the OG source - guy in Israel who tries to sell his fiction books. Always check the source.
For gaming it makes sense, as it replaces Mumble/TeamSpeak/etc with smoother UI & UX.
It's bizarre. I don't think it's an exaggeration that it's the 10th project I've heard about to speed up Python.

Seriously, use a faster language. If you need a performant fork of Python, you're using the wrong tool for the job.
If you've watched the pilots of The Office made in different languages they are all different. The US IT Crowd pilot was the exact same plot.
Yeah, ignoring incbin hackery, a better example than strings might be

float vertices[] = {
#include "stuff.txt"
};
4 confirmed, lots of claimed, 3 rebutted. This is definitely a wishful thinking.
Energy source constraints are not the only ones that exist. We also extract many other things from the planet and transform them into other things that we use. These extractions/transformations are also very problematic, and subject to strong constraints. Examples:

* The clearing of forests for farmland for the ever increasing population and increased (unneeded) calorie consumption per person destroys ecosystems, and kills species.

* The growing of massive amounts of food extracts micronutrients from the soil, and these not replaced. This destroys the health of future generations.

* Cement and concrete are made by naturally occurring rocks and minerals, and these are also fast depleting. Mining for more difficult sources also result in pollution and destruction of ecosystems. Pollution also negatively impacts the health of current and future generations, and concrete cities destroy ecosystems.

* Plastics are made from fossil fuels. They break down into microplastics, and leach toxic chemicals into our food and water supplies.

All of these examples involve negative externalities shared by everyone in the world. All of these examples stem from fast and continued growth.
Teams works fine for me, it has never crashed on me.
- MSN Messenger

- Windows Live Messenger

- Microsoft Office Communications

- Microsoft V-Chat

- Microsoft Lync

- Skype

- Skype for Business (completely different piece of software than skype)

- Microsoft Classroom

- Microsoft Teams

(no guarantee of completeness)

Some of these did better than others, but in the end they all went down the drain. That makes me suspect that it's not the software itself, but some corporate requirements that Microsoft imposes on their chat programs, that's the root cause of the problems.
I also tried a similar setup (with gphoto2 getting the stream of jpegs, ffmpeg, loopback device) but the deal breakers for me we're:

- high latency: in the half-second range, consistently out of sync with the audio
- bulkiness: I had to place the camera on the side of the screen rather than on top, so I consistently looked away from the camera

With that experience I didn't find it worth to upgrade the setup (with mini HDMI cable, capture card, power supply) and ended up buying a crappy webcam instead
At the very least people could have the decency to draw it as a scissoring X to show that the control point actually represents something tangible, and that the inscribing parallelogram describes the boundaries that the mixture fractions interpolate between.

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/jwg0zxdzjz

(also, nitpicking on your comment, each vectors have DoF of their embedding dimension, it is only 2 in the special case of being laid flat on a plane. In other words cubic Bezier curves are generally 3D, whereas quadratic can only ever be 2D)
My point is in rural locations not at home you need a phone number to
connect to 5G (or lesser G) for the data to make a non phone call.
I had (and still continue to work slowly on) a similar idea but less dangerous - just keep a targeted super soaker powered by a camera and keep some bait in the night. You don’t need anything poisonous just pure ethanol would work. As long as some of that gets under the cockroach ethanol seems effective at killing them.
This was over a decade ago at this point but at one company we ran our own Reddit server (when Reddit was nearly fully open source) and it was set up to work with our Active Directory so if we could use our work logins.

It was really really awesome.
I think Roy was the worst. They turned him into a smug, entitled American.

I think the actor playing Reynholm was the best of the worst but I agree that he didn't manage to get the confident over-the-top intensity that Chritopher Morris had.

Jen wasn't horrible but I pretty much agree with your sentiment.
And all the racism and colonialism magically reappeared in 1990?
Terrible casting
It's really crazy how everyone had MSN back when I was younger. It was great, it had webcam stuff, personalization of font size and colors and such, plenty of emoticons, and even GAMES!

I can't believe they managed to kill this amazing product.

I do feel like FB is being killed in the same way, as it was an amazing product for many years and has slowly become ads and unrelated content in a noisy newsfeed :( I really think FB should go back to its roots and simplify the interface and go back to the chronological timeline.

I don't understand why product feel that they need to change to stay relevant. They should just launch other products instead of changing what works well.
That's the third post in the line of saying that this is still a far fetched or just far away maybe assumption - which is mind boggling to me because it is jot a cabal of experts but basically science agrees we are very much on the edge (time horizon is uncertain in relation to a human life, but in regard to earths age too close to the edge..) to do that right now?

And even if we'd had the time, our resources are finite, if we could do better (=sustainable for me) right now, why wait and sit on the lazy path and hope for future technological advances?
>- don’t support ``` for code blocks. Channel chats do. Why? I have no clue.

In general, Teams doesn't have real markdown support. It can detect some markdown-ish syntax and replace it with its WYSIWYG stuff, but that's not the same thing (it doesn't always replace it, it doesn't handle messages sent with markdown syntax properly, it doesn't follow standard markdown syntax, and it doesn't let you edit the markdown markup).

Other issues I've had:

- Teams for desktop likes to randomly decide your microphone isn't working, and turn your audio off. The microphone works fine in literally any other program.

- Trying to close the window doesn't close it, it just minimizes it and hides it from the taskbar. It plays the minimize animation, it still shows up in alt-tab, and it stays on the same virtual desktop when reopening the window, rather than reopening on the current desktop.

- It always throws its window up when starting. There seems to be no way to make it start in the background.

-There is no way to choose spellchecker language, it's hardcoded to use the same language as the UI.
Sad that we can't have nice things and that human lifetime has been wasted on building schemes like DRM; vindicated and maybe a little smug that you knew it was coming and most people don't think about it until it's too late; hopeful that maybe this time it will spur some change for the better.
I too remember Lync being incredibly buggy. It's probably the least reliable chat software I've ever used.
MariaDB sports several storage engines such as InnoDB, MyISAM, Aria etc

One of them is CSV which uses plain text files as backends https://mariadb.com/kb/en/csv-overview/
It's been a long time since I heard mention of NetMeeting.

I remember using NetMeeting in late 97 or early 98 on a 33.6 kbps modem. One of the most memorable parts was the area were you could find other random people to chat with on audio. I had many enjoyable conversations with various people on there, something that I don't think would work well today with the increased number of horrible netizens.
The person in the video almost drowned while on a buoyant kayak and wearing a life jacket… doesn’t really counter the point of the article!
I mean, this is quite fine in my opinion. 1080p is plenty of quality, and if you can afford a 4k display you can probably pony up for youtube premium. 4k is pretty much a "premium" content resolution anyway.
if they follow the Russian law they can opt for civillian 2 years service for minimum pay without weapons, so it's your option - better paid meatgrinder and crappy safe work, there is also option to get jailed up to 10 years if the prison will last that long
It’s been 10 years since that video was made, and I still can’t buy a thing like that for my garden.
The text suggests to just containerise any app, so I am wondering, what is the current status for containers (on Linux):

Can you access files outside of a container from inside a container?

Can you access devices like an eGPU from inside a container?
Oh gosh, had to use Lync for work (on a Mac). The absolute horror.
I think Bill Bryson commented that, in the US, the dominant culture is an excited hope about how much better the future will be. In the UK, our culture is a mild surprise that things aren’t worse than they are right now.
Yeah look I understand the UK is a bleak and miserable place filled with bleak and miserable people, mate. But to those who have dwelt in lands with sunshine and hope the original Office is a shock to the senses.
Brother has a series called Tonerbenefit, but I think it is only available in Eastern Europe. The initial cost is higher for the printer, but the original toner is dirt cheap.

https://www.brother.sk/printers/laser-printers/hl-b2080dw

Sorry I can’t find a page in English.

Before that I used a Canon inkjet with CISS system, but I have always problem with it. It is good for people who prints a lot every day, I mean really lot and do not care if the printer needs some maintenance.
BTW. Worth mentioning is that CLP-310 has to be quite new still using its maiden cartridges. Those were chipless and allow only 1000 prints. But you can reset this counter by shorting certain pins and then fill those cartridges 4ever.
I only asked in the first place because so many people say that it’s good for Linux. It seems like that’s predicated on a Google account.
Apple can patch macOS Ventura on the fly: RSR is coming