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Ask HN: Best way (HW&SW) to digitize family photo albums?
Family has a bunch of photo albums laying around, that I'd like to digitize for better accessibility and durability.

It's mostly standard photos (like 10x15cm or 9x13cm) stuck on to thick white paper (using special "photo corner" tape, so they're removable) with handwritten captions below the photos. Photos are on the front and back of a page.

So, I need to scan whole pages. Are there scanners, that can do this in bulk for front and backside? I assume most top-feeding scanners will have problems with the thick paper and the glued-on photos. So do I need to do it page by page manually? What resolution and what file format should I use?

What about the software part? Is there a way to automatically cut the photos from the white background and save them to separate files?

Any experiences?
There is a difference between a coverup and not informative reporting.

From the article:

"That is despite the fact that a North Dakota regulator has acknowledged the spill was much larger, and even the official record, right after stating the spill was 10 gallons, notes that the area was “saturated with natural gas condensate of an unknown volume,” and thus may have been larger."

Hardly a coverup if they immediately stated the area is "saturated".
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Politicians get the power, those who paid for it will ask for favors in return. If you don't see this as corrupt, not sure anything would count as corrupt then.
China Acknowledges Holding an Employee of U.K.’s Hong Kong Consulate
HR isn’t there to help you out. They’re there to protect the company. This scenario is not one that HR is likely to get involved in and it’s more likely to put you on HR’s radar as a “troublemaker” than anything.

If you want to discuss it with the manager’s manager, CC on an email is the wrong way. Talk to them privately. They may or may not be sympathetic but this is more likely to work than an obvious attempt to shame your manager in front of their boss.
Neither are their 500K student loans nor their delayed work opportunities until 35.
I'm Dutch, and I've never had to wait for more than a week to see my GP. Never more than a month for a procedure.

Additionally, when I lived in the US, we got a special Dutch health insurance plan for temporary expats. They sent us a letter that if one of us ever had to go to the hospital, they'd fly them over to the Netherlands unless the situation required immediate attention.
How are you planning to keep it up to date ?
The Firefox 3-4 era is the era of the interminably long betas for Firefox. The private browsing feature was committed to Firefox trunk on 2008-11-04, long before the 2009-06-30 release date given on that Wikipedia page. The bug for Firefox was filed 2004-06-28, long before Chrome was a thing.

(Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248970).
Mixing Languages: an inside look at how Elements handles five languages at once
Maybe I don't understand correctly but my point is that BERT and friends just let you skip a lot of feature engineering. Which(the F.Eng) is actually pretty useless once you shift the corpus a bit. That is for me the biggest contribution, I don't care about a couple of percentage points of better results in the end but I do care that I don't need to spend all my time devising new features, which almost always require an expert on that particular topic.
The related Epstein-academia connection which deserves scrutiny is with Martin Nowak at Harvard. Certainly far more money involved in terms of donations. And many articles referenced him visiting with Epstein extensively, including his island.
Scroll broken in Firefox on Mac.

Why does the Southern US seem to contain the highest concentration of North-South runways in the world?
simply awful
I'd love to build my own custom vehicle, I wonder what it would involve in terms of making it road legal
Mainly Google extensions (yeah, not coming anytime soon): Keep and Chrome Remote Desktop are two of my favourite services.
Thank you all for your suggestions. I finally fixed my problem. I set up a discord for me to chat with my users and linked it in my landing page. Only a few of my users have joined it but they give valuable feedback so it seems to work. Im thinking of maybe creating a subreddit too where our users can chat with each other and critique my app.
This is appalling, but the comparison is a bit disingenuous.

It's not crude oil, and it's not in the ocean where it spreads to coat an entire coastline.
I believe that I saw at the end of the article, some simulations of different colour blindness with Turbo.
Amazing

CMake, clang-format, watchman

The code looks beautiful, examaple: https://github.com/osquery/osquery/blob/master/osquery/files...

> https://github.com/osquery/osquery/blob/master/LICENSE
> If you're using osquery you are free to choose one of the provided licenses.

If GPLv2 is optional, then why have it all? (To give the user flexibility since GPLv2 isn't forward compatible to from Apache2)

A simpler license w/ a separate patent exception would give the user choice, a forker could "upcast" to any forward-compatible license.
Tensil founder here. We're a little different from the other ASIC companies because we specialize our chips to individual model architectures on demand. Our value prop is that our chips are smaller and cheaper than high end GPUs while offering the same or better performance on the model you care about.

This is compelling to a lot of hardware companies, where they often have 1 model that represents >50% of their compute workload. Making a Tensil ASIC for that model becomes much cheaper than GPUs at scales of 1000 chips or more.

I'm happy to talk in more detail if this interests you! tom@tensil.ai
Court Documents Tie Huawei to Iran, Syria, Sudan, Describe New Banking Links
I'd recommend looking into a phenomenon known as 'racefail 09'. It was a large fandom-wide discussion on dated depictions of non-majority demographics (focused mostly on race, thus the name). Several of today's big authors were part of racefail '09 when it happened and its effect is still visible on modern scifi.
Reporting it as a ten gallon spill isn't mere incompetence.

> Suess readily acknowledged that the officially listed spill size was too low. “We know it is significantly bigger than 10 gallons. We have known that since Day One,” Suess continued. Yet he defended the state’s decision to continue to list the spill as just 10 gallons.
This must be a throwaway account for Jacques Distler.
I agree but this is also big. Joi Ito admitted to visiting Epstein's houses as well. He also let him co-invest in startups with him. It's unclear which startups in particular Epstein was an investor in though.
If that was allowed, it might save hundreds in the short term and doom millions in the long term.

Of course I'd do whatever it took to save myself or my loved ones. Anyone would. That's not a good basis for government policy.

(Also, being honest, the number of situations where powerful antibiotics now vs. at the hospital would make a difference and the people involve realize that and administer them has got to be tiny. We can't make policy based on low-probability hypotheticals.)
Yeah, Firefox on mobile sucks, but they are fortunately working on a major update. Firefox on the desktop rocks tho.
It's the person who doesn't know how to do that yet. Most people don't get started in software development by writing their own operating system kernel. They're using an existing application with published source code and want to make a little change. It's an ugly hack written by a teenager, they just want to use it for themselves. They'll get better at it as they do it more.

But now you say they have to buy a Mac and pay $100/year. Well, that's a no for that little initial change, so now they never get started to begin with.
> And I've never heard of anyone from the EU going to the US for medical care

It definitely happens, especially for things like plastic and reconstructive surgery.
Hey sorry for the late reply. I haven't checked Hacker News in a while. You are right about forums and chat. I created my own discord server after I made this post and now a few of my new users have started to give feedback.

My only problem now is I don't know how to talk with my old users since they don't reply to my emails and are not aware of the discord server I created
Hey, thanks for sticking to it. You're doing important work.
Yeah, but we're talking a new work by a prolific author with more than 8,000 articles of writing known. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and reading about the empiricists (berkeley, hume, locke) shook my world as a teenager. The works and letters of his contemporary philosophers and brilliant people made me a better person, giving things a great deal more of critical thinking. I love how in some of this he's saying that if tolerating catholics helps the prince and commonwealth then he's for tolerating catholics. That's ridiculously apt and healthy.
I would count Foundation as one of the formative works that shaped my younger self's SF reading, but from a modern perspective, the almost complete absence of female characters is significant. Much of Asimov's work uses dialog-based exposition, and is very definitely 'tell' not 'show' in its nature - so there is very little scope for nuanced examination of social issues.

Asimov did write female characters but they are rare. Two that stand out are Susan Calvin (in the Robot series) and Noÿs in The End of Eternity. Calvin is described as follows: "She was a frosty girl, plain and colorless, who protected herself against a world she disliked by a mask-like expression and a hypertrophy of intellect" [0].

The main exception is The Gods Themselves, which is notable for discussing sex, albeit in a tri-sexual alien race.

[Edit - to be clear, this is not intended as a negative judgement of Asimov against today's sensibilities. Slightly reworded accordingly]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Calvin
Insulting and degrading a public figure not directly related to the context of the situation makes you an asshole.
Can indexed images be decoded to palette indices? I've been in cases where certain indices have special semantics.
I am a subscriber to Clarkesworld Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and spend significant time pouring over novels that are coming up for the Hugos and Nebulas every year.

Where are you finding these stories? I'm certainly not reading them!
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alt link to referenced paper:
http://www.saltedlands.org/images/uploads/news/Vengosh_Brine...
Was the connection just that they took money from Epstein? Did they already know about the things he was doing when they took the money?
Note that Chase Freedom cards have a foreign transaction fee though if that matters to you.
JavaScript developers...

JSON isn't really anything to do with JavaScript any more. It's a format that's used with practically every language. Any experienced developer should know that.
Linux is extremely stable as a headless server. We have instances running for years with no issues.

That is where Linux's reputation for stability most likely comes from.

However as a desktop machine mainly used for media consumption I would take windows over linux any day. No doubt due to poor graphics and audio driver support.
US moves to abolish child migrant custody limits
Code execution back door found in Ruby’s rest-client library
This was the text of my email
right, it's in the ground water that people are drinking.
> “In North Dakota we do not regulate based on volume,” Suess added. “Whether we put a 10 there, a 100 there, a 1,000 there is not going to change our response to the spill, it is not going to change what the responsible party has to do, not going to change their remediation, it is not going to change anything other than your curiosity.”

That's a very self serving opinion Mr. Suess, since if word gets out that _millions_ of gallons were spilled under your agency's watch, yet reported as 10 gallons, that will create a lot of political pressure to change more than curiosity. That difference is a little more than "nothing to see here, move along".
I think w3counter's graph only shows the major browsers, and doesn't include data from the rest. Wikipedia has a breakdown of browser usage with more browsers (and an "other" section)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Su...
Machine Learning Chip Breaks New Ground with Waferscale Integration
Same. I've been reading through the book at project oberon and really like reading about the design decisions that went into it. I also think its UI is a great starting point to reason about a touch based IDE.
> which requires a fidelity brokerage account

Consider there's no fees or minimums associated with a Fidelity brokerage account and you're already entering a business relationship with Fidelity anyway.

There's also the PayPal Mastercard, which requires a PayPal account.
Otherwise known as the "clbuttic mistake":

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/266...
I have used really old versions of J9 on StrongARM systems, it was faster than the Sun JVM at the time as there was no JIT for the Sun one.
The Future of Consumer, Dating Apps, and ISAs with Jeff Morris Jr
who this hurts most is north dakotan residents and their kids who will be drinking this and bathing in it as it seeps into the aquifer
Why the -1's ? Isn't this a genuine concern to avoid getting on a SPAM blacklist? What am i missing?...
Taobao Maker Festival 2019 will showcase 3D printin and artificial meat
He was already a convicted sex offender at that point.
>and it handles multiple profiles better.

I think that Containers available on Firefox are much better than profiles
This is frankly big, an explicit black-list inside the browsers code to circumvent a state-base MITM attack. My only concern is: they could easily MITM and redirect users trying to downlaod this new Firefox/Chrome versions to old unpatched ones and just break the automatic update process. Although I hope that they already started distributing this update silently (like all the chrome/firefox updates) before announcing it
Not all government subsidies are the same. Someone could say farm subsidies are good while welfare is bad. That's not hypocritical.
> Each company will deploy a technical solution unique to its browser. For additional information on those solutions please see the below links.

Firefox is blacklisting the Kazakh certificate, while Chrome will prevent it from being installed.
The problem is that we're well past the point where "carbon-neutral" is good enough. We not only need to stop causing additional harm, we need to figure out ways to undo at least some of the harm we've already done.

Given the limited time frame, there's simply not enough time left to "upgrade" all production to be carbon-negative (or at least carbon-neutral). Even if we could magically swap out all factories and infrastructure, we would still be overproducing and depleting scarce resources.

Plus of course thermodynamics are working against us: burning oil is easy. Extracting carbon from the air and refining it to create a usable resource on the other hand is extremely difficult and energy intensive. Trying to ramp up recycling instead of harvesting raw materials would create a massive additional need for energy, meaning we would not only have to shift to renewables but also do so while ramping up the energy production.

Plus of course nuclear power still requires mining for raw materials and building the batteries needed to store all the variable power from wind, solar etc would require even more (and rarer) raw materials.

Basically we're talking a massive overhaul with very little financial benefit (and often quite the opposite) to those owning "the means of production".

The costs of not doing it may be incalculable but the costs of doing it are far more direct and immediate. Capitalism doesn't optimise for long-term cost reduction. An individual capitalist may prefer long-term survival over short-term profits but the economic system as a whole doesn't work that way and an individual "taking the risk" of investing will be punished (i.e. lose market share, go bankrupt or be bought out) if the market outperforms them in the meantime.

That's why I'm saying the problem is capitalism: it's not some Marxist-Leninist navel-gazing. The very way capitalism works makes it impossible for those with the power to do so (i.e. "the market") to do anything about climate change. It's one big prisoner's dilemma. The only way to win this would be either for a significant majority of wealthy people to cooperate and invest everything they have, or for a single individual to control the majority of the market and force the decision (which of course doesn't work if more than one person does this) -- guess which strategy is more appealing.
Don't see the point in this unless someone were to write a HotSpot backend that generated WASM.
I actively develop an online cryptocurrency treasure hunt game: REQLoot.

It's a very simple game mechanic with some complex supporting features. There is a game play area of ~500k pixels with hidden tokens behind some of them. Users earn 'stamina' throughout the day in attempt to find the larger prizes.

It's been getting nice traction with ~100 daily active users and growing.

https://reqloot.com/#/hunt
Yeah, I have considered a show HN post but I want to post there once my app is a little bit more polished. As for active users, we have around 12-18 (changes every day) people visiting our site and around 125 people signed up. Im not sure how many people who visited the site go past the front page though.
Just took a number which carbon is removed from air-sea-plants natural circulation. The increase in CO2 stops when emissions match the removal of CO2 from circulation as permanent basis. And that figure seems to be about 1% of our emissions. But the key issue is that those two numbers need to match in order to actually stop the climate change permanently which is so far away from every politicians discussion points. All the renewables and storage technologies fail when we start to calculate amount of material required to build them and mining of those resources. Only energy technology so far that could actually do it is nuclear. As for uranium limited reserves they are calculated about 0.1 cent per kwh price limit. It is one of those situations where emotions points towards renewables while numbers are clearly for the nuclear if people could accept tiny risk of having two bananas worth of radiation or even the extreme case of getting so high radiation dose that it would give as high cancer risk as the average alcohol consumption.
For a low-cost solution, you should consider Google PhotoScan.

https://www.google.com/photos/scan/
Binary protocols ARE easier than JSON. I'm counting everything involved in handling JSON, and you may not be; Lexing, parsing, and so on. Those things simply don't exist in binary. they add weight to code that simply doesn't need to be there if you're using a binary protocol.

A computer program (an IDE in this scenario) talking to another computer program (the debugger) simply does not need to use JSON! By choosing to use JSON, a choice was made to make the protocol far more inefficient than it needed to be.

The result will be a slower than necessary debugging experience for all who use it. Debuggers already consume enough developer time per day! Choices should be made to make developer lives better, not worse.
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Joi Ito apparently knew Epstein personally and offered Zuckerman to meet Epstein in 2014, which was well after Epstein's punishment (such as it was) for pandering.
> Definitely not true, and a generalization... Just because you haven't been at such a place doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

That in itself is a false assumption and generalization.

Are we talking product or culture? Because, if it's culture, then startup vs. established company doesn't matter anymore. Either can have good or crap culture, and what is good/crap is wholly subjective, and usually more dependent on where the employee is in their life than the company.

For example, I could care less what amenities I have and how nice everyone is if I don't get to go home and put my kids to bed except once in a blue moon. I could care less about working from home if I'm expected to crawl out of bed in the middle of the night and work during fire drills that always seem to happen.

The question is, are you in programming primarily because you love the art, are you in it to stroke your ego, because it's bleeding edge, or a combo of both?

Startups convince low-level employees with minuscule equity that they should care as much about the company as the founders through stroking of egos. I'm not making the argument that you shouldn't work for a startup, I'm making the argument that working as a everyday software engineer at a startup is almost always a bad, long-term career investment for experienced engineers.
There's clearly a decent number of people who listen to Jones all day on his own channel who don't make that realization so it's a fair assumption that there are people who won't come to the correct conclusion about Jones who hadn't been exposed to him before he went on Rogan's podcast.

It's not even strictly about filtering information it's about appropriately presenting the information, giving both sides of an argument equal time and legitimacy is how we've gotten such high levels of climate change denial in the US. News networks, afraid of being seen as taking a side by framing the denial side appropriately as the scientifically unsupported side, would just present two people each arguing their own sides with equal weight given to both the denial and the pro side which gives the appearance there's equal evidence supporting both points where really there split is pretty much all vs a few every specific studies that only support denial in a vacuum.
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Which California waters are listed as impaired for fish consumption?
Joi Ito took money for MIT from Epstein after he became a convicted sex offender. He also allowed Epstein to co-invest in his startups and visited his houses (which were decorated with extremely provocative and possibly illegal photos). All investors do enough diligence that he would have known about the conviction before working and socializing with him.
Perl/CPAN has been doing this for years - http://cpantesters.org/page/about.html

Here's an example of a CPAN module (Moose) which is tested against every release of Perl (going back to 5.8.3 from 2004) against multiple OS/Platforms - http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Moose
My two cents: how are the regulators funded? Is it self funded like the CFPB through fines on the entities it regulates or through the state / federal government? Self funding, while difficult and not applicable to all agencies, seems to inoculate regulatory capture somewhat.

Second, what's Mr. Suess resume look like? His LinkedIn profile only shows his work as a regulator, was he in the industry in a previous life? The revolving door between industry and regulation at the highest levels seems to be a precursor to "oversights" like this.
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