skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The big difference between Ukrainians and Russians is that the former live in an internationally recognized democracy that has been improving its government and the rule of law, and the latter is a thoroughly corrupt mafia state.

You are thoroughly mistaken if you think Ukraine is any better than Russia. In the Panama papers, Ukraine exceeds Russia and in terms of far right wing violence Ukraine far exceeds Russia.

Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/25906/politicians-pandora-pap...
Ukraine has twice as many politicians in panama papers as Russia.

This war is not black and white. There are millions of shades of gray in between regardless of the constant nauseating fellatio of everything Ukrainian by the western media.
One thing that might stand out is a complete lack of interest in doing anything besides studying. It seems like it may be a sign of low social intelligence
That's only true if we have authoritarian policies to forbid luxury food. That would be one of the huge lifestyle changes I imagine. Otherwise, the wealthy countries will continue to eat those foods while less wealthy countries can't find or afford adequate food.

But... what is the number of people we can sustainably feed with non-luxury food? Can we indefinitely support 8 billion people? I haven't seen any good answers that speak to the sustainably, or look into the geopolitical feasibility of forced diet changes.
A TypeScript-like language for WebAssembly
> My question though was more about rust as a language. Does it have a golden standard introduction to it like C does.

You'd have to be specific. If you are looking for simplicity, nothing will ever beat C, but just because a languague is simple doesn't mean it's easy to program. See Brainfuck.

Generally Rust Book is considered a gold standard, but I rarely read them unless I am truly at a loss what next.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
Just in time for the culture wars!
Maybe this is an ideal use case for a bloom filter. The answer to the question "is user X blocked?" is almost always going to be "no". And the "maybe" cases can consult the actual block list.

How exciting. I've waited my whole career for a bloom filter use case. Please no one tell me that there's a much more obvious solution.
Totally understood that someone not being available is an inconvenience, especially if that someone is the only one.

I'm curious though how that's really so different from other situations than "4 day work week guy". I'd say that it could shape up as much of the same, depending on how you define "4 day work week". If that means someone is always unavailable for an entire Friday or Monday or Wednesday for example and everyone else works nine-to-five in the same office, that can seriously change some things, sure. Not a fun situation. Heck, being the "remote only guy" during the exact same 5 day work week when everyone else is in the exact same team room in the office together is not great.

How about having teams made up only of people on 4 day work weeks? Suddenly it's not an issue any longer I would say and that is something I think the pandemic has taught us can be done. Not without some rules and not without some adjustments. I do think that those adjustments made permanent are well worth it for both sides. You gotta align when people work their 4 days at least a bit so that there is a chance to have some synchronous communication.

I can think of a few examples of this actually. One would be a team that is not co-located but instead spread over multiple timezones. Say some people in London (GMT), some in New York (EST) and some in Los Angeles (PDT). There's a short period of overlap in a "normal workday". If we limit the 4 day work week such that everyone has to work during each weekday's overlap period but is free to choose when to work (during Mon-Fri "normal workdays", I would argue this is totally workable. Another example would be (mostly freelancers) that travel from their home town to work on Monday morning and leave for home on Friday afternoon. They will arrive at work around mid-day Monday and leave for home when everyone else goes for lunch on Friday and work a little longer than everyone else in the evenings Mon-Thu. Works perfectly well from my experience tbh.

So what about "4 day" guy being that last example? He starts work Monday after lunch and is gone at lunch on Friday. Just no commute? Instead of working late the rest of the week he just doesn't. Should work just fine if you ask me without most of the effects that being off for an entire whole day (whichever it is) would have. Add in a few timezones across the team and you won't really notice the difference with a bit of planning of when someone will be available.

Now one thing that is left are "urgent matters". I think that is not really an issue either. You gotta plan properly anyway. The fact that many C-levels (and some lower levels) can't plan and just "need to get this done by EOD" is completely irrelevant to me. They just gotta learn to plan instead of just making people bend to their will because they're utterly bad at even the tiniest bit of planning ahead. For everything else there's "on-call" or "tomorrow", because it's either really important and you pay for it or it's not that important.
Nitter is everything I wished Twitter was. Well except the upcoming support for following folks. Viewing the same profile in each is like viewing 2 completely different platforms with how different the displayed content is.
It depends on the location and it is a huge range. There are places where wells have gone dry and places that receive no rain but have hundreds of years left.

In times of plenty it makes sense to put some water back in the ground if you have a short-term capacity.

The idea of putting water back in just for the sake of it because that's how it was when you found it is pointless
Where Politicians Are Named in the Pandora Papers
cute story, welcome to the world of healthcare.
To be fair - that sounds like a reasonable conversion opportunity. I use like 100MB out of 2GB on a free plan so they'll never get my money.
because we like making money...?
Plutonium should be ok?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
Will it scale? This is a LOT of water in question.
How can you tell whether someone is treating an activity as a resume builder or if they genuinely value it and enjoy it
I feel this way about a lot of games, to be honest. There's so much side-quest filler that feels like work to me (a first play through of one of the Far Cry games had me crafting a wallet or some such nonsense) that it's become quite off-putting. As a teenager with nothing but time, I probably wouldn't have cared, but as a grown man with a full time job and little time to spend on video games, the last thing I want to do is feel like I'm working.
A story about GPT3 is on HN now

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30832465
Non-cloud pattern and 2008 are both unqualified issues.

That said, RDS is great. Managed, automated backups and portable.
> That sounds absolutely baseless and nonsensical... and counter-productive.

That's Jaggi Vasudev for you. The man specialises in spewing complete nonsense: https://theprint.in/opinion/pov/uncle-please-sit-jaggi-vasud...
Absolutely!

Furthermore, when this happens, you must always edit your comment to complain about downvotes! It's tradition.
This (briefly, the article is about rerouting winter runoff to flood fields as a way of refilling the rapidly-depleting water table) seems really exciting, because it's a rare example of a coordination trap with a practical solution.

The coordination trap is that farmers are using more groundwater than is sustainable: farmer A drills a 100' well, farmer B drills 120', and so on, until every dollar of profit in the farming business is spent entirely on wells and pumps. They could agree to stop at some point, but as long as most farmers cooperate, the few who don't will outcompete them.

In fact, it's essentially the same problem seen in international corporate tax rates. Ireland lowered its corporate tax rate to entice multinats to repatriate there, which worked, and led to other countries adopting an even lower rate, in a "race to the bottom" scenario. The proposed solution[0] is basically a cartel: all countries agree to some non-zero minimum value that they won't go beneath, and to punish anyone who defects from the agreement.

Unfortunately, that can't work for farmers; it's unrealistic to expect all farmers to come together and find an equitable way to share well-water and detect and punish cheaters. And for the government to enforce water usage would require a lot of heavy-handed regulation: checking farms to make sure they're metering correctly, calculating which crops deserve how much water, etc. Ugh.

That's what makes this exciting: a government program to replenish the aquifer represents a way that the farmers could solve their problem and share the cost in a way that's (roughly) equitable and not very easy to cheat on, without micro-managing which farm gets how much water.

0: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/01/nations-agree-to-support-us-...
I see three possibilities, from most to least likely: (a) completely fabricated by the subject of the story (perhaps because they are sincerely convinced they are being followed by someone and are seeking to furnish "proof"); (b) it's anti-theft; (c)(super super super unlikely) its a personal matter.
> This is a movement to save our soil.

No, this is yet an other unscientific and nonsensical publicity stunt by Jaggi Vasudev.

> So, whatever we believe in

What if I believe that Vasudev is a charlatan and that Isha is a cult for yuppies?

Also, how come one can't leave a missed call to save soil like the last time?
And then I’d love a game-of-life style visual simulation of the effect of both kinds of blocks.

Will the Twitterverse split in two? Into n?

Will everyone end up in their own Twitterverse of 1?

Will Twitter implode with blocking taking all the resources away from tweeting?
There's tons of live gigs at every scale. If you don't see it, you're not looking. It wasn't that long ago I joined everyone else in a coffee shop singing covers with the band.
And Fry’s was brought down due to fraud as well [1].

[1]: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/frys-electronics-execu...
> IQ science is well established, and it is well known that the SAT is an IQ test, plain and simple. To pretend otherwise is to dissemble, to be anti-science. Hopefully, MIT will save itself, but I'm sadly not expecting miracles.

The "woke mob" you called is also well established, and people in academia have been fired before for recognizing aspects of IQ tests (e.g. Ronald Sullivan, a dean at Harvard). I agree with your sentiment, but also want to recognize that it takes time for the policy makers at MIT to fight against this trend.
Is it possible that your understanding of the role is that it is more technical than what they view it as? Just going off your comment that the interview wasn’t as technical as you expected.
Yes, we blame others because we failed to work hard and get good grades and the world has it out for us. Woah is us. DiD I dO tHiS rIgHt?
Bye, get well soon.
So sorry. There was a DNS problem. I just fixed it. It works now. Could you please try.

Thanks!
Yes if you have legal or finance staff; their workflows rely heavily on the Windows versions of Office. Google tried and were unable to do it, FYI.

Also, I'm not a huge fan of Windows anymore, but it's device management capabilities via Active Directory and Intune are far and away the best in class. Yes, Windows suffers from success (by way of getting targeted for exploits all of the time), but it is really really easy to lock down, encrypt, and wipe Windows laptops and desktops en masse.
Prezi's interactive presentations seem quite zui like. I'd feel a bit embarrassingly out of date to use one now though.
obligatory "I miss Pidgin"
>At least with a browser extension you can audit the source code yourself

Well, often this is not easy. I've tried to audit some extensions recently but a vast majority of non-open-source extensions are minified and heavily obfuscated. Unless you invest a lot of time, it's not easy to audit the code these days.
I think it’s possible to restrict issues by privileges on the repo, so you wouldn’t get new issues from random people, anyway.
> Not trying to discredit medical professionals... I'm sure the majority are ... good at their jobs

I'm sure half of them are below average
I asked, What are the best electric cars? How to learn CSS grids? And why did the US leave Afghanistan.

I was pleased with the results and how they were formatted. There's a more curated feel and they look like good quality sources on those answers.
Do not engage at all.

The only way to win is to not play the game in the first place.

Let them fight it out in their echo-chambers. They will get bored really soon and realize that there is more to life than screaming and banning each other in the blue bird site.

Some things just need to be ignored and left alone. The outrage that is happening on the blue bird site is one of them. It is not worth it.
There's probably a lot of it that end up evaporating...
Block lists. They exist, and there are tools to implement them.
Same feeling - I consume a ton online and keep trying tiktok but I'm consistently bored - just feels like the pop music equivalent of everything else.
It is a harmful stereotype to label obese people as lacking willpower as you have done. Many obese people don’t have the resources (time, money) or tools (nutrition understanding) to improve their situation. Many have metabolic or familial history of obesity which has both physical and psychological (normalization) impact on their ability to control their weight. The former can be helped with diet and/or medication, the latter often causes them not to seek help.

Most people in the US live in poverty and make marginal spending food decisions based on money per dopamine reward unit rather than optimizing nutrition. McDonalds is cheap and unhealthy; fresh fruits and vegetables and the free time to educate oneself on proper nutrition, then cook healthy meals and do meal prep often cost more money and time than most can afford. As does proper exercise when you’re working 12 hours per day trying to make ends meet.

A less harmful way to phrase your point is that medication can help people who self-medicate with food overcome metabolic efficiency. I lost 40 pounds on semaglutide (Wegovy) so far this past year and dropping; exercise and diet alone didn’t work for me. I hope to eventually not rely on medication to maintain a healthy weight.
The prices on rapsperry pis that can drive eink are so low the make ArtFrame's prices look way beyond what i could justify.
he has not been dismantling anything that wasn't already in the works
Out of curiosity I tried "big penis" and got a fascinating read on animal phalluses.Stuff I never knew.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nine-weirdest-...

Caveat; NSFW
I cannot figure out how this one is funny, or even a joke:

> An intellectual got a slave pregnant. At the birth, his father suggested that the child be killed. The intellectual replied: "First murder your own children and then tell me to kill mine!"

The rest are fairly amusing, or I can at least appreciate what the joke is, but this one I have nothing. I guess it must be something about the intellectual being among the father's children, but that doesn't really seem to add anything?

(thanks for the list by the way, really interesting)
Hard to buy that conclusion. 35 countries with existing or under construction nuclear power. But only 9 countries with nuclear weapons, 2 of which do not even have any nuclear power. And when you go through the history countries seeking nuclear weapons don't start by building nuclear power, they tend to go straight to fit for purpose reactors dedicated to producing plutonium (e.g. Dimona or Hanford or the French and English equivalents) or to enrichment plants (e.g. as Pakistan did long before it ever had a civilian power plant).
I guess Apollo Fusion is lucky they got acquired by Astra before this went through?

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/what-goes-up-must-come-down/
Connectix VirtualPC started as a Mac product.

I installed Windows 95 on a Mac with VirtualPC back in... 1995. All 26 floppies of it. Installation done, it rebooted the virtual box, and I had to go to a meeting. Cane back an hour or so later, and it had just finished booting up. Good times.

Then Microsoft bought them, and I think afterwards the Mac version was no longer supported.

(PowerPC was a consortium of Motorola, IBM, and Apple, and was made out of silicon... so technically, that would be "Intel Virtualization on Apple Silicon". :-) )
Sure the British Navy helped enforce an end to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade (slavery, of course, continued for many decades longer on a massive scale in the U.S. and Brazil, among others), but the slave trade is just one of the many crimes against humanity that the British Empire committed. Especially when the result of ending slavery was largely the continued use of colonial subjects as cheap, disposable labor, with poverty, mass famine, and violent repression by British forces continuing.

The British Empire as a project was inherently a massive resource extraction operation. Slavery was just one method to accomplish this goal, and one that they greatly expanded, developed, and promoted before it became economically advantageous for them to phase out. So I don't think they should get any credit for stopping slave traders.
"Build your own ideological bubble! Don't let anyone tell you radicalization is wrong!"
I didn't credit them solely. Yes workers and workers right organizations supported it. Unions were the main ones lobbying it. We all know that without lobbying things don't get done in the US (unfortunately).

The question wasn't about what unions do today. The question specifically asked what unions were for. I stand by my statement that they were formed not only for pay increases, but also for working conditions improvements.
Before I knew about Catch&Throw I invented GOBACK. Logical next step would be SAFE-GOTO. It would GOBACK so much that it can safely GOTO somewhere.
I'm not confusing anything. I don't understand how you can write code without understanding whether or not it is secure, and whether or not it will scale. If you need scalability and security, then writing code without knowledge of those concepts is simply impossible.
But wouldn’t you want to eat basic hard tack the rest of your life if it meant you got to drink unicorn tears at every meal?

These questions posed about UBI never fail to promise the impossible (your ultimate happiness/freedom) in exchange for something equally impossible (a basic income sufficient to meet even the most austere of needs).

I yawn.
That's honestly great, assuming you don't have a degree
J Playground: a J REPL in the browser
That's sad.... that you think that.

It is like saying that software engineers write bad code, so that they can get paid to fix it. (Which is really not true at all)
The page is not working anymore, getting a 400 error
Curious why you would just copy the entire gilderlabs/ssh package into your repo instead of referencing it as a module? How do you plan to keep up to date with bug / security fixes?
Wrong. https://blog.prepscholar.com/how-many-people-get-a-34-35-36-...
36 = 4,100 students
35 = 12,000 students

Slightly less than 50k.

UMN app has no essay or anything like that. Your disbelief is your intuition which is that something here is wrong.

In the words of Principal Skinner, "It must be the children."
Ya it's hard to imagine teenagers have no interest in doing things outside of schoolwork
How is this comment necessary? Many things are studied without the ability to "bounce between dimensions".
The problems at Hanford have zero to do with civilian nuclear power. It's a weapons facility with problems dating back to the Manhattan project.
This honestly looks perfectly reasonable to me. It's obviously far harder than the SAT math section (which isn't saying much since SAT math is a bit of a joke), but the questions look completely fair and not at all like they're trying to trick or screw the student.

Makes the comment upthread that started this come across as just more racist prejudices about China, unless the commenter has something to back up their claim.
From the Smithsonian Magazine no less :)

The semantic search approach does throw up some interesting things sometimes!

Thank you for trying out Andi. And sharing something I never knew too!

I'm a little shaken by the four headed image...
Hi, I finished part of the writeup, mainly as the Fujitsu was a gift, but I want to refine it a bit before posting.

For stuff like auto-rotate, auto-de-skew, multipage PDF output; those can all be handled by external programs, and realistically that's what I'd recommend.

convert (part of imagemagick) can handle rotate and page merging, as well as conversion to other formats.

For de-skew, and possibly other features you're looking for, ScanTailor [1] is probably a good option. Can't speak on it's functional quality though, I prefer to manually fix skew for photos.

Convert also has a deskew option [2], but I've not tested it, and a few online results [4] seem to point to it not working that well.

There's also OCRmyPDF [3] which I found excellent for OCRing scanned print documents.

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Below are some notes on the other things you mentioned.
Sorry about the formatting, I couldn't find anything about markdown or HTML on HN. I just copied this from Zim

Long page scanning

* In the main xsane control window (upper left normally), select the Window tab, select Show standard options

* Keyboard shortcut: CTRL+5

* If the Standard Options window is already open, click the option again after it closes, to reopen it.

* In the Standard Options menu, set page height to 0.000.

* This allows the scanner to scan documents longer than standard A4 sizing. For example, you can scan legal sized or longer documents.

* The scanner with continue scanning the document until the paper exits the scanner physically.

---

Continuous scanning:

On the main xsane window, change the following settings:

* Where it says ADF Front or ADF Back, change to ADF Duplex if you are scanning duplex. Alternatively change to ADF Front or ADF Back if you know which side you want scanned.

* If you are scanning Duplex, change the number 1 to 2; next to the icon of 4 papers on top of each other

* This represents how many pages are scanned.

\* If you have multiple documents in the feeder (as the S1300i supports loading 20 documents at a time), you should set the number of pages to scan (same option) to either the number of pages, if scanning single sided, or DOUBLE the total number of pages, if scanning Duplex.

\* Alternatively, set it to a number higher than 40, and the scanner will continue scanning until there are no pages left.

[1] https://scantailor.org

[2] https://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#...

[3] https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF

[4] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41546181/how-to-deskew-a...
Is a "thirst trap" some kind of innovation specific to Tik Tok? How are they inducing their providers to post this innovatively addictive type of content?
...set their house of fire and salt the earth.

Joke aside, I can see where this project come from. So, as others have suggested, I don't have a Twitter account anymore.
Because it’s impossible. He couldn’t do what his father is asking if he’s dead.
It seems like it is less today than it was years ago. But maybe that's just the more rural areas and small towns.
Together? That sounds a lot..
You could consider https://traindown.com/ which is "Markdown for training data"

Previously mentioned here [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25884762]
There’s More to Design Than Data and Rationality