skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use it extensively for managing the books on my devices (Kobo Libre, and my wife has an old Kindle).
I'll have to take a look again then. My account seems to be the organizational one but it's somehow still free for me instead of the X per month it should be.
> Trying to curb Russia during the war the best they can.
> Because we need not to forget that Europe is at war

Europe is not at war. Or at least it wasn't until some politicians decided it was their business to intervene in somebody else's war. This is certainly against their own citizen.

I am an EU citizen myself and I did not consent to join this war.

> Not predicting Russian Imperial dreams of ruling the Europe?

Sorry, but that was never the case and will never be the case.

> Throwing nuclear out the window and becoming so dependent on Russian gas?

Bingo! However, that was not Russia's fault. It was definitely self-sabotage.
Copyfish is a good alternative to Project Naptha and works in Firefox:

https://ocr.space/copyfish
I’ve been around the Danish SWE industry for a few decades and we get yearly reports on average pays from unions like these: https://www.prosa.dk/raad-og-svar/loenstatistik-a

And unless the average pay for developers in Germany is significantly lower than it is in Denmark, then this advert for honeypot.io is really sort of shooting itself in the foot. Because the average wages you seem to be capable of getting through them are lower than what you should be getting.

I mean, 45.000 euro a year is lower than what a freshly educated nurse makes in Denmark as a comparison point. It’s sort of sad to use nurse wages as a statement of a low wage, but that’s the world we live in.
Do you? None of the stuff we buy from Costco is cheaper compared with other local grocery stores. I mean, ignoring the hot dogs and rotisserie chicken, obviously.
> That said, few saw a war with Russia coming

It was public doctrine in textbooks, taught at university. The warnings about moves at the chessboard (which in diplomacy often are issued in advance, contrary to chess) have been stated for decades, publicly and face to face. The products of the propaganda machine were quite reachable, and not really ambiguous.

Really, that «few saw» is farcical.

Edit: and it is quite worrisome to think that said "doctrine" is now implemented only up to a small fraction, and those expressions suggest blindness not just about the current actions, but the openly planned, stated future ones.
> What I call zazen is not developing concentration by stages and so on. It is simply the Awakened One's own easy and joyful practice, it is realized-practice within already manifest enlightenment. It is the display of complete reality. Traps and cages spring open. Grasping the heart of this, you are the dragon who has reached his waters, the tiger resting in her mountains. Understand that right here is the display of Vast Reality and then dullness and mental wandering have no place to arise.

https://wwzc.org/dharma-text/fukanzazengi-how-everyone-can-s...

Returning to the joyful ease of a child, not putting distinctions and discriminations on play, or worrying about the next thing or even doing the current thing well, is what we train by sitting zazen in Zen Buddhism
I was talking about Germany. Is Sweden going to store German waste?
A retracted paper doesn't disappear from the surface of the world. It is still indexed in commercial and institutional repositories, some of which will also have copies. Retracting is the right thing to do if the authors or editors want to show that they cannot vouch for what they have published.
How GPU Computing Works [video]
There used to be a project that kind if did this: https://beagle-project.org/. It's long since defunct and I'm always surprised that nothing emerged to fill the gap?

EDIT: I did a bit of Wikipedia rabbit holing only to discover that tracker [1] is currently running on my computer and indexing my files

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker_(search_software)
I don't know if you are joking or not?

But notice the recent stories about the American military industrial complex being 20 times as expensive as the Chinese for a hint on why protectionism doesn't really work.
Eh, these are cnc milled and and robot handled just like any other industrial good. Sure the quality expectations are high, but the production process is nothing unique..
There was also more recently the case of the Seagate 7200.11, see my previous comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32053477
I'm terrified at some of the suggestions here. Weighting negative reviews across all the fake 5 star reviews on Amazon? Seriously? The 1-3 star reviews are the only way to get remotely at the truth of a product. The problem is that you can't just take the number. You have to evaluate the text and compare it across other reviews manually and individually based on your own preferences and needs.
> Samsung is easily the worst appliance manufacturer in North America

I don't know this firsthand but I too have seen a lot of this recently. Even before COVID. I am specifically thinking appliances like refrigerators, oven ranges, and washer/dryers. Maybe some microwave ovens.

Maybe Samsung just outsells everyone else making the problems more visible but it seems a lot of people love complaining about Samsung.
I don't think that you can play as a child character because you won't know what kids do, never mind understanding the actual game. It is how they interact with each other that is will be foreign to adult non-players. It is like, as an adult, trying to sit down and have a barbie tea party. After 30 seconds you're done and wonder how on earth it can keep a child occupied half an hour.
I also do this, but it's never really occurred to me to be more serious in social contexts, only in my personal life. In social contexts, I sometimes worry not about being serious, but as some others mentioned, perhaps taking sarcasm or observational humour to such an absurd level that I later reflect on it and feel bad because I might have come across in a mean-spirited way, when really I'm just trying to get people to laugh at absurd things. I'll sometimes pre-emptively apologize if I feel like I've taken some line of joking way too far while drinking or something, and emphasize the genuine bits that I intended to highlight through humour, but that might have been lost though attention-seeking. I think I sometimes get away with more than I should, and if I pressed some of my friends, they'd probably agree that I'm a habitual line-stepper. In general, I'm okay with this, but I do want to dial it back a bit, because I don't want to embarrass anyone I'm with or discourage people from inviting me out, but overall it's hard to tell if this effect has happened or if I'm in a bubble, or if I'm just over-thinking things.

Regarding tech specifically, it's not something to be serious about. There are so many laughably serious or "passionate" people who think they're changing the world with Javascript or whatever, but it's just such an inane delusion that I'd just roll with it and accept who you are, but take feedback to heart if someone says you really disrupt their day in some form. Code can have real consequences, but if you have some level of pride in the quality of work you do, then whether you're overtly serious about it or not is only important in-so-much as people believe you're joking.

I'd add that sometimes I do feel myself consistently joking too much, or being too much of an ass, too aggressive etc.. and not letting any real social conversation happen, or I make light of everything instead of just some things, and in those moments I know it's time for a vacation, because I'm probably projecting my stress and insecurities on others or into the world, and it's time for a break, because I've probably been taking work too seriously, unironically, for too long, and not enjoying life, consequently sucking the joy out of things for others, and that makes me feel bad. I stop being able to read the room, read others' reactions, and say whatever bullshit is on my mind, and that can be unintentionally hurtful.
> Is it "telling" that everyone thinks Youtube is full of conspiracy theory videos? Or that Twitter is a cesspool of outrageous political commentary?

Especially with those two, yes, what you are recommended and who you subscribe to or follow is heavily in your hands. Stop interacting with the content you so much despise. It's not even "shield yourself from it somewhat", you can totally avoid such content. It's very much telling me more about the person than the platform, if they're logged in.

However, without logging in YouTube does tend to suggest the most popular content in the region, but in the US that's mostly just bad prank channels, pop music and some major US news channels.
Calibre is a great piece of software. Nothing substantial to add, just want to give a shout out as a long time user (about a decade now).
Getting blanks on some of my disks. Two show 64422h and 73318h with no signs of failing :)
thanks, my son would love this :)
I want to sync the whole thing. Apple Books ineptly forces you to manually copy all of the books themselves to each device, but then syncs collections that you've set up to organize them.
I really like the ability to email an ebook to my Kindle, even auto-converting it to the correct format.
It can't beat the Casio A159W unfortunately.
1) enforce Yubikey authentication in addition to password for any server management interface (including hypervisor like esxi which gets abused by ransomware a lot and of course SSH)

2) Restrict both read, write and modify permissions in Unix MAC permissions but also enforce it specifically for the data files using a LKM like selinux,apparmor or even the new and fancy eBPF LKM.

3) Enforce module signing and secure boot to prevent kernel mode code execution (short of an exploit) and of course harden your kernel.

4) This is shoddy, but if it were me I would have a LUKS encrypted backup partition with a detached header where the header and key are only fetched from a remote server temporarily from a and in-memory by a cron job/script to unlock it for a backup and lock it back again. That way, it requires a close examination of the cron script to figure out the partition is used for backup. Maybe even make the script itself remote exececuted by a simple 'curl ...|sh'
Tron: Legacy didn't have a plot. The soundtrack was excellent, the CGI was alright. It was a very tame for-the-money sequel with no point of view about anything at all.
I seem to have the world's oldest SSD (or am I misinterpreting the output?)

(shell 1) ~# smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep -e Power_On_Hours -e ^ID
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
9 Power_On_Hours_and_Msec 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 933932h+27m+33.940s
> I've never seen anyone say anything positive about Samsung, their service, or the serviceability of their appliances

I have all Samsung appliances at my home. They are the best appliances I have ever owned. I can't speak to their service because I have never had a single issue with any of them.
> It's a form of systematic oppression.

Against who? Parody artists? Weird Al has a parody along the same lines on his 2014 album and I'm not aware of any outrage.

If your biggest concern in life is being "cancelled" (a dramatic term for being criticized on the internet), I think that says more about you and your intolerance for free speech, than anyone else.
Our search for the best OCR tool (2019)
Do you remember that Black Mirror episode where people rated each other?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)

Anyway, the problem with 5 star based rating is that everything below 5 star will actually hurt your rating, so it become sort of binary: 5 Star is OK, everything else is bad.
Converting Old TD-W8970B DSL Router to the LTE AP
Giving new life to the old EoL tp-link router using OpenWRT
I love this idea, Apple recently added it for saved photos on iOS and I think in preview too? It doesn't seem to be working for me though. I highlighted some text, hit ctrl + c and got this in my clipboard:

<[ TEXT RECOGNITION IN PROGRESS / MORE INFO: http://projectnaptha.com/process/ (IDX:a:0-a:1-a:2-b:7&a:0&a:0&168&817:XDI) / ELAPSED 26.11SEC / DATE Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:08:50 GMT / TEXT RECOGNITION IN PROGRESS ]>

The right-click translate doesn't seem to work either, it just selects a whole paragraph.
Game can't run without a server and server owner decided to shut them down? Then game is a defective product and customer is eligible for full refund of the game. Those servers will be running forever or should not be necessary at all.
The US will not be bombing fabs in Taiwan.
Those endowment funds need donors.

Or, maybe they don't anymore. But I bet that historically, there must have been some baked-in probability of how much a student will potentially give back in the future.

Not sure how that correlates with old vs new money. But coming from old money has some clear advantages, like knowing how to play the game.

(I'm fairly sure at least business schools judge applicants on their potential power and influence, in the future.)
> the Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering

These prefixes (for money) are getting out of hand
> soviet stores

> but the ones available are guaranteed to be fairly good quality

Yeah, right... Nope.
> Except, Tesla removed radar from their cars

If I had to guess and be mean, even though I like Elon Musk, I'd say that was one of his directives; I liked watching Elon talk about rocket technology, but one day I stumbled about his ideas about software development at PayPall and it made me cringe.
Renewables remain cheapest, but cost reductions on hold
For way too many years, there was no other way to read Apple's own E-books on a Mac. It was baffling. That's how I discovered Calibre.

Now that Books was finally added to Mac OS, I've put all of them in there so I can sync collections across all my (albeit Apple-only) devices.
Ask HN: What are some examples where users are inventing new uses for a product?
Some examples: real time status updates – before Twitter, users were trying to use offline messages in messenger services – “stepping out for lunch” – an indication that a real time status update service was needed. Reddit’s AMA (Ask Me Anything) is another example
> I remember spending several hours on a bug that was caused by an altered stored procedure. One SQL function was not as it should have been. I don't know if someone had patched it live, or if there had been an unnoticed failure in a DB migration script.

If you have everything under version control you can just reapply that version's stored procedures off the database scripts. If someone or something is not handling failures in deployment scripts (not just database migrations) then you get that sort of problem.
Then the editor will generate both an "average number of hours" indicator and a "replayability multiplier", and you'll be entitled to a refund based on the number of hours you played since you bought it.
> It is a design requirement not to have offline storage.

Just curious why and what kind of application or company's requirement is not to have offline?
But the details is biology.

If we really understood biology, or even just precisely what aspects of a given phenomenon we need to investigate and how in order to understand it, we wouldn't have wasted a decade trying to reduce CVD by increasing HDL. Billions of dollars wouldn't have been wasted chasing the wrong mechanistic hypotheses in Alzheimer's treatment. Cancer would have already been sorted.

Since 15 years ago, extracellular vesicles went from particles used to export rubbish from cells, perhaps with some vague immune involvement, to one of the fundamental mechanisms involved in intercellular communication, carrying nucleic acids between cells.

The reality is the more we understand in biology, the larger we realise biology is and the relative amount of information that still needs to be figured out doesn't change much - especially when you look at it in terms of labour required, because what left is progressively less-low hanging fruit.
All American broadcast media would be illegal under an actually strict interpretation of such a doctrine, which is why such doctrines are never actually enforced as written. The fairness doctrine would not make US media "fair". It would be exactly what it is everywhere else that tried this - state censorship of viewpoints that upset the establishment. I understand that fact very well indeed, given that I can and do directly compare media between a place that has such a rule and places that don't. Congress was correct to abolish it. The UK should do the same thing.
> Steam ... provides massive disintermediation. I'm a small indie dev and they gave me immense value.

the value they provide you is by being a intermediary between you and your customers; it's pure intermediation, there's no disintermediation.
I personally think Poland handled Lukashenko regime very well. There is no reason why migrants should be robbed by Belarus and then dumped into Western Europe trough Poland. Strong response discouraged more tragedies.

And don't get me wrong. We can have discussion about how many migrants from the whole world we can host in Europe. As someone with strong libertarian leanings I'm personally quite divided on it myself. But it's not up to Belarus to decide.
Needs to last through several years of accelerated aging in a test chamber to simulate 20-25 years real world before we know the actual degradation.
Even better, do these things with someone else! You're always existentially alone, so no need to make practical life too lonesome either!
Opening via Firefox shows me this:

> Depending on the number of sign-ups, a Firefox version may be released in a few weeks. If you're interested in Naptha for other browsers, email me.

So they're at the very least considering it.

EDIT: Never mind, it says so since 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20140425003753/https://projectna...
That is not a good excuse for not knowing something infectious-disease-related that the average user on a software engineering forum seems to know. It's like MDs talking about a programmer and saying something like 'It's entirely reasonable that, as a Python dev, he wouldn't have heard of compilers. He doesn't need them for his work, and compiler developmentn is a very niche field'. That's simply not a good excuse.
Orphans Helped Distribute the Smallpox Vaccine (2021)
Lol no that's not how it works. Imposing a company to maintain expensive equipment forever in echange for a ~$60 one-shot payment is crazy.
And Russia is relatively self sufficient. No way could China follow this path.
We made an app in Qt 5 (all QML) that scales well on Windows, so I don't know what the problem would be.

We did have to add special cases for font sizes on Windows, because auto-sized fonts looked like shit there, whereas on Mac they looked fine.
You could easily create a new revision of the function you want to change, and have the first box to use the new revision while the rest keep using the old one.

In postgres that would be trivial with revision schemas and a clever usage of the SEARCH_PATH.
Bringing back childhood memories with those blue ant farms.. thank you
This was published 10 years before I was born. I found myself spending most of my time on the ads instead of the content.
Musk wants out. For real this time
My Disney+ account suddenly got a few new profiles, some in foreign languages. I had to delete them and change the password. Interestingly, my password never was reset by anyone else.
Their prices (Carrefour and Walmart) are not really competetive though, they have (Carrefour) some special stuff not carried in other shops if you wanna buy foreign goods, but for regular grocery you are better off with Wumart, BHG (and for small Chaoshifa) or others.

I was especially stunned with how bad was Chinese Macro, you must buy in bulk, but you will get higher prices than small Chinese shops, in Europe they pretend to be wholesale where you msut buy in bulk, but at least their prices are oftena bit lower, often can't really compete with Kaufland/Lidl/Penny, but in China they didn't even try.

Anyway by the end of my 5+ year stay in China I was doing already my groceries though the app, delivered to my 5th floor apartment without elevator.

OPPO is Chinese brand, so dunno exactly how is it worth mentioning they have stores in China.
Crimea belongs to Ukraine since 1990, this was recognised also by Russia.

The Russian invasion was not inevitable, Russia could have chosen a path of friendship.

I am stating facts, you are spreading misinformation.
> I remember a joke about companies in the early 2000’s would say they used Java to encourage competitors to have development problems because “Java sucks, haha”.

Reminds me of a story about some person using LISP for a ecommerce website and being quite about it because lisp allowed them to develop much faster than their competitors. Lemme try to track it down.

Edit: beating the average http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
That sounds like a horrible interface given the most common use is likely to be "same desk tomorrow please".

Although I wonder how that impacts flow. Presumably you can do it anytime during the day, so you can do it when you were taking a break anyway. Unless it opens at a specific time and you have to make sure your desk isn't sniped!
I agree with all your points, except for SQL.

Getting lost in SQL is easy, due to its syntax and lack of standards.

Compare that to any of the mainstream programming languages, the difference in cognitive load to process is stark.
Ultimately, I would like it to be nuclear+renewables, but realistically, we won't see any new nuclear plants inside the decade. Therefore renewables+storage needs to take up more slack, and as much as I hate to say it, coal.

I don't think renewables will be the full solution, but perfect is the enemy of good. If europe can reduce its gas dependence to the point where it can obtain the necessary supplies outside of Russia, that will be a win.
Found this comparison while researching OCR. It doesn't have the latest libraries like PaddleOCR but the performance of different OCR libraries is still quite apparent.
make everything stateless and immutable as much as possible if not having the chance. Thia is not just copy and paste but similar to ZFS/BTRFS. You can try using a FUSE version for that first taste
NixOS's virtualisation module can use either Docker or Podman and if Podman is enabled it has a Docker compatiblity mode (via `virtualisation.podman.dockerCompat = true`) that puts symlinks in all the right places (`docker` binary, `docker.sock`) so that software doesn't even know it's not running vanilla Docker :)
I did, but still got no SMART values. Speccy works though and I'm sure I've also run smartctl successfully on this laptop in the past.
I considered doing this - take screenshots of your screen constantly, OCR them and index them. It's fairly simple. However, there are some problems

- OCR constantly running in the background is power consuming
- What granularity do you take your screenshots? Imagine each screenshot is 500 Kb and you take one each second. This'd result in 40 gigs of data per day. How are we gonna store it? How many days data do you want to keep?
This is wrong. By this logic, "25% of people have degrees and 100% of degree holders have parents with degrees" is better than the 4%/20%, because it's only 4 times instead of 5 times. One of the better methods would be to calculate the "Bayes factor"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_factor) for estimating possibility of holding degree given the evidence of "parents holding degree". In this case, we need to know the parents degree percentage for both people in 1970 and 2020.