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Along with replies by ’ClumsyPilot and ’ruined, remember that Brown v. Board of Education was passed only in 1954 and 1954 is just yesterday.

Also see this HN comment from a day ago on how much a black person had to fear even in 1980:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30061511

An excelelnt book regarding these is 'Simple Justice by Richard Kluger

https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Justice-Education-Americas-Str...

Another book focusing on computing is 'Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing by Jane Margolis

https://www.amazon.com/Stuck-Shallow-End-Education-Computing...

There is a wealth of info regarding these things, see redlining for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining


Not off the shelf but here are some tools. I have no experience with them.

Wolf binarization - I think it makes the text more clear before OCR.

https://github.com/chriswolfvision/local_adaptive_binarizati...

This thing OCRs the pdf using Tesseract OCR

https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/

Two other pdf tools

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf

https://github.com/pikepdf/pikepdf


I'll play with the Wolf filter, thanks.

Math typesetting is too messy for current OCR tools. It would be nice to reverse-engineer the LaTeX source for a math paper, but not likely soon. OCR for the language would help in mind-mapping a web connecting my saved papers, but I wouldn't use it for reading.

I want everything to look like a 600dpi scan mixed down, as I would make, rather than what the libraries thought would be acceptable. For the pure joy of reading.

The easiest approach that might work would be language agnostic, understanding only what clean scans of characters look like. Can we back-solve a clean scan from a lower resolution mess, matching up similar characters in the text without identifying the characters?

Somehow I imagine this is a giant singular value problem. I'm ok if it takes a day to run per paper, I have spare machines.



I imagine you could go really far with a dumb approach or matching against pre existing font database.


Someone posted downthread to use this instead:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates

It's from Mozilla.


Aside: see a physical therapist instead of a chiropractor.

Edit: search for 'vertebral artery dissections from chiropractic neck adjustments


>see a physical therapist instead of a chiropractor.

Seconded. 90% of what chiropractors do is complete quackery.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic_controversy_and...

https://quackwatch.org/related/chiro/


Oh, I stopped seeing chiropractors once I realized they hadn't bothered to check my high blood pressure in years.

Still it's kind of sad, you can't get honest medical advice from a doctor anymore.

You can't even find maybe you should lose weight in a dating book. Even books targeted towards men are afraid to offend.


Maybe these 2 books are helpful:

Strength Training Anatomy, 3rd Edition by Frederic Delavier

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0736092269/

The Strength Training Anatomy Workout: Starting Strength with Bodyweight Training and Minimal Equipment by Frederic Delavier and Michael Gundill

https://www.amazon.com/Strength-Training-Anatomy-Workout-Bod...

I think for weight loss, seeing a dietician is better. Wikipedia says dieticians are better regualted than nutitionists - they list regulatory bodies in countries including USA.

Dietician:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietitian


Read “How Not To Die”.


This might be something to check out:

ImportYeti

https://www.importyeti.com/


what's your firefox version and OS name and version?


Firefox 96.0.1 on Ubuntu 18.04


Is this ubuntu.com Ubuntu or flavors like xubuntu, kubuntu, ubuntu-mate etc?


Pure Ubuntu (no flavor)


Sweet Apple didn't bother to create a real time Airtag tracking android app. They have one, but it's manual so it's useless. Thankfully, The Secure Mobile Networking Lab (SEEMOO)of the Computer Science Department of Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany has created an app for it. It's FOSS and available on Google Play and Fdroid.

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.seemoo.at_t...

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.seemoo.at_tracking_detection


> If a tracker is detected at least 3 times and the locations have changed (to make sure its not your neighbour) the app sends you a notification.

I'd like for it to report the stationary trackers as well. A ping from my neighbour is one thing, even a ping from a grocery store. But if I saw a repeated ping from an unremarkable street corner, I'm going to be suspicious. Even more so if there are multiple street corners.

I like this though,

> Version 1.0.6 - This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

> Version 1.1.1 - This version requires Android 5.0 or newer.

:thumbsup:


What's your worry about the static AirTag scenario?


I'm not up to date on this stuff (or who you even asked), but I think that situation might be helpful for someone trying to figure out leaving/return patterns for a street/neighborhood


An AirTag doesn't help with that - you're basically looking at a bluetooth beacon. All apple's devices randomly rotate wifi+bluetooth MAC addresses in order to prevent that.

I have yet to understand how the stalker warning works :D


Thanks! Just installed it and I have airtag but it didn't pick it up. Maybe it needs some time..


Or money power, or doctor power. Many people go to a doctor only when things get worse because of the cost


Fruit juice means fresh fruit juiced without adding any sugar right? Some people refer to fruit juice as the ones you see in tetrapacks.

Real fruit juice is very much different from soda pop.


If we're just looking at sugar content, it's really not that different. Pepsi has ~11% more sugar than fresh apple juice:

25g of sugar in 285g of juice[0] = that's 37 grams in 355ml of juice[1] vs. 41 grams of sugar in 355ml of soda[2], which is 110.8% more than the juice[3].

The half gram of fiber probably makes it little better, but it's still a very sugary drink.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fresh+apple+juice+nutr... [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=25*(355%2F240) [2] https://www.pepsi.com/#!products/pepsi [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=41%2F37


I might be remembering the details wrong, but I heard an actual doctor saying there is difference between fresh fruit juice and soda pop.

I found this that seems like what the doctor said, but I'm not sure. Click on 'transcript' and read it.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/if-fructose-is-bad-what-abo...

Edit: Other than this, fresh fruit juice contains minerals, vitamins, antioxidants etc etc.


High fructose corn syrup is not the same thing as fructose, all other things being equal. Fiber also helps modulate the insulin response. Sugar isn't the enemy, if you're eating fruit you're getting a lot more than fructose from it. The problem is when people get a large % of their calories from nutritionally deficient food, like soda.



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