skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a rather wide variety of uranium glass objects: https://attic.city/search/usa/Uranium

FYI, Attic is our niche search engine for goods from small, independent businesses. You’re not gonna find much Uranium glass from the likes of Home Depot, Amazon or Walmart :)
faceID doesn't use retina scans.
In the US, taking 4 consecutive weeks off is literally unheard of, a lot of people don't even have 4 weeks to take off in a non-consecutive way.

Even taking 2 weeks off consecutively, it would not be unusual to require "special" permission for.

Yes, it's terrible.
IMO the principal consideration here is that these are offline/local databases for browsers and (probably?) Electron, so they are not intended to be scalable at all. If you have a progressive web app (PWA) and you need a queryable database for some reason, then you would use these. Otherwise, stick your queries behind API endpoints.
Very true, was looking at the GP which was comparing bootcamps to college, and maintaining that thread. May not apply to the parent who did not mention bootcamps.
Supposedly Hertz is buying these at market price…

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-hertz-full-price-ord...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose
Oh no, advertisement revenue for the worlds second biggest advertising company is only up 33% year on year(!).

These are still insane revenue growth figures, although it does appear that 70% of facebook posts just seem to be ads now, so I suspect a lot of this growth is just based on feeding more ads as a % of content which will clearly lower the user experience in the long run.
> I'm much more comfortable with someone having a hash based on my biometric data than having my passport and other details.

Same here. My point is - fair distribution is just a means to achieve a goal of "more equality". As a mean it is an equivalent of giving man a fish instead of teaching him how to fish. At most a PR stunt.
> By nature all new technology comes with the potential to do both good and bad, and usually it does a bit of both.

But technology can be made without doing bad, see Librem or Pine64.

If you subtract Librem from Apple, what you're left with is anti-consumer surveillance stuff.
Is this glass dangerous then?
Objc, in my experience is a great language, particularly for building GUIs and I concur was a big part of Apple's success with OSX and later iPhone and iPad. With the core foundation classes (and other frameworks) Apple inherited from NeXT an excellent bedrock to build on.

If you think that for a long period of time all apps were built in Objc for Mac & ios, and how quickly they managed to make an ecosystem of developers who were building applications for Apple systems - I'm pretty sure if they had a c++ framework that wouldn't have happened so easily.

As an illustration, there's a video of SJ building a quick GUI app to demonstrate RemoteObjects (in response to MS's Distributed OLE) where he quickly knocks up a slider and text box.
There's also another video where a NeXT developer goes head to head with a Sun dev in a race to finish a simple gui app (you'll never guess who wins).

Why did SJ and NeXT go all in for RAD tooling and making it easy to build apps on their platform? Because of feedback from his days at Apple when developers complained it was too hard and slow using the MacOs toolbox APIs.

FWIW I also believe that a large part of Microsoft's success was due to Visual Basic, also a hugely successful RAD tool that brought thousands of new developers to its platform.
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Heart attacks rarely kill people, but the resulting arrhythmias and ventricular wall ruptures certainly do.
And even top-grade military INS does external checkpoints where possible (although it's probably pretty accurate in any case).
I've been working on a stove safety/smart cooking device which is based on the temperature of your pan [0]. There are a small number of recipes which it currently works with [1]. To do this we defined a JSON format for recipes [2] but if we could use something similar to the text format used by CookLang that would be amazing, as it's much easier to write than JSON and could also be automatically rendered into a web page. Currently we are writing it twice - once in JSON for the cooking app, and once in human readable form.

[0] https://mypippa.me/
[1] https://recipes.mypippa.me/
[2] https://recipes.mypippa.me/schemas/cookMLSchema3.0.json
Holy shit. It’s absolutely incredible what Apple has cooked up, seeing it in a real life workflow like this. And the bigger iMacs and Mac Pros with even beefier M1 derivates haven’t even been released yet!
>Converting electricity to heat is a bit like turning the best steak into hamburger, wasteful and costly. Electric heat is pretty much limited to the United States, in most other countries power is way too expensive to be used for heating.

This is so wrong it is almost funny. Electricity is an incredibly efficient way to generate heat. A heat pump - to name just one device - can move much more heat energy than electrical energy put in. Even resistive heaters are more efficient than burning any fuel for heat.
Pixel 6 Pro Review [video]
Well, since they came up with "Agile", it's pretty clear they didn't actually survey what worked and what didn't. They were consultants selling methodologies, and came up with something that was so poorly defined and difficult to implement that it gave them consulting jobs for life. Much better and easier than actually developing software!
Framework looks interesting, even though the CPU is not as good as the M1. Pity it's only available in the US.
I thought this Q&A in particular would be of interest to many.

> Alongside Zen we learned about Project Skybridge, the ability to put an x86 SoC and an Arm SoC on the same socket. Do you know how far along the Arm version of Skybridge, we know as K12, was in development before AMD went full bore for Ryzen?

> Although I've worked on x86 obviously for 28 years, it's just an ISA, and you can build a low-power design or a high-performance out any ISA. I mean, ISA does matter, but it's not the main component - you can change the ISA if you need some special instructions to do stuff, but really the microarchitecture is in a lot of ways independent of the ISA. There are some interesting quirks in the different ISAs, but at the end of the day, it's really about microarchitecture.
Where's the fun in that though?
It's ironic that github sold itself as "social coding" coz while the design was pretty and the usability is good the social aspects are almost programmed to bring the worst out in people.

Their review workflow, for instance, is innately structured as a dehumanizing pipeline for delivering soundbites of impersonal criticism that Must Be Attended To.

It's not that it will ruin your relationships if you work with good people or vice versa but I've seen bad blood and insecurities exacetbated by the workflow that were unnecessary.
You’re mad that Apple didn’t design their operating system around your personal preferences. Personally, I’m accustomed to the way the Apple does things and personally feel the Windows way of doing do things very annoying to use (I end up needing to use Windows a few times per week). So I guess we cancel each other out :) Linux desktops have every feature under the sun but they have so many other problems I find them utterly unusable. That is why I use Mac, perhaps you would be better suited with a different platform if it annoys you so much. Sounds like you just prefer the Windows workflow ergonomic to me.

Also, FYI, you can split left and right on mac by hovering over full-screen button while holding the option key: https://imgur.com/a/VNSQR8l

It's not a hotkey, but it gets the job done.
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America isn't the world? Worldwide, Xiaomi is the is the second largest single company by smartphone marketshare: https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartphone-share...
I'm pretty sure that if you compare total "lines of code written in C/C++" or "projects written in C/C++" versus "vulnerabilities found" you'd be surprised of the (small) result.

See. Not all code is "vulnerable", connected to the net or facing a user.

But let's leave outside of the count every other project that is not a Triple-A videogame written in C/C++. That amount of projects alone probably would be larger than the quantity of "big" projects that would be written in Rust in the next 10 years. And they are not all "packed with vulnerabilities", or at least, nothing that's big enough to be read here on HN.
EasyCrypt: Computer-Aided Cryptographic Proofs
One of my favorite YouTube channles, Nile Red, has a cool video showing how to make Uranium Glass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGw6fXprV9U
Look for referrals from people who are established in the area. Not just for the endorsement, but because good GPs are often not accepting new patients and a referral can help.
This is nicely timed.

Brief history: when Hangouts was going away and Google Chat coming in, I pitched Matrix to my friends as a better alternative that didn't require unique phone numbers, awkward desktop limitations, and a better federated future. We stuck with Google Chat because inertia and networks suck that way.

I revisited the instance I had setup and got the mautrix-googlechat bridge working. It's pretty nice but one friend lamented that he did not have the technical skills to self-host such a thing. And here comes this announcement! Sadly, there is a major hurdle: neither Google Chat nor SMS/GVoice are listed here and those are the major protocols that my social group uses.

At the same time, my social group is conservative in adopting new core technologies and wary of cloud lock-in for critical roles (Google being both an unfortunate anchor and precipitator of that). I'm not sure adding those protocols would tip the balance.
I would also argue that it's hard to have freedom without privacy. I think we do all have a right to be forgotten.
You can have a backup generator (with a transfer switch)--which many do in more rural areas at least in the US.
For anyone doing this, please bear in mind that if you want to be able to just use anything electrical anytime, you'll need a very expensive setup.

Most people off grid need to be keeping a constant eye on their battery levels of charge, and do things like only using the washing machine on sunny days.

Certain appliances like tumble driers, electric showers, and fan heaters, you pretty much can't have.
It is not a service, if it's a link to a download and a bunch of community-developed plugins.

When you take away the motivation to mitm all of the users' chats, there's nothing left.
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It’s been fascinating to see how often Sinofsky comes across like an Apple fanboy (and I say that as an unashamed fan of Apple). He seems like he genuinely appreciates the way Apple conducts business.
What is Ethereum in simple words
Ether history started at 2011, when a young programmer Vitalik Buterin became interested in blockchain technology and Bitcoin.
FWIW, I just checked, and live text can be used with no network connection.
Alibaba, Tencent rebrand NFTs as ‘digital collectibles’ amid Beijing’s scrutiny
I use PureOS on old Macbook Air for casual browsing with Hardened Firefox and Emacs for RSS/Org-mode and it runs very smoothly.

Moved office to Arch/Manjaro, Win VM’s in isolation for design tasks.

M advancements of Apple are not so critical when considering cost per performance. There is no denying their advancements, but who knows what’s going on inside this architecture.

Some will say that I am overeating, but since reading Trusting trust (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...) I shifted my mind towards Raptor Computers direction.
The prices are high but paying for open hardware is smart investment in the current climate.
Edward Snowden... opinion discarded.
> I wouldn't say this is him going completely off the rails. It seems like a natural evolution

I would interpret that as "he hasn't gone _suddenly_ of the rails, it's been a gradual natural evolution away from the rails. But here he is now, saying that COVID vaccines cause AIDS."
We are stuck in a local minima with C and C++. Rust is a particle with high enough energy to tunnel through the barrier to a lower, safer energy level.

To some degree, it doesn't matter how Rust acquired the energy; if you want to hop the gap, gotta hitch a ride on the highest energy wave.
> The best agrument is that privacy is power.

I am reminded of the TV series "The Prisoner" out of BBC, especially the final episode "Fall Out Pt2".

Expounds about "the individual's right to be individual", community, the status quo, and so forth.

And over that "no" is a complete sentence that needs no more explanation.
> It does not even know where it is.

How difficult would it be to add a GPS to one of those? At any rate, "smart" purifiers like the one GP is talking about connect to WiFi etc and are definitely able to find out your location.
Adverts and telemetry suggest a third party. The more parties you introduce to any transaction the less private it becomes.

Actual real privacy would be between two parties that trust each other and encrypt their communications in both directions. That means no Facebook servers to intercept your commentary, send you advertisements, and send friend suggestions.
Not in what concerned 16 bit platforms, at least in Europe.

Turbo Pascal, and compilers for Basic dialects were everywhere.

On Amiga, most stuff was being done in Assembly, Modula-2, AMOS, and yes if you bought the Commodore SDK, there was a C compiler.

Mac OS was written in Object Pascal, and eventually moved into C++ with MPW and Symantec PowerPlant around 1992.

On OS/2 we had Smalltalk and C++ with CSet++, on Windows Delphi (TPW still managed an appearance on Windows 3.1), VB, C++ with OWL, VCL, MFC.

Even if the kernel for Windows and OS/2 was written in C, the upper layer was all about C++ with those SDKs, which meant using proper strings, vectors and collection classes with bounds checking was already quite an improvement anyway.

C and UNIX only took new wind into their sails thanks to the GNU Manifesto that all FOSS software should be written in C.
OT - For all the RSS lovers here: Since a while, I am using https://hnrss.org to get notifications about replies to my HN comments via RSS. You can configure Thunderbird so that these messages appear within your normal e-mail inbox.

I like it very much.
Maybe. But that is not a universally held view. Many Europeans, including our family friends in Germany and Poland, would prefer to live in the American system, with its relatively low taxes and relatively greater freedoms (and tools to check the government).
I agree with this generally, but I’ll offer a bit of nuance for an edge case: for extremely active repositories with “rolling” changes (i.e., ones where it’s a user error to not be on the latest HEAD), stale bots do a great job of handling the “it broke for me last week, but I haven’t tried any of the changes since” issues that frequently occur.
At some point one needs to assume it is no longer a matter of ignorance, but instead one of malice. Not sure if this is near that point. Perhaps this guy is simply a fluff bunny who has never seen any evil in this world.
Coalition of challengers to gatekeepers from EU+UK+US call for interoperability
Why is nobody making SaaS tools for OnlyFans creators?
The SR71 was using stars to navigate!
It's not going to be a revolution despite all the EV bull market folks say, it will be an orderly transition, people are slow to change and adapt and STEM people should accept that. Electric cars are not in any way an order of magnitude upgrade in tech, which is a necessary trait for any technology that claims to be disruptive. Sure from a green perspective it is but not from a pragmatic one. I of course welcome the change. :)
Wait so I can fake a retina and get coins?
> ... can register above background radiation on a sufficiently sensitive Geiger counter, although most pieces of uranium glass are considered to be harmless and only negligibly radioactive.
Also checked on Big Sur using a tiny menu bar add-on as a frontend. No connection needed. It's using a local neural network as said in the Vision framework docs.
Anyone remember Trillian? I used to use it to combine Facebook Messenger, ICQ, and some other stuff.

All my friends have since moved to Discord now which is way nicer than any other user experience.
I've used CouchDB and PouchDB on a previous project, and it was a blast. The built-in features like replication and HTTP API are great. My only regret is the limited support (at the time) for full text search and complex queries. I suppose I like joins a bit too much.. :)

I deployed CouchDB in a Kubernetes cluster (not with HA as I didn't have high availability requirements), and it was working great.
The FPGA can be deployed and designed for today, while an ASIC isn't going to ready until after a few tape outs, and it's often a race to market. While it's really cool and actually works, the reality is that reconfiguring the hardware to do something different isn't a necessary feature in just about anything. There's still a huge market for FPGAs, but its already got a lot of active competition.
Yesterday a friend remarked to me she had lost a recipe for something or other and I resolved to start recording some I use, I was thinking of something like MD/Obsidian but this looks really good.

Great to have the iOS app, an easily convertable human readable and writable format and hang on to your own data.

Going to give this a good look over today. Might think about an Obsidian plugin as well.
Reminds me of a factoid that claimed spinach was 80% protein or some absurd number like that. Turned out that 80% of the calories you get from spinach come from protein, but of course 80% of a tiny number remains a tiny number.
Natural gas is very likely unavailable in remote areas. Usual fuels would be propane or diesel, which can be trucked in.
A centralized subsidy system have been shut down.

Yet another argument against government intervention in trade. Buying and selling should be possible without mandatory step to synchronously notify a govt agency.

Also a slight argument against populist fuel subsidies in petrocracies.
The thing is there is ‘Christmas saving” needed here. Unless one equates xmas with consumption and buying.
There's definitely a long-time rumor that a more powerful Apple Silicon Mac mini is in the works. It was expected to come out with the macbooks, but it didn't: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/22/gurman-high-end-mac-min...
The only thing missing would be a substitute... for example "vinegar or lemon juice" is impossible to describe in the current language spec.
Why Intel is in turnaround mode
They already are; every private pilot is trained on magnetic variation and deviation as well as magnetic dip (turning) and acceleration errors.
Are there 'mini-grids' that off-grid people can use to connect one another?

By connecting everyone's houses together, even with relatively low capacity cable, everyone should get more reliability (an inverter or battery bank can fail and it doesn't matter), and more energy availability (if I use more energy than I generate one day, but someone else uses less, that's okay).

I'm imagining it could be as simple as a few hundred meters of cable with regular 110v plugs on the end, and a box of electronics that can push power in either direction as needed for balancing.
TY for the explainer. To make sure I understand, it sounds like a Sybil attack can exploit a hash function because ultimately, what is being hashed does not matter and to verify what is being hashed requires centralization.
If you were truly old fashioned you would remember how everyone took their polio shot and we eradicated that disease.

The vaccine is not about your supposed 99% chance of survival, it is about stopping the spread of a disease that has killed 740k in the US and counting.

The real disease is the freedom fundamentalism, or if we are really going to call it what it is: self centered selfishness, the complete breakdown of any sense of civic duty from the richest most entitled society on earth.
> Tracking you online, while an invasion of privacy, is not the same as tracking you in real life.

That was true a decade ago, but time flies.
They do a great job of closing those issues, and also issues that are still valid. Not very useful.

The problem is that there's no way to say to stalebot "this issue won't magically be fixed by time, I'm not going to comment here every 3 months to keep it open".
Don’t forget pharma spends 100% more on lobbying than the second leading industry.

Mandates and all…
Yep, just as they did with the 2013 Mac Pro. We all remember how well that worked out.

There's a substantial subset of high-performance computing tasks that are limited by GPU performance. But that's far from the whole equation.
I talked to someone in the power company at some point and they said it is a function of how far away you are to the nearest generating point. That could be a tale though, but it made some sense.
Stable compared to U-235? Yes. Stable compared to Carbon 13? No.
Most commercial incentive I have witnessed is to do precisely that.
Hmm, you're absolutely right, which is kinda weird. I think most would have expected the stock to take a hit.

Can I think Zuckerberg is a terrible CEO and not understand how his companys stock price isn't tanking due to mismanagement?
No. That's not the issue. The issue is whether it's bad to make systems that digitize lived experience because that data could be used to violate your privacy. Your capacity for trust notwithstanding, Apple has made a major brand commitment to privacy. Violating that would cost them everything. I trust them not to do so.
Sorry, it’s a year or so since it last happened (I haven’t been interacting with projects with heavy templates so recently) and I can’t remember any of them off the top of my head. One that I recall (but not the project or word) was a fairly common English word with two senses where I would have expected one or two false positives only, another was something more along the lines of “Versions (`uname -a`, `mylangc --version`, `mylangpkg --version`):” making “mylangpkg” unsearchable (in cases like this, disciplined use of labels can mitigate the damage).

The problem is that as soon as the template contains the word you’re searching for, every issue matches your search.
Ha! This is one of the best ideas I’ve seen on HN.

Just the safety thing alone has me hooked.
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At this point I'd have to revive about five outstanding things a month because of bots like these.

But I can't be bothered anymore. Sucks for the people who won't realize there's - sometimes quite important - things wrong with these projects.

Handling and communicating well is an important aspect of quality in software development land and if a project is using such a bot it's probably falling short on that front. Bonus points if they have like 1.7k open issues anyways, lots of them duplicates of automatically closed ones.
How about bots that close issues and lock conversations if the issue doesn't get enough thumbs ups within 30 days?

I'm looking at you VSCode.

Just tag them "unpopular" if it makes you feel better.
You're totally right but again thinking globally, different cultures handle housing in a manner that supports that. I'm thinking of Japan, where they rebuild houses every few years because they're old. Which results in most houses having electric car plugs in them. I have no such hope for my SF condo that I'm writing you from. Maybe I can run an extension cord out of my window to my car parked on the street?