skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of it is safe to have in a display case. I have an antique uranium glass photo filter that's hot enough that I keep it in a metal box. All of the pieces I have put out enough beta radiation to easily detect. I don't have an alpha counter.

You wouldn't want to grind it up and inhale the dust. I winced when I saw someone on Etsy selling uranium glass shards they'd tried to reclaim from broken pieces by putting them in a rock tumbler to make them look like beach glass.

I wouldn't recommend actually eating off of it either, but most of it is so old and fragile you'd probably want to avoid that anyway.
There are also many fields in which receiving “expert” feedback is a substantial part of the learning process.
> So, if you're unwilling to use Google Play services (or us an OS which doesn't support it), you're fucked and will not receive background notifications.

I don't know about WhatsApp, but at least Telegram and Threema can fallback to polling if push notifications aren't available. With polling there is of course the trade off between battery usage and message delay, but you shouldn't miss any messages.
Wacky idea: Stop gifting federal law enforcement services to major campaign donors.

Between Henry Schein and the FBI, we'll likely find a financed politician who enabled this abuse.
What was racist about it?
Firefox isn't even playing catchup. Mozilla aborted what scant work it's done on PWA support.

From the horse's mouth: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682593

Chrome and its variants have already won the PWA space, not by some brilliant strategy or sinister ploy on Google's part, but by default of its competitors.
From the ancient human custom of group shunning to the modern dragging, when a person is outside the good graces of their community, they are under threat.

When lots of people are offended, they have the power to refrain from interacting with an individual. And we are social creatures.

Practically speaking, one's power to demand an apology is proportional to what happens to the demandee if you decide they aren't worth interacting with in the future. If you're a social, political, or corporate leader, or a member of a union (formal or informal / social), it can be quite a lot of power.
The attack on comedians, the insistence on de-platforming folks that say anything outside the mainstream consensus. Cancel culture and the elevation of sensitivity.

It's one thing for one to share their opinion "I don't like this, this is inappropriate", it's different when one is seeking power to shutdown the person they're disagreeing with.

All of this makes people who have a different perspective, who might want to share their own personal experience that doesn't quite fit the narrative, to withhold and play it safe. Which ties back to freedom of speech. I've experienced this myself in my career in large SV tech companies. And my friends in Academia share similar stories and concerns.
Jan has actually been working on per-document access control and according to the discussion it is expected to land in CouchDB 4 [1].

CouchDB doesn't move extremely fast. It's kinda boring and reliable once everything is set up - which I consider a good thing.

But I agree, it's annoying to not be able to analyse data across multiple user DBs with a single query or to build hacky solutions when listening to changes across databases.

[1] https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/1524

E: typo
(1) Thank you so much for doing this. Facebook has been after me for years (> 15 years in anti-spam/email abuse). I keep putting it off, but its time for a clear "no thanks". As an outsider saying "no" - is there anything I can convey to them to drive the message home?

(2) Minor - your "Join Us" link from the Founders Letter page is 404 -- https://integrityinstitute.org/join-us
I have a congenital cataract. Periodically opticians try to photograph my retina and fail. Is my money safe?
Do some college programs select students already on a trajectory to succeed?

This is interesting and I know there was some studies performed, not on the program, but on the school. IIRC, the results were that it wasn't the school that contributed to success, but the person. Meaning, if you were accepted to a top-tier school but attended a lower-tier one, you had as much success as the people who attended the top-tier school. So, as you say, the schools were already selecting for those who were on a trajectory to succeed. There was a caveat that the school did provide more help if the person was from a low-socioeconomic background, and I've wondered if that is due to network effects.
The fact that someone owes you nothing means you should expect that they might do nothing. If they lose a bot on you to spit in your face every two weeks, that is not doing nothing. They do owe you better than that.

The idea that maintainers owe nothing to reporters but reporters owe maintainers to deal with the bots, repeatedly, possibly forever, is such a weird take.
This repository was linked in the author's first post:
https://github.com/ivmarkov/rust-esp32-std-demo
From your POV, the threat model is equivalent to your partner being compromised themselves, and reporting your conversation to criminals/terrorists/law enforcement/intelligence agencies/boogeyman du jour.

Bridges don't install themselves in place of platform's messengers - it's the user that has to make an active choice to use one. If you don't trust your partner making a right choice for both of you, you can't really trust them not to tattle on your conversation, or get their computer compromised by generic system-wide malware.

And if the bridges themselves are shoddy? Well, I kind of blame the platforms like Signal and WhatsApp, for forcibly bundling their messaging service and their chat client. Were they to open up their APIs to alternative frontends, they could make it so that those alternative frontends identify themselves to the other party in the conversation, and it would remove the need to develop fully transparent bridges for legitimate use.
Seems more likely that not being prone to significant health problems enables you to find greater success in school.
I would like to see this as a formalization of the fact that companies of the following type need more time if they are to grow ethically

companies like Uber, Amazon etc - that subsidize services at the expense of service providers (e.g. drivers, warehouse workers)
It's not the parental control, it's the ability for Apple to spy on them with it. You are assuming their stated intended use 1. Is 100% accurate, 2. Will always be 100% accurate, 3. Won't be used by law enforcement with a warrant.

I more object to how it can be used more so than their stated use. The best way to ensure that I or my kids won't be spied on with AI searching text messages/images is not to have the ability exist. Trusting corporations to do the right thing doesn't go very far.
Sounds like he just wants to open a program, not build his life around it.
Oh, this is exciting. I've been trying to get PlatformIO to play nicely with my ESP32C3's but it's been a pain. Only the standard Espressif RTOS tooling seems to do anything but hang the chip for some reason, and I don't know enough about PlatformIO to modify my config to make it work or to open an issue on Github.

Replacing one complex, half broken tool chain with another isn't such a bad deal, and I'm very much in favour of writing Rust instead of C(++).
I'm fine with that so long as you can afford your education. If your salary won't pay of the loans, then it is a bad investment and you shouldn't get a loan. That doesn't means you shouldn't study humanities, only that you shouldn't study until you have enough saving to afford it. Or you can take a couple courses in humanities (which you are required to anyway as generals) while majoring in something that will give you a good income.

When you get a loan then financial concerns of is this a good investment should apply. If you don't have a loan - many people spend their money on all kinds off weird hobbies.
I'd assume that Gapps wanted native for the same reason FB did: more access to details on the device directly
I went to a college in a developing country and I regret it. I didn't lose money, but I wasted a lot of time and didn't really learn much (or rather, I did learn things during college, but not because of it). The lectures were unbearably boring and I didn't socialize much. More than anything, I hate the fact that I was too much of a coward to drop out once I realized how miserable I was doing all the fake and pointless work that was assigned to me. I forgot to say, I studied computer science.
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I agree. I feel like there should be a credentialing system where you can 'test into' knowledge for specific course loads and however the person (at their own pace) arrives at that knowledge is considered secondary to whether they pass the test.

It's sensible to require one or two years of in-person study but requiring the whole 4 years seems like a potential waste of time due to the differences in maturity, social development, and focus among college aged students.
Management by Metrics Is Upending Newsrooms and Killing Journalism
It's pretty clear you haven't worked in that industry. Per your logic, no one should have that issue now, you can sell your games on your own site without issue (in fact you can sell your own Steam keys without the 30% fee).
Humble Book Bundle: Raspberry Pi Uncut
Seeing Firefox teams callous take on a critically important Native file system feature [1], it comes at no surprise that major products are dropping Firefox compatibility.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/154
The govt needs rural people settling remote areas

Can you expand on this? Is there a general social benefit to people settling remote areas?
I had no idea (the modern iteration) went back that far, to be honest. Interesting stuff.
The pinephone seems like a pretty good option.
My question is why we keep doing the same thing while expecting something to improve.

It's not like law enforcement hadn't heard of criticism against the drug wars before.
For myself college was absolutely not worth it. What they taught me in comp sci classes was horribly outdated or not representative of the jobs available. I had fun in college and made some good friends but my professional life hasn't been impacted positively in any way by going to college. I looked up my college and my department in their table and I'm making above what they estimate for 45 years old (I'm 30) and I beat the estimates for 25 by a healthy margin.

I dropped out my junior year after working for a full 40-hour week over spring break and realizing I was throwing away money to get a degree to.... get a job that I already had. Since then I've had absolutely no issues finding new jobs and moving up the pay scale. I'm not even sure if shorter (2 year) tech colleges are worth it if you want to go into software engineering, maybe some of the bootcamps are worth it but I'm not sure. I've learned more on the job that I ever learned in the classroom (as it relates to computer science) and if I had it to do again I think I would have paid a company to intern for a few months until my output exceeded any "drain" my lack of knowledge incurred. It would have been far cheaper, I wouldn't still be paying off college loans, and I'd have an extra 3 years of full time earnings/raises/bonuses/etc.
I think you have to look at it from the other side, you built something and now are looking for people that use it.
What you'd want to do usually is to find people that have a need and then built something to solve that need.

So starting from that, who would want to use your service (expecting parents?) what do they do currently to solve that problem (naming books? other websites?) and how do they find that solution.
Once you clarified those questions in a lot more depth than you think necessary will it become clearer how to reach those people as well.
You North Americans (is there something like USAians?) are really something else …
What consequences did he face from Yale? A couple of conversations with an Associate Dean and Director of DEI? An email stating that Yale didn't agree with his language? Oh, the horror!

He's still at Yale Law School. His blog post is being circulated on Hacker News. Give me some of those consequences.
>> Ads every 2 minutes

> YouTube premium removes ads

Ads every 2 minutes won't make me give Google money, at best they'd drive me away from the site. As a matter of fact, last time i tried to watch a long video it did have ads every 2 min. Fortunately it was a speedrun of a game so I just found a similar one on Twitch.
You could design an experiment that looks at people who were accepted into a program correlated to higher wages but went to a different program instead. (E.g., accepted to an engineering school but went to a psychology program).
A patent troll brought a lawsuit against my company, CoalitionTechnologies.com, in the Eastern District Court of Texas. My attorney and I were able to get them to voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit shortly afterwards. I won’t be naming the patent troll here as they voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit.

Coalition has a policy of never settling frivolous lawsuits and fighting all the way to the bloody end. We recently won a judgement with attorneys fees in another lawsuit.

When I first received the notice that I was being sued, I freaked out a little bit. I didn’t sleep well for the next couple of nights, but began working on this right away. I contacted a couple of dozen Texas patent attorneys, most of whom quoted outrageous prices ranging from $200 to $600 per hour and some asking for a $25k retainer upfront! I soon realized that all of these Texas patent attorneys are in the same game with the patent trolls… these attorneys make money the longer the legal process gets drawn out. I was contacted by Amit Agarwal (310-351-6596 – based in LA but he can operate anywhere) and at first I was turned off by his aggressive approach. However, I spoke with my other attorney and he said it won’t hurt to give him a shot. I signed up with Amit and it was the best decision I could have made. Amit brought a very aggressive approach and quickly got the patent troll to back down and dismiss the lawsuit.

The lawsuit was mostly dismissed after Amit really went after the troll and their attorneys with some great research and motions he spent Christmas writing.
Why would it lead to nihilism?
As they said in 'The Expanse'; welcome to the churn.

I've been on both sides of this - the person that wants everyone to think twice before they type... but also the one that messed up.

I'm really here just to say that... sometimes things aren't so clean-cut.

For example: 'Business needs' often push myself and others to make calls that we'd normally never make. Coming from the top, down - executives rarely care about 'fact'.

Just what they promised, and everyone suffers for it.

In the end, the whole experience is a wash. We don't hit the target, and everyone is more stressed out. Repeat this enough, the diligence of most will falter.
The answer is in the subtitle, or summary, or whatever the first line is called: Some degrees are worth millions, while others have no net financial value. The biggest factor is your major.

I'm pretty sure everyone already knew that. I distinctly remember friends joking about how their major was worthless 20 years ago, and now see the same people complain about how they got suckered into taking a student loan they can never repay.
It may be true that manufacturers are ignoring Rust but that certainly does not stop or hinder me. Tools like svd2rust mean I only need to rely on the accuracy of their svd files (industry standard register maps) - see
https://github.com/rust-embedded/svd2rust

Additionally, I use vanilla VS Code and rust analyser so no need to use manufacturer supplied lock-in IDEs. There are many compiler targets to choose from for cross compilation and tools like probe-run to flash chips.

One major issue is lack of manufacturer provided code examples written in Rust. For that I rely on the Rust community. A typical example being nrf-hal for Nordic Bluetooth chips.
some dropped off maintenance, but not all. NDB is pretty much dead outside of few rare spots, though, and not everywhere had DME even at best time. But nav points used with GPS still often are based on VOR locations.
Yea, this is sorta true. If you leave a manual transmission car in gear then the momentum of the pistons, and the minimal gas it's fed to prevent stalling in neutral, will give a very slight push at sufficiently slow speeds. It's much smaller than the effect you get from an automatic, though, where the gas delivered to the engine is enough to keep it from stalling even when shifting to drive from a dead standstill.

Mostly I'm thinking of the situation where you break to a stop. In a manual, you have pushed in the clutch so the wheels are completely disconnected from the engine, giving zero creep when you release the brake, whereas in an automatic the car will start to creep.
I had an easy time getting setup with the esp32c3 with this repository (linked to in author's first post):
https://github.com/ivmarkov/rust-esp32-std-demo

Also got it working on WSL2. I could install flashing and monitoring tools as Windows binaries, which have access to Windows ports.
https://pfesenmeier.github.io/wsl2-and-embedded-development/
I'm not at all looking forward the future where "conveniences" provided by operating systems (like consistent GUI styling, preferences, accessibility, etc) are thrown by the wayside and each application effectively re-implements a GUI targeting a canvas "framebuffer".
Was it such an offensive message that it deserved letters to administration claiming the author is racially insensitive? Was it so offensive, that it required school administrators to hurriedly draft a template apology to make it go away?

As the author said, the term trap house has a common colloquial meaning among certain people; whether one finds it offensive from a "triggering" perspective, it is not in good faith to ignore that and have the person kicked out of a career, in my opinion.
Operation Black Buck [1] was done using INS [2] as GNSS was not yet available.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delco_Carousel
Edit: He did reply: https://twitter.com/steadicat/status/1452686612370915328
Microsoft will push PC Health Check app to all Windows 10 PCs
Too bad bodies decay quickly or we'd have an epidemic of grave robbing to literally mine retinas.
Sort of a rip-off of Aaron Clarey's books (written >10 years ago). It's specifically covered in his book "Worthless".

https://www.amazon.com/Aaron-Clarey/e/B00J1ZC350%3Fref=dbs_a...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006N0THIM/ref=dbs_a_def_r...

His other books are also insightful though go against the grain of many who want to believe in fantasies, fairy tales and unicorns (but will inevitably be disappointed and too late).
Nice catch. I fixed it. I should have said "execute" rather than "retire".
That's part of the problem. It wasn't a disaster, so I'm actually interested. Admittedly, it's a personal problem.
But: https://twitter.com/steadicat/status/1452771685686415360
Older programming languages like C have a memory model that isn't safe. If they receive too much data that data can overwrite some other data or code. If you're lucky it crashes, if you are not lucky, an attacker commanded your program what to do.

Newer programming languages like Java have automated memory management. This is safe, but is a bit slower and a bit wasteful. You don't have control over how memory is laid out so this is awkward for systems programming.

Rust has a model that is both manual and safe (at least if you don't use "unsafe" features.) It gets talked about on HN for a few reasons: (1) people want to believe in it, (2) it fulfills much of its promise, but (3) it's challenging to use so people are always writing blog posts about their struggles with it.
I do trust the foundation and make a monthly donation, but those donations are not used for Firefox, and I'm not even sure they legally could be the way the foundation is structured. I too would really, really, really like a way to fund Firefox development. I don't use any of the features they make money from (search partnerships, sponsored suggestions, Pocket), and if I'm forced to I will stop using Firefox.

I don't understand why they can't do a pay-what-you-want model. Keep the browser free, but encourage people to pay $20 or something if they like it. I would.
I'm aware of all this, it's the same in sailing and it's a mess. But since aircraft are already set up to use magnetic north, and are basically flying computers, it shouldn't matter what crazy navigation scheme they are using.

But a sibling comment already pointed out, what you also mention, that it also affects physical markings etc, and that makes much more sense.
It was just generic without adding any information or insight. Moreover the generic point was dismissive. Hence, shallow dismissal.
>Rust is mainstream
For sure it depends what you mean by mainstream. If a FAANG uses language X, it's language X mainstream?

I'd venture to say that to be considered mainstream a language has to at least pass 1% threshold in Tiobe index (or the equivalent in Redmonk or others).

If Rust is mainstream, then Fortran is über mainstream
A reminder that Facebook's VP of integrity (Guy Rosen)[1] co-founded the spyware company, Onavo, that Facebook acquired. Onavo made a VPN that collected user activity and delivered it to Facebook.[2]

[1] First temporary (https://gizmodo.com/facebook-exec-gets-new-title-as-vp-of-in...), then long-term (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/17/22731214/facebook-disput...)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo
This look cool! Will check it out.
A Pyrrhic victory; they are out $12k and the troll is free to go harass the next company.
As someone who is bad at JS I really hoped webassembly would let me leapfrog JS/React etc. Is it time to start using it?
This seems like a really bad idea since it gives another attack vector if you're really trying to maintain secure communication.
The magnetic north is even affected by local phenomena, at least when you're on the ground, so it's worse than that.
"Oh this is cool, lets give it a try"

Goes to photoshop.adobe.com

"Alright it's loading, lets see what it looks like!"

...Redirected to a Medium article.

---

This is why nobody likes you Adobe.
> Why Photoshop came to the web

The entire section is a deception. The real reason is to strong arm everyone into a subscription model where you never own the software that runs on your computer. That's the real end game, not this nonsense about how easy it is to launch an application if its a URL in a browser.
Ask HN: Improving or even curing Myopia (Nearsightedness)
Myopia is a common eye problem for developers and other office workers.

My personal issue is that it's getting worse over time - seemingly from wearing glasses for about 20 years now. My optician confirmed that and suggested special contract lenses that deform the lenses to temp improve focus.

There are people claiming Myopia is treatable by training. Has anyone tried it? Is this bullshit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Efg42-Qn0&feature=youtu.be

https://www.improveeyesighthq.com/how-to-cure-nearsightedness.html
I can't seem to find it, but there was a report from a few years back that compared an income prediction based solely on incoming student demographics (using a regression model on things like parental income and education levels) with graduates' actual income a few years out. It still doesn't prove causality, but if there's a big difference between the two in the positive direction, it at least suggests the university is providing some kind of actual value-add, vs just passing through students who were already from a high socioeconomic background.