skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an increasing body of good evidence that bright indoor conditions also lift mood and improve productivity, often quite noticeably.

Since the pandemic and work-from-home, I've been working in a home office where an entire wall is a glass door leading to the balcony, floor to ceiling. I let the light stream in, and it's basically daylight inside. I had to get a brighter monitor (600 nit OLED), but now I just can't picture myself going back to work in a gloomy cubicle farm. The grey, dim light would just depress me.

There's a few hobbyists using large LED or OLED panels to achieve the same kind of lighting effect as overhead sunlight. Because of the higher efficiency, it's now possible to do this without an extravagant power bill or excessive heat. This makes the most sense is in places closer to the arctic, where winters are long, dark, and cold. So in effect, the "wasted" heat energy of the lighting simply contributes to heating the workplace or home.

Here on YC News more than a few people have suggested that this might be a nice startup to work on: "indoor sunlight" products and installation services can start small, but can scale up! You can also imagine combo products, such as solar-power + batteries + bright lighting panels.
My criticism of the article is not based on a false assumption that religious discrimination is impossible, but rather that the author fails to offer a plausible, evidence-based case that such discrimination is actually happening to him.

Failing to open an office in Louisiana is not evidence of religious discrimination. Obviously we can't know exactly how his conversation with the VP actually went, but I find the lack of detail to be conspicuous.
C is the scripting language of the kernel and low-level system libraries. Other languages have approached that status, but in my experience none have gotten to the point of zero-friction integration with libc and kernel syscalls. I understand why (for one thing, not having a real string type is painful) but it helps keep C around for low-level system-call-centric code which doesn't hit on any of the things C does really poorly.
The brain is a pretty messy place. While our bodies try hard to preserve homeostasis, conditions will always vary slightly. Hormones affect our brains and can vary in concentration from moment to moment. Type 1 diabetics can easily have their blood sugar increase by a factor of 4, without losing consciousness. There are many other chemicals and conditions (temperature?) that similarly influence the condinions under which our neurons must operate.

But even in this noisy environment, our brains can usually operate just fine. Given this level of background noise, I would be very surprised if the average synapse would require more than a 16-bit floating point value for its outputs.
We are confined to the data supplied by our senses, they don't ever detect the totality of the system, we are compelled by a very complex network of feedback loops of stimuli-response in our brain's chemistry.

Original thought might not come from some specific area of the brain, it might just arise as another wave of brain activity that fires the right patterns of the network, what's so different in that coming from goo chemistry instead of electric bits?
I bet she was also wearing clothes. Killers often do that.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220612061034/https://www.washi...
> Not a dysfunctional schizo type of crazy, but just talking to invisible deities in the sky and sincerely believing they are there type of crazy?

Isn't that.. all religions?
its not a simple matter of substituting gender though, this is about beliefs and it depends, if he's saying the chat bots have a soul, then I can imagine he is getting some diverse reactions ( from other thread ). But since this one doesn't give us concrete examples, hard to judge, but it sounds like maybe he is overlaying his religious beliefs on the work and perhaps thinking he is discriminated against for doing that? Generally in a professional environment there is just no mention of religion, but somehow its become a topic, not sure how.... and the details matter here.
To me, you should rewrite your own version of the materials you have used to learn.

I do that in Obsidian, a personal knowledge management tool.

I copy/paste contente from the web in interconnected notes, and once the contents are no longer in their original form, but transferred into my own read/write notes, I refactor and reorganise them.

After a few refactors, some contents from different sources are now next to another in the same text. Or disappeared completely because another source has a « better » explanation.
You can draw your own things, or add images from the web.

I think this process is a little bit like writing your own Wikipedia article.

The funny part is that when you come back to your notes later, you are astonished by the density of information connected together (just like Wikipedia).
"Russia has employed maybe 20% of their military personnel"

That is a shallow measure. Most modern armies have "tooth to tail" [0] ratio less than 1:5. Combat-ready units constitute a minority of the entire military personnel everywhere, and Russia has deployed most of those in Ukraine. It cannot afford to deploy all of them, as it has long borders and shores that need patrolling.

Russia no doubt has a huge cache of Soviet-era weapons, but it has already burnt through much of that cache, much like Ukraine did. Given that they are transferring T-62 to the theater, deploying ancient Kh-22 missiles and that the dud rate for both missiles and artillery shells seems to be between 10-30 per cent, it seems that they are already down to using older, less reliable stock. That does not mean that they ran out of modern stuff completely, but rather that the newer stock is depleted enough that they need to be careful about that.

For me, the humiliation consists of the current stalemate. I don't require any massive counteroffensives from the Ukrainians to see the Russian advance as a failure. They didn't manage to take freaking Kharkiv that lies just 40 km from the border and they fought three months over Mariupol, besieged from all sides.

This is just incompatible with the image of an unstoppable bear that Russia cultivated before the war.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth-to-tail_ratio
Is that true for appartments?
We have indeed had a spike in heart inflammation from literally every other vaccine in history. Clearly.
>largely populated by Americans

Where should you draw the line? Surely not at "more Americans than non-Americans". In your postulated example, I suspect the number of people in India would well exceed 50%.

I think the simple proposition is this: this site has a sufficiently high non-US audience that it can reasonably be expected you specify your post only concerns the US.
This claim is just as false as the one about Tesla having had a falling out with their “LIDAR supplier”. Elon has explained many times why he considers LIDAR, while useful for things like docking to the Space Station, to be a fool’s errand for self driving cars.
Curiously, in this case the people of the UK actually wanted to be lied to in order to 'get Brexit done'. The previous prime minister (Theresa May) was honest about Brexit, saying that it would involve putting a customs border down the Irish Sea, cutting off Northern Ireland. She was removed for voicing this inconvenient truth and replaced by Johnson, who said that he would 'get Brexit done' without any border. Hence his famous, 'we'll have our cake and eat it' comment.

So the upshot is that the UK purposely voted for a shifty character, and that's what they got!
Oh yeah, 2A forever. Found them in 1999-2000 (when I was 12 or 13 and first learning to code and such) and it was positively mind-blowing. v2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHbQmqmmIFk) and v3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8) made me rethink everything, and I promptly switched focus to learning webdev over coding desktop apps. Those Flash days were fun, between 2A, Balthaser, DerBauer, etc. But yeah, 2A made me completely rethink media and interaction.

Go figure, I work on interactive web stuff and film stuff geared towards the web. I can still hear the first piece of music that would play in the background of 2A v2 in my head 20+ years later, and still occasionally listen to Eric's trance mixes on Soundcloud.
I'm seeing a lot of projects that aim to bridge the usability gap between the real world and the bloated, overcomplicated cloud services.

Another signal of cloud rot: I see myself and my peers are migrating away from AWS to smaller, less complicated, cheaper providers like Linode, but also Hetzner, Wasabi.

Nowadays the cloud fatigue is higher than the burden of self hosting your services.
i can respect that.
They could run a mile in 30 days maybe
That was addressed in TFA, if you (bother to) read to the end.

They compared the tools to Australian tools. Australian hands are like African hands, but the tool designs differ.
Ok, thanks for your insight.
Wikipedia is one of the greatest projects in the history of mankind. Very little compares to it in scale and value.
My addresses were never part of a mining pool.
My daughter’s primary school teacher recently got a “beach teaching” qualification and she now has one school day a week on the beach, rain or shine. I was really pleased about that anyway as the school doesn’t have a lot of outdoor space for the kids to run around, but this gives me even more reason to be happy.
It’s not typical for safety critical systems. A car isn’t a Web 3.0 app and shouldn’t be updated in the same way.
Add an RSS feed to your blog :)
That’s how StackOverflow works too. Difference being that SO only allows very specific topics.
I concur.

I submitted this link because it made me wonder what constitutes religious discrimination. If there is a non-work-related chat with colleagues, and someone thinks your opinion is wrong, I think they should be allowed to politely tell you. I think the author is not OK with this, if it's about religion (at least if many many people inside the company think he's wrong).

I get the reasons (both historical and present) that make religious disagreements a sensitive subject, and I can see how one would like to give some explicit protection to religious beliefs, but still I cannot ignore the fact we are talking about factual(ish) beliefs that one should be able to criticize.

Whatever you think that it's not relevant to your job (and it's not illegal) should affect your career; I don't know if that happened in this case but the author doesn't provide any example. But if you share your opinions, your colleagues are allowed to say you're wrong.
My progression to handstand: 1. Do it against a wall 2. Do it without a wall.

If you are reasonably fit, 1. is a matter of a few tries. Source: in primary school it got one PE lesson to get all of the class to do it. I also showed this to a few people as an adult and they just did it after like 3 attempts.

Getting from 2. to 1. is just practice. Don't do it on a hard floor.

Maybe I view it as too easy because I learned it as a child.
The US will show you how bad it is if a country focuses too much on the stock market to measure economic success. The performance reflects monetary policy more than anything. In the end stocks going up doesn't mean people are getting richer.

As your first article points out: The "stagnant" stocks pay dividends. That's how it's supposed to work. How is a system healthy and sustainable if you expect share prices to double every 5 years? Tesla's valuation has nothing to do with reality anymore, it's a wet dream.
I’m glad you found the links useful.
Can’t tell if this is fully sarcasm or acknowledging some of the data historically.
That's a bit of a rant, but for two of the points you make:

1) you own the house you live in, someone on benefits does not;

2) for the point "I have the benefit of getting literally no help", this is literally incorrect, your ability to earn a living in the UK is contingent on a wide range of public services, from roads, to public education, to the NHS, to a functioning civil service and justice system (as flawed as these may be).
After, within a couple of months. But it wouldn’t have made a difference since I wasn’t familiar enough with the New York City skyline at the time.

But the milieu at the time made it seem inconceivable that UNATCO would be on the side of the bad guys, which made the plot twist so much more impactful.
This isn't reddit, please refrain from responding like this to likely bait.
Runner up must be Archive.org. I donate to both projects regularly.
Computers are an oppressive technology
a followup post: https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/may-be-fired-soon-for-doi...
Quoting the most concrete example he gives:

> If you start talking about your religious beliefs at a social event people treat you like you just farted in their face. They frequently will scrunch up their faces and might ask a question like “Do you REALLY believe all that stuff?” When you tell them that you do they might even go so far as to say “Sorry that’s just not the kind of thing I associate with someone as smart as yourself.”

That does not sound like discrimination to me. It sounds like people have an opinion and they express that opinion. It also sounds like they express their opinion very politely and in a restrained manner.

Having opinions and saying them is a free speech, a cherrised cornerstone of the American culture.
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If there was only such a thing as mild myocarditis ...
You're being sarcastic and arrogant, but yeah: in most cases it is.
This is a seperate (important) issue.
Or, as recently, PUBG Battlegrounds, which reuses 2 letters from the ititialism.
History will also show you that it is religion that has formed the moral and social framework for today's values to be opposed to oppression. You might think they, human rights, good morals, fundamental truths, are innate and fundamental but then look at geography and history together and you will see that it's religion that is the origin for these beliefs.

The twentieth century featured many deaths caused by 2 different philosophies in 2 different places explicitly opposed to religion, for example!.

It's a paradox and irony in many cases.

Just some perspective and nuance for widening ones thoughts.
Just curious, do you pay for this small office out of your pocket or does your employer subsidize it?

Or are you self-employed?
Mine hasn't and doesn't and I've tested it with benchmarks.
Chronic inflammation is not a symptom of Covid-19.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31706051
>the universe itself operates on mostly simple rules

It does not. The rules are very complex. Schrodinger's equation is incredibly hard to solve. And we don't even know all the rules or if our current model of the rules is correct.
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Whether or not this person's claims of discrimination are valid, this method of airing this kind of grievance is probably totally ineffective. This is your brain on not having a union.
In earlier years, this was correlated with highly giftedness, because IQ kids used to suck in more information which means reading a lot: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19127804/ ;)
> this is one of the hallmarks that you would expect to see at the beginning of the breakdown of a civilised society.

People have been crying wolf at the breakdown of society since the romans. Obviously sometimes there is a wolf, but if everything looks like a wolf, we're really bad at identifying the real ones.
What? Why do we need to genetically engineer people for wearing glasses?
> Is this an actual generated response? Because if it is it’s actually amazing, a genuine creative solution to a difficult problem, albeit one that fails to understand how night and day work

No. Of course it a joke I constructed to show that "«deductions»" do not exclude that the deducer is a moron. And to suggest that morons will be dangerous (I cannot write 'can': it is 'will'), because cognitive failures may be more concealed than ideas about "the temperature of the Sun in the night".

The constructed sentence is not just «fail[ing] to understand how night and day work»: it would show a failure to understand how the whole system works, a failure in the whole world model, which reveals to be either as shallow as a one-molecule layer or as inconsistent as a post-hand-granade deflagration.

And that is why I wrote «entertainment», because such cognitive failures are the basis of jokes as the intellectual equivalent of slapstick, and I opposed it to «AI (AKA "automated problem solving")», because when you are engineering a problem solvers, you do need those automated solutions to be sound, and surely not unintentionally treacherous!

I get it that appearances can be "«amazing»" - as both posters label -, meaning stupefying, inducing that temporary confusion as the intellect is suddenly baffled and maybe lured into deceit by comforting emotional instances, but as the confusion dissipates and you see things as they are, as duly, you are back to the actually important state, in which "humorously amazing" and "amazing with worth" are quite distinct.
Sorry, but this is ridiculous. Are you claiming that murder was totally accepted as normal before Moses got the Commandments?

Religion, at best, codified moral values that were already in place in society.
> People have forgotten in these companies you are there to give your time and get paid for said time given. Period.

Well put - you're in a business relationship with your employer, they're not there to provide religious instruction, you do you job and they pay you for it - period!
I see similar trends in many places. For whatever reason inflation and rising interest rates seems to be happening in sync. And housing is at a peak of unaffordablity in lots of the worlds major cities.
Good to know, and knowing this, it underlines how much sense Linus' decision makes
Don’t you still have to hang a screen?
Not just with light, spending more time indoors means kids don't have to focus their eyes on longer distances these days. There would be a correlation between the amount of time spent indoors during the formative years and the chances of becoming myopic in the future.
Why are we all working so hard?
Speaking as a landlord, it's even sillier than you say. My agent explicitly refuses to deal with people on housing benefits, because "it's too difficult to get the money out of the government".

I think this is bad for everyone. Poor people for obvious reasons, and everyone else because even when it works it drives up rents and by extension house prices, with the extra money going to people like me (and I left the UK).

I think the UK government should be building more council houses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_house
It would be really fun if the whole reasons why I don't wear glasses is because I keep strong light in my room since I was a kid (I like strong light)
But only initially in California on selected highways at “lower speeds” and they haven’t tested it yet in the US.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/05/volvo-partners-with-lumina...
Having been in a team that needed to have these conversations because many were ramping up on the work, these conversations were godsends for catching inaccurate and problematic assumptions, making sure people understood how their work supported the business, and enforcing consistency with how the work was organized and documented which helped as the team grew and turned over.
https://archive.is/4i9OA
Synthetic mRNA based vaccine induces heart damage is not a binary concept (i.e. you either have it or not), but depends on the amount of cardiac cells attacked and destroyed by the immune system due to exposing the spike protein. People develop problems many weeks after vaccination, here are exemplary case reports (excluded from the FDA funded garbage study):

* "18 days after his second dose": https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pace.14486

* "chest pain one week after second dose": https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/internalmedicine/advpub...

* "chest pain 2 weeks after mRNA vaccination": https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc2109975
Fascinating - to me, a thoroughly irreligious person, I can’t possibly imagine being that fucking rude to someone. The idea that you think it’s “very polite and restrained” is amazing.
With no slight intended, do you not remember the most recent election? "The party" not only gets to decide who the candidates will be, but ultimately who the candidate, in the singular, will be. When the people weren't voting like they were supposed to, as informed by the media, "the party" simply had everybody else step down and endorse the chosen one.

Well everybody except one token opponent to maintain the charade that the decision was driven by "democracy." And if that wasn't enough they took the unpopular chosen one, paired him with another even more unpopular candidate as a vice president, called that the ticket, and people voted for them, en masse, because "well, they're awful but they're less awful than the alternative."
For the visible portion, that's around 25-50 W/m², so around double that for current LEDs. The question becomes: at what illumination do we start to get a significant effect?
I have an old Aptiva 486 DX2 66 Desktop model waiting for me to try to recover whatever can be recovered from the hard drive.

It was our first PC style computer and we used it a lot.

Fun facts:

- newly booted it could run
AutoCAD on the standard 4MB

- of course with a giant extra 8MB it flew and was only limited by us kids knowing nothing

- it had suspend/resume (!) If you hit the power button ut turned itself off and when turned on again it came right back where you left it. For younger people here: this was amazing at the time. Some friends probably stil had drives that had to be "parked" around that time.

- 24/7 IBM Helpware was somehow included and these guys (it was mostly guys) where amazing. As a 15 - 17 y.o. I called them a number of times after siblings had cleaned the "mess" in the C:\ folder etc etc. I called them on midsummers eve and I think on new years eve (it might have been Christmas) and they were always friendly, helpful and patient. Utterly amazing customer support! Could answer anything and would stay on the phone while I ran through the backup disks or whatever I did to solve that days problem. Set a standard for what IT support should be like for me. (Yes, I have done IT support myself since then and those guys and Limoncelli/Hogans book "The Practice of Systems and Networks Administration" was probably the best inspiration for me.)
What works best from my experience is to include documentation in the DOD. Most of the time if you build a feature there are emails, tickets, notes from meetings etc. To write the docs is just a quick editing job in many cases.
That's why I referred to their thinking, not to them per se. Their thoughts are shared by enough people to be a real problem.
Can you elaborate on neutral grip presses? Not sure what that looks like.
Your mother was lucky. It would be interesting to see if this impacts the health seeking behaviour of individuals. It is practically outsourcing the healthcare to a third party agency that has the potential to slip up. In some cases, it does (as the OP). American cancer rates have different etiologies and is not apples to oranges comparison.
Making mistakes is a sign of intelligence, and Einstein’s errors prove it (2020)