skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what you call “ordinary silicates”. The matrix is mostly sodium borosilicate with a bunch of additives and is as stable as a glass could be.

There are precipitates caused by some of the waste elements (things like ruthenium, rhodium and palladium, for example). They have issues but still quite far from making the glass crumble. As with all glasses, crystallisation is an open question but won’t happen for a very long time either.
I would find “Near sightedness less ambiguous, in American English at least. I can’t remember having heard that used for anything other than a physical difficulty to focus your eyes at longer distances.
From an optical perspective, focusing on something a few meters away is basically infinity for the eye. Even indoors you do that a lot, which makes the "focus close -> loose infinity" theory less plausible compared to light levels, which we know have a very significant impact on the whole body. Focusing very closely all the time (again, optically speaking, a screen 1 meter away is closer to infinitely far away than to a smartphone in the face) might do and explain something.
> given my tax rate it's basically pointless looking for extra work.

but you can claim £1,000 of trading allowance per year if registered as a sole trader!
In the late ‘90s I worked with a Japanese developer in Chicago that ate a pack of squid chips nearly every day at lunch. Somehow the smell escaped that bag and spread across the office faster than the speed of light.
I hate that modern cases don't have 5.25 drive bays. Some of us like having optical drives.
This is a bit of a misreading.

They're not saying base your new version of grep on ripgrep, they're saying if you reimplement a core util then follow the standards of other tools in a similar spirit in that ecosystem.

Ripgrep and fd have re-implemented old, well established tools. If they've chosen to diverge from them in a common way then there's probably a very good reason for it, which is worth at least knowing about before doing something different.
Installing a Rasperry Pi in a Micro-Colocation.com Wind Turbine [video]
On The Speed Of Algorithms And Faster Hardware (2014)
Humour is cool!

https://xkcd.com/
So how being embodied helps consciousness emerge? If it’s just the statistical model that underpins the consciousness, then it doesn’t matter if it’s embodied or not. It doesn’t matter to the algorithm what hardware it runs on.
> Hey, do we REALLY need to hire this 11th person?

This conversation happens when fundraising. Usually the lead wants to see the option pool replenished at the same time.
Both of my Range Rovers need the windscreens replaced because the heating elements have failed. It's about a £75 excess, but it's kind of questionable whether it's worth it for a 25-year-old vehicle. You still need to scrape the ice off the side windows ;-)
I would like to see a comparison between Berry 34KB in C and DWM 26KB in C.
This year's COVID waves are quite harmless also to unvaccinated people. It's because Omicron is less dangerous, not because of vaccination, but of course public health authorities will ignore this and claim victory. What else can they do? Public health is a dangerous concept by construction because the social costs of them admitting they were wrong are so high.
> You just could not remotely control it from outside the house

And what about disabled folk who might rely on the smart functionality of the house to have something resembling an independent life? Or the elderly? Even if e.g. a smart bulb fails gracefully and becomes a non-smart bulb in the absence of the cloud, it doesn't help if you have cannot operate a normal light switch effectively.

A lot of comments on this article seem to think smart home devices are only for the lazy or are toys for people with more money than sense, but there are plenty of "legitimate" use cases as well.

Also, while I would never want to use it myself, relying on the cloud is perfectly valid - the simple fact is most people are incapable of hosting and maintaining their own smart hub [1], and Insteon fucked up big time by not having a better transition plan.

[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/ The source is paywalled, but this article is a decent summary. TL;DR if we assume running your own smart hub is a "level 3" task, only about 5% of people in a country would be capable of doing so.
shot out to the poor academics cool website "sci-hub.ru"
Sorry, my phrasing was bad. I don't care what other's are enthusiastic about. You're right, old keyboards/computers are literally just junk that was once useful technology. It's up to every person to decide how exciting that is/isn't, and if they find one aspect interesting but not the other, that's fine.

When I said "should be", what I really meant was that in my experience people aren't just buying sets of keyboards/computers and immediately chucking out the computer as the OP suggested when they said "I wince every time some funko popper discards a perfectly good machine but keeps the keyboard.". As in, this has not been my experience at all.
I have an SWTP 6800 computer from around 1978, with keyboard, monitor, mag tape drive. Condition TBD. I could sell it at a reasonable price to a collector.
"Here's some TV shows I watched. And dreams I had."
There's more evidence for Santa! He brings presents and they always appear, just as we were told ;)
Changes to Google Chrome Profiles
Equifax would like to have a word with you.
The Great Plant-Based Con by Jayne Buxton Review
https://hckrnews.com/

Fast and convenient, everything is one click away. Easy selection of the amount of news you're ready to absorb. Shows where you left off. Default colors are great with already followed links clearly visible. Default order is chronological contrary to https://news.ycombinator.com.

P.S.: no affiliation with it :)
advice you'd give looking back on things you'd wished you'd have known while you were 17?
It’s possible I hit the brake the same time as the car did and just didn’t notice, we’re talking fractions of a second here. Like I said in a previous comment, since I had the autopilot on I was able to look at more of my surroundings rather that just focusing only on the car in front of me so I actually saw him driving erratically a few minutes before that so when he was next to me I was being extra defensive and I reacted really quickly to it.
> suddenly gains new features that cannot even be defined with math or logic

It at most can not be defined due to its complexity. Also, emergent properties are everywhere, like you can assign properties to a fire you can’t assign to the chemical process of burning. For all we know, consciousness may just as well be an arbitrary threshold of complexity.

But I stand corrected that the correct term is indeed materialism.
What a wonderful example of corporate life. This is the type of carefully crafted political office bs I hate, from the double speak to the use of unnecessary exclamation points. Right out of the gate it starts with what they want you to do, sans exclamation point, "Don't bring your loud mechanical keyboard to the office". Then it immediately backs off with saying a couple of things to should like they're being reasonable. They "get it". They've "soared in popularity among engineers". I'm wondering why they needed to quality it as among engineers which leads me to suspect that they aren't one. "Owning a custom piece of beautifully crafted equipment is delightful!"

Now that we've stroked your ego and complimented your keyboard we get down to it "I implore you to not use them them at the office" So now we've established that you're use of a mechanical keyboard is completely frivolous and ego driven while they have a legitimate complaint. While you're just admiring your "beautifully crafted equipment" they're dealing with piercing noise.

Now that they've made their case they need to back off again to appear reasonable by offering a couple of helpful suggestions to get you comply with their demand/request with the implication that there are no compromises being made with these dampening solutions.

We follow up with denying what they're sure the reader is thinking, "This person is a dick", with, "Truly not trying to be a dick writing this". Oh, but you are. "I really get the excitement!" There's that useless exclamation point. They totally get it, not enough to get one themselves, or not write a dickish email but they get it. "The sound has been driving me up the wall, and I can't be the only one" and now we finally get to it. They just don't like it and they want you to stop. You can't be the only one because everyone is like them and they're so reasonable that there must be people out there like them.

Either take an office poll or shut the hell up. You very well may be the only one. You've completely marginalized and dismissed any serious medical advantage to the wellbeing of my fingers and wrists. Those are my money makers. Without that I'm screwed. You know what that sound is? It's the sound of money being made. It's what's probably paying your salary so no I'm not going to leave my mechanical keyboard at home and I'm not going to put those shitty o-rings on my keyboard.
K&R C

Gleick Genius (although some prefer Chaos)

Hofstadter Godel Escher Bach

One taught C. One taught or showed the life of a non conventional smart guy. One made you think.
> I use autopilot responsibly and appreciate that statistically it is reducing my odds of death

I don't think it really does, does it? I thought that "Autopilot" basically only worked on highways in fairly unsurprising conditions?
Russians get first taste of rebranded McDonald’s
Archive link: https://archive.ph/307PW
I think this problem occurs at many places in the industry. Developer learns a thing, then keeps trying to apply it two decades later, long after it became completely obsolete.

That's how you get things like people unrolling a loop by hand. Compilers have known how to do it for ages, and have built-in data about what works best on what CPU. 99% of the time they do a better job than a programmer that developed a pattern back when they were writing for a 386.

These days it often works better to write very straightforward, non-clever code and let the compiler figure out how to optimize it.
Series of Websites That Listed More Than 20 Mil Social Security Numbers for Sale
US Department of Justice announced SSNDOB Marketplace, A Series Of Websites That Listed More Than 20 Million Social Security Numbers For Sale, Seized And Dismantled In International Operation
I tried seeding a random number generator with a banana, but the banana was seedless.
Is mathematics an inherently oppressive study? Computers are simply tools for performing mathematical calculations, a very fancy abacus, if you will. The fact that humans use them as a tool for oppressing other humans is nothing to do with the nature of the computer, and everything to do with the nature of human societies.

Is paper an inherently oppressive technology because it was used to hold rules and contracts which bind people? How about trains, airplanes, automobiles, or rockets?

Are horses inherently oppressive animals because they were used by Genghis Khan to sweep the world with his armies? Is wheat an inherently oppressive plant because it enabled the rise of unequal societies with division of labor? Are dogs evil symbols of oppression for their many nefarious uses?
The US doesn’t have crypto legislation AFAIK. Just a hodgepodge of rules from various power brokers. Other jurisdictions do a better job. IANAL, so take with grain of salt.
You just don't imagine, how huge landfills are, and how small was number of computers in 1980s.

I mean, in 1980s, only first world seen computers in large quantities.
In 3rd world, computers was exotic until late 1990s or even 2000s.
So for example, China have not desktop computers culture, they jumped from analog culture to smartphones.

In some countries like Russia, computers before middle 1980s was toys for military, because they gives magic possibilities, like make supersilent submarine screw.

Large share of first world computers of 1980s-1990s, was "donated" to countries of 2-3 worlds, because first don't want to pay for utilization, and others are agree to got new for them technology "for free".

Important thing, that old-new technology means, it will not have official support, no spare parts, no upgrades, so large share of old computers become donors of old parts for other old computers.

Only in 1st world, people pay really much attention, to save history, to make right collections of old tech, which are alive, not just static empty cases.

And old tech does not survive without care.

So you could assume, 99% of old computers which not so fortunate to become part of some collection, are now dead.

For archeology, I'm in Ukraine regularly talking with collectioners and with engineers, and even now with military, who now regularly got pieces of Russian hardware from 1960s to current.

In many cases it is just impossible to figure out something more than approx time period, when piece of hardware made; in some cases could re-engineer what hardware done.
Yes, and it's a massive difference. Using analog you can quickly manipulate all the knobs and sliders in front of you, often simultaneously. Using a mouse is always going to be less easy
Maybe computers are "inherently oppressive" but this is about the weakest and most inneffective argument for that I can imagine.

Let's start with the "ruthlessness" of closing automated train doors in the tedious and pointless opening anecdote. Why is that bad? It's bad if you have main character syndrome. But that one person missing their train might otherwise be a delay for hundreds of other people. It may have a knock-on impact to other train schedules.

Moving on to:

> What is particularly interesting about The Terminator however is its immediate sequel, which pits two Terminators against one another.

It's almost like these machines reflect the will of their masters. They're tools. They're no more "ruthless" than a hammer is. Is anyone arguing a hammer is "ruthless" because you can kill someone with one?

And then we take a weird turn into "cryptoanarchism". I suspect crypto apologism (or just propaganda) was always the point. The author is somehow "optimistic" on the integrity of crypto systems while arguing machines are "ruthless"? Huh?
Not a lack of Ultra Violet light, but a lack of Violet light, which also needs to be quite bright in order to have a proper effect.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8179197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5233810/
It teaches self sustaining levels long ago. New religions probably require much more viral spread to survive.
Not denying that there are many ways in which development can go wrong, whether that's genetic or the environment. What I'm responding to is the sudden change seen in many populations as per the article.

Re: the chromatic aberration spread, see e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3716229/

They measured 1.82 diopters between 420nm and 660nm. Visible light is a bit wider, 380nm to 720nm, so 2 diopters is about right.

You easily can see this in a dark data centre. If your vision is perfectly corrected (which normally means perfect for red-green light) you won't be able to focus on a blue LED unless you are about 50cm away.
My point was that LiDAR is at least capable of being aesthetically pleasing.
Agree, Wikipedia is excellent. Blogs are cool too though and I don't think my searches tend to land on them.
Drawing any kind of border around the --help output? There's something very wrong with that.
I donate to archive.org by scanning and uploading new content (old science instruction books, etc.).
That just seems really sad.
To clarify, I do not have a general answer for everyone I described my own feelings/approach from last 2 years.

That was my question to parent poster if he considered that "always remote" might fix some issue right now so he could keep his job - but what about working to handle quirks/anxiety so in the future if he really needs to switch jobs putting himself out there with people might help.
but i was told that i could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, i told bill that if sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then i should be able to listen to the radio while i'm collating so i don't see why i should have to turn down the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven
Without shielding you don't need physical access, just physical proximity.
epidemic: a sudden, widespread occurrence of a particular undesirable phenomenon.

You have no idea how language works and provided a weak example that didn't make any sense.
This is lovely. It captures the exact feel of Stumbleupon used to for me, with a great selection of websites. I hope this becomes the norm for people and does not get monetized.
Doesn't Excel already do this on its own? It's based on an IE control in my ancient version (2010), but perhaps it has been updated by now.
It isn't recommended to stare directly at the sun, and I think the suggested amount to spend outside each day as a child to prevent myopia is ~2 hours, but don't quote me on that.
https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106972802-163647496996...

from cnbc

the growth of real estate prices vs wage growth. wage growth has been flat since the '70s.
I like knowing what technologies were made with to some extent. It can give me a feel for what type of bugs I might run into or what the installation process looks like.

Agreed to some extent though, once something is done, what it was written in - should be irrelevant to the end user.

To be fair though, a few weeks ago there were people on here bashing rust claiming it's like impossible to use, async didn't work, the code is unreadable, shouldn't do web dev with it, etc. Meanwhile, here's yet another example of rust being just fine. So I'm glad they shared the technology they used.
Maybe there's a... third way.

(Or is that a reference to a Signal conversation? Stop doing that in the clear, it was originally called "Redphone" for a reason: to avert a nuclear exchange.)
Disclaimer: I'm the main developer of Wayfire

From the README:
"It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance."

The primary goal are features after all, and figuring out how to share code between various paradigms. If Wayfire was only about effects, we wouldn't have simple-tile (a tiling plugin), or vswipe (using laptop touchpad to switch workspaces). Of course, Wayfire is not (and will never be) very feature-rich, it is only meant as a base for a fully-featured desktop environment.

The videos demo mostly the effects, as those are the easiest to show off :) But Wayfire has enough features for daily usage, and in fact there are already quite a few people with different workflows who use it.
Afaik anyone who contributed to the Linux kernel can sue them.
This summarizes the problem IMO:

> As soon as I started being more open and expressive about my Christian religious beliefs at Google

It's fine to have religious beliefs. It's not fine to espouse them at work. Do that on Sunday, at church.
> So what benefits London, benefits the job center material complaining about foreigners in the barbaricum (which is the UK minus London)

Gee, I wonder why those folks don’t believe Londoners who say they have their best interests at heart.
You sure about that? They take a lot of it literally. They're selective about which parts because it's in their interest but that means the same book can both be a work of fiction and an historical record. The whole constant fails under light scrutiny, which is why from a young age they push "faith" so hard. Because if you want to believe it hard enough, it's basically true.

At least that was my upbringing. Wild stories told by dead mean trump science, in spite of any and all evidence to the contrary. It's fun stuff.
I was pretty poor. The house I lived in still had an outhouse. We had an old-fashion washboard thingy to wash clothes. And, my mom made $7k to take care of 4 kids (in the 90s).

I chased the dream hard. Worked at 4 startups, worked myself to burnout. I went through 4 exits and didn’t get rich (because exits don’t favor non-executives and socially awkward).

I finally got rich just by saving and investing well. I saved pretty much everything I made. It was worth it, because now I get to live the life of The Dude.
Sounds like you're a bit neurotic about keyboards. Rubber dome keyboards work just fine, for everyone, and are in fact considerably better for lengthy typing sessions than mechanical ones.

Enjoy your RSI, nutjob.
Haven’t seen a plain C and Win32 application in a very long time.

Some suggestions, if the author is reading the comments here:

I’m not sure why this GUI solution needs action.bat and diskpart.txt as separate files. I’d suggest moving the execution of diskpart.exe into main.c (this eliminates action.bat) and moving diskpart.txt into main.c with the GUI asking the user for the disk (if necessary).
Here is another hit piece that picks the argument that processed food is not healthy for you and equates all plant based food to processed food and therefore plant based food is not good for you. ANY highly processed food isn’t good if you eat daily. Highly processed meats are even worse than highly processed plant food.

Common guys at least try to be less obvious about receiving payments from the meat industry. Come up with some new arguments.
A 500+ page book is beyond most peoples tree time to explore from a comments faith alone so here's a summary I found (the quality of which is unknown) since I'm always interested to some degree in new perspectives (https://www.supersummary.com/the-technological-society/summa...):

While Ellul separates technique from the individual machines that contribute to its reign, he maintains that machines represent an ideal state for the forces that govern technique. Humans, on the other hand, are not ideal at all. We lack the efficiency and predictability of machines. Therefore, Ellul says, technique is the social adaptation that exists in transforming the messy lives of humans so that they better fit into a world controlled by machinery. Further, in a somewhat terrifying turn of phrase, he adds that technique is "the consciousness of the mechanized world."

So humans adapt to technology and as technology becomes more efficient we just become cogs of technology is the core principle here and I can see how this relationship could be thought to arise however I completely disagree with it. Technology does enable efficiency at a fundamental level but it's not that humans become slaves to the efficiency or technique, it's that some humans chose to force other humans into increasingly more efficient means.

There is some feedback relation here in that in a global competitive environment as leaders around the world continue to compete in various forms they will inherently drive their populations into deeper efficiency I believe but the rise to all of this is because of the global competitive environment. It's largely social constructs and to some degree, finite resources that drive these behaviors and lead to efficiency focus. More than anything it's greed and hunger for power that drives this nonsense.

Most humans recognize when their lives become dominated by some silly efficiency and don't care to follow suit. Their want autonomy, to own their life and own their choices. They're instead forced into "the technique" so to speak as a secondary effect. The underlying effect is what needs to be rutted out, technology isn't the fundamental issue here, it's a set of human behaviors and institutions that exist and enable them.
Cytopia is a free, open-source retro pixel-art city building game
I'll just leave this here...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hellraiser-90546-Lament-Configurati...
The other half of it is, thread blocking on a single queue. And system message queues being a debugger friendly concept (not just a declared local). Code discipline is 2/3 of the solution.