skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheap memory foam toppers have effectively made the quality of the mattress irrelevant to me. I've been sleeping great on a compressed Ikea mattress with a foam topper. In fact the entire bed setup was boxed up and taken to my home in a car. I've spent the night at really nice guest rooms/hotels, and I don't prefer them over my setup.

I would much rather re-buy my setup again every time I move, than spend a ton of money on a "proper" mattress and deal with moving it/dealing with movers — for now, at least.
I work using something like Appian but even more enterprisey. I've watched non-technical users try and build something in it and they basically can't. What you end up with is the worst of both worlds. Non-technical users can't build in it and the features that are meant for them to use just end up slowing down developers. Effectively, whatever you build to replace a programming language eventually will be as complex as the programming language.

The learning curve of programming is steep. It's like a sheer wall and then a steady increasing line. It takes a beginner a ton of effort to produce anything in something like Rails. But once they get passed that initial hurdle over time they will be able to build more and more complex apps. Something like Appian, that initial sheer wall is far less steep, but still formidable. After you get passed that, however, you will fairly quickly find some thing Appian doesn't provide an easy way to do. At that point, you hit the sheer wall again and can even find yourself with something that isn't possible to do.

I think everyone identifies that replacing excel with web apps is a huge need with a lot of potential for monetization. The issue is that the biggest reason that non-technical users can do stuff in excel is that they have spent years to decades learning how. It's a tough sell for them to do the same in your app unless it is an industry standard.
If it's a marketing ploy, then traditional brick and mortar mattress companies were also marketing ploys (which they may have been!!). In either case I agree, consumers are pretty happy now.
Plant life typically decomposes and so it's carbon neural. I can't speak to the plankton, but I definitely want to look that up now, because 70% of the surface is water. That could be a big effect. I do want to point out that the carboniferous was unique though - microorganisms had not yet evolved to be able to digest the cellulose of trees. So there was millions and millions of years of trees growing, dying, and sequestering carbon. That doesn't happen anymore.
Regarding your last point, the platform itself can be fixed if it has any malfunctions. The issue is only with an application built on top of the platform malfunctioning while the platform operates exactly as it's supposed to.

In that case there is no redress as the platform is for all intents and purposes immutable when it's working correctly.
Blockchains do nothing to make the source of information trustworthy, they can only prove the information was created before a particular point in time. You could doctor a photo/video and put it on the blockchain just as easily as a real photo. You would only be able to tell it's fake if the original version was added first (if there's an original to begin with). There's a fundamental analog hole[1] when connecting a digital system to the real world.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
Chinese Space Station to hit earth within hours
Since you said "never", I'll just mention that there are videos on Youtube from skydivers who would disagree with you.
Undergraduate in Art, I think they were right to unteach us what we learned in high school but that they were wrong in only teaching Art as it relates to the 'Art world' and that bias is a result of how colleges/universities hire Art professors.
If your application is long running and lives under a snapshot and restore system you may find this behavior. Just a guess.
Wealthy families pushed to gentrify neighborhoods but avoid local schools
even worse are revelations such as “You’ve already had 90% of the social interaction you’ll ever have with X person”, where X could be someone like your mother or father.
I did something similar in college. Bought an airbed and memory foam topper both from Amazon, transported them inside my Honda when I had to move out of state for internships. It was damn comfortable. Now I have a Tuft & Needle.
I know we’re not anywhere near this being a pressing concern, but Pax Americana is coming to an end and I think there’s something to be said for America’s physical location on the globe and relationship with it’s two neighbors. There have been lots of conflagrations in Europe in the time since the American civil war 150 years ago, but there have been essentially none in America. Meanwhile, the raw ingredients of the terrors of the 20th century still exist in Europe.
> But we can't get to full autonomy without first testing the technology, and no artificial test conditions could replicate the complexity of the real world.

Actually, I think a test environment could be a lot more complex.

It's mind blowing to me that there doesn't seem to be some big track somewhere with automated crash test dummies riding their bikes across the street in the dark. Automated cars running red lights and stop signs. Automated accidents in front of self driving cars. Automated kids chasing a football across the road.

It's mind blowing to me that governments do not require self driving cars do well on all these test before they allow the cars on the road. Governments should prepare these test, and car technology should complete the tests before they are allowed on the road.

And when a car fails any real world situation, we can step back and create new tests.

Really: We can test to any complexity we want. A plan lading on the road? A flood? A heard of sheep or flock of birds? A dust storm or other weather than might prevent the cars sensors working.
With globalization things are getting really weird in the retail space. For example, snap-on (a super premium tool maker) used to make wrenches for Lowes. They were nearly identical: http://www.snapon-bluepoint.com.sg/

Just a few days ago, AVE did a few videos showing evidence that there may be a single supplier for some new airguns that are on the market. Thing is, these air guns range in price from less than $100 (harbor freight) to well over $500 (premium brand). He tested a Husky brand that was much more expensive than the HF one and found it to likely be worse than the cheap one. He had a good theory in the video that no one can beat manufacturing overseas now days for quality or price. So everyone just outsources it and is hoping no one notices.
Sometimes I don't get the joke. It's an odd feeling realising you missed a pun. You become the butt of the joke very quickly and then you're in the out crowd and it's very cold and lonely out there.

In jokes are designed to exclude. My personal favourite is the German philology professor joke "I am about to tell a joke once I have finished laughing at it, I will explain it to you"
As far as I know, any kind of hammock or suspension bed will ultimately suffer from uneven pressure points. Unless the frame is filled in, in the middle, which would make it a normal mattress, then your weight is going to be pushing back on you mostly laterally via the perimeter where the attachment of the mesh happens. Sleeping surfaces are meant to support the body from the bottom in an even fashion in order to minimize pressure points.

This is why memory foam is so effective - instead of having 1024 springs, add more add more!!! - we just get a porous composite material with 1000000 tiny nooks which basically act as springs. Latex on the other hand, if not in foam form, can be solid, and gains its "spring" properties just from its tensile chemistry alone. No nooks needed. But latex foam is sold..which is a marriage of the two ideas.

In any case, hammocks aren't gonna hurt you from sleeping on em occasionally, especially since the pressure points will mostly be your back as hammocks are often hung loosely, so that the attachment points can be much much higher than your actual body, therefore moving most of the force to a vertical pressure, instead of that lateral pressure we talked about.
>> Please avoid commas (or dots) as thousands separators.

You might as well say 'please ignore the standards of your country in favour of mine.'

Are you really not aware that this is the standard in Europe?
We've had to deal with similar things.

Figure out how much you -really- have to sync with this database. If you can have an alternative source of truth for your apps, it will help (and you can then just best effort push back to the crufty DB)

If you can't make it so you have your own source of truth, determine if an outdated truth is better than no answer. For many problems this is the case. In that case, have all reads hit the crufty DB first, and failing that, your cache. Have a sync operation as well (or at least, everytime you read from the crufty DB, persist any return values to your cache). For writes, you can write to both as well, however, during times the crufty DB is unavailable, you'll need to decide if you should take the write to the local DB, and store the sync operation on a queue to retry, or if you should only store it on a queue to retry, hitting the crufty DB first, and only on acknowledgement there taking it to your own DB (basically, in the event of a write/read pattern while crufty DB is down, do you want it to read the last known synced value, or the last value written, even it hasn't made it to the crufty DB).

Either way, that can cause some interesting race conditions. Make sure you have good logging capabilities.

If neither of those is possible, if you absolutely -have- to rely on the crufty DB as a source of truth, that it's better to return no answer than an outdated one, you're screwed, from a technical perspective. Communicate the resulting failures fully, be clear where the fault occurred with the stakeholders, and that it's not something you control.
My wife and I (both 40 today) are a husband-and-wife entrepreneur team that started our software business right out of college at 21. We had our first child at 30 and second at 33. At the opposite end of the spectrum, some of my wife's high school classmates who didn't go on to college are already grandparents.

We used our 20's to finish undergraduate college and go on to get our graduate degrees, do some traveling, and build & grow a successful software company. We looked at our 20's as the chance to build a business with little opportunity cost and even less overhead, knowing we had the rest of our life to recover from any failures. We put in a lot of hard & long hours, dealt with financial ups-and-downs, and had to learn how to build a team.

Today our software company, now a SaaS and e-commerce business, is stable and has a solid team in place. Being established, along with our kids enrolled in online school, enables us to have a significant amount of flexibility for family. We spend just over half of our year in Texas and the rest in Colorado. Work still has to get done, but we can work around family now.

I couldn't imagine us trying to build a business from scratch, especially as a husband-and-wife team, while also trying to raise kids.
Turns out we have a confirmed reentry at 00:16 UTC, over the Southern Pacific, and this is not a good platform or format for live-tracking.
Americans are moving less over time. The effect is not subtle.

https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/geograph...
> Because A.R.S says that pedestrians have a duty to yield outside of crosswalks and they normally make the police's accident report available shortly after any accident.

Regardless, it is normal to wait until an investigation is complete before you start making statements. Making premature statements actually makes the results of any investigation look suspect. Pretty dumb move.

Oh, and even if the woman is at fault that does not mean it is open season on pedestrians that happen to end up on the road.
How do you like your Leesa?
If you know you can afford a sufficiently large home and food for your family at wage X (UBI), how much higher does the pay need to be to motivate you to clean toilets or work in a steel mill? People don't do those things (in general) because they're a public good, or because they're a "calling". They do them because they need the money, and the pay is sufficiently good.

UBI may be a good thing (if we can work out the economics of it), but people will still do the menial and risky jobs out of need, not to end up in the penthouse of a high-rise luxury building unless the pay is damned good.
Reentry is confirmed one hour before this link was posted.
The pedanty here is insane.

Imagine if instead of saying the word "perfectly" I said "works better than humans".

Do you reject the idea that there are situations, such as sunny highways, that are much much easier than everything else? And that if we can solve this much easier problem, it would still be world changing?

Why couldnt that be trusted to work better than humans? It is a much easier problem.
Even more recent updates from China Manned Space Agency: http://en.cmse.gov.cn/col/col1763/index.html
Yes, several: DNS-over-TLS, DNS-over-HTTPS, DNSSEC, DNSCrypt, DNSCurve, and probably a few others I'm forgetting at the moment.
Same. Easily the best mattress I've had. Had to give it up when I moved into a smaller place.
Does twitter provide a stream of deleted tweets to tell them what to remove? Now that would be very interesting data to look at.
The project is not being actively maintained

https://github.com/NYTimes/ice/issues/126
An uncle who designed jet engines at General Electric said one advantage GE had over European counterparts was the greater diversity in sheet metal gauges/thicknesses used to build the engines; they could maintain required strength throughout an engine while paring down engine weight. He attributed the better mix to the English system encouraging divisibility by 2/3/4/6 rather than 2/2.5/5/10 at various scales.
gmail has a basic html mode that is lightning fast.
Not just America uses dot as the decimal separator, see:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DecimalSeparator.svg

Blue uses the dot, green uses the comma. By population dot wins (since India and China use the American style).
Proper development requires a conservative and methodical approach. Uber is racing to be the first, rushing to launch before properly testing cases like those you enumerated. As they would say, "Move Fast and Break Things"
ingenious! Here I was looking at steamroller rentals.
Because that's exactly what you would expect from an alert safety driver - to take control and prevent an accident when the car makes a mistake.
"Since Casper launched its “mattress in a box” concept in 2014, digital-savvy entrepreneurs have been launching new mattress brands online seemingly every week."

Casper was not the first mattress in a box online company. But Casper definitely is the first company to get the marketing right.
Set them achievable goals and reward small achievements.

Pair program and reward the pair.

Be firm in overriding but do not objectify or blame naievity.

Consider their ideas for their merits as well as the shitlist of downsides your experience tells you lie there.

Give them a chance to explore and reject their own ideas and value their critique of your ideas.

Negative feedback reinforcement is worse than positive feedback reinforcement overall, with humans.
I just went through this list and tried everything that worked across Chrome, Firefox, and IE on MacOS and Windows.

* XMarks Alternatives and Similar Software - AlternativeTo.net || https://alternativeto.net/software/xmarks/

So... Bookmark OS, Everysync, xBrowserSync.

And I have to agree, Bookmark OS was the winner. It's not free, but it's only $12 / year. (XMarks being free was probably not good for anyone in the end.)

* Bookmark OS | bookmark manager and organizer || https://bookmarkos.com/
April Fools: A Taxonomy of Shitcoins
I’m a rockclimber. It’s what I enjoy doing most so I fixed my life in order to climb more. In particular, I got remote work and moved to a climbing town. Now when I have a two hour break during the day, I dart out for some bouldering, which is approximately a five minute drive away.

This took a lot of planning and sacrifice, especially when I first went remote, and it required me to come to terms with what it was I really wanted: a life mostly outdoors climbing rocks in a beautiful place.

In short, figure out how you want to live and the steps to achieve it. Then your question of what to do with your two hours will answer itself.
fyi -- people are working on this: https://mcity.umich.edu/
Are you in .ru?

You might direct your questions at your ISP instead as it appears that someone may be intercepting your DNS requests.

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To elaborate a bit, the differences in the (74.125.x.x) IP addresses being returned is somewhat normal and would usually be attributed to simple load balancing (as d33 pointed out). That is, 8.8.8.8 is actually a load balancer with several servers (including 74.125.46.8, 74.125.46.11, and 74.125.74.3) behind it.

The differences seen in the returned "edns0-client-subnet", however, are, well, "interesting".

As you've directed the requests to 8.8.8.8 directly (as opposed to your system's default resolver, whatever that is), the response returned for "edns0-client-subnet" should normally either be your own IP address or a supernet that includes it. (In my case, for example, the value is the static IP address (/32) of my own resolver.) When sending multiple requests such as you have, the "edns0-client-subnet" shouldn't really be changing from one request/response to the next; at the least, the values shouldn't change this much.

The fact that the responses are changing would seem to indicate that Google DNS servers are receiving the requests from different IP addresses when they should, in fact, all be coming from the same IP address (yours). These changes would lead me to suspect that someone (i.e., your ISP) is intercepting your DNS requests and "transparently proxying" them on your behalf.

If your ISP is using CGNAT (and issues you a private IP address) or something similar, that might explain it. Otherwise, I would be suspicious.
Behind the scenes at YC Demo Day [video]
"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That's what you do when life is short."

Wise words. It took me a long time to learn this the hard way.
I think the big differences are that:

* pilots have thousands of hours of training/practice

* there are 2 of them

* there is a lot less traffic in the sky / not making a turn every km
Americans Haven’t Saved Enough for Retirement. What Are We Going to Do About It?
AMP is a cancer on search results. The purpose of a search engine is to provide the best links it can to content related to a user’s search. The search engine should not be providing the content of the search result as a primary link. Having a backup cache of the link is fine in case it changes or disappears. It’s the responsibility of the original site to be able to serve its visitors.
Parent is clearly a European (or denizen of another local that uses commas as decimal markers), as they interpreted 4,604ms as slightly over 4ms. Also, they advise using an ISO (International Standards Organization) standard, specifically to avoid misinterpretation while remaining locale-independent.
It's a good question since most of those cars are electric.

Taxes typically taken in at the gas pump are being skirted around by having electric cars. Do we just start charging MUCH more for registration? Especially cause these cars have the potential to operate most of the day (except when charging) so they will be causing more wear than a normal car.
"You aren't as smart as you think you are" is a cold, hard truth many people in this industry need to have a reckoning with. I don't think a person should be entitled to anything above "senior developer" until and unless he or she has mentored juniors for some time. The most technically skilled individual on the planet is almost every time just one tiny contributor. Their mentoring of juniors acts as a multiplier of their own skill.
Man, this was excellent. If you're passing by, definitely give this a watch. The speaker makes the material clear and understandable for the complete layman. Very exciting.
I think it's less to do with country and more to do with language. All English speaking countries use the comma as separator, and the decimal point as the decimal separator. So, if you're reading an article that is written in English, from context you know that decimal points will be used as decimal separator and comma will be used as digit grouping. No confusion.

However, confusion happens when non-native English speakers start using their native language's digit grouping and decimal symbols when writing in English. They should use the English scheme when writing in English.
One of the tools listed here is DNSDumpster.com.

Can someone explain how the enumeration of subdomains on a hostname works?

I know that zone transfers is one way, but I looked up one of my domains and it includes a private subdomain I've never published anywhere.

I checked and my DNS provider does not allow zone transfers (as far as I can tell) so I'm curious how this information is obtainable.

And I mean through ordinary means, let's ignore the "your account/ISP/Registrar may be compromised" scenarios. Are there everyday scanning tools that allow for this?
Are you writing to the DB?

If not, copy the data. Reporting from a live system can cause all sorts of problems, including not being able to reproduce results.
Life isn’t short, it’s the longest thing you’ll ever do.
Really good comment. Remind us that 2 thousand years seems a lot, but isn’t that much.

If you let me, I advice you to study philisophy, and you shall realise that our history is much bigger than our calendary. And if you study “The republic” os Plato, you will see that our material achivements are improved a lot,for sure, but the humanity as a whole civilization is in decay. Plato’s dialogues explain how our civilization evolves and decays in cycles, and we are currently in decay. Democracy is the system that currently rules the world, and it is one step before tirany.
In my opinion, automation is a way better use case for mass transit than 2-5 passenger consumer vehicles. These companies ought to be focusing on cities where population is growing but density is low (one example would be Jacksonville, FL). Start automating buses that run predictable routes and fire all those city employee bus drivers who are driving up property taxes because they need a pension.
It took oil a long time to end the steam age. The contexts where steam from oil worked as well as steam from coal lasted a long time because steam as a reservoir of energy is pretty useful.

It took turbines a long time to end the piston engine age. As in: they haven't. Not all ages end or necessarily end cleanly in one moment. Batteries might replace some oil contexts soon eg in mining. Or in shipping. Or in some specific electrical generator contexts like fill in supply.

If Brasil has a viable Ethanol economy, why would batteries be better? If we built an ammonia power economy, why would batteries be better? It's about a lot of things like energy density, access to inputs, portability, complexity.

What if algal fuel works out? What if buterate feedstock works out? Maybe the oil economy won't end, as much as morph?
Generally, nobody will be confused if you use a full-width space.