skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An evolved form of drop shipping.
Maximum JavaScript Performance
Yep, it’s entirely possible whole new categories of work and goods/services would open up thanks to an UBI. Suddenly a person can choose to work mornings at a nonprofit (presumably paid more in karma than in cash) and afternoons somewhere else making better money. Or maybe work three different jobs that add up to a highly valuable skill after 3 years with each job. Ie a programmer with domain knowledge in commercial driving and liquor business operations.
I don't know if this has any impact, but thinking about it, a mattress is a possession that can't be easily transported in a car, or even, by someone who doesn't have a car. I imagine that as people become more mobile and choose to have fewer possessions, it might be easier to simply abandon their mattress and have a new one shipped to their new location.
Assessing Geodiversity Issues in Open Data Sets for the Developing World [pdf]
Societies (and therefore roadsystems) will adapt, because speed and safety. Roads will be changed to cater to the needs of self-driving cars; smart traffic lights, clear lining, clear signage, less leveled intersections, dedicated lanes, I can think of dozens more changes which make it easier and safer and more deterministic for computers to drive cars.

Development of these changes will be spurred once self-driving cars can make more efficient use of the road; the immense pressure of society to get rid of traffic jams will make sure of that.

Maybe some nations won't implement these things nationwide with 100% coverage, but they certainly will implement changes for certain roads. Highway roads first, then collector roads, and lastly neighborhood roads.
tl;dr psychologist that teaches at a business school finds out about gestalt and proceeds to sell truckloads of books by dressing it in inflamatory know it all afirmations, proved by optical ilusions (how else can you prove gestalt?)

ps: same tactics applied to this comment, minus optical illusions
At last I have an excuse for not making the bed in the morning. ;-)

When my kids were tots and we took them to day care, the day care center had a collection of little beds for naps, which were some kind of durable fabric mesh stretched over a frame. I've often wondered how that would work as a general purpose mattress for adults, with little chance of festering over time.
Umm maybe justifying his life’s occupation would be motivating, not to mention in the company of a female friend and alcohol? “Yea bro it’s always 50 years out lmao” not to be expected from a PPL researcher...
Ask HN: Is this is a good way to learn JavaScript?
I know – these questions are asked a ton on here, but there is rarely a definitive answer. I understand that everyone learns differently, but I was wondering if you could critique my learning plan for this summer. I want to read through the materials for my uni's back end web development course [1], and take a front end class like this [2]. Let me know if these should suffice. I did the absolute basics of html and css last semester and this semester I took a course on the fundamentals of programming in Java [3]. Curious to hear your thoughts.

Links:
[1] https://classes.engineering.wustl.edu/cse330/index.php/CSE_330_Online_Textbook_-_Table_of_Contents

[2] https://www.udemy.com/the-complete-web-developer-in-2018/?couponCode=DBJUNIOR281

[3] https://wustl.app.box.com/s/17s96l72w7fvihn1bz5s7sqiulguazag
Reminds me of something called "Made for Outlet." Popular brands license their logos to third parties who make low quality goods. It has the label and the store has the name, but it's cheap junk worth a fraction of the price they're selling it for.
Why would I use this vs. something like Gorp? How is Toyorm differentiated?
I admire pg's sentiment here but I think the analysis is inaccurate.

There's all these "regret minimization" techniques and books out there - but they all fail at one thing; giving the true reason for why every person will ultimately have regrets: You are not you. The exhausted and tired you has different weights assigned to activities, most strongly correlated with energy required. The stimulated you after drinking 4 shots of expresso or taking amphetamines, is more than willing to do the things that tired you would probably have not done.

We wrestle with lazyness, consumption versus actual action, the great now for the shitty future or vica versa. You really can't please all modes of thinking -- ever. The deathbed mode of thinking is another entirely different beast.

But what pg says about "importance" vs "what matters" rings true and really penetrates through this incompleteness of self-thought. Love is the only thing that could never be wrong. Because it isn't a binary - it's not even just a feeling - it's a thing that modes of thought can't erase despite their different weighting schemes.

Do whatever you do - but do it for love. I promise you it won't be a regret.
Check instagram unfollowers via web
Ping from University of Rochester, over wifi:

Cloudflare:

64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=2 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=2 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=2 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=9 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=2 ms

Google:

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=12 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=11 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=13 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=45 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=14 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=11 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=54 time=34 ms

Quad9:

64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=10 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=69 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=14 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=58 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=52 ms

One thing I noticed is that when I first pinged 1.1.1.1 I got 14ms, which then quickly dropped to ~3ms consistently:

64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=14 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=14 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=2 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=3 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=1 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=128 time=4 ms
with free market!

now, seriously, I do that just fine with an ad blocker.
Bahrain discovers largest oilfield in its history
I used to buy foam Ikea mattresses specifically because they compress and roll up well. That allowed me to move from place to place with a normal car.
I didn’t say mass transit.
Is it really hard to use the whole of my screen? I'm well aware that modern websites have to scale to lots of different screen sizes. My laptop is a 17" job so why the blazes do I only get to see a block of text using the middle third of it? It looks shit. I'd probably have to peek under the lenses of my specs on a smaller screen. I spend far too much time using CTRL + these days.
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Reducing the attack surface with static sites
I’ve been a subject of articles by tech press, several times. You have to realize that at least 50% of any pop sci article (and the vast majority of any “breakthroughs”) is straight up made up by the journalist for dramatic effect. I talked on the record to prominent journalists from established publications, who really should know better, and afterwards I just could not believe the fabrication and spin when the story is published. These people will pimp out their mom for clicks and ad revenue. So your best bet is a replicated experiment in a peer reviewed journal.
Connect to eris once again and join us in #eris.Berkeley.EDU and share your stories :)
For those with kids, is it better to have them early, or later?

I’ve always thought it’s better to wait until at least my late 30s, so I can live the first half of my life completely on my terms. My father was in his late 30s when I was born, and I think it was a pretty good decision on his part.
Expose local servers to the internet securely, compatible with SSH client
Be careful to check of those things support HDPC or whatever it's called. I have the Dell 42.5 inch monitor and it won't play 4k content.
But what is that ”amazing achievement” relative to? We have no frame of reference other than our imaginations. Could we have went to the moon much earlier? If the Cold War didn’t happen would we still have the achievement of landing on the moon or be in space at all like today?
> protection is limited to the amount of money wasted

Somebody hasn't been keeping up with proof-of-stake research.

> spammers who want to occupy space forever!!!

Or Ethereum's storage rent proposals.
By not calling yourself middle class like many single tech workers making 200k a year in the bay area do. The upper middle class (really the top 30% of earners) have continued to see gains in income growth where the rest of the economies wage growth has largely stagnated.
Somewhat ironic that the article comments about MemoryFoamTalk not disclosing comissions from Nectar and then provides an (undisclosed) affiliate link.

I have a Leesa as it was the only mattress (at the time) which fit my bed properly. The fact that all these companies can offer 100-365 day trials does hint at how stupidly large the margins are.
> but if I understand correctly the new material is just a new type of superconductor wire that is more efficient than the current wires, it is not a superconductor magnet. If they have better wires, they can make better electromagnets, but it is confusing. Also is not clear if they have tested the new kind of magnets or it is just a theoretical application.

Both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4&t=32m35s

This work is being done by the head of MIT's Nuclear Science department, in collaboration with most of the top grad students there. You can go look through all the publications that have resulted. They're going into great detail with practical engineering concerns, not just vague concept.

It's really disappointing and frustrating to me to see all the shallow dismissals here. The original article/press release didn't have much concrete information. But instead of making the reasonable assumption that some of the best people in the field actually know what they're talking about, and the article is poor, instead HN commenters are deciding their zero content, zero knowledge, shallow dismissals are more likely than what the experts are saying.

Nearly all the information about the ARC project is out there in the literature. If you don't want to read it that's fine, just try to have some awareness that you can't dismiss things without actually knowing what they are.
Ive been thinking about this problem for sooooo long.

Even with all the SAAS/PAAS out there a significant amount of time is dedicated to really basic glue & CRUD code for a majority of developers. And its a shame! Not just for the pace of application development, but for wasting skilled developer's times on ridiculously basic (but time consuming) tasks.

Honestly, I can imagine a day where the UI editor is replaced with a UI demo. There are UX best practices across the different platforms, which most orgs ignore. Id rather have a bunch of my apps looking similar than half of them implementing strange or frustrating patterns. Given the rationale for the choice of layout and the ability to pretty it up, most PMs would have enough ammo to push it through their org.

Congrats on what looks like an excellent product!
I have such a bed. Getting it home was easy. But how do you actually compress it and roll it again? It's kinda become huge. What do you do?
I am curious how do aircraft pilots got around this? Autopilot on aircraft work same as a Tesla drive a straight line where I aimed you have way less interaction than on the car. Yet pilots are able to take over autopilot and their responsibility during it's use is mostly looking out the window and occasionally switching frequency
It's not there yet but the Bash for Ubuntu on Windows system is very very good.
I think the tradition is to dump it off the coast of Somalia.
Finally throwing out Mach out of the window or something needed for something else?
Heritability and genetics operate on probability and statistics in very similar ways that we measure information in regard to race and gender. As such, there is not very much difference between a policy based on genetics, race, or gender. Such policy is trying to catch a problem through the probability that a category of people will share a common trait.

In my opinion I agree that genetics is rarely a good idea to base a policy, but would your perspective agree to the same statement in regard to race and gender idenity?

I prefer a scientific approach. Take gender identity, genetics, race idenity, sexual preference, religions affiliation, nationality, or any other social identity and measure the "heritability" factor that a certain "trait" (ie data pattern) will happen. Treat it all as prediction models and create polices if and only if underlying detectable distinctions are meaningful and a general policy has been tested and found ineffective.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/in-the-name-of-love/

eta: in support, not against the post I'm replying to.
Could you recommend any resources (articles, books, podcasts, etc.) that go into more detail on the economic factors that come together to enable periods such as the Industrial Revolution, or really any period?

I think economics offers a great perspective to subscribe to, but haven't found much opportunity to learn it. Most "economics" podcasts are really just business-focused and describe modern events with little insight into the economics behind it.
Then how was Roman Seleznev arrested and charged under US laws even though he never visited the US, or even a country with an extradition treaty with the US?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Chp12sEnWk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Seleznev
FWIW, I would much rather be in the US than Japan if China becomes aggressive. Keep your options open. History is long. Pax Americana may be coming to an end.
The number of nodes at each depth level.
In addition, due to risk of bed bugs/contaminants and the fact that people are very particular about the comfort level of a mattress, the re-sell market for mattress is really unlike other pieces of furniture. Whenever I've moved, I've really only been able to sell mattresses to people who trust me because I can vouch for living in bed bug free zone. Otherwise, I've just had to trash it because as you mentioned, it's way too cumbersome to transport.

That's kind of why certain furniture brands catered to urban markets (smaller dwelling) tend to make some of furniture able to be dis-assembled: much easier for moving around.
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I have come to terms with life being short and the fear of 'missing out' by realizing that the gift of life can be appreciated in one breath. The fact that life exists and we get to experience even a single moment of self aware consciousness is the incredible beauty. Everything else after that is a bonus and I try to remind myself I am greedy for ever wanting more.
You wrote:

> once oil is disrupted as an energy source for the masses

I'm confused, what else do the masses use oil for? If I'm not mistaken the production of fuel for transportation is the lions share of oil use.

But regardless, how does that help us get things to orbit?
In America, at least, many (most?) roads and highways are already neglected and getting worse. This is, so we hear, due to a lack of money to keep our roads properly maintained. If we don't have the money to do that, where is the money to retro-fit every road in the country to accomodate autonomous vehicles going to come from?
We bought a Tuft and Needle mattress three years ago, and it's been fantastic. A few other friends have bought mattresses online and all been very happy.

If it's all a marketing ploy, as the article implies, then there's a lot of happy people benefiting. ;)
I dunno, whenever I see European or Canadian software engineering salaries mentioned, I do some quick math and it seems like I come out way ahead, even if I were to pay my family’s out of pocket maximum every year.
Except for the fact that the true middle class has already been displaced from city centers already, the current debate is between those who are/were working class and those who are upper middle class/upper class (but aren't necessarily the 1%). Where historically, this population had used their same political power that they are using now to gentrify neighborhoods to systematically deny access to the suburbs to people of color and lower income people forcing them in cities.

To fight against community displacement because it's a current trend for rich people to want to live in city centers isn't a war on the middle class necessarily when it comes to the long term, because said trend could easily reverse again.
I read this article and found it to be a great example of why we should NOT adopt modern PHP techniques at our company.

50 lines of code and contrived examples (is HelloWorld class a view or controller? AwesomeClass is a model?) get one line of HTML emitted in a barely readable way.

This article fails to motivate why each layer of complexity is added. It basically starts with the assumption that you want to use a framework and says "hey look you can do the same thing with 50 lines of boilerplate, not really, but kind of."

I would be much more impressed with an article that starts with the obvious way to write a PHP application (.htaccess, index.php, products.php, library/database.php, library/*.php) and then explains the actual problems that would make you want to opt for more complexity/organization/modern techniques.
Thanks. And I have a feeling that it would be much worst (aka better) for a mail.google.com inbox page, even if you keep the useful Javascript. But their javascript is so obfuscated that it is not too easy to test. One time I extracted a simple feature for gmail's javascript... it was fun (probably would be easier for a programmer though)
In addition to the article's points, it seems to me that the experience of dealing with aggressive/manipulative salespeople in a "classic" retail mattress store cannot be compared to the feeling that I get from most online stores.

Questions on my budget, spending time to show me the mattresses (and then making me feel guilty that they spent all of this time on me), etc. Offering me a "last minute" deal once they saw that I was leaving. It was dreadful.

In this regard, IKEA can be a good compromise on price, selection, and their employees' relaxed, non-pushy demeanour. You get to try the mattresses and no one (except other customers) will watch over you.

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Contradicting all of my points above, I do want to say that investing in a Tempur-Pedic was a life changing decision. I definitely spend a more "rewarding" time sleeping in it.

(((obviously, but just in case someone is wondering, I'm not astroturfing for IKEA or Tempur. Just a satisfied customer...)))
Thanks. I misread axes scaling and assumed multi year. Must look harder at charts.
It's not about forecasting the weather: good gas peakers can respond in under 10 minutes. I meant predictable in the sense of day/night/season.
I agree, the YIMBY movement may have good intentions, but so many of the people pushing these policy positions are far less educated than the counterparts who recognize the benefits of certain types of zoning as a central aspect of modern life.
In ancient time, it was by "the word of god" from prophets by which you controlled the masses.

Now it is statistics.
Ask HN: Strategies for being more patient with less experienced developers?
I have two girls. I'd say the most important thing is to be in a place in life where you have time to spend with them. Maybe that means waiting for a career to mature, or maybe it means postponing some part of a career, if possible.

Note that "enough time" means different things to different people. Some people don't like their kids, and won't regret prioritizing their career.

But if you're anything like me you'll be astonished at how much you love your kids. You'll love them in a way and to to a degree that you didn't know was possible, that surpasses any love you've experienced before. Get to a place time-wise and financially where you can do that love justice.
Blockchain provides zero benefit in this case. People on HN are tired of people ignorantly (sorry) saying blockchain. You should state, for starters, why simple digital signatures are not enough.
This is a great idea, then your city could be "smart car certified" and if your city doesn't meet the requirements, then your smart car doesn't allow its autopilot to be turned on.
You mean something like army cots[1]?

[1]http://armynavysuperstores.com/cots.htm
And the software isn't just rendering the forums. It also simultaneously handles email, Usenet, and IRC relays.

Also, it runs on SQLite. I found that the most surprising of all.

Web development in D is incredibly fun. I love that I can compile HTML templates into machine code (which of courses catches template errors as compiler errors), I love how fast the result is, I love that there is a very lively collection of D packages around web development. In fact, the D package manager, dub, started as a package manager for Vibe.d, the main D web framework.
Answer to title is the same answer to the question, "Why there are so many mattress stores"... profit margin.
A cool thing about being an individual is that you don't strictly need to worry about what would happen to the whole economy if everyone quit their jobs. You can just quit your job, and watch the system trivially rebalance as if you were never even there.
This. Everyone gets that it -should- be dealt with by management. Everyone (else) also gets that it won't be, because that's the reality of many large companies.
Seems like part of what this article is discussing is the emerging 'Shopify effect'. The barriers to entry for starting an online brand-based business have plummetted to the point where even people with little means financially and no means technically can still set up a business for a fraction of what it cost in the 20th century. I wouldn't be surprised if we're in the middle of a Cambrian explosion-esque period for consumer-based brands.
This is so cool, I really love this! Thank you for sharing. Also what a easy and friendly way to teach recursion to those still grasping the concept, definitely a resource I'll be sharing
Be a decent person. Acknowledge that your “expertise” is mostly memorization of common patterns and bugs. Nothing about understanding programming indicates a higher intelligence or makes you a better person. So chill out and have fun explaining all the basics of something you love. After all, if you can’t explain it in simple terms, it might mean you need to learn more about it yourself.
Worms-style cartoon terrain in JavaScript
Well.. I posted a very reactive answer. We've had some issues in Australia with self identified indigenous and Tasmania, where the genocide removed all but perhaps three families so the DNA evidence of first ownership might actually be strong. This is a sore topic.

I'm more concerned about unregulated use of DNA by health and other insurance companies, or the hiring policies of Google and like who chase the top 5% and could argue in some dystopian HR for non intrusive DNA tests to confirm high mathematicial ability or something.

I really don't like identity politics much either but policies to confront gender and race bias takes you there.

I don't think I have the answer. I worry the debate is capable of being derailed rapidly but perhaps that's what I'm doing too?
True, except I've always felt a monitor doesn't contain built-in speakers.
Vacuum. Thick plastic wrap and then hook up a vacuum pump to the interior and watch the atmosphere do the heavy work for you. Then you can roll up the package.