skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Particle board isn't always unfixable. To be fair, if a wooden shelf on some furniture splits, most folks aren't going to be able to fix it well either. You can still use putty to fix wood screw holes sometimes, though.

It isn't like older furniture was always able to be dismantled. It depended on what it was. Bedframe? Sure. Take the legs off of the dining table. And I'm pretty sure you can do this to most Ikea furniture.

On the other hand, you'd take the drawers out of a dress or desk. The shelves out of a bookcase. And simply move what was left. That tall, heavy display cabinet went in one piece. That huge desk was still heavy without the drawers, and taking it apart would absolutely ruin it.

I'll also point out that fewer people would have furniture if it weren't for Ikea and other flat pack furniture.
People rent furnished apartments (indeed airbnb has offers where you rent by the month). Apparently it makes financial sense for some people, e.g. digital nomads.

A guy I know says he just packs his belongings into his SUV and he's free to move from airbnb to airbnb, negotiating a good price for them (e.g. staying in summer vacation apartments during winter time).
Can you self host some of it? How much can you afford, you left that part out so it is hard to figure out what would fit in your budget.
why is first shader of introduction so bad and slow ? https://thebookofshaders.com/00/
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You need to take it slow, with though and gently. It always survives for me, in Germany. Maybe they are selling worse stuff in the US,or you're handling it quickly, roughly and impatiently so it gets damaged while disassembling, even unknowingly.
Because the rest of the commentors in this thread seem to not be reading the article, there's a performance issue in Firefox due to the following unresolved bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1190398
I was so happy not to see another cheap dismissal here.

Too often you have to read how a sizecoded demo uses a ton of system libraries or whatever, completely dismissing the technical achievement.
Not optimized, Blink/WebKit doesn't have the Firefox performance issue emphasized in the article:

> Unfortunately, Mozilla still hasn't fixed the performance bug 1190398 around ShadowBlur, filled for BLCK4777 5 years ago
Is there any man made forest on Earth that started to induce rainfall?
To everyone running it in Firefox:
"Unfortunately, Mozilla still hasn't fixed the performance bug 1190398 around ShadowBlur, filled for BLCK4777 5 years ago.

Therefore you need to use a Chromium or Webkit browser to enjoy MONOSPACE live."
Yes, it gave me a progressively more uncomfortable feeling as I continued to read it.
I wish I could be so confident - I carry print outs of OS maps as backups when walking Munros in the Highlands and I frequently encounter people who don't have maps. I've even had people ask me on fairly non-obvious Munros which mountain they were on - I gave them my backup map.

Mind you they were locals so probably hadn't been raised with dire warnings about going into the hills unprepared.

Edit: I notice that "lost" is a significant entry in mountain rescue statistics:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54158079
The link to the demo comes before the warning to firefox, don't shame commenters who chose to see the content at discussion first before reading below the fold.
Hate to say it, but iPad: I have a non-internet cell phone (still have a small data plan, just pretend I don’t) so during the day, it’s just calls and text messages (SMS or iMessage) and useful stuff like camera, music (offline) and calculator. I will turn on location data for maps if I’m traveling (so not much, especially recently)—otherwise those stay off. At night, I have an hour or 2 with the iPad, airdrop and post a few photos to social media, catch up on local news, watch a few select YouTube channels. All my internet and social media happens on the iPad that never leaves the house, and my phone is locked down and disabled as much as possible. Benefits are no tracking, no distractions, no notifications, and all my social media and video is on the larger iPad.

The tool I use the most at home: bench-mounted vise. I’ve owned a home for 15 years and try to fix everything I can myself, so I had lots of other tools (cordless everything) but never a vise until getting one as a gift. Now I clamp (almost) everything for cutting, drilling, sanding, whatever, and I don’t know how I managed before (I remember straining to hold things and getting upset when they slipped—or even injured).
Ah I see, for a trusted friend group that could work. Thanks for sharing!
I bought a cheap Mi Band (fitness tracker watch) that is partially supported by Gadgetbridge. For $40 it does most of the things a real smartwatch does, with great battery life and niftyness. I was in need of a watch and it is cheaper than a traditional or "smart" one and yet extremely functional and pretty neutral/stylish.
Don't try this [1] in Firefox, from the article:

> Unfortunately, Mozilla still hasn't fixed the performance bug 1190398 around ShadowBlur, filled for BLCK4777 5 years ago

> Therefore you need to use a Chromium or Webkit browser to enjoy MONOSPACE live

[1] http://www.p01.org/MONOSPACE/monospace-compatible.htm
I think most of the comments so far are focusing on the lack of durability of some items in the catalog, but are failing to see that overall there is in fact a lot of 2nd hand buying and selling going on with items generally in good condition.

Over the last 15years I have bought (and sold on) a lot of 2nd hand IKEA furniture. (In fact looking at my house now, I can only see 2 or 3 items that were bought new and the rest are 2nd hand and in excellent condition. There is a very very active market.

My daughter's toddler size bed was bought 2nd hand and moved on to the next parent still in remarkably good condition after she wouldn't fit in the bed anymore.

I think this is more of a classic "kill the 2nd hand marked" move.
I've moved particle board furniture many times: Wear and tear does more damage. I've also completely ruined things that aren't particle board. Moving sometimes ruins things.
Or he is "filing a flight-plan" in case he has a trip and needs rescuing if you don't hear from him later.

I know some fell runners who leave a copy of their route plans with a friend before heading out for similar "just-in-case" reasons, especially when going somewhere remote with particularly tricky terrain.
No, but California state government is by far the most responsive to single individuals. Sometimes this sucks when one NIMBY can block a major project by filing some bureaucratic objection or invoking a rare salamander. Sometimes it’s awesome when you have a problem and nobody will listen. In Utah will the state elevator guy be there in two hours? Will he shut down the elevator even though you can’t provide a consistent repro? If so that’s awesome but this kind of thing is common in California.
I think the legal system is a wee bit more nuanced than counting drawings and concluding "10 is greater than 1".
Pretty interesting that even though I mute the tab it still speaks. The music does get muted, but not the TTS
Or more specific -site:quora.com
Tesla battery researcher shows tests pointing to batteries lasting over 2M miles
I understand where you are coming from but I don’t agree.

Yes in a low quality codebase with focus on producing changes quickly and not maintainability it is true that the code will change but comments/names stagnate. What you are referring to is reinforcing a problem a cultural and organizational issue, which left unkept will make progress stagnate in the long run.

But in a high quality codebase armed with proper peer-reviews this divergence of name and implementation won’t be tolerated and if such divergence exists it should be considered a bug not the expected state of things, such a defect should be resolved when found instead of making it the norm that you can’t trust the code base.

What if we couldn’t trust that parts in our cars and heavy machinery does what they say, I wouldn’t want to tear down the engine every time I’m about to use a car just to make sure there’s actually an engine inside and it’s not a fridge compressor due to implementation diverging over generations. This is of course an extreme example but what I’m saying is that we should allow our code to decline into such a state to begin with.
Sort of. I made a version of this game in 2017, "bored during pandemic" led to me cleaning it up for public release (and adding art assets).
OP posted a dumb motivational essay based on a bullshit hagiography of a guy whose day job was to mass murder civilians. If you’re cool with that then your moral framework has a screw loose, sorry.
"Furniture like a simple table should last you a lifetime, and last your children a lifetime beyond that. "

Have you thought about the consequences if everyone bought furniture like that? There's a reason why solid wood furniture is more expensive, it's a LOT more resource intensive and wasteful during manufacturing. Imagine if everyone started buying all solid wood furniture tomorrow? How many more trees would be cut down? How much wood fiber left over from making other products would be wasted because people wouldn't want it for furniture anymore?

"Ikea was a terrible thing to happen to furniture - disposable single-use furniture - madness."

I haven't seen a single person back this up with any facts, i.e. - what's the resource use per year of an average IKEA furniture and the alternative?

I'm willing to bet you and others are just making a giant assumption, based on your own personal annoyance that the furniture isn't as solid as you'd like.

I'm not going to make a strong counter-claim. Yes, IKEAs way could be worse, but I've yet to see proof of that, and you can make a pretty strong argument that IKEAs way has a potential to be more sustainable. Especially if they manage to recycle the wood fibers efficiently.

"Many people say you essentially can't move Ikea furniture between houses because you can't dismantle it and if you tried to it'd simply fall apart." - In my experience that's simply wrong. I just disassembled/reassembled a relatively new IKEA wardrobe during renovation. I did not handle it gently. It was no problem. Yeah, you can get some damage, but nothing a bit of glue, an extra screw and/or plaster+paint can't fix easily. You can get catastrophic damage if you're not careful, but I'm willing to bet that the probability of that is low enough that the global impact on average lifetime is low.
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That's payroll tax, not income tax.
suppose you have an electric field described by a potential \phi, the force is

F = - q * d\phi/dx

where q is the electric charge

now suppose you're in a gravitational potential \phi_g, the force is

F_g = - m * d\phi_g/dz

where m is the mass. as you can see it's like the newton equation, so yes looks like an acceleration :)
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I tend to think of Ikea as high end crap furniture. It's made mostly of the same components as all of the other crap furniture but it's generally had enough engineering and testing put into it that you can be sure it's strong enough for what you want it to do.

As an aside, if you ever buy the same piece of Ikea furniture a few years later it's interesting to see what has been changed.

As a bit of a hobbyist wood worker, Ikea furniture is slightly soul destroying. It's often more expensive to buy the wood stock materials than it is to buy the finished Ikea piece.
I agree with you on the other points but not about weight. I find that particle board material is much heavier than solid wood of equivalent strength.
European cars are made for Autobhans and American cars are made to share roads with hummers, icy roads.

Most traffic in India is very speed limited, there is no snow or ice in most parts of India.

Many of the safety concerns are perhaps overblown given the very different driving scenario. A bigger problem would be your actual driving skills, unless you take the national highways regularly travelling long distances.
Particle board and assemble-yourself were around way before IKEA made it to my town. I don't remember visiting IKEA until the early 2000s in the US. IKEA was nice because things were flat-packed, with simpler assembly instructions, and modular enough that you could repair or add on. I also noticed the furniture was significantly lighter--not so much that it was functionally flimsy, but way easier to move place to place.

I've bought non-IKEA furniture since and it's just like I remember it. Even pre-assembled stuff is all veneer, so when your kid bangs it up you can't really touch it up or buff it out.

I'd love to get all solid wood stuff. (IKEA does have some solid-wood stuff. I have a bookshelf I've moved 4 or 5 times and have had for probably 10 years) I hear some parts of the world still readily sell solid wood furniture at reasonable prices--just not around me. One issue with solid wood furniture is the size and weight. Fitting it through a door, into a car, or up 3 flights of stairs doesn't make sense for a college dorm or a studio apartment.
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> And yes California is proceeding with a high speed train despite the anti-train hit pieces from the LA Times.

So far the high speed train has been a boondoggle, not a good example of a success. It will be decades before it goes anywhere useful.

> Or finding a public park since the land was all sold to private developers. That’s not how urban planning works in functioning cities like San Francisco.

Have you ever actually lived in San Francisco? A significant chunk of it (and 95% of the rest of the bay) is not walkable. And there is no functional urban planning in San Francisco. A policy of rejecting every new substantial proposal is not “planning”.

When was the last time they agreed to allow dense housing to replace single/multi-family homes? When was the last new BART line added? When were new commuter rail lines added in?

I lived in the Bay Area for over a decade now and this fantasy you have of a functioning local government doesn’t exist. The only people that make good enough money to be worth it are senior software folks. Everyone else is better at their slightly reduced equivalent wage anywhere else in the US (aside from maybe NYC).

Tax money is absolutely being pissed away at an alarming rate based on what citizens get here. The schools are frequently garbage, the public transit is useful for maybe 5% of the population, and the homeless problem is as bad as ever. All of this for the low price of one of the highest income tax states + sales tax.

I chose the bay because of the tech economy and nice weather in spite of the blisteringly incompetent government. I don’t think any of my friends or coworkers are in SF or the wider bay because they think it’s a good governance model. The thought is likely pretty laughable to most residents.
For people not able (or willing) to run the demo themselves, it can also be seen on YouTube in a 3 minute clip [0]. It keeps amazing me how much people can accomplish with less than a KB of code.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HN139WkcCY
The video was lost on me whereas the demo made me think how cool it was.

I expected the video to explain what it was but alas no. The video is just the demo running. The demo was brilliant, but, the video of the demo, although practically the same had me wondering quite negative thoughts. I wasn't thinking 'how do they do that', I was thinking 'this is a bit pretentious'. It is amazing the difference context makes.
> Chips that didn't exist in 1978. The overall point you're making is that technology from several years later was better.

Not relevant. Years later, even the Apple IIc (1984) wasn't close to a C64, not to mention an Amiga.

The thing you're missing is, Commodore had purchased MOS Technology, just like Apple purchased PA Semi to make their own iPhone SoCs, and had spent years investing in custom silicon going back to the VIC in 1979. The Apple II did not have a "video chip". Wozniak had cobbled together a video chip out of a bunch of 74LS TTL chips. Here, learn to built one yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7rce6IQDWs

That's what I meant by "superior design". Commodore actually had integrated CMOS chips for video, audio, I/O, that they had designed in house and fabbed themselves. The Apple 2, well into the IIc days, was built like a semi-decent Arduino project. Even the Mac had gfx and DMA cobbled out of TTL chips.
For a remote "content writer with a knack for SEO" that seems ok? not sure about better-paying opportunities in that space.
This site is a prime example of how SEO has ruined article writing on the web.
Lou: "Are you gonna order something, kid?"

Marty: "Gimme a Tab"

Lou: "A tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something"

--Back to the Future (1 not 2)

That was a bit of an obscure joke at the time, watching from Europe.

Edit: Oh my, I had the movie part wrong!
Indeed, I have also been having fun playing around with this. I had no idea that such a service existed until I read this posting - this is what makes HN such a magical resource.
Even when the tab is removed the music continues :/
While we are (unfortunately) lacking general relativity simulators, a few special* relativity simulators exist:

"A Slower Speed of Light" http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/

"Velocity Raptor" https://testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html
The idea that this is even an option is hilarious. Call it "enableRce" maybe?
Why? The original wasn't that spectacular.
A recent bandwagon to jump on is that you should never use reduce() for anything whatsoever, because it's always easier to read if you rewrite it.

I'm not sure about it, but I have certainly seen some overengineered code using reduce().
Very interesting insight, thank you for throwing back the curtain.

Edit: Check the authors submissions here as well. Non-stop spam, though little traction in terms of upboats.
Never seen this app, I remember using Latitude before they killed it
s/puzzling/ironic/ . I appreciate your posts and did not intend to sound contradictory.
How AI make smart home smarter? Not only with voice assistant
Who's shaming anyone?
I wrote all my Master thesis and reports with TeXstudio. It's a great piece of software, very accessible.
Yeah, why would someone move to Florida to escape California and then bring the shitty big government politics with them to do the same thing there?
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The Problem with Action Items
It's nice they offer screws and washers. I've definitely taken them up on that. I'm pretty sure the parent is referring to parts. When moving a couch one time I had to remove the feet to fit it through a doorway and lost one of them. It was years ago, so I don't remember the details, but I ended up stacking some 2x4 to prop it up because I was unable to get a replacement.
> with a for loop you could literally mutate anything in scope

That depends on the language. In Elixir for instance, you can't mutate anything. Elixir does have 'for comprehensions', and there are things that you can express very clearly in what is effectively a for loop that would be much harder to read in a chain of iterators.
I'm sure plenty of corners were cut back then too... Just the buildings where corners were cut probably don't exist today. Survivorship bias...
The predecessor of Kallax was also made from paper (and it was called Expedit). I know because I hade to saw it apart to be able to lug it to the recycling.
Okay, so everyone here seems to be complaining about the quality of Ikea furniture. I'm very confused. This has definitely not been my experience.

I have a television entertainment center setup that I've had for about 9 years and it's still a great piece of furniture. I have 2 kallax bookcases that are still working pretty great (though they are wobbly, but you're supposed to put supports on the back wall, anyway); and, I have a bed that I bought from them that has been working amazingly for probably 7ish years at this point. That's been the only real problem piece of equipment, one because a piece went missing during a move and the other because it has to be completely disassembled during a move and that tends to weaken it a bit.

Otherwise, my equipment from Ikea has been just fine over all. I'm even still using some of those junky $10 end tables for various things.

Has something more recently happened? Or have I just gotten lucky? Or?
This sounds like a great idea, and something I would have used if it worked with javascript disabled.

If the owners are around : would you consider adding nojs support? I know it's an edge case request, sorry to be that guy. But then again, "search without top results" is not exactly a concept that will bring you the average web user :)
how many RCEs in ripcord, I wonder :-)
Since the majority of people with COVID have either mild or no symptoms, it suggests that most people are not vitamin D deficient.

All of the studies I have seen for COVID/Vitamin D found that supplementing with D helped patients who were deficient, but it did not make a difference in patients that were not deficient.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the medical establishment has advised everyone to treat COVID as you would a cold, which is also a coronavirus as everyone knows.

This was reported in 2017, long before COVID: Study confirms that Vitamin D helps protect against respiratory infections from colds and flu. Supplementation had the greatest benefit for those with the most significant deficiency (below 10 mg/dl), and reduced their risk of respiratory infection in half. More on https://www.canadadrugsdirect.com/
Heavy objects are made of many light objects[0], so no, they would still accelerate at the same rate.

[0] with the exception of light, which is very light[1], but made of light particles rather than light particles.

[1] Homographs ahoy
> It's not possible to fix this using tech.

I think that's kind of the point.
Jesus I should have read this comment first.

It completely locked up Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04, rendering a frame and making a single beep sound about once per second. Had to close the browser and force kill some processes to get the TTS to stop.
> Have you thought about the consequences if everyone bought furniture like that? There's a reason why solid wood furniture is more expensive, it's a LOT more resource intensive and wasteful during manufacturing. Imagine if everyone started buying all solid wood furniture tomorrow?

The priority is reduce, reuse, recycle.

Buying lifetime furniture is working to 'reduce'.

Ikea is (only now) introducing 'recycle', the worst option of the three.
Portugal saw a bit of Amiga penetration (at least anecdotally judging from my social group). But yes no where near the Spectrum.
This is such a wonderful thing to do.
General property of the French.
> This is _so_ relative to the background of the people doing the glancing.

This is very true. I am running a project at work using Elixir, in a software group that writes most of its code in C. I am curious to see how our style evolves as we become more intimately familiar with functional tools like chained iterators.
SolidJS: The Tesla of JavaScript UI Frameworks?
So even after equalizing, all the top components are similar variants of kick drums. I think this is a problem - PCA should really identify maximally different things for the top components. If they're not perceptually different, then the PCA is not doing the best job at capturing perceptually relevant variance.

I presume what is happening is that the drums all have slight variants in timings, and PCA is not phase insensitive, so sees them as totally different.

I wonder if you'd get better results if you downsampled even more agressively, or did some more sophisticated feature transformation.