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I really hope most of the commentators here never get positions of responsibility.

Few comments are questioning why "Peloton" or are just making stuff up, like missing guards.

~3 people die a year from treadmills in the USA.

"In 2009, former boxer Mike Tyson’s daughter died when she got caught in a cord from a treadmill and accidentally hung herself"

> One of those fatalities involved a 5-year-old child, but it was not clear what occurred in that case

This is not hard to find - "Ashim Gurung died of compression of the neck, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office determined."

"at least 2,600 children a year land in the emergency room from treadmills alone, according to Kim Dulic"

" in 2001, 12 children in separate incidents in Philadelphia suffered injuries from treadmill accidents. Six of them got their hands caught in the belts and suffered abrasions and resulting scar tissue so severe that they required plastic surgery to just to be able to open their hands again."

So why Peloton other than it's hip to say bad things about Peloton? Is that the value of that child's life, not to learn, but to be hip?
A treadmill is a dangerous piece of equipment. Almost all of them have ways a child could seriously hurt themselves on while it’s running. Parents should be expected to keep their kids out of the room while it’s in use.
These laws are enormously complex and there will always be loopholes.

You can prosecute someone for maliciously exploiting your computing system, even though technically "they're just using the rules you wrote", because there will never not be such rules that allow for exploitation.
The intro and bass line are pretty similar to "Good Times - Chic" or "Rapper's Delight - Sugar Hill Gang", which sampled from the former.
I generally agree with this viewpoint. In most countries with moderate gun control measures, the categories of weapon that are most restricted are handguns and fully auto weapons (SMGs, select fire ARs etc). The reason for this is that there’s virtually no reason why a person would need one other than killing people. I am not an expert, but I’m certain that handguns are just massively over represented in gun violence compared to say, shotguns or rifles. I also think this goes for law enforcement. I especially expect that handguns are over represented in suicides. Does anyone have any statistics that would confirm or deny my gut feeling here?
What is ethical about paying taxes? Genuinely curious.
No. However, paying tax is hardly an ethical matter.

Am I unethical to choose standard deduction because it reduces my tax more than choosing itemized deduction? No? Yes? Maybe?
On a similar note, I recently learned that theres a few politicians who benefit from insider trading but it's technically not called that. I can assume most politicians hold a few of these giants' shares(as well as others in the public market). It seems like conflict of interest can easily arise if these aren't just some wild ramblings.
Taxes area already codified in law, so it makes sense for the targeted behaviors to also be codified.
You have one other option, the most difficult of all, to eliminate the use case.

Have you looked at a modern airplane? Have you followed from year to year the evolution of its lines? Have you ever thought, not only about the airplane but about whatever man builds, that all of man's industrial efforts, all his computations and calculations, all the nights spent over working draughts and blueprints, invariably culminate in the production of a thing whose sole and guiding principle is the ultimate principle of simplicity?
It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elementary purity of the curve of a human breast or shoulder, there must be the experimentation of several generations of craftsmen. In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
-Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Microsoft, owner of GitHub, is a member of the RIAA.

I imagine this is a coordinated effort to preserve the "hip, young, fresh" GitHub brand as distinct from the Microsoft corporate stink.

I am unsurprised that the response is only skin deep.
Then, close the obvious one first. This double Dutch Irish thing. It's so obvious that we even have a nick name for it.

The law is hardly perfect as it is. Will never be. Just because there are more holes. It's not the reason to not close the most obvious/impactful one.
One view is that the only ethics that really matters is what the law says is legal.

Laws are derived by the people and encode their ethical permissibility within them.
I have to say this to my all the time to my friend who got into Harvard from across the pond who seems to deliberately pick "easy" courses with lots of book work and therefore burns out e.g. if you want to learn complex analysis, the hard course that requires thinking will probably have less tedious homework to do for example.
Do you think media / social media shaming companies for performing elaborate tax dodges helps or hurts put pressure for political action?
There’s an additional level on top of this: those same politicians often actually participate in the design of tax structures that enable the same companies to be chastised for utilizing those structures and “not paying their fair share.”
Have you ever tried creating a debian package from scratch? It's not a fun experience.
I use nix on my Mac, and it's dreamy, everything Just Works you should try it!

Well, it works now that I've set it up. But the setup is not exactly trivial. Here are the steps I used last time I set it up, a year or two ago, to get a single-user install working:

```bash

sudo vim /etc/synthetic.conf

# Insert the following line in vim (the file should be three bytes long):

nix

# Save and exit vim

echo "LABEL=Nix /nix apfs rw" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

# Reboot computer

sudo diskutil apfs addVolume disk1 APFSX Nix -mountpoint /nix

sudo diskutil enableOwnership /nix

sudo chown -R "$(whoami)" /nix

# Reboot computer

sh <(curl https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.3.10/install) --no-daemon
```

So not exactly pretty, but it works. And it works great. Nothing every breaks -- installations/updates may fail, but they leave the previously working version in place so that everything works as if I hadn't tried to install/update in the first place. I wouldn't want to have to set it up again, but now that I have, I don't want to use anything else to manage my packages.
Say nothing. Drop off your stuff and walk. Easy.
I think the question of “should the design have prevented this?” Would factor in. If someone doesn’t clip the safety cord to themselves and then trips and the machine keeps running and injures them, the only possible way to stop this kind of event is with a safety clip which was already provided and the user chose to not use.
Is that your view? Is it a particularly common view?

Otherwise, why is it worth discussing?
My personal experiences is that a lot of people get stuck "in the gray" because of indecisiveness or an unwillingness to exert the effort to POC something. I prefer that strongly opinionated minds demonstrate their ideas work or fail and move on to the next prototype than hold endless conversation.
You assume the immediate legal problem is more important than the PR and regulatory problem. I don’t think it is.
I've spent an incredible amount of time trying to season my cast iron, and it just never works right. You'll hear various tips. Cook lots of bacon on it. Do this. Do that. "old cast iron is better than the new stuff". Etc. But, so far, that advice hasn't really gotten me anywhere.
I would deffo have died as a kid if our treadmill had this design.

I was forever fucking around with it including the flung into the China cabinet lesson.

Ever seen what happens if you throw a medicine ball onto a running treadmill at 15 mph with max incline?

Well what happens is the ball nearly decapitates your little brother before exploding through a window and then your arse gets tanned by your dads belt.

Same happens if you decide to see what’s inside your etch a sketch with an axe.

At the kitchen table.

I’m amazed I neither killed myself nor was killed by my parents.
The blame should be shared amongst the parents, who did not remove the safety key, and Peloton, who did not put proper guards on the treadmill.
That's a fair assessment. I have to imagine that the design distinction of "complexes" (with, as you said, limited direct access to streets) rather than "neighborhoods" contributes. Such layouts make it more difficult for "outside" assistance to "enter" or "retreat" in response to appropriate circumstances. It turns out that making the primary concern of design the warehousing and cloistering of as many human beings as possible in as small a space as possible, far away from employment and resources, does not make as many strides towards the goal of promoting stability and healthy socioeconomic development as may have been hoped.

I'm a 90s kid and so was not familiar with anything but low-rise housing outside of old TV shows and grandfathered infrastructure; your timeline follows my experience, and also the general trend of halting progress on such issues of social justice, where the answer is and has long been known but is warped in execution by a continued, if lessening, marriage to clearly-incorrect-but-politically-attractive notions about what "those people" need and/or deserve.
> If one controls/monitors for every app in system

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who monitors the monitor?

What happens when it is compromised, loopholed through, gets its inputs tampered with, etc.? For a home setup and its threat model, this sounds a simple, workable plan. When you're dealing with attacks of the level of sophistication described in the OP, trusting trust [1] becomes complicated and difficult.

[1] http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thom...
Before curbing the "gun epidemic" I'd look up how many lives are saved vs how many are unrightfully taken. A proxy for the first number is the number of burglaries - about 1.5 millions per year. A proxy for the second is about 10 thousands - all gun related deaths excluding suicides and internal gang disputes.
It’s amazing how at 140 comments right now, the word “luck” is more than half way down the comments page :shrug:
> I was given one.

Huh?
> I think this applies to Bitcoin because it’s payouts are solely based on speculation and new cash coming in.

Bitcoin does not pay out anything. There is no cash flow. You can only sell it.

It's true that price increases depend on later investors, but that is true of all investable assets; art, gold, comic books, etc.

Bitcoin is likely a bubble. It may be a pump-and dump, but it is not a Ponzi scheme.
You are probably right that monetizing is not feasible, but I’m principal I feel compelled to point out that almost no website monetize is the “average“ person, which is exactly the kind of person that a psychological study is trying to characterize.

Think about it like this: I’m sure a psychological study where to find that The average person is completely uninterested in a text only website about technology so I’ve never heard of. Yet here we, and I bet a few hundred of us would pay a few dollars a month for HN if that was their business model
Paying a fair amount of taxes definitely has a big ethical component to it, AND the laws around it probably ought to be changed, but that doesn't imply that they should be changed strictly because of the ethical reasons.

Specifically, collecting a reasonable amount of taxes is key to the function of governments as they're set up.

It would be unethical to sell somebody a car that secretly has no motor, but ethics isn't the only reason cars need motors.
Hard Drive and SSD Shortages Could Be Imminent If New Cryptocurrency Blooms
The economy as a complex system is appealing. The idea looked very promising in the early 1990’s when I was a grad student.
Unfortunately, it has not led to any meaningful (i.e. practical/usable) results.
Just this month came across an attempt to model insurance markets using an agent-based model. The paper was co-authored by an eminent proponent of complexity theory etc. Unfortunately, the authors trip all over themselves when trying to actually calibrate or relate their model to real-world conditions.

Complexity theory is a useful thinking tool, but has yet to bear fruit when it comes to making statements about future system behavior.

Likewise, econophysics was a thing fifteen years ago, but now only survives in academia.
The work of a manager is not the work of those managed. If you think what your reports do is "all the work," it means you're missing things.

- Do your reports have all the resources they do to accomplish the mission? If not, what do they need? Why don't they have it?

- What are the sources of friction that impede mission accomplishment? How many can you get rid of?

- What requirements are accreting? What's your plan to keep the relentless march of mandatory trainings and mindless powerpoints at bay?

- What's the tech refresh schedule? Do developers get better computers than managers? In other words, do tech resources go toward those in positions of political influence or toward those who really need them? Can you influence this?

If you don't have answers to these questions, then not is it not true that your people are doing all the work, but there's a significant amount of work to be done that nobody is doing.
Really awesome idea! I'd love some kind of aggregated stats/summary page where you could see the most-disagreed-with decisions, etc.
Taxes pay for all sorts of things in society. They pay for childhood education, they build roads, they pay for services like fire departments.

If you don't pay taxes, then it wouldn't really be fair for you to be sending your kids to public schools, driving on roads to get around, or calling the fire department when your house is burning down, since you haven't contributed anything to their upkeep.
This is really making me want to buy an Alpha on ebay.

Is there an OS that has ever had a better name than "Digital Unix"?
Bigly smart take. When I travel in states without left lane enforcement, I make sure to stay in the left lane going the bare minimum of the speed limit and shout to all the (Dems mostly) who want to don't want to pass on the right. it's not illegal!
Not snarky just curious - why would you have this GOGS instance instead instead of just.. git?
Virologists develop broadly protective coronavirus vaccines
Having to tell my team that our product, their baby, had to be rewritten (because our competitors were gaining on us and we had accrued too much tech debt: new features took forever and the result was slow performance wise) and then motivating them to work on that rewrite with the same enthusiasm as the old product. There were over 200 people working on it and it almost went wrong because a lot of people kept trying to shove parts of the old product in making everything slow and buggy. But it worked out in the end and we came out of that really well.

Edit: my colleagues did not actually get really motivated until we deployed our first client on the new system which did make the whole thing very stressful for me because it was too much of an uphill battle. Once deployed, it was so much more performant and so much more stable that we all saw we would be spending far less time fixing bugs or trying to squeeze out performance: that changed everything.
It must be pretty hard to make that choice for an employee of the company. Lie about the death of the kid or not?

Another reminder that we need to make space for using ethics at work, and not just doing whatever the company thinks is best. A company as a legal person is basically a sociopath (if it were a person).
Hardware works and fonts render very nicely.
Doesn´t any modern terminal emulator cap to 115200 anyways?
I have a physical body. It's going to be somewhere. I therefore care about the physical environment, security, and so on of that place. That isn't going to change until we can upload our consciousnesses. Virtual communities aren't enough to protect my body, and therefore virtual communities aren't enough.
fltk-rs is a Rust wrapper to FLTK (the GUI library).

(The Rust wrapper wraps a C wrapper which wraps FLTK (C++), the repo be found here: https://github.com/MoAlyousef/cfltk)

The API is quite similar to the C++ api to benefit from the existing FLTK documentation and examples. It also opts to primarily statically linking FLTK, so the executables are single binaries which can be easily deployed. During working on this, I discovered how customizable FLTK is, which basically beats my own prior assumptions that it's ugly, which it can be if no scheme is chosen or no customization is done!
That was fun. Write more, Mad Ned!
looks like OP got into woodworking based on his profile: https://www.longwalkwoodworking.com
I highly encourage you to look at a picture of the inside of an airplane cockpit.
George was sucked under those treadmills as well.
I'm not sure what the methodologies are. There is no objective "left" or "right", the two camps are just defined in relation to a supposed center. Where you place a newspaper depends on your perception of what the center should be- and that's a political, not a factual choice- which depends on the moment, the culture, etc.

I've checked the bias analysis of some Guardian articles in one of your sources. They strike me all as pretty far left- if not in the contents, in the choice of subjects. Consider that it's perfectly possibile to compose a newspaper entirely of dry, factual articles about, for example, episodes of worker's abuse or of immigrant criminality. Each article is absolutely unbiased, the newspaper is absolutely biased.
Neat project, but where is the AI exactly? I doesn't look liked you used anything "AI" related from OpenCV.
If the problem can’t be mitigated absent a recall then yeah that’s what should be done.

They may well end up facing an involuntary recall, which will make this PR strategy seem especially short sighted.
> both depend on new money coming in to inflate value

This is true of all investable assets that don't produce cash flow. It's true for art, gold, comic books, baseball cards, wine, classic cars, everything.
No idea.

But it doesn't seem to help much.

For example, many Dems shout "tax billionaires" for years. This rallies a lot of people. "Yeah!!! Let's tax them more" we all chant.

Then, when Dems is elected, they are raising tax on salaried employees who earn more than 400k a year. (Not sure if they has gone through with it yet)

I didn't know I was categorised as a billionnaire.
Most hotels I've stayed at had them locked in seperate rooms. Households with children should do the same.
You can easily hide it by hijacking Function.prototype.toString to see if `this == fake gl.getParemeter or this == fake toString`. Then the js code needs to find a real Function.prototype.toString by creating an iframe, but then you can detect that. Then I'm out of ideas on how to rescue the original toString
This was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26819319
That is a fair concern, but also keep in mind that this is one guy’s project. And with even more effort and debugging, I’m sure he could get it to 100%.
It was legal. They'd be remiss not to do it.
The only difference between a shuttle run and mass production is whether your chip is repeated 100 times in different parts of the wafer (surrounded by other people's chips) or a few thousand times completely covering the wafer with copies of just your chip.

The manufacturing process is identical either way.
Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server
Paying taxes has nothing to do with ethics. It is the government's job to set the tax rate and tell you how much you owe. It's not like "you are legally obligated to pay this much, but there is an ethical obligation to add another X% as well"
I'd like a 5900x at MSRP because it's a good blend of single core and multicore performance.

Though what I really want is a 6800XT GPU, since my current GPU is about 6 YEARS old. Dang crypto miner BS.
Holy sh!t. This is indefensible.

That Peloton is even trying to defend itself is asinine. They need to pull this product ASAP.
They should just use Gitlab in principal after this.
I'll break out a Win10 PC and give it a shot, although it seems like ipads and iphones get most of the accessibility credit. I was also fooling around with those sorts of features on a Chromebook.

I can't help but wonder if simply reading the screen is the wrong answer. It's as if the important thing is to understand the screen and then explain it without the need for any visual/location kind of concept. Another angle would be to write a completely audio-based alternative interface for important websites.

No doubt people a lot smarter than me have spent a lot of time on these issues, but I'm pretty dissatisfied with what I've seen so far.
I love this so much! It’s a really helpful demonstration of how to do Kernel stuff in Rust with Nix, using a ridiculous shitpost idea, and it’s written in a very enjoyable way. I’m just annoyed that I hadn’t run across their blog before now.
So the people earning $20k per year who don't pay any taxes shouldn't get to send their kids to public schools?
Yeah. I can’t believe they’re opposing this. How can you defend your design after seeing this video.
> #2 does not explain the single channel DDR thing.

Dell has done that on Intel systems for as far as I can remember. Buy the cheapest machine they sell and it's par for the course. This isn't something they do to nerf AMD performance, it's something they do to hit a particular price point, and they always have.
nor will it be the last time this giant, like many others do the what i call the "ole" shaft in the exit area.

My best advice, after learning after getting screwed by MS and Oracle. Lets call him Jim, partner of mine, and a fictional company lke Krackle.. They sued until discovery found something the engineers did..... running our version while developing competition. They sued because ours "processed too good" and "we had to copy them". Once the judge was showed the emails where they were DISASSEMBLY the pcode and sharing the map.

We got a fat check, and offered to buy us out. Jim and I retired from a 39k c app that till this day, most, if not all hospitals use
I’m not even talking about the food, more the bacteria from the environment on the food, in some places still today even the water isn’t safe to drink. You can easily have food in a developing country that makes you sick. These simply aren’t past problems and it makes sense the body mounts defences just in case!
I was curious too. The FBI provides nationwide numbers for 2019: ~268k robberies, of which 16% occurred at a residence, so ~43k. [1]

The National Institute for Mental Health says that ~24k suicides are inflicted with with firearms in 2018. [2]

Hard to figure out how many robberies might have been "resolved" by an armed homeowner, but I note the FBI says that there were only 334 "Justifiable Homicides" by civilians using firearms in 2019. [3]

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
[2] https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml
[3] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
For example, given that Google successfully litigated the Oracle Java API copyright case in the public court system, it seems that it gains advantages from public institutions. Simple reciprocity indicates that they should support institutions from which they benefit.

Mutatis mutandis for, eg, roads so that employees can get to work, etc.
Is political capital a real thing for managers?
https://www.amazon.com/Urbanears-Multi-Room-Bluetooth-Connec...

These came quite close to this (but have since been discontinued by Urbanears). Physical knob presets to internet radio stations (or turn it to “airplay/Bluetooth mode”)