skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Treadmills in general are potentially dangerous.

This one sits relatively high off the floor, doesn't have a guard over the rear roller, and doesn't appear to automatically shut down when tilted. The latter two are relatively common, but not universal, safety features.

My suspicion is the evidence of a problem right now is purely empirical ("we've been getting more calls about this treadmill than other ones...") and until further research and investigation is done CPSC is therefore declining to speculate on what, if any, differences from other treadmills might be at fault. Unfortunately it does have the effect of giving the appearance of singling out a product for not much reason.
My experience is in NYC. If you have no working class neighborhoods in your city, you have a different problem. One that is also unlikely to be solved by the standard “affordable housing” playbook.
I once ported a 3rd party telecommunication middleware stack to a new OS. Every single function was 12 characters long, 4 fields of 3 characters each. Each field had meaning, but I wasn't given the decoder ring.

That was not fun.
cleaning it out with a little stick after stepping in dog poo :(
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Allegedly Heads to U.S. Retailers
This is a very good question.... a related one could be: which companies apply the lessons of peopleware well?
ie private offices with a door.
don't breaker jelled teams
That seems fairly plausible, the driver got into the backseat hoping that it could be claimed they weren't actually driving.
There is always a balance of power between employers and potential employees who have leverage, regardless of industry.

If you have the skill to deliver a lot of value, then your service will be in demand, which gives you leverage.

Good construction workers and waitresses will get a lot of leeway from their employer once they've demonstrated their value.
I was about to say the same.
You completely misinterpreted what I was suggesting.

The sentence you are quoting is not me questioning the importance of the issue, I am suggesting that there are two separate concerns at play which are both important.
But those were never guaranteed dates, just very poor/optimistic predictions
I'm curious to see the actual list, if anyone can link it
Previous part discussions, for everyone else that was interested:

Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673631

Part 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25873887
DR is there to mitigate business risk. For a hobby project a routine copy of your app and it’s data is fine.

If the app is essential to your business then an active/active plan behind multiple load balancer might be the way to go.

The bigger the business impact, the higher the cost and the more challenging to setup, maintain and test.
like the boosts, i would never consider training in these due to the lack of support. if i were racing i would wear spikes. they look sick though and i would absolutely consider wearing a pair just as regular sneakers. i'm surprised that shoe companies still have to pretend that runners are their target demographic for cool shoes like these, when in reality it's obviously for sneakerheads / the general public who would like a neat and comfortable pair of sneakers.
I don't get why "Linux on desktop" people feel the need to continually reinvent the concept of what a desktop GUI is, just to be novel or different. This goes back to things like KDE3/KDE4 and Canonical's Unity.

What is wrong with a more traditionally designed desktop metaphor such as how it's implemented in XFCE4 or LXDE?

As a baseline for comparison I've used very nearly every linux or BSD based GUI desktop (on top of xfree86 or xorg) that has existed in the past 20 years, since the earliest days of KDE2 and Gnome. And I'm presently using a fairly normal XFCE4 setup.
Seems like phpMyAdmin only w/ SaaS. And there's near equivalents for phpMyAdmin for many different systems.
Im surprised a giant turtle in a well known location of a major empire, were able to grow old enough for the list, but the giant Galapago turtles, which were unknown to the world for the longest time, did not.

Also, it appears that a few of the trees from the Cedars of Gods forest (lebanon) should have made the cut.

https://glamroz.com/cedrus-libani-the-oldest-tree-in-the-wor...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedars_of_God
> having poor track record of intellectual theft, and that CCP having clear conflicts of interest with the countries Huawei is doing business with.

You manage to generate completely nonsensical gibberish in very short sentence:

> having poor track record of intellectual theft

You are saying CCP did a poor job of stealing IP? Or you are saying CCP had done well in stealing IP?

If the latter, where is your evidence? CCP uses market coercion to force IP transfer, that's a well known practice. But where are the state sponsored IP theft?

> CCP having clear conflicts of interest with the countries Huawei is doing business with.

How so?

Obama called for G2 in [1], that's some serious recognition of the common interests between US and China. Right before Trump, you can find overwhelming official documents calling the sino us relationship being a overall positive one.

So suddenly, CCP becomes the bad guy because CCP had lots of conflicting interest?

And, for all the conflicting interests, other than the unfounded cyber security nonsense, what are the interests that huawei had a stake in?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Two
I don't think it's an advantage to sabotage the adoption of common API like Vulkan. It holds the progress back and I totally blame Apple for pointless NIH and lack of collaboration here.

Apple are doing it out of rather sickening lock-in culture in the company and Metal is far from the only example like that.
This is the feel-good version that someone wanting to prevent widespread panic may attempt to sell to the public. However, considering that our defining ability, the intelligence, evolved as a tool to anticipate and address our potential problems, I think it would be better to let the situation into public attention as is, and let people worry, because this is how we may tap into what could be a collective thought effort. Aggression may be removed from genes, but it is not the same as conflict. Conflict by its nature is the result of changing force collision, something that may happen for rational enough reasons. Now, considering our cosmic-scale context, I wouldn't bet for all extant creature in the universe to be like-minded, which in itself is a strong factor for potential conflict, even for mature space faring civilizations. Once paid the price for one conflict instance, the intelligence (as ability) dictates preventive actions against another costly conflict. Yes, aliens may indeed ignore us like we ignore ants, but that works only as long as the ants don't proliferate to become a real nuisance for us. I for one, am not thrilled to be in ants' condition in the humans-ants power relationship. That for us, in relation to a technologically-superior alien civilization, would mean and act as a set of hard limits: on space we'd allowed to extend into, on resources (and by extension - on our magnitude as human species), and (probably most importantly) on our technological evolution (i.e. to stay harmless).
How long until shoes are custom made from scans of each individual's foot to obtain the optimal fit?
Infrastructure as Code to define compute resources. Persistent data backup to global S3.

Ultimately, if us-east-1 goes down the whole web will be fucked anyway and your customers will be pretty forgiving to wait the brief amount of time for it to come back. (SLA nonwithstanding)

Chances are your MTTR for moving regions will take longer than waiting for the outage to be resolved.
It sounds like you have completely dismissed the concept without spending a moment looking into what it means.
Again, if you're actively searching for abolitionists, you can find them, but the vast majority of the use of the term, from a count of the first 20 articles on any search engine of "What does defund the police mean," means reduce funding.

And, indeed, your first article actually uses the term exactly as we're using it.

While the author is arguing for abolition, and the first and only time she uses the word "defund" it is to say

> Defunding the police is one step on a broad stairway toward abolition. Cities can reduce the size and scope of police...
I agree with the post on using multi cloud. We recently did that and went multi cloud and multi region.

Primary has everything but DR had just a hot standby of database.
I wrote a really long reply to a comment that got deleted before I finished. In case other people have the same questions:

> What is a valid subset to consider?

For these purposes, any subset.

> What is "correct output"?

I absolutely agree that deciding whether an output is correct requires actually defining the intended semantics of the streaming program. I don't believe that exists for flink or ksqldb. (It does for differential dataflow, to some degree - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-662-4667...). If the outcome of this testing was that streaming systems gave a clear definition of their intended semantics which allowed for this degree of error, I think that would be excellent. That's what I was getting at towards the end of the post: "Ideally the behavior would be sufficiently well defined that it's possible to write tests that examine intermediate outputs, because those are the outputs that real deployments will experience."

But in the meantime, for the deterministic sql queries here I think "run the same computation in a consistent batch system and compare the output" is a highly reasonable set of semantics by which we can judge correctness.

This framing is laid out more explicitly in intro to the previous article - https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/an-opinionated-map-of...

> Why would the example be internally inconsistent (per the definition)? The out of date debits data is a subset of the input so far, is it not?

The debits data is using one subset and the credits data is using another. So if we ask "what subset of the inputs is balance computed from" the answer is sort of this one and sort of that one. The end result is that there is no single subset of the data that could produce those results in a consistent system.

> the goal is not to permit arbitrary subsets of data but to restrict the considered subsets of data to a consistent selection.

Yes. The goal is that the final output is computed from a well-defined subset of the data, not from a mishmash of different subsets. I think we're roughly in agreement on the intended behavior and just not on the language used to describe it?

> systems that implement full/immediate consistency.

I don't know what full consistency would mean for a streaming system if not internal consistency + eventual consistency. If you have both, you can send an input and then just block until you see the output for the corresponding timestamp.

Part of the trouble is that all our language for describing consistency comes from read-write transactions in databases and doesn't translate directly into streaming systems. The closest analogue is probably snapshot isolation - https://jepsen.io/consistency/models/snapshot-isolation - but you can't just port the definitions over to a system that doesn't have a concept of transactions.
I want one of these to custom-make shoes for me and my family. Son has in-turning soles and the podiatrist has recommended specialist shoes.

Imagine that - the podiatrist can just write configs/settings that you could load into the shoe-maker and we're done.

Then I want a machine to custom-make pants and shirts. The rubbish from the dept store never seems to fit all that well and wear out far too quickly.
Ask HN: How do you handle automating Jira and GitHub (with CircleCI)
My company is a startup and we have adopted JIRA as a way to manage our time and work effectively. We're still new to AGILE processes and I want to fine tune how we handle this process.

IF you do, how do you handle github, commits, jira and circle Ci to make it more automated and streamline?
Probably because you realized that lambdas are in fact functions as the name indicates and you know how to compose software with functions. Most people are trying to build out monolithic scripts that should be broken up into...functions. It's like kicking a dead horse sometimes.
I'm curious to see what the inside of the rotary encoder looks like; I've revived a few of those by just cleaning and relubricating them, if the contacts haven't completely worn away.
> Could you elaborate a bit on your second point.

Looking at opposing views can help bridge the gap and encourage reasonable compromises. But in order to achieve this, the presentation need to be rational and (as much as possible) non-confrontational. Unfortunately, most current articles focus on enraging the supporters, not on informing the public.

Showing such articles to either supporters or opponents is unlikely to help them understand each other. This is not a criticism of your side; but a criticism of most articles in the mainstream media. Look at old (30+ years ago) publications for comparison. We need to get back the similar quality of journalism; then showing people different views on the same topic can help us understand each other and reach some acceptable consensus. My 2c.
I like feathersjs for the server/api since I find service-oriented thinking to mold well to most projects and it scales well, plus easy integration with almost any database.

Re: frontend, I like vue/nuxt plus Vuetify as a component framework
Why Client Side Validation Fails – Hacking 10M+ Users
I do not challenge.

I ask for a concrete example from reputable source.

If I trust online content. I might as well believe Trump is right about calling Chinese virus.
Serious question: how do you interpret "Starve the beast"?[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Something about this comment on each of Alyssa’s posts[1] rubs me the wrong way. I find her work remarkable even without the context of her age. Why mention it? Highlighting it is almost diminutive, even though I know that the comment is not intended to be that way.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25875552
Open source “split-flap” mechanical display
You assume that there are good jobs (read: reliable sources of income and health coverage) in all places, and that nobody is putting down roots or attempting to invest in their local communities. Your assumptions are wrong.

Maybe the real problem is that the only way to have income is to have a job. But that's another story.
The problem you described at.that organization could have been solved with a policy change though. No need for a new SaaS product.

And if the policy didn't change, this product wouldn't help: Why would they have let people make immediate changes via web interface if things were so tightly locked down?
The Treasure of Sierra Madre is a very good introduction to game-theoretic decision making. In fact in our graduate game theory course, our instructor recommended watching it. It was far ahead of its times.
> If I have the power to tweak any/all peers of any p2p system arbitrarily, then I already have supreme authority over what that system does.

This is not my argument and is your straw man. The point is most clients run whatever the politicians tell them to. What makes it even harder for engineers to see what’s actually going on with Bitcoin is that we suck at politicking and don’t even see it when it’s happening: the shaming if you’re running the wrong version, the worshipping of certain devs to help identify shepherds the sheep should follow, the scapegoating of dissenters, etc. You’re doing it right now by calling a specific chain a “pretender”.

If PoW actually worked as advertised, none of these games would be necessary.
I get a chuckle out of a URL pathname of "offline". I wonder if everyone who acceses that is causing a tape robot to fire up
This is absolutely correct. And related to the issue of situational awareness, Tesla Autopilot has utterly failed at the basic design systems concept of "foreseeable misuse."

Having worked in the driver monitoring space, it pains me to see a half-baked, black box system like Autopilot deployed without a driver camera. Steering wheel and seat sensors are not up to the task of making sure the driver is attentive. Don't even get me started on "FSD," which proposes to work in harmony with the human driver in far more complex scenarios.
Spikes don't work too well on harder materials (like concrete). I actually have no idea how well they would work on normal road asphalt.
The Self Educating Child
That’s true for the later editions, but the first (1985) editions of the red and blue books were produced using Scribe:

https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF#pag...
Cannabis oil from vaporized loose leaf instead.
Linux Kernel: The multi-generational LRU
Yeah, definitely seems that way from all the feedback I've been getting. The exam is soon enough that I'm going to be getting it over with anyway, but I hope I can find something to do afterwards that isn't in that box.
I think it's like barking at the wrong tree. Living in SF I can hear it on the daily: it's because of tech workers, it's because of airbnbs, it's because of ... at the end of the day it's misplaced anger. Housing is the main bottleneck.
Just so you're aware, there is a crime known as negligent homicide (although it's usually treated as manslaughter instead of murder).

When you drive at speed (above ~25-30 mph for someone not protected by a giant steel cocoon, I think ~50 mph for someone who is), you are now in control of a loaded weapon that will kill or seriously injure anyone against whom it goes off. If you are unable, or unwilling, to handle a loaded weapon with the requisite amount of care to avoid negligence, then perhaps you are not deserving of the privilege of handling that weapon.
Do you mean that any individual student driver is likely to have a perfect record because they haven't driven much? That seems like it wouldn't apply here, because Teslas have, in fact, driven a large number of miles.

Or are you claiming that supervised student drivers are much safer because they, like self driving cars today, are supervised?

Maybe I'm totally missing the point of your analogy, but it seems like it doesn't clarify much.
To my recollection, the former was a post-scarcity utopia that, like in most children's literature, east or west, didn't go too deep into the details (with the main moral of the story being 'don't be a dick to people'). I don't think it was particularly political.

The latter was satirical anti-cap propaganda.
An old documentary that claims to solve the mystery: https://youtu.be/gCKgOADaV5w
There are a bunch of more pertinent things to say, but I was struck by just how thoroughly demolished that car looked, and by the fact that it took 32k gallons of water to put the fire out because the battery kept re-igniting. I'm no expert on what typical high-speed crashes look like, but this seems ... problematic.
Isn't it the same thing? The approvals are to verify that the meeting is necessary.

I'd assume that other communication is done semi-formally, e.g. a slack group or call. Updates are asynchronous, someone does an update and the the whole group knows. Anything where you have to block out 2 hours of everyone's time should be approved.
Yeah, this would be even worse than the debacle that led to the housing bubble in 07. This is basically letting people 'invest' in housing with zero risk. You get all the upside of housing prices increasing with no risk if house prices decrease. This means there is zero downward pressure on housing prices, which is going to lead to even worse housing prices in the future.

You can't solve skyrocketing housing prices by simply increasing access to capital... that is just going to exacerbate the problem
When has Tesla said that driverless cars are here?
Apple are doing it because there’s no benefit to them in doing it the way that you want them to.

Apple Pay the piper, and Apple call the tune. Whether you like it or not is immaterial.
Click the unsubscribe link. They are required by law to remove you within 72 hours.

If they still bug you, make a rule that marks mail from their domain as read and moves I’m existent to trash.
Ask HN: Why is Chrome so awful on OS X?
Having just a few tabs open eats up ~2GB of RAM and causes constant system stuttering, even if memory usage is low on other applications. Friends with newer Macbooks (I'm on a 2017 Air with 8gb mem) have the same issue. Why does it suck so much?
Domino’s Has a New Pizza Delivery Robot That Lets You Track Your Order
> The claim that AirBnB is good because it enables #vanlife is countered by it is bad because it hurts #familylife

I still don't get how it hurts family life, you can just choose not to do it.

> The point is we have a limited resource (housing) to be divided up. Allowing (including by not banning via new laws) AirBnB to exist skews the housing market in one direction.

You had it right in the first sentence, currently housing is the bottleneck in some cities that refuse to build more (like SF). I think anger should be directed there, not at people who want to travel and stay at someone's place instead of a hotel.
FLoC cohort computation only triggers on websites which call the document.interestCohort API or load ads. So your average website does not have to opt-out. It's not opted-in in the first place.
Which coins have gone from popular to no longer mined?
Apple has every right to do that as they control their stack. And people who favor FOSS projects have every right to criticize Apple for exercising their control in a way that adversely impacts FOSS.
> Theae stats are often quoted by Musk and Tesla to suggest that driverless cars are here and safer than human drivers, and the only thing preventing them are regulators.

That's surprising, I hadn't seen that. Could you link to an example?
Otter – a game server for arbitrary board games
I don't get why classic desktop people feel the need to continually complain the GNOME does not implement the classic desktop paradigm.

We get it, you want the classic desktop paradigm. Nothing wrong with that, but that ship has sailed years ago with regards to GNOME.

And why shouldn't people implementing GNOME for free have fun and experiment. Nobody wants to implement windows 95 for fun.
I see a lot of links to the Tom Scott video in this thread, but I found this one from Atomic Frontier more informative: https://youtu.be/-Kq1D6FS7LM
Maybe emphasize that last bit more. That starts to distinguish it from the various free options out there that do something similar.

As for databases not being publicly accessible, why not just use a VPN?
They could but in this case “spikes” doesn’t just mean the pointy things it refers to a specific design of shoe

spikes (the shoe) eliminate pretty much all the padding and weight. And trade it for a rigid plate designed to put you on the ball of your foot for speed. It’s a trade off optimized for speed
Iterative designs for multiple generations with minimal IPC improvements across multiple sockets is "phenomenal work"?

With all of the processor flaw mitigations, we saw the Lake series effectively lose all of their gains, however slim, between each generation.

Rocket Lake, the newest, still gets a 2 to 16% performance hit (depending on task) with mitigations on.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=spectre-...

At this point, Intel is behind where they started with the Core line.
Five-year-old curator leads summer art exhibition in Bath
The Nine Mile Walk