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This is spot on - and the pedals. OMG the f-ing pedals. I've never used the Peloton ones (went straight to SPDs as are on our MTBs), but the Facebook groups are full of pedal complaints. It's the butterfly keyboard of Peloton.

Edit:
Regarding shoe/pedal combinations. Sidi shoes if they will fit you otherwise I'd go with Specialized. The BOA fasteners are really good - crazy durable, easy, they stay, can be replaced etc. no downside except upfront cost maybe. I really like SPD pedals - Shimano XT in particular. The lower models have a plastic part that will wear and the bearings go sooner. XTR pedals cost a fortune for no durability gain and it's a spin bike so not going anywhere.
What more effective ways? Send goons with chemical warfare agents? Nothing would happen with the exploit if it's done with a fake base station or through other low-range wireless thing.
I would rather have seen downvoters approach the merits of this claim in comments first. We do not need HN to turn into devolving to ad populum for every contentious topic.
Excellent point!
I had forgotten about the problem with this.
>honestly if Germany had won the war it likely would have been all condoned

Oh, yeah, undoubtedly. "History is written by the victors" is one of the truest cliches. But whether crimes or atrocities are acknowledged or punished tells you nothing about the impact or severity of the actions.

So, while one could certainly recite a laundry list of atrocities committed by the Allies which a victorious Nazi Germany would have prosecuted, and many by Imperial Japan that went unpunished (though you're wrong that none of them were charged with war crimes - many were, even if many others like Unit 731 escaped prosecution due to the US wanting their research [edit: I see someone else responded with this before I finished my reply]), WWII is difficult to write off as "everyone and everything was awful" like a lot of wars.

Every side was indeed awful, but Nazi Germany's and Imperial Japan's actions in particular were so unprecedentedly awful that far-future generations in those countries probably would've eventually had a reckoning and realized they were the worst actors in the war, like what eventually happened in the US when it comes to treatment of Native Americans, propping up brutal dictatorships in Latin America and elsewhere, and other things.

All this to say - if the parent poster's great-grandfather was a member of a Waffen-SS division that tracked down and executed civilians en masse due to their ethnicity, for example, it can't and shouldn't be dismissed as "well, that's war, everyone is culpable, and you can't know what it was like to be in their shoes, and either side would be considered as evil if the other side won". (I know you didn't quite say that, but there is a certain false semi-equivalence here, I think.) It's not exactly wrong, but it misses a lot of the bigger picture.
> switched to external because that was much more conducive to optimisations

Source? I thought conventional wisdom was that internal iteration was much easier for compilers to digest.
.txt isn't a format - what size will the bytes/words be, what character encoding will they use (EBCDIC? ANSI? ASCII? Fixed width UTF-32?, variable width UTF8?, Next decade's AI-designed super-efficient encoding?) and what human language will they be encoding? Aramaic? Medieval French? As he said we keep using "standard formats" but the standards keep changing, and so does the world around it.

.txt doesn't address the content - something like tables of rainfall needs structure inside the text rather than runs of words. CSV? XML? Markdown or HTML tables? Audio, image, video, or more intricate things like a 3D model of a building?

And it doesn't address the hardware (that PDP tape drive), who has a laptop with an floppy, Iomega Zip, CD or DVD or Blu-Ray drive at all these days? What are you going to do with grandad's SSD with built-in encryption?
Not sure why the people of America need to be spending tax money on sorting this out, or punishing this person. If Netflix wants to allow their business to be run this way, it's fine with me.
Well, my grandmothers logic and wise advice still holds. You have a problem with it - don't use it. It's genius.

Just like you wouldn't stand there listening to a drunk person complain about alcohol related health issues, I'm not about to entertain people complain about privacy when they have the agency and choice.
I believe Black (when capitalized) is meant to refer to American descendants of slavery.
interestingly the site runs on nucleous which in turn sits on aws
No, sorry. I was just pointing out how it is funny that these discussions use linguistic forms that assume free will i.e., verbs like ‘think’ and ‘do’.

A proper discussion by someone who does not believe in free will would have to be entirely passive voice, i.e. describing what a flame does when it is exposed to gusts of wind or describing what a cloud of human atoms does when it is exposed to its environment.
damn. I know there was a discussion about this a month ago, but the the clearance from the floor to the bottom of the treadmill seems too low to actually engulf a child, unless the child somehow has a really small head, is an infant, or is sucked under feet-first, which would not cause asphyxiation but still be bad. The story about the death did not actually describe the cause, only that the kid died.
The internals are completely different. Given the collection of software technologies we posses today, you can't assemble them around a database using a row-oriented encoding and come up with something that can outperform (in space, time and cost) the kinds of query styles that column-oriented encodings absolutely murder.

Logically they're the same thing, but engineering is about details, details in this case that could easily be a 2x to 20x budget difference given an appropriate project

A column store can take 100 years worth of samples occurring every 10ms that yield a constant result and using technology we actually have, represent those ~87 million data points on disk and in CPU using somewhere under 10 bytes.
Ok but they've got the former Prime Minister of Denmark next to the Vice President of the CATO Institute.

Get a handle on the knee-jerk skepticism and cynicism and look into it yourself and make a principled argument for whether it's satisfactory or not. Just spitting out your first reaction isn't helpful.
They arent just localized to neural tissue; they are in high concentration in the tongue, which is probably why grazing animals are so susceptible
The standard pedals use Look Delta cleats. You can use any shoe that is compatible with those cleats. I can't recommend any ones in particular - it's a bit like running shoes in that you want to try them on if possible.
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To be clear, the car involved was a 2003 Jetta, 14 years old.

It wasn't like the parents bought their kid an Audi R8 or similar.
I guess he could have been a German POW captured in Russia and then sent back to US-occupied West Germany.
i liked the movie, but i don't know anything about the actual history, and would like to learn about it. does the book 'go like hell' have the events right? or do you know of any other good books or articles that tell the story?
Yes, I regularly warn people on Reddit that their full name is being leaked in the TikTok link they shared. I have an iOS shortcut that expands the URL and chops off the gross tracking stuff so I can share links in private/public without exposing my TikTok "name" (I don't link any accounts and my name is made up).
Maybe this is a naive question, but your immune system works by identifying foreign proteins and killing those cells. Is there no way for your immune system to target cells contaminated with prions?
I guess I don't understand why it's a crime and not just a breach of contract.

Imagine if rather than an employee this was a consulting firm that had done the exact same thing (taken payments for signing Netflix up to unnecessary contracts).

Nobody would be going to jail, they would just sue the consultancy, which might go out of business.
I stopped eating US beef many years ago for this very reason. The Japanese are not stupid and it's quite obvious that something fishy is going on.

Knowing what we know about the practices of most US beef farms and the countless USDA failures in both detection and enforcement of rules/regulations meant to protect the consumer, I think it's the wise path to take for everyone living here.
So there are two routes you can take if you want some sort of gamified fitness bike at home. First one is the Peloton or one of the similar bikes that focus on the spin style classes. The other option, for those that are more into cycling, are some form of smart cycling trainer (like the Wahoo Kickr) or even Peloton like bike (WattBike) that actually gives you real power readings. This integrates with platforms like Zwift, TrainerRoad, or Sufferfest to provide more cycling focused fitness.

Peloton is great if you want the "spinning" experience, but not as great if you're just a cardio junkie looking at getting a "riding your bike" experience, but indoors.
Fukasima was a dumb design from the start, and plenty of people pointed it out before it was built. Holding it up as the poster child for why all talk about nuclear power generation should not even be discussed is beyond disingenuous.
> Just as hacker news has rules so does Facebook, if you don't like it, go somewhere else.

Sometimes those rules are illegal. For both Facebook and HN.

But sure, let's just pretend money means you don't live under any state jurisdiction.
Well, to be fair, the headline is not trying to speak for the world. It's polling HN which isn't exactly the world, but it's certain a group of very smart people with deep technical experience.

I think Google is dying because they're including more and more adds on the pages. The ads used to be separate and distinctive. No longer. They're often ads for competitors or other distractions. It's just annoying and it gets in the way.
This looks incredibly promising. Going to check it out! Thanks
Ken was represented as being a lot more hot headed and irreverent than he was in reality as well.
One reason solar and wind projects generally finish on time and budget, and why solar and wind costs keep dropping, may be that there are so many idealists involved. It might take decades to drive prices back up, even after the idealists are disposed of. In the meantime, those industries are not very lucrative for grifters, anyway until you get to SolarCity scale.
I have a Bike+, and it's incredible. It's well worth the money. It's the best marriage of software and hardware product design that I have ever seen in this space.

I would never buy any treadmill. They aren't super safe in general, and Peloton's treadmills are less safe than your average one.

I would definitely by a future weight machine or rower from them, but I have no interest in one of their treads.
You could always install the 100,000 small reactors at 100 large sites.
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The shouting fire being illegal is a myth.

The court case was about the Espionage Act of 1917, and was extremely unconstitutional. It was about speaking about against the draft.

Holmes justified his ruling with the fire statement at the end of the case, but it has nothing to do with constitutional law, it was an emotional statement.

The court case itself was unconstitutional, and that statement everyone repeats has no legal binding whatsoever as it had no bearing on anything. I doubt you agree with the outcome of that case (socialists being imprisoned for speaking out against the draft) so why would you use an emotional statement used to justify it?

Private companies are not free to do whatever they want, there are regulations. When companies get too large they should be regulated. You can argue these companies have possibly outgrown their Section 230 immunities as they are no longer acting as a neutral platform. They are editorializing their content, acting as a publisher. The social media giants are entrenched with government and businesses solely using them for support and communications, you cannot simply move off.

I guess you are very pro corporate and you feel like corporations should be able to do whatever they want whenever they want.

It being legally okay, does not make it morally okay and laws can change to meet the morals. Maybe we should apply the 1A to these platforms.
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A small shareholding counts, but that still means owning at least 1 share. Anything less means you don't own the share. Fractional shares are a different construction (compared to the normal case where the broker holds your real non-fractional shares for you) between you and some brokers that offer it, which result in you not really owning the share and thus not going to the shareholder meeting.
Apparently not: I was thinking glutaraldehyde which is used for cleaning in hospitals but reading up the advice for prions is explicitly opposed to cross-linking agents.

Which makes sense I guess but it's also scary.
Drop the solar subsidies and then let’s talk about “market” prices.
This made me quietly lol
True, but still neat. Frankly I think this kind of functionality should be built in to OSs. Why shouldn't I expect to be able to run code written for the same OS on two different architectures without recompilation?
Just yesterday I stumbled across https://pyspread.gitlab.io/ after finding that coding Excel is a complete desaster from a software engineering point of view - no testing, no debugging, no version control, no structure. It must have costed humanity many billions in vain.
Some time can be a very long time. The goal of the current administration is to be net zero emission by 2050. If after a certain time, let’s say 2025, there are no major break throughs in storage technology, then we have to start building nuclear plants. It’s good that we are preparing for that scenario right now.
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That's a common opinion.

The object model and IDE are a big part of it though, maybe even more so than syntax horrors like while..wend vs do while..loop.
That is the orbital prediction at the estimated time of reentry. They take where it is right now projected about 3 days out, and show us 6hrs before and after. LEO takes around 2 hrs or less to circle the earth.

This will change. If there is more drag then expected, or any one hundreds of different things happen, the reentry time will change, and then the predicted area will change.
But the plane maneuvered several times after that with power going off and back on.
It seems like everybody is. Obama admin, Trump admin were both pro-nuclear, too. Maybe the issue is that nobody wants it near them?
Ok, I see it does use document since there is d3.create() is under the hood.
I knew is was BS because I used to trade penny stocks and the volume was too tiny and illiquid, especially in the 80s, to actually make as much money as these guys were claiming.
In a video shared in the discussion from a month ago, the back of the treadill "climbed" up the toddler that was being pulled under it; the rear was no longer touching the ground.
This is laughable. What do you call the $5T+ cost of the Iraq Wars if not a direct subsidy for oil.

Hell the 2003 invasion was originally called "Operation Iraqi Liberation" - before that blatant of an acronym was deemed unseemly.
I'm not even old (mid-20s), but I scale the site to 150%. HN is honestly one of the worst sites I have used with regards to default scaling across resolutions.

OTOH the simplicity of the site allows for very easy browser-based scaling, which means I only really think about how bad the text size is once per machine.
I think it's downright harmful and abhorrent that they haven't yet. Why doesn't snapchat want to help stop crime??
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So is aws going to be pressured to ban him now? I think aws banned parlor before. So this is not really going to be much of barrier to deplatform Trump again. Assuming he will be running for office again.
Yeah but when did you try it? They've made tons of improvements since it was first launched.
Once O'Reilly stopped selling PDFs and shifted their focus into subscription, the needs of this kind of tools have grown. Their app and site is OK to skim through books, bad not good enough for serious reading. I hope they provide full-layout reading experience based on their PDF. Then majority of users of this tool would just come back.

I wonder how author payment works with the subscription. If users of these tools don't count for that, that's a bummer - People who opt to download epub would be deeply engaged readers and should be counted. If there is a way to signal the readership by adding a book to the shelf, for example, it should be done by these tools as well.
Lifeboats are designed to be difficult to capsize (totally enclosed with enough floatation to stay above water even if flooded).
> IMO HN's classic "skepticism" is usually just engineering nerd insecurity projected outwards

HN is addicted to bikeshedding. It's among the top 3 comments on almost every "Show HN" or new product launch.
Naval reactors are currently built by GE and Bechtel. They are designed at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, a national lab of DOE, operated by Fluor. Fluor is a parent company of NuScale which just got a license from the NRC to be able to build a civilian small modular reactor (SMR). Their first project is scheduled to come online at the end of the decade.
Powerpoint is powerful once you get deep into it. I know people who make some crazy visuals using powerpoint and you would thing it was done with some adobe software.
What ever happened to those shed sized fission generators that were going to be safely running under or next to our houses? Did we forget about them?
I have a Tread+, I find the entire situation ridiculous. There should be no recall, there is nothing wrong with the treadmill. The only issue is lazy parents who refuse to remove the security key when it's not in use.

All of the cited accidents would be impossible if people had taken the 4 seconds required to remove the security key. It's tragic that children died, but entirely preventable.

There's a reason every treadmill on the planet that you can purchase has on the very first page of the manual that you need to keep children and animals away from it while it's in use, and to remove the security key when it's not in use.

I challenge those of you downvoting away to show me how this accident would have occurred if the parent(s) in question had removed the safety key.

I also challenge you to find me a treadmill that wouldn't react in the exact same fashion if you jammed an exercise ball into the back of it. Here's a hint: none of them stop. The force of you striking the treadmill while running is greater than the resistance of a treadmill pulling on that ball. I expected better than twitter reactionism out of HN.

And for reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNlX4VaN2bU

https://www.kidspot.com.au/parenting/real-life/in-the-news/t...
My in-laws gave me that for my birthday when I was 24 or 25. They really did know me well -- that, or my wife advised them.
Solar + hydrogen is just as predictable as nuclear. It costs roughly twice as much (because of 50% loss on electrolysis and back), but ends up providing a stable power output independent of weather.

It’s conparable in place to nuclear if I’m not mistaken, and it’s fault scenarios are less severe.

Especially in US, with vast amounts of deserts, it seems like a no-brainer.

(having said that, climate change is so urgent that I’d say do whatever it takes to get to zero emmissions - be it nuclear or solar)
That stuff isn't visible on Danbooru unless you buy the 'gold account', which last I checked is a one-time $20 purchase. Browsing the pages will often have a notice at the bottom along the lines of "2 posts on this page require a gold account to view." - those are typically the 'contentious content'.
No judgement here, just out of curiosity, why? Why do you want your heirs to access your accounts? For what services? What's sort of data is in there?
In Art of Not giving a F** he quits the one real job he's ever had after 6 weeks.

That's only possible if you are born into money. Even then he avoids giving out concrete advice. If I'm going to spend 20$ on a book I might as well read one by a billionaire.
Nope. More close is like where this is going: https://uxdesign.cc/lets-talk-about-that-gpt-3-ai-tweet-that...

Combine this with Neuralink's chip, so I can orchestrate creating a design system with my thoughts, not endless hours of clicking and designing pixel by pixel.
A utm tag isn't the only way to measure the effectiveness of marketing. It's just the laziest way.

And once the adtech companies notice that every tag except utm is being stripped, you can bet that utms will start being stuffed with tracking.
Old wind power plants are often repowered. Wind turbines that have reached their EOL are replaced with newer and more efficient ones, significantly incrasing the output of the plant:

> “Repowering is happening and will increase. It’s a great opportunity to get more energy from today’s wind farms. Repowering reduces the number of turbines by a third while tripling the electricity output. And it preserves the existing wind farm sites which often have the best wind conditions. Governments need repowering strategies that set the right framework and ensure efficient permitting procedures for repowering”, says WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson.

Most of the material used in wind turbines can be recycled:

> Wind turbines are a valuable source of resources which can be reused in the circular economy. 85-90% of a dismantled wind turbine are recycled today, including the towers, foundations, generators and gearboxes. Most of these materials are made up of concrete, steel and cast iron which are easy to recycle and for which there is an active circular economy market in Europe.

https://windeurope.org/newsroom/press-releases/what-happens-...
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for example
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Nuclear radiation safety is assessed using the "As Low As Reasonably Achievable" standard, which essentially says that if you make a nuclear power plant produce power at half the price of the next-door coal power plant, you have to spend all of the increased profit on increased safety measures. Nuclear can never out-compete non-nuclear power under that regulatory regime.
This is the decade-long argument of "let's sacrifice all our programmers to the devil so that we don't have work as hard on the compiler". I don't buy it, and it has never been demonstrated that the cumbersome style of writing go programs is helping compilation times, yet people keep saying it as if it's a fact.
Tell me how exactly have we ruled out varying charge on electrons when our tools show varying charge. You can say it’s the tools. But can you prove it?
I guess? Though I'm not sure that arguing about the name of the ocean is actually the easiest way to convince people not to get hung up on trying to boil it. Even when fuzzy language is directly responsible for sucking people into a boil-the-ocean mindset, I've never seen anyone actually succeed by choosing that plan of attack. Usually it just results in people talking past each other.