skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument I've heard against this is about safety.
Firstly, you don't want athletes needing to push the limits of safe pharmaceutical use just to win. This forces all competitive athletes to dose the maximum amount allowed. Moreover, though perhaps less of an issue, it forces those who seek an illegitimate advantage to push even further than they need to now.

Secondly, this 'sets a bad example'. Not in the moral sense, but in a pragmatic sense. Regulated doping in competition encourages enthusiastic amateurs to also start doping. Not only does it seem wrong to require aspiring amateurs to take medical steps, there is the added issue of lack of guidance. Amateurs have less of a support team around them, thus making mistakes or uneducated use more likely.

In the end, you rule against doping not to keep the sport fair, but to keep the sport safe for aspiring amateurs and professionals. In turn, this keeps the sport alive by having a steady influx.

There is a fairness issue regarding 'pay to win' becoming a more effective strategy whilst, at the same time, also increasing the financial barrier to entry.
Yeah, so one way to go from "Search" to "Scale" is to skip "Build" by joining a larger firm that already has all those parts buttoned up.
I think server operation costs are a very legitimate concern, though. People always say "well, you're not Google so it's not that important," but that's precisely the issue. No small company has the budget to splurge on the biggest and best server infrastructure. A small DigitalOcean/AWS/Heroku plan is probably the most any small business could hope for (dedicated servers = hardware costs out of pocket + maintenance costs + power fees + ISP fees) and any relatively complex server is gonna eat through that quickly. Micro-optimizations may not be worth it, but just switching from an interpreted language to a compiled language can often reduce the performance overhead by an order of magnitude.

The amount of oversimplifying you're doing seems to skip every flaw in your argument in my opinion. That's not to say you're necessarily wrong... a C programmer probably isn't worth it over a Python programmer. But writing code with double nested loops for no reason or ignoring basic algorithms is going to cost you big time in the long run.
In Firefox, the media device IDs are different for each site (origin): It is un-guessable by other applications and unique to the origin of the calling application. It is reset when the user clears cookies (for Private Browsing, a different identifier is used that is not persisted across sessions).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevice...
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> Before the hurricane of 1900, Galveston, TX was the largest metropolitan area west of the Mississippi.

What? It was a bit smaller than the 100th largest city in the U.S. both 1890 and 1900, with StL and SF >10x its size, and many other west of the Mississippi cities smaller multiples of Gavelston. The 1900 hurricane was devastating but it devastated a minor city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890_United_States_Census#City...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_Census#City...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston,_Texas#Demographics
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The problem there is that you are then encouraging people to use substances which are potentially detrimental to their long term health. In fact, they'd have to use them to be competitive.

Of course, it's perfectly valid to say that we're already at that point, but I don't know that sanctioning their use is the right thing to do for the governing bodies. I don't know what the answer is, but I agree completely that they should be illegal in the eyes of the law.
I really wish this trend of using pseudo-pipes in R would stop.
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Drugs are bad.

Why?

Because they're illegal.

Why are they illegal?

Because they're bad.
This is all fairly straight forward however, what blows my mind is Facebook makes recommendations of friends that I've NEVER had any digital interaction with.

For some reason it picked up the kid who stocks the craft beer at my local family run grocer. Literally only talked to the kid face-to-face. No phone number, no texting, no contact entry (not that I share those with Facebook anyways).

That made the hair on the back of my neck stick up when that happened.
> intercontinental planes are mostly autonomous

This is a highly disingenious use of the word autonomous. Airplane "autopilots" are given a set of waypoints and will fly a straight line between those. That's been possible with cars since (at least) the 1960s too; today it's easy enough that you could give it as an end-of-term project for a bunch of robotics undergrads. It's also completely useless outside of very specialized situations like the mining dump trucks you mention.
Yup, in my experience, 40–50 is also about when a classroom changes from “small class” to “lecture hall” or needs a TA, for similar reasons.

Plus the number of edges in a fully connected graph of relationships would exceed 1000 at this point, so the graph starts to partition itself: employees stop working directly with most of their colleagues and start dividing into more isolated “tribes”. And this goes on to affect the structure of their projects, e.g., software architecture[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
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Weird title? Clever and apt title I would have thought.
I think OP tried to make the point that anyone participating in a competition should stick to the rules of that competition.

That doesn't preclude discussion about whether those rules make sense, but "Yes, I broke the rules to get an advantage, but the rule really shouldn't be there because of these reasons" is never a good defence. It might help to further the cause of rule change, but it never makes a result from cheating fair.
I have to account for offroading animals while I drive/bike because deer love to sit on the edge of a road, and inexplicably leap in front of me at the last second or if I see some crossing the road ahead, know I have to slow down just in case it has some deer in the pack behind it that are following or the deer changes its mind because it doesn't want me to be in between it and it's herd to go back where they came from. This can involve scaling what appears to be a ten foot almost vertical wall of rock. Fawns will often wait until you get right next to them before moving because their defense mechanism is sitting still and hoping to not get noticed. So automated cars need to know what deer look like and how they behave since they are so common. Very occassionally I've had to avoid mountain lions and bobcats but based on road kill I've seen most people just drive over bobcats.
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> People downvoting this are cordially encouraged to have a look at countries that have no taxes.

No one is thinking there should be no taxation, just that there's a sizable chance here that the government is in the wrong. To reverse your argument: please point me to this magical utopia where the government is always right and they never abuse their powers.
Thank you for reminding me of the references, I had forgotten to check them out!

I wonder how much newer smartphones with bigger screens and more precise sensors could improve these results.

It's scary to think of how many different sensors could be used to gather even more information to make it more precise.
Not invariably, but it very well could. It depends on what the laws are. Same as here it depends on what the taxes are and how they are spent.
"pseudo-pipes"? As in %>% ?
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Honestly? Chips are full of undocumented commands. It's really, really annoying.

I've been working on getting small TFTs working, for example. Many of them use a common driver chip that supports your basic 8080 parallel interface. The driver manufacturer provides a datasheet documenting the various commands which it will accept.

So of course, to start the chip up, you need to send it a series of magic commands and data values which are not documented in the datasheet.

Adafruit was kind enough to explain the reasoning behind these values to someone who was presumably walking through the same steps as me to bring one of these screens up: https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=63229

I guess that maybe it prevents people from buying secondhand stock and getting it working from just the datasheet, without involving the original manufacturer? Anyways, caveat emptor. Even when there's only one seller to emptor from.
Help, help, I'm stuck in a tautology factory.
It's not cookie, it happens across different browsers. It's IP based.
It is still occasionally the way we do GUI development. What's your point?
I listened to that episode, and sort of regret it. I've heard these arguments, and they still aren't convincing. Have you read the article on their spaghetti code?

To be clear, I believe that most cases of unintended acceleration are caused by pedal confusion/floormats. Just because that's true of most accidents, that does not mean it's true of all of them.

Maybe it's because I work in the embedded space, but I've seen code written as indicated and terrible code like that is not reliable. It might work 99.999% of the time, but given 100,000 units, and a problem might occur every couple weeks. There is nothing magical about automotive software.
How did you learn these topics? Did you solve problems for each of them?
The author's rushed approximation of "-infinity dB" is disingenuous, and discounts the efforts of people who handle low-level signals.

For example, his claim makes it impossible to compare the ambient light level of an eclipse versus the light level from a full moon or new moon.

For example, not knowing the noise floor will make it impossible to tell whether a 16-bit audio recording, or 20-bit, or 24-bit is the best choice.

What is the "larger source of error" in using a decibel scale for brightness? Maybe the fact that human eyes are not perfectly logarithmic? But such a scale is very appropriate for calculating camera exposures.
That doesn't make any difference. It tracks across browsers that are not connected in any way except IP.
Ok, but where are you going to trade those derivatives?
You could potentially add translations to the dataset automatically (and generate mosaics with multiple images). Since you've done the transforms you have perfect knowledge of the new images and they're ready to train on
As opposed to playing football or hockey, which is super good for your long term health!

Admittedly, those two are at an extreme in terms of destroying your body, but they're not alone. Gymnastics leaves people in rough shape in their later years. I'd imagine figure skating and tennis are also pretty hard on you too.
That would not help. Amazon knows what you looked at because you did it on their site.

It's not Facebook tracking you, it's Amazon.

It's also not Facebook giving you the ad, it's Amazon. So technically not a privacy violation.
Maybe he searched and looked you up on Facebook and it's somehow enough signal to suggest him?
I'm not trying to appeal to authority. When you play a WTA tournament, it's only fair that you have to abide by their rules. Playing tennis, or playing in another tour that doesn't ban your drug of choice shouldn't be banned.

This has nothing to do with my opinion on general drug use, which I agree has been demonized.
OP also said they used two completely different browsers
The problem is that the worst coaches exist too. The reality is that you're going to have kids with even worse chronic long term problems after they play through.
Sure. That's at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/

If you're unfamiliar, this isn't particular to any distro necessarily, although yes it is largely. It's just a fantastic resource for documentation on all kinds of packages and system configuration.
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It's by IP address.

I know this because you can browse for something on Amazon on one machine, then find ads for that item on an entirely different machine - but one that's using the same WiFi.

Good luck buying a surprise present for a Significant Other. If you try, they'll see ads for it on Facebook.
Switzerland is doing pretty good. It is the only country where I know the citizens say we have decided instead of the government has decided. Oh, and they do pay taxes.
I wish there were a sport where anything goes performance enhancement wise. Full-on hulks just roiding out and showing PEAK human performance. Is there anything like this in the world?
There is some process that is running a spatial join. You were both logged into facebook at the same time, and were in close proximity.

I had a similar situtation where Facebook recommended that I friend a coworker that sat next to me.
Planes are a good argument for the opposite.

Do you ever wonder why there are two pilots on every commercial airliner? It's not because airlines like paying so many more pilots- notice how fast flight engineer/navigator positions disappeared as flight management technology and GPS made them unnecessary. But still two pilots are there on every commercial flight, why?

Simple answer: the airline industry has learned, through a lot of lessons in blood over decades, that even with automation you really need a pilot who is always ready to intervene right this second, not in three minutes after they've mentally caught up to what the situations is. And in order to provide that sort of guarantee over many hours, you need two pilots, so they can switch off responsibility. That's because commercial airliners on cruise, way above any animals, terrain, etc. still have situations where immediate human intervention is safety critical. (And when pilot minds fall behind the power curve the result is things like AF447, so it seems like the industry is right about the importance of this human monitoring and intervention.)

So if this well studied, easier externals problem requires someone on ready for immediate intervention at all times, how quickly do you think that a much harder problem like driving is going to get solved sufficient to allow human free driving?
Meldonium is included in the WADA Prohibited List of substances, therefore its use in sport is by definition doping.

https://www.wada-ama.org/en/what-we-do/the-prohibited-list
Presumably because you don't think those services are worth it or that the money is intelligently spent.

Personally, despite being aware of those issues, I take some manner of pride in the fact that I declare my side income properly and pay taxes on it, even when the people who paid me make an explicit point to pay with cash. I do my fair share, and that's why I feel entitled to whine about people doing a shoddy job at managing it. ;)
Who said drugs are bad? I'm pretty sure they are great, from the vast literature out here.
There was a periodic survey of Olympic athletes asking "would you take a PED that guaranteed a gold medal and shortened your lifespan to five years?", more than half said yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman%27s_dilemma

The update in that wikipedia link point to changing attitudes in more recent years.
There are lots of jokes about computers, and, the last time I checked, computers don't have butts.
Is free Wi-Fi for all South Africans possible?
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Yeah, I have no idea what's available in Europe. If what you've tried is not based on cultured nuts, I'd assume it's not very good.

Miyoko's Creamery also makes a fantastic cultured butter that's based on cashews and coconut oil (but with no coconut flavor). It's very creamy and hard at room temperature, much like butter and completely unlike margarine.
That money is a drop in the bucket. At best it would pay for one traffic intersection.
It's pretty obvious, isn't it? If something is used as treatment for a pathology it's not doping.

Besides, the difficulty to define something so as to cover any potential eventuality is a fallacy: -100degF is cold, 200degF is hot, and saying that any line we might draw as a cutoff for hotness is arbitrary in no way challenges the concept of heat itself.
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You can perform a denial of service attack on a naive server with a maliciously crafted PNG. Just send a zip bomb and see what happens when it decompressed it. The naive approach will crash the server when it tries to malloc successively larger buffers.

https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/deflate.html
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Yet it is the same management board.
To be fair, the original commenter only mentioned "cheating," not "bad." It's pretty reasonably to claim that using drugs that are banned by the governing body of your sport qualifies as cheating.
Yes, it's horrible.
Yes, and my point is that a very wealthy person could easily rent an apartment in Nevada, obtain a Nevada driver’s license, open a Nevada bank account, register to vote in Nevada, obtain a Nevada automobile and renter’s insurance, join a Nevada synagogue, and sell one of his many homes prior to the date of his asserted residency change, but do all of the above with a simple intent to defraud the taxman, have no real desire or intent to actually live or spend time in Nevada for any substantial length of time, and just live at one's various other homes while going to Vegas occasionally to gamble.

Note that I have zero knowledge of the particular individual in question, so I take no position as to whether or not the above is true in this particular instance. I am just asserting that the taxman looks into this because it does happen. People see the simple legal test, and try to back-out some evidence that they think will satisfy the IRS or similar authorities.
Sounds like an argument for better safety measures in those sports, not fewer.
I like your way to define it better, because it also provides an inherent way of avoiding (more, probably not all) scams.

Don't buy stuff for the sole purpose of hoping for profit. Things you buy need to have intrinsic value. The least thing you have is a logical reason why someone else would buy it for more. And in that case early adopters of ICO-scams are doing it the smart(er) way. Because they buy coins for less than the offering price and can guess from marketing hype what they may get on offering day for it.
How would you regulate it? If you decide some things are dangerous and forbid their usage then you are back to testing athletes because they might use it anyway if it is still effective.
> Audio recognition is difficult for a different reason: language is difficult to disambiguate without context.

That's not the only reason audio recognition is hard. If it were, audio recognition would be exactly as hard as interpreting written text.
FWIW, to others reading this thread, if you run Linux the Arch Linux Wiki is an amazing resource you should check out, regardless of what distribution you run.

Some of the info there is, of course, Arch-specific, but most of it can be applied to any other Linux distribution.
Nothing wrong, I just think it is silly. It's only feature is on-chain voting on protocol changes, something that wouldn't have prevented the Bitcoin hard-fork, for example. It also assumes hard forks are always bad and that everything can be agreed upon with votes, as if everybody were always satisfied with election results.
If you know LaTeX you could probably bill yourself out to ICO scammers to port their white papers.
https://github.com/aleksandar-todorovic/awesome-linux

You can look up all the awesome lists here: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
> I've seen from skimming the first few chapters, it uses 100% standard natural deduction proof trees. How would you present the proofs?

You're totally right. I just really don't like proof trees, nor do I think they're clear when first starting out studying logic.
Doping really, really, really works!

Once I did a lot of weight lifting. I gained weight from 65 kg to 75 kg but then hit a wall. Whatever I did I couldn't get above 75. There were several guys like me but all of a sudden some gained weight again. Not just a little, but 10 kg in 8 weeks. I asked them what's going on and they all told me they got steroids from Poland. The progress was amazing. Since then I am pretty sure that all top athletes take something. The advantage is just too much.
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I believe you never had a cat and did not have a chance to see them expressing complex abstract ideas like "let me out to the patio right now or else".
Perhaps Magnolia http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175880/ with all the separate stories coming together in the end is an example?
The generic concept of performance enhancing drugs has always concerned me. I've seen nootropics crop up on hacker news occasionally, and I have this terrible feeling that someday the only way to remain competitive in whatever you do will be to take performance drugs regardless of the consequences (unknown or not), be they mental, physical, or otherwise...
PRIDE fighting in Japan explicitly does not test for anything.
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> There seems to be some limited automotive technology available that would convert sirens to visual signals

Yes, I've noticed this too. Sometimes you can almost see blue and red flashing lights on top of a police car.
If the tax man wins at taxing someone outside one's actual jurisdiction, everybody loses.

I'm probably going to be in a similar fight (albeit with far less money involved) due to me having moved to Nevada from California this year. I'm not looking forward to a Californian tax man trying to wring me for money despite me residing outside of California for the entire time I've been employed this year.
Bingo. If you equate this technique to a DB migration, you could have "up" and "down" directions for the translations from version N <=> N+1.

Then if you have 90% confidence you'll only ever need to replay the upgraded stream, you can upgrade it and destroy the previous version.

If at some point (the remaining 10%) you need to rescue the old stream, you can run the "down" direction and rehydrate the old version of the stream.
Cool. The authority of the sport that the author played was the USTA, not the WTA. The author says, "For the record, meldonium is not illegal (or “scheduled”) in America, nor is it banned specifically by the USTA." I presume you have now 100% flipped your opinion on whether the author cheated, based on your not having read the article carefully.
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Yet, FB doesn't know that you bought it. Just knows that you did the research. It would show you the ads regardless of if you bought it or not.
I suspect FB uses location and/or WiFi data as one of entry points. Note that smartphones often scan WiFi networks even when WiFi is off.

Based on the high intersection of two sets of SSIDs names visible from two devices at the same time, you can decide two people were in one room together. If this happens regularly, you can be quite confident people "know" each other in some way, which can unveil many surprising "friends" recommendations.
What are your main uses for Cygwin as opposed to just using WSL / Bash on Windows?
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At the age of 34 I decided to buy an electric skateboard (Evolve Bamboo GT).

After 1 week... speed wobble in my neighborhood, black eye, concussion (I was wearing a helmet), horrible road rash (I was wearing a winter hoodie but it rolled up on me).

They're fun, they're cool, but they're so simple to use you forget about your abilities.
Small clarification (I wrote my parent post super late last night). Via the Deduction Theorem, we have:

⊢ A -> B => A ⊢ B

That's what I mean by "A proves B"