skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you’re referring to this part:

> This last point is contentious but make no mistake: PEDs are ahead of detection capabilities. I think that at this point any elite athlete _not_ on PEDs is doomed to fall behind.

If you’re looking for links out of curiosity, below is a quote from an article where athletes were stripped of medals in 2016 for 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.

“The IOC, which stores samples for 10 years, reanalyzed more than 1,000 samples from the 2008 Beijing Games and 2012 London Olympics with improved techniques that can detect the use of steroids going back weeks and months, rather than days.” [0]

Wikipedia has an entry [1] on stripped Olympic medals with references to the announcements.

If you’re looking to refute that statement, I can offer up an anecdote in support of the statement from a panel discussion with the former head of WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) I attended during the 2010 Winter Olympics [2].

Playing baseball in my youth we had coaches who played division 1 college baseball. The phrase we were told between the ages of 14-16 was, “if you’re not cheating, you’re not competing”. That’s the college baseball wisdom that was brought back to Canada. It’s not hard for me to imagine how that can move on to taking PEDs.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/olympic-medals-stripped-d...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stripped_Olympic_med...

[2] https://chancentre.com/events/sport-society-sport-ethics-tec...
I think that's there to highlight that he never completed his PhD, and therefore is a "Mr." rather than a "Dr."
Sorry, taken :-D https://who.is/whois/e-squatters.com
Guestmeter Anroid App Is Live Tripadvisor Booking Reputation Management
Ugh, in every thread there's some guy complaining about people's opinions, just because they don't specifically mention the brands and events from the specifc article linked.

"A Panasonic TV gave your voice-search data to the police? Irrelevant! We're discussing a Mitsubishi smart-stove phoning the FBI because it detected you cooking Panda meat."

I wish these people would realize that the problem is smart devices in general and stop complaining that the tiniest of circumstances make an entirely new case.

I understand that this sort of emotional populism resonates with people: "lol, no - this case is totally different and you have to suck it!" but when I click on a headline I expect to see people engaging with the heart of the issue, not dodging and dissembling because they're offended by the implications.

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Yeah, I get ya. It is annoying that people don't address the specific topic at hand, but you have to realize that the specific brand (LG) of the TV isn't the issue - companies blatantly invading our privacy is. If we get too distracted on which company is doing it this week we'll look up in a few years and realize we're arguing over whether Samsung or LG is sending our records to the government instead of fighting for a blanket users-rights bill and it'll be too late, both will be.
I am worried that Intel will present a new encryption tech that turns out to be 5 years old /s
ICEs are dead technologies that will not survive beyond 2035. It's better to kill off the dinosaurs sooner than push "clean coal."

Planting trees doesn't sequester carbon permanently or at scale to matter. It's totally woeful, wishful thinking as proven by Thunderf00t.
Most data in large enterprises e.g. telcos, banks, insurance etc are not stored in a single data warehouse with well-defined relationships. They are in multiple disparate silos of which their EDW is just one.

It's why Data Lakes become so commonplace because it was an easy way to just get all of the data out of the silos into one place so that the business could attempt to join between them.

And it's why MongoDB (and other unstructured friendly storage systems) have remained so popular because the reality is that those datasets are not well governed, no-one knows the schemas and no-one knows how to join between them.
The first scientist should ask the genie for more wishes, er, I mean, for the 3DbuilderAndExperimenter to build another 3DBuilderAndExperimenter
In America perhaps.

In the UK the term isn't used, iodine is not (or it's so rare I've never seen/heard of it, and can't find an example now) added ever, and anti-caking agent is only added if it's marketed as a table salt.
There are certainly recipes which are better than others for beginners. I believe I learnt how to cook and developed an intuition for it because for 2 years I cooked every day using one of the meal boxes subscription service, and the recipes were written for people who have no idea what they are doing. Exact recipes with plenty of pictures, and there was tonnes of variety too. Compared to some cookbooks that I have which will simply say "season to taste". Like.....what do you mean? Season with what? Etc etc etc.

And yes, blog recipes are the worst, but there are still excellent cookbooks out there, or even BBC Good food website has pretty good recipes without the bloat of people telling you their entire life story first
Correct, return is not an expression. But then again, he could if he wanted to, as the language designer ;)
Also Sergei Bubka's pole vault record from early 1990s was still standing till last year.
Just take however much feels appropriate, and double it!
Haha, reminds me of that FastApi guy's interaction with hiring reqs.

"5+ years experience in using Fastapi"
Isn't this extremely similar to Supply Me (SYME), except they use a lot more buzzwords; blockchain, AI, etc
I don't see what's political about that. It seems like a design decision you don't agree with (and neither do I at a first glance) but I fall to see any political intent.
It makes sense long would have needed a comment. It needs a comment because “long” and “double” are terrible names for data types. Long what? Double length what? Those type names could easily have opposite meanings and meant long floating point / double length integer. WORD/DWORD are nearly as bad - calling something a "word" incorrectly implies the data type has something to do with strings.

If you don't believe me, ask a non programmer friend what kind of thing an "integer" is in a computer program. Then ask them to guess what kind of thing a "long" is.

The only saving grace of these terms is they’re relatively easy to memorise. int_16/int_32/int_64 and float_32/float_64 (or i32/i64/f32/f64/...) are much better names, and I'm relieved that’s the direction most modern languages are taking.

(Edit: Oops I thought Microsoft came up with the names WORD / DWORD. Thanks for the correction!)
Sure. In my case it was friends of family, and family of friends, sometimes a little distant but people were welcoming enough. Those were the best because you could stay a while and they were more relaxed with you, they usually wanted to show you around their town etc.

Also, sometimes I stayed in hostels that were small, family-run, more like a home than a hostel. So you saw the family life there too.

And some families rented out spare rooms. You used to meet people at a train station or other travel hub and size them up (does this happen now?). Sometimes get recommendations from other travellers going in the other direction. Important to note I wouldn't recommend this in general, particularly if you're female or travelling alone. And it requires a good deal of careful judgement and experience. I don't think I'd do this alone.

Maybe Airbnb makes this easier and safer nowadays. I've stayed in a lot of spare rooms in the US via Airbnb and had similar experiences.
I put them all in my RSS reader. I hardly ever subscribe to email newsletters these days, unless they're discussion lists, yep they're still around.
Google's search is appalling these days. If I search for three terms, I have to include "each" "of" "them" in quotation marks, or else Google assumes I didn't actually want to search for them.

It's incredibly frustrating when the front door to the internet doesn't actually do the one thing it's supposed to do.
They significantly reduce primary energy usage. When you generate one 1kWh in a thermal power plant you also generate an additional 1 - 2 kWH of thermal energy. So in statistics it will look like the thermal power plant produces more energy. If your city has district heating it might be a valid form of power, but right now we assume all the thermal energy is always useful and necessary which is especially bad in cars where you turn up to 70% of the energy into waste heat.

By increasing energy efficiency by a factor of 2 you easily cut down on energy usage.
The problem is that QM doesn't account for gravity so far - in QM as it exists today, particles have mass, but do not interact through gravity. This fits experiments, which is not surprising given that any theory of gravity we have today predicts that the gravitational attraction between two masses that low would be much smaller than what we can measure (remember for example that a kitchen magnet's electromagnetic force can oppose the gravitational pull of the entire earth, that's how weak gravity is compared to other forces).

Still, obviously large masses have gravity, so everyone expects that, even if we can't measure it yet, and don't know how to compute it yet, there must be some attraction between particles. There are some theories about it (for example string theory has something that looks like gravity), but since they all predict values much lower than we could hope to measure for now, the problem remains wide open.

However, simply applying Newton's or Einstein's theories of gravity to QM doesn't work. In QM, particles don't have a single position in space and time, each particle is more like a wave with peaks at different points in space at the same time. If you try to compute the gravitational field generated by all these peaks you get nonsense results. So, while we generally believe that there must be some gravitational attraction between particles with mass, we don't know how it would look like.

I think there are also some theories that predict that elementary particles do NOT interact through gravity, that gravity is somehow an emergent phenomenon of a collection of many particles (just like an elementary particle doesn't have a temperature, but a collection of many many particles does have one). I believe this is a pretty fringe theory, but not quite "flat earth" land. Just including it for completeness.
Don't they build datacenters with FM200 anymore? Even the antique Stanford datacenter I did some work in had bottles of it all over.
We don't run many power plants on oil.
The ISS is actually a pretty bad microgravity environment. Human occupants and their life-support systems lead to rather strong system vibrations. Also the low orbit required for efficient supply flights causes a significant amount of atmospheric drag. Space stations are mainly there for show, the actual science is better done somewhere else.
>... the CPO at Tinder, ...

Tinder is really good at having a lot of users, and making money for itself. Very little of that success has to do with the quality or strategy of the product, beyond perhaps the implemention of dark patterns.

I could probably write an entire thesis exploring how product thinking bullshit like this enables half-baked visions—and all the dynamics that encourage them—to rot society from within.

Speaking of vision, the article provides a definition of the term alongside that of mission, then proceeds to quote a 2017 letter from Zuckerberg:

"Give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together." Yes, I'm sure that really rang true after a bunch of mentally ill people trashed his own country's capitol, brought together in part by his technology.
> Too proprietary.

Every major cloud provider has a blob store. Most are S3-interface compatible, or can be fronted by something which is, like Minio.

> Can't be run locally, on robots, etc.

If the contents of your S3 keys are just line-delineated JSON files, you can easily download those files and run scripts or process them locally.

> Can't be transferred to other cloud providers.

Again, not true — a tool like rclone handles this case in a single command. Depends on the amount of data, but if anything it's easier to move a bunch of flat files between providers than copying a database backup around. You have to pay for egress bandwidth, though, of course.

> Also S3 is horribly slow to write or delete thousands of records at once.

If you're keeping one JSON record per S3 key, that is a blatant misuse of the tool and performance will be terrible. On the other hand, if you batch records into files of appropriate sizes, it's very cost-effective to store and query via Athena, Spark on EMR, etc.

If you need individual record-level access as identifiable by a key, then you'd probably be better off with Redis or Memcached. (though, those will not be as good for bulk offline processing) It's all about your access patterns.
> You can get a single box with hundreds of logical cores and many hundreds of TiB of locally attached ssd

And then that box falls over because the entire region fails like just happened yesterday with OVH. Or it just randomly fails like has happened to me with AWS dozens of times.

Vertically scaling a database on your own cloud instances is amateur hour. Either use a cloud-managed database or one that is highly available.
What if you moved to the west coast from the eastern coast (of USA) where a stick of butter meant something different?

This is a time interpretation could be a horrible difference.

https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/east-coast-vs-west-coast...
Earthquakes and typhoons. Historically buildings in Japan have been transient out of necessity, so it permeates Japanese culture.

Even shrines and temples are periodically rebuilt. For instance the Ise Grand Shrine (one of the most, maybe even the most important shrine of Japan) was rebuilt in 2015, for the 62nd time...
Self-blinding citizen science microdosing study shows effects equal to placebo
Yes, any particle accelerator has to account for the relativistic mass in order to function.
I’ve often wondered if it would be possible to make a type of gravitational radar. Imagine a large array of this type of detector spread over an area of a few square km. Combine the force vectors of each toward any specific point and it seems you should be able to monitor the masses at that point.

Edit: measuring the force of the ISS passing over head would require femtonewton precision for a mass of 100kg. Might be a bit tricky lol
Sure it’s nice that it bucks the trend.... but it also bucks the usefulness!
Learn and practice using Occam's Razor with exercises
I want to be great at making decisions.

But it's hard to practice and even harder to get feedback.

I've tried books, courses, and talks.

While some provide exercises, these resources are mostly informative.

This makes it hard to know if I really understood what i've learned.

And more importantly, if I can apply it.

That's why I decided to create the Decision School.

An online platform dedicated to providing exercises (with feedback) on decision making.

While the platform is being built, I will post exercises through this newsletter/blog.

Feedback is greatly appreciated.

Thank you!
Cogeneration would be much better for sure. In most countries heating with natural gas ends up being less carbon (after losses). But in France even resistive heating could be viable from a carbon perspective.

To be clear you should never do this, you should use a heat pump. But you could and it wouldn't be the end of the world.
AWS vs. Azure in 2021
Australian company Greensill that is involved in this area of finance has just become insolvent. They had Softbank backing.
Pft. If you can't envision how "phoning home" and turning the heat or AC, or whatever else you may have, on (or off) is handy then you aren't even trying.

Handy enough to warrant the risk? Probably not, but that doesn't negate the usefulness of the tech in general. But as is, you're just bitter like a fox unable to reach grapes... (totally something foxes eat.)

Anyways, just don't say silly things like "automation, lame!" just because you're (justly) paranoid about cloud companies giving your data to the government and every social engineer. It's still a good goal, the point is just that we should control our own data.
Is it so difficult to add satellite tracking to planes?
I was annoyed at how all the key data about games was spread out over multiple sites and not easy to see quickly. Ballreport shows the days upcoming nba games and the key data about the teams, odds and players. Its very basic at the moment but updates daily and i will be adding more functionality soon.
I've added a link to IPVM to the parent to my comment that might interest you!

Regarding established: I might be wrong! I willingly admit that I knew nothing about verkada some days ago. Seems to be relatively new (5 year-ish) and "classic" Silicon Valley in that they push hard for growth to get their valuation up and try to "disrupt" by running everything in the cloud. More sales people than R&D, which I think is uncommon.

Verkada runs full lock-in, so if you buy a camera from them you have to buy their services. This is again relatively uncommon. Most of the industry supports the ONVIF standard, so you can run the hardware you bought with different software solutions. If you want encryption at rest, no problem. You just make an on-premise solution with full encryption. With verkada you can't do that (incidentally verkada have mocked ONVIF due to alleged security concerns, but obviously it undermines their business model with full lock-in).

Since combining verkada and other hardware would require parallel systems I made an educated guess that most customers would be places without previous hardware and/or less concern for the long run. Most large and high value targets have previous hardware, but certainly there are exceptions. And as stated earlier, I might be wrong:)

And lastly, you should be suspicious! Last time I bought a car I was very suspicious. I like the car I did buy very much, but next time I will be just as suspicious again. That's how things should be when it's about trust and high impact.
I'm not sure that it would. The Earth isn't perfectly spherical so the gravitational field will be different at different times in the orbit. Then because it is orbiting you'll also have to deal with tidal forces (bits slightly closer to the Earth will want to move slightly faster), not to mention possible acceleration from solar radiation or small amounts of atmospheric drag.
https://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/grace/
> Also, all languages I used support parametrized queries so you do not have to mix data and query strings. Not converting data to strings is not an argument for ORMs, it's an argument for parametrized queries.

Your "parameterized" queries are still serialized strings. Many language bindings for SQL interfaces don't have good support for serializing data types, so you will often see things like ?::datetime in the template string. Some don't have the ability to parameterize column names (or have subtle bugs) either.

> People should really look into JOOQ to see what a SQL friendly ORM looks like.

I've never heard of JOOQ. Do you know of a good introduction?
Thanks for the pointer to Express API Gateway.

A took a look at Krakend a while back, and it didn't seem to support it either [1]

[1] https://github.com/devopsfaith/krakend/issues/274
Well I don't know the details, but if you read my comment below you'll see that there might be a good reason to use a complex memory model VM with GC.

I can't explain it, just claim that my code works and performs accordingly: https://github.com/tinspin/rupy
Also if we aren't talking about measuring spoons is it heapful or flat?

Also 30 cranks of black pepper? Are the pepper mills standardised? What is a crank full 360 degrees or less? Or some back and forth motion, but again how large motion? How does this even work with my electric grinder?
The real question is: What happened with the tomatoes?
IIRC most aircraft will require a series of inspections on parts if parked for a week. Most aircraft are built to be flown with little to no interruptions (other than for maintenance).

From what I recall, if your aircraft sits on the ground for a month, you need quite a few more intensive inspections to make sure it's still flight ready.

Aircraft will rarely park for a week unattended, the only reason they would be is a refit or major maintenance. Every hour an aircraft isn't in the air costs the airline A LOT of money.
I guess the Proud Boys deserve cookbooks too?

The use of the word “based” is almost always a white nationalist whistle or flag. Like flashing the “OK” sign so others know you’re a racist.

The first time I saw the word based was the first significant violent attack on a BLM protestor by white supremacist Kyle Chapman in 2017. The Proud Boys klan gave him the honorary title of “Based Stickman”.

The author of this cooking site most likely has white power affiliation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Chapman_(American_activis...
That's simply a myth perpetuated to cover up the fact that they are taking EPO.

Just like the myth created by the British in WW2 that attributed the success of the RAF at night to earthing carrots to cover up the fact that they were using radar.
Everyone's using 'redpilled' & 'bluepilled' to explain 'based'.. I think it's just too long since I've seen The Matrix for it to be clear how that applies to cooking, or even to a person's attitude towards cooking.

This explains: https://knowyourmeme.com/forums/meme-research/topics/57812-c...

> Being "redpilled" means you've come to accept some reality that differs from the mainstream interpretation, but is the factual and correct one. This can range from more serious issues ("there are only two genders") to more shitposty/comedic ones ("The Room is a cinematic masterpiece"). Whereas "bluepilled" is the opposite--you failed to understand the true reality of things and are stuck believing a false idea.

> Redpill and Bluepill are just another way of saying "My personal opinion is objective fact and what you think is objectively wrong"

It still seems like an odd adjective ('objectively correct') for cooking though, to me.
> Question: Since mass exerts gravitation force, wouldn’t it mean that any mass of any size shape would do that?

Yes. Absolutely everything should have a gravitational field.

> What am I missing when they say quantum particles do not fit with gravity.

Under Relativity, mass and energy are equivalent, therefore energy has a gravitational field. If you try to mathematically quantise the gravitational field the way the electromagnetic field was quantised (the latter giving you a photon, the former would be a graviton), then something goes wrong.

This is where my grasp of the physics gets a bit hazy; I think you find any amount of gravity should produce more gravity, and this self-generation blows up to infinity rather than summing to a finite value.

Or it might have something to do with the expected value of a corresponding zero-point gravity field? Or both? I’m not sure, I only do physics for fun.

I keep thinking it’s a gravitational equivalent to the Ultraviolet Catastrophe, but if it was that simple someone would’ve already solved it.
Search indices, at least in my experience, are denormalised views of relational data.