skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The time logs were an accurate capture of what was spoken of are virtually nonexistent. Sure, it captures whatever the writer thought important but it also didn't capture all the little side talks which will save you two weeks later when you remember a person mentioning it.

As I said, you can also simply decline the meetings you know. Just go to the ones that have an agenda that suits you. If there is no agenda, don't go. If you work from home to escape meetings it is definitely not worth it. I'm convinced remote meetings are a downside of the remote working, not one of its pros. It has pros, like no commute. But when the commute is only 15-20 minutes I'd say it pays off to have your workers in one spot.

Just don't set any expected hours. If a person wants to leave at 2pm don't ask questions. He obviously has something to do. Groceries, doctors appointment, exercise, having a beer in the garden; it shouldn't matter.
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The whole idea of a world expo seems pretty outdated these days. Nobody cares anymore.
But are the people in question really managers, or just harvesters of stock options?
I think he is not considering working only 4 days a week unliterary. He is considering negotiating working only 4 days a week instead of a pay rise.

He can try to negotiate whatever he wants, for example working only 4 hours per day, or 3 days a week, or ... but the employer is not forced to agree.
> you Yanks also don't have kettles

Mind blown. What on earth do they boil water with?
> no witness testimonies are properly isolated.

Can't we make them properly isolated?

The article says you need 3 things for reliable witness testimony: 1. Do not repeat the lineup, 2. Ensure the suspect doesn't stand out, 3. Record the confidence of the witness when identifying the suspect.

If law enforcement follow these 3 rules and the witness identifies the suspect with a high degree of confidence, it seems the identification is very reliable. That would be a practical benefit.
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The majority of Venezuelans neither know, nor care for crypto coins, primarily because they don't have money in any form in the first place (and they never had that much to begin with, even before the crisis).

It says here: "Bitcoin trading volume in Venezuela jumped to $1.3 million this week".

This just shows how insignificant this is. These are the kind of money a supermarket located in a good spot can make in Latin America in a day, much less in a week.
What do you mean Brasilia? It might have an empty feeling sometimes(especially compared to other crowded Brazilian cities), but it is growing and thriving, can't say the same about Astana or Naypyidaw because I've never been to either
I don't know about the website, but I was really impressed at how fast they released a new iOS app (right after buying Alien Blue) which looks pretty awesome as well.
Wow, I was not expecting so many to be biology and chemistry. Good reminder that computer science isn't the whole world. Nice to see EM, simulated annealing, and Levenberg Marquardt in the bottom 50.
This. For about the cost of a NASA rocket testing facility that wasn't even used once [1], these guys built and flew not just the first fully private rocket ever but also an upgraded one that's competitive to the largest launchers currently on the market [2]. Just give these people some money, at least they're spending it efficiently.

[1] http://swampland.time.com/2014/01/08/the-nasa-launchpad-to-n...
[2] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/14379/nasa-cost-es...
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No one is forcing you to buy the car. If you don't like the terms of the license, don't buy it.
>simply stopping is a completely viable option 99% of the time.

For a naive definition of "vaiable" that does not take into account other people that need to use the roadways. A car stopping or even slowing drastically in a lane will have the same negative affect on the transportation system as a minor accident.
Since when is spending trillions to attack a nation justified by its leader being an asshole? Saddam was mild compared to many other regimes at the time and was a US ally for years prior.

We basically annexed Iraq to support US regional interests and the idea that Saddam's personality had anything to do with it is absurd.

The ugly sectarian conflict we supported was effectively a cleansing of many of the nation's fighting age citizens...
> you want to say you only go for no risk big corps

Yes -- I think it's worth pointing out the upsides of this option to counter the breathless startup optimism I routinely see on this site.
Typically there is a "script", not the code kind, that is followed for every dodgy Word document received, and following the script is outsourced. The production team is in charge of coordination with the outsourced team and final proofing of the XML and all the vagaries of pre publication that comes from 90s era processes and software and interactions with other ancient systems.

However! Once published and out the door, the shiny XML is available for scraping and transformation, and, if OA, there is no reason the XML can't be made public: https://github.com/elifesciences/elife-article-xml

An excellent bit of software that takes advantage of it is Lens: https://github.com/elifesciences/lens
There is a reason installations list the materials they're made of in the title card.

Take a work like Love Remembered [1] this could have been easily created using actual pills but making the piece with actual pills is a completely different work of art than painstakingly sculpturing a representation of real pills. The same way Crematorium [2] could have been recreated using sculptured cigarette butts and a synthetic smoke smell but it wouldn't be the same experience as walking up to the piece and about a meter or so away the stale stench of smoke hits you (the piece genuinely reeks) and knowing that it's real stale cigarettes.

[1] http://www.damienhirst.com/images/hirstimage/DHS6220DtlL1_77...

[2] http://www.damienhirst.com/images/hirstimage/DHS469rt1_771_0...
I agree, the idea behind the expo was to have worldwide showcases for stuff most people would not have been able to see otherwise, but with the internet that seems pretty useless.

Showcasing just for the show is a little bit outdated, I suppose they could pivot around some concept, like major sporting events are still very popular(Olympics and World Cup).
That echos the sentiment many Romanians have towards the palace in Bucharest.

The city considered tearing it down but it turned out even that was too expensive so now - reluctantly - they are using it for some government functions. It's super inefficient though, the energy bill alone is monstrous, especially in the winter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Parliament
side gigs, but they are annoying when you got something better to work on
I don't think that would work out for very, for a number of reasons:

1. Reddit already has competitors, and lots of them. By putting a 'pay to join' barrier up, they just send said competitors more users which gives sites like Voat a huge boost in popularity.

2. It's also competing with online forums and community sites, the vast majority of which are free. Will people really spend money to talk about say, video games or R/Gaming or R/Games when tens of thousands of forums for the same topic exist and are open to join for free? Perhaps not, which would give the likes of IGN, Gamespot and NeoGAF a huge boost among many others.

3. $12 is a lot of money for some Reddit users. For example, people in poorer countries/where the local wages are lower, people without a steady job or career and kids/teens in general.

4. Reddit's entire popularity is dependent on the work of its users. If they can't afford it or leave, then the site will lose out on future popular content, and likely enter a popularity death spiral.
Here in the southeast, tons of roads have leftover sets of lane markings from when lanes were shifted over. Or no lane markings because of a lag between relaxing and marking lanes.
Right, those have actual rain sensors. AP2 vehicles will eventually rely on the camera to detect rain. AP2 cars are waiting on a future software update to make this happen.
The US passport system has you bring in your own photos as well. I wonder if the various law enforcement facial recognition databases account for the potential of people altering photos...changing the distance between eyes, nose, etc. Of course, end users can't alter mug shots.
There's a few downsides with your approach IMO.

a) You now have an AppleVersion Property as well as Version Property, that feels potentially confusing for any user of that class. I now have to find the differently named Version property every time I use an entity?

b) You have to manually write that exact boilerplate code on each specific case of Entity, and there might be a lot more if it isn't a simple example. In my case you get it for free through the generics.

The automatic casting doesn't strike me as a problem, eliminates boilerplate code and the where statement ensures type safety. I've yet to see a single concrete argument against my approach.

I didn't mean it as my way or the highway, I merely wanted to issue a warning on creeping dependencies that generics might cause if you don't have non-generic interfaces, the rest I guess is a matter of taste.
The friction isn't about the workflow when the system just works.

There are gains to be made in situations where I'm using another computer, or my phone, or the password manager isn't recognizing the site properly, or isn't finding the right the input fields.

But mostly the friction is in front of all those users who don't use password managers. There are gains to be made in making the setup process simple, secure, and predictable. There are gains in making it cross-browser, cross-platform, and well-integrated with the setup process for browsers and operating systems.

Users "don't want" most things, until a lot of thought and effort gets made to create a wholistic solutions that just work.
Everybody should thank Assange for what he has done for us, regarding he is an ass or not.
I drive through a construction zone once a week where the old lane shift lines and the new ones are close enough in quality to make following the lines instead of the traffic around you a very bad idea.
It fetched ~50K Guilders in an auction by Mak van Waay, which in the 1970's was a lot of money.
confused. it is just a funny website.
Remote working is another buzzword loosely and sometimes cynically interpreted by corporations. Case from real life - the person in particular location (outsourcing center) is the only member of the team which is located entirely in a different location. The person has to be daily in the office and communicate with the remote team. A "remote work" but... from the office!
Undeniably.

Also undeniably, there's an abundance of complicated financial analyses, and emotional responses, to these kinds of events.

My mention of the Sydney 2000 Olympics was on point -- official figures peg it at somewhere north of $2b, but official figures hide all the infrastructure spend that wasn't formally attributed to the Olympics. You can probably take that figure upwards by close to an order of magnitude in terms of real costs / set back to the local economy. Other Olympics have exhibited similar effects, with Barcelona being perhaps the perfect storm (it's undeniably complicated, with many infrastructure projects bundled into that event, but conservative estimates suggest it was around 12 years to pay that event off).

I don't doubt that there's a hugely convoluted and complex arrangement with various players in Kazakhstan and BIE, with precious little chance of an accurate summary of the financials for the event ever coming to light.
Use deep learning to train a bot to scan the Internet for lookalikes of oneself and assume their identity.
The witness is also susceptible to suggestion. If they are reached over the telephone, or have a conversation with a family member, or the police accidentally (or intentionally) suggest something in an interview, then they are tainted.

If the defendant is resourceful, then the chance of any of these happening blows up.
Yeah. You can think of a World Expo as a very poorly implemented web site. You have to travel to the data, not the other way around.

Before we could instantly ship data anywhere, it made a ton of sense to put many things in one location so you'd only have to travel to one place, but now it's rather pointless.
Hiring is definitely a big aspect for Self Racing Cars as well.
There are a number of download urls that are "one-time" use. Shouldn't this at least download the output to a /tmp file?
Botulism is incredibly rare in Europe (maybe a handful of cases in each country per year); in which regions is it an issue? The article mentions canned foods which I imagine are not so common in countries with food scarcity.
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Do you work for Deere or something? That's exactly the opinion that most people are against when applied to hardware as evidenced by the support (among people aware of them) for "right to repair" movements.

The "you don't actually own the hardware you paid for" model is slowly becoming untenable for hardware sold to individuals.
As one might guess, there is a lot wrong with this list even within there stated goals. My examples are drawn from mathematics, since that's what I know. They appear to use the journal to classify category, which doesn't work very well since many of the best results are published in general journals. Additionally, since citation counts vary so widely between sub-fields, there is a strong pull towards selecting misclassified work from higher-citation fields. For example the paper "High-dimensional centrally symmetric polytopes with neighborliness proportional to dimension" is listed in geometry but belongs elsewhere, and there are no probability papers in the category "Probability and Statistics with Applications". Also, the "Pure & Applied" category is meaningless. That list seems to be the most cited papers from five arbitrary journals. I guess it's a reminder that these problems are hard to automate, and that your work doesn't have to be perfect to share.
The problem is that if you do that, you won't be able to use the epassport gates. Not that they are very efficients, but perhaps one day they will be.
What is this supposed to convince me of? I am now more convinced that Assange is guilty if this is the way his defenders talk.

This reads like a guy trying to defend a rapist. Does he seriously not understand why people get touchy on the subject of sexual assault when he calls it political correctness? This is not simple unorthodoxy as alleged in your link but a serious crime.

It's​ also hilarious that he is compared to Gandhi at the end.
> as if something's off

I suspect 2018 is the year that stops being an thing
In the article, “There’s two big ways to piss off the Kazakhs. Mention Borat, or call the dome the Death Star.”

The title: "Kazakhstan Spent $5 Billion on a Death Star and It Doesn’t Even Shoot Lasers"

Laughed out loud.
Blog author here. I think that Oracle has been the best corporate owner for MySQL, much better than Sun and standalone MySQL.

I write these posts to document & market the problem and motivate upstream and my team to make things better. I don't think they are ruining MySQL.
macOS is a wasteland, if anyone is investing in it today then they are a fool or have been fooled.

The IPC performance is still abysmal (noticeable latency in several applications) after 16 years of kernel development. The scheduler is meh, the features offered by the kernel are generally meh. The UI and multimedia libraries were quite good, but they neutered them by incrementally removing customization opportunities, and now there's little left. No way to install a codec or container in Core Audio or Core Video, so you can't play or Quick Look Opus or VP9 or a Matroška file in standard applications. Their OpenGL drivers are garbage, absolute putrid garbage, especially on the integrated graphics; they still only support OpenGL 4.2 (read: the year 2011) on any GPU, and on Intel's GPUs performance is often 60% worse than performance on Linux and Windows (which are generally on par). If their Metal implementation shares its shader compiler with their Intel OpenGL implementation, then it's likely that you will never see any performance benefit from Metal on Intel graphics because your application is probably shader bound due to their drivers. And if we're being fully honest, if they were trying to make developer lives easier, they would add Vulkan support, but they refuse.
It's worth noting that, while NUL is valid UTF-8, there's a lot of software which will fail strangely when presented with it, since UTF-8 is so often used to interoperate with NUL-terminated C strings. If you write such a string to a C string then it will be silently truncated.

I ran into this once with an Objective-C program that created filenames from strings found in files. When presented with a string containing NUL, the code ran, but didn't really work. I'd get "foo" and then ask it to append ".txt" and the result would come back as "foo" still! And it depends on the context in which you use it. Using it as a filename truncated, because you ultimately go through the POSIX-level calls that use C strings. Printing it in the debugger truncated, as evidently it used C strings at some point in that process. Displaying it in a text field in the UI worked perfectly fine, though, as apparently that path never uses C strings and the NUL character is just an invisible zero-space character in the middle.
Is there a relationship between democracy and the rudeness of border control officers?
Maybe we'll reinvent it in VR.
Just curious why I can't downvote the comments on this thread?
It's sort of like what Facebook did to class reunions.
While I'm sure more sensors gives a better chance at consensus I don't think relying solely on visual data is a problem if done well (low false positive false negative rate, comprehensive trained, fault tolerant)
I haven't been on K5 for ages .. can you recollect some of amazing content to tell me what I may have missed?
Not sure but that's pretty confusing to me too tbh without close inspection. The car in front seems to be treating it as a fog line too.
I might actually end up doing that.

But honestly what a waste of resources. I would prefer to be able to work on topics that are not problems created by a recent shift of view of how compiler should be designed and optimize, shift that is for the worst IMO.

And yep I know the reason in the current design for why it is not always easy. That's why I added the caveat that maybe they should be changed.

But then you can not just says that all the users criticizing and "trivializing" the problem are in the wrong and do not know what they are talking about. First, most of the discussion I've seen either points at technical justification of why those crazy optim should not be done, be it for safety, possibility of real optimizations by the programmers (and to compare, I'm not impress about the capability of compilers to take poor code and to transform it to somehow less poor code, especially when the language in question is C, that always required mastering); or points to discussions of compiler authors that are borderline insane (when you see them discussion about how technically the standards would allow to not consider uint8_t and char as alias, a
This should be very useful if the reviews are trustworthy and more specific than what Glassdoor provides today. Glassdoor reviews are too nebulous sometimes and a service which brings out the best/worst/commonplace of every company in open.

All the best.
Yes, context is everything when looking at benchmark results. I am showing the worst-case for this performance regression. Thanks for mentioning that. Note, that is my blog.

I also showed the impact for IO-bound workloads, and even there the regression is larger than I want. But not as bad as the in-memory workloads.
Oh that's cool. Would be even cooler if he had embedded some obvious artificial artifact through steganography in the image.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

I've been messing with the system here by sanding off my prints before applying for a passport:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-belt-sander-and-the-battle-f...

That was a fun exercise but this guy takes it to the next level.
As an employee, reading posts like yours makes me sad. In the very real world that I live in, people get paid by their employers a rate they negotiate before employment begins, and use that money and the benefits provided to support themselves and their families.

Loyalty always seems to flow upwards in companies like you describe, where employees are expected to sacrifice during the hard times, but the company doesn't reciprocate during the good times.

I work hard in my job to fulfill the requirements I agreed to during the negotiation, but if the company can't or won't hold up it's end of the bargain, expecting me to continue to do so without compensation is just predatory behavior.

This is the business world, and the employer-employee relationship is a business relationship. Anyone who tells you otherwise is usually trying to take advantage of you.
Could you clarify?
Regression is expected with new features. Oracle has been a great owner for MySQL. I think we, including Oracle, can make progress on this problem.
> .25x speed?

That's a bit of an overkill.

Regardless, there was two points in the video ~48 sec, and ~1.40 min/sec mark. The car stopped AFTER turning... I thought that was really strange behavior. Then when it passes the pedestrians, it almost went to a complete stop, instead of going slightly to the left and mildly slowly down.

Overall, it's a great case study. I think your criticism is technical snobbery instead of what this means for the average person. The future is here, get ready. When techies complain that someone is doing something with 'x tool' and not 'y tool'...I think those people are just throwing mud around and not actually contributing to the conversation. Build something better if you're going to nitpik over the technical details. It would serve you better and all of humanity.
> For example - why would a 3D model based on high-quality photogrammetry be any less "real" than a digital photograph.

Because it isn't. It shows that you can get a digital ID based on the photograph of an entity that technically never existed, it's a texture map around human shaped blank, not a photograph of a human. You can bet that to the authorities this is a real problem.
Has anyone run similar tests for MariaDB? That is my blog, but I have been too busy with upstream MySQL to test MariaDB.
To be fair, his "photo" looks a lot more like him than my passport photo looks like me. It was taken early in the morning with an ancient camera under fluorescent lights at a post office. I am tinted decidedly green and my eyes look half closed. I look more like an extra on The Walking Dead than an international traveler.

He claims the photo is a "fiction". All photos are. The photo's job is to say that "the person identified by this card looks like this" to an official looking at that card. If he modeled his head well and chose good render settings, it might be truer than a "real photo" in this regard.