skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Artifact removal and denoising are only sort-of-kind-of the same thing.

At a high enough level, you are using a model of some sort to estimate (or guesstimate) changes in the image but the models for "X type of noise from the sensor" and "artifact due to block size choice" or "artifact due to aliasing in the RF domain" or whatever are quite different.
It wasn't a manager, but aomeone who worked in quality control. His managers wanted him to ignore these issues..

The most WTF moment for me was when he told about a whole ladder that has been forgotten inside.
I thought the norm was to pronounce SQL as "sequel" in Microsoft products and "ES-QUEUE-EL" in every other context
Due to limitations in Firefox's add-on API you have to set up web server to actually browse your saved pages, which is a big step backwards in functionality. Although I haven't tried it recently; maybe it's gotten easier to set up.
There’s no leather in the Model 3. But the seat material (“vegan leather”) is very nice.

I don’t think of the money spent as buying luxury. What it’s buying are the other amazing aspects of the car. Performance, range, efficiency, connectivity, updates, safety, etc. which may have some overlap with features of luxury cars, but it’s better to think of it as a next generation car where you are paying for that new tech, and any luxury touches you may get, while not measuring up to a teak wood console in some other car, are bonuses. Instead of the teak wood and alligator leather cigar holder or whatever, you are getting AWD that beats the pants off Subaru, Audi quattro, or anyone else, and all the other amazing things Tesla gives you.
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Typo: fake "investigations" into dossiers.
I use it as well in most of my formulations. It yields a high lather and is very cleansing (almost too cleansing -- it's often described as very "drying".) It's best used along with olive oil, to get a simultaneously cleansing + moisturizing bar.
That is just the stroboscopic effect. It’s an artifact of your measuring tool. I’m not saying that your lights aren’t flickering but your tool is introducing a lot to this system and so you can’t use it as evidence.
Physics doesent take a break because you are tiny.. replicator weight would crush other replicators.
There's also the fact that the Excel userbase is massive, so it's a sensible target.
Is there any good reason to treat subsidiaries as separate from the main entity for tax purposes? All these "subsidiary X licenses from subsidiary Y" schemes seem basically fraudulent in terms of common sense--none of it generates any real profits or losses for the parent company.
I don't see how this resolves BGP hijacking attacks? If I announce a more specific route all four locations should still land on my hijacked network... Or is this trying to race the BGP propagation?
I think its probably a lack of supervision and not a lack of protocols, if it were a lack of protocols the 787s assembled in Everett would have the same issues. Also, I have personally observed the use of protocols to prevent this in tours and (a long time ago) working in the Everett factory.
If it were just a "club" (as opposed to a protection racket) then joining would involve consent and you wouldn't have to move to quit. Also, it's not as if there's anywhere you could move to that hasn't been infested with its own "club".

Merely wanting to be left in peace in the place where you were born without being compelled to pay for things you never asked for is not "freeloading".
Uber had very good PR. In hindsight, we all know what a horrorshow Travis was, and how awful his company became. But when Fowler joined Uber, she was 24, and Uber was still on the rise, a beloved darling. It's entirely reasonable that she (and many others) joined on the basis of what the media and what recruiters were saying at the time.
The author also posted a 50-minute audio clip of his interview with Austen Allred: https://twitter.com/fulligin/status/1230162120701964289
Google would only have to disclose it if the loss is material, IIUC. I doubt it is on Google's scale.
No one asked for any of this. Where is the power button on this thing??
The only slowness I feel running off an NVMe SSD is iTunes on Windows. For some reason Apple made every basic click in iTunes have a built in delay. Doing almost anything has 300-5000ms of delay. Playing video and seeking ahead or back freezes for about 5 seconds for me, while VLC, MPC-BE or Power DVD are nearly instant for 60GB 4K UHD files played off a NAS.
These things you're mentioning are minor issues which have been blown out of proper proportion and context by a hostile media spoon-feeding political propaganda to a willing segment of the public.

That said, none of the things you mentioned are related to investigating tax evasion.

"Oh, you sneezed on Sally when you were in first grade without apologizing? You must be guilty of armed robbery."
One of the things that drew me to Linux in '93 was running 'find /' on the console. This was blindingly fast versus the same on a SparcStation 4 (a far more expensive and generally superior platform).

This was sort of an accident, in that SparcStation consoles were slow partly because they weren't meant to be used. But still, it was impressive as hell at the time.
It's beyond my understanding..
> how much is a brand worth? Clearly it is worth something. Facebook can do the most inane thing, but if they put their brand on it then it will have some value.

Then, Toyota should only pay taxes in Japan? Or Volkswagen?
I honestly cannot understand this attitude. It sounds like pure jealousy. You are saying that we should stop people from being too successful.

Bezos earned all of his wealth honestly. He offered products and services for prices that people were willing to pay. He did not steal. He did not force anyone into anything. If he is stupid rich, it is because he was able to provide things people wanted more effectively than anyone else.

How can you possibly justify punishing success? What right do we have to give him money for doing what we want, and then turning around and taking it away. What sort of message does that send to other people?

"Work hard and be successful, but not TOO successful..."
Europe's forest cover has been increasing for a while. Europe has 25% of the world's forests while being 6.8% of the world's total landmass.[0] Europe, as a continent, is only about 20% larger than Australia. South America is 75% larger than Europe with a lower population.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/264665/world-forest-area...
I hate to say this but a lot of unfounded speculation in your comment as well.

"Secondly, have you done your research? Surely Facebook is not the only company being targeted by the government right now. I can assure you that, surely there are more."

Can you back this up with some factual information? Would love to know more about other companies. Thanks.
Which is why this raises many red flags: it is indicative of a company culture that sooner or later will murder innocent people.
> It is illegal to discriminate on benefits coverage between women and men, so whether women are using their benefits more is wholly irrelevant. This is like saying that older people should make less because they get sick more--utter nonsense. Benefits coverage at a company is in any case designed to be pooled to reduce the risk.

> Whether you actually utilize your benefits should also have no bearing on whether you get promotions or raises, given that those are supposed to be tied to job performance, so I don't understand how that's related to my point.

You are misinterpreting my comment. It had been well documented that in job searches women prioritize benefits at a higher rate than men. So women might on average be getting $10,000 less in salary but also ~$10,000 less in benefits. This is not about utilitzation of the same benefits. This is about differences in men's and women's job preferences that result in unequal salary but equal overall compensation.

> Similarly, for being on the rotation less. If Google wants to include on-call hours worked in your salary, it has the option to pay explicitly for overtime. The reality, of course, is that Google does not want to do this, because this way they can pay both women and men less

Equal pay for equal work can also be violated by giving workers equal pay while allocating unequal work.

> Finally, I'm not sure why you trust Google's analysis of its own payment structure. Besides the fact that this is literally an instance of "we investigated ourselves, and didn't find anything wrong!", they've been repeatedly found to pay women and men different salaries for the same role when employees release their salaries (something the company officially denies doing). They also have a long history of executives blocking women's career advancement to punish them for reporting sexual harassment.

Google's analysis is conducted over all of their employees, for one. By comparison people typing their salaries into spreadsheets is 1) subject to people falsifying or misremembering their compensation, and 2) has a selection bias towards people who feel they are not compensated fairly. Furthermore, Google has the data to know the stock prices at the time equity packages are awarded, which affects compensation results (e.g. someone who started right before a rise in stock gets more money than someone after even though their original equity packages had the same dollar value).
It’s probably a result of the fixture. You need sufficient air flow to dissipate heat or they fail pretty fast.
I'd love to know what BeOS did to achieve those magical-feeling results, and why it hasn't been copied by everyone else. I reckon it's gotta have a lot to do with process scheduling and how UI events are dispatched, but if it's mostly those couple things, why isn't every modern OS doing what BeOS did? There must have been trade-offs I guess but from the user's perspective it seemed to be 100% an improvement over everything else—it's not like multimedia took a backseat to user interaction, or parts of the UI lagged so others could feel fast, everything felt smoother, quicker, and more responsive. On single core machines with 1/16 the memory it takes to start Slack, too!
The purpose of separate wires is twofold:

1. It's to provide protection in case of neutral failure. If you have an appliance with the case grounded via neutral and the neutral wiring fails, you now have the case connected to live (through any appliance that is switched on). With separate ground, nothing happens as you are only allowed to connect ground to neutral at a point where failure of the upstream wiring is practically impossible (i.e., wires so thick that they practically won't break).

2. It's to provide a path for ground fault currents that does not pass through the RCD, if you have an RCD. While neutral doesn't go through the circuit breaker, it does go through the RCD, so as to measure the difference in current between live and neutral. If your appliance is grounded vial neutral, any ground fault (connection from live to the case) looks like regular load current to the RCD, if it is grounded via separate ground, the fault current bypasses the RCD and thus causes it to trigger, even for a small current that would not trigger over current protection.
And, for a long time, price/licensing.
I would definitely be interested in hearing about how SEO was done. In house or outsourced? Any particular strategies that can be replicated in a different domain?
What could go wrong with blasting out ultrasonic noise in every direction? (Besides a lot of confused dogs...)
> Remember autoexec.bat files? Remember endless configuration to get one program working? Remember the computer just throwing its hands up and giving up when you gave it input that wasn't exactly what it expected? Remember hardware compatibility issues and how badly it affected system stability?

Maybe my memory is bad but I seem to have the same issues today, just in different shapes.

The operating system choose to update itself in the middle of me typing a document and then 15 minutes later while in a conference meeting the app decides that a new version is immediately required. Then I open up a prompt and the text is barely readable because the screen DPI is somehow out of sync with something else and now the anti-aliasing (?) renders stuff completely broken. According to Google there are 31 ways to solve this but none of them works on my PC. Then all the Visual Studio addins decide to use a bit much memory so in the middle of the debug process the debugger goes on a coffee break and the just disappear. In the afternoon I need to update 32 NPM dependencies due to vulnerabilities and 3 had simply disappeared. Weird.
I misinterpreted your comment. I thought you were saying SQLite was successful because SQlite itself (i.e. the implementation) was simple, not because it was simple to use.
That tendency to rathole and nitpick, while discarding the larger point, is increasingly frustrating.

It seems like a lot of this boils down to people getting stuck in a local maxima. If someone isn't used to zooming out to the big picture, are they more likely to solve problems in isolation and end up with layers of dependencies, npm installing all the things? Resulting in an unstable stack and less predictable ecosystem at large.
The average Malaysian lives in a city and isn't greatly affected by jungles either way. There are small numbers Malaysians who live off the jungle and others who work in jungle tourism and conservation too. And other Malaysians who work on palm oil plantations, of course.

The jungle's considerably more useful than palm plantations for the animals that live there, obviously.
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Trump Offered Assange Pardon If He Covered Up Russian Hack, Court Hears
It's also legal to claim your home office as a business expense, but most accountants will tell you to be really certain you don't use your home office for non-business use, because of the copious precedent for people getting in trouble when it turns out that their home office was really more of a guest bedroom / sometimes home office / sometimes gaming den.

Fill in a suitable analogy with "selling IP to a shell company for a song".
> Transit providers should

Agreed

> and generally do

Agreed.

Now if you can make it 'will always just push packets', we'll be golden.

Unfortunately, there are enough ATM/MPLS/SONET/etc networks being run by people who no longer understand what they're doing, that we're never going to get there.

To make matters more entertaining, IPv6 depends on icmp6 even more.
That's reasonable prepping.

"Extreme prepping" is the "bunker full of guns, ammo, 5 years of food, etc" version.
I'm fairly confident that gray goo, as described in dystopian sci fi, is impossible due to some of the consequences of entropy and its inevitable increase.

That is, the tinier a machine, the more susceptible it is to breaking down due to wear and tear. And the more energetic a machine, ditto. So incredibly tiny, incredibly energetic machines, would have a minuscule lifespan.

And that's not even touching on the issues of power supply and storage.

I think AI is a much more existential threat than gray goo.
Does anyone here agrees we would be better off with anarcho-capitalism system?
Get a power strip, WiFi plugs, and normal lamps.
If anything the exact opposite is true.

These planes are vetted so closely and strictly that will probably make them the safest plane in existence.

How many Airbus have messed up wiring or have debris in the fuel tank? None? Do you know why? Because nobody is looking at them with a magnifying glass.
The same ol'shite that is ruining most of the workplaces nowadays. Wtf you want? A job right? You've got it now do it properly and earn your money the right way..
But it's still available "now" so I don't think it's that inaccurate.
How do you know that the company sources their palm oil responsibly? And what does that really mean? I'd rather avoid products which may have been produced by clearcutting Orangutan habitat than take a chance that the "responsibly sourced" labeling on a Palm Oil product actually means what I think it does.
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Most of the time, yes, if SQLite supports the filesystem you are using. If the filesystem doesn't have a particular feature SQLite needs, it can be difficult to get working the way you want it to.
I looked it up, you're right, it is officially my-ess-que-ell. This leads to another question, how do you pronounce "NoSQL"? I couldn't find a convincing answer on the web. I used to say "sequel" for everything SQL related but clearly I was wrong.
Noted. I find the over-confidence over a completely imagined issue funny and interesting. I make that mistake too. It's always interesting to do a post-mortem: why was I so confident? how did I miss the correct answer? I respect the author for doing such a fast turn around :)
The double Irish is no more. Perhaps FB has been slow to restructure, or resistant.
Both dongles he lists have integrated 1090 MHz filters and amplifiers, to improve reception of Mode S/ADS-B signals.
I guess you don't like Apple evangelists either: you can't just buy some random hardware and just expect it to work on your MacBook. It only works that way on Windows because Windows has ~90% of the desktop market, so of course every hardware maker is going to make sure it works on Windows first, and anything else is a distant maybe.

Would you buy an auto part without making sure first that it'll work on your year/make/model of car?
PostgreSQL is the fun one out because they officially say it is Postgres-Q-L.

The "it's always S-Q-L and never `sequel`" is IBM's fault and an early trademark infringement issue in computing. (IBM was told it couldn't call it "SEQUEL" by an aircraft company.)
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> the days of pardons to political donors, political donations to jury members, and firing of whistleblowers and witnesses

How long have we been in these "days," would you say?
measure this versus age in different cultures and we'll finally have some evidence on nurture versus nature.

it's nurture + nature + serious amounts of work that makes extraordinary levels of talent; you can't get away with anything less.

imho, schools and the popular culture cause brain damage, so who knows what the actual situation is.

I know the article doesn't do this specifically, but since people will and do cite results like these as prescriptive facts which guide the people are waaay too complex and adaptable for helping us guide our lives.

also interesting: explore similarities in background between structural brain outliers.
> The other fun trick was finding someone who had left xhost+ open and while a boss was at their desk, popping open NSFW pictures on their screen in an xv window.

Did this ever end up actually getting someone in trouble? I've worked at a few places where it certainly would.
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It's obvious that it doesn't work every time and some people try to get stents instead of a open-heart surgery which leads to many devastating things.
>the amount of men don't cry, men don't show emotion

>I'm actually sad that most men don't feel like they can talk about their vulnerabilities and emotions.

Do they not talk about it, or have they not talked about it _to you_?

I used to believe the narrative that men don't talk about emotional issues, assuming my lifetime of experiences talking to other men about our perspectives, fears, limitations and feelings was some sort of aberration. It finally fell apart when I made some friends in the trades. If _they_ didn't even follow the mold, and were willing to confide in me whenever something was on their mind, then why is this assumed to be a widely-pervasive male trait?

As far as I can tell, men are more than willing to talk about personal topics they keep guarded. It just has to be with someone that they care to have a real conversation with.
Reality is companies know that even if they have to settle in court they still save BILLIONS. Companies can't loose until laws drastically change here.
No. That won't stop accusations of influence however. Each side believes that when the other side is in the White House they use the IRS to go after political enemies. Republicans particularly were very loud in accusing Clinton and Obama of using the IRS to go after people and groups. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
> When you're all done, you go back to your plotted trip and start laying out the chosen locations and optimizing your path.
> You can do this with a paper map. You can't do this with gmaps. So you just don't do it.

Has this guy never used Google Maps? You can definitely plot out a trip with multiple points and pick specific routes for each leg along the way. I know because I take a lot of road trips.

Anyhow, computers might be perceptually slower but do so, so much more and are more pleasant to use. Being able to save all my documents to the cloud and use them from any browser is massive. Google Maps has changed the way I travel. The fact I can control my TV from my browser while using HN and planning a route on Gmaps at the same time. The fact I can plug anything into my laptop and have it just work (even my Linux laptop!). And if you really, really miss that 80's era text-only interface, well, you can still have that.

Again though, the sheer amount of data you have access to nowadays and the way computers can visualise it is mind-boggling. Staying on the maps theme, the fact you can find any location on earth, get a satellite image of it and a whole bunch of info in it just by dragging a map around is insane, and I grew up in the early internet era.
In the daily podcast episode that QC employee explicitly tells a story of how managers tried to hush him, change the protocols, ignore issues etc.

That same guy also said it had to do with the location of that new factory and the lack of company culture paired with managers who just had the numbers in mind.
Seems like they are allowing users to create accounts and add sites https://blog.terminal.co/posts/getting-started
As far as toxic work behaviors go this doesn’t seem all that bad. You both are working towards the same goal. The best way to fix this is to focus the discussion around achieving that goal.
Thanks for asking!

1. I simply created the meetup group. Showed up, people came. It was empty the first week couple of days, I just made it a point to show up. When there were no people, I simply just read hn or did some work. When the first student came, I made sure to be nice so he feels inspired to come back. The library took note, wanted to make it official with their library program and give us a dedicated room / parking even though we only have 4 consistent students. (Libraries love it when tech community volunteers to help teach).

2. I was honest with students that I can't help everyone and my time is limited (though I try). If they helped each other it would make my life easier. They have been good at helping each other.

3. I don't understand burnout, I'm guessing it's a symptom of ambition and expectations (I'm really not sure because I've never understood it. If I experienced it previously I never noticed). I just make sure to have no expectations. All I hold myself accountable for is to show up. If I did something wrong I apologize and move on, there's no point beating myself up over anything. I don't have big ambitions to make millions and millions, I just want physically show up for people who need help.

4. Yes. I want to open source it completely, such that if people wanted to repackage it into their own bootcamp they have the freedom to do so (not sure what license that would be, but I'm not at that point yet). Right now I just document everything in notion: https://www.notion.so/garagescript/Table-of-Contents-a83980f...