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The proper response to these "somebody-blindly-followed-navi-and-hurt-themselves" stories should not be just ad-hoc patching of particular cases by map improvements.

It should be a holistic UX review to solve the problem at its core - how to get people to stay alert and be critical of navigation directions.

How? I don't know, but surely Google has/can hire literal PhDs to solve this.
> Scoping projects

Maybe yours is a very different experience, but this hasn’t been mine both in engineering or sales teams. Quite often that’s a separate role, like project or engagement manager.

And I’ve seen this in both large corps and mid-size startups.
just because it's the thing I know best at the moment, it's worth checking out Galera which actually does do multi-master replication. Of course you have to live in MySQL/MariaDB world which is a non-starter for a lot of peeps.
> how the british justified their empire, in the 1930s. that last bit is important.

> after that I’m not sure.

This review covers some contemporary themes by discussing a book, “Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination”, which may be useful.
>> Thus when using a benchmark, we should also think about and clarify answers
to several related questions: Do improvements on the benchmark correspond to
progress on the original problem? (...) How far will we get by gaming the
benchmark rather than making progress towards solving the original problem?

But what is the "original problem" and how do we measure progress towards
solving it? Obviously there's not just one such problem - each community has a
few of its own.

But in general, the reason that we waste so much time and effort on benchmarks
in AI research (and that's AI in general, not just machine learning this time)
is because nobody can really answer this fundamental question: how do we
measure the progress of AI research?

And that in turn is because AI research is not guided by a scientific theory:
an epistemic object that can explain current and past observations according
to current and past knowledge, and make predictions of future observations. We
do not have such a theory of artificial intelligence. Therefore, we do not
know what we are doing, we do not know where we are going and we do not even
know where we are.

This is the sad, sad state of AI research. If AI research has been reduced,
time and again, to a spectacle, a race to the bottom of pointless benchmarks,
that's because AI research has never stopped to take its bearings, figure out
its goals (there are no commonly accepted goals of AI research) and
establish itself as a science, with a theory - rather than a constantly
shifting trip from demonstration to demonstration. 70 years of demonstrations!

I think the paper above manages to go on about benchmarks for 34 pages and
still miss the real limitation of empirical-only evaluations in a field
without a theoretical basis. That no matter what benchmarks you choose and
how, without a theoretical basis, you'll never know what you're doing.
Fascinating! Most of the messaging here is refreshingly open-minded, direct and timeless. I'd expected to read a lot of imperialistic bombast that aged horribly.

Truth is, as many other commenters have pointed out, this document's overall tone reflects better on the American spirit than a lot of what's in the global conversation today.
interesting. maybe it was a last-minute change? or the guy was just underinformed.
Looks to be sharing design elements of the HP-15C.
> If you have a sedentary job, you do not need more than 1200 calories a day and can very easily get your nutrients with just that alone.

That's not really close to true, at all. As someone standing at 180cm, my basal metabolic rate is about ~1,300 calories[0]. That's assuming I weighed 40kg. A healthy weight for me would be considered to be between 60kg and 80kg, which would put my basal metabolic rate at 1,600-1,800kcal.

Not everyone can be 5'3".

[0]: according to the revised Harris-Benedict
Or that it's related an an anti spy device surreptitiously left by foreign agents at each embassy. Anyone can make an appointment to visit one and leave a disguised device behind. Or perhaps more likely, use a directed weapon aimed towards the embassy from the outside.

Or perhaps there was only an issue in Havana, and what we see now is psychosomatic. Or even that a few coincidental illnesses in Havana led to psychosomatic incidents as well.

Really all there is to go by is different levels of speculation informed by very few facts known for certain. However it would be odd for the US to allow its own devices to make its own staff sick, sparking many conspiracy theories and accusations at other countries.
Equity is a long term investment which ideally compounds exponentially over time (even if it only matches inflation) in a way that you, as an active participant, can positively or negatively influence. Salary is steady income that linearly accumulates (and loses value over time unless invested), so it's kind of apples to oranges. Undervaluing a modest amount of equity when you're young can lead to a large missed opportunity cost decades later. It's certainly hard work with an element of luck to get equity in a company that takes off like a rocket, but that's why high-risk high-reward is a saying.

If your compensation doesn't accurately reflect your merit to the company, then it instead reflects arbitrary social power dynamics. If you stick around somewhere that you believe is taking advantage of you, and try to up your pay through leverage or non-merit based arguments, then that definitely seems like politics to me.

Just asking for money if you think you deserve it isn't inherently politics, though. If you're genuinely being underpaid and think the company is dropping the ball but acting in good faith, then having an honest conversation with your manager is healthy, and should result in the situation being resolved favorably.
Correct!

But I don’t recommend you read the Wikipedia entry.

Read this instead:

https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/8350
I never got the hang of X-Wing but the tractor beam, the Tie Defender, the secret inner circle, made Tie Fighter a really good game!

At least as I look through the rose colored nostalgia glasses.
“Twin pipe-lines have been constructed to the ports of Tripoli in Syria and Haifa (HAI-fa) in Palestine, on the Mediterranean Sea.”

A reference in US military to Palestine before it was gifted to European settlers and rebranded as Israel. Guess it wasn’t a “land without a people” back then.
Not sure this is true but in any case, the Universal Recommender uses a technique based on the TF-IDF algorithm of search to get long-tail recs. This de-weights popularity so that relevancy is more important.
Sorry, I meant explicitly forbidding a supervisor from discussing working conditions or salary with their subordinates is pretty rare in Europe, and in fact that's the only time I've been told of such thing.

I was wondering if that kind of clause is a common thing in the US - for instance limiting job mobility by not allowing you to work for X client for N years is common in Europe, while I get it's rare in the US from what I read on social media / HN.
In a nutshell it’s too wasteful in energy spent and it doesn’t even try to mimic natural cognition. As physicists say about theories hopelessly detached from reality - “it’s not even wrong”.

The achievements of RL are so dramatically oversold that it can probably be called the new snake oil.
I am not even sure if we agree on the question, much less answer.

Some sovereign choices in history have proven to be "Hotel California"-style: joining a scheme was a sovereign choice, but leaving it not so much.

An obvious example is the US which does not let the constituent states secede, even though they joined the Union voluntarily. In a similar vein, Scotland joined the UK voluntarily (though in serious economic crisis), but it cannot just leave on its own when it decides to.

The process of joining the euro has been constructed as one-way only. There are no legal mechanisms to get rid of this obligation once you join. Euro is intended to last forever.
I used to work as an equity analyst, so have come at this problem from totally the other end.

The number one problem, that I have seen no-one talk about, are certain incentives from the market (not short-termism, if someone says that they don't understand what is happening).

I buy PEP at 15x earnings...I don't need a lot of growth to make that price work. Even if they grow a 10-20% over five years, I will probably make a market return. Which is fair.

If I buy PEP at 25x earnings plus (roughly where it is today)...that is different. I need earnings to double and then some within five years. Huge imperative for growth. If I don't see the growth, I will lose 50%+ on the position.

So when the share price is that high, the incentives are out the window. The board is never going to hire the guy who says: well, share price could do with a reset, how about we take a year boys...no, at 25x earnings, they will take the guy who comes into the room ten minutes after his piece, rips his shirt off in the interview, and drinks blood for breakfast. The boys on the comp committee want growth, they will set the 20x salary bonus package accordingly, and the exec team is going to fight like rats in a bag to get the juice.

This got very bad in FMCG too because 3G Capital exposed the amount of middle management waste at Heinz and, of course, consumers are consuming less of these unhealthy snacks. No top-line growth, so costs is the only way you can pay out.

On the OP, it is deplorable. Investors do not want this. Most fund managers do not have money in their own funds, the PR is horrendous. Companies shouldn't treat their workers this way. But...the Fed has pumped up the market, every exec team is feeling joocy on that stimmy, multiples are through the roof...everyone knows it is going to blow but the music is still playing.

I have no idea what the solution is, only that lots of people get the incentives totally wrong. Investors aren't short-term. Every investor wants the stock they can hold for five, ten, twenty years. But I have seen good companies run themselves into the ground because the comp committee wanted a "stretch" target that was literally impossible (particularly in retail, any company that can grow unprofitably but cheaply will be hung by the comp committee). Companies are even doing % of market cap growth by date X packages now, it is truly obscene (thank Elon). CEOs create these cultish atmospheres because of the incentives of pay (this is true of PEP: afaik, Nooyi was a terrible CEO, made terrible acquisitions to goose the share price, never got challenged, and walks away with $25-50m...if you lose the guys on the floor, you don't have a company tomorrow...if you don't hire Nooyi, you have saved billions in shareholder value...but it is the latter that is indispensable?).
The way we're headed it'll be billions in misery and dozens in luxury.
I agree with that for what it's worth.

People who aren't in the industry don't really realize that the Mac Mini is the entry-level into audio production for most people (iMac is the same for video). It has just enough to get started, and when you're making the big bucks the Mac Pro is in fact affordable for what you get.

Developers only see MacBooks for so long that they forget the rest of the product line exists, yet it's there for a reason.
Then why did they die?

There are fish that can survive various levels of salt and other conditions. But if the conditions were right for them to survive, reproduce, etc, then why suddenly die? It seems like there could be a cycle since other said they experienced the same die off, but then what is the cause of the cycle and how do any survive to create the carcasses for the next die-off?
The transfers don’t even compare to how much our labour is exploited. The difference in wage for the same work is the main tool used for this. Another is forcing our countries into privatisation, deregulation and austerity.

We’re much worse off than before 89 and the EU is a large part of the reason why. Another is the IMF.
as nice as that utopia would be, the fundamental flaw with trying to limit working days/hours is that some people will still pour their whole lives into work, which creates an iterated game that pushes the equilibrium for everyone toward working more. there's no practical way to mitigate this powerful, arguably inate, incentive.

the other option is actively coercing a daily/weekly work limit, and that not only severely infringes personal liberties, but eventually makes whole economies less competitive as the hardest working & most ambitious workers migrate away.

the better approach is to try to ensure everyone has dignity and fair pay for the amount of work that they do. that's a function of the distribution of pay and wealth, which is something we can legislate via sticks and carrots.
Huh. Agree to disagree on that one. They both have horsemen, and Death feels like the same Death, but beyond that I wouldn't connect the two much at all. Adam/Anathema/Crowley/Azariphale all have very different stories than the ones around Coin/Rincewind/Conina. Very different apocalypses.
Yeah, the idea that a printed map is necessarily going to have more accurate routes than something you find online is sort of laughable. In fact the opposite seems sort of likely: if a route changes or goes out of date, you'd expect an online source to get updated before the maps you can purchase in a store (if you even think to repurchase a map as opposed to using the one you bought 3 years ago).

But I don't know that I'd agree that the issue is that the app is designed for driving, not hiking. I've had similar issues on supposedly drive-able routes. On a recent trip Google Maps tried to take me down many roads that were various combinations of non-existent / closed / dangerous / impassible. This was in California. We're talking barely a hundred miles from Google's corporate headquarters.

So yeah, it doesn't surprise me at all that certain remote areas don't have accurate / sometimes have dangerous routes shown on the map. Accuracy is hard, you really need local expertise. If you're going to a park or established wilderness area, the managers should be able to provide you with up to date information before you go. That's the only kind of paper map you should be trusting.
Eastern Bloc was about political alignment. And I said 'former'.

And citizens from the DDR were actually called East Germans or Ossies.
Or sunspots. Always one of my favorited from the tech-problem excuse handbook.

That, and directing annoying questions about Lotus Notes to the cafeteria staff so they could resolve issues with their lettuce nodes.
Wow that font
I had a theory about this illness.

I dance a bit of salsa, and sometimes there were cuban DJs at the festivals I visited. They all always tended to do one thing with their sound setup: they overamplified the higher part of the audio spectrum, producing a hissing distortion of sound. It had an effect on me very similar on what is described about Havana embassy: headache and slight nausea.

I tried talking to those DJs about it, and they told me that that's the way they like it. So I think that maybe you'd sickness is explained by cubans listening to their music the way they like it.

But that was before Vienna. Maybe there was a salsa festival recently?
It’s easy to put a ceiling on your country’s currency trading range. The Swiss did this. Whenever the franc got too high their central bank would sell however much was necessary to stabilize the price.
Now you've made me curious. If the point is to recommend stuff that people are most likely to buy next then recommending the most popular items is likely correct. So what metric do you have in mind that leads you to the conclusion that recommender engines shouldn't recommend the most popular articles?
If you start with an algorithm that accepts any type of user behavior (is multimodal) then using user-dislikes is easy.

We can easily do this with the Universal Recommender as shown in this article (reprinted from the IBM dev blog) https://actionml.com/blog/making_dislikes_predict_likes
Are you still a sovereign country when your currency is worth absolutely nothing and most internal transactions are done in a foreign currency? (case of several countries?)

"Having power over your own currency" is something not even the US has. Of course they're the hardest to push, but they don't have full control.
If I'm not mistaken it already has a bit of an audience as a replacement for old BeOS boxes in radio broadcasting.
It would be nice if the suggestions included the keyboard shortcut for inserting that character.
This website is constantly shifting around with my browser... :-/
Adding corporate branding to AirPods makes great SWAG / employee gifts
As Bayart said, you are mistaken. Although de Gaulle's forces claimed that the Vichy regime was illegitimate, it it very difficult to justify the claim based on either popular support (Vichy and Petain almost certainly had the support of the majority of French at the surrender of the Third Republic, and for years afterward) or diplomatic recognition (Vichy had recognition from dozens of countries, including the US and Canada). Conversely, de Gaulle himself had difficulty in justifying his claim that he was legally acting on behalf of the Third Republic.
Oversight of the military is certainly within the scope of the elected civilian government.
They sure don't write the legislation anymore. Industry does. We're lucky if they read it all.
The euro is based on a treaty, and that treaty has zero provisions for countries leaving it.

Maybe the best expression would be "there is no legally defined, binding procedure for leaving the euro". Which means that whoever tries this first must expect a wild ride with absolutely nothing to lean against.
For me, it would be because of a great ("great" as in Ed Wood style film-making) movie "The Monster that Challenged the World" (even the title seems low budget).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050722/

tl;dr "An earthquake in the Salton Sea unleashes a horde of prehistoric mollusk monsters. Discovering the creatures, a Naval officer and several scientists attempt to stop the monsters, but they escape into the canal system of the California's Imperial Valley and terrorize the populace"
Around where I live (in Massachusetts) there are a ton of local parks and forests that have trails on their paper maps/websites that aren't on OSM--although it's gotten pretty good. (And, in fact, there are some unofficial trails on OSM that aren't on published maps. In the UK my experience is that the OS maps are often better than OSM in a variety of ways.
There’s a lot of evidence in clinical trials with MDMA and psilocybin mushrooms (which have a lot of similarity to LSD) regarding efficacy for treating various psychological conditions when used in a safe and guided setting.

Pretty sure we have nothing of the sort for alcohol. Just the opposite, in fact, like this article.

I can’t speak for THC.

I wouldn’t say that this evidence makes any substance more morally “superior” to any other, it all depends on the context of use.
We're talking about Google Maps here. Not some PDF you downloaded.
sure but it doesn't hurt that you have infinite data too (i.e. the thing most other ML research is bound by). like you can't argue that it's not a very comfortable corner to be in wrt being able to publish.
Greece's own currency was the Drachma. The Lira belonged to Italy.
"Anyone knows why people decide to do this kind of time consuming work?"

About 50% of people have very little choice in the types of jobs and conditions they work in.
I think there is always going to be a bit of a disconnect and lack of empathy about excessive work hours when an hourly worker gripes about forced overtime (where in the US they are legally required to be paid at least 1.5x their hourly rate for the overtime) is complaining to salaried management (that are generally working a similar number of hours…but unpaid beyond the 40).

Kind of makes you wonder which side is being exploited.
It's about the affordances.

I hike and climb in the UK and I would never head into serious mountain country without a physical paper map.

Paper maps (with a simple map case) are more durable than a smartphone or tablet. They don't stop working when it gets too cold or wet, or when you lose connectivity and realise you forgot to download, or when you drop them. The battery doesn't run down. You can spread a paper map out and get the context of the terrain for miles around without losing resolution. I dont need to wipe snow or rain off the screen of a paper map, or try to scroll it with gloves on. They have a physicality that matches the physicality of being in the mountains.

I have Ordnance Survey mapping for the whole of the UK on my phone, but paper maps are in a different league.

For what it's worth, I'm the other side of fifty to you.
SQLite is a remarkably good solution to most of these problems, if deployed correctly.

For your main line-of-business database? Of course not. But a deployment of rqlite[0] for your service workers in a read-heavy workload? cuts out a round-trip out of the VM, mocking is trivial, there's a lot to like there.

[0]: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite
How do you define an empire? Your definition is quite odd to me.

India is structured like the USA, a collection of states, with central and regional powers. But they are very much internally focused, and rarely venture into global politics. They don’t intend to colonize any other states, nor make any attempts at militarizing anything outside their borders.

I would find it hard to ever compare India to a British-like empire…
Everyone else uses it as a cautionary tale...except your dog!
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More likely it was the Falkland Islands war in 1982. Depends on one's criteria, I suppose.
There's no "siesta" (a spanish word and custom) anywhere in Portugal, including Madeira. Businesses may close for an hour or so for lunch, but "siesta" is not a thing. Not sure why you picked that as an example out of any other work expectation in any country.