skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whereas, once you get to the heart of Silicon Valley, it's not unusual for people to jump employers every 6 months.

Unless you're serially hopping from one shitty startup to another, it's pretty unusual.
Looks very interesting! Could be nice to get links in the body of the article for further reading and definitions of technical terms.
Then you can hijack the noise canceling device and obtain the original signal. Also the canceling effect is likely never perfect, so there would still remain part of it going through.
Show HN: I built an online service to generate passwords,UUIDs and EFF wordlists
Congrats on the 1.0 release!

We've been using Arrow for a few years in our startup (link in profile) - it's been great as a common format for passing tabular data between Python and Javascript.

Haven't used the in-memory/zero-copy features as much, but as a binary, high-performance, typed format for the data analytics world it can't be beat. And now that the Feather format is basically the Arrow format, I expect to see it really take off as a common interchange and even storage format for medium- to even long-term projects.

(Also nice to see the reduced Python wheel size - a little bonus for the 1.0 release :) )
In the 1990's I was working on Ph.D. in robotics, and funded by a huge DARPA grant. The task was to create software for multi-agent robot coordination. The text of the grants always said things like needing to gain the capabiity to send thousands of autonomous robots into a town in order to map out and investigate all the buildings, etc, all for "defense". To verify if a hospital is actually a hospital, for example. It didn't take a rocket scientist to see that you only had to put a bomb in their belly and game over. I wonder why they even tried to make it sound not like they just wanted to be able to drop thousands of robots from a plane and take over and destroy any city.
Personally I’m not. I’ll subscribe for a month and make all the orders I need then.
I think the most important take-away from this essay is that questionably ethical items won't have a big flashing red siren go off when they happen, there won't be any forewarning. Your company won't have a long internal debate on the ethics of it.

It will be passed as just routine and a normal part of the process. It'll be "just the way things are done". It'll still be up to you to understand and appreciate the ethical consequences of you choices.

In this case he was "lucky" enough to become aware of it due to heavy news coverage and then a follow up of an immediate family member being directly impacted. It almost never will be that blatant.

That's the lesson to take away from this. As part of your profession, you need to understand the consequences of the code you write and choices you make - and represent for and protect the people who won't be in the room, but who will be the recipients of the consequences.

Your day will be a subtle milgram experiment, and you need to be the one to say something.
The rise in autoimmune diseases is probably due to higher inflammation levels due to the trend of steadily increasing levels of sugar consumption and seed oils amongst western societies - same reason heart disease continues to be a killer.
Oh wow I just took the opposite view in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23967235
full disclosure: I work for CTO.ai. It is a similar concept really, but the Ops Platform has a built in interop layer for communicating between the containers & slack channels.
Hi everyone, Pavel here - the maker. I love to automate repetative tasks and standardise processes with the help of software. I do believe that creation of strong phrases, ids, etc. should be secure, transparent and reliable. That is why I build Hipstapas - to have online single source of strong phrases (which I already do use - dogfooding :-).
Use cases that I can think of:
- resetting/rotating passwords
- creating secrets, that only the client should now
- password managers and the like
- adaptation for internal us

The service itself is a REST API build with pure JavaScript (on top of node.js). It concists currently of 3 endpoints (FAAS) hosted on vercel (formerly zeit). There is also an interactive playground build with Bootstrap/HTML/JavaScript (currently only for passwords, uuid and word lists are comming). Custom policy features is also on its way - this could be something that could be probably a paid service if the concept is at all of interest.

Let me know if you have any questions. Any feedback is much appreciated!
You both agree I think. He's not saying that GPT-3 invented the revolutionary ability of prompt programming, but that prompt programming allows GPT-3 to be applied to arbitrary contexts (from programming to providing legal advice to generating fiction). That amazing generality and high quality allow it to be applicable to most services.

So it's taking some slice of the $50tn pie.
I'm puzzled by how America ended up with this "lone-wolf" nuclear family mentality where families move away from parents and insist on going it alone.

Go west young man was not just a saying but part of America. Look at post WWII information on families moving to California for example.
Yeah. People often resort to some fear-mongering when it comes to AGPL. When we released our software under AGPL, one developer of a somewhat competing app didn't find anything better but to claim that 'AGPL license makes it a useless toy'. Well, we don't agree.
Think about how many secretaries and clerks that Microsoft Office put out of work.

On the other hand, isn’t it better that everyone can type their own reports and check spelling and grammar themselves via code?
There's plenty of space between the extremes of centralized data and being stored in the same country as the user.

Freedom to store and process in more logical, secure and efficient places is a good thing.
No, WhatsApp messages and calls are end-to-end encrypted.
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Hi!

I'm a product manager working on Workers — didn't come across hater-y to me at all.

We will actually be rolling out a new version of our docs soon — hopefully make them easier to navigate, and expose deeper information. If there are any specific subjects or corner cases you've run into that you'd like to see better documented — our docs are open source (so issues are welcome!). We definitely want to make it as easy as possible for you to self-service.

Observability and debugging is also a heavy area of investment for us (and I think we've made significant progress here since the launch of Workers). As Kenton mentioned below, wrangler tail is a great way to get a lot of information out of the Worker (and its subrequests) — you can basically log anything. We'd also like to make it easier to log to existing logging platforms from a Worker. If there's any missing information you'd like to see, please do sent me a note ^
Or just stop drinking alcohol and soda, that’s another way to solve this dilemma
Two of my teammates have literally moved out of state. When I do go back to the office it's still going to be a smaller circle.
Use the Rails Asset Pipeline with Google Cloud CDN
At my company, we query from A and store the data in PyArrow Parquet files on S3. Using Athena this data can then be directly queried. This is a cheap way to store data, that doesn't need the performance of database server.
A new way to manage the back button title in iOS 14 with backButtonDisplayMode
Neuromancer is horrible. One of the few books where I gave up midway through. My expectations were so high. I guess it's famous because it pioneered the genre.
Thanks for the kind words.

On Pricing - our counselors are certified to practice and pass a rigorous interview process ensuring the highest quality. All are licensed to practice in California and have 5+ years experience working with adolescents. The primary differences are: 1) real estate (our therapists work from the comfort of their homes, so we don't have that cost), 2) cost of living (because we can work with therapists in varied geographies, their cost of living may be lower than in the highest demand/need geos), 3) value prop (adolescent-focused therapists want to work with us because of our flexibility and focus on teens which is rare to find)

On medication - today we refer out if patients need medication. It is an area we are actively thinking about how to better serve in house!
"the work is still going to get done by someone" - this assumes an infinite supply of devs willing to do unethical work. Sure, in this specific instance they probably will - but I don't think we should completely dismiss the impact of decreasing that supply.
thanks for sharing. this is great!
I've known more than a few high school teachers who ended up with Masters or PhD degrees kind of by default via continuing education courses. That would seem to go against your "teachers that want to improve do so by other means" idea, unless I'm confused about the nature of continuing education requirements for teachers.
“Agile BS” is a redundant term.
Cold saline really does work. And it's really, really uncomfortable.
The issue is that if you can measure it, you can train an AI to beat the other AI detecting it.

As Pilate said: ‘Quid est veritas?‘
It's a fact of projecting the surface of a sphere onto a 2D plane. You can't see every side of the earth at once in Google Earth. Even the globe you look at in Google Earth is distorted since it's still a 3D projection into 2D. Looking at it from the equator, countries at the equator will appear larger relative to countries near the poles.

Anyway! This site is really cool.
I think 'Natural Earth' is most satisfying to me subjectively. Looks close enough to what we're all raised with, and seems to have a good balance of various types of distortion.
Dremio is a really nice product built using arrow.

https://www.dremio.com
Isn't speculation affected deterred by higher pricing? What is preventing you to add a "new domain" cost on top of the renewal?

As a customer I would be ready to pay a bit extra rather than go through the purchase at NameCheap. wait 60 days, and then transfer dance.
I suspect there's some plausible deniability built-in that might allow for such matters to be legal.

For example, lots of people sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger. So if you trained a model with tall, deep-voiced Austrian man, you could probably get something that people will immediately associate with Arnold without actually being his voice, or someone emulating him. Because much of what Americans associate with his voice is really a regional accent which is relatively uncommon in the US.

There may be a little bit more difficulty getting away with with someone like Gilbert Gottfried, whose voice is much more unique. But I do think you could get away with creating a voice that people think sounds just like him, but doesn't hold up in a side-by-side comparison.

What I think will happen is celebrities like Morgan Freeman will use their voice to train models like this, then gift these to their estates for use in the future.
Sometimes you need to harvest email addresses and want to distinguish them from junk data. If you're actually developing the algorithm in the face of real data, you'll get a good validator.
We extensively use Apache Arrow to store data files as parquet files on S3. This is a cheap way to store data that doesn't require the query speed of a relational (or non relational database). The main advantage of Arrow is that is a columnar database, and loses no information in transit unlike the nightmare of CSV files.
This technology and technique has been known for a number of decades. Intelligence agency use a variety of counters to avoid this issue. SCIFs don't have windows for a reason. The standoff distance for intel buildings are far, and well monitored for similar reasons. Some facilties use double insulated glass with a randomized noise maker in the frame.
Some corporate board rooms use similar technology and safe guards.
Awesome article! I was in an organization which had an AGPL ban. After a couple of months with lawyers, it's now a major AGPL supporter. AGPL lets you build ecosystems around your software, where everyone contributes, and no one can parasitically compete with you. It's absolutely the right tool for a lot of uses.

I'm no longer with the organization, but it had:

* Hundreds of open-source contributors

* Millions of users, mostly paying

* Zero direct competitors using the software. With equal ground for technology, it'd be almost impossible to overcome first-mover and branding advantage unless the organization really messed up

* Hundreds of major open source users doing interesting things with the software and using it in non-competing contexts. That translated into product enhancements.

With GPL or BSD, it almost certainly would have played out as lots of competitors doing an extend-and-proprietize, and instead of a successful open company, it would have been a dead organization.

So many misconceptions abound.

The flip side, though, isn't that everyone should use the AGPL. You should have the right license for the right context.
Not sure if you've read the article, but with benefit of doubt:

>What the fuck does "manage 1 person" mean?

"Manage one person" is relatively self-explanatory. On the org chart, you are designated as a team lead, with exactly one (1) person reporting to you. You are responsible for their work, career, and success. They have you as their boss.

It is relatively common in many organizations, including tech/software, due to (likely mistaken) belief that it will ease in a new manager/team-lead. Alternatively it could be circumstantial due to people leaving or weird teams forming or planned expansion that doesn't happen or difficulty hiring, or a natural hierarchy of a very senior and very junior developer, etc.

>>do some work yourself.

Typically, a manager or team lead of small teams absolutely does do some of their work themselves. In fact, usually they do ALL their usual work, AND now coach/guide/manage their team, in this case a single person. Usually the situation is the antithesis of "free loading".

Given such situations absolutely do occur, the post seems to be fairly realistic as to common ways they can go wrong, and how to address them.
Gratitude as a Virtue
Hyperbolic Floors maps hundreds of floors to tessellations in Hyperbolic space
Some parts of SV push for diversity and inclusion, but when push comes to shove, firms are quite happy to protect established power structures - shitty managers, retaliatory practices, toxic culture, etc.
> Any derivative works of AGPL-licensed software must also use the AGPL.

TBH, I'm interpreting this statement just like Google is:

> Google states that if, for example, Google Maps used PostGIS as its data store, and PostGIS used the AGPL, Google would be required to release the Google Maps code.

What's the definition of 'derivative work' here?
That is the CDC’s survey. There’s plenty of data out there suggesting many people are experiencing more potentially permanent effects / damage.
DeepMind’s Newest AI Programs Itself to Make All the Right Decisions
We think we are some sort of super 21st Century beings, but our cognitive biases remain the same.
Maybe it beat out its ancestors that had 4 variants instead.
Not at all, I'll send an email to your address.
Sorry - but that sounds like BS. Think about it - a hanging light bulb vibrates when you speak... Really? I don't see any movement, and I'm right there.

But yet, that can be picked up 25m away by a telescope? With equipment that costs less than $1000? No way.

Sounds like some phony story to me, that's meant to make us think spies have superpowers, or even that we're all being spied on. (Which we are, but not like this.)
We had a deskop version, which was harder for users to adopt. We might need to return it.
I just assume if a politician is speaking they are lying, at best misleading. Add in marketing, I assume it is a lie, regardless of political party.
LOL... i mean interpretive dance is the HIIT for the brain when dancing... (Rubs hands with glee lol) -- go to it Nerds who take such thing seriously.
> Any derivative works of AGPL-licensed software must also use the AGPL.

That's why people don't use AGPL, and why I personally don't release any code under (A)GPL. If you want to make free software, make free software and release your code under Apache or MIT. And if you really care about attribution, use CC BY 3.0. Legally, you don't want to deal with the burden of constantly checking if you're complying with some license that a dependency of a dependency of a dependency is using.

> By discouraging the use of AGPL in the broader community, Google hopes to create a larger set of free- and open-source software that they can take for their own needs without any obligations to upstream...

This is true, and I don't see much wrong with it. I don't like the idea of other code mandating how I should release my code. What if I just don't feel like up-streaming? Free is meant to be free, and (A)GPL does incur a cost -- at the bare minimum an ideological one.

A lot of reactionary down-voting going on; I'm quite open to debate. Why are you so passionate about AGPL?
Once the investment is recouped and a small margin rewarded, the value should be spread equitably among society.
Except different breeds of apples etc are still called apples. If a type of watermelon went from common to extreme rarity that’s a change in what’s being planted and consumed. Presumably because of some issues with the earlier version of what we are now consuming.
Pre-Covid, Adam Savage built a portable condensing/evap cooling system using an old Soviet flight suit. He teamed up with an engineer to make it happen. Fascinating design/build video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Ti4GP0ntE
No, it's deliberately made worse the last couple years. They have put way too much confidence in their semantics-ai and it seem way overfit.

I used to be able to learn how to effectively search but lately it's just so terrible. It's made for 99% of people's dumb searched, but try to get specific and it fails hard.
I have significant responsibility for setting open-source policy at my company. We require specific review on a facts-and-circumstances basis of any AGPL usage.

Why? Because for most open-source licenses, it's clear how to avoid any license controversy entirely by simply never conveying the licensed work. If I don't ship you ("convey to you") any binaries, I have no obligations to you under GPL (or MIT or Apache, obviously). For the most part, we don't ship anyone outside the company binaries, so compliance (both in fact and in provability of that fact) is relatively easy. Not so with AGPL.

If there was critically useful code only licensed under AGPL, we'd consider it, of course. But it would get a lot more review than a typical Apache/MIT/GPL license situation. I have no philosophical objection to AGPL; I just find it a much less practical license than most of the other, much more commonly used, licenses.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2020/04/14/post-office-p...
I hope Stretchbit can help you.
Not sure why you are being down-voted.

Democracy is historically not the default state of human interactions. Just look at facebook/nextdoor/twitter, most people want to force others how to behave (with force that is available), i.e. authoritarianism.

Any technology that makes it easier to vilify someone by definition can be used to weaken democracy.
I agree with what you're saying, there are a lot of Pros and Cons. I've balanced the socializing with getting to know my neighbors more and spent time with my family. EDIT(again): Third place is awesome and necessary. I've tried to supplement work friends with neighborhood, but have benefited from D&D and volunteering with youth for what I need from Third Place.

I've seen the idea that cost is pushed from employer to employee. But I'd argue this is actually a mutually beneficial cost savings.

I don't have to drive. I can get cheaper car insurance. If I was completely remote I could honestly get rid of one of my two cars (wife and me).

I can look into tax benefits such as deducting part of the house as an office if it's not single purpose.

I do experience more usage on my house. I do have to work in a non-optimal area (in my case a shed), but if I value my time more I also save 1-1.5 hours a day.

That was all cost I was paying. So it's a mutually shared cost exchange.

Also many companies have had to quickly invest heavily in their VPNs and other remote technologies, while still being stuck in a lease for large offices which may even be required (by law) to be cooled although there is only one or two people there.

It's fair to say that this change has had pros/cons for many people. Some heavily weighed towards one side or the other. This goes for companies too. Non-tech companies who have done business the same way since the age of remote are HURTING. Sales are down, they don't know how to sell when their people can't hop on a jet and go talk to clients in person. Etc.

That long rant was me saying, I don't think we can simply say, companies have pushed the costs down to employees. I've seen a ton of benefit from my company being remote full time right now. Whereas I know other people who's companies are not in lock down and are forcing employees back to the office with little to no appropriate social distancing in place.

Weighing all of those pros and cons I'm so happy to be at a company which is understanding enough to let me WFH until my kids can go back to school (not google but similar policy).
Great feedback, I will check the issue.
Yeah, making some of my recent projects AGPL truly scares away contributions from Googlers (as their internal, low friction patching process doesn't apply to AGPL software, and they have to go through explicit approval). Fun.
This is a really nice summary, thank you!
Quiet route planning for pedestrians in traffic noise polluted environments
I've been following police violence and civil liberties for more than a decade now. I like to think I'm pretty well informed on the issue. His episode on riots didn't say anything wrong but he just kinda laid it all at the feet of the cops for shooting one too many unarmed black people when that's either a red herring or the straw that broke the camels back depending on how cynical you are.

I get that he has to take a complex situation and make it into something a nationwide general audience can laugh at but he seemed to go to great lengths to avoid casting shade at city and state politicians (and by proxy voters) who bear a lot of responsibility here.

He didn't say anything wrong but I was really disappointed how one sided it was. I know he's a comedian. I know he has an agenda. But it makes me suspect his other stuff might be tilted.
Agree that some of the examples cited are misrepresentations of what the AGPL requires, but I think, for many companies, just the requirement to publish changes (if any) would be a showstopper. Which is unfortunate, but I think is the reality of the situation.
I agree, but I also know how chronically overworked doctors are. That gives me a bit of sympathy toward the ones who don't want to basically work an extra day a week just to avoid falling behind.
> Google states that if, for example, Google Maps used PostGIS as its data store, and PostGIS used the AGPL, Google would be required to release the Google Maps code.

I can’t see that statement, or anything like it, in the linked article. Am I missing something?
I'm pretty skeptical about online therapy. Creating yet another abstraction between human and human seems to be going entirely in the wrong direction.

One of the big issues with the lockdown was that many municipalities considered substance abuse meetings (AA and others) as non-essential. These types of programs do not work anywhere near as well online. Meanwhile liquor stores remained open as essential.
Our eyes aren't "upside down" it's just that light passing through a convex lens (the front of our eyes) gets flipped.