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Working with existing software systems make this compliance much easier. Many of the big name service providers (Twilio, Sendbird, Auth0, Heroku, AWS, etc) have out-of-the-box HIPAA compliancy. And working with an EMR is tablestakes for a healthcare provider, we definitely did not build that from the ground up! Our work is about bringing these solutions together into a unified UX and ensuring compliancy / security across the stack, while gradually introducing secure and compliant native functionality. Language itself does not have a huge impact (we've seen it done in many different languages), but having the right advisor can make the build process a lot easier if they know what to look for!
I'm pushing 40 and primarily a Java developer. I'd be surprised if I can't ride this wave all the way to retirement.
I dont like how they didnt back up their claim with data. they never showed that people in the suburbs were actually more unhappy than people in the cities. I only saw anecdotes on commutes. And hey, I feel them. I myself only choose places that I can walk to work, its what I prefer.

some sources say that people in cities are less happy than those in smaller cities or rural areas.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/17/peopl...

Others say different:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-29/u-s-mille...

and then further bloomberg articles say the opposite. This is why I was particularly disappointed with their last point. Or is what it is saying is that once you take away the commute, cities loose handily in happiness?
IPhone is in pipeline. I am using the account to the save user settings (like how many times you want notifications) and the plan the program to be personalized for the user.
> When the Mac was a more niche platform the developer community tended to be more bought into philosophy and design sensibilities around it.

I still kind of hold Apple accountable for that, though. As the platform grows, Apple has more resources they can dedicate to clarifying UI patterns, or systemic coaching via API design. But they've gone in the opposite direction.
Also it is not a refereed paper, why then write it in a format like this? Make it clear when you publish opinion or position pieces, people.
Personally, I don’t believe it is any different now than it was before. The issue is that it’s not liberals and progressives being ostracized anymore.

20 years ago, we had Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in the army, which was cancel culture written into institutional policy.

40 years ago, people were “cancelled” merely by being born dark skinned, and by law would never take prestigious jobs, or even eat in the front of a restaurant, or walk around after dark in certain towns.

Now conservatives are feeling the heat of American culture, which has always been direct prescriptive when it comes to right and wrong, in or out. It’s not that anything has changed, but you are hearing new voices calling out in complaint.
This is a big issue!

Lots of bad things happen, and they are only surfaced because the person in question didn't notice the surreptitious recording. When deep fakes becomes a problem, it will give these people plausible deniability and they can just reject it as "fake news."
And pharma reps. I have an extended family member (a Dr., no less), that does this for a living. A walking, talking, knowledgeable shill for one particular company.
I am not sure what causes it. Maybe it's the anxiety? I've dealt with it most of my life. Even basic things like going outside, talking to a clerk at a store, talking on a phone would make me a nervous wreck, where I could barely function.

Perhaps it makes me really uncomfortable when what I am doing is the center of attention. Like the nervousness normal people feel while performing something on a stage in front of hundreds of people, but on a micro scale, even doing something in front of a single person elicits the same response from me.
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Important caveat:

The voice and music recordings they used in their demonstrations were also louder than the average human conversation, with speakers turned to their maximum volume

I can clearly see vibrations in glass near loud speakers with my naked eye, but when someone is speaking I generally can't see any vibrations. Still really cool that they were able to reproduce sounds this way, but it's not like you can spend 1k and be able to actually listen to conversations using this method.
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Can you provide metrics for the number of people you've seen in each of these two categories? Also I'm curious about what age demographic you're in and how long you've been in the industry. Hoping that I don't sound combative asking this, I'm just really interested in your perspective.
The problem is not that jobs get automated away. Efficiency in of itself is a good thing.

The problem is that the gained efficiency is often not used to improve the lives of all (former) participants: There is little responsibility towards employees and customers. Businesses are not seen as communities, neither by employers nor by employees.

Leaders, owners, investors, employers and other powerful actors profit disproportionally, because their decisions are not tied to a holistic responsibility but only to financial metrics (which are also directed by them; a whole other problem).

There are also actors with higher (or sufficient?) ethical standards that will invest efficiency gains like you describe to educate and train their employees or at least give them the financial means. This inspires loyalty and trust.

I'm longing to hear more about such cases.
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I strongly disagree with almost your whole comment.

It is almost sociopathic. Of course you should judge your actions based on their (potential) outcome for all involved.

"The alternative will mean you'll struggle a lot more making the right decision [...]"

Yeah, no shit.

I really don't want to seem like some crusader, but this comment seems like a caricature of the "Just following orders" mentality.
Memory safety helps, but isn't the only source of exploitable bugs.
I managed a software development team, staffed with a number of folks that each had about 30 years experience. We were a fairly advanced team that wrote image processing pipelines in C++.

When they finally rolled up our team, after 27 years, the person with the least seniority had ten years.

It's entirely possible to keep folks for long periods of time, but it requires some pretty serious management chops, and those skills are not exactly encouraged, in today's world; in any field -not just software development.

I worked for a Japanese company. The Japanese wouldn't even acknowledge my employees until they'd been around for a year. Having the same people on hand, year after year, was pretty much required, as our projects always took the long view.

I can't even imagine having an environment where engineers are expected to quit every year and a half.
You're right. I think ideally the legislation should be international. Maybe something like the Washington Naval Treaty that set an upper limit on the tonnage and armament of new battleships. Or perhaps more aptly something akin to SALT I & II where older models are taken offline to avoid derelict AI systems from falling into malicious hands and to keep the number from growing out of control. Although this parallel is somewhat weak considering the capabilities of one advanced model are more valuable than 10x models of the last generation.

Theoretical wishful thinking, I suppose, but I strongly believe that corp/govt scale ML research should be treated like advanced weaponry because it isn't a matter of if but when AI will be weaponized (whether the flavor of warfare is physical or informational).

Although of course as with weapons treaties - the major powers would likely tend to be selective in what they commit to limiting themselves in.
> Obligatory: I’m not a lawyer; this is for informational purposes only.

and

> 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. This is not true. They would be required to release their PostGIS patches in this situation. AGPL does not extend the GPL in that it makes the Internet count as a form of linking which creates a derivative work, as Google implies, but rather that it makes anyone who uses the the software via the Internet entitled to its source code.

This is the problem: I've fought with IP lawyers we've had on retainer who always boil it down to: "It doesn't matter. We're not going to court to find out."

Is it FUD? Yes. But I am also not a lawyer, and I can only do so much to fight upwards as an IC. I've seen this exact mindset at every company I've ever worked for or with.

The real fear is that once you have an AGPL dependency, it's _possible_ that it makes it way into something you really don't want to release publicly, and now you have a huge mess of a problem. The easy solution: don't use software with that license.

(FWIW I hate this, and fully believe competent developers can not shoot themselves in the foot so extravagantly, but alas.)
Two side observations unrelated to the laser rifle:

1) It's surprising or kind of amusing that such a huge and complex submarine uses plain old Raytheon / Raymarine radar when operating in harbor, etc. as if were just a little sailboat. But whatever works and is effective! I wonder how it has to be dismantled and put up, taken down each time? Perhaps it's mostly for being visible to other ships/monitoring stations? I recalled hearing that a sub is never in such places without accompanying surface fleet/tugs/etc anyway.

2) Looking at the periscope mast, the amount of technological sophistication in that thing must be incredible. The amount of communications (radio, laser, metallurgy, stealth coatings, etc) gadgetry there I'm sure would boggle the mind. Yet it all goes to the theme -- here is a boat worth many billions of $ and the pinnacle of US military sophistication, being put into the hands and trust of mostly 20-something young sailors, and mostly without incident. Truly amazing that we're able to do that.
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Eben Moglen talks about this at length (author of the license). The rough lines are drawn as per how closely the works couple and interdepend on each other.

For example, if I build an extension which works with Chrome and Firefox, over a well-defined API, that's an independent work. AGPL/GPL/LGPL does not apply.

If I have two pieces of code which mutually rely on each other and form a common system, and for example call back-and-forth, or have APIs specific to each other, that generally does form a derivative work.

There's a lot of literature out there about static versus dynamic versus microservice abstraction. That's mostly nonsense. Lawyers don't care about that. You can't get around the AGPL (or even the original GPL) that way, by isolating the GPLed code into a corner over a network service.

(disclaimer: not legal advice, get a laywer if you want legal advice).
> pedophiles did indeed defend themselves with the argument of free speech

What are you on about? Pedophiles have the right to speak as freely as anybody else, which is to say without censure by their government. What do you think the first amendment says? Obviously "free speech" doesn't protect anybody from action, but they have the right to speak without fear.

Your post is what I'm talking about. There is no reason a company can't decide what is or isn't fit to print on their website. That said, big social media conglomerates shouldn't exist for other reasons. Nationalize Facebook, nationalize twitter. Personally, I'm done with those sites anyway, preferring federated social media.
> I have also worked under managers who have some kind of subconscious pressure to treat all reportees equal so they hesitate in even acknowledging that 2 people have different calibre and thus everyone either works independently or collaborates

IMO that kind of manager is just a bad manager. Same with school teachers who treat to treat all the kids exactly the same. I get the sentiment, but in reality everybody is different with different strengths and weaknesses, and also different needs.

> So just curious what mechanisms do people set up to mentor people within a team without designating a reporting relationship?

I think in many cases (esp. if there is a big difference in experience level between the mentor and mentee) it is quite similar to a reporting relationship. The main difference is that a mentor doesn't have the authority to make a mentee do something in the way that a manager does. If everything goes well, then such conflict should never arise, or only rarely.
Wes McKinney (Pandas creator and Arrow co-creator) will be giving an Arrow talk live this Thursday for those who want to learn more -> https://subsurfaceconf.com/summer2020
> Then administration caught wind we were 14% off on students.

What does 14% off on students mean? 14% fewer students registering for classes?
I guess FPGA tech moves pretty slowly.
i think you should add more details / screenshots of product. Your landing page doesn't talk much about what user would get. Is it same dashboard as GA.

Also I would suggest changing your differentiator from cheap alternative to something else. When something is really cheap, it raises question if quality will be as good. You could add '1$ for Beta' or First year to create an impression that you are absorbing the initial cost.
Curious about how you feel about the number of people needed to farm 100 acres of, say corn, today vs 200 years ago. Was all the automation applied to that problem unethical?
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Liberals are destroying the country.

It's time for all true patriots to stand up against this scourge.

Liberals and their ideology belong in prison. They are literally terrorists spreading their poisonous ideas.
You can stop any investment or operational improvement with that mindset though.

Should we give our gardeners a lawnmower? Nah that would result in redundancies, leave them with their nail scissors.
It's not settled caselaw so anyone basing a business off this should expect to spend a lot of money defending it in courts

I saw once a company that offered to be the sole purveyor of a celebrity's synthesized voice. I haven't been able to find them again, but that seems like a much safer way to monetize this.
Are there good emotion detectors for speech-to-text? Much like they have for facial recognition?
Yes, people do this all the time.
This is a great talk and should be a top-level comment explaining this release.
A derivative work of PostGIS would be a fork or patches to PostGIS (i.e, a set database extensions for geographic/spatial queries). A mapping application that used PostGIS is not a derivative work of PostGIS, in the same way that a C program linked against glibc is not a derivative work of glibc.

At least, that's my layperson's understanding of it.
Or you are just an idiot. Could be that too.
For me that's the deciding factor to favor 'the protestors' even when that includes those who just want to loot or burn stuff.

The police should be held to a much higher standard, considering the power they have. And it's not like, globally speaking, they haven't developed sophisticated methods of containing violence or rooting out the 'evil-doers'.

The danger of police being unaccountable (unmarked vans, etc.) as well as unreasonable violent using 'less-lethal' weaponry, well, that's vastly more dangerous to a functioning state than a huge group of disparate protestors that include some violent extremists that, from what I can tell, for the most part haven't actually murdered or severely injured civilians. The police have.

Of course, all that is assuming that the police generally does a wonderful job maintaining the peace. Considering that the whole reason for these protests and riots is police brutality, and rightly so, I find it difficult to be on the side of whatever the police are claiming to be doing.

I've seen The Wire. I've seen LA Confidential. I've read articles. I've also personally experienced US police in action when I spent a few months in Texas, and it was upsetting.

While I'm sure there's plenty to say about Dutch police, for example, if I am lost, or I need help, they're the 'helpers' that I approach. In Texas, I felt almost as scared of approaching the police as I did approaching the machine-gun wielding police I encountered in Sao Paulo. That just feels wrong.

So however bad or exaggerated the particulars might be, it really does seem like the US police system is due for some serious overhauls. The police should be the guys representing peace and enforcing it, all the issues one might have with it aside. If it can't even do that and instead make a significant part of the population (much of it minority/black) fear their lives, that should be reason enough to demand change. No matter whether you're 'right' or 'left'.
> 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.

If you're not modifying that dependency, you don't need to do anything since your dependencies are handling it. Especially with GPL, since it's likely that your dependency's dependency will make it GPL as well–but you should be doing this anyways, of course.

> 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?

Then you're just not in agreement with how GPL works. It's meant to be an explicit guard against people taking projects, forking them, and never contributing back.
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This is super neat, but it is missing my favorite projection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse_Mercator_projection. To think that Mercator has the same error profile as Transverse Mercator, but we generally accept the former because of ubiquity, is very disturbing to me.
Also the UK is missing from the Mercator projection.
Different things work for different people. Try to look at your behaviour and notice when you are focused. Do more of that. Ditch distractions.
> People on GPT-3 are working in a way that is academically valid (able to make results that are meaningful to a community) but from engineering it is like building a bridge with one end or a tall tower that carries no load.

To me it seemed like the opposite. They are essentially working without any hypothesis of how their model actually works, without any model of the way it actually learns or the way it produces the results that it does, and instead placing blind trust in various metrics that are improving.

They are treating this as an engineering problem - how can we make the best human-sounding text generator - and not like a traditional research problem. GPT-3 has not taught us anything about anything except "how to generate text that seems human-like to humans". We have no firm definition of what that means, we have no idea of why it works, we have no idea of any systematic failures in its model, we know next to nothing about it, other than its results on some metrics.

Imagine the same applied to physics - if instead of inventing QM and Relativity or Mechanics, physicists got it in their head to try to feed raw data into a black box and see how well it predicts some observed movements.

In fact, this would be a pretty interesting experiment: how large would a deep learning model that could accurately predict what mechanics predicts get, given only raw data (object positions, velocities, masses, colors, surface roughness, shape, taste etc.)? Unfortunately, I don't think anyone has been interested in this type of experiment, because it is not useful from an engineering (or profit) perspective.
Leon Theremin was a genius that also created one of the first electronic instruments carrying his name now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
The obvious explanation is we're living in a simulation and the modellers are just having some fun. Very interesting article btw!
I wouldn't go so far as to say that I'm morally opposed to DRM, it's more that I find it annoying.
Do you have an example of this? If i was on the buying side, I would be wary of just buying source code. Most times writing from scratch is much easier than maintaining someone else's code
"By age 21, I managed to land a full-time coding job with an interactive marketing firm in Toronto, Canada."

That's the problem. Girls this dumb get shunted off to the porn mills, you ended up in advertising.
If by "anything" in the phrase "hadn't learned anything in 20 years," you mean things like legal principles, rather than specific new precedents and laws, I suspect a lawyer probably doesn't have to learn much after they clear the bar exam. If any lawyers read this, I'd love to be proven wrong. :)
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Waterfall is certainly a thing - although it's taken most of my career to run into it. Where I work currently (banking) some of the projects are waterfall, some are agile. The waterfall group has requirements gathered for them by the stakeholders, they build to spec, it's tested by the stakeholders after development is complete, issues are fixed and then it's deployed, all managed by a project management team. There's a series of "phase exits" that need to be signed off on by executives in a big meeting, and the project doesn't move backwards. Massive amounts of documentation are generated (and never read, except by external auditors) for every aspect of the application - every workflow, procedure and logic built into the application. Iteration doesn't happen at all, everything is a massive project, or bug fixes.

All the "boogeyman" activities happen - scope creep goes crazy, testing is run short to hit deadlines set, etc. Like you I never really thought it was a thing until I saw it with my own eyes.
Note that there is a specific exception for that case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception
Phone numbers can be used to identify a person in many cases so storing phone numbers are potentially covered under GDPR. Your real problem with asking any GDPR question is that there is no to very limited case law (settled, public law suits) so it is hard to be sure about anything. Compound that with different interpretations in different countries and you have a big bag of who knows.

The question might be better as:
1. Can they catch you?
2. Will they try to catch you if they can?
3. If caught, what can they do to you?
4. Will they try to do something to you if they can?

I think the answer will be different in different countries and circumstance.
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To clarify/correct this a bit, Webpack is not funded by the OpenJS Foundation. Yes, it is an OpenJS project, but the foundation does not provide financial support for open-source development. It does provide legal, marketing, and other support, as well as being able to assist with infrastructure costs, but it's still up to each project to separately run (or not) their own fundraisers and other funding activities.

Also, it would be incorrect to say that the foundations "picks software" such as AMP; instead, projects apply to join. The decision to accept AMP was made entirely without consideration for Google's status as a sponsor of the foundation. And finally, while it may count as splitting hairs, Google retains ownership and control of the AMP cache; it's the core technologies that have been transferred to the foundation, not the instance run by Google that relies on those technologies.
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