skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the author about how the risks are more obvious to higher ups than benefits and that is why rules generally stay the same. However, one thing that I learned as a new parent is how important it is to have consistency! I think a lot of computer engineers (ie hacker news) would enjoy an organization which tinkers with policies to find the best way to do things... But I think with a large org things need to be pretty consistent.

Now that said, I personally have bristled being in a company which wasn't flexible at all! So the key is to find a balance between consistency and flexibility, and give all levels of management and employees empowerment to find the best way to do things.
Interesting! Yes, something like that would be relatively easy to make for any number of pieces.

You could probably generate the shapes automatically via something like voronoi diagram cells plus some rounding of corners?
Laws and borders are just a social construct, we don't really need them.

Even if we do, the community can govern themselves.
All throughout the paper they state they used a phone mic.

They have a section on the filtering they needed on the real world audio to extract the information they needed.

The conclusion even states “ We evaluate SpiKey with a proof-of-concept simulation, based on real-world acoustic data, and demonstrate that SpiKey can reduce the search space from a pool of more than 330 thousand keys to just three candidate keys for the most frequent case.”

Why do you claim it’s not real audio?
If arrays are standardized, we may even see a future where they end up being in the stdlib, while libs like numpy, dask, etc. will mostly provide tooling to work with them.

This would be a huge deal, allowing pure Python libs to suddenly exist for a whole lot of things like image/video manipulation, advanced stats, and so on, without requiring compiled extensions.

I love numpy, but having to install the 100Mo beast is overkill for a lot of use cases. Not to mention restricted environments where you can't.

Well, one can dream, no?

Imagine having a numpy-like array as a primitive. Suddenly you can make the case for a K/J-like DSL embedded in it like regexes are for text. Suddenly Python-fast enough perfs are getting an order of magnitude higher. Suddenly you get a powerful shared buffer for multiprocessing.
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I really wish I could use my personal laptop at work, but now it is hard, because GDPR laws mandate that I would need to take additional security measures and could be held responsible for any data leak. Using company issued laptop avoids the problem - all responsibility rests on my employer's shoulders.
No matter what style/legibility/text I try the line always just drops as if my computer had a faint [1]

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/IgAV1ef
> maintaining an old solution for a problem that no longer exists.

- new people

- systemic change

all this means to me that experience is not passed along and that regularly the new team will just face a somehow new problem with whatever reflex solution they can come up with with whoever is in the lobby at the time. It has to be between 5 minute smalltalk to 1 meeting at the end of the day.
> It would take the attackers almost two nerve-wracking days to decrypt, transmit, and show they’d deleted their copies of the files

Is there any transaction system that could guarantee that a hacker has deleted all copies of whatever data they stole?
The language intends to describe a co-op, I think. The intent would not be to restrict the license only to organizations which meet the impossible bar of ethical consumption under capitalism, but rather to those in which everyone who contributes to production has a meaningful voice in what is produced and how - or, again, a co-op.

I feel like it would be more useful to describe the types of organizations to which the license refers in terms that might be more clear to people not already familiar. Perhaps I'll email them, or something - shame I can't open a PR.
There must not have been many "z"s either -- "quartz" failed as much as "fox" in my tries. Still, nice work!
Of course, done !
Ah yes, countries like Somalia do so well without a system of functioning government and laws. With the added benefit of no taxes! But you might have to pay protection money to your local warlord so YMMV.
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IMHO among the various OS licenses, GPL it's the more inclined toward anti-capitalism. But that's a personal reading.
CYA has been the driving force that has allowed the species to survive this long. It's a fundamental human instinct that was selected for and reinforced through our long rough evolution on the savanna, just like pattern recognition and dominance games.

Do you really want to be the one responsible for wiping us all out?
As someone who's got some experience with this (but nowhere near as much as you have - I am an amateur), I'd like to strongly disagree with you here.

I find that slightly different APIs between libraries are a real energy-sapper, and having to do the mental gymnastics around them makes little sense to me. Yes, as a super-experienced programmer, you can remember each subtle difference in the syntax of each API, but I think many people find this difficult (me included), and it also leads to problems with code that's written when you've missed something or not used the appropriate part of the API.

One of the strengths of using SciKitLearn for me has been the interoperability across different ML models - by having the same API it means you can try something quickly without having to rewrite code, and can concentrate on the end results, not whether or not you're really telling it what you think you are because you've swapped an element of your pipeline out.

Learning the standard library of Python is a big task; there have been countless times when I've created something which is actually present, but I didn't know it was there, or how to look for it, and then 3 months later seen that utilised in some other code and had a "Why didn't I know that?" moment. I think having non-standard APIs across libraries will lead to this sort of situation, and a lot of reading documentation which would be obviated by the approach outlined in the article.

>Forcing the same call semantics on all these users doesn’t make sense.

I don't understand why not (providing, of course, they are all capable of having whatever is relevant conveyed to them appropriately?

What are the trade-offs that following this standard would involve (other than the delay due to bureaucracy that you mention)?

I don't see what is gained by the use of different method/function calls for what are the same method/function, as outlined in the table [1]

[1] - https://data-apis.org/images/array_API_comparison_output.png
> all workers are owners with equal share.

How common is this in worker co-operatives? My guess is "doesn't exist anywhere" -- I'm guessing there's always some correlation between seniority and ownership share, even if it's just "you have to pass a short probationary period before you're an owner".

It sounds like they haven't really thought this through. Besides seniority -- does someone who's worked there for twenty years really deserve the same share of ownership that someone who started last week does? -- there's also hours to consider: does someone who works ten or twenty hours a week deserve the same share as someone who works forty hours a week? I think most would agree that doesn't really make sense, but the current wording of the license mandates it.
This shouldn’t need to be enforced by software. You really don’t have any business accessing a personal git repo from a coorperate machine; you’re spending time twice (stealing) and it’s a good way to lose ownership of IP.

Furthermore this probably makes officially allowed open source contributions much more difficult.
> What makes it state of the art

Generally it means something roughly like "the best known approach for this specific problem". Often it means "the best known approach for this specific dataset" (eg "SOTA on ImageNet").

> why is lower accuracy acceptable?

Lower accuracy is worse, but these numbers look close enough that it's probably acceptable for most people.

There are plenty of environments where TF is preferable to MXNet (eg, you have TPUs/want to use TFLite on mobile/want to slice the model weights up and use it for your own custom TF model).

It's probably lower accuracy because it wasn't trained as long. Those extra couple of points could take days (or more) of training.
That's a deserved, but harsh criticism of modern art.
My problem with apps like these it's that they are always working on almost everything but not really. Lately I've been testing a few things and then I got back to Org-mode. Works on my desktop, works on Android with Orgzly and works on my iPad with Beorg.
The problem is that not all warning signs rise to a fireable offense and in todays sue happy climate even at will employment has restrictions that protect workers rights
No rules are appeared by itself from thin air, there was always a cause. Most of the times rules are created to reduce a cognitive load. Thus changing the rules should be based on a cause greater or equal to the one prodiced the rule.

No one will change remote working rule just because of one or two outsiders' caprice (calling rule "stupid" shows just lack of understanding). World pandemy is obviously enough cause to change some rules.
Citation needed.

There's plenty of evidence Mars once had much more surface water than it does today. IIRC liquid water is one of the primary preconditions for the evolution of Earth-like life.

What about Mars disfavoured it?
Yes there's a current trend of thinking that work should be as near play as possible.

There are entire classes of work, like digging ditches and driving equipment, that can be sweaty and rote. Not designed to be fun, but to get something done. For pay. This is becoming regarded as mentally or physically abusive.

It helps to consider the pay as recompense for whatever hardship you endure to deliver value to the employer. Which seems obvious but apparently is not.
That reminds me of the time growing up that we actually had someone astonishingly drunk who ended up falling asleep in our unlocked minivan because he completely screwed up navigating home and apparently we had the same type of van he did. Mom was not at all amused at the time, but the more I think about the implementation of car locks (most share key cuts), the more I find the entire thing somewhat amusing in hindsight.
Well said. I would also like the source to him blaming a patient for their rape.
It seems you are taking about theoretical error bounds, that is proofs in papers with assumptions on input probabilities etc. These don't always apply to actual implementations, in physical real robots. There is a huge gap in safety between practices in aerospace engineering and robotics.
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One of his arguments is that continents and sea levels changed and you don't need to go back incredibly far to see this. Maybe the mines are all under the sea. How much of the sea bed have we explored?
> the impossible bar of ethical consumption under capitalism

Under non-capitalism ethical consumption would also be rare, as it would be common for money paid by a consumer to be stolen from another, since all labour is rewarded equally without regard to effort or ingenuity.
I kinda like the idea.

I severely doubt the practically and usability of this.

I would be interested to see an expert lawyers take on how to write this license, so that it could actually work and hold up in court.
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As per the title. I was simply searching to find anything I should know about installing apache pulsar and the top of the first page is a very suspect web site. Then most of the rest of the first page are the same.
Also at the border? I thought customs had a full right to inspect whatever they want there.
> at one point he just about admitts that he blames one of his women patients for her own rape

Source please.
Yes we've recently been reminded of how well this works with CHAZ/CHOP.
If someone does it, then yes, otherwise I don't plan to do it myself.
that implies that you think that your idea of what communism is also the only alternative to capitalism. That is not the case.
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Thanks to Kurzgesagt videos I am able to follow this discussion.
The GPL is not anti-capitalist but it will in some ways stop businesses profiting of your work withing giving back.

I believe all software should be either some variant of the GPL or GPL/Commercial dual. The latter is so a company can choose not to comply with the GPL but still give back to the project (financially).

Anti-capitalism is a strange ideology given recent history. Most flaws pointed at capitalism today actually stem from problems that most capitalists would take issue with (corruption, overregulation, underregulation etc.). The people who built the Soviet Union and other socialist countries weren't stupid, the task is just impossible.
I apologize, I hadn't thought about robot arms. All the planning stuff that I was involved with so far was either quadcopters or slowfliers or buggies, so only cases where the Euclidean norm is useful.
To me this sounds pretty much like Mondragon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

Rare, but not outright impossible.
Harsh, I agree. But deserved? "Modern art" (in the vernacular sense, rather than the art-history one) seems to me a 'thought-terminating cliché', an excuse to disdain an entire and rather broad field of endeavor without first taking the trouble to engage at all with it.

At least that's how I find I most often see it used. Perhaps that's not what is actually happening here, but nothing I've seen so far distinguishes this example from any other of the type. Nor do I see any reason why this example deserves any more favorable consideration than any other.
Sorry, but this just feels like you are projecting some vague management 101 platitudes that could be applicable to any organizational problem.

I mean you're not wrong, but it's akin to saying if we all loved each other there would be no war.

I've seen plenty of great emphatic leaders get bogged down in large corps.
One problem with GPL2 and GPL3 from an anti-capitalist perspective is that there are lots of ways for capitalists to satisfy the requirements of the license and still make a big pile of money off of it, with the owners of the company pocketing most of the returns. Worse still, the original authors aren't being compensated.

GPL mostly helps with freedoms for the users, which is still very useful.
As I read it, an individual is allowed to use this software to seek a profit, so it isn't anti-capitalist at all, at best it's anti-corporatist.

IANAL but I'm just guessing no court would take this seriously.
Check out the "lock picking lawyer" on YouTube if you haven't already. The ease with which he opens a wide variety of locks is pretty impressive. An amateur lock picker can tackle a large percentage of locks with a few days of practice.

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Fascinating. Thanks for responding.

Can I ask what age-group you/they are? And it sounds like you had to write joined-up at school. Why would you stop? Isn't it so much faster?

I went to a snooty high school where fountain pens were compulsory (this was the 80s, not the 50s!). But writing was taught joined-up from pencils in infant school, from when you knew your whole alphabet. It never occurred to me to not join. It would have looked like a very small child's writing. Interesting though that has changed.

My wife is a grade school teacher, and disagrees, but I totally think that teaching handwriting is a waste of time. I wasn't anywhere near as fast writing as typing. I would have been much more productive with a laptop in school.

Anyway. I'm rambling now. Thanks for the response! I stand corrected.
I get the same feel from something missing in the testimony, but, what would be the motive of the ex-employee to write this ?

Personally I can relate to the author because I've experienced a similar sobering up from the marketing of a different corporation that I worked for. (I dreamed of working there growing up and one day I got a chance to work for them almost by accident.)

It was exhilarating for the first 1-2 years but as I came to know how the company actually works from the inside I was more and more disappointed that their outside image couldn't be further away from the truth.
Your linked article actually says there is evidence Mars was warmer and wetter in the past. How then was it "outside the habitable zone"? And what proof do you have that life 4B years ago needed to be in what we define now as a habitable zone, needed a magnetic field, and needed active plate tectonics to arise? These are exactly the kinds of assumptions the article is challenging.
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I'm concerned about your particulr privilege here, why should I care about people who are wealthier than you, it's you who can take care of that, isn't it? It's a race to the bottom after all. If you claim that billionaries should not exist, I definitely claim that you are not allowed to own a house in the middle of Amsterdam (I think you should start by moving to Diemen, then we'll let you know if that's enough), and I definitely claim that you shouldn't be wealthier than an average citizen of, let's say, Bangladesh. It definitely will lower the barrier for them. By the same standard that you apply to billionaires. Your arguments about two extremes and how the tax should be designed to not affect your lifestyle specifically is no less a pure bullshit coming from a privileged virtue-signalling and comfortably-living european.
Exactly. That's if the author believes in a sustainable anarcho-communist society which this license is geared towards.

I'd guess that this license is towards utopian ideals than actual reality.
Funny thing is, now the top search result Google gives me is this HN post.
CHAZ/CHOP actually succeeded by being formed by the people but as always the police ruined it and dismantled it.

It would have been entirely different had they not got involved.
Thank you for putting what I have always thought into a clear paragraph!

Back when I was working on a consumer robotics system that issue (what can we expect a random consumer to do to their home/yard to simplify the robot's job) was a constant tension with marketing. Because obviously they want a product that a customer just drops into their yard and does everything including weeding and picking up dog poop with no setup.

However, if we can help the robot by modifying the environment a little, it makes a huge improvement to reliability and cost. I would love to work on robots again, it is a fun problem to try and work out!
CHAZ/CHOP is a horrible example since most of the discourse about it is based on falsehoods and exaggerations, and it existed in a state of constant conflict with local law enforcement. There were certainly many good things about it, but I'm not sure you can learn much from it in the grand scope of things other than "it won't work out well, because most forces don't want it to exist".

There are definitely examples out there of more successful self-governance, though.
The answer is 'sometimes' and it's known as stereo vision.

Downsides include being less precise at longer distances (an object 1.5 meters away becomes a lot larger if it gets 1 meter closer, an object 150 meters away barely changes) and poor performance on surfaces with fewer features, or really dense features that all look alike (e.g. running across a field while spotting bumps and dips in the grass, or measuring whether sheets of steel are flat or not)

In some cases this doesn't matter - a Roomba doesn't care if it's hard to see things 150 meters away, as rooms are rarely that big.
> Sounds basically impossible to me. How do you ensure that you don’t exploit the labor of non-members?

If I'm not mistaken, it's suggesting that you can only buy from other worker-owned cooperatives.

> If you buy as much as even an office chair, or a pencil sharpener, or a carpet, or whatever, there were probably very many people involved and some of them were being exploited in that they were paid a very low amount for their work.

If you're not buying from another worker-owned cooperative you could buy it second-hand, which isn't ordering any new labor to be done.

If this is what they intended and if this wasn't clear to you then I think that's a problem for the license because there's really no room for such ambiguity and interpretation. It's going to have to be a lot more explicit than it is for it to be useful.
Do you have any ball bark value you could estimate for the size of a bare bone common array implementation?

I'm dreaming of having basic numpy features in the Python stlib, but numpy is so huge, and I have no idea how much of it is the array itself, and how much are all the tooling around it.
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I can't find the story now, but painting teeth on train doors reduces the number of people trying to jump through them as they're closing.
Let's see: A risk and impact analysis, a requirement check, a capacity audit, a full blown security audit, a data retention policy, a storage size study, a ton of policies to fill in so you get a dns name, a financial audit, setup of a new bookkeeping post so all these activities have somewhere to book their time, a project for that post, a language and style audit, a translation study to decide nothing needs a translation, ... I easily see more than 100 people working on this.
A related question I once thought of: What’s the minimum number of pieces you need to assemble to form a “skeleton” of a puzzle - such that every other piece fits directly to one of the skeleton pieces?

For an 9x4 puzzle I came up with the following pattern - a skeleton that uses 15 of 36 pieces:

-X—-X—-X-
-X—-X—-X-
XXXXXXXXX
—————————

It would be interesting to see if that’s optimal, and if the optimal solution is different for different puzzle sizes.
Well, apparently it counted as a separate application - so that required redundant (virtual servers) plus back-end databases. Add DR environment and live replication of VMs and databases, database backup retention planning, off-site storage costs. Ultra high performance SAN storage for all of that. Add pre-prod and test environments as well and it soon adds up.... apparently.

Turns out the internal infrastructure recharging model didn't scale down and as it was a "process" it couldn't be changed.
It's irony. I also "like" how their screen on photo is whiter than it actually is.

Judging the marketing here, not the product. Never used it.
I've seen comments to the effect that making the license impractical (and non-lawyer-approved) was intended as a way to ensure big companies like Google won't touch it. Not sure how I feel about that as a strategy, but there's a certain logic to it, similar to Crockford's "do no evil" license.
When the community elects to police itself, if someone volunteers to watch a neighbourhood for a night are they considered law enforcement? If not, why? I recognize there's a difference but this license makes no effort to distinguish between those two things.

And if your starting point for why a term of a license is "we don't need laws", what exactly is the point of having a license anyway?
How would this be applied in the case where the user was a wholly-or-partially state-funded organization (that was neither military nor law enforcement)?

[clearly hasn't been lawyer-vetted, but any wild guesses?]
Install lockdown on iOS. It’ll block ads anywhere i assume. It’s such an hostile approach, like medium, I will never install their app or open an account.
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