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> If someone went through CS, expect to see a different caliber of work for the same task.

I disagree. See: hordes of new CS graduates that feel they are completely unprepared for an entry-level software engineering job, or their interviewers.
Michelle is shockingly kind and has shaped Stripe's culture very considerably in this and other regards.
discussion on the Cloudflare post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25455603
I just want to highlight the fact that our beloved King made this comment after Mats Melin, leader of the corona commission[1], said that we have failed protecting our elderly which was top priority [2]. The reason for this according to Mats, is because institutional and structural flaws in our geriatric care system. These flaws made it impossible to prepare and manage the pandemic. In addition to these flaws, Mats also says that counter measures set in place during the year was either too late or too little. Furthermore, Mats says very clearly and explicitly that the responsibility of the institutional and structural flaws in our geriatric care is shared between the government, administrative authorities (gov. agencies), counties and private sector. Even so, the current government (and previous governments) has been well aware of the flaws and the utmost responsibility lies with them.

I believe more could have been done, but solely blaming our prime minister is just irrational. For example, the local government in the three biggest regions, Skåne Stockholm and Västra Götaland, made the decision to cut down on the items in their pandemic storage area[3]. Guess what happened when nurses and doctors were asking for more supplies.

There are of course other instances where politicians prioritized money over health, which had a negative impact on people's lives, which covid-19 only made worse.

Also, it's my opinion that people in Sweden have largely ignored the restrictions. I base this on the fact that walking to the store to buy food, I'm the only one wearing a mask and trying to keep a distance. Friends and colleagues report the same. The fact that IKEA (where I live) was packed with people suggest that people don't care.

[1] https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2020/06/mats-meli...

[2] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/coronakommissionen-missly...

[3] https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&arti...
It does. She's made this argument explicitly elsewhere; she believes that Google's treatment of her constituted emotional abuse.
You mentioned upthread that Free software is helping create a dystopia, and you mention above that Free software is more usable for people that have more resources.

Do you have a proposal to address these issues? I ask because I see that you're not happy with things as they are, but I'm not sure what GNU can do to address your concerns.
> the fact that employees are employed and paid by the company to work for the company.

The view that the company is separate from the employees and they don't get a say in its direction is a construct of many years of political action. It's not some natural law; it's a political result reached through activism. Anyone is free to try and get a different result, and each side will judge how much power they have in this case, and try to use it to best achieve the outcome they want.

> The board is legally (and ethically) obligated to work for the benefit of the company.

But the board also decides what working for the benefit of the company means. Some person or persons must have decided that letting that manager go is better for the company than keeping her. If others were involved in the decision, they might have decided differently.
Stripe is my favorite startups ever. I have been following them for sometime now and I have learned lot about APIs and documentation. I have said this earlier and never fail to mention that their API documentation is really really good. Also, their website and product launch pages are just beautiful. Wish I was that talented. My sincere thanks to stripe engineering team, I have learned lot from you.
I will be dumping my Android phone and get an iPhone just because of this feature.

The Internet of Facebook is pretty terrible.
Do you have any evidence to base this on? Robinhood could easily afford to go to court if they felt the evidence was on their side. $65 million is probably more than what they've ever made in profits, so if they can pay it off without blinking, chances are a court case would result in an even larger fine.

On the same token, it's doubtful that the SEC would proceed to charge Robinhood if they knew they couldn't make the case stick in court.
Nah, you just shut out good people who want to do good things but can't figure out rules or feel like the burden to doing good things or the potential penalty on technicality or slipup isn't worth it, and select for sociopaths who are adept at figuring out how to use rules (especially draconian ones) to their own advantage, spirit of the rule notwithstanding, because they WILL put up with the burden and the risk.
Some more information for those who are new to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t...

In all the linked threads, sort comments by "controversial" for obvious reasons.
The performance of zstd suffers without a dictionary, making it comparable to brotli on large files, but worse on small files.

Lacking a clear source for a public dictionary suited to the web corpus, there's not much point in putting it in browsers.
Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (2019)
Not every postgresql installation can perform every postrgresql feature (via plugins). That doesn't make postgresql incompatible with itself.

I use a postgresql connector to execute some postgresql specific sql statement on CockroachDB. That's a baseline quality for "compatible".
Could it depend on the state where it was recorded? Do laws vary that way?
> Similarly in French, some accents are casually going away

In my view this is partly because of the 'focus' (or lack thereof) of the education system and partly because most software is developed in English first with the addition of accents an add-on, which makes typing accents cumbersome and thus the path of least resistance is to give up, especially when writing casually.
If you get a job, then it doesn't matter who your family is or if you're the best person for the job(!). If you are lead architect of your company, your job is to give directions etc.

Same thing here. Doesn't matter there's others that could replace the king is his job.. he's the current one with that job, so we listen in a way that takes his position into account.
I'll admit that part of it could just be that I've been using the stuff that comes with the git-scm.com distribution of git for windows.
when I dug into the doing of Stallman I could not help but conclude that he is one of the most important humans who ever lived in terms of our current lives.

This is mostly seemed to escape our notion. Perhaps one must die in order to be understood or recognize.

Or perhaps we need to look at things which happened a long time ago (history) to fully grasp their importance.
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> The way you target niche markets is by paying niche publishers who target those niche markets.

I don't think this works for non-hobbies like flowers, especially when I don't subscribe to or read local publications. That said I'd rather have choice to either pay for a service with my privacy or with my credit card.
You forgot publicly calling both of the best known researchers in the AI revolution racist: Yann LeCunn and Jeff Dean (her manager's manager). And suing her own employer for not being feminist enough, or something.
Or just track the orbits, these are all published by NOARD. Most satellites do not change orbits often.

Even easier, Capella-1 is in a sun synchronous orbit, so it will always pass overhead at the same local time, at noon or midnight.

https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=43791
Thanks! Full credit goes to the Microsoft team for amazing research.

Perhaps I should have posted in the morning PST instead; it seems more people find the service helpful during these hours. :)
Hi there, I'm the PM working on Cloudflare Pages. We don't have support for this now since we're still in beta, so not everything is there yet, but it's certainly a use case we intend to support. You'll just be able to specify no build step. :)
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Huh, I didn't know that was possible. So you could specify an app container that is then overlaid atop the OS container?

I suppose installing the dependencies ends up being easier if you know they'll end up in, e.g. a ubuntu 18.04 image, hence that's what people do.
I swear I came across that post at one point - it looks very familiar!

I really want to do this because 20x25x1 filters are a LOT easier to find (where I am anyway) than 20x20x1 filters. The only obstacle is that the resulting unit ends up taking a lot more space, and that's at a bit of a premium in the place I need it.

If I move the litter boxes to somewhere with more space I will definitely switch to this design.
Linked in response to a question I asked below, it seems like you can use CloudFlare Workers to host a static site: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/sites

But also, from reading the Pages docs I wager you can also make the build command something like `echo done` and then set the build directory in your configuration to be `.`.
Yes, and the extent that matters depends how much people care. Uber was nickel and dimed by a billion dollars in arbitration fees (significantly more than an expected class action valuation) -- the binding arbitration clause cuts both ways.
We started with Asana then moved to Jira for our initial dev, but we've (finally) settled on Operwell.com as our go-to. We have a lot of clients and being able to directly link our client accounts to our dev projects made our lives much easier and helped us to work more efficiently.
I wonder what is the primary intended role of Google's "Ethical AI" efforts in the first place.

You could hire a bunch of leading AI researchers and task them to do R&D to identify the pitfalls of latest-gen AI with a focus on prospective dangers, biases, unintended side-effects. You could ask them to create new methods to quantify the degree / severity of these effects. You could ask them to invent new methodologies to specifically protect against these effects.

Separate from all of this, they may or may not be tasked with a governance function to review or score internal models according to their metrics and produce impact reports. Perhaps they work side-by-side with AI developers to ensure their newly developed techniques are applied throughout the processing pipeline, etc.

The (non-expert) impression I get from ethical AI research is that it hasn't moved much past the obviousness phase. The revelation that the source material for your training set determines the behavior of your model. That models are not neutral or granted some higher perspective just because they're some sort of magic algorithm because ultimately they are statistical engines driven by their datasets. That models can be misused and misapplied if the end-user treats them so. And that models cost a lot of resources to train, which like anything can be translated into tons of CO2 emissions.

A more nuanced analysis would look at the cost/benefit of what the model achieves versus the energy cost or potential bias that would be present in any alternative method. For example, it's a strict win/win situation if GPT-3 takes 10 million tons of CO2 to train, but displaces work that otherwise would have taken 11 million tons of CO2. All models will have bias -- "bias engine" is actually a good way to describe the fundamental nature and purpose of the algorithm! But at least models can have strictly measureable and totally consistent levels of bias that perhaps can even be controlled for as desired, unlike manual human labor which will demonstrate wildly variable and much harder to control levels of bias. See, for example, the controversial use of AI models to set bail. [1]

As I side note, I hate the opening paragraph of TFA;

> Tension between Google's Ethical AI group and executives at the company rose on Wednesday, as employees sent a list of demands regarding the recent departure of one of the team's leaders — a prominent Black woman in a field that's largely White and male.

That level of race baiting in an Op Ed would deem it unpublishable. The effect (if not the intent) of that opening is to essentially shut off the reader's critical thinking skills before they even get going.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/upshot/algorithms-bail-cr...

[1] - https://www.wired.com/story/algorithms-supposed-fix-bail-sys...
> The order finds that Robinhood provided inferior trade prices that in aggregate deprived customers of $34.1 million even after taking into account the savings from not paying a commission.

$65M penalty for $35M in misbehavior. That is how you get Wall Street to pay attention. More like this please!
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In this case mature just implies being desensitized to seeing genitalia. I don’t know if that’s better than maintaining a healthy “lust” for the world around you especially in light of the fact that the world doesn’t offer infinite novelty. Everything in moderation?
They are using storytelling and emotion as a replacement for study and analysis - the preferred method of identity politics.

Identity politics means individuality-less politics, where individuals are seen as mere parts of a group, or symbols for the common suffering of the group, and not by themselves. You hurt one you hurt the whole group, is the way they are thinking.

We have seen this recently in the Timnit vs Yann LeCun and Pedro vs Anima scandals, even the allies of wokes would be accused of being racist the moment they dared express a slightly more nuanced opinion. You have to approve the lead woke and not add anything or you're instantly the enemy.
OK, Google
Tell your god to take a hike. I agree about Facebook being evil tho.
Like entirely too many people, you're confusing "racism" with "prejudice". They're not the same thing.

Actual racism is very rare in America. Prejudice is commonplace and has a lot more to do with the inherent tribalism of humanity than it does actual malice for someone's "race". And to take it even further, I think if people were honest, what they really dislike is cultural differences that vary dramatically from theirs.

To me this is just like trans issues... we'll never get anywhere significant with this stuff, because in order to come up with meaningful answers, you have to ask meaningful, hard questions. No one wants to ask these kinds of questions, because no one wants to have to deal with the answers that may come up, because that will also invite further study and further difficult, unpleasant conversations.
Unfortunately no such lights out policy would hide the visible pollution from the more arrogant companies intending to fill the sky with satellites, e.g. StarLink

https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/s...
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Congrats on the launch! This looks awesome. I could really use this in my current project.
The initial reporting was misleading in that it was not clearly communicated that where the radiation levels had risen. So yes, radiation levels rose inside the primary cooling system. This is what triggered the automatic emergency shutdown. But the primary cooling system is anyway 100% isolated from the environment.

In particular, no change of radiation levels whatsoever outside the reactor building was ever detected. But initial reports did not make this quite clear.
They really had a good thing going before the Tumblr nose era
This comment (and these foolish entitled SJW employees) fail to observe that companies like Google only exist in America in no small part due to that fact. No other country has produced companies that are even remotely comparable, and the US produces them regularly. Assuming, of course, that one’s preferred alternative doesn’t involve serving the CCP.

Maybe some folks prefer it that way, but they seem all too happy to compartmentalize the reality of the situation and let their ridiculously permissive (and coddling) employer pad their bank account, make them gourmet meals, babysit their kids, and do their laundry.

Google screwed up by creating an environment that fosters perpetual children. They’re fools to put up with this behavior. Walkouts should be a one way door. Call their bluff. They will not quit in any significant numbers. Not once they realize how everyone else lives.
AI is far more energy efficient than creating the incalcuable number of human programmers required to directly program the same solutions. Writing NLP code with non-ML methods, to the same level of quality, would be essentially impossible without an operation on the scale of warfare.

Even with the efficiency benefits that it already has, we all know ML still stands to be further optimized, and a lot of people are working on it.

Comparing the exponential increase of "intelligence" of computers versus our own, computers will be as smart as humans with similar energy efficiency in around 50 years, and they require no cars, food, etc. It will be hard to criticize the efficiency of ML when it is already moreso than our biological selves, but it will be done, and we will be wholly outsmarted.
Hundreds out of pocket is better than thousands out of pocket though.

(I'm not Canadian, but here in Europe, without insurance, I've never paid more than a few hundred for dental work or tens for prescriptions. Even if its more in Canada, I imagine its still less than "thousands")
>> Satellite can peer inside buildings

Looking at the examples of 'ghostly buildings', it seems these are just combining different perspectives as the satellite moves. It isn't actually seeing inside the building, just 3D rendered to look transparent.

10Ghz has (optimistically) a building penetration loss of 25dB [1], with any reflections back also seeing 25dB loss. I don't think this is workable with current satellite power flux density regulations. At least not at 10Ghz.

[1] ITU-R P.2346-1 https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-r/opb/rep/R-REP-P.2346-1-201...

Edit: the claims to seeing 'individual rooms' are not backed by any examples, but maybe natural corner reflectors could rarely give a return. Still wouldn't be able to see anything within the room.
I don't understand how can you be torn when you acknowledge that it's behavior that 99% of people oppose?
Maybe we live in completely different worldviews, but an academic on an Ethical AI team’s primary obligation should be academic honest and integrity.

If the truth damages the company, then that is the company’s fault, not the academic’s fault.
Agreed! When I worked at Stripe, Michelle was my "spin-up buddy", and getting the chance to work with her was one of the highlights of my time at the company. Strong second that she is extremely kind and embodies the best of Stripe's culture.
You are assuming too much, IMO. That's just too many people on Earth. So people will still burn forests if humans need to eat or if there is any chance of profit doing that.
> but in my experience its killer feature is the user definable dictionary.

If I had to guess, since this originated from within Facebook, they're using the feature for user definable dictionary to maintain a large corpus of sample, representative user uploaded content.

Which would accomplish the purpose of tuning its performance for their own specific internal usage.
I guess they are referring to ads in the App Store (as Apple does not have an ad network anymore). Even then that’s wrong, Apple does not track app usage for advertising purposes.
For general VR yes, but a decent system costs approximately $600 more not including the cost of a VR capable PC. Not many people want to or have the means to make that kind of investment vs giving up some privacy temporarily.
If you could export this to be used as a web page layout when it's done, that would make some fun pages.
As long as profits are greater than fines, these penalties aren't enough to incentivize good behavior.
Well, here's my issue with the SEC that I admittedly don't have a good solution.

https://www.federalpay.org/employees/securities-and-exchange...

The general purpose of the SEC is to investigate, fine and in general "stop" financial crimes in the financial market. This, in theory, requires said investigators to be smarter than the perpetrators or at least somewhere on par. While these folks are paid really well on average... this isn't "fuck you money" like on Wolf of Wallstreet. Even "poor fuck you money" is better than what they make. While I won't dismiss the need for a lot of attorneys and accountants in their profession, 333 examiners doesn't seem adequate against a $440k average salary industry with 176k employees 2018 numbers (https://www.osc.state.ny.us/sites/default/files/reports/docu...). Unless there's much more overlap than I'm imagining.

I mean seriously, if you're smart enough for the financial industry, you need to have a much higher moral code to take the less than half rate of average salary compared to the people you're investigating. Which I'm not knocking. I always respect people who take a moral high ground stance and try to do some actionable good, especially if it's at a detriment to their own wallet. It's just, expectations need to tempered with their overall capabilities. On top, agreeing with you on structure, what kind of hell do some of these folks experience working in a government environment? How many get salty real fast and get all pissed off from the shit they deal with bureaucratic wise along with shitty pay compared to the industry's employee?

There was a line from Burn Notice that I've always attributed to this, "Fighting for the little guy is for suckers". So yea, can we all really trust the SEC? Maybe... but can you really blame them by too much regarding "issues" granted that most of any industry, especially tech & finance, is about jumping to the next better paying job? I mean think of this scenario, "You're going to get fined no matter what happens today. But I can reduce it by half if a moving box full of cash magically appears on my back porch."
Docker's security architecture problems definitely feel like a "Closed: Working as intended" / not prioritized, rather than something they see as a core feature.

And why not? They're shipping benefits (immediate productivity) and externalizing costs (eventual security breaches) onto the end user.
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It is fundamentally different: concerning service offerings, your static site and your edge cache can both be handled by CloudFlare.

Maybe that’s a nitpick, but it probably feels earth-shattering to some, because it recategorizes CloudFlare as a first-class hosting provider (and soon-to-be application and database layer), not just a cache. Sort of like how Redis is now a first-class database, at least according to them.

Personally, I’m excited about this because it finally represents an edge someone has (no pun intended) that could compete with AWS’s services for JAMStack-style sites and apps.