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> I find the distinction between libraries and applications to be rather self serving. It's basically saying "I want to use these open source libraries to bootstrap my business, but I don't believe others should be able to use my code in an open source way because apps should have profit".

I generally believe that people should get a reward for the work they do. For me personally the rewards I got for my work on Flask, Jinja and many of my Open Source libraries was non monetary but awesome on many other levels. I got to travel to many countries, speak at conference, and I got a lot of experience and exposure through it. I am content. However I know from many people that they wish they could also make a living from Open Source libraries and I do not have an answer to that — yet?

I believe the BSL is an answer for applications, I don't think it works for libraries because of the reasons mentioned. I wish I had an answer however for people that want to live off their Open Source work.

The line might be arbitrary for some, but it's not arbitrary for me.
This is an empirical question. I suggest you read the research I cite. For Facebook: https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/gordon_b/files/... For display ads: https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2014/retrieve.php?pdfid=98... For search: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mksc.2017.1065

The problem is: yes, there's only a tiny chance somebody who searches 'nike shoes' ends up in your store. But the probability that someone ends up in your store BECAUSE he saw your ad is even smaller. So if you don't correct for selection effects your going to overstate ad effects by orders of magnitude.
Not really, not if you are looking at averages; which is what I said in my post. A US $250K fire-breathing Porsche is in a category of it's own.

Interestingly enough, one of my cars is a Toyota GT-86. I actually chose it over a Porsche 911. I could have bought the 911. In fact I visited the dealer and was ready to commit. On my way back home I drove by the Toyota dealership and decided to go take a look. I left with the Gt-86.

Why?

The car was fun to drive. It handles very well (I've taken it to the track). And, here's the clincher: I don't have to worry about it one bit. Cost was not an issue. Yet, when you have an expensive car in a place like Los Angeles, well, one could make an argument it isn't the best idea. I was after a fun-to-drive sports car, not a daily commuter. The GT-86 filled that role just fine at a fraction of the cost. If I trash it at the race track I can buy three more before I spend what the 911 would have cost.

Not a perfect comparison but perhaps an interesting perspective.
> Why would they care about saying it and not care about doing it?

Doesn't this argument imply that a company would never lie?

> don't you expect that they'd risk losing the customers

This is a calculated risk. First, they have to be exposed. Second, their excuses have to be denied. Third, their transgressions have to enter the public sphere. Fourth, the public at large has to be made aware. Fifth, the public has to care about it.

Of course, those who have already uploaded their DNA are out of luck. Maybe the company loses some "potential" customers. But the risk is always worth it, because in the end, everything stops at number 2: National Security and Law Enforcement are a cover to allow the authorities to do basically anything with impunity.

Going back to:

> 23andMe chooses to use all practical legal and administrative resources to resist requests from law enforcement, and we do not share customer data with any public databases, or with entities that may increase the risk of law enforcement access.

Note the word "practical". So if they disclose something, it was because it was "impractical" not to. Oh well.
It doesn't work with the reality of being a parent. There's no such thing as low-stress, low-commitment way of meeting people when you have an infant or toddler. At the very least, you need to arrange for a spouse to take the kid or deal with their retinue (car seat, stroller or baby carrier, snacks, water, milk, bib, baby wipes, and diaper). At worst, you need to arrange for a sitter, schedule everything, communicate all the baby's needs to the sitter, and be available in case anything goes wrong.

The closest to a low-stress outing for parents is "I'm going to be at this playground in this park for an hour on Saturday morning, and whoever wants to join me is welcome to come." You're at a playground anyway, so if nobody shows up it's an ordinary Saturday morning with the kid. It's time-boxed so you can often get away without the snack/milk/diaper/mealtime accouterments. Scheduling is what you'd have to do anyway, and similar to what other parents have to do. This is how my wife actually meets and hangs out with most of her mom friends. They're usually organized over Facebook though; there's no need for a separate app for it.
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While we're here, Congrats to Jersey City for regulating short term rentals like AirBnB. I'd hate to have to live next to a AirBnB unit.
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There is a lot of what I feel is rose colored glasses when it comes to psychedelics and that people think they must have had some breakthrough or being able to think differently is just good for them.

I'm not going to argue that some people are not helped and I think there is a lot of interesting research.

But there seems to be a lot of people who think there must be some deeper meaning when you use psychedelics so they sit down and try and think about negative things to work them through, get stressed out and starting to spiral in a negative thought loop that is not really based in reality (like "my friends do not really like me, I suck").

Then they have a horrible trip and really did not learn from it because, your brain is often pretty stupid on psychedelics, but frame it as a positive experience on forums. It would be like people not handling alcohol saying "Yeah, sure I really went crazy and fought my dad, destroyed my car and ended up crying in a bush, but I really learned something about myself". No, the drugs made your brain think in a shitty way.

Maybe I'm just cynical but I'd say don't try to get deep with psychedelics until you are really used to them. Have fun and do the "abusing party drugs" part or watch a funny movie instead.
They should make it mandatory, every user should be forced to answer certain question after their stay or pay a fine - they can pitch it as a 5% discount

Next advancement would be to tax every stay and use it to an agency that would establish rules on “hosts” and regulations on room conditions.

After that, next advancement would be to realize this has existed for 200 years and is called government.
Before this 'research' was published I bet one would call that revenge.
Sentry also got work for free from people who assumed the open source project would stay that way. That's the thing about open source- it does have benefits, otherwise people would never choose it.

Right now there's this trend where companies take the benefits of open source for themselves, then toss aside the open source community when it looks like it might make them a buck. Ultimately I think that is bad for the community, and that the corporations that do this are putting their profit above the community that helped them grow. I don't think it's unreasonable to point this out.
Wow, great UI. Reminds me of https://nomadlist.com
There is a popular political perspective that rules on campus these days that treats wealth as something that just magically exists and is simply "redistributed" by one means or another like, say, a phase change in physics where no magnetism/charge/energy/etc. is ever created or consumed. I waited for a point in their model where people actually produced wealth and consumed it, made something or ate it, in addition to redistributing it. Not part of the model.

And the idea that things have a "true" value, the one put on them by enlightened campus philosophers, so a transaction not controlled by the wise and just will have a winner and a loser. I waited for the idea that I, shoeless but with ten loaves of bread, and you, hungry but with ten pairs of shoes, might reasonably value bread and shoes differently and BOTH win from the "redistribution" of bread and shoes, but it was not part of the model.

But their model (which they claim "reproduces inequality with unprecedented accuracy") could also (they claim) be fitted to a variety of different observed power law distributions when its parameters were adjusted, and the more parameters, the better the fit became. Yes, and they could probably get their model to describe the frequency distribution of English vocabulary (also a power law), with remarkable accuracy which probably does say something about economics but maybe not as much as they seem to think.
Fingerprints aren’t passwords here.
Exactly. Those developers they paid millions of dollars could have been paid similar amounts by other companies, and may have cared that they were contributing to a bona fide open source project.
I have run the self-hosted version of Sentry for a couple years at my job now and it has worked fantastically, and I also use the SaaS product during freelance. The self-hosted releases take time to appear after launching on SaaS, but this is understandable as it takes time to coordinate things making it downstream to the public repo from internal stuff. And the self-hosted version is rock-solid once running, I never worry about it.

Of course it would be great if everything could remain truly open source, but I can understand the IP concerns as Sentry grows, and I am appreciative of the communication and commitment to offering the same product for self-hosting as your SaaS product. I'll be continuing to use and support Sentry and am interested to see how the BSL model goes here compared to something like open-core.
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I think a lot of people are questioning whether “something I am” is even a good target to aim for at all. As other folks in these comments have mentioned: if your fingerprints/retinas/DNA are compromised, you can’t change them the way you can with a password.
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Probably just an unhealthy obsession with it at one point in my life. But I do think there have been some pretty major projects built with it when it was in its heyday a few decades ago. It’s definitely not just an academic toy.
Do you believe imperfections in a system inherently mean the entire thing is flawed? What system would you prefer?
My worst AirBnb was let via a proxy agent. The flat wasn't actually rentable even though it was online, and so I showed up to a locked flat, no key, with all of my bags in a new city. AirBnB refunded it and gave me 50 AirBnb Bucks (TM). I only do hotels now, unless someone else is handling the reservation.
I think when you make the world's first couch-surfing app you can plausibly tell your self that you are changing the world. The world goes from not having couch-surfing apps to having one.

Creating a second couch-surfing app with the idea of out-marketing the first doesn't inspire the same sense of purpose.
There are no proven benefits to micro dosing LSD either. But it is easier I guess.
Well, in my experience, if you're left to balance side-effects, it's that your underlying design is flawed.

But regardless, taking sensor classification (inherently error-prone) at face value is engineering malpractice.
I agree - factors involving insurance, compliance, auditing, etc... will play a big role for any company using such systems to process any kind of even slightly confidential information.

Any CIO that decides not to use such security patches will carry on his/her shoulders the full risk. Big bosses don't like risk and like even less to be personally accountable for anything => I don't see that happening.

Even if the tests mentioned in the article might be related to HPC, the HW is for general computing therefore its usage doesn't have to be restricted to HPC, but people might still decide to use (as well) those HPC-results to compare the types of CPUs.
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It's engines are old, at least 1.5 generations behind the latest engines in production. Fuel efficiency only looks low when compared to aircraft using more modern engines. Unsurprisingly, Emirates canceled their order only after Rolls-Royce rescinded their plans for an engine upgrade. That's why there was the one year of waffling; Airbus and Emirates were trying secure a commitment from Rolls-Royce as everything turned on an upgraded engine.

Even with the engine handicap the A380 was still generally competitive if fully loaded. And if not fully loaded it could still be competitive, as described by a recent story about the outsized role of the Dallas-Sydney route to Quantas' bottom line: https://simpleflying.com/dallas-sydney-qantas/ (see also https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2019/10/28/this...)

Considering that engine efficiency is perhaps the biggest contributor to financial viability, that says something very positive about the A380 approach and design. But as engines continued to advance the A380 would have lost even that edge.
Note that the effect of steeply progressive income taxes is making it much more difficult for people to move up the economic ladder.
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The had wheels on the ground, but program logic evaluated to onground = FALSE.

Nope. The Lufthansa bird had one bogie on the ground and one off. With the TAM flight the pilots left one thrust lever at climb power and one at idle, pure pilot error.

The Westjet and Turkish incidents are irrelevant. Westjet malfunctioned, pilot took control and landed safely - that's what pilots are there for. Turkish airplane also malfunctioned and gave multiple warnings over several minutes, but pilots didn't pay attention to what the aircraft was doing until stall warning activated at 460 feet, by which time it was too late. Had they paid attention, they would've also recovered and landed safely.

Unfortunately the 737s were functioning as designed, the computers took invalid input and ran with it instead of cross checking it.
I mean, immediate huge results are great if they happen.

Really, they want what everyone else wants - ability to test ideas and executions before committing to a budget or unreasonable KPIs.
I don't see why a psychedelic drug can be seen as giving a pleasant experience.

It gives an interesting experience which may be enjoyable or horrible, or anything in between, depending on who and when takes it. Reports of bad trips are widespread. Most native tribes who used psychedelics had rituals of "mental cleansing" of sorts to lower the chance of a bad trip.

Of course if you only learned "meditation" under a drug, you may just not know how to meditate normally. But this is not the case in this study, afaict.
Oh that's an interesting point I hadn't considered, thanks for mentioning that!
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There's an estimated 2 billion years worth of dissolved uranium. Not truly renewable I suppose, but by that metric solar power isn't renewable either. Eventually all the hydrogen in th sun will be fused.
It was also said about innumerable technologies that went on to fail. Focusing just on those success stories is survivorship bias.
Pumped storage requires very specific geography and how much energy can be stored is very dependant on height differences. It is also only 70-80% efficient. Compressed-air energy storage also requires specific geography. Molten salt is not going to be a great idea in places that have lots of wind, but not a lot of sun (UK in winter for example).

To replace strip mined coal burning generators and fracked gas we need a mix of just about everything.
Another option is just to not tackle systems that require 24/7 uptime IF you are just one person. Instead, make an installable product or do a service that's not interactive or real-time.

I've been in the game for a while and every time I run across an idea for a service, there's always a question of whether I'd be OK with sleeping with a pager, remoting to the servers at 4 am on Saturday and generally be slaved to the business. The answer, upon some reflection, is inevitably No. This is the domain of teams.
I currently have multiple keys. One I carry on me and one I locked in our firesafe with other important documents.

The way I see it, I would want the bio version to be the one on my person. I still have the other put away where it won't be lost.

I lose my hand? Still have a backup. I lose my key? Backup and maybe I have a little bit of extra time to update my bank MFA while the thief figures out the fingerprint situation.
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The reason I don't is because it tacitly sets an expectation for the recipient(s) that they do the same.
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Nothing about this announcement makes it closed-source software.
It seems to be either that or have amazon rip the rug out from under them AND the open source community at once.
>An accelerating and historically high broad societal effect is naturally a product of broad and unique properties of the current regime, rather than fundamentally consistent properties, which would naturally be seen across all time.

You're completely correct here. Unfortunately, neither the current levels of income inequality nor the acceleration of said inequality is unique or historically high. It's not even unique in the last hundred years.
But doesn't this ignore the selection effect discussed in the article? IE to use your numbers say you get a $100 sale for every $10 spent on ads. And say your profit margin (outside of ads) on that sale is 20%, so you earn $20-$10 = $10 in profit.

However, what if 3/4 of the people who clicked on your ads would have found you anyway, through organic search results or other means? Then that $10 spend only actually generated $5 in net income before ads, or a $5 loss after the cost of the ads.

It's tough to say what that number is without doing some testing, but the point is that you can't simply treat all the business coming in via ads as attributable to the ad spend.
> engineered the system so the safety driver was not capable of preventing the accident.

I don't believe this is true, unless I misread the article. The safety driver can override the vehicle controls at any point, and had she been paying attention to the road, would have done so five seconds earlier.
Short answer: promising 5 nines of uptime is not a thing for startups. Downtime is going to happen and you are going to be asleep, drunk, or otherwise not fit for doing any emergency ops. It's not the end of the world. Happens to the best of us.

So given that, just do the right things to prevent things going down and get to a reasonable level of comfort.

I recently shut down the infrastructure for my (failed) startup. Some parts of that had been up and running for close to four years. We had some incidents over the years of course but nothing that impacted our business.

Simple things you can do:
- CI & CD + deployment automation. This is an investment but having a reliable CI & CD pipeline means your deployments are automated and predictable. Easier if you do it from day 1.
- Have good tests. Sounds obvious but you can't do CD without good tests. Writing good tests is a good skill to have. Many startups just wing it here and if you don't get the funding to rewrite your software it may kill your startup.
- Have redundancy. I.e. two app servers instead of 1. Use availability zones. Have a sane DB that can survive a master outage.
- Have backups (verified ones) and a well tested procedure & plan for restoring those.
- Pick your favorite cloud provider and go for hosted solutions for infrastructure that you need rather than saving a few pennies hosting shit yourself on some cheap rack server. I.e. use Amazon RDS or equivalent and don't reinvent the wheels of configuring, deploying, monitoring, operating, and backing that up. Your time (even if you had some, which you don't) is worth more than the cost of several years of using that even if you only spend a few days on this. There's more to this stuff than apt-get install whatever and walking away.
- make conservative/boring choices for infrastructure. I.e. use postgresql instead of some relatively obscure nosql thingy. They both might work. Postgresql is a lot less likely to not work and when that happens it's probably because of something you did. If you take risks with some parts, make a point of not taking risks with other parts. I.e. balance the risks.
- When stuff goes wrong, learn from it and don't let it happen again.
- Manage expectations for your users and customers. Don't promise them anything you can't deliver. Like 5 nines. When shit goes wrong be honest and open about it.
- Have a battle plan for when the worst happens. What do you do if some hacker gets into your system or your data-center gets taken out by a comet or some other freak accident? Who do you call? What do you do? How would you find out? Hope for the best but definitely plan for the worst. When your servers are down, improvising is likely to cause more problems.
> It is pretty clearly free riding to take the creative output of another company, repackage it for money and release nothing in return.

I completely agree and I think you found the perfect word for it: free-riding. As you note, anti-competitive has a specialized meaning. My comment was simply that free-riding is not, on its own, considered an anti-competitive business practice.
Didn't they just recently pivot to doing place reviews instead of check-ins?
I think a wide swath (very likely the majority) of the community is totally fine with not-open licenses. It’s the default condition for new code and I personally have zero issue with it.

I think more people are put off by perceived bait-and-switch or claims that a given piece of tech is open (with all the benefits that come from that) while making it not actually open.

If it’s a duck, call it a duck. If it’s a hunting decoy, don’t call it a duck.
>> I'm one of those people.

Sorry brother, I had you all wrong.

Meditation is often too broad and connotatively laden a term to have immediately productive cross discipline discussions about techniques and outcomes.

We'd all benefit from an accessible but revised vocabulary for these matters.
> smartest minds of our generation are working on making

Considering the deterioration in software functionality that i m experiencing the past years across the board (from superheavy web apps to mobile apps that for no reason remove features to desktop apps that function worse than even mobile apps) - i m not even sure they re employing the " smartest minds of our generation"
There's research on this topic, and you'd be surprised.

The average human apparently has a 2.3 second delay to unexpected, interruptive stimulus while driving (https://copradar.com/redlight/factors/IEA2000_ABS51.pdf). We almost never perceive it as such because we tend to measure our own reaction times from the point we are conscious of stimulus to the point we take willful action to respond to it, but the hard numbers appear to show that critical information can take 1+ seconds to percolate to conscious observation (remember, the brain spends a lot of time figuring out what in the soup of sensory nonsense is worthy of attention).