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I run the open source strategy and marketing team at AWS. As I told Tim privately and publicly (https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1317084448119169024), I hadn't been aware of this but am talking with the relevant product team to see how we can improve in his regard.

AWS uses a lot of open source, and we contribute a lot, both in terms of code (first-party projects like Firecracker and Bottlerocket, but also third-party projects like Redis, GraphQL, Open Telemetry, etc.), testing, credits, foundation support, and more. But open source is ultimately about people and communities, and I personally feel we could have done more to acknowledge the great work Tim and his co-maintainers have done, and try to support their Headless Recorder work. We're talking with Tim now about this.

(While I think we do far better than sometimes acknowledged, we're also always looking to improve, and appreciate all the feedback that helps us toward that goal.)
Describing the latter as "exploitation view" is the kind of bad-faith label ala pro-life vs anti-abortion.

I see not problem with a lack of attribution, but that means I support "exploitation"?

why not describe your own position as the "egocentric" view?
> Subjects in the intervention group were trained for 10 d in meditation (third eye meditation), breathing techniques (i.a., cyclic hyperventilation followed by breath retention), and exposure to cold (i.a., immersions in ice cold water)... Subsequently, all subjects underwent experimental endotoxemia (i.v. administration of 2 ng/kg Escherichia coli endotoxin).

> In the intervention group, practicing the learned techniques resulted in intermittent respiratory alkalosis and hypoxia resulting in profoundly increased plasma epinephrine levels. In the intervention group, plasma levels of the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 increased more rapidly after endotoxin administration, correlated strongly with preceding epinephrine levels, and were higher. Levels of proinflammatory mediators TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-8 were lower in the intervention group and correlated negatively with IL-10 levels. Finally, flu-like symptoms were lower in the intervention group.

Sounds like the research is promoting third eye meditation rather than measuring the contribution of each specific technique. Hyperventilation followed by breath holding is what free divers do. Immersion in ice cold water is extremely unpleasant and non-trivial for most people to do regularly. I wonder how the degree of inflammatory response using this technique compares to typical activities like strenuous exercise.
AGPL may go too far sometimes, as to intimidate companies from using an opensource project internally, and not necessarily as a (user-facing) service as in the case with the OP and AWS.

That's due to fact that AGPL's _user interaction_ clauses can be too vague in legal terms, in a way that many internal use cases could be litigated as a user interaction over a network.

It has been discussed before here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16636963
Also relevant this other interview (video), a bit more recent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9SGIB946lw
Note that the source code is referenced by a hash, so it can't change without changing the package. Also, the source code of all packages built by Hydra is on cache.nixos.org alongside the resulting binaries.
Problem is you're competing in a saturated market (Electron, React Native for Windows and macOS) and already tested your positioning once with the KickStarter campaign.

Finding a way to fund this is going to be an uphill battle, although I like the creative ideas amadeuspagel mentioned. Like anything else, find a niche somewhere (possibly related to performance/memory for clients not using React) and serve it with a modest upsell. But it's an enormous market, with entrenched competitors who don't need to make a profit on their offerings, so expect fierce competition all the way.
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Do you have suggestions for process or tooling that allows you to quickly / cheaply take the information or insights that arise from conversation and integrate them into a longer term store? And how to make that longer term location really useful?

To the degree that teams fall into the habit of just searching slack history for info, I think those are the two key factors:

- we remember bits of conversation, and who said something, or in which channel, can be a good way to rediscover the full details; note-taking and aggregating stuff into a knowledge base or docs repository can strip out that info making it harder to rediscover. (The obvious caveat here is that there can be sharp difference between re-finding a conversation you participated in e.g. in your team, vs finding information about a system you depend on from a conversation you didn't participate in.)

- the process of getting stuff shared in slack into a longer-term knowledge base can be slow and tedious, and may require someone to spend time deciding which pieces are potentially valuable, generalizing from the specific case discussed to a form that makes sense out of context, condensing what was said over many messages, arbitrating between views which are valuable but conflicting, etc.

I would like to see an NLP tool for summarizing threads and extracting the information which is most likely to be reusable.
The interesting ideas in Datasette (2018)
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That's an interesting tool. As a former professional pianist, I'd repeat what I feel like the limitation of such a program: it does teach you note reading, which is nice, but really basic piano technique is a necessary preamble. You mentioned that your boy spent a whole day on this; with a bit of guidance, a full beginner after a few hours should be able to play this very simple melody with one hand, and to add a couple of bass notes with the other, for a much more satisfying result (for the player and for the audience). I know it because I've done it with many children in the past.

So you should probably add something like some introduction material / tutorial... maybe a couple of videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ChQK8j6so8
Do you mean guitar tabs? (By "tab")? Seeing the music theory and logic behinds chords and scales is a lot easier with keyboard instruments.
Go is gaining the ability to trace init calls on program startup
> Word of mouth is all you can trust.

Yes, and only if the words come from the mouths of trusted friends. Everything else is probably tainted by monetary incentives and should be taken with several grains of salt.
My grandmother (who was very old guard proper type) taught us that every bitter should be chewed 26 times before swallowing. And of course, out your utensils down between bites.
Third sentence on the page:

> If you think you may have been exposed to COVID-19, contact your healthcare provider.

"Don't physically go to the doctor's office" is not the same thing as "don't seek medical treatment". The advice is clearly to engage with medical professionals remotely as soon as possible, and their judgement of your symptoms will determine if and when you need to actually go to a hospital.
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of Slack in the first place but Teams's UI just seems like an utter mess. I don't understand how I'm supposed to use it.

I'm sure I could figure it out if I spent 15 minutes, but it's a damn chat app. Why is this so hard?
Joes (Kennedy) Wikipedia entry, and the Kennedy family have been players in democratic politics for decades and decades
It's not organized to be read in order. The books are loosely grouped by type: Law (which is heavily history), poetry, prophets, the life of Christ, letters, etc. I would definitely start with a Gospel, probably Mark.
I think the worst thing you could do in this situation is put the redesign people on the infrastructure team
Not specifically about remdesivir, but I saw a video by medlifecrisis channel on youtube[1] recently that talks a bit about hydroxychloroquine research, and goes a bit more in depth about the state of medical research quality and peer review (or lack of thereof, in the case of the surge of covid related papers)

I thought that was some interesting food for thought there.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7leWXMr3ayk
You accidental tautology belies the point that the amount of calories your body burns is variable, depending in part on the number of calories your body takes in.
Also obvious is that even truly random selections would be repeated because we are creatures of habit/pattern. Not sure what is novel in this study other than it confirms a pretty expected outcome.
Exact height displays. First thought when I saw it was square is boring. How about a triangle, rhombus, kite, etc.

An equilateral triangle might want to use expensive ultrawide panels though.
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Is there any resources, books, and especially practical exercises you could recommend?
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> Linux is GPL and I doubt it would have tens of thousands of authors if it were not.

Why? There's plenty of permissive F/OSS projects with large numbers of contributors.

> It would have a dozen proprietary forks.

Probably, but proprietary forks don't stop F/OSS contributions. They can even be the source of them, as upstreaming everything that isn't secret sauce reduced the cost of maintaining the proprietary fork. A number of the big sources of F/OSS contributions to Postgres are maintainers of proprietary downstream distributions (I don't know that all are strictly forks, since I think the proprietary bits of at least some are using the extension mechanism.)
The saddest conclusion that occurs to me (not really addressed in his article) is that mechanisms for accountability aren't working very well, if they exist at all. A corollary is that accountability mechanisms are really gross in nature, so any observer or involved person might ascribe something like a demand for leadership change to causes other than the real underlying incompetence.
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What rather radical solution are you imagining?
Well, don't you find it odd that Remdesivir was known to be a stinker in February, then got all this publicity and fanfare exactly one day after the hydroxychloroquine protocol was discovered, and now apparently it's back to being a stinker again?
So you're saying the only courtesies we should render to others in life are ones that we're duty-bound by license agreements or other contracts to give?

Out with social norms and niceties, and in with black letter law?

I don't want to legally demand a specific acknowledgement; I know that this can have unintended consequences and greatly complicates adoption.

Also: If my stuff is used at the periphery of something you're doing, I don't really care. On the other hand, if you get to market by largely just repackaging what I've made, it seems that by social norms I'm due a hat tip, whether or not it's legally demanded.
Delve: Urban development using machine learning
You'll have less users with such a license, in reality only a tiny percentage of even huge companies use your code in a way that is annoying or make you feel like you should get something back for it and it's hard to target such companies specifically rather than crater the popularity of your project entirely.
It sounds like they're targeting the same market as Looking Glass (https://lookingglassfactory.com).
Not to be negative, but 1871-1914 was fairly peaceful in Europe and North America as well.

There were Balkan wars and there were Indian wars, but the vast majority of Western population never served in combat.

And people started thinking that this is how it is going to be forever.
Ask HN: What are your stories of failure?
We purposefully chose not to make 'an app' right now but to work in the browser, this gives us a different form factor to play with and some pretty powerful tools to get to the point where we really understand the space well enough to make a move. Think of the present project as a study, a way to have a zero-tooling set-up that allows us to work on this without having to worry about platforms and other fast moving targets. The idea is to first make it work very well and to address all of the valid concerns raised in this thread (of which we for the most part were already aware, but HN wouldn't be HN without its brutal reception of any piece of work). Then when it is bullet proof against such criticism it can be launched to a much larger audience.
> Failure is a single outcome with many reasons leading up to it.

Jared Diamond called this the "Anna Karenina Principle", from the opening line of Tolstoy's novel of that same name:

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

The idea being that a number of things all need to be correct to be successful; if any one of those things is missing, things will fail.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle
That creates problems for anyone who ever wants to sell their business to or sell services to any larger company. Which covers a lot of smaller companies. The license would trigger all sorts of legal red flags during due diligence for either case. And not just with the companies it's supposed to cover but any large company (ie: what if they one day trigger the clause, how well defined is the clause, what if they are partially owned/invested in by a larger company, etc, etc, etc).
This reads way too much into a valuable question.
That was always the plan. That's the essence of the difference between Open Source and Free Software.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Sounds like most of all the social media companies.

> Now we’re seeing the consequences

As with all of 'Big Tech', this road to hell was paved with 'good intentions' with thanks to those very smart engineers and scientists who created these cool technologies but with the unintended consequence that it can be (ab)used by bad actors.

They tried their best to control it or 'regulate themselves', but I guess the 'Big Tech' story will ultimately end in the US supreme court.
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You don’t see it as Facebook’s responsibility?

To not actively push malignant content just because it gets views?

Everyone in this world bears responsibility to one another. Of course there should be regulation to prevent the circumstance, but to the extent we want a livable world it is also all of our responsibility to not be degenerates.

Facebook is being a degenerate and shrugging it off as “well it’s not MY responsibility to not be a degenerate!” feels hopelessly lost and without any critical introspection or thought at all.
n=12 lol
Yes, I thought that was fairly obvious.
You are correct.

I used Zipcar for ~3 years in San Francisco (closest location was 6 minutes away by foot), then bought a used car (my apartment has a garage spot for me). We're a family of 2.

Zipcar was nice, but I avoided using the car most of the time. When I bought a car, I found some sort of relief, and I of course ended up using the car way more frequently than Zipcar, while still biking around in SF most of the time. I did many more outdoor/weekend trips, in the order of 5x/6x.
That sounds like the Iron Law of Bureaucracy (or a corollary to it).

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
> private relationships (both personal and business) are the default.

What on earth is a "private personal relationship" as opposed to a "public personal relationship"?

If you meant the whole tired "less government in our lives" thing, well, where do you think the internet came from? What do you think poll numbers show about public support for Medicare?
Restricting who may purchase which ads would be a start. Placing a financial value and further fines on misusing personal data would continue to hinder the attack vector. Ie not just hippa/PII.
> Bullshiting typically involves people who are not willing to learn about a subject.

... or have decided on recommending a result (eg to decision makers) without any understanding or due diligence having taken place (yet).
> remove the incentives for stupidity and uselessness and timewasting distractions that are rampant in western society.

Kind of an awkward take... this conversation is literally taking place on social media.

Do you have a concrete proposal for how to accomplish that goal?
> It's fascinating to watch the camera companies slowly catch up to where Elgato was years ago;

What's most amazing to me is how ineffective camera company's have been at getting a healthy ecosystem of tools/softwares growing. There was a brief bold attempt with the Samsung Galaxy Camera[1] to mate a decent camera with the Android OS & bring the well-known development environment, but it didn't take off. I still think this is the best chance camera folks have to be relevant, but there needs to be a bigger base of developer know-how incubated & grown. Starting expert communities is hard.

Meanwhile, it turns out Sony's modern cameras actually do run Android, they just don't expose it. There are some really neat apps, for time lapse, for uploading to photo services, for a bunch of random itch-scratch wants/needs built atop this. It's all unofficial apps. I don't think there's much work done with video & video streaming, which is where, I think a lot of the ubicomp/ubiquotous & pervasive computing currents wants & needs are. But this is, from what I can see, one of the most interesting & open places for playing with media, short of buying an Android phone & relying on it's sensors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Camera

[2] https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE
Other's have already questioned the randomness of the original choice, however whether random or not, there is some logic in continuing to do something that had a good outcome. Even if it's just that the particular soft toy didn't eat me, explode, or cause Mommy to be cross at me.
Um .... OpenWRT?
I thought this was going to be a slumlord starter pack.
Interesting. It's a high bar indeed but personally I find Trevor to match Jon both as comic and intellectual.
I wonder if there's an aspect of the experimental design that's left out of the linked article. For example, could the toys have been hidden behind some sort of shield, so that the baby couldn't see what color they were picking until they got to the shield?

Otherwise, there doesn't seem to be any basis for concluding that the initial choice was random.
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Trills and decoration in general (rolled chords) for instance are another area where anything midi based will fare poorly, because the 1:1 correspondence between note-heads and keys played is lost. We intend to try to reverse engineer such decorations and to show them properly. With trills and such it can be quite hard because it is perfectly possible to write out the same sequence, a trill is essentially a macro that expands to some number of notes (and some trills can be quite complex, for instance the first few bars of Partita 1 by JS Bach will throw you for a loop if you listen to them and then look at the score).
You can 100% exist today, and not use twitter at all, so its certainly a choice. Do you honestly believe that you can not effectively market your business or communicate with customers without twitter?

It is absolutely a choice.
Unfortunately, it's the slavers who HO for efficiency and the people who suffer
I just finished the book "Breath" by James Nestor. The book was very interesting and talked a lot about some of this but I was wondering if anyone has done any research on the book,I walked away feeling like there was a possibility that a lot of it was bullshit
Biden was the Vice President; what if he did meet this person in passing and the GRU has a photo of the brief head to head encounter, or there is a doctored photo ready for him to deny a meeting.
"Our inefficient stuff is made by people in foreign countries working in factories whose lives really aren't any better than middle ages Europe."

Life expectancy in the most typical manufacturing hotspots is actually better than Western standards of 1900. Even poorer countries today have much better healthcare than Queen Victoria used to have. Middle Ages is right out in this comparison.
Again, the bad actors in question will scream about tools made to help the general public deal with them, too, because it's not about some ethical thing, it is that they demand to have their sewage spewed at all comers and you are bad if you don't let them. There is a level of malice here that I feel you are definitely dismissing while charging end users with a level of responsibility that it is impractical to handle regardless of what UI/UX affordances you want to put on it.

It's not a UI/UX problem. It's a "you are offloading moderation to the end user" problem--it is a fundamental failure of the approach. If you are going to put all of the work of moderation on the end user, regardless of whether you dress it up as "shared moderation" or whatever, the end user is going to leave and cede the floor to those who want to dominate the public discourse with sewage and crud and threats because the end user has a life to live and things to do with their day. There is a fundamental human cost to being exposed to the kind of garbage that Twitter et al filter out on the regular. It takes a toll on the psyche. It will drive people away. And that's not a "but muh engagement" for whoever's metrics and KPIs are involved--it is a realization that this is now the public square and ceding it to actively anti-civil movements is bad for liberalized society in general.

If there's a failing of technical imagination on my part, fine. There strongly seems to be a failing of appreciation of how modern supremacist movements operate on yours. This is not a technical problem, this is a human problem. It's a question of whether the psychic damage inflicted upon bystanders by constant and unending exposure (because that is, genuinely, what the end state here is) is worth whatever hypothetical benefit is realized by giving these parties a place from which to abuse others until they definitely, yessir, are blocked by all of them and never, ever seek to get around it to continue their abuse.

> And why would I be otherwise?

Speaking frankly? Because this discussion is dominated by bad-faith types whose axe to grind is really that there's a movement against their favorite flavors of supremacism and they generally use arguments like the one you're putting forth as retrenchment now that the tide has turned against them. If that isn't your bag, I appreciate that; I think you're incorrect, but that's separate from disingenuous.
They already do. Macs have Webkit, and I'm sure Windows has an equivalent.
Can you just explicitly state what you're implying? For those of us who aren't getting it.
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Serverless is great or it sucks are extreme viewpoints. Reality is somewhere in the middle. For some specific use cases, (image manipulation, Alexa skills, etc.) serverless is fantastic. Dealing with persistent storage and DBs is challenging. But continues to evolve.

Managing server fleets and keeping them patched is no small feat. How much of the productivity can we gain if we didn't have to do all that with serverless? It's not possible for all use cases today. But can we move from say less than 5% of the use cases today to say, 40-50% of the use cases in another 5 years?