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armini | 9 months ago | on: Show HN: Connecting People Through AI-Powered Video Sentiment Matching

I appreciate your candid feedback. Kuky is actually built on evidence-based peer support principles. Key research supporting our approach: • Shalaby & Agyapong (2020), JMIR Mental Health – Peer support improves wellbeing and reduces stigma. https://mental.jmir.org/2020/6/e15572 • Cooper et al. (2024), BMC Medicine – Peer-led interventions boost empowerment, hope, and connection. https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...

armini | 1 year ago | on: Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study

I can say for myself that seeing the wars have had a detrimental impact on my life & faith in humanity. Hearing people try to justify a genocide makes me completely checkout. The algorithms also don't help when you keep seeing kids & families decimated constantly on your reddit, instagram & x feed with genocide drones. I'm convinced that we are living in one of the most regrettable times in our century.

armini | 1 year ago | on: Open Source Pledge

thanks for the recognition we'd love to help more companies support & fund their dependency tree :)

armini | 1 year ago | on: It took my savings and 14 years but I’m about to beat arthritis

It says he used the money from redundancy to continue with his work. Pfizer would have a hard time winning that case because the discovery was made past their employment. Having field knowledge doesn't make it a crime. Coding is different because it's easier to copy paste functions & classes, it also doesn't help that everything has timestamps. Your best bet is to rewrite everything.

armini | 1 year ago

Hi HN Community,

Microsoft recently announced they have generated 2Billion in ARR from Github Copilot. As part of corporate social responsibility, do you think Microsoft should give back to the open source community given that Copilot is technically trained by OSS maintainers??

armini | 1 year ago | on: Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open-source maintenance firm

I got a DM from a maintainer asking to elaborate so here's my personal opinion "The Geomys model feels a lot like the Tidelift model but it doesn't really create an eco-system that's more inclusive & exciting to be a part of. We want to create a community where more maintainers are excited by contributing to open source instead of them saying ohh this is too hard lets pass it onto someone else with the resource. The other issue is that how do you determine if something is critical & if something isn't, it's really subjective."

armini | 1 year ago | on: Social engineering takeovers of open source projects

I've been working on thanks.dev for over two years now & reading this report is disappointing to say the least. Why not spend the time to explain the value XZ Utils created for all the commercial users & what companies can do to better supporting maintainers with hundreds of issues experiencing burnout from their unpaid work? OpenSSF should instead promote FOSS programs like https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-were-supporting-open-so... & how they help their open source community stay active. Working in open source is a social contract & corporates need to be better citizens if they want to reduce their risk profile.

armini | 1 year ago | on: Boeing engineer tells senate about 'manufacturing shortcuts' [video]

"Made in Japan" won't have the same issue because culturally Japanese people will always buy a Japanese products even if there's a cheaper alternative. Visit Tokyo & count how many people drive Hyundai. "Made in US" doesn't have the same local advocacy because it's driven by different market dynamics (Consumerism & Immigration). Japanese work culture still cares for craftsman ship but they have fallen behind in advance tech compared to other nations like Taiwan & Korea.
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