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Ask HN: Pairing two users to resolve the 'bystander' effect of donations
Donations for an Open Source generally won't work because of the bystander and freeloader effect.

I mean they work but they're usually a very low percentage of users.

Users A doesn't donate because he knows there's a large percentage of users and he will just let them donate instead.

This really hit me hard with my project because ALL my users say they love the project, couldn't live without it, etc, but when I ask them to donate I get less than 1% of users actually donating.

When I talk to them on the phone, during user interviews, I ask them if they bought the product of if they've donated and they usually say "they don't know why" they haven't donated.

(let's ignore privacy issues with this proposal for a second).

I was thinking that in social situations people donate due to social pressure. What I was thinking of doing is maybe pairing users with someone who has donate and then asking them why haven't they donated?

Basically showing a picture for another user who donated, and then giving them a prompt to answer why they haven't donated.

Curious of your thoughts here.

There was a famous psychological study that showed that just an image of an eye looking at someone caused them to behave fairly in games.

...

Another idea could be to have public badges for the user like "has not supported the project" or (even harsher) "freeloader" or something along those lines.

...

Again. Just thinking out loud here. Some of these might not be workable due to privacy and I'm not trying to be a jerk in this regard.
Is there something like this I can self host on a cloud service? Hate paying so much for my team Dropbox.
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> Fixed wing aircraft are popular

Even so, only about 1000 single engine piston airplanes are sold every year.
The latter. You can look at what javascript is emitted on the playground.

let bar: any, log: any;
log?.(`foo ${bar()}`);

// becomes
var _a;
var bar, log;
(_a = log) === null || _a === void 0 ? void 0 : _a("foo " + bar());
We (Hugging Face) added it to Write With Transformers if you want to try the text generation capabilities of the model: https://transformer.huggingface.co/doc/gpt2-xl
And yet its remarkable how many user shop for features, not performance.

Try to make software good enough to sell, and that is quickly the obvious conclusion.
At this point, we should conclude that Israel/Mossad rules the world.
So it's all about perception? The Bank of Japan has been trying to credibly promise 2% inflation for a while and failing [1]. Maybe if they monetized some of the debt, people would take them seriously?

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/23/business/econom...
I'm having great fun building a SwiftUI app for a client. I haven't encountered any showstoppers, but several times I've changed the design to make it easier for myself.

To give you an example: pull-to-refresh isn't there yet. You have to build it yourself. I looked for a searchbar and I built it myself as well.

However building the GUI itself is very fast, because it compiles and immediately previews your code. The preview can be changed with the mouse, which updates your code again. That aspect is very, very nice and made my client smile when we were adjusting some padding, font sizes, image sizes etc. on the fly.
I'm Garrett. As stated in my quote, I was already in the library all day for the air-conditioning, and thought this would be a fun way to waste some time. My submission was the "Internet based resource retrieval system (No. 8996546)" highlighted in the article. It was honestly shocking how obvious of a patent it was, it basically just described an online yellow pages. I could find one of those before 2004, easy. Internet Archive wayback machine, away!

I -really- could have used the winnings back then, (I made my submission ~4 years ago), but hey, it all worked out in the end. I'm an SRE living in SF now, with my own apartment in a nice neighborhood. Still no AC though.
The blind people that I know absolutely excel at what they do. One is a software engineer that is so focused it makes me feel scatterbrained, the other easily the best piano tuner that I've ever met.
At first you mention how higher education doesn't get you a good job anymore, but then you mention support for a candidate who will make college free. Don't you see the contradiction here? The reason college graduates have difficulty finding good jobs compared to the past is because so many people have a degree. Even if you forgive all of the student loans and make college free, people still won't find jobs based on college. College might not even get you anywhere because it'll become a default requirement for every job. There will be some other criteria used instead and somebody's probably going to make money off of that too.

There just aren't enough jobs that require the qualifications of English literature majors or similar.
Twilio indeed! I also have Digital Ocean and SendGrid on my own list, which are written by developers for developers.
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Quoting the person you quoted

> > “When you find a problem in the source code, it’s very difficult to explain the consequences of that problem to a judge or jury,” he told me. “It’s written in a foreign language, and the effects are hard to trace. We’re rarely able to say, ‘Aha, here’s this person’s breath test and here’s the problem that caused it to be wrong.’”

This is the true power (and 'problem') of Turing Completeness. The effects of any small change are so absurdly non-linear that it's really hard to predict without systems (types, etc.) to constrain us.

Most non-trivial theorems about TMs are un-provable[0], so this should probably come as no surprise, but I find that it's very hard to explain to lay-people just how hard it is to predict what a program will do.

[0] There are some very important and very general ones that are, but that doesn't really matter wrt. predicability in terms of small changes.
Sure, but then why wouldn't he say so? It's not like he likes Chinese government very much, so why would he present it as a racism issue? It's almost the opposite...
This isn't completely correct - despite the "guaranteed profit" model, PG&E always needs approval to increase rates. Whether or not CPUC would fight those rate hikes is another question. There are some organizations that probably would though.
I always confused backcountry.com with The Back Country, a cool shop in Truckee (https://thebackcountry.net/). I wonder if The Back Country is old enough to predate the trademark, or they are about to get sued.
That's not the formula used when copyright violations are involved...
We have some successful non-private power companies in the state, so another power company modeled on them at least has the possibility of working out. The private approach has not worked for PG&E so far, we need to attempt fixes. If you have better ideas for how to fix PG&E you should contact your representatives or perhaps start a ballot initiative.
That is in theory where the government steps in. It’s exactly why standard oil was broken up. Selling at a loss to try to create a monopoly completely breaks capitalism.

I invite the folks downvoting to explain how capitalism works with a market monopoly. Since pointing out government exists to prevent just such a situation is apparently an unpopular opinion.
This is also exactly why natural monopolies like utilities should not be publicly-traded companies, in my opinion.

When fires happen in California, short-sighted shareholders from all over the place short sell their stock, sue them and waste money on legal expenses, and otherwise deprive them of funds they need to fix problems.

Imagine if every highway in the Bay Area were a publicly-traded company. Accident happens on I-280 due to a pothole. Shareholders panic and short sell I-280 stock. Accident never gets cleaned up. Pothole never gets fixed. Because they don't have funding to fix it.

When there are problems in infrastructure, like fires, we should be pouring money into fixing and upgrading infrastructure immediately so it doesn't happen again, not taking funding away.
> Anyone who has managed to figure out anything substantial about SwiftUI has done so purely through a labor of love.

There are lots of apps which are simply specialized CRUD apps. Personally, I love building them. The current state of SwiftUI is sufficiently developed for this kind of app.
This is relatively standard notation.

To be very attentive during an exercise in Lagrangian-formulated quantum mechanics you had better make sure to dot your qs and cross your hs.
The majority of EU budget consists of programs such as the common agricultural policy, ERDF and other infrastructure funding which are de facto transfer payments to improve and sustain poorer areas.
You could use the exact same service and just mule fresh food about on these flights
One of the big hurdles with full legalisation / taxation which you're suggesting (as opposed to decriminalisation) is how to deal with the approval processes for future substances.

Do you just grandfather in a certain number of existing drugs (ie marijuana, MDMA, etc?)

What happens when a new substance hits town? The approval process for new therapeutic drugs is huge and very expensive - and only major pharmaceutical companies can generally bear the cost (plus the safety requirements are stringent enough that many currently illegal drugs wouldn't pass).

If you allow future street/recreational drugs to get a free pass (and tax them), you're opening a loophole for new pharmaceutical drugs to make it to market without due approval and safety checks.

Decriminalisation (Portugal-style) is a different thing altogether, but you don't get the tax revenues and the implicit sanctioning that brings.
> And I think his point wasn't so much they'll be worse, but why do we believe they'll be better?

Because unlike a privately-owned and publicly-regulated utility, it would be subject to undivided public accountability.
> Nothing forces you to depend on any packages you don’t want to.

Nothing stops you, either, which is a problem for everyone in the future who uses your code. The first reaction to any problem in JavaScript/webdev is to google for a library to import to solve the problem. This is acceptable behavior because the existence of a web browser implies powerful enough resources to accommodate bloat. But this mentality isn't acceptable on other systems and has even infected some basic functionality:

https://crates.io/crates/rand

The random number generator for Rust has 6 dependencies. In C++, it's only lib[std]c++. In Java, it's java.base.
A helicopter is enormously complex mechanically, hard to operate, and either failure prone (piston engine) or expensive (turbine).
Sure an electric VTOL could be cheaper to operate.
"Hey middle America, sucks that you went to trade school because college is expensive and doesn't yield the returns required to justify the expense but we are going to need you to cover the costs of all those art history degrees of the kids who got high and screwed around."

How did Trump win? Must of been the Russians.
The technical term in the literature would be wildland-urban interface [1], and Santa Rosa should be pretty easy to find on this 2010 map of the WUI [2] when you zoom in on the Bay Area .

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildland%E2%80%93urban_interfa...
[2] https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/rmap/rmap8/rmap-nrs-8-WUI-MAP...
As I said. They exist. You're going to run into many people of extraordinary ability living in the world's tech hub. But again, the vast majority of people don't have the discipline to self study their way through an entire CS curriculum.
> var viewContainer2 = ViewContainer<EmptyView>()

Yes, that would be a workaround for myself, but for a game engine's API, it'd be ugly to require users to write that every time. :)

And there are cases where they might not even know the type.
It’s remarkably convenient for every politician in California that we’re all having this conversation about how bad PG&E is, while completely ignoring how California’s absolutely terrible forestry management is what’s actually been driving the risks up.

A drought combined with decades of highly aggressive fire suppression has sent the number of dead trees in CA forests skyrocketing. PG&E is an absolutely perfect scapegoat for CA politicians, but what would we say if one of our bosses told us to completely disregard mitigating impact, and instead focus all our attention on reducing the likelihood of failure to 0?
Let's wait until TS supports dependent types!
Not the first time i’ve heard people talking about connection between epstein and mossad, but i’ve never actually read anything about it. Do you have any source giving more info on that ?

Alos, based on the article, it seems the reason abc didn’t publish anything is more due to pressure from the british royal family rather than israel, or did i miss something ?
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But I wasn't talking about poorest parts of the world either. China is richer than some EU countries, eg Bulgaria.
Unrelated to this article and reeks of antisemitic tropes.
I once had to deal with <private company> and they made me wait an <exorbitant amount of time> therefore, all private companies are inefficient.

Did I do it right?
If you are one of these customers (I am) this seems a little unfair. We overpaid way more than we’ll ever see back. What kind of refund does this translate to $6?
I do sometimes wonder if these complicated financial instruments have abstracted important aspects of corporate ownership to the point where its just abuse of the system. If an individual can't use those same financial instruments, why should a corporation be allowed to use them?
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Its size could lead to that sort of outcome, but if nationalized it could be broken up in the process. There are quite a number of very popular & inexpensive municipal utilities in this country.
Big Tech paying/obeying Regulations is their version of Certifications. It costs them a bit of money but it also appears to the customers that they're "doing the right thing" (akin to buying integrity?). Unfortunately, while the ideals may be correct behind regulation, I don't think the results match the intent. Humans are too good at gaming things.

Also, the "regulators drawn from their ranks" phrase in this article is quite apt. We tend to think of companies and governments as distinct, exclusive entities when in fact they movement of people between them is fluid. I see that all the time even from my neck of the woods.
This is easily the best explanation of RH's goof in this entire thread.
I think the press release quoted above was also from 2005.
Shouldn't it also mention specific optimisations for 3dfx cards
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Fascinating. It'd be interesting to see a criticism of these ideas.
Or even stop regulating the drugs that are currently illegal entirely, and let market mechanisms work! Drugs are in this middle ground that's both not policed by the government AND can't use standard market signalling methods.

Arguably the fact that you can get good, high quality drugs reliably from darknet markets is the "stop regulating the drugs entirely" mechanism at work, only by making enforcement impossible.
Any rate hike has to go through CPUC. Whether or not they would fight it depends upon the reasonableness of the request. There are other organizations that would likely fight it though.
As someone concerned about my drinking habits - I actually want this. I assume a good overview of liver health can be ascertained through urinalysis or a blood test?
Yeah, bit of a shame. I took some time to go through Apple's tutorial, just to get a taste of SwiftUI, but I ran into Xcode crapping the bed every few minutes; having to clean the build folder every time a new source file was added; compiler bugs; and to top it all off there were a couple of places that the tutorial was outdated already.

And of course you need to be on the bug riddled Catalina to get any real SwiftUI development done (live previews).

UI development in the Apple ecosystem has always been a bit rough, but I've never run into _this_ many problems in such a short amount of time, all while following their official tutorial.
> ...uhm, shouldn't utilities be required to invest for the long-term?

The different between should and did are incentives. Utilities have no incentive to invest. (They do have an incentive to spend, which if enabled by politicians, generally yields pricey, useless contracts for cronies.)

A good case study is in wireless providers in the U.S. and EU. American providers are private; European ones are more utilities. The utilities are cheaper; their CAPEX (and executive compensation) is lower. American cities thus end up with--on average--faster, more-expensive service than European cities. There isn't a better solution, just different ones for different goals.
There has to be an internet law regarding the speed of convergence of Israel mentions to cries of antisemitism.

That being said I don't agree with OP.
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Cool, what content blocker are you using? Mine didn’t help (crystal)
This is what most companies do irl for security reasons. It's also the easiest, most obvious solution with the least moving parts.

There will never be a standard build system, but CMake is the de facto standard build generator and works well enough.
Is the granting overly broad? Yeah. Probably. However, nothing is granted unless some entity applies for it. Backcountry could / can choose another name. They could serve customers. Instead they're paying lawyers to serve legal threats.

Sure, they can do that. But it's a short sighted growth strategy.
Which nationalized entity would you like to emulate? Please provide one nationalized company that is an example of quality and value we can emulate. Would you like your power to operate like the DMV?
Your comment reminded me of this article from a few weeks back: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/business/liberal-arts-ste...

STEM careers are and likely always will be a solid choice. But liberal arts aren't as bad as pop culture would make them out to be.
I assume your goal with [0] is to be able to say `ViewContainer()` and have it wrap an `EmptyView`? You can do that like the following:

class ViewContainer<ViewType: View> {
var view: ViewType
init(view: ViewType) {
self.view = view
}
}

extension ViewContainer where ViewType == EmptyView {
convenience init() {
self.init(view: EmptyView())
}
}

With this code, writing `ViewContainer()` will produce a `ViewContainer<EmptyView>`. Writing `ViewContainer<Text>()` will fail with an error (as expected).

Note that since this is statically-typed, the following will fail:

let container = ViewContainer()
container.view = Text("wat")

If you want to be able to do that, you'd have to write something like

let container = ViewContainer(view: AnyView(EmptyView()))
container.view = AnyView(Text("wat"))
It's possible you didn't find the right kind of therapist. My first therapist made me hate therapy and I felt exactly as you did, like they were paid to care but didn't actually. My next therapist was very matter of fact and his style worked with my way of thinking well - the illness in question was a problem with moving parts that he helped me to identify and fix rather than emotional issue. I can't say that you need the same things as me but I hope you find might find the time and head space to try again.
Note too that "unincorporated" doesn't mean "rural." This is unincorporated: https://goo.gl/maps/TxHPvu6JNNC8tYk77
I don’t think I know any “rural person” who is complaining or even speaks about “being left behind”. Just my data point, but I grew up in rural America and still have lots of connections, so your claim is, uh, surprising to say the least. Maybe the impression of “rural Americans” you received while in the Bay Area / Munich was less than accurate?
This could work, would be great to see some case studies of successful municipal run utilities, I'm very open to learn and be corrected.
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Why would it not match up with the example given? They provided it so you'd know the answer to your question.
I can't seem the find the GitHub issue for it off hand, but I believe you can override the default indexing signature for arrays to return possibly undefined.

Otherwise, you're left to creating a wrapper function and a custom ESlint rule.

Edit: found it https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/13778#issueco...

The suggestion is to maintain your own copy of `index.d.ts` with the array indexing interface modified. Yikes!
The article referred to the British royal family, not Israel or Jews. Yet the OP felt the need to say the world was ruled by Israel.

Yes, it smells like antisemitism.
Haha here in CDMX I live a few blocks from Tepito and you can't walk in on a busy day without someone trying to sell you weed or coke.

I personally stick to my drug of choice: pambazos. I don't even want to quit.
That's like saying all this Trump-bashing from the left is just due to racism against whites. That would sound pretty silly wouldn't it?
Silicon Valley Power still relies on some PG&E transmission lines to bring power in that is generated outside Santa Clara. My point is just that PG&E has an influence on most every electricity user in its territory (even those with community or county run local distribution grids).
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Sitting on this story and similarly, the Weinstein stories, is inexcusable for media that wants to wrap themselves in the flag of journalistic integrity. It's no wonder trust is at an all-time low.
Could we be at the very beginning of a Cambrian explosion for space exploration? Exciting times.
My personal showstopper was dealing with attributed strings. I couldn’t get an equivalent of multiline uitextview of attributed string. It happened after just 20 minutes building a real world app, which made me wonder if anyone has ever built anything real at apple with this framework.

(Also, i couldn’t get a list of all the types of views and their documentation anywhere in apple’s documentation).
Many people are warning about the growth in corporate credit, even Jerome Powell admits that it's not rosy there. Fully 45% of BBB rated bonds (lowest and largest in investment grade spectrum) should be junk rated today if judged by leverage ratios alone:

Morgan Stanley, The Nature of the BBBeast https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/fixed-income-advisory-committe...

And then you have non-systemic but ridiculous things like Brex which issues credit on revenue data alone. Revenue is meaningless, Moviepass had great revenue. And those robocalls you're mentioning. Try a Google search on "revenue based credit" on a mobile phone from the US and read what are the ads saying ...