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Ask HN: What is the hottest OSS software I should contribute to
I mostly program in Go, Java and C++ (been a while since i used C++). I have a lot of spare time with the lockdown situation and would like to use the time to contribute more to open source. I already contributed some small fixes/features to projects like terraform or gogen-avro but would like to do more.
I would like a friendly project where I can learn fast or where the community is able to get you to speed.

Any suggestions?
For the initial investigation, it suffices to find any difference at all between reiki hands and non-reiki hands.

If we use every measurement device humanity has at its disposal, and find no difference, it is safe to conclude that the visible effects of reiki have no discernable cause of action beyond the placebo effect--which can be reliably generated by putting sufficient flimflammery in your bunkum.

If there is a difference, it should be measurable. And repeatably measurable using standardized testing devices with SI-derived units. If there is a genuine effect that can only be measured by its effect on biology, then obviously one should be able to build a measurement tool using biological cells. If reiki is real, it can be explained, one question at a time.
I don't mean to sound cynical, but, this is a long and detailed tutorial. They've clearly spent time working on it. IMO they should have tried to come up with a final result that is visually more appealing. Otherwise, people come to the tutorial and it's like, why go through all this work to recreate something that just looks meh? (a poorly lit model of a house floating on a grey flat rectangle) IMO, just a plain old Cornell box[0] would have looked better (and not been more complex to achieve).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_box
Did shopify cancel co-ops?
with the recent news of SpaceX banning Zoom [1] I wonder how many defense contractors or other organizations with high security clearances use Zoom.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-zoom-video-commn/e...
Could start with assembly programming. Then make an emulator.
PostreSQL is absolutely fantastic and for most projects, unless there's an existing legacy database or a purely Microsoft environment should be the default RDMS.

My only complaints are:

1) No built-in or easy failover mechanism (and will never have one because of their estated philosophy). I'll settle for a standard one and yes I know there are different requirements and things to optimize for and there are 3rd party solutions (just not one to integrate easily).

2) Horizontal Scalability. And yes I know of some solutions and other dbs being more apt for this and asking the wrong thing.
I don't know the context, but if you are looking for guarantees in life, then there is no possible way for you to accept any foreign material inside your home. I work in biotech(vaccines) and we have special protocols for disinfecting our incoming materials that go into cleanrooms. They are typically tripple-bagged from the vendor. And even then, there is no guarantee that something wont slip in. Its rare but it happens. If you do any kind of environmental monitoring in your home, and you will be surprised at the amount of bugs that you are currently sharing space with. Coronavirus is the new flavor of the month.
> I wish people would qualify their “Apple Hate” every time they mention it.

Apple hate? I'm a Mac convert, and I admire most of their hardware and design. But it's no secret they purposely refuse to interoperate with other vendors, and purposely develop proprietary technologies to keep you within their ecosystem. The recent acquisition, and subsequent planned shutdown of Dark Sky is just one recent example.

Part of it is just the business model, I guess. For example, Google's apps are widely available across a variety of devices, since it gives Google the juicy data that they're after. For Apple, which is not an ad company, the incentive might not be there for opening their apps up to a wider audience.

Since I cannot justify a $1k+ phone for myself and my family members (I am content with my $500 S10e), and I have a mix of Mac, Linux, and Windows devices, the Apple applications (however well designed) are sadly out.
In 2018 CA hospitals actually were over capacity for the flu. They aren't now as much as the covid obsessed want them to be.
Also most conference/meeting rooms in companies are setup to only use a specific meeting platform, forcing you to dial in if the meeting is with a client/vendor on a different platform.
Article would have been better by linking the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)
does the US actually have federal VAT?
Absolutely tangential but I love this style of illustration, especially all the technical drawings of the era. Works of art on themselves.
I agree regarding obviousness, marketing, difficulties of poverty, and doable challenges. I'm not convinced about "most poor people" and exceptions making the news. I've lived in several very poor communities in several parts of the US, and observed widespread cultural norms undermining the very ideas of cost efficiency and self restraint.

I realize I'm too ignorant to confidently propose systemic solutions, but on the education front I do wonder if it would help to offer government financed courses in shopping and budgeting (along with nutrition) bundled with SNAP benefits.
Helping public health officials combat Covid-19
choosenim is still supported :-)

The idea is more like the gcc -std flag (gcc -std=gnu++11 for example). to emulate certain versions to ease upgrading.
I don't begrudge people trying to take advantage of this thread, which was an ill-defined mess to begin with, but you've done a couple things here which I should comment on.

First, please don't delete and repost the same comment. It gives the impression of trying to pump it up in the rankings, which would not be a nice community behavior.

Second, something I tell people all the time by email: on HN it's an antipattern to have your username be that of your company or project. It creates a feeling of using the site for promotion rather than participating as a person. The community reacts better when your username represents you as a human. You don't have to use your real name, just something to communicate that you're there as a person, not a brand. If you'd like to change your username, we can do that for you via hn@ycombinator.com.
Wasn't intended as pejorative, just curious. Feel free to nuke this subthread to remove noise from their post.
Yeah, I've seen this too from the perspective of some friends in classical music. I don't think it will die in the sense that noone will put on or attend classical music performances anymore, but longtime institutions that were homes for it will go away, and performers will go into other work, so when all's said and done I imagine it will quite a smaller field than it was, fewer people in it, less money in it for anyone to make a living off of, fewer opportunities and performances. But who knows.
A useful question I've found is "So which of your friends and family are you prepared to sacrifice so we can all get back to normal?" Statistically speaking, with a rapid uncontrolled pandemic, everyone is gonna know at least several people who end up dying.
> The government tops their pay back up to 100%

Not quite, I think the government makes up for 60% or so of the income difference, but I'll have to look it up later myself.
Yeah, we know the guys at Plaid pretty well and we're big fans of the infrastructure they have created for fintechs and new financial services.
Somewhat hope it does. Apple deserves more bad press.
The way our welfare system is structured in the United States, maintaining access to food and shelter is a huge amount of work and stress. Developing skills and gaining employment is difficult in the best of times—yet we insist on making it even harder.
You should be fine and be able to reenter in L-1 status without issue. You might need to carry a letter from your employer before you reenter confirming your employment.
Zoom CEO says he was not prepared for flood of security and privacy complaints
I enjoy stand-up comedy, but the usefulness of journalism suffers if mere enjoyment is the standard for inclusion.
A similar title for this article could be: "How to bodysurf your way out of a tsunami"

Good luck, you're screwed.

If you're a cash flow negative startup even slightly tangentially related to an industry impacted severely by COVID, you're done. This economic shutdown is end of days for a huge number of small businesses.

The media is hyping shutdown until at least May, but I'm seeing more "June and on". If that comes to pass, there will be very few small businesses left standing in the heavily impacted industries. It's going to kill a lot of otherwise healthy businesses too.

The stimulus is mostly a feel good measure for politicians. How many of you have gotten your checks? How many have applied for EIDL loans and received them? How's the PPP going?

Oh I'm sure they'll iron out the kinks, but it'll be too little too late. Hope ya'll are up to date on your Steinbeck, because that's what's coming.
It's disingenuous to say PE doesn't care. They have every incentive to preserve and generate equity value. That is literally their business.

However, the issue is employees are also hurt, not just equity and debt holders.

Edit: I don't see how you can disagree with this statement. Literally the only job of a PE firm is retain and create value for investors. They would be out of business if they did not do that. Hence, they care about preserving capital. With the caveat that this is in aggregate across the portfolio.

I don't disagree, however, that there needs to be significant regulation and social safety support for workers. I believe there needs to be significant changes to ensure we protect worker rights.
My wife, who was doing office admin and CRM management for a lawyer/marketer couple. Their work has dried up a bit, and they moved a young adult son back home to help deal with isolation and his own layoff.

She's looking for remote work in CRM operations, part-time. Or local to the Philadelphia suburbs.
Learning to See Through Obstructions Using Deep Learning
Location: Warsaw, Poland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Clojure, React, Ada

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomekwcom/

Email: hn@tomekw.com
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+died+of+star...
>Are you suggesting it wasn’t known that battery replacements were available for iPhones?

I'm asserting as fact that Apple retail and support employees were kept in the dark about throttling. So, even if you had Applecare, your "genius" would tell you that your phone wasn't slowing down (you were imagining it) or that the slow down was an inevitable result of ever more complex OS upgrades. The end result is that you were told nothing could be done.

So no one was told the simple truth. That poor performance was related to poor battery health and could be rectified by a simple battery replacement.
Again, because if you give someone $xxx, they feel compelled to use it, and therefore to put $xxx less of their own money into the economy.

Here, people don't have any money or food stamps "burning a hole in their pocket." They just have their own money, and an unlimited line of credit for grocery stores that would "come due" in the form of taxes at the end of the year (but which would only end up costing them anything-at-all if they tried to live beyond their means.)

The only real presumption I'm making here, IMHO, is that people would be too ashamed to buy the "below your means" items (e.g. rice and beans) on this credit, if they didn't have to. Just like people are usually too ashamed to go to food banks if they don't have to.
No entry deadline since this was all done in good faith. You should be fine traveling to the US on your L-1 visa when you're able to. Possibly carry a letter from your employer confirming your employment.
To stock upon food to have available after the pandemic. Over many days you could amass quite a lot.
ha I tried to find out what people are on HN, but I didn't get any responses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484252
> The method you appear to be endorsing is, in my view, the opposite of open and transparent.

I don't agree. With an ahead-of-time announcement like that, it gives employees time to prepare for the possibility of being laid off. I.e. working on resume, reducing home budget, etc.
Yep everyone in rural places blindly goes to church no matter every Sunday (eye roll).
yup! That is the one :-)
If you click on his username, you'll see it in his profile.
I use to read hackernews when I was working at Macdonald's non stop, it was the only thing that kept me sane.
More accurately, Apple didn’t have a UI notification. This was not a secret and support people recommended it if you actually contacted them.
In this case it's not about the order of the words, but your interpretation of the meaning of "alone." Read the headline as it is, a news headline (rather than a scientific conclusion), and it might make more sense.
Hi Peter,

I’m on O1 visa. But my wife has O3 and doesn’t have a work permit. What’s the correct way to apply for a work permit? What visa should we change to?
Thanks
You should have already put your gym on hold - see if they will freeze it. Presumably you have not been in at least 2 weeks.

Also if you are not driving you can perhaps get a discount for the mileage reduction. You might also just let them know you are laid off.
Sounds like the rock is riddled through with fractures. Weakening the whole mountain
Where was the job located? It seems odd that you had to take a drug test for the job. I don't think I've heard of that happening in the tech field.
This Week in Apps – Things are slowing down, a Zoom alternative, and more
Ah neat - thanks for sharing. I'm gonna try that out.
The name grothendieck sounds a lot like big dick. Like bigus dickus in monthy pythons life of brian. Groot means big in dutch.
Not really. Kotlin/native is still super experimental and graal isn't exactly that easy either.
So they wrote code to deal with degrading battery health while at the same time didn't know about degrading battery health?
Hi Peter,

I was previously on an L1 in the US. Changed job and petition on an O-1. I exited the country and went to Canada to "wait it out" while going through the process. COVID19 happen and I'm now stuck in Vancouver.

I just saw that the USCIS is now closed for an in-person interview (and get the stamp in the passport) until the 3rd of May.

all of my stuff is still in California, is there any way for me to go back to the US and wait it out?

Can I use any emergency reason to still do the in person?

Thx for doing this!
Two friends of mine did education evaluation for United States visa. Both have dual degrees, that is masters degree combined with bachelor's. So they have one degree certificate that says masters as it was done together. The education evaluation came out as equivalent bachelors in America. Is this normal as it sounds wrong to me. I feel like they should be able to petition this as dual degrees are part of many curriculums
Yes, this was a feature. This feature was so great that they kept it a secret and were subject to lawsuits and forced to pay millions in fines.
The company I'm contracting for is flaming out fast. It's sad to see the death spiral in action. It's a shame, because it's the best work I've ever done and I don't know if anyone will ever see it. The software team was 100% remote and they were the best colleagues I've ever had.

It sucks to have graduated in 07, and feel like you've hit your stride in 20.
That looks about right; I’m usually outputting formats that don’t care about blank lines and so skip the “dnl”s and put the start and end quotes on their own lines for readability.
Partnering with banks you mean? Yeah, banks are slow to move but in Latam they're also pretty keen to partner up with fintechs if they see a win/win.

We work on the premise of end-users granting us permission to access and share the data they want for the means/apps they want. So there're an opt-in here. There's no general legal framework against this.
Why would you assume these companies would go bankrupt? In most cases they will just lay off a bunch of people (which is exactly what the legislation is designed to avoid).
Zoom is lying in their marketing AND in their recent clarification.

As the article is saying, they always have the decryption key on the server side, so they always have the capability to decrypt the stream.

Given the current state of affairs I wouldn't have minded Zoom not being end-to-end encrypted, but by lying about it, my trust in Zoom plummeted.
I haven't been laid off yet but I expect it to happen any moment. This will be my second layoff this year. I went through coding interview hell to get this job too, and I was so happy and things were really looking up. This is hard.
That's about perfect
Before you cut everything, keep in mind that you're still a human being and have psychological needs. If that streaming service brings you hours of joy, it might be cheaper to keep it than the bills for your mental health treatment down the line.

Don't just cut everything out of your life cold turkey. Keep something that brings you joy.
I think if I was told something like this verbally or in email, my internal alarm bells would be going off. Or, being lionized for not being laid off after my coworkers were doesn't give me a sense of pride being at the company.

As context, I work in the video game industry, where developers have a bit of a history of doing unrealistic working schedules for "passion". When someone starts telling me how great I am with all this hardship in their company, I immediately get skeptical.
How hard is it to transfer an H1B? If a prospective employee has one, what's the time and money investment required to hire them? Any big watch outs with that?
This article says that engineers failed to take into account resonance, but that's not actually why the bridge failed. It was due to aeroelastic flutter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroelasticity#Flutter
I mean this is hard to say. I'm in grad school and I don't really feel that disrupted. Instead of hiding in my office all day I just stay home. Meetings and classes are all over Zoom, which means my advisor actually has more time to talk (WOW!). And I do CS, so all my work is on a computer anyways, where I'm usually remoting into another machine to run my experiments. I can still get takeout. I have more time to cook. The only real disruption is that I'm not going to the climbing gym. On the other hand, my cat is super excited that I'm around more often. And as a millennial, I'm already used to living in existential dread.

I'm just trying to say that it is hard to measure what this disruption means for a lot of people. If I was in a big city, like NYC, I'm sure this would be completely different. I don't think this is an easy topic and in such "Americans" is far too broad of a term to have much meaning.
Volunteers needed for University of Oxford Covid-19 at-home test study
Do you think the gcc -std flag would exist if every distribution of gcc included a command to easily download alternate versions and swap them out depending on project configuration? -std seems more like a bandaid around a difficult install/config than a feature, in my opinion.

Obviously nim is free to make implement whatever options they want, but it seems to me like every second spent triaging/fixing/etc bugs about not properly maintaining broken things (not to mention the end user time spent experiencing them and debugging them!) is time that could be better spent improving the language.
But I want to hardware disable it at any time...
My money is on the group that controls the food supply.
> What is CryptoPlugin? No information has been found online?

I found this on page 262-3 of [0]:

> ARMv8 Cryptography Extensions require a separate package, which is subject to export license
conditions. Contact ARM for details.

Could that be what CryptoPlugin is referring to?

[0] https://static.docs.arm.com/100964/1161/fast_models_rm_10096...
You are okay to be paid without an SSN. This is really a payroll processing issue, not an immigration/work authorization issue.
Look into "dissipative structures", which are indeed closely linked to thermodynamics.

In short, energy gradients (ie, on hydrothermal vents) can cause matter to organize itself into structures that more efficiently dissipate this energy. You can see how the creation of this structure would in turn enable the creation of a new kind of structure that lives on top of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissipative_system

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqPGOhXoprU
>This was not a secret and support people recommended it if you actually contacted them.

False. The retail and support staff were not informed of the throttling. See my other comment.
Mutating in place is often times faster and is more straightforward.

I do feel Nim embraces mutation more than other recent languages.
I met a programmer many years back who had previously been a physicist at CERN. I'd never have guessed but I think he picked up the programming bug there. If you think coding is your thing then go for it and all the best to you!
Perfect thanks. Do they count the time in and allow you the lost months ? I fear I could loose months with this. Also can I get my green card process started while I am here or we have to wait until the entry? Thanks
The biggest problem isn't political, it is that we're limited in how many people can be infected at any given time by our health care system. The capacity of our health care system must be taller than the height of the curve to limit the number of deaths.
HDD LED in old computer cases

Old? I'll admit I haven't changed my case in a couple years, but mine currently has one, and I can't remember the last time I've used a desktop computer that didn't have one.
A reasonable tradeoff could be a federated structure, where a local server in federation (school/corporate/...) acts as a trusted 3rd party.
Its true that VAT is prime source od government funding in EU but products need to be made somehow. So taxing scheme doesn't matters that much. UBI is distribution pattern, so there needs to be something to distribute in first place.
I believe if the loans are non-stafford interest accrues.

I had to pause my repayments this month because of job-hunt.
I'm in engineering and often traveling, and thus dial in. One thing I do get from others is complaints that the voice quality on a mobile phone is far less than using data.

Zoom does seem to be more reliable than skype for business.
From one of the cited articles

> Chinese scientists already have warned that further nuclear tests could cause the mountain to collapse and release the radiation from the blast.

It sounds like it's "tired" in the sense that the mountain itself is exhausted from too many underground tests, and additional tests may collapse it risking test-originating radioactive fallout.