skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Finding a way to encourage (new) people to contribute to open-source projects while at the same time keeping the bad people out (opportunists, spammers, etc)

This is the challenge of our time, TBH. From the Eternal September onwards we’ve struggled to sustain community quality in the face of infinite connectivity. You start open & welcoming, but eventually you get overwhelmed with new folks and you can’t socialize them fast enough to preserve what was attractive about your community in the first place.

This is the work of institution building. It’s not easy. The best examples I’ve seen are HN, Lobste.rs and some focused subreddits. All of these have strong mod teams and spam controls.
If you have high enough wealth and the reliable ability to replicate your bet a sufficient number of times, then you might be able to reduce the variance enough to see the benefit: right.

If you're not in that position, then you're gambling just the same, whether you have -EV or +EV.
This makes me think I should take emails/comments less important. These are not customers, they are fans.

If it's my project,I should just enjoy it for myself.

While it sounds great to personally respond and research what people tell me, it's a major distraction and time waste when I could be doing research.
I kind of like that my microwave has a button (in addition to a gazillion others that we don’t use), that somehow determines what is inside and how long it will take to heat up. And then automatically sets time and wattage.

No more thinking, just press the button and get hot stuff. It even gets it right some of the time.
Why do Debian project leaders want to ban Linus Torvalds?
It depends on the maintainer.

There are some projects I've submitted issues for without such excessively fluffy language, and the maintainer has responded very negatively. I hate this, because it makes the maintainer look like a cantankerous prick, and it also puts me off using what might be a great project (and of course others will read it to).

IME, if I'm not familiar with the maintainers' temperament, I'm most successful using something like this template:

"Hi! First let me say how much I appreciate this library, it really helps with X.

I've found what I believe is a bug, whereby X (provide logs, stack trace, whatever is relevant).

You can reproduce this by X (provide repro steps or code snippet as appropriate)."

For projects I'm familiar with, things can be more business-like and to the point, and I can also offer to send a PR.
It’s more like “limitless power from heat transferred into graphene from an external power source”. So it’s a special type of a thermo electric generator basically.
I'm 41, and have been using it for over 2 decades.

It's always been a hobby. I work in a non-tech field, I have just liked it better than alternatives, and like the tinkering bit.

It started about 1993, as a freshman at Bronx Science. The school's internet terminals ran AIX (IBM X Stations with these nice big 21" CRTs). Senior year, a friend gave me a CD from Walnut Creek. That was Slackware. Started playing with it, and liked it. I was using a custom built 486 I bought at a computer show. However, things were far from easy as documentation back then was hard to find.

From there, first year of college (1998), I moved to Red Hat (at 5.1) and with the help of a guy on IRC got the Sound Blaster drivers compiled, X running, and everything else I needed. The college computers at the time ran VAX (not so Unix-y) and Digital's OS/F, so again I felt right at home with a Unix-like OS.

From there it was a wrap. Haven't touched any proprietary system since. In between there's been periods of using BSD, and a lot of "distro hopping."

Twenty three years later, I'm almost back where I started - Fedora. Still a hobbyist, still tinkering.
Only thing I’ve noticed is the Home Screen ad location is a big grey box as opposed to an ad. I only use it for Plex and PBS Kids. Both apps work perfectly.
> I was lucky to have very "Americanized" parents who didn't raise me with these backward attitudes.

Same here. As I love to remind people who poo-poo "wHitE sUpRemAcy": white supremacy is diverse and inclusive.
Direct link to incident page: https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/khgr4mkvmt5g
The first two sentences would’ve been perfectly sufficient to convey your point. The last sentence looks like flamewar bait which is why I downvoted your comment.
"Real" names are even easier to write than spam PRs.

Sincerely,
John Smith
How to prevent Phishing in 2020 – with some Python, Azure and Splunk
You are wrong because it's not a free market. Get rid of the patents and hundred-year copyright monopoly grants then we'll talk.

If a monopoly is created and enforced by the state, it is their duty to regulate it.
It’s possible Apple won’t have a choice if they want to sell phones in India. India is a huge and growing market, I’m not sure Apple can afford to give that up...
What's wrong with Getjar for Android? [0] Although I think it needs a redesign but at least it has no Google control and it is independent.

iOS on the other hand is slightly difficult to sideload apps compared to Android. Not too optimistic about an alternative App Store on iOS.

[0] https://www.getjar.com/
Hmm that’s not me but it sounds about right.
> the system would ask you to give it the privilege to install "unknown/unsafe app"

A tech savvy android owner wouldn't think twice about that. Anyone else (the vast majority of customers) would likely not continue, either because they're scared of something they don't understand (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt, aka "FUD"), or because they're annoyed and confused by having so many popups which they don't want to read.

Whatever the case, the UI/UX flow of getting your product onto a customer's device is critical. It's why companies pay OEMs so much money to preinstall their software onto their devices.

Optimizing the customer experience is one of the most important ways to beat the competition. It's an investment that provides value directly to the consumer.

But Google is restricting competitors from doing that. If you want to compete with Google, you need to force all your customers through the Google-designed funnel of scary warning and repeated technical popups. This limits competition, and harms consumers.
This is cool and reduces the skill level required, and friction, to search tweets.

I don't think it is only for new Twitter creators, though.

The title 'Twitter for Creators' is confusing though, as the main feature is search as I understand it from the website, and from what others are saying about this. Would this gain from putting this feature forth in the description?

One application I can imagine is the following: subscribe to a search query. For example, say I want to keep up to date on what people are saying about a specific thing. I set my query up, and I should get a notification on tweets that match that query whenever they are produced.
I want to add, as an OSS maintainer myself, I don't put the blame for attitude solely on the kind of maintainer I mentioned. It's very common to get get users using demanding, demeaning or ungrateful language, and that type of thing does wear on you.
I've never got the meme about numpads on microwaves being needlessly complicated design. On about any decent microwave made in the last 10 year, pushing 1-6 gives a cook time of 1-6 minutes, respectively. Pushing start again after cooking has started will add 30 seconds. For longer cook times, press "time cook." Maybe this sounds a bit complicated, but it's efficient and all written down on the keypad. Mechanical timers really don't work well for less than 5 minutes. Good microwaves with a dial use a rotary encoder and increase time logarithmically. It sure looks elegant on the builtin over your stove, but log scaling really isn't intuitive outside volume controls, and probably more fiddly than buttons.

If there is a gripe to be had about microwave numpads, it's the useless popcorn setting. The microwave popcorn bag tells you not to use the popcorn setting. It's like something out of bad standup. /rant
If they use own DNS then maybe it can be disabled by IP rule in firewall?
Which is why I said stopping open source work is a valid option. It's quite hard to untangle yourself from that and sometime it seems like money would help.
I think it's going to be able to essentially deliver a very small current virtually indefinitely.
Yeah, the stigma against the medication, and the people who casually say "omg, I'm like, so ADD" really hurt the people who have actually been diagnosed with it. Depending on where you live, it can be difficult to find a psychiatrist willing to see you for a diagnoses and subsequent prescription because they think that you're a college kid wanting to abuse it or sell it. I had to call 4-5 different offices until I found a psychiatrist that would see me, and you can check the /r/ADHD and see a bunch of stories about people who moved to a different state for work, but nobody will prescribe them their medication in their new state, and now they're struggling at their new job.
Not going to happen. Apple is bigger than Indian government.
I’ve worked on these types of features and this is egregiously bad. Where I work, we won’t even tell you the full email address that we’re sending the password reset to.
In a lot of new cities, they just have waste trucks that go to buildings and collect the waste daily. Not ideal, but long term infrastructure investments aren't always possible
Some context:

https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/alfred-nobel-in-scot...
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Or an underground rail system where a cart will pause under a bin and triggers a chute under the garbage bin to open and drop its contents down into the cart. The cart would then continue onto the next bin and so on until the cart is full, which it would then go drop off its load to a larger cart on a mainline before going back and continuing pickups.
Other than the Pixel line I don't know why we'd expect Google to block this. There's already alternative app stores preloaded on many Android phones. To my mind this will be a fight against Apple
This thread is really blowing up..
Let's look at some background

1) The issue is that Google is attacking competitors using the App Store as a weapon

Google Pay is one of the biggest payment apps in India

It attacked PayTm, another very big payment app, by making its app disappear

2) So lots of Indian companies are using it as an opportunity to do BOTH

A) Point out Google attacking competitors

B) Google taking 30% cut is unsustainable

*

Now, in INdia Android has 95% market share

So Apple gets a free pass by virtue of being so tiny in India
Contributing "something" isn't that satisfying or fulfilling to me, even though it can undoubtedly be helpful. Perhaps it's just my personality.
In the former soviet block, moist of the built blocks had garbage chutes, but today almost all off them are out of service and welded shut. They would smell terribly all year long, rats would climb up the shaft to your apartment. And the poor guy who had to empty the collection room at the bottom never knew when somebody would throw something disgusting down at his head. So yeah, I don't know if putting garbage in tubes, pneumatic or nor is a good idea.
It might have a better chance than Epic on getting a different app store on iOS devices.
I just looked at a few of these for the services I use. So far I wasn’t able to actually opt out of anything. One service resulted in an error, the rest are just links to their policies where I couldn’t find any actionable links to do anything just them explaining that they’ll keep sharing my data. One explained to me how to unsubscribe from their mailing list with a screenful of text. So “Simple” is not what I would use for these links.
In what sense exactly?
> It can't be one rule for the tech companies, and another for all the other companies.

Says who?
I think it has to do with the idea of work. Some people associate work with discomfort and feel guilty if they have fun so they transform their projects on uncomfortable work like things.
How early do you think you should have started? And how would one know its the right time?
Yes, and in a positive way. Starlink plays a big part in funding Starship/Superheavy, and giving it an initial customer to get launch volume up. That's what will allow the much lower space transportation costs, cited by an astronomer in the article as making this observatory feasible.
Huh. Up til now I thought "potboiler" meant mildly entertaining filler, "a way to pass the time while waiting for a pot to boil", since "a watched pot never boils".
If you're an endurance athlete the Apple Watch will not compare to the Garmins, Suuntos, etc., of the world.

I am a Garmin user and a friend is a PM for Apple and I've had this argument too much to rehash it here :). But it really comes down to depth for the fitness use case (Garmin) versus good-but-not-as-great fitness tracking as part of a more general use case (Apple).
That's so true. I still work and put a lot of energy and work into a project I began to love during my time at the university: https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix

I've spent so much of my spare time working on the project with some gaps since 2012 (and before under a different name at the university since 2006 or 2007). Last year during Hacktoberfest I got first contributions and since then at least another guy, Moshe works constantly on clients for Python and TypeScript and a frontend using Svelte: https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix-svelte-front-end

I've got a lot of great contributions since october last year and it's such a good feeling, despite spending money for the domain https://sirix.io and stuff like a logo and so on :-)
I keep seeing these kind of threads popping up here on hacker news, where people are lamenting the pains and sufferings of open source maintainers.

I agree about the base problem: open source maintainers do lots of work and they are not getting paid. Sometimes people come to expect them to work for them for free! What entitlement, huh?

And this lack of concrete reward makes it easy to burn out unless you really care about what you do.

This is a real problem. Sure.

But here on Hacker news lately I’ve gotten the impression that everyone expects every open source maintainer to be burned out and suffering, and that we should always act as if they are.

People should tiptoe around and be afraid to interact, lest they disturb this poor and over-worked maintainer!

Needless to say, I think that’s wrong. Open-source thrives on positivity, on energy and a willingness to contribute.

We shouldn’t make people who wants to contribute afraid to do so, simply because some maintainers are burnt out.

I’d rather say the opposite: if you as a maintainer no longer see joy in what you do, you should step aside or at least take a break. We don’t need you as a force taking energy away from open-source.

We’re thankful for what you’ve contributed in the past, no doubt. But your legacy will probably do better if you let someone else carry the flame from now on, or at least for a while.

There’s no shame in taking a break.

Disclaimer: open-source enthusiast, contributor and maintainer.
It's a bit of an unusual idea, but I'd suggest that making symptom reports more public would help -- as long as they are anonymized and opt-in.

That's a really tricky technical problem to achieve, since many bug reports depend on the user's local environment in order to reproduce the problem, and that could conflict with anonymization.

Making problems public creates incentives for the project to fix issues (since they can't hide their existence) and also provides opportunities and information for contributors to help resolve them (including for purely selfish reasons, to fix issues that affect their own systems too).
Which may explain how their booming neo-nazi terrorist movement has grown so undisturbed
Actually Apple's market share in India is minuscule due to pricing effects, and they don't anticipate selling all that much in India for the foreseeable future
Perhaps it should have said:

"Einstein's description of gravity just got much less likely to be beaten"
It will be a special kind of joy for small developers to publish their apps on a billion stores each with its own regulations.
> it is independent

From the perspective of the Indian government that is exactly what is wrong with Getjar.
GetJar isn't controlled by the Indian government, so it's not useful for the Indian government.
As many other comments are saying, because it's Go.

The majority of developers who use static-site generators professionally are frontend developers. Their language of choice is javascript or typescript. And if many are complaining about the inconvenience of writing graphql plugins — in javascript! — for Gatsby, imagine the annoyance of having to write the logic for your build step in an entirely different language. In Go, or in Ruby for that matter. It isn't fun. You can't easily use the skills you developed in javascript to tweak the behavior of the static site generator to your liking. You can't extend its behavior by writing a custom plugin. You feel constrained, and at the mercy of Hugo maintainers. It's very disheartening.

However. There is a fantastic alternative both to Hugo (by being javascript-based) and to Gatsby/Next (by not requiring React for the simplest hello world). Its name is Eleventy, and it is beautiful!
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I have a great fucking idea - keep the government away from it.
> Does this facilitate users installing packages system-wide in their sandbox?

This. They can use it as they please, like a second desktop.
I can limit their resources, migrate or archive the containers as needed.

One guy was training some ML, one was messing with compiler versions, one with Debian packaging tools ect.
Comments like these explain why I stopped using a Trello a long time ago. It just doesn’t do enough to justify using it regularly because you find yourself running up against the same deficiencies time and time again.
Haha, that’s true. I guess the advantage to NextJS is it comes “batteries included” - you don’t have to worry about setting up a cache etc. Obviously for some use cases setting it up yourself will make more sense
Took adderal for year.

Completely life changing.
My focus and energy level were on par with a normal persons.

Unfortunately it was far too hard on the body. Started stroking out on it. Plus it interacted with almost every Medicane I’ve been prescribed.

Tried vyvanse. Only one side effect. The deepest most profound sadness imaginable. Would sit for hours just “sad”. Nothing was bothering me.
Worked fine aside from that. Gave it up after a few weeks.

Aderral did remove most of the “pain” from boring things. So in that regards it taught me how to manage symptoms better. Focus is still a major problem, and I’m back to older trucks of ear plugs and a dim room. But not as bad as before.

Kids have it strong. Wife wants them on meds, but weird reactions run in family so I’m highly reluctant.
If I'm understanding the article correctly, a very tiny piece of graphene can pick up a very tiny amount of energy from the random jiggles at the atomic scale.

Presumably, those jiggles are always going to be there, unless somehow earth becomes a cold, dead place.

So imagine the solar panel on your calculator didn't need light, just a temperature above absolute zero.
It's a fair thesis but the reality is that films and most things are constantly getting a lot better because people are learning from the best
Their chefs are great. A few of them do YouTube videos for Epicurious[0], and Frank Proto has his own channel[1]. It has created a fun little community and the videos the chefs are in are full of creative tips to do some more advanced cooking.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t81529ANEhI
1: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC368WO9e4BWuPYAeSIuaUsg
Ofcourse, this is just "toy" resume.
The real one is a pdf.
I suspect this is a negotiation/political stance from the Indian government. Say you’re going to do it, then expect it from Apple.

I don’t think it’ll work. But I don’t think asking Apple nicely would work for a single second either.
On the flip side of that, I doubt OP wants to work for someone who doesn't have the time or the inclination to put serious consideration into something novel.
Attacked Paytm?

They have fantasy cricket now which is definitely gambling and my dad is getting spammed with messages that look exactly like scams. I am glad they removed it even if just for a few hours. They didn't comply after being requested to multiple times.

Justifying it as cashback can be used for almost anything in the way they have done.
I had a hard time finding an app between that crazy amount of ads.
I beg to differ. They started manufacturing Apple phones in India and it has become a lot cheaper now. This is a solid move from Apple's side mind you.
so privacy == bad because it encourages racism?
I’m surprised they didn’t. I would think that it’d be a more conducive court!
That's how I understand it as well. It harvest the brownian motion of atoms in graphene.

I definitely don't know enough about this subject to judge the plausibility of the claim but "graphene" and "limitless power" in the same headline does trigger a few red flags.
Agreed, this is far too basic for the "oh yeah, a junior developer might not have noticed it" excuse.

Hacker News seems to assume juniors are useless, from the comments I've seen to date - but they should be able to _think_ and solve problems, even if they're less experienced at interacting with stakeholders, designing system architecture etc.
I'm reading these comments, and am quite happy that I bought an LG B9 TV. It's smart, fast, has no ads, the UI is quite cool, has a lot of inputs and has an excellent video quality. The only downside was the price, but that's because of OLED.
India wants more Apple manufacturing and Apple wants to sell India more phones. My guess is this won't happen.
The paper you cited doesn't supply evidence- according to the abstract it's their best guess based on experience with other coronaviruses.

The evidence is actually scant but there's a decent discussion of it in the Guardian article I linked below and the paper linked from it.
I'm not the one for government intervention but this might not be the worst way to deal with the problem at hand.
I was curious about government vs corporation revenues, which are imperfect measures, but an interesting comparison and quickly found this:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/corporations-not-coun...

The raw data appears to be here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12Jdgaz_qGg5o0m_6NCU_...

And it seems that India just barely beats Apple on the list. But it makes clear that most countries have less revenue than the largest companies.
I wonder how's that going to go
> Comparison of the current situation with other similar, but not exact, situations is literally one of the corner stone foundations of critical thought.

The issue here is not making a comparison, but calling people out for not having addressed the object of the comparison beforehand.
> Go by the average rating, not popularity. It’s better to watch something a million people love than something 10 million people watched and consider okay.

I agree on the principle, however there’s a trust issue.

Out of n reviews on IMDB and RT how many of them are authentic? And how much weight does a critic’s review bear on the overall score?

In my case, be it for a movie or a book (not so much for songs though) the Lindy effect applies.
For me a 10mg dose will last 20-40 hours.
If I take at same time each day it “builds up”
Made proper dosing Very difficult
The pixel line is the only line Google preinstalls anything on. Either the journalist or the negotiator doesn't understand Android or is pushing harder than they need to, or they see sideloading (bad UX) as not sufficient as an antitrust measure.
In some ways it has to do with the fact that people are educated to have a need for validation from an authority and several other ways of thinking that are completely counterproductive.