skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still running High Sierra. There's nothing compelling in Mojave, Catalina, or Big Sur. They remove features I use and make the operating system generally worse. From all the news I've seen Catalina has been very buggy.
https://mobile.twitter.com/avestura/status/13117539940716666...

This guy is just straight up begging for a PR merge so that he can get his free T shirt -- I'd wager a good portion of these PR submitters have no idea what they're getting into, they just think they can get a free shirt if they do this according to what the youtube video said.
What's Wrong with Wind and Solar?
> The major value of a book, to a consumer, is the words it contains not the paper it’s printed on.

Yes, and that's exactly my point.

If a paperback book is priced at $10, and it costs $2 to manufacture, $1 to ship, and $3 to market (made-up numbers, but the values don't matter), with the rest going to the author/publisher, then we're saying that piece of art is worth $4. If the e-book edition costs $8, perhaps that $3 marketing cost is still there, but the marginal cost of storage and distribution is probably a few cents... so somehow now that piece of art is worth $7? That doesn't add up.

I mean, I get it: the price you pay for something is generally just the highest price that the market will bear, a price that maximizes profit... and the "intrinsic value" of something doesn't matter or maybe doesn't even exist. Even the cost to produce it may not matter, if the seller wants to use a particular item as a loss-leader.

What I object to is, back when e-books started being a thing, the big promise was that they'd be so much cheaper than physical books, because the marginal cost to "produce" and "ship" one is near-zero. But of course that promise never materialized; it was just marketing to get people to buy Kindles.
If you're out of the loop: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
> I feel like even a child knows that a dinosaur is a reconstruction. How could it be anything else? They don't exist today.

It's possible to see recreations of extinct animals that humans have overlapped with enough to write and draw how they looked. It's even possible to see real specimens of extinct creations, such as the Oxford Dodo
https://www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/the-oxford-dodo

You don't need much more knowledge, but definitely more than "they don't exist today". But equally with colourised photos/video: you don't need more knowledge than "this was filmed before it was possible to film in colour, so all colours are guesses".
How's the quality of the t-shirt that one gets after completing the challenge?
> the tradeoff of marketing freebies versus being viewed negatively as a group is and a society is not worth it.

The reputation comes from mediocre youtube tutorials, sweatshops like TCS and infosys, bullshit sites like geeksforgeeks, and incidents like this.

I am an Indian, and I think I have no right to complain about that reputation.
I think they mean that smaller things such as carrying a hunter knife may add up to approximately two life sentences.
Capacitors bridge voltage and charge, yes. In exactly the same way, memristors bridge charge and flux.
Is there a reason why some repo get a lot of spam, but some don't? Is there a similarity between repos getting a lot of spam?
Oooa
Your supposition is likely inaccurate.
AHHHHH JUST 2 MONTHS OR LESS 'TILL I GET MY L5!
I can easily see how the original concept is a great idea (honestly, anything that can get more folks into contributing to FOSS is probably worth considering!), but the thing is, after the first few years of people suggesting that this was going to be a problem and that it should be opt-in by the affected maintainers, I think it's fair to say that DO gets the blame. If you do something with good intentions and something bad happens as a result, it's not necessarily on you (and indeed, I would hesitate to assign blame in all but the most extreme "what did you think was going to happen!?" cases). But if you do something with good intentions after being repeatedly told by multiple independent parties on multiple occasions that it's going to cause a problem, then you get to be responsible when that problem actually arises from the actions that you knowingly took while ignoring warnings.
McHardy wasn't trying to get compliance, he was trying to get money. He didn't care about source availability at all, and many of the suits were over licensing matters entirely unrelated to source availability.

Enforcement is a good thing. But the point is to get people complying with the license.
Ah yes, 'where no SaaS has gone before', rolling their own CI/CD.

Never mind Github, Gitlab, Pivotal Labs, Netflix, and Yahoo/Verizon

and they're not even open sourcing it, they're just bragging about it

why is this on HN at all
Stop putting carbon dioxide in our environment instead we are developing technologies to capture it.

Although, I think in this case it is required because it's high time.
The US government decides what checks a financial institution must perform when dealing with US customers. In this case, BitMEX knew there were serving US customers while not performing the US-required checks.

You, as a non-US citizen, can do any transaction you want with BitMEX. BitMEX, as a company with US presence in NY, must make sure that you are not a US citizen (maybe based on your declaration that you are not one).
> When you provide that many restrictions on people they rise to exactly that lowest common denominator and never, ever, any further. If by chance they learn a new skill, they immediately leave for a better job that at least let’s them wield that new skill.

After spending more than half of my life living in Singapore & China, I believe what you have described in a more general sense applies to populations under authoritarian regime too.
What? LOL this isn't the 1990's, there's gait detection now.
I'm starting to research wind energy more and came across this critical take. I'm hoping that the HN community's diverse backgrounds can provide interesting insights on the claims.
I don't get the price. In EU I get that all for ~7$.
Every language has homonyms, and has homonyms that are offensive in one context and not another.
I feel like that would be counterproductive given that GitHub is a tool, not a social network you need to gather account age or fake internet points on to use. Don't really see anything wrong with somebody signing up and immediately creating a PR.

I realize GitHub is one of the most popular choices out there but the activity stream is already social mediaesque enough for my taste. There's other ways to tackle this, DO could make their marketing stunt opt-in and GH could respond to the people wanting to add friction to their repo's workflows in a way that provides value, without crippling the general user experience.
Spam PRs are frustrating but this rant just reads as petty and vindictive.

The author claims that he doesn't "want to cancel or shame him personally", which just rings of false humility considering he named the article "How One Guy Ruined #Hacktoberfest2020" and then chose to expose his Youtube name repeatedly, something even other frustrated tweeters chose NOT to do.

Here's what CodeWithHarry did:

He created an example video of submitting a PR to an open source project that repeatedly reminded its viewers to make worthwhile contributions.

He then posted a lengthy response to again inform his viewers to NOT submit spammy PRs.

He's acting responsibly and in good faith.

Does this deserve lynching by the twitter mob?

Edit: Yes, the video appears to be mostly about showing kids how to get free swag with open source contributions without too much concern for whether these PRs are worthwhile. But the author of this post is absolutely trying to shame/cancel him personally.
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Thanks. We take a percentage of the savings delivered, calculated on a sliding scale. If for example we're negotiating a contract worth 25k, the percentage is lower compared to say a contract worth 10k.
The company I work for had the same stance 5 years ago. We regretted it a hundred times and now we stand the gaff. Nothing better than maintaining an EC2 based Cassandra cluster instead of simple using DynamoDB, huh...
Yep. At least in my state (Tamilnadu), this is because people gave up caste names voluntarily as part of the anti-caste-discrimination movement, and became mononymous. Then, those of us who had to interact with people and entities that strictly assume a two-name structure started using Father's name as last name, simply because a lot of registration forms (and some people too) cannot cope with the idea that someone doesn't have a lastname.

It's not universal though, or even a majority - a lot of people still are mononymous, and many are confused when Facebook and the ilk ask for "Last name" (and sometimes fill in hilarious things).
What a crappy framing. No, one guy didn't ruin it! He was just showing people how to do a PR, and since it was a video, he made a small change. He didn't frame it as cheating; he was just trying to get people into Open Source.

Sure, the result is annoying, but it's really unfair to lay this on Harry's feet.

This sucks. Everyone involved who was named is just trying to encourage open source.
Y’all is a single syllable, rolls off the tongue and is gender neutral. By the power vested in me by the State of Texas, I hereby grant the reader (herein referred to as “all y’all”) permission to use “y’all” in perpetuity.
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That seems to be an uncharitable interpretation of Spooky23's comment.
No reason to lie low, just continue making good, earnest PRs which look nothing like this Hacktoberfest spam.

It's not the username in these examples that's the problem.
Was it much of a problem before this year?

Looking back at all prior HN stories with "hacktoberfest" in the title or with "hacktoberfest" and "spam" in the comments, I can't find any that talk about it being a big problem before this year.

I found one maintainer who said they got a non-negligible number of garbage pull requests for it, but they still said Hacktoberfest was cool. There was also one post about a filter one project adopted a year ago that used heuristics to identify and automatically reject Hacktoberfest pull requests from new submitters that were too trivial.

I'd have expected more if it was a problem to the extent that it seems to be this year.
I am one of those people on the margin, and we specifically had a discussion about whether we wanted #3 enough to get a new car or not for exactly this reason. And the cost of these larger cars is relatively significant compared to the old Corolla I have now.
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Magister gets its meaning from magis, meaning "greater" (in a general and generic sense). e.g. A magis quam B means A is greater than B, A rather than B, etc.
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Nexus bans political mods for US election
I have 2 OSS projects [1]:
Sadly, 0 PRs.

But I have tons of open issues with complaints.
As usual, 0 help given.

I guess I am just another unappreciated OSS maintainer

sad_face

[1] https://github.com/orliesaurus?tab=repositories&q=&type=sour...
TikTok Ban: The Biggest Trends from 2020's Controversial Social Network
Isn’t the solution obvious? DO needs to change the rules, so that all this gamification becomes useless.

Either projects opt-in, or they add some qualification to what is an acceptable PR.

Of course the Youtuber has a role in this, but I feel like they’re just playing the game; the real solution needs to come from the source of the problems, which is DO.
But also the difficulty of dealing with distributed buggy/problematic clients. Same reason that fail2ban is less effective against large botnets, password spraying defeats many rate-limits, and abusive NTP use by routers (https://slashdot.org/story/06/04/07/130209/d-link-firmware-a...) is so hard to deal with.
ublock has some excellent annoyance filters that you have to enable by hand, but they tend to get rid of that extra crap.
> I am an Indian, and I think I have no right to complain about that reputation.

I think that we are in agreement regarding that? I have no right to complain about it either.

I can offer advice to bypass Open Source contributions altogether, which would have the side effect of stopping incidents like this. And it's not like projects are starved for README contributions either, coding bootcamps or someone else will pick up the slack.
You are incorrect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9902nonYas

"How to Earn Free T-Shirt, Swag & Goodies Online!"
The solution is to not rely on remote proctoring at all. You ultimately cannot fully monitor an environment you don’t physically control, and in trying to do so, you’ll only end up pissing a lot of people off without doing anything to solve the problem. If potential cheating is such a critically important issue that proctors are ABSOLUTELY necessary, then don’t administer the tests online in the first place. Just augment the testing facility with COVID-19 related precautions, like required masks, hand sanitizer and spaced out desks.
I don’t know why the protagonist being Indian is something that would be strongly remembered. I’d guess anyone whose audience has more time than money could’ve hatched a scheme like this, regardless of nationality.
The Latin idiota is borrowed from Greek ἰδιώτης idiōtēs which is from ἴδιος idios meaning "private" or "peculiar".

Idiot has historically meant "retarded" so if you wanted to say "ignorantly" you could have just said that, or "idiotically" is fine but don't pretend it has such wholesome roots.
Britain’s mixed-race population blurs the lines of identity politics
The heck are you talking about? I’ve worked on a good number of open source projects big and small, and spent significant time working with at least one Indian in the process. While a certain subset of people like to force identity politics down everyone else’s throat (mostly by claiming nonexistent discrimination), the vast majority of people don’t give a rat’s ass about whether you’re Indian, or black, or female, or gay, or whatever, and only judge your contributions by what you’re actually contributing. You’re not welcome if you spam, that’s for sure, but even then you’re just a spammer, not an Indian spammer.
Still using Feedly.

Interesting you point to the 6 years time frame, I didn't realise how long I have been using Feedly. And I use RSS Reader even before Google Reader. The workflow is the same for the past 20 years. Command + Click a bunch of links. And that's it.
Why would contractors care, unless it's a high profile customer-facing thing like Uber?

I've done a lot of consulting and small contracts on the side and have never been aware of any background checking. I don't even think most have my SSN, just the info for my bank account. And I have a pretty common name. There's convicts even in my state with the same name I can find on search. Often there's not even a formal contract, just a handshake.

Also you can make money this way all over the world.
> It's not the username in these examples that's the problem.

It totally is. Make a profile with a Western-sounding, preferably female name, and submit a similar typo-fix PR. I can guarantee you that it will be accepted, or at the very least, not featured on a Twitter account called "Shitoberfest".

Minor typo fixes and such have been an established way to make a first bite-sized contribution to OSS projects. What changed this year that people are suddenly yelling at the top of their voices about the 30 (yes, thirty!) emails that they got this week?
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What's a use case where strict ordering is critically important?
Yeah, I think it's time we recognize that many (most?) humans simply lack the willpower to resist overconsumption, particularly when it comes to sweet/fried foods. I would struggle to find a single country where rising wealth/living standards didn't correlate with a rise in obesity.

"Stop stuffing your face" will, causally, prevent obesity. "Stop having sex" and "don't take drugs" will, causally, prevent unplanned pregnancies and drug addictions, too. But thousands of years of human behaviour show that these are not effective policies because humans will never follow them. Thinking otherwise is simply delusional.

The sugar debate is really fascinating, too, because it's a clash of two diametrically opposed philosophies.

On the one hand, it's something demonstrably "bad" that humans (on average) demonstrably cannot control themselves from consuming.

On the other, it's something that a lot of people find really enjoyable. Who are we to dictate the life priorities of our neighbours? Just because I think living like a monk is worth an extra decade of life doesn't mean someone else does.

I'm gradually settling on the view that these substances should be sufficiently taxed to pay for the associated healthcare costs, but no more. Personally, I feel that those taxes should also subsidise healthier foods (at least for low-income individuals families), but that may be a harder sell.
I think so. Many sites have some sort of sensitive user data that could be exploited. If you work in ecommerce, you likely have access to the payment gateway as well.
Exactly this.

The individual subsystems can be I/O bound on other subsystems whereas considered as an entire system, it could be CPU-bound.

So, yes, one subsystem "blocking" on network I/O definitely is I/O bound regardless of the nature of that I/O, be it database-related or not, it's still I/O.

The system at the other end (the db subsystem) may also be I/O (or CPU) bound, but that is distinct from the clients bottleneck.
I would like to add that mobile application also works as expected with all feature set as web application.
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> Surely hundreds of people aren't all submitting nearly identical PRs?

You'd think so, but in much the same way as a hundred (okay, million) students can all write "Hello world", yes, it does appear that at least part of this is actually humans, albeit (as sibling comment notes) following the same instructions.
On the topic of pull request (PR) spam originating due to Hacktoberfest, here is some useful information from Hacktoberfest FAQ [1]:

"As a maintainer, how should I handle spam pull requests?

We dislike seeing spam pull requests just as much as you, so please give them an invalid or spam label and close them. Pull requests that contain a label with the word invalid or spam won't be counted toward Hacktoberfest."

It is really quite easy to follow. The 'invalid' label is available by default already, so flagging spam is as simple as selecting that label and closing the PR. See also Hacktober's recent update on reducing spam [2].

[1]: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/faq/

[2]: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-update
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"next term"?

Die, in agony.
Enterprise SSDs often (but not always) reserve more spare area out of the pool of flash on the drive, which helps a lot with sustained write speeds, especially random writes; the garbage collector is under less pressure to free up erase blocks for new writes.

Consumer SSDs use SLC caching which allows for much higher write speeds until that cache runs out, but then the drive is stuck with the job of cleaning up that cache while also still handling new writes. So for the same amount of raw NAND capacity and same usable capacity, an enterprise drive that doesn't do any SLC caching at all will tend to have a better long-term write speed than the post-cache write speed on a consumer drive.
Please don't assume motives for downvotes, it's a fruitless endeavor that only makes you look bitter.

You were not "merely stating the origins of [the] caste system." You justified it, by stating that "all mature societies need division of labor." Firstly, that is a very vague claim, and secondly, you neglected to explain why on Earth that "division of labor" should be hereditary.
I literally came here to say this. The first thought I had by looking at the screenshot of the PR(without watching the video) and reading the highlighted comment was that "This guy must be an Indian". I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt but after watching the video, I was appalled by what I was hearing. And the worst part is, that he says you will learn how to make a PR. Sorry, but no, you will not learn how to make a genuine PR by watching the video. Another thought that I had was, how many kids are getting into software development because of the "swag" and how many of them are genuinely interested in understanding the intricacies involved in building good software.

Disclaimer: I am an Indian
The usb-c pd/non pd compat issues are infuriating for me. I have a lot of devices that act funky when paired with the wrong charger.. plus it is physically inferior to lightning (durability, size, sturdiness). I see people clamoring for usb-c on iPhones. I hope that doesn’t happen. My lightning iDevices seem to be the only things that I can pack one charger for.

I hope we can skip usb-c and get the next thing right.
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> When everyone involved is a beginner, you get unintended outcomes.

This is on DigitalOcean for coming up with a half-baked scheme, not those folks themselves.

Edit: it’s amusing to see Indians taking swipes on fellow Indians. It’s a systemic problem, and the fact that you’ve somehow “risen above it” is not a reason to virtue signal.
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When I was part of F12 team, we had proposed this to head is developer tools but he was a bit dismissive at the time. Edge was the future. Chrome was the enemy.

Oh how times have turned. IIUC, this is chrome devtools packaged as a vscode extension using chrome remote protocol to talk with the browser.

I’m glad this finally landed.
There is an pandemic going on , that would not be feasible today ?
If that isn't, what is?
In the same way that federal money can't be spent on abortions because of "religious freedom" but we still go to war with taxes collected from Quakers, we had to fight for decades over the "definition of marriage" because a certain religion's liberties are more equal than others.
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