[HN Gopher] GitHub Accelerator: our first cohort and what's next
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       GitHub Accelerator: our first cohort and what's next
        
       Author : sebg
       Score  : 217 points
       Date   : 2023-04-13 12:33 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | paranoidxprod wrote:
       | Great to see Dioxus there. I was looking at Rust GUI libraries
       | and Dioxus seemed like one of the most interesting to me, but
       | still felt pretty early in development. I did notice in their 0.3
       | release post they mentioned "This release represents an
       | absolutely massive jump forward for the Dioxus ecosystem. We hope
       | to ship future features more quickly into stable now that many of
       | the desired breaking changes have been incorporated into the core
       | library." so I am excited to see how the project progresses!
        
         | jkelleyrtp wrote:
         | We're super excited about the funding. It's letting us bring on
         | some of the core team full time for the summer and part time
         | for the year.
         | 
         | Our goal with Dioxus is to eat Electron, React Native, Flutter,
         | Phoenix, Gatsby, and NextJS with one stack.
        
           | quaunaut wrote:
           | > Our goal with Dioxus is to eat Electron, React Native,
           | Flutter, Phoenix, Gatsby, and NextJS with one stack.
           | 
           | What of Phoenix are you looking to tackle?
        
             | jkelleyrtp wrote:
             | We love LiveView and we love the developer experience.
             | Dioxus recently launched support for HTML-over-websocket
             | (LiveView) and we're slowly working on wrapping axum/hyper
             | in a Dioxus-focused API.
        
               | wofo wrote:
               | Thanks for working on LiveView! Next to Rust, one of my
               | favorite ecosystems is .NET and Blazor has been a game-
               | changer when writing desktop apps. I'm looking forward to
               | having something similar in Rust!
        
           | datadeft wrote:
           | Amen to that. It would be pretty amazing to write Rust for
           | the UI everywhere.
        
         | erlend_sh wrote:
         | Parts of the Dioxus stack are also becoming framework-agnostic,
         | like Blitz the "High performance HTML and CSS renderer powered
         | by WGPU":
         | 
         | https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz
        
           | jkelleyrtp wrote:
           | A full list of projects that are being spun out as framework-
           | agnostic:
           | 
           | - taffy: flexbox+css grid https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy
           | 
           | - blitz: html/css renderer
           | https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz
           | 
           | - sledgehammer: faster than websys bindings
           | https://github.com/demonthos/sledgehammer/
           | 
           | - native-core: salsa but for UI trees https://github.com/Diox
           | usLabs/dioxus/tree/master/packages/na...
           | 
           | - tui: native-core+terminal rendering
           | 
           | We want to make sure every part of the stack is available for
           | anyone.
        
       | dmix wrote:
       | I've always been curious what sort of relationship
       | https://nuxtjs.org/ has with Next.js and whether they will
       | significantly diverge as their own entity (I haven't had the
       | opportunity to use Nuxt 3 yet). Especially with all of the noise
       | around projects like Remix.
       | 
       | Happy to see them on the list none-the-less.
        
         | dlxfoo wrote:
         | [dead]
        
         | re-thc wrote:
         | Next is for React and Nuxt is for Vue...
        
           | dmix wrote:
           | Well obviously (I'm surprised two people have replied to
           | state this fact), Nuxt's whole pitch was literally "Next for
           | Vue".
           | 
           | I was talking about conceptually diverging instead of just
           | being inspired by Next.js, given recent developments with
           | Remix and https://astro.build/.
        
       | evntdrvn wrote:
       | Awesome to see Simon on there with datasette, and HTMX. Woot!
        
         | imaurer wrote:
         | Best part of Simon being part of it, is that there will be a
         | great record of it from his blog and TILs.
        
       | 255kb wrote:
       | I'm thrilled to see my project (https://mockoon.com) being part
       | of this first cohort! It's a great opportunity but it's also good
       | for open-source projects in general. It can only contribute to
       | make our industry more sustainable.
       | 
       | Here is the list of the 20 projects that have been selected:
       | 
       | - https://github.com/analogjs/analog: Analog is a fullstack meta-
       | framework to build applications and websites with Angular
       | 
       | - https://github.com/Atri-Labs/atrilabs-engine: The Python web
       | framework to build production-grade apps
       | 
       | - https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx: Makes AJAX, Web
       | Sockets, etc. available directly in HTML
       | 
       | - https://github.com/code-hike/codehike: Tools for building all
       | types of code walkthroughs: blogs, docs, slides, tutorials, etc.
       | 
       | - https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus: Friendly React-like GUI
       | library for desktop, web, mobile, and more, written in Rust.
       | 
       | - https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree: Connecting with
       | your audience with a single link, showcasing your content and
       | projects.
       | 
       | - https://github.com/FashionFreedom/Seamly2D: Design CAD to
       | democratize and de-centralize fashion design & production.
       | 
       | - https://github.com/fastai/nbdev: Increase developer
       | productivity by 10x with a new exploratory programming workflow.
       | 
       | - https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks: Open-source Qualtrics
       | alternative
       | 
       | - https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet: Cross-platform
       | application to comfortably monitor and analyse network traffic
       | 
       | - https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc: Pypandoc provides a
       | thin wrapper for pandoc, a universal document converter.
       | 
       | - https://github.com/mockoon/mockoon: Mockoon is the easiest and
       | quickest way to design and run mock REST APIs.
       | 
       | - https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt: An intuitive framework for
       | building web applications, built for the edge.
       | 
       | - https://github.com/responsively-org/responsively-app: A dev-
       | tool for web developers that aid in faster responsive web page
       | development.
       | 
       | - https://github.com/simonw/datasette: An open source multi-tool
       | for exploring and publishing data
       | 
       | - https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder: The scientific Python
       | development environment - https://github.com/strawberry-
       | graphql/strawberry: A GraphQL library for Python that leverages
       | type annotations
       | 
       | - https://github.com/termux/termux-app: A terminal emulator for
       | Android that provides 2000+ linux packages to code on phone
       | 
       | - https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly: Poly is a fast, well
       | tested Go package for engineering organisms.
       | 
       | - https://github.com/trpc/trpc: End-to-end typesafe APIs made
       | easy. Never write another API contract again.
       | 
       | Edit: formatting and updated repo links
        
         | beanclap wrote:
         | super cool congrats :)
        
         | sphars wrote:
         | Exciting to see both Termux and HTMX be selected, looking
         | forward to what comes of it
        
         | dmix wrote:
         | Looks like Github linked to Nuxt's old repo and not
         | https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt
        
           | 255kb wrote:
           | Thanks for noticing, will check with owner and GitHub team.
        
         | theturtletalks wrote:
         | So glad to see codehike here! Pomber has been building amazing
         | open-source projects and codehike will be a game changer for
         | documentation.
        
           | pomber wrote:
           | Thank you!
        
             | theturtletalks wrote:
             | No problem man. I don't know if you remember, but you
             | helped us add Codehike to our documentation some time back!
        
       | recursivedoubts wrote:
       | looking forward to participating and accelerating htmx's old man
       | cloud-yelling to levels not previously thought possible...
        
         | infogulch wrote:
         | Congrats! I hope the money goes to even more memes and
         | references. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35532520
         | 
         | How do you hope that the sponsorship will help HTMX?
        
       | heyfrommatt wrote:
       | Microsoft has had a fraught relationship with the developer
       | community since, well, forever. They seemed to think that buying
       | a developer favorite like GitHub would mend those fences.
       | 
       | Nope.
        
         | tough wrote:
         | The more they own, the less I like them.
         | 
         | VSCode, Github, TypeScript...
        
       | GyulyVGC wrote:
       | Amazing list of projects!
        
       | jrochkind1 wrote:
       | As a rubyist who loves ruby but isn't afraid to admit I see it
       | declining in popularity... I can't help but notice there seems to
       | be no ruby on the list. Plenty of python.
        
         | config_yml wrote:
         | Maybe to avoid looking biased? Github already puts a lot of
         | money towards ruby.
        
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       | nop_slide wrote:
       | Hyped to see htmx and datasette!
        
       | myroon5 wrote:
       | Github star history graph of the batch:
       | 
       | https://star-history.com/#trpc/trpc&termux/termux-app&respon...
       | 
       | nuxt, trpc, termux, and responsively look pretty popular
        
         | nindalf wrote:
         | Yeah, not pasting in my personal access token into a random
         | website.
        
           | tedmiston wrote:
           | You can use the new Fine-grained Personal Access Tokens [1]
           | (as opposed to the original ones, now called "Personal Access
           | Tokens (Classic)".
           | 
           | With the fine-grained tokens, you can literally grant this
           | site:
           | 
           | - Repository access: none
           | 
           | - User permissions: none
           | 
           | - Repository permissions: none
           | 
           | [Or if you want to be really paranoid, make a burner
           | account... -\\_(tsu)_/-.]
           | 
           | But also, star-history.com is not a random site -- the repo
           | [2] has 4k stars and has been around since 2015 and has been
           | popular for over a year.
           | 
           | If you've ever tried to make a public app that depends on
           | GitHub APIs, the limits without taking PATs are very, very
           | low -- totally insufficient for an app with any popularity,
           | so there's not really an alternative.
           | 
           | [1]: https://github.blog/2022-10-18-introducing-fine-grained-
           | pers...
           | 
           | [2]: https://github.com/star-history/star-history
        
           | barbazoo wrote:
           | lol, yeah, I guess you can restrict scope but still, nice try
        
             | jrochkind1 wrote:
             | You can't restrict very much/very well. I think you still
             | can't restrict to specific repos?
             | 
             | How much do we have to fundraise to give github to
             | implement API tokens for which you can limit auth for more
             | common use cases?
        
               | charrondev wrote:
               | I know I have access to fine grained access tokens (beta)
               | which let you get very granular on a per repo. I'm not
               | sure if this is generally available or only because we
               | are on Github Enterprise though.
        
       | pankajdoharey wrote:
       | Its like Google summer of code but better.
        
         | riffraff wrote:
         | GSoC was about bringing young people into FLOSS, this is
         | helping people who actually maintain those projects.
         | 
         | I think they are vastly different, tho I am unsure which one
         | would be more valuable in the long run.
        
       | qbasic_forever wrote:
       | Very cool, this looks like a great list of projects. I like that
       | it's not a bunch of well-known and big names. It looks like stuff
       | that is just getting traction and having a push with dedicated
       | time to maintain could be a huge benefit for them.
        
         | beanclap wrote:
         | I agree! At the same time its cool that they also picked a few
         | proven projects like Nuxt or tRPC. Good mix :)
        
       | throwawaaarrgh wrote:
       | I'm not saying this is a bad thing. But why $20k? It's obviously
       | not a salary... It could pay for infrastructure if a project
       | needed it, but if the project doesn't... I'm having a hard time
       | understanding how it helps sustain the project. I personally
       | wouldn't do both a full time job _and_ work on an OSS project in
       | all my spare time, for the money. If I really need that project I
       | 'm gonna do it regardless, and if I don't need that project,
       | sacrificing all my free time isn't worth $20k.
        
         | armchairhacker wrote:
         | $20k for 10 weeks of work seems like a good deal. It's only 10
         | weeks so you can't just quit your job; but if you are in
         | between jobs, can go on leave, or (most likely case) work part-
         | time and just don't get paid enough, it's a big help. And it's
         | certainly better than nothing which is what most OSS devs get
         | unfortunately
        
         | intelVISA wrote:
         | $20k is one or two weeks in a HFT sweatshop vs. trading your
         | project/dignity into M$?
         | 
         | Not seeing the value prop from GitHub here.
        
         | tedmiston wrote:
         | > But why $20k?
         | 
         | One side note, is that it appears to be $20k _per maintainer_
         | vs _per project_.
         | 
         | From the post:
         | 
         | > GitHub Accelerator is a 10-week program where open source
         | maintainers receive an initial sponsorship of $20K to work on
         | their project ...
         | 
         | > The 2023 cohort has 20 projects, with 32 participants ...
         | 
         | As others have noted, it's not a lot of runway, but maybe
         | enough to not have to freelance on the side and that full-time
         | focus for 3 months could be enough to snowball into a full-time
         | "ramen-profitable" business (maybe). It'll be interesting to
         | see how the first cohort plays out.
        
           | evanelias wrote:
           | No, it appears to be $20k _per project_ , as per
           | https://accelerator.github.com/#faq --
           | 
           | "$20,000 stipend per project ($2,000 per week of
           | participation) for the duration of the 10 week program. If
           | there are multiple participants from a project, the stipend
           | is divided evenly between them."
        
           | replygirl wrote:
           | dropping work for three months for a $n fellowship is the
           | same thing as switching to a $4n job without benefits that
           | you know will fire you in three months. $20k is not enough
           | for that sort of thing
        
         | systemvoltage wrote:
         | Probably the cheapest way to advertise and build goodwill.
        
         | raincole wrote:
         | Because it's just 10 weeks. It's very clearly not a "salary"
         | (as "salary" is usually measured by years), but more like a
         | contracted work that lasts 10 weeks. $20k is more than most
         | jobs posted on Upworks (etc).
        
         | gumballindie wrote:
         | Depends on the country of stay. If you are in Pakistan or India
         | then those 20k is quite a lot. Not so much in Italy or Spain.
        
           | vincentkriek wrote:
           | 20k for 10 weeks is a pretty decent salary, even in the EU.
           | Might not be super competitive for short term work but it's
           | definitely enough to live on in most places.
        
           | capableweb wrote:
           | Even in most (all?) Mediterranean countries, 2000/week is
           | pretty good pay, would work out to 8000/month, which is on
           | the upper-end when it comes to writing code for the usual web
           | stuff. Pair it with that you get to work on FOSS, I'm having
           | a hard time imagining a similar position with similar pay.
        
         | asicsp wrote:
         | It'd depend on several factors, won't it? Those who are already
         | working on OSS projects have found their balance (or willing to
         | work despite challenges). This amount might make small or big
         | difference for them. You should also consider that how much
         | this is worth will depend on where they live too (for example,
         | my yearly expense is less than $2000).
        
         | 255kb wrote:
         | It definitely depends on the maturity of the project and the
         | country you live in.
         | 
         | I was selected to be part of this first cohort with Mockoon.
         | I'm from Luxembourg, so 20k is surely not a life changing
         | amount of money. However, I quit my job two years ago to focus
         | full-time on it. I think that I can make a living (probably a
         | mix of paid services and sponsoring) while keeping the app
         | open-source. But it's a long hard road and I am freelancing on
         | the side which gave me the right balance but not complete peace
         | of mind, financially speaking. So, while it's not a life
         | changing amount, it will buy me some precious time. I also feel
         | really motivated by this awesome recognition (after 5 years of
         | work on this project) and I am looking forward the 10 weeks of
         | coaching. So, all in all, it's a bit of a life changing event
         | for me :)
         | 
         | (Edited a bit for clarity)
        
         | fulafel wrote:
         | Middle income is $10-$20 per day[1]. $2k per week = $400 per
         | day = 20x - 40x middle income. Minus taxes. And I guess you
         | need to factor in that the figure includes people who are not
         | employed. But still should leave you in the ~10x group.
         | 
         | [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2015/07/08/a-global-
         | middl...
        
           | bigfatfrock wrote:
           | Finally, software engineers can break out of the $10-20 per
           | day income bracket!
        
         | pomber wrote:
         | I maintain one of the selected projects. $20k means that I can
         | focus on the project without taking any freelance work on the
         | side for a while. Hopefully making the project more attractive
         | to sponsors, hopefully snowballing into more OSS and less
         | freelance.
        
           | pomber wrote:
           | By the way, https://github.com/sponsors/code-hike/
        
         | hardwaregeek wrote:
         | Yeah that's not a lot of runway. But it could be reasonable for
         | a student or for someone living in a low cost of living
         | location. Or if you have savings from your job and just need a
         | little boost to get started. Or if you're okay with living
         | frugally, which seems to be how people like Andreas Kling or
         | Andrew Kelley get by. But yeah it's not really a sustainable
         | model.
        
         | goodpoint wrote:
         | Don't forget that GitHub belongs to Microsoft. This is yet
         | another attempt at controlling the OSS world.
         | 
         | (Not to mention control developer salaries.)
        
           | goodpoint wrote:
           | A rain of silent downvotes, how interesting...
        
         | WhyNotHugo wrote:
         | I'd say this is more about positioning themselves as "someone
         | who cares about open source" more than anything else.
         | 
         | Their main product is proprietary, and they have a looong
         | history of vendor lock-in and anti-competitiveness (including:
         | Extend, Embrace, Extinguish). Giving out these grants lets them
         | present themselves as someone who cares and funds open source,
         | even if their core business stands strongly against it.
         | 
         | Perhaps people in tech mostly now GitHub's and MicroSoft's
         | reputation. But if says "we love open source and even give out
         | grants", its easy to understand why legislators would believe
         | that both parts of the statement to be true.
        
         | jkelleyrtp wrote:
         | FWIW, we (Dioxus) are using the $20K to fund an internship for
         | one of our contributors. We're hoping the program will act like
         | VC funding (marketing, really) and help us unlock larger
         | corporate sponsorships.
         | 
         | [1] http://github.com/dioxusLabs/dioxus
        
         | recursivedoubts wrote:
         | I view the money as a nice-to-have bonus. The big benefits of
         | the program are:
         | 
         | - validation by Github of your open source project
         | 
         | - the signal boost associated w/ that validation
         | 
         | - the actual content of the course (licensing, managing issues,
         | etc.)
         | 
         | - meeting other open source people to discuss what is working
         | and what isn't
         | 
         | 20k is nothing to sneeze at, but, as you say, most people
         | aren't in the open source game for the money...
        
       | nro337 wrote:
       | Awesome to see trpc and Mockoon on here!
        
         | 255kb wrote:
         | Thanks! I am glad to be in this list too (Mockoon) :)
        
       | precompute wrote:
       | Looks like they peppered in some weird projects in there as well.
       | I'd have expected some "hard software engineering" projects as
       | well, but I guess not everyone is ready to be a spokesman for
       | github's view of the world.
       | 
       | https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree : "Your profile
       | will have links to your social media and content. You can also
       | add your timeline, testimonials, and upcoming events that you are
       | participating in."
       | 
       | Sounds lame. Is this really worth including in this list?
       | 
       | https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc: "Pypandoc provides a
       | thin wrapper for pandoc, a universal document converter."
       | 
       | So random. Why not support pandoc instead?
       | 
       | It seems like a political statement by Microsoft. The list only
       | has "trendy" stuff, carefully moves around any and all "AI"
       | stuff, and none of it seems experimental at all. If I didn't know
       | this was "Github Accelerator" and was shown the list, I'd have
       | assumed this was some VC's list of prospective Open Source
       | programs that could turn a penny or two down the road.
       | 
       | It seems pretty obvious to me that now that Github has cornered
       | the "open source" market, it's on the "Extend" phase, looking to
       | change how Open Source is approached.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
        
         | ignoramous wrote:
         | The messaging was that an independent panel would select, and
         | not Microsoft per se.
        
           | precompute wrote:
           | It says "Github accelerator" not "Github community
           | accelerator" or something. Pretty sure micro$oft had a big
           | hand in it, they wouldn't allow the pilot for their program
           | to be so "unsupervised".
        
       | numbers wrote:
       | This list is great to see because as a supporter and user of open
       | source projects, I am glad smaller projects are getting this too!
       | Hopefully it keeps going!
        
       | mickael-kerjean wrote:
       | That looks awesome, when is the next batch coming? What are the
       | conditions for the funding? My OSS project is a Dropbox like UI
       | for S3, SFTP, FTP, NFS, SMB and pretty much every other file
       | transfer protocol: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
       | Would that fit in your scope?
        
         | ignoramous wrote:
         | Any FOSS project you're open to work full-time is within scope,
         | iirc.
         | 
         | Btw, what you're building sounds very similar to spacedrive:
         | https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive
        
           | tough wrote:
           | AFAIK Spacedrive hasn't delivered a release yet, so it's nice
           | to see some competitors delivering.
        
       | pomber wrote:
       | As the maintainer of one of the selected projects
       | (https://codehike.org/), I really appreciate what GitHub is
       | doing, putting the money and trying different approaches (last
       | year it was $450K across 900 projects).
        
       | Kwpolska wrote:
       | > JessicaTegner/pypandoc Pypandoc provides a thin wrapper for
       | pandoc, a universal document converter.
       | 
       | To be frank, that doesn't seem like a project worthy of $20k to
       | me. Not very many commits recently [0], it has 918 source lines
       | of code in the main package, and 547 lines of test code -- it
       | even describes itself as a "thin" wrapper, and the only thing it
       | does is converting some arguments to Pandoc flags and calling the
       | Pandoc executable. How many more features could be added to this
       | project? What is it missing now?
       | 
       | [0] https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc/commits/master
        
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         | therein wrote:
         | [flagged]
        
           | hmoodie wrote:
           | [flagged]
        
         | RangerScience wrote:
         | To be frank (and then polite and constructive), I think the
         | relevant question is "What am _I_ missing? " rather than "What
         | is _it_ missing? "
         | 
         | ..and my guess would be that this is something like a cohort
         | experiment. I'd bet they selected projects to have a broad
         | sampling of kinds of projects, so they could see what working
         | with them was like and what kind of impact they'd have -
         | similar to a marketing trying out different audiences and types
         | of ads, or startups running market experiments, or VCs shot-
         | gunning to see what sticks, or developers doing 'probes' into
         | problems and/or with technologies.
         | 
         | AFAICT, GitHub wanted to get some data around the questions
         | "What's involved in us getting funding to open source projects
         | / developers, and what kind of impact can that funding have?"
         | 
         | Even if your judgement of this specific project is apt (that
         | it's weirdly small and inactive for receiving a grant), that
         | may be the _point_.
        
         | Spinnaker_ wrote:
         | [flagged]
        
           | jjeaff wrote:
           | Don't do that. Don't diminish the work of someone simply
           | because they are a woman. Even assuming that money was given
           | as part of some diversity program, to imply that is the only
           | reason she got an investment is to imply that there are
           | simply no qualified women out there deserving of investment.
           | 
           | It's just like the criticism of Biden having appointed "so
           | many" Black female judges. As if they are not perfectly
           | qualified or even more qualified than a white male judge
           | would have been. Not to mention the fact that
           | "qualifications" has never really been the criteria for any
           | of this.
           | 
           | In other words, merit is far too nebulous a concept for a
           | true "meritocracy" to ever exist.
        
             | ignoramceisblis wrote:
             | When decisions are made specifically based on superficial
             | characteristics like skin color and sex, you shouldn't be
             | surprised when people wonder if decisions are/were made
             | specifically based on superficial characteristics like skin
             | color and sex.
             | 
             | eg. on Biden: https://news.yahoo.com/the-inside-story-of-
             | how-biden-promise...
             | 
             | The promise of the superficial characteristics came first.
             | Then a solution (a candidate, in this case) was chosen from
             | a limited solution set
             | 
             | When people do things like this, they make it clear they
             | don't want optimal outcomes, with regards to performance
             | and the like. They make it clear that other, superficial,
             | characteristics carry greater weight.
             | 
             | This hurts any functioning society, certainly in the long-
             | term. However, some people want that--for some societies.
        
               | jjeaff wrote:
               | Regardless of any "superficial" characteristic (I think
               | many would argue that being Black in America in anything
               | but superficial) what exactly do you think an optimal
               | outcome is when selecting something like a judge? What is
               | a high "performance" judge? Because even though for the
               | first few hundred years of our nation's history, we
               | selected judges only from a very large group of old,
               | white, catholic/protestant men, we sure have come up with
               | plenty of incompetence and corruption.
               | 
               | Should we hire judges based solely on their LSAT score?
               | Or perhaps only judges from the most ivy league,
               | selective law schools? Or maybe we should select for
               | judges who can recite the law by memory?
               | 
               | Judges need to represent the people that they stand in
               | judgement of. You want people that know what it is like
               | to grow up poor or to grow up under racism or whatever.
               | And Black women are severely underrepresented in the
               | federal judiciary.
               | 
               | Of course, any person selected as a judge needs to meet a
               | minimum level of competence (something that has usually
               | been the case up until at least a few selections from the
               | last administration). Regardless, the solution set of
               | Black female attorneys and judges is plenty large to be
               | able to find fully qualified candidates for many, many
               | federal appointments.
        
             | RangerScience wrote:
             | _Although I completely agree with you_...
             | 
             | ...I 'm not seeing anything on the readily available info
             | indicating a gender either way.
        
               | Kwpolska wrote:
               | https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc/commit/4becb4e6
               | 734...
        
               | RangerScience wrote:
               | a) thank you!
               | 
               | (and I say this with an intention towards satire)
               | 
               | b) _why the hell was finding that worth your time_
        
               | Shekelphile wrote:
               | > b) why the hell was finding that worth your time
               | 
               | Generally the only reason people dig up a trans person's
               | deadname is for harassment or discrimination.
        
             | draw_down wrote:
             | [dead]
        
             | systemvoltage wrote:
             | Completely disagree. The wokeness from these corporations,
             | the DEI culture, the dividing contemptuous nature of this
             | ideology needs to be openly and fiercely criticized. It's
             | destroying the very fabric of America.
             | 
             | The fact that we are not allowed to do that on HN speaks
             | for its ideological and dangerous grip on free thinking.
             | The chilling effect is real.
        
               | Shekelphile wrote:
               | Treating a trans developer as no different from a cishet
               | developer is not 'wokeness'.
        
               | ignoramceisblis wrote:
               | I think it's pretty clear from the parent commenters that
               | they believe the developer /is/ being treated differently
               | --with a bias/preference given that the developer is
               | supposedly trans.
        
               | Shekelphile wrote:
               | No, they don't. They insinuate that because it's a
               | conveinient dogwhistle - the claim is always the same
               | whenever a non cishet/white person attains any level of
               | success.
        
               | [deleted]
        
               | ignoramceisblis wrote:
               | "Insinuate" what? "Dogwhistle"?
               | 
               | Maybe I was being too equivocal. The parent commenters
               | /do/ believe the developer is receiving preferential
               | treatment based on one aspect of their declared identity.
               | And it's not hard to share their sentiment: what warrants
               | a thin Python wrapper library, which does not really
               | bring new capabilities itself, receiving $20k when there
               | are many other projects which could make an even bigger
               | impact with that money? It seems unusual to me.
               | Especially when considering they were choosing from a
               | pool at GitHub scale, which is about as diverse as it
               | gets in the open source software community.
               | 
               | I don't share the belief that "non cishet/white" people
               | are unduly denigrated when they achieve success--not more
               | than any other person on average, anyway. In fact, I see
               | quite the opposite: there's tremendous amounts of pride
               | when "non cishet/white" people achieve success.
        
               | Shekelphile wrote:
               | > I don't share the belief that "non cishet/white" people
               | are unduly denigrated when they achieve success--not more
               | than any other person on average, anyway. In fact, I see
               | quite the opposite: there's tremendous amounts of pride
               | when "non cishet/white" people achieve success.
               | 
               | If that was the case you wouldn't be here to continue
               | doubling down on casting doubt on someone's success.
        
               | ignoramceisblis wrote:
               | You seem to mistakenly believe I'm someone who cares
               | about the person's identity. I don't. The only object of
               | consideration is the project, and only its recent
               | "success" is in question: there are many other projects
               | that I believe would benefit much more from the
               | resources, more than a thin Python wrapper library.
        
       | AbuAssar wrote:
       | really looking forward for AnalogJs to compete with next/nuxt!
        
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