skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming they have a margin of 50%, their EBITDA multiple is 80. For comparison, Facebook had an EBITDA multiple of ~50 at IPO time.
>Their moat is sticky enough and they know it.

I'm not sure that they're not just a feature. Even if MS teams sucks compared to Slack, the MS salesman can talk to the CIO of Megacorp and say they'll add it in for half of what Slack costs. They see X million in savings and suddenly the entire organization is using MS Teams instead of Slack.
With all due respect, if you were born in the US and grew up speaking English, you have a lot more common with those "Bavarians" than you do with Swedish people in Sweden.
Limiting any one country to 15% of the visa intake would be great for actual diversity. Requiring that a minimum of 51% of all H1B visas be given to women, from all countries, would truly help with gender diversity.

Indian hiring managers have a history of illegally discriminating against non-Indian job applicants. This change would help bring an end to that.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-05/india-s-t...
I would go with Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu

GTX1080 for 100$ a month. Grantend, it is older, but it still works for DL. Let's say you do 10 experiments a month for ~20 hours. Thats 0.5$/hour and I don't think it is 3 times faster.

If you then want to do even more learning the price goes even down.

//DISCLAIMER: I do not work for them, but used it for DL in the past and it was for sure cheaper than GCP or AWS. If you have to do lots of experiments (>year) go with your own hardware, but do not underestimate the convenience of >100MByte/s if you download many big training sets.
I was thinking good hotels with good wifi.
Aha! If you were wondering "What's Slack useful for?" this is the answer.
was that in Chicago? I felt the same stress
I've been pleasantly surprised by the face- and object-recognition AI in the Synology Moments app: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/moments

Synology is a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) appliance.

I don't think it uploads my data anywhere. If it does, it certainly doesn't upload everything, because I would have noticed the bandwidth usage, but I haven't verified that it doesn't upload some low resolution version of photos.
Nightly Rust already has basic RISC-V support, but the problem is Rust's libc binding is not yet ported to RISC-V. Without libc, Rust's std will not be usable, that's the main blocker here. While the theory is you don't require std to compile a Rust program, most, if not all, Rust programs leverage std in some extent.
All our tools promote this approach to information consumption. Just today I took some time to seriously reconsider my use of electronics—for a couple of months I was able to sustain a very disciplined use of tech: no picking up the phone unless I have an explicit reason, and I have first questioned that reason. No starting an internet browser right away when using my laptop, no phone on the toilet, in bed, etc. But sure I’ve lapsed and find myself wasting tons of time once again...like commenting on hacker news when I could be thinking about serious problems. Oh well. Time to try again.

It’d be nice if our tools promoted disciplined, focused use instead of combatting focus. The internet is a huge component in this.
UK to indefinitely delay age-verification system for online porn
I'm not sure they'll be able to compete against a worse but integrated solution like MS teams long term. No doubt it's worse but the bundle is cheaper with when you're already paying for Windows and Office. Same story with G Suite.

MS and Google don't actually have to be better with their chat product, they just have to be usable and cheaper.
Didn’t know about this. Thanks for filling me in.
Hi,

In addition to the link posted by dang about the previous discussion, here are some other articles I found interesting on Alan Turing's "Type-B Unorganised Machines"

Evolved Turing neural networks

http://compucology.net/evolved

Turing's Neural Networks of 1948

http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/pages/Reference%20A...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unorganized_machine
The K80s are super outdated now. Google used to offer them for free for 12hrs a day on their Colab platform, but they upgraded them to using the Tesla T4s. Note you can get a K80 on GCP (unreserved) for $.45/hr.

This is a good deal.
The obligatory "but they have massive losses",

> For the fiscal year ending January 31, 2019, the company reported losses of $138.9 million on revenue of $400.6 million. That’s compared to a loss of $140.1 million on revenue of $220.5 million the year prior. [1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/31/slack-first-quarter-financ...

I don't understand valuations.
I see organizations using emails like they were only for alerts and becoming so many and so unread and backed up, you simply don't care about unread anymore at all. That's why google has to do the contextual meaning of them and bring them to your attention with AI. Slack or anything slack-like, makes things more inline to how we work with people, at least from what I experience and no AI needed to duct tape its shortcomings.

This makes me think that phones should be disrupted, in terms of using phone numbers. Calls are spammed now just like email. We need a permission-based phone system like slack where only people that we know can contact us. Wait nm that's dumb, we already have the internet and you can call someone through slack video already.
I have one of these instances. It's awesome and I recommend it highly.
Is this another one of those companies whose S1 says "We're not profitable and may never be"?

Why is that the right time to go public? Once the company has an obligation to move towards profitability, doesn't that expose its investors to the risk of another startup subsidizing the same product or service with VC money, undercutting the new established brand?

Like if slack wants to become profitable they probably need to push more people to the paid version of the app, but then won't another company just make a clone and convert some VC cash into a runway with which to poach slack's userbase, and eventually file an S1 saying "we're not profitable and may never be"?

I'm struggling to understand why this keeps working, because no one seems to have a problem with it at all.
TL;DR (hopefully I'm getting this right): the issue was that Vue.js creates scoped styles, and because the Sass styles were imported into every VueJS component, it rendered (and duplicated) the CSS in every component at runtime.
I've never experienced this very common criticism of slack on here. When I occasionally check, Slack is using around 500mb or RAM. A lot for a chat app? Sure. But it has little to no affect on either my 16gb or 8gb machines.
A single word won't work, if you have any context.

A thing which works to some degree is some more subtle editing (see the recent case of the slow Pelossi video) making people appear drunk or sick can be powerful.
Oh no. My girlfriend and I recently rented some Lime bikes in Calgary.

The brakes on hers weren't reliable enough to go down hills, let alone stop in an emergency. Mine weren't much better.

We left appropriate reviews, and were able to tell the next rider which to use, but they really need a quick maintenance survey, even just for brake shape, and perhaps a "flag bike as dangerous" button.

Also found the e-assist awkward, particularly at low speeds around pedestrians.

Would ride again, but just double check the brakes/mainteance.
why do they need to reach 16B in annual revenue? I dont think you will find any tech stock with a market cap of 1x revenue.
Flickr were acquired by SmugMug around a year ago, now.
It's not about current user, but potential user growth.
There is no way Slack is worth $16 billion dollars.

That's over 40x current revenue for a company that lost almost $400,000 a day last year.
Why do you make it sound like some shady back-door deal? Our grey-beard entirely Linux using ops staff would drop Slack for MS teams at the drop of a hat to get that money back in the budget. You can only waste so much money when the entire office demands Office.

Dropbox is also one the chopping block to be replaced by OneDrive. Until someone can break hard dependency people have on Office products MS suite will always come out cheaper than Office + $other_thing.
My company is already paying for Teams as part of our O365 Installation. We won't use it, simply because of the network effect the Shared Channels have created.

We have shared channels with Integration Partners, Suppliers, Enterprise Customers... These are extremely valuable ways of communication once setup, especially with simple file-transfer thrown in, etc.
Leaving Slack would mean slamming the door in the face of these entities, something we're simply not ready to do for the cost-savings that ditching Slack would mean.
> It’s hard to believe an actual citizen of Mexico would be offended by you referring to their nationality.

Perhaps 'actually Mexican' in this context means Mexican ancestry. For communities struggling to be accepted as American, this is a legitimate issue.
Who Destroyed Three Mile Island?
How is Discord superior? I haven't really used it but my first impressions are that it seems very tailored to the gaming community. I have used Slack extensively and it appears more professional. And if Discord is free, how do they make money / keep the lights on?

I do worry about Slack's pricing since there is a vast chasm between their free plan and their paid plans. I use Slack to run some open source and hobbyist communities with thousands of members and if for any reason we were forced to switch to a paid plan (at $x per user) we'd be forced to go elsewhere immediately.
I'm active on social media because my idol Elon Musk is too.
Senators get classified briefing on UFO sightings
Has it occurred to you that some companies do become profitable?
Using+Machine+Learning+to+Ensure+the+Capacity+Safety+of+Individual+Microservices
Building Reliable Microservices
Slacks biggest paying customers are enterprises using it for internal chat. Not very sticky overall since enterprise customers are used to vendors constantly raising prices.
The solution is to legislate it be done properly which is a business expense. Where it is too expensive to be done properly, there is no business case to have a user created content platform. Being a platform is enormously lucrative, shirking the responsibilities to cut costs and make it even more so is evil. Really.
Exploiting Self-Improvement
Common Antibiotic Misconceptions
Assuming they grow their user base to be 100 times larger than the current 10 million, are they worth $16 per user?
It's really an obscenity to propose the high airspeed was a function of power and not (mis)trim. Trim dictates airspeed, and power dictates the rate of climb or decent, with elevator as a moderator of both in addition to attitude.

A power reduction would cause a slight reduction in airspeed initially, immediately followed by the airplane nosing down - a direct consequence of positive static stability, a require aerodynamic feature of all FAR 25 transport category airplanes.

It's unfortunate the pilots didn't perceive the sabotage they were dealing with sooner - I'm not sure how they could have without any prior knowledge of the severity of the betrayal. A system that noses down this much this fast at this altitude disregarding all other available information - it's flawed. Pilots aren't a backup for a system that goes berserk and sabotages stable flight. This system behaved indistinguishably from a human pilot who wanted everyone on board dead - of course the system doesn't think maliciously, but nor did it take all available information into account, and that single minded approach of this system makes it deadly. Twice.

Precisely how and why would U.S. pilots have made a different decision in the same situation? Stronger and more endurance to fight the plane for another 10 minutes at a slow climb, to have the altitude to correct the mistrim, a technique which results in intentional porpoising and altitude loss? I'd scoff, but that's more plausible than U.S. pilots realizing faster that the automation is the saboteur, and deactivating it before the severe mistrim occurs.
>Facebook's tokens given users the right to exchange their tokens back for the backing assets.

Well, yeah, of course you can convert the tokens back, similar to how you can exchange between currencies, but it would also depend on the exchange rate. You would not necessarily get back the same amount you put in.

"It is important to highlight that this means one Libra will not always be able to convert into the same amount of a given local currency (i.e., Libra is not a “peg” to a single currency). Rather, as the value of the underlying assets moves, the value of one Libra in any local currency may fluctuate. "

https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/#the-libra-currency-and-...
I think this is a bs pseudo-science article. Instead of saying it’s an age decline maybe just say that it’s very rare to do the same thing progressively better for more than 20 years. Therefore instead of viewing life in progressive terms, view it in cyclical terms. At some point you have to start over at the bottom. For some reason people at age 50 develop a snobbery that prohibits this — they must keep on doing the same thing they’ve always been doing or they would rather do nothing. That’s nonsense. Ask any entrepreneur who starts over — and they’ll tell you how they’ve done it so many times it’s as natural as walking. And by the way I bet those are the same people who are still active professionally well past their 60s. Telling people they can’t do something after a certain age is just a self fulfilling prophecy of psycho-babble. People already feel this way - so what is the point of perpetuating it?
Xmake v2.2.7 released, Improve to build CUDA project
The site also is a heavy resource hog but you're right that it's overall less.

There are plenty of lightweight clients that use the Slack API. I don't see why people complain so hard that the official client is heavy.

Weechat with Slack is a dream feels like the good-ole IRC days.
Is MySQL just a frontend on a filesystem?
How does data in/out work in practice with them? I see this 4 Tbit bandwidth but do you happen to know what that translates to and what happens if you exceed that?

Also check availability shows a 5 day wait current:
“EX51-SSD-GPU for Falkenstein (FSN1): Due to very high demand for these server models, its current setup time is approximately up to 5 workdays.*”
Or maybe there are other regions/dcs.
I love recumbents but they're too expensive because they're almost all built by hand by a guy in a garage; never at scale. And that guy tends to go out of business fairly quickly and then you're stuck with an unsupported bike. I wish it weren't so but it is.
Teams bundling will hold back wider adoption by the large co's who use office365. How will the userbase continue to grow?
That's a very insightful point, but I'm not comparing the way my friends interact with me to the way I interact with them, but rather the way friends in a lower social class interacted with me vs the way those in a (sort of) higher social class interacted with me. I feel like not having much money meant that there were ways in which I was out of place among my childhood milieu too. And yet somehow, I don't recall ever being made to feel out of my place by anyone.

This is obviously partially attributable to the fact that everything about my parents' and my mannerisms fit in well, despite not actually having money. But I feel like the actual (significant) financial gap between me and my social circles provided plenty of opportunity for social friction, and I literally don't remember a single instance of it coming from that group.

More importantly, it would be predictable for people to enforce the advantages that a rigid class system affords them, but it's unexpected to me for those getting the short end of the stick to be enforcing the system more zealously (albeit in a limited context) than those benefiting from it.

(It really bugs me that my comments keep referring to class as if it's a real, important thing about someone's character, but I guess that's sort of the point of my comment: the perhaps-naive disillusionment that I felt upon realizing how insistent most are on enforcing it)
What you posted is quite alarming, but I'm not sure it's related. This is about privacy, not pedophiles.
RAM alone isn’t the problem. The issue is that is so laggy and slow. Poor algorithms on 500mb of bad data structures can bring any modern machine to its knees.
It might be less then that. If they are limited time products that the purchasers enjoy, they might just be front loading their consumption and eating the products over a period of time. I mean, corn chips last a long time before they go stale.
The pipeline problem is a concern long term, but I don’t think it is the primary problem at the moment for a couple reasons.

First, it assumes that the pool of diverse candidates has already been exhausted. Anecdotally I have not seen evidence of that. If it was the problem you claim, we would expect female engineers to make much higher salaries than their male counterparts. There is no evidence that is happening. This will eventually be a problem once every company tries to be more diverse than the pool of candidates, but right now there does not seem to be enough companies prioritizing diversity to an extent that this is an issue.

Secondly one of the causes of the pipeline problem is not having enough visibly successful diverse people in the industry. The more diverse candidates that are put in positions to succeed, the more visible they become to the next generation, and the more likely the next generation believes that this career can be a path they can successfully pursue.
Companies switched to slack because hipchat didn't work very well. Slack works pretty well. It would be much harder for there to be internal political motivation to change unless someone does something significantly better which I cannot imagine.
My very-large project switched chat apps in one weekend (backed by a few weeks of prep by IT team). We had JIRA integration on day one, and one or two missing things within a week. It wasn't that big a deal.

I think Slack aficionados overestimate how much investment most companies have in custom integrations and bots and things that increase switching costs.
Latino (or Latina) is fine. The parent poster is talking specifically about the unpronounceable abomination "latinx" with an X ending. I'm Latino and my family hates it, too (but mostly because it's very woke liberal coded, not because they find it racist, as was asserted). But there are plenty of Latinxes who use it, so... shrug.
Disgusting that companies use NDA’s to abuse their employees like this.
I have like 18 of their auction servers that are unmetered at 1gbps and really make that bandwidth sweat. I've never had issues honestly, and they've never tried to dreamhost me. I love it.
Way more than that. They charge $7-12 per month.
It's actually quite hard to do exit cleanups, even by putting functions into `.__fini_array`. The reason is because some signals (SIGTERM, SIGKILL) cannot be masked, when a thread/process (`task_struct`) got `SIGKILL`-ed, there's no way for application to run functions (including .__fini_array). Things can get more complicated when a thread calls `exit_group`, which is also recommended, cause all other threads in the same process group receive `SIGKILL`, hence none of the other threads are able to run any code after.
Nevin’s law seems to describe his hubris as well. I wonder how many on his own team are comfortable with that expression.
Dropbox took on a problem users have (how can I sync my files between multiple computers?) and provided a great solution to it.

Slack takes a problem users have ("my coworkers keep bugging me with stupid questions") and makes the problem worse, because now your coworkers can see that you're online and demand instant answer :)
For us at least, email had also become this.
I'm guessing the answer is "yes", but have you taken a look at their S-1 filing? There is tons of addressable market out there for them, and their paying cohorts (year-by-year) have been accelerating in next-expand ARR (page 68):

https://sec.report/Document/0001628280-19-004786/

I do agree that product iteration has been slow. That's been a big problem for Slack, and it's my biggest speculation on their valuation. As someone who has seen inside the company (don't work there), their engineering teams have a ton of technical debt they've been making their way through and trying to set right.
If that's what's best for your company, great. For others, competing against MS Teams means that they will face an uphill battle on the sales side - to put it mildly. In terms of the cost savings aspect once MS reaches feature parity-ish, there will be significant pressure on the CIO to consider a migration away from Slack. Both of these pressures raise valid questions about the valuation and future of Slack.
HipChat is awful, and only an alternative in a very charitable sense of that word.

> Slack has nothing like Jira, BitBucket, or Trello.

And thank goodness for that, because those are awful as well.
I read it as an attempted counter-argument, but I could have misinterpreted.
My gut feeling, without doing much proper analysis, is that further growth will come not so much from adding more paying users as selling more services to the existing, extremely locked in, userbase.

It's a platform - I can see a world where almost everything in the workplace is embedded into Slack or integrated with it. They can take their cut of all of that.
Let's Acknowledge the Technical Limits of Service Meshes Like Istio
thehustle.co as a publication is catered to young 'hustlers' who very much buy into the capitalist American Dream.

Good. We need more of this kind of thing around here, and less negativity and the "luck is everything, effort is irrelevant, sit on your ass and wait for the government to fix all your problems" bullshit that we've been overrun with lately.

This is a hype-article for the 'anyone can make it' myth

There's a big difference between saying "anyone can make it" and saying "everyone will make it". There's also the fact that there's a wide continuum regarding what "it" means. Not everyone has to become a billionaire to have "made it." If you're working in the fields for less than minimum wage in 110° temperatures, then becoming a manager at McDonalds could easily count as "making it."

People should be encouraged to work hard and pursue their dreams... at the very least, I think we can all recognize that you're more likely to "make it" if you put the effort in, than if you sit around doing nothing.
Discord has far superior voice chat with groups.

Discord has better options for channel control.

Slack has better integrations with software development tools
Perhaps a good start would be just identify as your biological sex.
I appreciate the traction this received. I'd like to note that I am not a developer by trade and I'm certainly not a designer. Java isn't even my primary language. I am just somebody interested in privacy and security and this was a fun project that should be useful. Any contributions to the code or design are very welcome. I hope this helps others and thank you.
Slack can eat into Zoom very easily.
Massive room for growth
Free is there to be a sales demo without deadlines with a casual shrug for people who aren't going to pay, I wouldn't ever use slack if it wasn't my intention to play and slack wouldn't miss me.

Choose your customers.
Especially for families that aren't all on Apple.
US Fiat currency is backed by nuclear weapons.
Wiener Gut-and-Amend Bill reduces ballot measure transparency