skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it related to Atlassian’s huge price increase (40% to 320%) for Server licenses? They try to push everyone to the cloud, almost by force. It made the stock (NASDAQ:TEAM) lose about 16% in 20 days.

https://info.seibert-media.net/display/Atlassian/Atlassian+P...
We are nowhere near as valuable or successful as Gitlab but we also practice radical transparency, which means that all of our material conversations happen out in the open. This saves a lot of time and makes it much easier to stay on top of what is happening. Because many of our co-workers are remote we publish a once-per-month update that goes into substantial detail about the state of the business.

I'm a firm believe that companies should be run like that but many other founders like to play their cards much closer to their chests.
When Will A.I. Finally Replace Your Boss?
Private Repos by default, not owned by Microsoft, alternative to the established player, built in CI features.
The "Create merge request" (from issue) button.

It creates a new branch, with a smart name like 123-my-issue-title, and a new "pull request" for that issue and branch.
Why would they do that after shutting down Google Code?
Let's stick to the facts: he/him.
We can self host it, it had (and still has) a great CI (before GitHub had it) and personally it had free private repos before GitHub had it.
Check-in has opened for Microsoft Flight Simulator's technical alpha
In France the age of consent is 15. Americans are such religious zealots.
The 31 million is for the people that haven't experienced any identity theft. This is the money being split up by all the people making $125 claims.

The total pool to pay out claims to consumer is 425 million. Subtracting the 31M that leaves 394 million for people who experience real harm. The $20,000 cap per person is for people drawing money from this pool.
It's easily self-hostable.
There are many aspects to this, but it seems that the most lasting and strong effects are due to visual content (especially raw content, violence...) rather than text (even though text can be violent).

Which is why automated Image/Video moderation solutions (such as Vision, Rekog, Sightengine.com, Hive) will continue to grow. Not only because it is cheaper/faster, but because it becomes a necessity. Or at least as a first filter to weed out the "worst" content.
Huge number of active users, premium (paid) features. I think it boils down to that.
I want to say it's the freedom to self-host, but really it's the CI.

Throwing a .gitlab-ci.yml file into my repo is by far the easiest way to get CI/CD incorporated into a product. The configuration of test runners (or lack thereof) is both a breeze and extremely powerful.

I'm not even talking about the auto-devops thing that I haven't tried; writing your own gitlab-ci file worked in frictionless ways that CircleCI, Travis, and (especially) Jenkins didn't.
I'm not currently using Gitlab anymore, but in the past, it was their CI that won me over. I was always felt left wanting more though because there wasn't a true sense of community/explore.

If there's one thing I value most about Github today it's the ability to easily discover new projects and human beings; and Github helps tremendously with that whereas Gitlab I feel like you end up fighting the system to discover new and interesting things and people.
I think it's more that there are personality types that really want a community feel like they belong to and are thus easily persuadable. Social media was a huge factor in radicalizing people to Islamic terrorism, and that ended when the networks started censoring that stuff.
Have a look at your local paper's political cartoon, and tell me how apolitical art is.
Someone on Reddit says the deposition states that a bystander saw Minksy turn the 17 year old down.

However I can’t seem to find the original documents to verify that.

And reading too much about Giuffre, my god. The list of powerful people.

Epstein must of had blackmail on everyone.

Almost like a cartel leader in their nation, he made big philanthropic donations for good press and then kept many of the world’s richest and most powerful people under his thumb.
I agree regarding freedom of association and its importance.
But, are you ok then condemning people to homelessness and poverty? It sure seems to me like you are viewing that as a perfectly acceptable punishment for saying something unacceptable.
> but to me it sounded like the reasoning that it's not rape if it was a willing interaction

My reasoning is: rape victims are victims regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, time and space.

But it's not Twitter crowd that decides if it is rape or not.
Strider lets companies make sure potential employees aren't spies
Relevant:

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1124625_tesla-offers-ne...
My employer uses gitlab for most internal projects because of ITAR and other legal restrictions (aerospace). No external hosted services allowed, except obviously for released open source code.
We really need accountability for stake holders who discount security concerns because some cool widget "adds value" and everyone else is doing it.

Honestly.. send these people to jail make an example out of them.. hopefully people will think twice.
> There's something wrong with mainstream reporting if mere exposure to social media turns people far right. It really strikes me that people are trapped in some pretty strong filter bubbles to the point mere exposure is enough to change political belief.

A different conclusion to draw from this is that far-right interests are responsible for the majority of the objectionable content on social media. One might further suggest that said content is deliberate propaganda, designed to push people to the right, and that this is a central pillar of their strategy that isn't shared to the same degree or extreme by other political factions.

This isn't "mere exposure". I haven't read the article so please correct me if I'm wrong but this is a job, a place they go to sit every day to be bombarded with this crap. To some extent they have to sit and let it wash over them—I don't imagine the people doing these jobs have much career mobility. IMO it's not realistic to suggest that if they were just better-informed, they wouldn't suffer these effects. The mind is not an inviolable fortress—no matter how strong you think your defenses are, they can be worn down.
> The issue is rather that we don't know what all that star stuff becomes once it goes into the black hole, though there are theories. The problem is that the defining feature of a black hole, its even horizon, by necessity means there is no way of knowing what theory is correct since nothing happening inside is supposed to matter to us.

Right. As far as "an observer at infinity" is concerned, all that in-falling matter gets asymptotically closer to the event horizon and never crosses it.

One way to reframe the situation which I quite like: Black holes have no insides.
> ...Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he’d kill himself if I didn’t go out with him.

That's beyond awful at asking women out, especially given that the woman in question was an undergrad at the time.
Free software is a political movement. It is impossible for it, or Stallman’s active alienation of women and decent people over a period of decades, to be apolitical. He was a purposefully political actor.
Interesting, there seem to be lots of opinions about the chosen stack. But as a designer, I have no idea what to make of it.

Recently I rode the Figma API release hype train, and I made a plugin which is quite successful. Almost 10k active installs. It is basically a collection of the most popular viewports and their market share. I also have a server where I store the data. Every other day I run a script which updates the market share and that is about it. To summarize it:

- I have a client (react app written in typescript) which has a very simple "caching" mechanism (if you asked the server for new data more then a day ago, ask again) and which shows the data and nothing else.
- And I have a server (express js) running on Heroku (where I also have the Postgres DB). The server has a basic REST API and very default admin interface. But most of the time the server is not doing anything.

It was something I was able to put together quite fast, but now reading all the comments I'm thinking whether it isn't over-engineered and whether I should go with serverless and possibly reduce the costs.
Basically, corporate people are allergic to paid managed services and are afraid of proprietary lock-ins (unless a VP heard it was what all the other VPs were doing). If the open source software has support contracts, and is cheaper, they leap on it. We're actually moving off GitLab onto Github, because it's just... better. Not only because managing it internally sucks, but also Github is just more polished. Still won't pay for GitHub Enterprise though, because we're cheap.
I'd love for Gitlab to stay independent. Of course that is risky and who am I to deny the founders a billion dollar windfall but I feel that such critical resources should not be acquired by the likes of Google, Amazon or Microsoft who already have much more power than they should have.
President of the fsf. Free as in speech.
seems to me like the janitor is sneaking in and banging the corpses
Getting the counterweight to orbit is not the hard part of building an earth space elevator. The hard part is the 36,000 km cable from the surface of the earth to geostationary orbit that can support its own weight against earth's gravity.

There are a few experimental materials like carbon nanotubes that have the right tensile strength to weight ratio, but we aren't anywhere close to making them in more than microscopic lengths.
Stallman's defence of Minsky wasn't in his capacity as the FSF President, and his resignation isn't the result of a thoughtful and considered process. This resignation is the result of a witch hunt.

The thing about accusations is that being accused of something doesn't mean the thing happened. There is a pretty plausible line of evidence that Minsky kept his hands to himself when confronted by a 17 year old on a private island. It is an excellent time to try and defend a dead friend when such doubts are present.

And as a particularly important point - there are no charges so horrible that people shouldn't be defended against them. That is one of the best principles we have in the Western intellectual tradition. "He's defending someone from something serious" is not a respectable counter; you should rethink your arguments.
> a lot of Google's public projects are posted on a Microsoft code hosting platform

Curious to know what that platform is.
The comparison of Gates to a mobster is unfair. We're comparing bundling a shitty internet browser with Windows to committing murder here.

Gates didn't take a life in building his fortune, but now he is saving lives. He is a net positive.
> [T]his proposal lacks the most compelling reason for building a space elevator: breaking the bonds of Earth's gravity well.

This proposal actually addresses exactly that problem. The dangly end of this thing down around GSO will not actually be in orbit at GSO. Rather, it will be hanging, stationary, at that point. In other words, you don't need to get 'into geostationary orbit.' Rather, you just need to lob yourself up so that your apoapsis is as high as GSO. Once there, you hook onto the little eye loop, or whatever fancier attachment system they devise, and wait to be pulled up to the Moon, more or less.

The key thing here is that you don't have to expend all the delta-v to get into GSO, but rather just enough to lob you to height. This, in itself, is a tremendous savings, given that you're shaving velocity off of a very large delta-v, where the penalties from the rocket equation are most severe. However, even if you only got a free ride from actual GSO to the Moon, it would still be an important savings.
> at least one source that claims that he turned her down

We're not debating what happened: as far as I know, Minsky is presumed innocent until any potential judgements are delivered. What RMS was debating was not whether Minsky has done anything wrong, but whether he has been accused of doing so.

Minsky was accused of having sex with a girl who was being coerced at the time. Even if one wants to split hairs about Epstein being some kind of enforcer figure of said coercion, I'm pretty surprised that people would somehow believe this would nullify Minsky's alleged act being considered sexual assault?

He may not have done it. He is still only "accused". But the act he is accused of is inarguably assault.
Why Fossils Are Mostly Male
> rms has had decades of inexcusable behavior

Then why attack him now and try to force him out of the organisation that he founded over something people misunderstood? They could just call to fire him over actual abusive behaviour instead.
What are your thoughts on the philosophy of Ghandi? A man who tested his devoutness by sleeping next to a 12 year old girl.
NBCUniversal names streaming service 'Peacock,' to launch in 2020
We switched to Zulip because of a bad experience with Slack holding our message history hostage. At the same time we switched to GitLab because we didn't want a similar issue to arise with our issue tracker.

It was non-trivial to get the issues out of GitHub, and we lost metadata in the process. But now we're on a platform that has an "Export Everything" button, and in the worst case we can self-host our own data.

Although that's why we moved, and we didn't know about it at the time, "Service Desk" became a killer feature. That lets users file issues directly into our GitLab issue tracker by sending an email -- no account setup necessary. The majority of our users are non-technical and this has made it much easier for them to communicate with us.
SpeedTorch: Library for Fastest Pinned CPU GPU Pytorch Transfer
Cybercriminals are pocketed whopping $1.2B from Email Frauds in 2018
This sounds similar to Atlassian’s Jira/Bitbucket integration without the jira.
What would you use to solve the system? Iterative methods or gradient descent even?
Ask HN: More Efficient Consolidation of Submissions
I'm really pleased to see some discussion of the "Lunar Space Elevator", also known as "Spaceline". Currently the discussion is top of the main page and going strong.

But it's not the first submission, and it's not the only discussion. In a comment I'll list the submissions of the same story, but it was also discussed[0] at length 11 days ago.

This is a huge waste of resources. Firstly, much of the discussion will be repeated, with some questions going unanswered in one discussion, and answered in full in another. Secondly, space on the "newest" page is a scarce resource, and having the same story many times over wastes that precious resource.

So I appeal to you, the HN community, to propose how we can make discussions more efficient, and save the space on the "newest" page. I'm sure the mods would welcome serious, implementable ideas for making HN better.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20895443
You're absolutely right. This article is geared toward people who are brand-new to programming, and in turn is geared toward people learning about programming through web development.
So basically metal prices can now get up to where they should be.
Google Code wasn't modern/competitive, seemingly had nobody working on it internally, didn't have a business model of any kind, etc.

Why launch a new messaging service after shuttering... like ten of them? Just because a company shuts down a product doesn't mean they'll never want to have a product in that category again. Especially a company known for regularly having multiple overlapping products.
Does Gitlab release user statistics? I am curious to know how many active users they have.
There has been a bit of pain aside from the flimsy monetary damages. To date Equifax had to manage numerous lawsuits from municipal, state and federal jurisdictions. They were investigated by FTC, SEC, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, UK Financial Conduct Authority, UK Information Commissioner’s Office (privacy regulator) and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. Equifax had to attend congressional hearings conducted by the House Financial Services Committee, the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Digital Commerce & Consumer Protection and the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Communications. The outcome aside from monetary penalties also should factor substantial reputation damages, costs of increased regulation at both the state and federal levels, CEO Richard Smith retirement, issuance of a public apology and the IRS suspended its contract with Equifax. Further lawsuits, hearings and regulation will continue to tax Equifax.
it depends on the co-working space. at a wework place i found everyone stuck in their little offices, and hardly any opportunity for interaction.

at another space i find people are more social. they organize events, coding workshops, even cooking classes, occasionally they cook meals. there is a fully stocked kitchen that everyone can use whenever they like. just pay for materials used. people often go out for meals together. etc...

when you are working, people will leave you alone, but if you know who else is there and what they do, you can talk to them and help each other. it helps that many are freelancers and not secretive startups hustling for investment money.
Netflix co-founder tells us why we’ll probably never see ads on Netflix
> There's a difference between holding diverging opinions, and defending someone who had sex with a sex trafficed minor, right? If we don't uphold at least that as a society, what are we?

Is your problem with the person who had the sex, or the person defending them? The former I agree is a huge problem, the latter seems highly dangerous and I very much disagree with you. It would be impossible to get any sort of due process or fair trial if even defending you makes you toxic, unemployable, and evil. What if you are innocent? Imagine trying to find a lawyer...

What about me? I'm not defending RMS' behavior, but I could see how someone would think I was. Do I deserve to be able to work? Do my kids deserve a home and food on the table?
> The optimal email structure:
- Greeting
- Opening
- Main body
- Call to action

That is 100% opposite of "BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful" that was featured on HN yesterday. BLUF is a military communications acronym—it stands for “bottom line up front”—that’s designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20964907
A bit of a difference here, Minsky was accused of having sex with a what he thought was a 17 year old prostitute. If you go to a brothel and things seem legit, how much are you going to question what's going on. That's like going to a restaurant and demanding to know if they've illegally hired staff before you sit down for dinner.
Lion Air Passenger Records Exposed and Exchanged on Forums
The Machine Learning Reproducibility Checklist [pdf]
Richard Stallman Resigns from CSAIL and FSF
It's worth mentioning that Stallman was appearing on Russia Today on a regular basis, usually to support the Russian narrative rather than to advocate the Free Software. If you are shilling for foreign oligarchs, expect the US disinformation machine to be used against you.
Is art necessarily about enjoyment? Should we not try to understand, if only to try an prevent it in the future?

I think theres a debate to be had over whether they should profit from those actions though.

Also keep in mind that Homosexuality was put in the same box as paedophilia and rape ( probably worse than rape). Social mores change, and are different from country to country. The girl involved was 17 as I understand it, which would be over the age of consent in my country.
It's a shame WeWork is run by such scummy characters, the concept itself has the potential to make people's commutes much more flexible and shorter.

When on-boarding a new employee, companies would be able to automatically provision them a desk/office at the closest WeWork to them. This allows companies to have access to a much bigger pool of talent, and allows employees to have access to a bigger pool of companies.

On top of that, the flexibility means commutes are much shorter, as co-working spaces can be efficiently distributed across a city and its suburbs. Even when an employee moves to a new company, they could theoretically stay at the same WeWork site, rather than have to deal with a new commute.
> Soyuz capsules aren't considered aircraft

While I suspect you're right, Soyuz capsules do use aerodynamic lift to control descent rate and steer to the landing site. In some ways they are very, very (very) inefficient gliders.
I actually went Haskell->F#->Clojure in terms of job progression, so I am ok with largely theoretical stuff.

The reason I ask is that Clojure is an easy-ish sell largely because there's a near guarantee that you will never be blocked due to lack of libraries, since you can mooch off of anything in the Java ecosystem (similar arguments can be made for F#). I hate Java, but it has been around a long time and is extremely popular, and as a result there is a library for virtually anything for it. As far as I know, there is no such guarantee for CL...unless I'm mistaken (which wouldn't surprise me).

When using it for work, did you ever get stuck because of a lack of libraries (e.g. JSON parsing, protobufs, socketing stuff, threadsafe collections)?
"bad roads act as filters... bad roads bring good people, good roads bring bad people".

-- Joseph Wood Krutch

http://www.escapist.com/baja/books.htm
If Amazon owns the truck, it's not the Uber of anything. They're truck drivers.
Yes he did:
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children." *

Stallman was driven out because of decades of abusive behavior and opinions. The most recent incident was just the final straw. Ignoring that historical context is rather disingenuous.

* https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun...
Not true at all. People who want to increase diversity debate freedom of speech and what makes for “diversity” all the time. If you’re not hearing it, maybe you need to listen more carefully.

In my experience people who say what you’ve said above actually don’t want debate: They’re frustrated that other people have made their choices and wish to either belabor the topic endlessly or filibuster and waste everyone’s time. You may have freedom of speech, but you do not have an enshrined right to be debated against. There are only so many hours in the day and people must get on with their lives.
Previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20994233 (Current, 100 comments and climbing)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20895443 (131 comments, 11 days ago)

Others, with only a few comments between them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20981902

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20977142

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20966194

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20962119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20959618

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20958501

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20950965

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20893820

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20824589
Terminal – develop Ethereum artifacts and infrastructure in a unified workspace
That sweet Helium 3 nuclear fusion :) .
Oh, wait, it would be just wasteful to use aneutronic fusion to smelt metals on the moon. You could probably sell the Helium 3 back on Earth and just use regular nuclear fusion to do that.
These women were sex trafficked.