skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations! Love chatwoot, and have been recommending it to others too.

If I may, what's your take on Cloudflare's upcoming DurableObjects for Workers [0] and the possibilities that entails for chat-applications like these?

> ...license fee of $99 per user per month for features like customisable dashboards, SLA Management, Agent scheduling software, IP blocklisting etc which are suited for large enterprises.

I see a lot of F/OSS YC startups (like PostHog, SuperTokens, QuestDB, OpsTrace, SigNoz etc) following the buyer-based open-core model that GitLab pioneered [1]. I wanted to know if there are there any other models other than GitLab's that YC recommends to its startups?

Also, curious why for-profit F/OSS startups would leave up a "sponsor" button on their GitHub. :D

> We started building Chatwoot as proprietary software in 2017, but the startup failed.

Tangential: Was this the startup that failed [2]? If so, it would be interesting to read your views on it since it looks like except the co-founder that blogged about the failure, the rest of the original founding team is back building chatwoot?

Off-topic: If you are okay, can you reveal if you've raised funds from Indian Angles (many particularly active in the SaaS scene [3]) and what has been your experience so far? And a set of recommendations, if any, for other Indian F/OSS SaaS upstarts? May be you should blog about it?

Thanks.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24616169

[1] https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/commercial-open-sourc...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24988380

[3] https://saasboomi.com/indian-saas-tribe/
MIT license. Easy to copy and host cheaper. Curious how long this will work before you change it.
Ha! That'd actually be a good performance :D
I saw mention of x.25 in the comments below.. Made me swoon... oh the memories.
With any password manager, encryption happens client-side. A malicious or compromised host could make off with your encrypted vault, but that would not by itself compromise passwords.
We are using Discord for managing our community. We have already thought about this. There was not enough requests to build the integration.

Anyway I have created an issue at the repo, so that this can be tracked. https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/issues/1941
You could always write your own password manager if you are that paranoid.
Nothing about formalised consent will prevent rape, and anyone who thinks otherwise has not spent any time thinking about the problem. If that can't be judged unfavorably, I'm not sure what can.
Hah, eschatologists is the perfect term to apply to most crypto evangelists from Satoshi onwards.
Congrats on the launch! It looks really cool. The UI reminded me of DelightChat [0]

[0] - https://www.delightchat.io/
Did the same with my N800 while driving in South Africa. The downloaded satellite maps showed the roads that were actually there, unlike those on the maps.. and that was very important, as it turned out. Very glad we had that N800.

(I had the N800 first, and got the N900 when it came out)
Agree - almost every week, new exploits were being discovered, even back in the 1990s!
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On a side note (haha)...

I tried to get my daughter to use these (single dad here), but no go. I guess the school where she was put it in their head that pads was the only way to go.

Sigh. I guess when she gets older and more independent she'll probably try it.
Depending on what you mean by "dumb down" Seagate have their Kinetic stuff presenting an object API which is could be viewed as simpler but arguably the drive is doing more.
No, other than the bytecode validation bugs, IIRC the security issues were mostly in the JVM's sandbox. It used a blacklist model in which each "dangerous" operation was supposed to call the security manager, which would check if the calling code had permission to do the operation; but there were often holes in these checks, usually chaining several innocent operations and making use of Java's powerful reflection, which allowed an applet to trick "trusted" code in the JVM into doing the supposedly forbidden operations.
The most fun I had with applets was the java4k gamescompetition that for a few years required the entries to be applets. At the time I thought there was something really cool about deploying a game on a static html page that anyone could click on and play. Of course actually getting the java plugin installed was usually the challenge.

Obviously the entire plugin api turned out to be a “bridge to far”; security was terrible, complexity and inter-op, and useability were all atrocious. Not just applets but flash and silver light as well
That just feels pedantic and gatekeeping. Adoption in this context has been used this way for as long as I can remember (20+ years) with every animal charity in the UK at least.
Where did you hear about this allegation and is it credible
I can guarantee that the rightwing press would run articles about it declaring it "unacceptable" if they found out.
I have posted an enhancement
https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues/103
But cannot attach labels :-(
Reddit is much larger than you think. It has over 52 million daily active users and 50+ billion monthly views.

https://www.redditinc.com/
My wild guess would be that they hold all data erasure encoded and run regular scrubs. So that any blocks with bit flips would be caught and corrected.
> "it’s fun to draw black people" - what is it an example for?

The author is oblivious to the fact that he can't think his way around his pangs of identity guilt. He doesn't realize the mere mention of black people isn't a taboo for most people.
Just a random thought. Are there any obstacles to running Java applets in a browser's WASM environment using API emulation and static recompilation?
There‘s no such thing as „free“. Everything is associated with a cost, it‘s just a question of who has to pay for it.
No, it's indeed the number of users in that subreddit alone. The daily threads there regularly amass 100k comments. Reddit has grown really quite large.
We know Preetam, they are a great team!
>I think it will continue to increase in value for while, as it continues to plumb the depths of “people who haven’t bought in yet”

How many people do you think owns Bitcoin? And how many people are there in the world?

>and eventually they’re going to run out of coins to mine

Perfect example of just how uninformed the crowd at hackernews really isn't. You haven't done zero research. If you actually looked it up, you'd know that the block-reward gets cut in half every four years. So "running out of coins to mine" won't be happening until the year 2140, and even then there's incentives for the miners to continue mining.
Water on a spaceship:

https://tinyurl.com/yj576flb
No phone support though? That’s why we have to use zendesk...
I run bitwarden_rs for exactly the reason you stated, for personal passwords.

It took a few seconds to add to my portainer (docker) server and now I host my vault and keep it safe within my LAN.
This is like saying that pollution is a recognized issue with fossil fuels and while it offers challenges they are understood and engineers are keen to address this.

There aren't always easy solutions and you can't hand wave aside a massive problem because 'our best people are on it'
Yup, clojure people have no love for jvm. It's a source of libraries, period.
You took away the wrong lesson from his post. But if you are autistic (I get a feeling you are, as so am I) , you should look for institutions who help autistic adults learn social skills. These are dependant on your location, and up for you to find, I'm afraid.
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Not all of CS. It really depends on the sub field. But I would say most papers in CS are written in Latex though.
what about the Uyghurs, or how the WHO is being stonewalled in their investigations into the origns of Covid-19, or how WHO refuses to name the novel coronavirus-19 strain after the place it was first discovered, due to pressure from China

is that all propoganda too?
Still using the hAP ac that I ordered 5 years ago and it works great.
After some time I needed more ports, so I added Mikrotik switch in the mix that gets powered by hAP ac PoE out port.
Great hardware and great software at low prices.
The tool lazydocker also will construct a pseudo dockerfile from the history. It's good enough that most of the time you can just copy it and get a working dockerfile out of it.

It's also super awesome in general.
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Focusing on quality is the only reliable way to improve quality. The use of quantity, in the "10,000 hours" or "2000 words a day, every day" style of formulation, is to provide ample opportunity for practice and improvement, but quantity alone never can suffice. With no focus on quality, all it gets you is the same work over and over.
> And yet if society is pushing a change in distribution of these products why not go with the environmental option that is also more economical?

Because the "environmental" option is difficult if not impossible sometimes:

1) not all vaginas are created equal. Finding the correct type and size of cups that fit can easily consume over a hundred € or more, and that's with Amazon shopping in a developed country. In a poor country with dysfunctional infrastructure? Good luck finding a cup in the first place and pray it somewhat fits. In the end, it's the classical "cheap shoe problem" - a poor person can't afford 100$ for a shoe that lasts 10 years and so has to spend 10$ a year on cheap shoes, while a rich person buys a decent shoe and doesn't have to worry for 10 years... the end result is, both spend the same amount of money, but the poor person has a poorer quality of life and causes more resource waste.

2) You need to clean reusable cups or panty liners. This requires access to clean boiling water and some sort of container to boil the product in - and I'd bet 99% of people aren't exactly fond of using containers they use to prepare food in for cleaning period products, especially in regions where women on their period are banished from the house / village.
For real. Dude just made an enormous amount of money and was catapulted into broad fame by it. This is the opposite of being cancelled.
I have the OWC TB dock that was just released (and has been backordered). It works great other than the headphone jack has a slight hiss that I don't get plugging directly into the MBA.
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Innovative, super fast and portable SSDs that prove cloud-storage is history
Since Clio compiles to JS, that speed up must be available in vanilla JS as well.

Is it the use of web workers that makes that twice as fast?
Think its interesting seeing how the algorithms and Twitter feedback loop have affected his work over time. Kinda went from eyecandy to the 3D equivalent of a low level political comics but 3D.

Although as someone working in the same sphere the "Everydays" idea has been quite a negative influence on the quality of work you see out there and the work has taken on a lot of similarities.
"convert nuclear fusion directly into food"
You mean like plants, fruits and vegetables do?
We have a enterprise edition in works. We will launch it soon. Whatever is MIT now, will stay as MIT.
Hey HN!

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What's wrong with unconstrained multitasking? I thought it worked well on the N900. I also think it works well on Android.
> He was an active communist back when communism was almost a religion

You mean, exactly like fascism? Pictures / visits to concentration camps had the effect on the nazis that the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia had on communists. Funny how neither the Holodomor nor the Chinese cultural revolution nor the Killing Fields moved the needle much.

He fought for his homeland, and later saw the errors of his ways. I can respect that.
Do you know exact source of that quote? Might be useful for my future paper around this area. Norman Abramson also had similar opinion.
EV frenzy over Volkswagen shares draws regulator's attention
Your cat won't even notice or care if you're gone
Email is easier and provides more features than a letter or fax in most cases. (With both still having some use in specific cases like personal messages or gov regulated messaging) NFT is harder and doesn't seem to provide any features over current donations. (It's actually worse due to unstable exchange rates and large fees)

Unless the vision provides benefits we did not have before I will continue to sneer at "the same thing but on blockchain" ideas.
Shortly after the "money printer go brrr" meme took off I guess.
This is quite possibly the most uptight, smug and creepily personal critique of a piece of art I've ever seen.

It goes so low as to try to paint Beeple as a racist because he had the cheek to... draw a black person?

Honestly, the art world is poison. What a horrible article.

Criticizes heavily his earliest works being included, which would be absolutely fine only the entire point of the artwork is something is created every day - yet this reviewer seems to insist on reviewing each individual work as if it had been a long term project in its own right.

I don't usually like to get personal, but I'm absolutely sure the person who wrote this is an insufferable snob.

btw, I'm not saying you cant say his art is bad, they just did it in an incredibly poor way.
What? No, it's a critique of the art. It points out that the images are unfunny satire, or earnest political right-on-itude, or just trying out photoshop filters.

Honestly, they could have just posted the images and that would have been condemnation enough. I mean, good for him for making money, but let's not pretend this is interesting art for anyone over fifteen.
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Well you can put the tweet up for sale or auction on eBay. Just like with NFTs, you wouldn’t actually be transferring the underlying asset, nor would the tweet actually be hosted within eBay (or an NFT chain) for some kind of archival purpose, nothing stops you from selling it again on Amazon or Craigslist or any other marketplace (or another NFT). If Amazon, EBay, or the company behind the NFT decides to close up shop, that’s it for your listing. Heck, just as with NFTs, you could put tweets you don’t even own in your listings, since you’re really just selling the listing with some media linked in it rather than transferring the media or the rights to it.

The problem of course is the word crypto doesn’t appear in any of the traditional platforms, so no hype/demand exists for your tweets there. Those users have also over time not only been trained to recognize scams, but are provided with a little bit of buyer protection if they end up buying something you couldn’t really sell them in the first place.
> What if the real value was paying poachers to not poach?

You wouldn't believe how many animals I haven't poached today. Where's my cheque?

Ultimately, you're describing Coasean bargaining (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem). However, in this case there's a real problem of demonstrating commitment (preventing a poacher from betraying the deal) and more critically in induced demand; if I pay you not to poach then your neighbour might decide to enter the now-vacant industry themselves.

For Coasean bargaining to work, you need a very well-defined and well-enforced set of property rights, such that if the "legitimate" poachers refrain then nobody else can take up the slack. Since poaching is illegal to start with, this set of rights does not really exist.
> and decent JVM sandbox shipped in every browser

Javascript deserves a lot of criticism but one thing it did right from the start was being lightweight enough for a browser

Java seems like it "weighed a ton" since its inception
What if the Twitter poster's headlines aren't propaganda? What if they are true? Would we then need to blame the CCP for this violence?

It seems to me anyway that the headlines aren't really propaganda. I think we really do need to confront China on its policies. It is however good to remember that random people of asian descent do not control the CCP so the issue of seemingly rising anti-asian violence does need to be hit head-on.
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So now a practical goal of social media is to not post enough pictures that allow training an accurate representation.

Anyone know that if Google/Apple/other private photo storers train on my private photos if they can sell the model to other facial recognition without my specific identity? I suppose a model could accurately identify a photo of prepend without actually saying that who prepend is. So that would allow the selling of data as “de-identified.”
I guess that is active power usage, but considering how much faster SSD's are compared to HDD's I doubt that scales with amount transferred (esp for random read/writes). So what would the power usage be when the total over active work time is counted?
Clio has automatic parallelisation. JavaScript does not.
So, that's an abstract single study from Malawi that is coming up for 10 years old and I don't personally have enough information to know whether Malawi is a good proxy for Kenya.

But to use this to dismiss Kenya's own statements is weak and "politicians aren't scientists and claim all sorts of things for a variety of reason" (aka, I don't believe it) isn't sufficient to make strong claims that there is no evidence
> I wouldn’t feel comfortable with RAID5/6 even on today’s ~10TB drives.

I fully agree with this part. De-clustered RAID really should have been mainstream a long time ago. Thankfully dRAID in OpenZFS will bring this to the "masses" in the sense of it being an open source implementation, whereas this has traditionally been a proprietary feature.

> The solution isn’t more parity disks, it’s to move away from that RAID set up entirely.

But I strongly disagree with RAID being the problem. Rather the increasing of capacity with bandwidth not really improving is the issue. Of course this is a inherent limitation of disk drives.
All sources I could find about that topic indicate the plan is to offer free menstrual products. Nowhere did it state anything about them having to be disposable.

It wouldn't matter anyway, because the environmental impact of giving away those products for free is exactly zero: Women won't start to menstruate more to get free tampons.
Thank you - I heard the 'if you add the costs of Visa / banking it evens out' and was not sure how to tackle it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina - 44 Million people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine - 41 M (handwaving around bits that got invaded etc)

So is the global population of the banking industry comparable to 41 M ?

UK employees: 1.1M
US Employees: 8.3M

So I went round a few houses and there is a lack of solid stats. But I think I can go with a decent indicator.

The USA has about 7.5 % of GDP (1.5tn) in Finance Services, and 6.3M employees (2018). Now translate that up to the global GDP of 87TRN, and say the global finance sector is as large globally as in USA (generous assumption) and that give 7.5 % of 87TRN - 6.5TRN. At 4.2M employees per Trillion that gives us 27 M global employees.

Now there can be lots of hand waving, but if bitcoin uses same amount of electricity as Argentina, and Argentina has
around 1.5 many people as the global finance sector, then bitcoins electrical use does seem very excessive.

https://www.selectusa.gov/financial-services-industry-united... -> 6.3 M employees, 1.5 Tn (USA), 7.5% of GDP

Bibliography:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/298370/uk-financial-sect....

https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag50.htm

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/030515/what-percent...

https://www.selectusa.gov/financial-services-industry-united... -> 6.3 M employees, 1.5 Tn (USA), 7.5% of GDP
Finland pins Parliament hack on Chinese hacking group APT31
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> BibTeX is outdated (use biblatex+biber), I hope Tectonic is not hardwired to it.
While I prefer biblatex and biber, some journals and conferences require BibTex.
Hard drives already present a fairly minimal abstraction over the underlying media. For most drives, it can't get any simpler unless the host system software wants to get bogged down with media and vendor-specific details about things like error correction.

For drives using Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR), the storage protocols have already been extended to present a zoned storage model, so that drives don't have to be responsible for the huge read-modify-write operations necessary to make SMR behave like a traditional block storage device. I suspect these Host-Managed SMR drives are not equipped with the larger caches found on consumer drive-managed SMR hard drives.
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The same could be said of every docker image on dockerhub, or any open source project on github, or any distro of linux.. I could keep going.

Unless you review the source code of everything you use, and compile it yourself, there’s always that risk.
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If your idea of traditional art is "bowls of fruit and historical figures", then I'd respectfully suggest that you may not be hugely in touch with art....
How about seniors living in long-term care to improve their living conditions as well?
You can find largely equivalent content and messaging in political comics sections of a daily newspaper. What norms is this work challenging?
How many more switches are expected? Can they not fashion their own coin?
We have had requests for phone support. At the moment, our primary focus is on text based messaging. We will get to the phone/video part in the future.

We want to make the software simple and easy to use. Setting up Asterisk and using it with Chatwoot was too much to handle. So we deferred that work for now. We will come back to it later.
Somethings have value in existence but not enough value to re-implement.
This is why companies enforce early morning hours so you cannot do this. It's literally physically impossible. And/or will ruin your social life since you will be sleeping when others are socializing.

Any bright ideas to apply when you have to run to work early?
I think they are still working through some external monitor driver issues. The colors on my LG 4k were initially way off until I did an advanced calibration. Occasionally waking up from sleep it will revert, but opening the Display preference and swapping between the calibrations fixes it. My connection is through usbc.

I don't have any performance issues waking up though.
Why have the New York Times when you can read the study yourself with all the scientific jargon included? I thought their purpose in covering science is to make it easier to understand for a layman. What is synchrony? Do you think an average person actually knows? I'm educated in the sciences and I'm not sure of what it really means.
One thing I don't understand is this notion that any startup can happen only in the valley,or if someone starts there, it's 100 times easier. The main benefit,which the US startups take for granted is the market size. You don't need to learn German, French ,or Spanish just to sell to your neighbors.
What the U.S. Missed with Google
Because a lot of the data could be sensitive do you sign baa’s for HIPAA?