skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previously at EI2030, we were using Discord, and it wasn't easy to find and keep track of information as we were growing. We've transitioned to Zulip and couldn't be happier.

The article from monadical describes it best: "...[Zulip] creates an organized repository of knowledge as a side effect"

Thank you to the Zulip team!

https://monadical.com/posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two...

https://ei2030.zulipchat.com/
Very nice. Is there a built-in way to enable post comments?
I love how the leopard looks over its shoulder with a look that I anthropomorphized as an incredulous gaze, similar to the one my cat gives as my border collie runs around the house. "Can you believe this?"
Previous attempts at mRNA vaccines had failed, due to the side effects being too serious. There was no reason to believe in May 2020 that a COVID mRNA vaccine would be any different than all the previous mRNA failures.
Or maybe privately Elon and related made buys and sells before, during and after these news events. Something like:

1. Buy BTC
2. Announce Tesla will accept BTC.
3. Sell BTC.
4. Announce Tesla will no longer accept BTC.
I think the idea is that when the satellite exceeds its lifetime and is put into an orbit that leads it back to earth the resulting fire on reentry totally destroys the craft. As opposed to having to warn people of space debris coming down into their area.
Do you agree that this applies to the market cap of everything?

Because the argument is stated in terms of crypto but is in fact completely generic: no one can buy all of AMZN at the market cap price either.
Fixed, as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27149141!
Presumably, given a particular date in the future, telling you what day of the week it would be. However, there's also a method you can learn to help you accomplish the same thing, without the need for committing a great deal of facts to memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule.
Some of the fake ones are hilarious:

The chicken genome (the genome of a chicken that is the subject of much chicken-related activity) is now compared to its chicken chicken-to-pecking age: from a genome sequence of chicken egg, only approximately 70% of the chicken genome sequences match the chicken egg genome, which suggests that the chicken may have beenancreatic.

(Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk )
They say theres an albertsons a mile away. I guarantee they have fresh veggies and they can easily walk there.
Any dirt outside is going to be contaminated with animal droppings. It's where animals go #2.
Love Fly. Been using it for about a year now? We host Draftbit in a bunch of regions. The community is growing and they know their shit.
It is illegal to "pump and dump" a security.

I have a hard time believing the people here defending Musk dont know this, and can't see how his behaviour _migbt_ qualify as a pump and dump.
Store of value, lol

Who has ever stopped accepting gold or silver?
The YouTube show How to Make Everything. Did this. They started the tech tree from the very beginning by making simple hand stone tools and then building up tool by tool to more sophisticated technologies.

If all you have is a hand. Even getting the wood to make a handle for your axe is hard.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLXfVEsLI-qRC_MAQZcVxpjtF...
They have very little power.

All they can do is refuse to work. Anyone can do that. They cannot force any new changes on you. Proven in forkwars with billions at stake.

PoS have not yet had such a test.
Sort of off topic, but does anyone know why Dropbox acquired Zulip and preceded to do nothing with it?
That's wonderful! A significant step toward fully automated luxury gay space communism! Thank you!
Those are all forms or uses of power. Where English uses one word, "power," the French use two, puissance and pouvoir, referring to "strength/energy" and "influence/control" respectively (and very roughly translated).
Russia and the USSR have already been working on such fuels, which are due to be used on the Zircon hypersonic missiles.

In order to achieve the same goals while avoiding the safety issues of boron fuels, the Decilin-M fuel for the Zircon missile is thought to use engineered hydrocarbons (the exact composition is unknown) with polyethylene to thicken the solution with aluminium nanoparticle added.
if its possible, theyll do it
Out of curiosity, why 'never again'?

If your concern is that your genetic information is no longer entirely private, wouldn't continuing to act as a donor cause no /further/ harm? (They aren't getting anything they don't already have I guess.)
Okay, but in a way that doesn't really affect whether the attack has positive/negative effects.

The situation of not being able to tell is pretty good.
I think once Zulip gets a "guest mode", it will be a huge boon in its adoption for OSS communities. I love Zulip!
"Works on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OpenBSD."

But notably missing: iOS.
Sounds like perseverance is settling in to start focusing on the important (but really boring) tasks of its mission. The rocks sound interesting and hopefully they’re the first of many! Can’t wait to follow it as it discovers more cool things about Mars.
Research: Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes on Social Media
Facebook may be big, but they won't be forever. IBM, Microsoft, AOL.
never even heard of that kind of bonus. it sounds like it's designed to work exactly this way.
> For now, this is where I'm drawing my definition (that I use in this thread) of what DDD is, and what makes me think ORMs are indeed DDD

That doesn’t mention ORMs at all, and I’m not sure what in that source gave you the idea. ORM had no fundamental connection to DDD; an ORM could be used in the implementation of Repositories, but there is no strong link between the ideas.
Yea--it's gotten out of hand. Hedge funds are being chastised for not getting in early enough. Crazy?

Why do I feel like lobbyists right now trying to kybash to any politician who even mentions regulations?

I heard one financial talking head say today that he's buying gold. If worse cone to worse at least he can make some jewelry.

I'm all for bitcoin, but wasting energy throughout the world seems wrong. And man's quest to make money knows no boundaries.
Climatists must be extatic now that fewer people can take advantage of affordable diesel-powered transportation!
And as for completely offensive weapons controlled by humans?

Your metric seems arbitrary. Why (only) two dimensions?
It seems to be an acquihire and they didn't care for the product. This happens fairly often in general.

Glad they at least got to opensource it instead of just killing it.
I think ransomware gangs will be emboldened and more will go after bigger targets. I also think ransom demands will grow and insurance premiums will continue to grow as well. I'm hoping there is some attainable point where it makes financial sense to practice good security.
Of course they are. Somehow there’s always just a few trolls that social media gives an outsized impact on our daily discussions. This happened in 2015-16 when Facebook let fake news ops make crazy money and that was often just couples pumping out crazy content for clicks.
There has been not much value in the Data Science/Machine Learning capabilities in my company. The real value is that those people basically learn Data Engineering as a side effect and deliver much faster/prettier reporting.
Machine learning is a hammer and there are just not very many nails. However there are a lot of screws that we wish were nails. Or we pretend they are nails.
> it has a ton of features and a very large scope, which gives it a large surface area for potential mistakes, by either library authors or users of those libraries

I mean that could apply to so many things — PKI, Windows permissions, and countless other things. It definitely strikes a chord with me.
On the contrary. It's not that he's not bright, it's that is is a brilliant conman.

Re self-driving: Tesla's boom in the past ~1.5 years coincided with his laughable claims about self-driving and robo-taxis.

And re bitcoin: the guy literally tweeted two words "buy doge" and sparked a pump-and-dump bubble. Then he went on SNL, didn't plug doge enough, and it tanked instantly. Then a couple hours ago he tweeted more doge stuff and it started rallying again.

Crazy stuff.
If a GTM container loads on a page but is not configured to fire any tags on that page, then the only request that will be made to Google servers is the one that loads the (empty) Container. While this request might end up in a logfile, the "interesting" data is limited. In particular, GTM is served from a different domain than any other Google properties so even third-party cookies couldn't be used to tie the request to your identity.

Not sure about OSS alternatives. I know of a few competitors (Adobe Launch, Ensighten, Tealium), but they're all commercial. I don't expect there's a large market, the key value proposition of tag management platforms is cutting down coordination overhead between the marketing and IT teams, and self-hosting is the opposite of that. However the trend towards first-party tracking may open a market for it.
We build enterprise-grade applications in Go 1.x. There's no trick. You just type a lot.
Efficient Deep Learning – MLConf 2021
Somebody probably just ordered some highly radioactive isotopes from Advanced Space Civilization Amazon, and told them to leave it at the doorstep.

Either that, or the dolphins are done putting up with our shit.
After testing for a while, moved to commercial Resilio Sync (they offer one-time payment lifetime licenses for personal/family use).

More tightly integrated, much faster, lighter and polished app overall, has good iOS client.
Was all downhill ever since that beheading
I have heard a few people complain about the UI but I like it, and it seems comparable to other chat apps. What about Slack/Discord is better? Genuinely trying to understand.

As for UX, I think Zulip has a strong advantage w/r/t the threading model, which you seem to be saying as well.
You literally make this tradeoff each time you have a meal — what?
I've been using syncthing for more than 3 years, and it's been just amazing. It replaced dropbox for me completely, and provides a better experience in all aspects - speed, stability, low power usage on mobile.

One of the few projects I'm sponsoring on Github.
> and in the 2000s there were many people who thought modern civilization must inevitably grind to a halt as we deplete oil because oil is absolutely irreplaceable for modern transport

Lol, what an exaggeration. I don't think anyone argued seriously that we would have to stop using cars at all. The conversation was always about renewable energy.
Very impressive! Looks like the key triumph is making it so stable in variable conditions. I liked how they compared other algorithms
I love syncthing, but one thing which I think it does not quite do right is - on my Windows desktop each time desktop is resumed from sleep or reboot, it performs full sync by scanning everything. It takes all the CPU for awhile until syncthing settles down. I am not sure if this problem is Windows specific though.
Powering the Python Package Index in 2021
They also named their whole platform "Observable", as in, extends java.util.Observable, and the equivalent in any other popular OO language. To disambiguate I normally call it "ObservableHQ", which is their domain name; I don't know what to do to disambiguate "Dataflow". "Asg017dataflow"? "Garcia Dataflow"? "Observable Dataflow"? "Issue 9 Dataflow"?

Still, much more significant is the fact that it seems to be such terrific software that this is a discussion worth having, because it's going to be very influential.
>Who the hell says you gotta structure your revenue in order to MAXIMIZE your taxes?

I don't think it's about rules ("gotta"), it's about ethics. I wouldn't say that maximizing taxes is anything, but the desire to minimize taxes is definitely anti-social.
continuing the unfortunate trend of the public spending to protect private profit.
pitch: 'buzz tracker for data transforms.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeskola_Buzz

(which is admittedly a terrible pitch, unless you're trying to hook an old demo scenester...)
Head of AOS commits to ‘changing exclusionary or harmful bird names’
I feel like a lower res screen at this size would be justified to stretch that battery life out a little longer
There’s one really important aspect of starship control that this article mentions... starship control is stochastic. Spacex needs to minimize the area of an ellipse that represents the likely touchdown area of the craft. To do this they use another trick... they continuously recompute the optimal trajectory, in real time. Lars Blackmore has a paper on the process!
BoltBus operates cross-border routes starting and ending in Vancouver, but I don't think they offer domestic travel in Canada.
It was reported just over a day ago that they had decided not to pay. I wonder what changed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/12/gas-short...
On the one hand I want to agree, having to trust that a company will Definitely For Sure pay you more once you've earned it is a really hard pill to swallow.

But on the other hand, it does seem off for so much of your compensation to be based on how well you perform in a five hour interview or how well negotiate it as opposed to your actual work.
Interesting. Threads in MS Teams utterly don't get used, they require significant self discipline to use properly (and yet they get more love from the devs than chat, somebody at MS is misguided in how the thing actually gets used).
I have heard complaints where I work that less-technical foks find the UI unpleasant/confusing. I think it is due to a combination of the keyboard shortcuts being front-and-center and the threading model seeming "complex" (really, just logically structured)

I'm not sure there is a strong/good argument against it, though. e.g. word processors are "more complex" than text files for sure, but people have learned the benefits of those.

I think the education / user-onboarding flow could be improved perhaps.
Are you implying it could be attacked? Isn't decentralization in general, maybe not in case of BTC, a key factor that would put it into a societal hive-mind and out of physical realms of army's influence?
Tesla owner who “drives” from back seat got arrested, then did it again
Please do not attempt to rewrite history. The electric vehicle has a long and storied history, and the modern revival was well underway in the 90s and 00s. Tesla Roadster was the first (I think?) highway-legal EV.
This isn’t new nor is it very surprising. Remember how last year a lot of famous Twitter accounts were getting hacked and spamming a message just like this about doubling Bitcoin? Those used Elon musks name and this is literally a repeat of that scam all over again. Anyone could google it and figure it out but a fool and their money are soon parted
COVID could have started to go away in May 2020 with extremely aggressive lockdown and quarantine measures. In fact, where I live, it did - we reached 0 active cases for the first time almost exactly a year ago today, and have only had any cases in the community for a grand total of about two weeks since.

Musk opposed those measures though, which makes his level of expertise on the matter somewhat more dubious.
Launch open source Keyboard by System76
Looks good but how does it compare to matrix/element?
Could a Ban on Ransom Payments Have Stopped the Colonial Pipeline Attack?
I do the opposite, protecting my personal email by using it for nothing but emails to friends, family, and another for signing up for stuff. And I have a sort of semi throwaway address for misc newsletters and possibly annoying stuff such as marketing automation hell.

For services and what not I know and trust I go with a regular alias with my domain for this purpose. And I have service specific aliases such as foo@example,com so I can delete the alias if necessary which is rare.

Then there the quick thing that you can do with any address for separation of concerns with foo+bar@example.com so if your email address is foo@example.com, just make a quick and dirty instant alias by signing up with, say, foo+bar@gmail.com.
17% of humans, disregarding the name, live in India. I'm sure the percentage of people with Indian names that live in India is larger.
There aren't enough hills in the place where that happened.
I can’t speak to decision making, but I can add one viewpoint.

My understanding is that Zulip was called Chime internally.

Management pushed teams to use the tool, and it was tried but the interface was not polished.

Slack was already out and despite how it is seen today, slack far more appealing.

Slack’s interface, single sign-on and mobile app availability made it hard for Chime to compete.
Some roomba types also use kalman filters (or similar) to help map out a room. Honestly I’d be surprised if ml gave you anything valuable above some already well known algorithms in this space other than a marketing bullet point.
This difference is that in PoS, if anyone ever holds more than ⅓ of the total supply (as is the case with Ethereum's founders currently holding 65% of the overall issuance, for example), they can indefinitely control the chain through their re-org capability.
Is that because the ML models aren’t useful or because of integration problems?
I doubt companies care about anything besides profit and that they could care less about gas hoarders. Also, this was just a little taste of havoc that could be done to the economy and society. I'm hoping they lost enough money to knock some sense into them to practice better security and hopefully it makes others think twice about practicing sloppy security. I'm also guessing in the wake of this that ransom attacks will increase in frequency, ransom demands will increase in value, and insurance premiums will increase as well and insurance providers may be forced to do better due diligence about policies that they sell to large corporations to ensure that they don't practice sloppy security. I'm hoping there is some tipping point where it makes financial sense for these large corporations to practice better security. Right now, they gamble that they won't be attacked and so don't invest in security and for the most part they have been rewarded.
Can you share an example of this approach? Because "writing CRUD structs and junk" is what my whole company does all day. Wire representation, controller layer, database layer, storage representation. Typing out the big list of fields over and over with slight variations. Unit testing the mappers between them. Table-driven testing all the error branches in lists of sequential operations. Nobody ever wants to abstract the notion of data because "it's not type safe." I'd love to see a credible take on it, besides "shove everything in map[string]interface{}." It seems everything in Go's design is against this kind of abstraction.
Some past threads:

Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860338 - July 2020 (133 comments)

Zulip 2.1: open-source team chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21779717 - Dec 2019 (1 comment)

Zulip 2.0: Open source team chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19284321 - March 2019 (96 comments)

Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much more - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18400988 - Nov 2018 (123 comments)

Zulip – Open-source, threading-based Slack alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17622987 - July 2018 (99 comments)

Slack channels are a waste of time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17622707 - July 2018 (49 comments)

Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16863675 - April 2018 (148 comments)

Zulip Server 1.6 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14506426 - June 2017 (14 comments)

Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279961 - Sept 2015 (313 comments)

Dropbox Acquires Zulip, A Stealthy Workplace Chat Solution Still In Private Beta - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7419408 - March 2014 (14 comments)
Matthew Salloway on venture capital, technology startups and investing
It is for syncing files, not transferring or serving them. I don’t think it’s really possible to make an iOS app for Syncthing. It’s not like there’s a Dropbox client for iOS that does actual folder sync.

If you are looking to fully replace Dropbox, you need a server to serve files off of that you can access from the Internet. You could do this using a NAS running Syncthing for example. (There’s at least a couple different ways to get it working on a Synology NAS.) That way, you could have a CIFS or WebDAV share to actually browse from mobile devices.
That’s how it operated a decade ago but they currently use computer vision to map your house and navigate the world
New roombas and clones map your house with lidar and let you clean exact zones using a map from an app.
Are you saying that they use kerosene fuel in place of hydraulic fluid? If so, wow, you just blew my mind. Would that be to save on weight?
I've never had an iOS device, but does it even have a concept of a 'file system' exposed to the user? Presumably if the app existed, you could only view the files inside the 'syncthing' app, but other apps won't be able to read its data?
Also

Backblaze Privacy Update: Third-Party Tracking - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26550506 - March 2021 (69 comments)
All it takes is disabling the bottom new thread creation box and replacing it with a button. That's what work did and it's so easily enforced on the creation of new threads.
The scale of time in fields like astrophysics and geology never ceases to amaze me. When I saw freshly made, I thought it was recently created. Turns out it dropped on earth some time in the last 10 million years.
and some of those nails don’t need to be hammered!
My understanding is that Megabus has a Montreal/Toronto route.
No, those are just weasel words. It’s setting an example by doing what you’re saying others should be doing.

It’s why we have the phrase “put your money where you mouth is”.

And it’s not a donation. It’s intentionally paying more taxes because that what you think you should be doing. If the law changed he’d be paying the extra money anyways.
Yikes. No nationalistic flamebait on HN, please! It leads to nationalistic flamewars, which are a repetitive drag.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27149073.
Because there are considerably more jobs outside of FAANG then within it.
This is making a distinction where none actually exists. The taking of notes involves both quotation and paraphrase.
No, they just reinterpreted their policies to achieve the desired outcome (ie, permaban of said politician). It's amazing how flexible their policies are depending on who the subject is.