skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>All software companies have R&D going on constantly.

I think the question is more like, "what is Squarespace innovating on that we're afraid of losing under new ownership?"
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Even used 20+ year old small pickup trucks like pre-2005 Tacomas have their prices jacked up through the stratosphere, which I find particularly disappointing because there are so few trucks that size anymore more. Modern Tacomas are “mid sized” for example, but even that’s too much for a lot of peoples’ needs.
Wikipedia:

>Ben... was an American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher.

Doesn't sound like the profile of your average alt-right rage poster.
Neat project! I basically wrote my own specific for one site, which is of pretty low quality... https://github.com/joshhunt/seven/blob/main/unpack-website.j...
>> This sunburn scare needs to go away already. Kids aren't getting skin cancer

It isn't about cancer. It is about modern standards of beauty. Sun ages skin. People learned to avoid the sun because of cancer, but they hide in the shade today to keep their skin looking youthful.
It brings to mind the story of how when Boris Yeltsin was visiting the US, he took an impromptu detour to a random American supermarket to try to catch them off guard, only to be blown away that Americans really did have supermarkets everywhere practically overflowing with food. The story goes that the experience played a big role in shaping his vision for Russia when he went on to become its first freely elected leader a few years later.

https://www.cato.org/blog/happy-yeltsin-supermarket-day

Or similarly there's the story of the Lykov family, who lived life cut off from humanity for 40 years but still somewhat understood what the new, moving "stars" in the night sky must be: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-rus...

Edit - Plus, this quote: “What amazed him most of all,” Peskov recorded, “was a transparent cellophane package. ‘Lord, what have they thought up—it is glass, but it crumples!’”
Why is that a better rule of thumb than, e.g. 5%/10%/15%/20%?
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These arguments seem like they'd apply equally well to googling for the documentation to a specific function and then using the answer from the preview snippet (or clicking the link, reading exactly what you need, and then closing the tab without reading any further). I'm not saying that means they're wrong, but it's hard not to feel like it would be hyperbole to call that "rigging your foundations with explosives".
> Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time

Hopefully, that's a name that will stay buried in the 20th century.

"Was the NE2000 really that bad?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26755293)
https://www.squarespace.com/refresh

It's not like they've been sitting on their hands
This makes the Google registrar change even worse. I need to get my act together and transfer my .dev domain. :/
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What is the source for the $2B figure?

The most recent SEC filing shows the founder owns 2.8M class A shares, and there are 88M shares of class A shares outstanding and 48M shares of class B shares outstanding.

I do not see why they would pocket 28% of the sale price.

https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001496963/5ba2ffc...

https://investors.squarespace.com/news-events-financials/inv...
Oops. The real map does zip code so I assumed that it would work there.
Software people massively over-classify their work as "R&D" when most of it is basically the equivalent of tuning or plumbing. R&D involves at least a little bit of the "R" part, which usually means some risk that the work is worthless. If you are just doing the development part, which is what you are doing when you ask the question "how do I push this metric?", private equity is usually happy to fund that.

I generally wouldn't classify those (except for maybe the last one if you are developing fundamentally new user interfaces) as actually being R&D.

I also know that the IRS classifies software development as R&D, but we all know those are not the same thing in reality.
Maybe it doesn’t affect your personal gardening habits - but in terms of effect on commercial agriculture I think of the effects there too. More work for farmers to figure out yield optimization (new schedules, changed techniques), more work from pests moving into new areas that were formerly blocked by seasonal cold. It’s a driver of increased cost pressure on foods you will want to buy.
Yes, it was. You can still read the sources for most of it if you know how to unpack them.
>another 200 years in the future

Tea, earl grey, hot.
Yes, it's discouraging that HNers aren't resilient enough to handle differing opinions. I hope it's a vocal minority and not truly representative of the userbase.
no, it's like a saas.
> More than anything else, I think the modern American super market would blow the minds of anyone born before 1900 more than any other marvel that exists.

Modern American supermarket would blow the minds of anyone from the Warsaw Pact countries ;), up until probably mid 1990's.
> Even assuming a lack of malicious intent, what's stopping NSA from hacking into Signal's infrastructure and logging who's talking to who along with timestamps?

Sealed Sender, the second link in the comment you've replied to. The indicator is off by default, but you can enable it under Settings → Privacy → Advanced. If I remember correctly, it doesn't work for the very first message you exchange with someone, but then it turns on and remains on.

In layman terms, it turns "from A; to B; content: <encrypted>" into "to B; content: <encrypted>". Their infrastructure doesn't need to know the "from" part to serve its purpose, so they strip it away.

If it was the other way around, they'd have to give that info to the (US) court. Same as any other US-based business, it's not optional, they can't ignore such requests, they can't lie, otherwise they'd be placing themselves in legal troubles for a random nobody that happens to be using their product. So, when I see this page, I fully believe them: https://signal.org/bigbrother/. If I didn't, my first step would be to look up those court cases from alternate sources.
Even if you tax all datacentres you'll leave 96% of emissions untaxed. All emissions need to be taxed if you want to have a real chance against climate change.
For lots of uses not having file-based dependency mechanism is a benefit, not a con. Sometimes less is more
Colleges have rules against camping out overnight on their campuses, and those rules exist for the safety of would-be campers and other members of the university community. If a school enforces anti-camping rules for some groups and not others, it is taking sides, and at a public university, it may be violating the 1st Amendment.
Becuase it is the one that the system has evolved to consider the rule of thumb. The equilibrium appears to be 30% above asking and, and least local to our time period, appears to be stable.
I'll make it even more general. Any chronic inflammation leads to insulin resistance. It's just that with modern western diets, oral inflammation is the one that is almost universal.
The tax cuts passed during the Trump admin have funneled a lot more money to people who were already rich.
In the far majority of cases, people are behaving commonly, including common parent behavior. However, significant amounts of minorities exist in this state. Just because a demographic is a minority doesn't mean its considerate to behave as if the demographic doesn't exist at all.

Some people are genuinely having children for completely malicious reasons, like using a child as a tool to trap a domestic abuse victim, for which no gratitude is warranted or reasonable. And I daresay telling those children "you are who you are because of them" is horrifying and cruel.
This is moreso a problem with government/not-for-profit budgetary processes and capex vs opex.

With government funding, it's use-it-or-lose-it. I.e. state legislature will definitely allocate it to something else next year, if they come in under-budget in a year.

Add on top of that that state schools have the NASA problem: they're effectively performing (to state legislature and donors) for their dinner. And big, splashy buildings (with dedication names!) impress both. And attract picky faculty and students.

With not-for-profit, facilities are one of the few allowed places you can dump excess cash.

I floated in another comment that government grant/loan programs should impose an ACA-style admin vs teaching cost cap on institutions for participation. Maybe for capex too?
In term's of crisis, life doesn't care about about averages.
> If you're finding it repetitive and formulaic, take that opportunity to identify the next refactoring.

It doesn't really matter how many helper functions you extract from your test code, in the end you have to string them together and then make assertions, and that part will always be repetitive and formulaic. If you've extracted a lot of shared code, then it might look something like "do this high-level business thing and then check that this other high-level business thing is true". But that is still going to need to be written a dozen times to cover all the test cases, and you're still going to want test names that match the test content.

There's a certain amount of repetition and formulaism that will never go away and that copilot is very good at.
BBN got a lot of the initial work, as well as built the initial infrastructure including routers.

BSD got a contract to port TCP/IP to Unix because DoD found themselves facing that the main system they worked with TCP/IP on was discontinued.

Thus a grant to port the stack to Unix and make it available as wide as possible.
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The MIT/LMI/TI Lisp Machines were not, they ran a simple RTOS written in "assembler" that checked for interrupts from devices and woke up Lisp threads to handle the event. The assembler code also interpreted the instruction set of the VM.

Someone could write a modern lisp that sat on top of a Xen unikernel that would work in a similar way, the compiler could generate native instructions though.

I think you would need to examine the Symbolics microcode carefully to categorize what it was doing.
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> At least in a very specific context - C programming and working on some small subset of llvm internals. I am not very experienced C or C++ programmer, nor I know anything about LLVM API.

I'm not sure what you're working on, but as someone dependent on LLVM-based tools, reading this is kind of terrifying. I'm sure your intentions are good, but I hope you're at least making it clear that you're heavily reliant on the output of Copilot when making contributions to something. C and C++ in particular are not the kind of language where someone inexperienced can be trusted to review.

> Yes, the code it generates come out often incorrect, but even my low level expertise allows me to spot issues.

Can you give an example of some issues? C and C++ are compiled, so there will be obvious compilation errors, but there are also a lot of "foot guns" that are not obvious and will bite you at runtime.
Half of 1/14 is 1/7, not 2/7
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based on what I've seen of CEOs, i wouldn't be so sure of that
Agreed, I think Fuller liked being an idea man, and wasn’t interested in the engineering iteration that is necessary to bring something truly new to market.

Maybe most people aren’t interested in that kind of work? It’s a long slog of working through the problems, and it can seem like a series of failures before you get close to a good product.
What evidence do you have that the new owners are interested in making Squarespace profitable or sustainable? PE firms are the "selling the car for scrap" of business acquisitions.
Calendar scheduling works well for certain personalities.
I personally hate it and it works horribly for me.

But for a long time it was the only answer I was aware of and articles like these that pass the methodology off without mentioning other possible ones only reinforced the incorrect ideas that this was THE way.

Many people prefer to do lists, because that is priority rather than time based.

Also, calendaring everything is such future-self-micromanaging that I feel it, for me, to be deeply disconnecting.

I prefer to stack my priorities and work at whatever is most important.

It is more effective than strictly efficient tho of course it's both.

I do think productivity writers need a better sense of others, often.
What part of a website builder and template engine is fundamentally new and uncertain?

Squarespace certainly does a lot of development, but "R&D" (especially when it comes to things that PE firms will cut) usually means completely new stuff with significant uncertainty in terms of revenue impact.

If Squarespace, for example, had been a significant contributor to HTML standards to make website rendering easier, I would be unhappy about a loss of R&D.
It’s a “control premium”. The way the theory explains it is that you are making an offer to acquire control of the company, so you pay a control premium above what others are willing to pay on normal transactions in the market.
In practice, how big of premium the acquirer pays is influenced by considerations specific to the history of the company, the shareholder base, its share price history, etc.
…but theory and practice do link together, and you can trace the historical trend of control premia paid have changed over time, or even how they change from country to country.
so what was the point of all those SEC hearings and investigations in 2021 if nothing changed? Just a big waste of taxpayer money and time i guess?
Benjamin Franklin: "So you're telling me there are hot single women in my area that are looking to date?"
I think the point is this, most people in this world can not and will not ever be able to afford a grand piano, however, they can afford an iPhone or iPad which lets them write, create, produce music.
And probably spent more energy transporting and burying that oil than you would have simply burning it or using it... Its insanity how people do not understand the basic principle that any work requires energy. Its why plastic recycling does so poorly, it often more efficient to make new plastic or burn it, than to reprocess it.
Senior engineers are the new mid-level, or you graduate to management. Maybe YOUNG "senior engineers" seem to have the power, the Sr. Engineers pushing 50 and 60 need to prove their worth against younger and cheaper work, domestic or offshore/remote.
Of course. But the history of the Signal protocol and implementation traces back 20 years. It's good enough that Facebook, WhatsApp, and Skype use it for E2EE messages. Telegram's traces back 10 years, the first version was very bad, and both versions have had a lot of scrutiny for weird design decisions.

Crypto schemes which get broken usually follow a pattern of "something smells wrong", "we have weakened it a little bit", "we have weakened it a little bit more", "this is now completely broken", "my god why are you still using MD5, it's 2017".

We're in the "something smells wrong" or "we have weakened it a little bit" phase for MTProto2, depending on how you view it.
I don't see how I can start an E2EE chat from my PC. If a feature only ever exists on phone it does not exist.

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/871
thought this was about https://temporal.io
Computers. Franklin had none of them and if he'd see ours, he'd had is mind blown.
Save it in the usual text-based formats, like a CSV or JSON. Outside of packages, which use serialized data by default for good reasons, I haven't seen many people loading strangers' RDS or RData files.

If an attacker can control a package's rdb and rdx files, it's game over. They could just stick an `.onAttach` function in that does whatever they want when the package is loaded directly or imported by another package.
Rust was started in 2006, it had already undergone 9 years of development by 2015. in fact, it reached stability in 2015.

According to Mojo's changelog, it was started in September 2022, which makes it less than 2 years old in active development... but even then, it'll look a lot like its final form by year's end.
The website linked is a news article, not a map.
> they had conflicting data from them.

Very likely. Normally we can assume that if the base station is not where we think it is the base station didn't move and so therefore that is how far off the current GPS signals are and so we can tell the tractor to correct by the same amount. However if the tractor and base station are receiving different answers we have no way to detect that.

> GPS accuracy issues are solved in trillions of devices around the world.

They are IGNORED in trillions of devices around the world, not solved. Normal GPS is at best to within a few meters. Most of the time that is good enough - if you are within 10 meters of where you want to be most people can look up and see the door and get there. (the blind would have trouble). If you are trying to guide something to within 2 cm GPS is only solved if you can make some assumptions that normally hold by didn't. This isn't a bug - at least not until someone can explain how we can fix it.

I work for John Deere, but do not speak for the company. I do not work in the GPS area, I've talked to a few of those engineers but I don't have any more knowledge that is public.
You mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651
If you did, the US government didn't buy those, but Iraq did.
I think people are getting hung up on "mediocre" and "success" here.

Author argues for trying to be objective about the viability of business ventures here. It's easy to tell yourself lies that doing just one thing a little better on the execution front will magically triple your conversion rate.
People try it at home for their hobby projects, then convince their employer to pay for it at the office. It reduces the cost of trying and adopting the product, and the need to pay only comes once you're familiar with the product and invested in it.

Free users also have lower expectations. Low-paying users might not be worth the hassle. If you sell candy by the hundreds of kilograms it's better to give free samples than to sell little bags.
When I'm taking a picture of a receipt or sticker behind a machine, I don't actually want a literal photograph of the entire scene but just a reproduction of the text content.

Any environmental lighting, color and texture of the desk, and all other visual detail are only a distraction.

So if the camera would recognize this intent and just give me the receipt looking like it came from a scanner, that would in fact be a great improvement. So I think your example is in fact a point in favor of having AI meddle with most photos that people shoot.
The Haber–Bosch process also played a major role there. It was around 100 years ago that cheap nitrogen fertilizer manufactured from fossil fuels started to become widely available. That greatly reduced starvation, at least in countries with functional governments.
It is a bit more than a technicality. If we start from the position that our perceptions are accurate something interesting happens.

1) If we start by assuming our perceptions are accurate; we can reasonably conclude that we are a product of evolutionary forces.

2) Those evolutionary forces mean our perceptions are subject to the anthropic principle - ie, heavily biased away from truth and towards things that cause conscious patterns to reoccur and reproduce.

3) Therefore there is strong reason to believe our perceptions aren't accurate reflections of the state of the world, because if we are in a universe where accurate perception of reality means we won't bother to reproduce or wouldn't see ourselves as conscious, we are likely be unable to perceive those aspects of it.

So I'm quite happy to contend that our perceptions are probably critically flawed, because they are heavily biased towards making us believe things about ego, self, in- and out-groups, etc that are probably inconsistent with accurately perceiving reality. Under that lens, perceiving time itself jumps out as something that might be an evolutionary adaption rather than the true state of things.

Those baseline assumptions that allow the conversation to happen are therefore probably wrong. Although, humorously, that does mean there isn't much point discussing the topic unless you just like playing around with nonsense.

Long and the short of it; we can't escape what is "obviously true" to us. Although I don't think you were challenging that part of the conversation.
Private equity will only own about 20% of the company, only 20% of the stock was public to begin with. Why is everyone singing songs of doom and gloom?