skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When this new map was first released, it was very amusing watching people in gardening Facebook groups start planning to grow plants that have died whenever they tried in the past. Just because the government gave them a new number, they think it suddenly changed the reality on the ground.

I grow 25+ kinds of fruit and I’d love to add more. But the reality is that fruits like figs and muscadines still die every winter where I am at.
I've been procrastinating transferring my domains after Google sold them to squarespace. Now they're getting sold again... Are domains the new junk loans?
Show HN: Online Icebreakers to Break the Ice
Obsessing about mental health harms mental health? Who could have guessed!
They said happiness, you said wealth. You can both be right.
The current 0.99% financing offer is making me absolutely go insane compared to the interest I bought at.
Photonics will make energy much less relevant again
For a leveraged buy out, the most important thing are the cash flows. So if a business has enough $ to service the loan there should be no problem.

Also good to remember that the business model of PE firms is to buy a leveraged asset, hold for 5 ish years, resale asset at a higher price than it was bought from. Ofc easier said than done, but these investors don’t get involved to lose money purpose
I think this Amiga version of history ignores what Apple was good at by the late 80s: DTP. We collectively seem to have forgotten what a huge deal this was, laser printing, postscript etc. It genuinely overhauled the entire publishing industry, not entirely for the better either.

By the mid 90s Microsoft were persuading a lot of people WinNT would displace Apple in publishing, but that never quite worked out how they intended either. (This is one of the reasons Xara was developed on the PC and not the Mac, which with hindsight was a big mistake).
That's correct in the short term, but my parents were focused on the long-term and that the computer was an investment for my future, rather than a tool/toy for a present.

It wasn't long before I admitted how correct they were.
Reducing your assets to the point where you can get long-term care from Medicaid.

In the US, if you get into that situation Medicaid will first require that you "spend down your assets" before the state steps in and starts paying for certain types of care. And if you do something like give your house to your kids, if the time limits aren't right, the state could come looking for that house.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/01/1159490...

There are various planning options to reduce the impact from this, but you have to know to do it, and you have to execute on the plans well in advance.

(Updated original post, it's Medicaid that can clawback, Medicare does not. So if you die of turbo cancer it's taken care of, but if you die of dementia it's not.)
Did really anything support protected memory back then?

I also am still much more bought into the power of marketing and generally focusing on getting things into student's hands as the power move that Microsoft pulled off. Probably helped a ton by a lot of failed vendors along the way. It isn't that DOS and Windows were pure successes. Rather, they managed to outsource a ton of their failures onto other companies.
Ask HN: Was Duck Life actually released in 1998?
Fantastic.

The problem is, having a well-organized and cooperative team massively outweights having a bunch of rockstar developers each pulling in their own direction, unless we're talking about the tiniest of organizations. And I'm not going to be on friendly terms with someone I'm not allowed to talk to.
Oh man, those games alone would have made the switch worth it. I had never considered that aspect. :D
What solutions does he propose?
Conveniently after taking over all of Google Domains too! I missed transferring a couple of domains before the cutover and now I’m in squarespace hell trying to get them out. They make it so much harder by putting artificial delays on everything.
You might be interested in "Forge", the open-source sequel…
https://forgegame.com/ (last updated 2015, alas)
> Historically every time the state gets involved it inevitably leads to substantial amounts of neglect and abuse.

The asylum system is one excellent example of this.

With that being said, those most in need of what an asylum would provide are now living on the street, so I'm not sure deleting the repo without even a plan for a rewrite in place was the best choice...
I wonder, why GNU make is much more popular than BSD make/pmake.

Both are extensions to classic make (makefiles without advanced features works with both implementations), but, to my eye, pmake extensions is much more simpler and nicer to use, than GNU make extensions.

Simple ".if/.else/.endif" and true ".for" loop, like in sh is much more comprehensible than GNU make functional extensions to me.

Is it only me?

And BSD systems have extensive library for pmake already, which allows to build programs, libraries (both shared and static) and more in declarative way, without any custom rules. It is like these extensions, but battle-tested for 20+ years. With nice license, too.
Show HN: I built a tool to visualize your next tattoo
Hey HN,

I wanted to get a tattoo designed but then I remembered that everyone and their mother is building AI tools/wrappers so I thought, why should I not?

So here I am with Ink Studio AI.

I added a lot of styles and a whole lot of prompt engineering behind the scenes to make sure that the result is coherent with the request of the user.

It uses Stable Diffusion text-to-image model which is really really good (if you use the right prompt).

Let me know what you think, feedback is really appreciated!
Not being in either Telegram/Signal camp I see a lot of tribalism in the comments.
It seems that any arguments for/against either one end up in politics.

Like I understand that Telegram is probably not very secure, but seeing what proponents of Signal are saying doesn't really make me trust Signal either.
Can't speak for YT but these sorts of identifiers are used for basically what you said - tracking and analytics in order to make more money, at scale.

Social media sites are concerned with one thing - ads.

That ID is probably stored somewhere in their backend. I'm sure 0.1% of users will strip that query param out (literally nobody does lol), but now their server has registered that you created a share link with si=1234

Now your friend Sally opens that link, and they register that this other user opened a share link with si=1234

What happens next is used to make more money.
>exporting our heavy carbon producing industries to the Moon

Never study rocketry, it wil ruin your whimsical innocence.
Standford research team just published an article with a wojak in it. That by itself is bigger news than AI
Those people didn't have abundance at that time, there were many better systems they could pick that they knew about at the time.
One of my biggest struggles in doing AI stuff on consumer hardware is heat. I noticed zero discussion of this so I assume it's an implementation detail on small systems that doesn't really factor into more robust setups. Is that the really case, or is this just diving into the comp sci layer of hardware utilization and ignoring things like heat because it's not salient to this subtopic?
Production of an Original Surface Plate (1908) [pdf]
YouTube natively provides audio in AAC which is higher quality per bitrate than MP3.

AAC has very wide support. Only convert AAC to MP3 if your player really doesn't support AAC.
The engineers knew what they had. Marketing failed to market it properly because they didn't understand what they had. Management, as you said, also didn't understand what they had. Thomas Rattigan understood and started the A500 and A2000 projects. Then, head of the board, Irving Gould, fired him.

The root of Commodore' demise goes back to the 1960's when Jack Tramiel let Irving Gould invest to keep Commodore from going bankrupt after Jack made some bad business deals. Without that mistake, Irving Gould wouldn't have caused Jack to leave by preventing Jack's sons from entering management, and wouldn't have pushed out Rattigan or cut R&D which prevented the Amiga chipset from keeping ahead of the industry.
I think they’re talking about dynamically actually changing the image itself, not just resizing
Printing and binding your own books and manuals (2019)
I don’t agree. I live in the Bay Area and eating out is noticeably more expensive in Zurich than here. I find that you’re not going to get away for less than 60-70 francs for dinner for two pretty much anywhere in Zurich. Sure, there are many places you can pay that much in the bay, but you can also eat for much cheaper. Even outside the cities it’s insane. We went to a regular looking Indian restaurant 40km outside of Basel and it was 35 francs a plate. We thought the portions were going to be huge but no, maybe 200 grams of curry and a small cup of rice. Eye popping.

Groceries are about the same with the exception of beef which literally seems like it’s 2-3x us prices.

I think rent in Switzerland is way cheaper both in absolute terms and the value you get for your money. The housing stock is much better quality than the Bay Area. Having good public transit also makes it easier to live in a wider variety of places too.
"Web3" was hijacked by cryptocurrency promoters as the marketing term for various get-rich-quick token schemes. (Generally what made them "web3" was simply that some venture capitalist had bought a bunch of the tokens early and would get to dump them on Coinbase.)

If there's going to be a web 1.0 revival, maybe it needs to jump straight to version 5 to leave enough of a gap from the taint of blockchain...
I'm really not a "truck guy", but it seems to me from the outside that the price of the F150 and similar pick-ups has been really jacked up since they are now a "status symbol" in many areas. Plus, the standard bed is super small and can't even fit a 4x8 flat.

If I were switching occupation to a plumber (or something) and looking for a work vehicle, I'd be strongly considering closed vans like Transit, Sprinter or Nissan NV. Or a plain old minivan as some have suggested. I hear many of them can fit a 4x8 with seats removed.
Intel 486DX2 along with faster VGA cards using the VLB (VESA Local Bus) simply clobbered the Amiga and it's ECS.
I'm in Canada and spring is starting earlier and earlier every year but we will still get blasts of (what used to be normal for that time of year) frost/snow/freezing rain. The problem is with the warm weather, fruit trees will start to bud early and when the cold comes at night it kills all the buds and that's it, no fruit. Last year apple orchards all over lost their crops to this. The instability is what's going to cause chaos in the world.
In the US Eduardo Leite would 100% be left. In Brazil far-left is left, left is center and center is right so Eduardo Leite is center. He is a WEF young leadership, he is a progressist. https://www.weforum.org/people/eduardo-leite-6b4792907e/
> The only point I was making was that George's experience with AMD products reflected poorly on AMD software engineering circa 2023.

Except that isn't the point you said...

"there's no hope of them becoming serious contenders in AI without some major changes in AMD's priorities"

My point in showing you (not dragging you into) the drama, is to tell you that George is not a credible witness for your beliefs.
I sometimes think that modern American super market would blow the minds of a lot of people nowadays too
The home-computer wars of the 1990s have always confused me. There's seems to be a kind of tribal-allegiance that computer-buyers participated in when they became computer-owners. I've never understood why it had to be PC vs Amiga or Nintendo vs Sega or whatever.
My best guess is that a lot of the buyers were young kids who did'nt have the maturity yet to see the world in a more flexible way. I was certainly guilty of that back when I was a teen.
Meati Foods bites into another $100M amid growth to 7k retail locations
Good effort to think outside the box but this is just an “acquisition premium”. Nothing to do with the public markets. It is a very well know concept in the M&A world
Squarespace spent 40% of revenue and nearly 60% of gross profit on marketing and sales last quarter [1]. You could literally generate over $200mm in free cash flow by cutting marketing in half. This is a forced pivot from growth to sustaining a good business.

[1] https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001496963/d08174f...
Yep, no argument here! Commodore computers were, for a time, considerably cheaper and more capable than what Apple was selling.
Usually when you get to the point of needing to have your ass wiped you are no longer in a position to decide that stuff.

The dementia patient is very poorly equipped to evaluate the evolution of the disease. Most of time he thinks he is ok, when he is clearly no longer ok.
I was looking at hosted website/blog options a while back and it looks like pretty much everyone has teaser rates that blow up after some time period and have low-cost plans that almost work for a given need but you actually have to go up a tier of 2.

I have an existing blog on Blogger and have no need for ecommerce or a lot of business stuff. It's basically a home page and a blog. I came to the conclusion I should just leave things as they are and maybe add a second blog for a different purpose.

It's free and if it becomes a problem, I'll deal with it when it does.
ggml: Add Flash Attention
This would be awesome, if it can be selfhosted. I work with sensitive documents I can't upload to a third party.
It isn't. This is typical of most 1st gen immigrants. Growing up in NYC I have friends who were Sri Lankan, Polish, Italian, and Guyanese who's parents came here and worked their asses off to provide a better future for their kids while sending money back home.
It looks like in FY2023, Squarespace reported about $1B in revenue, a loss, but about $230M in cash flow from operating activities.[1] It is growing, which helps a lot.

Mainly when I look at this, I think "it doesn't seem like its that easy to make money in PE these days." Maybe in the 80s there were lots of large corporations that were so poorly run that you could buy them with debt, cut costs, and make lots of money (see RJR Nabisco/Barbarians at the Gate, that was a terribly run company). But in regards to this deal, someone raised $6B, had to find a place to put it, and found the pickings were pretty slim.

Still, someone apparently thinks they can cover the debt service with the cash flow.

https://investors.squarespace.com/news-events-financials/inv...
I wasn't even thinking of consumer-facing or transport plastics, I just meant what's used during growing.

To start, you put black plastic on the ground to block light and kill off grass, weeds, etc.. Then there's plastic plant "fabric" on the plants at night to keep them warm, then plastic netting over plants to stop birds from eating the berries, and of course the polytunnel (called a hoop houses in some places) itself is made of thick plastic, and it will break down over time due to UV. All of this plastic degrades and turns in to microplastics in the environment.

It's tiny by comparison but I always found it annoying that a strimmer is designed to just throw entire spools of plastic in to your garden one tiny piece at a time.

The image here gives a decent visual https://vertical-farming.net/blog/2018/04/02/reimagining-alm...
Right, yeah, seems likely. Such comparisons are usually pretty weird, putting non-hygienic macros against ordinary programming in some other language, rather than macros against the metaprogramming used there.

Experience with macros and their footguns arguably prepared me pretty well for using JAXB and reflection professionally.
because frankly that is not what PE usually does, despite the extremely negative outlook in society and on HN
Oh, I have found it very helpful.

FWIW, it takes practice to get good at using ChatGPT. You have to direct it in certain ways and break up problems into bite sized chunks to do complex things like, eg, assist in writing a language server for a custom DSL using FParsec. If you don’t have a higher level understanding of the task and don’t break things into smaller tasks it won’t work very well!
Does anyone else HATE pages like this? Just show me the damn map and not 5 different pop up overlays, many animated, depending on how hard scrolled down I am.

Oh, and their "zip code" search is broken, it takes me to the state capital over a hundred miles away, in a totally different climactic zone. Doubly broken.
It is very nice to see US-targeted media use F. All climate related news seems to use C and I'd bet that 95%+ of Americans don't know 2 degrees C = 3.6 degrees F. So most Americans are underestimating the effects of climate change by almost a factor of 2. And those are the ones that believe in it.

I think the US should move to SI but as long as we haven't (and have actually taken steps backwards during the Bush administration) as far as I am concerned it is journalistic malpractice if not active disinformation to report temperature changes in C in US media.
it’s a very different way of thinking about web development and has it’s strengths and weaknesses so it’s easy for someone who is really deep in the SPA/reactive JavaScript world to look at it and say “this is stupid, whatabbout…”

also my twitter account is a strong drink compared to most tech accounts which alienates some people (“but you have heard of me…”)
huggingface model card: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-11B
So roughly a 12% performance loss using LPCAMM2 vs soldered to the motherboard. Reasonable tradeoff, I guess, for future expansion.

How much extra is the cost (in todays prices)?
Yea, I’m not sure we can rely on 1 degree of reliable resolution for when people believe in unicorns, dragons, a geocentric universe theory, and when the Celsius scale was not when water freezes at zero and boils at 100.
I had a C128 in 1986, but I don’t see how it was superior to any PC. The 8086 was faster, it had more memory, it had more expansion slots, and of course there was way more software if you exclude gaming.

In 1988, I had saved up for an Amiga, but my father offered to match what I had saved for a hard drive if I bought a PC instead.
I think Apple is more interested in features that work consistently than in giving power users the ability to play with essentially alpha or beta AI features.

I would guess that their strategy is to not include powerful client-side hardware, and supplement that with some kind of "AiCloud" subscription to do the battery-draining, heat-generating stuff on their cloud. They're trading off their branding as a privacy focused company under the (probably correct) belief that people will be more willing to upload their data to iCloud's AI than Microsoft's.

Fwiw, I think they're probably correct. It has always struck me as odd that people want to run AI on their phone. My impression of AI is that it creates very generalized solutions to problems that would be difficult to code, at the cost of being very compute inefficient.

I don't really want code like that running on my phone; it's a poor platform for it. Thermal dissipation and form factor limit the available processing power, and batteries limit how long you can use the processing power you have. I don't really want to waste either trying to do subject identification locally. I'm going to upload the photos to iCloud anyways; let me pay an extra $1/month or whatever to have that identification happen in the cloud, on a server built for it that has data center thermal dissipation and is plugged into the wall.
Never seen that actually happen. More likely is a diffusion of responsibility and one sibling drawing the short stick and doing all the work.

It is not even conscious malice by the other siblings. Stuff like that happens naturally. All siblings would need to live close by, have similar family circumstances (I have a family on my own that I need to prioritize. Betty who is single can take care of dad.) and similar level of skills in caring for the parent for that to work.

Also people underestimate how horrible caring for people with dementia and other disabilities that require a high level of care is for people not trained in it. It is not socially acceptable to talk about the bad stuff.
All of the current-generation discrete GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD (desktop and laptop parts) run their memory at over twice the per-pin bandwidth of these modules, and some over three times the speed. The roadmaps for LPCAMM2 indicate it's expected to work at least up to 9.6Gbps memory, but for GPUs it would have to go beyond 20Gbps.
Lol because commands can't be typed out by a computer. Your argument is flawed.
Yep, I live in eastern Canada, and cars here typically don't reach end-of-life due to engine mileage, but due to the frame eventually being too rusted.
Undecidability existed in antirealism, but today antirealism is unpopular, and measurement doesn't create reality.
It's only the protocol for their E2EE chats. There are two big caveats:

- Facebook and Skype E2EE messages are optional, and people rarely use that option, and
- Those apps collect a huge amount of data outside the contents of the messages.
I think I get more unsolicited email from related businesses trying to get a foot in the door with my company - I assume they're connecting dots either from LinkedIn or Github (probably both). This is an interesting solution to the problem, but I don't genuinely think that anyone is scraping websites for email addresses anymore. I don't think it's cost effective for the modern spammer.
>In principle, there is free movement of goods within the EU.
In some cases, though, certain formalities must be observed or taxes/duties paid.

>>https://www.zoll.de/EN/Private-individuals/Postal_consignmen...
Show HN: Online Accountability for Indie Makers
Overcomplicating projects, overthinking details, overbuilding too soon. Hours spent, frustration built up, nothing to show.

I feel more motivated when I tell a friend that they will see what I am working on at a specific time. Let's all promise each other that we will show what we are working on every Friday, and become each other's accountability buddy.

A better alternative, MkaeLoop has a public wall that tells everyone what you are working on as you are building. Set weekly deliverables, share weekly updates, held accountable for your weekly deliverables.
It factors into robust setups but is part and parcel of doing any HPC where you're pushing through a ton of TFLOPS. It's a problem that is assumed to have been solved when you're doing this kind of work.
Please don't reconvert good lossy format (opus) into much worser one (mp3). Lossy to lossy is always bad, especially so into worser one
Flame Retardant Exposure in Vehicles Is Influenced by Use in Seat Foam and Temp
I don't think they've been replaced, though?