skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It was announced in mid-2023

The Squarespace acquisition of Google domains was announced, yes.

I don't recall seeing anything about Squarespace immediately going private and being beholden to an investment firm showing up in those emails.

>Feel free to migrate your domains somewhere else.

Thanks for the permission, that's exactly what I and I'm sure many others are about to do. Too bad the timing of this announcement is days after the migration from Google to Squarepspace, so I'm not actually allowed to migrate my domain for 60 days :)
Colorang: a (Slightly) New Way to Visualize RGBA Color
By the title, I thought this would be another clickbaity post about how we should all quit our jobs and become entrepreneurs, but in actuality, the post is better described as 'if you're going to do that, the worst outcome is to be moderately successful'. Which I agree with, and it's something that really gives me pause when thinking about launching on my own.

I mean, my corporate job is realistically pretty cushy and as the sole income earner, my family depends on me. I'm sure I could do well on my own, but it's hard to predict the success of any venture. Failure I actually don't mind, because the answer is easy... just get another job. The worst possible outcome is 'success' where you have a customer base and demand, but it's just never going to be enough to make up for that lost income. That would truly be the worst. You can't just quit without damaging your reputation; on the other hand, selling would likely be difficult without significant recurring income.
In English there is at least the means grammatically to express you're referring to the future (I'm going to the store, I will go to the store, I'm going to go to the store). In Finnish, it's entirely contextual and you can throw in timing words to help.
Imagine ranking all the shareholders of the company. For each, you've asked them how much you'd have to give them to convince them to sell.

At the top of the list would be the one who is the most interested in selling, and thus is willing to take the lowest price. At the bottom of the list would be the person who is the least interested in selling, and is demanding the highest price.

In order to buy one share you ask the guy at the top of the list. But to get the whole company you need the guy at the bottom of the list to agree too.

That's definitely not a perfect analogy at all, there's more subtlety than that. But it accurately describes the underlying dynamic.

For the stock market quote, you're always talking about the guy at the top of the list.
Ubuntu (Canonical) ships with ZFS built-in as well as Proxmox and TrueNAS SCALE.

I doubt Red Hat / Fedora will ever ship it with how legally gunshy they were even before IBM, but there are many distros shipping it or have it an apt/pacman away.
Hm. I've always commented on my (temporarily) non-retrievable memories as, "The data is still in there, it's the retrieval mechanism that degrades if not used." And, sure enough, in most cases the memory returns in a day or so, even if you don't think hard about it. (There are cases where the memory doesn't come back, as if it was actively erased or was never in long term memory in the first place. Also, as I pass eighty, I find it increasingly difficult to memorize things, and I forget recent events more readily. But I remember decades old events about as well as I ever did.)

So, my first response to your comment about the memory not being in the synapses was to agree with you. But I also agree with your respondent, so, hm.
Not only Apple. I bought a HP laptop 10 years ago. The 16 GB version cost at least 100 Euro more than the 8 GB version plus a 16 GB RAM module from another vendor (I can't remember which one, but one of the usual companies.)
Indeed, Apple currently charges $400 to add an extra 32GB of LPDDR5 to a machine.
Exactly. But for the managers who don’t have skin in the game and only care about cost and deadlines, once someone denounce your diligence efforts as perfectionism they will be biased against your steering proposals. That’s the real problem, specially in tech, where explaining trade offs to outsiders is not always trivial to do without much oversimplification. I’ve been in meetings where even attempting to have a high-level discussion over an unrealistic scope was taken as unnecessary problematization. Let alone the fact that cutting corners and costs is generally mindlessly rewarded due to lack of vision and an absolutism towards short term gains.
> do you have more faith in a company that's scraping by versus working to be profitable

Working to be profitable is not correlated with well-functioning. Its usually correlated with enshittification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification), and poor functioning.

The most profitable (at least in the short term) is to provide a costly product that you took no time to produce, with zero support.
Well, you have to pay enough to convince the board to force everyone to sell and not risk being sued for not doing their fiduciary duty. But yeah, that’s the gist of it. if you were to attempt to simply buy up all of the shares on the open market, it would cost more than whatever it closed at the day before you did that, all else being equal
Biggest CPU for the Bad System
Mind the Dark Silicon Fraction.

Some fraction of your transistors MUST go unused on average or you melt the silicon. This was already a thing in the 20nm days and I'm sure it has only gotten worse. 100% TDP utilization might correspond to 60% device utilization.
> Sorry, you have been blocked
You are unable to access web.prd.q4inc.com

> Why have I been blocked?
This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

What?? I'm just trying to open the page in the link.
ahh -- a fellow C coder, i assume. :)

i admit my tirade is a little less applicable to C projects; many C projects are already using `make` for legitimate reasons, and at that point are already making some POSIX-y assumptions. so if that project's taskrunner needs are light, it really might make sense to just cram them in the Makefile and mark them .PHONY, despite make's shortcomings as a taskrunner.

my portability comments were really written with windows in mind.
USAA Voice ID
And yet a lot of people go hungry in this age of marvels. We have enough homes to house all the homeless, we have agencies, money, social workers. And yet we somehow can’t seem to figure it out.
Yeah, but with other vendors you still have plenty of options that you can upgrade yourself. That's what the OP is about, this new standard allows for fast, upgradable memory in very thin form factors that previously might have needed to compromise on upgradability.
Something is really wrong in this market when even a "successful" company like Squarespace deson't manage to be a profitable business.
He provided one very important thing (at least to me): an optimistic view of the future and our ability to support ourselves.
I can't wait for this time to arrive, sick of big companies controlling everybody's attention
> Where I live, winters are 4.5 degrees warmer.

4.5 degrees warmer since when? And where?
This is a bit disappointing, as I really like Squarespace's website builder. IMO it's far superior to anything WordPress, Shopify, or Wix have put out in the last decade.
I thought that this was pretty interesting considering how easy it is to clone someones voice nowadays. Why would any company consider this a reasonable way to authenticate customers?
Poorly generated AI cover art...

SEO spam centric blog posts...

https://www.rajamsr.com/blog/
AWS Adds Auto-Instrumentation of Python Applications to CloudWatch
I disagree. I liked the experience. It wasn’t jittery and the content was short enough to be presented in that format.
Technically Signal is using their own home-rolled crypto, too – right?
I think this post is right that Franklin would've been impressed by GPS. The author doesn't call it out, but the Longitude Problem was a significant area of scientific and engineering inquiry in Franklin's lifetime, with special focus on the difficulty of doing so at sea. I haven't looked into it, but given his research mapping the Gulf Stream it seems likely he spent time on the problem himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_longitude
This has been my approach since the mid '90s. It works very well.
I so much hate this format where you have to scroll for each little paragraph and can't jump quickly from one part to another.
normality is seriously underrated and the best way to have a happy life is to pursue normality.
The Cult of the Haskell Programmer
We've had OCR for decades before GPT. I suspect GPT might perform worse than OCR. What a waste.
Buckminster Fuller would be a great crypto/AI grifter today.
> but it might throw some bots for a spin.

Until some bot dev sees this, accepts the challenge, and then solves it as a function within their package that never needs updating again because it is now done. So, live it up while it is not solved. After that, just shrug your shoulders at yet another idea no longer being useful
As much as I'd like to see a web 1.0 revival, this won't happen.

The traffic is controlled by Google and social networks. Most people don't have the skills needed to run their own website. A lot of valuable content is created by people without these sorts of skills.
You conveniently forgot about the second part of that comment. Durov was forced out of the country and had to cell vk.com for peanuts because of his refusal to cooperate with the government. He is still pissed off at the country at large (not just the government) and refused to add the Russian translation for years, for example, despite it having absolutely nothing to do with Putin.

Since he is Russian in origin, it's okay to throw baseless accusations at him and spout nonsense like "maybe they're FSB agents" or "maybe they hired an FSB agent without knowing it". You see it here everywhere, and HN is one of the better sites in that regard. Well, maybe Signal has hired an NSA agent and doesn't know about it either? How does that sound?
>You are also fully allowed to feel an unconditional gratitude (dare I say, love) towards them for simply existing

Excuse me? This terrible life was imposed on me against my will be mean and evil people. I will absolutely not be "grateful" for it.
I also appreciate the marvelous rhythm of the modern world, more miracles per square foot than the life of any saint.
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I mean, social stigma makes some acts very difficult or very easy. When I was young there was no social stigma against drinking and driving, huge numbers of people did it (and died from it). Now we're in an age where drinking and driving is stigmatized and far less people do it, and you're apt to be called out for it.

The reason I'm bringing up this analogy is suicide has been heavily stigmatized in most cultures so even if people wanted to do it the "but what will people think" factor is powerful, even for those that wouldn't be around for what those people think.
You can only get so much milage out of hype; at a certain point you really need to start seeing actual applications.
That's like saying you don't like American beer because you tried Bud Light, Coors Light, and Miller Lite and didn't like any of them.

There are a lot of great chocolate makers in the US.
If growth is the goal, you sacrifice margin for revenue
If you artificially narrow the circumstances like that sure.

In practice that’s often not the case. Long term contracts, futures, FDI commitments, etc is all USD bound over time.

Hell even the shtty VPS I bought from Eastern Europe is a recurring fixed USD per year so they’re carrying the US inflation effect as margin squeeze (and I fully expect them to renege on that at some point)
surely you have a hobby that doesn't have a return on investment? that's all it is, enjoying an activity
Headcount and marketing spend required to be perceived as "successful" in the industry is commensurately high.
Sales Happen When Buyers Fear Missing Out – By Kent Beck
Show HN: I made a journaling app for people who are too lazy to write (RecapMe)
I was never a fan of writing a journal in detail. But I like taking short notes and writing important stuff to my calendar.
I decided to write my own journaling app that focuses on adding entries fast and analyse them.

Most days I spend less than 5 min adding the important stuff of the day to my diary.
Maybe some of you find value in this too.

With my app RecapMe you can:
1. Create tags for your recurring actions
2. Create diary entries for the day with this tags
3. Check out different analysis and stats for your tags

Next features:
1. Custom cards for counting stuff
2. Attach images to diary entries

... and open for further suggestions...
You also need to take into account what isn't there: How do you think Franklin would take it that we went to every single corner of the earth and killed Smallpox dead?

Like every tiny hamlet in India?

In fact, let him by the grave yard and note the ages of the dead.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/02/16/2024-02....

This is about residential but commercial real estate is no different and is more likely to use even more opaque lending sources
The map has an explanation:

About this data

The 2012 USDA hardiness zones were calculated using the average lowest winter temperature for the observation period of 1976-2005. The new zones are calculated using the years 1991-2020. These two observation windows overlap. Colors show the difference between the two 30-year averages for each place on the map.

My area is 3.8F warmer using this method.
Maybe the problem is me but I’ve never had a good time with mainline btrfs. I use it on a Synology without issue (they use a lot of patches and seemingly however use the built in RAID support.) but btrfs takes the cake for “unrecoverable errors from a filesystem” whenever I’ve used it for more than a “ext4++” filesystem on a single disk.
UAE Releases New Falcon AI Model to Challenge Meta, OpenAI
You absolutely can get Granny smiths all year round in London, or anywhere in the UK.

My personal issue with them is they can be 'waxed' (sprayed with some sort of petroleum product) - but often they don't have this.
The car market in the US is pretty much designed to rip off people who fear minivan stigma & instead buy extortionately-priced pickup trucks that often don't even have a big enough bed to carry plywood or drywall.
thats why they said open source, not Open-source.
Ask HN: How would you rate HN comment quality?
How would you rate the overall comment quality here on Hacker News, relative to previous years, as well as other comparable platforms?
Building a dbt pipeline to join across data sources with minimal set-up
Because companies chose to not be profitable and invest all their money into growth.
Are you saying this is a worse alternative to other communication methods with businesses? What would you use with them that has better encryption?
Maybe because suicide has a terrible impact on the surviving family? It is a really shitty situation to be in.
So what was the point of all those hearings and SEC investigations in 2021 if nothing changed? I don't get it. All just Kabuki theater at taxpayer expense.
It would be wise to assume the goal is to sell it along with the company at a later point to a data broker.
> As of December 31, 2021, the Reporting Person’s beneficial ownership consists of: (i) 387,500 shares of Class A Common Stock and 2,050,838 shares of Class B common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (“Class B Common Stock”) held directly by the Anthony Casalena 2019 Family Trust, for which the Reporting Person is the trustee, and

> (ii) 4,930,175 shares of Class A Common Stock and 40,835,572 shares of Class B Common Stock held directly by the Anthony Casalena Revocable Trust, for which the Reporting Person is the trustee. Each share of Class B Common Stock is convertible at the option of the holder into one share of Class A Common Stock.

> The Reporting Person may be deemed to have voting power and dispositive power over the securities held by the Anthony Casalena 2019 Family Trust and the Anthony Casalena Revocable Trust.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1496963/000110465922...

He'll convert his 40 million+ Class B shares into Class A and sell them to Permira. His Class A and Class B shares total 47 million+.

At $44 per share, that sums up to slightly over $2 billion in cash.
https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/tucker-claims-nsa-had-access...
Yeah that's ok for you to think like that, at the same time it's fun for the creators and for a number of users, including me. Btw there so many languages with sum types (and almost none that fixed data races) that everybody can choose.

The point is, I was aiming to refute one cummenter's claim that Go was created to lure specific people into Google as devs. Highly unlikely, Go's adoption in Google wasn't bad but also wasn't exactly a bed of roses.
Just shows how bad crypto sector is at buying politicians

Ross could have been free with a donation to Trump’s campaign, it was pay to play
I... what?

Great-Grandparent> most M&A transactions trend to have a 30% premium above the trading price. I [...] could not find a good explanation to why

You> It’s probably just a good rule of thumb.

Me> But why is 30% better than 15%?

You> The equilibrium appears to be 30% above asking

I still don't understand how that's supposed to explain why 30% is the stable value, instead of another, as the GGP was asking. How does what you are saying add anything more than "It is what it is" to the discussion?
> Durov travels freely to and from Russia

This is incorrect. Check your facts. They're made up.
Ask HN: Hidden Operating System
Hi fellow HNers,

Are there any better/newer ways to create a hidden operating system (Windows 10) than the one proposed by Veracrypt [0]?

I'm playing around with Plausible Deniability and the idea of having a hidden OS, where depending on the boot password a different OS (decoy or hidden) is booted. Usually these kinds of stuff are connected with illegal activities, but from a privacy point of view they offer a good technological challenge, especially nowadays :-)

I would assume that with the ongoing advances in encryption and/or whistleblowing, there would be easier ways to create a "secure" PC in case you wanted to be out of reach of different agencies.

I've seen that there are a few problems [1] with Windows updates corrupting the Veracrypt hidden/encrypted partitions.

[0] https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/VeraCrypt%20Hidden%20Operating%20System.html

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/5f23f3e52d/
I work for John Deere, though I don't speak for the company. Every time I tell a farmer I work with the displays they tell me that they won't plant without the GPS. They will sometimes drive the combine by hand, but there is enough additional profit in GPS planting that nobody will drive a planter by hand. Corn does is very picky about how close it is planted to other plants - too close or too far apart will reduce yields and the GPS can optimize that by enough to be worth it.

Even in the combine case, if there is bad storm damage they won't drive by hand as the GPS can find the rows and thus harvest a lot more crop. Every couple years there will be a field storm damaged bad enough that it would be a total loss if they had to drive the combine by hand, but the GPS can find the rows and so there isn't even an insurance claim (crop insurance insures you will get your average yields over the previous 10 year, so if you have a total loss crop that brings your average yields way down for the next 10 years which means a future disaster crop gets bad payout)
That explains why there's a premium but not why the premium is ~30%.
Do you have a list? I can't find the list of TLDs they support.

edit: https://www.cloudflare.com/tld-policies/
Thats how I would read it.
Trust me, you don't need any of that.
here's the kicker: I work on creating solutions using Gen AI, mostly some something RAG, Chat with Databases and some other actually cool stuff
Whom should we trust then? Have we already forgotten about Snowden?
Xkcd having a joke for every occasion might be a true modern marvel.
It sounds like investors invested billions of dollars making a product that makes million dollars per quarter?

So from that perspective, was this ever a successful company or just a grand party thrown by the investors? Isn't this just "how it works" ?

The vast majority of investors in the railroads lost their money; lots of people lost money running fiber around the world, iridium went bankrupt and lots of people use those phones, etc.
> I'll put this as nice as I can: You are very judgmental.

Thanks for your direct and honest view. No hard feelings here.

Let me tell you. I know C, C++, Go, Java, bash, Eclipse IDE, git, Docker, Saltstack, Terraform, OpenStack, Kubernetes, some MATLAB and probably some other tools I forgot that I know, and I manage a big fleet of servers while I'm writing this.

I don't "remember" the syntax of anything. I somehow internalized them. I don't think about them. If I make a mistake, my text editor (which is NOT VSCode) politely tells me about it.

I also used to remember double bass parts of Bizet, Beethoven, symphonies of local composers, plus tons of songs, because while I had the sheets in front of me, I had to listen tubas & percussion to make sure that I'm in sync with them and watch the conductor to double-check the metronome in my head and get the tone cues if he's not happy with our tone. To make sure that our 100 person orchestra was playing at its peak performance I had to make sure that I know every kink and chicane of the traffic for our specific arrangement.

In these days I remember tango songs' traffic because I have to plan my figures 2-3 sentences ahead while dancing in a crowded hall.

Oh, I sometimes play a couple of songs in my bass guitar if I have time from other activities.

So, yeah, thank you for telling me that I'm judgemental.

I'll put this as nice as I can: The choice is yours, but you're underestimating your abilities. Plus, people who like to read docs and write code the hardcore way are not dorks.

Have a nice day.
> Having a corporate job is usually a 'mediocre success'.

Eh, that is doing OK to me, which is better than some nebulous "mediocre success". If you are at least saving for retirement, and able to support a family, that's actual success in my book.

The typical startup outcome, where you try for a couple years, it fails, and then you move on to a corporate job is not terrible.

What's really bad is when you make enough to just barely get by, paying yourself a sub-market-rate salary, and keep limping along for a long while. Waiting for that "success", that big breakthrough, "just around the corner". You can be stuck doing this for years, out of a misguided sense of loyalty, determination or whatever. And then you are not saving for retirement, and letting the best family-creation years (if that is a life goal) pass you by.

That, to me is "mediocre success".

Ask me how I know. On second though, no, don't ask me how I know.
> does exactly what it says it does, with no magic

I strongly believe that software we develop should feel like magic to the users

The tools that we use to build them should not
The cost of training a human from birth is pretty high, especially if you consider their own efforts over the years. And they don't know a fraction of what the LLMs know. (But they have other capabilities!)
Yes, and the complaint is that news should be about informing, not about entertaining to make people feel informed [0]. This is more infotainment than information.

[0] This concept implemented at scale by Roger Ailes, founder of Fox news, who famously said "Our viewers don't want be informed, they want to feel informed", which became the motto of the newsroom

One ref among many:
https://www.marketplace.org/2017/05/18/roger-ailes-transform...