skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have a PEO option, but FWIW they can also be used as a payroll provider / HR system (benefits access, vacation tracking, etc.) without a PEO.
Trump supporters tell me Trump isn't aiding China but then everything Trump does has a weird way of aiding China. Why would we repeal the CHIPS act and remove our ability to secure a domestic supply of chips?
This is exactly what the court filing says - he emailed excel spreadsheets with unencrypted data. Presumably from database queries hence why they mention emailing a database. Obviously written by people who are entirely unfamiliar with what a database even is so it makes it sound worse than it is (even though it is still bad, but not quite "send the entire database" bad.)
I wonder if it'd be possible to write an extension that uses the Native messaging API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...) to talk to a lightweight shim that uses the macOS native spell checker (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsspellchec...) instead. It'd be faster than sending it to a cloud service, yet still much better than the Firefox one.

Has anyone tried that, or know any reasons that shouldn't work?

I might try to write one, otherwise.
OK that makes a lot more sense. Thankyou.
I have a product labeled Boogieboard that I bought on a whim at Costco years back. I want to say it was less that $10? Really simple, no connectivity, it does really seem like an etch-a-sketch with a stylus instead of knobs. Stuck it on the fridge with tacky-tack and it’s been going strong for many years. About the size of A5 (or half an 8-1/2 x 11 piece of paper).

EDIT: looking at the link above, it is called the Jot and sells for $18. Still made apparently.
Can't tell if trolling
I think German law makes that impossible - basically you need to assume the government can access your data at any time.
I’ve never seen anybody learn much by copy pasting. If you want to learn, you must put fingers to keys.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398744
This is an example of the lack of connectivity, not the horror of too much.
should've been called roost
It might surprise the good readers of Hacker News, but by reading TFA, and the linked PDF therein, answers may be revealed!

> 12. The forensic analysis also revealed that Elez sent an email with a spreadsheet containing PII to two United States General Services Administration officials. The PII detailed a name (aperson or an entity), a transaction type, and an amount of money. The names in the spreadsheet are considered low risk PII because the names are not accompanied by more specific identifiers, such as social security numbers or birth dates. Elez’s distribution of this spreadsheet was contrary to BFS policies, in that it was not sent encrypted, and he did not obtain prior approval of the transmission via a “Form 7005,” describing what will be sent and what safeguards the sender will implement to protect the information.
And then you cancel. I did that with Amazon, will do it with others when I start seeing ads.
The actual filing (which is linked from the article) is more specific in its claims:

>The forensic analysis also revealed that Elez sent an email with a spreadsheet containing PII
>to two United States General Services Administration officials.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.63...

The word "database" never appears in the filing, that's The Register's word choice.
I don't think the Enigma machine example applies here.

The nazi communications were decrypted by a highly centralized and secrative group, making it very difficult for the Nazis to figure out how they were doing it.

But in this case any vulnerability in the ransomware will have to be exploited by many of the affected people to decrypt their files, which means wide distribution, which means that a leak to the ransomware developers will happen sooner than later. If there is no wide distribution of the vulnerability, the ransomware developers win anyway.
I also see the update in response to this comment, and it puts everything into perspective. You haven't changed the meaning of "write done," you have just been comparing your reciprocal throughput against Redis's latency, and I think you have been confusing those two.

"600 ns" then really means "1.6M QPS of throughput," which is a good number but is well within the capabilities of many similar offerings (including several databases that are truly persistent). It also says nothing about your latency. If you want to say you are 2-6x faster than Redis, you are going to have to compare that number to Redis's throughput.
I don't think you should ever allow dependabot to make direct commits to the repository. The only sane setting (IMO) is that dependabot should just make PRs, and a human needs to verify that and hit merge. My personal opinion is for any serious repositories, allowing a robot to have commit access is often a bad time and ticking time bomb (security-wise).

Now, of course, if there are literally hundreds of dependencies to update every week, then a human isn't really going to go through each and make sure they look good, so that person just becomes a rubber-stamper, which doesn't help the situation. At that point the team should probably seriously evaluate if their tech stack is just utterly broken if they have that many dependencies.
Nomic – a game in which changing the rules is a move
Indeed and if you feel that theres more work to be done along the lines of your thesis, funded advisors will often let you stay on for a while as a post doc. This can also help if you end up finishing without a job offer.
Choice is a luxury for most.
> I've read a lot of misunderstandings about DeepResearch, which isn't helped by the multiplication of open and closed clones. OpenAI has not built a wrapper on top of O3.

It also doesn't help that they let you select a model varying from 4o-mini to o1-pro for the Deep Research task. But this confirms my suspicion that model selection is irrelevant for the Deep Research tasks and answering follow-up questions.

> Weirdly enough, while Claude 3.7 works perfectly in Claude Code, Cursor struggles with it and I've already seen several high end users cancelling their subscriptions as a result.

It's because Claude Code burns through tokens like there's no tomorrow, meanwhile Cursor attempts to carefully manage token usage and limit what's in context to remain profitable. It's gotten so bad that for any moderately complex task I switch to o1-pro or sonnet-3.7 in the Anthropic Console and max out the thinking tokens. They just released a "MAX" option but I can still tell its nerfed because it thinks for a few seconds whereas I can get up to 2 minutes of thinking via Anthropic Console.

Its abundantly clear that all these model providers are trying to pivot hard into productizing, which is ironic considering that the UX of all these model-as-a-product companies is so universally terrible. Deep Research is a major win, but OpenAI has plenty of fails: Plugins, Custom GPTs, Sora, Search (obsolete now?), Operator are maybe just okay for casual users - not at all a "product".
yay!

Both openvms users will be ecstatic!
AFAIK you need a username to be able to extract anything from instagram at all.
The Unofficial Guide to OpenAI Realtime WebRTC API
I'll never understand why people are reluctant to pay for a monthly service because of something they might do in the future to make the service worse.

If they do that thing then just cancel! It's incredibly easy to do!
pepperidge farm remembers when the same thing could be said of closing departments like Department of Education and USAID lol.
Google announces agreement to acquire Wiz
I certainly am missing the point --- targeting internet with electromagnetic waves isn't exactly new technology?

https://www.dfmg.de/en/our-benefits/radio-relay-links.html
https://www.dfmg.de/de/unsere-leistungen/richtfunkanbindunge...

so now instead of electromagnetic waves it's light?

what am I missing?
It’s called being institutionalized.

You can let it happen or resist its influence over you from the start. Maybe through reform. Maybe by doing your own thing.
Increasingly the "basic" paid plan has ads and you now have to pay even more to not have ads. Doesn't seem like playing the game is doing anyone any favours.

Having the ability to tell a company enough is a enough serves as a ceiling for bullshit.
This is where we are at. So many people are unaware that ACA is Obamacare. Obamacare evil.
Aaron Earned An Iron Urn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esl_wOQDUeE
Clearly a computer genius, he is using Excel....
> Meta used a "laptop and a client tuned to seed as minimally as possible to torrent 81TBs of copyrighted material" to train their models.

Frankly, as a person committing copyright infringement 24/7 I have no problem with that. Especially with them releasing the weights.
I totally get it. That said, YouTube premium is worth every single penny and has only gained features over time; no other subscription I have comes close in terms of value.
It's designed for China by China, the western EU limitations are not applicable. As to who will deliver this in the next decades at scale? I can only speculate: China.
Perhaps on review of specific ad presentation practices, you could argue for a degradation of experience, but showing adds more or less within YouTube to free users seems like an acceptable method of generating revenue.

As an aside, the fact that people pay for cable and still have 4-7 minute ad-breaks every 15 minutes make anything YouTube does pale in comparison.
Teller, is that you ?
Sadly I think we're in need of the AriZona Iced Tea of streaming. A company that sells a streaming service, at a fixed price, makes a small profit and is happy with that profit.

The issue is that the current streaming services have cost billions to develop and companies and investors want that money back, times a 100. The money hasn't gone into a long term product that people will be happy with for decades, it has gone into a product that needs to return large chunk of money in a short time frame (and cover up other failed ventures).
This is a new approach :)

For more details see the paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3622818
or watch the talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkiy1rmKA48
> Cold-adapted mammals tend to be more cooperative within their species.

Interesting, what are you basing that on? (Is it an observation you've made or is there any research paper for example)

But the neanderthals, that was about 40 000 years ago they started disappearing. That's so much time, so any more kind or more brutal traits they might have had, wouldn't matter any more. Evolution is pretty fast, 20-50 generations is fairly much, when it comes to changing the distribution of traits that already exist, from what I've read (both our own species and other). And seen, actually, about humans.

Personally I believe all other great apes were roughly equally violent, just not as intelligent.
When that happens, I’ll stop saying “just pay for it.” But until it does, I’ll continue paying for YouTube and being befuddled by people who get upset at their ads.
Export into CSV, attach, done. 10MB can contain a million people's PII.
Trump signed USMCA. Now he claims some idiot did USMCA.
What do you mean it’s before ”vibe shift”, that’s not true?
Different frequencies I gathered? Lasers are more like lines than radio that is more like waves on a pond.
Paying users are too valuable not to serve ads to. Their clicks are worth more: ad-free tiers are always temporary.

Not that it matters: I pay for the bandwidth and hardware too. So I decide what it serves and runs.
It's crazy how that option completely evades many people's reasoning on the subject.
I block YouTube ads on all my devices by paying for YouTube Premium. It feels refreshing to be able to pay for a service I enjoy and therefore not be served ads which I don’t enjoy. It seems like a win-win to me. Doing something like this, while technically interestingly, seems like far more trouble than it’s worth for 99.99% of people, especially when there’s a reasonably priced way to block ads that also supports the service.
Dang what does a drone carriable several kilometer fiber spool look like?
Who me or the politicians who go to town halls and tell their constituents this is what they did (one of the 5 things they did this week perhaps).
Some of us rarely read the articles. They're often, frankly, a waste of time. And it's hard to tell just by the headline whether it's worth reading or not. The comments often tell me whether the article is worth reading faster than the article would. (And some of the time the article is paywalled, and some of the time it's a video, which makes it harder to skim.)

And often I learn more from the comments than I would from the article.
Yeah, I've seen a few videos where people are asked if they want to purge Obamacare, then asked if they support the Affordable Care Act, the reactions are priceless.
Wiz to Join Google Cloud: Making Magic Together
It's a 2 step process, first you have to rebuild the thing (or most of the thing) yourself, which is already a huge undertaking.
Then you need to migrate everyone from their current stack to the new one (or new ones. You probably want to give more than one option).

The migrating might even take longer than the building.

I'm betting it mostly doesn't happen but we'll see.
But you still get in-video ads ("this video is sponsored by shadow raid vpn"), that (on a computer) you can skip with sponsorblock.
YouTube has a “jump ahead” built in - at least on the phone - which skips sponsored bits
> Someone’s plan when investing in early Solar panel R&D went something like: If everyone would just… “follow their economic interests” driving down the cost of panels will dramatically increase adoption further driving down costs in a feedback loop.

I'm not sure if that is a good paralel. The difference is that we didn't needed "everyone" to innovate on solar panels. It was enough if "someone" was, and those who did not got left behind with their inefficient processes. That's not a true "everyone would just" situation.
Second Tuta. Their feature list might be limited when compared to Proton or Fastmail, but their core email service is solid.
With respect to that, YouTube premium has been around for over ten years, the majority of which I've been a subscriber because adblocking on Apple TV (my primary YouTube experience) is far too much of a fuckabout for me to willingly engage in it, and they haven't yet done it. I think Google is well aware of the fact that Premium with ads is an utter non-starter as a product. What would you even be paying for then? This isn't like TV+ or Prime where you have exclusives, almost everyone who posts to YouTube would happily jump that ship given enough reason to.

And while there are still ads (sponsored segments) I personally have less problem with those since those are substantial money for the creators I enjoy, and a lot of the ones I watch actually manage to make them pretty funny. And hell, a couple I've even used their codes for shit over the years for. Like, an ad is an ad and some people hate all of them, but I can personally say I've engaged with ads from creators I like at an exceptional rate compared to... virtually every other type of advertising I've ever encountered.
Not only spite. Also what his handlers tell him.
Naively, you’d think such a revolutionary paper [BERT] would be met with open arms. But when it was given the best paper award (at NAACL 2019), the postdocs I talked to universally grumbled about it. Why? It wasn’t interesting, they bemoaned. “It just scaled some stuff up.”

I'm from that community, was there when they presented it, have used and still use BERT a lot, and still if it were my decision I wouldn't have given it the best paper award, even in hindsight.

BERT the model has been, of course, enormously influential. I still use it, even after the generative LLM revolution (which also stands on it shoulders). I greatly respect its authors and am truly grateful that they published and open-sourced it.

BERT the paper? It's not really well-written (almost everyone who wants to understand Transformers or BERT turn to a blog, because the papers are so bad) and it's not stellar in terms of scientific insights, because indeed, it scales some stuff up and comes up with a lot of magic numbers that are there presumably because other alternatives were tried and those happened to work. Or maybe not even that, because some stuff included in BERT actually turned up being useless (see RoBERTa), so I guess they just winged much of it and it worked.

From a scientific paper, I would expect much more explanation: why the architecture is designed like this, why this number of layers/dimensions and not that, etc. which that paper thoroughly lacks. No one will learn to do better science from that paper, it's not a paper that a PhD student would benefit much from reading except as a curiosity (they of course can benefit from downloading, using and getting to know the model. Just not from the paper).

Maybe create a "best model award", "best software award" or whatever, but in my view as an academic a best paper award is just not for this.
Or you can opt out. Both options are equally valid.

I won't pay for YouTube because the consistency of YouTube is massively variable. Sometimes channels I watch skip 6 months between videos. When I do watch stuff its usually in the background or when I just have a few minutes spare. Spending money to fill that time is unjustifiable unless it's a really low amount, and YouTube Premium isn't low enough yet.

Oddly though, if I could buy 100 'skip this ad' tokens for $10 that I could use when I'm pushed for time, but just suffer the ads when I'm not, I'd seriously consider it.
I just tried Pinta and retract my words about it, cause it shows coords. This could help with my gimp suffering.

But generally it's really not as nice as Paint.net. I don't like the ui at all (washed and bleak, hamburger menus, checkboxes on layers swallow second clicks, clicks on icons sometimes demaximize window, etc, also slow). It's just bad. Idk if it's gtk3/4 or pinta itself. But it generally works and apart from that I'll give it a 4 out of 5.
It is silly indeed but unfortunately this is what happens in companies that don’t have a good engineering culture.
I'll print, frame and hang this comment.

I'm sure you'll have no problem with that, either.
The alternative is paying for things you like so the people who make them can continue doing so. If you don’t think YouTube is worth paying for, it might be a good idea to reconsider the amount of time you spend on it or whether you want to help promote it.
I would love to pay for youtube premium, but i have a google workspace/apps/own-domain/whatever the hell they call it now account, and loads of stuff (like youtube premium) isn't supported.
I think the implication was that they're pointers to objects that own resources (like containing FILE handles) and need to be "freed" with a custom function, not just "free".

void my_thing_free(MyThing *thing) {
fclose(thing->file);
free(thing);
}

assuming an associated "my_thing_new" that only returns a valid pointer when both the allocation and the fopen succeeded.
Completely untrue in the case of YouTube Premium. I literally haven't seen an ad for over a decade now.
Dangerous diving in the offshore oil and gas industry
I'm very surprised Google isn't already certificate pinning.
You're looking at this in black and white. The CEO praised one of the administrations picks for being tough on big tech. While I think he's wrong in his statement on who stands for "the little guys" praising one pick for her stance on big tech does not mean he wholly supports the administration and it's actions.
I've been on the internet since the mid 90s and that entire time it has relied on ad supported free content.
I paid for YouTube Premium and still got ads, though fewer. So I cancelled. Are they now offering YT Premium ad free?
Yea, I did say that. There’s no reason for the average person to expect their car’s autopilot to do that. Autopilots follow routes.
In most cases I've seen scales similar to this - body cams in security, scanners at postal services and such, the physical part is offloaded to the individuals working with the thing: at the end of the day, you put your thing into a charger, or into a box and connect it up or something like that.

So from there, my thought is indeed: Why shouldn't we get 1000 micro sd card readers (or multi readers), attach those to a bunch of PIs streaming the cards to a central server, have people put their SD card in there at the end of a day? After that, you can kick off the reads in a batch, re-seat the cards that aren't set correctly and that's it.

One could reduce hardware cost by having some LED turn on or off if a card in a reader can be swapped, but with a thousand people doing this, complicated instructions tend to be a bad thing. Unless the transfer is fast enough to wait for it.

But it's always fun how complicated some of these physical problems become if you scale them up. Like, consider how many storm drains are out there in a city. If each needs to be touched once every 3 years... suddenly you've created a dozen jobs.
@swah, thanks for posting!
> Stock buybacks mean buying stock, which is an investment.

This is wildly incorrect, in that the purpose of stock buybacks is to reduce the number of shares and juice metrics like earnings per share (which weirdly enough, lots of CxOs are bonused on).

> Yes, I am well aware marginal tax rates. For a rich person, the marginal tax rate asymptotically approaches all of the income. You didn't reply to my point, though, that money you tax away from people takes away from their investments. This is the point behind an IRA, FWIW.

Your first comment (around the 100k income and different tax rates) had the weird marginal/total tax rate confusion, so if you'd prefer to avoid that be more clear in the future. As an example, I pay 52% marginal, but about 35% overall.

> 7. Stock buybacks are a method of distributing profits to shareholders without the high tax rate on dividends.

Correct, but I think this is a bad way and encoyurages non optimal behaviour.
Everyone in this thread should read this filing; it's only a couple of pages.

Previous background on Ryan Wunderly and Marko Elez: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/treasury-irs-data-w...

"Treasury said Ryan Wunderly will replace Marko Elez on the agency’s DOGE team. Elez examined the federal payments system housed at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service before he resigned from Treasury earlier this month after The Wall Street Journal surfaced racist social media posts."
Many comments are saying that these rooms have been created to give fund managers the ability to execute large trades while keeping the price similar or close to what is available on the open market. I guess my question is why should they should be allowed to be protected from this type of risk? If they were not protected from this large type of risk, then maybe we would have more competition in the large fund manager space because, like hedge funds have experienced, after managing a certain amount of money there is a diminishing return as others will see and follow your trend.
I paid for a family subscription a couple of years ago. It is very reasonably priced. Probably one of the least regretted subscriptions I have given the amount of use I get out of it
AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites
You could also help defend Taiwan against illegal annexation and then you wouldn't need to have those facilities on-shore.
Presumably he lives in the same place as his girlfriend.