skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking through the examples, macros and pattern-matching, for me that would be impressive like 10 years ago.

If you want to see really innovative, readable and powerful language check out Red. While the language development seems to be ceased, the ideas (coming from old proprietary Rebol language) of working with code and data go much deeper than just macros: it has built-in DSL (called parse) for making DSLs on the fly and not just pre-runtime code manipulations. https://www.red-lang.org/

And there is XL language which might have even more powerful extensibility features, like adding types or pattern matching or asynchronous processing. Sadly I couldn't compile and try the only implementation it has, only judging by the docs explaining its ideas. https://xlr.sourceforge.io/
An axiom of secure programming is to never trust the client. You don't really know what the client is.

Often it takes several penetrations via compromised/replaced clients to get the message through.

Just look at all the discussions about why browser-based javascript encryption is problematic.
The manual way of copying a DB or part of it is export to CSV in my experience.

You can store A LOT in that format in 16MB.
Sponsored segments are also trivially skippable.
I cannot conceive of why any country would link a crucial part of its national security to the US. Especially since we've literally threatened to invade Canada.

We're not going to invade Canada. That's just a distraction. The most absurd pronouncements are just a way to distract from the things that are actually going on. So we won't invade but we may well do something else awful. Relying on US equipment, or treaties, would be absurd.

I cannot conceive of when any country would ever trust the US again. It certainly won't be in four years, regardless of what happens, because the voters who made this happen will still be there.
I mean, that was the theory of passing the bill, yes. You can question that theory, but it's not like some new explanation for the purpose of the law.
Thrive or Survive, or why Peace and War are overrated metaphors for leadership
> AI-Model-Specialisation-As-A-Service (ASS ASS) -- where they create bespoke models for orgs which can afford it.

I think you are on to something here - and this may very well be what these rumored $20k/mon specialized AI "agents" end up being. https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/openai-reportedly-plans-to...
I haven’t seen a single ad in over a year. You still get paid sponsorships depending on the channel though
It still can, at least so far. But courts are slow.
The list is precisely words with multiple meanings of the same spelling, but there are only two meanings of "buffalo" that aren't proper names, and this list is about words with three or more meanings.

(As an aside, I've always felt that you can have unlimited "buffalos" in a sentence, without ever using the name of the city, through a process of recursion, but I'm not enough of an authority to get my version into the Wikipedia article...)
Yes? Because during COVID, the supply of microchips became a really big issue.

I bought a 2024 Prius last year in Feb and didn't get my second key fob until this year, Feb, because of supply chain issues with microchips.

Now imagine an actual war where China takes Taiwan.
I seriously doubt this is why. Israelis love saying “it’ll be fine, don’t worry about it” and then hoping for the best. Sometimes it just doesn’t work out this way, no matter what kind of elite unit you’re associated with.
I sort of imagine (but I'm not experienced enough to actually state) that you could create a negative specification. Something like: this program will certainly not open the file flag.txt

This doesn't guarantee the program is correct. But it's not nothing.
> Which library has fewer dependencies.

This is not insignificant.

Remember xz? That could have been a disaster.

That the language includes a package manager that fetches an assortment of libraries from who knows whom on demand doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the process to me. Alice's secure AES implementation might bring Eve's string padding function along for the ride.

Rust(TM) the language might be (memory) safe in theory but I have serious issues (t)rusting (t)rust and anything built with it.
With "good" ISPs that support IPv6 well you'd only have to change your DHCPv6 config to request a larger delegation instead of the default /64.

Unfortunately, some ISPs (including mine) limit this to /64 only, which is extremely limiting.
You ever heard of Crystal, Red, XL?
Foreign governments are probably having once in a century field day with the data they are harvesting.

This damage won't be fixed within the lifetime of anyone alive today.

We won't even see WW3 coming, just tiny footsteps and then BOOM some morning.
I personally won't worry until microwave ovens are regulated. I'm still sore that I didn't publish a decade ago.

c.f. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6XdcWToy2c
Apple loses German antitrust appeal, opening door for greater controls
Completely agree! A semantic layer is essential for scaling analytics to enterprise complexity.

Another alternative here is Veezoo [0], which combines the semantic layer (a Knowledge Graph) and self-service analytics into one integrated solution.

We built it specifically for the analytics use-case for both the "data persona" to manage the semantic layer, as well as for the "business persona" to analyze the data.

If you’re looking for a semantic-layer + (embedded) BI solution right out of the box. This could be a fit.

0 - https://www.veezoo.com
I found your cat please meet me in seedy dark alley 3am or I'll release her back into the streets
Doesn't this just start to go from productive efforts to stupid ones?

Why aren't we all flying on Russian made planes and using Russian cloud products?
You're probably reading too much into previous poster's choice of the word "gift".

Most likely it is a slightly misused idiom rather than intending to convey that the teaching ability was obtained without effort.
Sure, there’s a good argument that we should limit self–driving cars to predictable environments. For example, we could dig a bunch of tunnels under our cities and have self–driving cars in them. It’s a controlled environment. If the tunnels connect to buildings underground, then the cars would not need to be used on surface roads.
I can recommend "minitube" [1]. It's super minimalistic, and requires you to actively search for things to find them. No ads, no feeds, no short videos, nothing - just playlists for search terms. Uses yt-dlp and mpv behind the scenes, so it's using less than 5% CPU on my small Intel NUC machine, too.

I can't stress enough how it is soooo much better in terms of what type of content I consume now. Mr-Beast-cutting-style dumb videos ain't stand a chance to get my attention now.

Ironically, the author built it to be a children-safe environment to consume YouTube.

[1] https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube
Lots of social commentary here, but I'd just note you're one mad lad. This is a great writeup and a nifty bit of sleuthing. I found it enjoyable to read.
I had that issue. I just created a new account solely for YouTube
Scientists abandon dream of creating 'mirror life'
> Inference cost are in free fall. The recent optimizations from DeepSeek means that all the available GPUs could cover a demand of 10k tokens per day from a frontier model for… the entire earth population. There is nowhere this level of demand. The economics of selling tokens does not work anymore for model providers: they have to move higher up in the value chain.

I've been using Cline so I can understand the pricing of these models and it's insane how much goes into input context + output. My most recent query on openrouter.ai was 26,098 input tokens -> 147 output tokens. I'm easily burning multiple dollars an hour. Without a doubt there is still demand for cheaper inference.
> And yet you wanted to correct someone else, without ever having heard someone say it?

I've heard "Sikh" pronounced many times by native english speakers and that invariably sounds like "seek". Now that I've heard that it's pronounced differently by the Sikhs themselves, I'll aim to use the correct pronunciation. This is an unusual situation in that I am a "native" (i.e. a native of England) and arguably Sikhs are non-native though I'd expect most of them near us were born here.

Also, the English have a long history of turning up in other countries and pushing their own religion/language/culture onto the natives, so maybe I'm just a product of my upbringing?
There are ads on YouTube? I guess my browser blocks them so well that I didn’t know.

The real problem here is that the AppleTV experience is so much worse than an ordinary web browser experience. Apple locked the hardware down to the point that it benefits YouTube’s ad profits more than it benefits the end consumer who pays for it.
Are you open to hiring junior fullstack engineers who are eager to learn?
Lasers need line of sight.
> but i normally assume protestors get permits

can't help but find this hilarious (also not american either)
I’ve been paying for premium, basically because they’ve been sort of forcing to people with the ridiculous number of ads. I get zero ads injected. You’ll still get sponsorships that are part of the video done by the creator, which is now become a little bit more annoying. But at least it’s something that the content creator completely approves of and endorses. I can skip that part anyway.

I’ll probably cancel it soon, only because I need to stop watching so much of this stuff, and I need to get rid of things in life that I shouldn’t be paying for. Once I do that, I’ll never be able to watch YouTube again, because it was unbearable with the number of ads injected. I hate being reminded over and over that I am nothing but a consumer that they try to influence with ads over, amd over, and over, and over.

Off-topic, I recently got another free month of Amazon prime. I was watching some shows on there, and the ads are f’n annoying there too. I can’t believe they make people pay more now to remove the ads. I’ll never pay for Prime in any fashion.
Google to acquire cloud security startup Wiz for $32B
Hi, interesting article.

Since I am not in the AI industry, I think I do not understand few things:

- what is RL? Research Language?

- does it mean that in essence AI companies will switch to writing enterprise software using LLMs integrated with enterprise tools?

[EDIT]
Seems like you can even ask a question on HN because 'how dare you not know something?' and gonna be downvoted.
See also https://github.com/mflatt/shplait, which is a language with (1) the HM type system and (2) the same syntax that Rhombus uses. The language itself is implemented in Rhombus.
Yeah, there are no export tools, but technically it would be up to the other party (like Google or MS) to make those right? When you want to go Proton -> Google ;)

I guess with the bridge you can move your mail uit via imap, the Drive you can just download it all. Calendar will be annoying I think because there are no open protocols like caldav (by design, and I do miss that!!!).
Not when existing ones continue to operate.
Where are you finding this "basic" plan? YouTube Premium has only a single tier that is completely ad-free. I hate Google as much as anyone, but shouldn't truth matter?
Yes, you also see this in the scientific community where it is the norm to build onto others' work without explicit permission but not citing that work is unthinkable.
“Only I can fix it. Tortilla chips (those are gang chips) taking up too much room on the table. Don’t know why you’d stick up for gang chips. Potato chips belong. ”
> What the people who critique the publication process are missing: 90% of submissions are crap - unfit for publication.

Publication is antiquated. HN doesn't need reviewers to boost the best content or to provide commentary on how to improve a paper or fact check its contents. Join the 21st century.
I need this for my pihole!
Yep. Most folks I follow will record ads at a different time from the rest of the video too, wearing different clothes and in different lighting. Sometimes I can be bothered to grab the remote, sometimes not, lol.
I have paid for YouTube Premium for years and watch YouTube nearly every day and I have never seen an ad from YouTube (you still may see baked-in ads from the video creator but those can be automatically skipped with the SponsorBlock extension).
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Yeah, I use YouTube more than any other streaming service, and I happily pay for it.

The ability to download videos is super duper useful, and the higher streaming quality is a nice extra.

But most of all, no ads while still rewarding the creators I watch is great.
>I am no longer considering the US as a democracy.

Despite the current administration being in power explicitly because it genuinely won a recent election in which the incumbents would have preferred to win instead. Trump's frequent shittiness and feces throwing aside, he got his second term through the long-established and very stable American democratic process.

That you would then go from this to claim China as somehow better, a country in which authoritarian one-party rule is absolute and in which nobody can throw an incumbent out of office, is just.... really absurd.
This is a novella that just keeps getting twistier, going deeper, and turning out more rewarding.

And clearly all these "reasoning" LLMs trained heavily on Eric Draken's refreshingly introspective monologue full of interjections and discoveries.
Wow. That's a huge amount for Cybersecurity.
I remember people promising a rogue CA would not work anymore due to certificate transparency requiring certificates to be published in order to be valid, but it is quite obvious here that certificate transparency was not even needed. A private CA is different from a rogue CA, but if the private CA was not forced to do certificate transparency, I wonder what is supposedly forcing the public CAs to do it for their certificates to be “valid”.
Anyone got a sense for where the value is in Wiz? Revenue? IP? Any customers here?
One wonders if $32B spent "pluggin' up the holes" would accomplish more. A lot of open source code could be rewritten at this price point.
I’ve used it for all kinds of production stuff over the years, from web to desktop and mobile apps.
Isn't the cat already out of the box? If the White House and its dictator are agreeing to it it could mean they don't need full access anymore.
its cool because you ruined the internet for someone older too
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If you pay publishers, the creators don't get paid.

Sure they do. The amount they get paid might not be enough. But by pirating, your guarantee the creator gets nothing at all. So... I stand by my statement. But, I will definitely agree that the whole "digital media" economy is fundamentally broken and hostile to both creators and consumers.
100% SaaS will suffer the most, mostly big SaaS.
>Work should be based on results

The people who play politics also have their work judged by results. Getting yourself promoted to head a project that prints money for the company with little cost doesn't necessarily cause the project to stop printing money.
Antithesis: Hunting for one-in-a-million bugs in NATS
My personal experience for the entire time the service has been available: if I get a single ad, then I'm not signed in to the right account.
Linus tech tips had a break down of their income. One thing Linus highlighted was that YouTube Premium revenue was much larger than most would expect. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zt57TWkTF4&t=400s (it's a little under 20% of their total revenue from YouTube).
He’s already resigned because he was linked to racist and abhorrent social commentary; the export was considered low-risk; and based on what happened between coequal branches of government this week, the Administration feels they’re accountable to no one.

So; not a paddlin’.
YouTube Premium doesn't get rid of ads though, as many of the videos themselves are still full of ads/sponsors.
what hyperbole. it’s just names and a dollar amount.
Ah actually, more from today: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dear-hosting-providers-you...
What hardware are you using?

My plugin only works on Apple Silicon.
It’s especially weird because the one thing guaranteed to result in more ads is not paying. People spend a lot of money making content for YouTube and something has to pay for it.
The complaint goes into a lot of detail. Start at page 16 and read through at least page 23 if you want to understand what Ripling could discern from the spy's Slack usage.

> In part to ensure that the confidential information in Rippling’s Slack channels is used only for authorized purposes, Rippling employees’ Slack activity is “logged,” meaning every time a user views a document through Slack, accesses a Slack channel, sends a message, or conducts searches on Slack, that activity (and the associated user) is recorded in a log file.
Because if the service you pay for start to do what you expressively pay them not to do, your whole subscription since the beginning will feel like a waste.

Worst, your money was partially used against your interest, by financing people unilaterally altering a contract they made with you.
"But her emails!"

These issues are as important as people want to make them out to be. But given the discussion of security clearance involved, maybe it is a legal matter? Maybe someone can work out which bits of the Treasury privacy policy https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/236/Department-of-the... are legally binding and which are just guidelines.
What a throwback to heavy.com early 2000s where I first saw this video. Hilarious.
I think Studio Ghibli's 'secret sauce' is the "Kishōtenketsu" or four act structure that makes Studio Ghibli special:

1. Ki (Introduction) - Sets up characters and situation.

2. Shō (Development) - Expands the characters and fleshes them out.

3. Ten (Twist) - Introduces a new element or change.

4. Ketsu (Conclusion) - Shows the outcome and connections between elements.

In contrast Western films usually follow a three act structure:

1. Setup - Introduces the hero, often stepping into the unknown, and establishes the initial conflict and sets the stage for the story.

2. Confrontation - The hero faces mounting challenges and conflicts, often involving threats to innocent people or community. Stakes are raised and the story progresses to a conclusion.

3. Resolution - The story culminates in a climatic confrontation between the hero and the villain. Some sacrifice is usually paid, the hero triumphs, justice is served and order returns to the community.

I grew up on Disney and the three act structure, so when I experienced Studio Ghibli for the first time with Princess Mononoke it felt very different, fresh and more mature. While I don't necessarily love all of Studio Ghibli's catalogue, I do treasure Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Porco Rosso.

In the case of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, I highly recommend reading the manga over watching the Studio Ghibli anime.
I've gone back to pirating everything. I can afford to pay for all the services, it's just the service and content quality has gotten so bad that it's just not worth it. I DO pay for content from other markets (French, Israeli, and Japanese), just not mine.

It's just like vehicles. There isn't a single vehicle sold in my market that I would pay anything for (ok, maybe the Ford Maverick). There's a bunch in other markets (Europe, South America, Asia), just not mine.
same here been using pork for almost 5 years now. Btw did you ever faced issue with redirection ?
Hi. So quickly:

* RL is Reinforcement Learning. Already used for a while as part of RLHF but now we have started to find a very nice combo of reasoning+RL on verifiable tasks. Core idea is that models are not just good a predicting the next token but the next right answer.

* I think anything infra with already some ML bundled is especially up for grabs but this will have a more transformative impact than your usual SaaS. Network engineering is a good example: highly formalized but also highly complex. RL models could increasingly nail that.
That’s true. I got a “termination notice” from Rippling at the beginning of the year and had to fill out a W4 directly with my company. We are still using Rippling. But I assume not as a PEO anymore
Walnut burl veneer is inevitably both warped and also brittle.

If you're going to use it, it's worth making up or buying veneer flattening solution, wetting the veneer with it, and clamping it between two pieces of melamine or plywood with some packing paper to get it flat without destroying it. Change the paper a couple times as the veneer dries.

Once it's flattened, you can glue it down using a caul (one of the pieces of melamine you used to flatten it will work) to hold the veneer flat to your hopefully flat substrate while the glue dries, or you can hammer veneer it with hide glue.

Hammer veneering doesn't risk gluing your caul to your veneer, but it does require a warmer shop, and I wouldn't want to do e.g. a dining table that way. Melamine cauls usually pop free pretty readily if they do get glued to the veneer. If you don't have or want to buy melamine, a packing paper layer between the veneer and the caul will help, as will covering the caul with packing tape.

Ideally, you don't end up with a lot of glue bleeding through the veneer, but burl veneer tends to wick it through.
Interesting, could it be that their software is built by Gemini, the acquisition is managed by Gemini, and the Gemini in Google made a $32B deal with the Gemini at Wiz?
"database" in legal/business speak (AFAIK) is the more general "organized collection of data" - not the more software engineer focused relational/object/graph- implementations of such.
What’s PI?
How does an AI summary of crappy reviews help? It doesn't make the original data any more trustworthy.
This sounds pretty interesting. Can you share a link to your work or livestream?
The point of the argument you were replying to was that Trump signed the USMCA in his first term, but it's now saying it's a terrible deal for the US and reason enough to start a trade war with Canada over.

A deal he himself signed.

Trump doesn't just exaggerate. Trump outright lies. Minute by minute.
When did people ever believe that model selection mattered when using Deep Research? The UI may be bad, but it was obvious from day one that it followed its own workflow.

Search within ChatGPT is far from obsolete. 4o + Search remains a significant advantage in both time and cost when handling real-time, single-step queries—e.g., What is the capital of Texas?
The future of serialization and deserialization APIs
Even the trivial specification "given a valid input, the program exits successfully with some arbitrary output" will already get you very far: to prove this trivial specification as correct, you need to prove the absence of panics, undefined behavior or infinite loops. Doing that for a complex program will require formulating useful invariants and proving those. So even if using the trivial specification for the overall program, you'll likely find that the proof will require you to write actually useful specifications for several components of your program (because the program likely contains code that relies on the correctness of the component, in order to prove absence of crashes in the code using the component).
There is for certain a wide gap between a sponsored segment from the same voice and some random ad coming in and blaring over the top. For me, I can handle the narrator delivering an ad, it's the intrusive slot machine aspect of generic ads that irk me. Happy youtube subscriber here, use the music too, great deal.

Youtube is one of the platforms where I find real value, usually in making/maintaining/repairing things, being able to skip through videos to find answers without worrying about ads definitely saves me significant time and therefore money.