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> They're not going to spend tax-payer money on crypto

Feds, not yet. But some red states are [1].

[1] https://x.com/samuelarmes/status/1864059964928442424
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Among many other things that are seeing titanic shifts right now is the media landscape. Wired has been doing some excellent reporting on a lot of recent events while you have storied outfits like the Washington Post muzzled by their owner.
Well, that’s going to make it harder to hide from the hunter-killer bots
It sounds like you are advocating a policy to solve hypothetical problems or problems you have vaguely heard that somebody had once, not real-life problems where you are familiar with the tradeoffs.
Also sell toyota, nissan, folksvagen, Audi. Right? For the same reasons?

Glad I roll American coal!

ETA: i haven't driven a diesel in ~20 years, and it wasn't rolling coal. we have two japanese cars. If you can't detect the irony and self-deprecation in this comment, just move on.
no you're just seeing increased public backlash against Elon being taken out on Tesla.
Seems to still being trialed in only a few regions. It's No ads during videos (still display ads during search, etc.), except for shorts and music videos for 6€/m. Without all the other premium features
Thought this was sarcasm till the end. Good idea
Is it actually possible for things to get any more polarized at this point? You're either ok with this guy doing a Nazi salute in our seat of government, or you're not.

America needs to wake the fuck up and remind Nazis they are not welcome here and we already beat them once. Is this not a completely razor perfect targeted attack? No. But the guy you're supporting with these cars is fucking doxxing judges children to manipulate them. So I'm not going to fault this guy for fighting back.
I'm more concerned about criminals than companies, although there's definitely overlap.

Realistically our names, addresses, approx net worths etc are all out there. Just so many data leaks that've ended up on darknet marketplaces.
There's an interesting debate there. Here's my thesis on it:

Isolating the definiton of "PC" to the IBM lineage makes it a lot easier to contextualize the historical development of home computing. Example: my TRS-80 is a microcomputer, but it is not a PC. This is a sentence that younger generations can grok. If I say "my TRS-80 is a PC but not an IBM PC-compatible" their eyes glaze over.
According to the reporting on GamingOnLinux, it works. Haven't tried it myself yet.
Yes, I searched RLHF and figured it out. But this was an especially “good” example of poor communication. I assume the author isn’t being deliberately obtuse and appreciates the feedback.
Yes. They became billionaires overnight.
Do you take issue with the 'purely empirical' approach (just trying out variants and seeing which sticks) or only with its insufficient documentation?

I don't know how you'd improve on the former. For a lot of it there simply isn't any sound theoretical foundation, so you just end up with flimsy post-hoc rationalizations.

While I agree that it's unfortunate that people often just present magic numbers without explaining where they come from, in my experience providing documentation for how one arrives at these often enough gets punished because it draws more attention to them. That is, reviewers will e.g. complain about preliminary experiments, asking for theoretical analysis or question why only certain variants were tried, whereas magic numbers are just kind of accepted.
Isn't the site itself that UI that it's created??
How was the situation dangerous. Please explain.
> But that's just a bit of nitpicking.

The whole question is about nitpicking though.

If somebody comes to you with a picture of a desired webpage and list of http calls to make for each button on that picture then you're a programmer.

Similar to how if I come to you with say a paragraph in English and I want one in French that makes you a translator not an author.

Sure, not everybody who writes code has this narrow responsibility. The ones that do are programmers though in the eyes of BLS.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398518
Copying from the link:

>webapps

>context-aware components

>copy production-ready code or deploy it from here.

so folks who don't want to use Electron or HTML should look elsewhere.
I didn't notice the 3's being particularly bad, the truck one is tiny, useless and presumably only there for compliance.
When we're talking about quality of evidence, saying "in reality" is skipping to your conclusion. Are smart careful people rare among known criminals? Well, yes. What would you expect to see? https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/02/the_wittgenstei.htm...
Is there any way to buy and own a copy of it?
I’m not sure I follow the logic here. Let’s say a person owns a Tesla outright, and purchased it ignorant to Elon’s behavior (esp if prior to the last year or two). How does selling it benefit some cause? Tesla already has that person’s money. It’s purely a performative action?
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Streaming Databases and LLMs = Proactive AI Agents That React in Real Time
The core idea: an LLM subscribes to event-driven triggers defined in Streaming SQL (e.g., stock price surges, security alerts, IoT signals). When a trigger fires, the database pushes relevant context to the LLM, enabling instant decision-making without constant polling.
> and generally do things to reduce the friction for your audience to understand what you're writing

Sure, if you're writing a blogpost titled "Architecture for Chefs" then yes, write with that audience in mind.

But we're a mix-match of folks here, from all different walks of life. Requiring that everyone should expand all acronyms others possibly might not understand, would just be a waste of time.

If I see two cooks discussing knives with terms I don't understand, is it really their responsibility to make sure I understand it, although I'm just a passive observer, and I posses the skill to look up things myself?
JSON generation against a semantic layer and validation loops is definitely the easiest way to get high 9s success for going directly to a correct query from text. For the human in the loop cases, going directly to SQL can be fun - I’ve toyed with a SQL-like semantic layer that removes the need for direct table access and joins, which removes two of the risk points for LLMs going off the rails while still leveraging a lot of the baked in knowledge about SQL syntax (window functions, transformations, etc) that can be hard to exhaustively bake into the semantic layer. (It’s annoying when the semantic layer doesn’t quite have what you need.)
One thing we'd like to know your opinion on, is our key monitoring via WebSocket (pub-sub) feature. You can read more about it in our documentation under WebSocket.

Is it something that you think it's useful and you might have use case for or you can't see any value in it? In other words, is it something that you might consider using HPKV because of it?
Because the last 3 have gone so well
Sure, the blog post didn't mention PQexec would reject it, so I assumed it would be accepted. Turns out it's a narrowly dodged bullet, I'm wrong on that. But having to chain two vulnerabilities together to own the system doesn't make either vulnerability less of a vulnerability. The escape function was wrong, period, another level of defense helped in this case, but "the documentation for the postgres escape function didn't say it escaped input for psql" is a bullshit excuse (it definitely didn't achieve the documented goal of "escaping special characters so that they cannot cause any harm"), putting "CVE" in quotes and blaming it all on the user is wrong.

> I used imprecise language that everyone understands, and you're choosing to read critically in order to be combative.

No, your "imprecise language" is a fundamental and quite dangerous misunderstanding that could easily lead to more vulnerabilities like this one ("PQexecParams = PQexec + PQescapeString, amiright? I'll just use the latter"). Maybe you didn't misunderstand yourself, maybe you did, but it's 100% misleading for readers not familiar with db internals.
I am glad the crypto bros stopped this nonsensical narrative on blockchain. At least now they can admit cryptos exist for money laundering.

Oh, wait. They still don’t.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398518
I just love the Tesla, why would I care about what other people say? It works better everyday.
It's not reasonable to expect someone to sell their primary mode of transportation, likely at a loss, for reasons out of their control.
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We're starting with a major fulfillment company (1.5M workers), focusing initially on Indian immigrants who regularly transfer money home. The solution is expected to save $25M annually at full scale.

Technical details and architecture diagrams are in the post. Would love to hear HN's thoughts on the security implications and scalability challenges of managing 1.5M cold wallets.
I think it's maybe not as you understand. It's not a political movement -- they don't need your support. The goal is economic logic. It's trying to do economic damage to Tesla. No one needs to care if someone feels warm or cold about Tesla, they don't need to sell you or anyone but a very small subset on "a movement"... just that every rational actor has good reason to sell or never even buy.
It's already well known that none of the search engines, crawlers, and companies honor robots.txt (anymore).

It's just for us oldies who prefer the ethical web where people respected the RFCs they have collectively written.
Any concerns about it making offers the business can't support, like in this case?

https://futurism.com/the-byte/car-dealership-ai
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398518
Dude people bought the cars before Elon revealed himself to be a Nazi. Owning a Tesla does not make you an ideological fascist.
Acquisitions often involve swaps of shares.
I wonder if taking your kids in your country to school by car instead of going on foot might have anything to do with child kidnapping & killings? where the police was too lame to actual find the kids and more died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_March
Official Wiz post: https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-joining-google
Sometime explain the strategic rationale behind this? Google's previous big acquisition in the cloud space, Looker, didn't exactly pan out.
Why not install Nepenthes and let them bath in the tar?
Otherwise it depends on the deal structure. Especially if it's an acqui-hire, or founders are involved, it can be a combination of shares, options, earn-out, guaranteed bonus, certain salary levels (much higher then their current one) etc etc, and cash. Usually 100% cash deal is the most sought after unless the acquirer has a very solid business (in that case shares and options could be valuable too).
You should uncritically believe them, they have no reason to lie.
People are usually upside down on vehicle purchases for at least half of their finance period.

I know I am.. there's no selling my Tesla at this point. Not for a while, and probably not ever, the way things are going.

That said, I'm 100% for tanking TSLA stock down to $110 to make life very very miserable for Musk..
If you are a-political you implicitly support what’s happening.
I love the idea of this sort of thing, but FWIW I personally don't think the lean "make a landing page to gauge interest in a product before we make it" is that effective these days, sorry.
I used to do this (10+ years ago), but once a few get leaked, everything else would get exposed if someone wanted to target you.

Much easier to just manage randomized passwords through 1Password.
Creative work, i.e. intellectual property. Much can be said about the state of copyright law in 2025, but the basic idea that you own what you create is the fundamental reason we (able to) prosper.
What's in for Google?

Like 32B is no small sum, and I don't really understand Wiz business (product yes, business and numbers much less).
Perhaps Google is scared about losing its cash cow in search, and is needing to cement their position in cloud compute.
Google Cloud post:

Google + Wiz: Strengthening Multicloud Security

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/goo...
Yeah, one of the first video "memes" that I remember.

Thew whale and that guy losing his shit in a cubicle and destroying his PC.
Yeah this definitely doesn't help anything. I don't know why some people can't understand that everyone can get behind dunking on Elon Musk, because he is clearly an alien wearing a human suit. But doxxing Tesla owners is absolutely stupid.
It turns moderate people against you more than it helps. Not sure where people get this idea that moderates react well to purity spirals directed at them.
As someone who has done a tiny bit of scraping, I've been surprised how difficult it is to be a good citizen.

Are there packages you know of in the major language ecosystems that you can easily point at a both a robots.txt and an index.html (you need both to be compliant, most packages I've found only look at robots.txt) to get an answer on what you can and can't do at what rate?

The only one I'm aware of is a C# package which still requires you to do a lot of the heavy lifting[0].

[0]https://github.com/TurnerSoftware/RobotsExclusionTools
From what I’ve seen flatter (not flat) company structures have less politics and a healthier culture. When you get into the 7, 8, 9 layer manager hierarchy at a software company is when things have really gone to shit
.. and all the talk of multicloud makes me feel like I'm reading an IBM press release, which is never good.
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IMO only the first season was really good, while the second one was very bad, I almost wish they had cancelled it after the first instead.
Destroying the market for used Teslas and the brand harms Elon Musk's personal wealth which he uses to achieve his personal political goals. Now you may or may not agree with that as a method, but the logic is straightforward.
They say that's an all-cash purchase. So it seems that they really put $32bn in the bank account.
Yeah, AT&T leak was huge.
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It really is telling how much the Elon backlash is targeted at Tesla instead of say Twitter or any of the other companies.

It's ok to admit you don't like the cars or the FSD fud. But if you really don't like the guy why are you giving the other companies a pass?
Did any other crawlers hit it? Would be nice to have someone keeping track of this over time and publishing the data online somewhere.

Probably need to collect logs across multiple sites though, as some crawlers would exclude your domain once they knew.
They're not saying the failure rate of tapes is 50%. They're saying if you survey attempts to do data restores from tape then 50% of the time not all the requested data is found.

I can't claim the same volumes you can but I did handle tape backups and recovery for a mid sized business for a few years. We only had one tape failure in my tenure but we had plenty of failed recoveries. We had issues like the user not knowing the name and location of the missing file with enough detail to find it, or they changed the file 6 times in one day and they need version 3 and the backup system isn't that granular.

Those are just the issues after the system was set up and working well. Plenty of people set a backup system running, never check the output, and are disappointed years later to learn the initial config was wrong.

Long story short 50% failure of tapes is ludicrous but 50% failure of recovery efforts is not.
Tesla short sellers have been using the media for many years.
A vaguely-remembered old and likely-British quote:

"It is generally desirable that a 'demolition expert' actually be the latter."
could you share the code for that? thinking I could set up a fail2ban rule for these ips
> This is also an uncomfortable direction. All investors have been betting on the application layer. In the next stage of AI evolution, the application layer is likely to be the first to be automated and disrupted.

I'm not convinced, we tend to think in terms of problem-products(solutions), for example editing an image => photoshop, writing some document => word. I doubt that we are going to move to a "Any problem => model". That's what ChatGPT is experimenting with the "calendaring/notification". It breaks the concept that one brand solves one problem. The App store is a good example, there are millions of apps. I find it really hard that the "apps" can get inside the "model" and expect that the model will "generate an app tailored" for that problem at that moment, many new problems will emerge.
The press releases say cash deal.
What’s your advice to the person who’d buy it then? Sell it again?
Tesla protesters are behind this in the same way Ukraine invaded Russia.
YouTube Videos are a stream, not a file you download. I’m not sure what the major technical nurdle is injecting ads directly into the stream. Also H.264 has key frames typically a few sounds apart anyway
Suicide is a statement, it is the last act of somebody against the society. It is something serious that puts the burden on the shoulders of the remaining. It has long, deep history attached to it.

Unalive on the other hand is a simplistic word that has neither of those, it is originally derived as an attempt to bypass automatic filter. IMHO using it for someone without the practical need to bypass censorship takes away the heft of their act. Makes it insignificant.
Teslas require constant maintenance (like all cars, plus the recalls) and many have a subscription, it's not performative. Each Tesla owner is an asset to them post-sale.
In an all cash deal the Vendor (buyer) will purchase all shares of the Target (seller) for cash and cancel those shares. A substantial amount of the cash will be held back in escrow subject to a number of clauses and released at a future date.

This will protect the buyer against misrepresentations.

There are often also targets that have to be met to achieve the full purchase price but not always disclosed
All of these sites look just the same. From the time the good designers have been pushed out of the industry by flat designers, we have had just horribly ugly UIs and even worse UX in the industry.
Sometimes people just want to blindly believe something because it aligns with their belief system, not because it was rational.
Yes, I'm saying that if you need collaboration, sure, but if all you want is personal note management then I don't see the appeal over plain text files.
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Ah so its just a "fuck you" if you just want to live a quiet life and care about your own life. Suddenly we have to be political and choose a side on every issue.

Come on man... its tiring as hell why can't people just be themselves. Why do we all have to be 100% connected to everything all the time.
Oh damn, I feel kinda bad reading this for the company haha.

It’s definitely a risk, and I think trusting AI too much is still a bit premature.

Retalk.bot will let users create their own workflows and control exactly what they want to allow or not.

In this specific case, I would’ve preferred sending a quote rather than letting someone buy a car directly.
Tesla sales plummet 70% yoy in [country]

"It must be fud!"
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Hm, have I watched the same video? Most of the difference I saw on the floors is lighting and shadows, the only case where the floor was really "shiny" was a tiled floor, and that is actually reflective in real life, so...
Perhaps set the account to only show ads until she’s caught up!
Gimp was never about competing with a commercial product. It's to build a usable product that the developers like. If others want to use it, great.
Yes. The company’s previous biggest deal was its $12.5bn acquisition of Motorola Mobility in 2012, which it sold two years later for $2.9bn. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/18/google-pa...
It's an old-fashioned plug, and you can hit the skip button. Usually there's a banner of some sort that makes it even easier to know when the plug is done. If that's too much, then find a way to live without the show.
It's not possible to work for a moral company because it's the government that's immoral and is responsible for corrupting them. Tech is basically the whipping boy for all the government's misdeeds. The government forces tech companies to be dirty (it's against the law to say no to them) and then inflames the public to blame the tech companies for doing it, so that people hate tech and love the government. It's like blaming the hand of the person whipping you while kissing their feet. So until the government stops being evil, there's no ethically safe space for tech workers. We'll just continue to be passed around and used as spoils of war by one twisted regime after another.
Google and Wiz: Strengthening Multicloud Security
I actually prefer old games. They are just crystal sharp with MSAA. Much easier on my eyes than modern game.
Yes on all of that. All Cash means Google is essentially writing a $32Bn check which is dispersed to the Wiz shareholders. (It wouldn't go to Wiz's bank account since Google owns the bank account once they send the money.

Typically these involve at least some stock (cash + stock or all stock) which would mean that each Wiz share gets some amount of money and some multiple of Google stock per share.
Exactly, everybody can publish on arXiv.
And there are enough semi-predatory journals/conferences which basically accept everybody. Especially since the LLM can rewrite any paragraph nicely.

So the role of journals and conferences is not to prevent "the word getting out". It is to provide value by a curated list of on-topic and high-quality publications.

So no need to wade through tons of crap.
Especially for PhD students who might take more time to detect crap as such.

In my experience, the publications at the good venues get a lot more eye-balls and by consequence citations. So there seem to be a lot of people who like this role as a "filter" for what to focus on.
This is certainly the way to win next elections..

If someone is really concerned about so-called fascism I don't think smashing VW Beetle windows in 1935 would've helped anything - in fact it would've just made things worse.
The trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31ISEd8xRM) actually shows the old lighting has much more mood and atmosphere.. RTX is far too bright. Ravenholm is supposed to be scary!
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> Tesla already has that person’s money. It’s purely a performative action?

Car companies care deeply about resale value, since that directly impacts new car value.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398518