skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, I'm commenting on the passionate types who (mis)direct their energies on stunts like this.
If you'd be so kind for those of us that haven't touched cloud in 5/10 years, what is Wiz? from reading the google announcement: solving the supply chain hybrid cloud security issues? I could google I know but you seem to know what you are talking about, so if you'd be so kind. :)
True, but the vast majority of people spend zero money on WhatsApp. I actually have no idea how I would give them money. There are no adverts, the metadata is not valuable, and no companies even use WhatsApp business, at least in the UK. Their UK revenue is basically 0, despite 100% market share.

This is an enterprise product in a space where companies spend millions of dollars.

Still seems like an insane amount though.
duckdb has a `json_serialize_sql` function that we've been messing with. It could be an interesting middle ground. It lets you write SQL as JSON.
Having a nonstandard American dialect is even worse. Texas dialects have a much broader set of larger contractions than coastal and Midwest accents. Autocorrect becomes an active enemy when I'm trying to type "I'd'nt've" or "y'couldn't'v'nt'd".
More accurately, HTML (+CSS)(+JS).

HTML is all you need for a cross platform UI.
Can someone who has played it tell me if they really lit up most/all of Ravenholm like this or if they are just showing us a few lights cranked to 12 in the promotional material?
Revenue and profit are very different. Like, it's easy to pump revenue at a loss.

I don't really see the benefits of this acquisition for Google, but congrats to the Wiz team!
>It's telling that the author jumps straight to asshole.

It is what Silicon Valley have been calling Steve Jobs in the past 10 - 13 years.
Or even free with a checking account. Depends on the branch. I think the right strategy is to store the high level passwords that do not change much and then an annual backup archive of all the family photos, tax returns, and most important documents on a hard drive in the box.
Guess this is what laying off thousands of people paid for.
What's not true? I may of mumbled my post.

The data from the form, HTTPS POST data is not encrypted. It's plain text encapsulated in a secure socket.

Setup a PHP page with a form and capture the $_POST. All will return in plaintext.

POST is data is sent in headers which yes are encrypted by SSL but the servers receiving will receive it in plain text.

By using third party you lose full control of the data flow encrypted or not. All it takes is one weak link in the chain and your data is screwed.

You're relying on the 3rd party infrastructure not being exploited.
Updating financial system is not the easiest one, also we would like to update it without a third world war.
Personally, the two most alluring things about RTX for me is a) better global illumination, none of that silly "you can see sunrise shining through the mountain/cave's ceiling" stuff; b) better local illumination: a glowing object should be an actual light source and make its surroundings brighter, dammit.

Everything else, including insanely accurate shadows and reflections, weird lenses/out-of-focus effects, etc. is much lower on my list.
There is actually some drama between Wiz and Orca, a company founded one year before Wiz. Orca alleged Wiz copied them, and Orca does operate in the same space. But a lot of hundred billion dollar companies are built on moats, integration and switching costs.
Some policy is being continued, https://natlawreview.com/article/antitrust-under-trump-initi...

> FTC Chairman Ferguson and Omeed Assefi, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, announced on February 18, 2025, that the FTC and DOJ will continue to use the 2023 Merger Guidelines as the framework for their merger review process.
It makes accurate simulation of quantum mechanical systems of relevance (e.g. molecules) even possible. DFT simulations are full of approximations just to get them to be able to run on classical supercomputers. Nobody does a full solution of Schrödinger's equation. With a sufficiently sized quantum computer, you could.
I love how much this affects people on dating apps too, lol.
I wish they simply had a way to disable shorts. People have been clamoring for that option but yt ignores them because they know how addictive they are. I can't think of a more illustrative example of a conflict of interest and the contrast between the early days of computing that were driven by user demand.
Support for CSS and Baseline has shipped in ESLint
> 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.

So great science would come up with a sound theoretical foundation, or at least strong arguments as to why no such foundation can exist.
Requiring a captcha is not even close to requiring a national ID.
I used to do this but stopped a very long time ago. I use KeePassXC instead. It’s much more secure and much better at handling websites with special password requirements.
No one else can solve the system of equation for you, but there are likely creative solutions that don't require any large action on your part. Maybe put a sticker on your car to reason with your fellow citizens who expect more of you than you can offer right now?

[EDIT: But if you resent even having to think about it (bc it need not cost you money, but things always cost attention), then I don't know what to say to you in this moment.]

I'm just glad it's now taboo to own a Tesla. Because in my world view, the poorer Elon Musk gets, the safer we all are in our home democracies.
Well... During Biden, the Democrats were talking about eliminating the filibuster. That only makes sense if they believe they will stay in power forever (the "permanent Democratic majority" and all that). Both sides are prone to the delusion that, when they won, this time it's forever.

Now, Trump may be intending to make it be forever in a way that the others were not. I fear that, frankly. I see some signs that he's headed that way. But I also think (or maybe hope) that "the die is not yet cast"; that an irrevocable decision has not yet been made. We shall see.
On the contrary I find OG HL2 to be one of the ugliest games of all time. It's so dark and gray and flat.
> Sometimes it reminds me of when hdr pics came out and everyone was overdoing it.

Or old games that oversold insane amounts of bloom[0] as HDR..

[0]https://i.imgur.com/NdgHLCy.jpg
This is exactly the type of thing that makes me like America. Taking risks is an essential part of life and the more open you are to sane risks, the better. The reason I don't move there is tax laws, but boy do I, as a third worlder, want a "gold card".
It's an interesting question as to whether an adopted word gets to be overridden by the preferences of the target!

Suppose the people of Edinburgh didn't happen to like Ee-dan-borghh as the French say it, that doesn't make the French pronunciation "wrong".
Stock is down, definitely overpaid
I was wondering why like every Wiz business development person was cold-engaging me on LinkedIn and email last year.
There's no force but Google can now leverage the data from Wiz to target good customers for other services.
There's no such thing; it depends on the app that people are building, their use cases, and platforms.

Case in point: both Teams and VS Code: both web view wrappers.

Some trading shops are still using WPF and some are even using Windows Forms apps still.
Something for gimp like organic maps does for osmand would be great.
I suppose resettling all Gazans and expelling pro-Palestininan protesters from the country is also tokenism. Or having Miriam Adleson as the second largest donor after Musk.
Depending on the use case. Symmetric crypto varies. For example, if your source only has 100 bits of classical entropy. For example, fuzzy extractors.

It becomes manageable to break it now with a QC.
1. By having one obvious documented way of answering the questions or accepting that humans would also come to different results.

2. Investing in good data models and documentating the edge cases. Also learning from explicit feedback is powerful.

This helps our customers at getdot.ai get highly reliable results.

The models also got a lot better at making sense of weird and complex data models in the last months.
Whatsapp was $1/person/year for a license. Wiz is "contact sales for pricing". Presumably that's more than $1/year.

According to Amazon's Wiz integration (https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-ibgbkrqusncsm), the lowest cost they have is $24,000/year.
Can you put together a guide in response showing where the inefficiencies are and how to mitigate them with more simple software?

It sounds like the author was aware of at least parts of your comment. The post is very thorough. They benchmarked using python and c++ and the final impl doesn’t even decode protobuf. They used various mitm solutions. They are using pfsense for more than just “it’s muh security router”—they are vlanning and vpning the traffic so they can target inly the appletv on their network.

Your comment is cheap and dismissive. The author’s post is not. You owe it to the community to put your money where your mouth is.
Whatsapp when it was acquired cost $1/year (with a year long free trial) and had a billion users and 55 employees. They were printing money.
Cool twist on a classic! How did you handle syncing the game state across players in real-time—WebSockets or something else? Love seeing creative takes on old-school games like this
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I can't get into the site, I agree with the title except in very rare cases these dogs are useful
> Autocorrect becomes an active enemy when I'm trying to type "I'd'nt've" or "y'couldn't'v'nt'd".

This must be the first time I'm on Autocorrect's side ;->
Ah I also use uBlock Origin so I guess that is why I haven't seen #4.
>I don’t see how this really follows. Land value is more like a wealth tax than an income tax, right? In the sense that it taxes something held, rather than inflow/outflow.

I agree it is on possession, or something held. The proposition follows not from that property, but the idea that taxes would "trickle up". The idea that it doesnt matter if warren buffet no little land, because taxes levied on farmers and renters would pass on the costs.

Land is much more evenly distributed than wealth and income. Similarly, consumption is much flatter than income.
The question was about what happens in other cases.
We get time off in lieu for hours worked, and paid (at a fixed rate across the company) for hours where we need to be available to be paged. You don't want to only get paid if you're paged, especially if your services are normally quite reliable.

Fail-safes are one thing, but they don't always kick in when we need them. My team is only paged one or two times a month, and when we are it's probably for something we've not seen before because whatever it was that broke last time has been fixed.
Also, Patton's classic 'a good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week'
A website partially dropped their paywall, and they attribute blame.

The hell do I care? Now I can read parts of their website without archive hacks.
We use wiz and rapid7, so I can compare these two:

Usability of Wiz and the ability to adapt it is so much better. Everyone can get a seat without extra costs, enabling shift-left for the dev teams. Projects make sure they only see what they need to see.

The query engine is top. There are very good presets. Create Boards to share custom queries with the teams.

Compliance frameworks are available. You could inspect the rules, they are written in OPA rego and you could add your own rules.

Cloudtrail search is also a lot better than the one aws is providing.

I could go on and on and on .. this solution has so many powerful features.
It's true. An amazing feat of manual, analogue artistry in our age. It's almost criminal, but definitely heartbreaking they didn't pick up season 2.
I had my folders themed on win 95. It is kinda hard to explain but the color schemes and images trigger a lot of mental background processes related to the stuff in the folder. Just seeing a green grid on a black background would load a cached version of the folder in my head and alt-tab into a linked mental process that would continue where I left it.
Nice and provocative read! Is it fair to restate the argument as follows?

- New tech (eg: RL, cheaper inference) are enabling agentic interactions that fulfill more of the application layer.

- Foundation model companies realize this and are adapting their business models by building complementary UX and witholding API access to integrated models.

- Application layer value props will be squeezed out, disappointing a big chunk of AI investors and complementary infrastructure providers

If so, any thoughts on the following?

- If agentic performance is enabled by models specialized through RL (e.g. Deep Research's o3+browsing), why won't we get open versions of these models that application providers can use?

- Incumbent application providers can put up barriers to agentic access of the data they control. How does their data incumbency and vertical specialization weigh against the relative value of agents built by model providers?
This article and most of the comments ignore the social power dynamics and status quo institutional structures of academic science (Science 2): university administrators, power-broker faculty researchers, funding agencies (til recently), publishing companies, higher-ed consultants, etc. There are thousands of potential reforms that would bring Science 2 closer to Science 1 and generally make science life better. Those reforms are articulated by competent scientists and higher ed journalists every day. If you want to know why science reform isn't happening, ask which powerful interests are benefiting from the existing structures.

Power makes people stupid: powerful people can't imagine a world other than the one that brought them their power. They will say, "That's the way the world is." Let's encourage students to continue to imagine other possible worlds in order to challenge the status quo.
it's a linter for your yaml spaghetti
It doesn't force them to move, it just gets Google the information about how you use competitors products so they can out negotiate them come deal time.
> But first, ask yourself why you are designing a binary format, unless maybe it's a new media container.

Binary formats are ideal for critical applications where you want to either 1) parse the file correctly, 2) fail to parse the file at all. Non-binary formats (and re-use of existing binary formats) tend to have failure modes where you parse the file incorrectly due to a bug, resulting in something bad happening like a security exploit.
When referring to the metric unit of area - more commonly seen in the form "hectare".

But this is all very dialect/accent-dependent. Personally, I'd put a bit of a glottal stop in the middle of "e'er", and would say the "err" more like it could be written as "irr", so that set would only be a quadruplet for me.
Dumb question, but what are the licensing implications between using an OpenJDK vs the official Oracle Release of the JDK?
Neat project! How does it handle different accents or speech speeds—does it need a lot of training data for that? Excited to see more open-source stuff in this space.
Here's some context in what this means:

Currently, Crowdstrike, Zscaler and other solutions compete in a similar space than Wiz.

Google likely believes if can offer Wiz sec products bundled with Google Cloud. It isn't a terrible idea.

But Wiz itself works on multiple clouds, so it seems that Google can also grow it on their own.

Cloud security companies are growing a lot, and might be a growth lever for Alphabet, as its other businesses' revenue growth are slowing down.

My assumption is that this will actually make it easier for Crowdstrike and Zscaler to keep their market share, as they are pure-play companies on Cloud security and Alphabet has too many businesses to manage.

For me, it looks overpriced. Wiz has been growing a lot, but under Alphabet it might not perform as well as it did.

The big winners are the founders and whoever owned Wiz options.
It's obviously wrong to harass innocent people. But at the same time, Tesla is so anti-consumer that switching cars might actually be beneficial. Tesla workers were caught spying on car owners through the camera, sharing in internal chat videos of people doing "really intimate things" or approaching the car "completely naked." Not only that, they were photoshopping it and memeing. It shows a culture of complete moral breakdown in the company. I definitely wouldn't want a Tesla in my home, even without the current political events.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...
For $32B Google are buying Wiz's brand, existing customers and their pipeline of customers, along with the technology.
Wiz itself doesn’t. But Wiz knows what is going on in everyone cloud. That data could be fed to GCP sales team though customers might riot if that happens.
Yeah but Google is a trillion dollar company. Why do they need to spend $32billion on a company whose only value add seems to be they are good at finding exploits? You could hire every cyber security researcher in the country for $32billion.
Growing up in the NYC area this is what I think of when someone says the wiz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiz_(store)
This is going to drive websites to put even more Cloudflare captcha-walls before you can even see the content. Web will become less accessible.

I have a domain parked with just a blank page that's getting 172,000 requests per month. Since it's on a free-tier static hosting, that costs me nothing. However, if that trend continues, I don't know how long we will have those free static hosting options available for everyone.
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High-risk dogs are entirely owner created. People with behavioural issues acquire a breed with a reputation, and proceed to train and encourage that behaviour. It would be shocking if this wasn't correlated with other deviant behaviours.
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"I hate Elon too, but" ... "I hope republicans start buying Teslas as a statement."

This is the new "I'm not racist. I just don't see color."
... but we don't know which 5%
Just to respond to the Whatsapp part of the comment, apparently Whatsapp made about $1.7 billion in 2024. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/whatsapp-statistics/
Which is even dumber. How immature do you have to be to think you can dictate the tastes of others.
I worked in academia for years before moving to the commercial sector, and in academia management seemed to run on the "in the real world" mantra. Yet if the managers in academia did half of what I saw them do in the commercial sector, they'd get walked out in minutes.
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Java 24 already? What’s the standout feature this time—anything that makes it worth upgrading from 21? Always cool to see how it keeps evolving.
I thought they made smart lightbulbs (I have some "WiZ" ones installed in fact).
The biologist would be expected to describe the lichen in detail, including where it was found, its expected ecology, its place in the ecosystem, life-cycle, structure, etc. It is no longer 1696 where we can go spear some hapless fish, bring back its desiccated body, and let our fellow gentleman ogle over its weirdness.
What LLM did you use for that?
Ingressing Minds
> Look at the number of times other tech companies get hacked compared to Google.

Your whole post is confusing Security of the Cloud with Security in the Cloud. And conflating GCP with Google but those are just examples of why GCP has such a small market percentage.
I'm not GP, but I don't think they are taking issue with the fact that e.g. layer numbers or architecture were arrived at without first-principles but rather empirically.

Rather that when you do come to something empirically, you need to validate your findings by e.g. ablations, hypothesis testing, case studies, etc...
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As someone outside the US who has worked with several of those companies before. The best one for the employees was Globalization Partners. Of course they were the most expensive.

Deel is the opposite: they provide US companies with gray area (or you could even say illegal in some countries) trickstery to reduce cost of employing people.
When you use a cloud provider to setup a VM, what policies do you apply to it in order to ensure it’s secure?

Wiz and other tools in the same space tell you and tracks compliance across your fleet.

Idk if wiz does this, but their competitors have “compliance packs” which are preset compliance patterns, IE hipaa, finra, etc.

That way you click a button and it tells you every change you need to make to be compliant

Edit: this is all just examples
didn't they try to do this several months ago?
Wasn’t there a ceasefire? Why is Israel going against their own agreement?
SecurityManager dies not with a bang, but a whimper. The professor who taught a generally-misguided Java elective extolled the benefits of the security manager whenever he could. I was tremendously skeptical at the time. I'm inappropriately smug to have been proven right now, several decades later.

I really want structured concurrency out of preview!! I think it helps close one of the last gaps golang has over Java in the ease-of-concurrent-programming side of things. Go makes channels and waitgroups pretty easy. I think structured concurrency is a great side-step of those primitives by actually making the higher-level tasks you use those tools to accomplish easier to write and reason about. Continuing a trend I see where go tends to have somewhat better primitives, but then obstinately does nothing with them to actually make the higher-level tasks easier to accomplish.

No pinning virtual threads is huge. Finally you can virtual thread with near-wild abandon, as God intended.

Love seeing Streams still getting love. I do a lot of fizzbuzz-esque interviews (the "can you code your way out of a paper bag" type screens) for my company and I think it says a lot that, in general, people who pick Java and use streams pass but people who don't use streams often get tripped up in their loop logic and fail (or, even if they don't fail per se, don't pass). It says a lot about ergonomics and intuitiveness, and also the power of the abstraction to tersely and compactly solve real problems, when a language is a big ally in interviews. And the cool thing about Java streams is that they're as powerful as Ruby's functional-style operation chaining (arr.map{}.reduce(:+) etc) but they're actually performant. I feel it also bears mentioning that people who use Ruby in these interviews, few as they are, almost always pass and do so while writing very few LOC :)
Because there is a different sqrt speedup concern regarding the birthday paradox / collision resistance. These combine with Grover's to get you a O(N^(1/3)) speedup when finding a collision, making a 256-bit hash have ~85 bits of security against a quantum adversary.

You'd need to switch to a 384 bit hash function to keep a 128-bit security threshold. In practice, this means SHA-512.
I loved DC:AoR but I never expected it was anything more than a one-off. Keep following the struggle as much as you like, but you still know that in the end, the Gelflings lose. I mean yes they pull it off in the end and maybe the Ur-Skeks magic them all back, they discover a lost tribe, whatever, but in the meantime they pretty much get wiped out. Making a good story in the face of that dark inevitability is what the writing craft is about, and they pulled it off and left on a high note. Best thing they can do is leave it that way.
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