skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like an answer to everyone blaming Firebase,AWS, and other cloud providers for not forcing them to do basic security checks

Wiz will do it.

Always happy to see a good exit, good show.

I've worked with cloud for a long time. I sorta blame myself for not seeing the market for this and not starting up my own company. I was too busy messing with machine learning, but never going much beyond sentiment analysis. Had I also stayed on that path, and maybe had a few million dollars in startup Capital laying around I'd be a billionaire by now ( yes this is hyperbole).

Oh well, time to cry myself asleep as a forever middle class software engineer...
Pathetic? Looks nice and straightforward to me!
Dogs are not people, they do not have human rights, and the vast majority of dog breeds were created in the past few hundreds years via selective breeding by humans. It's not genocide, racism, or environmentally destructive to eliminate dangerous (meaning: capable of mauling or killing a healthy adult) dog breeds. Literally the only downside is that doing so would make some people sad.
fxaix and chill
Cognitive bias as a rationale as to why this might occur implies a singular group who up or down vote topics, where as there is more likely two or more different sub groups of account holders here.

The other thing is perspective of what is well founded critique, such as that which you know to be so, and what others would think would be erroneous or at best flawed since the argument put forward might be deemed correct broadly but does not work with the particular instance due to various reasons like owing to context, morality, practicality ... etcetera.
I don't think the comparison was ever relevant in the first place.

The fundamental problem with blockchains is that the computational cost of doing anything increases with the number of users, and there are network effects involved in cryptocurrencies. None of the "layer solutions" like rollups and payment channels can change these fundamental rules.

None of that applies to modern AI.
I thought they were emailing around social security numbers till I got to the end of the article.
I asked an LLM the same questions, and that's what I got:

Here are some key resources on language psychology and acquisition:

1. "Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics" by Julie Sedivy - Covers basic concepts and neural basis of language

2. "The Language Instinct" by Steven Pinker - Classic work on language acquisition and development

3. "Foundations of Bilingual Memory" by Heredia & Altarriba - Explains why early exposure shapes sound perception abilities

Writing system changes mainly affect literacy, less so speech. The brain processes spoken and written language somewhat separately.

For deeper research, look up "phonological acquisition" and "critical period hypothesis" in scientific journals.

--

Would appreciate human input on these topics as well. Thanks.
Mostly ad targeting (you can infer a lot of things from the global graph of contacts). Meta is an attention routing company.
Ownership is not precise and clear. There are always new cases to figure out what it means.

Like, if there are two pieces of public land, which meet at a corner, and two pieces of private land on either side of the corner, then are you trespassing on private land if you step from public land to public land across the corner?

I think all of the big IT companies deserve to be beat, broken up, and strict laws placed in future power. That's different than using the cudgel to only go after the ones which disagree with whoever is in power.

> for political reasons

My view is non-partisan. If Amazon were to become a worker-owned co-op tomorrow, infused by the spirit of Joe Hill, I would still want it broken up.

> They can't do that with property law because property law is well defined.

The US has some very big cudgels already.

The government can pass laws changing what property law means. The government has very broad power to seize land, and exercise eminent domain. The government can nationalize companies.

If the US decides to invade Canada and Microsoft turns off services to the US military, do you have any doubts that the US will nationalize Microsoft? I don't.

> evidence that harm was done

See, fundamentally we have different interpretation of market abuse. Bork's view is simple - only look at the effect on consumers.

That simplicity doesn't make it right. Antitrust laws are meant to encourage competition. The free market does not like competition.

The law is full of edge cases. That's why we have the courts.

Since there isn't a precise and clear definition of "cruel and unusual punishment", should we get rid of it?
Tied to this --> https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-l...

Official annnouncement: https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch/
It's a good time now that many of Google's employees might have their visas revoked for criticizing Israel. The era when companies felt they had to pretend to have humanist values seems to have come to an end.
Uptime Monitoring – The Simplest Option
I think that best paper really means best discovery, or best finding.

No one really cares how well written a paper is.
Why it's so hard to align our work with our values,and how we justify not trying
I honestly don't feel like anyone feels like the water is heating up slowly. Just sitting here in a coffee shop for an hour, I've overheard about five different conversations about everything the current administration is screwing up, and I had another one at the bus stop this morning. People aren't unaware and they aren't happy.
But it is neat that the internal tooling is 15 years behind the times. It’s like being teleported to 2005. The nostalgia value surely makes up for any “inefficiency” /s
This has been posted before and it’s a vast exaggeration of what happened, thanks to a misunderstanding by the scientist about how LLMs work combined with typical PR and media hype.
Can you name one person who was fired from their job for having a wrong opinion on Covid.
Baseball on the Moon
I mean on hacker news
Ford’s CEO is honest enough to admit that they are facing down the barrel of the gun .. “The way we compete with them is .. use our .. intimacy with the customer to beat them globally,”

and

BYD sold 4.27 million cars in 2024, approaching Ford's estimated sales for the year. China exports EVs in aggregate to the Global South rather than to the EU or US.

Not really sure how well this works if China has set its sights on the "Global South"? To be perfectly frank, I'm not sure those are the customers that we in the US have "intimacy" with. We force our vehicles on the "Global South" neo-colonial style. We're typically not designing vehicles for them. At least in the US, we're designing for Asian and Western customers.
Indeed everyone should decide for themselves! We shouldn't be inciting vandalism on property owned by people who don't agree with us.
"What are your actual priorities? … This question can help you determine the place you want to live, the kind of house or apartment you want to live in, your family’s essential needs (food, electricity, healthcare), and the cost of the activities that add pleasure and meaning to your life – traveling, hobbies, etc. It also allows you to consider what your priorities are from an impact perspective – involvement in your community, being there for your friends, reducing your waste – at the same time as you’re thinking about your material needs. Rather than cordoning off your value-oriented priorities into a less urgent category, to be pursued when you’ve reached financial satisfaction, you are making them of equal importance.”

This recalibration challenges the false dichotomy that keeps us stuck:

“The scarcity mindset keeps you thinking you have to choose between a good life and a life that benefits the collective good. And, it is partly the vacuous, limitless promise of consumerism that keeps you thinking you have to choose between your values and your financial needs.”
I like the simplicity! It would be cool as a browser extension too.
So when will it be OK to own a Tesla again?

After the board finally wakes up and kicks Elon to the curb.
One of my pet gripes is how so many tech websites do a terrible job at communicating what they do and what their tech is for, and deFi projects are among the worst offenders.

I came across one the other day [1] , flashy website, flashy jargon, but it's impossible to deduce what it does by reading the website. I had to feed a YouTube transcription into an AI and do some deep research and AI chatting before I could understand what they do.

Perhaps I am dumb, judge for yourself.
[1] https://flare.network/
Two new PebbleOS watches
> "Hi! It looks like you might have come from Hacker News.

Asahi Linux developers are frequent targets of abuse on Hacker News. Despite our pleas, the moderators have not taken effective action to improve the situation.

Overtly hateful content is often flagged on HN and not immediately visible. Unfortunately, when a comment is flagged and killed, its child subthread is not. That preserves the 'clean' image of the website, but the reduced moderation activity enables abuse to continue. Although you don't see those threads, search engines do. HN uniquely has a high page rank and low moderation, making it a prime target for bad actors to poison search results with abuse, bigotry, and nastiness. This isn't low-level trolling, but an organized attempt to destroy lives, including of developers in our communities.

Please demand change within your community."

Wow. Some of you guys need to touch grass if you're attacking FOSS developers.
Claims were overhyped by the media, but were the actual deepseek claims false though?
Huggingface and universities have replicated the deepseek chain of thought training on top of llama for very cheap, and the openai pricing for o3-mini shows how cheap that model is vs the original o1.

Not to say that I buy this EV hype, which is suspiciously timed with teslas weakening position.
Definitely possible, but probably not easily. The "easiest" remastering I've seen simply upscales textures to 2K or 4K which provides an inexpensive way to resharpen old games without losing too much of their original look.

For this HL2 RTX mod though, my understanding is they had to add all new lighting sources to hopefully match the original intent, and looks like they remodeled many items and actors too.
Equipment of this time frame was highly reliable. The machines were expensive to purchase and very solidly built.
I would be surprised if this fleet of systems deals with a hardware failure a year. Especially if they are kept in a space with cold conditioned air.
A Tale of ECS Service Stability
>What's surprising to me is that established companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) would resort to

Stop defaulting to expecting honor from businesses.

Unless you're clutching pearls for dramatic effect, any surprise at all is an indication your orientation is wrong.
So is Wiz just a CASB?

(Cloud Access Security Broker)
I think I understand this comment but can you expand on how cursor defines this dilemma?
I am not talking about opinions on quality. I’m talking about objective measures in introducing a new product that moves the needle as far as revenue/profit and market share that is not cancelled quickly
Oncall is becoming popular even for low level. My last few roles have all required it for reasons I've been unable to figure out beyond "all developers need on-call and you're a developer". In my case, a fix often requires hardware access and my commute is longer than the start-work SLA.
From her own reply[1]:

> If you think you know what happened or the context, you probably don't. Please don't make assumptions. Thank you.
Coming up with something that is new, original, and actually works better than anything before it is quite hard. It does not happen often. When it happens, it should be embraced and cherished. Because without these discoveries, science is not worth anything at all. These discoveries are what science is all about. Yes, making sense of the discoveries is also science, but that is the easy part of science.
As always, "It's the economy, stupid." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_the_economy,_stupid) The Clinton campaign heard this and took it to heart. Why didn't Biden + Harris and the 2024 Democratic Party understand it?

Moreover, where's the accountability and movement towards focusing on what the voters actually care about? I don't see any heads rolling over their disastrous misjudgment of voter priorities.
the web based ui looks really awesome.
I think that taxes can and should be funded through the single tax on property proposed by Henry George as opposed to sales or income tax. Widespread adoption of private cryptocurrency may be sufficient to enable adoption of the single tax system.
> Wow. Some of you guys need to touch grass if you're attacking FOSS developers.

Yeh, insulting people and throwing accusations in order to try change their opinion/behaviour has a high success rate in online forums.
There's a long report linked by the source here: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/c/windows-short...

Lots and lots of words, but tl;dr seems to be that it's just the .lnk equivalent of someone adding `logout` to your .bashrc, prepending it with a couple hundred spaces, and hoping your favorite editor doesn't have line wrap turned on. Except here, it's a fixed-width one-line GUI textbox, so there's no vertical space for line wrap, and the "hidden" commands are not a prank.

If the overall info on exploitation is accurate, it's quite surprising just how far one can go with most trivial of tricks.
Interestingly both are YC companies. Maybe YC can sort it out for them!
I'm fine with news outlets having paywalls to keep the lights on and provide great journalism. Where I wish things would change is having paywalls on articles years old that are no longer relevant to todays news.
Get your new PebbleOS watch
There's also this failure case: I know a pair of sisters who look and sound identical enough that they can unlock each other's phones with face and voiceprint recognition.
there was infamously the case of a newborn that was mauled (to death) by a pomeranian. 6 week old babies can't really do anything except cry.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dogfree/comments/ezqzs9/pet_pomeran...

in its heart it is wolf, but in it's body it is fluff-ball. larger dogs like GSDs don't have those limitations.
Schema + samples. Same thing a skilled person would use.
BYD introduces megawatt charging for electric cars
Tip of my Sean John hat to you sir.
> Then what's the issue or purpose?

To not use a thing that symbolizes the indiscriminate incarceration of innocent people as some clipart for an article about oncall. It's in bad taste, and also the wrong metaphor, and it sends the wrong message, even if not done on purpose.

> Other than satisfying or inflating some own moral selfimage?

Morality has a subjective component and often works by seeing through other people's eyes: How would I feel if this happened to me? How will other people see me if I did this? There's no universal consensus for this, of course, thankfully.

So when people disagree about morality, I've found that it can be hard for the side that doesn't see a problem to understand what the other side is making such a fuss about. I also think there can be a performative aspect to moralizing. But I don't think it's fair or warranted to jump to the conclusion that just because one doesn't see the issue, that the other person must be posturing - because that's how you can make sense of their behavior from within your own point of view.

People see things that rub them wrong, they speak up, as did you. How would you know you're not just inflating your self-image by putting down their comment like this? If you aren't, maybe they aren't, either.
Isn’t that a crime..?
Established institutions become like organisms with feedback loops who like to maintain status quo akin to homeostasis. Any changes to the status quo is seen as a threat and is dealt with accordingly.
I have seen this analogy before, and (hence the question). Apologies if it's rude. By my understanding, while the tools are important, most of the apps hit escape velocity as the underlying models became good enough. You had cursor doing decently well until Claude Sonnet 3.5 came along, and then it took off. As did windsurf. Perplexity and Genspark became 10x more effective with o3-mini and deepseek r1. Plus the switching costs are so low that people switch to apps with the most advanced model.(and ui is very similar to other app) Do you think there is space for apps which can keep improving without improvements to underlying models?
I seriously suspect you don't know what's the Talpiot program
I mean has Tesla actually delivered on anything they've promised? FSD has been promised for years
That's the thing, every freely available source about any remotely popular product may as well be entirely astroturfed, or pure SEO listicle slop. The good sources aren't openly available, they're private. The average ranking of 100 listicles doesn't tell me anything.
Pick any sentence and trace the words back to their origin and you'll find some sort of story about where it was borrowed from. That's just how language works. It isn't anything new -- we're all just older than we've ever been. Every generation coins new terms.
I stick to old stuf from the 1930s to 1990s

I will say the Criterion Channel is excellent and I do subscribe to them.
Having an emotional reaction is natural. We are intelligent species. We can deal with outbursts of emotions and tame them.

The problem is if such emotions materialize into physical actions like hate speech, bullying behavior or worse.
> SOTA models in the market

do you train your own model?

there is also some network issue.
<Morticia Addams very concerned gif>

/s

If we wanted to switch our economy to Oligarchs, that's a choice and that's fine.

But play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
im sorry, they did what ?
Monit Widget: Free popular Mac monitoring app returns after Apple broke it
Comparing some risk/danger people are upset about to car accidents is a red flag. Concepts like risk-return and self-determination and dignity are fundamental to these topics, and the "look at car accident numbers" line almost always implies a minimization to the easiest thing to "win an argument" with: Statistics. Numbers. Anybody who believes they can ignore numbers is a fool, but on the other side, anybody who believes they only need numbers is just as detached from reality.
I just wish that those that suddenly recognize the importance of freedom will remember next time they get their preferred government in power instead of simply pretending "freedumbs" are a partisan issue and defending authoritarianism when it suits them.

I don't have much hope, though. The partisan hypocrisy and inconsistency in red and blue cuts deep.
funny how you move the goal post from 1998 to early 90's.

I built my first linux box in 1996 and yes open-things were largely associated with open licenses already so it is no suprise some companies decided to jump on the openwashing wagon early.
There are plenty of automakers besides Tesla and the Chinese, and your BSAB perspective contributes nothing helpful.

Yes, companies like Porsche and Ford were founded by Nazis. But that was then and this is now. If the CEO of one of those companies throws a Hitler salute in public, they will be unemployed the next day. If the CEO of Tesla does the same thing, they will be handed $50 billion, patted on the back, and told, "Good job." That's a perfectly good reason for someone who is in the market for a car to choose one over the other.
Found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/15ksmm2/javas_securit...

Nothing sticks out, except container companies are probably very happy?

I wonder if the guys working on this did a search before starting: https://github.com/search?type=code&q=AccessController.doPri... (187k files)
I don’t think this is true.

Many of the blogs and websites I used to look at are gone. The content that was on them is gone.

But Twitter accounts from all the back from 15 years ago that are still there still have the tweets available to see.
I've personally noticed loads of crawls too, but what has been interesting is they have been crawling effectively the same pages, over and over, for months.
Also, they don't seem to be caching DNS at all.

I guess I'm in the minority that I don't care too much about crawlers, even the use of my work for AI, but I think the current hit rates just can't be justified.
> They aren't removing your boss, you still have one, except your new boss (who was your former skip level) will expect all the outputs that your previous boss produced.

But you do realize that previously, you had to produce outputs for your boss and skip - but now, you only need to produce for skip?

For 2 bosses, the hypothetical low/mid manager has to consider 2 bosses perspectives, 2 bosses politics, 2 bosses promos, 2 bosses peer teams, 2 bosses meetings, 2 bosses technical skill, 2 bosses status reports, 2 bosses committees, 2 bosses ad-hoc demands.

With 1 boss, that work reduces to 1 bosses perspectives, 1 bosses politics, 1 bosses promos, 1 bosses peer teams, 1 bosses meetings, 1 bosses technical skill, 1 bosses status reports, 1 bosses ad-hoc demands.

Removal of 1 boss led to 50% decline in work for 1 low/mid manager. Scale that to 10 low/mid managers, you now have a large amount of time freed up - SIMPLY because 1 single org chart bottleneck has been removed.
TorchServe is no longer actively maintained
These companies are the closest you can get to a legal mafia, they are effectively charging companies around the world to keep them "safe". In other words, a job that is traditionally considered to be a basic service of the government is now being privatized by people that nobody knows if we can really trust.
^1999
Gemini Canvas
>> 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)

Growing up in NYC, it is was impossible to not remember the "Nobody Beats the Wiz" jingle
I don't think we can look at it on an average basis when each vehicle is pulling a megawatt, regardless of how long they are doing it for.

Industrial users with electric arc furnaces and other massive loads need special, ongoing arrangements with the utility to operate safely on the grid. It would only take 200~300 of these high speed chargers to equate to the demand of the largest EAFs on earth.
Is there currently any way to identify ethical (or I guess, semi-ethical or even not actively unethical..) AI companies?

Would be nice to see some effort on this front, a la "we don't scrape", or "we use this reputable dataset which scrapes while respecting robots.txt and reasonable caching", or heaven forbid "we train only on a dataset based on public domain content"

Even if it was an empty promise (or goodwill ultimately broken) it'd be _something_. If it exists, I'd certainly prioritise any products which proclaimed it

Do we need to make one?
Even if that is true, that only make him look better. He made a mistake and is now correcting it. Not sure why it is a bad thing.
While you will find some extreme examples that could go that far, unions don't generally do that. Organisations that fight unions however do like to bring up that example, so... you've been had with anti union propaganda.
This is the logical conclusion of companies with undifferentiated crapware products that compete using aggressive sales teams.

Sales driven companies are all corrupt and corrupting. This kind of espionage is common, as is outright bribery of buyers.
Or Škoda cars that most people call "Skoda" when it should be pronounced more like "Shkoda"
I knew a girl from Asia that had a sister that was six years younger and twenty pounds skinnier. They could both unlock each other's phones using facial recognition.
Do things like inline method and inline base class work correctly? It’s not a given that IntelliJ is works correctly for Kotlin if the semantics of Kotlin are harder to analyze statically.