skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arab-Israelis are around 20% of the population and they're not required to enlist. Some religious groups, religious women specifically, are also not required to enlist.

There are exemptions for people with disabilities, health issues with risk factors, extreme poverty, problematic family situations, teen parents, etc, as you would expect there to be in any western democracy.

For any other healthy citizen that's not exempt by law - males in particular - military service is as compulsory as paying taxes.

> It is a choice

I'll never understand why people who aren't Israelis, don't live in Israel, can't read or speak Hebrew, and probably have never even bothered to talk to an Israeli, for some bizarre reason feel qualified to talk so authoritatively about a place half way around the globe that they've never been to.

EDIT Editing your post like this to hide how wrong you were after the fact is misleading, but by now we've seen that this is typical behavior for people in your ideological camp.
> what are you supposed to do? Reward the company providing even less of what you want?

Assuming it isn't regulation (e.g. patents) getting in the way, you pull up your pants and produce [A, D, and E].

If that's too rich for your blood, I suppose rewarding the company that got you something close enough at a tiny fraction of the cost is reasonable. It is hard to deny the value in that.

> What you need is more competition.

Okay, but if you aren't willing to build [A, D, and E], why would anyone else? These things aren't delivered by angels from heaven.
> Trump administration officials claimed that “some areas of the property could not get cell service,” according to the Times, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt describing the Starlink project as intended “to improve Wi-Fi connectivity on the complex.”
The author points out that his changes have already been upstreamed to https://github.com/rp-rs/rp-hal
I did!
with their own new hardware (https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/)
sadly the microphones are way worse than e.g. in an alexa speaker.
Also the performance of the „voice pipelines“ (stt, llm, tts) are a bit of a pain because they are all in sequence and not e.g. using stream features.
So I should ignore evidence directly from the source of one of the largest unions in the US, because it doesn't support your view? I should only accept evidence from your trusted sources? Ok.

Edit: or my UPS friend who told me how the union box loaders would falsely claim alcoholism or drug addiction before being fired so they could abuse the union "protection" that was given to them? Is he trying to dupe me too?
Considering it was provided for free, yes, probably the best bang-for-their-buck.
That's not good enough. If you're Apple, and you're worth 3 trillion dollars, you can both do security and behave in a way that isn't anti-competitive. They could interoperate securely. Is it easier to just lock out your competition and use proprietary everything? Yes, duh. It's also blatantly anti-competitive, which is a thing that societally and (arguably) morally is not acceptable.

I hope to read this blog post in an antitrust case from the DOJ one day.
Apple is simply continuing to do what Apple does best - building strong products and protecting their ecosystem.

Does that mean some vendors will be treated unfairly? Of course.

Does it mean Apple users will remain happy? Absolutely.

If there is one OS that is anti-tinkering by design it is iOS, and yet people keep criticizing this intentional design decision that forms a large part of Apple’s moat.
Agree. It's a terrible time to want a new Nvidia card for gaming or AI projects. I had a 4070 Ti Super in my cart for a while at a cool $700 on Amazon - now it's out of stock and secondhand I can find it for double that now.

If one doesn't require the latest DLSS or need first-class AI support, get an AMD card.
Or quite a flex. If you want to create artificial scarcity to keep your prices high.

Reminds me of the current egg "crisis".
This is cap. I worked on heads up glasses, and one of our issues was the lack of integration with Apple's iMessage ecosystem. Device makers are willing to go through several security measures, like deploying the MFi chips and certification. However, at best this gives you access to the notification system, not iMessage itself. You are able to respond to messages via the notification framework, but not integrate directly with iMessage even after taking all security and certification efforts. This isn't a security play. This is a walled garden play.
There is a not-so well known fact about Wiz. Wiz is backed by Cyberstart. They are notorious for running a pay to use thing for CISOs. TLDR; there is a round about way the CISOs get paid for using tools backed by them. Therefore the startups backed by them appears to be fast growing.

[1] https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/blogs/cyberstarts-
program-sparks-debate-over-ethical-boundaries-p-3763

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/10/28/this-vc-b...
"Only apps that meet GSA’s security and privacy standards are allowed."

Given that they're firing all the people who actually know what that means, that's not real reassuring.
And why would, I, as a developer, spend time on supporting "screenshot-based automation" in a painting application?
I would consider this project to be a joke. The code is nasty and you can barely consider this minimal graphical window, an operating system.
There is basically nothing built there to contribute or at least that's my thought after reviewing their project on github.
What you need is REGULATION, because the market is already too skewed for new entrants to meet a level playing field.

But yeah...not a popular opinion here, I know...
Fedora KDE is probably the best KDE experience I've had, so I'm glad that it's going to get equal billing with the GNOME version going forward. Shoutout to the Fedora KDE maintainers for doing such a good job.
Outcomes Are Hard
Do people expect a computer company to love them individually?

> Apple uses its robust security infrastructure to prioritize media company DRM over users' interests

You mean they follow the law so that they don't get sued into the ground?
I dunno, I use the spotify apple watch app just fine
that's a really interesting question!
My only $0.02 is that there isn't a coherent political apparatus to transition political power - as I imagine that the power dynamics among the secondary rank is adversarial.
I've been using Fedora 42 since it branched, it has been quite nice; I haven't encountered any breaking bugs with it. Has gnome 48 which comes with HDR support. Hope that chromium can get support for it soon, MPV can already do it apparently, but haven't tried it; games have been hit & miss for it, but I presume those will get ironed out over time.
I think of that quote every day, as I sit hoping I am wrong and await the warp drives :-D
most people here are also in security and still haven't heard.

It's more likely backroom kickbacks (and/or mossad) than invisible unicorn.
> I'm hostile towards it when it's an attempt to appease a corporation's filters

Maybe you should be hostile towards the corporations that create those filters instead.
Was that humour? Just asking. You mentioned India as ''allies'' to Europe, which doesn't add up in a geopolitical sense.
A journey of a thousand days starts with a single day, recursed until one eventually arrives at the destination.
After a bit more play:

I'm sure skill-based matchmaking would make this waaaay more complex, but a way to self-sort into skill buckets might be nice. I suspect it's not fun for most people to play with me, rapidash, or a few others I saw who are obviously long-time players.

Also, mistakes should be more punitive. I saw a few people random-clicking as quickly as they could, and in one case where I came in halfway and just viewed the rest the guy almost won.
I'm happy for them to hold my hand on commodity electronics. I don't ever want to have to think about how my phone and headphones work. I like to fiddle with computers, but not the stuff I need to run my day to day life.
If ex NSA agents made a cyber security company and Baidu acquired it I think that would be relevant.
The above is true. Some countries don't get ads. Lucky them.
Albania, Cambodia, Ivory Coast, Laos, Myanmar, Macau, Madagascar, Maldives, and Russia.

Use a proxy server/VPN and go ad free.
> Also I thought YC was supposed to sniff out jerks, what happened to that?

Did you also think YC was perfect?
> When attached to an EBS–optimized instance, General Purpose SSD (gp2 and gp3) volumes are designed to deliver at least 90 percent of their provisioned IOPS performance 99 percent of the time in a given year. This means a volume is expected to experience under 90% of its provisioned performance 1% of the time. That’s 14 minutes of every day or 86 hours out of the year of potential impact. This rate of degradation far exceeds that of a single disk drive or SSD.
> This is not a secret, it's from the documentation. AWS doesn’t describe how failure is distributed for gp3 volumes, but in our experience it tends to last 1-10 minutes at a time. This is likely the time needed for a failover in a network or compute component. Let's assume the following: Each degradation event is random, meaning the level of reduced performance is somewhere between 1% and 89% of provisioned, and your application is designed to withstand losing 50% of its expected throughput before erroring. If each individual failure event lasts 10 minutes, every volume would experience about 43 events per month, with at least 21 of them causing downtime!

These are some seriously heavy-handed assumptions being made, completely disregarding the data they collect. First, the author assumes that these failure events are distributed randomly and expected to happen on a daily basis, ignoring Amazon's failure rate statement throughout a year ("99% of the time annually"). Second, they argue that in practice, they see failures lasting between 1 and 10 minutes. However, they assert that we should assume each failure will last 10 minutes, completely ignoring the severity range they introduced.

Imagine your favorite pizza company claiming to deliver on time "99% of the time throughout a year." The author's logic is like saying, "The delivery driver knocks precisely 14 minutes late every day -- and each delay is 10 minutes exactly, no exceptions!". It completely ignores reality: sometimes your pizza is delivered a minute late, sometimes 10 minutes late, sometimes exactly on time for four months.

As a company with useful real-world data, I expect them not to make arguments based on exaggerations but rather show cold, hard data to back up their claims. For transparency, my organization has seen 51 degraded EBS volume events in the past 3 years across ~10,000 EBS volumes. Of those events, 41 had a duration of less than one minute, nine had a duration of two minutes, and one had a duration of three minutes.
I guess that’s the kind of advice that I’m trying to avoid. I can understand and appreciate someone telling me to be more assertive, take care of myself physically etc. and I’d have no problem with it. But a lot of the pickup artistry stuff goes beyond that into things that even I can tell are unhelpful.
yes, that shouldn't be a problem.

with that many tables, you might want to use Views: https://cube.dev/docs/reference/data-model/view
I have no basis for this thought other than speculation, but I imagine GCP having previously unaccessible data about a lot of AWS and Azure workloads of potential GCP customers, gotta be worth at least something... if a customer is generating 2m ARR for Wiz, how much of ARR they generate to AWS/Azure if they are not a GCP customer? Again, this is just speculation and I have no idea if it has any basis in reality, but this was my first thought back when they made the first offer.
google is not facebook, and an ad-supported consumer software is not cloud. OP talked about AI training which is a bit more than metadata

also, the vpn example ended in court
Years ago after getting one I was messing around in settings on Amazon's Alexa website and noticed a log of commands/messages sent to Alexa. I reviewed them and was horrified to see "why does daddy always beat me". Best to let your daughter win at Uno in this age of always-on connectivity. Or just unplug it, which is what I did.
Looking forward to hearing about it.
> I am aware that apple blocks certain functionality to maintain a cohesive and secure experience.

The argument is that they don't do it to maintain a secure experience but to stop competitors having feature parity with their products.

Personally, I find it annoying that my Garmin watch cannot reply to text messages on my iPhone.

I also find it annoying that my iPhone nags me to cut access to my watch to stop it getting weather updates. It doesn't even nag me the once but repeatedly.

It would be one thing if Apple even competed on features with Garmin but they don't.
> For almost half a century now, we haven't really managed to come up with something better, and that's not for lack of trying.

In contrast, my impression is that deprioritization of trying is a defining characteristic. Patents - "yeah it's neat... you can't sell/buy/have/buildon anything like it". Narrowing optimization - "thinkpad is 2-key rollover, because business apps don't use 3, and it saves some cents". Software design-space badlands - "to tweak that, reimplement the full stack and apps". Unicorn dreams - "mass-market or nothing... most often nothing". So instead of a rich ferment of DIY and multi-scale commercial exploring for diverse viable niches, we have an innovation monoculture desert of "wait years for bigco to maybe find incredibly-challenging mass-market fit and afterward backfill niches". So a "we can't sell it because patents so here's a kit"-crippled but still creative AR/VR DIY community hits "Facebook bought Oculus for how much!?!" unicorn dreams and dies. So... etc.
How is 6x generous? Alphabet's P/E is 23. That means $2 billion rev implies $46b valuation (assuming high margins)

These deals always have more than meets the eye. Google wouldn't acquire revenue at a fair market price just for revenue's sake - there's some reason they expect to get value beyond the revenue.

That doesn't mean its nepotism. It could be that they think they can triple revenue per customer with some synergy. Or any number of a large set of other possibilities.

If you want to understand this type of transaction better, you can read a book on M&A
> Do people expect a computer company to love them individually?

I expect corporations to be honest and sincere, and present the full argument for why they're doing what they're doing. I don't know if "people" in general expect this, but if they don't, then their expectations are too low.

I am quite sure there is no US law which says Apple must build out support for media company DRM. Linux doesn't support it and hasn't been declared illegal.
“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”
Tel Aviv is the de facto capital. That's where most countries put their embassies and the claim on Jerusalem is contested.

Are you a christian zionist?
It's probably false to say they're leaving money on the table. They'd be leaving a lot more money on the table if they allocated chips towards consumer gaming GPUs instead of maxing out the server AI/GPU compute segment. The entire gaming market constitutes like 15%-or-less of their revenue nowadays.

And Nvidia has enough mindshare that they could piss on consumers for the next 3 release cycles and still have more than half the market. I don't like it but it's reality.
It isn't anti-competitive to not open up your hardware and software security stack to any other OEMs who wander by. You can simply just buy a competitor's product, for less money even.
My WPM also dropped, but I kept with it because (1) I actually do very little typing compared to thinking (and had to resort to online typing practice to build up muscle memory), (2) my hands are far more comfortable and don't experience cramps or pains anymore.
From the guidelines:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
It'd be cool if they also verified the dates to get rid of the warning of honest backdated posts.
GDP: Just wondering if I can create a simple network library that XDP based
I'll leave this here for lulz - "Nvidia engineer explains RTX 5000 series": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCyNp8aPcsY
Manipulation and charisma are different concepts. There are plenty of highly charismatic manipulative people, just as there are many highly manipulative people with absolutely no charisma.

Charisma may make it easier to manipulate people or it may create an environment where you don’t need to manipulate people to form a consensus.
There is a new (2025) follow up documentary

"Rumblings" Preparing for Cascadia

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32798667/

by Brian Landon

I would say its goal is preemptive community building for hazard resilience
well worth the watch outside the Pacific Northwest too.
Imagine you are a company, like Wiz, that is still growing fast.

Sure, your valuation could be based on revenue today. But why would you sell if you're "worth" $12bn right now, but you'll be "worth" 32bn in a few years? Why give up the control?

The only way for a company like Google to buy Wiz is to add a premium. Otherwise the company will just say "no".

This literally happened to Figma as well. And there is a history of this with companies like Instagram/WhatsApp.

In retrospect, was it stupid for Facebook to acquire Instagram/WhatsApp for large premiums?
Yes, exactly. The chemicals are intended to make up for the lack of immense love for the organization of the work.
> This is an indication that your complaint is not in Apple's behavior, but your regret that the competition sucks and it's not Apple's fault.

No it's not; GP didn't even address this. Competition sucks, and that is Apple's (and Google's) fault.

> Most people choose to buy iPhones knowing that only certain watch options work.

I'm sure that's not true. Most people choose to buy an iPhone because it's an iPhone. No one is going to buy an iPhone because Apple Watch works and Garmin watches don't work (as well).

Certainly some people buy an iPhone because they also want to buy an Apple Watch (which I assume doesn't really work well or at all with Android), but I think that's a minority of purchasers. They by an iPhone because of the iPhone itself.

> It's not like Apple started off letting third party watches work well and then suddenly locked them out (but you could argue from the article that they started off with minor handicaps and have increased the level of handicap over the years).

I feel like your parenthetical refutes any point you were trying to make in the prior sentence. The first part of your sentence is irrelevant. While it does take work to standardize public APIs, it also takes work to lock things down and choose what subset of functions third parties are allowed to access. The fact of crippling third-party smartwatch access is anti-competitive behavior.

This is the same shit we went through in the 90s with Microsoft, but many people here are too young to remember what that was like. MS gave their own apps (Office, IE, etc.) access to private, undocumented Windows APIs that let them provide a better experience than similar third-party apps could provide. The US government and courts decided that was illegal. It should be illegal for Apple to do so as well. (And before you start quoting relative market share numbers between MS in the 90s and Apple now, I don't think that's relevant. You shouldn't need a monopoly in order to be restricted from anti-competitive behavior.)

> But it seems like Google, Samsung, and the other Android players are losing on their own merits.

That's a naive explanation for complex social phenomena. Android doesn't suck. It's fine. Very good even. But it's not enough to be good, or even excellent in today's markets. You need incumbency, lock-in, social capital, and, yes... anti-competitive behavior.

And to be clear, Android manufacturers are not losing. In most places outside the US, Android is the dominant operating system.

But! This isn't about Android winning or losing. It's not about Android at all. It's about companies like Pebble and Garmin being hobbled in the iOS smartwatch market because of Apple's anti-competitive practices. Android is irrelevant to this.
Removing all context from this quote and not including a source is misleading.

I was surprised at the quote so I looked up your source[1] and it describes the ways Israelis avoid conscription by using exceptions/deferrals such as being Palestinian, being ultra-Orthodox, having physical or psychological conditions. Others just choose to go to military prison.

Sounds pretty mandatory to me, at least how the word is commonly used.

[1] https://truthout.org/articles/more-israelis-are-refusing-dep...
Well, other than this one: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629
https://github.com/yattee/yattee

The UX is not great, though.
Great work. Love the austere style.

Nit: don't think you need to prefix "database" with "searchable". If it's a DB, searchability is implied.
s/cap/crap/?
You need to sign up to play it though. :(
So why do you think Google is making this acquisition?
You're not paranoid if you're right.
> you could do a "perfect crime" by going to a seedy part of town, picking up a dropped cigarette butt, and leaving it at the crime scene, framing someone else

Framing someone else is not a perfect crime. A perfect crime finds no criminal, accused or convicted.
Did you have your conclusion in mind before running your back of the envelope calculation? Many people do this much of the time. That often results in motivated reasoning.

One way to reduce that tendency is to use multiple POVs of analysis. You could phrase it as a question instead: what assumptions would you need to change for the valuation to make sense?

Other questions: What factors are you not including? / What would it take for nepotism to survive scrutiny and how much nepotism would be tolerated?

My guess here is there are long-term strategic factors that the decision makers weighed heavily. I’d be very interested in understanding their world view, since they have much better internal visibility of both companies.
P/E is the earnings multiple, not revenue. Your assuming high margins is doing a lot of legwork here. Often untrue for growing startups.
> Nothing anyone can do to Twitter or Boring Company matters.

Well, afaik the Boring Company hasn't done anything since 2021 [1] so I'll agree there.

However, Twitter is very much not the case. Elon very much reads what people post there otherwise he wouldn't bother to censor the mothers of his kids. If there was a 50% decline in viewership he'd definitely notice.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company
kickbacks, may be. I have seen the product. It is not so mossad-y. It fairly straight forward cloud, VM, kubernetes scans.

Does it protect stuff? Somewhat.

Is it the best product out there - no.

Are CISOs happy? CSPM is mostly a checklist item in their bucket to things to do.

It depends on what kind of security you are working in. Most of the people in CSPM, CNAPP world have heard their name.

It is product built for cloud security/devsecops folks.
Indeed. But i.e. India followed with similar demands based on EU's DMA Regulation, and so could other countries then.

In a ideal world US would lead the way, as it's the most influential market especially for US companies. But I don't expect this to happen...
Excited about the new COSMIC spin, and remain excited about the progression of the existing Atomic desktop spins.
Which begs the question: if you used a proxy server/VPN and created an account "overseas", would you get ads?
Won't be any backdoor access to the White House communications opened up here.