skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my answer to on-call requests: no. And if you ask me to clarify my statement, I will answer: no. Because no is good enough, and it's what I negotiated when I took the job.

I don't work for employers who can't manage their staff properly. If you're on-call at a company with any sort of scale, you aren't being managed properly. One of the things I tell hiring managers is that I don't mind working later if we're reaching the end of a project and a late afternoon or two might get the product pushed out of the door sooner, or if I've gotten into the zone and am making reat progress. But these are my choices to make. There will never ever be a time when I will subject myself to being tied to a phone for the purposes of waking up in the middle of the night and messing with servers or software. My time is MY time. I only ever have reciprocal relationships with employers and refuse to upset that balance.
This deal isn't about security, it's about data.

Google already have one of the best security teams in the industry - Project Zero [0]. They don't need Wiz's "enterprise" expertise for security.

This deal is about DATA. Wiz, as a cybersecurity vendor, have full remote access to their customers cloud compute storage (EC2 EBS volumes, etc) in the name of "security scanning" - this is actually part of their unique selling point - "agent-less scanning" which is unlike traditional security tools that require an agent installed in the OS. Instead, Wiz is able to just clone your full data volume and scan it locally in their cloud accounts/VPC.

With this deal Google has bought a ton of confidential data from Wiz's customers without their explicit knowledge or approval, and they will use it to improve Google's AI models like Gemini and probably several other products.

A year ago Google struck a $60M/yr deal with Reddit to exclusively license their content [1] for the same reason, and that data is probably much smaller and less valuable than the data Wiz has access to from their customers, which include companies like Morgan Stanley, DocuSign, Slack, Plaid, and others. [2]

Sources:

0: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com

1: https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-ai-content-licensi...

2: https://www.wiz.io/customers
OpenSeasame would be a great project name!
This is an absurd take. There’s nothing stopping anyone from building their own cloud security tools (many have), and unlike the Mafia, Wiz isn’t threatening anyone who doesn’t buy their service. I’m also not aware of any government agency providing any reasonable analog to what these tools provide in the physical world.
I am beside myself with excitement. This has been in the back of my mind 8 years, I always believed. I have never pre-ordered anything this quickly in my life.
You get to pick the cherries that you eat.
You don't sound like you are actually looking forward to this.
> They also snapshot your disks, cloning them to Wiz accounts

I can see how that could be worth $32B.
I never bring my phone with me when I go running, but occasionally pick something up and pay with my watch afterwards
DeepSeek smallpond, 3FS and data processing for AI
Militaries have been using point to point laser or microwave for things for decades. They've also used coiled fiber optics (and still do) for missles, etc.

It's really easy to blast an area with high power disruptive radiation (EFI, RFI, laser, etc.) to deny comms, though.
The heart rate sensor patents were ruled unpatentable:

https://www.tomsguide.com/wellness/smartwatches/apple-watch-...

> This week, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the previous verdict of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that concluded all three of AliveCor’s patents were unpatentable. This is generally the outcome when courts conclude that patents are either obvious or too generic to enforce.

The case over the oximeter functionality is still ongoing, but with luck it'll go the same way.
TensorFlow is a technology not a product. Having things in a “research” lab are not products. What product have they introduced in the past decade? 15 years? Android is the only one that has gotten any meaningful traction.

Does Google have a better LLM based product than OpenAI’s ChatGPT? Well personally for my use case, NotebookLM is better for some things. But it isn’t a better product for most people.

Androids position is so bad in the market as far as convincing consumers with money to buy one, Google has to pay Apple $20B+ a year to be the default search engine. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google pays more to be the default search engine on Apple devices than Google makes in mobile for Android.

From a consumer standpoint, Android has seen declining market share in the US, the Nest acquisition is floundering, Stadia was a failure, Pixel ships about the same number in a year that Apple ships iPhone in a a couple of weeks, WearOS has gone nowhere, no real tablet strategy (I Chromebooks have been a success in education so that’s kind of a mitigating factor), their tv strategy has pivoted a half dozen times, their messaging app strategy is schizophrenic (they had 5 separate messaging apps simultaneously at one point), AI summaries for Google search are half baked.

On the business side, GCP is just pathetic. I don’t mean as far as technology. But their account management, enterprise sales team and customer service is lackluster. I mentioned in another comment that when I worked at AWS ProServe, we never considered them a serious competitor.

GSuite has gained some traction in smaller companies. But hasn’t made a dent in government and enterprise where the real money is.

Look at Microsoft and Apple’s product mix as far as successful profit generating products and compare that to Google’s.
If you ever used MPW shell, a lot of those characters were part of the syntax of commands and the regular expression parser so it was common to learn to compose ∫,® ∂ etc. The debugger TMON also used them, so they just become second nature, like !@#.
I didn't read the original post two days ago when they claimed nonsense like they can recharge in a minute, I guess this is the corrected version?
NeuroMorpho – An Open Database of Neuronal Morphologies
Very much digging this Washington Monthly review,

> while devoting so much attention to progressive contradictions, abundance liberals are almost completely silent on the alliance between corporate behemoths and antigovernment politicians that is the biggest threat to the world of plenty they envision, not to mention the republic.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/17/the-meager-agenda-o...

The Abundance folks repeatedly cite Foundation American Innovation, and the Mercatus Center. Koch Brothers funded/affiliated anti-regulatory bodies. It seems so obvious, but so much of the anti-regulatory agenda greatly aids corporate behemoth's ability to grab and hold power. I would very much like a state which is probably active about supporting and funding new competitors, that has pro-conpetitive regulation.
You'll one day hear Apple's lawyers argue in court that "security" never meant cybersecurity, only share price security.
The art of Scavenger’s Reign was really good. The ecosystem was really interesting (a bit overly-clever for stuff that is supposed to have evolved IMO, but it was still really interesting). Really great setting and art.

The plot and characters felt a bit shallow/stereotypical/predictable in a bad way.

It’s like they had too much of the ecosystem that they wanted to show, so they split it up among too many characters, and didn’t invest the appropriate character development in each. Plus, I really want to steep in the ecosystem, the rush to get to the ship is, IMO, not really necessary (it serves to force the characters to explore the environment, but IMO some alternative force that doesn’t put the characters on such a tight timer would be preferable). I often found myself thinking: wow, I wish the characters could take more time exploring this phenomenon, but also, the character should, given their in-character motivation, leave this interesting thing alone. They are wasting precious time.

I’d love to see a Mushishi like series set in that universe. Focus on one character’s journey through the ecosystem. Give the character motivation to unravel the mysteries instead of dodge them.
Dutch parliament calls for end to reliance on US software
Israel is a democracy; Russia and China are not. Also, whataboutisms are childish arguments that don't belong on HN.
>But the majority of those would already be met in a lot of western economies, and wage IS the number one factor to build factories in China instead of, say, Italy.

It may be the biggest but at this point i think the combined corpus of other factor outweighs it insofar that it would take a long time for things to slowly come back.
At least for factories that aren't sweatshop work or primarily manual conveyor belt work.

Even in those later ones (I did automation for one in the food industry that literally can't move far abroad) it's insane how much of the endless amount of components that keep it all running came from china.

I think your best bet other than just wage is both education adjustments and gov incentive that works primarily from the bottom up rather than from the top down like countries in general in the west tend to try.
After all if i get a tax credit or grant or what have you for locally produced....idk keyboards...the cheapest way for me is still to get every component from china and to assemble here using a PnP machine manufactured in...you guessed it.
SQLite via libsql is my go to for lightweight stuff.

Has vector embedding columns out of the box.
I would guess that music producers are demanding unreasonable amounts of money per view, so carving them out of the equation is a fine trade IMO
crypto?
Emperor Rocket Boy, has everything needed to go full ICBM NUKE, on a thumb drive, the crypto thing is just a side hobby, that shares time on whatever small mountain of GPU's that are used for all the rocket and submarine, nuke engineering that is going on in NK, which is his main hobby.
Scientists in Antarctica report sexual assault, death threats by colleague
That's enough to support hundreds of thousands of cars.
It's smart defense, great offense, and a good product behind it. Each eat a big chunk of that $100B target. I don't see Wiz as a 10 year company, I see it as a forever requirement for companies to manage all of their cloud resources (across all providers). It will be here as long as GCP/AWS are here. I expect a short path to ROI on this one.
Then please tell us which EV people should trade their Tesla in for and which moral judgements to make. You seem to think it's easy, I'm arguing it's not.

To be painstakingly clear I'm not defending Elon and I'm definitely not suggesting that people shouldn't avoid Tesla for whatever reasons they choose. My issue is inciting vandalism, or violence, against consumers who have made their own choices in this complex web.
> You have to demonstrate it in some way. Providing half your content for free while keeping half behind a paywall seems like a perfectly reasonable strategy to address this discoverability problem.

I feel like 404media is doing a good job at that. They irritate me sometimes but they break a lot of great news with a tiny staff and have an indomitable social media presence (at least on bluesky) that really gets people talking about them. Don't get me wrong, I'll never pay for their work because I feel like they get a little user hostile sometimes[1], but people less curmudgeonly probably are subscribing.

[1] https://www.404media.co/we-dont-want-your-password-3/
The single most important thing facing humanity right now is carbon in the atmosphere. There isn't even really a close second. I don't care about anything else Elon does if he successfully gets the right to care about the atmosphere (or care about owning libs via solar roofs and cyber trucks). He would go down as a martyr in my book.
To me, the security posture of Android (esp, the Pixels) & Chromium stands out as an outstanding contribution to humanity (given the reach of both those platforms).

> Google got hacked in 2009 by China (I believe that was the first time a major company admitted to being hacked by government).

Do they mind if they're legally "hacked" by a (Western) govt? All that security sophistication couldn't prevent LEAs from owning us all, unfortunately: https://therecord.media/google-refuses-to-deny-it-received-u... / https://archive.vn/mzZtI
Nothing you wrote actually refutes my point that these people not only escaped consequences, but they were protected by rioters and then becane celebrities in the Israeli late night circuit. Remind me which other countries had a debate in their parliament about whether it was OK to gang r*ape a prisoner in the rectum and send them to the hospital? When countries commit atrocities like that it's normal for there to be backlash.

Apparently it's a mask off moment to notice these things? Or maybe you should examine why you think they're normal.
> The Chinese discovered this during Mao,

And the Americans perfected it during Bush.
macOS does this when searching for a command in the Help menu - it will open up the context menu and highlight the place where the command is so you know where it is next time.
You're all hired.
Such details are so subjective even a same person could change his/her mind about it and change it back later...
I think they did a safe job of adding this _N feature though, since it's not allowed all the time. It felt like a missing feature because you could do map(&:to_i) but needed a parameter for something simple like map { |x| x == 5 }.

The `next` keyword is interesting in Ruby. It can be used as an explicit return for blocks.
In javascript, for comparison, there is a `continue` for standard loops, but non-standard blocks don't exist so they are functions and require the use of the return keyword (except for single-instruction arrow functions). And implicit returns or nexts simply don't exist in js.
Comparison I would make is that is like the transition from renting a server to using services on the cloud - you used to rent a server of a specific size and do whatever you want with it, but then the cloud came and undermined that "Swiss army knife" approach by having you rent specific services directly - database storage, processing, etc.

So AI will be more directed and opinionated, but also much easier to use for common tasks. And the "renting a server" option doesn't go away, just becomes less relevant for anyone in the middle of the bell curve.
103 points, 167 comments, 8h ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43396853
Ah, when it said "standard Pebble charger" I incorrectly assumed it was a charging port, rather than something like pogo pins. What's on the back of the watch seems pretty reasonable.
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Who benefits from writing Amazon reviews? I've written them for years for products I purchased, for no other reason than to let other people know.
Counterpoint: Zelenski is a short guy and I don't think it hurts his image. He comes off as something of a bulldog. The fact that he's fit helps a lot mostly he's good at using what he has and crafting an image off of that, rather than trying to fake something.

The high heels haven't hurt Putin politically since he's a dictator but it's ruined the careers of other politicians like Ron DeSantis.
Mononoke and Spirited Away specifically feel like they have several 'extra' acts that make them seem longer than they are. Though looking back at both I'm not sure what I'd cut.
The political winds and demographics of the 70s happened. And then some overzealous hippies blew up a few bathrooms to much media spectacle and that was the nail in the coffin that got it effectively banned.

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/weather-underground...
Can I mention Jay Kristoff as well?
Asides from what the other replies mentioned, various streaming providers have PC streaming platforms that aren't as good as their streaming apps.

I'm currently watching Canadian and world championship curling, and the rights-holder in Canada (TSN) has a website that logs me out between every single game.

Otherwise I watch mostly Plex, and while there is a 10-foot interface (Plex HTPC), for whatever reason it stops my PC from sleeping when content is paused, so I'm forced to use the non-HTPC interface.
We were putting this into classrooms where teachers were speaking all day anyhow. The system completely automated teaching tools, smart boards, and browsers. I don't think it gained a lot of traction, nonetheless, the company raised $100,000,000 to focus on the automation part of the product as a vertical.

My point is that as a UI developer, I was moving from all output to screens to output which is automated tasks. There are different types of output and they almost all relate to the senses which is the were the interface between the human and the machine exists. For example, to screen, eyes, to sound, ears, and haptic feedback on mobile devices, touch. Because in my space, the browser, I was using JavaScript and browser APIs the same but the end result was different.

Automation as an output is fundamentally different from all the UI I built the decade prior.
Is there anything else lacking? I ordered the color one without much thought and only saw the barometer/compass bit afterward.
Great idea! Adding it now.
Buying browser extensions for fun and profit
>Would you go to prison for possessing a single joint back then?

Yes, Harvard Professor Timothy Leary was sentenced to 30 years in prison (!) for having a single partially-smoked joint in his car.
The demo image of getting a text message about a party on your watch is an example of everything that is wrong with wearable computing. The last thing I need is more invasive notifications.
I think you’re overlooking Garmin who has a healthy business in smart watches and they’re compatible with Apple devices.

Edit : more up to date and useful comments thankfully below
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This just goes to show that, especially with Voice AI, people should be thinking in terms of "systems" not "agents". Sesame claims this slow barebones base model is what their demo is built around. Regardless of if that's true or not, it is true that there's a whole lot more that goes into a slick demo like Sesame's Maya and Miles than just hooking up a few models together.
A three-hour tour.
If iOS only allows you to build a worse experience, then Apple customers will leave the platform for Android. The problem solves itself.
Did you fully read the EULA?
This alone made me believe it’s real enterprise software ;)
> I haven't seen anything come out of a local LLM that was useful.

By far the most useful use case for me, is when I want to do something in a repl or the shell, I only vaguely remember how the library or command I am about to use works and just ask it to write the command for me instead of reading through the manual or docs.
This would be my vote.

There are probably more performant options, but for universality, you are best off going with a popular SQL DB that has vector extensions or support. SQLLite is another option if you want even more portability.
You can connect a Bluetooth keyboard to an Apple TV.
CriteoPrivateAd: RealWorld Bidding Dataset to Design Private Advertising Systems
> Core 2 Duo is a pretty funny name.

I remember there was also an Intel processor with the same name.
So many sources yet no source of the actually outrageous claim that Google will use this to illegally siphon customer data

maybe this deal is about a company with a lot of revenue in an area google is heavily investing in: cloud security?
Animating Text with Dawkins' Weasel
Another company that would like Apple to donate R&D resources to them to add iOS API for free.
This conversation is basically:

"All zebras are red"

"Actually, if you look at studies, you can see that horses come in all types of colours. So I would expect zebras to be the same"

"Horses are not zebras, that should be all the proof you need to accept that all zebras are red."
Alas that it is not unusual for python questions to be "Marked as Duplicate" because the same question was answered 10 years ago for Python 2. Python questions bring out some of the worst features of SO and some of the best features of Gen AI.
No I won't, Android is not a good user experience. I'd rather buy an Apple Watch.
If he took all the money and ran? Yeah, there would be a nuclear power vacuum and a massive migration crisis towards the south that requires the US, China and Russia to be cooperative on to deal with. It would be the most hilarious way to start WW3.
1.) What
air, are, e'er, ere, err, heir

I guess I need to go back to school because I pronounce some of them quite differently.
> Israel isn’t a democracy anymore than the US is

This thread is over.
postgres pgvector is a decent implementation by now which is likely available in most setups that postgres will run on.

You can also use faiss if you want it all in memory at all times and have the RAM to support it.

What's your use case and the volume of vectors you want to look up?
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With as much functionality as there is on an Apple Watch I can see how that would be huge endeavor to accomplish while maintaining the tight security and privacy model.
This is just how tech has worked forever. Large established companies are not great at developing new products, so they buy startups. Youtube was a startup. Google Docs was a startup. Hell, Network Address Translation was a startup at one point.
The USB for LLMs – MCP SSE Server in Rust with Actors – Open-Source
If you have a problem with Unit 8200 alumni, you’re going to have a difficult time buying commercially available security products. Palo Alto Networks, Armis, Checkpoint, and many others were either founded by or otherwise have former 8200 folks on staff. Then there’s crowdstrike, founded by a Russian. Or Fortinet, which was founded by Ken Xie (born in Beijing.)

I guess you could base your entire security stack on F Secure. Everyone loves the Finns.
To be clear, I'm not supporting damaging random Tesla's, just answering the questions asked.

> who's going to buy it? Nobody would want to own a molotov magnet

If nothing else, it has value as parts.

> In the end it'll be hurting my wallet and not Elon's because I have to junk the car and buy a different brand.

It hurts both. Nobody is going to buy Tesla is what they can look forward to a string of vandalism and eventually having to either sell it for a song or scrap it for parts. Tesla/Elon may already have the money from your current purchase, but destroying the second hand market and otherwise making it painful to own one reduces demand, and that hurts Elon's wallet.
Show HN: VoiceInk and Workflows, a local mini-Siri [video]
The great VoiceInk app is open-source, so I hacked (using Claude) a small MVP for a "Workflow" feature, you can see the code here: https://github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk/pull/19

This is a bit a "create your own Siri" open-source app that everybody can use!

Check it here in video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGYOzsknk-k

VoiceInk uses Whisper (on-device) and ChatGPT (if requested) to analyze your speech, and my extension allows people to register actions for each command

So for instance you can say "Send an email to Fred about the meeting tomorrow, I will be 10 min late" and BOOM, it opens your Mail with the fields pre-filled

Or any kind of action on your laptop (really: anything you can write as a shell script)

See the image https://imgur.com/a/jHtY3UF and video https://imgur.com/a/jmD74dH

For now it's not yet merged in VoiceInk, and it would probably need the main author of VoiceInk to work a bit on the feature, but it totally works and it's really cool!

It's quite straightfoward to build it yourself if you want to try in the meantime, check rough instructions here:

https://github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk/issues/17#issuecomment-...
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iOS wearable integrations are bad, but somehow Meta Ray-Bans are very good. Voice assist to start a call, send a text, read a notification, etc. Did Meta get special access to do this?