skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steam Offline wants you to go online and perform a bunch of steps, including launching games and then enabling offline mode. Every game launch is is probably a download of at least few hundred megabytes of data. And then every game requires its own networks where your account linked to steam acc, etc. and Rockstar games iirc it you must be online when you launch the game. So the fact that Steam client has offline mode is irrelevant and misleading.
So in your worldview, the only time the author can actually say what he's saying, is a situation where it's already impossible for him to say it at all.

I think you should consider the practical ramifications of the standard you're suggesting, even if you feel like in some abstract way it is correct.

Most tyranny relies on such pedantry, e.g., "you do have freedom of thought, just not the freedom to spread your harmful ideas!", this sentence makes complete sense, but in that example, in what useful sense do you have freedom of thought?
Yes, if you get yourself a bad deal, you get a bad deal. There isn't anything inherently weak about trading work for equity. Don't take a bad deal.
Yes, Kagi is using GCP (+ AWS + some baremetal)
> Esperanto is only easy to learn if you already speak a European language, and even then it helps even more if you speak one of the languages Zamenhof, its inventor, spoke.

That's a very common misconception about Esperanto. It's true that most of Esperanto's etymology is of European origin, but cognate vocabulary isn't all, or even most, of what makes a language easy to learn. Just to pick one example: in most languages, you need to conjugate verbs according to their subject; in a lot of others, you need to decline nouns, too, according to their cases. And then there are the exceptions: there are hundreds of irregular verbs in English, and thousands in some other languages. Esperanto has none of these difficulties. Even if we were just to consider vocabulary, Esperanto vocabulary is so much easier to learn, because it's agglutinative: it's made up of composable, modular parts that can be recombined into other words. That means, if you know fifty words, you actually know five hundred.

Just talk to Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Esperantists, and they'll tell you that Esperanto was a hundred times easier to learn than English, other European languages, and other Asian languages, too.
Ask HN: Why doesn't MacBook Pro allow up to 1000 nits all the time?
It seems that you need a special utility to use a MacBook Pro at above 600 nits.
Leftwing group claim responsibility for Tesla factory arson attack in Berlin
If you agree, do you mind paying a few hundred thousand for my neural net training expenses?
Sounds like that has more to do with how you have your default ‘new tab’ page configured in your browser than with windows to me.
Does anyone know would there be support for Apple Silicon GPUs/Metal?
It's managed and owned by Google. That's what makes it different. I don't agree, but there's a clear us/them divide happening with Chrome OS right now that's also generational.
In my experience it'll probably work out a little more like:

"Hey Google, lower the volume"

"Calling $NAME_OF_DECEASED_PERSON_OR_RANDOM_RESTAURANT"
The main reason I use Linux is because it's the only platform that's actually usable.

You install it, get the software you need, and off you go. No account bullshit, no license annoyances, no telemetry. When something breaks i can fix it. If I want to do something a bit more advanced nothing stops me. I can use the windowing environment i like the best.

In a few words: I can install it and just do my stuff.
I disagree on Cuda changing constantly. The hardware is stable once sold and new devices are usually backwards compatible by at least a version or two. The API is also locked down for already deployed versions, can't go pulling the rug from paying customers. However, new versions of both hardware and Cuda do introduce new things that'll need addressed. I don't think it's much of a moving target though.
> I've been on teams where I'm the only white person. I've also been on teams where women outnumber the men (yes, even in tech).

This isn't surprising at all. There are tons of asians in tech. And it's not uncommon for a couple devs to be on a team with lots of product or design people. I'm on one such team right now. The vast majority of this team is non-white women.
> It's more due to the fact that some regulatory or industry standard the enterprise promises to follow requires a WAF to be in place.

This is the comment I was looking for. This is exactly right, most companies do it to check a box for compliance.
A) they do, but
B) cash doesn't scale terribly well. Think a million $ in cash is cool? How do you spend it?

You can't really take it to a bank. You can buy a cheap banger (car), but forget wandering into a dealership and dropping 25k in cash. (Apart from anything else, they'd be worried the cash was stolen or counterfeit.)

Travelling with it is risky. Flying especially. And in the US there's the danger of confiscation by the police. Everywhere else there's confiscation by the public as well.

You can't buy a house. Certainly no shares or most other assets. Hotels, maybe, depending ion the hotel. Nothing too fancy.

Groceries sure. Day to day expenses, sure. Just no Amazon.

Like I say, cash just doesn't scale well (despite what you see in the movies.)
just wait until i ship my game as a bootable linux image.

reboot to play is the future. who cares about the os, just boot into the app.

windows is somewhat usable with hellzerg/optimizer if you flip all the toggles and also disable updates.

i play fortnite on windows then reboot and write code on linux. it will be a good day when i can stop using windows. using an os that i can’t safely update feels bad.
Kind of ironic that the train is a colo for people. A mobile colo.
Ran it on a "real" OSS project of mine (https://github.com/dvx/lofi/), and it was stuck at 99% loading for about 30 minutes. Then, when it finally parsed the codebase, when asked anything it always returns "Error: Internal error while locating sources." Specifically, I wanted to see if it can context switch between TypeScript (used for the front-end), ObjectiveC (used for a few Mac features), C++ (used for Windows volume features), and GLSL (used for visualizations). But alas.

At one point, this random prompt popped up: https://imgur.com/a/mYeluaU —what's "Onboard?" Is this some kind of weird LLM leakage/hallucination?

With all respect, this is like a pre-MVP quality product. The codebase isn't even particularly large and the experience is extremely sub-par. Charging for something like this is honestly highway robbery.
Why is that in your opinion? In the US, passenger trains (Amtrak) are generally hopeless as well (expensive, not punctual, etc) especially across most of the country where Amtrak operates on other company's (freight) tracks. In the northeast corridor (where Amtrak has its own tracks), its service is markedly better.
i just pinned reddit, wikipedia to top so my searches will usually display them first.
Oh I see. Was confused. The “this” in OP’s comment is an offline library. An offline LLM would be nice too.
Absolutely. I think it makes sense to decide what outcomes you want. I'm an activist in the sense that I want to see everyone who is inclined to participate in something due to interest or talent do so, not necessarily now, but 20, 30 years from now.

When people get discouraged and shut out from jobs, sports, music scenes, it's a loss, especially if that means we perpetuate patterns that lose us hundreds, thousands, millions of talented individuals in the future.
I don't think you'd be happy eating out of a bag of feed corn. they eat a little soybean for balancing the diet but they don't each much soybean as it affects their gut if they have too much. Still, that soybean has a long way to go before its a brick of tofu wrapped in plastic sitting on your grocery store shelf. There is a certain amount of manufacturing capacity that would need to be built out. You might not even want to put it where you have the existing feedlots and meatpacking industries because these are sited with the idea of moving livestock by rail from grazing lands to feed lots near marketplaces in mind.
Repeating the claim still doesn't make it true.

The definition most of us use for censorship is "I prevent you from saying something." What Google is doing is "I decline to help you make money from saying something." That is not at all the same thing.
do you know of any projects using [anything like] git-bug?

i know i've encountered something like this once in a notable repo. thought it was graphics related, like mesa or something, but looks like they're using GitLab.
"Quite easily" isn't true in most cases, but embeddings are sometimes reversible. We know this because programs like Stable Diffusion sometimes output near-perfect copies of training data when given the correct prompt, and generation of that image is based on word and image embeddings alone.
Desktop Linux has just gotten progressively easier to use over the years. Since Microsoft's plan for Windows is all about maintaining legacy support, it's kludgy by necessity and will continue down that path until Microsoft decides to break compatibility. So it's only natural that we've started to hit an inflection point.
Contractors probably get different contracts than employees
> No way I'm plugging into some random public USB outlet.

How is LibraryBox better? You would be connecting to a random wifi SSID?

> Aside from that, I believe they were indeed intended to serve multiple people at once... encampments, communities, short term installations, etc.

Almost any computing device on a network can share files this way, with a bit of configuration.
Still wanting a universal translator on the iPhone a la Meta Seamless. Language would no longer be a barrier given global mobile phone saturation.
Just the other day I was searching for something on iOS and the results were really suspicious, they mostly didn't match the query or didn't make sense at all. My brain was going on autopilot and it took me a few tries to realize my Kagi extension was disabled and I was using Google.
This was also the solution I used when I spent 3 years travelling the UK in a boat. And for that matter when I was living in London in shared flats...
I did the same and added a custom bang so I can use it from the address bar directly (!r pointing at https://kagi.com/search?q=%s&l=8 where 8 is the lens id).

Probably least a third of my queries are preceded by an !r now. A third of the rest are now question mark queries that activates their AI fast answer. It's like the google info box on steroids since it can answer any query and it works with lenses to restrict the fast answer to specific domains.
It depends on what a standard Linux environment is and what you will need it for. I mean Android is some kind of Linux and with Termux you can get it a bit more Debian-like from a terminal perspective. But I haven't seen anybody start a KDE or Gnome with it.

My biggest issue with Dex is that it can manage only one large display. So if you have two, they are just being cloned. Otherwise, I like to use it sometimes when I don't want to start my PC.
I’ve never heard of reversible embeddings in practice.

In theory if you know the model being used you could reverse them.
Take a break – Error-detecting codes in credit card numbers, airline tickets, I
Rockstar games require you to have an account at the launch iirc. And this us kind misleading, because while technically Steam has offline mode, but not necessarily the games you purchased on Steam. But having a unified UX is why I want to use the platform like steam to begin with.
The idea is that they aren't as capable as a domain expert, but they are more capable than an expert from a different domain.

E.g., if you ask a chemistry PhD something about genetics or astrophysics, you're more likely to get a correct answer from the model. Which is pretty interesting IMO.
Not really. Look at SDXL Turbo. Sure, it's fast, but the images it produces are not very good.

I'm not even sure what the use case is.
Yeah, SDXL is probably better than SD3 800M if I had to guess. I’m looking forward to the quality advancements with LCM Loras, or an SD3 Turbo!
Random thought but what about calling it a subscription?

For example, allow users to be able to subscribe to specific repos or specific topics or specific people etc
Harvey Mudd College has a top undergrad CS program with gender parity. It's a small school so unclear whether they have expanded the pool, or are just better at recruiting women than other schools.

https://www.hmc.edu/about/2018/05/15/harvey-mudd-graduates-h...

The gender ratio was actually more even in the early days of computing. One hypothesis is that it became skewed largely because in the 1980s the consumer electronics industry marketed video games and home computers almost exclusively to boys. I don't know whether that entirely accounts for the change but it could have been a factor.

https://qz.com/911737/silicon-valleys-gender-gap-is-the-resu...
My financial advisor is a Harvard educated investment banker who got out of the game to have a better lifestyle. Her advice: Index funds. That’s all I need to know. Obviously age and risk appetite will change your allocations but a company like Vanguard makes that really easy and affordable to do.
For now we are storing the embeddings of the generated docstrings, the intuition behind this is kinda like how HyDE works. I don't think the actual code itself is reversible from the embeddings, but yes we do want to store the actual code at some point and we will need the proper security measures for that. We are also actively developing an self-hostable version for enterprise.
Google sells their index??

(Microsoft famously sells theirs to DuckDuckGo, right?)
I used to work with a PCB vendor in SV who had two buildings - fab and assembly. Fab was almost 100% Indian, assy was almost 100% vietnamese. They mostly hired out of foreign language newspapers.
I had a recruiter teach me a trick for LinkedIn that seems to be working. Turn off your "Open To Work" every couple of weeks for at least 48 hours. Then turn it back on. It shoots you back to the top of search results for recruiters. I did it when I was looking and my contacts from recruiters increased significantly every time I turned it back on. One of those recruiters got me the job I landed.

I agree with previous responders on cold applying. My experience here is twofold. As an applicant, I have landed one job by applying for it, and I believe that was a fluke. As a hiring manager, the applicant systems are jam-packed with hundreds of applicants. There isn't enough time to look through all of them, and when you do, you aren't looking closely.

I don't hate the idea of networking, and I have helped contacts get jobs. Networking has many pluses outside of the job search.

The most important thing is to keep interviewing every chance you get, even if you aren't serious about the job or the pay is too low. When I got laid off in June, my first few interviews were disasters. I was out of practice and ill-prepared. About ten interviews later, I'm poised and practiced. My elevator speech is short and on point, and I sound like I know what I'm talking about.
Yes! Instructions here (old.reddit.com is one of the main examples): https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html
Those defaults are baked into the OS.
Neat. Is there a way to backup or save results? I currently use Jefit on Android but have noticed the enshittification creeping in. It probably won't be long before seeing any historical data requires a monthly subscription.
Logic Programming Education
I have several tools installed, also such which hook into explorer, but not more than I had with Windows 7, which I replaced last year with Windows 11 on a much more modern machine.

Two weeks ago I had to boot into the Windows 7 on the old machine (it now boots into Linux by default and I use it occasionally) and almost tears came to my eyes when I saw how fast that 13 year old machine is.

Windows 7 was pretty good as an OS.
Most of these use device attestation anyways so they are unlikely to run on Windows. The bank wants to ensure that the user doesn't have root access which isn't the case on Windows.
"While Apple previously revealed it was planning to drop support for progressive web apps (PWAs) in the EU to avoid building “an entirely new integration architecture” around DMA compliance, the company now says it will “continue to offer the existing Home Screen web apps capability” for EU users. However, these homescreen apps will still run using WebKit technology, with no option to be powered by third-party browser engines."
I'm actually really excited about this. With all the things on a phone that are constantly switching on and off, connecting and reconnecting and disconnecting and moving, etc. etc. Systemd's dependency management, etc. seems like a no-brainer. Sorry to the Systemd haters, I do get it, I don't like how programs are baking in Systemd dependency either, but to me, it's a big step in the right direction for modern computing init systems.
You can use as many as you like until instructed not to.
Makridakis Competitions
This seems cheaper than rent so I don’t know what student loans has to do with it.
Are you working right next to the Sun or maybe wearing sunglasses?
It's unbelievable that you could look at a country potentially invading another non-threatening country with 2% its population and then decide that other countries trying to avoid this are engaging in Balkanization. Your perspective is insane.
There's a lot of leftist disruption going on out there but it seems like the politicians only complain of a nonexistent "far right" bogeymen. Seems like endless destruction and defacement of private and public property and rioting, infrastructure sabotage, and disruption to free travel. And all of it justified through a delusional idea of justice or something.
Are there people working in cybersecurity who actually use those code querying tools in their daily work? I've heard of some showcase projects that end up in blog posts and such, but everyone I've spoken to who's tried CodeQL or Joern or similar says that by the time you've figured out your query with all its edge cases, you might as well have just looked at the code and found any vulns quicker that way. And probably with a better understanding of the program too.
Not sure how this,

> Co-ordinated disclosure aims to prevent all of that by ensuring everyone knows about it at the same time

helps with this,

> Even in the case of automatic updates, patching can be delayed if it requires an app restart, for example.

Not saying they don't have a use-case. Just not sure how it's fixed.
Yup, silently patching (like JetBrains did) has a lot of downsides. Let alone the deception from JetBrains to the Rapid7 team.

(Disclosure: I know some of the folk on the Rapid7 side, so I'm perhaps biased towards their interpretation of events)
Maybe we need a `.greptileignore` file...
Huh? How do you expect it to work? Do other search engines support this?
The Comet Strike Theory That Just Won't Die
nice! Two systemd features that would (IMHO) be especially useful in cell phones are:

- socket activation (as post says, "print from your phone without having CUPS running all the time")

- extra security. Many daemons drop privileges, but how many of them also isolate filesystem and install seccomp filters? With systemd, it could be "every one"
Overheard years ago when I was out at lunch: "Luckily I don't have to use javascript, just jquery."
Back in my enterprise days I remember getting decent results with the Portfolio add-on to JIRA. Like all things JIRA it’s a bit heavy and slow, but full of features
A few years is also a rapid change to replace all the products on the market that are animal derived. They use the entire animal you know, not just the parts in the supermarket. Usually these analysis don't consider that they just consider the caloric benefit. Imagine telling cardiologists they can no longer source pig hearts for open heart surgery.
A contemporary issue in the US was the anaerobic lagoon in Washington DC which almost certainly led to the death of one President, William Henry Harrison, and likely two (the other being Zachary Taylor).
You can input Mathematica (ahem, Wolfram Language). I suppose yet another use for LLMs: better translation of natural language input into structured Wolfram calculations. Unsurprisingly, they're already advertising "Wolfram GPT" and have added LLMSynthesize[] etc. to Mathematica.
>> Training these big models is very very expensive.

Which is why they are not the future. A big model that can generate a picture about anything in response to any input makes for a great website. It generates lots of press. But it is not a reasonable tool for content generation. If you want to produce content in a specific area or genre, the best results come from a model trained or modified in the area. So the big generalized AI, if you use it, would only be the framework on which you built your specialized tool. Building that specialized tool, such as something dedicated to images of a particular politician, does not require huge amounts of computation. That sort of thing can and is being done by individuals.

I am waiting for a tool trained on publicly-accessible mugshots. It wouldn't be a very big project but could yield a tool to generate very believable mugshots of politicians.
1) I wouldn't call it "very" fair. VCs can (and almost always do?) also have a veto on such sales in the terms, so they don't need the preference to protect their investment. Which is more fair?

2) You missed the 3rd case, sometimes the business is simply a bad one (like the example in TFA), or all the oxygen is getting sucked out by the new shepherd dog, eg right now with AI. The business can die right then and there, or the founder can take the equity on the only terms they can get. Given that any decent founder is drunk on their own kool-aid, and believes their fortunes will change in just 1 quarter or even 1 year, they just need to ride it out, it often seems like a good idea, and what's the difference? Die now or die later. At least take a shot at it.

IOW it's not all villains on one side and incompetent heroes on the other.

The real downside is that now you're working for the VCs. You kind of were the entire time -- that's built-in -- but it's more pointed now. If you make it to IPO none if it matters ...

As the theme of TFA's website goes, build a "fundable" startup. Easier said then done, of course. Like so many of such self-help in the startup world, the entire site is a bit of a lie, selling false hope. They even position FanDuel as some VC abusive situation (thus selling themself as the savior), by talking only about the huge amount of money, "half a billion" dollars. No mention at all of how much FanDuel raised ...
> However, I can speak to diversity being a huge win

For the sake of example, let's substitute diversity for wealth.

Wealth distributed equally and justly is good.
People who feel they must control the distribution of wealth because of the injustice of the world are evil. And their practices are evil. And the actual implementation of those practices only leads to more injustice and evil.
Yeah i guessed Up in Smoke which did use the tune so seems like it needs to accept any correct answer or provide something that narrows it to a specific movie. But I like the idea.
Let’s not forget calculators are doing math, the one thing which is binary right/wrong.

Generative AI is doing much more.

But I agree that copy-pasting ChatGPT output without remotely understanding it is cheating. Yes ChatGPT can do the exercise, but the output produced in the exercise is not the point, the point is assimilating knowledge which helps you move on to tasks AI cannot do. In this regard these students are cheating themselves (and the ones who tried not to cheat).