skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, but even with legacy booting, without using UEFI, there is no need for a boot partition, or at most you need a boot partition of a few tens of MB.

The boot partition does not need anything else besides the kernel (without modules), a config/menu text file and a minimal boot loader like syslinux.

Complicated boot loaders like grub have been obsolete for decades.

I prefer to not have any partitions on the SSD with the Linux root file system and to boot from a normal FAT-formatted USB memory (which stores the 3 files mentioned above), which can be edited on any computer, using any operating system.

If you want to boot a computer both in Windows and in Linux, there is no need for a boot menu. It can boot in Windows without the USB memory and it can boot in Linux by inserting the USB memory and selecting it as the boot device (typically the BIOS uses some function key for that).
I’m not a doctor, but some quick googling indicates that trichinosis symptoms start after a few days of being exposed to the worms, while scurvy symptoms show up after a few months of vitamin C deficiency[0].

I’m pretty sure I - as an ignorant person in this area - could figure out if people around me sometimes ate something, and then got sick within a few days, that maybe I shouldn’t eat that thing.

I doubt I’d be able to figure out that I should eat something on the basis of people getting sick after not eating a whole bunch of things for a few months.

0 - at least one source I found claimed scurvy symptoms could show up as soon as one month after “severe” vitamin C deficiency, but that “more noticeable symptoms would appear later.
Well, I hope you enjoyed your diatribe. I was addressing security, not privacy. No corporation has the right or ability to promise privacy to any free persons in a free society. I thought that was assumed on a site like Hacker News.
Philippine AI Retreat (Right After YC AI Startup School)
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2. Give an award of PHP100,000 each (~$1750) to cover travel from Manila to SF (on top of YC's $500 stipend). Award differs if you're traveling from the US (see joinpair.ai)

3. Connect Fellows with Filipinos from Google, OpenAI, Waymo, Meta, Nvidia, Stripe, Decagon, Coinbase, and more.

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3. A young, digital-native, English-speaking population holds favorable views of the US [4]. But student test scores are among the lowest in the world, creating massive opportunities to launch personalized AI tutors.

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5. The Philippines shares a long history with American innovation - even before the term was coined, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur rebuilt the country’s capital after the destruction of WWII. [8]

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> We're making more and more luxury cars, why is the price not coming down?

I don’t think this is true, especially per capita:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/204208/north-america-veh...

Also, “luxury” car is relative. An entry level car today will have many features from a luxury car from 20 years ago. Also, “luxury” brands will intentionally not make too many cars to maintain the brand’s exclusivity. Otherwise, they would not be able to profit from price discrimination:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

So price per car feature and per mile has certainly come down, a lot. But simultaneously, people’s expectations have gone up.
Yeah usually the only people over 40 working in a restaurant are the chef or the boss.
> They weren't, and they still aren't. The idea that transwomen want to be around ciswomen and hang brain is a conservative fantasy.

I think you're probably right that the vast majority of trans women are completely uninterested in such a thing. And yet:

In San Francisco activists protested a policy that excluded trans women from a nude bathhouse one night per month for a "phallus free" womens night. They were investigated by the city's Human Rights Commission after numerous reports and reversed course - no more "phallus free" nights. In Washington State a trans activist sued a nude female-only Korean spa for not providing her with service because of her male genitalia.

Are these specific people merely fighting back to try to retain a right that was already "settled" back in 1970? Or are they trying to claim a new right?
There are inference providers such as Together AI that will serve your LoRA adapters at no extra cost above the model price. Then, there’s basically no difference between using your fine-tuned model or an API model off the shelf (except for the benefits you get from fine-tuning).
Restated in mathier language: sin(30 degrees) = 1/2 and sin(60 degrees) isn't that far from 5/6.
Chromium is Chrome with "less" (but, still substantial) Google. ungoogled-chromium[1] is Chromium with no Google.

[1] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
Congrats on the launch. As a startup in Europe would love to see this expanding. There are nice open banking api's.
Well played. Thank you for that.
> "Latin" is a demonym in Spanish?

It’s not--it's still a neologism. But it’s grammatically conventional to both languages in a way LatinX is not. (The idea of neutering languages without a neuter tense is its own can if worms.)
The point of defer is to put the cleanup logic in one place for local variables though, so the risk of someone else deleting it isn't a thing.
Just a straight login page without seeing anything is a pretty hard sell to make IMO.
> That's nothing like what a UBI is, you have to "invest"[0] into social security while a UBI is just money from the free money tree or wherever.

Except - just like most progressive taxes, social security costs more for those who make more money and less for those who make less (beyond the income tax, but that's an aside). The only difference between UBI and social security is that, in theory, UBI would require no contributions what-so-ever to earn money out whereas social security requires contributions. The only difference is this makes UBI more progressively taxed than social security.
> The central idea behind defer is that, unlike its Go counterpart, defer in C is lexically bound, or “translation-time” only, or “statically scoped”. What that means is that defer runs unconditionally at the end of the block or the scope it is bound to based on its lexical position in the order of the program.

The only reasonable way for defer to behave. Function scoped never made sense to me given the wasted potential. The demonstration with loop and mutex being a good one.
I get it. I think you're right that they both have the same problem, but paths have a std type for handling them that, while file content's don't. As long as you're on an OS you can use std::path::Path (or PathBuf) for paths, and ensure they're valid. I suppose I should have said "Paths aren't Strings" or similar, they might be text but they might not be, and fundamentally the issue is that they're different data types. "Text" isn't universally defined.
Seems like you could just use Figma if you want to build a static SVG for export. Konva is more for building interactive apps.
I recently started in data science. I like to just refactor out my stuff into normal phyton files that I import in notebooks
They would have the same profit (in fact more) if they didn't have to pay a percentage of their sales to Apple.

The 3rd party manufacturers didn't make profit because of Apple but because of their customers choosing their products.

The way you try to reverse the situation and try to pretend Apple is entitled to a percentage of revenue from other companies making things to work with their products is pure insanity.

Do you think the brand of your car should get a cut of every compatible thing you buy to use with it? Should they get a cut on brake pad, tires, cables to their entertainment system, carpet of the right size for the particular car, etc. The list can be almost infinite.

Do you realize how absurd what you are trying to defend is?
The point is offering development resources based on race, an immutable characteristic, is deeply unsettling to a lot of people. (I’m not white, for what it’s worth.)
>The older I get, the more I'm convinced that people do this less to actually feel superior to others and more as a desperate act of establishing an identity, ANY identity, to simply feel seen and validated in spite of just being yet another person on the planet.

I think this is broadly correct. I have had a sense for a while now that there are quite a few people express extreme versions of their opinions substituting amplitude for fidelity. A strongly held opinion isn't heard as much as a weakly held opinion forcefully expressed.

Part of this is down to mass communication and it occurs for all things. There are good apps for mobile phones that never get seen because the focus goes to the top few percent. The same is probably true for games on Steam. Most peoples' blogs will be read by fewer people than the number of blogs they read themselves for the simple reason that some blogs get millions of readers.

I can see the obvious frustration that must be felt when someone has an idea to share that they feel isn't being expressed. When it comes to emotional expression, small communities are required if you want to have a group that reciprocates attention. Most people don't want to be heard by everyone, they just want to be heard. What we have is an environment where a few people are heard by everyone and lots of people are unheard.

I think sites like HN, and the smaller subreddit communities along with discords (I miss IRC, It's still there, but the people aren't) work against that flow.

There's an element of social 'groupthink' pressure if communities of similar opinions cluster, more often against ideas than for, but I think that on these platforms it also meets a degree of resistance that helps balance things.

HN has Rust/AI/Bitcoin where there are always a few people who will express distain for the subject. Each of these seem weird if you actually consider the criticisms as being in good faith.

Why should people be annoyed about liking another programming language, or want to write things in it, or talk about it?

Why are there people who are certain AI is doomed to failure that are so concerned about the money of investors? Especially when many of the people who express such distain for AI generally do not look terribly kindly towards investors anyway. It's like they don't like rich people while simultaneously concerned that the rich might lose all their money.

Why are those who decry Bitcoin as a Ponzi scheme so angry about the fact that other people, who they disagree with and denigrate, are doomed to lose their money? Why are they so concerned for the finances for people they don't like?

I think the motivation behind all of them is they want their dissenting position to be heard. When these things are talked about people can see some degree of popularity for an opinion that they don't hold. It seems it isn't enough to think "I don't think that will work, but good luck to them."
POLSKA GÓRĄ
I’ll preface that I’m absolutely not an expert in Japanese, but in my amateur understanding I think the same sort of thing you showed is possible, at least in casual speech. I hear this sort of construction quite often: “着てみたい、あのスーツ。” or roughly “I want to try it on, that suit,” reversing the verb/object order from normal.
https://www.thirdtermproject.com/third-term has some ideas:

> Constitutional Amendment: The U.S. Constitution can be amended by an act of Congress. Republicans must publicly get behind the third-term project.

> Running as Vice President: President Trump can run as Vice President with a space filler as President in 2028. Perhaps Donald Trump Jr. could run on a Trump/Trump ticket before gracefully resigning on Jan. 21, 2028 after securing victory. This plan while unorthodox would show that MAGA cannot be stopped by any procedural rule.

> Supreme Court Ruling: The 22nd Amendment bans anyone from serving two terms in office, but it is not completely clear if that refers to two presidential terms under any circumstances or two consecutive presidential terms. There are legal challenges in the works to clear up the ambiguity regarding the 22nd Amendment. The conservative rule-of-law justices on the Supreme Court would be able to settle this once and for all, making it clear that the 22nd Amendment would allow Trump a third term as it would only be his second consecutive term.
I'd love to read that!

It depends on the latitude for sure, but also I think on the time of the year?
>No corporation has the right or ability to promise privacy to any free persons in a free society. I thought that was assumed on a site like Hacker News.

You're back to arguing against your own imagination.
it's not dire and it's not expensive compared to the next reasonable alternatives

if you compare the cost of a London commuter belt season ticket compared to the cost of driving+parking, it is still very much a bargain
To be fair the Pebble "proprietary cable" is simply applying five volt voltage to the back of the watch.

I'm definitely ended up on vacation without the cable and just cut the ends off a USB cable to charge my watch.
its more easier to setup 1 billions self replicating robot in space than setups 1 billions human living conditions infrastructure because back to square one turns out water and plant is more rare than metal in space

also human is fragile, weak, costly, too long to make it productive.
it takes 15+ year for human to be any useful at all (and not counting experience)

do you think these space corp would just sit 15+ year revenue of upkeep going to waste only the next day human employee die because some dust near light speed particle hit the station???

nooo, slavery human space is not practical because is not cost effective economy wise
Dude, you really need to take the partisan blinders off.

They are actively, and extremely obviously, executing on the Project 2025 plan, which they wrote up for exactly this reason. This is primarily being driven by Russell Vought, whose plan this is, through his role at the head of the Office of Management and Budget. There was no "conspiracy" about this, there was only a candidate who brazenly lied about his connection to that plan.

Stop trying to gaslight us. We're not idiots, it won't work.
> Proximity pairing

> Bluetooth?

It's not in or around the standard at all. Android/Google has Fast Pair. I guess Apple get to make their own Fast Pair now.

> Chromecast exists and is quite open, this is not rocket science.

Chromecast is not open at all. Google provide SDKs for specific platforms, but you can't just go make a Chromecast receiver device.
You're saying choosing Go over Rust was a mistake? Why?
Copyright is a human construct designed to benefit humans. It doesn’t matter if the process is the same. AI doesn’t need to put food on the table, doesn’t pay taxes, and will never die. There is no reason to treat it the same because it’s different in all other ways that matter in society.
To mind that Mastercard and Visa arbitration fees for merchants is $500.

Adyen has great docs about how disputes are handled on those two networks: https://docs.adyen.com/risk-management/chargeback-guidelines... and https://docs.adyen.com/risk-management/chargeback-guidelines....
R² = 0,48. That’s not earth-shattering.

Also, I wouldn’t say “A correlates with B” (a symmetric relation) implies “A is a predictor of B”.
OASDI and Medicare taxes actually regressive taxes. It costs you less (as a percentage) once you exceed whatever the current threshold is ($178k this year, IIRC).

Remember that the definition of a progressive tax is that the rate goes up as your income goes up, a regressive tax is the opposite. Up to the current year's threshold, your OASDI and Medicare tax rate is constant, and then it drops.
The parent comment wasn't fully correct. marimo doesn't store outputs in the notebook file, but it does have many ways outputs are stored alongside the notebook, or remotely if you'd like:
HTML, ipynb, pickle
> Apple didn't ignore the DMA they complied with most of it.

If you comply with "most of" a law, you can still be complicit in ignoring it.
It’s all the same duplicated/ copied information. No fact checks, no references.
It’s exhausting to read the same stuff over and over again

Long live LLMs
Best interpretation of that is rent-seeking. Not strictly illegal, but prone to regulation at the very least.
Another way to put it is racketeering.
I guess that Apple has been toying with the line for so long that people don't even understand where their interests lies...
C++ Dynamic Debugging: Full Debuggability for Optimized Builds
Regarding the statements on golang's defer:

"the defer call is hoisted to the outside of the for loop in func work"

Astonishing. Add that to the list of golang head scratchers. That is one of the biggest "principle of least astonishment" violations I've ever seen.

Disclaimer: Not a golang hater. Great language. Used it myself on occasion, although I remain a golang neophyte. Put away the sharp objects.
What's different about the eastern part of the state? Is it as simple as having less rain and clouds to block out what sunlight there is?
You need a mobile phone since they don't have internet access directly.

After that you should be totally fine, what are you hoping for your smartwatch to do? I primarily use my pebble for notifications from my phone to show up on my watch which doesn't require any sort of external access.
If your source emits logs in OpenTelemetry format, using an OTel Collector inbetween you could do sometimes-JSON parsing of log content before the backend.
To spitball an annoying but way-less-Orwellian response... Imagine your local City Hall has a physical vending-machine. This machine allows you to pay $2 to a charity of your choice in exchange for a kind of special anonymous token that can be used to prove that the $2 donation happened.

Then when you sign up to a site like HN, the administrator has a policy: "New accounts must supply proof from the last year which hasn't already been used on this site before."

There's a lot of technical detail we could go into about how to maximize user privacy (so that you can't be tracked across sites) and prevent a site from "stealing" and reusing things that were shared with it... but the key point is that 99% of sites do not need identity-information to accomplish their moderation goals or personalized block-lists. Such a system could actually be cheaper and more equitable than one based on permanent government IDs.
I'm interested to know if anyone is using fine-tuning to train a model on proprietary or in-house codebases and documentation.

RAG solutions seem to have their limitations, and fine-tuning might be a more effective approach.

How much effort is required to turn code into something one can use for fine-tuning?
Nobody in this thread has said "this is a single-party regime akin to Iraq or North Korea".
Related ongoing thread:

Hacking Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Claude Pro and MCP - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410866
Let’s make the source of the main claims of an article mandatory, and see who screams.
Yes. Though it is split into a code section and an interactive section, like with Markdown previews. It really is driven by the code cells though.
Related ongoing thread:

Show HN: Codemcp – Claude Code for Claude Pro subscribers – ditch API bills - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356016 - March 2025 (3 comments)
Understood, but I would still recommend reading that article, as it addresses some of your points and you may find it an interesting perspective.
This is something i'll make my kids play when they are older!
Algorithmic Management Shaped Amazon's Antiunion Campaign in Alabama
In terms of excessive energy use, email signatures are the least of anyone's problems compared with what has happened to the web.
What's the software like? One of the biggest reasons I'm still using my pebbles is Notification Center, which has the most control over watch notifications that I've ever seen, likes being able to set regex filters and get very fine green control about what notifications get sent to my watch their vibration etc)
I'm not super surprised either, except at the scale of the verdict.

$300m for helping people protest the destruction of their land and water isn't something we can accept; as a society, or as individuals.

If we allow this to go down like that, shrugging off this scale of corruption as mere business as usual, then we'll (continue to) get exactly what we deserve.

Three hundred million dollars - and ETP don't even appear to have had actual evidence of anything Greenpeace did to 'incite criminal behavior'. Just a stacked jury in a cherry-picked court. $300m, for helping a peaceful protest get attention... I think Greenpeace USA have about $20m in assets?
This is standard U.K. policy
Forget Boring Surveys–Virtual Personas Let You Simulate Superhero Showdowns
That's the dystopian future I've been scared of. LLMs (Large Language Models i.e. generators of most probable text) will be used to DECIDE if a person gets the money back or not.

People in command (managers) showing the lack of understanding of what an LLM is and misusing it in the worst way (another is to write to people why their insurance claims have been rejected)
It does not seem that you need to be rich to accomplish this. Wintering in chile seems with decent planning
For self-hosting I've been using https://tuns.sh which is a tunneling solution using SSH. It works great for prototyping and I've been using it to host open-webui
and lack of backreferences makes them fast, but crippled.
What do you mean 08:00PM. We have enough sunlight up into 09:47PM(21:47) during mid to late summer and darkness falls after 10:30PM(22:30).

Winter is… Sunrise at 08:12AM and Sunset by 04:00PM(16:00).

You can technically use this info to guesstimate my location ;)
It’s a massive difference to SpaceX who were awarded the de-orbit contract and would need a massive amount of extra funding to suddenly bring that project’s timeline forward three years.

Also a large difference to all of NASA’s international partners who might lose out on astronaut slots, scientists with experiments that won’t be ran, dozens of contractor companies supporting ISS, etc.