skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the headline, but unfortunately both the headline and the explanation are wrong.

Better explanation:

The red, green and blue receptors in the eyes all respond to all wavelengths of light, they're just more sensitive at red, green and blue respectively.

When violet hits those receptors, it doesn't hit any of the receptors at their peak sensitivity point. All three receptors fire. However, the green receptor has much better sensitivity than the red receptor, so violet triggers the strongest response in blue and red. If the red receptor was more sensitive, we'd probably interpret violet as a shade of blueish-brown rather than of purple.

The headline:

Purple definitely exists. The eye & brain interpret purple and violet the same, but in the physical world they are different colors, and they both exist in the wild. Purple is a mixture of red & blue, violet is the highest visible frequency. A purple flower is a flower that absorbs green and reflects red & blue. A violet flower is a flower that absorbs red, green and blue and reflects violet.
True, but how much of that second stream exists after say 5 years? For most movies it is zero - they aren't pressing the DVD anymore and all stores that once had no longer do (except for second hand stores which don't give money to the studio)
Calling the longest government shutdown in US history, the Muller report, sympathetic comments towards white nationalists, deploying unmarked federal troops to arrest peaceful protestors, ethics lawsuits, family separation policy, all the Federalist society judge appointments, overturning Roe v Wade, multiple impeachments, etc., uneventful is anything but honest.

This doesn't even count the global pandemic.

Setting all that aside, everything he's done is something he campaigned on.
No, the issue is half of Americans and American states are still into Red-state zero-sum policies which don't work very well in a modern world and modern economy. Today you want the black/female/trans/foreigner working at their absolute full potential, not slaving in your farm.

In the past it didn't matter so much economically because slaving in your farm was still one of the most important jobs. In 1900, ~40% of the American workforce was employed in agriculture. Yet even then the (ex) slave states were poor compared to northern states because they didn’t know how to invest in their population (still don’t).
I have road tripped across the entire country multiple times with my Tesla and practically never had an issue charging. Also I've never had to wait more than 20-30 minutes to charge and keep going.

Yes its a little more inconvenient, but the US administration doesn't exactly place a value on making charging easy or providing incentives to develop/research unlike other developed countries. We don't innovate at all when it comes to infrastructure so no wonder EV adoption is lower here. Meanwhile many other developed countries are doing fine with their EV's.

Seems like most people would rather be stuck in the past hugging their gas vehicles than actually do something innovative because of some long foregone American Dream.
well, because then open AI needs to pay out even more money than they're already losing...
Well.. no color “exists”, they are just wave like particles.. not even “reality” as we see it exists.. it’s just in our minds..
I think that what they really mean is that there is no wavelength for the purple we see
Trump pulled out on his first day in office.

The rest of the countries carried on without the USA and to add to the irony, China applied to join it in 2021.

His claimed anti-China stance is one of his most effective lies.
Thank you. I scrolled up and down the article hoping they included a code sample.
> I think most will not have the will once they steel the cost.

if you're a government it's quite easy to "encourage" it to occur

example: "US cloud provider revenue levy", starting at 0%, increasing 1% each month until 40%

the aim being to add a large risk premium to all purchases of US cloud services, encouraging companies to switch to domestic suppliers

the EU is already publicly talking about retaliating in this manner
Naked political corruption! Welcome to America in 2025.

And Hacker News gestalt generally thinks politics is off topic - guess what happens to "disruptors" in a crony capitalistic system?

Hacker News and YCombinator, more than anyone, should be at the vanguard of stopping this. It will set innovation back by a decade by the end of the current administration's term.
As a backend developer, I have a lot of respect for frontend developers that have to deal with edge-cases and minutiae that we don't have to. Building APIs and interfaces for computers is easy. Building them for people is HARD.
The licensor grants you a copyright license for the software to do everything you might do with the software that would otherwise infringe the licensor's copyright, but only as long as you meet all the conditions below.

Am I going insane, or is there a reading of this that seems to imply you can use the software, to infringe on ANY work Gumroad has created? "...grants you a copyright license for the software" seems to imply it's talking about this software license only, but the second part mentions "licensor's copyright" which seems to not be defined, nor bounded. There's no mention of a copyright *for the software*... just the copyright license to use the software that allows you to infringe all copyrights from Gumroad.

I think they probably meant

The licensor grants you a copyright license for the software to do everything you might do with the software that would otherwise infringe the licensor's copyright [to the software], but only as long as you meet all the conditions below.

I wonder if you can just reuse text or images from their corporate website as long as you personally make less than 1M$ a year, use their software and don't infringe their trademarks.

Awful license on multiple levels.
The discovery of rapamycin is such a fascinating story. Radiolab covered this a few years back - I encourage everyone to give it a listen: https://radiolab.org/podcast/dirty-drug-and-ice-cream-tub
> we have the same name for the digital rectangular representation on screen

We do use the same term as well, but it still seems odd as a name for an OS, at least to me, because it is so generic and uninteresting, but we are really in a heavily subjective territory here.

As for the rest, yeah, you may be right.
That's quite likely to happen given how American politics tend to go left to right then back almost every election. I suppose some companies (but not all) will prefer to lose some money now rather than to take the risk of investing in large factories in the USA and lose whole factories, along with all money they invested into it, later.
I'm curious what happened here. I feel like as a kid, there was some vague reversal, that a lot of serious people were Republicans. Some of the people I look up to most in my life were Republicans 30 years ago.

And I would say in many ways now, I'm desperate for some decent conservative thought leadership. This recent Jon Stewart interview with Oren Cass (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgEQeLR-M0g) was like a cup of water in the desert. Literally my only requirement to be inspired by conservative thought leaders anymore is the smallest notion that you're arguing in good faith.
The bespoke UK/EU models are not the priority, again because they aren't being made in the US, so yes the quality drops.

You cannot get, for example, a new Focus in the US market. When you could, they were much higher quality.

The only Chevrolet you can buy in the UK is the Corvette. Chevrolet makes nine SUVs, four trucks (with however many infinite variations), and exactly one shitbox non-Corvette car.

If US automakers started turning their eyes towards smaller more efficient cars, where hauling Brayden to and from their soccer games didn't require multiple tons of steel, then they could compete in the EU market.
vibe layoffs
Which company? BYD, NIO or maybe Wuling?
If I was asked to draw something based on such prompts, I would draw these too. Of course the prompter is talking about Indiana Jones. That's what we're all thinking, right? An artist wouldn't draw someone different by default, they'd have to try to deviate from what we're all thinking.

Indeed, this phenomenon among normal or true intelligences (us) is thought to be a good thing by copyright holders and is known as "brand recognition".

Intelligences -- the normal, biological kind -- are capable of copyright infringement. Why is it a surprise that artificial ones can help us do so was well?

This argument boils down to "oh no, a newly invented tool can be used for evil!". That's how new power works. If it couldn't be used for both good and evil, it's not really power, is it?
It seems to be a very uncommon expense:

https://insideevs.com/news/717187/ev-battery-replacements-du...
> Mahmoud Khalil lied on hus visa application about being a member of UNRWA.

He was briefly an unpaid intern.

https://studyinthestates.dhs.gov/2015/11/uscis-explains-if-u...

> USCIS is frequently asked whether an unpaid intern needs to complete Form I-9. In general, an unpaid intern does not need to complete Form I-9 unless he or she will receive remuneration, which is something of value such as no-cost or reduced-cost meals, lodging or other benefits in exchange for his or her labor or services.

I can see how someone'd leave that off a green card application for that reason, which is more plausible than hiding an association with a UN agency while applying for a green card during the Biden years. (If anything, work for the UN and a close ally's embassy should increase trust here.)

Given https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-4... says things like "Have you EVER been a member of, involved in, or in any way associated with any organization, association, fund, foundation, party, club, society, or similar group in the United States or in any other location in the world?" there's a good chance every single green card applicant has forgotten to list something. Do I include my kindergarten? The music club I was in as a toddler? Joining a political party's subreddit? Donating $10 to a charity ten years ago?

Hell, I'm "associated with" Hacker News, but it wouldn't go on my I-485. Should that get me deported to an El Salvadorean slave camp?
I understand it more intuitively from a chromaticity diagram, depicting color divorced from brightness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple#/media/File:Line_of_pur...

The curved rim of the horseshoe is the spectral locus; that of the purest, single wavelength spectral colors.

Purples are what you get when you travel between the ends of the horseshoe, where no spectral color lies. This is what is meant when one says purple exists only in our brains; it is non-spectral.

Furthermore, our vision is such that objectively different spectra can look the same; cf. metamers. This follows from the fact that the process of projecting an infinite dimensional spectra into three dimensions (because color is 3D) is lossy. But our vision optimizes the dimension reduction for spectral discrimination in parts of the electromagnetic spectrum that are beneficial for evolution.
Because it allows the government to pick and choose winners. The big 3 were all losers and should have gone bankrupt back in 08, and now look, they're still highly inefficient and still heavily reliant on govt handouts 20 years later. They don't innovate, they can't compete globally, etc.
Incorrectly. Wherever they deviated from Java they messed up. See exceptions, for example: https://mckoder.medium.com/the-achilles-heel-of-c-why-its-ex...
Gumroad became my cautionary tale for startup equity for early engineers.

I remember excitedly following the story from start. It was fun to follow along. Then around 2015 things weren’t working well, so they laid off most of the team. Investors sold the company back to the founder at a steep discount. As I recall, a major investor sold their ownership for $1.

Just like that, the founding engineers who worked so hard lost their jobs and saw their equity valued down to nothing.

It happens! However, the strange thing in this case was that the company kept going. They had laid (almost) everyone off and declared their equity worthless, yet the company was still making money and growing. My younger self struggled to understand how the founding engineers could have gone from working so hard on something to being laid off and seeing their equity wiped out while the business itself continued right on working and generating revenue.

A lot has been written to put positive spin on those events. The founder claims to have helped out some of the early engineers in vague ways. However, I’ll never forget being a young, aspiring startup engineer and watching an entire startup team get wiped out of the business they helped create and then the business just kept on trucking for the founder who walked away with ownership of the company.
> without all of their baggage and corruption.

It's not corruption - it's all by design. USAID is the soft-power side of foreign policy. Aid is distributed according to political needs and the desire to influence and produce specific outcomes for certain groups, while maintaining a notion of fairness and generosity and facilitating diplomacy.

Still, objectively speaking, millions will die because the US threw out the baby with the bath water.
>2025:...Making models bigger is not what’s cool anymore. They are trillions of parameters big already. What’s cool is making them run longer, in bureaucracies of various designs, before giving their answers.

Dude was spot on in 2021, hot damn.
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> Advertising is deeply rooted in psychology, and psych PhDs are highly valued in the industry. The person you're arguing with is perfectly aware of how the industry works, so any counterarguments are defense mechanisms. If they have any morals left, this is what helps them sleep at night.

Wow, just wow. I haven't worked in the advertising industry for going on 7 years now and given that I have two small kids I sleep pretty well at night (modulo being woken up at 3-4 am by my toddler).

One of the things that makes me sad for our species is that we find it so easy to judge other people on small pieces of information, and create narratives that allow us to justify our own small evils while feeling morally superior.

> The person you're arguing with is perfectly aware of how the industry works,

I am perfectly aware of how the industry works, and can tell you that it mostly doesn't. The impacts of advertising typically have large impacts only for small businesses, large ones merely advertise to keep their competitors from being top of mind (a concept beloved of large brand advertisers that has little to no empirical support).
Our bodies may not be as resilient to heat as we thought
>The good news is there is a constant bacteria on bacteria, fungus on bacteria chemical war going on - hence the paper.

The question is shouldn't we explore it more?

Put dangerous bacteria in contact with other bacteria, fungi, viruses, prisons, viroids, archaea and see what kill them, how and why?
This is outdated. These days billionaires openly and publicly tell the owned media what to write.

Bezos, in his own words:

"I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:

I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.

We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. [...]"
Those who cared voted for a third party not stayed home.
More like a Model T that goes fast in the wrong direction, don't respond to the steering wheel, decide to reverse on random occasions,... The road may be bad and the horse is not that great, but no one would hop on that particular model unless for entertainment purposes.
At that level of CO2, your brain is fucked even if you're otherwise ok.

I'm more ambivalent about CO2 than just about anybody, but I'd go to war over that concentration.
The market is saturated. American farmers already buy as much alfalfa as they want. The next unit of alfalfa is worth basically nothing to them.

To sell more alfalfa in America you'd need more farms to raise more cattle (the main use for alfalfa), which would put even more strain on the American water supplies. That would produce more meat, which you could sell to China, but it would be more expensive than the Chinese homegrown beef, which they'd buy more of.
There is a similar question about message board systems.

Instead of posting a topic in a subforum, what if subforums were turned into tags and you just post your topic globally with those tags. Now you can have a unified UI that shows all topics, and people can filter by tag.

I experimented with this with a /topics page that implemented such a UI. What I found was that it becomes one big soup that lacks the visceral structure that I quickly found to be valuable once it was missing.

There is some value to "Okay, I clicked into the WebDesign subforum and I know the norms here and the people who regularly post here. If I post a topic, I know who is likely to reply. I've learned the kind of topics that people like to discuss here which is a little different than this other microclimate in the RubyOnRails subforum. I know the topics that already exist in this subforum and I have a feel for it because it's separate from the top-level firehose of discussion."

I think something similar happens with modules and grouping like-things into the same file. Microclimates and micronorms emerge that are often useful for wrapping your brain around a subsystem, contributing to it, and extending it. Even if the norms and character change between files and modules, it's useful that there are norms and character when it comes to understanding what the local objective is and how it's trying to solve it.

Like a subforum, you also get to break down the project management side of things into manageable chunks without everything always existing at a top organizational level.
Recall problem as in a software update?
It's incredible that paying fealty to the president is talked about so casually, and framed as just a normal and necessary thing to do.

This is something that should be expected in an absolute monarchy, not a democracy.
This is one of those things where I don’t agree with the argument, but know the person making it knows way more than I do on the subject and has given it way more thought. In these cases it’s usually best to sit back and listen a bit...
Tesla is only in business today because it was able to sell carbon credits to other automakers. Take that government subsidy away and Tesla would have died in 2009.
This is not pedantry, this is adhering to the actual definition of open source that is generally accepted in our community:

https://opensource.org/osd

> Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code
Just got back from China, it's insane. EVs with green plates literally everywhere, not just in T1 cities like Shenzhen but even in smaller ones. The infrastructure’s on another level compared to the US.
I see the appeal of it. It is a good start. But I don't think it's quite useful yet. This proves to be a great distribution model for an MCP project.

FWIW, this project creates two tools for a GitHub repo on demand

fetch_cosmos_sdk_documentation
search_cosmos_sdk_documentation

These tools would be available for the MCP client to call when it needs information. The search tool didn't quite work for me, but the fetch did. It pulled the readme and made it available to the MCP client. Like I said before, it's not so helpful at the moment. But I am interested in the possibilities.
>Given the speeds at which EVs charge, at least every other parking spot at the stop would need a charger to make it viable for the average consumer.

That's what they do in China. Go to any random underground parking, and you'll find charging stations everywhere. Even the bikes are all electric and have chargers everywhere.

It's absolutely wild to me that the argument against BEVs is, "But we don't have the infrastructure right now, and we definitely won't be able to build it!"

This is such a sad capitulation.
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This is why a tariff trade war is extremely dangerous right now. It explicitly incentivizes this further as an intentional goal.
For sure, personal circumstances matter. Something like a third of U.S. drivers have a garage they could use for at-home charging without undue inconvenience (with some varying electricity costs across the nation) though a lot of U.S. homeowners like to use their garage for storage, which doesn't help!

Still, I think "gas being inexpensive" isn't exactly a winning argument when it can easily be 50% more expensive than electric.

My car performance would require a ~475 HP gasoline car (or arguably maybe 350-400 HP considering the weight differences), and would probably get 20 mpg, easily costing $0.16 / mile or more.

And there are EVs costing closer to $0.03 / mile on home electricity.

But if you're road-tripping or simply don't have home charging available, the calculus changes.
Unfortunately, a lot of people here who live in apartments have to wait for any electricity to be added to the parking lot at all, even 120V is generally unavailable. It's definitely restricting adoption.
I think you have cause and effect backwards. It's because there are so many people willing to pay $25K - $35K for a used SUV that used cars are so expensive.
Putting aside his made-up backstory, which is admittedly ad hominem, I've listened to his arguments, notably his video on debt and mortgages. It falls into the same trap as a lot of broadly populist economics - demonization of morally neutral economic concepts and focusing only on one side of the equation. This[1] entire video is him focusing on the bank side of a mortgage transaction, while never once considering the value given to the mortgage owner in being able to purchase an asset they never would be able to otherwise and gaining equity. Investment isn't just a hole rich people dump money into that prints stuff out for them and no one else.

Call it biased, but I'm also a priori skeptical of any public intellectual that points to their one pet theory as the cause of society's ills.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kidX8prVIgY
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No good deed goes unpunished around here.
What do you think of the Burn framework? (Honest question, I have no clue what I’m talking about)
Did you read the whole article? I don’t think he’s making that kind of argument. This is what he said:

> I only have one image in mind when I hear “an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip”.

> It would be unexpected and sort of amazing were the LLMs to come up with completely new images for the above prompts.

> Still, the near perfect mimicry is an uncomfortable reminder that AI is getting better at copying and closer to…something, but also a clear sign that we are a ways off from the differentiated or original reasoning/thinking that people associate with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
> The license is actually pretty restrictive: you can only use this if you own a small company or work for government / non-profit.

I wonder if this can be worked around by setting up an OpenAI-style non-profit arm to use Gumroad.
"Unemployment literally only tracks those interacting with State unemployment insurance. "

They don't do it that way. I don't know if labor force participation measurements are more or less accurate from relying on survey data tho.

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm