skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meaning is a matter of context. Most of the context resides in the past and future. Ludwig's claim that word's meaning is dependent on how it is used. This applies generally.

Daniel Dennett - Information & Artificial Intelligence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arEvPIhOLyQ

Daniel Dennett bridges the gap between everyday information and Shannon-Weaver information theory by rejecting propositions as idealized meaning units. This fixation on propositions has trapped philosophers in unresolved debates for decades. Instead, Dennett proposes starting with simple biological cases—bacteria responding to gradients—and recognizing that meaning emerges from differences that affect well-being. Human linguistic meaning, while powerful, is merely a specialized case.
Neural states can have elaborate meanings without being expressible in sentences. This connects to AI evolution: "good old-fashioned AI" relied on propositional logic but hit limitations, while newer approaches like deep learning extract patterns without explicit meaning representation.
Information exists as "differences that make a difference"—physical variations that create correlations and further differences. This framework unifies information from biological responses to human consciousness without requiring translation into canonical propositions.
A copyright holder may file a takedown notice [1] against a platform that hosts a link to copyright-infringing material like a book from Library Genesis or an article from sci-hub. Failure to act upon a legitimate takedown notice opens the platform operator up to a civil law suit. The platform does not have to take proactive measures to prevent infringing links from being posted by users. Some platforms like YouTube take more aggressive measures to proactively guard against infringement, but they are not required by the provisions of the DMCA.

[1] https://guides.dml.georgetown.edu/c.php?g=904530&p=6510951 (See "Notifications of Claimed Infringement")
> it is valid to be more annoyed by the ways they are the same

Is it? One side has a vocal minority who took defense of minorities to the point of harassment and was ultimately rebuffed. The other side controls the government and is enthusiastically renditioning legal residents to prisons and defying the constitution and courts to keep doing it.

To be more upset about both sides being imperfect than the injustice of irreversible deportations to foreign prison seems ... absurd.
Those tariffs on Denmark and Switzerland in particular (major medicine producers) aren't going to help...
Nice work. I showed this to a friend and they asked if it was until the election or inauguration. Might be worth making that abundantly clear somewhere on the page so people aren't having to math.
This just makes it much, much easier for people to build numeric stuff on GPU, which is great.

I'm totally with you that it's better that this took so long, so we have things like PyTorch abstracting most of this away, but I'm looking forward to (in my non-existent free time :/ ) playing with this.
There is a difference between knowing what something looks like and generating an image of that thing.
Ooh I love this.

Seeing a DOS transpiled into JavaScript is pretty cool. Seeing a DOS written in the 90s by a Spanish speaking native who wanted everything written in Spanish is AWESOME. Being told write AYUDA is great. I love the sense of ownership it implies the author had as a teen. Just super fun.
Ultimately, RAW formats aren't that complex, and camera firmware is mostly developed in countries that don't have strong open source software traditions.

Look at the decoders for each format that darktable supports here:
https://github.com/darktable-org/rawspeed/tree/develop/src/l...

It's some binary parsing, reading metadata, maybe doing some decompression-- a thousand lines of C++ on average for each format. These aren't complex codecs like HEVC and only reach JPEG complexity by embedding them as thumbnails!

Cameras absolutely could emit DNG instead, but that would require more development friction: coordination (with Adobe), potentially a language barrier, and potentially making it harder to do experimental features.

Photographers rarely care, so it doesn't appreciably impact sales. Raw processing software packages have generally good support available soon after new cameras are released.
People that choose to abuse other people for fun, are a blight on humanity, there is no valid defense.

Some people cheat, and think "its just a game", falsely justifying that abuse. The false justification, however; is an act of self-violation. It warps their perception willfully blinding themselves to their evil acts.

That is not what is happening, it is not just a game. It was a competition where the two parties agreed to follow rules, and that one person broke the silent implicit agreement, they did so deceitfully to impose cost on others, delude themselves, and take like any drug-addled junky would.

Worse, writing tools and publishing them to enable such destructive behavior induces others to committing similar acts. Corrupting others, inducing them towards such, are also evil acts and its consequences.

They are fundamentally evil people because they have willfully blinded themselves to the consequences of their destructive actions, which are evil actions, and they have no resistance or thought against repeating those actions.

Like evil people, they continue repeating these choices until someone else stops them.

They do this despite there being a severely broken symmetry between the benefit they receive, which is diminishing and is ill-gotten and just fuels more junky-like behavior; and the loss their victim feels when its clear that contract was broken, or worse when they can't tell.

The things you choose to do in the small things of life that don't really matter show to the world what you will do when everything is on the line.

Showing deceitful behavior, or worse torturing people, shows a lack of credibility and character first and foremost, and that behavior is destructive in everything it touches. There is no place for people like this in any team, or cooperative, and since life in general is through a cooperative distribution of labor, that pretty much sums it up.

When the rule of law fails, and current society can no longer defend and protect these people. The natural law will hold sway, and throughout history in such environments, evil people are often granted a final mercy of peace and stopped.

If you cannot control yourself to engage in beneficial behavior for yourself and others, someone will do it for you; and you will not like it. The longer it takes for a correction, the worse it will be.
I've been dealing with the system as it is for 20 years. The main difference is it now sucks in a lot more money, for little result.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health
I agree with your first paragraph, not so much the second.

I think the rest of the world is just dealing with the reality that the US is now an unreliable partner and cannot be trusted. In the face of that, yes, I agree that most of them won't dump the US immediately with big fanfare, but they will start to decouple in the background where it matters - making trade deals that exclude the US, building real incentives for the intelligentsia to stay away from the US (though the US is already doing a fairly decent job of that themselves), taking more responsibility for their own defense, etc.

I mean, look what happened to Vietnam and Israel. They capitulated in the face of the tariff threat and removed their tariffs on US imports, and they still got hit with some of the highest (or, it Vietnam's case, the highest) tariff rates. Europe has already realized (and this is a good thing and a long time coming IMO) that they need to rebuild their defense capacity because they can't depend on the US.

So no, I don't believe it will happen immediately, but I also believe that over the longer term (5-10-15 years) that decoupling from the US is inevitable solely because not doing that will be more difficult for other countries.
That's the fault of modern websites being massive JavaScript ad-playing behemoths instead of sub-1kB served HTML as god intended.
What America's stockmarket plunge means
Yes, but also - people who live in apartments and condos are the most likely not to even own a car in the first place, and if they do, drive it the least.

The people who are doing the most driving are the suburban folks living in houses with big yards and driving 30 miles into work every day.

And that's a larger chunk of the total population in the US than the apartment dwellers who own cars.

Your metro may vary.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Charging will come to newer apartments, and then older apartments.
I think the bigger shift isn't that he wasn't this "bold" the first time, it's that there hadn't been 8 years of his form of politics not only winning but becoming the only viable form of conservatism across the government and electorate in the US.

He didn't have "his" people in place to help him the first time because much of the establishment at the time was still Romney/Bush/McCain/McConnell types and they kept a firm hand on the reigns of power and often undercut his ability to do things because they felt like he was an aberration.

This time around, there is no "primary opposition" (intraparty conflict) in any meaningful way. He wants, they do, it is truly Trump's party.
It depends. First I think we could make a distinction between not-intellectual-property and intellectual-property-with-no-protection but that doesn’t seem to be what you’re getting at.

Have you taken reasonable steps to keep it secret? It could be a trade secret and if course if you steal the recipe for KFC’s herbs and spices, you will be liable for civil damages for your misappropriation of their trade secret.

And if you describe a recipe in flowery prose, reminiscing about the aromas in grandmas kitchen, of course that prose is copyrightable.

Should you invent a special kind of chicken fry mix and give us a fanciful name, the recipes identifier if origin - its trademark -could be protectable.

But the fact that your chicken fry mix is made of corn starch and bread crumbs is a fact, like a phone book. Under most circumstances, not protectable.

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This is fine statement on its own but a gross reply to the parent.
That's why I said it's an argument by induction. Where's the limit for it to be different? 10 images? 100? 10000? Where does it stop being copyright infringement and why? Many people have paid heavy fines for much less. I don't think that "a billion images is so unfathomable compared to just one million that it truly is a difference in kind" is a valid response
>In 2024, Python became the most popular programming language in the world — overtaking JavaScript — according to GitHub’s 2024 open source survey.

I wonder why Python take over the world? Of course, it's easy to learn, it might be easy to read and understand. But it also has a few downsides: low performance, single threaded, lack of static typing.
I don't know why its offered outside EU but GDPR has this requirement: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-15-gdpr/ (paragraph 3)
me:

for a science article come up with a pun about purple being imaginary

ChatGPT said:
"Purple: Just a pigment of your imagination."

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me: For a pop science article: finish this sentence with a pun

There is something unique about the color purple: Our brain makes it up. So you might just call purple a

2/2

ChatGPT said:
pigment of your imagination.

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me: For a pop science article about the color purple being imaginary, write an opening paragraph with some punning word play...

ChatGPT said:
Purple is a pigment of our imagination—quite literally. Violet may bloom in nature, and red and blue dance on opposite ends of the rainbow, but purple itself is royally absent from the spectrum's party. Instead, it's a chromatic concoction our brains whip up to bridge a colorful gap, making purple less of a wavelength and more of a wave-lengthy illusion. So, the next time you spot lavender fields or don a plum-colored sweater, remember: you're seeing something that's vividly not there.

(all of these were separate clean contexts with chatgpt 4.5)
That poor, poor powerless company.

Apple is the 8-th largest company in the world by revenue [1]. If they wanted to oppose the admin, they would be uniquely positioned to do so. That they choose not to tells me that either they support the admin or that they choose not to. That they chose the option that shows active support for the admin has a negative impact on my ability to empathize with their CEO.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by...
A 250,000 mile car is worth scrap value whether it's gasoline or electric.

A battery failure and a timing chain break or other types of complete engine failure before that mileage are comparable concerns -- similar rate of occurrence and similar cost to fix.
> why does he care about the US branch of a social network

Indeed he doesn't, since ByteDance is primarily owned by non-Chinese institutions and individuals anyway.
Hoping to? He has been digging trenches for decades.

This is a long time in the making. Florida is Ground Zero, and if you care to look back in time to the late 1990s, there is much to find.

Epstein was cooking. Offshore Playboys were living large and public lives and making plans for the future.

St. Petersburg, FL in particular holds so many secrets.
Most certainly yes
While it's not cost effective, I've been debating getting a $300 smart switcher that plugs into my dryer's 240V / 30A, and includes an adapter to the 50A plug my home charger users, while preventing charging while the dryer is in use.

Dryer is next to garage, still need to make a "fancy" hole in the wall, but definitely like the idea of the faster, more efficient charging option.

In the meantime, slow-ass 120V/15A charging is plenty for my needs.
Fuckin mad fair, and I hope that didn't read as criticism of you. If it helps I'm an American with zero power stuck in a red-state hellhole, so I feel you.
Literally what I came here to find! Incredible work!
is there any good app to know local music event?
Your definition of direct is terrible
But why Daniel Craig and not Pierce Brosnan?
I’m Jewish. If you want to support me, you’ll let people protest and definitely not throw people out of the country just because they wrote something supporting Gaza.
Calling morals vs money a tough spot is pretty weak, especially considering it didn't work.
It's just self-imposed sanctions in addition to severing ties with American allies.

On top of this, Russia has no sanctions, and we know that the US will cancel Russian sanctions too.

Again, it doesn't matter if Trump is some manchurian candidate. His behavior is 100% in line with him, and the behavior and policies are what do the damage to the USA.
Come on guys, read yourselves.

The article is pretty good and to everyone not well versed in colors and wavelengths, it is very interesting and well phrased.
I might have missed something, but I don't see anyone suggesting such changes are easy. If anything, I feel like I'm seeing opposite arguments, imploring people to understand that we're working against human nature.

My concern is that both sides are frustratingly obvious and are corrections in search of someone or something to be corrected. I don't think that anything you're saying is strictly wrong, but I think it's baffling to offer in this context where it seems to be a counterpoint in a room full of people who already agree with it (except for maybe that I-want-my-cheeseburgers-at-any-price guy). This is what I mean about Learned Sage comments, and I think the fix is to cover your bases with charitable interpretation.
Here in Sweden, 63% of new cars sold are electrical or PHEV. Still, unfortunately we still see a lot of fossil fueled cars on the roads... you immediately notice them because they're so damn noisy - and when you get used to the silence of EVs , it's hard to not notice them and be a bit disgusted.
> Then there is the scourge of those who hack for money (ransomware) that just about everyone hates.

Didn't he mention he hacked other people's PayPal accounts?
Colors like purple are called "extraspectral" to distinguish them from the spectral colors like violet.
Since the site is an art project and not a site tuned for pure functionality.
Social media feels shallow in general, and seeing niche-specific apps like this one highlights how much things can improve, even if it looks like there is no space for innovation around a specific format.
Realistically I’ll take my 82.6 years in San Francisco over 78.1 in Berlin, 85.39 in Madrid, or 80.4 in London. The tradeoffs are better for me and I don’t want to make America into Spain to get those last 3 years to Madrid. It’s all right. 82 is a good life.
Kerosene did not save the sperm whale (2024)
> > it's largely outside of your control on the web.

> On the web or in the JS ecosystem?

I meant outside of your control on that device.
yes `== null` is quite convenient for the null or undefined check.

In general, the whole `==` versus `===` is a silly argument in a typescript codebase, because if you know the types of the arguments, `==` behaves predictably.
You’re the one trivializing things by putting job loss and prison on the same footing.
And, of course, all those Americans who were already poor and are now even poorer will have the extra time and money to start businesses and manufacturing lines. Especially with the 30% increase on prices for all the machinery and raw goods they may need to import.
I also know someone who's Tesla also seems to have constant problems.

Even so, they love the vehicle, underscoring that the EV drivetrain is such a step up from ICE that if everything around it is mediocre, it doesn't matter.
America still needs Canadian oil
“Yeah, sucks, but what are you supposed to do? Have to pay the president so he doesn’t use the government to harm my business out of retribution”

No. Reject this.
> that goes fast

There is nothing fast about LLMs. That is their biggest pain point of all when used in an engineering context. Even if they offered perfect production, you can still do it faster yourself by a significant margin.

> but no one would hop on that particular model unless for entertainment purposes.

Sounds about right. It might be the "in" thing in tech circles, but the people I encounter on an everyday normal basis have never used LLMs. Many of them don't even know what an LLM is. And that's with LLMs being freely available! Imagine if you had to pay to use them. It would be a handful of people at best.
How We Resolved a Memory Leak When Pprof Failed Us
I agree, but go farther:

Most things have multiple kinds of interesting properties. And in general, the more complex the thing, the more interesting properties it has. Ofc "interesting" is relative to the user/observer.

The problem with hierarchical taxonomies, and with taxonomies in general, is that they try to categorize things by a single property. Not only that, the selection of the property to classify against, is relevant to the person who made the selection, but it might not be relevant, or at least the most relevant, property for others who need to categorize the same set of things.

Sometimes people discover "new" properties of things, such as when a new tool or technique for examining the things, comes into existence. And new reasons for classifying come into existence all the time. So a hierarchical taxonomy begins to become less relevant, as soon as it is invented.

Sometimes one wants to invent a new thing and needs to integrate it into an existing taxonomy. But they have a new value for the property that the taxonomy uses for classification. Think back to SNMP and MIBs and OIDs. Now the original classifier is a gatekeeper and you're at their mercy to make space for your thing in the taxonomy.

In my experience, the best way to classify things, ESPECIALLY man-made things, is to allow them to be freely tagged with zero or more tags (or if you're a stickler, one or more tags). And don't exert control over the tags, or exert as little control as you can get away with. This allows multiple organic taxonomies to be applied to the same set of things, and adapts well to supporting new use cases or not-previously-considered use cases.
Except for colors that are combinations of different, disconnected, wavelengths. This is why there are red and blue stars, but no green or magenta stars.
ChatGPT prompt that creates Trump's tariff plan verbatim
>Whatever good USAID may have done, could be far more effectively done by another organization without all of their baggage and corruption.

So what exactly is being proposed to fill in the gaps created by getting rid of it? Where is this perfect organization that will step in (with appropriate funding) to continue all of the good works and none of the bad?

If we're to assume that the goal in destroying USAID was to end corruption, then it stands to reason that a thoughtful and effective replacement would have been considered prior to its dismantling. The absence of such a replacement and the lack of any discussion pertaining to it renders your argument disingenuous.
Analyzing Betting Strategies from ML Models over 100 UFC Events
Thanks for pointing this out. I dimly registered that there was a strangeness about the dismissal of charges, but I had no idea this was the reasoning:

> "Everything here smacks of a bargain: dismissal of the Indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions," he said.

> His decision to drop the case permanently, Judge Ho said, ensured that the administration could not use the indictment as "leverage" over Adams or the city of New York.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74nl3120k4o
Trump layoffs begin to erode FDA drug review system
Related:

FDA staff struggle to meet product review deadlines after DOGE layoffs

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
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Good call! This is until inauguration, which is technically when the president’s term ends
To each their own. I’m headed to Spain to live, not to grind unnecessarily. You only get one life, and most of how we spend our days outside of family and loved ones doesn’t matter. I’ll have a glass of Sangria for you (a lie, I’ll take the whole pitcher and drink while reading HN).

America gets what it deserves: self defeating turmoil and churn disguised as effort and progress, while objectively being a worse place to exist (happiness, health outcomes, etc). Line goes up, but life is suffering.

To win is to know what Enough is.
Not really. You can access any Korean bank or government website using Chrome, and they actually recommend Chrome these days.

They still want to install a bunch of programs on your computer, though. It's more or less the same stuff that used to be written as ActiveX extensions, but rewritten using modern browser APIs. :(