skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note before reading that my following post is NOT a justification of the evil massacre that Hamas perpetrated. It is however a comparison meant to illuminate something about the concept you've noted.

So, food for thought: a lower ratio of civilians to military and security personnel was killed on October 7th (according to Israeli published figures) than tends to be killed in even precision bombings.

Note: I can only fairly say "tends to be killed" because it can be difficult to truly get accurate data on military bombing casualties -- but one can absolutely find many individual cases of dozens of civilians being considered valid collateral for 1-3 military targets.

Source on deaths:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231215-israel-social...
> 695 Israeli civilians, including 36 children, as well as 373 security forces

If we use sources like Times of Israel, which ignores police and other emergency personnel, claims become
https://www.timesofisrael.com/14-kids-under-10-25-people-ove...
> 859 civilians 274 soldiers

So notice that these figures are looking between 1.86 and 3.13 civilians per soldier dead.

That means an essentially random massacre which deliberately TRIED to target civilians, but which was primarily performed by individual soldiers, couldn't even cause nearly as many deaths as precision bombings do.

And note that, from what I could gather, those figures on Israeli deaths don't include government workers as being valid combatants, when I doubt any Hamas pencil pushers that may exist would get the "luxury" of not being counted as non combatants.

The can of worms opened up here only gets messier still if you then start going more philosophical issues like how they seem to have spent the last few decades uncertain if Palestine is basically a mini case of Escape From NY, under outright Israeli military occupation, or an entirely independent country. I'd want to ask the Israeli government if this is a war or a policing action.

A minor counterpoint to something you wrote though: I don't think this is often something in terms of their civilians being less valuable, at least not publicly due to the obvious bad optics. I rather think it's a case presented more like a need for some civilians to die now to prevent more from dying later or being "oppressed under illegitimate government" type concerns, etc.
Not a fan of Reaganomics, and people like Midgley are hard to defend, but I think you have the wrong idea of Hottel. Hottel basically invented solar energy as we know it in the 1930s -- he wasn't some guy trying to subvert it. There's a reason that the highest honor the American Solar Energy Society gives out is called the Hoyt Clarke Hottel Award.

And The Combustion Institute (which was founded in 1954, well after Hottel's solar breakthroughs) isn't the sinister thing you think it is. It's not about cars and their internal combustion, but about combustion science -- the science of fire.
Can relate.
I checked the reference. The "bears story" is based on work done in 1930s.

Psychology, a hundred years later is a shoddy science, despite us having learning quite a lot about how to do decent experiments and field surveys. It's very very difficult to tease out replicable effects in human behavior. I would immediately reject any psychology finding from the 1930s, unless it has been replicated more recently.
I don't think it's that strange. My thoughts and my physical sensations are separate, imaging a different body different senses isn't that much of a stretch. I speak English but I don't think in it, thoughts don't have a language.
I was looking for this link. You made my morning!
The only other Freenet I know is (was?) a small ISP and Freemail provider in Germany. I couldn't care less about the name clash.
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> This is exactly why banking regulations (e.g., FDIC) were invented.

But the FDIC suppresses the natural heightened attention and due diligence tendencies of the free market. There isn't any risk for someone giving their money to a badly-managed corporation, so they do it without thinking. The customers face no risk, so the custodians start taking crazy bets because it isn't their money and so they don't really face much risk either. If anything the FDIC should be cast as a serious moral problem, people with money are being allowed to take no-care no-responsibility stances when their capital is being used harmfully.

And I'm not sure where this argument comes from that capitalists wouldn't care about their money. One of the things that people most reliably care about is the safety of their money, to the point where it is hard to parody. The main issue that I see is they are acting while weighing up the (reasonably high) odds of bailouts happening.
> 1 kw/h

Try again...
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Advancing Theorem Proving in LLMs Through Large-Scale Synthetic Data
Yet in this article, they were helped without needing to reach out first (a crucial part for a socially withdrawn person). American/European society just chooses to ignore and not help the same kind of people here.
EPA range is a defined value based on published metrics and measurement principles.

The idea that a manufacturer should under report range is a bit strange. Are there examples of ICE manufacturers under reporting their gad mileage? I doubt it.
your thoughts aren't transmitted to potentially millions of people in great visual detail
Oh it surely wasn't, but it also surely was fun!
Naming conflict with Hurl[0] a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format.

[0] https://hurl.dev/docs/manual.html
By far most noise pollution in cities is due to cars. Better start with that.
Doesn't your last point support OP's point? If you call it the "language of maths" instead of "skill", it would appear that they were indeed limited by their language. At least basic mathematical ability is ingrained in the language one experiences and uses everyday. Just think of a shopping receipt, or discussion of wages among colleagues, personal expenditures and budgets, poker games, recipes, etc.
Show HN: Offline sketch to image geneartor in a whiteboard
I'm excited to share my indie product, https://drawing.pics

In this post, I'll share all the technical details behind it.

So, what exactly is DrawingPics?
It's an image-to-image and sketch-to-image generator that runs in a whiteboard, allowing you to draw your draft directly on the canvas and easily generate the desired image.

How does it work from a technical perspective?
TLDR: Miniconda + Diffusers + Electron + Excalidraw

One of the most important aspects of creating this tool was finding a stable diffusion locally inference solution. There are many solutions available, such as https://github.com/leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp and https://github.com/apple/ml-stable-diffusion. I tested the C++ version, but the inference speed was very slow, and Metal GPU support still had issues (you can find relevant issues in their repo). Ultimately, I decided to use python to run it because PyTorch is mature and MPS support is well-established. And I chose Miniconda, because it can create a small, isolated Python environment to run the program.

The AI model should run in the background so that we can continuously produce images while you draw. We need to find an RPC method to enable communication between the Python process and Electron's Node.js process. The easiest way is to run a Python HTTP server, but the memory usage is too high. We need a more lightweight solution, so I used xmlrpc for memory efficiency, although there might be better alternatives that I'm unaware of. The AI inference part is handled by diffusers, which is great, but I had to apply some custom patches to make it work in this situation. This can be a bit challenging if you're not familiar with Python.

For the frontend, I initially used a low-level canvas library and tried to implement a drawing pad from scratch. However, it had too many details, so I chose a more mature option: Excalidraw. It's fantastic, with the only shortcoming being limited API support.

Finally, I combined all these technologies in Electron, ensuring they work smoothly on both the main process and the renderer process.

Ok, Is DrawingPics free to use?
80% of the project is free to use. I only charge a lifetime license for the effort I've put in, as I've spent 4 months on it and made numerous improvements based on user feedback. Currently, only Mac is supported. Windows support will be added later.
Part of it is terminology. You get "unit testing" and "functional testing" and "integration testing" and "system testing" thrown around, often with people meaning different things by these, and vague definitions that partially or wholly overlap.

My rule of thumb is really simple: a test should always be defined in terms of what the user expects. Thus for most apps you should, at the minimum, have tests corresponding to their functional specification. In addition, if the app contains functionality that is consistently reused inside (i.e. embedded libraries), then users of those libraries are the code that calls into them, and so there should also be tests at that boundary (but only after you wrote the high-level tests). Repeat recursively until you get to the bottom.
Depends on the compiler and version and target and code and levels of optimisation and way the runtime profile is generated and ...

Unless you actually care about ~20% difference, you can assume they're the same. And we can assume you don't care that much, because you'd run the test on your own workload instead of asking. (You wanted a no BS answer)
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Is that a meaningful difference? We are only our memories. How they were created doesn't change the experience of their recall.
Seems that pasteurization cannot completely inactivate H5N1

> In addition to the mice studies, the researchers also tested to determine which temperatures and time intervals inactivate H5N1 virus in raw milk from dairy cows. Four milk samples with confirmed high H5N1 levels were tested at 63 degrees Celsius (145.4 degrees Fahrenheit) for 5, 10, 20 and 30 minutes, or at 72 degrees Celsius (161.6 degrees Fahrenheit) for 5, 10, 15, 20 and/or 30 seconds. Each of the time intervals at 63℃ successfully killed the virus. At 72℃, virus levels were diminished but not completely inactivated after 15 and 20 seconds
Interesting idea, I would certainly have use for it. But the current severside library support is limited to Lua and Haskell - quite the sign that the project is squarely in the hands of academics and has never seen real world dependent on a heavily used system. Even if my stack were based on a supported language, I would take pause at that.
Wow, that looks interesting. I've got regualar old IR LED strips and, if I got time, I wanted to set up a NodeMCU with a IR transmitter below the LEDs, so I can remote control my LED strips per HTTP requests.

It's just a proof of concept, but I guess that could work. To read the IR codes, it seems mostly be standartized, but otherwise I could also detect IR codes via a IR receiver.
Frankly, every time an American colleague comes swinging with free marketeering "ideologies" and the naturality of "people are not stupid they can do their own due diligence" it is these kind of stories I show them.

If the American society is a low-trust one, this is one of the reasons why.
I’m always surprised to see the disproportionate levels of attention the Mersenne Twister seems to get.

It’s not a particularly noteworthy PRNG. It’s not all that fast. It’s not simpler to implement. It’s not suitable for cryptography.

About the only interesting property I’m aware of is the comically large period, but 2^19937 is no more useful than 2^64 for almost all non-cryptographic workloads and 2^256 is thermodynamically sufficient until we start exploiting the multiverse. Past that is just wasting memory and CPU cycles to no meaningful end. Plus, having a large period doesn’t necessarily indicate quality.

So what makes this particular PRNG so weirdly sticky? Is it just the cool name?
Play the role of 5 human experts in subject X. After each question, each expert will reply with an answer. After all experts answered they all vote what they think is the best answer to the question.
I prefer manual control. Simply holding down Ctrl while selecting creates a rectangular selection in pretty much every terminal, which works in all those cases.
>Where are the builders?

They're not going to wait around for a financial opportunity, they're just going to go ahead and build.

Some of them are going to start early too.

People are trying to screw you financially all the time anyway.

Might as well build whatever the fuck they want.

So what if it's world class?

As long as it doesn't cost hardly anything or require other people's money, look what can be done when some of these outstanding efforts reach a milestone.

The leverage is through the roof.

Just imagine if some of these people had actual capital to work with.

Sheesh.

Naturally, it's all about the terms, always has been.

Nothing but an indictment of capitalists who don't know how to do their part and leverage technology as good as they should.

The builders are there, they have not left the building.
I agree with you. I’m not a purist pushing “Unix as a IDE”. I reach to Intellij, Android Studio, and Xcode when the needs arise. I’m saying that a lot of people got confused and try to replicate vs code in neovim, lending to a fragile setup. The correct approach is ground up, maybe taking inspiration from others configs. But everything in your config should be understood.

The same applies to all the tools you use, may it be Intellij, or your shell.
What exactly do you fin ridiculous about ai?
that's the point of a proxy that can share contents between clients...
I'm curious to see Italian Sign Language now. I bet it's way bigger and more urgent than most.
Technically 'daddy' is a name.
A name is fundamentally just a label that we use to identify other people and objects. Post Malone, your first and last name are part of the universal naming system like the Kilometer, and 'daddy' is a personal system relative to the conscious experience of the user.
I cant help but think that this feels like webDav on steriods, and webdav never really caught on.

I kind of think sometimes it makes more sense to layer on top of http instead of extending.
That's a very valid point here. The general discourse is blured with the misguiding with terms such a "producing energy", when physics clearly show great results with the assumption that there is only energy transfer and never any production. At best we can produce a way to capture existing energy and route it where we feel useful.
So it's those pumpkin shaped rooftop ventilation thing with a shroud and generator?
I also have many memories from at least when I was 4, maybe earlier.
> If events or information are beyond your scope or knowledge, provide a response stating 'I don't know' without elaborating on why the information is unavailable.

Pretty certain that this prompt will not work the way it is intended.
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archive: https://archive.ph/3rv9y

moweb friendly doc: https://pagecamp.org/p/pZTD-
This is appalling, customers have lost access to their funds, because the company didn't have the cash to run their services. No part of the banking system should operate outside the support of a banking regulator who would/should step in with a loan so that customers could move their assets out in an orderly fashion.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilymason/2024/05/14/judge-say...

https://archive.ph/RhAzM

> At an emergency hearing Tuesday, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Martin R. Barash, of the Central District of California, framed the situation starkly. “What we're really looking at with the meltdown of this company (Synapse), and it is melting down – there was a purchase that didn't go through, it's almost out of cash – is a situation where tens of millions of people do not have access to potentially hundreds of millions of dollars of their deposits,” he said. Barash suggested it was time for the federal bank regulators to get involved.
Does the existence of a seat-belt suppress the "natural heightened attention" (whatever this is) of the driver?

> There isn't any risk for someone giving their money to a badly-managed corporation, so they do it without thinking

I have no insight to the institutions I give my money to; if they operate on American soil, I "understand" that they have been regulated and brought up to standard by the State.

The fact that a consumer depositing their money in the bank has to do "due diligence" or needs to be blamed when the institution (company?) goes belly up is laughable.
Can you post your tmux config that mocks GNU Screen?

Here is mine : https://pastebin.com/ZVWYcpyU , but a lot of GNU Screen muscle memory fails for various reasons.

The main reasons I'm trying to switch are: better scrollback support, and better mouse support (both for tmux itself and for pass-through to terminal applications). Having used GNU Screen for 32 years, it's difficult for me to even think about what keys I'm hitting, it's below the level of conscious recognition at this point.
>For example: "Always focus on the key points in my questions to determine my intent." How is it supposed to pattern match from that sentence (i.e. finding it in training data) to the key points in the question?

If you take all the training examples where "focus", "key points", "intent" or other similar words and phrases were mentioned, how are these examples statistically different from otherwise similar examples where these phrases were not mentioned?

That's what LLMs learn. They don't have to understand anything because the people who originally wrote the text used for training did understand, and their understanding affected the sequence of words they wrote in response.

LLMs just pick up on the external effects (i.e the sequence of words) of peoples' understanding. That's enough to generate text that contains similar statistical differences.

It's like training a model on public transport data to predict journeys. If day of week is provided as part of the training data, it will pick up on the differences between the kinds of journeys people make on weekdays vs weekends. It doesn't have to understand what going to work or having a day off means in human society.
>it's become far too complicated with people using like 10% of the features

Isn't Rust getting on the same boat fast?
Yes but that's just writing to the vram directly, just as keyboard and mouse are read directly. Not the madness of going through heaps and loads of batshit crazy terminal extensions, escape codes and decades of cruft and hacks piled upon the tty.
Autoderp: "incompetent" was supposed to be "incomplete"
This is a great post
Is this the norm? I can have an internal dialog but I mainly visualize things, I'd say that 90% of my thinking is visual. I'm not even sure how you'd solve, for instance, an algorithmic problem without visualizing the process. Maybe this is why I feel like a slower thinker than most peers, answers just seem to come them while I have to visualize things first. In college I'd generally take longer than the fast smart people but end up doing slightly better in the end, which always puzzled me. I have terrible memory for facts though.
The evaluation just needs to be for longevity, repairability and maintenance needs/costs. The big purpose of wind for a lot of small scale installs is to augment solar for night time and/or continuous base load assistance to it, and not as a primary source of generation.

I'd immediately get something that just gives me a tiny 300w on average as it means my 5kwh battery lasts 5 hours at night instead of 3 (made up numbers). That puts me soooo close to being full off grid it's not even funny.

People talking about return on investment, payback periods etc are completely screwing over the uptake of solar and other non renewable sources.
I have zero interest in incorporating LLM tech in creative work. I use it for directing it to write mundane code blocks and unit tests, but actually writing story text seems inappropriate.
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I have been learning English for close to ~18 years by now, if you count primary school.
To this day I can't really count in English unless I force myself to.
what are the faster / more effective alternatives?
This sounds like a weaker form of algebraic effects, but it is still cool to see such a language and see what you can do with it.
So happy to see that Obsidian has a thriving plugin ecosystem. Been considering creating an Obsidian plugin as an excuse to learn typescript, but every time I wonder whether a plugin for $foo exists, the answer turns out to be yes.
Yes; but that is only "Purusha" aka "Witness-Consciousness" as wikipedia so nicely labels it. But it is in the elaboration of "Thoughts/Emotions/Feelings/Perceptions/Everything Mental/Psychological" + "All Physical Matter" which is labeled under "Prakriti" aka "The Original Primary Substance" where the beauty and logic of this philosophy shines.

All "mental stuff" is mediated by three aspects i.e. 1) Intellect (aka Buddhi), 2) Ego/Self-Identity (aka Ahamkara) and 3) Sensory Mind (aka Manas). It is in the teasing out of all mental stuff into these aspects as being completely independent of "Consciousness" (aka Purusha) that is to be understood and practiced. In "normal life" Consciousness is bound to the above three aspects of "mind" and hence "suffers bondage". Patanjali Raja Yoga follows on Samkhya by giving a eight-part framework/discipline (aka Ashtanga Yoga) to literally "stop all mental/thought stuff creation/expansion". Then Consciousness is no longer bound to externalities (including its own "mind") but becomes settled within itself which is called Liberation (aka Moksha).

The Samkhya is Atheistic and Dualistic Realism and quite compatible with Modern Science where the former gives a "inside out" experiential and subjective model while the latter details a "outside in" material model.
The inevitable end result of this approach though is that at some point they will be unable to ship new releases that meet the quality bar of their clients.
This is on purpose. Our brain associates for example 9.99 closer to 9 rather than 10, therefore pricing something at 9.99 is like pricing it as 10 but advertising it as 9.
It's pure and simple manipulation, which is what all sales techniques are based upon.
> -x is 2^n - 2^b * k

Erm no. -x is - 2^b * k and it's the "Two's complement" notation which is 2^n - 2 * b * k

This is because the way we generate the "Two's complement" number. Given A in binary representation, let's call A1 the number you get by flipping every bit in A also called one's complement. Observe how every bit in A+A1 is 1 because if the bit was 0 in A then the bit is 1 in A1 and vica versa. So then that's 2^N-1. Two's complement is created by adding 1 to A1 so then A + A1 is 2^N or A1 = 2^N-A. But you do need to prove this before you can use it.