skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens if you do let it go below 40% (either as a brief dip to high 30s, or letting it go to 0)? Is it closer to a case of "oops
you hit 39%, this battery is now worthless" or "oops you went down to 0%, better not do that every day as statistically the battery will last 0.001% less long"?

edit: I pasted my comment (prefaced with "context = lead-acid batteries") into ChatGPT and got this answer, maybe someone who knows could, instead of having to explain it all to me, just confirm GPT-4 got it right, or if not the correct it / add detail?

> If a lead-acid battery is allowed to go below 40% state of charge (SOC), it can cause some issues, but the effects are not necessarily immediate or catastrophic. The depth of discharge (DoD) and frequency of these deep discharges can impact the battery's overall lifespan and performance.

> 1. Brief dip to high 30s: If the battery's SOC occasionally dips into the high 30s, it may not cause significant harm. However, consistently discharging to that level can gradually decrease the battery's overall lifespan.

> 2. Discharge to 0%: If a lead-acid battery is allowed to discharge to 0%, it can cause more serious damage. Repeatedly discharging the battery to this level will dramatically shorten its lifespan and could potentially cause it to fail prematurely.

> The relationship between DoD and battery life is not linear. For example, discharging a battery to 50% DoD might give you around 1,000 to 1,200 cycles, while discharging it to 80% DoD might give you only 300 to 500 cycles. It is generally recommended to keep lead-acid batteries at a higher state of charge to maximize their lifespan and maintain optimal performance.

> In summary, allowing a lead-acid battery to occasionally dip below 40% SOC may not cause immediate damage, but consistently doing so can reduce its lifespan. Discharging the battery to 0% can cause even more significant harm, especially if done repeatedly. It is best to keep lead-acid batteries at a higher state of charge to ensure their longevity and maintain optimal performance.
Techno was started in Düsseldorf by Kraftwerk.

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

People found this very inspiring and created their own variants.

The Detroit variant came along.

The Chicago variant came along.

The UK variant came along.

But it all goes back to Kraftwerk.
CloudFlare. They provide domain names at wholesales rates (no commission in between). No upselling, no spam emails.
've Been a happy customer since the time they introduced their domain name registration (and transfer) services.
To answer your question first you make sure that child has the same education resources available that the professors child does throughout all aspects of their life. You also make the professors available to children from those inner city areas widening the networking effects that the children of the professor gets. they won't be as good but you open them up.

Improving objective outcomes is some Krypton level shit, "Your a black doctor and were trained to be one from birth due to the outcome we wanted." "I wanted to be an artist."
Google AI agents behave like 'believable humans' for 'artificial society'
I think here ambition needs to be distinguished from hard-work. For example many Chinese are hardworking but not ambitious, they work very hard for many years to become a civil servant. On the other hand, many in the US believe they can achieve anything. Plus it could be those exceptionally ambitious achieve exceptionally great results, much like the top few companies pull the entire S&P 500 upwards.
The binary executable is easily transformed into a 1:1 ratio assembly code. Assembly code is readable by humans, and the algorithm deducable. So the method is researchable to anyone wanting to investigate.

Having said that, I despise all patents, including software patents. The head start a company has should be enough to capitalise on RnD.
I wholeheartedly agree. Exceptions to the rule always exist and I don't want it to be impossible, but they should be entirely optional and non-standard. You are going to re-learn it anyway (and learn it better, from first principles instead of patched together).

It's also an arms race that's misplaced. STEM majors are learning math anyway, there really are diminishing returns in cramming more of it into your school curriculum. A lot of different subjects are way more useful, ideally some that do exactly not prepare yourself for a major of your choice, otherwise you end up with over-optimised education. You need some social studies and discuss current topics moving america and the world. You need to write essays about these difficult topics. You need a little bit of science and a little bit of history. And a foreign language. It's about the abstract ideals of education, afterwards you can choose the major you want.
Western companies have been scrutinized too since the invasion that Russia started.

Even the French that delivered camera optics to Russia before the invasion.

China shouldn't be different.
I'm afraid I must agree with your experience on the revenue opportunities angle.

I wish we were in a world where several good keyboards on mobile, like shells/terminals on desktop, existed just for the sake of making the world a better place and none of them needed integrating with Ads/Search Engines/AI etc. for the sake of generating revenue.

Even better, I wish we lived in a world where the programmers of such tools were well paid for their services, whether through philanthropy or government grants or something else.
If it's so simple, why is it not part of the default UI?
Yeah, being a criminal safe haven right next to a country that has no problem supporting terrorists and dropping bombs on civilian targets is a wonderful idea. Can’t imagine why they never tried it.
On a technical level, they're doing something really simple -- take BLIP2's ViT-L+Q-former, connect it to Vicuna-13B with a
linear layer, and train just the tiny layer on some datasets of image-text pairs.

But the results are pretty amazing. It completely knocks Openflamingo && even the original blip2 models out of the park. And best of all, it arrived before OpenAI's GPT-4 Image Modality did. Real win for Open Source AI.

The repo's default inference code is kind of bad -- vicuna is loaded in fp16 so it can't fit on any consumer hardware. I created a PR on the repo to load it with int8, so hopefully by tomorrow it'll be runnable by 3090/4090 users.

I also developed a toy discord bot (https://github.com/152334H/MiniGPT-4-discord-bot) to show the model to some people, but inference is very slow so I doubt I'll be hosting it publicly.
> Your patent has to fully describe how the invention works.

Exactly, a patent can't be just for "an idea" which is intrinsically generic but rather for the actual implementation with details. Patenting ideas would probably be the very definition of an overly broad patent.
Try using more words: one or two concrete examples would have gone a long way.
"X are not taking Y well" is all about evolving.

Print media is not taking Digital Media well.

Bookstores are not taking Online Book Retailers well.

Traditional taxi services are not taking Ride-hailing apps well.

Brick and mortar stores are not taking E-commerce well.

Cable TV providers are not taking Streaming services well.

Traditional classroom education is not taking Online Learning well.

Hotels are not taking Airbnb well.

Movie theaters are not taking Streaming services well.
If you know how many CPUs you are bringing up, then you can allocate a bunch of stacks contiguously and have the CPUs race to pick up the next one, say

mov rsp, STACKSIZE
lock xadd [currstack], rsp

Of course, the contention on that xadd is going to cost you (if not 10ms per CPU... probably?), and this presumes you aren’t using the kernel stack pointer for anything (like a stable CPU number). To fix that, you probably will need to traverse a CPU -> startup data map in assembly. But it’s a start (no pun intended), and is not as horrendous a hack as having multiple CPUs push the same return address onto the same stack.
> If I offered you irradiated steak or tartare, would you eat it?

I'm not sure what radiation would practically do and whether eating something like that would be safe for me either way.

As for the steak, if I was sure that it was quality meat, I might opt for medium well due to social pressure, otherwise leaning more on the side of well done, which some might view as a social affront. As for tartare, I wouldn't eat it either way, the same way how I don't eat raw salmon or other raw meat like that - while there are people over here that do enjoy that sort of thing, it's a matter of taste or perhaps an acquired taste.
The debt doesn't vanish, you've just transferred it back to the company. They aren't making coffee without cost.
Porkbun has been good for me, just a couple domains though.
A "calculus tyro", as a general rule, is not trying to integrate some crazy complex function as part of a homework assignment.
> The term "Great Britain" can also refer to the political territory of England, Scotland and Wales, which includes their offshore islands.[12] This territory and Northern Ireland constitute the United Kingdom.[13] The single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the 1707 Acts of Union between the kingdoms of England (which at the time incorporated Wales) and Scotland.
We sometimes call them “software-implemented inventions.”
I saw where you state the opposite and I indicated that by saying "great we agree!" But you also said this:

> I agree with the OP that this kind of stuff has absolutely no business being in a trademark document, of all things.

What did you mean by this if not that trademark cannot be used to enforce where/when/how a trademark is used? Rust wants to do exactly that and you say they have no business doing so under trademark law. Can you please clarify? Because your statements seem contradictory.
This is all well & good, but I'm not sure what useful images you could actually run with 10 megabytes of memory each. The nginx containers provisioned would not have been able to do much, if anything.
Ancient DNA of obscure empire that once threatened China and led to Great Wall
The big idea with Starship, at least for missions going beyond LEO is to drop upper stages in LEO as fuel tanks and use them to fuel the "payload" Starship. In the Artemis mission, it is supposed to take astronauts from the Orion capsule, land them on the moon and back to Orion, with talks about a "gateway" space station. So Starship definitely follows the modular / orbital assembly principle.

The idea of purely modular launchers (like OTRAG) never really took of. Armadillo Aerospace tried to capitalize on that idea, but they never really went beyond John Carmack's hobby project. All attempts at anything but "extreme optimization" failed, including the other end of the spectrum with the humongous Sea Dragon. That's because of the so called "tyranny of the rocket equation" and considerations like the square-cube law.
I’d say ask find out why they’re saying they don’t want to read and address all those causes.

There are plenty of kids with great parents who are surrounded by awful peers at school and media that glorifies being uneducated. Then you leave 2 bad kids in a class of good kids, and you’ll get endless distractions that cause the others to give up and resent school. You address just one cause and you have countless others. You need to go after a load of issues and it’s honestly more complicated than we want to admit.
Intended use of PCBs is to provide a rigid platform supporting electronic components and so would you not agree that regulation is written with that in mind, as the bar for chemical safety would be set higher if the product was intended to be touched (even accidentally), rather than being hidden inside an enclosure away from direct contact?

Use of PCB as a human user interface started in hobbyist world, because it was cheap and easy to create sturdy front panels and was good enough for creating prototypes, but it was never meant for mainstream commercial use in this way - as PCBs even if they meet RoHS, still can contain dangerous chemicals - like flame retardants.
Car-dependent societies and a complete lack of third places will do that to you, with children being the hardest-hit.
Add on that No Tooling == No Copyright. Source code is one thing, but particularly for large projects or ones ... creatively abusing compiler features depending on a specific version, you're straight fucked without the build environment used.

And that's not all... there is one elephant left in the room: code signing keys. Like, what is it worth when you have the source code and the build environment, but the computer running it is locked down hard by an actually capable TEE? For now, a lot of these can be bypassed by the arcane art of power glitching, but that won't be the case forever - and some console makers, like Microsoft or Sony prior to removing Linux from the PS3, took away the incentive many elite hackers had to make homebrew possible so it's a good question if there will ever be an Xbox Series X modchip.
Per the OSDev Wiki, Pentium Pro and later[1]:

> For newer CPUs (P6, Pentium 4) one SIPI is enough, but I'm not sure if older Intel CPUs (Pentium) or CPUs from other manufacturers need a second SIPI or not.

When (and if) that became officially sanctioned behaviour is another question.

[1] https://wiki.osdev.org/Symmetric_Multiprocessing#Initialisat...
You cannot draw a consistent line or set of rules for the actions of a company as big as nintendo, consisting of many departments, subsidiaries, and individual disgruntled lawyers who may or may not feel like picking a fight on any particular moment.

Within the pokemon romhack community, people have tried figuring out a similar set of "unofficial guidelines", that generally reflect your list to a T. However, there's enough examples of "random" takedowns[1] and I know at least one person who got a seemingly random C&D for an unpublished romhack, whose takedown never reached the public ear. I'm sure there's many similar cases.

[1]: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=478580
I think there's the cultural aspect in terms of what permeates into everyday society.

Millions are running Unix in their pocket but few are aware of it.
These drones (likewise with the Iranian ones) are based on cheap, fairly old, generic, mostly western electronics that you can buy in an electronics hobby store.

https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2023/mar/01/explainer-ameri...

In practice next to impossible to prevent these components from flowing into Iran or Russia.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
HA -> Home Assistant

If you have a separate charger/inverter that you can control remotely using HA then you simply monitor your outgoing power and if that goes negative and your batteries aren't charged yet you instruct the charger portion to charge the batteries. Then, when the sun goes down you can order the inverter part to come to life and supply current up to the point where the outgoing current is close to zero. Like that you maximize your own usage. And by having this split up you can site your batteries in a spot where the temperature is relatively stable, but still outside of the house which is usually not where you have your solar panels.

A solar inverter should be sited relatively close to the panels to avoid cable losses and to reduce the risk of having unfused 800V DC cabling running through your house for any appreciable length. Ideally you want those cables to be just long enough to get under the roof to the spot where the inverter sits and then regular cabling to the distribution panel.

By connecting the charger/inverter combination to the distribution panel in the same manner you get a lot more freedom. And if you have multiple sets of solar panels that's really the only setup that makes sense otherwise only a limited number of panels can be used to charge the battery (the ones that are directly connected to the inverter that feeds that battery). That's why I'm not a huge fan of the so called 'hybrid' inverters. They make a lot of assumptions about the physical layout of the location that may not hold true in practice.

Here I have 50 panels divided into five fields, 6,8,8,10, and 18 panels in each of them and three inverters. This gave a lot of flexibility in where panels could be located. But if I want to charge a battery in a hybrid setup I'd have to pick which set of panels to use and then I'd still be limited in where I could locate the batteries, presumably they'd be close to whichever set of panels I would like to use to charge them with.

But by decoupling that and using the AC network as the bus I can put them pretty much anywhere that I can reach with another cable run into the distribution panel. That way all 50 panels can contribute to the charging.

An interesting extra option is to run one more cable from the battery charger/inverter to the inverter port, that allows you to power a set of critical loads from battery power. But since the grid here is very reliable I won't be using that.

hth, feel free to ask more.
That sounds to me like it'd cause all sorts of trouble in the real world (authentication, changes to endpoint URLs, difficulty to agglomerate data), and not surprisingly the Next.js documentation states `For now, if you need to fetch data in a Client Component, we recommend using a third-party library such as SWR or React Query.`
And introduced by Iverson for APL in 1962: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/04/15/floor-ceiling-brac... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor_and_ceiling_functions .
If it's true that unions are so valuable, why is it that in most industries in the U.S. workers are far better compensated? Take tech as one example of a non-unionized industry that has still secured for itself work-from-home, sometimes unlimited PTO, extensive maternity and paternity leave, sometimes five to six plus figures in bonus and stock compensation, etc plus pre-WFH the dankest office accomodations which regularly include catered meals, on site yoga instructors, massages, free drinks and more. Do any unionized French companies get such perks?
This part automated, part robotic, part manual workflow is interesting. When a robot arm and a human hand with hammer work together in the same area that made my eyebrows elevate a bit.
Agreed though it's good to remember that increased productivity isn't the only metric we have.
Ask HN: Work-from-anywhere productivity devices for someone with poor vision?
What’s the current state and future of work-from-anywhere, productivity devices for someone with poor vision?

I’m not talking about answering emails at the coffee shop with a laptop. I’m talking about hanging off a glacier in the sun, writing code.

And by poor vision, I mean, corrected, I can just about read a newspaper in poor lighting. I can’t see your laptop over your shoulder. You’ll need to jack up the font size, thanks. I’ve never understood shiny screens, it’s like a mirror to me.

I’m not worried about power supply, yet. The current state of batteries should be fine.

Also connectivity is not a problem, yet. I’ll tether my phone, or use some satellite service.

I appreciate that this is idealistic but bear with me. My dream life scenario is that I’m on some physical adventure/expedition, and suddenly we need some code to save our lives. (Anyone do this?)

So I need terminals, IDE’s, connectivity, text and voice based communication, GPT. All the good stuff. I don’t need high resolution or photo/video editing, yet.

Less ambitiously and more realistically, I’d like to work in my back garden when the sun is out.

I’ve always been on the fence about keyboards. I don’t like the rigid posture required but I have adapted to become an efficient user of this tool. And fixing the keyboard to the tiny screen (classic laptop) makes it worse. I’ve always thought we can do better.

Am I just looking for a rugged E-ink tablet?

I should also add, I’m super optimistic and re-energised about where the tech is headed with E-ink for displays and GPT for productivity. The opportunities feel liberating.

Thanks
I did the dance at the last Gandi article. There's one answer: Dnsimple ($60/year).

Cloudflare doesn't allow you to point NS elsewhere, which sucks if you're moving stuff.
Porkbun died on symbols in my password (figured it out via trial and error) and their marketing is kind of juvenile. realtimeregister exposed my personal info. I think OVH might also support 2FA but I didn't try them.

I don't think there's any others that allow security token 2FA.
Demo of “Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior”
There's no point letting "people vote with their wallets" when companies have monopolies or near-monopolies due to network effects - and these shitty tactics work, so their most effective competitors are practically forced to use them to compete.

See also: Google, Amazon, etc. The laissez-faire voting with wallets approach has failed time and again. It doesn't seem to discourage dark patterns at all. I'd love to use companies with less infuriating interfaces but they can't compete.

I'm not too concerned about over-regulation. I don't think there's much innovation possible in the renting rooms to the public space; the biggest change I've seen recently is in more dark manipulation of customer behaviour. However, perhaps there's an alternative to having governments regulate UI design, like requiring 3rd-party API access.
GPT-4: Assume you’re an SQL database
Are there easy(/cheap) ways to verify this if one does buy, as an individual, a cheap battery like that? Or do you need to either rely on brand reputation or have access to expensive equipment for testing?
Alaskan here, where's AKST? :-D
A new dynamic security strategy in brief
Show HN: I created an app to solve the biggest design challenge
Limited resources for research can cause missed opportunities and suboptimal solutions in product design.

AI can help designers overcome limited resources for research by providing quick and efficient access to data and insights.
Recognizing the potential to harness the vast knowledge available on the internet, I identified an opportunity in leveraging Language Models (LLMs) to create QoQo.

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1189158575928509194/Q...

What can QoQo do?

QoQo offers a range of features to facilitate various aspects of design, including:

- User persona generation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rujy8TKrfYU&t=2s)

- User journey mapping (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hBxT2ENaE8&t=4s)

- UX copywriting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEvnu7YQMM0&t=12s)

- User interview question suggestions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDJQ4ZRPkK8&t=8s)
Would be a nice thought, but literally nobody means the descendants of the Britons where talking about being British.

If they did, depending upon what that encompasses, then either large swathes of Scotland would be included (Glasgow is a Brythonic name!), or you'd be excluding England from the discussion.

Largely without fail, someone talking about Britain is talking of the island itself, or the current inhabitants.
1200s now...
This comment section feels like no one bothered to really read the article.

> But here's the thing: despite all the frustration, the hair-pulling, and the curse words muttered under my breath, there's something strangely satisfying about tackling these challenges head-on. In the process of keeping this site running, I've learned even more about full-stack development than I would have otherwise, and, more importantly, I've continued developing callouses as I encounter and solve so many common web-based pain points that are totally relevant to my day job, too.

> [...] maintaining this site fucking sucks!

> And that's exactly why I do it. It's one of the best projects I've ever created.

It's an over-exaggerated rant about the positive effects of over-engineering a basic blog page.
US ‘disappointed’ by Chinese court’s ruling of death sentence for American