skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that in most battery chemistries, the degradation floors at around 80% whatever you do.

These advices are to get to that 80% slower. If you are fine with having 80% in like 2 years instead of 10 years, you don’t have to really limit yourself.

A better way will be manufactures to advertised 100% as current 80% and allows you to boost you to 120%.
>Condoms are less effective at HIV prevention

lol what

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/condoms.html
"condoms are highly effective in preventing HIV"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9141163/
1997, "reexamination of HIV seroconversion studies suggests that condoms are 90 to 95% effective when used consistently"

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/prevention/condoms.html
"Most condoms are effective in preventing HIV and certain other STIs"
I think that’s a function of consumers switching to newer variants and injectors. Basic insulin in a vial retails for like 2 Cents a unit.
>Except the cost of many drugs continues to go up, even as they're commercially available and R&D has been recouped

A successful drug doesn't have to recoup its own R&D costs, it also has to recoup the costs of all the drugs that failed to make it to approval. It's not any different than VC investing. Just because one company in a portfolio returned 10x ROI, doesn't mean you can be like "alright guys, you made back all your money, now turn yourself into a non-profit".
Yes. But it was effective.
If I recall correctly, the Saturn V was man rated after one launch. There were multiple failures on the moon missions that easily could have killed the astronauts.

The blastoff from the moon had never been tried before.
> at some point, one needs to say "yes" and take risks

Sure, but they need to understand the risks, and be open about the choices they are making. Ideally at the time but certainly coving it up after it goes wrong is not acceptable.
It's a short term authoritarian bandaid that doesn't even help that many people, all the while fostering resentment and opening up increasingly authoritarian measures in the future.

We should go the asian route of increasing density and size. It's not like Barcelona is fully developed border to border.
Whoops.. I misread what he was doing.
> computers do not in fact use Taylor series for evaluating polynomials.

I mean I get what you're saying, but the smartass in me observes that since any polynomial is it's own Taylor expansion...
Unfortunately, Huawei's efforts with english documentation fell off severely after the sanctions... A symptom of their loss of interest in the foreign markets (look at EMUI for instance).
That being said, there'll probably be more details in English ina few weeks, afterall it just launched today.
> Except the cost of many drugs continues to go up, even as they're commercially available and R&D has been recouped

Yes, it is a bucket. I would like your examples though.

> We already lower the costs of a lot of drug design by doing (some of) it at public universities.

Yes, we should do this more. Public funding is very rarely sufficient to go through the whole development -> market process.
They have a github if you want to use it with your own graphana without requiring any cloud access:
https://github.com/Airthings

I've got one per floor in a 3 floor house and all get to the BT -> wifi gateway reliably.
If you want a service guarantee for longer than 1 month don't sign a contract for 1 month at a time.

If you want a guarantee of more time to transition you are expected to pay for the privilege.
Good. Tourists should sleep in hotels and locals should sleep in their flats.

Platforms like AirBnB only put oil in the fire when it comes to housing crises.
Reading through the first edition (published 1995) is actually pretty interesting. At this point it's basically a historical document. The section on neural nets contains this gem from John Denker: "Neural networks are the second best way of doing just about anything."
IANAL/IANYL. Make it dual-licensed, AGPL with MIT by request. Indicate that you are presently declining MIT license requests. The chances of your agreement being adhered to are near zero, regardless of the legality. On the other hand, any mention of GPL will send lawyers running for the hills - AGPL more-so (and legally so, it makes your code basically useless to a corp). The MIT carveout is merely there so that contributors don't throw a fit if you choose a more permissive license down the line.
> Punishing people for making mistakes means very few will be willing to take responsibility.

That’s what responsibility is: taking lumps for making mistakes.

If I make a mistake on the road and end up killing someone, I can absolutely be held liable for manslaughter.

I don’t know if jail time is the right answer, but there absolutely needs to be some accountability.
The spin coating process that applies etch resist also favors round wafers but if they've figured that part out, it's a win because their precision positioning equipment is limited to a square X/Y stage. With round wafers, they lose quite a bit of that space and the wafers are so cheap that wasting some edges isn't a big deal compared to the reduced overhead per chip.
The language docs[1] are CN. Chromium's (and Chrome's?) Translate menu option works well. Alternately, most pages in the table of contents have code for skimming untranslated. One can also cut and paste to translation sites, but giving urls to translate.google (and baidu, yandex) yield blank pages.

There is a language spec pdf, as a link and inline, on page [2]. It's readable, being code dense, but also CN. I don't know how to easily translate it - chromium browser translation, and translate.google, don't seem to.

[1] https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/doc/openharmony-can...
[2] https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/doc/openharmony-can...
Honest question: does this work?

It seems to me that this change will have unintended effects and will fail to produce the desired results.

AFAIK rent in NYC hasn’t gone down since they changed their short-term rental regulations.

I might be naive, but I’d assume that the solution is to build more housing to increase the supply instead of curbing the demand?

Genuinely curious about others’ takes on this.
If the old insulin works just as well, and is basically free, why is everyone paying through the nose for the newly patented stuff?
I've interacted with some of these features as a means of code injection into running processes. (checkpoint, patch the checkpoint data, restore)

It's useful because, by design, it's difficult for the process to even notice it's been stopped. And while it's stopped, you can apply arbitrary patches completely atomically.
Have you been to Barcelona? You can't put any more shit than there already is.
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If it's really easy that "anyone" can do it, wouldn't you expect investors to flood in and drive the cost of capital to near-zero?
Do you really need one for every device you own? Having it just for my phone is mostly fine. It is possible to configure a chargie to limit charge level based on current draw on non-phone devices, but complex, and usually not worth it in my opinion, I only use it for my iPhone.
Wait, are you agreeing that Russians aren't humans?
Two unconventional things I do to improve my iPhone's battery health (which follow this article's findings):
1) Don't use a case - Otherwise, you are literally wrapping your phone in a rubber insulator 24/7, increasing its overall temperature.
2) Don't charge at night - Turn off your phone at night. Instead, charge it during the day when you're at your desk. This reduces the number of cycles over years (because your phone is continually draining/recharging all night even when you aren't using it)
Your comment didn't upset me. But it seems my comment upset you? Please don't project anything. It's just strange to take a random comment so personal. And I understand your point, but I dont care about that part.
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Or just allow imports.
You can get human insulin from Walmart for 25 a vial without a prescription.

Insulin analogs are most prescribed and subject to pricing issues. Particularly important to those with insulin resistance.
> Why should it be? Fuck that!

It's just part of doing business. Know who you're transacting with, pay attention to the specifics of your agreement, and do your due diligence. This is very basic stuff. If you have a dispute, then it gets resolved in court. That's literally what courts are for. If our courts can't keep with demand, we should fix that problem.

> The government wouldn't dictate your actions at all here.

They are, they're saying that the companies I transact with must have customer service/refund/consumer protection level above x. I'd like to choose my own risk level when transacting with others. If I want a (presumably cheaper) deal with a fly-by-night, high-risk, vendor why should anyone else have the right to stop me? It's my risk to take.

It's the same argument as with credit. If I want to borrow money at an "usurious" rate (presumably because no one else will lend to me), why should anyone else stop me? It's my risk to take and my bankruptcy on the line.
The payment processing case is nostalgic if a bit ironic, the team I worked at used this exact pattern 6 years ago or so in C#, and the expressiveness has only improved since then.
Yeah, the Motorola Droid 4 was that way for me sometimes long after I began using it.

It wasn't clear what the combination of triggers was, but sometimes the Play Store would wake up and start updating everything that could be updated -- and do all of these updates in parallel.

Once or twice, it did this when I got in the car, plugged my phone in, and started driving -- sucking down what was (at the time) an enormous amount of [thankfully unmetered] cellular bandwidth and using enough power that the battery either would not charge, or would slowly discharge.

It'd get a pretty toasty.
> They will get cheaper with time as the techniques become commodities.

Absolutely not. Take mebendazole, for instance. It's generic, it's on the WHO's list of most-essential medicines, but in the US there is only a single manufacturer (Janssen/Johnson & Johnson) who uses their monopoly to charge an outrageous $350 per tablet. In every other nation, the price per tablet ranges from $0.10 to $10.00.
The problem is that residents leave entire areas of the city since they become empty. Foot traffic drops, local shops close - a non ending cycle of death.
There is a perverse incentive by the drug companies to encourage more expensive regulation, both to keep competitors out but also to justify their higher prices. Efficient markets drives prices down to the point the participants end up only making average returns on investments, regulation is one of those tricks that can help reliably maintain above average returns. Like the children's fable; 'please don't throw me into the briar patch'.
Public capital markets are also how we avoid improving things to increase margins. Especially in a modern market with shareholders and administration involved, there's little incentive to improve things or even make them human-safe without regulation. It's why stuff like the FDA exists.
Barcelona has a 16,000 people per square km density - that’s already one of the highest in Europe.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/barcelona-pop....
Will this actually change anything? Curious if folks will just create a black market for these instead (this is basically how ny works)
You would kill, at minimum, hundreds of thousands of people with your hubris.

I encourage you to read some econmetrics papers on governmental success rates as 'picking winners.' They are terrible allocators and would be more likely to try to build a pharma R&D center in Michigan and Wisconsin for general election concerns.
Alternatively, the population practicing birth control could solve the crisis. Don't have kids if you don't own at least one home :)
This is fantastic work. Will play around with it!
This tool looks really powerful, thanks for the link!

One thing I've been personally really intrigued by is the possibility of using self-play and adversarial learning as a way to advance beyond our current stage of imitation-only LLMs.

Having a strong rules-based framework to be able to be able to measure quality and correctness of solutions is necessary for any RL training setup to proceed. I think that skidl could be a really nice framework to be part of an RL-trained LLM's curriculum!

I've written down a bunch of thoughts [1] on using games or code-generation in an adversarial training setup, but I could see circuit design being a good training ground as well!

* [1] https://github.com/HanClinto/MENTAT
I'm far from an expert but I'd think it would drive tourism prices up due to less supply of STR housing (which could harm a local economy, although a behemoth like Barcelona probably isn't super concerned here)

Prices may not go down on rents, but if it means that more folks who actually _want to live in the city_ can, I see that as a positive. I can see in NY the case where decrease in housing leads to folks being priced out and moving elsewhere (NJ, etc.)

Obviously not speaking with any data here.
Barcelona seems wonderfully experimental in its governance. Iirc they also tested herbal decriminalization and developed new learning. I wonder what will be learned from this foray into property controls?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/catalonia-cracks-down-b...
I'm keeping an eye on this project as a way to give containers used with immutable distro installs (eg. silverblue) a kind of user-space hibernation feature. So I could hibernate different container workspaces at will. I would find this very useful for development projects where I often have a lot of state that I lose whenever I need to reboot or whatever. Last time I looked there were still to many limitations on what it could checkpoint, but maybe one day.
As I understand it, PDF digestion/manipulation (and particularly translation) has long been a top request from businesses, based on conversations I've had with people selling the technology, so it doesn't surprise me that Gemini excels at this task.
A lot of People in “colder” countries with higher purchasing power (specially in Europe) still want to move to Barcelona now that they can work remotely. I wonder how this fact affects the prices compared to tourism apartments.
I need this. No I don’t , but I want it
Well I certainly how it works well for them. It's a terrible feeling to feel like you're getting priced out of your own home.

We stayed in a few different week-long AirBnBs (or some other rental service) in 2019 in Barcelona and loved it. Although, and this could be a big source of the problem, both people we met up with to get keys were not Spanish and specifically asked if we could speak French or German instead.
What a ridiculous comment!

Have you any idea how cheap shipping is?
Good. Dublin should follow next.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy shown in the photo in the article is actually the very first piece of computer software I ever bought.

I remember purchasing it in a Babbages or something for $14 and being so excited.

Brought it home and ran it on a 286 with a monitor capable of displaying text in one color: amber

> insert babelfish into ear
> and alternative drugs for common diseases. After all, the return of investment on these types of drugs is much higher.

This isn't just some greedy behavior. Treating common diseases is how you reduce discomfort/misery the most, in aggregate. Aspirin for 100 million people who are 1.5 on the pain scale is more effective than some $50,000/pill analgesic for that one guy who happens to be at 11.
This will be an excellent case study that the rest of the world can watch and learn from. Does it have the desired impact? Are there unintended consequences?

We can all speculate till the sun goes down about what we think is going to happen, now we're going to get real data. This is great.

Even if the outcomes are "bad", they can just undo this is ~5 years. At least we will have all learned from it.
I feel like a lot of the issues are also due to Azure making it vastly more difficult than necessary to configure OIDC/SAML and get the right information over to the SP.
You can be emphatic all you want but I refuse to believe that pharma has no say in pricing. Ludicrous.
Where in Barcelona would you increase density?

https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/barcelona-pop...

from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40752920 ("Barcelona has a 16,000 people per square km density - that’s already one of the highest in Europe.")

Capital moves faster than meat space. To defend the human (affordable housing), you have to regulate. The whole "just build more, I want my AirBnB" argument boggles the mind considering the physical system constraints in play. Easier to just ban AirBnB.
> at some point, one needs to launch the thing, despite the complains

There's a big difference between "complaints" because something is not optimal, and warnings that something is a critical risk. The Thiokol engineers' warnings about the O-rings were in the latter category.

And NASA knew that. The summer before the Challenger blew up, NASA had reclassified the O-rings as a Criticality 1 flight risk, where they had previously been Criticality 1R. The "1" meant that if the thing happens the shuttle would be lost--as it was. The "R" meant that there was a redundant component that would do the job if the first one failed--in this case there were two O-rings, primary and secondary. But in (IIRC) June 1985, NASA was told by Thiokol that the primary O-ring was not sealing so there was effectively no redundancy, and NASA acknowledged that by reclassifying the risk. But by the rules NASA itself had imposed, a Criticality 1 (rather than 1R) flight risk was supposed to mean the Shuttle was grounded until the issue was fixed. To avoid that, NASA waived the risk right after reclassifying it.

> at some point, one needs to say "yes" and take risks, otherwise nothing would be done

Taking calculated risks when the potential payoff justifies it is one thing. But taking foolish risks, when even your own decision making framework says you're not supposed to, is quite another. NASA's decision to launch the Challenger was the latter.
I don't think SeamlessM4T qualifies as an end-to-end audio-to-audio model. The paper states "the task of speech-to-speech translation in SeamlessM4T v2 is broken down into speech-to-text translation (S2TT) and then text-to-unit conversion (T2U)". And while language translation is an important application as you mention, it's strictly limited to that. It wouldn't understand or produce non-speech audio (e.g. singing, music, environmental sounds, etc) and you can't have a conversation with it.
I'm mostly balking at the rent-a-Roomba business model that purports having robotic arms and fancy features. I can't even imagine what it would be like to bring that sort of contraption into a nicely decorated townhouse.
That is a very uncharitable thing to say unless you have proof.

What was the public sentiment of the Shuttle at the time?
What was Congress sentiment?
Was there organizational fear in NASA that the program would be cancelled if launches were not timely?
Most likely they do not have a license to distribute their product with Windows on it but on 3.11 and 95 the key 111-1111111 is considered legit. Anyone can grab a clean copy from archive.org. Looks like they could have saved future heartaches by pointing the buyers this direction and having them install the image themselves (which I consider part of the charm in retrocomputing).
Everyone wants lower housing prices, except for the house they currently own.
ill have to check: its a 2023 bolt euv
That's what I was looking for too--how does it compare to a neodymium magnet?

Still cool, let it keep looking..
how long does it take for a child to start doing surgery? publishing novel theorems? how long has the humble transformer been around?
This will be a bit off-topic, but I can't resist.

"The person inside Nasa who fought for the commercial program side (Kathy) instead of being rewarded... got taken off Human Exploration and Operations and Exploration Systems Development and got dumped into Space Operations"

LtCdr Joseph Rochefort, leading a team in Hawaii during the early months of WWII processing Japanese encrypted messages about an impending attack, got both the location (Midway Island) and the date (early June) right, while other cryptanalysts near Washington DC got both wrong. Rochefort was recommended for an award by Admiral Nimitz (CINCPAC, in Hawaii), but this was turned down by Admiral King in DC. Eventually Rochefort was re-assigned to command a floating drydock in San Francisco, about as much of a demotion as he could get. At the end of the war, Rochefort did get a medal, still over the objections of Admiral King. Some think this bad treatment was because Rochefort and his team in Hawaii embarrassed the crypt analysts in DC.
Classic VC funded saas.

Why people would build actual businesses on top of these fly at night Saas companies funded by VC money is beyond me.
Yes, but hard skills are not fixed. They change with company, project, country, industry sector, time and opportunity, and constantly evolve and swing around. And that's even ignoring your personal ability to be good in a specific topic. That is why nobody can tell you what will be popular in 10 years or what will work out for you.

That is why you should have a solid foundation on general skills, and be able to move fast in whatever direction opportunity arise. And this is also where communication will help you, because it will teach you to listen, to understand people and their problems, to find opportunity and maybe also how to take them for you.
People will do literally anything over building enough housing to make everyone happy
If you think the average person's soil is bad, try looking into the solid waste matter that the US government allows to be applied directly to our crops. They basically take what's otherwise called sewage sludge, including all the chemicals we pour down drains, and spray it on fields as fertilizer.
Agreed, they’re conflating things like Google Sign-in with enterprise offerings like SAML. Companies generally give away Google Sign-in for “free” as it’s a great growth vector and gives SMEs a sort-of SAML setup for low cost. It’s also really easy for the vendor to support: you just click the button and you’re in.

Granted, it lacks some of the benefits of SAML, such as permissions assignment from a central source. But this is also why those features are so pricey: enterprise organisations derive the most benefit from it, and have a team dedicated to its maintenance.
> rent in NYC hasn’t gone down

NYC hotel and housing prices have been artificially inflated by government buying accommodations for homeless during 2020/2021, then migrants.
which is why we should have most favored nation status. for most drugs, it would probably raise prices globally rather than significantly lower them in the US.

given tropical diseases are so rare in the US though, there might not be enough liquidity to encourage good pricing
Some prior discussions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28193680 [Aug 2021]

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40141350 [Apr 2024]
The SMB is the customer, they should already have a single place for all their users and for authentication.

SSO doesn't have to be Google, Azure, Okta, PingFederate, you can run a stand-alone instance of Keycloak for instance and have OIDC and SAML available to provide SSO functionality.
That is crazy, thanks for sharing. I wouldn't call a Piper Cub modern though.
Evolution requires mutation before selection can take place.
It's 67th in the world and less dense than 11 French cities, though not a great comparison because most of those are small cities. But just because it's in the top 100 doesn't mean it's maxed out. It still has 5000/sqkm fewer people than Paris.

Nor does it mean this trade off for a measly 10,000 flats is worth it in such a large city.