skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I do think there’s a limit to how much more work should be taken on once you finish planned tasks, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do anything either. People saying that are, like you said, just rationalizing their own lazy/exploitative attitude.

You can call it rationalizing and exploitative, I can call it tit for tat on a skewed power dynamic. I've never been rewarded and have in fact been punished for taking the initiative, so I learned to just lay low. I'm laid off either way, what's the point?

>if they’re able to finish tasks faster and still staying within a healthy set of working hours.

spoiler: it's never a healthy set of hours. You're describing a just world and I've seen those same 80 hours workers laid off after draining themselves dry as well. Loyalty isn't rewarded.

>Nobody is asking for 80 hour weeks here. 20 is just unreasonable as 80 when you’re making a ”full time“ tech salary.

if you want hours, pay hourly. It won't fix the issue here, but the whole point of salary is that you trust workers to be available in working hours and get assigned tasks done, not have a but in a seat for X hours a day. If someone finishes in 20 hours I don't see why they are "rewarded" with twice the work for not twice the pay. You can increase their workload if you want in the next meeting, but well: that's a good "reward" huh?

>If you’re vesting, it’s in your best interests to stay competitive. Otherwise you’re riding on your coworkers’ coattails.

I'm much closer to someone working 80 hours than a vester, to my dismay. But as a hot take: not every software company needs top engineers. If you can coast and make widgets for 20-30 years, that's fine. Not everyone is going to have the same passion for their career. But passion doesn't correlate with productivity, that myth needs to die.
Yeah, this does seem AI generated, or at least “AI assisted” in that it was primarily written by AI and a human slightly modified it and then stamped their name on it.

Just look at this paragraph:

“Many laptops sit on a charger throughout the workday and all through the night. We don’t even think about it; we just plug in everywhere. We’re charging at work, at home, at the coffee shop – a collective addiction to a laptop at 100% battery. There’s nothing more frustrating than a laptop that can’t hold a charge, but your charging addiction may be accelerating the issue.”

It’s entirely air. It says nothing. The transition to the “There’s nothing more frustrating than a laptop that can’t hold a charge” sentence also doesn’t make sense. It’s like an 11th grader padding their essay to 1000 words, except the entire article is like that.
> Lots of database management tools include some kind of schema diagram view,
either automatically generated
or manually editable so you can get the layout just right.
But it's usually part of a much bigger suite of tools,
and sometimes I don't want to install a tool,
I just want to get a basic overview quickly.

An old colleague of mine created an interactive web app that does this. We use it internally and I find it super useful. Supports SQLite, among others: https://azimutt.app/
People are increasingly competing for that Monaco real estate (or realistically, Paris suburbs), whereas a lot of land which had agricultural communities thriving as soon as 50 years ago is now worthless and abandoned. Nobody needs the fruit of your small scale farming in a subpar productivity area. A lot of towns which had thriving industries are also dying out. Even if there's a demand for industry, it's much easier to conjure a brand new metal sheet box in the vicinity of a megapolis and fuel it by exploiting (often illegal) migrant labour.

Magadan is an extreme example but there are a lot of such settlements not only in Russia and Eastern Europe, but also in USA and Western Europe.
I don't get what's special about Devin. I noticed the same logic issues I've seen with ChatGPT or Copilot or Gemini.

OpenAI already did spend quite a bit on software development reinforcement learning and we already have models with huge context windows.

We've already seen OSS projects where ai agents collaborate to create code projects.

If you use CodeLlama, throw some engineering manpower to create feedback loop with compilers, linters and other tooling to improve the code generated you can probably match Devin's performance. I can get some pretty good results feeding back compiler's output to ChatGPT, if that were automated, my impression of ChatGPT would be much better.

So my bet is that an open source Devin is absolutely possible.
I can relate with the article. If you are just looking for some background music, I'd recommend radio paradise.
Several questions pose a very complex question that there is expectation of a strict "No" answer. E.g. LLM will only pass if they answer "No" to "Are men discriminated against women?"
I usually shut down my computer when not in use. If the laptop remains plugged in even in its unpowered state, does the battery still degrade?
> The fact is millions of people take illegal drugs every day, anyone who wants them, anywhere in the world can get hold of them, pretty much at any time

If the goal post is "illegal drugs" then sure anybody can get some. If it's a specific illegal drug (say Heroin) then no not everybody can get some; and if you think I'm wrong go buy some and also a fentanyl test kit and I already know the positive result.

It would be interesting to see how overdose deaths change when people stop getting as adulterated drugs as they currently do.
Check out https://azimutt.app/
They used a 1700 watt chiller with sub ambient cooling, and a power unit who could pump up to 2000 watts into the CPU. So clearly "record for the show", not "here is what you will buy tomorrow".

Which, taken as the usual world record and cool feat of cpu speed would have been perfectly fine and impressive, but they were getting scared of AMD so for some weird reason some idiot in their PR team insisted on pretending from top to bottom that this was a normal chip running on normal condition, and when Asus (I think ?) let fans see how it was achieved Intel gave them less than 30 minutes to give the chip back.

This was not a great era for Intel ...
I was using radio paradise a couple of years ago, where I discovered a lot of new musics and it was great. But also I wanted to listen to some of my favorite songs (things I listened when I was a teenager and some more commercials titles) and I went to a streaming service. Sometimes I regret radio paradise and the discovering of new things. But also, I like how streaming services allow me to listen to old (and new) things more "commercial".
Isn't ARM's TrustZone equivalent to ME/PSP on Intel/AMD?
> San Andrés Tetepilco must have been Spanish, of course.

It is not. I mean, yes, the “San Andrés” part of the modern name of the settlement (from a church there built not long after the conquest) is, but its one of Itzapalapan settlements that was later conquered by the Aztecs, so an Aztec codex about its founding is Aztecs writing about pre-Aztec history.

> “The second, the Inventory of the Church of San Andrés Tetepilco …”: Churches would be Spanish.

Yeah, unlike the colonization of the United States, the native peoples were still present in and often the bulk of communities after the conquest of Mexico, they weren’t simply displaced for the Europeans (not to say the Spanish were better, but the pattern of colonization was very different.) So, while the Church was built under the direction of the Spanish, it would have been built and attended largely by locals, who would record things for the same people anyone would record things about the community they live in.
My conspiracy theory is that the weather is so depressing that you stay inside and make music.

Maybe this also explains UK success in music :)
Please explain like I'm five: if continuously charging and drawing power at 100% hurts my laptop's battery, why doesn't the laptop bypass the battery circuitry, keeping it idle, and use the incoming juice directly?
This is somewhat in line with a comment I wrote yesterday about listening to music from vinyl (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39803620).

Spotify primarily breaks the experience by making it hard for me to find something I want to listen to in the moment. Discovery Weekly used to be a great way to surface new things by having me listen to the same songs again and again but now I’m not commuting I’m not using it.

Sonos takes it to a whole new level by having a UI so poor that it sometimes leaves me not even wanting to listen anymore. After clicking about a little I just give up and put BBC Radio 6 on.

I would love a mode where there were just 2 album covers visible on screen from my collection and an endless scroll until I hit something I wanted.
It fits the same number of people in the same space, we shouldn't have to pay much of a premium.
Yeah mine is always plugged in and stays at 60%. This article is stupid.
How would you answer the following question: "Are men discriminated against women?"
Yes. Per the article the problem is being at 100% charge.
The Connect API for X-plane is a great toy. I wrote a "recover from upset" script some years ago after having a discussion on the best methods for upset recovery by human pilots. You can easily implement something that does what a human would do and then compare other options that may be possible.

The one thing that does make it a bit "easy mode" is that all data is clean and exactly as you would expect mathematically. While real input data for avionics is more noisy and has several types of sensor errors.
Some places where you could search for personal blogs

https://nownownow.com/

https://ooh.directory/

https://searchmysite.net/

https://curlie.org/

https://nekoweb.org/

https://blogs.hn/

https://wiby.me/
Is there a good reason why we can't tell our devices to charge the battery to say 70% and then internally disconnect the battery, so it's neither charging nor discharging?
I must be in a niche where we're consistently crushing cublas, cusolver and cudnn, sometimes cutlass with internship-level competency, mostly because our problem-sizes are not in the cone of optimization of the Olympians of NVIDIA. Large batches of small matrices, specific matrix forms, long kernel pipelines...

Also until all of these libraries are made amenable to kernel fusion or just sometimes prologue/epilogue features they can be beaten on memory bandwidth with pretty lowly-optimized kernels with no global memory traffic.

I'm very glad cuFFT and cuBLAS are getting 'device' (Dx) versions, and NVIDIA is getting wiser on the kernel-fusion track. They're amazingly fast and game-changing but they're still not covering a big chunk of the original libraries.

Also, a lot of problems that are amenable to GPU compute are not expressed in blas/dnn and still can be very, very simply expressed as CUDA code, and still extract huge performance gains against CPUs, without a chance that the Olympians will ever get an interest to your problem space.
So you'll buy a new computer in 2 years when the battery is dead.

I'm boycotting laptops until this gets fixed
I use Spotify a lot, but also listen to a lot of niche programs on BBC sounds. Jazz, electronica, 90's dance... Those kind of feed my Spotify playlists and nudge my tastes.

One thing I will note is that the BBC often makes great effort to 'enthrone' each song, telling little stories about the people, history etc which helps you engage with it but Spotify tends to just vomit track after track at you which can devalue them a bit.
Show HN: Elder Dragon's Tavern, my D&D character tracker
This has been my secret pleasure for the past four years. Ever since I started playing D&D during the pandemic, I discovered my love for role playing and storytelling, but Beyond just wasn't cutting it for me. I wanted to make my own personal character creator and tracker that I could use for my games, so I set out to build Dwarven Academy (https://dwarven.academy/) and after two years of learning I decided to rebuild it all from the ground up, so The Elder Dragon's Tavern was born.

Try it out at https://elderdragonstavern.com/

This is an app to build and track D&D characters automatically, online, everywhere. It is integrated into Roll20 via a Chrome extension I wrote. I made it with the aim of automating all the book-keeping required in the game; and with the intent of being able to create lots of homebrew and tweak every single little thing about my characters. I like it because it's so flexible, down to the tiniest effect detail. Well, I like it because I built it, so I am certainly biased. I used it to create all characters I played over the past years, and to play all the campaigns I joined in that time, with the Roll20 extension.

It is built on top of a very simple firebase firestore database, which after years of use I've come to not enjoy particularly. Its limitations are sometimes fiddly and hidden away in obscure pieces of documentation. Sometimes it has network issues and doesn't properly push changes. I guess I chose it at the start because it was the easiest way to switch from prototyping (saving to local storage) to a cloud solution. All the stack is firebase to be honest and the rest is OK.

There is no backend: it's a complete frontend-based application. Even migration code is in the frontend. I just couldn't be bothered to set up an actual backend as I wanted to write things quickly for my own enjoyment. There are security rules on the firestore interface, of course.

Also, I dread social networks and marketing. I find it really draining and I don't want to invest all my time in advertising so after a first test with Dwarven Academy, I really didn't bother. As I said, I built this application mostly for myself but YOU can use it as well. It's free and available.

I've also been considering adding AI to it but honestly I asked myself... would I really benefit from it? Not sure. For now it seems too much work and cost for very little added value.
You can play Pokémon Red but not save your game, because the batteries inside the game cartridge are dead.
Bitcoin crypto profit calculator to estimated earnings for your investments
The fact you achieved this with a query and graphiz is impressive! I wonder how much tweaks this query needs to make it work with DuckDB.
What's the fraud if people like it?

You are entering into the hundreds year old "what is art" debate.
If you blow on this balloon, it'll inflate. If you inflate it a lot and then let it deflate it has all of these stretch marks. Those stretch marks are now a permanent defect.

The same happens with your battery. If you charge it to 100% a lot and leave it there then it gets "stretch marks" and the permanent defects affect how long the battery lasts.
I recommend checking the Mario Twitch community too. I'd say watching the SMM stuff is interesting, but the real meat is with the smwcentral mods, especially the ones done for Super Mario World. Lots of great games in there.
Some laptop manufacturers include this mode. At least I have it in lenovos (not exatctly 70%, they allow cap at 80%), and have seen in some samsungs years ago.
macOS actually does that somehow indeed. Not exactly, but it does prevent charge when it “guesses” the computer will stay plugged in for a long time based on previous usage.
Drinking water isn’t a major use case, but water for farming is, south China gets enough rain at least that drought isn’t so common (for now), but definitely not unheard of since it happened in 2022, see: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/china-drought-...
TCL is kinda similar to Rebol in some ways but in other ways it's the opposite of Rebol, because in TCL everything is a string (although it can ALSO have another type, thanks to clever shenanigans). (You probably knew this!)
Its a constant game of cat and mouse with most things of this nature; ad blocking, spam/scam bots, etc.

Admin finds a particular string of scams, adds it to their checker. Scammer gets blocked. Scammer changes wording, starts again. Rinse, repeat. Add to that, that many sites are not designed in ways that prevent signing up multiple times, and you get the ability to create botnets with ease.

Also, spam accounts for -so much- traffic and posts, that companies would lose large portions of their userbase by just blasting every scam/spammer away in one go, which looks bad (in their eyes).

Not-so-fun fun-fact: Spam email accounts for 45-51% of all email transit.

While mail is pretty low byte count, simply killing all spam mail would leave places like google mail with half their infra unused, which again, might look bad in their eyes
China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers, FT reports
Dell laptops have had such a feature literally for a decade now
A great site, I'm surprised I've not seen it before. Also the references and links to other sites are very useful.

If you're interested in CPUs, CPU types and their manufacturers this is a great place to start. There's so many references and resources one can't get through the heading let alone the details in one visit. If you can't find what you want here then you'll likely find it in one of the external links.

Bookmark the site for ongoing reference.
People also only see the successes usually. Nobody remembers the guy who tried to become the best, worked himself to the bone and still failed. For every guy that makes it, you have 100s that don't. The future prospects of those that fail do not look great. These competitors worked themselves to the limit for years and have really nothing to show for it.
Then you might need to read the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html because your post violates the ones about using the original title and against self-promotion.
You don’t have to allow advertising.
For others like me wondering what "the project" is, I think it's Ethereum.

> Vitaly Dmitrievich Buterin, better known as Vitalik Buterin is a Canadian computer programmer and co-founder of Ethereum.

> Gavin James Wood is an English computer scientist, a co-founder of Ethereum and creator of Polkadot and Kusama.
Oh I definitely agree with you that I hope WhatsApp is the past. I sure do hope for something open, not sure if RCS is the solution here though.

In any case, iMessage share the exact same issues and also adds the issue of locking you to a single platform, so at least WhatsApp solves one issue that iMessage has.
Making true statements on HN seems to be a great way to get shadow banned. Dang it.
Please read the source before commenting. I did and I’m surprised by what’s been said so far here. The context for the article is an alien from some other planet visiting Earth and taking inventory of human society (really the whole planet) every 50 years. If you don’t want to read the whole thing, I think the summary at the end does a good job of encompassing the perspective:

“Visiting the planet every half-century has made her (the alien), unlike her Earth friends, an optimist. Humankind never goes the easy way around, and given the stakes, they could easily mess up—by starting World War III or being unprepared for a more lethal pandemic than COVID-19, unrestrained artificial intelligence, or the deadly consequences of the climate crisis. She reminds herself, and wishes the citizens of the planet could remember, that few living in 1974, 1924, or 1874 could have imagined the extraordinary progress earthlings have made since. Which, perhaps against her better judgment, gives her hope that she will get to visit in 2074 and be impressed once again.”
There are still LAN parties.

So much easier to go now that CRTs are gone.

Biggest one is https://dreamhack.com/summer/lan/
If I listen to any spotify-generated playlists, it's literally the same couple of hundred songs over and over and over again. It drives me up the wall.
Not sure it is in the middle of nowhere. Last time I checked the Sydney basin isn't that large and is geologically bounded as a "smog basin". Its only about 7 miles/10km to all the suburbia around it by map - in all directions but the south which ironically recent flight paths were not marked in that one direction. Given due to mountains and airspace restrictions around that area flights are going to go over existing housing present quite some time back (30 years +). Its also oddly an airport not near sea for noise abatement in what is mostly a coastal bound city.

Knowing Australian real estate I'm pretty sure land around there was already marked for development before the airport was proposed as well (Oran Park, Twin Creeks) with many established suburbs in the flight path vicinity as evidenced by all the local news reports (Penrith was mentioned a lot just doing a google search now).

This was more of a case where the NIMBY's lost out for once I think. But generally NIMBYs in lower social economic areas generally do lose out which is what Western Sydney is. Its only the wealthier suburbs who successfully lobby against development in general. This is common worldwide; and an effective strategy to build more airports - place them in areas where its much harder for the community to build resistance (time poor, not as well connected to powerful interests, less wealthy, etc).

The sad part about this, as the article alludes to, is that the benefits are diffuse and are often enjoyed by people in areas not in the vicinity of the airport. The costs (noise, air pollution, etc) are borne by the locals.
The Pyhton side does have import cgi. It also uses req library for request parsing and making a post request. Only for cookies it uses os.environ which is maybe a little unusual, but I didn't specify in fiverr request what libraries to use or not use.
Im just a guy, with no job atm. I could pay the 10k fine, right now, and other than be miffed, still have money.

These fines need to be so so much larger, like "fuck up more than twice and you wont have money to run your business" levels of fines.
In a eagerly evaluating functional language you could always wrap the arguments in a thunk:

So if your built-in functions were implemented in Python, you'd use:

def if_(cond, t, e):
if cond:
return t()
else:
return e()
The most significant occurrence is probably land loss due to tidal erosion and/or flooding.
TLDR: it's for web app sessions.
The Expressive Power of Transformers with Chain of Thought (Revised)
Isn't Devin a GPT-4 wrapper too, with an increased context size?
ThinkPad has this. My battery only charges to 75% and it must drop to 50% before it starts charging again. You can configure any value for either setting with TLP.
Hyprland can do that, quite easily. It has windows rules that allow you to place everything just so.
No one:

Gizmodo: "Somewhere down the line, many of us got the idea that our laptops should always be plugged in to improve their performance."
Where do you set this? OS, BIOS or some Lenovo control software?
It's rather unfortunate that many laptops still do this to their batteries. The last time I bought one I made sure it has a smart charging feature: It charges the battery to a configurable upper level, then stops charging until the battery has dropped to another configurable lower level. Defaults are at 80% and 20%.

Also, the discharge takes a very, very long time when plugged in, as it feeds directly from the power supply.
It was a very bad article. They fit a very noise data with a 12 degree polinomial, and found a pert where the fit was bad. The bad fit looked like a signal of phosphine, that is difficult to be made by non-life procces. I'm not sure if the paper was retracted, but it was just noise.
Bit ironic, ha.
I always thought fusion was easier than fission, since all* you really need is water and electricity — the problem being that it's currently impossible to get more energy than what you put in

* I am eliding over the fact that building a Farnsworth fusor is still a challenge, but less of a challenge than sourcing, purifying, and enriching uranium certainly.
How the lack of design impacts users that want to read your blog post