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> "remember that CPython is already written in C"

What is this supposed to say? Most scripting language interpreters are written in low level languages (or assembly), but that alone doesn't say anything about the performance of the language itself.
Sometimes I catch myself daydreaming about a world where we just threw all existing software/hardware into a volcano and started from a clean slate. Imagine RISC-V based PCs/laptops with properly replaceable/repairable parts and the OS (from core utils to the kernel) written in a functional JIT compiled language... I miss the days when tech was built with poking around in mind.
I wonder how this made it past testing?
OP provided a little bit of more context in another comment. It was a public school.
Many small improvements is the way to go in most situations. It's not great clickbait, but we should remember that we got from a single cell at some time to humans through many small changes. The world would be a lot better if people just embraced the grind of many small improvements...
Basically my story, but with a longer timescale.

I was getting rejected from jobs that seemed a perfect fit for my resume. End up getting a job I wasn’t qualified for on paper via referral.

And some of those jobs that rejected me are still reposting the same damn job monthly.
D’oh! Of course you’re correct. I skipped over “any”, and focused on “patch”. Sorry about that.
"replications with similar sample sizes (since that is all that is feasible) should also be allowed to enter the scientific record rather than be suppressed from publication."

Fake it 'til you make it.

That should be the slogan of the modern scientific process...
SQL strings as the final output but there are two intermediate representations that can be serialized to JSON.

There's an open issue for Substrait but I don't think that anyone's started any work on that yet.
Do you believe that other factor is wokeness, or is it maximising profit
Even better[1]: GUIs that hide actions that are not feasible.

[1] and by better I mean worse.
Which is more likely:

* Lazy production line worker hand-tightens bolts and forgets to torque them, faking the results on the electronic torque wrench (which records the tightening of every bolt).

* A design flaw causes vibrations which cause these bolts to loosen.
> It's hard to make small, rural places walkable

I don't know about that. My experience (in the UK) is small, rural places are by default walkable 'cause they haven't changed that much in the last coupel of centuries, when you had to be walkable since cars and bikes didn't exist.
bikeshedding is more of a group phenomenon where trivial decisions outweigh more meaningful and difficult decisions due to the trivial decisions being easily understood.
Goal Tracker App
was always struggling with tracking goals, especially long time goals, and forget them until next period check.And best thing to track goals is by get reminded frequently by the tasks and the progress made and time left to deadline. GoallRecall.com is the right tool for this, just drop the list and get reminded.
The proposal was that it would be automatically uploaded and searchable by corporate.
What contradiction? The prototype has both types of control surface. It’s for testing the new tech; you don’t want it uncontrollable if something goes wrong with the new stuff.
You kind of can though. In Europe even 30% of a US FAANG wage would be an incredible wage here. 50% certainly would be.

There are other problems like timezones etc. and maybe payroll taxes are higher here too but I think the possibility for labour arbitrage is definitely real.
Recently when I plugged my iPhone for charging it correctly warned me that it detected liquid and it might damage the phone to charge at the moment. I blasted my phone with car AC for a couple of minutes and it dried out and then I was able to charge fine. It's a nice feature to have even on Macs but I doubt the scenarios in which water goes into a Mac are as simple to deal with as they are with iPhone.
I have so far run it on my M1 MacBook using llamafile [1] and found it to be great.

Is there any speed/performance/quality/context size/etc. advantage to using LLM Studio or any of the other *llama tools that require more setup than downloading and running a single llamafile executable?

[1] https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/
> X is going bye-bye

This has been the 'Wayland story' for 15 years now.
They do indeed have a lot (dozens) of small, single purpose daemon processes in modern macOS. Many of them access the network, too.
The author admitted that they have gone into Fantasyland at the beginning of the article too.
I’ve had this conversation with my boss, we’ve settled on about 3-4 modes of compensation.

Lowball, either because on ignorance (bro I have an app idea!), intention (fast buck artists preying on folks that don’t know better, maybe it’s a BS startup with 80k S.E. base and worthless ISO), or something like government.

Middle-Road, all the normal companies in all those “flyover” states or something to that affect. You’ll get paid a reasonable market rate for a reasonable expectation of work, e.g. an American 40 hours work week. If you’re lucky these might be a small tech-shop, but no flashy VC driven mania. I’ve worked at several, currently work at one. From the inside looking out the ZIRP issues are nonexistent, Cost-of-Living raises might not be as high as I’d like but I have 0 worries about the trends of tech layoffs I read of here.

Upper-Middle, places that are similar to Middle Road in that they are not flashy VC driven firms but “real” companies delivering profitable software or tech-enabled products and services but they also highly value their IT as a force multiplier. As a result the compensation might be a fair bit higher than Middle Road but nothing insane. You’re not walking about with 300-500k Total Comp. Nice 200k TC for a quality Senior here for a normal place of living. I’ve worked at one such firm but something of a unicorn.

Finally, VC world where the rules don’t matter and the points are made up… or something like it. Compensation is ludicrous and often detached from real-world value provided.

I know this is neither exhaustive scientific, but rather to play with the idea that there are different patterns of compensation than the 5 hours of work and 500k of compensation I see some thinking is both reasonable and deserved (trolling?)
The real news here isn’t the doors.

It remains to be seen if Boeing can discover a cogent explanation for this systemic failure of adherence to QC protocol that is limited to the door plug installation.

If not, it is a severe indictment of manufacturing quality control in general, indicating a more comprehensive inspection of all aircraft made on the involved assembly lines or even of all aircraft manufactured during the affected timeframe.

That could require hundreds of hours or more of inspection time for all affected aircraft, and could even involve significant disassembly, potentially grounding aircraft for months.
The author does not know what it is meant by "deliberate practice" nowadays.
Everytime they use it, they should have written "rote practice" or, simply, "practice".
* A lazy/time-pressured worker skips applying threadlocker before assembly
M. Anton Ertl and David Gregg. 2004. Retargeting JIT Compilers by using C-Compiler Generated Executable Code. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT '04). IEEE Computer Society, USA, 41–50.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1025127.1025995
Funny that it works when switching to desktop mode.

I never actually looked at what this does.
I love Python and use it for everything other than web development.

One reason is performance. So if Python has a faster future ahead of it: Hurray!

The other reason is that the Python ecosystem moved away from stateless requests like CGI or mod_php use and now is completely set on long running processes.

Does this still mean you have to restart your local web application after any change you made to it? I heard that some developers automate that, so that everytime they save a file, the web application is restarted. That seems pretty expensive in terms of resource consumption. And complex as you would have to run some kind of watcher process which handles watching your files and restarting the application?
There is a distinct difference between Web 2.0 (think wikis, blogs) and the social-media paradigm that followed since ~2012-13.
It's not more than I want to know.

It seems ground-sourced is a much better idea than air-sourced, and it seems to me you could install the ground loop with/under/around the foundations for new builds.

As far as indoor distribution goes, it seems like a low-temperature hydronic system would be most efficient, and most comfortable. Or at least a hydronic (instead of refrigerant) loop to multiple chiller/heater units, which would be easier to install and change.
Noted, that won't happen again
Thanks
Any plans to try fine tune an LLM specialised in polars? That would really be the killer feature to get major adoption IMO.
> this [1] is what 10000 hours of practice gets you there for example (the guy has been the World #1 for a good while now).

This is false since it misses that tiny part called "ability", so there are plenty of people that can invest as much time and never get as good, but then I guess that's also taking it too literally. Though the solution to the latter part is not to create fake rules with such literal numbers to make an otherwise obvious point
An important context here is that the same code was reused for interpreter and JIT implementations (that's a main selling point for copy-and-patch JIT). In the other words, this 2--9% improvement mostly represents the core interpreter overhead that JIT should significant reduce. It was even possible that JIT itself might have no performance impact by itself, so this result is actually very encouraging; any future opcode specialization and refinement should directly translate to a measurable improvement.
I'm even more excited to noGIL in 3.13. I wonder how these two features will play together?
> I also think this site employs the same filter, whether intentionally or not.

Definitely intentional.
Sorry to hear that!

I had some clowns reach out to me for the same job it sounds like, promising that I could absolutely move up to employment with Chic-fil-a after my contract was up…

As if I haven’t heard that story before.
I should have been more specific: When I wrote "maintenance" I was thinking more of "the people in charge of keeping things running on a daily basis and who solve crisis situations". Of course I don't believe that banks build all of their computer systems from the ground up themselves.

But even after narrowing it down to that your stories make me think I had too much faith in the banking system.
In my country builders didn't seriously start to consider "insulation" until the 1990s.

Gas was cheap so nobody cared. Just turn up that dial!

Modern houses and apartments are marvels of engineering though.
I mean yes, people with disabilities often have a unique contribution to offer and a unique perspective. They often excel at very specific things. However, implying that it is so advantageous to be disabled that we would all evolve to be that way is ridiculous. Thinking things through slowly step by step may reveal errors others have glossed over...But it's perfectly possible for someone without a severe disability to do that. Meanwhile, the person with minimal to no cerebellum is totally incapable of stepping up to the task when, like a lot of the time, speed and intuition is important. If I wasn't able to rely on context and intuition at all I wouldn't be able to do my job, or even day to day tasks, with enough efficiency to get anything done. Furthermore, someone without a cerebellum will also have to learn to not smash themselves in the face when they're trying to eat and have to deal with constant sensory processing issues. This is not advantageous. It's a disability. So it's not going to be picked up by natural selection.
Marginal gains. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34247629
> the terrorist fake state "Israel".

This is pretty combative language. Real people live in your so-called "fake state" and are on Hacker News.

Even if you think you are 100% correct in your analysis of what is happening in Israel/Gaza right now (I disagree, but that's not the point), I think you should reevaluate using language like this on Hacker News, this is not the place for it and you will likely be downvoted.
Insufficient and negligent quality control systems design permits a single point of failure in manufacturing process specifically designed and funded to prevent such things - calling into question the trustworthiness of the manufacturing process compliance for the entire product line.
I click on the sources for the 10 and 20 percent... lol

> 10% : ....But fully remote work can generate even larger cost reductions from space savings and global hiring

> 20% : Total hours worked increased by roughly 30%, including a rise of 18% in working after normal business hours. Average output did not significantly change. Therefore, productivity fell by about 20%.

For laughs one day I create a Real salary calculator that divides the hourly wage over the hours lost to employment per week.

http://go-here.nl/real-salary-calculator.html

If you work 8 hours, have a 60 min lunch break and commute is just 2 X 30 minutes you are not productive 20% of the time. If the commute is 2x an hour you are not doing anything useful 27% of the time.

Here in the Netherlands statistics would have you believe people are earning relatively big salaries but if half of it is absorbed by taxes, does it really count? In the US the salaries, from a dutch perspective, specially in tech, are huge! But if living expenses are even larger, does that really count?

Companies might care about productivity or profits. (I doubt WFH is less profitable over the entire career) Governments should care about the environment and the infrastructure. Air and sound pollution.

If white collar work makes up 60% more than half of the cars participating in rush hour shouldn't be there. That also is 5000 professionals who didn't need to die in traffic per year.

I imagine the 240 bl it costs to build and maintain roads is for the most part to make rush hour "work"?

Covid was also interesting, it is not like it is the only disease available. a 3rd of my coworkers is sick at home atm and the others are all coughing. I think it fair to include [say] the Tuberculosis lottery in the comparison.
Your O key might be broken as well
I tried searching for that article because I vaguely recall it, but can't find it either. But yeah, a lot of small improvements add up. Reminds me of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ5Lwzrdoe8
As long as we get a Steve Mould cross-section made from 3D printed parts, I’m on board!
If python became fast, there's a chance it may become a language eater.
In the US there are also taxes and a huge expense in the form of private health insurance - my employer says costs increased 9% this year. I don’t know that it balances, but there are additional costs to employers in the US as well.
>TikTok isn't really fundamentally different from the stuff we consider web2, is it?

Yes, it is. It's only superficially similar (technically "user-generated" content). It's a qualitative difference. The fundamental difference is human-curated vs algorithmic. You go on youtube or instagram or tiktok and all you see is what the algorithm pushes: usually the shittiest most junk content imaginable. It's a qualitative difference from having your blogs and following links and etc.

The other main difference is of course that it's now all commercial. Everything everywhere, be it a google search for "best blender" to a youtube frontpage, is trying to sell you stuff or to make you click on ads. It contaminates everything.
What did you do in the end? Take it to a 3rd party repair shop?
The trend I’ve seen, and one that actually seems to have decent results, is “near-shoring” to Romania, Ukraine, Brazil or similar.

India has had an “if you’ve got no better options” for most of my career to be honest.
Maybe. But the way I remember it is that it was clear from their side that replacing the battery would not resolve my performance issues even though I wanted to replace it to fix the random shutdowns and quickly worsening battery life.

In any case, it looks like an even greater flaw in Apple's design process if they are unable to properly service a phone with a dent in the screen. It should not be unheard of, especially since they seem to keep on highlighting better and more resistant glass every year or so.
Or age?
>a lot of fat should get trimmed

It won't though, entire limbs will be cut off.
This is what I associate with my best days online. Good old threaded message boards with persistent conversations.

They're not completely dead but there are fewer than there were. And newer forum software like Discourse that tries to mimic Reddit or StackOverflow is not the same.
That video finally convinced me to install mini splits. It has turned out to be a great choice as it has cut my propane use in half.
1. this is interesting. tokens are arbitrary identifiers... of text. It's called a 'text encoder' for a reason

2. it's a strong assertion but it is true. it's kind of inherent in the name; next word prediction. Why would you want a calculator to be making predictions? I agree that it's worth understanding whether it's possible, but your original point was that 'arithmetic will become suddenly reliable' - this is what I am disagreeing with.

3. this links to the above point - you are right: LLM's can already perform arithmetic, this could be easily proved by loading up gpt-2. but again, your original point was that LLM's will 'figure out' arithmetic - I don't believe they will. The loss function does not incentivize being good at arithmetic, it incentivizes making good predictions that are close to the true value. The loss function will not penalize an LLM who predict 'good' is the next word when it should have been 'great'. while it might penalize '2+2=3; since this sequence would be strongly represented in the training set, it's not going to penalize the model getting '1234*5678' one digit off - which is the problem.
As sad as it is, video is already a preferred and main content format for most people. It always was. The closer to reality, the more engaging [EDIT: and easier to digest] the content. We had some text renaissance due to technical limitations, but that's over already. Beginner programmers now routinely shun written content in favor of video - how contradictory is that? But that's how it is right now.

Writing as a mode of communication requires effort on both the creator and consumer sides. That effort has many positive side effects, which is why some people still favor it [EDIT: and will favor it for a long time in the future, until something genuinely better shows up]. The problem is that, no matter what, effort is still effort, and people generally don't like to exhaust themselves. Gyms would be chock-full, and we'd have no obesity problem if it weren't so.

Your "century from now" estimate is extremely optimistic, to the point of being completely divorced from reality. If I had to bet, I'd say we will lose most textual content from mainstream consumption in the next 5 to 10 years. My guess is that writing will become the equivalent of today's HTML and JavaScript: a source code to be interpreted by the machine to produce a visual representation that people will consume. It'll disappear into the background and will only be touched by professionals.
The restart isn't expensive in absolute terms, on a human level it's practically instant. You would only do this during development, hopefully your local machine isn't the production environment.

It's also very easy, often just adding a CLI flag to your local run command.

edit: Regarding performance, Python today can easily handle at least 1k requests per second. The vast vast vast majority of web applications today don't need anywhere near that kind of performance.
I would doubt one lazy QA, more likely a over worked and time short QA in a company culture that does not allow them to speak up when they need additional support.
Being in the UK I see a lot of that too - we're cheaper than Americans, speak the same language, are pretty close culturally, and while we're a few timezones off, we're far enough east to overlap with both the West Coast and India.

Plus, London alone has 10 million people, and if you lump in the London commuter belt that adds up to aroun 15 million people, more than all of Ontario! That's a hell of a skilled worker base to work with.
Unreal is free aside royalties on revenue over a mil
Liquid Death is a unicorn, with a valuation higher than Replit last I looked.

their whole thing is drinks. in cans.
ah. i've been wondering what the method of securing the bolts would have been and have not seen anyone mention it. torque values or threadlocker is rarely enough for the FAA. it's usually safety wire, castle nuts, lock washers, etc.
I mean I was, but turns out a well built box lasts a while.
It’s easier to blame Boeing because they made the damn thing its documentation. We know for a fact they are at fault. Some or all of the airlines may or may not have put pressure on Boeing.
It depends what you mean by "cultural" reasons.

We interviewed a very qualified candidate. Answered all our questions excellently. Well, he directed all his answers at me - and completely ignored my boss. Every time she asked him a question he turned to me (a man) to give his answer. He seemed completely incapable of acknowledging or speaking to a woman.

Unsurprisingly we passed on him.

On another occasion, I was interviewing someone for a very senior management role. Again, excellent on paper, gave a great presentation, asked smart questions, delivered brilliant answers. Until we asked a question which was something like "How do attract and maintain a diverse and representative workforce?"

His answer was, basically, "Well... it just happens, doesn't it? I don't believe in racism. So if they want to apply, we should let them. I try to treat them as if they're equal to us." And then he rambled on a bit. Instant no from the entire panel.

I don't think I've ever rejected someone for supporting the wrong football team, or not wanting to go for after-work drinks, or for having a silly haircut.

Work is a team-sport. Having a "brilliant arsehole" on the team just means that you have an arsehole on the team. A 10x engineer can't make up for all the 1x engineers they drive away.
Hopes: 10k-hours not necessary, you can get good faster.

Reality: 10k-hours won't outrun genetics, lifestyle, or motivation.
Some of these executive quotes read (admittedly with the benefit of hindsight) like satire.

> But the nearest Boeing commercial-airplane assembly facility would be 1,700 miles away. The isolation was deliberate. “When the headquarters is located in proximity to a principal business—as ours was in Seattle—the corporate center is inevitably drawn into day-to-day business operations,” Condit explained at the time.

Oh man, wouldn't want that to happen.

> With ethics now front and center, Condit was forced out and replaced with Stonecipher, who promptly affirmed: “When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.”

Indeed.