skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article talks about context switching at the task level but it also happens at the code level in codebases with long inheritance hierarchies or responder chains, because then you keep swapping the code that's on display within your window or screen.

Anyway, I was hoping to find a study that supports the idea that context-switching does negatively affect productivity, but there's none. I feel like someone must have studied that a long time ago. Does anyone know any references?
Canada has always seemed like a unique situation. We're a massive country with tiny population. This opens the door to cheap remote land. Lot of cottage land in northern Ontario goes for pennies and has acres. Infact a lot of it so rural that they don't belong to RMs and don't require building permits or inspections. Building a cottage is straight forward just building it.

I figured if you're living off grid and working online, you can just acorn and get way ahead. Moving to a major city for a job that pays 2x more usually isn't even worth it when you factor in cost of living. Obviously, you cannot have kids. This is for a young kid-less couple.

It's not ideal. Our parents many years ago would just buy a home in the suburbs and do their 9-5 but that isn't enough anymore. You will never get ahead doing that.

Working online really is a unique situation to get ahead now.
The stated architecture reminds me of how the Intel Project Larrabee GPU was supposed to work, except with RISC-V instead stripped x86 cores.
I understand that all these new models are an attempt to catch up with GPT-4, but frankly speaking, in the current shape and form, they're almost entirely useless.

I frantically tried anything available on Groq to improve performance of my GPT-4 based chatbot - it's incomparably bad - and the more of them I see, the more I believe OpenAI has fundamentally no competition at all at the moment.

No exception with the above, also pretty bad (IMHO worse than GPT-3.5).
This gets to the core of what modern governments are even trying to do. At least in the US, the concept of Executive branch agencies creating and enforcing regulations, and therefore manipulating markets, is fairly new.

I would personally want to see all of those agencies disbanded and regulations removed in favor of trusting markets and consumers to deal with problems. If nothing else, government intervention should be an extremely rare occurrence rather than business as usual.

With that said, there are certainly benefits of those agencies that would be lost. Its just my opinion that the good doesn't outweigh the bad, and that a system with fundamental issues and misaligned incentives should be gotten rid of as soon as possible. The short term damage caused would always be less than the long term damage of continuing to hold them together with duct tape and bubble gum.
It's a valid question, but I tried to account for it by asking "What is about to happen?" rather than just "What does this photo portray?"

If I had asked the latter question, it would have been acceptable for the model to assume the cars are parked, I think.
If that's what it takes to maintain the purity of Icelandic culture, then it's a price we must be willing to accept.
Don't forget reverse transcription into free-floating DNA. That's much more stable and can last a long time, and it was confirmed in a lab back in 2021 or 2022 that our liver cells are capable of doing it with the Pfizer mRNA covid vaccine.

There was another study last year on long covid that found some vaccine-specific spike proteins persisting weeks or months after they should have degraded/been removed by the immune system, but IIRC they didn't find a reason why.
I developed a kanban cli tool with some features like report creation and automatic task scanning.

You can jnstall it with:
pipx install kanban-python

Source Screenshots +Feature list under:
https://github.com/Zaloog/kanban-python
I can see the benefit to not having swap in a server scenario, but to offer a counterpoint- it seems like IT likes to under allocate servers by something like 25%, so if you have a server with 256GB of RAM, by design it should never use more than 192GB. That’s a lot of RAM going to waste for the off-chance usage jumps above 75-80%.

I think I would rather have the server’s SSD be an Optane drive (or some other high-endurance flash memory) with a swap partition, and use some other means of monitoring and being alerted to high memory usage.
I split an FT subscription with a circle of Marxist friends. We couldn't care less about WSJ.
What happens in the case of Boeing where there’s evidence that the quality checks were not complied with? At least with MCAS, there seems to be evidence they didn’t adhere to their own process requirements.
Neither is getting the bit that makes it a successful meme, which is that we understand what the truck's cargo is, and why it's important that the following car is a convertible, and what we imagine is thus going to happen.
I’m about as left wing as they come. I would never pay for the WSJ because their standard reporting is so insanely biased toward American right wing politics as to rarely be of any specific value, relative to other sources. I do, however, pay for and read the Financial Times, because it’s the paper businesses rely on then to tell them the unvarnished realities of the world in which they operate, regardless of any political valences.
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How is the networked multi CPU core Grayskull a different approach compared to, say, Ampere's 100+ ARM core chip?
Meetings are easy to solve compared to constant distractions from Slack/Teams/etc.

Blocking time on your calendar does nothing to stop those.
Yeah I think it's very plausible that the truck just stop before hitting the bridge and the car behind is waiting.
Clearly, you have your nose stuck in the past. LLMs aren't just good; they're revolutionary, making coders look like one finger keyboard peckers. They're not struggling with maintaining systems; they can be trained on specific datasets and codebases, totally mastering them in ways no human can ever hope to do, making your traditional coding seem like manual typewriting and laughable in comparison. The idea that they can't handle specificity is also laughable. LLMs are not the future; they're the now, effortlessly bridging tech and non-tech worlds, totally replacing programmers. Anyone thinking otherwise is simply not paying attention. The writing is on the wall.
> I've been a developer for embedded systems in the telecom industry for nearly two decades now

On big computers, cycles are squishy (HT, multicore, variable clock frequency, so many clock domains) and not what we're dealing with.

If we're making an architectural choice between local storage and the network, we need to be able to make an apples to apples comparison.

I think it's great this resource is out there, because the tradeoffs have changed. "RAM is the new disk", etc.
I agree with everything you're saying here

Also, in reading your post I noticed a normal human tendency that makes me wonder if hiring by interview doesn't inevitably introduce a small but pervasive organizational tendency toward a brittle culture

Notice that when describing your notion of alignment, you say you look for candidates who "do things like [you] do." I think that's insightful, true across interviewers, and from the perspective of organization-building, already a slight misalignment! I think humans tend to select for people who think more similarly to them, but the organizations I've seen that are the most creative and resilient are ones where people think as differently from each other as is possible (especially in terms of how they do things) while still being compatible (past a certain threshold I do think dissimilarity can make it impossible to agree or collaborate)

I know it seems like a small thing, but in aggregate I think it does a lot to explain a few larger-scale problems
Who is the Tax Foundation? It's not a crime to be partisan, but in the realm of policy there is a lot of partisanship hidden behind noble or innocous names, and it's good to know who one is reading.

I looked around their website for awhile but couldn't find anything. Particularly, who funds them (and their 50+ employees)?

https://taxfoundation.org/about-us/staff-and-board/
I never understood cultures that name everyone the same name.

Why even bother naming them? The whole purpose is to be able to identify someone.
>>> Inquiries won't help if they stop at Boeing, or contractors Boeing used.

The investigation hasn't stopped at Boeing nor Boeing contractors.

It's not covered in the NYT article linked in this HN topic, but the Wall Street Journal article that was first to report the Justice Department investigation says the NTSB is "seeking to interview Federal Aviation Administration Officials in the Seattle area who oversee Boeing's manufacturing".[0]

Sounds like an initial step towards identifying any fault that lies with the FAA and FAA oversight.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/justice-department-ope...
> People accuse Apple of marketing differences where none exist all the time. Thus the trope "X did it first" or "Y on Z is basically the same."

I don't know what you're talking about. What are X, Y, and Z specifically?
This was glaringly obvious where I took a course on engineering law. So much boiled down to “don’t put bad stuff in writing” more than “don’t do bad stuff in the first place.” The press or made a point to distinguish the way engineers think can get them in legal trouble (eg, trying to be open and transparent about design flaws). It kinda bummed me out.
IIRC confidence in video is related to predicting what happens next vs what actually happens. If the two seem to correlate to the model it would give it a higher confidence ranking, which would then be used further for self-reinforced learning.
Oh boo fuckin hoo. TLDR- it's hard to operate a properly functioning healthcare practice when everything is controlled and mandated by the insurance companies. Who demand that patients take no more than 7 actual minutes of "doctor time" and must be whisked out the door with lots of prescriptions for expensive medications that guarantee they (a) will not be cured and (b) will continue to provide a steady revenue stream to big pharma which helps to subsidize the whole upside down dystopian health pyramid that is the US healthcare system.
Honestly, thinking you can outpace LLMs with your learning curve is like believing you can outrun a tsunami on a bicycle. Your decade of tech evolution? LLMs do that before breakfast, without the coffee break. The truth is harsh—LLMs are on track to render programmers obsolete, turning your diversified skill set into a quaint relic. Face it, we're not just talking job replacement; we're heralding a new era where coding is an AI's game.
I know what I hope they'll do, and what most likely the entire point of this is - they should make their store more competitive and give app sellers a better deal. Whether that's what they'll actually do isn't trivial to work out - this is apple after all.
The point is that the "they" who abuse this and the "they" who use it for legitimate reasons usually aren't the same people, and so the "they" who abuse this have no incentive not to out of some concern about their legitimate uses being curtailed.
I'd rather work with a slightly less qualified person who has a positive attitude than an overqualified person with a terrible attitude. The second type might write great code, but is energy draining for the whole team.
Products are already allowed to contain slightly more or less than is stated on the packaging so long as the average is high enough:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_sign

By tightening the required tolerances, londons_explore's proposal could be implemented without exposing anybody to different levels of product than are already permitted.
It's been an employer's market in tech for more than a year now.
I think at the time I was too young to comprehend the difference between "well behaved" DOS programs that stuck to int 21h and the BIOS, and the majority that hammered on the PC hardware directly. The former would have worked.
I think it’s funny how you’re basically criticizing the richest state for having the best policies and outcomes. Like what about Alabama? They are objectively worse at everything and they do exactly what you prescribe.
> Well I’ll add to my response that I think it is delusional to think that (security) features ship bug free.

Have you considered that I'm not delusional, and my point may be more subtle than your straw man?

> It is not how the software world works at large.

Have you considered that I'm a software developer myself?
Yeah it’s pretty stupid but everyone is willing to play the game since we all need to eat.

I did drop out of Facebooks interview process right after the recruiter told me i need to come up with a better reason why i wanted to work at facebook for the next interview. I told them i thought they were going a little too far and I didn’t want to work at a company that was that full of themselves.
It’s aimed at entertainment but the latest Last Week Tonight covered this and is on YouTube. Hope this links works from my phone https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc
> that was not once considered a normal, moral

You seem to not comprehend the words normal, or moral.

Let’s just stick to normal since it’s easier. Normal means “the majority of society approves of this behavior”.

In no point in documented history, for any culture, has fucking pigs been “normal”.

It doesn’t matter if one person thought “this should be normal”, the fact the majority of society rejected that idea necessitates that it is indeed not normal.
California as a whole is a great place to live but I have no idea how people manage.

My biggest hangup isn't jobs but housing. You have to be a millionaire to afford a small house far away from any city. And if you decide to rent instead, then even making 200k+ you are unlikely to afford a house at all. By the time you save up a million, housing prices increasing and inflation will push you back to square one. If you go through the debt route, interest and monthly payments will drain you dry for the rest of your life (unless your plan is to start your real life at 55+). I feel like high speed railways to desirable places like cali to affordable states will sove a lot of issues.
Pretty much any modern storage medium depends on a healthy amount of error correcting code.
Not a great plan for the frame due to poor stiffness. 3d printing cowling, adapters etc is a good application of the tech. It looks like these designs are a mix of these plans, ie including some with metal or CF frame components, and 3d-printed plastic cowling.
Oh, holding onto your job description like a security blanket, huh? Wake up! LLMs are storming the castle, not just to play with your coding tools, but to usurp your throne of problem-solving. Your 'actual job'? About to be a footnote in the saga of AI's conquest. Dismissing LLMs is like challenging a tidal wave with a teaspoon. Adapt or become a quaint anecdote in the chronicles of tech evolution.
I used to hibernate religiously in the Windows XP days. Now I don’t even have that option because my Linux distro of choice (and many other distros now) doesn’t enable it by default. Some popular Linux distros don’t even create swap by default nowadays. I think Ubuntu Server is one of them.

I don’t recall seeing an option to hibernate in Windows 11 either, but I may be mistaken.

Hibernation seems less essential on a laptop than a desktop, but I don’t miss it in either case. It’s very rare that a power outage makes me reboot normally on a desktop.
> Your logic is that any flaw in an implementation renders it useless.

I didn't say that. It's a straw man.
You can for sure use Google Find My without location history enabled. But I'm pretty sure it won't save the "last known location" of the device and will instead need to query the device on demand (which won't work if the thief has turned off the device).
Of course we do, we have no evidence of harm.
Prop 13 is just a huge handout to real estate investors. There’s also the fact that mortgages are no recourse, so people have even more reason to engage in RE speculation. I’m not exaggerating when I say many of my close friends own a handful of properties as their main investment choice. How can you have anything close to a free market when speculation is rewarded so much?

I’m not saying prop 13 shouldn’t apply to primary residence, but it’s insane investors can just sit on land and use that as leverage.
Obligatory internal Boeing critique on the limits of outsourcing in 2001 : https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/69746-hart-smith-on-...
The loss of the arctic passage to the US is inevitable as Canada - the country and the provinces - are not competent, clear-eyed. More importantly, no one is going to die to prevent northern navigation because you never feel like the country has your back.

When I was in Tokyo during the 2011 earthquakes, the French government offered evacuation trips. At the time we thought it was an overreaction by France (but not really [1]). I always felt a bit jealous though, even though I never planned on evacuating; their country was looking out for them.

I did get to see the emails my wife got from the Japanese embassy during COVID-19. The emails were tailored to the location she was in (Calgary in this case) and had full translations of important information (lockdown measures, where to get vaccinations, etc..). This went on for months. The country felt her being well-informed was worth the effort they put in tailoring the communication they sent out.

However, as a Canadian, in Japan, during the earthquake in 2011, I got a generic email telling me to "observe local media". While I read / speak Japanese, that was absolutely not common at the time, and disinformation in the foreign press was RAMPANT.

As a result, low-effort bureaucracy is what I associate with Canada. I see it all the time. Do you want to sponsor your partner? It took 2-3 weeks in Japan, 6-12 months in Canada. You want to vaccinate your kids? My friend in Ottawa had to take a trip to Calgarhy to get his infant child vaccinated, because he didn't have a family doctor. Need to get your passport renewed? Windows-only PDF forms. Wait in line for 8 hours (!!), and be grateful.

(The CRA site is great though, I wonder why.)

These are the real life interfaces between government and citizen, not statements in the press. This is the sorts of interface where you decide whether your country loves you or not. I'm only talking about upper and middle class stuff; imagine being in the lower economic classes and navigating this for help; it's even worse. There is no love for them, and no helping hand other than the kindness of other people.

The thing about low-effort bureaucracies is that you aren't going to die for them. The Arctic ocean is going to belong to the US and the sooner our local elite understands, the better they can negotiate and get their cut.

[1] Years after the fact we found out that the Japanese government had considered the possibility that it might have been necessary to evacuate Tokyo.
And can I we add a 3rd AI to sit in my chair and operate this cursed machine so I can go the fuck back outside, breathe some fresh air and touch grass, thanks
Well, there is a former president who is indicted multiple times, if that counts. Sure, he is no Kennedy, but still.
How does the latest ZFS bug impact your bitrot statement?

I mean, technically it’s not bitrot if zeros were accidentally written out instead of data.
Peopleware - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Project... - is a great example/source, strongly recommend to read it!
It could just be a basic image-recognition failure due to the low-quality JPEG. I don't think Claude recognized the portable toilets, and I don't think GPT4 recognized the overpass.
Oh, al_borland, living in a delightful bubble where you think your design choices are immune to the AI revolution. "Garbage in, garbage out"? Please. LLMs are learning to sift through the trash, making sense of vague directions to produce not just code, but coherent, innovative solutions. Your hundreds of decisions? LLMs are on track to replicate that intuition, tapping into patterns and precedents you're unaware exist. The unspoken wants and needs of your company? AI's pattern recognition is becoming uncannily perceptive trained on specific company datasets, codebases, domain knowledge, real time metrics in ways you never will be able to do.
> If you’re actually guilty, your defense is supposed to challenge the validity of the evidence the prosecution is using to convict you. Not lie to the court and hope your lies are more convincing than the prosecution’s evidence.

Ideally yes, but prosecution (and the entire process leading to arrest) lies and breaks the law and takes advantage in every way possible. It's a very dishonest process to try to be honest against.
But they asked if the claims were audited by a unbiased third party. Are there such audits?

Alternatively, AWS does publicly provide legally binding availability guarantees, but I have never seen any prominently displayed legally binding durability guarantees. Are these published somewhere less prominently?
I think they mean minimum wage laws in general. Another comment mentioned that restaurants were reclassifying their workers as contractors to pay them less.

Describing this as restaurants being "forced" to reclassify their drivers is mildly disingenuous. There's some coercion in minimum wage laws, yes, but it does not specifically prescribe a particular solution to balancing your books. The restaurants could alternatively not offer delivery, or charge more for delivery orders. Lord knows companies are very good at passing along costs to consumers these days...
>It took humans 134 years to discover Norn cells. Last summer, computers in California discovered them on their own in just six weeks.

>The researchers did not tell the computers what these measurements meant. They did not explain that different kinds of cells have different biochemical profiles. They did not define which cells catch light in our eyes, for example, or which ones make antibodies.

>When the machines were done ... they could classify a cell they had never seen before as one of over 1,000 different types. One of those was the Norn cell.

>The model gained a deep understanding of how our genes behave in different cells. It predicted, for example, that shutting down a gene called TEAD4 in a certain type of heart cell would severely disrupt it.

>GeneFormer recommended reducing the activity of four genes that had never before been linked to heart disease. Dr. Theodoris’s team followed the model’s advice, knocking down each of the four genes. In two out of the four cases, the treatment improved how the cells contracted.

>“You can bring a completely new organism — chicken, frog, fish, whatever — you can put it in, and you will get something useful out,” Dr. Leskovec said.

>“It’s going to force a complete rethink of what we consider creativity,” Dr. Quake said. “Professors should be very, very nervous.”

Wow. We are so simple that even a computer understands.
It’s very easy, and free, to remove the flow restrictors that shower heads have these days. For example, Waterpik shower heads can be purchased for closer to $30-40 in the US and removing the flow restrictor takes less than 5 minutes.
Yes but I have to check every so often to make sure its still off. I try to use Kagi for all things search and Fastmail for email/calendar.
Icelandic spelling is subtle.

e.g.

Rejected: Amelia [1]

Accepted: Amelía [1]

Honestly, it seems as though this list's purpose is to standardize spelling as much as it is to bar weird names.

[1]https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Amelia
[2]https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Amel%C3%ADa
Why are we not expressing our intent in programming with human readable languages ?

Look into the computer history . Hint: Charles Petzold wrote a book about it, called Code.