skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a paid ad by Upwork masquerading as an article.

It’s based on a study that Upwork sponsored, and it cites a bunch of conclusions that make freelancers seem attractive to big orgs:

C-suite executives, bringing in freelance talent into their workforce say freelancers are meeting productivity demands and often exceeding them, outpacing full-time employees. The level of well-being and engagement has improved. And they have doubled the following outcomes for their business: organizational agility (45%), quality of work being produced (40%), innovation (39%), scalability (39%), revenue and bottom line (36%) and efficiency (34%). The findings also show that 80% of leaders who leverage freelance talent say it is essential to their business, and 38% of leaders who don’t already leverage this talent pool intend to start in the coming year.

This is a stealth ad meant to engender FOMO in business decision makers: “Your existing employees won’t get results quickly because AI is overloading them - instead, hire a clever freelancer who has figured out how to use AI to their advantage, and reap the rewards!”
Hmmm — isn’t it possible that too much awareness of our pending apocalyptic peril at the mercy of the Yellowstone Caldera is what’s arresting your slumbers in the first place?
No Mystery: The Enduring Appeal of Inspector Maigret
My imagination: If my brain didn't do any distracting imagination stuff, then I could get a lot more done!

Ask HN: What's the reality like?
Sorry for the image, it just a placeholder image. I will just remove the placeholder image ot use some AI-generated images. It's not a landing page of real product, just a showcase of generated landing page
I dealt with this. I had the prosecutor refuse to do anything. I ended up moving with my family. We do not regulate noise well.
The headline is based on this claim from the report:

> Over three in four (77%) say AI tools have decreased their productivity and added to their workload in at least one way

Which, to my understanding, was not a question asked directly, but is instead the total number of people who answered "yes" to any of whether they're "spending more time reviewing or moderating AI-generated content", "invest more time learning to use these tools", "are now being asked to do more work", etc.

So you could have spent some time to learn the tools, realize massive productivity gains from it, and be included in that 77%. It's not whether it increased your workload on net.
Frank Lloyd Wright became a household name for Gen Z
I have personality experienced employer mandated AI inside my IDE and they track of you disable it
Best use of it has just having it there. Being able to drop a question into ChatGPT and hear ideas or data come back quickly is a great relief whenever you face a groan-type task.

But what its really shone light on is that, for most tasks, it's the formulating of the problem itself that takes up the bulk of the work, not executing the solution. And without being able to know when its solution is inappropriate, I don't see how it's not going to make "two steps back" situations for sub-senior developers.
This is also not the study, but a summary of the study.

At this point I’ll email their POC and see if they’ll release the actual study itself.
opus has no issues with support, why go with older aac then?
Same here.

I’m not using their calendar app, but the email and drive features work wonderfully on all my Apple devices.
Pratfall Effect
The Li-ion cells can be replaced quickly using hand tools. It appears to take forty 18650 cells, which cost about $5/cell for high-capacity cells purchased from reputable dealers in small quantities.

Given their suggestion of replacing cells every 3 years, I find their claimed operating cost of $16/year questionable. Using the cheapest Li-ion cells you can possibly find is a good way to test how fireproof that casing really is.

I like this idea, and I'd like to see user-serviceable batteries for nearly everything that uses one, but I don't love the marketing here.
probably lynn wheeler will tell you cp/67 was there first: https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#72
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=aol%20tcl

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/AOLserver
These particular examples are claimed to have been left some time between when the school was created in the second half of the 18th century, and 1891 when it was taken over by 'St John’s Church Institute, which provided skills-training and pastimes for young men from the parish church.'

The longer 350 years refers to previous 'almost identical' examples found elsewhere. (Yes 'nearly 350 years ago' is a misleading title.)

The National Trust took over the property before the war, discovering and preserving these artefacts during renovation in the 80s.

It seems perfectly plausible to me, they just needed to stay dry.
Same here, Groups + Marketplace is actually a wealth of information. There are still a few dark patterns but most manageable for a "free" platform.

OPs comments read like we're describing something the SS built (Godwin says hi).
"10x more productive" means they were selling AI tools :)

The only scenario in which i can imagine the LLMs increasing my productivity 10x is if I had to write code to create a new window with lots of controls on it from scratch. And that only for the initial set up of the controls.

But then I'd have to, you know, write the functionality for those controls...
This is almost the exact opposite of the responses we just got from a survey of around 800 people, which showed of them 78% regularly use AI/LLMs to augment their work and of that over 90% reported that they've found it to improve their work efficiency.
That's so vague I can't tell what you're suggesting. What specifically do you think needs solving at the model level? What should work differently?
This is nothing more than marketing propaganda by Upwork. Flagged.
The page is a showcase landing page example, not real product, the pricing are not for real product. It's just an open source and free CLI tool. Sorry for the confused information.
i don't think so; i think people independently chose the name 'door' for a way to get out of one program and into another in both cases. bbs people and sun labs kernel researchers didn't talk to each other that much unfortunately, and the mechanisms aren't really that similar
Cars are pretty safe from spontaneous combustion but if you do stupid stuff like lighting it on fire then bad things happen.

You can’t make technology 100% safe, you need to educate people.
I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you are genuinely trying to contribute something to the open source community. But I am not sure how this made it to the frontpage on HN. This seems like something made by the new generation of so called solopreneurs trying to get rich quick (the pricing section says it all).

I read a thread by a one of solopreneur on twitter sometime ago where they suggested to post about their product every day on HN for getting _viral_. It seems this is one of those posts.

Edit: Looks like the pricing section is just as an example of a section on Landing Page. OP, it would be a good idea to have a proper landing page for your project?
> The overhead of context switching is — if anything — higher in relative terms.

Why that is the case when we have faster CPU, RAM, and SSDs etc.
No thank you. Use existing laws that cover wide nets and actually enforce them.
Maybe you know more about it I don't want to say you're wrong because the only thing I know of it is reading the page linked to. But that page semes to disagree with you (EDIT: sorry I don't know how to best format quoting the article vs quoting your reply):

Doors Implementation

[...] the default server threads that are created in response to incoming door requests on the server.

A new synchronization object, called a shuttle [...] allowing a direct scheduler hand-off operation between two threads.

[...] a shuttle marks the current thread as sleeping, marks the server thread as running, and passes control directly to the server thread.

Server Threads

Server threads are normally created on demand by the doors library [...]
The first server thread is created automatically when the server issues a door create call.
[...] Once created, a server thread will place itself in a pool of available threads and wait for a door invocation.

There would be no need for these server threads if the client thread transferred directly to the server process address space.

> There is no door_recv(2) syscall or equivalent nor any way for a thread pool in the callee to wait for requests

It says the thread pool on the server is created by the doors library when the server creates a door. So the process of receiving and processing requests would be carried out internally within the doors library, so there would be no need for the server application to have an API for the server application to accept requests, it's handled by the library.

At least that's what is described in the link, AFAIKS. It's only a conceptual door, underneath it is implemented in some message passing style maybe with some extra sugar for performance and process control nicety with this "shuddle" thing for making the requests.
thanks for finding the man page!
The casing is fireproof, but that doesn't mean the things around it are fireproof!
This is an extremely misleading statement. You have to jump through hoops to do expressive queries, with a limited set of index primitives, a query optimizer that doesn't take advantage of anything that resembles nested JSONB, and syntax and storage overhead that will leave you thinking there's nothing good about storing data with rich JSONic structure begin with.. worst of all worlds
Well I hope you learn the difference between what you portray here and what I said soon. For the benefit of your environment.
so AI increases workloads and hampers productivity

But only for employees

freelancers are very efficient with using AI

so the solution to the problem is to hire freelancers

and the best place to find freelancers is Upwork

and the study is conducted by Upwork.

got it.
Where is the line drawn on how much is the responsibility of the "end users" (hospitals, etc).

Hypothetically, if there was a widespread 'bug' in... Intel CPUs that caused a similar issue, would you say it was the hospitals that should be held accountable, or Intel, or someone else? What about if the issue was in Windows itself - what should each hospital do differently that would have avoided this?
Banks find AML "ineffective", propose access to social media
Virtual reality players are suffering real broken bones, other injuries
> no reports of injury

I feel like that’s pure luck. Things could’ve gone way worse
https://archive.ph/0cFXf
(why don't you use an adblocker and/or reader mode?)
Anyone switched from sway that might comment on their experience?
I thought Donald Trump was promising massive investments in AI[0] (at least for military purposes). Is there an advantage for AI companies in Kamala's hands-off approach instead of Trump's approach of actively assisting AI development? Because Trump politics aside, I think most AI companies are going to prefer government funding over a simple commitment to not hinder their development.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/trump...
> In, short, by CrowdStrike hacking the protocol and Microsoft allowing it to happen

This seems to be saying Microsoft is letting Crowdstrike to bypass Microsoft's own security measures for Windows.

That rings true, too many times in this industry, easy wins over security. I think the only place this does not happen is on OpenBSD.
Yeah, this is a deal-breaker for me. I would rather have a single button I have to click exactly 35 times to encode the battery type I read out of a manual over needing smartphone infrastructure. The point being, please give us an alternative even if it requires very technical work.
I write software for the publishing industry, particularly many business to business publications. The rise of AI is a huge transformative force here. Those who aren't injecting AI into their products are at a large disadvantage.

The people talking about the disadvantages of AI on this page are mostly right. But for the typical article in a B2B magazine, AI can already produce output better than many, or even most entry level writers. Editors are doing that themselves in lieu of hiring. We're just removing the copy and paste from a chatbot step. This is table stakes now, people are doing this not expecting to get ahead but just trying to keep up.

To push back is to be the milk man who refuses to trade in his old horse for a truck. That choice may be good for the horse, but not for long. As a programmer I identify more with the horse than the milk man. I too am trying not to get knackered.
I used the Brave AI to give me a summary of this and it showed me a picture of DHH
Now make a version that is Xorg compatible.
https://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_3Methylmethcathi...

and it's related chemical

https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/4_methylmethcathinone/4_met...
Atomoxetine would be an option.
Eventually we'll be mining average crustal rock for phosphorus, at 0.1% concentration, as well as recycling phosphate-containing wastes back to soils. It could be the mineral that sets the minimum global annual mined volume after fossil fuels are done (those currently dominate, ignoring such things as gravel and ground water.)

On the positive side, I believe most phosphate fertilizer is not immediately absorbed by plants, but instead goes into forming relatively insoluble phosphates in the soil (phosphate fertilizer is formed by solubilizing phosphate minerals by treatment with large amounts of acid). This forms a phosphate bank in the soil. Over time, if I understand correctly the residual solubility of these minerals (especially under the influence of organic acids secreted by plant roots) will reduce the need for additional phosphate additions, assuming the soil doesn't erode away.
Came here to say the same thing, after trying to find a link to the original source, i.e., the purported "study" mentioned in the headline. I was unable to find it.[a]

This doesn't deserve to be on HN.

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[a] I mean a proper study with an explanation of methodology, proper statistics, and sources of data. I could only find a press release (https://investors.upwork.com/news-releases/news-release-deta...) and a short blog post with limited information (https://www.upwork.com/research/ai-enhanced-work-models).
The opposition always have 100% access to all Government spending. It is publicly published. It’s pathetic Westminster politics and Parliamentary privilege that allows both sides to make lies like ‘it’s worse than we thought’.
That’s the whole point of Forbes today
CrowdStrike uses eBPF on Linux but Windows doesn't support eBPF.
This is a sham study funded by UpWork whose business is likely being hit by AI, since many low-skilled office tasks can now be automated.
>they'll just tortpre you

We're talking about the police, not the CIA, right? Can't imagine torture as a common response to obstinacy
This is now supported, see here-
https://github.com/romansky/dom-to-semantic-markdown?tab=rea...
What's the target usage? Is it to allow user to download the converted file? Or for streaming?
>I really hope that people hate AI and fight against using it because it gives me an edge.

This is my problem too. AI is amazing for my work, I finish a days worth of work in two hours.

At the same time if everyone else started using it I'd have to work 8 hours a day again.
well no one was reading those articles in the first place
If you’re finding 18650s in bulk so cheap that $48 fills the entire pack, I’d be amazed.
> Posted to the web April 1, 2012.

and

> While this work began as something of a joke, there are some very serious reasons that ternary logic may have value.

Not sure I'm convinced...
To be fair, most people probably are hypochondriacs. Somehow we have come to expect that all our nagging ailments should be fully treatable by either a pill or a surgery. In reality, human body is pretty good at self-repairing and self-regulating and modern medicine can help it only in certain clear cut cases. Medicine is just not that good and the doctors know it.
You are right, Vyvanse/Elvanse comes in 20,30,40mg. Dextroamphetamine has a different dosage.
This is an advertisement with highly questionable statistics and data. Its informational utility is so poor I’d almost think it was written by an Upwork freelancer using AI.
I disagree; it's much longer than it needs to be, is filled with pseudo-technoese to hide that there's little of consequence in there, and the tiny bit of real information in there is couched with distractions and unnecessary detail.

As I understand it, they're telling us that the outage was caused by an unspecified bug in the "Content Validator", and that the file that was shipped was done so without testing because it worked fine last time.

I think they wrote what they did because they couldn't publish the above directly without being rightly excoriated for it, and at least this way a lot of the people reading it won't understand what they're saying but it sounds very technical.
> It's useful if you can't be arsed to type trivial stuff in, but you have to know how to do the trivial stuff in the first place because you have to be ready to correct it.

This. The only exception I’ve found to this rule is shell one-liners. I’m not sure why they’re so good at them; maybe the terse nature helps? However, I’ve also never had it do anything that I couldn’t figure out in awk on my own.
Digitally Peeking Inside a Pack of Pokemon Cards
Video codec transcoding is very CPU resource expensive. If you do a lot of it, you should be looking into doing hardware-accelerated transcoding.
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro

My ffmpeg how-to/examples/scratchfile can be viewed here:
https://paste.travisflix.com/?ce12a91f222cc3d7#BQPKtw6sEs9cE...
I always found the C syntax to define a chain of pointers with various permutations of constness pretty confusing.

Rust is much better in that regard, but if I am totally honest it isn't completely logical to me in Rust either.

Especially I find it confusing that the term mutable reference is sometimes used to mean a reference to a mutable place.
If that worries you (and it should), never ever go to hospital during night (unless serious emergency of course) or very early morning, or generally just before the end of shifts. You will get potentially worse treatment by definition, depends on many things but probability is against you.

Also, the bigger the hospital usually the better experts they have on critical stuff (and more chance you won't wait long for ie CT or MRI), smaller hospitals and clinics just forward serious patients to big ones.

At the end healthcare is just another branch of market and all woes that apply to rest of us apply to them, no magical immunity due to more noble profession.
> The first problem with notebooks is that they're difficult to share.

I share github links to my notebooks with my PMs
> The information is only hidden with colorless methods if you consider the documentation to be a place to hide information (o^o)

That's exactly the mindset of quite a number of programmers nowadays, sadly. Two anecdotes: First, there was a blog post (probably even featured on HN) about problems in the design of the API of... Python's requests library, I think? It was quite a bizarre reading, complaints made almost no sense to me until I got to about the middle of the article when it clicked: the author was trying to figure out how to use the API by just reading the names of the classes, methods, and parameter names and making guesses as how it all would connect together instead of, you know, reading the docs. Which do exist, by the way.

The second example happened just yesterday at my job. In the essence, some fellow programmer added a call to function foo() which he thought would do some particular thing and return a particular answer while in reality it did not quite do that, and the return value is essentially meaningless (the function basically always returns "yep, I've scheduled do_foo() to run asynchronously some time soon"). Now, this foo() dunction is not documented, and if you read it's source (3 lines of code), it's quite obvious that its return value is useless... so why did they think it works the way they wanted it to work? When asked about it, the answer was "Well, it's named foo(), so I just thought that's what it would do". Sadly, calling strange third-party functions and hoping them to work they way you'd like them to work is no basis for writing the working programs.
Have not tried Hyprland but on three separate occasions with three different machines I could never get Sway working. One got close but it would constantly crash.
Very dubious website. The battery doesn't appear to be available for purchase, so who is this customer who, in 2022, has been using it for an entire year?

The marketing claims also are ridiculous. Zero evidence that your battery are safer than Bosch battery packs. I have zero doubt that Bosch has done very rigorous testing on their batteries. Have you? Apparently the cells are switchable, so there could be different types, capacity and chemistries involved, have you done testing regarding that?
Mistral.rs: Faster than llama.cpp on CUDA
That's actually the preferred outcome. The open internet noise ratio will be so high that it turns into pure randomness. The traditional old venues (reputed blogs, small communities forums, pay for valued information, pay for your search, etc..) will resurface again. The Popular Web has been in a slow decline, time to kill it.
If you think opus has no issues you must not have tested many devices.

If your subset handles it, great, but don't be dismissive.
In my opinion, this is largely due to the fact that the focus is mostly on quantity and not quality and has been for a while.

Writing has been about putting out X puff pieces per day and very little of the industry is actually interested in providing quality pieces of research/journalism.

Because “everything for the short term gains”, which is rampant in all creative industries right now.

Of course AI can write puff pieces or top 10 lists or possibly make a typical Marvel movie soon.

But who wants to read it?
I use Georgify through Stylus with some minor tweaks, been so long and so good, I've forgotten what HN actually looks like without it - https://uso.kkx.one/style/71155
The gadget I miss – the Apple Newton eMate 300
"A tech love letter to an oft-overlooked Apple product that was tragically ahead of its time."
I wonder if this will make a difference... if you can afford the expensive flight to Japan to begin with, would you be deterred by spending 20$ more for that castle ticket(just taking that example from the article)?

Hopefully they can solve their overtourism problem.
Why Is Everyone Lying?
I still haven't found a tactful way to bring this up, but have you considered a low- or zero-carb diet?

As far as I underdstand it, if you don't eat carbohydrates, you don't require insulin to deal with the spikes, and apart from a few grams in the bloodstream, humans require extremely little to no exogenous carbs.

I'd love to hear your thoughts if you've looked into this already.
Ask HN: Resource for User Interface Examples
I am looking for a site or a book that has many different examples of user application interfaces. Something like the Dark Patterns site (https://www.deceptive.design/) but for helpful interface design examples. My internet searches are just turning up click-bait "articles" like "Top 5 Amazing bla bla".
Show HN: Multimodal AI Combined with SNS: GizAI
Heinemeier Hansson?
Lol yes. I once spent a few hours trying to get GPT-4 to produce a fully-featured B+tree in Python. I knew how they worked, but had never sat down and written a class for one, so I wanted to see if it could manage. It could not; it kept getting hung up on re-balancing when a split occurred.