skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im 32 and feel have felt the same way on and off for a couple of years. I think it's 70% burnout and 30% just not being interested at all. To make progress, I have to write integration tests that use the API, and then implement it call by call. It gives me a clear goal and a failing test, and I can even compare the results with the original API. At least I find I can keep making progress using this approach, even if I have a bad day or a bad month.
Hey no you're not declining!
I think this happens to a lot of us from time to time! I have become fairly good at recognizing it in myself (mid 30's) and have learned what I need to do to get over the hump!

For me - it helps to step away from work. I mean, really step away to the point I completely forget about work. Go play pickleball, take a day trip, hike, swim, camp, try something entirely new that you have never done before (skydiving, SCUBA lessons, cross-country skiing), etc. The goal is to become immersed in your environment to the point it requires a great use of your mental capacity - in a way that is engaging and fun.

Even if I don't feel like stepping away from work and I disagree with myself that the issue is actually becoming too immersed in my work for too long, I have learned to simply default towards leaning on experience and getting away for a while.

By the time I come back to the same problem if I haven't already gathered a good idea as to how to go about it, I will at least have a new perspective; it's a win-win.

Please take care of your mental health, take care of yourself and don't be too hard on yourself. Give yourself a second chance, draw things out, get out of the office, take a break, and come back and approach the problem after you've refreshed yourself!
This is not an AI problem, I have seen more than a few time Lawyers contradict in different parts of a case. One example off the top of my head is when Lawyers attempt aurge that social media platforms are both publishers and platforms so they can not be held liable at all under any circumstance
I agree - I think cognitive decline is very gradual over life until older age. And experience makes up for it. Some abilities even improve. [1]

Responsibilities seem to multiply. And as you age you sometimes find you're not only caring for kids potentially but aging parents. It's a lot.

1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4015335/#:~:tex....
If you are worried about cognitive decline, I recommend starting weight training. I have found after weight training for under a year now my memory and mental capacity has increased. It’s likely that any consistent physical training will have the same effect. Not sure how active you are. This wouldn’t be a quick fix though.
>(though the corn thing was a bit much) so much as that it's probably wrong.

I was trying to convey that a farmer can't get a loan from the CME to finance his seeds/fertilizer/etc and use his corn crops as collateral. What is factually incorrect about that?

Coinbase and CME have obvious overlaps, but they also have massive financial functions where they don't. That's what the corn bank loan example was trying to highlight.

EDIT to reply: >The assertion is that Coinbase has more work to do and thus more need for headcount than CME. I dispute that.

Sorry for the misunderstanding! I never intended to convince people that Coinbase needs more employees than CME. I should have put a disclaimer in my original comment such as "Coinbase may only need 1/10th the number of CME employees but as fyi, Coinbase is not a direct comparable to CME..."
Microsoft plans to invest $10B in OpenAI
That's Bender Bending Rodríguez right leg.
Yes. I was thinking exactly this when coming into the comments.

Real world benchmarks take more time to prepare, we get that, but let’s be honest: a bold claim _needs_ bold evidence.
Great overview!

"Anything Common, is of little value." -Nietzsche
Right now I have have changedection.io call a huginn webhook to alert me when a new release is up.
Anytime a government restricts free travel within its borders, it can be seen as overreach or a mechanism to control you.

My personal thoughts: if a society as a whole wants it, they will self regulate. If the society as a whole doesn’t, it’s forced.
It's not practical right now, but if block reward and bitcoin price go way down then what are the options? Only the most die hard bitcoin fanatics are going to mine at a loss without getting anything in return. Are there enough of them to prevent 51% attacks?

I would not be surprised if a large crypto exchange takes over bitcoin mining some time in the future. Crypto gamblers don't really care about decentralisation or censorship resistance. They only want the number to go up.
I hear you, and I've definitely felt it myself, although not sure I'd jump straight to cognitive decline. Sounds more like a bad case of brain fog, which is a known thing.

Maybe there were stresses on your body that youth simply helped you handle better until now.

A few quick questions: do you exercise regularly, and specifically, do you go jogging or running? That usually helps a lot.

For me, it was more a case of high blood sugars and poor diet. My head cleared up a lot once I fixed those.

Here's an old favorite of mine: https://youtu.be/7H7id3to1cg

Other tips: intermittent fasting, get rid of dairy / other allergens.
if acquiring companies means you "are back" what was the value anyways?

windows 11 seems like an intentional disaster where basif features are misaing because microsoft decided you didnt need to them. office seems to be getting worse and is now solely about thay subscription money.

and many of microsofts acquisitions just languish slowly - linkedin etc.

google can buy conpanies too. meh.
Software allows more gradual consensus-building throughout the product lifecycle, while car companies have to reach consensus earlier and between more stakeholders simultaneously.
I notice a few people lamenting that OpenAI will no longer be... open.

But I have to wonder, in what sense is OpenAI open today?

In 2019, OpenAI transitioned from non-profit to for-profit. At that time, Microsoft invested US$1 billion into the company. OpenAI then announced its intention to commercially license its technologies.
The one caveat here is that little companies can compete in particular niches in which they can provide a more tailored solution.

For instance, Lambda Labs is "AWS for ML". They have GPU cloud instances with pre-configured ML packages and a network attached filesystem. That's all you need.

The other day, I wanted to run Stable Diffusion, but I don't have a GPU. I went to spin up a GPU instance in AWS, but got hit with a quota limit. By default, AWS accounts have a quota limit of 0 for GPU instances. Presumably to prevent fraudulent crypto mining. You have to file a support ticket that is manually looked at by humans to get this limit raised. In my case, it took 4 days for them to raise it.

I had an A100 instance running in minutes on Lambda Labs. It's significantly cheaper than AWS, too.

I'll be using Lambda Labs for all my future GPU needs, significantly better experience.
This already exists and in a much more advanced way. The flight management system calculates the expected fuel on landing based on the route, wind data, different fuel usage at altitudes etc.

It's not as simple as "fuel per time" because fuel usage and speed change massively with altitude.

What was missing here was a big warning to the pilots (that has since been added). But it's also standard procedure at all airlines to monitor fuel and required fuel calculations, which could have helped this crew if they did it earlier.
At least their object storage service has super old ssl, and breaks under recent ubuntu lts versions, or really any ssl config that's reasonably secure.

ETA for a fix? q2, q3 2023
Programming requires deep thought and concentration. Are you sure the issue isn't simple distraction? I'm 62 and I feel like the major thing that has changed in 35 years for me is the crazy amount of unrelated things (youtube, HN, phone notifications, you name it) constantly competing for my attention. When I was in my 20's I would literally sit in near-silence working for 10-12 hours at a time. Nothing would interrupt or distract me. Of course the Internet has also tremendously empowered engineers by putting a wealth of information at our fingertips, so it's a prototypical dual-edged bladed weapon.
Where's the code? Looks a bit suspect imo. Generating human motion without being driven by a real-world video is interesting tho. But adding audio speech as a driver. Well...
I suppose you could say: Vote with your sails.
The assertion is that Coinbase has more work to do and thus more need for headcount than CME. I dispute that. That's all.
Yeah, I am actually feeling this a little bit. Five years ago I could still focus properly. It is already way harder I find. Though another part is that I am way more aware of things I do not know, so I get caught in decision paralysis because of things I do know will break, and because of things I did not know of.
I only started learning CL during last month advent of code, and it's incredible to know you can do so much with the language, thanks for the insights. As other have mentioned, you can count me in if you ever write a blog about the process
Along similar lines, we had a hell of a time getting various product people to understand template strings for translations. Eventually I got the idea to just call them "madlibs" and all of them understood it immediately.
Macs in that era were notorious for overheating under any real load.

I had a 2011 MacBook Pro for a while that I later found was keeping a constant 100c without even spinning the fan at 100%! After a while, its cd drive failed, and I learned how to install Linux from a partition made in OSX... Eventually the whole thing became a brick.

I also worked with an iMac that would get strange video errors and freeze until I found an app to turn up the fan. With a little bit of air flow, it would run just fine.

I guess Apple proved one thing: hopes and dreams are not enough to cool a Core 2 Duo.
Was going to post this. I become a foggy-headed moron when I don't do these things, and I'm plenty sharp when I do.

My area is blessed with parks and cool places to go for a walk, I hope you and OP have something similar.
Perhaps you live in a bubble (high income, high education) if you find it completely unbelievable that a quarter of the populace will engage in domestic violence at some point in their lives.

I grew up in rural Appalachia, and I can tell you that the most common response to someone, say, being called a stupid bitch, is not to channel the eternal words of Marcus Aurelius or to center ones self like the Buddha, as might be the case for your average HN poster.
Presumably the difference is that those 5 people really wanted to build OpenSea, where Coinbase staff were just assigned to projects.
I'll also speak to 'elitist' of the top comment. One of the first times I had felt prejudice was when I wrote a very good piece of code for their video card which accelerated some video processing by 4X or more. Seriously they (the Japanese) were surprised and started treating me like a miracle talking dog as they just couldn't seem to get their mind around me being able to figure out their systems and contribute something impactful. Kept asking me - how did you do that?
No price is listed on their site so I'm assuming its gonna be stupid expensive, but if anyone knows would you mind posting?
I didn't literally mean that past crypto winters lasted only as long as a physical winter. Past crypto winters have lasted as much as two years. If this lasts longer than that, sure, it can be considered worse than past ones. Currently we're just barely over a year from bitcoin's all-time-high, though.

As the other comment said, we're somewhat in uncharted territory with higher interest rates, but I don't think it will insure a longer winter. It might just keep it from getting quite as high as the ATH for a while, but I think as the rate increases slow down (and especially once they start being cut again) it will start rebounding significantly.

Also if that past experience doesn't apply, then it probably doesn't apply for any other non-crypto company that was founded since 2012 (when Coinbase was founded as well). You expecting all of them to go belly up, just because they only existed in the era of low interest rates?
Open for people with money. Open demos for everyone else (limited time).
They said "the other way" so BQ to Postgres.
A theoretical difference without practical impact; nobody uses these - sure you can implement a C++ interpreter in hardware if one so wishes, but if the industry doesn't use it, what's the good of it ?
Only writing this because I didn't find anyone else referencing it, but I'd also check for some sort of a deficiency. It turns out that I was severely vitamin D deficient, as soon as I started taking it daily all my long-term health problems (including mental fog and memory issues) pretty much disappeared.
I would take a moment to consider what kind of "progress" the other developers are actually having. Deep layers in api calls indicate to me that the original author was either 1. too "clever" or 2. not good at their job. The number of programmers who do way, way too much vastly outnumber the number of programmers who get the job done correctly and succinctly in my experience.

Give yourself some breathing room and try to move the code towards something simpler. Find some business logic level mental hooks upon which you can take bites out of the existing implementation.
Aircraft already have telemetry uplinks via satellite. See ACARS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACARS
TBH, I don't care if your names are cute or descriptive, but for the love of God, can they please be Google-unique? I don't want to search for a particular software tool and end up getting loads of results about hamsters.
> if I were to tell you in September 2021 that Meta was going to trade 70% down within a year, you wouldn't have believed me

I would have probably asked "who is Meta?" at which point you explain you are a time traveler, and Facebook was to change their name in the next few months, too. After my initial laughter, I suppose I'd believe your whole story, because you can't make this stuff up. Next thing you'll tell me, Zuckerberg has legally changed his name to "The Cooler Mark".
The only sin of the open letter is apparently to mention games as examples that aren't bound by OGL but were simply released under the terms of OGL; it makes sense otherwise (I'm not familiar with those games enough to know whether that's their actual status though). It's pretty obvious that if I make a fully custom game and release it under OGL 1.0a now, WotC has nothing to do with it. Because of OGL's wording, someone may be able to use my work under the terms of OGL 1.1, which may be undesired from my point of view, but this doesn't influence the fact that I'm still offering it under OGL 1.0a to anyone who wants to choose that version of the license.

To guard myself from such situation, I'd have to state that I'm licensing it under OGL 1.0a only, at a cost of potentially making it incompatible with content released on a future version of the license - just like some GPL projects do (most notably Linux, which is GPLv2-only).

> I'm the one asking questions, not offering explanations.

And I'm offering explanations :)
As we age our bodies change.

Try working for 3 weeks without alcohol or coffee intake and see if that makes a difference. Then slowly reapply.

Its not that the older engine is broken but it does require different maintenance.
> imagine an indefatigable, perpetually nice adversary out to screw you over.

That's already the case on a lot of calls. In particular, the systems that are configured to not hand you over to a human no matter what unless the system itself detects there is an error in its handling of the situation. I've just defaulted for some time now to saying the word "gibberish" when prompted, and usually that gets you connected directly to a human after no more than 3 times saying it because the system believes that it can't understand you. You can not ask the system to please do that for you no matter how you phrase the question because it was designed specifically to stop you from reaching a human.
The commenter above you said:

> general real world implementation

By this they mean the real-world-implementation that is in general use, which in this case is interpreted.

Yes, Python can be compiled and C++ can be interpreted. 99% of the time, they're not though.

When somebody says X language is interpreted, they mean that the most common and widely implementation is an interpreter. That's a useful bit of information to know about a language. "Correcting" them and saying that all languages can be interpreted OR compiled, doesn't really add anything of value to the discussion, other than to label yourself as a pedant.
Previous AMD/Xilinx Alveo are in the $5000 to $20,000 range USD. I'd assume somewhere around there, or maybe even a bit higher.

EDIT: 75W is a smaller card than I expected. "Inference" also usually means "cheaper". so maybe we can be optimistic with $5000-ish ??

Anyone shocked by the price, remember that this is an FPGA-line from Xilinx. Not a GPU from Radeon. Expect very high prices.
Shim feeler gauges would be readily available in most shops checking wear on moving parts. 0.0025 inches (0.635mm) was included in the first high quality (gearwrench brand) set that I looked up online.
Uber lost all of the money all of the original investors gave them, and sold that bag of dog shit to the public. Everyone who bought the IPO lost money.
Node.js uses libuv also but it is way slower and tbh, can't you compare node to other things because of that it is using v8 and libuv?

I don't understand this this logic.
I see several people have mentioned "see a doctor", but I will repeat it. This past year I was diagnosed with a B-12 vitamin deficiency. Now, a year later, my job is much easier than it was then.
It's a quote from the TV show Silicon Valley
Pretty sure nobody looks forward to getting older except for the young.

People plan towards retirement which is usually just looking forwards to not having to work anymore.

People look forward to having children and grand children.

I don't know anyone who looks forward to getting older except for the young.
India has been a significant force in IT since at least the 1990s. Look at Infosys, Wipro, Tata, etc - all huge multinationals that give the IBMs, HPs, and Accenture's of the world a run for their money.
That's the difference, google is shy to open any of their AI projects.
I wonder if GPT models will have more impact than Minecraft over the next decade.
Question to AI/ML folks : Is there no comparable open source model? Is the future going to be controlled by big corporations who own the models themselves? If models are so computationally intensive to produce does it mean than the more computational power a company has the better its models will be?
Thanks in part to ADHD, I'm sure, I have severe tunnel vision while reading and writing code. I need to constantly diagram, take notes, and walk through call stacks (and re-walk) just to maintain my mental model.

I am insanely jealous of people who can keep everything in their head. Maybe there's a silver lining in that my methods are more resistant to brain-busting situations, depression, cognitive decline, etc., but I'm not sure that I'm convinced.
I would guess you’re a bit larger than the average subject in this study.

If the links I found are correct, the subjects in this study on average weighed 60kg and had BMIs in the range 19.1 to 30.4.

If you’re 60kg and have a BMI of 25, you must be √(60/25) m tall. That’s 1.55m.
I just started being a professional developer in my forties, and all I can think of is that I wasn't this competent ever before. I slap my noise cancelling headphones, put some piano music and enjoy the process.

But I'm not perfect. I'll miss a detail, I'll get a message in the chatroom, I'll take a stretch break. I'll forget. That's not just me being 40, that's me being human.

There's also the fact that when you're younger your body lets you get away with "murder": Drink lots of coca cola, eat junk food, sit for hours, never hit the gym. An apt metaphor would be that you had a 10k PC for gaming and lots of games that were not optimized properly but run well enough due to the hardware being that good.

The older you get, the more your bad habits bite you. So it's not just age decline but every lack of maintenance and abuse of drinking, smoking, junk food comes to take its toll. You know, the "I can do that while I am young" kind of habits.

What I'm saying is, it's more than aging that it's at fault. We just like to correlate aging with it because it takes years for the side-effects of all the poor habits to manifest themselves to take effect.
I suspect you're burnt out. Surely you can hold more than 2 levels of a callstack in your head at 40, so something else is going on.

Of course the code can also be particularly convoluted with some domain-specific knowledge that you may not necessarily be an expert on, so in that case, I'd find someone to ask questions or or an intro book until you can get to an 80/20 situation, where you feel like you understood most of the domain context.

If it's not the code, take a break. Long walks in a place with trees helps clear the mind. Longer sleep, exercise to get the blood flowing, no alcohol. All the usual healthy stuff.

You could also try to draw the data flow on a whiteboard, in a "follow the money" kind of way.

Alternatively, if time permits, try to reimplement the algorithm or solve the problem yourself, in your own preferred language/environment. This will get you sufficient knowledge about the functional requirements where you'll be able to see what the author of the code you're porting was thinking, since they likely encountered the same challenges as you.

If nothing else works, you can just be honest with your manager and try another project that feels like it would be easier or more fun.

Good luck!
I think this is correct and does demonstrate that these comparisons are not all that useful.

But I also think that writing Python and then dropping down into C or C++ for performance is perfectly valid and often a great idea. Of course, there's nothing wrong with just using a different language that's a sensible middle ground between Python and C (like Go). But hold on to the baby when that bathwater is being dumped: there's nothing wrong with writing a blend of Python and C++ for real uses.
Similarly, it'd be great if synthetic (generated) files were marked as such natively in the file format. Is there any precedent for that?

Would be cool if standards bodies for next-gen media types added this to their processes, though I don't know enough to say whether that's even viable or not.
So we will now have Cortana(TM) powered by OpenAI and Clippy will be resurrected, powered by OpenAI.
It probably has less to do with your age and more with where you are in your journey and how you are seeing things. Increasing domain mastery can also mean less tolerance for BS.

Slightly tangential, and perhaps abstract, but nevertheless applicable - two counterintuitive ideas that might be helpful:

1. Keats' notion of Negative Capability. We always think of abilities in the positive but often beyond a certain point dealing with the uncertainties is an ability in itself. More at https://www.leadingsapiens.com/developing-negative-capabilit...

2. Maslow's idea of Second Naïveté. Domain mastery can easily turn into increasing cynicism. Have to be on the alert for this. The masters are somehow able to reengage as beginners and push past what others find mundane. More at https://www.leadingsapiens.com/naivete-in-leadership/