skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a 45-year-old Tom Brady still leading teams into the playoffs, I think this is a bad argument. If you think you're experiencing a cognitive decline at 40 you should see a doctor. Physically, yes your healing abilities aren't the same as when you were a teenager but the brain is different. Talk to your doctor about this before you make any life-changing decisions.
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Gut bacteria. There's a growing amount of research that points to your microbiome as controlling a ton of your hormones to the point of if something shifts (which is easy) it can cause brain fog. Don't take antibiotics however, that will upset the stack. Look into probiotics such as B. Longum and Helveticus. There are a few other probiotics - don't just get yogurts, you have to MAKE your own yogurt and flush out the old by overwhelming your system with the bacteria YOU want.
I’m constantly astonished “Thinking Fast and Slow” is so highly recommended - I question if the advocates actually read the book in depth.

I remember reading most of the book and skipping a couple of chapters. While the results and ideas are great, I feel most of the chapter is the historical background, Ie “Tversky and I were doing this in the 60s …” It could be heavily reduced and still get the point across.
This is a pretty bad take. The mobile market is much larger precisely because they AREN'T computers. They are mobile companions. But you don't do the same things on a computer and on a mobile phone.

Who edits their movies on a phone? Who codes on a phone? Who writes their PhD thesis on a phone? You will be hard pressed to find professionals who do these things. Because a phone is not a computer.
the cost of office chairs soared from the start of the pandemic and doesnt seem to have come down appreciably.
I did a project during my PhD with a 70year old who coded way better than almost half a century younger me…
It’s 1,995$ - I tried to order when it was announced.
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I agree with this. Where I work, one team has given descriptive names to everything and several other teams have then shortened them inconsistently. So it's tribal knowledge that "cloud" and "gen2" are the same thing, and software/platform/gen1 are almost the same thing, but configured differently.

If we had called them Frank and Susan, we'd know what each other means.
How is your sleep? If you’ve gone years without good sleep, the damage could be accumulating into cognitive functions.
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TOPS - Trillions of Operations Per Second, used as a benchmark to figure out the performance of the accelerator.

In my experience, mostly a marketing number, higher TOPS doesn't actually mean it'll be faster than something with a lower TOPS.

As always, you need to do your own benchmarks with your use case in mind.
Those life responsibilities are not mandatory unavoidable things. They're choices.

Such as: owning property, owning car(s), having children, getting married, getting a mortgage, etc.

You can chose to not do any of those things and basically live like you're 20 when you're 80 (in terms of responsibilities).
I don't think "fair" is a good word here. I'm happy to work from the basic principle that I want to society to be set up to make people's lives better, and I don't care about AIs, and I really don't care about AIs designed by multi-billion dollar companies.

Unfortunately, I think this isn't a battle that can be won, as those multi-billion dollar companies can just buy laws that say they can slurp up everyone's information and train on it (such laws are currently being introduced in several countries).
I find tablets are good for one thing--watching movies on the go. Desktops/Laptops do a ton more than that for me.

I disagree that tablets replaced computers. I've seen no evidence of that in my life. Maybe I'm an anomaly though?
> you could never talk about Python (the most common and original implementation) without making reference to C then.

Good. Because otherwise people would be mislead to think that Python itself is fast. The Python plus C combo has opposite tradeoffs in many dimensions.
> there's no details on why.

It's explained in the paragraph right before the one you quoted.

>A look at their hormone levels showed why: Eating later caused their levels of ghrelin, a hormone that increases appetite, to spike, while simultaneously suppressing their levels of leptin, a hormone that causes satiety.
CME group also pays less. They aren't paying 400k for engineers.
While I cannot comment on your long term problem, you can boost your focus temporarily with a combo of L-theanine and caffeine. Works great when you take it after breakfast. Takes an hour to kick in and is effective for around 4 hours. Having a good night's sleep helps a lot when doing this.

For maximum effectiveness, do not try to multi task while doing this. Just think about the problem and let your brain sort it out on its own. Major difference with and without is the lack of tiredness of mind when attacking hard problems. Brain keeps hacking at it till a solution is found.
What happens when you use X because it's fast at one thing in a microbenchmark, but it locks you into an environment that is slow at the rest of your program?
There is a difference between investing into a good idea to make it successful and investing into a good idea that is already successful

It is called "Opportunism"

"Look they are doing great things lately with AI", when they just pumped money into an already successful AI project

That's a short term vision, a sign of lack of capabilities in a specific domain, "let's buy our way in, nobody gonna notice"
People without great memory deal with this all the time: write more shit down. The amount of pseudo coding I have to do these days would embarrass my 20 year old self. Whiteboards and notepads are your friend.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

p.s. thank you for sharing these concerns - it's brave of you to talk about mental worries in an industry where "smart" is a superpower. Good on you, brother.
The word “transaction” is so overloaded it would be pointless to use in a system. At a previous company we had to have a glossary of words that you could use instead just so the documentation made sense.
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You can have the worst of both worlds. I've worked at three(!) seperate companies which have had projects called 'Hydra' (and the number of people who were ignorant of what the Hydra was, and why it might not have been a great name for a software project never ceased to amaze me.)

I like clever, cute names. That is names like Hydra, Spirit, and others which are unrelated to the function, but which are anodyne and generic and not terribly uncommon end up being the worst.

(I have a soft spot for clever names, my favorite is still Leiningen the clojure build system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiningen_Versus_the_Ants)
Since legal firms are in no hurry to lower billable hours by replacing all of their paralegal researchers with models that can guide towards relevant case law, public defenders are the perfect market for these tools.

If I were the CEO of this company making an AI-powered lawyer product, I would also try and market this to the lawyers that are already representing this underserved class but generally stretched too thin.
>It's worse than being non-descriptive- it's that they become misleading. "Cute" names don't tell you anything. Formerly descriptive names tell you the wrong thing.

My God... You don't mean to tell me you actually object to having to read code and figuring out what it does in the grand scheme of things?

I swear, everyone wants to be a writer, but no one wants to read and understand.
I seriously don't understand why everyone is scrambling to cripple AI in an effort to maintain human copyright bs. Do you think upcoming AI models from countries like China are going to care about whether or not it learns from copyrighted, or even illegally obtained data? No, which means that their AI systems will be much more capable than ours. We will be left in the dust because everyone is too worries about losing credit or not getting paid.

Same thing with OSS licensing. Once you publicly release your code onto the internet, it is out there permanently. Anybody can read it, learn from it, and copy or reproduce it, regardless of whether or not the original developer wants them to. Any copyright or licensing issues are enforced by human laws, only relevant if you live in the country that the laws apply. So again you have companies in places like China who take OSS projects and use the code, and there is not a damn thing anybody can do about it.
The "colo provider" role is just rent collection from HFT customers. It's 100% derived from their exchange business.

It's an interesting idea, but don't think you can segregate their exchange role from their authorship or standardization of financial instruments. Any exchange is either creating products to trade or licensing them. Any commodity exchange is naturally interested in setting contract standards related to delivery and quality.

They are an exchange, through and through. Everything else is a side project in support of that one role.
Excuse me, Smithers. Heidi been making that Santazon money for several seasons now. Nina don't pull down Heidi cash and lord knows Making the Cut ain't win no emmys.
Check if you have sleep apnea. Do you wake to with a headache that goes away?

The sleep apnea damage is permanent, but you can stop it from getting worse.
Is this prevalent in the UK? I didnt even realise
It costs 1995 if you look at the "order now" section
It seems these cutesy type names are more representations of proprietary code than open source modules. The name becomes opaque to its internals.

I noticed when I switched form MS Windows to Linux, there was a marked difference in the names of tools and modules. So, you could get a better high-level understanding for how it works. With Windows, the solution was more than likely strictly prescriptive. But with an open source design, it becomes much easier to grok the whole setup. Not sure if this is entirely do to naming conventions. It might also have to do with the online communities.
Here is a concrete thing to try. Maybe it won't be useful, but it's helped me in the past.

Get a blank sheet of paper and a writing utensil. Not a text editor.

Start at the top of your call stack and start making a diagram that resembles a directory tree:

application_code_function(string arg)
library_function()
std_lib_func()

Use arrows, add notes on the side. Whatever helps. Try to get one API call stack.

I don't do this often, but it helps especially when I'm not familiar with the patterns used in the project, or I'm having a groggy day and having trouble thinking "deep". It seems to help to me to try and reason about it away from the distractions of the IDE and the OS.
Semantics don't solve problems.
Because it's measuring a scenario that's not representative of real usages of X and is usually tweaked for the framework/tool the author is trying to showcase.

For example: all the deno/bun benchmarks often use the Node.js frameworks in an unnecessarily slow way and don't measure apples to apples. (like using uWS in bun but not uWS for Node in the benchmark).

This one in particular just measures the speed of "hello world" in plaintext and JSON with very specific parameters.
I’ve had a very successful similar experience with regard to excercise.
Chat GPT is somewhat accurate when asking about materials and stuff. It might help expand your vocabulary at least.
Ah interesting, thanks. I had seen an example where someone had made a bot to talk with her younger self based on diary entries but looks like she put the old diary quotes in a prompt

https://twitter.com/michellehuang42/status/15977029894936985...
So - with me as an individual and not a corporate entity - you're OK if I generate AI derived from your creative output?
The muscle cramps women get in premenstrual syndrome are caused by contractions of the uterine muscle, triggered by prostaglandins. These contractions help release the endometrium (uterine lining) from the uterus, which produces the menstrual blood and tissue that exits via the cervix and vagina.

Transwomen are male. Anyone who is male does not have a uterus, by definition. Therefore, no male can get contractions of the uterine muscle, because it doesn't exist in males. No uterine muscle, no uterine cramps.

Whatever these males who are dosing estrogen are experiencing, it is not premenstrual syndrome. This is a female-only experience, one that males will never endure.
> These are the kinds of failures you get when you try to proceduralize everything with foolproof procedures, checklists, run-books, processes, etc.

Aviation safety is utterly dependent on procedures, checklists, run-books and processes. The fact that things sometimes fall through the cracks is no argument against them.
I would add that, if both sleep and exercise don’t seem to solve it, then sleep quality (e.g., sleep apnea) could be an issue, especially if a person is overweight or has other health issues (e.g., bad allergies).
Gwern already did that with regular GPT-3: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#stanislaw-lems-cyberiad

I think my favourite bit is

> A few moments later they were rolling on the floor, and Kla­pau­cius was scream­ing and ges­tic­u­lat­ing in the hand-to-hand style of the famous mas­ter-s­cout Krool, while Trurl, in spite of his defec­tive voice-box, was giv­ing such excel­lent imi­ta­tions of a dingo howl­ing at the ris­ing moon that even the robot­s—who, of course, must be pre­sumed to have a good deal of sym­pa­thy for such prim­i­tive forms of expres­sion—­gave him an ova­tion.
Make a clone with look-alike rules.

Of course you'll need new maps, unit tokens, and scenarios custom to your clone.

I know it is easier said than done, but, rightsholders sit on obscure IP like a dragon on a hoard. If they DID make a new game based on this Squad Leader game, it probably wouldn't be the same game.

Quick edit from reading another post: If one just wants to play VASL looks like what one would want. Reimplementation of the rules in another engine, boom.
I think it’s likely that within the next few years, for better or worse, everyone is going to learn to completely discount anything they see online that doesn’t come from an already known and trusted source.

AI-generated content is soon going to account for >99.99% of the internet. A significant chunk of that will be propaganda or deliberate misinformation.

We’re on the verge of some massive changes.
Nah -- this sounds like Google buying YouTube or Android for billions while they were in their infancy but had proven tech.

People did say at the time Google overpaid but they were some of the wisest investments Google ever made.

I hope Microsoft don't buy them and OpenAI just becomes another FANG.
Maybe you have misunderestimated chatGPT, I am already using it for work…
So when something becomes too efficient, it should be banned in order to save existing career paths?
Right. In a situation where people may die, the leader must risk his own life to protect the lives of those under him. In a situation where people may lose their livelihoods, the leader should risk his own livelihood to protect the livelihoods of those under him. How is this analogy inappropriate?
Yeah old code of ours, reminds me of a now old comic ...

http://notinventedhe.re/on/2011-11-9
Then you're wrong, Microsoft (or any company for that matter) have never been like people that you can judge like "good" or "bad". They are businesses, whose purpose is to make money. They do whatever seems best to do at the time in order to optimize most money earned. The same every single public company does, all the time.
"You be you."

There's plenty of demand for engineers like us, and we know that the places that need us often "take what they can get."

And, don't forget that your Hacker News posts are part of your brand, too. You can put a link to your Hacker News profile on your resume.
What if this is survivor-bias?

The only services that continue to live have memorable, marketable names that stick in people's heads and make them want to say the service because of the cheap dopamine hit they get from being "in-the-know".

The ones that no longer exist were purely utilitarian, but since their identity was pure functionality they are only known as their bugs and quickly despised?

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I don't know if this is true. Just asking the question.
From Steampunk to Solarpunk (2008)
In what specific ways?

Google and Microsoft both release and contribute to open source software. They both publish vast amounts of research.

What does OpenAI do differentially?
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The criticism is exasperation at those who feel entitled to make money off other's copyrighted materials, regardless of what title they might hold. Chat-GPT, Co-Pilot, and Stable Diffusion are algorithms; they are not entitled to learn from any material they want just because people anthropomorphize them and make baseless claims like "they learn just like people do!"

The important part is the opt-in mechanism.
I am 40 now and a better programmer/developer than I ever was before. I still encounter similar situations as you but I think you make a mistake by thinking your younger self would have handled this (easily).

The difference is that our younger selves were maybe more optimistic and naive and probably would have just produced a new mess for the next one to scratch his/her head about.

Abstraction is hard and we usually have to much of it in our code bases. You have to break it down and isolate smaller tasks to get started with. Start with some endpoint of the API and try to understand what it exactly does. Usually there also should be an API spec where the ins and outs are defined. Maybe it is easier for you to write this code by adhering to the spec and/or fulfilling existing tests than reading the old convoluted code?!

Probably you know all this and maybe you just hate your task. If this is the case.. sometimes a change is what you need.
I get your point about small companies occupying a niche as their distinct competitive advantage, but in this case, one has to ask the obvious question: why doesn't Lambda Labs have a problem with fraudulent crypto mining, if the bar for entry is so low and it's so much easier to be up and running in minutes?

And whatever the answer is, one hopes that there is some particular reason why Lambda Labs doesn't think AWS could replicate it... otherwise, it wouldn't be a durable enough moat to defend their business model long-term.
L sounds like a short "OO" in Brazilian Portuguese, and he asked how a non-native would pronounce it...
Also not author of original comment, but I use it for “stupid data transforms” all the time. Like formatting some stuff for a spreadsheet. I find it faster than writing a script most of the time
As a lot of other people mentioned here, it's probably have nothing to do with your cognitive abilities, but rather with your emotional state.

Recently, I found out that stressing my body can "reset" my mental and emotional state when I'm in a bad spot (similar to what you described).

I stress my body by doing a physical activity (like running or cycling) or going on a diet (skipping 1 or more lunch). I'm trying to do the opposite of what I feel I want to do (eating more sugar-stuff and doing nothing).
> I feel like people on HN have different opinions about AI training when they are concerned (code, blogs) rather than when other are concerned (art). I've seen post saying it was normal for AI to train on scrapped art data, but offended when AI trains on their github code

Are you sure it was the same individual? Because otherwise all you've observed is two people with two different opinions.
It would help if you were a little more specific about your idea. "Hardware" is a very, very broad description.

If you want to know whether a new type of material is feasible, you might try finding a materials scientist.
There are like 15 supported platform specific installation paths of Just.

It’s easy to install on any internet connected server that you have install privileges to.
I often notice that people rarely remember properly the capabilities of themselves 5 years ago, much less 20. We often think we were better or worse than we actually were. Sometimes I think, oh boy am I rusty today, then I look at my old stuff and realize that I'm so far beyond that it's sad.

To me, it sounds like you are placing too high an expectation on your own cognitive ability, and not spending enough time sleeping. Any project that requires someone to do 4D chess in their heads to complete it is too complicated and no one will be able to maintain it. Start writing stuff down and making diagrams until the design is easier to understand. You are trying to build a city in your head without creating a plan.

Even a back of the napkin drawing can be enough really. Sometimes flaws become obvious when we do this. The value of older developers is they have the patience to do stuff like this, while all the young'uns go winging off on wild projects that they have to re-write in a month.
This feels like the engineering version of "I have an idea for an app!".
Which stuff is that? Obviously there's been massive energy reductions across all sorts of industries - LED lights, hybrid cars, improved building standards - but they've clearly not solved the greenhouse gas problem. Solving that problem means making it more profitable to keep carbon in the ground than removing it.
If you work at a company for more than a week you will get used to the names of services and what they do.

But if the name of a service becomes a lie because of changing requirements, then it will be an actual hinderance to understanding a system.
I hit this, but found that changing my diet, and doing more exercise really helped.