skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The brain fog is hardest to describe. One symptom is that I confuse things much more easily now. It's like the resolution on concepts has gone way down. Instead of remembering a specific fact about a specific country (that I recently learned and resolved to commit to memory), for example, it's "some Middle Eastern country... or maybe it was African, but somewhere over there... did this thing where... something medical. Or maybe scientific." It makes socializing really hard. While using my multimeter recently, I convinced myself that voltage and resistance were the same thing, because they both fell into the "electrical" bucket in my brain. Even scarier, the double-checking mechanism failed, so that I didn't detect the absurdity for a while. It only resulted in a blown fuse, but I can imagine this kind of confusion having much more serious consequences.

As for physically, I just get winded much more easily -- and it's not the kind of winded I used to get, where if I pushed through, my body might complain but gear up to meet the challenge anyway. I just hit a brick wall where my heart and lungs won't give any more, either immediately or over the long run.

I've seen a mild improvement cognitively lately, though not sure why.
The desire to be unique tends to decrease with age as a person's self identity starts to settle in.

As the population increases, there's more people in the identity-building phase of life at one time than ever before. So while the individual desire does decrease, I believe you are right that the overall desire globally has not.
Loras on things most people don’t make loras for are already producing amazing art in my experiments (far away from the cookie cutter ai output style)
I'm not particularly interested in gatekeeping art, but that makes perfect sense to me, so I think we fundamentally agree.
Thanks. I'm fine with other people. I know most people are simply controlled by fate and randomness so it's pointless to blame anyone for anything. I don't know how to make peace with myself though even though I agree it's the same story for myself.
Honestly a real lawyer is likely to have fun with an AI report.

"Is the AI more competent than you?" Is a question that answered any way screws the person using the AI.
Part of the problem is not just the questions themselves, but that you're asked to solve them under time pressure, with a bunch of people watching.

I've had trouble with "write a function to remove duplicates from an array without losing order". This is fairly trivial and I can write this with my eyes closed, but if you're so nervous that you can barely think straight ... yeah, then it gets tricky.

I have lots of anecdotes of stuff I failed during interviews that know I can do because I've literally done it before or since. I'm one of those senior developers who failed to write a for loop during interviews.
Try telling the police that it's ok that you distributed drugs because it's actually them that failed to secure them against criminals and let me know how that goes.
Two Rules of AI Business and Startups That Ignore Them
Still, if you include transitive dependencies you end up with a total of 90 dependencies[0] which is unheard of in systems programming. This for some reason includes stuff like "winapi-i686-pc-windows-gnu" which really has no place for a set of linux software tools.

[0]:https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/sys-fs/bcachefs...
The problem with this article is thinking that art is some special category vs. a demonstrative one. The reason AI can’t make good art (generally) is because it is limited by the ability of its users to have knowledge of how to make those choices, relative to their own abilities, taste, knowledge etc. This is just as true of code as it is of art. An LLM isn’t going to implement your request using efficient or novel data structures unless you know those things exist and can instruct it to use or assist you in developing them. While models as they currently exist (and are fine-tuned) may be biased toward code slop and art slop, this is because slop is the level at which most people are operating.
In mathematics, deliberate practice amounts to working out a high volume of practice problems at the edge of your ability, with proper scaffolding and rapid feedback, and continually pushing forward into more advanced problems.

You don't have to be blazing fast but you do need to have sufficiently tight feedback loops so that you can get through a high volume of action-feedback-adjustment cycles. It's the compounding of a massive number of those cycles that produces a massive gain in performance.

Also, in order to make mathematical discoveries -- or more generally, in order to grapple with advanced content at all -- you need to develop a level of automaticity on your foundational skills.
The author seems to argue that, before photography existed, if someone commissioned a painter to create a portrait (without further qualification), then the painter didn't create an art piece.

I think it's pretty clear that generative AI makes a lot of small decisions. They might not be groundbreaking, or novel (as they aren't in a custom portrait), or somehow lack overall vision, but they are there.
Several folks in Brazil had much to choose from out of Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky as alternatives to Twitter / X.

Now that X got banned in Brazil and to potentially lose over 100M+ users we are starting to see which platforms they are choosing to sign up to.

So far, Bluesky is seeing a surge in user registrations after the invite system was lifted a year ago. I would expect Threads to also see a surge in registrations as well.

Mastodon however appears not to be even considered as a migration path at all yet, but either way it is still early days for all options.

We'll see in the next 6 months after this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39471807
I was sure this was going to be a case of spraying jargon at investors, but they've actually produced an interesting paper in this direction (in collaboration with some DeepMind people): https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15332
So if I understand you correctly, say sales@business.com has sent me an email at hme-1@icloud.com, can I reply to this chain by adding another email in the To address, say, another@domain.com

There are limitations to sending email itself when using HME. You need to be using an iCloud Mail account only (i.e. email with @icloud.com). This is like saying if you want to be using HME, abandon your current mail provider and come into the Apple ecosystem.

Even after doing that, if you try to add another recipient, it complains that HME can be used only with 1 recipient. I tested this out on icloud.com/mail

Another case is lets say if we don't have forwarding email set to an @icloud.com email, which is the normal usecase everybody probably uses this feature. Their primary email address is either Gmail or Hotmail or whatever. In this, if i set another recipient, the mail contents will probably reach another@domain.com
but I am not sure if it will reach sales@business.com because the iCloud MAILER would probably complain the same 1 recipient thing and cause email failure.

Just look at all this complexity & for what? I assume you asked this like a hack to get it working. Even if the email worked, now I have to convince business.com that I am the same user that you have registered as hme-1@icloud.com. What business out there is going to entertain such kind of thing?
Referring to my GP comment, subtyping subsumes inheritance and polymorphism. It is orthogonal to mutability. As an illustrative example, the Java Collection Framework makes significant use of inheritance and polymorphism, but could as well be reduced to immutable collections.
Do you feel anything when looking at DALE 3 images on this page? https://openai.com/index/dall-e-3/

I can’t tell you why, but I don’t really react to any of them or really any AI art I’ve seen.
> We're not the only intelligent life on earth. We cant even define intelligence or measure it meaningfully.

If we can't define or measure intelligence meaningfully, how can you even claim we are 'intelligent' to begin with?

> Elephants, crows, dolphins, octopi, chimps, orang utan are all clearly very smart

The have levels of intelligence, but they are clearly not very smart. You couldn't even teach them the multiplication table or the basics of number theory.

> and more intelligent than a human child.

No species you listed is smarter than a human child.

> Besides being biologically irrelevant, the separation between humans and animals creates this weird divide where we constantly assume that we are the only intelligent life.

At the very least, we know that mammals with brains have some level of intelligence. Nobody claims humans are the only 'intelligent' life on earth. The claim is we are the most intelligent. And probably the only creatures intelligent enough to ponder about death, mortality, identity and soul.

> Maybe one day we'll understand better what other minds are like and we'll understand better how we are not alone or special.

Or maybe elephants, crows, dolphins, octopi, chimps, orangutans will better understand what other minds are like and they'll better understand how they are not alone or special? After all, they are 'very smart' according to you.
I don't need AI to make art; I need it to extrapolate. Suppose I want to make a movie or a game. I can come up with some distinct art for characters and places and things. I want the AI to extrapolate from that information and build the rest of the world. I don't have time to make the artwork for the entire world/movie/etc. I want to feed it some minimal amount of artwork plus a bunch of scene scripts and end up with a unique-looking movie. I could then go back and enhance areas of the movie by uploading additional artwork (or descriptive text) to scenes that I feel were lacking something.
Regarding your first point, OOP without subtyping has typically been referred to as object-based rather than object-oriented.
> The debate about whether or not its art will be part of the art

> This article is not part of anything

Seems incoherent I think?
If Jackson Pollock made art I don’t see why whoever programmed the AI didn’t.
One thing we can guarantee is that human hubris isn't going to go away.
What about the art of elephants? https://elephantartgallery.com/
does the tooling augment a human, or is the tooling sold to replace a human?
Let's never mind that everyone has differing, imprecise meanings in mind for the various words ("safe") involved.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.
tl;dr a brief article, by a group of European attorneys specializing in international regulatory controls, describing the restrictions in the EU as a whole and France in particular for 'exporting' cryptographic techniques. The EU considers cryptographic techniques, especially cryptanalysis software, sensitive [0] and hence restricts export to other nations. France, according to this article, requires individuals and businesses to register or gain authorization to publish cryptographic software [1] with ANSSI.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A... (Council Regulation (EU) No. 428/2009)

[1] https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/LEGISCTA000006089780 Law No. 2004-575

I assume that Bluestein probably shared this partly because of the French government's crackdown on Telegram [2] this week, and to highlight differences in how different nations handle this. Specifically, that the USA relaxed these sorts of restrictions to other countries (except persona non grata, like North Korea) following challenges in the 1990s [3]. My personal awareness of the USA's restriction involved installing a separate binary in the java runtime folder to enable 'unlimited strength encryption', until five or so years ago [4].

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-judges-decide-ne...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

[4] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42159690/why-are-the-jce...
Fantastic work on this project—I'm really impressed! I have a quick question regarding the license: Since it's under AGPL, are there any specific limitations or considerations we should be aware of if we want to use this in our own projects? I'm curious about how this might impact our ability to use this as a template.
The way it could be different this time is that we have arrived at "The Network is the Computer" age. A datacenter running Facebook can look like one giant computer, so it could make sense to have a distributed operating system to run that on with a distributed database under it. Of course this effort may be unrelated to this view.
The issue is we don’t actually recognize that there are two very different careers that fall under the “software” umbrella.

One is developing hard software, software that needs to be performant on a hardware level. Like operating systems, low level libraries, embedded software, databases. The ability to quickly identify and apply data structures and algorithms leetcode style is very important in hard software.

The second is soft-software, which needs to be performant on the organizational budget/timeline level. This type of software engineering is more about glueing together hard software in the right way to solve business problems. Leetcode style interviews make no sense here, because the glue is usually bash or Python and it isn’t really doing much besides orchestrating hard software and delegating work to it.
Ask HN: Has long Covid caused you to lose faith in the immune system?
And are you now more skeptical about how well it does with other infections?
That is interesting. Between Anandtech and Tom’s Hardware, I am sad to see that Tom’s has ultimately survived longer. Anandtech was one of, if not the, best.
Fred: Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States
Brain training: Study links cardiovascular fitness to brain health
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I agree; can’t know what AI will do at this point so punditry like this is just meh.

… and this analysis generalizes all types of AIs based on characteristics of just one type of AI - LLMs - that select the “next best word “ (my layman’s understanding of what they do). With so many other types of AI out there, we will eventually definitely get new approaches to AI where the arguments presented won’t make sense

About throwing punches in the air in a tantrum - that was a funny comment. So funny that I wanted to see if someone made art of it. Found something and sharing a link here that is pretty short and to the point, sweet and cool

(I hate mystery links so some info - it’s an performance art piece called “Plastic Bag” on YouTube, 5 mins long, about 60k views, where someone throws punches in the air at a plastic bag)

https://youtu.be/-W6rn2cWs2g
For seasonal grid-level storage, I wonder if simple compressed hydrogen storage (around 350 bar) is the most reasonable solution. AFAIK doesnt require any high-tech materials, avoids most embrittlement caused by LH2 and boil-off rates are reasonable.
Yeah they seem to be trying to force the conversation into encapsulation == mutability when that flatly is just not true. There are tons of immutable objects that benefit from encapsulation and there is plenty of internal immutable state that you would want to encapsulate and not just give out.
One nice thing about mi/km conversions (and ℉/℃ conversions which have been mentioned in the comments) is that once you have a way to do them mentally that works well for you, you are done.

I once worked out a way to quickly figure sales tax for my area using just a small number of operations that are easy to do in my head.

"Easy" means that it just involved things like taking 10%, or multiplying or dividing by 2, or adding or subtracting, or rounding to a given precision, and that it did not require keeping too many intermediate results in memory.

It worked great. And then the sales tax rate changed.

I have a vague recollection of then writing a program that would brute force check all short combinations of my "easy" operations to find ones that worked for a given tax rate. But I can't find that program now, and may have only thought about writing it.
I pay for the things I care the most about, but your comment is making the assumption that other people can focus on a small number of high quality sites like you do, and that seems unrealistic with today’s web. I can’t afford enough money to pay to get rid of ads from my life, and I don’t want to limit my browsing to a tiny number of sites and never find anything new.

I don’t feel entitled to any content either. However, ad-driven sites are offering the content for free. I think framing this as not “entitled” to the content is misleading and assumes the point of view of the advertiser rather than the consumer. We know they’d like it if we saw and considered their ads, but we are under no obligation, legal, ethical, or otherwise, to read/watch/listen to ads, none whatsoever. And the content is being offered to you and served regardless of your reception of the ads. They are actually trying to tell you that you are entitled to the content. Content makers want to get paid, but many of them would prefer you consume their content and ignore the ads than not consumer their content.

Unfortunately there is no business model alternative to ads that will keep the web and the economy going. If everyone charged money and stopped servings ads all at once, the web would collapse. Ads aren’t going away, and these sites still won’t learn what you want them to even if we stop using them.
VR and AR can temporarily change the way people perceive distances
Even if that were true, it can be attributed to lots of things. The ruling class's wars and economic mismanagement, common people feeling disenfranchised and abandoned by politcs, for some examples. In a real utopia it is those things that would be changed, not the peoples' ability to communicate without government eavesdropping on them.
Rule of 40
Because symbolic communication is vastly simpler to define and use and translate than non-symbolic communication.

If whale songs and crow language could be written down in discrete symbols, we could figure them out too.

And with higher intelligence we assume that the symbolic language of mathematics will be a universally shared starting point.

The kind of analog pattern-matching required to decipher animal language seems to be notoriously difficult to do if your brain doesn't already come with the right analog "circuits".

I definitely hope that we'll have an AI breakthrough at some point that can decipher animal language, however. One thing's for sure though -- it won't be LLM's since they operate at a symbolic level.
I wouldn't be surprised if the US intelligence apparatus was pushing for this. There is a giant censorship industry in the US, despite the 1st amendment, mostly via NGOs/non-profits. Great way to circumvent the constitution.
> Art is notoriously hard to define, and so are the differences between good art and bad art.

Which makes ChatGPT (or whatever) just as valid as any tool for creating art.

> What I’m saying is that art requires making choices at every scale; the countless small-scale choices made during implementation are just as important to the final product as the few large-scale choices made during the conception.

As a life-long artist and musician, I agree with this. However, I find the artist's perspective lacking from this article. For many artists (myself included), the process is why we do it. It's truly therapeutic. I honestly cannot imagine my life without creative expression. Whether entering a prompt fulfills that for someone is up to them to decide. But, for me, it would remove the parts of creating art that give me joy.
Go two miles down, and the Earth is hot enough to turn that water into steam all by itself.

Why bother with the nuclear reactor, then?
As a graduate student, I have decreased my note-taking-during-lecture over time, especially if I know I'll have access to the professor's notes. However, I now take notes on papers I read, some textbook and lecture notes I read, and instructional Youtube videos (since you can pause them). For papers with algorithms in them, it helps me to write out my own copy of the algorithm. It's a similar mental process as if I were to code an algorithm from a paper -- that's when I really understand it.
My current background on my PC is AI generated. I only know about it because when I was looking for a higher res version I found the origin. It's my current favourite image(which always changes).

My point is that your argument is non-sensical. Just because you don't feel anything from AI art doesn't mean others don't.
I feel most people are quite boring or lacking intellect

You're smart enough to run the numbers: if most people are boring or lacking intellect, odds are that is your lot too. Having good conversations is work. It requires charity and humility. It requires treating other intellects as peers.

If you want to have conversations, work at being a good conversationalist. Conversation is the point of conversation.
I've thought about giving people an old Fortran project with a few small compile errors, and asking them to fix that. We're not using Fortran of course – it's just a test of pragmatic skill of Getting Shit Done™ without hand-holding.

Inspired because I had to do exactly the above a few months ago. I don't really know Fortran. I don't even know exactly why it failed to compile, but my fixes work (and verified to work correctly), so whatever. I just read the compile error, copied what other bits of the code do. Basic stuff really, but it would probably filter out the worst of it. I haven't put this theory to the test yet though.