skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really surprised out of current nearly 300 comments and counting, nobody really is mentioning constraint programming or CP, a seemingly forgotten deterministic sibling of the stochastic data-driven AI [1],[2],[3].

"Out of these 14 tasks, we guessed that only 6 require abstract reasoning alone to perform. Strikingly, we classified only one of the top five most important tasks for medical scientists as relying solely on abstract reasoning. Overall, the most critical aspects of the job appear to require hands-on technical skills, sophisticated coordination with others, specialized equipment use, long-context abilities, and complex multimodal understanding."

Almost all of 14 R&D tasks listed in the table including that are not suited for data-driven AI with abstract reasoning can be solved by CP. Provided that we are allocating enough compute resources with at least similar to that we're currently providing data-driven AI with the crazy amount cloud networks of massively parallel compute CPU/GPU/TPU/etc.

Fun facts, the modern founder of Logic, Optimization, and Constraint Programming is George Boole, the grandfather of Geoffrey Everest Hinton, the "Godfather of AI" and "Godfather of Deep Learning".

[1] Constraint programming:

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

[2] Logic, Optimization, and Constraint Programming: A Fruitful Collaboration - John Hooker - CMU (2023) [video]:

https://www.youtube.com/live/TknN8fCQvRk

[3] "We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman - MIT (2011) [video]:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI
Your comment sounds like a riddle. I've programmed for 25 years but appreciate there's a lot more going on than what I know.
Could also be a vehicle for importing illegal drugs.
> to merge

Because the USA never invades. /s
U.S. Finds China Building Giant Fusion Laser During Aerial Survey
In the golden age of mini camcorders, some Sony Handycams had "zoom" microphones which used beam forming to limit gathered sound to roughly the area equal to the what your sensor sees.

Another great idea.

Oh. They still make similar stuff: https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/imaging-accessories/all...
I'm fascinated by the athletic side of all of this.

I have a friend who has had the aspiration to become a regular exerciser for years, but he says everything he tries just hurts too much. I exercise regularly myself, but we haven't found a way to talk about it, because it's so hard to share subjective sensations of pain. In some sense, everything I do hurts, too, and everyone who works out or plays a sport acknowledges a lot of pain. People differentiate routine pain from pain that requires effort to endure and distinguishes both of those from pain that indicates an injury happening or being aggravated, and people value and hone their ability to distinguish the second two from each other, because they don't want to get injured but also don't want to let pain hold them back from doing something that makes their body healthier and stronger.

I've known people who have endured through pain and suffered terrible consequences from it. Five years ago, my wife's aunt loved to say "I'm a tough old bird," and she has since lost a leg unnecessarily, because she thought that having high pain tolerance was a viable alternative to going to a doctor. Now she's in a wheelchair and does everything the doctors say.

Other people have had opposite experiences, where learning to disregard pain led to breakthroughs for them. One woman I know set a big triathlon PR a year after having a kid, and when people asked her how she was able to do that, she said, "After having a kid, the pain just wasn't a big deal to me anymore." She's big into the science, so I expected to hear something about hormones, but for her, her expanded pain tolerance was the entire explanation for her better performance.

Personally, just doing normal exercise presents me with an incredibly rich variety of "painful" sensations and a lot of difficult decisions. Right now I have a nagging shoulder injury, and every time an exercise generates a "painful" sensation in my shoulder, I have to decide, is this reflective of something making this injury worse? better? neutral impact? Should I stop right away so I don't aggravate the injury, or should I do this exercise more often because it's stimulating the tissue in just the right way? There's so much said and written about it, but it often seems frustratingly tautological. You have to know what the sensations mean before you can figure out which words refer to which sensations.
Writing your own C++ standard library from scratch
DoorDash's v1 was 8 PDF menus on a static HTML website
This is classic survivorship bias. We don’t know about the things that didn’t get invented because someone somewhere didn’t do a critical breakthrough, because those things don’t exist. Therefore, it’s easy for people to assume that everything eventually gets invented, and nothing really hinges on a single person.

We could have had a steam engine during the Roman Empire and thus an Industrial Revolution thousands of years earlier, but no one did it. It was just a toy. Imagine having the vision.
Well except they died out ~ 9,000+ years before the initial invention of the wheel.
Kind of weird that there's all this support for Evangelicals on an Hacker News discussion.
Also working in FE for the past 10+ years with 20+ years total dev experience, and I agree with you.

The vast majority of companies out there - even large ones - don't really care, screen for, or hire for core fundamentals. They hire for "good at React" or "lots of experience with Next.js", etc. Fundamentals are great if you are building things from scratch, but the truth is companies very rarely do that. They just pull off the shelf things with large ecosystems and good documentation and use them. Just get good at those things and it's much easier to get hired. You can learn the fundamentals along the way.
As per what they call themselves, but to be of Christ is to follow his teachings of love. This is what they are, as per Matthew 25:40-45:

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

A person whom Christ calls out as "you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels" cannot be called in good faith (hardy har) a true Christian, like a true Scotsman must at least be from Scotland.

The callous fools cheering for 500k deportations of people back to war-torn lands full of strife are no Christians, my friend, no matter what they say.

"You have no idea how little we care about what people say." --Rumi

Hypocrisy is one of the 19 vices of the soul, all of which act in opposition to love, the Great(est) Command(ment).
To be clear, I was asking why OP wanted to study these specific subjects - not get a Bachelors in general.

I've gotten more than one job that required a bachelors before I had one. They almost always offer the "Or requisite/similar experience". I think most employers in the Software Development space understand there is a non-trivially-sized set of qualified developers who didn't choose that path.
It reminds me of one evening around the time of the recent Aurora Borealis sightings in the UK. We finally had a cloudless evening but couldn't really travel right out into a dark sky so tried in a large meadow just outside of town.

Unfortunately, we weren't the only people with this idea. Half the town had descended on to this one meadow. It was quite comical seeing people awkwardly milling around who had clearly never been in a meadow in the dark before. Phone lights were on as well as fully lit screens etc. I think I've had better night vision during the day.

One of them suddenly exclaimed, "is that it?!". It was, in fact, not "it", but rather the glow from the town in which we all lived.
I'm sad docopt (http://docopt.org/ ) didn't get more uptake because I'm a fan of self-documenting code.
> first obtain an acknowledgement regarding non-transfer of copyrights and strictly limited scope of sharing of such content before providing it. We live after all in the age of trivially created AI dopelgangers

If you're assuming the other side is going to do something nefarious with the recording, why wouldn't they also lie to you about this?
> This is the part I disagree with. It hasn't been true for years. Anyone with the free version of ChatGPT can pass a hacker rank today.

It certainly still is true today. Anybody who is sufficiently motivated to cheat can pass it. It was true prior to ChatGPT, and it still remains true today. And yet they don’t. Most people completely fail these screens

> It does for mine, because we've hired all of the good developers that get through the process you're describing and it isn't enough.

Then your industry is atypical in the type of applicants that you are getting. So to accommodate you’ve had to increase your false positives to reduce false negatives. That’s completely fine if it’s what you need to do, but it’s not the typical experience for a tech company.

We also do a pair screen after the code test and we still reject around 80% who make it to that stage. How do you scale interviewing everyone if you don’t pre screen?
Seznam owns it and develops it, they're not just some sponsor.
There's a quip about organizing sales orgs that resonates with me:

Expect every salesperson in your company to optimize their own compensation. If you want to change their behavior, then change your sales compensation plan to drive the behavior you want.

I don't think this is appreciated enough at the management and CEO level of engineering-based companies.

How many engineering-tied metrics were explicitly part of Boeing's CEO's comp plan? If "Boeing makes less money, but produces safer planes" = more money to the CEO, then that happens.

And yet we're suprised when, absent that, individuals act in their own self interest and optimize for bad engineering outcomes.
I was just at the Outer Banks and I walked through the memorial/park they have there. It was very well done and I left feeling very inspired and motivated.

Then I went home and watched a documentary explaining all the stuff that happened after their success at Kittyhawk. Pretty sad that they took the patent/scarcity approach and stopped innovating. It was a cautionary tale to me to never let your foot off the gas once you’ve found something that works.
This is a direct response to thousands of Americans being fired from their jobs by Elon's actions, with thousands more threatened and likely to lose their jobs in the future. I don't think "think of the jobs" is the right way to convince people this is a bad move.
I think it's really more of the "like a guy who had gotten rich making jokes about video games, trying to deceive real writers into thinking that I’m a real writer." feeling he mentions in the article than just being successful. I can't say what actually was going on in his head, but I can imagine making what you see as a joke and then having it get huge, you receive massive praise for it, and people demand more and more of it and consider you to be "the guy who made that funny joke back in 2011 and should tell it again but better" would relate to his issues. The newest rerelease of it really felt like he wanted to move on for good.
A lot of modern Germans seem to be very proud of it for some reason. Also Zuse's company existed long after the WWII.
Parsing isn't too bad compared to, say, Perl.

The preprocessor is a classic example of simplicity in the wrong direction: it's simple to implement, and pretty simple to describe, but when actually using it you have to deal with complexity like argument multiple evaluations.

The semantics are a disaster ("undefined behavior").
Another previous Submarine Nuclear ET here.

I agree with you, and it's interesting to look back and realize how many of my outspoken opinions and ideals are simply due to internalizing Rickover's Philosophies. I agree with them, sometimes to my detriment.

I actually had to leave both the Submarine and Nuclear world after an injury, but stayed on in the Aviation and Expeditionary Warfare world until I hit 22 years. I cannot tell you how many times I made enemies by insisting on his lessons in those communities, but I got results. Enough so that I had to fight to retire; they wanted me to stay as long as they could hold me and stick me in another problem spot.

One example that may apply for those on this site (and I'm not trying to make this example for YOU, this is just one I hammer on) is the practice of just pulling in a ton of dependancies without understanding what they do, what you are trying to do, etc. I get that things need to move faster in business to make a profit, but I cannot and will not condone that type of philosophy. Look at the recent slew of compromises due to exactly this behavior, the ballooning system requirements due to it, etc. LLM coding is another such issue; we are going to have a ton of programmers who have no idea how to structure something from a plain sheet of paper, who can't trace down issues in complex code because they don't even know how to read it and chart program flow, etc.
Interesting, given Dumont performed "the first officially observed flight in Europe that was longer than 25m was performed in Paris (FRA)" in 1906.

It was also the first flight in front of a crowd, so pretty relevant to history.

Sources: https://old.fai.org/news/personalities/42650-12-november-190...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/10-milesto...
If you're talking about this

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

they didn't cut the cable but wrapped something around it that got a signal by induction. Works in an electrical cable because the different wires are deliberately wound at varying pitches to minimize crosstalk, but you gotta cut to get into an optic fiber cable. It was a brilliant piece of signals intelligence that was countered by human intelligence, the device is in a museum, one of many in Russia that I'd like to go to but never will.
I’ll email you. Was interested in buying a personal copy or subscription, but open to other ideas depending on where you want to take it.
I wonder how that worked. Assuming the microphones were on the screen plane rather than the body, it wouldn't be able to tell the difference between "straight in front" and "straight behind".
> The cuneiform texts of an ancient Mesopotamian people should, in theory, hold little interest to an arts and crafts vendor based in the midwestern United States.

Why shouldn't it? People with money buy artifacts and art of note. The rest of us buy replicas and less noteworthy stuff. People from the Midwest can take interest in ancient Mesopotamia.

When writers casts the reader as dumb so they can twist it with an upcoming reveal, it's a signal I use to stop reading. If the twist was good I wouldn't need to be made to think little of the Hobby Lobby owners.
Yes, it's not the people with the insane viewpoints who are fault, but the people who are insufficiently deferential to the insane viewpoints.
>> The way I see it, cash right now basically only exists so that small businesses/individuals can cheat on taxes and to keep criminals on the USD.

sigh
Cash is the barrier for interest rates going negative for too long.
sigh
I feel like my iPhone does it. But not sure. Sound definitely changes when you zoom while recording
> goofy things

When you have members of the movement referring to those who will be left behind as "median humans" (Altman) and making major changes to government that are to the detriment of society (Musk, to a lesser extent, Thiel and Andreessen), we're no longer "goofy". "Scary" is a better word.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster? That's goofy.
Won't someone think of the poor megalomaniacal religious extremist billionaires???
Yes, I'm sure they have some patents because that's what big companies do/have to do. But the basic idea has been around for a long time, not just in audio but also in microwave space/domain. So I'm sure there's plenty of prior art.
Comprehensive OCR System for Telugu Language
In what language? On what size of code base?
This is the sort of propeller he was trying to use before getting the Wright design. It doesn't work:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj...

https://tegustanlosaviones.blogspot.com/2019/02/14-bis.html
Not the parent, but I'm also AuDHD. My current drunk baboon is named OOH LOOK, SHINY but sometimes it's named THIS IS BORING LETS GO DO SOMETHING ELSE.

A sufficient dose of a medically prescribed stimulant medication quiets him down enough to usually ignore him, for me. It's been literally life changing. My lack of concrete executive function cost me the job of a lifetime.
Hey Everyone,

I just launched on Product Hunt.

I was tired of getting so many notifications when I was using Slack that I decided to do something about it. I built Tribal, a chat app that only shows notifications when it's something you care about. No need to click 'Mark All Read' or mute a channel ever again.

Check it out and let me know what you think.
I think that IT departments are going to disallow their users that kind of freedom unless they have more information/control about just which configs their users are allowed to boot to. It has to be more descriptive/composable than a pile of bits and a timestamp or they won't go for it at all.

As much as I want to put all the power in the hands of the user, I'm sympathetic to the plight of the IT guy who has a team that always boots to "last known good" config thats several years old because they just don't trust updates in general.
Incomplete or 'not 100% obvious' is not really 'misleading'. Titles don't say everything about a story or we wouldn't need stories.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Clinton did win the popular vote in 2016. That much has been well documented and well established.

I was incorrect about Trump not winning the popular vote. I thought that the final vote tally had him losing by a slight margin but apparently not, so mea culpa on that.
asahi Linux doesn’t yet support m3 and m4 processors.
Some challenges are definitely fine. But any complexity introduced by human interaction is absolutely disgusting for me. For example, recurrent ambiguous requirements.
For lonely people I imagine social media is passive scrolling for the most part, maybe even with one way interactions (likes / comments). Some might be engaging with other users on social media, but it would almost certainly be text (a reddit thread conversation, or getting a response to a reply you made on some other social media).

With conversational AI, it would be a dynamic voice conversation, where the AI would be responding to you live, and the medium of speech-to-speech would also feel social in a way that text based communication does not.

The lonely user might still think that their interactions dont count because it's a fake person that they are engaging with, but since there are people using AI girlfriend/boyfriend services, I imagine an AI friend/coach should appeal to people as well, but be healthier than simulating a romantic connection with an AI.

In terms of safeguards and clinically backed design for the AI, I'm hoping to foster a conversation around it. Most LLMs have various safeguards in place around harmful responses, and while this product would hopefully be alleviating peoples mental health by reducing their feeling of loneliness, it wouldn't be developed as a therapist, but more of a friend. Still, knowing how to make an effective friend isn't trivial, and I'm open to figuring out how best to do that - ideally it would involve having users willing to engage with a WIP product that is iterated on based on their feedback.
TUI editor and Vim/Neovim alternative
The real question right here. Actually getting work done is trivial compared to finding work in the first place, in my experience...
A special group of single-celled organisms laid foundation for complex cells
In a hypothetical hacker news guide for how to win friends and influence people, I'm pretty sure "you're so wrong you should go talk to a chat bot" is not a recommended approach.

I hope you're right, for what it's worth. It's a better world than "the only thing that helps Europeans snap out of it is intense economic pain combined with a Russian invasion of the Baltics"
Oh, fantastic!
> Two of those conspiracy theories were in fact absurd, but one was correct: the virus absolutely may have escaped from a Wuhan research lab.

That's a weird use of the word "correct".

Like the phrase "conspiracy theory" is slippery, and it's used to describe a spectrum of things from those that definitely did happen to things that are logically impossible.

But a possibility that has been thoroughly investigated and found wanting is still different from "correct" even if the people who promoted it as true with no evidence are doing victory laps because all the people who don't believe in vaccines are on their side.

Does she have a list of the scientists who were calling it a wild conspiracy theory in public while also privately worrying it could be true (with timestamps for each comment since people are allowed to change their mind, and references because people aren't allowed to just make stuff up).

Relevant Fauci testimony on that point:

> Actually, I've also been very, very clear and said multiple times that I don't think the 'concept' of there being a lab leak is inherently a conspiracy theory," Fauci responded. "What is conspiracy is the kind of distortions of that particular subject, like it was a lab leak and I was parachuted into the CIA like Jason Bourne and told the CIA that they should really not be talking about a lab leak
True, but any ad exec worth their salt already knows this, if not because of different targeting algorithms, then at least different user and intent profiles (eg social users are generally younger and lower intent).
Usually you can't load your own SoF firmware, on most hardware it has to be signed by Intel, with exceptions like Chromebooks, where you have to sign it with a "community" key that is publicly available. There was talk of a way for device owners to add keys, but that isn't implemented yet.

https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/5814
Well given that the story of Atlantis is quite clearly allegorical, probably not.

Although there probably was some sort of maritime link from Greece to beyond Gibraltar, the link to the Atlantis myth seems rather tenuous and moreover, isn't needed to explain where Platon got the idea for this ancient thalassocracy since he of course lived in Athens when they were doing similar stuff with the Delian League.