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Aoki Uru will never get made and even if Top o Nerae 3 gets made, one can consider TRIGGER's entire early catalogue and Gurren Lagann spiritual sequels of sorts already.

And that's it for any of GAINA's projects that have been announced 5 years ago now that might have given a hint of them carrying GAINAX's torch.
re [1]: you are right - they are the holders of the active substance (which is non-existent) so their effects are going to be the only ones. There are more such substances, starting with water.

re [2]: would you have some examples? For the record, I hate homeopathy with all my soul and actively fought it for years because of their unscientific claims. There were claims that were UFO-like (quantum field effects on substance energy - pick your own random words) or backed by idiots who made a science out of it (starting with Nature which published Bonaventure's idiocies and shown that they are a crappy journal like some many others). But I do not have anything handy that would show deception (as in lying)
The were describing connections to the nervous system. Autism was at one end of the quantity of connections and schizophrenia was at the other end. I think it was this thread somewhere.
It was a reference to Arthur C. Clarke's book, "2010: Odyssey Two" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/992255-all-these-worlds-are...
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Ok, good to know. To wit, I found the following:

AMD: https://gpuopen.com/amd-gpu-architecture-programming-documen...

Intel: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/graphics-for-li...
The problem with this approach is that it's a risk. The risk is that he ends up doing it, the company reaps all the value while feeding him scraps, but now the bar has been raised and the company forever expects this increased productivity from him (or just takes the improved tooling he wrote and lays him off completely).

He's in a position that by the sounds of it he has the skills to automate away - he should take this opportunity to free up his own time so he can pursue other opportunities (whether a job search, studying or freelancing) while still collecting the paycheck.
Toxic Biosolids Threaten U.S. Farmland and Livestock
I don't get the point of this semantic distinction between the people producing (bad) designs and the ivory tower label you're calling "designers". If they're producing designs, are they not designers too?

If none of the people with the title "designer" are meaningfully impacting products, who's employing them and why do they not have the same obligation other technical experts have of ensuring that meddling managers are steered in the direction of correct decisions?
Tradle is too easy. I want a version where you have to guess by imports.
The only thing I can't get rid of is YouTube. I have my own PeerTube instance and subscribe to some chanels there, but I basically almost never watch videos on PeerTube. I only watch private family videos if someone from the family uploads one, but all the normal watching happens on (with SmartTube) on the TV or (with NewPipe) on the smartphone from YouTube.
https://archive.today/l6K0C
Tell me it can also boot WAITS (ala SAIL) and I'll buy one.
I went through the process and liked it too. The engineer made critiques about my code that I found silly though, which really makes me question if I would really trust a candidate approved by them.
They don't need to investigate the test quality, only to run whatever tests they trust based on the indications provided.
After decades of frustration it turns out that 'discipline' and 'motivation' are available from the local chemist. You're not actually a bad person. Store bought is fine. You might even find that things like to-do lists and calendars, which everyone always told you to try 'because they make it easier', suddenly actually work for you.

Not meditation, though. F**k that.
Even before the rise of LLMs, that sub was heavily used to create listicles (“10 worst things about foo”).
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I have an EE degree. Trigger bounce is a real thing.

But it's not an EE thing, it has to do with a firearm malfunctioning in a way such that a normally semi-automatic firearm fires more than once per trigger press, due to some internals on the trigger that I'm forgetting about / don't know about.

Now that I put my EE hat on though, there is a significant parallel to "switch bounce", which is an EE thing.
It may well take humanity a few more decades before they, en masse, come to terms with the fact that, in the end, it is the human condition itself (not the environment) that needs to change. The environment is fine ... more than fine in fact, would anyone really want to go back to "the old times" if they were to be honest?
It is amusing that the author was burned by a corrupt third party holding their wallet. I appreciate the growth to understanding the point is for you to be your own bank.

The killer app will be the day Putin offers oil for BTC. When nations conduct business on crypto, then sanctions mean next to nothing and will cost real blood and treasure to enforce.
I've done over a hundred interviews now. One of the most valuable engineers I hired had an interview that steered off course from the original algorithm question I had in mind. I opened with a "what's the most challenging part of your job currently?" and he responded "Upgrading our monolith front-end from Angular 1 to Angular 2".

We spent the entire hour discussing back and forth all of the challenges not just for him but the team in great detail and how they went about doing the upgrade. I'm glad the interview didn't go as planned because he's still here and he's great.
Inflation was so low for so long that people didn't have to think about it. Only people who lived through the 70's probably have meaningful firsthand experience. Everyone experiencing it today will consider it for the rest of their lives.
I don't disagree but I still cannot fathom why the Democratic party is so ham fisted with their arguments. So much of the price inflation we experienced over the past four years is due to monetary inflation that was created under Trump. The ongoing income tax increases were baked into law by the Trump administration in 2017. The Republican party's strategy has basically become to wreck things, fiscally and socially, and then blame the Democrats when the delayed results become apparent. Personally I'm a libertarian who doesn't buy into the dogma of either duopoly party, but I'm voting conservative (which means Democrat these days) until the Trumpism death spiral has finished running its course.
> This would be like charging the customer more when they use an American Express card to buy your product, just because AMEX charges merchants more.

I 100% believe this should be the case. It's unfair to merchants to take away an arbitrary percentage of their profits depending on which card you want to use.
Exactly: the take I got from MAD is that the lesson Education teaches is not what it claims to be teaching, but how to survive, if not thrive, between the lines of a bureaucracy. If you manage to live despite the machine in K-12 (when the bureaucracy is at its strongest), then it's all downhill later in life, when you could actually spend time in a karass or two, and at least get more and more control over what you're doing, when, and with whom.
> Not all work can be done asynchronously, and often the most important work is important because it's a blocker for other things.

This sounds like a project management failure. One of the cardinal rules of the remote programs I run is: Never let the critical path be blocked by one person having to physically do some synchronous task. If Task X requires Person Y to approve it by Date Z, then you obtain that approval asynchronously, waaaaay before Date Z, where you would otherwise become blocked.

> In practice this kind of mindset simply increases the critical path of the project

I mean, I think that's what you're getting at here, so design your business processes just like you'd design a multi-threaded program: such that there are no locks and mutexes.
It's because you have to go through a lengthy process to become a pilot - and tech companies want to be able to hire anyone regardless of training.

Combine that with the fact that the upper bound on pay for SWEs is considerably higher than pilots...
Have you ever tried to get whatever fancy LLM to write some code for you and had it generate code that was at the same time plausible to look at but complete bullshit?

This is what I am talking about. It can reason and plan for what is the likely token based off its training data. It is completely unable to evaluate the logic of the code it was generating. It can not reason on the context (in this case, programming).

The same is true for other domains. Law, Medicine, etc. the stricter the field, the less reliable LLMs are, because it cannot reason about the context of what it is writing.

That said, I like LLMs, and I think it was an interesting productivity tool, only having been hyped beyond any reasonable expectations. I find it more useful for less strict contexts (for example, creative writing).
>> Yes, but those anecdotes don't prove much, do they?

Are you sure? Because it's exactly REAL WORLD N=1 examples that clearly demonstrate that for some people these diets are akin to magic.

How can you dismiss REAL WORLD EXAMPLES?

Yes, they don't work for everyone: but so now people shouldn't try them just because some people don't get better on them?

What kind of logic is that?

Real world examples are all that matter! If it works: great, your problem is gone! If it doesn't: back to the drawing board!
I think I'm gonna try for an official diagnosis soon. It's bad enough that it has been giving me issues for years, but I had the benefit of a very low stress easy job. I've switched to a much more rewarding and challenging job, but have found out the hard way that living with ADHD has completely burned out any drive I had, so I need to get it sorted out before I run out of runway.
An interesting, seemingly minor, flaw (2018)
Very nice article, Ben.

But see, being it a given from experience that humans can be so bad in judgement, reasoning, professionalism, output... Why did we strive for superhuman judgement, reasoning, professionalism, output? (The same way we strived for superhuman strength.)
You're probably often on an untrusted router. At least every time you're outside your house, and for many people even in their house.

I don't get why just because an untrusted router can do many things that that means you can't talk about one of those things. Sure, there may even be more interesting things, but to who? And why should that stop a conversation about other things? How would you talk about those things in any detail if not one by one? I can neither speak, nor read, nor write in parallel.
Yup. Easy to destroy trust.
Some people just find it quicker to be able to point at a thing and ask "What does that do?" VS using the tools to do it via computers.

Some would say that's an issue with the tools, but the tools aren't ever going to get better if the WFH people don't acknowledge the deficiency of the current system.
I can’t believe what a rich vein of originality we have formed with this thread. Watch and learn, nerds!
You are right it needs docker but so does Dokku and I see this more as an implementation detail (even a plus in my book for the flexibility). Epinio does admittedly not support git push but for me „epinio push --name myapp“ feels similar enough. In the end, I can just push my Django or next.js or rails or node.js code to the server.

I should have said „I like Epinio, as well“ because I also like Piku, especially for its minimalistic approach and readable code, but when it comes to actually using it for deployments, I prefer Kubernetes.
That's a bit outdated. At the scale LLMs are trained, quality starts to matter again.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40632809
To nit the nit, Canada is a bicameral legislative system, but the upper house (Senate) is appointed rather than elected and is generally deferential to the House of Commons (though not always). Senators tend to sit for a long time and take a lead role in things like long term reports and recommendations from the civil service.

The Prime Minster and Cabinet hold executive power. The PM and individual ministers have far more power than the US president in some cases, less in others, especially with a very different set of powers delegated to the provinces. The Prime Minister controls the legislature itself and its agenda far more directly than the US President.

The Speaker of House role is very different and while it's an MP from the government, they are expected to be highly neutral in all matters (something the current speaker is struggling with).

The PM is not the head of state the way the US President is. That role is held by the Governor General, who has quite extreme theoretical power. In practice they defer to the sitting government in nearly all cases.
Triplebyte failed because:

1) They were useless friction. As a candidate I could apply directly to the companies I was interested in, and take a phone screen and then on-site. With Triplebyte I had to take their much more time consuming process and get to the same point of either another phone screen or on-site. They added absolutely no benefit to me as a job seeker. Especially during the hiring heydays of 2019-2022 why would I need to use Triplebyte when I can get access to the recruiters myself?

If applying through Triplebyte offered some sort of benefit, like an easier on-site or straight to team match because the candidate had been vetted by Triplebyte, then that would be useful. Instead it was more interviews just to get to the same onsite that you could get to by passing a phone screen, so it was useless.

2) Triplebyte betrayed user privacy by posting their names etc on a new service that the users didn’t explicitly subscribe to. And it took a while for the CEO to acknowledge that and backtrack. That was the deathknell for Triplebyte for me as a candidate.
Much faster: cook onion with a bit of water, as though it was rice. Keep the lid closed and the temperature so high that steam escapes, basically steaming the onion. When the water has evaporated, add fat (butter, bacon, or whatever you want to use). I didn’t measure, but I think it takes no more than 3 minutes.
Mary Beard is not exactly a reliable source. She is on TV a lot, though, which doesn't make it better.
What are you trying to achieve here? Are you looking to remove a bunch of competent developers by asking weird trick questions?
> Corporations exist to optimize for cost/profit, nothing more

But LLMs are not only used in corporate settings. Cutting the bottom line in medical professions, case law, academic journals, etc. may seem enticing, but their audiences will definitely bear the brunt of the loss of specialist diagnoses, case work and peer/lit reviews.
> More than 60% of programmers are already using it

Firstly, there is absolutely no way anyone could know this. Secondly, no they aren't.
> what LLMs can actually do

You should see them as a passage - something in study and development today for something more complete tomorrow.
when i got burnt out, i left for a low-pay high-meaning tech job at a nonprofit.

it made things so much worse because it turns out that when you go to a low-paying job the quality of the org and coworker talent drops a LOT. this lead to a highly dysfunctional workspace which added so much more stress because a) dysfunction is stressful and b) you could see how that dysfunction directly harmed the meaningful thing you were supposedly working toward.
Alongside their general mismanagement under their President Yamaga[1] e.g. giving their management unsecured loans of company funds[2], they've been doing random crap like tomato farming.[3] They wouldn't have lasted so long without Hideaki Anno's (Eva) support for old times' sake.[1] They've been a deadbeat since 2012; it's just been a long downhill road to the inevitable end.

[1] https://evankaiser.medium.com/hideaki-anno-on-gainax-taintin...

[2] (Japanese only) https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2330666/photo/1/

[3] https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2016-04-12/gainax-...
Real pots of liquid do not heat uniformly like they do in the physics textbook equations.

"A very slow boil" does _not_ mean the _entire_ mass of liquid is near 212 F.

It means that _one very small sector_ of the liquid is near 212 (hence the 'bubble at one point'), and the vast majority of the liquid is considerably colder.

A thermometer is unnecessary.
The alternative is being a single-issue party which people will only vote for when there is nothing more important on their minds. IMO it is good for a party to have a clear profile on most important issues, and digital rights fit into the overall progressive ideology. Another possible direction would probably be libertarian profile for techbros, but that would be a different party.
The problem was standardized hiring is it become too easy to game the process. You end up with a pool of engineers good at studying and it doesn’t always translate to good engineering.
Thank you, great solution. It matches the spirit of the contest as well. If you want another challenge, you could try to get to that result by doing the equivalent of sending keypresses, further mimicking how a robot works. (You can just copy and paste the keys the keyPressed function calls and check the distances yourself).

const angleIncrement = PI / 36;
if (key === 'q') { upperArmAngle -= angleIncrement; moves++; }
if (key === 'w') { upperArmAngle += angleIncrement; moves++; }
if (key === 'a') { lowerArmAngle -= angleIncrement; moves++; }
if (key === 's') { lowerArmAngle += angleIncrement; moves++; }
if (key === 'g') grab(); // Grab the fruit
if (key === 'r') release(); // Release the fruit

What order of these statements would you send to get to the fruit, grab it, and then get to the result you show?

Good job on completing the contest.
Delicious in Dungeon, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Little Witch Academia, and Kill la Kill.

Trigger is knocking it out of the park. Clearly a top-tier animation studio of the last decade.
That's a good point.

Thinking about this a bit, it might be a bit late actually to start to guide an LLM towards curiosity only at the fine-tuning stage, since this 'exploring unusual-trains-of-thoughts' is precisely what the LLM _isn't_ learning during training, where it sees (basically by definition) a ton of 'usual trains-of-thoughts'. Maybe you'd have to explicitly model 'surprise' during training, to get the LLM to try to fit precisely those examples better that don't really fit its already learned model (which would require the network to reserve some capacity for creativity/curiosity, which it otherwise might not do, because it's not necessary to model _most_ of what it sees). But then you enter the territory of 'if you open your mind too much, your brain might fall out', and could end up accidentally training QAnonGPT, and that you definitely don't want...

So maybe this way of 'hoping the LLM builds up enough creative intelligence during training, which can then be guided during fine-tuning' is the best we can do at the moment.
That was my point. 70% is a made up number. If you're going to just make up a number, may as well throw some false precision in as well, lest you appear lazy.
Granted. However I didn't claim that them writing one thing in their ToS and another thing on twitter was a bulletproof legal strategy. I didn't even say it was a sound legal strategy. What I said is, that Adobe customers cannot trust them not to do it purely based on the fact that their ToS say one thing and some employee on twitter says something else. If anything that would leave their customers with some reasonable doubt until they clarify that ToS section.
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Some more discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40579104

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40576018

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40574355

The letter site: https://righttowarn.ai/
Our coding problem is easier than that (by a fair margin, it's all completely synchronous single-threaded procedural code unless you're doing something extremely weird) and it weeds out the vast majority of applicants.

The same was true of all three of the standard coding problems Triplebyte used. They're not quite literal fizzbuzz, but they require - at best - some basic critical thinking and basic language features, and that is a filter that eliminates 90+% of applicants to dev jobs. Now, granted, this is under time pressure. I imagine, given several hours, most could finish it (although maybe even that is overestimating things). But still.

There's an old Randall Munroe article quoting a physicist:

> The physicist who mentioned this problem to me told me his rule of thumb for estimating supernova-related numbers: However big you think supernovae are, they're bigger than that.

and I feel like this applies to recruiting: however bad you think the average applicant is, they're worse than that.
You're gonna be seeing articles like this more and more the closer we get to the election. The economy is the top issue this election because despite the image the current administration is trying to paint, people are hurting. I dont know how effective telling people GDP and average wealth is up is going to be when they see they have less money leftover after paying more and more for housing and groceries.
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This arguments is made every singe time a new LLM article gets posted and I'm not sure it's really adding anything to the conversation. Everyone understands language models are not human, there's no need to add a philosophical argument because you don't like the word choice.

"Characters" in any other context are also by definition not curious. They're not open-minded or thoughtful either. Characters in a book are not people, they don't have thoughts, they are whatever the author put on paper. Yet we still use these words to describe them, as if the characters' consciousness and motivations existed beyond the paper on which they're described. It becomes really hard to talk about these traits without using words like curiosity and thoughtfulness. No one thinks the characters in a fictional book are real people.
> Many of the people upset about RTO are indeed forced to do it.

And, they'll only stay until the job market gets into the hot part of the cycle again. I think the only reason the numbers are as low as they are is that RTO mandates dovetailed right into a bear hiring market. Once hiring picks back up, I bet a lot more people are going to be comfortable enough to bail.
i think being allowed to pivot into maintenance mode occasionally would help with burnout. being able to sit back and do a job that's a bit more tedious and focused on routine would be a nice complement to always sprinting to make something new and solve things you've never dealt with before.
So you think remote work is objectively "right"?

I mean haven't you made up your mind already? because that feels like a more solid position than mine.
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> Please don't be a dev with access to things my security depends on.

Devs just want “Do Anything Now mode”, who doesn't? :)

I doubt at most shops VSCode extension security is considered differently from any extensions or libraries used throughout the codebase.

Almost nobody reads every line of their includes. (Sadly, but obviously.)

If all your includes can come only from an artifact depot or mirror because your build system can't reach the Internet, and those only get there with a PR and code review, you're on a good start. Operationalizing that to stay current with zero day fixes and the like, starts to be "a thing", which is why there's so much energy in software-supply chain security, through industry efforts like SLSA and GUAC and firms like https://www.kusari.dev/.

Read a decent checkpoint and overview on this emerging ecosystem here (from 2022):

https://security.googleblog.com/2022/10/announcing-guac-grea...