skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also not surprising. Anime studios rarely make money off their work. The only exceptions that I can think of are KyoAni and A1 since they have IP ownership, or have financial backing from a bigger company like Sony, respectively.
Yeah the fact the reporter decided Gainax's headline achievement was an anime from 1995 kinda says it all.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -George Bernard Shaw

The pragmatist in me is sympathetic to your viewpoint here. But the article in question is making the point that when Weird Nerds have to "figure out how to operate within the system", they actually lose their ability to get something worthwhile done. That still might be the optimal path for them to take as individuals, given the incentives they face, but maybe as a society, we'd be better off trying to design the system so that it could better tolerate the "downsides" of the Weird Nerd so they can maximize their ability to get something worthwhile done.

Obviously this is a balancing act (as the article points out), but the author is making the point that some environments (like academia) have swung too far in the direction of conformity, which seems to me to usually be presented using the exact language you're using here.
I don’t get the impression that many people have moved on, though I could be wrong as my usage of Twitter has decreased “post-X” - but more because the site is so frequently broken! No need for rendering workarounds in browsers if the site breaks itself lol.
ROS isn't an "operating system". It's a piece of middleware. The purpose of ROS was to set up an intercommunication standard for academic robotics projects, so various components (vision, motion planning, etc.) from different sources could be connected. It's for prototyping, not production.

Attempts to make robots easier to program in industry involve "teach pendants" and schemes where you push the robot through the desired motions to record a path. This works in well-organized work cells. Outside that, not so much. Amazon, despite major efforts, still hasn't deployed robotic bin picking much. Their AGVs, though, work great. Amazon is building a thousand units a day of those little Kiva moving platform robots that carry stuff around their warehouses.

There was Rod Brooks' "Rethink Robotics", with their semi-intelligent "cobots".
That was a flop. But it did lead others to make better small robot arms.
I can see both groups working with models and curves

Just different types

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AE4IxYq4nig
> that the initial world model is flawed is the known starting point: at the beginning, it only knows it has "heard" a lot of information.

If it has no concrete reasoning, how is this looped revision intended to be more-accurate than a zero-shot guess?

I agree with the fundamental principle of not trusting input data from the start, but that just puts us back in square-one where we generate non-authoritative results dependent on a series of autoregressive parameters. It might generate better-reasoned results, but the outcome will be equally unreliable and prone to hallucination.
The GIFs look good and I like how it lets the user diff between original code and AI-generated ones. But still, I would like to quote from an article on Thread (well, this Thread is a network stack) [1]:

> No, seriously. Can we please not name new things using terms that are already widely used? I hate that I have to specify whether I’m talking about sewing, screwing, parallel computing, a social network from Meta, or a networking stack. Stop it.

[1] https://overengineer.dev/blog/2024/05/10/thread/#user-conten...
Yes but Evangelion is so massive and popular it'd be enough to sustain a studio. Gainax does not have the rights to NGE though. They only produced the original series back in the 90s.

Hideaki Anno literally setup a brand new studio specifically to do the rebuild films: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khara_(studio)
4 years college taking some of the toughest courses there are to be ready for 4 years of medical school. After that 8 years of schooling then you have to go through the hazing ritual they call "residency". Residency varies depending on your specialty, from 3 to 7 more years[1] - during which time you're working 60-80 hour weeks [2].

So baseline if you're smart and hard working, you need to take the hardest college track from ages 18-22, medical school (22-26). Then work two jobs worth of hours as a trainee making well under 100k starting at age 27 and into your early 30s [3] so you can't save or pay down any of your debt from getting here.

So if you choose to be a doctor, you have to:
(a) dedicate to working your ass off at 18,
(b) keep at it until you're in your early 30s,
(c) start with massive debt

I think it's actually pretty amazing that we have as many doctors as we do.

[1] https://medschoolinsiders.com/medical-student/how-long-is-re...
[2] https://www.ama-assn.org/medical-students/preparing-residenc...
[3] https://www.inspiraadvantage.com/blog/how-much-do-medical-re...
The more I think about it the weirder it gets.

It’s day time, the sun is up, it’s a cloudless day. Ambient light is bouncing all over, including into a south facing window (i.e. no direct sunlight.) How does the Eye Light Emitter do its job in this case?

Now, I don’t mean “this concept is impossible” because that’s clear. I’m genuinely curious how this would have been explained by someone at the time.
ASML to ship its US$380M tool to TSMC this year
It’ll be interesting to see how much “founding pedigree” actually matters now that free money is gone. It’s not to say it was ever easy (and I’ve certainly never done it), but I’d bet even folks with past successful exits are going to have a hard time these days. Hell, the market has shifted so much that I wonder if having done it before matters a whole lot now, when you fundamentally today need a different attitude toward free cash flow early on versus 5 years ago.
This seems cool! Is there a way to try it locally with an open LLM? If you provide a way to set the OpenAI server URL and other parameters, that would be enough. Is the API_URL server documented, so a mock a local one can be created?

Thanks.
Obviously everyone is interested in things, but it is a matter of degree. Being extremely deeply passionate about something, especially if it is something really unpopular and obscure but complex and time consuming that has no real social or other benefits, is not common among neurotypical people. However, for example, I have ADHD and hyperfocus on niche hobbies and interests where I can barely think about anything else, sometimes for months.

From my observations, most extroverted and otherwise neurotypical people don't have obsessive interests they pursue deeply entirely on their own. When they have hobbies they enjoy a lot it is often the social community around the hobby as much as anything else that is motivating them to stick with the hobby.
> Yes, we know that it is ultimately bad humans pulling the trigger, but we also know for a fact that bad humans exist. So why are we arming them?

Because tech people want to build, are paid to build, and "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
They got me a stellar job many years ago, but unfortunately for them it's hard to monetize candidates unless they return through the same pipeline. My outcome was great, but I was one and done.
> It's interesting to see how much "standardized cross-company interview for software eng" has been consistently a cursed problem in the industry.

It's not actually a mystery. The problem is that that sort of test is de facto illegal (in the US) due to the "4/5ths rule".
LLMs + hiring is a very very risky combination.
> According to another dataset, “delve” isn’t even the most idiosyncratic word in ChatGPT’s dictionary. “Explore”, “tapestry”, “testament” and “leverage”

These are all bullshit business buzzwords. You will see them in any product description. I'm surprised "synergies" isn't in there as well though that may be too 1990s.
> Lawrence of Arabia

They claim that, but I don't see how it could possibly be true, based on the cast listing at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/fullcredits : apart from an uncredited nurse (Barbara Cole) it seems like a screenplay calculated to make Ms Bechdel sad.
Apple Is Under Pressure to Deliver on AI at WWDC Event
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[0]: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
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What is the value of the developer potentially knowing your IP address? They receive (1) a signal you were potentially interested and (2) can use GeoIP to learn your approximate location. This doesn't seem particularly valuable or egregious, what am I missing?
> LLMs unlock a lot in this space

I would NOPE out of any LLM-conducted or LLM-assisted interview so fast, the LLM's head would spin. I do the same for take-homes or any other kind of interview where the company is investing less of their time than I am. Either we are evaluating each other fairly and equally, or GTFO
California and Hawaii are pretty much the only states that still have expensive eggs:

https://pantryandlarder.com/eggspensive
>Rising home values are a zero-sum game. It makes people look wealthier on paper, but there's nothing good that comes from gains in housing prices.

If I substitute the word "stock" for the word "housing", would you still agree with the statement? If not, what differentiates housing-as-an-asset from stocks-as-an-asset from a wealth perspective? It's not like we can't have more of either of them.
It sounds like the core problem is that companies don't really have trouble screening large amounts of incoming low quality resumes. It's annoying and time-consuming for the software engineers, but it's a well-known process and the CEO/CTO/COO/VP who controls the budget can just make the engineering team do it.

The core problem that companies are willing to pay for is "top of funnel". The obviously skilled, experienced software engineer that every company wants. How do you make them interested in your company in the first place? Triplebyte did not really have a cost-effective solution for that, although that's what people wanted most when buying their service.
Just Keep Doing the Bit
One thing you can do is think about having a meaningful life instead of job. Your job doesn't have to be meaningful in order to have a meaningful life.
We need to build utility-scale solid-state molecular sensing, it's a threat to civilization not to build it, and only Molecular Reality Corporation is explicitly pursuing it with a specific technical vision.
It was a nice jacket they were giving out though.
For me it helped change some of the approaches I take with my therapist. I also have sever clinical depression. It's also helped me relate to other people and understand why people have an easier time with seemingly basic things, like speaking to a group of people or just being at a table where multiple people are having conversations and I get overwhelmed and can't follow what's going on.

For instance, I spend a lot of time scripting conversations and I've found if I don't do this it will have a meaningful negative impact on my ability to communicate with people. Almost like if I don't practice setting up the path between a concept and the words, then when I need to talk to other people that connection doesn't exist and I just can't put things to words.
It’s hard to see how it would be evidence based if the evidence’s premise is fundamentally flawed - just in such a niche way that people not in my field wouldn’t be able to see it. They’re kinda preying on the fact that people like you can’t see it, and that’s sad.
lol, came here to say this, armed with identical log2 53 == 5.7 :-) The replies to your comment are of course, spot on, though. Finding 8% of performance regression in three years of commits could have taken a looooong time.
Ironically, the reason we feel like we don't have enough healthcare is that there's so much more of it available.
Testing DNA in the air may make food cheaper
I always understood the promise of Triplebyte was ”do the first steps of a hiring process with us and skip them for your next dozens of job applications (that are through Triplebyte, obviously)”

Did they never deliver on that promise?
"Arguably competitive" is just plain wrong. I know it's fun to be dismissive of things, but making silly claims doesn't help comments like this read seriously.
And a nurse practitioner who has years of varied hospital experience including ER is different from one who doesn't.

And France places an ER doctor in emergency response ambulances - apparently that has value (and they sometimes park themselves while the doctor works to stabilize the patient rather than try to bounce around to the ER.)

Same for France and urgent care. If the phone screen goes in the right direction, a doctor driving around from patient to patient will get to you quickly (~ 20 minutes last time for me.) Even if you don't have local insurance, and for a surprisingly low price.

None of this is impossible - as the US med professions want you to believe.
The last time I had to go into a DMV in TX was when I had let a motorcycle's registration lapse >1yr. It took going in-person to show some documents (I think the title?) to get it re-registered.

Other than that, for someone who already has their vehicle properly registered and they don't need a new photo for the DL, yeah you never really need to go in.

Also, last time I went in, they offered a text message queue system. Sign up online ahead of time, pick a rough time slot, they text you when you're ~10 minutes and then ~5 minutes until your number, then when you get in your number is one of the next ones up. I spent maybe five minutes total in there.

EDIT: Thinking back on that, it wasn't the DMV that I had to go to for that lapsed registration. It was the county tax office. So yeah, haven't been to a DMV in many years.
Does "the server" imply you're only using a single server for this? I would have expected that at Netflix's scale it wouldn't be too difficult to do the whole bisect-and-test on a couple dozen servers in parallel.
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It still doesn't fill out all the information they already have though, right? You're still copying your employer and E-Trade/whomever information in, yes? I really dislike having to carefully copy over the two or three forms needed to cover the half dozen investment-rebalance-related trades that I do in a year.

Are there any signs of hope this will get better? Direct File seems to be going well so hopefully it increases general will to do stuff.
> generate readable text

Because this to you is "generate readable text"?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MirzFk_DSiI

Sorry to be so direct, but you're in denial.
African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls
I was Triplebyte's first engineering placement. I still remember going to a random SoMa apartment with Harj and Ammon and Guillaume and coding up tetris in ruby, having no prior experience with game loops. That landed me a job with Flexport in 2016. I doubt that I would have gotten that placement without Triplebyte. So I am quite grateful that they existed, for jumpstarting my early career.

With that said, when it came time to look for a job again a few years later, I did chat with Triplebyte but ultimately took an offer through other contacts that I had built up by then.
It depends case by case. Examples abound, too many.

The atomic bomb? But Nazis had the V2.

The videogame? But the creator rewarded the creative, entertainment and possibly artistic results more than the idea of collective time of addiction, or maybe thought "better than chemicals"...

The axe? It is for chopping trees. Dynamite? Mines. Death ray? To defend yourself from wolves etc.

Sure there will be cases in which someone develops something inherently and only harmful, but it is not the general rule.
If housing prices were capped, as in this proposal, selling a house would immediately be a bad economic decision because you would, by design, be giving up something for less than it's worth. People would rationally respond to this by selling less often. The distribution of homeowners over time would then change very little - i.e., in 20 years time, mostly the same people who own homes would still have them, and people who didn't have a home would be economically locked out of homeownership.

You see this dynamic play out exactly with rent control. People are (rationally) very reluctant to leave rent controlled apartments, so rental housing basically sticks with the people who had it at the time rent control was introduced and newcomers are kind of screwed.
If you create a standardized test it will be gamed. Even with the small modicum of standardization around interview questions that we currently see, people have published books like Cracking The Code Interview, making it easier for people who don’t have the skills for a particular job to pass interviews at any place that uses standard-ish questions.

Furthermore, as an avowed enemy of “Clean Code”, I don’t want to see standardization because I fear that well-promoted ideas that I think are terrible would become required dogma. I prefer chaos over order that I don’t like.
This is a correctness nightmare.
Weenie Lisp interpreter in nice typed Python
The Target is now closed (for 'retail crime' reasons) , but this was in the UDistrict. It's only slightly embellished, since the Safeway is approximately one block north of the Target's prior location (4535 University Way NE) and then the HMart about one and a half blocks down.
As a junior at the time I found that triplebyte actually removed a lot of friction. Being able to do the screening/tech interview step once instead of for _every_ role you apply to was great. It was also good to be able to give feedback after interviews (e.g. these guys want me to do another technical quiz or are just trying to advertise their Blockchain platform).
I would legitimately argue they are competitive. GPT-J and GPT-Neo are both fundamentally quite similar to modern LLMs, and when compared against other 4b and 8b parameter models I would genuinely champion the quality of their responses over their contemporaries.
Do these firms give them their equivalent of an LSAT or the bar exam? AFAIK it's a "non-technical" interview.
This is exploitative because the surplus value produced by the workers exceeds what they are paid.
I mean, if you regulate before anything takes off you get what you deserve.
Greenshot screen capturemakes my life easier
looks interesting, thanks for sharing.

What's the difference between this and the official ChatGPT app?
Feels very similar to when I took a test that asked me questions about my life and then I was auto-denied for a role. Very qualified, I knew many people at the org, ~$150k/yr or something. The recruiter emailed me later that day saying I actually could continue on with the interview process, but I declined.
The fact that you chose not to address this incident is exactly everything we need to know about why Triplebyte failed.
It doesn't need to be blind stumbling around the web. But you might be right about only grabbing one page, and if you are then I agree that abiding by robots.txt is only going to upset a tiny minority. When they talk about websites it makes me think they are crawling to see all the pages linked to the homepage, because the asking questions part is extremely limited if all it does is look at one page. If they crawl, then I think they need to abide. If they don't, I think it's ok.
These "exploited" workers by ruthless capitalists, will soon produce data for robots to do their dishes, lay bricks and build houses , design automatically plumbing and electrical wiring and they will not need to work ever again, and exploited by nobody. They will still need to produce data, but they will be exploiting themselves.

If robots halve in cost every 10 years, and at the same time 10x in functionality and accuracy, then in 10-15 years, they will be paid less than most people on the planet for the same amount of work.
have been waiting for the texturing chapter to be done for what feels like years now... i actually think it has been years.
Web apps have client and server state (plus realtime and LiveView)
I guess that's without considering epigenetics which have some heritable marks. We are very far from knowing how much epigenetics contribute to the making of an organism and as a whole it is controversial. But one of the great lessons of the human genome project is that DNA coding does not account for all of the biologic information and that epigenetics may have a bigger part to play than what was previously thought. If we were somehow able to model every epigenetic marker the uncompressed information would be quite heavier
Arnsten misinterpreted that incident and drew the wrong evolutionary lesson. Black bears (the species in Vermont) aren't particularly aggressive versus other large animals such as humans, and will usually wander off even if they do notice you. The usual advice is not to freeze but to make noise and slowly back away.

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/livingwith_wildlife/bears/encoun...

I'm disappointed that an error like that made it through the fact checking process. It makes me doubt the rest of the article.
I expect Siri/OpenAI integration is going to be the star of the show.
Is it burnout or ADHD or depression? I feel like I have symptoms of all of them. Burned out at work because the project I'm on isn't selling and I don't care about it anymore but I have other busy work to do. Feels like ADHD because I can't stop myself from fidgeting on my phone looking at Reddit or FB or whatever. Feels like depression because I can't focus and I procrastinate like hell and don't feel like doing anything. Literally on the phone now trying to make an appointment with a behavioral health doc to see someone to get a diagnosis.
That is a party trick, that Hatsune Miku does every year for thousands of loving fans. The fact that an American company figured out vocaloid is not making any nerds lose their minds.

There's a reason why GPT-4o is not taking over YouTube and social media with it's incredible capabilities; nobody cares.
Sounds like the bankruptcy system is working correctly then.

All the valuable assets are going to the people who matter: Cloverworks, Trigger and Khara. Its a bit sad for Gainax as an entity to be collapsing, but the individuals who bring us these stories (through producing, acting, animating, or other skills) still exist out there.

I'll definitely say that Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0 from Studio Khara lost a lot of the mech-design that made Gainax great... but its clear that all the "mech designers" are alive and active over at Studio Trigger.

Its sad to see the team split up, because nothing like Evangelion (90s) will ever come out again. But on the other hand, these other studios are clearly active and seemingly successful. So the show goes on...
Yes, a back-formation of the sur-name “Warf” into an acronym for “warehouse…” Is it known if the buildings were never owned by or associated with someone or a family named “Warf?”
I'm sure those rural workers watching their towns disintegrate around them will be happy to know they are at least making a extra couple bucks an hour.
Shameless plug: I gave a presentation about this at last FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2146-how-...

(otherwise @xcv123's sibling comment is very true).
You don’t have to be a “true left winger” to oppose state imposed mass surveillance.
I'm an iTerm user as well, but I hardly use any of its features -- I stick with it primarily because its font rendering is better than any other terminal I've tried on macOS. My needs are pretty minimal and aren't terminal-dependent, e.g. tmux, neovim...that's about it. I just need the terminal to display text, really.

What features from iTerm make you love it so much?
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