I'm hiring and can't find enough good CS candidates. Not in the UK though.

For a while I shared an old apartment with 3 others. Old building, 10th floor, cloth-wrapped wiring (no modern plastic/rubber/etc.), windows that didn't close, a condemned fenced-off balcony, and occasional rat visitors that could reach the 10th floor.

Dupe. Recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45962654

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45809932

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45809932

Just maybe not enough.

Google has DeepMind, Microsoft has Microsoft Research, Meta has FAIR.

It’s not trivial to foster such environments, but they do still exist in different forms.

They seem more applied, with the possible exception of MSR. None of them seems like the "check in a few years later" sort of place.

My team and I are working on embodied AI. More specifically, focusing on humanoid legged robots for long horizon tasks combining navigation and manipulation/interaction.

We've recently put a paper out in arXiv (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.12533) and the project page is: https://beingbeyond.github.io/being-0/

BAAI is also hiring! No fully remote positions though. :-/

Not to mention that clarifying this can lead to increased motivation to learn and discover stuff, as kids won’t think that if they are not geniuses they shouldn’t even try to create something new.

Well, there was a Canadian competitor company, and then a Canadian CEO...