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SEEKING WORK | SF, CA | Remote

Programming Languages: Ruby, Scala, Python, Javascript, TypeScript, Haskell

Programming Strengths: Programming Language Theory, Type Theory, Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Engineering, No-Code, AI&Prompt Engineering

Other Skills: Leading Teams & Managing Projects, Architecting & Implementing Greenfield Solutions, Education & Team Growth, Leading Communication and Coordination Between Stakeholders Across Teams and Organizational Silos

I am a seasoned (15 years experience) full-stack principal software engineer specializing in the backend. In the past, I've built a number of no- and low-code solutions for stream processing, data model and query generation, form building, workflow systems, and front-end construction for a variety of industries, including those with strong regulatory requirements and complex business rules such as healthcare and fintech.

More recently, I've built a workflow engine for coordinating LLMs and other generative AI processes, and on top of this a platform for minimizing hallucinations and working with documents that are too large for existing context windows.

If you are building a greenfield AI project or adding AI to your existing business and your business is particularly sensitive to the consequences of hallucinations or you need to work with a document corpus that is larger than context windows allow for precise recall within, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Email: poetic.artifice@gmail.com

CV: Available Upon Request
SEEKING WORK

Technologies: TypeScript, Go, Python, Solid.js, Svelte, React, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Docker, Linux

Strengths: health tech, networking, communication protocols, electrical engineering, frontend development

Interests: ed tech, distributed systems

Portfolio: https://seanvelasco.com

Contact: sean@sean.app
I'd like to know too.

I've been using Emmy from the Clojurescript ecosystem, which works pretty good, but has a few quirks.

https://emmy-viewers.mentat.org/
Location: Manhattan, NYC.

Contracts: Yes.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: C/C++, C#, Win32, Linux, POSIX, SQL, etc.

Projects: Tcl/Tk, Eagle, SQLite, System.Data.SQLite, Fossil SCM, Comdb2

Interests: automation, cryptography, databases, developer tools & SDKs, distributed systems, (Internet) security, public key infrastructure, runtimes, sandboxing, scripting languages, testing, virtual machines

Profile: https://w.sb/r/profile

Affiliations: SQLite Development Team ( https://w.sb/r/sqlite ), Tcl/Tk Maintainer ( https://w.sb/r/tcl )

Side Project: https://w.sb/r/git

Résumé/CV: https://w.sb/r/resume

Email: [put_my_first_name_here] [at] [put_my_user_name_here] [dot] com

Phone: Please see "https://www.mistachkin.com/" for detailed instructions.
If you've plugged your whole business into OAI's snake oil, you're an early adopter of technology and you'll likely be able to update the codebase appropriately.

The sooner SCOTUS rules that training on copyrighted material is infringement, the better.
Business is hard enough operating directly. Triple bank shots that require business and legal to coordinate are too complicated to attempt.
Location: Greater Bay Area, CA, USA

Remote: fully remote, hybrid for the right position

Willing to relocate: that is not an option for me at this time

Technologies: Git, Javascript/Typescript stack (Node/Express, React, Jest), MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, APIs, some experience with Nestjs, Nextjs, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, Angular, CI/CD

Experience: 10+ years

Joining date: 1 week

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewticciati/

Email: a1n3kxqf@anonaddy.me

Thanks!
if you're quoting me, do so completely: you silently dropped "threatened to do so"
Capital expense is ~= depreciation, which is inversely proportional to the amount of work performed with a given capital asset.
> To ensure the effectiveness of browser-level controls like DNT, regulatory intervention is necessary. Government bodies, such as the European Union, can mandate the inclusion of DNT options in all browsers operating within their jurisdiction.

> Furthermore, websites already obligated to inform users about tracking cookies should be compelled to respect the DNT signal sent by users’ browsers.

So, the idea is to bring back Do-Not-Track header? I am pretty sure if this will ever happen, some browsers will set this header by default (just like last time with IE10). Advertisers would be pretty unhappy, and since they apparently have some power over EU, I don't think enforcement of the header is politically likely.
Show HN: A wordle-inspired maze game
The app randomly generates a maze in a 10x10 grid (deterministically every day, so everybody gets the same maze). When you find the exit you can share the (trimmed) "path" to the exit and the number of moves it took you to find it.
Reminds me of this incident:
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/29/689663720/a-robot-named-tappy...

The article refers to T-Mobile US, which is majority owned by Deutsche Telekom.
Replying back "Agreed on all" to an email that is basically "Here's what I'm thinking" is a contract? That's one heck of a precedent.
In any sane jurisdiction divorce is no fault.
Modern wood houses have very poor noise insulation. I grew up in a brick house. When I came to Canada, and I found I had to keep my voice down at night, while speaking in a closed room was news to me. Not only can other people in the house hear, but so can the neighbors! I don't know how people live like this.
A couple years ago a client asked me for their own URL shortener service. I found YOURLS (https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS) and reluctantly installed it on a cheap, shared, hosting account.

Thankfully after a couple years, I convinced them (it took several tries) to use a 3rd party hosted provider.

Bullet dodged.
It's pretty simple: a substantial percentage (a substantial majority I'd wager) of people in the tech community consider the OSD[1] from the Open Source Initiative[2] to be the de-facto (as opposed to "de jure") definition of what it means to be "Open Source".

Along with that, it's generally held that licenses with prohibitions like the Elastic License violate some combination of planks 1, 5, or 6 of the OSD.

Now all of this is debatable, and the OSD isn't anything legally binding, but it is widely acknowledge and respected.

[1]: https://opensource.org/osd

[2]: https://opensource.org/
In my observation, tulip poplars, get a bad rap. They do drop limbs routinely, but I don’t see them getting knocked over by wind. I see pine trees blow over the majority of the time. Of course, different forest composition might change the odds, but for my area tulip poplars seem pretty strong
With Brain.ai, generative AI is the OS
>> why are we -- as a community -- opposed to calling our software "open source" if we use the Elastic license?

The term "Open Source" was created by a group that later became the Open Source Initiative: https://opensource.org/history

By definition, a software license is not "Open Source" unless it meets all the criteria of the Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/osd

The Elastic license does not meet point six of the Open Source Definition:

"6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research."

Therefore the Elastic license is not an Open Source license.

It's your software. License it how you want.
Is the remote US-only, near timezones, or worldwide?
> There's nothing wrong with changing your opinion based on fresh information.

I don't really get that twist. What "fresh" information arrived here suddenly? The structure they gave themselves was chosen explicitly with the risks of future developments in mind. In fact, that was why they chose that specific structure as outlined in the complaint. How can it now be called new information that there are actually risks involved? That was the whole premise of creating that organization in the form it was done to begin with!
Link to how SQLite is tested, for anyone who's curious: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

There's also an interesting thing where formal verification requires a formal specification, which afaik there isn't one for SQLite. One of the toughest problems that someone would run into trying to put together a formal specification for code as widely deployed as SQLite boils down to Hyrum's Law[1]: on a long enough time scale, all observable behaviours of your system become interfaces that someone, somewhere depends on.

That massive suite of test cases isn't a formal specification but given that it achieves 100% branch coverage that implies to me that it:

- pretty tightly bounds the interface without formally specifying it

- also pretty tightly constrains the implementation to match the current implementation

Which, when you have as many users as you do with SQLite, is probably a fair way of providing guarantees to your users that upgrading from 3.44.0 to 3.45.1 isn't going to break anything you're using unless you were relying on explicitly-identified buggy behaviour (you'd be able to see the delta in the test cases if you looked at the Fossil diffs).

[1] https://www.hyrumslaw.com
There is a recent update to the blis alternative to BLAS that includes a number of RISC-V performance optimizations.

https://github.com/flame/blis/pull/737
If we ever reach a point where compiled code is equally as performant as web apps, I'll eat a shoe.
I grew up on an area were giant eucalyptus trees are common, me and my “gang” when i was 8-10 liked to climb tose trees because they were very difficult as they’re almost like a pole with only thin branches. Worth to mention that I knew how to fell a tree with an axe at that age and that I was given permission to use the axe!
The point is possibly that there are rules that prevent organisations started as non-profit to transition to for-profit.

Note: I am just spitballing. I cannot speak definitely about the law or what the GP was saying.
> DMA wording made it very clear that it's about browser engine, not the browser product.

Yes, but nowhere does it say explicitly that that third-party browser engine has to also be capable of hosting PWAs. It's definitely a possible read of the DMA, but not the only plausible one, in my view.
With a content blocker, you don’t have to trust it, no data is being sent. It’s like a hosts file.
They didn't spin that fast and it's not as sensitive as you think. CD-ROMs are used to dealing with bumps and skips and retries.
Great job!

I am actually thinking these days about building a BASIC compiler for another Z80 retro machine (Galaksija). But I am a little bit afraid about the machine code generation part. How hard was it to target Z80?
That’s a Douglas for – not native to New England
Hey! Interested by the opportunity but does Clerk looking to hire new grad? Thanks!
As banks buy up bitcoins, who else are the 'Bitcoin whales'?
C++23 likes to move it!
Yes that's right. This is about Meghan Murphy, a journalist and feminist activist from Canada. That's what she tweeted when Musk let her back on Twitter, in reference to having been banned, temporarily, for saying "men aren't women though" in 2018. Later that year, she was then banned indefinitely for replying "yeah it's him" in reference to a male who had sued a number of female aestheticians in Vancouver for refusing to wax his scrotum.

But, because this male identified himself as a woman, Murphy was banned from Twitter for "misgendering" him. This was, in general, a category of speech you weren't allowed to express on Twitter in the pre-Musk era. Even if you were talking about a male who was attempting to force women to touch his ballsack by court order.

The Mumsnet link is from when she returned to Twitter, in the later comments it has a bit more backstory of what happened. This article explains it better: https://afterellen.com/twitter-bans-meghan-murphy-founder-of...
Statement by the Commission on Article 45 [pdf]
The Transit of Earth from Mars, November 10, 2084
Huh! How do they achieve this effect? Does Reddit give you that much control over CSS?
What about the CEO drama indicates OAI is "too big to fail"? They're completely orthogonal. No one came to bail OAI out of a budget crisis like the banks or auto industry. I fail to see how it's related at all.
This sounds really fun, do you have any pay indications in mind?
Hey, I want to encourage you to apply to this position at our legal tech startup: https://jobs.lever.co/trellis/b76fa20e-8bf4-4d6e-a716-200f36...

We are looking for an AI/ML engineer with experience building products using LLMs. Two of our chief pain-points currently are dealing with documents that are really big and exceed existing context windows and building a "RAG" search that is more than just vector search.
Depends, some are paid by the hour.
The editors of this magazine were definitely not spineless.
> would actively destroy such installations if anywhere close to existing routes. And in Zion?

Your claim is contradicted by the fact that the most popular hike at Zion, Angels Landing, has an established set of fixed heavy chains to guide people up and down. Not to mention Walter's Wiggles, without which most people wouldnt be able to reach Scout's Lookout, the base of Angels Landing.

Also, these via ferratas you're objecting to are located outside Zion NP.
Avy (https://www.avy.ai) | Multiple Roles | Salt Lake City, UT | REMOTE (USA) or ONSITE

We are an early-stage, well-funded, stealth startup making humans and computers work together more efficiently. Experienced team from Apple AIML, Bose, Amazon, and other great companies.

We're hiring for:

- Senior Applied AI/ML engineer (including LLM fine-tuning, search/retrieval systems, and various vision and NLP tasks)

- Generalist AI/ML engineer (writing agent code, RAG, prompt engineering, etc)

- Marketing (in the "growth hacker" spirit) -- if your dream is to launch the fastest-growing B2B SaaS product ever, we want to talk with you.

- MacOS (Swift, Objective-C, C/C++, etc) at the Senior and Staff levels. iOS experience is OK.

We're distributed but expect travel for regularly scheduled on-site, in-person work in SLC, with future presence in New York City.

Email jobs@avy.ai or visit https://avy.breezy.hr (not all positions posted there yet)
I don't see how being a former co-founder or a donor gives one standing for this.

He has no ownership stake. He isn't a director or member of the organization. The thing he claims is a contract he's party to, isn't.
The "threw backward compatibility out of the window" happened in .NETFW 2.0, in 2005 (it did not, non-generic code that targets the pre-2.0 spec would work even today, the SDK is dead long ago but copied verbatim it would just run).
It has a generally negative reputation on HN for a number of factors: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=what3words
Just pointing out that it was not really as novel as you seem to believe it was at the time it came out.

> Garbage collected but always native.

Ok, sure. There were no other native garbage collected languages. Ignoring history, this is true.

> No thread access, native channels and coroutines instead.

If we ignore history again, also new with Go.

> Defer is pretty much net new in language design terms.

I can't think of an equivalent in the form of syntax, so sure. This is a point to Go. It's a small change, but useful for flattening code.

> No while loop?!?

I don't know why the exclamation mark. They have one named type of loop with `for`, but they definitely have a while loop:

for x <= 10 {
...
}

That's a while loop, it's not an infinite loop, it's not a do-while loop. That they reduced their looping constructs to one name (and then determine which actual loop kind by what's between `for` and `{`) does not mean they actually removed while loops. This does simplify the syntax, maybe.

> “If err != nil”!!?

[edit: missed this one]

if (some_c_lib_fun(...) == -1) {
// check the errno
}

> Calling the evolution boneheaded

I didn't. Why are you putting this here?
If this was their plan it’s not a good one. There’s no indication that the EU was interested in PWAs before this, but now Apple have made it a cause célèbre and brought the issue to the attention of the EU.

Hanlon’s razor should be applied.
AI SDK 3.0: Stream React Components from LLMs to deliver richer user experiences
If cybertruck actually manages to be sold at 40k, then it will be the one to get. Not gonna happen though, because empty promises, and generally a midsize hybrid truck will still most likely be the better buy because cybertruck will have way less power and range.

Bed length matters for carrying big stuff with tailgate up, which most people dont do, and for most stuff like motorcycles, the tailgate is left down. Both cybertruck and lightning can power a house btw, im just saying that for most people if you subtract that value from both vehicles if you are going to invest in backup power anyways, Lightning becomes a 30k nice pickup truck.

Also the 90k trucks that people are buying are way more capable than a Cybertruck, and have actual good quality construction and finish.
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Remote: Open to remote work or in-person/hybrid work near Washington, DC
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, R, SQL, Docker, Linux, PyMC, GCP, Azure, PyTorch, HuggingFace, LangChain
Résumé/CV: https://jacobeliason.com/files/jacob-eliason-resume.pdf
Email: jacobeliason [at] gmail [dot] com

I’m a data scientist with 3.5 years of experience.

I have a background in Bayesian statistics/causal inference and recent experience with generative AI/applied deep learning.
Those screenshots where people say "posting emojis will kill me, please don't post emojis" then Copilot posts a bunch of emojis are funny, sure, but what happens when somebody arms an AI controlled robot and people ask the robot "please don't shoot me"
I doubt it plays out as simply as you describe, and there's a million ways it can play out depending on jurisdiction, etc.

Likely, someone signs contract, comes to collect, Lambo says "Nonsense!", buyer says, "It's Binding!", and then the mess starts. If everyone's sensible, they come to a reasonable agreement. If not, it's "see you in court!", and everyone incurs costs of a trial, and the judge & jury impose a reasonable settlement (values of "reasonable" can be quite a wide range and often surprising). Lambo also likely sues and/or prosecutes the rogue salesperson to recover some token amount and mostly to make an example so no idiot tries that again. The result is a costly mess for everyone, likely preventing it from repeating (e.g., Lambo puts in more checks & balances), and life goes on. So, yes, consequences, not trivial consequences, and we hope enough that corrective action is taken.

Just what we'd want done for LLMs also.
I fell behind on the progress here. Could someone explain:

- does the nouveau driver these days allow enabling higher power/speed?

- how would I switch between the OpenGL and Zink implementations when running an app today?
The ADAM's SmartBasic was interesting in that it was specifically designed to be as close as possible to Applesoft on the Apple II given how common the Apple was in US schools in the early-mid 1980s.
Or passing a wrong value and the compiler allows it because the programmer trusted the compiler to "always do the right thing".
> Golang is an absolutely ideal language for writing REST API microservices

Those are strong words for a language with all the flaws I just mentioned. :D Yes, green threads are great for network programming, but it's not the only language with them, and one feature does not make it "ideal". If I had to pick the best networking language... I'd probably say Elixir.

But even if we agree that it's ideal, it doesn't change my point.
Ahem, you mean alluding, not eluding.
Humans are now so prosperous that we are dying of having too much food. A fate our ancestors could have only dreamed of.
Whenever you see a cell chemistry with metallic lithium in the anode, watch out! They tried that 50 years ago, the result was unexpected dendrite growth after many years, causing cell short-circuit, fire, and loss of life and property.

Bona fide new cell chemistry ready to go in and displace the existing leaders could easily be another 50 years away! We have not had a new real leader in cell chemistry emerge since lithium ion emerged 50 years ago, just basically incremental improvement. It's like saying the car might not be the best bet for a vehicle that you can drive. Sure, a flying car would be better, if it existed.
> (1) They can give away the model but sell an API - but they can’t serve a model as cheap as Goog/Msft/Amzn who have better unit economics on their cloud and better pricing on GPUs (plus custom inference chips).

Which has a simple solution, release the model weights with a license which doesn't let anyone to commercially host them (like AGPL-ish) without your permission. That is what Stability.ai does it.
> realistically how hard would it be for a well-funded operation to set up a bot that can do this on its own?

Here is the crux of the matter. How many people are doing that right now, as of this moment, for much easier to solve issues like fraud/theft?

Because then we can evaluate "What happens if it happens twice as often".

Thats measurable damage that we can evaluate, incrementally.

For every single example that you give, my question will basically be the same. If its so easy to do, then show me the examples of it already happening right now, and we can think about the existing issue getting twice as bad.

And if the answer is "Well, its not happening at all", then my guess is that its not a real issue.

We'll see the problem. And before the nukes get hacked, what we'll see is credit card scams.

If money lost to credit card scams double in the next year, and it can be attributed to AI, then thats a real measurable claim that we can evaluate.

But if it isnt happening then there isn't a need to worry about the movie scenarios of the nukes being hacked.
> I think it’s reasonable that a much better IAL than Esperanto could be designed today, given all the knowledge of linguistics that we now have, and all of the experienced conlangers.

I think it is likely that many mistakes could be recognized and avoided.

The attempt would probably still fail, because after all the obvious mistakes are fixed, different opinions would still remain, and people would start fighting over that. Anyone joining the discussion would feel qualified enough to propose their own ideal language, and none of the proposals would get enough fans to create an actual community of speakers.
Hey joe! just wondering is the company looking to hire new grad?
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: It all depends on where.
Technologies: tsql, db2, mySQL, VB.Net (WinForms), C# (Winforms), VBA (Access & Excel Macros)
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarek-basta/
Email: tfbasta@gmail.com
Zero workarounds seems overly dramatic, here are a few: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39567011

If you want to rely on them for every possible future requirement or rather want to pick another tool is another question :D

Anyways, just building the compiler without that check was also not that hard.
My newest car is 20 years old. I refuse to spend what a new car costs when a car costing 10% of that does the job. I don't know what I will do for cars when the battery craps out after 10 years.

More and more I think the whole EV concept is a way to make cars that don't last as long but cost just as much if not more, so that automakers can extract more money from their customers
oooo I should get my G5 out of storage and play with that a bit this month.