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MONUMENTAL | https://www.monumental.co/ | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Full Time | Onsite

We’re creating robots that autonomously construct buildings. We design all of our hardware and software in-house in central Amsterdam, and we’re starting with autonomous bricklaying robots.

We have built a machine vision pipeline that can achieve sub-millimetre localisation on construction sites, and a software stack that lets us configure and control robots with ease. We’re deploying our robots on real construction sites and have started making the first revenue from our bricklaying-as-a-service model.

The software team is now ten people. The team is approaching 40 in total (and growing quickly!) There’s strong customer demand for what we’re building, and we’re scaling up robot production to meet it.

Our stack is mostly: Rust, TypeScript, Python, NixOS.

This month we have started hiring for a new role: Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer (also open to interns). We are looking for people can bridge the gap between software engineering and the construction site: operating the robot; spotting opportunities to build faster and better; and rapidly hacking them into existence.

My colleague has written a blog post[1] about his experience in this role - give it a read if you're interested.

Other open roles:

- Software Engineer, Controls

- Software Engineer, Machine Vision

- Assembly/manufacturing technicians and robot operators

https://www.monumental.co/jobs

[1] https://www.alfred-polycarpe.com/building-walls-a-journey-in...
I did read the article, thank you.
what happened to Carol was tragic.

And I hope some form of justice catches up to the corporations and people that hurt her...

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but I think over the entire population - there is more harm than good to be done in spreading anti-dentist rhetoric.

just 200 years ago, dental abscesses were the leading cause of death[1].

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10686905/
that's hilarious and inspirational. i can barely imagine the work it took just to get a reliable system with basic UART i/o. i can't imagine how much additional work it took before the system was sophisticated enough to even justify a mouse as a peripheral.
The most obnxious aspect of owning an iphone for me. Apple turns icloud syncing on by default for everything, not just password management. Photos, browsing history etc. there should be an account setting that lets you turn this off completely no matter what device you sign into with your icloud account. Completely obnoxious, my icloud photos is a total mess of triple and double copies of photos going back decades i recently had no idea it was even syncing. All from signing in then having stop automatic syncing. I now only sign in when the device has fresh reset so i can immediately turn all the syncing off. This should be an account wide option that applies to any all current and future device sign ins.
I've been experimenting with using embeddings for finding the relevant git commits, as I often don't know or remember the exact word that was used.
So I created my own little tool for embedding and finding commits by commit messages. Maybe you'll also find it useful:
https://github.com/adrianmfi/git-semantic-similarity
Show HN: Saphira – Understand Standards and Deliver Compliant Hardware
Hey HN! We’re Oscar and Akshay from Saphira (https://saphira.ai). We collaborate with robotics and aerospace companies to certify their products, which requires us to be deeply familiar with relevant standards and frameworks to produce requirements and test lists. To automate our work, we built an AI agent that we’re making publicly available that specifically searches for appropriately structured technical details in these large, hierarchical documents. Here’s a demo: https://youtu.be/XJlthEtetb8.

If you’ve ever had the fortune of digging through ISO or UL standards or OSHA/FAA CFRs to build a safety case while preparing for certification of a hardware product, you know that it can quickly become a hot mess of references to dozens of sub-frameworks. That’s what we encountered and have tried to fix.

We’ve learned by writing safety cases and building compliance plans that this agent must be able to do things like identifying exactly the right section of a standard that applies to a particular topic of consideration, such as the insulation width for a particular wire in a robot to prevent heat and current transfer in order to produce touch safety, which is actually directly stated in the appropriate substandard section!

When identifying these sorts of sections, we must then be able to reference a knowledge graph derived from the standard to identify which substandards to traverse to, and critique identified sections to state whether they actually contain technical details, or just definitions or further references.

You can log into Saphira at the provided link, specify details about your project to allow us to associate relevant standards with your project, then start issuing these sorts of queries for free! You can even upload arbitrary documents to our Context Store to try this out on specific complex documents you wish to traverse!

We’re actively improving all of this, so please share any feedback!
I feel like those ideas are contradictory. Exploring alternatives just in case is wasting energy.

For example, for months I’ve been thinking of trying Inkscape to replace Affinity Designer, yet I keep putting it off because I’m not exactly enthused about the idea of having to learn yet another vector app again and deal with all its bugs and quirks.
Hashboard (https://hashboard.com) | New York (NYC) | Senior+ Software Engineer / Tech lead | Onsite

Hashboard is a new kind of business intelligence platform that bridges data modeling, product analytics, and self-service data exploration with a DevOps-inspired development toolkit.

We are looking for a hands-on technical leader to join the team as we enter a new phase of growth. As a tech lead at Hashboard, you'll split your time between leading a small pod of high-performing engineers and doing hands-on development in a deeply technical codebase. All engineers at Hashboard are full-stack, but we are especially interested in product-oriented engineers with strong React skills and experience with data tooling.

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hashboard/74f9cf2c-7beb-4f70-a082-d... or email me directly at dan (at) hashboard.com
word of mouth. just ask your friends and relatives for referral.
Logic falls into a weird space between pro (studio) software and home studio software. Professional studios mostly use Pro Tools and Cubase (Europe). Home users mostly migrated to Live. It's obviously an oversimplification but it does reflect the problem Logic is facing.

Live is far ahead of Logic in the electronic music space. With a streamlined UI and M4L it dominated the market for the new(ish) generation of musicians. Every single musician I know (100s) moved from Logic to Live within the last two decades. The only people I know who still use Logic are composers (Live lacks music notation) using laptops at home.

Not to say that Logic is not a great piece of software. Drummer tracks were revolutionary, built in plugins are solid.
I never kept my ThinkPads around long because of the screens (which they have fixed, somewhere around the T450 timeframe.

The X220/230 had that godawful 1366x768 panel. A shame when the 13" Air at the time had a 1440x900 panel, which while it wasn't amazing with the viewing angles and colors, it was light years ahead of the screen in something like a T430.
This reads like one of those things where you developed an idea or even a product but without talking to your potential customers first. Is that true?

You say "This bypasses the complex queries and extensive table transformations that SQL databases used in most airline software systems often require". Is that broadly true across small airlines and a pain that small airlines broadly feel? What's the actual cost difference between sticking with that and whatever you're offering (including onboarding)?

This is also something that is tightly coupled to manufacturers just for safety and liability, maybe moreso than any other industry of its size. I know in some heavy machinery industries manufacturers frequently actively work with their customers (and include things like realtime data) to do preventative maintenance already. How do existing relationships factor in to your plan?

I'd say that a) you should be able to answer these reflexively and definitively before trying to sell anything b) realize that I'm some rando on a site and there's probably a bigger set of important industry-specific questions you need to be able to answer as well.
> not useful for the task of finding an optimal candidate

That statement is just flat out incorrect on it's face, however it did make me think of something I hadn't though of before, which is this:

Embedding vectors can be made to have a "scale" (multiplier) on specific terms which represent the amount of "weight" to add to that term. For example if I have 10 years experience in Java Web Development, then we can take the actual components of that vector
embedding (i.e. for string "Java Web Development") and multiply them by some proportionality of 10, and that results in a vector that is "Further" into that direction. This represents an "amount" of directional into the Java Web direction.

So this means even with vector embeddings we can scale out to specific amounts of experience. Now here's the cool part. You can then take all THOSE scaled vectors (one for each individual job candidate skill) and average them to get a single point in space which CAN be compared as a single scalar distance from what the Job Requirements specify.
The talent and ideas that were Pixelmator will be substantially diffused as it's absorbed by Apple... most of what you liked about Pixelmator is likely no more over the next year or two. Depending on Apple's reasoning for the acquisition (i.e. how much of it was just for the talent vs the product) you'll may see some small glimpses of Pixelmator's influence a couple years from now in Apple's stuff. Most of the time Apple doesn't keep the acquired product around.
My mistake then, I thought you meant a more general social media kind of buzz.

Logic and Final Cut did at one point have that kind of buzz when they were a part of Apple's "wow look at all the pros using macs" Mac OS X comeback story.
I don't think religion has anything to do with it. Statistics and increasing entropy. Now, where you go from there might take you to religion, and so I'd argue that modern science often has arguably more to do with the religion of atheism than with reason since it's mostly based on certain axioms. I'm not saying we can't derive science off of theories, but as long as the bases are only asserted, you can derive proofs to come to any conclusions and speaking up about this seems to quickly get you disqualified in academia.
WunderGraph | Multiple Roles | REMOTE | Full-Time WunderGraph (growing global customer base, 70K weekly downloads and growing)
APIs are the backbone of every modern organization. But building and maintaining APIs is hard, especially when you'd like to scale API development across multiple teams. The key to success is collaboration.

Our mission is to take API collaboration to the next level. With Cosmo, we're give platform teams a solution to provide a self-service API Developer Platform to their teams. We believe that Open Source is the key ingredient to become the number one solution for API Development and Collaboration.

The project is completely open-source.

You will be an integral member of an expanding team at a VC-funded startup with a dynamic mission to innovate and transform the field of GraphQL Federation.

Apply here: https://wundergraph.com/jobs#open-positions
I've been forced to use Windows in the creative graphics world. Back long ago in the dark ages, I did layout/graphics for a 'zine that was all done on Windows NT with Adobe software delivered to press on a Syquest disk.

More recently (2017ish), I was on Windows 7 for another stint at graphics.

Maybe I've just had the misfortune that others have been able to avoid??
This article shows the incorrect value for the OpenAI text-embedding-3-large Input Limit as 3072 which is actually its output limit [1]. The correct value is 8191 [2].

Edit: This value has now been fixed in the article.

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/embeddings#embedding...

[2] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings/#embeddin...

Also, what each model means by a token can be very different due to the use of different model-specific encodings, so ultimately one must compare the number of characters, not tokens.
That would be billed as a single query. We think this is a much simpler way to reason about your cost compared to counting rows scanned, CPU time consumed or something more granular like that.

If your query is very expensive, it will take longer to complete, and that will be a signal to you the developer to simplify your query or identify an index that can help speed it up. Prisma Optimise will help you identify and improve such queries.
Ask HN: Is there a website where people can discuss about education system?
Hello there Hackernews , I was watching a youtube video about education system in general one day (from a different country than my home country) and I observed that the person in the video was rather pessimistic about education system and was giving up what I would call many fair points.

Though there are reasons to be optimistic as well I wouldn't call our society fair in its current state (personal opinion on which I don't want to argue much) simply because people have left the thinking of such things to others or have come to dumbed down conclusions like the video earlier just tldr'ing college is worthless .

I think we as humans can do better than this. I was thinking of creating / asking it as a plea if somebody could create such a website , basically a forum)

Like a forum where people can discuss and hopefully come up to agreement on what changes to add to education system which could then be given to local governments with pledge ? (maybe a forum for different countries is okay ? )

Looking forward to your opinions on this topic.
Non-citizens/residents are the juiciest targets for taxes (tourism taxes at hotels and whatnot, pumped up taxes on restaurants/alcohol)! This actually makes no sense at all.
> each consumer can perform their own targeted lookups as needed

that puts you into tricky race condition territory, the data targeted by an event might have changed (or be deleted) between the time it was emitted and the time you're processing it. It's not always a problem, but you have to analyse if it could be every time.

It also means that you're losing information on what this event actually represents: looking at an old event you wouldn't know what it actually did, as the data has changed since then.

It also introduces a synchronous dependency between services: your consumer has to query the service that dispatched the event for additional information (which is complexity and extra load).

Ideally you'd design your event so that downstream consumers don't need extra information, or at least the information they need is independent from the data described by the event: eg a consumer needs the user name to format an email in reaction to the "user_changed_password" event? No problem to query the service for the name, these are independent concepts, updates to these things (password & name) can happen concurrently but it doesn't really matter if a race condition happens
I had a rougher life in my 20s.

I once went to a dentist and they told me they want to pull 13 of my teeth and give me dentures.

I knew they were in bad shape but this absolutely freightened me. Four of them were my wisdom teeth but I still thought it was nuts.

15 years later, I still have all of the 13 they wanted to pull.

I did lose two unrelated molars and the matching wisdom teeth basically slid into place replacing them. Then two root canals + crowns.

That experience turned me off dentists for a long time.

My current dentist is great. They do all they can do save a tooth and only extract as a last resort.
I don’t see how the original is misleading. The word “infinite” isn’t hidden or anything… unless the definition of infinite is misleading but I think it’s use here is pretty clear.
Location: Poland (US timezones OK):

Remote: Yes, ok with in-office meetings

Willing to relocate: Yes for epic offers

Technologies:
* Python, Django, FastAPI
* TypeScript, React, React Native, NodeJS, NextJS
* Kubernetes, AWS, GC, Azure, Terraform, CephFS, GlusterFS, Proxmox, esxi
* PyTorch, Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Kafka, OpenAI, Claude APIs

Résumé/CV: https://michallech.info/static/Michal-Lech-Resume.pdf

Email: michal@michallech.info

Well rounded Full Stack Engineer (and a former CEO) who thrives in high pressure startup environments, mentor, geek and a budding ML/LLM researcher.
PostHog | Full-Time | product engineer, technical founder engineers, backend leaning full stack engineer | REMOTE (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+1

PostHog helps engineers build better products by combining product analytics, feature flags, session replay, a data warehouse, CDP and many more.

* open source, building a dev tool. We have a public handbook (posthog.com/handbook) if you want to learn how we work, pay and more in complete detail.

* we are a real business... nearly at $20M ARR / profitability in sight / lots of capital / grew revenue 4x last year but only added 3 people / just had first cashflow positive month in October this year!

* you decide what to build, and iterate with your users - we are growing through autonomy and transparency not through process.

* we have a ton of scale and a bunch of super interesting technical problems to solve

* we're building 50 more products over the next couple of years, so you could end up building one of those

* we need: product engineer, technical founder engineers, backend leaning full stack engineer

posthog.com/careers
Pixelmator as a product is literally what Apple would have built anyway if they made an attempt.

The difference here is how aligned the original team is with their acquirer...down to the corner radius on every button.

With other products like Dark Sky, the product is substantially different in philosophy or design.
I don't think Apple bought this to mothball it. That only makes sense if it competes with your own products. Which this doesn't.
I went to one dentist relatively recently, they were highly rated on Google, they said I needed eight, EIGHT fillings. I had them do two of them. Then they stated that I had to get so many I was going to go over my benefits and it would cost me $1500 or so after it all, out of pocket. I went down the street, had an evaluation, they said I had one cavity. They filled it, and I was on my way. Then months late, the place I had gone that said I had eight fillings, one of the fillings I let them put in fell out after only ~1 year. I could have called them up and asked them to fix it, ideally for free, but they lost so much of my trust I just had the new dentist fix it.

Anyhow, it's hard to trust dentists.
But very, very heavy. I have a huge desk upstairs that came with the house and will be staying with the house when we sell it...

Meanwhile, my 60"x30" motorized sit/stand desk is on wheels.
Go to dental schools where the professors rate the students partly on whether they recommend the appropriate procedures.
I have a personal M1 13" Air, and a work M3 16" Pro, and other than the silly 8GB limitation, I don't notice much of a difference in what I do when using the Air.
Broadwell's EDRAM: VCache Before VCache Was Cool
I'm not a fan of Adobe at all but I used to do a lot of work in Photoshop. The top features for nearly 30 years have not been the destructive editing portion of the app but the composition tools.

By composition tools I mean the layer, channel, and layer effects tools. Layer effects/adjustments and masks make for easy compositing and live readjustment. It's the live nature of these features which is helpful because you're having to constantly refine the look of things based on a client's feedback. Photoshop manages to handle all sorts of layering while still providing color correct output.

It's not glamorous but it's important and most supposed Photoshop competitors over the decades fail at it. Some tools do many of the same things but I don't know of apps that can do everything Photoshop does it that space.

It's fine to snipe at Photoshop users that only have very basic needs for which Photoshop is overkill. I don't do anything graphic design anymore so Pixelmator and Affinity Photo have my needs covered. I purchased both and they've been well worth the money. But if you want to actually go after professional Photoshop users, not just incidental users, you really need 100% of Photoshop's functionality. Otherwise you'll miss a must-have feature that some designer requires for their workflow.

As much as I've enjoyed Pixelmator it's not even 50% of Photoshop's capabilities. It's not even on par with the decades old Photoshop 6.
Sure, but ten years ago, if I told you the concept of a "bottom type" would be common knowledge with web developers or they'd consider type algebra second nature, you'd have laughed at me. If I were to tell you they pushed a Turing complete type system into the mainstream and then abused its computational power to do things like create value types, you'd ask me where I was buying my LSD.

TS might not be the most robust type system in the world with no qualifiers. And it might not even try to be sound. And it might disappear at compile time. But none of that changes the fact that it took a bunch of concepts that only programming language dorks knew or cared about and turned them into every day utilities that the junior most developers use. And it doesn't change the fact that it is the only mainstream programming language with a fully Turing complete type system.

Give credit where it's due. I say all of this as one of the aforementioned programming language dorks who took a really long time to get on board with TS, as I thought Flow's focus on purity made it a better choice.
The point of this paper is to demonstrate a method of training an AI to output interactive game footage. They could have trained it for similar results with DOOM videos. Presumably the footage they trained on was OK to train on (I don't think a video of someone playing a video game is copyrighted by the video game's author), but they could have used a variety of other games.
Agree, calling it rtp is likely to cause confusion. Probably best to choose a four letter acronym. Assume all the good three letter ones have already been used.
Nice accomplishment! However, React seems overly complex for a TUI, unless you already work with React in the browser and love JS?
Never heard of ncrunch but I googled it and its described as
> the ultimate live testing tool for Microsoft Visual Studio and JetBrains Rider

So it seems at least that part of your critique is outdated.

I'm not sure what you mean about the inference, I've never had any problem with that that I can remember. And it can be a bit slow to start up or analyze a project at first load but in return it gives much better code completion and such.
Ink is awesome, but it does have some rough edges. For example, want to absolutely position something on screen? Not possible. The UI also tends to flicker when you’re doing anything complicated, in a way that can be hard to debug.
Do you have a link or some searchable name for the journalist? I’ve been intrigued by this genre for a while now.
Can someone give some insight why acquisitions like this happen? Is it to take over the user base or is it actually about the product itself?

I am asking because I always hear of multi-million dollar acquisitions and wonder if apple (in this case) couldn't just create the same software themselves cheaper.
Makes me want to re-watch The Man Who Would Be King again.