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Reworkd | Backend / Infrastructure | ONSITE San Francisco

At https://reworkd.ai/, we're building application layer LLM agents to extract web data at scale. We are foundational data infrastructure for startups today that are fine tuning models or building some web data constrained product. We're backed by YC, Paul Graham, AI grant, and many others.

We're looking for backend/infrastructure/full stack engineers to:
1. Help optimize our queue/browser infrastructure to enable ingesting millions of pages a day
2. Build Playwright systems to handle two way syncing between users and cloud browsers
3. Work on the UI/UX to enable user <> LLM interaction for code generation

If any of this sounds interesting, email me: asim (at) reworkd (dot) ai or apply directly at: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reworkd/jobs
Humane AI Pin charger recalled over overheating, fire concerns
It's an actual requirement to give your personal information to gun stores when buying a gun so they can do a background check. They are prohibited by law from using that info for purposes like marketing, but they still have to collect and store it, and I'm sure all of them don't have great privacy policies. Even morons in the 1990s understood that.
Usually a good idea to get a second opinion. I had a major pain in one of my teeth a few years ago. I went to a dentist, they had diagnosis in 20 minutes: the tooth is broken, needs to be extracted and implant was recommended.

Somehow I got into other dentist through my friend recommendation. They referred me to their endodontist and they said there is no break in tooth bone. After doing root canal and crown, a few years later I'm happy with having my biological tooth and crown with zero pain and saved a good few grands.

Always get a second opinion.
Don't kill the messenger. I'm sorry that that's how I feel, but as the consumer I'm just saying that I don't like the product (online conferences). Sorry that this is demoralising, but I'm not gonna start liking a shitty product all of a sudden to make someone feel better about it.

I'm sure there are other people who feel differently, I have not met them yet, which makes me believe that the group of folks who find an online conference okay is significantly smaller than those who hate them but don't let yourself getting stopped by my personal opinion, if it gives you joy to run an online conference then be my guest and best of luck!
It happens, but all syntax families eventually become familiar, even on LISP you eventually stop worrying about the parentheses as you learn how to grok the code.
With fixed tries/time, or without true randomness, yes.

With infinite tries/time and true randomness, no.
How frequently is jaw surgery required to fix bite issues? And if chewing and biting food are painless and not too cumbersome, how likely is the situation to devolve over time to the place that surgery becomes necessary?
Hi! I'm not from the US so I probably miss the cultural context. Are the words you listed considered offensive? With exception of maybe "xe", this seems more like a list of controversial topics, not words, which is a completely different thing. If I understood you correctly, I don't think it's relevant in context of the article posted.
For me, "nothing" is rarely true. When I've had to learn a tool that operated in a different way, I've often come away realizing that I could think about a common task differently, or that there are capabilities I didn't realize I wanted.

I this case I'm thinking of domain-specific tools meant for creation or curation, like an IDE, image editor, word processor, etc. That wouldn't apply to bureaucratic paperwork-type tools, where learning the site is typically a one-off and is pure waste.
Putting concerns about future states aside, congrats to the Pixelmator team. I've been using the app for years and it's a really great piece of software, well designed and well built. It's always been incredible value for the price, especially given that it basically replaces Photoshop for a wide swath of the market without compromising on UX (which is a problem for other competitors) at a price point that's like 1-2 months of an Adobe subscription (I don't even know exactly what that costs any more because Pixelmator + parts of the Affinity suite got me out of their clutches).

Adobe must not be stoked about this news. And I'll just keep my fingers crossed this all heads in a direction that's more Logic than Dark Sky.
I hope this means that we get a photoshop competitor in the pro-apps line.
I haven’t heard this… what’s the scam? They don’t show anything they isn’t visible with the eye?
There are absolutely racist evangelical christian circles where saying "fuck" will you get you a stern reproach but using the "hard R" when talking about black people is not worthy of note.
Similar migration (IN->CA), it has changed my life. I had the worst sinus/migraine issues growing up and my breathing has dramatically improved after moving out of Midwest, even compared on the worst wildfire weeks out here.

Coming from NWI, I know the mills had a lot to do with subpar air quality, but I had similar issues when I lived on the far Northside of Chicago so it seems to be more regionally affecting.

It's a similar top reason on my list to not living there long term again
Anatomy of an Internet argument 3: start by establishing trust
Seems like a big deal. I feel like this could enable a new level of modularity and compatibility between publicly available weight sets, assuming they use similar channel dimensions. Maybe it also provides a nice formalism for thinking about fine tuning, where you could adopt certain heuristics for adding/removing key-value pairs from the Pattention layers.

One interesting thing to note: sounds like model scaling happens on the fly by adding key-value pairs as rows in the K and V matrices on the Pattention layer. That suggests that weights represented by tokens in the first rows may be more important than weights in later rows. There may be a lot you could do with that ordering of weights in terms of pruning and such.
Personally I like https://mui.com/ a lot. There's also https://www.chakra-ui.com/ and https://ant.design/ (but Ant is Chinese, if that matters).

I think those are the big 3. There might be directories of smaller ones but I dunno any offhand.
>> He billed my insurance just under $300 for an exam that took under 5 minutes.

This is really common in health care.

I injured my shoulder during hockey and went to the ER. The ER nurse told me to go to a specialty clinic that had offices all over town. Told me to bring a book since they do walk ins and it will be a while before I was seen. Brought a book and checked in. Three hours later, they took me back. I waited for about ten minutes and then the doctor came in.

Same thing. He asked me to raise my arm in several different directions and then announced, "Keep taking your anti-inflams, be about 6-8 weeks before it heals" and walks out. On his way out he kind of hollered back, "And do some stretching so you don't lose your range of motion!"

My insurance got billed $600 for a 2 min appointment.
>Insurance companies are starting to at least 6 months between exams, rather than covering two per year.

Medical insurance has always been like that, which is annoying when you have kids that need them for school and activities because they sometimes want them to be dated within a certain timeframe. Everytime you are off a week or two, it pushes the appointment further and further from the 6 months, by the time your kid is in their teens, the 6 months have lapped each other.
The rise and fall of Stack Overflow
The real question is what's happening to that staff & programs. Are they just getting distributed around the rest of the org, continuing at a department level?

Or are they getting rid of the concept entirely?
Eh, there's some nuance there; the shipbuilder claims they didn't properly prepare and the crew say they did prepare. The limited evidence so far seems to side with the crew.
A regex that finds prime numbers
I read this a few times and just wanted to confirm - are you saying the benchmark itself is can’t handle the higher core count?
Why has not a single person in this thread who has tried this just shared a link to the ChatGPT convo where they got these results?
Runtime safety is slower than compile type safety. Runtime safety SHOULD be opt-in if there's a performance penalty!

For runtime safety, there are lots of frameworks that follow TS's standard, one of the best is called "zod" which allows runtime safety and complex types are inferred.
My dad is a dentist and he recommended a guy in a city near me. My wife and I both went there for a few years and never had any issues.

The office was sold to a new, younger dentist...oddly enough a guy I knew from college years before. From that point forward, we both had regular cavities that needed to be filled. Eventually, we found another place and had a similar experience to yours: everything was fine.

I always wonder if it's something that has changed in how they are being trained? It's too consistent of a problem for me to believe that all of these dentists are just sleezy. It feels like something has changed in the educational experience to make them believe that these procedures are needed or justified.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41970280
It doesn't look like people are very interested in this here, which I find a bit disappointing.
I think weather is ... fine. I liked darksky better, it was more focused and less cluttered. It's purely a design, not functionality thing for me.
Property taxes are wealth taxes right? And they work great since everyone pays a small % to what the property appraiser thinks the property is worth.

Property taxes are on unrealized gains. There are separate taxes on realized gains when the property is sold.

IMO the bigger problem is capital gains tax rate is much lower than normal income tax rate. Income is income and should be taxed at the same rate.

However as the article suggests - people make rational decisions for personal gain and lawmakers have a lot of wealth tied up in stocks. So they will never vote majority to touch that golden goose.
I've heard a lot over the years about how registries are a step towards confiscation. A bit conspiratorial, but also not totally unfounded.

Now that the government knows that this database exists, it seems like a partially-complete registry could be a lawsuit (and years of appeals) away.

The participants of this may have accidentally built their own Torment Nexus.
AI has to be trained - if you’re asking it to grind leetcode or take a standardized test or make the millionth version of a shop webpage, it will rock it.

If you’re asking it to do something novel, good luck.

The kinds of things AI can do were already offshored long ago. So nope, not worried.
Unlike many other languages, R has a native/built-in tabular data structure. So when your data have tabular structure R is by far the best glue for building pipes between external libreries. If the data fits in RAM it literally doesn't have to leave the data.table object throughout the whole pipeline (including all the cleaning and transformations).

The only meaningful alternative I see is Python with maybe Polars or DuckDB.
As a long time Pixelmator user, this really worries me. I loved DarkSky and then Apple acquired and killed it without a good replacement (I switched to Wunderground because Apple Weather is inaccurate, especially for precipitation predictions).
> Economic hardship during the Second World War forced the government to institute food rations, and limits on sugar were not lifted until 1953, years after the war ended.

> The researchers found that the people conceived during the sugar limitations had a 35% lower risk of diabetes and a 20% lower risk of high blood pressure than people conceived after the rationing.

Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.

Turns out it wasn’t just about grit.
Type 1 or Type 2? It took me one minute of additional research to determine that this is related to Type 2 diabetes, yet the author didn't even bother to mention. This is lazy journalism motivated by maximizing clicks.
I love Yoga (flexbox++ engine built by Meta), and yes most people don't understand that React is simply not coupled to the DOM!
OpenAI Assistants API has PDF support I believe
I hear ya, that sounds familiar.

The amount of deliberate damage anyone on my team can do is pretty much catastrophic. But we accept this as risk. It is appropriate for the environment. If we were running a bank, it would be inappropriate, but we're not running a bank.

I pushed back on risk management one time when The New Guy rebuilt our CI system. It was great, all bells and whistles and tests, except now deploying a change took 5 minutes. Same for rolling back a change. I said "Dude, this used to take 20 seconds. If I made a mistake I would know, and fix it in 20 seconds. Now we have all these tests which still allow me to cause total outage, but now it takes 10 minutes to fix it." He did make it faster in the end :)
I'm currently working on splatgallery.com. It's supposed to be a curated community driven gallery of the best 3D models reconstructed from photos or videos. It's currently in a very early stage and I am still adding more models to it hoping it'll gain traction from the community :)
On the other hand, Testflight has a pretty good acquisition story. It got "merged into main" and is now a first class citizen of the iOS development ecosystem. Workflow being acquired and turning into Shortcuts is a pretty successful outcome IMHO. Beats still continues to make slightly cheaper headphones. FoundationDB is still there.

Apart from Dark Sky, what other products with users has Apple acquired and shut down? Being acquired by Apple doesn't seem to be the obvious death knell that it is for other companies.
I didn't say they were "stupid", I said I had trouble presenting at one.

That said, it's not apples to apples. I spend like 60% of my day coding, which of course I can do from pretty much anywhere, and it doesn't really matter if my jokes land. When I do video calls, it's generally in relatively small meetings, and it actually is relatively easy to gauge reactions that way.

It feels like you're extrapolating a bit much here.
> dentists and prosecutors are in the same social circles

What? Are there dentist/prosecutor cocktail parties us software grunts are missing out on?
The article notes that many of chatgpt's answers may be sourced (at least in part) from stackoverflow, and it made me wonder... as AI kills off the sites that provided the answers in the first place, where is it going to source new answers? Tech questions and answers tend to have a shelf-life, and there are obviously new things to ask about all the time. How is all that going to play out?
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I am passionate about leveraging technology to solve real-world problems and continuously seek to enhance my skills. Currently, I am exploring emerging trends like blockchain and Web3 to broaden my knowledge and deliver even more innovative solutions.

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After staring at the linked PDF for a while, I think the display was a collection of lightbulbs (presumably behind a mask plate), probably arranged something like this:

Upper dial V XV
(Quotient) III

Lower dial LLLVV
(Accumulator) XXX X
IIII
What’s wrong with this? If I shop at Joe’s Grocery, then it’s no secret that I’m allowed to tell my county commissioner about the fact that Joe sold me a banana.

Are they saying that Joe can’t tell the county commission that I bought a banana?

This is all just stuff we learn. It’s basic freedom of speech.

Sure, if I paid Joe $2 to keep it secret because my wife thinks I’m allergic… that’s different.
Hi, thank you very much for the interest. I think as long as your hardware can run Python 3.11, it should be fine. You don't really have to use any local LLMs or anything. You can just rely on external APIs and be fine.
Mind-blowing. In effect, among humans, what separates the civilized from the crude is the quest for universality among the civilized. To say it differently, thinking in terms of attaining universality is the mark of a civilized mind.

I made an episode to appreciate the book: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podgenai/episodes/Th...
Or your logic is flimsy. Equipment, as far as I can tell, is mostly bought once and then mortgaged over the lifetime of the practice, so they are presumably paying the same regardless. Newer dentists just have newer, and nicer, equipment. I go to a newer dentist and have never been recommended onlays. It's like any profession, some people are honest and some aren't.
The article itself directly acknowledges this saying “of course this will be surpassed once we can benchmark the m4 max” (or something similar).

I wonder if their rules are “we only announce benchmarks we’ve done ourselves”? Coupled with “well we need some readers today and our MacBook order hasn’t arrived”
I am adding more features to my Google Sheets add-on as requested by users. I planned to keep it a micro-SaaS but it seems people want it all at one place. They will pay or not is another thing.

https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/hiretale_ats/38...
I'm the same way with opticians. I'm like I don't need all these fancy surroundings. Just check out my eyes and give me a prescription, I don't need a coffee shop or gorgeous lighting in a ritzy part of town. Strip mall opticians are fine. Just use common sense and get second opinions if something seems off.
No. That is not how language works. "Money laundering" does not mean putting paper bills into a washing machine. "Private equity" firms are a specific business structure besides the literal meaning.
The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President
The issue with Windows support for tools like Pixelmator is that a great many of its features are wrappers around OS level image manipulation libraries that come with macOS/iOS - Windows doesn't have anything like the rich image manipulation libraries built in that macOS has, so to get feature parity would very likely involve building from scratch a ton of the stuff they didn't have to do on macOS. The Pixelmator developers have said this before in their own support forums too when question of Windows/Linux support is asked.

This is partly why we often see new image editor apps only hit macOS/iOS sometimes, especially if its from a smaller development team.

> This rules out use in most of the professional world

I don't agree with this; I have never worked at a company the design team weren't all on Macs, regardless of company size. Sure it rules out some professional use but I doubt it's even a majority. The output image file assets can be shared with any OS etc etc so not like it stops collaboration either.
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Pete Buttigieg Wants to Make America Not Suck Again? [video]
Logic Pro for Mac is regarded very well.

When they make a focused effort in professional software, Apple can deliver.
Aperture was utterly paranoid about data-loss.

There was the SQLite database that was run on its own thread, and regularly synced to disk, the hard-sync that waited until the data had flushed through to the disk platters.

In addition to that there was a whole structure of plist files, one per image, that meant the database could be reconstructed from all these individual files, so if something had somehow corrupted the SQLite database, it could be rebuilt. There was an option to do that in the menu or settings, I forget which. The plists were write-once, so they couldn't be corrupted by the app after they'd been written-and-verified on ingest.

Finally, there were archives you could make which would back up the database (and plist files) to another location. This wasn't automated (like Time Machine is) but you could set it running overnight and come back to a verified-and-known-good restore-point.

If there was a catastrophic data loss, it's (IMHO much) more likely there was a disk failure than anything in the application itself causing problems - and unless you only ever had one instance of your data, and further that the disk problem was across both the platter-area that stored plists and well as database, it ought to have been recoverable.

Source: I wrote the database code for Aperture. I tested it with various databases holding up to 1M photos on a nightly basis, with scripts that randomly corrupted parts of the database, did a rebuild, and compared the rebuilt with a known-good db. We regarded the database as a cache, and the plists as "truth"

I'm not saying it was impossible that it was a bug in Aperture - it was a very big program, but we ran a lot of tests on that thing, we were very aware that people are highly attached to their photos, and we also knew that when you have millions of users, even a 1-in-a-million corner-case problem can be a really big issue - no-one wanted to read "Aperture lost all my photos", ever.
Not a direct learning resource, but a few quick tips:

1) Know what language you're targeting beforehand, if possible (e.g. Javascript regex or Perl regex or POSIX regex, etc.). There are a lot of different regex "dialects" (kinda like SQL dialects) and the operators aren't always compatible, and not every implementation supports all the features (like "negative lookaheads").

2) Railroad diagrams can be really helpful, e.g. https://regexper.com/#%5E%28%5BA-Z%5D%7B3%7D%29-%28%5Cd%7B4%...

3) ChatGPT is actually really good at both generating and explaining regex statements. You should always verify its output against some tests, but it can usually get you 95% of the way there with minimal effort. I learned regex the hard way back in the Perl days, but just use ChatGPT to make all of them now
So the new Mini is faster than all existing Macs (at least on multicore Geekbench). That revelation sort of throws a monkey wrench into the grand plan of seldom buying a super-duper Mac that will perform competitively for years. Better to buy the cheapest Mac possible (with a Pro CPU) and leave the Studios and Pros to rich fools eager to part with their megabucks.
Physics vs. AI: A Fruitful Future Explained by a Physicist
I really wanted to like WebP as a one stop replacement for jpg/png/gif. Sadly the ios webkit decoder for animated webp is infuriatingly inconsistent wrt frame rate so I had to abandon it.
How to overcome your device dependency and manage a successful digital detox
Is it possible to get more transparency on our application?
I have PiHole running on a cloud VM that’s a part of my Tailscale network, and I configure Tailscale to use it for DNS resolution so that everything in my network has access to it.
Archived copy: https://archive.is/MiP7c
Sycamore v0.9.0
I was (selfishly) happy with the acquisition because DarkSky didn't support where I live. Now I have hyperlocal rain notifications I didn't get before.
The interesting thing is that some of the "new" taboo words are only taboo for certain groups of people.

The N-word has been reclaimed by people of color, but remains taboo for others to say.

The F-slur is in the process of being reclaimed by gay people, but remains taboo for everyone else.

I can't think of any parallels in past English curse words -- "fuck" was taboo no matter who you were.