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Reprompt AI (YC W24) | AI Engineering | Onsite San Francisco | Full-Time
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reprompt/jobs/YfQBWDH-...

Reprompt builds AI Agents for Location-- Mapping companies like Radar and TomTom use our agents to get live information about a point of interest or business that keeps their maps up to date. To do this we have an internal agents platform that supports Web, Vision, Doc Reading, and soon self-driving browser agents.

We're just 3 people now, onsite in SF and looking for a senior/founding python engineer who has worked with LLMs before. Join us to build the agent revolution.

https://repromptai.com/
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reprompt/jobs/YfQBWDH-...
It's what separates us from the machines and why we'll always win.
Yoon or the army would still have to recognize it.
Tobacco pays real well
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia, with plans to move to Serbia/Hungary

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: LLMs, GPT, Llama, transformers, Instruction Tuning, Preference Tuning, Alignment, DPO, LoRA, RAG, PyTorch, Hugging Face, DeepSpeed, Qdrant, vLLM, Triton Inference Server, TensorRT, Prompt Engineering, Python, FastAPI, Docker, GCP, MLFlow, Redis, PostgreSQL, Git, CI/CD, mypy, flake8, rye, pytest, Semantic Search, LLM-as-a-Judge, Rust, Kotlin, Ktor

CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C-KXW0JUgzfkVe3nOmF9wI0b...

Email: bobazooba@gmail.com

My name is Boris and I have been actively involved in dialogue systems (both in the pre-LLM era and with LLM models) and everything related to language processing for more than 7 years.

At my last job, I developed an internal framework for generating complex synthetic data. Goal: very precise fine-tuning of LLMs and encoders for complex, multi-stage tasks, including RAG, scenario following, goal progression, content promotion, and so on. This approach helped solve 6 LLM-based projects in the company.

I also developed and implemented a zero-shot intent classifier that works with an open list of classes and determines where to go next in the scenario based on dialogue. Essentially, it's an instructional classifier where intents are described in free form.

I have extensive experience in evaluating the quality of generative models and am familiar with most of the pitfalls in this process. In total, my portfolio includes more than 20 different LLM-based projects.

Besides ML, I have strong engineering skills and experience in writing fairly complex backend code in Python for AI agents. I researched and developed a scenario engine based on LLM. I also have open source experience, with a library for simplifying LLM fine-tuning that has nearly 400 stars: https://github.com/BobaZooba/xllm

Earlier, I taught Deep Learning in NLP for 4 years at Russia's best university.

Currently, I am actively looking for a new job. I have much more to share. I would be happy to discuss and come to a fruitful collaboration in the LLM field.
I may be misremembering because I was so young back then but wasn't making French fries suitable to vegetarians and hindus a big factor?

I could swear there was a lawsuit or something related to fries being cooked with cow when people thought they were not
Also:

* "Concert pitch" of A=440Hz is not universal.

* 12 tone equal temperament is not universal.

* Analog playback systems often run at slightly incorrect speeds.

* Some instruments are difficult or impossible to tune, so the tuning will vary with temperature. Nobody is going to tune a pipe organ in a drafty church every time the weather changes.

* DJ mixes rely on playing tracks at different speeds to allow for smooth transitions between tracks of different tempo[0], which changes the tuning.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatmatching
The upcoming American kakistocracy is really difficult to process. It feels like they have brought in a demolition crew to tear down everything America has built based on knowledge and evidence, in favor of policy lead by ideology, cynicism, and contrarianism.

I generally try to steer clear of partisan politics on HN, but this doesn't feel like partisan politics anymore. This is 2+2=5 stuff.
Probably because you're stuck with sub-par 110v appliances made for the US market...
v1 is still supported too
Is there anywhere good I could read about that "gender war"? I've heard about it before, but usually only narrativized as one-sided (e.g. discussing feminist policies)
I'm not saying I haven't seen it, but I would bet my lifesavings the overall percentage is quite small. Why is bringing up the minority use case helpful in these discussions? Some teams just use javascript and opt for zero dependencies too, these teams are also an extreme minority.

You can't have an earnest discussion about react if you're going to argue that no one pulls in a myriad of other dependencies. Even the react docs recommend you use frameworks when starting out:

https://react.dev/learn/start-a-new-react-project

Your usage, while quite admirable (I earnestly mean that too, I wish I was on a team that was disciplined enough to only use react and nothing else), isn't the common experience.
It sounds like the military has been obeying the President’s orders somewhat halfheartedly, in a manner which has deprived them of much of their effectiveness. I’m not sure in that scenario it is right to label them as “coup participants”.
I feel like a lot of the arguments for HTMX are simply delight in having "permission" to build MPAs again. Backend stacks are historically good at routing/state management/auth and more, everything old is new again. But also, yes, not everything needs to be a SPA and maybe we've just reached the point to start asking again "why is this a SPA?"

> JSX is a really elegant way to avoid templating

JSX is still a templating language. It's just an "inverted one" where the templates are embedded in scripts rather than the other way around. That said, I do think it is a very elegant templating system, especially because it can be type checked with Typescript. TSX is a massive improvement on most template compilers in part because it has such a massive types ecosystem today.

(My own efforts in "post-React"/"post-Angular" have been TSX-based. I've got a Knockout-inspired view engine with a single runtime dependency on RxJS. It has a developer experience similar to React, but isn't a virtual DOM, and has some some interesting tricks up its sleeve. I'm really happy with TSX as the template language for it.)
Which games are you referring to?

All the ones I've seen (Dance Dance Revolution, Dance Evolution and the like) aren't judged subjectively, but are objective. Your foot either stepped on the foot pad at the specified time or not. Your arms were either in the right spot at the right time or not. It doesn't "judge" anything.
PowerPC/chrp: Remove CHRP support
The point where they re-centered React around a bad half-implementation of Objects, in a language that already has an OO system, was when I decided they were out of real problems to solve (or didn't know how to approach those real problems—do Forms still suck in vanilla React, without an add-on library or two?) and on to pure employment-justifying and CV-building.

And, more power to them, but at that point I'm not going to willingly rely on the project for anything.
No, young kids are sociopaths. they do not yet have well developed faculties of empathy. They will kick you in the head one second and ask for a sandwich the next.
The next 15-20 years are going to be entertaining as the world finally runs out of COBOL developers.
Late Chunking vs. Contextual Retrieval: The Math Behind RAG's Context Problem
A Raspberry Pi was a full Linux computer with GPIOs. You can run whatever daemons and still control a relay board. No microcontroller fills that niche. There still isn't really anything in that niche other than single-board computers (i.e. Raspberry Pi clones) - for example, NUCs don't have GPIOs on them.

Of course you can fall back to the previous standard idea - connecting an Arduino to another computer and communicating by the serial port.
The guy that bought it is not an artist, he was just trying to distract from some good-old-fashioned corruption: https://popular.info/p/a-chinese-national-charged-with-fraud

Based on the coverage of his purchase it seems like he succeeded.
My ancient MacBook air is also working perfectly well except for the lack of OS support. I finally got a newer model this weekend and my wife asked me what new features the new one had, and I struggled to explain that it had no new features (useful to me) really, except OS updates.
The LaTeX source may be easily edited to impart any size/proportion desired --- not quite as straight-forward as re-sizing a browser window, but the same ultimate effect.
Markdown has always supported direct raw HTML in it. I don't see any gulf or sudden jump in cost. Don't be a Markdown purist. Even John Gruber, the creator of Markdown, is not a Markdown purist. Go look at the Markdown source of his blog and you will see that he frequently just uses raw HTML. He doesn't even do multi-paragraph ordered lists in Markdown, and chooses to write <ol><li><p> instead. And he also uses <a><img> for clickable images. You can append ".text" to any of his blog article to get the Markdown source; example https://daringfireball.net/2020/10/the_iphone_12_and_iphone_...
> Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management.

I will ignore their claimed almost unlimited scalability (which I somewhat believe as it's in their best interest to make it expensive fast), and "highest" (as compared to what?) availability. But my pet peeve is zero infrastructure management. This is blatantly false and it always was - when they first announced their cloud (at that time called "web") services, when they marketed their solutions as "serverless", and now. You need to have well-trained staff to maintain your AWS infrastructure otherwise you will come across many problems.
Dude, the developer is a highschooler, calm down. There is also a free version.
Show HN: Built a v0.dev Alternative Using AI and Cloudflare Workers
Boy we're playing IRL Papers, Please now!
In my experience, multi-region databases are used for HA/DR more so than for "writing locally from multiple places". What this means is that the multi-region "consensus cost" is a far easier problem. It looks like DSQL is aiming to change that paradigm: the question is, will this actually mean multiple-region writes become democratized finally? or will this remain more of a database industry marketing talking point that essentially no one uses?
and then insist they never asked for the sandwich, and then say they're hungry.
Yeah but it was the return to the wrong engineer. While Pat allegedly architecting i486 is major respect, it was ultimately an iteration of i386 which is where the alpha is at. Guy who architected i386 (John Crawford) is too old. So that leaves Intel Core which was architected by Uri Frank. Now get this. Two weeks after Pat Gelsinger is appointed CEO of Intel in February 2021, Uri Frank announces he's going to be joining Google to lead the development of their cloud chips. That guy is probably Intel's natural leader. So it'd be interesting to know if there's more to this story.
I am confused, what is the difference between Aurora DSQL and Aurora Serverless?

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/
LPMUD taught more people how to code and more effectively than basically any online educational environment I can think of, and it did it without people even realizing that's what they were learning.
ChatGPT turns two: how the AI chatbot has changed scientists' lives
Oh man, that reminds me of the rolling blackouts in California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000–2001_California_electrici...
Exactly this.

As a matter of personal practice, I donate a percentage of my gross income to charitable causes. Through experience, I have developed a number of rules about this.

One of them is that I don't donate to large charitable organizations or any organizations that solicit donations from me. I get more bang for the buck by sticking with smaller organizations that are often overlooked by others. The big guys don't need my money, the little guys do, and the little guys make a more obvious impact in my community.

Also, I have yet to have a smaller charitable organization violate their promise to keep my donation and identity a secret.
I once chatted with a professor Doctor who was of the opinion that most people going into med school probably would've had decent bedside manners if left to their own devices, but between there and internship, 95% of them wind up having it all trained out of them.
> ... when the 90s arrived it didn't have a big company pouring gobs of money into marketing it unlike Java.

IBM not big enough? :-)

But of course IBM's consulting group were technology neutral and pivoted from Smalltalk to Java when the wind changed.

> Like who wants to distribute a whole system for each smalltalk program they sell?

Smalltalk was marketed to corporations as a 4GL replacement for green screen systems. So enterprise wide client-server apps for insurance/reinsurance, call center outsourcing, assembly line control, options/derivatives/reconciliation, ERP CRM TLA TLA, etc etc

I don't claim to have been in "The Room Where It Happens" meetings, so I'll just say that from my lowly perspective during that period Allen Wirfs-Brock's comment ring true.

https://wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/914
lodash is a utility library (so chock-full of functionality) how can you say it "does one thing well"?
Unironically, by powerpoint (for a B2B product)
Location: UK / EU
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: python, R, SQL, AWS, GCP
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrada-butnaru-74723b5a/
Email: andrada.butnaru@gmail.com

Experienced data scientist with generalist profile, looking to transition into MLOps / DevOps.
I think this is way, way too pessimistic and unfair. When they say zero, it's like a food item that says zero calories. It might have up to five calories while still saying zero, but that's very different than three hundred.

Managing a SQL Database at scale is more like four thousand calories daily, if I continue stretching this analogy. :)
I'm not sure why it became popular to denigrate people for making jokes about bad things.

Mel Brooks has the point of view that there are some things that are so bad that the only appropriate response is to make jokes about it.

It's ok to not like jokes if you find the topic hurtful, jokes don't have to please everybody. Everyone deals with trauma in their own way

At the same time declaring the unacceptablity of a joke because people suffered is to presume how those people feel about it and manage that suffering. Many of those people will manage it with humour themselves.
Agreed. I also think React did the world a favor by making functional programming a little more mainstream, which is part of what makes JSX/TSX feel so magical when it works.
Suppose I should have been clearer, perhaps that should have read “where these people eventually want to remain”, as in live for the rest of their lives, ie be immigrants instead of merely temporary expats (which should never bother a native, since they’re paying taxes during their working years without receiving benefits over their retirement years).
Can someone explain to me how it is that we accept password managers as viable solutions from a security perspective? Like, all it would take is a bad actor inside 1Password to upload a compromised version of the browser extension that transmits the unencrypted password vault to a server in Siberia. That would compromise a significant fraction of the world's passwords in a matter of hours.

How is that single point of failure not terrifying to anybody?
Not all Clojure REPLs have slow startup. Clojure is a hosted language, it sits atop another PL. For instance, REPL of nbb (which runs on Node) is instantaneous, and babashka (for bash scripting) is also very fast.
Location: Cologne, Germany
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Golang (Go), C, Python, NATS, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, QEMU, Linux, Dynamic Analysis, Reverse Engineering, Malware Analysis, Virtualization (Vagrant, Packer, Proxmox), NixOS, Microservices, REST APIs, Git
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leander-kohler/
Email: hn@leander.sh

M.Sc. Computer Science graduate with 5+ years student experience in cyber security research, Machine Learning and backend development. Strong background in malware analysis, reverse engineering, and distributed systems. Developed production microservices handling e-commerce operations. Multiple research projects at Fraunhofer FKIE focusing on dynamic analysis, unpacking, and emulation introspection (all with top grades). Maintain extensive homelab infrastructure using Proxmox and NixOS for personal projects and continuous learning. Looking primary for roles in cyber security, low-level development, or backend engineering. Available from May 2025 after a sabbatical.
Show HN: DevExchange: Transform your text and data effortlessly
Built as a self-hosted alternative to a pay-walled app for developers.

The UI is so-so right now, but I can make changes with your feedback!

Thanks!
If you prevent government from launching technologies for every software bug / mistake, you will get a bloated government which will do everything manually increasing it's cost to taxpayers and decrease in quality of services.

The key is still to launch fast and iterate over bugs especially in the realm of traffic / parking violations which at the most causes annoyances to people ( I mean the same people are willing to sit in front of Holland Tunnel for an hour )
Nah, they had real problems that React solved. But most applications aren't Facebook and don't have the same need for this.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg seeks 'active role' in Donald Trump's tech policies
... "right after" being something like 4 years later and not at all scandalous by French standards unless, by chance, there was some organized campaign against her. Ya know?

But anyway, there is a group photo from the meeting that Einstein references in his letter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference#/media/File:...
Similar story here! They are great platforms to create and explore with. Built up CircleMUD 1995-1999 here.
Only insofar as having a positive opinion is material. The chances on HN are drastically higher than elsewhere on the Internet, but most here will never have the chance to interact with pg, so having a positive or negative view of his motivations is immaterial. Most opinions are immaterial. Unless we're on a ship in the ocean, and we're using the stars for navigation, and you're the navigator, whether or not you believe the Earth is flat, what you believe doesn't affect me. So then it really comes down to world view - are you an optimists or a pessimist? Is that neat little story about pg a carefully coldly calculated PR piece, or just a neat little story that has no effect on anything other than some people feeling good, like chicken soup for the entrepreneureal spirit. Why not both!
https://archive.is/q6LAF
House committee reveals where Covid originated from long investigation
yes, generated by napi-rs
In general, and this applies to many language communities, you are encouraged to include all kind of garbage dependencies into your project.

Adding dependencies should be something you consider carefully. Every line of code has a maintenance cost - a dependency has it times 1000. Effectively you are adding technical debt in many cases.

For instance I just developed a new react app with just react and react-router. My colleagues suggested react-query but why add this when you can do all you need with a few lines of code and fetch?
"The McDonald's Corporation plans to issue an apology and pay $10 million to vegetarian and religious groups for using beef flavoring in its French fries. The action is part of a proposed settlement of lawsuits charging that the company misled consumers."
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/09/us/mcdonald-s-to-settle-s...
But then I remember it's just a pointer to 19.124.217.99 and I have no idea if it's legit or not, just like all the .coms.
If you wish to look into DXFs I worked up a technique for making them at:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcpdxf.p...
That's honestly the sneakiest suggestion for implementation of communism I've heard so far in my life. Give away low quality software for free, then later demand that the government force people who want nothing to do with you or your code to pay you for your efforts. It's parasitic on several different levels.

Then all FOSS hackers will be like Khrushchev, wondering why Western industry always outproduced his own, even though the Soviets "where doing everything right".
So I'm not the first, nor likely the last.

The paper was published in Nature which means that ordinary mortals like me
cannot read it. Sigh.
There is potential for an excellent experience but it is far from the average one. If you have a technical person set up home assistant and keep physical switches (eg lutron caseta), everyone can win. But most people who buy a smart bulb have never heard of home assistant and may not have the patience or ability to learn. I think HA could do a better job at attracting and onboarding the average consumer.
Kind of strange to call it browserless as though Skia requires one to begin with. Been using the .NET Skia library in CLI and desktop applications for a while.
Nature papers get retracted every year. I have not heard of DAC papers retracted.

If the Nature paper made it clear that RL is not seriously expected to work on non-TPU chips, it would have have probably been rejected. If RL works on many other chips, then evidence should be easy to publish.
I lost track of CA after the whole Clipper acquisition, and trying to make a VB alternative out of its Windows version.
Google Chrome Fixes Longstanding macOS Immersive Full Screen Mode Bug
To enable:

* enter full screen

* uncheck: View > Always Show Toolbar in Full Screen

All keyboard shortcuts (new tab, new window, focus URL, etc) and browser behavior now work properly!

To everyone who worked to land this: thank you!
Do people wind up in (what we would call) hospital in BNW, or do they get given an overdose* of soma while the next one gets decanted?

* compare George V's last moments (time, manner, and place; especially time) I'd call it an influence, except it happened 4 years after BNW was published.
Nice to see more from Amazon in this space.

I had the chance to see a demo a few weeks ago and it seemed impressive. Now to actually do the challenging, and build something useful with it :-)
Genuine question: is someone starting projects in Perl/Raku? If yes, what made you choose it?
I'd say we're dipping more towards a return to feudalism.
I've certainly experienced that, but I've also seen a fair bit of kindness from very young children as well.

For example, a few years ago, one of my nieces, when she was four, got a bunch of candy for some reason, and desperately tried to give everyone a few pieces. She wasn't asked to share, she just decided that she'd give everyone a bit of candy, and as far as I can tell it was purely just to be nice.

That said, kids are often sociopaths, I was definitely a little shit when I was a kid.
Oh come now. We're pretty darn sure we know why, the headline doesn't need to give confidence intervals.

If you want to complain about the headline, complain about the fact it's leaving out information unnecessarily. You could easily fit the reason inside of the headline itself, instead of just teasing the fact that we know what it is. Something like: "Using names listed in a defamation lawsuit cause ChatGPT to grind to a halt."
Have you seen most adults? I thought it was generally held that empathy is a learned facility. Not just the ability to feel empathy, but who and what you feel empathy towards.
Amazon Nova