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Prophet Town LLC | Full-Stack Engineer + PM + DevOps/Infra | USA-ONLY REMOTE | Full-time | $240K-$370K annual total comp (multiple) | English fluency required

[UPDATE: we have a more current posting, please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42575537#42579526]

I’m the founder, trying to do “enlightened business.” We are a small, fully-remote, sf-bay-area-based, boutique indie tech agency. Our leadership staff are all ex-Fortune 100; everybody codes. Notable recent projects: voltagepark.com and a slackbot for Anduril’s employees.

Unlike earlier HN Who's Hiring posts, we have specific existing clients in mind: total comp is not flexible hourly, but full-time salary with client-tied equity compensation. We are currently filling “Tier 3” (5-10 y/o/e, $240K-$320K annual comp) and "Tier 4" (7-20 y/o/e, $300K-$370K annual total comp) roles:

Engineers: Full stack polyglot but JS/TS heavy (SQL/NextJS/Node/React, Remix+ReactNative and gen-ai nice-to-have), AWS deployments.

Infra+Devops: Kubernetes/Docker, Terraform, AWS service set, common CI/CD options.

We’re a worker-first operation. Applicants must meet a high bar; in return, I pledge my personal commitment to finding you interesting work and getting you good pay.

We tend to get swamped with resumes lately; we're doing something new and trying a Google Form to collect application submissions (https://forms.gle/1Kknc1EPrQ6jyCNd6). If you submit by Friday night (December 6th, Pacific time) we plan to at least confirm those submissions on Saturday. You are free to submit again even if you have in the past.

You can ping me at hn-hiring@ptown.tech too, though a form submission above will actually get priority (there's a lot of submission spam to emails in HN posts...).
This creates a new doomsday scenario for alien bacteria. Not that it could infect us, but that it could be much more efficient than existing life in some fundamental way that can’t be stopped.
> coffee should be coffee.

I'm one of the lucky people where any coffee is coffee for me. McDonald's, Starbucks, instant coffee, specialty coffee, cat pooped coffee? Yup, it tastes like coffee, I'm good to go.
True engineering leaders should not code
Why limit yourself to AI and agents? seems abstract enough that tasks, and parallel execution could be anything

Moreover, there isn't an example how it `could` work for inference or function_calls/tools/agents

But looks simple to get started and feels like it has the right foundation for good things to come. Kudos!
RNA nanotechnology on the horizon: Self-assembly and applications
This review focuses on design and assembly approaches to building RNA structures, the RNA chemical modifications used to enhance stability and functionality, and modern-day applications in therapeutics, biosensing, and bioimaging.
Is a shield a weapon? Is armour a weapon? Silk is resistant to cuts. People made suits of armour out of silk.

Burning silk (and other organics) makes cyanide. I have no idea if this can be weaponised.
Excel Spreadsheet containing Fibre Optic network node placements and connections (wavelengths) for entire country. Group of 8 of us working on project. Major piece of work, I'm brand new to industry and enjoy coding

--->>>

Wrtie py script to scrape the spreadsheet with Python (20 sheets, 1000s of rows and columns)

--->>>

Calculate optimal networking conditions and connections/allocations for 1 entire full country network using Djikstras algo and some other custom code. Solves a major allocation issue that can't really be solved manually, very painstaking.

--->>>

1 hour later, Report results to bosses, solve entire task, ask for 2 pay-rises, leave the next week for double my salary

lol
Compilers are a good one. I know Rust's original compiler (before being self hosted) was implemented in OCaml. Darklang's compiler was in OCaml as well.
Pinterest | San Francisco, New York, or hybrid/remote (US-only) | ML Engineer / Applied Research Scientist | Full-time

Pinterest’s Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) is hiring for an engineering position on our visual modeling team for developing Pinterest Canvas. Canvas is a foundation text-to-image model developed internally for helping various visualization, inpainting, and outpainting products. In this role, you’ll get to work with Pinterest’s rich visual-text dataset to build large-scale generative models which are continuously being shipped to production. The core Canvas pod is a small group (~6 engineers) inside of ATG, which focuses on a broad variety of AI/ML initiatives, such as core computer vision, multimodal representation learning, heterogeneous graph neural networks, recommender systems, etc.

New-grads are welcome to apply (preferably with a masters or PhD). Candidates should have diffusion modeling experience (e.g. diffusion transformers, LoRA fine-tuning, complex {text, image} conditioning, style transfer, etc.) and some form of industry experience. Engineers within ATG have a lot of leeway in terms of product contribution, so both ML engineers and research scientists are welcome to apply. We encourage the team to regularly publish, and the role can be either in person (SF, NY) or hybrid is preferred.

Please reach out to me directly (dkislyuk@pinterest.com) if you’re interested.
I enjoyed reading this, but I felt that 90% of this person’s experience was simply the result of being a real contributor in an organization with non-existent expectations/completely un-optimized state/no other real contributors.

In other words it’s easy to make a difference as a high performer in a low performance organization.

Again not detracting from this persons achievements, I just don’t think these most of these observations apply in high performIng organizations
Location: Pacific time zone (PST/PDT) - Coeur d'Alene, Idaho / Spokane, Washington

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe after some time

Technologies: Rust, C, Lisp, Shell, Linux, NixOS, POSIX, ZFS, Git, debugger, profiler, abstraction, data structs, algorithms, formats

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BPpCYuC1xBz4jTk5PBGJ0F1zebH...

Email: hire.derick@pm.me
> you can touch the phone on table and don't have move your head to get it right

This one. And like you said, it's much more reliable and faster than Face ID.
As far as I understand it, pretty much every part of the world is wealthier, with larger populations, better medical care, more plentiful food, better tools, &c, &c. Even places that are very poor -- many of the developing countries, for example -- have considerably more resources than they did in times past.

One way to gain an intuition for the extent of the change is to consider population sizes. India in 1600 had about a tenth of its present population. To have a population so much larger, agricultural productivity in India, as well as in the rest of the world, had to increase a great deal in the intervening years.

Another way is to consider the spread of various conveniencies of life -- refrigerators, motor bikes, microwaves, automobiles -- and affordances they enable. Relatively few people in Bangladesh own motor vehicles, but many of them find work in commercial enterprises that are only possible because of the way that commercial trucks open up the interior to world markets. Something like 12% of the world's population has cars today, and that number is steadily increasing. I am not totally certain of this figure, but I believe about two thirds of households in the world have refrigerators.

The benefits of modernization are spread very unevenly amongst the world's peoples today (and we must acknowledge that another example I offered, of the Pax Romana, conferred many advantages specifically to the Romans) but it is hard to argue that there has not been a tremendous benefit worldwide as a result of changes brought about mostly by colonial powers over the last 400 years or so. The thing to consider is not what life in Bangladesh is like, relative to life in the Denmark (or the UK, &c), but what life in Bangladesh was like 400 years ago.

The Europeans do not have it as good as they do -- and, more generally, the world is not so much better off materially -- as a result of simply transferring well-being from one place to another. There were no automobiles, refrigerators, &c, to steal from other countries 400 years. The path to modernity involved real changes in human productivity that allowed for a genuine net benefit.
Yes, done now
By contrast (no pun intended), HN's grey on light grey is very hard to read for me (with poor eyesight), especially in dim light. It fails accessibility best practice standards, having a contrast ratio of only 3.54:1: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=828282&...

Black and white may be jarring, but it's easier to turn down the brightness than to have to use a custom stylesheet just to make grey-on-grey more readable.
F# compiler is so slow.. a big turnoff coming from ocaml, where compile times are fast, even faster than Go or Haxe.
Now add devenv/devshell to your flake and it will become an all-in-one, self-contained, dependency-stable powerhouse.
>The other one I'm seeing lately is a semi-stealth "service charge" on the bill.

I've yet to come across it. But when I do, I will refuse to pay it and I will also refuse to leave any tip. And I will never return.
Yeah, I get it. They're not there to be happy. They're there to make the customers happy. Here is what weitendorf's concerns were:

weitendorf> but it discourages me from ordering them because I don't want to 1. ask the price (when you're with people you don't know well it brings attention to you possibly spending more than they would on the meal, and can make you come across as a bit overly focused on price/money - could be interpreted as rude or poor manners) 2. potentially say no based on the price and deal with related social vibes that might put off + come up with a backup on the menu 3. not ask for the price at all and be handed a surprisingly large bill. Some of the times I have asked, the waiter will have to physically leave to go check the price, which is also something I want to avoid.
I agree it's intimidating. I think the way to counter that is good player aids. If you have a really well designed reference in front of each player, then the teach is often "see that second line, well this is how that works". Also the teacher should read the rules ahead of time, so they can can summarize or go in more details depending on the comprehension of players.

Those videos often gloss over a lot of specific details (e.g. round-up or round-down) and thats fine to gloss over in teaching also. If the first game runs smooth and gives the game experience, they're more likely to play again than if you have to stop and dig through reference multiple times. You can always look it up after so you do the second game more correctly.
Wow.I book a lot of flights, often waste a huge amount of time find the best flight, and would use this for a lot of the easier bookings. I was amazed at how well it works (in the simulator).

Google Flights is really the last Google product I routinely use -- happy to have an alternative!
People that work at art galleries are not artists.
Totally makes, don't know why I missed agent specific examples... will add them asap.

I focused on the Agent because it was initially built for that internally. But you are right, for the release I made it extremely general and to be used as a foundation for the complex systems.
> Most of the platforms are losing money for each user they onboard.

I really don't think they're losing money on onboarding, but I can totally see an argument for the fixed costs being so high that it doesn't work out.
This guy is making Kenya out to be difficult/unequitable, but I'm not aware of any country whose coffee production is equitable. Farmers get paid peanuts and struggle from year to year, and international trade is a boon for the buyer and an existential crisis for the seller (well, for the producer, but the poor seller sometimes misses a BMW payment)
No one is saying it is right; but we shouldn't draw the wrong lessons from the Roman Empire or many other cases of institutional development. Being brutal and taking from others is not something that distinguished the Romans from other people (nor did it distinguish the colonial Europeans).

To dismiss the Romans, the colonials, &c, as of no benefit, however, is to deny reality. The Roman roads were genuinely of value to peoples besides the Romans. Perhaps the Chinese, to, will create institutions and a scope of activity that is of value to peoples outside of China. Probably not in Asia...
s/government/governments/

Also corporations, political parties, propagandists, hucksters, and others.

Pathogens co-evolve with their hosts.
Phew. The pessimism here is kinda... exhausting. But frankly I don't have any material objections

"""
The Mars Religion

When you hold on to a belief so strongly that neither facts nor reason can change it, what you are doing is no longer science, but religion. So I’ve come to believe the best way to look at our Mars program is as a faith-based initiative. There is a small cohort of people who really believe in going to Mars, the way some people believe in ghosts or cryptocurrency, and this group has an outsize effect on our space program.

At NASA, the faith takes the form of a cargo cult. The agency has persuaded itself that re-enacting the Moon landings with enough fidelity will reward them with a trip to Mars, bringing back the limitless budgets, uncomplicated patriotism, and rapt public attention of the early sixties. They send up their rockets with the same touching faith that keeps Amtrak hauling empty dining cars across the prairie, dreaming of the golden age of rail.

Outside of NASA, the Mars faith shades darker. It is part of a transhumanist worldview that holds mankind must either spread to the stars or die. Elon Musk, the Martian spiritual leader, has talked about the need to “preserve the light of consciousness” by making us a multiplanetary species. As he sees it, Mars is our only way off of a planet crawling with existential risk. And it's not just enough to explore mars; we have make it a backup for all civilization. Failing to stock it with subsistence farming incels would be tantamount to humanity lying down in its open grave.
"""
Not talking about you!
This is an uncharitable take. Who said anything about an interruption every 20 minutes? We're talking about an artist doing an exhibition at a gallery, by any measure, this is a pretty significant collaboration that is in the artist's best interest and not something their getting spammed with dozens of a times a day.

If you read and digest the article, the point is not to create a litmus test based on time-to-response, it's to recognize there are a lot of people to talk a big game but are unserious about achieving shared goals.

If an artist is not responsive because they are so serious about their creative process that they don't have time to respond to a gallery doing an exhibition than maybe that's the right thing for what they are serious about, but it does jack shit for the gallery staffer who is serious about creating an exhibition.
Show HN: Yarn Spinner 3 Beta 1 is out
Isn't Go's concurrency model an advantage over other approaches?
Progress is coming from the weirdest corners… US DoD and NATO require IPv6 feature-parity to IPv4 nowadays, no full IPv6 = no bidding on tenders…

(I would already have expected this to be quite effective in forcing IPv6, but tbh I'm still surprised just how effective.)
It is hard to see how there would even be a Kenyan coffee market without colonialism.
Lemonodor
The bit in the article about email responsiveness concerned artists
I am referring to direct comparisons in Cheng et al and in Stronger Baselines that everyone is discussing. Let's assume your point about "might have been insufficient". We don't currently have the luxury to be frequentists, as we don't have many academic groups reporting results for running Google code. From the Bayesian perspective, that's the evidence we have.

Maybe you know more such published papers than I do, or you know the reasons why there aren't many. Somehow this lack of follow-up over three years suggests a dead-end.

As for "belittle", how would you describe the scientific term "regurgitating" used by Jeff Dean? Also, the term "fundamentally flawed" in reference to a 2023 paper by two senior professors with serious expertise and track record in the field, that for some reason no other experts in the field criticize? Where was Jeff Dean when that paper was published and reported by the media?

Unless Cheng and Kahng agree with this characterization, Jeff Dean's timing and language are counterproductive. If he ends up being wrong on this, what's the right thing to do?
The End of Dennard Scaling [video]
I wouldn't consider myself a huge reader, though recently I've discovered that might be because I just haven't consistently found books I like.

Since graduating high school ~5 years ago I've probably read ~50 fiction books. I'm a big fan of Dune, Three-Body Problem, The Martian, and other similar sci-fi books.
I think an important baseline question is how much you care when the user of the LLM forces your model to divulge sensitive details or large chunks of that data.

Imagine that the LLM portion is running as client-side browser JavaScript application: Nothing in the training data or prompt is reliably-secret, and a determined user can get it to emit almost anything they like to whatever is downstream.
False data independency: a look at cache line and write combining
They might think Shakespeare's story are silly even if they did read it. In fact, there is at least one widely publicized instance where exactly the same thing happened with a culture that wasn't exposed to Shakespeare before:

https://law.ubalt.edu/downloads/law_downloads/IRC_Shakespear...

The same idea is probably true with programmers who have grown used to C-like syntax or even Python-like or Ruby-like syntax. Syntax is at least in great part a cultural thing and your "cultural background" can affect your judgement in many cases:

1. Are braces good? Some programmers find them noisy and distracting and prefer end keywords or significant whitespace, but other programmers like the regularity and simplicity of marking all code blocks with braces.

2. Should the syntax strive for terseness or verbosity? Or perhaps try to keep a middle ground? At one end of the spectrum, Java is extremely verbose, but a lot of Java engineers (who have generally been exposed to at least one less-verbose language) are perfectly OK with it. The trick is that the main way that code gets typed in Java used to be copy-paste or IDE code generation (and nowadays with LLMs typing verbose code is even easier) and reading and navigating the code is done with the help of an IDE, so a lot of the effects of having a verbose language are mitigated. Diffs are harder to review, but in the Enterprise app world, which is Java's bread and butter, code reviews are more of a rubber stamp (if they are done at all).

3. Lisp-like S-expression syntax is also highly controversial. Many people who are introduced with it hate it with passion, mostly because the most important syntax feature (the parentheses) is repeated so often that it can be hard to read, but advocates extol the amazing expressive power, where the same syntax can be use to express code and data and "a DSL" is basically just normal code.
What about play and fun? I’m not inclined to take advice from that person you quoted on how best to spend ones time.

However I agree that the response above is not mutually exclusive with mine.
> So they made more money by selling their farm land, instead of being a farmer? That sounds like a good trade to me

It's a great trade for an individual who wants to get rich. It's a potential disaster for a country whose 3rd biggest export is the thing nobody wants to do now.
Nushell 0.100.0
> the most authentic

I have found the most authentic folks are the low-key ones that have a booth at an arts festival or some other show.

I've been to galleries, and thought the vibe was really un-authentic. maybe I've been to the dysfunctional ones. Maybe that it is that galleries are more about something else than the art, more meta. (and they sold art not like this community gallery)

Don't know the reality of museums.
Probably not as accurate
A MFing website in the wild.
Venus dry now.
Venus dryness not changing.
Therefore Venus always dry.
Therefore Venus never had earth like life
People often say that before they realize how complex and messy real-world Haskell looks like. The indentation-based rules aren't even defined anywhere except via imperative code in the implementation.
Isn’t that completely orthogonal? IP addresses aren’t authenticated, they can be spoofed
I don't really have the time to write a thoughtful comment right now.

I loved the world-building and how the author weaved poetry into the narrative. I liked how the world felt unfamiliar at first and gradually the author helped make sense of how politics and individuals fit together.

A big part of it might be that I've only read a handful of good sci-fi books so I have less to compare to.
Population sizes are one way to get an intuition for the extent of the change. There was considerable improvement in agricultural productivity over the last 400 years.

Another way to get an intuition for it is the prevalence of various conveniencies of life. For example, I believe about two thirds of households in the world have refrigerators. About 12% of the world's households have cars. These and many other material benefits are possessed by regular people today but would have been out of reach 400 years ago to any member of the European nobility or, as Adam Smith puts it, "...an African king, the master of the lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages.". (In his time, Smith was commenting on how remarkable it was that an English workman could have pots and pans made of metal and a window made of glass.)
Our Universe was born and lives in a black hole
I'm reading "The Large Scale Structure Of Space-Time" by Hawking and Ellis

One question is whether there is a singularity at the "bottom" of a black hole.

It seems to me that the gravitational collapse at the singularity of a black
hole would match the "trigger event" of the creation of our Universe.

Within the (our) black hole there would be a singularity event which appears to
us as the "creation of our Universe". Within such a black hole several effects
likely occur.

One is the "hologram" idea (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-our-universe-a-hologram-physicists-debate-famous-idea-on-its-25th-anniversary1/) which posits that
our universe’s 4D space­­time could be a holographic projection of a lower-dimensional reality. This would fit nicely if the "surface" of the hologram was the "surface" of
the inside of our black hole.

Another question arises as to whether the Universe is "infinite" and "what is it
expanding into". Time and space would be extended toward the boundary of our black
hole and would appear "infinite" but give something to "expand into" as both space
and time would be changed when approaching the interior boundary of the hole. The
boundary would appear to be "infinitely far away".

There could likely be other "universes" within other black holes both within our
current black hole and/or within black holes "outside of our universe".

The "curvature of space-time" and the phenomena of "gravity" can be due to the
"shape of the hole" from the inside.

The "cosmic background radiation" could be due to Hawking radiation at the boundary
where we see the particles that did not escape yet never able to see the corresponding
particle that "boils off outside" our black hole.

I refer to the idea of the Universe existing in "our black hole" as the Calcutta theory.

Tim Daly
What kind of stuff are people doing? I understand if you don't want to be too specific, but do you have any interesting (vague) examples using agents that aren't in the chat bot space?
I could go into detail, but it was stated as if these technologies should unambiguously be adopted