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Layer | Full stack & Backend Engineering | San Francisco | https://layerfi.com

We believe SMBs are the backbone of American society and small business ownership is the best path to wealth creation and economic mobility for many Americans. We're trying to dramatically lower the activation energy in just one of the major hurdles for aspiring small business owners: accounting and bookkeeping.

Our approach is working! We embed directly within an SMB's primary business platform, manage all the data syncing & reconciliation for them, and have real humans (with real AI tooling) handling their books. We do this at ~half the cost of existing bookkeeping services and it's still profitable for us because we're saving so much time with our data access + AI.

Adoption is taking off faster even faster than we hoped and we need to grow the team! We're a team of 5 who like working with a high ownership and high throughput collaboration. We have serious technical challenges across scaling systems, data modeling, and building AI-driven automations of tedious tasks.

Our hiring philosophy is simple.

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2. No one knows more than 10% of what they need to be successful at an early stage startup. Find teammates with the highest trajectory of learning and growth and give them as much opportunity and responsibility as they want.

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ya it's called KDE
I appreciate it just from reading enough HN and XKCD
For me, Haskell's image and ideal of purity are what made it difficult when I started out. I tried learning the language by reimplementing a program I'd previously done imperatively, that was (in hindsight) obviously hard to do in a plain pure way, ended up learning about zippers and knot-tying to do something in a less efficient and more confusing way than just using something like STArray because I had this idea from reading about Haskell that this was not only a good way to do things, but would be magically fast because GHC. (It was not.)

These days I'd just do such a task more-or-less imperatively in Haskell, and I would be well guided by the types in doing so. But I also feel like you have to make a few such mistakes if you want to get a good intuition and taste for when it's good do things purely and when imperatively.
> From a British perspective [...]

> especially after I've just described the French perspective.

Make up your mind.

> Similarly, the views of the French far-left are not the "French perspective".

No one in France is seriously challenging the idea that Macron is rightwing. He's been pursuing the classic rightwing agenda, and has years of political alliance with the other rightwing parties in France.

But then again, considering your talking point is that RN is the only rightwing party, I'm not sure we're having a honest discussion here.
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The most cruel part of the prank is the javascript it pulls to build this page
FinQuery | AI Engineer | REMOTE (US) or Atlanta, GA | Full-time

I'm hiring an AI/ML engineer to join the AI/ML team at FinQuery.

Our team creates services powered by LLMs and traditional ML to enable features across our suite of products. Like many companies, we are trying to separate the real value of the latest AI techniques and tools from the hype (agents?), and unlocking use cases that actually benefit our customers. This role is a rather generalist role for someone with a strong ML background, 2+ years of work experience (post schooling), and a desire to work on both proof of concept and production systems. You would be joining our small AI/ML team as we continue to automate as much as possible and enable new product features and use cases.

FinQuery makes software to help companies comply with new lease accounting regulations, manage financial contracts, and keep track of recurring and one-off payments. We're based in Atlanta, but support fully remote employees in the US. This is an IC role.

https://finquery.com/careers/

We are also hiring for roles in DevOps, marketing, and more.
I just deployed three new Windows 11 Pro machines yesterday (two HP, one Dell) with local accounts. The HP OEM image was pre-24H2 so it doesn't count, but the Dell machine was 24H2.

I booted to the OOBE, hit <SHIFT>-<F10>, ran:

REG ADD HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1

shutdown -r -t 1 -f

Waited for the machine to reboot and ran thru the OOBE w/o connecting to a network. Once I got logged-on w/ my local account connected to the Wi-Fi and joined the Active Directory domain.
Why would you blanket care about the rights of minorities? I care about the rights of lots of beings, but not minorities for minorities sake.

The person isn't making outlandish claims. You can search the web and validate all of them.

Liberals, as in new leftists responsible for the majority of purity spiral shaming we've seen on the internet for oh the last two decades now, are in fact responsible for their fair share of extremist ideologies that some folks have now taken as self-evident. This is despite the fact that many of us who once considered ourselves part of their ranks are completely sick of its absolutist language.

I've been pushed into what I guess must be a kind of center because it seems we can no longer have any discourse of any nuance around issues like trans people without being labeled a fascist or maniac neo-Nazi right-winger.

To take an example of this, I have a very close friend who is trans but even she is sick of how faddish transness has become. She insists she's a trans-medicalist, something I only recently learned about, which seems to set the bar appropriately high to being what global society (not the ultra-left view that dominates places like HN and Reddit) deems a woman.

I actually do believe in biological gender and even think the fact biological women are out there bleeding and suffering once a month in ways men can't even begin to understand does in fact separate them from other people stating they are now a woman. Or literally growing a human being inside them is both a privilege and a horror that marks someone so indelibly we call this person a woman.

Yet I can no longer reasonably even engage most of you in a nuanced discourse about this without likely getting downvoted to oblivion. There was a time once when you could, but now it seems that time has passed.
Thanks for the tip. I’ve been trying to add folks as they arrive in the waiting room. Sorry if I missed you when you were joining!!
Try not buying things from China and see how far you get.
> people are telling a machine to make an inferior copy of something resembling art

So art ended when someone created a photo camera?
No mystery. They're cheaper, they don't come with Musk's politics, nor his dumb decisions (no rain sensor, no stalks etc.).
He was a commissioned officer, he has no experience with the bureaucracy of DoD. There is a big difference.
Ask HN: Why is Generative AI non-deterministic
Given a trained LLM model with fixed weights, why is it that the same prompt yields different responses? Or is it the case that some type of RL takes place?
if anyone is curious, the data structure used in the Apple II version had the idea of "locations" which just hold 4 of the nodes described here. Usually this would be for North/South/East/West, plus there would be an additional clickable area that would call a function callback, usually used for puzzles but it could also be used as a hack to take you to an additional location.

This setup was more or less enough to implement the whole game, the one problem area was Channelwood where the pathway platforms are pentagons and thus had more than 4 backgrounds. There were also a few areas where a location could have used an additional clickable area but had to make do without. Also to fit on 3 disks about half the nodes were left out: generally when walking a straight path every other node was left out for both disk space and also time-consuming-rotoscope reasons.
BYD cars are much more affordable than Teslas. It's not all about politics.
Snook boom five seven supercalifragilisticexpialidocious bum fortnite.

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Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom Ate the World (2015)
TechWomen Is Back Online
I've been very impressed with Qwen in my testing, I think people are underestimating it
The apartment building can have unified power backup in its foundation/basement.

If you reduce the energy density by a factor of 10, the weight for power backup needs will still be far lighter than the concrete.
HOw did you get my password ??? Delete. it immediately. This is your Final warning.

Warm regards,
If it's a question about entrenched corporate dysfunction, I can't answer it. Most people's answers are wild guesses at best.

If it's a question of first principles, there is a small glimmer of hope in a company called tinygrad making the attempt - https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/03/08/AMD-...

If the current 1:16 AMD:NVIDIA stock value difference is entirely due to the CUDA moat, you might make some money if the tide turns. But who can say…
What's dishonest about my question? Please keep your personal attacks to yourself.
> My favorite trick is to install with English (World) language to avoid auto-install of all sorts of crap.

Edit: This sounded neat so I tried it. I just loaded up a physical box from a 24H2 ISO on a thumb drive (booted from Ventoy with no special options loaded to bypass the Microsoft Account requirement).

I got an oddball "Something went wrong" / "You can try again, or skip for now" / "OOBEREGION" window with a silly and wholly inappropriate for a corporate-targeted OSA depiction of a dropped ice cream cone (pink flavor, by the look of it). I've definitely never seen this one before.

I clicked "Skip" and then it proceeded thru the OOBE as I'd expect, including demanding an Internet connection.

I added "BypassNRO" to the registry, rebooted, and completed the OOBE with a local account (seeing the same silly ice cream cone again).

Once I got into Windows I found the Start menu looked a little emptier than normal. Memory usage seems a little lower than I'd expect. The running process list is still ridiculously long.

I connected the Ethernet to a network with Internet access and didn't see a huge change.

The Store app doesn't work. It returns "Sorry about that!" / "Something went wrong...".

The Co-Pilot pinned shortcut returns a blue modal error dialog in the Windows 8 style saying "Search Support" / "Something happened on our end ... 0x87E10BC6".

Installing this way definitely did something. I'm just not sure exactly what. It'll be interesting to see what happens when the machine updates. I already see it loading drivers and doing device detects.
LangGraph for B2B AI Agents
We're building an AI b2b saas product for a bunch of enterprises and mid-market companies.

For our agentic systems, I find langgraph too rigid to build enterprise apps on. For instance, we would like to customize agents and handoffs for each org, but langgraph expects you to hardcode handoffs. This means we will have file level customization (acme_inc.py) rather than configuration level customizations (acme_inc.json), which does not sound like a good practice.

Has anyone else experienced that too or am I thinking about it wrong?
Except China actually keeps their ultra wealthy in line.
There's even more to the riddle. Lithium recycling, cost of the power loss in old cells. Power transmit cost. Cost of power generation on site.
Maybe the problem is the polemic tone of the comment.

Read the HN guidelines:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Show HN: My Receipts AI – Auto Extract and Categorize Receipt Line Items
A little something I built mostly for learning/fun and for me to better understand my own line-item level spending. There's probably a more useful small-business facing version of this I'll noodle around with as well.
Also, the last new Tesla model not including the Cybertruck has been many years ago.
Shared DNA in Music
You never touch python code either?
If I'm working with a payload budget and I'm using React I guess so?
I don't know much about BYD cars but from what I can tell they sound to just be better cars than what Tesla puts out.
Also going to throw this interesting article where someone debugged and eliminated the loading times of Myst 4.

https://medium.com/@tomysshadow/fixing-the-loading-in-myst-i...
That this is the chosen path says alot about how we as a society allocate money and value things.
Techspot:

>However, in this ingenious setup, Glubux took those individual cells and assembled them into their own customized racks – a process that likely required a fair bit of elbow grease and technical know-how, but one that has ultimately paid off in spades.

Either this is also AI, or saying that it likely required a lot of manual labor is not indicative
Somewhere in his posts I think I read that his house at 'idle' is drawing like 30watts. That seems pretty low energy to me!
To be fair to WAFs, most are more than just a pile of regexes. Things like detecting bot traffic - be it spammers or AI scrapers - are valuable (ESPECIALLY the AI scraper detection, because unlike search engines these things have zero context recognition or respect for robots.txt and will just happily go on and ingest very heavy endpoints), and the large CDN/WAF providers can do it even better because they can spot shit like automated port scanners, Metasploit or similar skiddie tooling across all the services that use them.

Honestly what I'd _love_ to see is AWS, GCE, Azure, Fastly, Cloudflare and Akamai band together and share information about such bad actors, compile evidence lists and file abuse reports against their ISP - or in case the ISP is a "bulletproof hoster" or certain enemy states, initiate enforcement actors like governments to get these bad ISPs disconnected from the Internet.
A look back: WordPerfect on DOS (2023)
I fundamentally disagree honey is/was fraudulent. They compiled and distributed coupon codes. The core funtionality exists. It just sucked -- I guess anyway, I was too suspicious and lazy to ever use it myself.
Do they come with Chinese politics?
We're talking on the order of millions of kilograms for the building materials that needed to be transported to build it. The batteries needed for backup power for its occupants won't come anywhere close to that, even at far lower energy density than lithium.
It all comes down to what makes you happy.
I used to joke with my buddy back when he first got his Tesla that we were driving around on "over 7000 vape batteries!", as that was the fad at the time and where most normal consumers recognized them.
I doubt, but I can check the numbers when I return to the office ;)
> BYD cars are much more affordable than Teslas. It's not all about politics.

Yes, things can have more than one cause, but the article mentions political motivations several times.
Relevant: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/opinion/trump-hegseth-sig...
Google decides what goes in a browser these days. Since React came out of Facebook there is approximately (checks notes) -ZERO chance in hell- of that happening
if I may elaborate on "everything is an expression," F# allows you to do things like (with apologies for being a tad rusty with the syntax)

let bar =
if foo then
7
else
11

or

let bar =
try
// code that might throw
7
with ex ->
11

and will ensure that both/all code branches return a compatible type for the `let` binding.

Whereas in C# you have to do like

int bar;

if (foo) {
bar = 7;
} else {
bar = 11;
}

And C# will let you know if you omit the `else` on accident ...

Except that most C# developers do

int bar = 0; // or some other default value`

to get the red squiggly to go away while they type the rest of the code, unknowingly subverting the compiler's safety check.

This doesn't seem like a big deal given these examples. But it becomes a much bigger deal when the if/else grows super large, becomes nested, etc.
Those are just words; they don't describe the actual behavior of the system.
> i can't bring myself to deal with Microsoft Windows and their tech

Even in a VM? Why not?
I’ve been paying for Kagi for about 18 months and it’s pretty much the only subscription I have that it’s never crossed my mind to cancel it.
My uni is using AI for assessment feedback
SEEKING WORK

Location: London, England, UK
Remote: Yes, or hybrid or office
Willing to relocate: Yes, depends on the country
Technologies: Swift, Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, AppKit, UIKit, SwiftUI, Mac OS X, OS X, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, Core Data, Combine, Swift Concurrency, Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Model–View–Controller (MVC), Model–View–ViewModel (MVVM), Accessibility
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11jJdNqnyId79m5-n12dJ1lVxJnL3UIDf/view
E-mail: It's in my CV
For Debian it's trivial to do so. `debconf-set-selections` is your friend, if you want something for unattended installations you can embed that into `live-boot` or into FAI.

[1] https://manpages.debian.org/testing/debconf/debconf-set-sele...
Giant glass roof with no internal cover is the worst design decision. In Australia it's unbearable on the hottest days. We bought one of their clip on roof shades, but the clips grtadually broke or got lost.
Every time I stumble onto it I have to resist not buying five gimmicky things.
It's deliberately made nondeterministic, partly using something called softmax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmax_function

I'd say mainly in order to avoid boring its users.
We are not really over worked. Nobody puts in more than 30 hours, and we deliver the features the business need.

However, we do have types and don't do type coercion. Types are sound full stack db -> backend -> frontends. We don't do any funky things. We don't use SSR (as the business does not require it). We test well, but not too much. We keep a sane architecture.

We can also skip out on a lot of project shenanigans and mostly focus on our work.

We don't (yet) use AI as a part of our workflows, and frankly, I don't see we can keep this way of working with the current gen AI.
Generative AI typically is deterministic, most inference software includes a random seed to yield different results on each repeated entry.
Location: Seattle WA

Remote: Yes, or Hybrid, or In-Office

Willing to relocate: Yes (Germany, Ireland, France)

Technologies: React, React Native, TypeScript, C#, CI/CD, AWS, Azure

Résumé/CV: https://tinyurl.com/4jnp2ypp

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophermyer/

Email: christopher.e.myer@gmail.com

Technical Lead, and Full-Stack Engineer (17 years experience) looking for my next role as a technical lead, engineering manager, staff/principal IC. Significant .NET/React/React Native experience.

Problems need solved? Technical debt need paid? Engineering organization need built or improved? Let's talk!
Another day, another trivia tidbit :-) Love HN. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the all the specifics! I admit that my $20k number was a very rough "I'm sure it must be less than this" estimate because I wanted to make sure I erred on the high side for the point I was making.
I'm not sure people are saying LLMs are the ticket. Human intelligence has many aspects apart from language. Large language models seem to do quite well with language but are not really the thing for spatial awareness, doing maths, playing go, operating robot bodies and various other tasks. Computers can do ok with that stuff too, but not generally with language models.

If you define AGI as human level intelligence in all aspects there's a way to go yet but things seem to be getting quite close to me. I'd say the Turing test is basically passed, stuff like Woz's coffee test that a robot can go into a house, find the coffee stuff and make coffee is not there but maybe in a couple of years? With that stuff I'd say Deepmind is much closer than OpenAI.
You make this claim as if it’s entirely about how folks feel about nations. Might be for some people.

But unless the CEO of BYD has been trying to actively undermine European elections… perhaps this is more about Telsa specifically and the relative value proposition of BYD vehicles at their lower price point.
Or to Really Bad Chess (2016) by Zach Gage?
SEEKING WORK | SF Bay Area, CA | Remote OK

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

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

Front-End, Databases & Tools: Vue, Postgres, HBase, MongoDB, Kafka, Jenkins, AWS, Docker

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

CV: Available Upon Request

Email: poetic.artifice@gmail.com

I am a seasoned (>10 years experience) full-stack staff-level software engineer specializing in the backend, platform engineering, internal tools, and data engineering. In addition to strong programming and architectural skills, I'm a force multiplier for any team through the three T's -- teaching, talking, and tooling.

In the past, I've managed teams of up to 12 engineers and pioneered a number of no- and low-code solutions for stream processing, data model and query generation, form building, workflow systems, and front-end construction for a variety of industries, including those with strong regulatory requirements and complex business rules such as healthcare and fintech.

More recently, I've built a no-code form-filler and a workflow engine for coordinating LLMs and other generative AI processes, and on top of this a platform for both minimizing hallucinations and working with documents that are far too large for existing context window outputs using a novel, patent-pending process.

I am also an improvisational pianist and distinguished poet.

I have extensive experience working for and running both startups and software consulting shops, which gives me a unique insight into speaking with customers, translating between engineering and other organizational departments, gathering requirements, and aligning stake-holders across departments. If any of the above seems like a match for you and your organization or project, don't hesitate to reach out.
The rope has a mechanism for creating drag (a wooden board) at the end, and regularly spaced knots. You throw the board in the water, let the rope play out through your hands, and count the knots as they pass through your hands while watching a timer.
Location: London, England, UK
Remote: Yes, or hybrid or office
Willing to relocate: Yes, depends on the country
Technologies: Swift, Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, AppKit, UIKit, SwiftUI, Mac OS X, OS X, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, Core Data, Combine, Swift Concurrency, Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Model–View–Controller (MVC), Model–View–ViewModel (MVVM), Accessibility
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11jJdNqnyId79m5-n12dJ1lVxJnL3UIDf/view
E-mail: It's in my CV
EV popularity varies a lot from country to country.

Stockholm is jokingly referred to as Teslatown these days.

In the UK it’s pretty mixed between Tesla, VW, Kia, BYD, and BMW.

France like their Peugeots …

In Italy last year I saw one EV in the whole time I was there … (although it’s supposedly 5% of new car sales)