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I don't think third parties even really try to organize and do the boring work of proving themselves in local/state office.

They are just spoilers; you don't see the Libertarians or Greens saying "you know what, forget the presidency, obviously we aren't going to win--let's field candidates for like mayor, city council, DA, state legislature, etc. in really swingy/purple districts and show people what we can do"

Microsoft TypeSpec 2 years ago

Came here to post this. We use Django Ninja at work (basically FastAPI style endpoints for Django), and it automatically does OpenAPI and Swagger docs for us. Whatever web framework one chooses in whichver language should def have this built-in by now, IMO, seems like tablestakes for anything larger than a "micro-framework"

I certainly agree with your first sentence (though I wish it was densifying and building subway more aggressively), but taking the bus in LA sounds awful, and I am not sure how you are defining "obstacle" and "comfort" here: "it's a very long walk (15 miles!) but it's a fairly comfortable walk where you won't encounter any difficult obstacles unlike the average American city."

Nobody should make that walk, IRL lol

It is indeed a terrible library on multiple levels. Get rid of it. Just use the "native" Python SDK for the LLMs you are using for your POC.

Maybe working implementing tax law related software?

Most people wouldn't find this to involve interesting problems, but to each their own lol

Check out the Freelaw Project, they operate a couple open source things with which you can get involved. I have been a contributor there myself. Can invite you to the Slack if you find it interesting

Ha

I was a dev for a few years, went to law school, worked in law for a bit, and have now switched back to being a software engineer (thank God).

And I am not the only person I know with backgrounds in both--there are dozens of us!

Feel free to reach out to me if you'd like to chat. samier_saeed@protonmail.com

I am interesting in trying this, but I find your entire sign up process/schtick incredibly obnoxious. I would literally rather pay to try this than refer this to anyone (esp since I haven't tried it); I hate the assumption that anyone looking at your landing page has a Twitter account; and I find it opaque.

Trellis -- AI/ML Engineer | Remote (both US and international) | trellis.law

We are looking for a senior/staff engineer who has experience building search systems to join our data science and machine learning team. The kinds of things we envision this hire doing:

* Leading and guiding other engineers in development of RAG/semantic search pipelines.

* Leading development of an engine that takes legal questions and parses them for intent, keywords, etc.

* Leading development of a suite of LLM-based tools and the development of ML systems to evaluate them.

* And more!

Please apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/trellis/b76fa20e-8bf4-4d6e-a716-200f36... (you can mostly ignore the job description there, it needs updating/refinement)

Tech stack: Python/Django; AWS; Postgres; Elasticsearch; Redis

About Trellis: Trellis is one of the only modern, searchable, and aggregated sources of state trial court filings around, and we are actively expanding to include Federal court dockets as well. If you have never before tried to search state court dockets, you probably aren't aware of how difficult it is to find what has been filed in public court cases. Trellis is filling the gap and modernizing the space. Our customers range from solo practitioners to some of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the country.

I am happy to answer any questions here, or via Discord DM (ss1515)

If your experience is on-point, I'd be happy to forward your CV to the hiring manager directly.

I honestly don't know, I am just a mid-level who wanted to post the job application here to make sure it is seen by the Hacker News crowd. If it were up to me, a salary range would be included in the job posting.