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It would seem these structural barriers are increasingly become either more porus or more malleable as AI has brought more OSS legal initiatives to empower both attorneys and regular users. The Law and lawyers are being dragged kicking and screaming into e/acc.
For a GEO site, Web Fetch can't work? "The page is JavaScript-rendered so WebFetch can't see the results."
This is a great indication of where engineers will be spending more of their time: complexity composing.
I am beginning to notice more "features" in apps that suspiciously raise questions: "Was that feature really needed and was the AI to sneak it in there!?"
This is my reflection as well. I find myself spending MORE time reviewing LLM-generated code and also spending time thinking through LLM generated choices, which, at many times are inefficient or bloated. Keeping the LLM on the right rails takes up more time, even with lengthy agent.md and claude.md files to manage behaviors.
I have always wanted to learn Rust, but was too distracted to get started.
So, I started working with Claude on building a postgres database replication application. I'm learning Postgres internals as well as how brittle database replication and subscription can really be. Although this is for Seren, you can replicate between any PG databases. https://github.com/serenorg/postgres-seren-replicator
Big learning: Claude Sonnet with Rust is massively productive. I'm impressed, but code bloat is a thing.
Even if an AI wrote this, it's one more muscle memory for the subconcious to hold on to when we are off our guards. Good write-up!
Our small team at Seren just launched a landing page and chatbot to talk about agentic databases and see what developers are thinking about them. There is a feature request button that pushes feature ideas to github. Give it a shot if you got a few minutes. We are building on an OpenSource Postgres version for AI agents and are curious what HN is thinking about features.
My particular interest in this project was that if the many interviews I explore for a job end in rejects, then at least maybe I might get paid a referral bonus as a sourcer for the job. After spending 6 hours onsite and getting denied, seems only fair to get paid if I can help source?
Those were the days!
Awesome positive story for black entrepreneurship in UK, which we don't get to see that often. An inspirational read.
Yes. We were wondering about our exposure to personal data that is contained in backups and archives.
Thank you! This was very helpful!
Slides are here: https://goo.gl/PHCMC6
How does this handle user signatures?
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Thank you for keeping it gentle. Consensus is very hard to understand, but very easy to break.
What is key re-encryption exactly?
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About Aquila:
We are back to who's hiring after taking on great talent from this post. Thank you HackerNews Community. We are a bleeding Edge FinTech Innovation. We automate receivables finance underwriting & collections for small, high-risk businesses that no one else will touch. We love using statistics (K-Means clustering & OLS) and platform engineering to make business financing as automated and as fast as possible. We also leverage our prior expertise (SericaTrading) in bitcoin blockchain and HD wallet cryptography to do amazing new things for our customers.
Our team: Engineers, data scientists and product experts. Our platform is built on Ruby, Go, Python Postgres & JavaScript. We hire onsite and remote. We're a fast-moving, fast talking team.
Our Requirements: * Demonstrated passion for Fintech innovation, Opensource contributions, blockchains, and datascience * Passion for Test driven development and continuous learning * Enjoyment of the wild startup rodeo. Yee haw! * No Fear of the edge of FinTech datascience and engineering
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Aquila | Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer | SF, NYC | REMOTE, CONTRACT https://aquilacashflow.com
About Aquila:
We are back to who's hiring after taking on great talent from this post. Thank you for reading. We are a bleeding Edge FinTech Innovation. We automate receivables finance underwriting & collections for small, high-risk businesses that no one else will touch. We use datascience (K-Means clustering & OLS) and platform engineering to make business financing as automated and as fast as possible. We also leverage our prior expertise (SericaTrading) in bitcoin blockchain and HD wallet cryptography to do amazing new things for our customers.
Our team:
Engineers, data scientists and product experts. Our platform is built on Ruby, Go, Python Postgres & JavaScript. We hire onsite and remote. We're a fast-moving, fast talking team.
Our Requirements:
* Demonstrated passion for Fintech innovation, Opensource contributions, blockchains, and datascience
* Passion for Test driven development and continuous learning
* Enjoyment of the wild startup rodeo. Yee haw!
* No Fear of the edge of FinTech datascience and engineering
Our Stack:
* Ruby on Rails
* Python
* Clojure/Go
* JavaScript
* PostgreSQL
* AWS
Our Interview Process: * Github & code review -> Founder interview -> Team interview + test -> Decision for either 2-week trial or immediate hire.
Positions:
* Senior Ruby on Rails Software Engineer
* Machine Learning Engineer
Aquila | Senior Software Engineer | SF, NYC | REMOTE, CONTRACT https://aquilacashflow.com
About Aquila:
Bleeding Edge FinTech Innovation. We automate receivables finance underwriting & collections for small, high-risk businesses that no one else will touch. We use datascience (K-Means clustering & OLS) and platform engineering to make business financing as automated and as fast as possible. We also leverage our prior expertise (SericaTrading) in bitcoin blockchain and HD wallet cryptography to do amazing new things for our customers.
Our team:
Engineers, data scientists and product experts. Our platform is built on Ruby, Go, Python Postgres & JavaScript. We hire onsite and remote. We're a fast-moving, fast talking team.
Our Requirements:
* Demonstrated passion for Fintech innovation, Opensource contributions, blockchains, and datascience
* Passion for Test driven development and continuous learning
* Enjoyment of the wild startup rodeo. Yee haw!
* No Fear of the edge of startup engineering
Our Interview Process:
* Github & code review -> Founder interview -> Team interview + test -> Decision for either 2-week trial or immediate hire.
Positions:
* Senior Software Engineer
Email us at jobs@aquilacashflow.com and tell us whether you'd like to chat more.
Aquila | Senior Software Engineer | SF, NYC | REMOTE, CONTRACT https://aquilacashflow.com
About Aquila: Bleeding Edge FinTech Innovation. We automate receivables finance underwriting & collections for small, high-risk businesses that no one else will touch. We use datascience (K-Means clustering & OLS) and platform engineering to make business financing as automated and as fast as possible. We also leverage our prior expertise (SericaTrading) in bitcoin blockchain and HD wallet cryptography to do amazing new things for our customers.
Our team: Engineers, data scientists and product experts. Our platfrom is built on Ruby, Go, Python Postgres & JavaScript. We hire onsite and remote. We're a fast-moving, fast talking team.
Our Requirements:
* Passion for Fintech innovation, Opensource contributions, blockchains, and datascience
* Passion for Test driven development and continuous learning
* Enjoyment of the wild startup rodeo. Yee haw!
* No Fear of the edge.
Our Interview Process:
* Github & code review -> Founder interview -> Team interview + test -> Decision for either 2-week trial or immediate hire.
Positions:
* Senior Software Engineer
Email us at jobs@aquilacashflow.com and tell us whether you'd like to chat more.
Nice follow-up ZeroDB. Looking forward to the beta!
It was my understanding that homomorphic encryption was not yet ready for deployment. I didn't see that mentioned in the too brief blog post.
Contributed to Mozilla for the first time ever with Bitcoin. Very fast/easy.
The Koinify team are great guys doing great work. Glad to see them launched and moving on up.
Wow. So umm..Where's the discussion about the marketing operations? Ermm, if your positioning is "FREE", then ermm....you MAYBE have a prospect communication problem reflected in your sales failures, not just a sales problem due to a VP of Sales role req.
Why do sales people keep making this mistake over and over again? Marketing is just as important to prepare the funnel as sales is important to close the deals. Why is the CEO not calling his marketing team to task or why is he not calling himself to task for lack of an integrated sales AND marketing operation?
I love Yesware for B2B sales. I just don't pay for it because my Salesforce.com and Marketo marketing teams are grinding out marketing comms and engagement events that make my head spin and extract $10K/month budgets from my marketing budget. I've yet to hear from the Yesware marketing team. A webinar maybe?
Speculative bitcoiners will not spend their hard-earned BTC on travel goods and services.
They will HODL and continue to buy their air and hotel with fiat cash which will be cheaper, faster, and easier.
A very busy space. The true demand is that you have lots of passive talent signing up. These folks are highly valued, but it's not clear how you get passive seekers (who aren't interested in moving unless they get excited) to make a change. Active seekers are already in the ATS' of ALL your recruiting companies. They aren't that valuable. So, you have lots to do here.
Your competitors at Hired.com and elsewhere are investing big money to compete to move passives into active mode. I wish you the best of luck, but competition here is brutal and it's not clear what your unique value proposition or edge is here.
Lastly, "anonymous job searches" is the way of the passive seeker, but it's very hard to get them to make a decision. The chain of interaction requires much more ways to engage than their filling out a few boxes on what they do and where they live/email. If you could bring to the surface things that passives like but will not reveal to just anyone, you may be able to create an edge. However, it's tough meng. It's tough out there for a recruiting platform.