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by dserban 14d ago
Location: Europe, Role Type: Fractional, Remote / Worldwide Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Kafka, Flink, Spark, Cassandra, Scala, Rust / PyO3 / Tokio, Python, Zookeeper, Databricks, Delta Lake,
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by dserban 3mo ago
Adding to your 6 and 7, Ed Zitron's Better Offline podcast has a good series on how the path was paved to the cost reckoning of the present day.
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by dserban 5mo ago
https://pypi.org/project/ddgs/ (Assuming you prefer Python.)
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by dserban 7mo ago
At some point, I needed to write a function which, given a collection of product titles, picks one that is neither the longest nor the shortest, it should pick the one which best captures the essence of the product while not being excessive
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by dserban 8mo ago
These roles are North America only, based on your careers page. Please consider adding a caveat to the "Remote" designation.
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On?
7 points by dserban 10mo ago|3 comments
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by dserban 1y ago
SEEKING WORK, Senior Data Engineer, Remote / Worldwide Well-rounded Scala/Rust/Python dev, well-versed in data engineering, with deep knowledge of the internals of distributed datastores. I have experience with data modeling
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by dserban 1y ago
I'm not sure if I should be applying but before I do, I'm wondering what kind of novel or interesting data driven algorithms you refer to here. Are you referring to like adaptive query planners based on runtime statistics? Real-ti
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by dserban 2y ago
Don't rely on gut feeling or anecdotal evidence, there's good data you can look at. Over a few years, I came to rely on proxy indicators that I found to be reliably in sync with the strength / weakness of the job market for s
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by dserban 2y ago
I use it to extract either vocabulary or grammar patterns from snippets of text written in a foreign language I'm learning. I double-check all output, just as you do.
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by dserban 2y ago
Looking at this, it's not long until OpenAI starts offering a version of this to ecommerce companies for their search backends, it's a space that is held back by corporate corruption, and it's ripe for disruption.
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by dserban 2y ago
I'm still working through legal complications with my current employer, and in no mood to start my own company. The job market is also bad on the dataeng / datainfra / mlops side of things. My first guess is that interest rat
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by dserban 2y ago
> Is your company like this? If you have real info and not just suspicions, let’s name some names. A certain company (the name starts with "A") is widely known for doing this, you might guess which company I refer to by deep-di
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by dserban 2y ago
> prefer Craigslist Seconded. Upwork and Toptal aren't what they used to be.
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by dserban 2y ago
DM'ed.
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by dserban 3y ago
https://getborderless.com/ would be one alternative I can think of that's in the same space as Wise. But they too will behave in the same way at some point, due to compliance requirements. Banks and fintech companies n
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by dserban 3y ago
An ecommerce search engine for consumer products, in the same vein as https://snapshop.netlify.app/ but obviously generic / not restricted to Shopify. You would be doing the world a favor, the existing options for this
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by dserban 3y ago
I'm in Europe and don't see the infinite scrolling setting unless I set my VPN to the US. Geofenced A/B testing.
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by dserban 3y ago
The title asks about ChatGPT alternatives. Here are some that I've been playing with to compare and contrast: https://www.perplexity.ai/ (good at general knowledge) https://www.phind.com/ (good at codi
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by dserban 3y ago
The custom search engine space is absolutely ripe for disruption. Whenever you need to add a search experience to your SaaS project, you don't really think of building it yourself, however the established companies in the search engine
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by dserban 3y ago
We are not at all in disagreement. In fact, you are making the same point I'm making, which is that there is nothing special about any of the commercially available search engines today. With access to OpenAI's embeddings API and
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by dserban 3y ago
Somewhat off-topic but congratulations, you have re-implemented (in the small) the search engine that powers HN. I say this as an employee of the company behind that engine, and I say this as someone who is intimately familiar with the code
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by dserban 3y ago
I can relate to the 10-for-Google-90-for-ChatGPT ratio. I use Google when I know the words that make up the name of a website, but not the URL itself. So Google is for unsophisticated searches. I also use Google instead of HN's own sea
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by dserban 3y ago
The "Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure" most closely matches my skill set, however it's location-bound to India (I'm not in India). https://boards.greenhouse.io/startree/jobs/4811152004 Th
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by dserban 3y ago
Haskell course at university. Had fun doing all the exercises in the curriculum, and couldn't stop. Explored on my own how to implement in Haskell the more advanced programming patterns that weren't covered in the course. Had fun
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by dserban 3y ago
I have a monster of a Linux cluster at home, which is busy running Cassandra and Spark for my other side projects. I'm piggybacking on that while this particular project is still in development. At the rate LLMs are evolving, a reasona
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by dserban 3y ago
For a side project I'm using a fine-tuned vicuna-13b. I'm using to generate search queries from natural language, and it outperforms all other open-source models at deep intent recognition.
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by dserban 3y ago
Although GPT is in the "peak of inflated expectations" phase of its hype cycle, there is immense opportunity now for startups to seriously disrupt even 10-year-old companies who falsely thought they had entrenched themselves and c
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by dserban 3y ago
It's a two-step prompt-injection process. In the first step, I wrap the raw typed-in input inside of a dynamically-generated prompt template that takes some context into account (for example, the specifics of the product that the perso
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by dserban 3y ago
It's Saturday and I have time to add some color to my comment above. First things first: You might have seen all the news around the failure of Neeva, a search engine startup. There is a core structural reason why Neeva has failed, and

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