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This means that, in practice, it functions more like an agent than a streaming text model. That in turn breaks trajectory analysis which not only makes distillation harder, it also…

Foam | Staff Founding Eng | In-Person, San Francisco | Full-time (M-F 9am-7pm) | $300-$400k/yr + equity Foam is building a Better Sentry on an observability stack purpose-built for…

That was lovely, thank you for sharing. It seems the core of the game is correctly understanding the victory function (time to complete refinement of all resources) and then applyi…

foam.ai | Founding Engineer | $180-$300k | 0.25%-2% | SF (onsite) | Full Time foam is building a new observability stack that captures, traces, and links everything, purpose-built …

foam.ai | Full Stack Founding Engineer | SF (onsite) | Full Time At foam we’re building the first telemetry and production system designed for LLMs, giving them complete visibility…

> Farm animals grown with their brains shut off, used as compute substrate for biological neural networks, while their biological functions are controlled remotely. I’m sorry, you …

From first principles I'd expect the functional limit not to be one of power generation but of energy transfer. The limit probably manifests as wiring and motors overheating in a f…

Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Remote: Yes, but in-person preferred Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Ruby, React, Salesforce, TypeScript Résumé/CV: https://docs.goog…

Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Remote: Yes, 3+ years of remote experience, also interested about going to an office. Willing to relocate: Yes Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/d…

Did the 350 california sale go through? I thought it was just an offer? Just googled it, and shit, it did: https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/350-california-sf-offic... Holy hell…

> It takes a lot of exercise to burn off excess calories, and virtually no effort to simply not consume them. > and virtually no effort to simply not consume them. I don't think th…

> I don't see how wealth is lost when it is just being redistributed. The workers didn't disappeared, they are just living elsewhere, bringing business opportunities and improving …

> In general, I'd observe that there's been much more of a reset to pre-pandemic norms than many anticipated. I haven't traveled well enough recently to agree or disagree, but this…

Disclosure: I live in SF and co-founded www.daybreakhealth.com which is fully remote. I am, 100%, part of why this tower, and others like it, are empty. > "[...] Mayor Breed, who i…

I really like Tyme for time tracking. It works quite well for me, is dirt cheap, has a great UX across both my iphone and my macbook and gives me flexibility around start and end t…

Short, but interesting little piece. I specifically enjoy how it's not just a rant about how the Player / Coach concept is bad. It's also an explanation for how to make the Player …

> Saving face and preserving "decision making credibility" means that taking advice is simply not on the cards for a large portion of the middle management class. While I'm happy t…

I've been exploring this concept a bit at my startup for our B2B offerings. Where I've landed is a robust set of feature toggles that Sales and Account Management configure. Within…

This whole article is a beauty. > FTX worked fine: People liked its technology, and it seems to have made money. The problem was in its balance sheet, which was full of snakes, and…

> Everything you've said is logical, but the radius you are describing is multifaceted. No disagreement there. > There are regulations, inertia, cultural and ideological factors, a…

> You are paid based on how difficult you are to replace. Hence the location based pay You're partially right. Pay is very much about how difficult you are to replace. However Loca…

Would you happen to know of an example of "tag-along rights" that I could bring up at my next board meeting? I'm curious what the implications of such a thing would be and having s…

I'm sorry, I can't resist. What is a "fuzzy pumper" in this context?

This seems like an EXCELLENT way for junior engineers to finally get out of the "no job can't get a job" box. Super curious to see what comes of it, and to recruit those who comple…

Daybreak Health (YC) | Lead Salesforce Engineer | USA Only (legal reasons) | Fully Remote (and staying that way) | Full-Time I’m trying to hire for a Lead Salesforce Engineer and I…