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yorick commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

yorick · 9 months ago

We're a software engineering consultancy specialized in generative AI. Small team of senior ML engineers offering remote expertise to startups across US/Europe, solving unique challenges of running generative AI in production.

Looking for ML engineers who are a mix of ML expert, software engineer, researcher, and hacker. You'll work embedded in client projects on: - Converting bleeding-edge open source AI models to production - Building production LLM pipelines from scratch - Improving models on speed, robustness, and performance - Designing custom LLM benchmarks and evaluation - Building and scaling ML infrastructure - Setting up monitoring, tracing, and prompt management

Tech stack: Python, LLMs, AWS/GCP, MLOps tools, Docker, Git, Nix

We value: self-starters, quick learners, strong communication skills, software quality, open source. Role involves engineering, talking to clients and outreach.

Requirements: Strong Python, experience with production LLM systems, cloud platforms, MLOps. Must be EU work eligible and live within 2 hours of Nijmegen, Netherlands. Remote work with occasional meetups.

Benefits: 25 days PTO, home office budget, professional development budget

Apply: https://datakami.com/careers

Recruiters/freelancers/agencies: we're not working with recruiters or considering freelancers or agencies at this time.

yorick commented on Google Gemini has the worst LLM API venki.dev/notes/google-ge... · Posted by u/indigodaddy

ryao · 10 months ago

I have not pushed my local commits to GitHub lately (and probably should), but my experience with the Gemini API so far has been relatively positive:

https://github.com/ryao/gemini-chat

The main thing I do not like is that token counting is rated limited. My local offline copies have stripped out the token counting since I found that the service becomes unusable if you get anywhere near the token limits, so there is no point in trimming the history to make it fit. Another thing I found is that I prefer to use the REST API directly rather than their Python wrapper.

Also, that comment about 500 errors is obsolete. I will fix it when I do new pushes.

yorick · 10 months ago

It looks like you can use the gemma tokenizer to count tokens up to at least the 1.5 models. The docs claim that there's a local compute_tokens function in google-genai, but it looks like it just does an API call.

Example for 1.5:

https://github.com/googleapis/python-aiplatform/blob/main/ve...

yorick commented on Why pay for a search engine help.kagi.com/kagi/why-ka... · Posted by u/lr0

yorick · a year ago

To provide some counterweight to all the overwhelmingly positive reviews:

I've used kagi for 6 months and have over 7500 searches with them. It mostly works, but there are a few downsides compared to Google:

- The latency is a lot higher than google, taking over a second to display any results. - The results are often not as relevant, I have to frequently retry my search in Google. - The results for anything local (I'm not in the US) are abysmal. Searching for anything in my city instead only gives me results for the city's history.

Still, I persist in using Kagi, mainly because it's not Google and I want them to succeed. The results are frequently good enough for me to stay with them.

yorick commented on In SSRI withdrawal, brain zaps go from overlooked symptom to center stage (2023) psychiatrist.com/news/bra... · Posted by u/RicoElectrico

itsboring · a year ago

I wonder if anyone else has experienced this. The brain zaps I got when stopping Lexapro (Escitalopram) were identical to brain zaps I get when I’m sick from something like the flu and I’m very tired. I have no idea as to an explanation. Anyone else?

yorick · a year ago

Other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41813058

yorick commented on We should train AI in space [pdf] lumenorbit.github.io/wp.p... · Posted by u/lawrencechen

owenpalmer · 2 years ago

Lots of funny comments here, but does anyone actually have a good argument against this idea?

It seems both ridiculous and obvious.

yorick · 2 years ago

To passively radiate a gigawatt of heat in space at 100C, you'd need a radiator with a (visible) surface area of 1 million square meters.

yorick commented on Ask HN: Any tools to do generic WiFi imaging? · Posted by u/selfsimilar

yayr · 2 years ago

it seems to be optimized for dry walls. not sure how it would perform on concrete or other stone walls. Also I could not find a technical description how it works.

yorick · 2 years ago

It uses the 60ghz radar from https://vayyar.com/ . I'm not sure how or if it works, I haven't tried it myself. They also sell dev kits: https://walabot.com/products/walabot-developer-pack-new

yorick commented on Ask HN: Any tools to do generic WiFi imaging? · Posted by u/selfsimilar

yorick · 2 years ago

2.4ghz isn't great at detecting small obstacles like wires. There's a smartphone mounted device that can do this with 60ghz: https://walabot.com/

yorick commented on Samsung WB850F Firmware Reverse Engineering op-co.de/blog/posts/samsu... · Posted by u/ge0rg

doctorpangloss · 2 years ago

All I want is a dSLR that, when I take a picture on the camera with its button, moments later, the image is in Apple Photos.

yorick · 2 years ago

This should be possible, it already exists for Google Photos: https://www.stg-uploader.xyz/

yorick commented on Why Are More Boys Than Girls Retarded in School? (1928) jstor.org/stable/995446... · Posted by u/sublinear

eterevsky · 2 years ago

About 15 years ago I first heard that men generally have higher standard deviation than women over various measurable properties including IQ. I didn't know it was controversial until Damore's controversy at Google in 2017.

I still think it sounds highly plausible, since I didn't hear of any studies that would disprove it (links are appreciated).

If true it would constitute a benign at least partial explanation for men/women imbalance in some professions.

yorick · 2 years ago

More about this on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis

IMHO the evidence points to this being a cultural effect that can be changed with policy.

yorick commented on Fat OCI images are a cultural problem discourse.nixos.org/t/oci... · Posted by u/soraminazuki

yjftsjthsd-h · 2 years ago

Having used nix-built OCI images in prod, I feel qualified to comment:

* Yeah, nix defaults to giving you a "distroless" image. This is one of the nice things about it:)

* The space savings turn out to not be that significant compared to just using multi-stage Dockerfile builds - if your image is >100MB of application and associated necessary data files, paying another 3-30MB (alpine is 3, debian slim is 30) for a base image just doesn't matter that much. Compared to Alpine, nix could even give you a bigger image, though I don't recall seeing it happen.

* (Similar to previous point) As the Discourse thread notes, nixpkgs isn't really geared towards producing small outputs; it's more like Debian than Alpine.

* Not having anything but the application sounds good, but it has the very significant disadvantage that the result is (by design) missing coreutils and a shell, which means if your container breaks, you can't `kubectl exec` into it to troubleshoot. (And we never found a way to fix this; Ephemeral Containers looked like they were going to fix it but they don't share mounts with the target container and that really undermined the whole thing for us)

yorick · 2 years ago

Adding `busybox` and `bashInteractive` to the container contents gives you enough of a comfortable environment to work in without losing too much space.