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Spara builds enterprise-grade AI agents that engage, qualify, and convert sales leads into revenue. We're solving a complex, high-impact sales problem ($28B market) through sophisticated multi-modal interactions, leveraging leading-edge foundation models across multiple providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google...)

We're an experienced, tight-knit team backed by Radical Ventures & Inspired Capital, with support from AI luminaries including founders of PyTorch and Google Cloud TPU. Our tech stack includes FastAPI/Python, React/TypeScript/Tailwind, Postgres/pgvector, Google Cloud, Docker, and GitHub Actions.

Staff / Senior AI Engineer: Architect and build our AI engine, fine-tune models, design evaluations, and optimize user interactions.

https://www.spara.co/careers?ashby_jid=62ad31de-e815-4a02-93... https://www.spara.co/careers?ashby_jid=523871d0-32bc-4ef4-8d...

Staff / Senior Full Stack Engineer: Develop and scale our core product suite, interfaces, and sales workflow orchestration systems.

https://www.spara.co/careers?ashby_jid=1885ae6f-0815-4001-84... https://www.spara.co/careers?ashby_jid=151c6ee3-4e3a-4d17-98...

Competitive comp, strong benefits, sustainable culture, impactful work. We're growing quickly – come build the future of sales with us!

Spara | Hiring Full Stack & AI Engineers | Hybrid NYC (3-4 days in-office) | Full-Time | https://www.spara.co/careers

Spara builds enterprise-grade AI agents that instantly engage, qualify, and convert sales leads into revenue. We're solving a complex, high-impact sales problem ($28B market) through sophisticated multi-modal interactions—chat, email, voice, and beyond—leveraging leading-edge foundation models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and more.

We're an experienced, tight-knit team backed by Radical Ventures & Inspired Capital, with support from AI luminaries including founders of PyTorch and Google Cloud TPU. Our tech stack includes FastAPI/Python, React/TypeScript/Tailwind, Postgres/pgvector, Google Cloud, Docker, and GitHub Actions.

Roles:

Staff / Senior AI Engineer: Architect and build our AI engine, fine-tune models, design evaluations, and optimize user interactions.

https://www.spara.co/careers?ashby_jid=62ad31de-e815-4a02-93... https://www.spara.co/careers?ashby_jid=523871d0-32bc-4ef4-8d...

Staff / Senior Full Stack Engineer: Develop and scale our core product suite, interfaces, and sales workflow orchestration systems.

https://www.spara.co/careers?ashby_jid=1885ae6f-0815-4001-84... https://www.spara.co/careers?ashby_jid=151c6ee3-4e3a-4d17-98...

Competitive comp, strong benefits, sustainable culture, impactful work.

Author here. I think LLMs make for a really interesting opportunity for getting voters details of candidates' platforms that are relevant to them specifically.

Right now, campaigns strike me as very much a push model (especially at the federal level), where candidates and news media are putting out information they think will be relevant and resonate, and voters need to drink from something of a firehose if they have more specific questions, or care about issues that are less hot-button.

Of course, there are in-person events where voters can ask questions important to them, but that only covers a small fraction of voters, and doesn't generally support detailed question & answer. Volunteers are another key touchpoint, but most of them will only be so informed about detailed plans.

With LLMs, I think it's very imaginable for a campaign to allow digital question / answer so engaged voters can get more specific questions answered, while sticking to desired messaging. Using an LLM to provide _human volunteers_ better information when they speak to voters is another interesting opportunity for more effective messaging.

Came for the space talk, stayed for the LLM artifacts.

Spacebar does that on Zoom :)

Mute yourself and then hit spacebar. You'll be unmuted until you release

Not sure if this is on by default, by the option for this behavior is in Preferences > Audio > Press and hold 'Space Key' to temporarily unmute

Though tbf, Zoom has to be in focus in order for that to work

One wonders what they're doing with all those profits then. Seems like they would either reinvest in the company (accumulating assets), put it in the bank (fairly literally accumulating assets), or pay it out to shareholders (perhaps the most straightforward way in which stocks are worth money).

TetraScience | Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Product & Project Managers, Senior Software Engineer-in-Test etc... | Boston, MA | Full-Time, Onsite, http://tetrascience.com

TetraScience is a Boston-based SaaS company and rapidly growing startup applying an IoT playbook to lab research. We build hardware and software that allow research organizations to connect their existing lab instruments to a cloud infrastructure, in a sense, an online dashboard to coordinate experiments, monitor equipment parameters, and manage experimental data, as well as an integration layer between instruments and a customer's ELN or LIMS system-of-choice. In short, our goal at TetraScience is to use IoT to increase the efficiency of scientific research.

Our goal at TetraScience is to effect industry-wide change, and we have intentionally built a team of passionately curious engineers of diverse backgrounds who support science and value scientific advancement. You know the quote “The best minds of [our] generation are thinking about how to make people click ads”? We're a decent counterexample.

Overall, it's a fun, sharp team with a lot of potential upside working in a fairly interesting space (well, I like science anyway...). Plus, we're probably in the best location in the world to be doing what we're doing, and we're hiring experienced folks across the board. Join us!

Stack: Node, React, Python, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Mongo, Docker, AWS...

I'm one of the senior engineers, and am incredibly bullish on our prospects conditioned on continuing to get the right talent as we grow, hit me up at jg.public@tetrascience.com if you're interested.

> I do not think that anyone's ability to write should disbar them from discussion.

And perhaps it shouldn't! It might, however, limit their ability to write at length about sensitive, culturally-deep issues at work without getting fired and having their career stained.

Similarly, perhaps one's ability to write code shouldn't disbar them from a hackathon, but if they write a bunch of hacky code for a quadcopter and it flies into the audience, well, then they're in a bit of a pickle indeed.

Oh interesting. Where did you find this? (My cursory check didn't show turn up any info on that)

(^∀^) I came here to post the same thing!

Maybe? I'm not sure the analogy helps here, as it seems unclear that prisons are an effective way to discourage crimes.

This here govt website suggests is the act of being caught that is the major deterrent to crime, not the severity of the punishment https://nij.gov/five-things/pages/deterrence.aspx

Original source: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/670398?seq=1#page_scan_t...

But we already do this with businesses... We live in this bad idea system you are describing, except that the little guy is getting screwed while fictional business entities ride high amongst the waves.

[citation needed]

If this is such a good and valuable idea, why will it never happen? Seems the major internet-interface makers (Google via Chrome, FB via their app, for ex), are vying for control over the way people develop web applications too. Making an alternative that gets adopted would be invaluable to them.

Are lyft etc... non-options?

Personally, I'd love to see the most predatory of the on-demand ride services flame out because of bad PR and an unsustainable (and did I mention predatory?) business model.

On the other hand, if you were paying part of the bill for his treatment, you'd also be incentivized to help him out in ways that might prevent that fate. I believe that, at the end of the day, we're all in this together. So to me, clarifying that economically is a feature of public healthcare, not a bug.

what if it ran "npm install -g lodash"?

> Face it, most of the American public, except maybe the Millenials and Gen-Z, love the idea of having the government spy on them all the time "for their safety".

citation needed

Preeeeetty much everyone in our society drinks caffeine [citation needed]. Personally, I find a significant difference in my level of focus between a day in which I had a cup of coffee in the morning and one in which I did not. This is true for me regardless of any dependence.

My advice is to keep tabs on how much you're consuming and consider to giving yourself off days when there isn't work to be done. Definitely try and get a good night's sleep too (coffee late in the day isn't great for this, so worth keeping that in mind).

Most importantly, figure out what works well for you.

There is absolutely a point. It's possible to oppose surveillance on multiple fronts.

The whole point of checks and balances is that the government doesn't do everything it can do, nor does it act as a unified whole. A bad actor in one branch can be held in check by a good actor in another. If the police/FBI/whomever wanted to storm a government center, it's theoretically up to a court to determine if that is legal and constitutional.

The government has quite a bit of power to do things other than actually kill people. It can take away people's lives in many other ways.

Which is are the bigger risks for you? Getting your money taken from you by the government via fines or getting it stolen from you by a criminal? Being forced, under threat of imprisonment, to show up in a location at a specific time and account for your actions by the government or by a corporation, your work, your neighbor? Getting locked up in a basement by a criminal or locked up in a prison by the government?

We give the government quite a lot of power. It behooves us to ensure that power is kept in check.

I note that the two unions you bring up are public-sector unions. It's worth considering that public-sector and private-sector unions are different beasts. For one thing, private-sector unions are facing off against corporations - both trying to maximize their own value, and so one might hope a balance is achieved. In the public-sector, unions are trying to maximize their own value, but the government is (hypothetically) trying to maximize public good, so it's not really a fair balance.

Private-sector unions have been hugely helpful in the US. This article touches on it in an interesting way: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/nicholas-kristof-t...

Bad example since you're implying that they're continuing to stand in front of the person who punched them. It's not like Dutch flights are going to continue to fly over that part of Ukraine.

Better example, someone at a concert gets hit with a bottle someone else threw. It was the only bottle thrown at that concert or any other concert they've ever been to. They've know that it does happen though very rarely. They look at you and say "I'm not going to do anything major, the chances of that happening again are slim." You suspect they won't return to that same venue however. Would you be impressed or would you think they're a little crazy?

Personally, I'd be impressed.

According to the company's website, their tech gets them up to the 30-300MHz range.

http://finsix.com/power-platform/#section-frequency-innovati...

Definitely! What's pretty cool is that this is exactly the response of MIT administration as well http://tech.mit.edu/V134/N7/tidbit.html

Old news. MIT administration has responded in a pretty reasonable manner.

http://tech.mit.edu/V134/N7/tidbit.html

After confirming this with a quick google, I'm having trouble not "blaming the victim" here. It's sometimes the case with ridiculous things happening to people, that there's "more to the story", and that certainly seems to be the case here.

The poster willfully assumed additional risk on top of the standard AirBNB risk, and it's that additional risk that bit him.

Telling someone you've never met that they can bring 50 people(!?!) into your apartment, and just assuming that things won't get out of hand, is... naive.

I didn't realize that :-p Good looking out!

This never presses the down key. A small correction so it'll move randomly in all directions

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The suggested script is kind of awkward if your representative is already supporting the USA Freedom Act. However, even if they are already in support, it seems important to let them know you have their back on this, and that your future support will continue to be contingent on their stance on surveillance-related issues (if indeed it is). I know not of these things from a political angle, but the following seems reasonable to me

1. Start the call by asking if they're cosponsoring of the USA Freedom Act.

2a. If they are not, use the script, it makes sense.

2b. If they are, thank them for their support of this bill. You can also let them know how important these surveillance issues are to you and the extent to which your representative's actions on these matters will affect your behavior at the polls and in donations.

Just a heads up to those planning to call (please do!). I felt kind of silly finding out that the first senator on my list was already a cosponsor after reading through the script, and wanted to save others the minor embarrassment. It should feel good to call your representatives and express your support for such important issues!

That aside, this is a really great campaign. Thank you so much to everyone who put it together and made it happen!!