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You can convert a PyTorch model to an ONNX model that can use CoreML (or in some cases just convert it to a CoreML model directly)

I was surprised it pinged gpt-4o. I was expecting it to use something like https://github.com/apple/ml-fastvlm (obviously cost may have been a factor there), but I can see how the direction he chose would make it more capable of doing more complex behaviours in the future w.r.t adding additional tentacles for movement and so on.

Hi Boris, love working with Claude! I do have a question—is there a plan to have Claude 3.5 Sonnet (or even 3.7!) made available on ca-central-1 for Amazon Bedrock anytime soon? My company is based in Canada and we deal with customer information that is required to stay within Canada, and the most recent model from Anthropic we have available to us is Claude 3.

Mortgages in Canada are different than mortgages in the US in that they are full recourse. If the sale price during foreclosure doesn’t cover the costs, the banks can go after you personally for the balance. So you’d have to either a) leave the country, or b) declare bankruptcy. So, not exactly a risk-free option.

Yes this is accurate. I work at a lender that operated in both Canada and the US and the credit bureau integrations were with totally different companies and had different APIs (even for Equifax on both sides of the border)

Yes, but it’s partly the government’s fault. There’s literally no way for mortgage lenders to pull your tax records in order to verify income. There used to be some third party services to connect to the CRA but they got shut down and replaced with… nothing.

Predictability, speed, cheap fuel, a lack of understanding of climate change, etc.

We also used to have windmills to grind grain and then switched over to mills that use electricity or fossil fuels. But of course, windmills to generate electricity have become quite popular. What's old can be new again when combined with modern technologies.

I did! He's awesome. I was on the software side of things and he was the mechanical but our paths crossed quite frequently.

This looks amazing! Wind power is totally underutilized in the shipping industry, I've been waiting for something like this for ages.

I used to be part of a team back in university making autonomous sailboats [1] and one of the things that I was surprised by when working on this was that there are a TON of hurricanes out in the middle of the ocean (we were working to build it to cross the Atlantic). We built a system to take in weather prediction data to try to avoid hurricanes, but we were building a relatively tiny boat—do large shipping vessels do this as well? I'd assume they can sail through pretty bad weather. If so, do you have ways to lower the sails easily to protect them?

Additionally, do you have any software to help inform the vessel operators how to best sail into the wind or are the net savings not worth it considering most of the propulsion is still coming from fuel-based sources?

Overall, this is super exciting and best of luck!

[1] Now at (https://www.ubcsailbot.org/)

The first thing I always do when I go into any new editor is set up the "Select All Instances of highlighted word". So like how there is cmd-d for the next occurrence, I also like having a shortcut to select _all_ occurrences. Would love for this to be added.

More generally, this looks really awesome and also really enjoyed your team's blog post detailing the GPUI implementation (even though large parts of it went over my head)

This looks very cool, would love to see something like this take off - boilerplate code is such a hassle to stand up for each new project. Does this work with existing hand-made repos or is it mostly intended to work with projects that it generated?

I'm imagining it would be quite challenging to add in e.g. an auth system to an existing backend service and have it match the same coding paradigm as the rest of the app but maybe there'd be some way of annotating your code with comments to make it easier on this system to understand what it's looking at?

Suggestion: the PRs should be draft PRs, otherwise it'll probably be very noisy for teams.

Also, have you thought about doing any integrations with Replit? They are a yc company too and seem to be going all-in on AI and I think the bulk of their user-base is students and junior developers so there might be some synergy there.

Solid article. Is it fair to say that the "data services" layer is essentially a cache sitting in front of the database, or am I misunderstanding it's function?

I met one of my co-founders (we are now a Series A startup) originally via LinkedIn, and together we met our third co-founder also via LinkedIn. The first co-founder and I are in the same city, but the third one was in a different country - so it was almost a year later and many months after we'd raised our original seed round that we ever met the 3rd co-founder in person (we started during COVID lockdowns).

Overall it's been pretty good, the geographic diversity of our founding team gives us different perspectives on hiring and fundraising, and it means we had multiple "locations" right from the get-go.

Fraction | Frontend, Backend Engineers and Full Stack Developers | Full-Time | Vancouver, BC or Berkeley, CA | Onsite, Hybrid, or 100% Remote (your preference)

Looking for a new engineering position but dreading leetcode-style questions? Having flashbacks thinking about re-reading Cracking the Coding Interview? Apply to Fraction! Our engineering interview process has been described as "surprisingly humane". There's no leetcode questions, no all-day onsite interview gauntlet.

What's the work like?

Fraction is building a number of new and exciting technically-challenging projects that you will be one of the first people to work on. Since the company is so young (launched in February 2021!), there's lots of completely new projects, only some maintaining of existing projects, and absolutely no legacy code. Upcoming projects that you might be the one kickstarting include:

- An event system for managing asynchronous workflows.

- A payments system to enable Fraction's customers to make and receive payments.

- A dashboard for customers to interact with our platform, and another dashboard for our internal operations team to automate their workflows.

Although our stack is all Typescript, if you are backend-focused, we don't require experience with it (if you are frontend, we do expect you'll have experience with React, as it is part of our take-home challenge and you'd be unlikely to complete it successfully without that experience).

Fraction is a Series A fintech company. We've come out with the first truly innovative mortgage/HELOC product in the last couple decades. This isn't just a spin on a better application process, it's genuinely a new product in a new category to enable people to access the equity in their homes. Along with the new product, we are building our systems from the ground up to enable a better, faster, and more transparent user experience.

You can apply on our website at https://www.fraction.com/careers, or you can drop me a note at josh [at] fraction.com

Fraction | Senior Software Engineer | Remote/Onsite | US/Canada | Full-time | https://fraction.is

At Fraction, we are building a system to completely modernize home equity lending in the fintech space. In addition to building our systems from the ground up, we are creating an entirely new category of home equity lending products.

Early stage startup with fewer than 15 employees and >$1 million annual run rate, Fraction has been growing between 50%-100% month-over-month since launching in February 2021. Fraction has raised more than $225 million in a combination of equity and debt to grow the business.

For all team members, we offer:

- Full medical, dental, vision benefits - Unlimited vacation & sick days (w/ a mandatory minimum of 2 weeks) - Completely remote work if you want, but we also have offices in Vancouver, BC and Oakland, CA if you want to go in person. - Great work/life balance (no working weekends, no long evenings)

Tech: Typescript for the whole stack, NodeJS backend (using AWS lambda) & React frontend. Postgres for the db.

Please contact josh@fraction.is with your resume (no need for cover letter) if you are interested!

Fraction (https://fractionrealestate.co) | Full Stack Engineer | Vancouver, Canada (but WFH during COVID) | Full Time

Fraction is building a world-class platform for enabling homeowners to manage & access their home equity in completely new ways. As one of the first engineers at Fraction, you will have a large part in building out Fraction’s platform, making key decisions that will guide Fraction as it scales.

As an engineer at Fraction, you will be working across the entire Fraction stack, responsible for adding new products and features. Fraction is looking for engineers with experience both in frontend and backend development to help build out its platform.

Technologies we use: Typescript, React, AWS Lambda, Postgresql

Full description here: https://www.fractionrealestate.co/job-posts/software-enginee...

To apply, please email me, the CTO, at josh [at] fractiontech [dot] com, and just include HN in the subject.

I noticed that too. Maybe it's related to the maintenance NPM is currently doing? https://status.npmjs.org/