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shiv86··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
QumisAI | https://www.qumis.ai/ | Founding Full Stack/AI Engineers | Hybrid Chicago | Full-Time | $125k–$200k • 0.50%–1.50% Equity

Tech Stack: TypeScript | Rails | Postgres | Docker | React | LLM

About QumisAI: QumisAI is the only lawyer-built AI platform transforming insurance knowledge work. Our mission is to provide the most accurate AI solutions for the insurance industry. We are already trusted by five of the 15 largest U.S. insurance brokers, leading specialty carriers, and top law firms.

What We’re Building: QumisAI leverages cutting-edge technology to tackle complex challenges in insurance knowledge work. From fine-tuned LLMs to proprietary data pipelines, we are shaping the future of AI in the insurance domain.

Why Join Us? If you’re passionate about:

-Building at the Frontier: Work with LLMs, agents, fine-tuning, classifiers, data engineering/pipelines, and copilots.

-A High-Impact Role: Join a small, ambitious team with the autonomy to make a meaningful impact in a high-growth environment.

-A Career-Defining Opportunity: Shape the future of an industry while defining your own career path.

This is your chance to be part of a fast-paced startup with the stability of being backed by some of the most trusted names in the insurance and legal industries.

Compensation:

Base Salary: $125k–$200k Equity: 0.50%–1.50% Contact Us: If this resonates with you, let’s talk! We are looking for people with "Superpowers"—what are you uniquely the best at or aspire to be the best at? Email us your superpower, and let’s chat: shiv@

(No recruiters. Emails from recruiters will be automatically flagged as spam.)

shiv86··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
Superpower: Converts any youtube link into a micro-learning course, extracts the slides, creates bite size concepts, quizzes, AI based answer evaluations.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/getsuperpower/id6444110596

shiv86··on Custom Embeddings: Why going viral caused us to rip out everything in a weekend
Could you please provide alternative embedding platforms
shiv86··on Show HN: Self-host Whisper As a Service with GUI and queueing
from the source code <!DOCTYPE html><!-- This site was created in Webflow. https://www.webflow.com --><!--
shiv86··on Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?
Learning small amounts everyday. Accumulation of knowledge provides compounding return E.g. reading books, curated twitter, https://getsuperpower.com/, https://www.blinkist.com/
shiv86··on Ask HN: What's your startup's BI tool/setup?
" BI tool so people that don't know SQL can explore data, create/look at dashboards and export data." - We had exactly the same requirement. Use Looker, its expensive but worth it. The requests to our data team has reduced by 90% We are a small startup with 20 employees
shiv86··on Ask HN: How do you memorize things you read?
I have been using this: https://app.getsuperpower.com/quick-start

...its a mix between notes and spaced repetition

shiv86··on Someone from the product team at Gitlab needs to look at issue 35054
> just in a way that is confusing for people who mainly use Github.

As a user I am requesting to merge branch X into branch Y. What Github actually does is merge branch Y into branch W, with insufficient warning to the user. Gitlab users continue to have issues due to this unexpected behavior. I am astounded this problem has not been addressed in a meaningful way, so users dont counter this issue.

shiv86··on Someone from the product team at Gitlab needs to look at issue 35054
It is completely non-intuitive UX which is causing a lot of people issues. Merging branches is the bread and butter of GIT, if you are changing a fundamental primitive (mergers) of how a technology is expected to work, by reversing the direction of the merge request (opposite to the direction provided explicitly by the user) without warning that is a major issue.
shiv86··on Facebook takes down Trump ads 'for violating our policy against organized hate'
Very interesting related twitter thread: https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1273631800636702721
shiv86··on Airbnb Is Moving Off of React Native (2018)
Another perspective; Shopify adopts React Native: https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/react-nati... and https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/04/15/shopify-reac...
shiv86··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)
Multiple Software Roles | Chicago/Remote | Full Time |

Hey Folks - We are a early stage startup in the logistics space, with paying users and have raised a large seed round. To prove out our product market fit we used php and Laravel. As we move into our growth phase we'll be Shifting our tech stack to nodejs and react. If you are a strong php developer and/or are fimilar with laravel reach out at shiv at newtrul [dot] com.

shiv86··on How Shopify implemented its secure authentication service
I avoided php and its ecosystem like a plague for the longest time. However the who eco-system has evolved including the language e.g. functional paradigm (closures) and syntactic improvement (arrow functions). When you combine this with a modern web framework like php Laravel it is an absolute pleasure to work with, specifically as a monolithic for rapid application development, which is great for MVPs and ensuring you have product market fit. I am not sure how this translates over time to a micros-services. However if you're starting to writing a new application I would definitely recommend php + laravel for rapid application development. I say this relative to my extensive experience with nodejs express/java spring boot.
shiv86··on Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers?
Who is the author for Influencer
shiv86··on What’s New in ES2019
>The whole arrow function notation, for example, buys nothing new compared to the old notation of writing "function(....){}" other than appearing to keep up with functional fashion of the times.

Incorrect - The main advantage is fat arrow syntax can keep lexical scope of this current context. Hence you dontneed to implement that=this antipattern

shiv86··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)
Goldman Sachs | Marcus.com | FrontEnd/Full Stack Developers (1 VP (FrontEnd), 2 Associate, 1 Analyst ), (React,Apollo,GraphQL,AEM) Front End Stack (Java, Spring Jersey, Jackson,Dropwizard, MongoDB Microservices Architecture)Back End Stack| Full Time | Chicago | ONSITE | Consumer Investment Management Division (CIMD) is a new division within the firm focused on bringing state of the art Goldman technology to the consumer market enabling a complete new line of business Our goal in engineering is to facilitate the creative, iterative, and data driven creation of our all digital retail bank.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS This role is truly an amazing opportunity to make an impact on a new and exciting division utilizing the latest technology. You'll play an instrumental role in enhancing a highly visible existing platform and building a modern UI/micro-services backend for Marcus.com. The role will provide you an opportunity to learn, take ownership and become a subject matter expert (SME) for our online banking platform. You'll join a fintech startup environment with daily stand-ups, huddles and sprints.

Basic Qualifications:

Front End: • Experience building web interfaces using HTML5, CSS, CSS3,SASS,• Strong with vanilla JavaScript knowledge • Strong knowledge of JavaScript framework: React and Redux • Experience with build tools: webpack, grunt and npm • Knowledge of web fundamentals/ technolgies • Knowledge of testing frameworks (Karma, Jasmine)

Server Side: • Strong Knowledge Java programming languages • Strong Knowledge of Spring Frameworks and related Spring Projects • 7+ years of relevant (above) work experience • Exceptional software engineering knowledge; OO Design Principles • Experience building service highly scalable, available, and secure service and integration layers • Experience with RESTful Architecture • Experience with Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Micro Services Architecture • Strong Linux/Unix skills • Experience with testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito etc)

Reach out: Shivam.x.Sinha at gs.com

shiv86··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
I have a locked twitter account for raw unfiltered idea. If you have an idea or a thought tweet it to your self!
shiv86··on The Secret API of Banks
This seem like a great option!...thanks for sharing
shiv86··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)
Goldman Sachs | Full Stack Developers, (React,Redux,AEM) Front End Engineers (Java, Spring Jersey, Jackson,Dropwizard, MongoDB Microservices Architecture)Back End Engineers | Full Time | Chicago | ONSITE |

Consumer Finance Technology (CFT) is a new division within the firm focused on bringing state of the art Goldman technology to the consumer market enabling a complete new line of business Our goal in engineering is to facilitate the creative, iterative, and data driven creation of our all digital retail bank.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS This role is truly an amazing opportunity to make an impact on a new and exciting division utilizing the latest technology. You'll play an instrumental role in enhancing a highly visible existing platform and building a modern UI/micro-services backend for GSBank.com. The role will provide you an opportunity to learn, take ownership and become a subject matter expert (SME) for our online banking platform. You'll join a fintech startup environment with daily stand-ups, huddles and sprints.

Basic Qualifications:

Front End: • Experience building web interfaces using HTML5, CSS, CSS3,SASS, Bootstrap • Strong with vanilla JavaScript knowledge • Strong knowledge of JavaScript framework: React and Redux • Experience with build tools: webpack, grunt and npm • Knowledge of web fundamentals/ technolgies • Knowledge of testing frameworks (Karma, Jasmine)

Server Side: • Strong Knowledge Java programming languages • Strong Knowledge of Spring Frameworks and related Spring Projects • 7+ years of relevant (above) work experience • Exceptional software engineering knowledge; OO Design Principles • Experience building service highly scalable, available, and secure service and integration layers • Experience with RESTful Architecture • Experience with Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Micro Services Architecture • Strong Linux/Unix skills • Experience with testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito etc)

Reach out: Shivam.x.Sinha at gs.com

shiv86··on JDK 9 modules voted down by EC
What engineering standard are you referring to ?
shiv86··on What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?
Where do I type it ?
shiv86··on Ask HN: What software are you forced to use that you hate?
>KDB+ (but now I love it)

What changed ?

shiv86··on Building a Bank with Go [video]
Any reason why you went then Kubernets as opposed to Docker Swam ?
shiv86··on Show HN: Pay $1 for every day you don't push to GitHub
Agreed with the comments. I would use this service under the following conditions: - 100% of the money goes towards a charity (minus minor site maintenance cost). - There must be complete transparency where the money is going - People have different time constraints: I wont do it on a git push on a daily basis, but weekly and monthly yes.
shiv86··on Ask HN: What are your pain points using react native
Hey mate navigation is still a pain point for RN. This OS project https://github.com/aksonov/react-native-router-flux/ is one of the more popular alternative ones and has many open issues. I am sure a-lot of people will be appreciative of any help. Thanks
shiv86··on Java StringBuffer and StringBuilder performance
99% of the time you initialize StringBuilder during a method call. Each method call stores it’s variables on the stack and each thread has its own stack. So in the above 99% usecases StringBuilder is thread safe by default.

Use cases for StringBuffer are very limited …I can’t even think of an example where I would use it.

shiv86··on React-native-swipe-list-view
Nice work mate!
shiv86··on LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value
I think what Kin is saying before in 2008 and dot-com there were fundamental reasons for a bubble to burst which had an navigate reprecussions on the economy(recession/increased unemployment).

dotcom - shell companies, with no revenue or profits. 2008 - excessive/unsustainable leverage both by corporations and individuals.

This time around multiple QE cycles resulted in decreased treasury and bond yeilds. People\funds with captial went to invest other assets classes e.g. equity markets seeking high yeilds and as a result increased the price multiples/valuations while the intrinic businesses valuation and growth remained the same.

Now people are starting to realize that multiples(what you pay for a company and what its actually worth) are too high and started taking money out of equity markets. While the fundamentals of the business has stayed the same.

Hence this bubble bursting or "significant price correction" wont have the same impact on mainstreet as the other two bubbles because the business are still sustainable but the prices weren't.

Prices are not proxy for revenue/profits/growth or value. So unless someone can give actual facts that the fundamentals of the underlying businesses are/will be impacted on a systematic basis I agree with kin.

shiv86··on Martin Shkreli indictment [pdf]
Yes agreed with your example. The total loss in your example is only 16%. In the example provided above he starts with $1mill and has a loss of $7 mill. Thats a 700% loss.
shiv86··on Martin Shkreli indictment [pdf]
This is incorrect. You can’t talk about absolute $8mill gain without talking about the total market cap (total value) of the stock. What would have happened that the company its not increase by $8mill but increase by 8 times the current value which is more possible to happen for small cap stocks.
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