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ian0

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About ian0

Payments, Education SEA

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    Comment #40217442

    Silent SMS is an incredibly convoluted and impractical way of trying to figure out someones location. The whole purpose of mobile networks is to track a devices location (so you ca…

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    Comment #40072019

    Typically open banking refers to a Banks provisioning of Oauth style APIs that allow users to share banking permissions with third parties. So a third party provider (eg payment co…

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    Comment #39714127

    An ombudsman is a great route for any telco-related complaints, during my time at least they were flagged with the same (or higher) priority than vip-effecting issues.

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    Comment #39614318

    Congrats! Its lovely, especially like the transition after you submit the answer.

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    Comment #39570711

    Location: APAC Remote: Remote/Hybrid Willing to relocate: Open to Hybrid, AU/NZ/SG/MY/ID Technologies: Product, Fintech, Payments, Lending, Banking, Remittance, Edtech Product Mana…

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    Comment #39405128

    > have read several practical guides on ledgers and found them interesting reads Can you share some links?

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    Comment #39236876

    Location: APAC. Remote: Remote/Hybrid Willing to relocate: Open to Hybrid, AU/NZ/SG/MY/ID Technologies: Product, Fintech, Payments, Lending, Banking, Remittance, Edtech Greybeard w…

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    Comment #39077315

    Thanks for this! I was making something with this stack awhile back and spent too much time in the weeds setting everything up

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    Comment #39074830

    Not the OP, but perhaps because they live in a country where the gov blocks lots of useful websites, or they want to see public broadcast material (Eg pbs/bbc) from other countries…

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    Comment #38989743

    I have also been hunting around for something like this. The closest Ive found is Terraria, which seems to be very popular and has some of the same resource / crafting mechanics

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    Comment #38988147

    Indonesia: Huge layoffs from the unicorns correcting their valuations and a large number of earlier stage startups shutting down. Lots of disillusionment from tech workers over wha…

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    Comment #38932127

    The super-app premise didn't really pan out in SEA as it did in China. Grab & Gojek predominantly serve logistics use cases (ride hailing, deliveries), their payments/wallet featur…

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    Comment #38853173

    Location: SEA (GMT+8) Remote: Remote/Hybrid Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Product, Analytics, Growth, Fintech, Payments, Processing, Financing Veteran of building B2B & B2B…

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    Comment #38400429

    Kawi ZX25R, small & fun 4cylinder 250cc screamer sold in Asia. Im quite tall, but its still comfy without any mods and I use it daily. The riding position is not that aggressive (c…

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    Comment #38157943

    The 2022 mortality rate for dengue in Indonesia is 0.86%, with most of the fatalities being young kids. ~1200 people in 2022. [0] It could be that the figures match your own as not…

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    Comment #38096008

    At its core a company is a machine that makes money. Once the machine is up and running, you just have to avoid not breaking it. An org at this stage can be completely dysfunctiona…

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    Comment #38077583

    Perhaps a dumb question, but why do we store embeddings as "vectors" and not "points"? I thought the difference was that vectors have magnitude, but an embedding doesn't have a mag…

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    Comment #38054902

    An optional paid feature that not many people seem to use isnt a deal breaker really.

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    Comment #38023129

    I started a business in my 30s. Id be careful about that one..

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    Comment #37965287

    I push a boiled egg and an egg cup towards the candidate and ask them to eat it like x86 processor. - If they put the egg in the cup the upside-down, its a fail - If its right-side…

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    Comment #37865492

    Not from a FANG background but was in a high paying senior role before taking the plunge to start a startup ~6 years ago. Also sole earner. I made the decision to do it as I genuin…

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    Comment #37776957

    | But who wants to listen to a computer copy of someone else's voice? No one. Id imagine a lot of people would be up for doing this if it improved call quality.. If you could recon…

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    Ask HN: “companion”/“assistant” like GPT apps?

    Wondering if anyone has come across any decent companion AI apps? Either for learning like a "young lady's illustrated primer", or a Jervis like assistant that keeps track of what …

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    Comment #37620032

    Grady from the youtube channel practical engineering [0] released a book recently called "Engineering in Plain Sight" and I preordered it for my son but end up hogging it myself! I…

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    Show HN: SheetMonitor – Track changes to Google Sheets over time

    A lot of small businesses use spreadsheets as an effective DB + CRUD app, where the content of the sheet represent the current "state" of the data. An example could be a sheet full…