ian0 · HackerTrans

hace 2 añosdiscuss

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 can route data to/from it!). Of course its easy to do it if your the operator or someone who has compromised it.

ian0

hace 2 añosdiscuss

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 company, budgeting app etc) can grab your statement data and trigger payments on your behalf just like you would from your mobile banking app.

ACH & SEPA are payments rails, which facilitate the interbank transfer of money. So for example, the app you have given permissions to make transfers to will request a transfer through the open banking APIs to your bank, then the bank itself will use the payments rails to process the transfer.

ian0

hace 2 añosdiscuss

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.

ian0

hace 2 añosdiscuss

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

ian0

hace 2 añosdiscuss

   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 Manager, past 6 years a founder (Fintech, Series A), prior to that first-PM -> VP Product in a regional payments company. 11 years of exp in all, from IC to building & leading distributed teams of 100+ people.

Deep knowledge of financial services, especially payments. Passion for education, I run a non-profit training teachers. I have an engineering background, still very much hands on. Looking for roles in early/mid stage startups, ideally IC.

Email: [email protected]

ian0

hace 2 añosdiscuss

> have read several practical guides on ledgers and found them interesting reads

Can you share some links?

ian0

hace 2 añosdiscuss

   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 with decade+ exp building financial systems. Former VP Product, Founder (Series A+ Payments). IC to leading 100+ ppl teams and 0-1 multiple times. Engineering Background & still code but strictly for fun, prefer product roles. Not fussy on title but a bias towards scrappy teams and impactful work.

Happy to chat: [email protected]

ian0

hace 2 añosdiscuss

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

ian0

hace 2 añosdiscuss

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, or because their ISP sells barely anonymised data to 3rd parts in bulk and on the cheap.

ian0

hace 2 añosdiscuss

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

ian0

hace 3 añosdiscuss

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 whats been happening, many are trying to move to large corporates / banks, many are struggling to find work.

Theres some sectors doing well, some new fundings happening, but overall slow and layoffs continue.

ian0

hace 3 añosdiscuss

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 features just backup these. Bill payment & general POS payments are being dominated by the banks and E-Comm took the shopping & pay-later.

ian0

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Location: SEA (GMT+8)

Remote: Remote/Hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Product, Analytics, Growth, Fintech, Payments, Processing, Financing

Veteran of building B2B & B2B2C financial products. Ive co-founded and led a Series A+ payments & financing co serving schools and prior to this was a Product Manager -> VP Product in a small fintech company. I also founded an Educational Non-Profit focussed on low income vocational school curriculum reform.

My background is in engineering, I code regularly - but quite poorly. Im am however competent in architecture an expert at product & analytics with a large degree of domain knowledge of financial services & educational technology. Ive led large product & engineering teams, mentored a lot more, but honestly grateful for any chance I can find to be an IC.

Ive recently moved to a rural area and am looking to join a remote-first company where I can help build or grow products that have a fun or mission driven purpose. Ideally hands on or leading a small team in a product management like function.

CV on request via email below, happy to chat!

Email: [email protected]

ian0

hace 3 añosdiscuss

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 (cant find it on the site unfortunately).

In saying that - the first time I took it on a long ride out I couldn't sit down for 24 hours afterwards I was in so much pain, but I attribute that to being a stiff old fart. Since then plenty of long rides, perhaps my joints have adapted...

ian0

hace 3 añosdiscuss

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 everyone goes to a clinic when they have it - much more likely when its a bad dose. But a huge amount of people get it each year.

Ive had it twice. Can confirm - it sucks.

[0] https://www.kompas.id/baca/humaniora/2023/09/08/tren-angka-k...

ian0

hace 3 añosdiscuss

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 dysfunctional as long as the machine keeps running. Also figuring out the "wins" while scaling are much more obvious than while trying to start.

ian0

hace 3 añosdiscuss

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 magnitude - they are just points in an n-dimensional space?

ian0

hace 3 añosdiscuss

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

ian0

hace 3 añosdiscuss

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

ian0

hace 3 añosdiscuss

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 up with solid rationale, I know its a senior. Without rationale - I know its a lucky junior.

- If they immediately grab the egg and swallow it without saying a word they are destined for management

- If they take out a cap'n crunch whistle and blow on it while giving me a red card, I have to resign and let them take over the reigns

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