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ibejoeb

5,371 karmajoined il y a 17 ans
joe at bokengroup dot com

https://keybase.io/joeb/chat

Technologist-at-large.

Recently: fractional CTO, LLM operations and automation, mobile apps, browser extensions, due diligence, business combinations and integrations.

Formerly: multiple CTO roles, head of product, chief architect, VP Eng., and many different IC roles. A few acquisitions including a cloud financial software company and an Inc. 500 startup. Also experience in healthcare, industrial engineering, transportation/logistics, and manufacturing. I studied maths-based computer science.

The things I like:

1. Pro bono technology implementation and management for charitable concerns.

2. Exigency: contact me if your situation might benefit from external support.

3. Data modeling, data migrations, and making your data systems work really well, i.e., not just fast, but correct. I can help you get the most out of the technology in which you're invested. "You bought it, so you ought to use it."

4. Green fields, end-to-end development.

5. Opportunities to employ ML-family languages for practical applications. (F# f#@<ks.)

6. Low-level odd/embedded platforms, like printers, fabrication machines, industrial automation controllers, and low-power devices, especially building drivers for newer connectivity like WebBLE and WebUSB.

I work a lot with React Native, Expo, React, TypeScript, Python, and Rails. I have a lot of practical, production experience in the cloud on AWS, Azure, and GCP. I'm also comfortable in a traditional datacenter after many years of building servers and running co-lo. My relational databases of choice are Oracle (ask me why) and PostgreSQL. My graph database of choice is Neo4j. I have a long history with Java and the EE platform, Spring, and all sorts of other things in that ecosystem.

I'm also somewhat of an expert in certain areas of financial reporting: FAS 109, FAS 123(r)/ASC 718, FAS 128, FAS 5, FAS 114, FIN 48, transfer pricing, GAAP/IFRS convergence.

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Interests: Mobile Development, AI/ML, Fintech, Entrepreneurship, Martial Arts, Privacy

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Submissions

SCOTUS: 4th ammendment is implicated in a geofence warrant

scotusblog.com
1 points·by ibejoeb·il y a 12 jours·0 comments

The best networking intro I've ever seen is this DICOM presentation [video]

youtube.com
3 points·by ibejoeb·il y a 3 mois·1 comments

Orange Juice: Hacker News Browser Extension

github.com
2 points·by ibejoeb·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

Ask HN: Thoughts on the New Unplugged Up Phone?

2 points·by ibejoeb·il y a 9 mois·0 comments

comments

ibejoeb
·avant-hier·discuss
I have a question: who trains the CSAM model?
ibejoeb
·avant-hier·discuss
That was terrible. But then the NSA just started surveilling everything illegally anyway, laws be damned.
ibejoeb
·avant-hier·discuss
There can be, but this isn't it. In the EU, a company can't send you an email, but it can read your email.
ibejoeb
·avant-hier·discuss
You should be using AIM OTR: https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/
ibejoeb
·avant-hier·discuss
That's what they did.

> OpenAI invented a technique in July 2022 whereby its system would insert terms reflecting diversity (like “Black,” “female,” or “Asian”) into image-generation prompts in a way that was hidden from the user.

> Google’s Gemini system seems to do something similar, taking a user’s image-generation prompt (the instruction, such as “make a painting of the founding fathers”) and inserting terms for racial and gender diversity, such as “South Asian” or “non-binary” into the prompt

More links to primary sources, evidence, and official statements in the article at https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/googl...
ibejoeb
·avant-hier·discuss
That's certainly not a universal preference. There are people and even entire cultures for whom being surreptitiously manipulative is disrespectful.
ibejoeb
·il y a 5 jours·discuss
Honey is also well established in medicine, especially in wound and infection management. I'm not sure of how much clinical evidence supports cough suppression, but it not huge leap to suspect that it could be a second order effect of its antibacterial properties, like in bacterial bronchitis.
ibejoeb
·il y a 9 jours·discuss
> Nobody is going to go to OP's personal site to watch videos

Unfortunately, I agree. It's not the algorithm for me, though. Rather, it's the capabilities of the platform. I use the cast feature almost exclusively. I rarely watch a video on a computer screen and never on a mobile device. YouTube's casting feature is constantly broken, but it's the only thing that even barely works. I have no idea how many others see it this way, but I don't think I'm particularly distinct.

I've been following https://github.com/futo-org/fcast for a bit, but it doesn't really have a viable receiver implementation that I know of.
ibejoeb
·il y a 10 jours·discuss
Not for the past 20 years. I also don't participate in Patronscan and other similar surveillance operations.

That is beside the point. I'm talking about the incoherent argument about a parent's supposed obligation to stop parenting and the government taking over. There are three premises here asserted by the author: 1) the child's need for independence, 2) a parent's duty to stop parenting, and 3) the government stepping in. Number 1 is contrary to 3, and I don't agree with either 2 or 3. What do you think?
ibejoeb
·il y a 10 jours·discuss
> When children are very young, parents can set strict boundaries. But as kids move into their teens, parents also have an obligation to loosen them. Teenagers need spaces where they can act independently

Parent have an obligation to loosen the restrictions, and, what, the government has obligations to tighten them and deprive them of the spaces where they can act independently?

I don't care to talk about the premise itself. This reasoning is absurd.
ibejoeb
·il y a 12 jours·discuss
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ibejoeb
·il y a 12 jours·discuss
It's not trick. We weren't before invoking collective responsibility. But if now we are, fine. (Leave it alone that Sweden has been in NATO for, what, 18 months? ) Two follow-up questions, then:

1. Does the "east" have the same responsibility, or should the "west" bear it all?

2. Are Middle Eastern and African countries that much more peaceful than western countries? If so, then I suppose you are right. If not, should we at least consider that as sort of an offset to the responsibility?

As far as the shirt made in Vietnam goes: I think that the manufacturer in Vietnam is getting paid for it. Am I wrong?
ibejoeb
·il y a 12 jours·discuss
I'm open to this argument. How much bombing and assassinating is Sweden actually doing?
ibejoeb
·il y a 13 jours·discuss
Flock is a YC company, right?

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety
ibejoeb
·il y a 16 jours·discuss
Well, these types of companies typically carry cyber incident insurance. If there was, say, a ransomware attack, the carrier is going to bring in a forensic team to investigate. If it is determined that there was negligence, like not patching a system, that will be used to deny a claim. This might be a little different from the lastpass situation in that it's an untrustworthy vendor, but there's still significant exposure.

If this bank were my client, I would make sure that the decision-makers were aware.
ibejoeb
·il y a 17 jours·discuss
They're great at building datacenters and running massive archival operations.
ibejoeb
·il y a 17 jours·discuss
Wow. Can anyone recommend a good write-up on that history?

41%... I suppose these were non-voting shares. Imagine owning nearly half the company and being denied access to company documents.
ibejoeb
·il y a 18 jours·discuss
I've been using the new swipe for a few days and it's truly excellent.
ibejoeb
·il y a 18 jours·discuss
In most of the developed world, you need to register with a government to operate a communications device, whether it's radio, land line, mobile phone, whatever. If you're theorizing some kind of peer-to-peer system, where you let someone use your service to bypass mandatory registration, you're going to be liable. There will be very limited takers.
ibejoeb
·il y a 18 jours·discuss
> Ostensibly, the goal is to prevent children from accessing content their parents don't want them to see

This is not even ostensibly the goal. Ostensibly, the goal is that the government controls what a child can do.