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Location: Yangon, Myanmar
Remote: Yes
Website: https://www.hexcode.tech
Resume/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/phyo-arkar-lwin-6601487b
GitHub: https://github.com/v3ss0n
Email: phyoakl@hexcode.tech

Seeking: Contract, Project-based, Full team, Long-term
Availability: 48 hrs/week
Minimum contract: 2 months

Backend: PyTorch, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Local LLMS, Generative AI, Computer Vision, DevOps: Docker, Nginx, Ansible, Pyinfra
Backend Frameworks: Django, Litestar, (Flask, FastAPI, Quartz, Bottle)
Frontend: React, React MDX, Svelte, SvelteKit
UI Design: Figma, Drawio
System Integration: Odoo, Erpnext, Authentik, Authlia, Teleport, Seafile, Minio, Nginx, Traefik, Gitea, Zulip, Mattermost

Full-stack Developer and Tech Lead with 20+ years of experience in Backend, Frontend, MLOps, Data Engineering, and DevOps. Leads a team of 7 members. Can code, lead, and work with Scrum. Previously served as CTO for startups. Modest rates , could hire whole team .

Focus: Python [Litestar, Django] + Typescript [Svelte, React] + Tailwind. Contributes to https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar. Seeking long-term, full-team employment.

Notable Achievements:
- 2010: Built ETL + MLOps system for a NY-based eDiscovery firm.
- 2016: Developed Myanmar's popular telehealth platform, serving 200k users.
- 2022: Created an insuretech platform with deep learning-based pre-underwriting and automatic product recommendations.
- 2023: Contributed to https://litestar.dev and built a full-stack delivery platform.
It seems to me like some of the most successful commercial software virtually requires either reading the documentation, or doing some sort of training
My ISP is well known for using Deep Packet Inspection techniques to look at what you're doing and where, and to shape traffic to sites they want to discourage -- like NetFlix. And they inject their own ads into web pages, which could be a source of malware. It's trivial for large providers to get root certs so that they can MITM any TLS traffic on their network, unless you're using pinned certificates.

So, I need to protect myself against my ISP.

And their name? AT&T.
Sorry I haven't tried and not near them atm, but I am quite confident it does not.
Windows, Ubuntu, WebOS and Android.
You're ignoring the concept of disparate impact. A facially neutral criteria can still be illegal discrimination if it has a disproportionate adverse effect on a protected class. Lack of intent is not a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Grades might fall into that category except that they have a demonstrable connection to the student's academic abilities. It would be much harder to prove a connection for who the student happens to be related to.
Yeah, if I were attaching a modem to a star64 (or rPi) I would use USB and save the PCI-e slot for storage. NVME is a huge upgrade to these devices.
I can't read this tweet to find out what Elon is claiming because... gestures wildly around at the state of Twitter.

But linking to an Elon Musk tweet does not on its face change anything about my prior that this is not a real thing and that you're using all of these words incorrectly. Elon thinks everything that is personally inconvenient to him is illegal. He's threatened legal action in the past over advertisers just not buying ads from him.

He just says stuff. But you have to apply some critical thinking here -- what would it even look like to "bootstrap" Threads with Twitter data? These words mean things, if Threads is being bootstrapped with stolen data, there should be Twitter data on Threads -- accounts should be mirrored, content should be mirrored, there should be something. Is there?

> But the timing of Twitter's rate limiting this week, combined with Elon's clarification that Twitter data is being mass-scraped, combined with the launch of Threads this week...can't be a coincidence, can it?

The timing of Threads launching this week is probably a direct response to gestures wildly around at the state of Twitter right now. I find it incredibly unlikely that Instagram launching Threads crippled Twitter's infrastructure.

Particularly given that Elon Musk himself claimed (also likely incorrectly) that it was AI companies crippling the site, not rival social networks.
That's not exactly the complexity of typical software that must solve an actual, difficult, business problem.

Wake me up when ChatGPT is able to write and maintain a POS system, or an online store with attached fulfillment management. Anything that goes beyond a fancy 100-line script. Anything that people actually hire teams of senior devs, business analysts and software architects for.
Google Play Games for PC is now rolling out to Europe and New Zealand
They're real, fwiw
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/04/15/eight-bit-floating...
Lots of cameras have been good at curbing lots of abuses.

Concentrated power with cameras-- one party controlling a lot of them, and doing automated aggregation of information-- has been bad for privacy.

Lots of cameras in public without the abuses of aggregating information seems best.
Are people known to be good at fact-checking?
Okay take this with a big bucket of salt, took a year off from work last year and my initial idea was build something(failed miserably, total disaster, will try again sometime in future) but since I was totally unaware of how the whole marketing and market research thing works, I tried summarizing [0] everything at a very high level to get started, it helped a bit both when trying to build whatever the heck i tried to build and also to have a general understanding of the steps. hope it helps :)

[0] : https://blog.geekodour.org/posts/market_research/
Haven't all this features been a thing since forever?
I'm a bit bummed out that in memory didn't increase performance, any idea why?
That's a huge bit of stretch, US congress doesn't control the rest of the world. General US public will either be left behind or VPN subscriptions will rise.
Be very careful about how you ask questions because some forms of question solicit "approval" answers. It's culturally informed, some cultures try very very hard NOT to have to deliver a negative.

Thats why some UX uses matched-pair questions which have two approaches to the issue at hand, boolean opposites, so you can see if they move sliders, weight or answer both the "correct" way to align the response.

Separately:

"If I made a new service x would you like it" is not the same as "if I said it would cost you $5 to use new service x would you use it" is not the same as "do you think new service x would be useful" is not the same as "do you think anyone else wants new service x"

It's very easy to mistake these for "the same"

I am personally very skeptical of NPS and satisfaction scores in small communities. They may work for google scale entities, I don't think they do for <100 users. Many people canonicalise the results of 4-5 respondants. In my experience, if your primary job is to assess if they qualify for X or Y, and you ask them how much they liked your service delivery in denying them X or Y, they will be profoundly negative about the service, which is really not helpful because you may have written a simple direct and fast web service to deliver the negative outcome. And of course, the reverse is equally true.
Getting browsers to implement it as a matter of legal requirement is another huge issue.

My proposal is for the government itself to do blind age verification on their own site and issue an expiring token scoped to the user's IP. The porn site would load JS from the gov site or from its own servers that pops up age verification prompt loaded from the government site, gets the signed token to be verified by the porn site.

What the government does to verify age is up to them but my approach would be to verify that they have a valid payment card or a mobile phone number (verified by sms code) where the screenshot of their ID matches whoever is an adult part of the phone subscription plan. Ideally, verification is done once and all you do is login.

I said blind verification because you can have it so that the gov site doesn't know from what site the verification is requested. This can also be applied for social media and other restrictions.

You all can disagree ideologically but this happening. I think it's best to discuss how to do this in a way that respects the privacy of users without allowing middle parties to abuse it.
I understood the article as "renewables gave us a brand new 13GW in about 1 year", being about 1 year the key (actually, 3/4 or the energy installed in the first three months of 2023). There's no way you can get that amount of energy so quickly with any other energy source that is not photovoltaics.

The time to build a gas/coal power plant is around 4 years, and a nuclear power plant is around 7 years. Texas had huge problems demanding 69GW in 2021, yet in 2023 they demand 81GW and the grid provides. So yes, from 2020 to 2025 at least, renewables are "saving" Texas.
Could it be because more people are working remotely, thus transmitting the traffic via home internet instead of relying on cell towers during commutes?
I'm sorry but you're saying a literal ton, over 2,000lbs, at $600 is expensive? I can't think of any material I can buy a ton of for $600.
so you think they're also aiming at reddit?
(not at all)OpenAI has a very short time window to monetize and/or lock in their product users.

Currently the biggest model one can feasibly run on a desktop pc with let's say a previous gen gpu, 32gb ram, 2x fast nvme drives is approximately 7B. Models comparable in performance to chatgpt are 45B and bigger. In theory it could be possible to run a model like this, but one would wait 5~10 minutes for every answer.

Now, consider that those models are going to get optimised and hardware will get better. In few years time you'll be able to run such model on your pc, in few more on your smartphone. What is (not at all)OpenAI going to do? They have to beat the AI safety drum as much as possible hoping they manage to curtail the democratisation of Access to big AIs via legal means.

At the same time due to a lack of proper software NVidia is the only game in town for anyone wanting too do inference at home and they're already applying monopoly-level profit margins (50%?) to their products.

When is the last time you saw a Google TPU for sale? Ive got my hands on their "edge" tpu. It's nice for things like Cctv object recognition and similar small tasks. I've managed to build a nice 1U Cctv server using it that consumes 30W on average. But I'd like the big version now.

I bet the moment alternative frameworks that have good optimisations for both nVidia and non nVidia hardware are starting to gain ground it will suddenly become a lot more difficult to purchase nVidia cards by normal people. They openly say it on their every keynote they want to "rent you everything".

This is the biggest battle (except actual physical wars against autocracies) that we have to win in next 50 years to retain our freedom we realistically have in democratic countries. If we allow intelligence (AI) to centralise and be subject to centralised control it'll be game over. The entire global society will be steered as a whole by one "prompt engineer".
For example, if a user specifically asks for a
URL's full text, it might inadvertently fulfill
this request.

So this seems to imply two things:

1: Bing has access to text on websites which users don't. Probably because websites allow Bing to crawl their content but show a paywall to users?

2: The plugin has a different interface to Bing than what Bing offers via the web. Because on the web, you can't tell Bing to show the full text of the URL.

I have to contact my ISP. That's not the open web I subscribed to :) Until they fix it, I just keep reading HN. A website which works the way I like it.
The "Detailed CPU time" setting in htop doesn't show the time the CPU is waiting on memory, it is just traditional I/O (disk, network, etc).
I can't think of a single improvement to Twitter in the past 9 months. What changes I have noticed have ranged from annoying (extra-long tweets, a lot more white supremacist content to block) to destructive (boosting paid users, recent usage restrictions).
Demystifying Pratt Parsers
And of course the AAA: allemachtig, achtentachtig al?
The thread in question was this (now deleted),

https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/14omb33/p8_pro...

Slashleaks archived the two photos,

https://www.slashleaks.com/l/google-pixel-8-pro-live-images-...
It's a curiously worded announcement as it basically says it's doing what it is supposed to.

If paywalls are being bypassed that implies what -

Inadequate authentication at the provider end?

Or perhaps these are "you get n free articles" types that have a more difficult task to counter automated access than those with no unregistered access?

Unethical crawl/access techniques being used by BWB that the OpenAI legal/PR team have only just realised? :)

To be fair, it should respect the terms but they need to work on their wording and clarity.
I know this company is legit, but the account and email address here seem suspect. Why are we emailing this random .biz address instead of applying at (for instance) https://www.webstaurantstore.com/careers/department/developm...?
The other day I heard someone describe learning should be about getting 80% of the results with 20% of the effort. What do we say about that?
The crashing thread might hold a lock in the memory allocator - which could either self deadlock when saving the stack trace (which certainly seems to do memory allocation and thus isn't a-signal safe), or could deadlock with the crash reporting thread which definitely allocates memory all over.

I also quite doubt that std::mutex, and even more so std::condition_variable are guaranteed to be signal safe.
Yep. that's what happens we decide 4 million people get the territory the size of Western Europe more or less. They were there first so ... makes sense.
Just start selling it, even though you haven't built it yet. If it's successful then your first few customers will be disappointed because you don't deliver well, but by definition if the market demand exists there will be lots of other customers you can delight in the future. If the market demand doesn't exist (or you are bad at selling, etc...) this is the fastest way to find out.
Interesting. I think a lot of AI agent internet navigation is still being figured out. Both rules as implied in comments but also tools. There are a lot of nuances OpenAI probably doesn't want to dedicate too many cycles or open up risk for.

Folks at Perplexity AI are doing a great job for general info AI charged browsing that's comparable to Bard. Our startup Promptloop has a web browser model targeted specifically at market research and business research. There are certainly many different ways to connect internet and model.
> imagine if roads were privatised and you had 2-3 roading networks trying to get to as many homes/business/etc. as possible

This would never happen. If roads were privatized they wouldn't care about connecting as many homes/business as possible, they'd only care about building roads where it was the most profitable for them and even then any roads that made less money would be left in increasingly poor condition.

It wouldn't leave taxpayers off the hook either. Governments would have to spend taxpayer money to incentivize private companies to build out in "unprofitable" areas, but those roads would be kept in the worst conditions of all (assuming that companies didn't just repeatedly promise to build them, only to pocket the taxpayer's money while providing nothing)

Some services are worth enough to the public good that profit shouldn't be the only consideration, and some are worth so much that profit shouldn't be the goal at all and instead those services should simply strive to do the job required for every citizen with as little genuine waste as possible.
Yes, and Area 5150 too :)
No news in July
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This post has more information, as well as tons of other related info: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/
I read the instructions and I understood what was meant. How do you explain that? Humans regularly make stupid mistakes. We shouldn't dumb down the world to try to avoid it. We should encourage people to be more careful
Instagram booted my account for looking too suspicious. To reactivate the account they wanted me to send a 3D video selfie to verify myself, but that company doesn’t need those sorts of head scans on me. Nope. Account is gone & I’ll never return.
What did he get right? While Hinton, LeCun, and others were laying the foundations of deep learning in the 80s, Hofstadter was writing expert systems in Lisp.
Can you link more concrete details about this? It kinda sounds like you're referring to the design of sharding databases by user, which i almost forgot about (relevant to me now, so i appreciate it). Though i'm super curious in how synchronizing data between users would work.. ie notifications, single producer multi consumer data, etc.

Time for some researching :)
I think I misunderstood this question earlier so here's another go at it...

Aesthetically, no. I am grateful that there aren't any gamer aesthetics involved, but my desk is not a showroom; it's a workspace. However, the cloth that wraps the speaker cluster seems cheap, like it could rip or get pilly over time. That is the only aspect that bothers me. I like that the cameras are attached because they are very nice cameras and support Windows Hello and I prefer not having a corded camera balancing on my displays.
H. G. Wells‘ World Brain
My gut feeling is that they get status from these warnings. Or they subconsciously think they will. Like somehow they are as important as the scientists from the Manhatten project.
Show HN: Aftertax.io – compare after tax+COL income across locations
That’s classic cost benefit analysis, and there are plenty of examples in audio of trade offs where the simulation is sufficient (or more flexibly applicable). Just because the cost is high for a given application doesn’t mean something has no value. Bringing the cost down is the classic engineering conundrum.

Let’s take reverberation as an example:

- Folks used to record in big rooms for big room reverb. It’s nice, nuanced, and comically impractical. Place mics around the room and capture the effect live, but even your close-mic’d take is going to have the room in it.

- So some studios started piping audio out to a speaker in a secondary room and piping a mic from that secondary room back to the board. Boom. Configurable reverb, at your service.

- But you can’t take it with you, so spring and plate reverb devices showed up.

- Enter computers and DSPs, where simplified reverb models could be applied in real-time.

- And then on to impulse capture and convolution (e.g., pop a balloon in a church, record, convolve).

- And then beam tracing and other techniques approaching physical simulation (but orders of magnitude less computationally complex).

And all but piping to a second room were used in making the libraries of sounds that we sold.

However, throughout history, each of those techniques went through times then the cost benefit balance led to using some other technique(s) to achieve the desired result. That didn’t render those techniques worthless just because money hadn’t traded hands. It’s why economists describe markets as mechanisms for price discovery. What something had sold for is a way to understand value, but it’s not the sole definition of value (even monetary value)
Ask HN: What is the most effective way to learn Chinese?
I’m aware of language learning apps but nothing quite sticks.

I’m looking to become conversational as efficiently and effectively as possible. I’m living in the US and know no one who speaks Chinese.
This is the exact same reason I want it.

But with OLED.
They saw the opportunity in Elon Musk-caused Twitter chaos.

And now, maybe you can even edit your tweets.
No, this is specifically a comment on the syntactical choices often found in Perl codebases and the penchant for brevity that is common in that community.
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This is one reason we haven't yet added "AI Features" to our note-taking app.

Our app was originally built with students in mind, and when building it I wanted as much as possible to build a tool that helped students learn. Not just make them feel like it was helping, but actually helping. Although we are no longer specifically targeting students, that goal is still in my mind.

So we have been slow to integrate "AI" into our app because I worry about the effects of having an LLM do an appreciable amount of your writing for you. To me, an important aspect of using a tool for knowledge management is to actually do much of that management yourself, otherwise it won't stick.

There are certainly a number of ways that I think LLMs can be quite useful without hindering that goal, but I need to spend a bit more time working that out for myself rather than just jumping on the "let GPT-4 finish the note for you" bandwagon.
ChatGPT prompts don't train it.
True, it's the closest I've seen. Actually yes, it is TOTP though on the backend it's Symantec VIP.

Which makes it the best out of the bunch by this metric. But why not a generic TOTP like any other site?

My broader point is about how simple and generic and yet effective this tech is. Every bank has a proprietary or inferior form of 2FA. In 2023, I'm surprised it isn't more advanced.
I haven't tried the CoPilot for Office or whatever it's called, but even though I am certain that MS has applied "an abundance of caution" to their implementation, there is simply no way I would unleash an LLM on all of my data (and possibly allow it to do things as well), at least not at this point in time.

We're in the 90's in terms of LLM security, using plain-text passwords and string interpolation for our SQL.
$1 Billion That Nobody Wants (2011)
At this point, they would likely prefer a profitable product.
I don’t know anyone who left Twitter for substack
> and _maybe_ a few error cases.

Also it's often unit tests only, with no hint of any integration tests. I'd settle for a tests that check integration of at least two units, but alas.
It’s cheaper but the government isn’t paying for more than half of it, I guess that’s the comparison. Poorly written though, for sure.
Agree completely. Scoring is mostly a cultural thing, I presume based on how the person experienced grades in school and their social pressures to attain certain grades. As a child I moved from a country where getting any grade below 9/10 was a shame to one where 7 was good enough, a 9 was very rare.

Because of this all the review systems like IMDB are flawed by design.

Steam reviews are the most trustworthy for me. While they are not perfect, the binary choice normalizes these scoring differences, and can be read as a "probability that you will enjoy X if your are interested in this sort of thing" which is the best one can hope for.
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How much of that figure is paid by the government/insurance? I think it's more about comparing the costs that are actually paid by patients.

The family of the patient never pays more then €43,200, and probably more close to half of that for most the families.
I always want to ask “degrees what?"

I once worked on a system that ran at -40 degrees. I loved leaving off the scale when giving tours and telling about it, because someone would invariably ask if I meant Celsius or Fahrenheit and then everyone got to learn where the crossing point of the two scales is.
Interestingly in this case an "approval" similar to the one we are talking about did happen over that weekend didn't it? I think the approvers brokered the deal.
That's more or less what went through my mind when I saw the parts about computation. It would have been amazing as a primer when I first got interested in computers, especially if I had seen it in my youth or several decades ago. Now that I pretty much worked that out by myself it's a lot less more like dejá vu then an ahá moment.
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