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New comment by Asafp in "Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)""

Asafp — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:20:32 +0000

You think I live under a rock? I probably know more than you. I wrote facts, while you talk about "capturing a feeling". This is a top comment for the same reason people think AIPAC controls the USA or why the expulsion of Jews from Spain happened [1]. The fact that Netanyahu is disliked around the world (and even by me and many of my friends) does not change the nature of Israel being a democracy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Jews_from_Spain

New comment by Asafp in "Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)""

Asafp — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:51:14 +0000

Almost none of what you wrote above is true, no idea how is this a top comment. Israel is a democracy. Netanyahu's trail is still ongoing, the war did not stop the trails and until he is proven guilty (and if) he should not go to jail. He did not stop any elections, Israel have elections every 4 years, it still did not pass 4 years since last elections. Israel is not perfect, but it is a democracy. Source: Lives in Israel.

New comment by Asafp in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

Asafp — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 14:54:10 +0000

According to recent polls, if Israel had elections today - Smotrich and Ben Gvir will be out of the government, and Likud will get only 1/3 of the votes it got now, but we cant go to elections while in the middle of the war, thats a catch 22 for Israel. Relying on X for your info is not a good idea, so much fake news, only thing worse is TikTok, for example the famous "500 dead from Israel hitting hospital" that turned out was a caused by the PIJ and there barely anyone hit.

In the mean time the government of Gaza (Hamas) is killing hostages.

New comment by Asafp in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

Asafp — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 14:04:58 +0000

I agree, I would love to get @dang answer on why my comment is flagged and hidden, while massive misinformation is allowed to stay up here. and people here wonder why Israel put resource into showing the truth to the world.

New comment by Asafp in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

Asafp — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 14:03:01 +0000

Israel is not targeting civilians, thats a fact. It gains nothing from hitting them, and trying it best to evacuate them to safe zones. Why would they try to hit civilians? and if they did, why they didnt try to fire into the safe zones? (whom Hamas have fired rockets into Israel from multiple times, yet Israel didnt attack in order to not hit civilians, while risking its own civilians) The people making decisions right now are not far-right, the far-right have been moved to the side line when it comes to the war decision making.Instead Gants and Eizenkot joined, whom both are moderate right. All the sentence you quoted are out of context and were said just after a few days that Israel suffered the biggest massacre, the entire country was in trauma and in emotions.

New comment by Asafp in "Step by step guide to becoming a modern back end developer in 2023"

Asafp — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 18:28:24 +0000

The roadmap doesn't load on Firefox, it does load on Chrome

New comment by Asafp in "Ask HN: Why hasn't the ACH system been more abused?"

Asafp — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 21:08:25 +0000

Can you share some examples or use cases of transactions that must be settled with finality?

New comment by Asafp in "Ask HN: Why hasn't the ACH system been more abused?"

Asafp — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 20:59:30 +0000

This is why Plaid is so successful, it allows banks/fintech companies to validate that the information on the counterparty account matches what you claim, that it has sufficient amount, name and email matches. The bank can also decide if he wants to deny an ACH debit or do a manual review of it, for example above a specific amount of if its the 1st ach debit. Also the clearing days (when you will see money in your bank) will be different depending on different risk factors. You can read more here about how to mitigate ACH fraud with tools such as Plaid - https://guides.unit.co/fraud-and-disputes/ disclaimer - I am an engineer at Unit.

What it might look like if Apple built banking

Asafp — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 20:05:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unit.co/guides/heres-what-it-might-look-like-if-apple-built-banking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32488113

Points: 4

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New comment by Asafp in "Show HN: Featureform – An open-source Feature Store for ML"

Asafp — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 17:08:18 +0000

A feature is a data point to your model. it can be as simple as the amount of a transaction (for a fraud detection model) or as complex as the avg_number_of_transactions_in_the_past_7_days_with_over_1k_in_amount_that_were_pending_review. Since you have many features, and they constantly change and evolve and being consumed by many models you need a way to store them - thats how feature stores came to be. I personalty never used.

New comment by Asafp in "Show HN: Fast Deep Reinforcement Learning Course"

Asafp — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 18:31:39 +0000

Before jumping into Deep Reinforcement Learning I highly recommend doing the Reinforcement Learning course by David Silver [1].

[1] https://www.deepmind.com/learning-resources/introduction-to-...

Unit raises $100M Series C at $1.2B valuation for banking-as-a-service

Asafp — Tue, 17 May 2022 17:17:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-17/insight-bet-values-banking-software-startup-unit-at-1-2-billion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31413702

Points: 3

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New comment by Asafp in "Column – a chartered bank for developers"

Asafp — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 07:05:16 +0000

My answer was written with the intention of helping others and sharing my knowledge with fellow engineers, I enjoy talking about tech and engineering and even thinking of writing a blog post about it.

New comment by Asafp in "Column – a chartered bank for developers"

Asafp — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:19:38 +0000

Hi, I am an engineer at Unit.co, a company that also builds Banking as a Service. We use PostgreSQL as database, and currently thinking about adding ElasticSearch to allow our users to do text search.

New comment by Asafp in "Column – a chartered bank for developers"

Asafp — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:18:07 +0000

Hi, I am an Engineer at Unit.co, a company that also builds Banking as a Service. I can share that not only we do not use COBOL, but our entire backend is written in Pure Functional Scala (and typescript for UI).

New comment by Asafp in "Column – a chartered bank for developers"

Asafp — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:53:27 +0000

I am one of the Engineers at Unit.co - we are also building a platform that allows developers to embed financial features into their product Congratulations on the launch! the market is huge and competition is welcome :) Column took a very interesting route, while we have Bank Partners that we develop with them, Column is also the bank , curies to know why they decided to take this route.

New comment by Asafp in "Word2Vec Explained. Explaining the Intuition of Word2Vec"

Asafp — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 23:54:14 +0000

If you think Word2Vec is cool, you can try to google X2Vec with whatever X comes up to your mind. you can almost make anything into a vector using the right neural network. At my previous job I created a LinkedPage2Vec and used it to find Look Alike people for B2B marketing and sales. I also played a bit with Code2Vec.

New comment by Asafp in "Startup tooling: our product management, sales, and marketing stack"

Asafp — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 10:07:05 +0000

Why do you need Ordway Labs for usage based pricing?

New comment by Asafp in "Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription Software"

Asafp — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:10:45 +0000

I think that pricing based on usage will be a positive step - you only pay for what you use, it ties your spending on your incomes as well. Not sure if its applicable for consumer products.

New comment by Asafp in "Show HN: DevDucky – Your Personal Pair Programmer"

Asafp — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 21:42:05 +0000

Hi HN! I am the founder of DevDucky, we help your engineers fully understand your company's code and product.

I was working as a Machine Learning Engineer, and like all engineers, I had to read and understand a lot of code, and information about the code like tickets and product specs. I decided to try and solve this problem by using knowledge of natural langue processing,

DevDucky aggregates data from your code and none code sources like tickets and google docs, uses deep learning algorithms and can extract information from it, like: document a piece of code, generate a product spec or answer questions about the code. You can see examples on the website www.devducky.com

I'd love to hear your opinion and what kind of future features you would love to see.