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naveensky··on European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple
Why cant EU have something like Adhar (ID-verification for Indians) https://uidai.gov.in/en/

It captures biometrics and is used across India to easily verify identification using OTP on mobile. Used across almost every sphere - bank accounts, passport, financial services like stocks/mutual funds etc.

You get a unique adhar-id (or can generate virtual IDs if sharing temporarily) to verify your identity across any service.

naveensky··on Why Distributed Teams Need Uniform Headshots for Trust and Cohesion
Why, just because they have similar clothing and background?
naveensky··on Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?
one another scenario is that if you open the domain from browser, they will do 301 redirect, but for traffic coming from Google/search engine, they will show their actual content.
naveensky··on Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life
This is just so cool, all the best for your launch!!
naveensky··on Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify
Wow, this is nice. I don't know, but is it possible for us to study code for this? I would love to see how all of this is built.

I can understand you might have commercial obligation, so hoping Netlify can make this public :)

naveensky··on Show HN: Headshotphoto.io – AI-Powered Headshots from Selfies
Thanks a lot, glad you liked it :)
naveensky··on Show HN: Headshotphoto.io – AI-Powered Headshots from Selfies
We are using Flux Pro version :)
naveensky··on Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak
This is actually great, waiting for your API integration or replicate integration to get my hands dirty :)
naveensky··on Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak
For such models, is it possible to fine-tune models with multiple images of the main actor?

Sorry, if this question sounds dumb, but I am comparing it with regular image models, where the more images you have, the better output images you generate for the model.

naveensky··on Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak
Thanks for answering this. I would love to use it when APIs are available to integrate with my apps
naveensky··on Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak
Is it similar to https://loopyavatar.github.io/. I was reading about this today and even the videos are exactly the same.

I am curious if you are anyway related to this team?

naveensky··on Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak
Is there any limitation on the video length?
naveensky··on Show HN: Tegon: Open-source alternative to Jira, Linear
I am curious, why would you like to do this?
naveensky··on Claude Sonnet 3.5 – The New Benchmark in Conversational AI
in my defense, I thought I should summarise the article. I didn't realise it comes as first comment.

My bad :(

naveensky··on Claude Sonnet 3.5 – The New Benchmark in Conversational AI
I agree with you, but I have been using Claude for programming for the last few days and I am impressed by difference in results
naveensky··on Anime.js – A lightweight JavaScript animation library
amazing landing page, the animations are really slick !!
naveensky··on Ask HN: Does your org use a password keeper?
You could possibly host https://www.passbolt.com/ on your own servers and reduce the cost for your org.

I am sure, 1Password will be more than happy to offer you a discounted rate

naveensky··on npmjs is Down
I am unable to fetch or install any new packages. Is there a workaround?
naveensky··on Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
I guess torrent clients were pretty useful to share large files :P
naveensky··on Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
Not software but transition from Floppy Drive to USB was perhaps more than 10X. I remember the first time I used USB, I was amazed at the capacity of 128MB, vs 1.4MB, the speed of transfer and ease of carrying around.
naveensky··on Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders
Just to be clear, are you talking about a publicly listed company or feel that every business, let's say a small grocery store as well is equally responsible.

I feel a company is responsible to its customers and shareholders, that's about it.

naveensky··on Nearly a third of Indian startup founders surveyed are considering moving abroad
All major costs (payroll, devs, marketing etc.) are in India. The only cost is accounting/compliance which is again it seems is lesser compared to India.

We need to file taxes in India for operations done in India, yeah so that actually means that we are increasing the overhead of compliance (adding Singapore compliance). Benefits are better funding opportunities, lesser taxation and financial tools to work for your startup.

naveensky··on Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders
I feel a government has a scope wider than a company and is answerable to the public at large. A corporation is answerable to its shareholders so slightly different.

Bribery at any level is not acceptable, and even at the corporate level if shareholders are affected, they would want to remove the person taking bribes

naveensky··on Nearly a third of Indian startup founders surveyed are considering moving abroad
For us, its Singapore, low taxation rates, what we understand is low compliance and supports online operations. Proximity to India (5 hours by flight) makes it an ideal destination.

Factors Preventing - Nobody in my circle has this setup, making me worried about unknown challenges - Double Taxation issue. I am not clear what will be taxation liability, I have talked to multiple CAs and they all say multiple things - Transfer of IP - We are a product company and one of the CAs warned us that if we move IP of the product to the Singapore entity, it gets tricky to explain as IP was built with an Indian entity. Very gray area about this

naveensky··on Silicon Valley founders who grew up poor can’t shake “mindset inequality”
I feel that probably they feel that they can repeat their past performance because it came easy to them, lose discipline around their gains and later when they can't repeat it, just lose all of it.
naveensky··on Ask HN: How many are 30+ years and still active programmers?
For once I thought you meant 30+ of programming experience. I am 32 and still program on daily basis. I do not see any reason to quit or code less, infact given a chance I would like to code more.
naveensky··on Ask HN: How much do you earn on average through software freelancing?
I charge USD 35/hr and offer full stack services for Java/Scala, AngularJS/JS platforms. I have about 8 years of experience now.

I like to keep myself occupied for 6 hours on long term projects and keep 2-3 hours for short term projects. It helps me maintain my diversification across clients.

I am a bit of tech nerd and offer discounts for exciting ideas based projects, specially for startup. I think such projects are win-win for me as tech nerd and client as low cost delivery.

Feel free to reach me out at naveensky(.at.)gmail(.dot.)com. I always keep looking for new exciting projects :)

naveensky··on Tell HN: Hello
Hi Mohamed, Good luck for your journey. It would be really exciting to know more about your journey, I hope you will have time to maintain blog or post more here :)

Again, if you need any tech help, feel free to ping me at @naveensky (twitter) or email in my profile :)

ATB

naveensky··on Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help
Wishing him all the luck.

I have been coding in PHP and other open source languages for ages but never donated to such open source organisations. I feel should do more. This is my start. Did my bit of sharing :)

naveensky··on Ask HN: Should I remind users that their card is about to be charged?
Adding to good Amazon story, this time for their AWS platform. From one of my client, he was charged about $400 due to a bug in the code from his developer. He called up AWS billing support, explained them the situation. Not only they considered his case, they refunded this charge which is pretty awesome !
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