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anikdas

94 karma · joined June 11, 2017

love to tinker with ML, Python, JS mail: mailanik [at] gmail

Twitter: @anikdas92

Github: anikdas

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Socials: - anikdas.at.hn - linkedin.com/in/anikdas

Interests: AI/ML, Climate Tech, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Startups

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anikdas··on Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
Just curious, how is an LLM helping here?
anikdas··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
Is it open source?
anikdas··on Let's consign CAP to the cabinet of curiosities
> The CAP theorem is also irrelevant if your acceptable response time is greater than the time it takes your partitions to sync. This is really an oversimplification. The more important metric here is the delay between write and read of the same data. Even in that case if when the system write load is unpredictable it will definitely lead to high variance in replication lag. The number of times I had to deal with a race condition for not considering replication lag factor is more than I would like to admit.
anikdas··on Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?
We have been using Cloudflare health check at work for this and we have been pretty happy with this. We have this integrated with slack and opsgenie as well.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/health-checks/

anikdas··on Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry?
- pihole

- piVPN

The piVPN story is interesting. I am currently stationed outside my home country. Using the financial apps (bank apps, wallet apps) outside the country are restricted hence I needed a ip within the country. No major VPN provider provide IPs for my country. piVPN has been great in that sense to access the contents from my country.

anikdas··on Launch HN: Defer (YC W23) – Zero-infrastructure background jobs for Node.js
I think BullMQ with deployment in kubernetes gets people off the ground quite quickly and scale out quite well without needing to worry about fine tuning the solution. Also RabbitMQ has also worked pretty well for us handling around 150k RPM messages with delayed exchange enabled while running in kubernetes without any tweaks. As a dev working on solution that is used in the industry of customer support, I am more worried about,

1. Data locality

2. Privacy

3. SLAs and Uptimes

While SaaS solutions like these can get us MVP/PoCs fast but a home grown solution is more preferable when SLOs are tight and security is a huge concern.

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anikdas··on Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems
Another tool that is built into linux is tc[1]

[1]https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc.8.html

anikdas··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
yellow.ai | Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer, Fullstack engineer at all levels | Bangalore, Dhaka, Remote (Around Indian Timezone) | https://yellow.ai

South East Asia's leading Artificial Intelligence powered Voice and Messaging platform for enterprises. As the customer engagement is moving towards chat and voice, enterprises are rapidly adopting YellowAI to enable them to engage with their customers with enterprise virtual assistants.

We are looking for passionate engineers who can help us build the vastly growing product. We use a microservice based architecture powered by Kubernetes.

Tech Stack: NodeJS, Go, React, TypeScript, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Druid etc.

Apply for Roles below

* Frontend Engineer (https://smrtr.io/66jxf)

* Senior Frontend Engineer (https://smrtr.io/66jxd)

* Backend Engineers at all levels (email me at anik@yellow.ai)

If you are interesting in building a great platform with us or just for a chat do drop me an email at anik@yellow.ai.

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anikdas··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)
Yellow Messenger | Full Time | Frontend Engineer, Fullstack Engineer | Bangalore, Dhaka, REMOTE (around IST timezone) Yellow Messenger is a Bangalore based Conversational Engagement Platform. We are a tightly knit engineering team and growing. We have recently raised our series B investment of $20M from Lightspeed Ventures. At Yellow Messenger, we help enterprises build chatbots that help them grow their engagement across all messaging channels. We have a proven solution that works for all industries. We are currently processing over 1B messages per month and growing. Currently we are looking for passionate Frontend (React & Redux) and Fullstack Engineers (NodeJS) who can be a part of our small clan.

What the team uses currently - Language: NodeJS - Frontend: React, Redux - Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, Redis - Infrastructure: Kubernetes - Analytics: Druid - Other tools: Kafka, Jenkins

Requirements: Minimum 2+ Years of experience

If you are interested please mail me at anik@yellowmessenger.com and add [HNHIRING] to the subject.

anikdas··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
Yellow Messenger | Full Time | Frontend Engineer, Fullstack Engineer | Bangalore, Dhaka, REMOTE (around IST timezone)

Yellow Messenger is a Bangalore based Conversational Engagement Platform. We are a tightly knit engineering team and growing. We have recently raised our series B investment of $20M from Lightspeed Ventures. At Yellow Messenger, we help enterprises build chatbots that help them grow their engagement across all messaging channels. We have a proven solution that works for all industries. We are currently processing over 1B messages per month and growing. Currently we are looking for passionate Frontend (React & Redux) and Fullstack Engineers (NodeJS) who can be a part of our small clan.

What the team uses currently - Language: NodeJS - Frontend: React, Redux - Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, Redis - Infrastructure: Kubernetes - Analytics: Druid - Other tools: Kafka, Jenkins

Requirements: Minimum 2+ Years of experience

If you are interested please mail me at anik@yellowmessenger.com and add [HNHIRING] to the subject.

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anikdas··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)
Yellow Messenger | Full Time | Frontend Engineer, Fullstack Engineer | Bangalore, Dhaka, REMOTE (around IST timezone)

Yellow Messenger is a Bangalore based Conversational Engagement Platform. We are a tightly knit engineering team and growing. We have recently raised our series B investment of $20M from Lightspeed Ventures. At Yellow Messenger, we help enterprises build chatbots that help them grow their engagement across all messaging channels. We have a proven solution that works for all industries. We are currently processing over 1B messages per month and growing. Currently we are looking for passionate Frontend (React & Redux) and Fullstack Engineers (NodeJS) who can be a part of our small clan.

What the team uses currently - Language: NodeJS - Frontend: React, Redux - Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, Redis - Infrastructure: Kubernetes - Analytics: Druid - Other tools: Kafka, Jenkins

Requirements: Minimum 2+ Years of experience

If you are interested please mail me at anik@yellowmessenger.com and add [HNHIRING] to the subject.

anikdas··on Zoom Acquires Keybase
This article does not say if Zoom tracks the other running application in your PC. It just detects whether the Zoom application is in focus.
anikdas··on MySQL Challenge: 100k Connections
> Using multiple IP addresses on the server box (one IP address per approximately 60k connections)

Please correct me if I am wrong. I thought the '64K' limit is per client per server port. So the correct statement would be Using multiple IP addresses on the server box (one IP address per approximately 60k connections per client). Also, it's not necessary to have multiple interfaces unless it is required to achieve more than '64k' connection per client.

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anikdas··on Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?
Really appreciate for taking the time to answer my question.

I use zsh myself. Have not tried fish yet but only heard good things about it.

Also, regarding the pipe to clipboard, I liked the 'pbcopy' command on Mac. So, right now I have added an alias pbcopy='xclip -selection clipboard'. It's really handy.

anikdas··on Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?
All the bindings, hot-corners, expo to name a few.
anikdas··on Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?
yes. I have been using it specifically for Django. You need to install the official python extension though.
anikdas··on Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?
This is really nice. I was looking for something like this for sometime now.
anikdas··on Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?
Have you tried visual studio code? I have replace all my IDEs (Pycharm, WebStorm) with vscode and never looked back.

There are some issues if I am nitpicking but overall the experience is just outstanding.

anikdas··on Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?
I use docky as my dock and it has a clipper docklet. It's really handy.
anikdas··on Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?
lsync looks really good. Currently I was using rsync with a custom gulp script to mimic similar functionality.
anikdas··on Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?
To add another one of my favorite: gotop[1] (drop in replacement of htop) is really good.

[1]https://github.com/cjbassi/gotop

anikdas··on Ask HN: Favourite command line applications?
1. Tmux[1] - It helps me to manage my cli windows on my local machine and VMs. Do not need multiple ssh sessions opened at the same time. Yes, Screen can be alternative solution but tmux is what I like.

2. Gotop[2] - Graphical activity monitor for cli written in go. It's an alternative for htop with a better UI. Really liked it.

3. Aria2c[3] - It's a cli file download tool with multiple connection and resumable download support. Handy when downloading large files.

4. arp-scan[4] - Can find all the devices connected to the network. Helps me find my Raspberry Pi on the network.

These are just few of them I use regularly. There are so many other good ones as well.

[1] https://github.com/tmux/tmux [2] https://github.com/cjbassi/gotop [3] https://aria2.github.io/ [4] https://github.com/royhills/arp-scan

anikdas··on Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?
Surprisingly I never heard back from you guys once I followed up on your email.
anikdas··on Google Sheets Query Function (2016)
That's a great tool. The other day I had a CSV of ML predicted data which I had to analyse. Created a google sheet with the CSV and wrote Query function to generate reports.
anikdas··on Ask HN: How do you organise your bookmarks and read-it-later articles?
Pocket is what I use to save my bookmarks. But, I don't think I ever read a single page I ever bookmarked.

OTOH, When I was using Instapaper, I did used to read the articles I had saved.

anikdas··on Ask HN: Decent and cheap hosted email services?
I have been using Yandex Mail [1]. It's free for unlimited users and 10GB/user storage. Yandex is a Russian company. Unless you have a problem with that, I think it's a pretty good solution.

[1] https://domain.yandex.com/domains_add/

anikdas··on Ask HN: Decent and cheap hosted email services?
No IMAP support for free plan any more. [1]

[1] https://help.zoho.com/portal/community/topic/zoho-free-tier-...

anikdas··on Ask HN: Strengths and weaknesses of Duckduckgo?
Keyword based search works really well on DDG.

But, Searching using my notion does not seem to work well on DDG. For example, if you just copy paste from a stack trace on DDG, you would most likely find the correct result on the first page. OTOH, if you are searching for a problem with natural language, you are most likely going to have a hard time until you hit exact keywords defining the problem.

anikdas··on Ask HN: What tool do you use to sync MongoDB with Elasticsearch?
I could definitely do that. But my original intention was to use a standalone application which can get the job done. For example when the data is updated/deleted instead of insertion I need to write my own logic.

Any way great suggestion. Will definitely keep in consideration.

anikdas··on Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce
Hey, you are missing an title for your website.

it looks really promising to me, specially when all of the other knowledge maps are going for the SaaS model.

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