skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair. To me, the reliability exploits the hobbyist's inexperience; they don't know how short a edit/test cycle should be, so they aren't upset by how long it is. "Hardware is hard," they're told.

As other comments mention, the real innovation is not making them flash firmware at all -- things like Circuit Python have worked very well for me, and you can point your editor at a Python file right on the device itself and it starts running from the top when you save. That is probably the ideal situation; nevermind how inefficient it is compared to C++ (people can learn C++ once they understand the basics of programming; no need to start there).

I'll also point out that Amazon has STM32 kits; $18 gets you 2 STM32F103s and a programmer. I have used those and they are probably my favorite microcontroller platform and the price sure is good. There is no doubt about which programmer to use because it's in the box, and the programmer is so cheap that buying one (and a backup microcontroller) is cheaper than most hobbyist MCU boards. ("Made in Italy" ends up being quite a bit pricier than "made in China probably from a grey-market chip".)
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That's probably true, but I can tell you that in my previous two jobs, I said "no" a lot, and I basically managed to maneuver into a spot where my boss let me essentially work on what I wanted. I got raises and commendations. I was surprised, but it's like, to some extent, the more assertive and confident you are, the more they respect you.

My personal experience has been that when it comes to getting promotions/raises, being liked by your coworkers (including your boss) is 10X more important than the amount of output you produce. You should try to be on friendly terms with your boss... And of course, if a friend asks you to do something, sometimes you say yes, sometimes you say "I would like to help, but I'm feeling saturated with the projects I already have going on right now, to be honest", and a good friend/manager understands that.

An extra dimension to this is that you don't necessarily need to get promoted in your current job. In the software industry, it's easy to move from one job to another, and when you move laterally, you can often negotiate a better salary. Again, here, being liked by your coworkers is particularly important. If your coworkers like you, they will give you good referrals. If you can get a referral from your previous boss, that speaks volumes.
When I was beginning my journey and came across a wall of text like this, I didn't engage it with comments...that'd be absurd.

I'd review its bullets, deeply, because a comment of that depth, in forums such as these, is usually either misdirection because of a personal or paid agenda,

or it was somebody that was passionate about knowledge, & had decided this was the best way to spread less than obvious conclusions they'd spent time compiling, in hopes to spur someone else into learning more.

Skipping those, even if in bad form, because of the former, was a disservice to myself and my goals. So I learned to discern.
Y'all are gonna think I'm crazy, but...

> When you believe that there are big cabals manipulating the market everything starts to look like some coordinated attack.

...what if everything is a coordinated attack?

Once upon a time, Caesar used violence to inflate the price of "caesar-face gold" above that of actual gold, and we've been playing that game ever since.

I think that the problems are baked in at a really deep level and we're just talking about it now because the wrong type of people are trying to play the same old game.

It's like the crazy guy on the streetcorner was the first one to start saying "We've always been at war with Eastasia" and now The Ministry of Truth doesn't know what to do.
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Jeff Dean's The Tail at Scale is fantastic: https://research.google/pubs/pub40801/
No I mean if you forget your 2fa they allow you to start from scratch
Here’s from investopedia https://www.investopedia.com/articles/analyst/030102.asp
The author's success commercializing something that he needed chimed with me.

I feel like this is a common thing - kinda like the old adage you'd hear at school that goes something like "if you have a question about something, chances are at least a couple of other people in class have the same question".

I wonder how many startups that are "think of it as an uber-for-...." are there because of actual genuine & real needs that people have, or just that people think will make them rich.

A decade-plus ago I was in the same situation as the author - a problem that I had and no obvious simple solution that I could find. I ended up admitting that the thing I was looking for didn't exist, so I made it (website in this case so very small risk/outlay). It made a boat load of income from ad revenue back when CPMs were better (still exists these days but revenue is way way down on what it was - perhaps less than <5% - and my regular work salary these days totally eclipses even what it was at its peak anyway).

There must be so many of these sorts of stories on HN - someone scratching their own itch, only to find out that others have the same.
I've always liked how when talking about Ebola in Africa people use the phrase "Bush Meat", yet when my family goes hunting it's "Wild Game". China should just rebrand these to Farmer's Markets.
Has anyone built anything with this yet?
Interesting, but I don't think I will be using `font-display: optional`anytime soon.
This comment is dangerous and problematic. Your ISP is hopefully monitoring this disinformation
The typical gold/silver price suppression conspiracy runs something like: "The Federal Reserve uses bullion banks to run naked shorts..."

There are various figures promoting these ideas. I appreciate why central banks would want to suppress the price of precious metals, but that isn't the same as believing it is happening.

That said, silver has run up to around $50 before. Consumers could do worse than picking up a few silver bars or rounds. I don't see this as risky as buying GME at $400 or BTC at $30k-$40k. Governments have stimulated trillions in 2020. 2021 is looking to be similar.

The conspiracy stuff can be interesting if you are into that kind of thing. Although you don't need to accept those narratives to appreciate precious metals.
Mosquitto 2 supports reloading the TLS cert without restarting. Send SIGHUP to reload certs.
Although I see the point behind, the reasoning of the article is not great.
Firstly, you don't only build for your current requirements but having growth in mind.
And the calculations behind are those that might make someone get fired.
WeWork users don't use the entrance evenly along the entire day but in peaks. It's a silly thing, probably, but the entire article is based on that silly calculation too.
This sounds awesome! There are lots of applications in places like local government.
One potential problem with offering _only_ commodified whip-out-your-credit card pricing is that innovative business units inside large orgs can’t make use of your product, since they need to motivate for budget and generally procure for specific deliverables.

AWS has addressed this by making it possible to buy a 3 year compute ‘asset’ which you can record as a capital expense rather than an operating expense.

Pay attention to pricing your product in a way that enables your customers to buy it!
> It has a heading "PERSPECTIVE" -- is that like an op-ed for science?

It depends on the publication, but may often have much more rigour than the short prose format typical in a traditional newspaper op-ed. For example it could be a multi-author piece with extensive references and figures, and is a 'perspective' in the sense that it presents an academic summary of some topic for non-specialists.
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Different kind of microbes. Human communicable diseases in cities, dirt microbes in farms.
I think the idea is that not every virus is Covid or Ebola. If you oversanitize your way out of every common cold, then the more serious diseases hit harder.
Right, to which I say people should spend time outdoors, digging gardens, hiking, and absolutely continue to mask up near other people.
Every time I see an evil comic book-style villain with a scared face I am reminded that that look is based in realty. Pre-war, many well-to-do Germans took part in a style of fencing that resulted in regular injuries to the face. A scared face was a badge of status. There were several prominent WWII leaders with facial scars not from battle but from fraternal fencing organizations. A few years later and the comic book supervillains had scared faces too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/book.html

imho the most useful book you can read.
A regular Raspberry Pi with a cheap POE USB-C splitter from Aliexpress works very well.

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Uggh. Cars are going the same route as crappy smart tv spyware.

There still isn’t a “do not sell my personal information” button on my car’s head unit, even though I know the manufacturer is selling information to Facebook (and probably others).

Of course, Ford will probably make the argument that they’re not selling your personal information to Google, and Google will use their non-standard definition of “sell” to claim they don’t monetize the information the cars gather.
Short float and speculative positioning (long and short) is regularly published for commodities. This is common knowledge. You should find these things out instead of asking rhetorical questions as a way to make a point. If you were genuinely asking, I apologize.
You can choose whether to self-host or whether to have someone else handle that for you.

As for also hosting your apps: I think the answer to that is the same as for why you might still choose to use an email client even if you're hosting your email server.

However, I would expect the majority of people not to self-host, but to have that handled by a party they trust. They would then not be limited by that host also having to support the particular photo-viewing layer they are interested in, but instead are able to choose one independently.

(Disclosure: I work for Inrupt, but opinions are my own.)
It was just restored.
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Is reinforcement learning being used to stop the newsfeed promoting genocide? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
Show HN: I made a vegan recipe aggregator to learn GO and GCP
There's definitely not many Solid-supporting apps at the moment, but as for the todo list, there is https://noeldemartin.github.io/solid-focus/
There's much more silver owned by investors than there is physical silver in the world.

It's the same idea: you have a synthetic version of an asset trading for the same price of the real asset. If people start demanding the real asset, there isn't enough of it to go around and prices start to rise.

Not saying that's what's going to happen, but it's not absurd.
Some of us, at least in the UK, remember the BSE ("mad cow disease") mess. That could have turned out very much worse than it did (though it was plenty bad already).
This is an extremely cynical take.

There's a middle ground between "we're family, I'll sacrifice everything for you" and "I'll stab you in the back as soon as I possibly can".

I think it's perfectly reasonable for the vast majority of people to enjoy work more if they have a friendly relationship with their coworkers. Does it benefit the company to have happy employees? Sure. Does it benefit the employees to be happy? Sure!
Actually, i think it's likely that almost everyone at least unconsciously realizes the costs of no's, and that it's never really free. Hence the difficulty with actually saying no.
Hmmm. What about the second aspect of the GP though? A union is the epitomization of welcome-all/accept-all. I'm imagining something that imposes restrictions on who can apply for assistance, both to ratelimit overall demand and also to make it incredibly hard for scammers to get anywhere.

On the surface (ie, legally speaking), it would absolutely be an exclusive environment. The idea (and probably secret sauce) would be figuring out how to delineate between scammers and legitimate devs.
Fidelity and Vanguard run their own clearinghouses and don’t touch DTCC. Robinhood technically does as well, but they still do the vast majority of their clearing through DTCC. Pretty likely RH will invest in their clearing operations this year.
Hi HN,

My second project in the quest to release something every month this year is Kalester, a vegan recipe blog aggregator. This project also served as an excuse to learn a bit more about Go, which I've meant to start dabbling in for a while now.

I've got a Go app on Cloud Run that runs once a day to pull recipes from a bunch of blogs and stores them in Cloud SQL, and a second Cloud Run container with the site backend.

It's been pretty fun learning these technologies, and I'm excited about what can be done with all of this. Now I need to figure out what next month's project should be.
With working vaccines its the matter of when not if. What makes you think otherwise?
Very sure. The fatality rate is negligible and the boost is significant.

See https://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/12/06/daycare.kids/index.htm... for a random news article reporting on a similar result only with kids getting sick in daycare. Being exposed to diseases early builds immunity later.
The end result is bad, both ways.
I guess it depends what's being said.

To take the "Delusional Roadmap" example above, the only thing that is every going to resolve this, is the quiet gossipy whispers.

e.g. Possible answers
1) No it's not - you're fired.
2) Is it? I was told it wasn't. Could you jot down some notes I could raise?
3) Yes, sorry - we all know what, but we have to go along with it to get budget, so we're not all fired
4) I know it looks a stretch, but somebody's been working on x, and y's about to be signed.

Any conversation or response, gives you some context - to better understand/accept that slide that just left you spluttering, speechless and outraged.
That doesn't solve their undercapitalization issue [1]. RH has a license to perform their own clearing [2], but they're still going to have capital requirements governed by NSCC collateral requirements (which is put forth by Dodd-Frank) [3]. If regulators require capitalization to support outlier volatility market conditions instead of allowing brokerages to stop trades due to undercapitalization (whether because of credit line availability, the amount of the market they've captured, etc), ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Would it be right and proper (for FINRA and/or Congress) to allow Robinhood to exist to push order flow to institutions only when seas are calm? That does not sound like a functional broker to me.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robinhood-said-draw-credit-li... (Robinhood Is Said to Draw on Bank Credit Lines Amid Tumult)

[2] https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2018/10/9/introducing-cleari... (Introducing Clearing by Robinhood, October 2018)

[3] https://dtcc.com/-/media/Files/Downloads/legal/policy-and-co... (NSCC Disclosure Framework, PDF)

Disclaimer: Thoughts and opinions are my own.
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Get a dog, seriously. They help expose kids to germs.
If you think that what happened on January 6th was "at the direction of a political leader" then you might be misguided.

Firstly, said political leader explicitly called for "peaceful" and "patriotic" protest, and "cheering on the brave senators" to help give them courage, because his strategy was to pursue the full constitutional extent of recourse and remedy to contest the election, which is his right. The senators were in the process of doing that on his and his voters' behalf, but the events that unfolded against his wishes destroyed his opportunity to have the objections heard.

Secondly, the group that stormed the capitol was a separate group that was already at the capitol, which is a 45 minute walk away, while Trump was still speaking so they could not have taken direction from Trump.

Thirdly, the Trump supporters that did arrive from the speech told everyone NOT to participate in the breaching of the capitol, because they understood Trump's words and intentions.

Lastly, while there were Trump supporters present that were caught up in the Q anon disinformation campaign that co-opted a minority of the Trump base to undermine Trump, there were also Antifa agitators present that led the charge and incited the violence (this is captured on video).

I know Trump is the ideal scapegoat, but you really cannot pin the blame for this on him if you know the facts.

What really happened on January 6th is that a small group of radicals at the fringe of Trump's base (+ antifa infiltrators), that are not responsive to Trump himself, but to an anonymous online cult leader going by the name Q, took advantage of the intentional lack of security measures despite the FBI monitoring Q world and knowing of nefarious plans, accompanied by some random bewildered folks walking around the capitol because they were let in, while the vast majority of Trump's supporters in DC did nothing but peacefully attend the rally hoping the senators would be able to present Trump's case convincingly, which was cut short by a few idiots that fell for an elaborately crafted years long disinformation campaign.

The media and democrats immediately ran with the insurreciton narrative to discredit Trump and promote more government surveillance and infringement of rights based on their fear mongering about domestic terrorism. You don't have to like or agree with Trump, but the misrepresentation of what happened on Jan 6th is dangerous to our rights.
The Webull CEO was saying that independent of this logic, there would never be a scenario where users be unable to close their accounts. For the user, it's much worse for RH to prevent me from accessing my money than to prevent me from opening new positions.
I had this idea a while ago when trying to figure out how we're going to do web-tech in space. Obviously you don't want to send an entire web page, just the data.

If data is clearly templated, it's up to the user to choose a UI for displaying it. Many UIs can compete. They don't have to proprietary.

In time, UI would become an art form; like music.
We could all lick our phone-screen to counter that problem.
It's a sad indictment on the tech industry that so many of you are just dismissive of Gemini
Urban dirt can also have lead in it, which is something you have to test for if you’re raising egg-laying chickens. Otherwise it ends up in the eggs.
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I wrote http and xml parsers and I bet text drawing, layout, scrolling and ui are much more difficult.
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dnl And the comment syntax is nuts!
I keep saying backup, and other people keep re-saying NAS. These are different.

A NAS can serve as a backup.

Not all backups are suitable as a NAS.

Now, let me restate: Most people have no networks capable of significantly more than 1Gb/s between two hosts in their house. Complaining that a backup server is also attached at 1Gb/s is not going to cause people to discover that they have already purchased 10Gb/s switches, or LACP switches, or even acquire 2.5Gb/s switches.

Of the people who have 10Gb/s switches in their house, approximately none of them are going to look at this very low cost, low performance, low power system and say "yes! this is my new primary backup system!"
I went back in my revision history. Again for what it's worth (perhaps nothing), at 7:53AM ET this morning, I added this sentence:

> Citadel is a hedge fund and market maker. Its success has vaulted founder Ken Griffin to a net worth of more than $20 billion. Technically, the two sides of Citadel (hedge fund / market maker) are split into two separate arms -- but they are both under one parent company and owned by Ken Griffin.

This was posted on HN (again, not by me) after I added that sentence.
You're not dismissing bias, you're just saying why bias is OK.
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Awesome! What a great quick read. I've been wanting to start diving into the subject and this is a great intro into reading distributed systems papers.

> For brevity's
sake most of the heuristics that led me to find them,
together with the proofs that they satisfy the requirements, have been omitted and--to quote Douglas T.
Ross's comment on an earlier draft, "the appreciation
is left as an exercise for the reader."

this helps keep it concise ;)
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What would be the actual goal RL should aim for when being applied to the newsfeed? I understood RL for amazon aims for suggesting you things you're looking for or you're likely to buy. One might think this correlates directly with minimizing the time spent on browsing amazon. For the newsfeed it probably would be the complete opposite right, so maximizing the scroll of doom?

Also, from the transcript:

> when you go to Facebook, [...], you see all these posts from your friends

Maybe I'm an outlier but my newsfeed probably contains ~5% of posts related to my friends, birthday wishes included. I use facebook primarily as a news aggregator nowadays.
My family valued education and I thought it was true for everyone. I didn’t think people read the cheap magazines about celebrities in the checkout aisle in supermarkets. I thought everyone read Dostoyevsky. Haha. Since such interest in garbage seems to exist in so many cultures, do you think there is a evolutionary benefit that comes from it?
Rooms range from 500 to 800 in amsterdam, I just checked the facebook group and the first post is student housing available for 317 euros.
Exactly - wish I'd plucked that word.

Team-building is the only legal form of hazing allowed by companies. Now that's not to say all Team-building is hazing - but...
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