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Immortalin··on Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX
I remember back in the day Mike was building Huggingface before Huggingface was a thing. He was ahead of his time. It's a pity model depot is no longer around.
Immortalin··on What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)
> We should have expensive products which actually improve lives.

Maybe the super rich should take up training LLMs as a hobby.

Immortalin··on Show HN: Coinboot – a framework for diskless computing
What was the implementation like? A unikernel spun up on demand?
Immortalin··on A well-known URL for changing passwords
Here's an open source version of the common password rotation feature in most online password manager services: https://github.com/ddevault/pass-rotate
Immortalin··on Show HN: Stock Trading from Google Spreadsheet
Try KloudTrader

https://KloudTrader.com/Narwhal

Our brokerage is through Tradier.

Immortalin··on Nasdaq Acquires Quandl to Advance the Use of Alternative Data
Fwiw that's what I have been trying to do for the past few years, infrastructure for easier access to algorithmic trading.

Shameless plug: https://KloudTrader.com/narwhal

Immortalin··on Show HN: A Reddit+Wiki-like site for finding and sharing audiobooks
Interesting service. I run https://auditus.cc

Let's talk?

Immortalin··on Ash HN: What is your must-read audiobook?
Shameless plug if you want to convert a ebook to an audiobook: https://auditus.cc
Immortalin··on Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea
The domain yes, check us out:

https://KloudTrader.com/narwhal

Immortalin··on Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea
In the early days of KloudTrader, we attempted to use Visual Programming too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171006072839/http://www.kloudt...

The main difficulty was scale and tradeoffs between power vs ease-of-use. We spent a lot of time creating "subroutine blocks" for the most commonly used functions and optimizing for UI/ease of use that we weren't doing much else. Furthermore, pretty much every integration, library etc. had to be converted into its visual equivalents for the language to be of any use and all the linear algebra/candlestick libraries were taking up so much time that the rest of the product was suffering. Stuff that often makes sense to a professional programmer had to be "simplified" so the UX is more optimal. E.g. data structures.

If you look at VPLs in production, there's a reason most of them tend to be "imperative commands only" i.e. a glue language that mainly strings together other subroutines. The concept of objects, or even structs is completely eliminated in the VPL.

http://www.ni.com/getting-started/labview-basics/data-struct...

There are exceptions to this however, the Unreal Engine's Blueprints is a lot more flexible than most.

If you want to get started building your own version of Google's Blockly, here's a good guide:

http://www.aosabook.org/en/500L/blockcode-a-visual-programmi...

Throw in an immediate-mode UI library like React and you might even scale up indefinitely with plain HTML (most browser VPLs stick with SVG/Canvas).

For prettier node-based types of languages, try these libraries:

https://github.com/retejs/rete

https://github.com/slothking-online/diagram

https://github.com/jagenjo/litegraph.js

Bonus tip for anyone looking to implement any: use code generators. AST -> Visual programming component conversion may save you lots of time (assuming that the language has mature enough tooling and labour is extremely expensive)

Immortalin··on In the Works – AWS Region in Milan, Italy
It would be really great if the general intonation can be improved to be nearer to Wavenet level. Also a lot of continental Germanic words e.g. Swedish, Dutch, Deutsch etc. and Français-derived words embedded in an English text won't be pronounced properly regardless of context.

Source: I run an ebook to audiobook converter https://auditus.cc

Immortalin··on Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia
Banks, Visa, PayPal, pretty much most in-game currencies, as long as your maintain control over the data storage and deny access to malicious actors there is no reason why a traditional DB system would not work.
Immortalin··on Why ‘Free Trading’ on Robinhood Isn’t Really Free
This is pretty standard practice, we are able to offer flat-rate comission-free trading here at KloudTrader for the same reason. Cleared through Apex via Tradier. You give up some control over routing and liquidity etc. for zero commission per trade

Shameless plug: https://KloudTrader.com/Narwhal

Immortalin··on Show HN: DiagramJS – Create beautiful node diagrams using JavaScript
There's also https://github.com/jagenjo/litegraph.js
Immortalin··on Show HN: Exp, a tool/lib to configure, run, and optimize experiments in python
Is this like a simple version of Google Vizier-style blackbox optimization?
Immortalin··on Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool
I will bet that MSFT is going to embrace and extinguish Red Hat's position in the corporate Linux market.
Immortalin··on Ace – an embeddable code editor
GrapesJS is pretty decent.

https://grapesjs.com

Immortalin··on Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
Yes. It's called Microsoft Excel. Software engineers don't like VB for the same reason they don't like Python-in-a-notebook but you cannot deny its effectiveness.
Immortalin··on TinyEMU, a RISC-V/i486 VM for Linux in the Browser
Why do you even need the additional layer of redirection when most (port 80 tcp) traffic can be done straight from the browser?
Immortalin··on A Look at the Design of Lua
For those of you who are interested, I run a Lua newsletter.

The Lua community is small so every bit helps :)

Shameless Plug: https://Luadigest.immortalin.com

Immortalin··on Three hundred and sixty years of United States caselaw
How long will it take to replicate Lex Machina? :D
Immortalin··on Fidelity launches trade execution and custody for cryptocurrencies
Time to add crypto support to KloudTrader :)

https://kloudtrader.com/narwhal

Immortalin··on WebAssembly’s post-MVP future
You can probably build a poor man's version with Subresource Integrity and the DecentralEyes plugin.

https://decentraleyes.org/

Immortalin··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
You raise some very good points. Ideally we would be streaming raw FIX data. The current setup evolved from our difficulty in trying to deploy Quantopian's Zipline. Order routing is currently cleared through Apex via a partnership with Tradier. I agree that our website needs to be updated to be more clear about that and it's implications. We do plan for upgraded routing in future. If you don't mind, I would love to discuss more about this, my email is <last three letters of username>@kloudtrader.com
Immortalin··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
KloudTrader - A commission-free (flat-rate) algorithmic trading platform. Think of it as the Netlify or Heroku for computational finance. We provide a datafeed and a commission-free brokerage, not to mention server hosting. Basically everything you need to get started. Push to deploy.
Immortalin··on Erlang/OTP by Example
There's always Pony.
Immortalin··on This Old Lisp
What's your opinion on Julia given its Dylan heritage?
Immortalin··on Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your personal life
I would love an access code! Email in profile.
Immortalin··on Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs?
What's your email?
Immortalin··on Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?
Counter Rotating Ring Network Topology:

http://faculty.engineering.asu.edu/palais/counter-rotating-r...

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