Hacker News: flyingcircus3

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

flyingcircus3 — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:25:20 +0000

According to Google, this claim is sourced to a person rather famous for baseless claims, from the founding of companies he owns, to the capabilities of his products, to cash prizes for registering to vote, to when he will send humans to mars.

Continuing to accept this person as a credible source of information isnt a reasonable thing to do.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible"

flyingcircus3 — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:24:13 +0000

Yes you do. He came away with that conclusion because he entered with that conclusion. When you're already radicalized to a specific outcome, you lose the ability to perform the process of elimination.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible"

flyingcircus3 — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:12:42 +0000

This is because the community around Gamestop is radicalized by the exact same grievance culture behind the MAGA movement. It even started conveniently in January of 2021, at a point of MAGA's seeming obsolescence. The adherents of this movement have already accepted the final result as guaranteed, and literally every piece of news the world over gets interpreted through the lens of this eventuality that Gamestock's stock price will explode, making them all millionaires and billionaires. Just like MAGA, the community is full of people whose main role is to delegitimize negative news, and reframe it all as instead proof that the mother of all short squeezes is imminent. Today is the perfect day to see this playing out on their subreddits.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

flyingcircus3 — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:27:02 +0000

I don't believe in the theory, I'm stating that I understand the theory to largely revolve around powerful players manipulating markets, such as robinhood to disallow buying GameStop in January 21. In my view, GameStop enjoyers are so thoroughly radicalized and primed to expect another short squeeze, that the content of any given days news, related to GameStop or not, is regularly deciphered as clear sign that of its arrival. A large part of that certainty has seems to stem from the fact that canonically guilty people like Griffin, remaining free, an ever present festering reminder of their grievance.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

flyingcircus3 — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:22:21 +0000

There is too much overlap with the tropes found in communities who want to believe in aliens and interdimensional beings to take the Gamestop saga seriously. So many appeals to emotion and ignorance, and the investment in a particular outcome has made the reddit groups around this topic indistinguishable from people who are ride or die Trumpers impervious to the falsification of their bad ideas. There is no longer a rubric of reasonable evaluation of new relevant information. The festering wound of people like Ken Griffin effortlessly getting away with their crimes has gone on for so long that has radicalized people to interpret every new piece of info through the lens of being the first crumplings of an eventual avalanche of retribution that has been promised to them.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

flyingcircus3 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:17:26 +0000

I take from GP that they try to make their branches small, and keep the cycle of development->review->merging small, so that the problem stacked PRs seeks to solve doesn't materialize in the first place.

Stacked PRs in my experience has primarily been a request to merge in a particular order. If you're the only merger, as in GP's case, there's no need to request this of yourself.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

flyingcircus3 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:50:47 +0000

Stacking branches for any extended period of time is definitely a poor mixing of the concepts of branches and commits. If you have a set of changes you need to keep in order, but you also need to maintain multiple silos where you can cleanly allow the code to diverge, that divergence constitutes the failure of your efforts to keep the changes in order.

Until you can make it effortless, maintaining a substantial commit structure and constantly rebasing to add changes to the proper commit quickly turns into more effort than just waiting to the end and manually editing a monster diff into multiple sensible commits. But we take the challenge and tell ourselves we can do better if we're proactive.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

flyingcircus3 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:04:55 +0000

I think you're conflating lossy encoding degrading fidelity with the main problem that plagues most audience recordings: the crowd is in the foreground and the band is in the background. One is nearly imperceptible to most people that haven't spent decades in studios like Neil Young, and the other is immediately obvious to everyone.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "More Americans are breaking into the upper middle class"

flyingcircus3 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:59:12 +0000

It does seem like a lot of people have extrapolated the second half of the 20th century to be the baseline expectation from here on out.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "More Americans Are Breaking into the Upper Middle Class"

flyingcircus3 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:54:19 +0000

Ive found lately that a few sites, including WSJ, archive.ph just hangs on the loading screen. The existence of your link should make it skip the loading, as in understand it. Is there a trick to this?

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

flyingcircus3 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:23:31 +0000

Why would you settle for a guide when you can get a claude skill to do it for you?

https://github.com/nidhinjs/prompt-master

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor"

flyingcircus3 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:15:17 +0000

Here's an agent skill that lets you do similar things: https://skills.sh/remotion-dev/skills/remotion-best-practice...

https://www.remotion.dev/docs/ai/claude-code

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "How I estimate work"

flyingcircus3 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:35:46 +0000

I think it comes down to the difference between predictions and prescriptions. When a person is predicting how long someone else's work will take, the revelation of their error causes them to change their subsequent predictions to be more accurate. When a person is prescribing how long someone else's work will take, the revelation of their error causes them to demand productivity increases.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "Nordic Semiconductor Acquires Memfault"

flyingcircus3 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:18:49 +0000

Segger Embedded Studio is a complete solution. One installer. You might need to pick an older version to go with an old SDK version, but its very straightforward.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick"

flyingcircus3 — Fri, 16 May 2025 21:23:53 +0000

I remember being so bored during this movie in the theater. My expectations of any plot whatsoever were unreasonably high.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired"

flyingcircus3 — Mon, 12 May 2025 19:51:02 +0000

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-if-supre...

It's not related to copyright. It is an example of your hypothetical standard required to attribute something to Trump. My point is that even when he is on camera saying something, that does not prevent the post facto rationalizations. Even if he was on tape firing this person, people would rationalize this away too.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired"

flyingcircus3 — Mon, 12 May 2025 16:54:58 +0000

Now apply this reasoning to Trump standing in Air Force One and saying that he would bring someone back of the Supreme Court said to. It's on video.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired"

flyingcircus3 — Mon, 12 May 2025 15:17:12 +0000

The very fact that you can bring this tired retort to any argument regardless of context reveals it for what it is: an off ramp to any conversation you have no better argument against.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "Booting the RP2350 from UART"

flyingcircus3 — Sun, 11 May 2025 23:05:44 +0000

Are you implying the SWD signals would send the RAM contents every time? If I had to do that, I would first use a logic analyzer like Saleae to capture the SWD signals of a JLink performing the necessary operations to load the image into RAM. Then figure out, from the bytes that get send and received, whatever needs to be parameterized, and where to put the image data itself, perhaps by capturing different scenarios, and seeing what changes. Maybe even look up the SWD spec. You would also need to figure out what kind of back and forth is necessary, what must block waiting for a response. From there, assuming there isn't cryptography involved, it just becomes a matter of providing bytes to a bus in the correct order or timing based on the proper events. Some of those bytes are "canned" and never change. Some of them are parameters that describe some important quantity relevant your specific image. And the rest are your firmware image, probably chunked up with some overhead wrapped around it. I allow for the possibility that SWD is far more complex than I imagine, but this approach works pretty well for figuring out whats going on with SPI or I2C or BLE.

New comment by flyingcircus3 in "Show HN: LTE-connected IoT module with remote programming and NL data analysis"

flyingcircus3 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:23:28 +0000

The remote programming seems like a novelty aimed at hobbyists. If I have a deployment of remote devices, large or small, iterating on code on a device in the field is a recipe for disaster. How will you track the different versions of code on the various devices you have changed individually? If you need to directly change the code on a field device, doesn't that imply that you are unsure that the changes will work?

If the code needs to change, that is much safer to do in a controlled, low risk, nonproduction environment, where you will very likely have development hardware that has been optimized for ease of development/debugging. Once changes are tested and otherwise validated, an over the air update process would be used to send that new firmware image to the device. This way, your devices all can be on a single version of the firmware, meaning you can scale the deployment of that update to 10, then 100, then 1000 devices, etc.