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euph0riaon Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware

Mine drifts all the time.. might be a lemon

euph0riaon Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware

I used this one: SCD30. I don't have any experience with any other so can't comment on others. The SCD30 needs frequent recalibrations so I run it in continuous calibration mode and let the fan run on super low speed so it gets fresh air during the night as it sets its calibration based on the lowest ppm reading per day/week.

euph0riaon Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware

I built a CO2 sensor that activates a fan in my office room to pull in fresh air if the CO2 levels go above 700ppm

euph0riaon Ask HN: Outstanding Programmers

Super interesting. How do you approach the marketing and finding the first customers for your businesses?

euph0riaon More powerful Go execution traces

lol

euph0riaon Open Source Carta Alternative – Cap.octolane.com

What is the process to migrate Carta to Octolane? Do we need to cancel existing certificates or what are the steps?

euph0riaon Impacts of lack of sleep

How did they determine this and what is the fix?

euph0riaon Cisco Acquires Splunk

I've always found the first 30 seconds of this clip very funny when it comes to Splunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_zonaHyd_g&t=5s

euph0riaon Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative

Is it possible to have longer retention rates than 30 day? What is the price for that?

Do you have DPA agreements for GDPR?

euph0riaon Phind (code beating GPT4) seems to have used WizardLM's finetuned checkpoint

Phind's reply: https://twitter.com/phindsearch/status/1696715973007671529?t...

euph0riaon Ask HN: Which US bank for multi-currency accounts?

Support multi-currency:

TIAA Bank: Supports it. However charges $65 per outbound wire, crazy expensive.

SVB: Supports it. $100 / month maintenance fee. Future of SVB highly uncertain.

Unknown:

Wells Fargo: Unknown, spent lots of time being redirected between departments until I had to hang up because it took too long time. Will check again in the future.

No support:

First Republic: Only for larger customers that do not hold currency permanently, only if they continously convert to USD. Their customer support was really nice.

Citi: No support, only through sister company Citi International but not US based

Bank of America: No support multi-currency support for SME customers

Chase: No multi-currency support for SME customers

Bank of America: No multi-currency support for SME customers

PNC: No branch in several US states, therefore can only open accounts in certain states

US Bankcorp Business: Can't hold foreign currency

Wise.com: Not US based. Only for major 8 currencies. Not for smaller currencies such as Swedish SEK as they cannot provide an inbound IBAN.

XE.com: Not US based. No support

euph0riaon Ask HN: Which US bank for multi-currency accounts?

Thank you :)

euph0riaon Ask HN: Which US bank for multi-currency accounts?

Yes, but for example Swedish currency SEK does not have an IBAN account. Wise is unable to offer that (IBAN for SEK) for all but the major 8 currencies.

euph0riaon Ask HN: Which US bank for multi-currency accounts?

It would allow an external party, that is not you, to make an international wire of funds to that account.

Wise has SEK accounts, but only you can fund them, your clients cannot.

euph0riaon Ask HN: Which US bank for multi-currency accounts?

We are looking for a multi-currency account to receive wires from customers. Buying gold does not solve this unfortunately.

euph0riaon Ask HN: Which US bank for multi-currency accounts?

Doesn't offer currency accounts with wire instructions unfortunately.

euph0riaon Ask HN: Which US bank for multi-currency accounts?

Unfortunately it wouldn't support our customers to send us fx-wires.

euph0riaon Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners

I have the F370. It has noise levels of about 60db when compressor is running. Exchanging the compressor costs $3000 from quotes from installers in my city.

euph0riaon Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners

I would only buy it if it has an API that I can access like NIBE does. It should have WiFI and also be able to run completely without internet connection. No functionality should be limited if internet is down except for functions that rely on external data such as live electricity prices etc.

Also, it should be modular so it is easy to repair. Nibe sucks from this aspect and I would love a different heat pump that has better parts prices and was repairable.

As a final must have: Silence. The NIBE is way too noisy and we have it placed next to a bedroom which causes a lot of frustration. When the compressor starts it travels through the walls. I'm currently building extra walls to isolate it and reduce the noise.

euph0riaon My best techniques for evaluating character

Regarding 5: non-lazy people tend to dislike lazy people in the same work group

euph0riaon Apple offers $970 in trade-in value for $52,199 Mac Pro

Good idea, thanks. Next purchase will be a Mac Mini for daily workstation and I'll keep my worthless MacBook and remote desktop whenever I need to be mobile.

euph0riaon Apple offers $970 in trade-in value for $52,199 Mac Pro

Something that surprised me was that my MacBook that is pristine but 5 years old do not get any more OS updates.. and therefore no latest Xcode.. and therefore worthless to me. Are all iOS/Mac devs buying new machines every five years?

euph0riaon Books for Software Engineers in 2023

ChatGPT?

euph0riaon Ask HN: How do you deploy your side-projects?

How do you deal with persistant data? What DB service etc?

euph0riaon Improve your turning

Is this one of these cases where tax-payer money could have been prioritized better or is there a legitimate case for this type of content?

euph0riaon Modern PHP features – PHP 8.0 and 8.1

Slim is really nice. We've used it with great success in several production systems.

euph0riaon Sound

I wish the learning experience in school was similar to this. Excellent writing and the playing-around-with-the-subject really easied the learning for the concepts.

euph0riaon Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?

Thanks! Agree with the bible, wildly underrated

euph0riaon Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday

The company I work for has forbidden the use of Google and their services (if possible) such as GCP etc. due to how they treat their customers. In particular, there never seems to be any human being that you can talk to and find out what you need to do to fix the issue. We do not want the same to occur to our production systems if there is an overflow from a Play Store ban to GCP etc. The business risk is too high when you rely on Google's services.

Some examples:

Suspended GCP even when everything in order - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32547912

Ban app even when competitors are similar - https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vdpj/google-play-store-ban...

Play Association ban - https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/ts6jfg/google_h...

Ban due to wrong wording - https://twitter.com/hermaritz/status/1371383715381805061

Terraria banned - https://twitter.com/Demilogic/status/1358661840402845696

New project banned - https://medium.com/@amton15127/why-you-should-not-use-fireba...

Google bans company - https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8kvias/tifu_by_gettin...

Google bans mail - https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-serf-on-googles-farm

Ban app for communicating changes during covid - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23221447

Adwords ban - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23224791

Serverpunch bad support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431609

Delete app - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20826618

Google bans game with pandemic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229073

Google bans dev with no recourse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15197357