skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not saying use Swift/C# for those problems, they're saying learn good programming practices from those languages and tools and then go do things in R/Python with that expertise under your belt.
It’s only for Chrome, is there a Firefox alternative?
It's a spicier life, but not necessarily a better one. Some people really need that sense of risk, of adventure to be happy. But most people seem to just want convenience, comfort, and predictable routine.
My comment on a similar post. Best advice given by Twitch, don't stream music.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25064514
And cue all other major services going down in the next few days.
Or maybe your criteria for valuing things and deciding what's worth complaining about isn't as universal as you think.
> why that’s more likely than life developing on Earth?

Possibly because the Universe is much older than our planet, and life could have been evolving out there for billions of years before Earth even existed.
I don't see what value your comment is bringing either
People who frown on children tussling take their young dogs to the dog park so the dog can "play" with other dogs. Because the dog needs it but the kids do not.
The tone isn't great, but I think it's in part like that because they're trying to pitch their project as automation. To me it seems more replacing/extending something (analog baby monitor), but that's not exactly automation.

It’s up to the parent to move the speaker as they move to different rooms, as they can’t play the sound on any other existing audio infrastructure
> They can't help but penalize change.

I don't believe it has anything to do with change.

I believe it has everything to do with isolating a vulnerable subset of society to exploit them. Divide and conquer. They want a bigger chunk of your hard earned money, thus they fabricate a tall tale of entitlement to vilify and turn the peole against you, and proceed to rob you of your paycheck because they want your hard earned money.
Nope, it has/had a line of linked text that promoted the new Pixel phone. Not graphical and definitely not malware. Was on the tiled start page a few weeks ago. An ad by Google, I took a screenshot, I’ll try to find it.

Edit: there you go: https://mobile.twitter.com/mittermayr/status/131381816260595...

(Don’t be confused by the background image, I put that there).
the cost for the user to change from one competitor to the next aren't 0
> "I've recently impressed upon my startup that we don't need to always do "coding tests" of engineering candidates (e.g., if obvious from discussion, past roles, open source, etc.)"

Y'know, I look really good on paper. Long history of significant contributions to projects that are household names at major tech companies, I know my stuff, and I can talk a pretty good game if do I say so myself. I am also so utterly burnt out that I can barely put two lines of code together. Your system would fail to avoid hiring me.

Always do the coding test. Even the FAANGs have hiring mistakes, people who get locked in a niche and let their skills rust, and just plain burnouts that you don't want joining your company.
eInk displays are really quite fun to work with. Pre-pandemic shutdown, I was working on a custom work badge holder that was primarily an eInk display to show my picture and daily work calendar.

A little Arduino can easily pull down my week's schedule from Outlook, then update the screen for the current day, then put itself in a deep (extremely low power consumption) sleep until it's time to update with the next day. Wake up, update display, go back to sleep - all in a few seconds with minimal battery use. And any time I re-sync via USB, it updates the schedule and the display, plus charges a small LiPo battery that runs things.

Is it super useful? Eh no, everything it has is on my phone already. Is it fun tech to work with? Most definitely.

PS

Probably most people know this but in case not, once you set an eInk display, it requires no power to maintain the image. I've got a few small ones I put images on a few years ago that are still just fine.
I don’t do anything special for photos appearing in multiple albums. My use-cases don’t align to that.

My whole photo-taking process tends to be:

* take a bunch of pictures

* find the best ones

* further refine the best ones until it’s a reasonable number

* photoshop those to how I want them

* share the narrow list

And most of my photos come from events, so they’re in folders based on events.

If your goal is virtual galleries and avoiding duplication, this is sufficiently different I don’t think I can give suggestions there, I’m sorry
In a similar vein, someone previously created a "Very Slow Movie Player" using e-ink.[1] I always thought this would make for a nice little art piece in a room.

[1] https://medium.com/s/story/very-slow-movie-player-499f76c48b...
One free alternative is Snapchat app. I am using it as a camera app as well as a camera roll (Memories).
MacBook Air in Pure CSS
> you could get twice the impact out of insulating ...

Yes, the concept of "negawatts" which was popularized by the Rocky Mountain Institute, and Amory Lovins in particular in the 1980s, seems to have vanished from the discourse.

Insulate properly and improve efficiency of usage, and suddenly your energy supply problems are a lot smaller--plants, transmission, distribution, raw materials, waste: all of them.

Time to bring back negawatts.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negawatt_market
Same and now I'm actually debating getting that 32" panel. I've longed for some sort of pinboard style display that I can put things like calendar and reminders on for years now.
The official Ableton YouTube channel has dozens of very short tutorials. It’s helped me a lot.
I don't think this change is so bad in isolation, but one thing I'm beginning to feel is that Google are removing things & changing propositions so much that at any point in my life, I'm trying to adapt to their newest whim on at least one of their products.

I had purchased a bit of music through Google Music and it was nice. I kept it downloaded on my device, played it whenever I wanted, and it integrated nicely with Google Assistant, as promised. This year, Google decided to migrate all that into YouTube Music. I thought that wouldn't be a problem; just a new name and change of UI, surely? Well, YouTube Music is incessant about nagging you to subscribe. Unless you subscribe it doesn't work well with assistant and won't play without the app open. I only wanted to listen to the music I had already purchased on the same terms on which I had purchased it, though. Luckily, it was just a handful or so of music and they've agreed to refund it. But now I'm still in the situation where I will be looking for something to replace the gap. This is just one example.

At some point, I'm not going to be bothering with Google products anymore. I already feel a moderate bias against using their stuff. I'm switching from Google Cloud to Vercel, for example. I just hope Vercel doesn't get acquired by Google.

I haven't yet done anything about Gmail, Drive, or Photos, but I feel a bit insecure about such important stuff currently being in Google's hands.
Same here in socal, and look at those report numbers. Baseline 30, now almost 190,000 reports. I wonder what could be going on to cause this level of global service degradation.

Perhaps related, I uploaded a video earlier today that took nearly 4 hours to process, though it was only ten minutes long.
move them to Amazon. before Amazon discontinues unlimited storage, download everything to a portable storage.

at the end of the day, you will realize that only yourself can be trusted.
Tell HN: Trends Change Fast
I've been looking for a new smartphone, since my 4 year old maimang 5 seems to start to have issues with flash wearout.

To my surprise, and horror, there are not a single relatively modern, and large phone without a hole in the screen!
and you can easily download all your google photos.

(source: i did it)
I was expecting something of a « hack » and was a bit disappointed to read once again that eink is still so expensive.

Buying a industrial printer refurb could even make sense economically at this point. With the added bonus of displaying the full week front pages.
The problem with this is that there’s not a way to pay google $x/year to not see ads and also not be tracked everywhere you go (obviously requiring you allow cross-site google cookies) and/or limit what systems your browsing data is piped to. With this announcement, it’s just more income diversification since search ads might be pulled from them via antitrust.
Yes. Binary file formats are common (like Microsoft Outlook, pdf files, etc.), and are very fast to read/write. Text files have to be parsed. I've written lots and lots of dumpers for binary file formats generated by other programs.
Microservices in action! Can visit the site, see comments, but can't play videos. Go to twitter, check the latest tweets containing "youtube down", thousands of results coming.

Now I know why I used to download all my favorite videos to USB/SSD!
Did you read this part?

> You can never 100% know for sure if that code doesn't have a security backdoor

How does compilation methodology help with analyzing millions of lines of code?
Microservices out of action in this case
I didn’t see the actual study but wonder how much this actually speaks to the likelihood of a new marriage staying whole. The graph states that the figure is x divorces per thousand marriages so far so good. But they also say that the rate of marriages is also declining which seems to indicate that the proportion of old marriages to new marriages per thousand is rising in which case at least some of the divorce rate decline may be because a survivor bias embedded in the older marriages?
Same here in socal, and look at those DownDetector report numbers[0]. Baseline 30, now almost 200,000 reports. I wonder what could be going on to cause this level of global service degradation.

Perhaps related, I uploaded a video earlier today that took nearly 4 hours to process, though it was only ten minutes long.

[0]: https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/
"Carlos’s work on A Clockwork Orange is particularly brilliant."

Amen to that. But if you are a young person reading this who has somehow never been exposed to classical music, this is a good introduction, inasmuch as it includes not just Carlos's take on Beethoven using the synthesizer, but also some wonderful orchestral selections from Beethoven and others.

My favorite soundtrack albums are probably:

* A Clockwork Orange

* Jurassic Park

* The Natural

* Godspell

* Hannah and Her Sisters

* Victor/Victoria

* Sound of Music

* Fiddler on the Roof

* Camelot

* Five Summer Stories
Thank you for the kind words and really thoughtful comment!

If we build a Python / Django library, would you integrate Configly? If not, what would it take?

I think you hit the nail on the head for a core use-case: deployment processes inhibiting quick data changes. I believe the problem gets worse as you work at larger places... I've worked at [unnamed SF Tech Company with ~1k engineers] where deploying took ~a day simply waiting for the CI along with a backlog of commits from other developers.

I really like the challenges you call out. We don't do a good job of saying this on the site but we explicitly don't want h manage secrets / sensitive data; especially because the API_KEY is on the client libraries - so there isn't really anything stopping anyone from peeking in memory / the source making requests (I think this is different than say a more traditional login-auth system where the secret is stored in a session and only the person with access to the client with that session can access that data).

100% agreed on latency and availability. Config.ly needs be super solid here (sacrificing of course some consistency... slightly delayed updates). Besides following best practices for building/designing/operating high-avail systems (both my cofounder and I have experience here), there are some clever things we can do on the client. For instance, caching should help with both and I thought some of commenters below mentioned had great suggestions for other sorts of clever client fallback mechanisms we can do to help here [1] [2].

Thanks again for the great input!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25062496
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063062
I built one using raspberry pi and PaPiRus display. It's tiny but it suffices for a desktop notification system.

I also gamified it using a plant so that I would read all unread emails by the end of day (having it grow/die depending if I hit the goal). You should give it a shot.
It is not an exaggeration to suggest that If I - liberal arts graduate focusing on technology in academia - had not found _why's guide, I would never have believed I had a mind capable of doing code professionally. I will be celebrating my 10th year in the industry soon.
Yes, that's a good point.

That ground is 3D and plentiful (for cables) almost everywhere. When access to it is hard, it's usually because somebody is artificially restricting it. The solution is to stop restricting it, not to tax it.
That reminds me of calculating the mandelbrot set on the commodore 1541 floppy drive, back in the days.
> NTSC Waveform monitors

NTSC waveform monitors and vectorscopes are amazing instruments. For example, only with them you can see the true color (pun intended) of the STMPT color bars on TVs - the iconic staircase waveform [0] and its corresponding curve on the vectorscope [1]. They are how the color bars were intended to be viewed.

During my recent hunt for test equipment, I was still able to find a lot of waveform monitors and vectorscopes in usable conditions. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any reason to buy one - it will be a complete waste of money and room space since these instruments have became totally useless with zero utility. You don't even have a signal to probe anymore, unlike a vintage computer or an oscilloscope which can still be used and even serve a practical need... To think about it, they'll continue to be stored in an abandoned warehouse collecting dust and rust indefinitely until someone sends them to a metal scrapyard.

It's really sad.

[0] https://i.stack.imgur.com/cIQVf.png

[1] https://www.danalee.ca/ttt/images/7/vectorscope_bars_big.jpg
So is speedtest.net. I wonder how they're related (if at all)
Get simple IO stats using Rust (throughput,)
I use signal because it's "good enough" and has a lower barrier to entry for less technical people, but having reviewed MM's stance on many issues, I honestly wouldn't be surprised to find out he or his company are a sort of Adrian Lamo 2.0 (obviously a bad comparison but I think you get my meaning). The bottom line is that if you are trying avoid nation states... and this is going to go against almost everything you have been taught and heard... you should probably be rolling your own crypto. It might be more doable than you think, but once again you run into the problem of how do you get others to adopt? I first heard this stance from former NSA technical director William Binney, and balked at first, but after ruminating on it for some time I think he has a point. Especially when so many of these crypto compromises happen because there is a central org thats easy to focus target (the main weakness in MM's position), vs having no central org or even being on any radar other than NSA data hoovers. Autoanalysis of comp'd communication systems wouldn't work if they don't have your crypto-comms in the list, but the thing to be aware of there is the ability for them to "walk the cat back" on comms if they do break it later.

Don't forget also that these organizations heavily participate in forum ops to sway opinion on these topics [1] so operating by consensus can be very dangerous imho. I remember one particular example being the allegations about the FBI paying contractors on ipsec to backdoor it [2]. Which was then met with all kinds of "analysis" about how it wasn't true, and that sort of became the consensus response for a while after, except a year or so later I found a post by one of the devs explaing further detail and it became obvious to me that ipsec had been backdoored and they had just engaged in "consensus cracking". Of course only a few years later Snowden leaks confirmed that ipsec was weak by design and had been being intercepted for quite some time. Also worth noting that while Snowdens doc were released in 2013, the actual docs were mostly from ~2007 era. Think about how much tech has changed since then, and then imagine just how much more powerful the systems are today. Not just the technical systems, but the organizational structures designed to prevent any kind of truly secure crypto from emerging.

1. https://archive.is/JlBgE

2. https://bsd.slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/004235/FBI-Alleged-T...

PS. Also worth noting that Eben Moglen talked about how after the gov lost the crypto wars, he heard a chilling comment about how basically they wanted to do away with anonymity also. I think it's worth noting that anonymity and crypto are hand in hand tech, and if you comp one pivoting into the other is much easier. The gov has worked on comping both quite extensively.
I prefer `lasagnacat` for my existential/surreal Garfield riffs.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2AQkHXNVA-w9FA1m9VqO7A

My favorite may be this one, a one-hour single-take monologue about finding the meaning of life in a Garfield strip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw
Seems like just the video player is down - homepage loads with thumbnails, and when you click on a video, everything but the video player renders. What I find interesting is that scrolling through a video still displays closed captions and even the thumbnail preview of the timestamp you're hovering over. Curious if anyone know what causes something like this?
The Samsung Frame TV does this already, to some success.
Was just about to post this... pretty crazy
YouTube Is Down
Page loads but video won't play
None, to be fair. But I do like to think pushing back at charged rhetoric will help maintain high quality discussion here.
how is that surprising in any way? is it not expected that they cut costs if they're not making a profit?
I think it is all relative. Notion feels so much faster than Quip. Quip takes forever to start, stop, search, etc. it is nearly unusable. Search in Notion is so much better too.

Maybe I should avoid anything faster than Notion so I don’t get spoiled.
Where are you getting the 118 W number from? A LED TV this size will use a fraction of that (30-40 W max, and can be brought down further with power saving options).
$0.1038/kWh where I live in the states.
Downdetector showing huge spike in reports https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/
This made me go “But I have a fair amount of disposable income, how expensive is ‘expensive’ exactly?” So I RTFA’d.

Folks, an eInk display the size of a newspaper broadsheet costs 2300 euro, purchase ramen accordingly.
The RIAA, GitHub, and youtube-dl
Realign your expectations about democracy and avoid having strong political opinions.
This book taught me how to take my first baby steps into my current career, and I will be forever indebted to it.
Even sites I was trying to use to see if things were down - were down: speedtest, etc.
A checklist for your startup ideas
Select microservices in action! If AWS/GCP/Azure are taking score, then this isn't an outage because DNS resolves a-ok!
Made a program that interfaced w/ my SDR to make it take FM radio as input. Unfortunately I only did so via using a virtual audio output stream; ie, I had to fiddle w the channel in SDR#. Next step would have been to include FM decoding, so I could change the channel from within the program!
YouTube Down Worldwide
Another reference, but the /r/youtube reddit thread[0] for this issue has users reporting globally

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/jsjwzq/youtube_dow...
Came here to post basically the same comment as everyone else, so I’ll save my words.

My child was born in June and we have been using a WYze camera with RTSP enabled + a kindle tablet with TinyCam installed and it has worked flawlessly. Highly recommend for a budget setup.
It’s not hard if you have a computer in addition to a phone, enough storage to hold a full local copy, and don’t mind spending time getting all of your friends and family to switch.
I vpn'd around, this appears to be global. While reading something unrelated my video suddenly started playing.

I think it's load balancer related for whatever is serving their videos

EDIT: Once you have a connection you appear to keep it the entire way through (at least it did for me with youtubedl). Something related to connection queueing...
The discount cones at the cost of being locked in to the SE and your data cap for the next two years, which may not at all be a bad thing to you, but may be for someone else.
Captions and thumbnails come from a different part of the CDN. Same with Netflix. The videos come from devices dedicated to large files, the captions and thumbnails come from a CDN designed for small files.
You don't see how it's possible for abuse in a state that traditionally votes for a certain party to mail ballots unprompted to every citizen that you have in the state records when you don't regularly purge your data even for individuals who haven't filed state income tax in years?

I think we just fundamentally will have to disagree then.
It's hard to describe. I have a competitive energy that drives stereotypically masculine behavior. When it was unfocused and untrained, it led to aggression and hypersexuality. When it's focused, it leads to goal- and status-oriented behavior.

When I say anti-masculine, I mean that it seems like society nowadays just seems to try to suppress this energy in boys. Rambunctiousness is shamed and considered ADHD. Competitiveness is looked down upon, replaced instead with cooperation. There was a time when I tried to suppress this side of myself, but it just made me feel bad.

Much of my transition to adulthood involved learning how to manage this masculine energy.
It's not out of the realm of possibilities. Imagine some country being constantly bombarded by earthquakes, tsunamis and other destructive environmental changes to the point where people can't live normally. They will definitely rebel and try to take over land that doesn't have these issues. Much like what happened in ancient times, climate changes led to inhabitable areas and provoked wars between civilizations for land.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/climate-wars-conflict...
Maybe it's something Google Cloud related?
Love this. The price tag may seem high but it's competitive for wall art.

What other iconic works are there that give you an idea of what's happening in the world?

Time, New Yorker, ...
I really appreciate trello and it’s fast enough as long as you don’t need to open multiple cards side by side. Trello is optimized for certain workflows, in board view or single card view.

In a text editor, you would just have multiple windows, panes, splits ... and it’s just fast to jump, reference, copy/paste, etc. On trello, you need to reload the full board in another tab or lose context.
FastMOT: High-performance and extendable multiple object tracking
Downdetector seems like a great place to advertise. You have a bunch of people who were forced to abandon the provider of whatever type of service that your company may offer. What a great opportunity to show customers your competing product.
I imagine the conversation with the clients will go like this:

- Here is a quote for 100k for adding SuiteSparse to the code.

- 100k‽ But I have found on the internet that SuiteSparse is free! Justify your quote.

At that point, they will have to explain to the client what GPL is and why they cannot use the free version.
You should check out bitwig studio on a Surface tablet! They have had an optimized Multitouch UX mode for a few years now, and it looks pretty good.