skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another different sort of disc brake was Audi's UFO setup. Essentially it was to maximize rotor surface area under 15" rims:

https://www.fcpeuro.com/blog/reinventing-the-rotor-audis-ufo...
The way they forced reconnecting to the same Wi-Fi network that was used to configure it the first time rendered it useless even if you changed just the SSID!
Fun fact: There was a guy who managed to extract the keys out of one of the earlier Chromecasts. He eventually stopped working on (or at least posting on XDA about) it because he was hired by Google.

There isn’t really any decent open casting protocol with adoption. DLNA (UPnP) is pretty well implemented in proprietary devices (besides uncontrollable latency up to 10s on Samsung TVs), but there are neither decent free receiver implementations nor many control options (other than that the concept isn’t bad).

Google Cast is smart (with its „we‘ll just give you a whole browser“ concept) and AirPlay works excellently well. Both are proprietary (guess I’m lucky to have both a Macbook and a Samsung TV).
Same thing + "AI"

We're going to be seeing a lot of this in the next year or two.
I wonder if sales are down that much now that every new TV has Roku or something similar built-in. The Chromecast's form factor was fantastic, but it really left a lot of features on the table compared to Amazon, Roku, and even Onn (Wal-Mart's house brand) streaming sticks.
Inertia from people who don't know any better if I had to guess. There have been several sites that I used to frequent over the years that got acquired yet still had my attention for long after they should have because they were able to "boil the frog", which is to say insidiously reduce investment in content and degrade quality in an envelope such that I didn't notice how garbage it actually was until much later.

"The Hill" is perhaps the most recent example I can think of - they went from being a legitimate media outlet to a fire hose of hilariously-slanted editorials and pop sidebar schlock in just a few short years.
I used to love Chromecast and I love the concept but since 2020 My ISPs have sent me non-configurable routers, they broadcast 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz Wifi on the same spectrum. This bricked my older devices that can't figure out how to find the 2.4Ghz only network.

I never bought the newer Chromecast and its just been sitting idle, hopeless dangling off of an HDMI port since. My world has moved on as literally everything else can get shows displaying on a TV including the TV.

I guess it was coming.
I also experienced the same thing when traveling in Europe. When you're on the line and traveling from one stop to another, it's fast and easy. However, we discovered that most of the things we wanted to visit were nowhere near the transit line for medium distances; it was faster to take a bike and, for long distances, to drive.
> What perverse incentives do they have to slowly and steadily make them worse than they were out of the box?

Its Google, so almost certainly advertising related tracking (and the associated bloat)
I spent years there and never saw anyone convey the idea of maintaining a monopoly.

I'll agree that to some extent they are the same thing in certain markets - those that naturally tend to 1 or 2 players dominating the entire market.
the phone/browser lock-in is largely due to lack of a standardized and open protocol to stream content in this manner. in the wireless-display-sharing ecosystem the chromecast is unique in that, when possible, it streams content from the original provider on a local client rather than relying on mirroring your device's display. this gives a better user experience but required participation from each service provider.

i'm surprised netflix or amazon hasn't tried to create a standardized protocol for asking another client to initiate a stream from a provider on your behalf, including passing account credentials and allowing for widevine and other drm. if this was successful, it would open the market for chromecast-like-devices from other vendors.
If brands can be put on the balance sheet as "goodwill", how much money was burnt by obliterating this brand name - one almost as generic as Kleenex, for its product category (small streaming-first HDMI dongles)?
In 1988 when I got a job working in MSDOS, WordStar was in use by the programmers to edit source code. Though one guy used QuickEdit, and I used MicroEmacs. We all standardized on Brief a couple of years later.
Hang on to it.

Google inexplicably killed the Chromecast Audio as well, and it was an absolutely perfect device for a very particular niche (streaming audio to an old stereo/amplifier without needing a permanently connected phone as is the case for Bluetooth).

I hope mine still lasts for a long time (I believe there are some Google-signed certs on it that might expire some day?).
It's $100, compared to $50 for the last 4K Chromecast dongle or $30 for the 1080p version.
Thanks!

- No need to remember server IPs
- Viking gives you an overview with simple machine ls and key ls commands
- A more modern and intuitive API
- Works consistently across all platforms
- Close to the Docker API

Sure, it’s only the first release. It may not seem like much now, but with feedback, the project will move closer to the goal.
Already happened

https://twitter.com/Garossino/status/1817220477427093963
I see it do a lot that's interesting but for programming stuff, I haven't found it to be particularly useful.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong?

I've been writing code for ~30 years, and I've built up patterns and snippets, etc... that are much faster for me to use than the LLMs.

A while ago, I thought I had a eureka moment with it when I had it generate some nodejs code for streaming a video file - it did all kinds of cool stuff, like implement offset headers and things I didn't know about.

I thought to myself, "self - you gotta check yourself, this thing is really useful".

But then I had to spend hours debugging & fixing the code that was broken in subtle ways. I ended up on google anyway learning all about it and rewrote everything it had generated.

For that case, while I did learn some interesting things from the code it generated, it didn't save me any time - it cost me time. I'd have learned the same things from reading an article or the docs on effective ways to stream video from the server, and I'd have written it more correctly the first go around.
Snapcast https://github.com/badaix/snapcast
I got a free Chromecast ultra when I got a free Google Stadia box kit a few years ago.

I didn’t use the Chromecast ultra much but I thought it was pretty neat. Kinda sad to see it go.

Honestly the Google Stadia controller is probably the most comfortable and well designed controller I’ve used. I still have it and use it for PC gaming stuff. I don’t play video games much anymore so I don’t know if the other controllers nowadays are better but that was my experience.

The point I’m trying to make is that it seems Google has talented engineers and designers. So I wonder why so many of its products fail and why it cancels so many things…
Check out wiim for hardware.

And also https://roon.app/en/ for music streaming software that can group up devices from a bunch of different manufacturers.
I didn't even know you could install apps onto a Chromecast. I'm not sure why you'd need to though, because phone apps can "cast" to it.
Nope.

I've used linux since the 1990s. Was friends with the founders of LinuxCare, met Torvalds. blah blah blah...

Since semi-retire from ops... and basically using windows for a few years without need to manage a linux box, youd be FN surprised how quickly basic knowledge evaporate at my age when not in use. I had to fn lookup how to add my keys to a box again.

(After a 3-month long panel-interview with Google's Net Eng Team back in the day - my final panel question was:

"OK how do you do a global search and replace in VI?"

I *blanked* -- and I stated... "UH.... I'cant recall - id just google it"

They all laughed.

---

@OP -- look at the remote SSH extension in VSCode/Positron etc...

Its a really good little file/function/SSH manager.

Though Ill take a look at this.
Panic at the Async Runtime Shutdown
Show HN: Metrics Hive – a simple, feature-rich Google Analytics alternative
Metrics Hive is meant to be an easy-to-use analytics tool, similar to the Google UA days. However, it also features real-time user activity, heat maps, and screen replays.
Huh. Always thought that blob in thermostats was mercury. TIL
So why didn't profit margins go up to "obscene profit" level?
Google has a really horrible brand reputation though. Would be bizarre if someone at Google thought tacking "Google" on a product would improve the product's reputation.
why not just utilize a Certificate Authority?
you're probably right, there's no accounting for taste.
> What I wish for is for the ubiquitous Cast button found everywhere to be open and neutral and for there to be a whole market of devices that’ll work

Sonos, take note.
I think the only way to answer that is if you can share an example of a conversation you had with it, where it broke down as you described.
I believe it when I see it. Have fun LARPing with your "RISC-C SOCs" (if you even run any...).
I find it somewhat of a shame that dns-over-http3 seems to have killed dns-over-quic and dns-over-dtls.

In my own testing the benefit of going dns-over-http3 is that it finally brings dns-over-https down to speeds comparable to dns-over-tls.

I wonder what is left on the table by not going the simple route of having a "dedicated protocol" over udp (understand what I mean, not what im saying).
Ask HN: Storytelling Framework
Years ago, there was a storytelling "framework" posted on HN. I vaguely remember it being created by someone who used to work in tech, though I might be misremembering that. By the time it was posted, it seemed that a few people had used it successfully, and the creator had built an entire business around it. However, I can't recall the name of the framework or the author. When asking ChatGPT, the closest results I got were Larry Brooks - "Story Engineering" and Shawn Coyne - "The Story Grid," but I can't remember if they are the ones I'm thinking about. Can anyone suggest a few other names? Chatgpt gave me a few authors with books on Story telling but the one I'm thinking about was sold specifically as a "framework" (as software devs understand it) for writers.
Roku has "Automatic Content Recognition (ACR)" which effectively uploads screenshots of what you're watching every few seconds: https://support.roku.com/en-ca/article/115005739288

Short of having an always on camera and microphone, this is amongst the scummiest corporate spying behavior out there.
Oh wow, I was using it incorrectly—thanks for indirectly correcting me! I thought I could use it to emphasize that something is indeed true.
Chromecast was an endless source of frustration for me from having the first prototypes while at Google, to the latest devices.
It solves such a simple problem that no one else seemed to want to tackle - put a video on the TV - and yet, it never quite worked reliably.

We used it every evening for years and 19/20 times it streams effortlessly and instantly... 1/20 times I'm restarting browsers, TV's, WiFi until we give up and watch on a laptop.

Back to the HDMI cable. In retrospect, I should have never left it.
Same question here.

Is it worth it for the SEO value?

Are they planning to make AI training deals for the corpus of older content?

Does the company own real estate, and/or is there an applicable debt-loading maneuver?
Miracast devices have pretty decent compatibility. Some TVs have it built in, but there are dongles that implement it as well. IIRC Microsoft has (had?) one that worked quite well.
The reasoned arguments are well known and have been for decades. Humans are not all that reasoned; emotional argument is often called for.
> ... ECC and other failsafes don't catch 100 percent of these errors. So on a long enough time horizon with a large-enough, complex-enough system, these undetected, flipped bits will begin to accumulate.

On a long-enough time horizon, the sun becomes a "red giant" and boils the oceans. No worries about bit flips after that.
Exactly Yes. It is easy for other to read on the internet, but to actually understand and experience is an entirely different thing.

We dont need to eat a lot, not even three meals a day. But we need to eat high quality nutritious food.

I wish the next frontier is actually Food Tech. Which to me may be even more important than Bio Tech. Make organic nutritious affordable with technology.
No mention of pollution and some lip service to a "green future" because pollution is irrelevant for this type of individual who Just Doesn't Care about the environment they live in -- who would, when you can have VC money flying up your rear? Screw everyone else, he's got his!
Does it have the same level of content provider support, though?

Almost any app or content I've ever wanted to stream to my TV supports Google Cast on both iOS and Android, which definitely can't be said for my TV's native OS, Apple TV/Airplay, Miracast etc.
Hunter Biden’s laptop was all anyone was talking about for days. They blocked non-consensual nudity but that’s consistent with long-running policy and had no impact on the political aspects any more than we needed to see Trump and Daniels in action to discuss whether payoffs were appropriate.
I’m following the same process I use for other fermentation without issues in the other ones, 2% salt to water, mason jar with a bubbler, I actually go over and above with this one because I’ve had problems… I double clean everything, I use acid sanitizer from beer brewing to make sure the jars and lids and everything is clean, I don’t leave it uncapped unless I’m working next to a candle (a technique to keep falling spores out of yeast samples from home brewing)

I’ll try adding some fresh peppers in just for the lacto and try again.
But the thing is Roku has far less data on me than Google. They might have viewing history or whatever, but it's not tied to my entire identity on the web the way Google can do that. So not it's not as creepy or worse than Google, not by a long shot.
The actual stats on the efficacy of early detection are extremely surprising. This [1] is a random study, among many, about breast cancer screening. Breast cancer mortality rates have been trending downward sharply, and this correlated with a sharp rise in screening. People naturally assumed this was causal, but oddly enough the exact same reduction in mortality has also been observed in people who have not participated in early screening at all. So it seems that generally better treatments are the main reason.

The 'paradox' of genuinely higher survival rates with early detection is explained by the fact that the survival rates are measured from the time of diagnosis. If a person with undiagnosed cancer is diagnosed after 7 years with said cancer, and then dies the following year, then he is considered to have had 1 year of survival. By contrast if somebody is diagnosed at year 1 and then dies 7 years later from the cancer, then they are considered to have 7 years of survival. They lived exactly the same length with cancer, but the survival times after diagnoses are markedly different.

This applies for most cancers. In my prior readings on this topic, the one screening that had a statistically significant effect on life expectancy was a certain type of colonoscopy, but even in that case the effect was quite small, something like 3 months IIRC. I think the overall take away is that outside of healthy living, do what makes you feel most comfortable. Even if they may not be highly effective, screenings would provide some people significant mental comfort. If you're one of them, more power to you. If you're fine without, then that's also great.

[1] - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180912133536.h...
Algorithm Fails to Prevent Domestic Violence Tragedy in Spain
I'm suddenly reminded to ask this community whom I assume might know: Are there any good "dumb tv" solutions out there? I'm thinking 1-4 HDMI ports, and a maximum of RF tuning and input-switching on the firmware.

Products would be preferred suggestions, but I'm even at the point of considering DIY solutions, if something looks lego-ish enough!
Newer Chromecasts ship with a remote and do not require a phone. Multiple people can be logged in too.
Changing the name makes sense, the Google TV version of the Chromecast is a terrible experience compared to the original Chromecasts.
I think Sonos sued the heck out of Google for those, and it caused those devices to disappear for a few years. Sonos lost that case late last year though, so hopefully we'll see a resurgence?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-wins-repriev...

Otherwise, you can DIY it with a bunch of old devices or Raspberry Pis and https://github.com/geekuillaume/soundsync
Open-Source AMD GPU Implementation of CUDA "Zluda" Has Been Taken Down
I was at my brother's on vacation and we were sharing some vacation pics. The mirroring worked pretty well but I do wish there were a straightforward way to just cast a browser to a TV in a standard way.
Awesome! Any comparison to Postal?
Note that one of Elon's goal with the whole hyperloop nonsense was precisely to divert investment from high-speed rail so that it wouldn't compete with "full self driving" cars.
> My Chromecast does 4K, Dolby Vision, runs Android TV, has a usable remote

That's what Google calls "Google TV" now, a product which still exists. During the transition they called the dongles "Chromecast with Google TV". Now the "Chromecast" part of it is discontinued and its all "Google TV".
Suddenly it seems like all of that non-browser stuff Mozilla tried could have helped to offset the risk of Google dependence, despite the fact that many people rejected those ancillary initiatives.

In this situation Google seems like the Unjust Steward in Luke 16:1-13. Subsidizing Mozilla's business model debt was only going to last as long as regulators hadn't cracked down on Google's anti-trust behavior.
Whenever I submit Google Home/Chromecast bugs/feature requests I include some snark in my sign-off like "I know you don't care about this product and it will be killed soon, but if I'm wrong please consider the suggestions above."
I also quickly ditched mine. I mean it worked sorta fine - but the usability was absolutely terrible. Often apps lost connection with it so any requests to pause or resume the media was several seconds delayed. If I got a phone call I often wanted a quick way to pause my media but chromecast made this super inconvenient, slow and stressful when the phone is blurting out it's ringtone.
App support was also spotty at best.
In the end I realized that since I've already chosen between a rock and a hard place (went with the Apple ecosystem), I could just screenshare using an old Apple TV. This ended up working much better in practice (although lower quality video stream) than Chromecast. Today I don't cast much video anymore for some reason, not really sure why. I have an Apple TV 4K and just mostly use the native apps from various services. Having a remote to a system that is completely detached from your phone is much nicer usability wise IMHO.
Economists uncover hidden influence of top campaign donors
Or their internal fights / incentives to release new things instead of maintaining them.

The chat mess with Google Talk, Hangouts, Meet, Duo, etc. was quite sad to watch because Talk was a great product.
Interestingly, the ball and ramp mechanism persists in mechanical disc brakes for bicycles, at least on the Avid BB-7's (possibly others, those are the ones I have).

In that case the ball and ramp are in the caliper attached to the frame. I don't think they're self-energizing in that application; the balls aren't all traveling in the direction the rotor is.

I'd say they're at least 85% as good as hydraulic disc brakes while being 1% of the hassle to maintain.
What reasonably priced alternatives are there for streaming from a phone/laptop to a screen via HDMI port? Ideally a portable solution that I can use when traveling and staying in hotels or AirBnBs (as I can currently do with my Chromecast unless the hotel WiFi has an annoying sign-in process). Even more ideally, something that's free/open-source and can be guaranteed not to collect and send data to third parties.
The 4K Chromecast "with Google TV" basically was that already, since it has the full-screen menu-based interface and remote. It seems a bit silly to me that they're tossing the brand aside but maybe they're doing that for exactly this reason.
I think you'd find that the vast majority of consumers have never heard of Chromecast.
Just imagine that DNS doesn't exist. Or hosts files. Or `~/.ssh/config`...
Got a Roku stick last year after two FireTV sticks bricked themselves. First thing I noticed was that the volume on the remote can only control Roku devices. Then there’s the ads that are creeping in everywhere, but I admit they do stay out of the way… for now.

Going back to AppleTV for my next device. I don’t like how search steers all results through Apple, but I can work around that. Plus I can use it as an exit node on my Tailscale network.
The goal is to simplify the entire server management and deployment process for personal/small team use case, extending beyond just handling SSH keys.
The point was that you could have an optical out connection to a Hi-Fi system and things would just work from Spotify, etc... The google speakers don't even have an aux out. A Rasperry Pi isn't at all equivalent as it's not plug and play.
That’s easier said than done for internet products.

As far as I see it there are 2 broad options, which I exaggerate here.

You could either regulate companies such that they aren’t allowed to engage in addictive and potentially harmful behaviors (including gacha games and maybe gambling games)

OR

Require everyone who accesses the internet be known and registered in such a way that any service could verify that said person has the legal permission to access that service.

I’d take the former.
Perl is everywhere, standard (there is a single implementation, with a strong culture of backward compatibility) and an objectively superior tool.
I did not, this is interesting. I'll look into this, thanks!
> amazon hasn't tried to create a standardized protocol

Amazon is pushing Matter Cast, which is in many ways superior to Google Cast, most of all by being open. Its biggest downside is that it's not supported by anyone else.
I know its popular to rag on Yelp in tech circles, but Yelp is still immensely popular amongst everyone else.

It's the same reason that Meta is still raking in billions a year despite nobody in the tech community using it.
I'm drug discovery and the FDA absolutely _does_ keep all the crazies in check.

Many people died during that golden age, and don't forget that the same golden age produced many of the problems we're drowning in / trying to fix today (PFAS, etc.)
> don't convince yourself for a second that you're putting the community before yourself.

In some ways, I'm putting the sustainability of my business above user freedom, yes, but in other ways I put user freedom above sustainability by making the source code available to read, use, modify, and redistribute for nearly any use case. There's nothing inherently "wrong" with this either. The space between open source and closed source can be a gradient; it doesn't have to be strictly black and white. Open Source is different, yes, but that doesn't mean that people can't benefit from my software being Fair Source while I build a sustainable business. I can value building a sustainable business and providing user freedom at the same time. That's the whole point of Fair Source -- both are possible.

I think you're looking at it from the wrong direction.