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No, what I'm saying is pipe the video output to an HLS encoder. HLS live will rewrite the m3u8 as more segments come in. In fact, they can render the audio into its own m3u8 and use that as input for their transcriber, saving even more bandwidth/data transfer/etc.

Since it's coming from a headless process, they can just pipe it into ffmpeg, which is probably what they're using on the back-end anyway. Send the output to a file, then copy those to s3 as they're generated. And you can drop the frame rate and bitrate on that while you're at it, saving time and latency.

It's really not rocket science. You just have to understand your problem domain more better.

Shipping uncompressed video around is ridiculous, unless you're doing video editing. And even then you should use low-res copies and just push around EDLs until you need to render (unless you need high-res to see something).

Given that they're doing all that work, they might as well try to get an HLS encoder running in chrome. There just was an mp3 codec in web assembly on HN, so an HLS live encoder may not be too hard. I mean, if they were blowing a million because of their bad design they could blow another million building a browser-based HLS encoder.
Sounds like this company is small. The processes the author discards have their place. His article more or less sounds like “our customers want a small hole dug, we don’t need to a whole excavator for that - just shovels”.

The reason larger companies write prds, figma mocks, etc is to get alignment across more people that are detached from your individual thing

At a small company you don’t need that. Everyone is working on one main work stream

At larger companies, there’s hundreds or thousands of important projects at one time and lots of supporting teams for those. Everyone has their own shit to worry about and can’t possibly remember all the context on your projects, so you make it clear as possible to quickly bring disassociated people up to speed on why it’s important and what you need from them

It also helps disassociated leadership buy into your ideas. A picture is worth a thousand words.
> Retrospectives have been used in my career, without failure, without a single exception, to slap developers into rushing even more. That's what all managers

Dude, no. Kick managers out of the retro. The retro is a place for uncomfortable candor between peers, not another place for your manager to hold court. They need to leave the room while you decide what’s a problem, and what is not a problem (yet). Once you have a plan on the table you can bring the boss back in to discuss the redacted summary of the meeting and any proposals that require their assistance.

They didn’t work for you because you’ve done them wrong at every single place. I’ve had to fight twice to do it right, but we won both times via solidarity.
Just heard of Matrix and it seems super interesting; how clunky are the bridges in practice? Is the UX/setup painless or does it have some issues?
The softness is deceptive. Hard concepts about communication and different types of brains are essential to the plot.
A response to Matt's "WordPress Engine Tracker" thingamajig
Phenylephrine is useless. As an extra added bonus, it will still spike your blood pressure, so it isn't just useless, it's dangerous to people with high blood pressure.

Nasal irrigation is the way to go for sinus trouble. It's more work and takes a little getting used to, but no ID needed to buy saline and baking soda packets, and it actually works.
Study Finds Persistent Infection Could Explain Long Covid
> One option: Dual-license as GPLv3 (the 3 is important!) or commercial license. Hobbyists and FOSS projects will be quite happy to use a GPLv3 OS. The big commercial users - traditionally cars and other embedded uses - will not want to be legally obligated to give users the ability to install custom firmware (which GPLv3 basically requires), so they'll still pay for it. Everyone wins.

GPLv3's protection against locked systems isn't as strong as people often think it is.

In the case of cars at some point the makers are going to realize that instead of including firmware with all the features the car can support they can switch to shipping the car with a more basic firmware that just has built in support for basic car features and has an app store.

They can then put all the other features in apps that you have to buy (or subscribe to).

If that basic firmware is locked down so it can't be replaced by the user then they do indeed after avoid using GPLv3 for any code in that firmware.

The GPLv3 provisions about locking thing down do not apply to apps downloaded from an app store. They designed those previsions to stop what Tivo was doing, which was ship with a locked down operating system, and they wrote fairly narrow terms that don't cover much outside that case.

In particular, they apply when you convey object code of a GPLv3 work in, with, or specifically for use in a "User Product" and that conveyance is part of a transaction "in which the right of possession and use of the User Product is transferred to the recipient in perpetuity or for a fixed term".

I.e., sell (or rent or lease etc) hardware that includes GPLv3 code and you have to provide a way to replace that code with modified versions. Sell (or rent etc) GPLv3 programs separately from hardware and then GPLv3 is neutral on locking it down.
I wonder how much this domain cost.
Thanks for making my life easier with this :)
That's the tricky part... if you're going for legal and license-free you're pretty much left with the ISM bands and very limited transmit power. There's nothing stopping you from getting a real spectrum license and narrowband licenses in the 2m and 70cm bands aren't actually that expensive but there's also equipment certification requirements, generally.
Yes, plus sometimes the "owner" is a group of people. Then it gets more difficult for them to coordinate against the agent.

If you take six figures out of my money, I have a strong incentive to find out. If you take six figures from a treasure chest that belongs to million people, most of them will decide it is not worth their time to investigate.
Nintendo's 'Palworld' Lawsuit Takes a Turn
Spotify works under a royalties for musical performers - not residuals.

Netflix (and all other streamers and broadcasts) work under a residuals system.

Two different groups of content producers (musicians and actors) negotiated different models for how the long tail of licensing the content they helped create worked. Some of the economics of residuals changed with the contract that was negotiated last year with SAG.
Microsoft do this to, I think it’s called something like “safelinks”. All links in outlook/teams are intermediated via a MS url that does some sort of “scan” then redirects you. Extremely frustrating when that service stops working, because now you can’t click on any links. I recall this happened sometime last year :/
Monsanto didn't win because they had the most positive outlook, they won because they had a dominate business position, the most lobbying, etc. Jonathan Gressel & Stanley Culpepper, who the article mentions as folks who disagreed with Monsanto on this, have no such power to dictate things to farmers or congress.
>glyphosate will continue working for a while, helping to lower the price of food.

And I'll continue to choose the version grown without glyphosate even though the price is higher.
It could be that a large amount of porn consumption is kept as a private thing, but when sex scenes appear in media that is consumed "in public" (theatres, on the living room couch with friends, etc.) any reminder of that private life might cause anxiety about sexual preferences being found out by others. So the natural inclination is to react as strongly as the rest of the people against such scenes to avoid standing out. Also, maybe such prudishness could also publicly channel negative thoughts about the private porn consumption in an indirect way, in a "that's not really me" sense.

I'm speculating here since porn is easier to hide the consumption of entirely unlike something like drugs. A more sympathetic reaction towards such scenes could be unconsciously seen as as much as a giveaway as a razor with mystery powder on it.
Honestly I don't think there's any quick answer, and providing specific advice on Hacker News would be playing into exactly the problem I was pointing out in the last paragraph of my previous post.

My usual advice is to just bite the bullet and invest the time it takes to understand how Python package management and resolution really works under the hood, and how all the various devops approaches that are built on top of it work with it, so that you can make informed decisions and truly own your own stack.
You seem to be claiming that nepotism is good and that it is prevalent in all societies. Surely I misunderstood?

Most societies do demand that workers for important roles be selected on merit or based on other criteria known to all participants, and not based on some individual's wish to care for their family or friends.

This is without anyone thinking of such a wish as illegitimate. However , acting on it is still nepotism and societies impose this prohibition on its members because it benefits all. In this sense, "parents providing for their children" is "losing out" in certain important domains all around the world.
That’s because Scrum is so easy to turn into a management process. It makes more sense to them than all the other forms of Agile combined. So like children reaching for candy instead of vegetables, or who will only eat carrots as a vegetable, you have to work to make them reach for something else, otherwise they will be unhealthy.
This is why I hate seeing computer modeling used as science. You get out of it what [assumptions] you put into it.

I'm not saying there's never a use for it, but only in areas with established information to see how it will develop (a weather forecast is a great example), it should never be used to generate the information (i.e. fill in gaps in experimentation or observation).
If grocery stores were like Netflix (or all streamers I think), every day, everything would have moved to different aisles because customers love having to spend ages finding the thing they came in looking for.

For example, “continue watching” is never in the same place in my experience.

Whereas in Plex it’s always top and center meaning I can always find it instantly.

Pirating is again becoming the superior product, even though I’ve already paid plenty for the legal options.
Interesting. These are great projects to get them to understand how Linux works, and networking works. I might direct some of the more talented ones to hackernoon. Really good suggestion. Thank you!

But I think the question the parents (and to some extend) the kids asking themselves is if this matters. If it is just a game or hobby, then thats nice to kill time. But how does this work impact the "real work"? They are comparing "working in IT" with working as a vet or becoming a lawyer. They (at least the parents) have concepts what these people do.

But there is a demographic for whom all software is totally abstracted to the point where they don't see it and I am hoping for a way to open their eyes so they see. Wow it really is everywhere. Any product needs it! This is really useful!
> must follow the same road laws as cars.

This actually isn't true in some parts of the US. Cyclists sometimes do have different laws that apply to them while using the road. For instance, in some places, cyclists may legally yield at stop signs. They do not have to stop at them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
How does it work if I'm not adding features, but want to refactor my code bases? E.g., the OOD is poor, and I want to totally change it and split the codes into new files? Would it work properly as it requires extensive reads + create new files + writes ...
Also it feels like pretty much everything in the k8s/container/etc. space is go-related, which kind of makes sense.
How A Nighthawk Was Shot Down [video]
I didn't know Terry had a Mastodon: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113444728490902451

Not a good sign when even he is vaguely doomposting.
> And if anything X/Twitter is gaining more relevance in normal peoples' lives

Objectively untrue, Twitter lost ~35m (out of 370m) active users since the Elon acquisition. I'm not sure how much of that was due to his policies as opposed to people just losing interest, but people are leaving twitter/X.
No, we can't, because it rarely ever works out that way.

I've yet to work at a family owned company where the children were anywhere near as competent as their parents, and I've worked at multigenerational companies, so imagine that.

The one I spent the most time with was a publisher whose founders were Tulane educated intellectuals who walked the walk and talked the talk. The next generation sounded like they fell off an alligator tour air boat with the intellect to match. Their children are the dumbest group of human beings I've ever seen graduate from high school. Utterly and completely useless for anything other than getting hammered on the weekends and keeping random desk chairs from rolling away. Yet they were guaranteed jobs, even as the company's numbers continued to dwindle and they continued to use far more resources than they contributed. No Christmas bonus? That's because they needed to pay these morons enough to live in the same neighborhood as their father, meaning that they needed to make about 80% more than anyone else in their roles.

Ownership is not leadership. Leadership takes a set of skills that many people don't possess, and it's less common with the children of the well-off.
And how should they know that? Do you expect people to read every single post on Hacker News? For me it's the first time I have heard LoRa being used to mean something else. Obviously new people are going to keep being confused for as long as posts with confusing titles are being posted.

And yes, the name clash may not matter in either of those circles, but it does matter right here on Hacker News where those circles overlap.

Also LoRa devices exists in the consumer space, so seems a bit disingenuous to call it a niche radio technology.
If you set it up, users can run anything themselves. Just use the start menu and the apps will automatically run in the corresponding VMs (shown as windows with colored borders).
He did mention he lives in France ...
I see this got flagged, but when big tech players had such a significant role in the election and will have significant say in policy going forward, me thinks this is more than an intellectual curiosity and relevant to the board.
I think Kamala Harris was right to launch her campaign on positivity and Freedom, and somehow it feels like liberals have gotten so afraid of losing the progress we've made, that we're just playing defense to Trumpism.

I don't disagree that Trump is as terrible as the Democrats say he is, (and I don't think that the campaigns had much to do with the result, "It's the economy stupid") but I do think that there are lot of concerning signs going forward. Democrats say they're the big tent party, there are whole sets of voices and ideas that get crowded out, such that I think there's a perception that a popular vision of the future is owned by Republicans.

I'm big into endurance sports, and primitive living, and rural life, and all these people are right coded. Like I would say the left has CottageCore and the right has TradWife, but there's so many activities/hobbies/visions of the future that get right coded these days, and I think that's a big thing the right is doing right. Like CottageCore is not nearly as left coded as TradWife is right coded, and I think that's true for a lot of lifestyle media these days.

I don't know what the solution is. But this whole election feels to me like a bait and switch. That the right is going to go a lot farther right than the people who voted for Trump want it to go. My gut is that the Trump/RFK Jr/Tulsi Gabbard old school Democrat / moderate Republican voices are going to get drowned out by a hardcore conservative agenda of repealing Obamacare, shrinking the welfare state, and banning abortion/gay marriage.

But I'm openminded. And if the new Republican party really is the voice of reason and normalcy and Blue Collar workers; I don't know if I'll vote for them in the next election, but it will dramatically shift my perspective on the state of American politics.
> 3 rows in set. Elapsed: 3.981 sec. Processed 42.27 million rows, 14.45 GB (10.62 million rows/s., 3.63 GB/s.)

Since you were running $(./clickhouse local) does that mean the query downloaded 14.45GB out of S3 to your machine? The 3.981s seems to imply "no," but I struggle to think what meaning that output would otherwise try to convey
You’re right, there was a magic third party utility. I even remember its icon now, but can’t remember the name. It wasn’t FWB, to my recollection.
Show HN: Cprotogen a simple C prototypes generator
Here's a nifty little project I crafted in an afternoon, it's got both a CLI interface and an API !

Its use is fairly simple : when you can't be bothered writing prototypes in header files, this tool does it for you !

As always, feedback and critics are absolutely welcome !

Matthias
Indeed. We've tried the "digitally intermediated life" thing, and Covid was a solid stress test of it. The "We can do all this digitally with computers and tablets!" sorts got everything they ever wanted.

David Sax, who wrote The Future is Analog back in 2016, has another book from 2022: The Revenge of Analog. It looks at the data from at least the first year or two of Covid and concludes, "Wow, this is awful for humans."

We need to get back to in person meeting with people, and find ways to expand that out again - it's been the default for most of human history, except about the past decade and change. We've tried it, and found it wanting. So let's go back to things we know work.

I'm hopeful about the next generation of teenagers coming up - they've seen the digital destruction caused by smartphones everywhere, and at least some of them are opting to carry flip phones instead of smartphones. We're seeing schools starting to simply ban phones entirely during the day, with massively positive results. So I think the changes are happening!
You can pry my toto drake 2 from my cold dead hands.
All of the "normal" people I know left twitter over the past 2 years as it continues to morph into Truth Social 2.0.

It is actually the terminally online techies who stayed under the guise of being "the resistance within" though I think most of them just can't bear to lose the inflated follower counts they have (the majority of which are probably just "P*SSY IN BIO" bots but whatever)
You don‘t have to know it, and I will still flag your comment. Get a grip! Nobody is doing something serious to you.
I haven't "done" anything. They were forced on me.

I get what you're saying and with time I started fighting for something 90% the same as you are describing. But most of the time I had no choice. It was "our way or the highway".

And since I was financially and career-wise extremely stupid for most of my life and career... yeah. I worked with idiots and slave-drivers.

I am looking to finally change that by changing the way I conduct myself. You hiring? Yeah, I didn't make myself an excellent advertisement with my original comment but at least people will know where I stand.
Thank you!

I have tried this, and it works to some extend with the parents. Because I can probe them about their work and interests and point out all the way software is involved. But that leaves the kids out in the cold. Because they dont yet understand how "work" works. So they don't understand how software helps with it.
I really believe that if Netflix launched its interactive media with a miniseries of Goosebumps: Choose Your Own Adventure adaptations (instead of... whatever Bandersnatch was...) the format could have been a huge success.

I still want to Escape from the Carnival of Horrors(TM).
Aviator (YC S21) Is hiring engineers to build a DevEx platform
What rice meals are you cooking that take less than 40 minutes anyway? Just start the rice first, before prep, and you should be fine.

I just have a cheap rice cooker though. I couldn't find a fancy one that avoids teflon (or other similar) coating that I liked.
Wonder if Laundando and associates lurk HN. Surely they are comments about carbon robotics.
Thought this was wrong, that I’d used it in the 90s. But just remembered it was its precursor Netscape Mail, then Communicator suite. :-D

Thanks for all the fish.
Simulink should be included in the list?

All this "block programming languages" look promising, abstraction by black-boxing, doing boxes of boxes... I wonder if the implementations are bad, they are badly used, or the paradigm just does not work...

One thing to take into account, is that those things are typically used by people who have no idea how to program and abstract things. Maybe if somebody is good ad programming would not do a mess out of it; but then (s)he could just go ahead and write code. so.....

I must agree, LabView is terrible, not just because of that, but updates break everything, licensing, etc... just PITA
> the game still ended up boring as hell

There are two problems here. One is when people haven't played the game enough during development. Everyone on the dev floor should know whether the game is fun or not, and which parts are the most fun and most boring. Often when games end up bland and boring, you find out that devs have been raising this alarm for a year, but management -- who have never played video games and probably think they're stupid -- ignored them in favor of their own ideas. It's the same problem as not talking to your clients when writing any software.

The second problem can be summed up thusly[1]: "I worked two years of overtime straight on Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty. Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty made less money than the first Sparkle Pony horse in World of Warcraft. A $15 microtransaction horse made more money than Starcraft 2". -- Jason Hall, former Blizzard employee. Starcraft 2 was a fun game, well-crafted with love. It made less money than a single cosmetic microtransaction in WoW. Why would game companies waste their time making fun games?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHZru-6M8BY
Why? Because it has better vibes?
Star Citizen is still using it.
35m people globally is nothing.

20m less people voted for Democrats this week and that's just eligible US voters. The people leaving Twitter are terminally-online fringe weirdos, from the perspective of your average person.

Just look around your own networks at the people who left: It's all hardline political people, infosec, trans activists, furries, etc. Those are not normies. I know it's hard to look in the mirror and say you're part of the echo chamber, but with high likelihood everyone posting on this board is exactly that.

None of us here are normcore.
API Lifecycle Management: The Role of AI
> If it is just a game or hobby, then thats nice to kill time. But how does this work impact the "real work"?

Play is how we learn, especially with children. Games and hobbies aren't nice ways to kill time, they're methods of learning new things and practicing skills.
C# is working hard to be Rust-like in certain areas of performance. Part of Visual Studio's problem is that they can't yet take advantage of it in some key areas because they are still dependent on the Legacy Framework and Legacy WPF and have to migrate to modern .NET.
Monsanto won because they have a superior product, that makes it easier for farmers to grow crops.

That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.